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Swire flicked her tail, a glint of light flashing in her green eyes. "Perhaps it's because the Imperial Guards believe this move won't be restricted."

Upon hearing Swire's words, Hoshiguma's eyes immediately lit up with understanding. She looked down at Yun Yi, who was tilting his head in confusion, and said, "Miss Yun Yi, do you remember when the young lady and I were momentarily distracted? The guards' voices were off; the Crimson Light technique might be based on that. Seeing that they could successfully affect us, they..."

Hoshiguma shrugged at this point, indicating that Yun Yi, who looked enlightened, was exactly as she had imagined.

"So that's why... But if that's the case, shouldn't it actually be usable?" Yun Yi raised an eyebrow. The restriction she set wasn't the type where there was no limit for small quantities or a limit for large quantities; rather, it was a restriction regardless of the quantity, as long as it met the requirements.

Since the inner guard was able to effectively affect the two people, it means that the red light move can be used, right?

Hoshiguma laughed after hearing her words, "Haha, Miss Yunyi, it's already a miracle that your pure voice can slightly affect me and the young lady, it definitely can't do more!"

"What do you mean?" Yun Yi turned his head blankly, looking expectantly at Shi Huaiya. "Shi Huaiya?"

Swire explained to her as expected, “Yunyi, it is true that there are mysteries on this land besides technology, but mysteries need energy such as magic or source energy to activate them. Otherwise, they will be like electronic products without power, just a high-tech shell that cannot function.”

“Therefore, it is rare for the inner guards’ voice to still be effective after being detached from energy.” Chen Huijie continued, “Perhaps this is what made them misunderstand, thinking that as long as they put on a shell, they can get rid of your energy limitation. Coupled with their precarious situation, they came up with the idea of ​​taking a gamble.”

The truth is, the internal guard lost the bet and was buried at lightning speed.

Yun Yi mentally complained, then looked at Chen Huijie, who was some distance away, and asked curiously, "What about the red light and the backlash? They can't mobilize any energy at all, how did this move work?"

If it can even backfire, doesn't that mean it has already been successfully constructed?

Chen Huijie turned to look back at Yun Yi, wagging her tail as she tried to explain in simple terms, “I don’t know. Spirit, emotions, spells, soul… According to legends and ancient books, many things can replace physical energy to construct the shell of a technique.”

As she spoke, she raised her hand to her chin, a thoughtful expression on her face. "Without a specific energy flow, I'm not sure which one they're using. Maybe they use all of them, or maybe just one or two."

"Oh..." Yun Yi nodded blankly, feeling that she understood.

It's like the internal defense is constructed using some metaphysical, non-material elements and driven by energy. As a result, the energy can't be used, causing the already constructed moves to lack real support and backfire.

"Alright, there's no point in talking about them anymore." Chen Huijie cut off the conversation, tossing away the bare hilt of the sword in her hand.

She gestured with her chin towards Yun Yi, then turned her head to look at the icosahedron, its fluffy tail tip pointing upwards. "Old Yun, please send me inside, or take out my sword."

"Okay." Yun Yi didn't sense anything was wrong and readily agreed, stretching his hand forward deftly.

As she raised her hand, Chixiao, which was stuck in a layer of black liquid on the ground of the icosahedron, disappeared and reappeared cleanly in front of Chen Huijie. It paused for a moment in mid-air before falling down due to the gravity of the disc.

Chen Huijie reached out and precisely grasped the sword hilt, then skillfully tied the Crimson Cloud sword back to her waist. The dragon's tail swayed happily, "Thanks."

They moved so quickly that Swire and Hoshiguma didn't even realize what was happening.

"Wait!" Swire's temple throbbed, and she grabbed Yun Yi's arm, pulling her to her side. "You just agreed like that? You just accept being called 'Old Yun' like that??"

"Uh, is that not allowed?" Yun Yi was obediently pulled over, his eyes filled with confusion as he looked down at Shi Huaiya. "This isn't a very equitable way to address someone."

“It’s equal, it’s equal…” Swire said, slightly speechless, flicking her tiger tail in frustration, “but it’s not appropriate!”

“Old Chen, we haven’t finished discussing this yet. You’re calling Miss Yunyi ‘Old Yun’…” Hoshiguma, standing to the side, looked at Chen Huijie, her lips twitching. “Don’t you think it’s awkward?”

"No." Chen Huijie denied it expressionlessly, and the speed of the dragon's tail swayed imperceptibly. "Old Yun calls me Old Chen, so it is fair for me to call her Old Yun as she says."

PS:

Brainstem reflexes include the pupillary light reflex, corneal reflex, and swallowing reflex. Here, Lao Chen determined that the absence of brainstem reflexes in the internal guard was due to the pupillary light reflex; in short, it's like the completely dilated pupils of a dead person.

