I really don't want to date a girl addicted to the internet!

307. The three bystanders

"Oh~ no wonder Cheng Fei was so afraid of dying when he was smuggling himself out." Nagasaki Asuna said in a drawn-out tone, suddenly realizing.

“Classmate, I think there’s a problem with your wording,” Cheng Fei pointed out.

"I understand, so we absolutely cannot die now." Shen Xi said earnestly.

“Teacher Shen, I think you can still die this time. This little bit of time is insignificant,” Cheng Fei couldn’t help but say.

"Shut up, I'm going to start seriously developing my role from now on." Shen Xi glared at him.

"Sigh, you internet addict, but as long as you're happy, little cutie." The boy shook his head and sighed.

"I told you to shut up, I just didn't want to be forced to rely on your fighting ability every time."

"You don't want to rely on me anymore? Is this what it feels like for a father to watch his daughter grow up and drift further and further away? I should have known better than to tell you the secret to becoming stronger." The boy looked sad.

"You're spouting nonsense again. If you think our relationship needs to be maintained this way, then I suggest you disappear from my sight right now."

"You despise marriages and relationships based on self-interest. Do you want to become my soulmate, someone who loves me unconditionally? Ms. Shen, I must say you're just too adorable in this respect." The boy admired her.

"That's enough. Your right to speak ends here." Shen Xi narrowed her eyes and kicked him.

The boy quickly zipped up his mouth.

Nagasaki Asuna watched the two interact as if nothing was wrong.

The three of them walked forward for a while.

“Teacher Shen, why don’t you take off your helmet and ask Xiao Yi what suggestions she has for our situation?” Cheng Fei said.

"I asked, and she only told us to look for the nearest Protoss facility." Shen Xi said expressionlessly.

"When did you ask that? I don't remember us stopping."

"Just now."

"Teacher Shen, are you one of those legendary people who can multitask, playing stealth games while doing real-world tasks at the same time?" the boy asked in surprise.

Is it difficult?

"Forcibly controlling two bodies would cause most people to become confused, nauseous, and want to vomit."

"That's what happens when you're intellectually disabled." Shen Xi made no attempt to hide her disdain.

"Teacher Shen, what's going on in your little head? It feels like you could pilot a Strike Freedom." The boy stared at her profile and stroked his chin.

"What nonsense are you spouting now?"

"Hey you two, do you think there's something flying over there?" Asuna Nagasaki asked, shading her eyes with her hand as she looked up at the sky, interrupting their conversation.

"Strike Freedom, huh..." Cheng Fei took out his binoculars to observe, following the sound. "Nana, your little brain isn't bad either, it has radar inside?"

"Hey, actually I just couldn't find a chance to join your chat, so I was just looking around out of boredom?"

"Okay, we can talk about your business next time." The boy paused. "Teacher Shen, did you see that?"

"I see it." Shen Xi was also looking up at the sky through binoculars.

"Do you think the scene of a fleet of sailing ships floating in the sky firing lasers at each other is plausible?"

“Existence is its own justification; what we need to consider is why.” Shen Xi narrowed his eyes. “First of all, the fact that they use such a primitive method as sails to obtain power shows that the civilization of this world is not advanced.”

"and then?"

"The fact that it can float in the sky, even though it's not advanced, shows that antigravity is an easily achievable technology in this world."

"Makes sense."

"The same applies to those lasers; they might be a kind of magical technique."

"Does the unscientific concept of 'default magic' even exist?"

"Magic is a science. In certain dimensions, due to the special laws of physics, supernatural matter that transcends the norm is naturally generated and utilized by primitive civilizations, thus giving birth to magic."

"I thought extraterrestrial matter was extremely rare."

"What's rare isn't supermatter; some fundamental particles in Earth's dimension can be defined as supermatter in other dimensions. What's rare is being able to create the supermatter you want at will."

"I see. The Queen said, 'Let there be light,' and there were photons."

"Is this another baffling, nonsensical outburst?"

"I intend to place it at the beginning of the poem that recounts your great words and deeds, so that bards may sing its praises in every dimension."

"Hey you two, it looks like one of the ships is falling towards us?" Nagasaki Asuna spoke up again.

"That's true, Nana. Do you think this ship is hostile towards us or what?"

"Hey Cheng Fei, you can tell that the ship is crashing, or rather, sinking, right? The hull is on fire."

"That's correct."

"Stop rambling on and on, hurry up and get over there, you might be able to save someone." Shen Xi kicked the boy.

"I know you're kind-hearted, but since others are at war, it's best to wait and see for now."

"Shut up. Even if we take a step back and save lives, it's still to make it easier to understand this world."

"That's true, let's set off then."

As the three chatted, a wooden flying machine resembling a 16th-century multi-masted sailing ship slowly plummeted to its side like a feather. Flames crawled out from the side, engulfing the blue flag with a gold lion fluttering at the bow. Thick smoke trailed a winding, cone-shaped conical contrail in the air, and people and belongings were dumped off the deck like garbage.

On another ship not far away, a fully armed blond knight was fighting a battle with enemies dressed as civilians.

A petite, delicate silver-haired woman lay on the knight's back, her eyes lowered. Her slender body and long hair resembled a cloak. Whenever the knight was in danger, she would raise her hand, and blue runes would appear out of thin air in her palm, emitting shockwaves or light shields to assist the knight in battle.

"My lord, the Goddess of Harvest is sinking!" the squire shouted as he struggled through enemy lines to reach the knight.

