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

"No need to waste ammunition." Shen Xi said coldly, controlling the tailless scorpion to fly.

"You can resist firing a whole magazine? Have you ever been through drug rehabilitation?" Cheng Fei grabbed his hair.

“I won’t kill people who don’t need to be killed, you antisocial psychopath.” Shen Xi narrowed her eyes.

"What a joke! You've killed so many people already, what's a few more?" the boy asked, looking surprised.

“If it’s unnecessary, it’s unnecessary. Even if I’ve killed 9,999 people, I won’t kill one more for no reason.” Shen Xi glared at him.

"Have you really ever quit drugs?"

“Shut up, that’s why I won’t let you operate the weapons, you aquatic mammal who’s disguised as a human but is actually devoid of humanity.” Shen Xi said, enunciating each word clearly.

"Teacher Shen, I never expected that you would retain so much humanity even after becoming the Celestial Queen. You've really surprised me," Cheng Fei said seriously.

"Shut up, don't bother me." Shen Xi stared intently at the handheld console without looking up. "Report flight speed."

“One hundred and twenty sections,” said Ruan Jingyi, who was standing next to her.

"Maintain a steady speed, I'll land the tailless scorpion on the deck," Shen Xi said in a deep voice.

"Okay." Ruan Jingyi nodded and pulled the control lever beside her.

At this moment, the airship is rapidly flying away from the continent where Yongquan Town is located and entering the boundless free airspace. The exhaust nozzle at the tail of the airship shines brightly, and the bright green light magic particles leave a gradually spreading trail, like a light path extending from the continent to the sky, or like a thin veil falling from the night sky.

The heavily damaged Imperial fleet was gradually abandoned, and airships became the only two types of aircraft in this airspace.

The other aircraft is the tailless scorpion, a tiny bright spot that is chasing the airship at an astonishing speed. Due to the loss of its outer shell, the tailless scorpion’s body is violently shuddering during flight, and its internal pipelines are constantly throwing working fluids and electrical sparks behind it.

372. Edward will surely repay this humiliation.

Under Shen Xi's control, the tailless scorpion arrived directly above the airship, maintaining synchronized flight and slowly descending in altitude. Shen Xi focused intently on the handheld console in her hands, her pure blue eyes unblinking.

Compared to the tailless scorpion, the airship's semi-enclosed deck is not much larger. When the two approach each other, the tailless scorpion's trajectory becomes erratic due to airflow interference, as if it will collide with the airship at any moment.

Everyone on the ship held their breath in suspense, but when the tailless scorpion landed safely on the deck of the airship, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Teacher Shen, you're really clever." Cheng Fei clapped his hands to himself.

Shen Xi kept a cold face and didn't even look at him.

The airship maintained its high speed, quickly leaving the Imperial fleet behind.

After a while, Shen Xi looked back and walked to Ruan Jingyi's side. "It should be safe now. Reduce to second gear."

"Okay." Ruan Jingyi quickly pulled the lever.

The engine noise that had been emanating from the bottom of the cabin subsided, and the exhaust nozzle at the stern of the airship gradually darkened until it maintained a low brightness, ejecting green particles at a constant speed.

Due to air resistance, the airship's speed decreased, and the strong winds outside the cockpit subsided.

Apart from Ruan Jingyi steering the boat, the rest of the people walked out of the wheelhouse and came to the outside of the ship's side. The ship's side was battered and bruised from the previous fierce battle, but it was still relatively intact overall.

"So we're safe?" Zhou Han blinked and asked.

"Probably," Cheng Fei shrugged.

"Look, look! The moon!" Zhou Handong exclaimed softly, looking around.

Following her finger, the moon, which had been nowhere to be seen in the first half of the night, reappeared at some point. The moon at the place where it fell was much larger and brighter than the Earth, and it was also grayish-white.

When the bright moonlight shone on this area, the originally dark world became a little brighter.