Volume 2: Fireworks at Dragon Gate: Chapter 198 Chen Huijie: It's a bit hot / Hoshiguma: Foul / Swire: Let go!

So they've been blinded by the word "fairness"!

Xingxiong, who clearly knew that Chen Huijie was somewhat obsessed with justice, suddenly realized why Old Chen had suddenly lost his tacit understanding with her—he knew what she meant but just wouldn't listen; it would be strange if they had any tacit understanding.

Hearing about "fairness" makes him lose his "bottom line," and he keeps shouting it even though he knows it's inappropriate. What kind of stubborn, righteous mind does Old Chen have?

At this point, Hoshiguma's forehead veins bulged out. "Knowing full well that you're committing a crime, Chen Huijie, is this your justice?!"

Chen Huijie's dragon tail stiffened, and she silently looked away. "Ahem, Yun Yi and I are both very satisfied. What kind of deliberate 'violation' is this?"

She emphasized the word "fault" and slightly raised her chin as if to say that since it was consensual, it didn't count as violating the established rules.

"Yeah, what's wrong with Lao Yun? I think it's pretty good." Yun Yi nodded in agreement. "It's so novel."

No one has ever called her that before; it's quite an interesting experience.

"Novelty..." This is just something they think is fun!

Swire rubbed her forehead in exasperation. "Don't be so casual about these things. You're a young woman, and you call me 'Old Yun.' Don't you really think it's inappropriate?"

As she spoke, she squinted at Chen Huijie, "And Old Chen, it's fine if you, an old woman, like being called that, but don't drag other people's kids into it."

"Huh? I'm not a child at all! I look the same age as Old Chen!"

"Hey! I'm only in my early twenties! I'm only a little older than you. If I'm an old woman, then you are too!"

Chen Huijie and Yun Yi were both shocked. After they finished speaking, they looked at each other and immediately decided to work together to confront Shi Huaiya.

"Exactly, exactly! And I'm in my twenties too, I don't look like a kid at all!" Yun Yi grabbed Swire's forearm and leaned forward, forehead to forehead, filling her field of vision with his face. "Look at my face, do I look like a kid? I'm clearly a mature and charming adult!"

Chen Huijie and Xingxiong subconsciously glanced at Yun Yi's profile.

Yunyi's face is not clearly visible from the side, but its features are distinct.

Her brow bone had a sharp, defined curve, while the corners of her eyes were tinged with a soft, pale light, which stood out against her fair, translucent face.

The bridge of the nose is straight and just right, not too sharp, which makes the lines of the sides of the nose clear and bright.

The lips are thin and the color is a light pink, while the jawline is clean and defined, giving off an undeniable air of confidence.

If you're not familiar with him, you might mistakenly think that Yun Yi is the kind of person whose every breath carries the coolness of the pine trees, and who is rather aloof and dashing.

They didn't notice anything because they focused on communication and didn't pay much attention to appearance. But now that they looked closely, they both felt that although Yun Yi's face consisted of individual features, the overall beauty was somewhat ethereal.

Staring at it for too long makes you forget where you are—as if one second you were in the bustling world and the next you have stepped into a landscape painting of a secluded mountain after a fresh rain.

It makes one unconsciously hold their breath, afraid of disturbing this dreamlike feeling that blends heroism and elegance.

Chen Huijie had carefully examined Yun Yi's appearance when they first met, so she bit her tongue to regain her senses and looked away with lingering fear. She wrapped her dragon tail around the cold scabbard and used the coolness to dispel the sudden heat rising on her face.

Hoshiguma's breathing was shallow, and her golden eyes, gazing at Yun Yi, were slightly misty.

Startled by Chen Huijie's actions, she immediately lowered her eyes to shield her slightly hot gaze, and awkwardly rubbed her fingertips with the cold shield to cool them down.

As Hoshiguma lowered her gaze, the overly bright face of Yun Yi still lingered in her mind.

For a moment, she even wondered if the other party was some kind of spirit from a storybook. Its beauty was so inhuman that you wouldn't notice it if you didn't look closely, but once you did, you would be captured by its magic and willingly become its ghost.

A random thought flashed through her mind, and Hoshiguma shook her head to shake off the impolite idea. In the end, it was because of her own lack of self-control that she was so distracted, and it had nothing to do with Yun Yi himself.

Beauty is not a sin.

Unlike the two who were completely unguarded, Swire immediately closed her eyes the moment Yun Yi approached, trying to prevent herself from being bewitched at the source.

The fact that she accepted Yun Yi so quickly, and was even willing to awaken him by kissing him, was undoubtedly influenced by her breathtaking beauty.