"What about that one?" the knight asked, turning his head.

"She's still on the ship. She must have taken advantage of the chaos to interfere with the Light Demon Core and triggered the secondary explosion!"

"Tsk!" The knight raised his shield to block the green beam of light shooting from afar. "Never mind that for now! Deal with these lowly commoners who have climbed up from the lower classes first, then we'll capture her later!"

"understand!"

……

As the saying goes, "looking at a mountain makes a horse run itself to death," and it took the three of them quite a bit of effort to follow the plume of smoke to the crash site.

The capsized multimasted sailboat crushed a grove of trees, and flames that spread from its side ignited the grass, leaving the scene in complete disarray.

The ship remains intact, and many of the people on board survived and escaped.

At this moment, the men, dressed in disheveled sailor attire, gripped swords and shields, staring intently at the hole in the side of the ship as if facing a formidable enemy.

The three of them crouched behind the bushes to observe the situation.

"Teacher Shen, they seem to be on guard against something."

"Don't spout nonsense that any person with normal intelligence can see through."

"Um, I have a feeling there's another person inside the boat."

"Nana, are you sure it's a person and not a wild beast? It looks like one."

"It must be human... right?"

At that moment, a clear, tinkling sound came from the burning sailboat.

A silver-haired girl with pointed ears, her hands and feet bound in iron chains, walked out slowly, clutching her shoulder.

308. Cheng Fei was the one being targeted.

The girl was wearing a tattered linen prison uniform, and her long silver hair was tied into a long ponytail. Despite being scorched by the fire and thick smoke, her delicate, snow-white skin could still be seen.

Despite her disheveled appearance, the girl's gaze remained spirited and sharp. She looked up and surveyed her surroundings, causing all the sailors to involuntarily back away, their eyes filled with a deep fear as if they were being stared at by a ferocious beast ready to devour them.

"Teacher Shen, look! A beautiful elf girl has appeared!"

"Shut up! Cheng Fei, your behavior disgusts me. Do you want to pounce on her right now?"

"Not at all, I'm just a little shocked. Teacher Shen, you're being way too jealous."

"Ha, don't think I can't see your barely concealed joy. Your vulgar and filthy aesthetic sense is utterly disgusting."

"I will not allow you to insult your own appearance."

"Gentlemen, I don't want to interrupt you, but it looks like a fight is about to break out over there?"

"Teacher Shen, shall we go help her? What if she can't fight alone?"

"Shut up, didn't you see the shackles on her hands and feet? Maybe she's a serious criminal. You're going to help a bad person just because her appearance matches your aesthetic?"

“Teacher Shen, firstly, I don’t judge people by their appearance, and secondly, I can tell at a glance that she has been wronged.”

"Don't tell me the reason is something from a novel."

"Look into her eyes, that sense of justice, that hatred of evil, is practically overflowing. Don't you understand?"

"Um, Cheng Fei, even I could only sense that she was very angry. How did you see her sense of justice?"

"Nana, are you going to argue with me?"

"sorry!"

"Ha, as expected, it's all lies. This time, the fox spirit actually played a little role."

"Never mind, she doesn't seem to need help." The boy seemed to realize something.

As the three whispered among themselves, the standoff on the sailboat ended.

The silver-haired, pointed-eared elf girl gripped the chains binding her body and slowly tightened them; the cast-iron shackles shattered with a piercing crack.

The surrounding sailors swallowed hard, their hands gripping their swords trembling.

The elven girl chanted softly, and blue runes appeared out of thin air in her palm, causing the chains on the ground to come together as if alive, turning red-hot and melting into a simple, unadorned heavy sword.

Suddenly, the sailors dropped their weapons and fled in panic, screaming.

The elven girl narrowed her eyes and gripped the sword with both hands. A bright blue light was added to the blade, the ground beneath her feet shattered, and her body shot out, the enchanted greatsword emitting a strange hum.

A sailor more than ten meters away was the first to be cut in two by the girl who fell from the sky.

Like a predatory spider, she leaped and killed the fleeing sailors one by one, quickly turning the scene into a hellish place where no one survived.

"Teacher Shen, the abilities of the spirits in this world are too powerful."

"Do you still think she was wronged?"

"We can't assume she's a bad person just because she's cruel in her methods. Maybe it's precisely because these people are so wicked that she resorted to such cruelty."

"Ha, as expected of Cheng Feiyu, who is easily blinded by lust and cannot think straight. The facts are right in front of him, yet he remains stubbornly ignorant."

After all the sailors fell, the elven girl flew down to the bushes where the three were hiding, holding the greatsword horizontally in one hand.

"Come out!" The voice was pleasant, but the tone was fierce.

The three of them stood up without making a sound.

The elven girl's sharp gaze swept across the three faces, finally settling on the boy in the middle. The tip of her sword was pointed at him, and the hostility in her eyes was palpable.

"Why me?" Cheng Fei was stunned.

"This is the kind of elven beauty you like? You deserve it." Shen Xi's cold laugh was undisguisedly sarcastic.

"Hello, um, we're not bad people." Nagasaki Asuna tried to negotiate with the other party with a smile.

"Get out of the way!" The one who spoke was the elven girl.

She raised her heavy sword and smashed it down on Cheng Fei without hesitation.

The boy had no choice but to parry with his longsword, the weapons clashing together with a deafening clang.

"Wait! Why are you only attacking me?" The boy was dumbfounded.

"Does this even need...a question?!" the elven girl shouted, brandishing her greatsword.