Or rather, given that Yun Yi hadn't shown any bad behavior since they had only known each other for a short time, this was the main reason why they got along so well and their relationship progressed so quickly.

Therefore, no one on this land understands the destructive power of Yun Yi's face better than Swire.

Thinking of random things to distract herself from the fact that she would see a beautiful face as soon as she opened her eyes, Swire raised her hand to support Yun Yi's cool face, gently pushing her face away. "I saw it, but so what if you look mature? I'm talking about your mental age—"

Yun Yi's breathing suddenly became heavy with dissatisfaction. She opened her mouth to speak, but her breath, which was moist, was sprayed out first.

It intertwined with Swire's own breath, warming her face, her hands, and the air she perceived, imbuing it with a scorching heat.

Swire's tiger ears instantly went limp, and her upper body instinctively leaned back, trying to get away from this ambiguous atmosphere that was both uncomfortable and pleasurable. "Idiot, you're a mature adult, you're a mature adult, okay!"

"What a perfunctory response—don't run away, explain yourself first, where exactly do I seem to be mentally immature?" Yun Yi caught up with her body and pulled her back by his arm around her waist. Yun Yi raised his eyebrows in dissatisfaction and moved his head a little away from Shi Huaiya's forehead—it was a bit hot.

She stared at Swire's closed eyes and her slightly flushed face, which seemed guilty. Her palm was pressed against the soft flesh of the other's waist. She pouted and lied, "You don't even dare to look me in the eye. Are you talking nonsense?"

A faint electric current spread in all directions from where Yun Yi's warm palms touched. Shi Huaiya's waist went limp uncontrollably, her tiger ears straightened, and her tail twitched unnaturally a few times.

"What nonsense are you spouting? You're the one spouting nonsense!" Her face flushed instantly, and she couldn't help but open her green eyes, which were burning with flames, and glare fiercely at Yun Yi. "Let go of me!"

“No,” Yun Yi refused instantly. She raised her eyebrows and leaned closer to Shi Huaiya, their eyes meeting. A stubbornness and a hint of excitement shone in her golden-red eyes. “You haven’t answered my question yet, don’t even think about running away.”

"Heh, you think you're so great?" Swire's face, which was originally a bright red, immediately turned red, the veins on her forehead bulged slightly, and the tiger tail behind her stiffened and stood up, swinging violently from side to side.

She reached out and grabbed Yun Yi's face, shoving her away. "Idiot, get off me! Don't you know why you're so immature? Look at what you're doing right now!"

Volume Two: Fireworks at Longmen: Chapter 199 Yun Yi: I Want to Grow Taller~

Knowing he was no match for Swire, Yun Yi didn't resist. As he leaned back, he wondered why Swire thought he was mentally immature. "Is it because I'm stupid?"

Swire has said many times that she is an idiot.

As Yun Yi spoke, his warm breath brushed against Shi Huaiya's palm, sending a shiver down her spine.

Swire took a deep breath to suppress her overreaction before raising her eyes and giving Yun Yi a speechless glare. "You actually called yourself an idiot! Are you the embodiment of an idiot?"

"So that's not it..." Yun Yi blinked, ignoring her harmless rant, and tightened his grip, slightly closing the distance between them. "What else is there? A young mindset can't help you survive in society, right? But I used to do quite well."

Yun Yi tilted his head. "So why do you think I have a young mindset? I'm curious."

"Hmph, from the moment you asked me that question, your mental age couldn't be much older!" Swire snorted, and with her other hand, she quickly reached out and grabbed Yun Yi's hand that was resting on her waist, using a skillful force to peel it away without hurting or causing Yun Yi any pain.

She then nimbly circled around to the other side of Hoshiguma, crossed her arms, and pointed at Yun Yi from a distance with the tip of her tail like a serpent, saying, "Only children get hung up on these kinds of questions and insist on getting to the bottom of things and demanding an explanation."

As she spoke, Swire raised an eyebrow, her ears twitched slightly, and a hint of amusement appeared in her voice. Her green eyes glanced at Chen Huijie, who was standing to the side, trying to keep a cool eye on her. "A truly mature person doesn't care how others define their age—don't you think so, Hoshiguma?"

"Young lady, if you're having fun, don't drag me into it!" Hoshiguma raised her eyebrows, chuckled wryly, and touched the tip of her nose. "Young lady, you..."

Before she could finish speaking, Swire winked her left eye meaningfully, and Hoshiguma paused for a moment instinctively.

Beside him, Chen Huijie looked over with his dragon tail coiled around the scabbard, a subtle red tinge still lingering in the corners of his eyes, but his voice was as crisp and solemn as ever, “Hoshiguma, do not utter words against your conscience.”

"Hahaha—" Hoshiguma was speechless. She had wanted to refuse, but she subconsciously stopped talking at the beginning... Now Chen Huijie probably thought she was going to agree with the young lady.

Let her think of a way to explain. If you just say it directly, Old Chen will definitely believe you, but that would be too unfriendly to the young lady.

Before Hoshiguma could come up with a solution, Yun Yi spoke up first.

On the other side, Yun Yi squeezed his palm, which still retained the warmth of Shi Huaiya's waist, and his thoughts, along with that lingering warmth, were immersed in his interaction with Shi Huaiya.

She automatically filtered out the other two people's words from her mind and stared at Swire, saying, "Then Old Chen isn't mature either." The other person's reaction to "old woman" was no less than her reaction to "child." "Hmm, in that case, your definition of immaturity is too different from mine. It feels like it's not a good reference."

Yun Yi tapped his chin, nodding slightly in self-approval, "Yeah, it's meaningless. After all, no matter how I look at it, Lao Chen is an extremely mature person."

“That’s right, everyone has a different definition of maturity, so let’s stop here.” Hoshiguma immediately chimed in, patting Yunyi’s shoulder gratefully, giving her a thumbs up, and laughing heartily, “Well said!”

"Thank you for the compliment~" Yunyi looked up and accepted Hoshiguma's thumbs up with a smile of happiness at being recognized.

"How dare you say my words are meaningless—" Swire's short tiger ears bristled as he raised his hand and clenched his fist.

Her gaze lingered on Yun Yi's not-so-bright forehead for a moment, before she finally lowered her fists, crossed her arms, turned around, and walked toward the icosahedron, wanting to avoid seeing it and getting annoyed.

As she walked, she muttered to herself, trying to calm herself down, "...Forget it, the more I hit her, the dumber she'll become. In the end, I'll still have to clean up her mess."

Yunyi didn't hear, immersed in the joy of being praised and playing hand-to-hand with Hoshiguma. She looked at her slender hand, her fingertips barely reaching the point where Hoshiguma's first and second phalanges connected. "A tall master is indeed amazing. Ah, if only I could return to my original height."

Hoshiguma did hear it, but at this point, pretending not to hear it was the right thing to do; responding would be a real blunder.

Hoshiguma, who had a wealth of experience with Mingqisi's father, simply ignored this and focused on playing with Yunyi.

She curled her fingertips; her hand was a bit longer and wider than Yun Yi's, and with this movement, it looked like she could easily envelop Yun Yi's fair hand in her palm. Hoshiguma raised an eyebrow with interest, "Oh? So you still remember it so fondly, what was your original height?"

“1.7 meters—” Yun Yi’s words were cut off by herself. Her fingertips twitched with hesitation, and she accidentally brushed against Hoshiguma’s hand and the slightly rough calluses on her fingers. “Hiss, I’m not sure now. I remember measuring 1.75 meters when I was in school. After working for a few years, I don’t know if I’ve grown taller.”

Hoshiguma felt a little itchy from being rubbed, but thankfully the itchiness was greatly reduced through the cocoon. She comforted Yunyi without much concern, "It's okay, let's just pretend we were 1.75 meters tall before. We'll eat well, drink well, sleep well, and have fun. Maybe we can grow even taller than before."

“But the system says I can’t grow any taller.” Yun Yi looked a little dejected when she mentioned this, as she quite liked being taller. “To grow taller, I have to spend a lot of points.”

"The system said?" Hoshiguma withdrew her hand and scratched the back of her head. That will actually care about Yun Yi's height? It's incredibly idle. "It's alright. Once the plan is on track, you can slowly accumulate points and grow taller eventually..."

Hoshiguma gently comforted Yunyi, while Shihuai Ya stood casually at the edge of the disc, observing the black liquid that had risen slightly on the icosahedral ground.

Chen Huijie's attention was drawn to Yun Yi's earlier words, "No matter how you look at me, I'm mature...?"

She was somewhat confused about how Yun Yi perceived her.

What kind of image must I have in the other person's eyes for Yun Yi to say so decisively that I am mature no matter what?

When asked about the signs of maturity, Chen Huijie lowered her head. Don't misunderstand, she wasn't looking at her full breasts, which were also a powerful testament to her maturity, but rather at the dragon's tail that had been raised in front of her at her own whim.

Bathed in light from all directions, its deep blue tail resembled a deep ocean, shimmering and unfathomable.

So much so that the entire dragon tail looks like a meticulously crafted work of art, with scales shimmering with a mysterious and alluring luster like starlight, as if containing endless power.

—Just by looking at such a majestic tail, one can sense how powerful and mature its owner is.

Volume 2: Fireworks at Longmen: Chapter 200 Chen Huijie: A Mature Person Doesn't Argue with Children.