The mainland of Yongquan Town and the Imperial Fleet have become invisible dots behind the airships. The fierce aerial battle with deadly beams flying around seems like an illusion. Only the broken airships prove that everything really happened.

The thick sea of ​​clouds was illuminated by the moonlight, resembling an endless, soft white land. The airship sailed above this land, seemingly moving forward, yet also seemingly hovering in place, leaving behind shimmering green particle trails, as if one were in an endless, vast, tranquil, and peaceful painting.

The battle was over, everyone realized.

"Whoosh! We are the champions!" Miriam suddenly shouted towards the outside of the ship's side.

Zhou Han leaned half her body out of the ship's railing, letting her hair and palms feel the wind. "It's finally over! Now I'm a master of the corridor, right?"

"What is a corridor?" Shadow tilted her head up.

"It's better if you don't know this." Zhou Han shrank back and rubbed her little face with a smile.

"Oh." The blonde half-elf nodded, seemingly understanding.

Leia stood alone to the side, head down and silent, her fists clenched.

Cheng Fei approached Leia, took something out of his pocket, and placed it in front of the elven girl. "Here, this is for you."

A silver triangular pendant made of an unknown metal, its smooth surface shimmering in the moonlight.

Leia looked up abruptly, her eyes wide with disbelief. She took a deep breath, caught the pendant in her palm, clutched it tightly to her chest, and lowered her head to whisper, "Thank you..."

Cheng Fei shrugged, put his hands in his pockets, and walked to the empty space between Shen Xi and Nagasaki Asuna, silently gazing at the distant view of the sky under the moonlight with the two girls.

Perhaps because the previous battle was too intense, no one wanted to break the current tranquility.

After a moment, the boy quietly reached out his left hand, tapped the back of Shen Xi's hand, and then grabbed it.

Shen Xi squinted and looked away, continuing to admire the scenery without saying a word.

The boy quietly reached out his right hand again, but first grasped at empty air, showing a surprised expression. The next second, a soft little hand grabbed his hand, and their fingers intertwined.

Asuna Nagasaki smiled slightly, gazing nonchalantly at the sea of ​​clouds.

In this delicate atmosphere, the teardrop-shaped airship sailed toward the distant horizon of this airspace...

In Yongquan Town, a warship that had just completed its maintenance slowly took off.

On the bridge, Edward put down his monoculars, his clenched fists trembling, and he gritted his teeth. "Cheng Fei, I will make you pay for the humiliation of this battle!"

Jasmine stood beside him with her eyes lowered, silently covering her neck, which had been choked by someone earlier, with her small hand.

……

Cheng Fei took off his infiltration helmet and saw a message pop up in a WeChat group called "Corridor Research Department Special Operations Team".

Shen Xi: "The operation is over. No need to go online tonight. Meet in the club activity room tomorrow afternoon @all members."

Ruan Jingyi: "Mm"

Zhou Han: "Great, I can finally get a good night's sleep."

Miriam: "See you all tomorrow!"

The teenager switched to a high-level discussion group to send a message.

Cheng Fei: "Teacher Shen, our club of eight people has three group chats. Don't you think that's a bit too formalistic?"

Shen Xi: "That's right, we shouldn't have excluded Ye Shuang and the one surnamed Lin."

Cheng Fei: "I was being presumptuous, Minister. Please forgive me. I will take my leave now."

Shen Xi: "Please come online after you've had dinner."

Cheng Fei: "So the notification I just received was just my imagination."

Shen Xi: "It's just to fool those three downlines, don't tell me you don't understand."

Cheng Fei: "It's kind of cute that he lies sometimes."

Shen Xi: "Don't send me disgusting junk data."

Cheng Fei: "Teacher Shen, if you like me, don't push too hard. Wouldn't it be better if we each had some space to ourselves?"

After waiting for half a minute, no new message popped up in the chat box. Instead, the tea ceremony teacher sent a private message.

"So Cheng Fei doesn't like things that are too tight? Oh no, what should Nana do about this? It's just how he is..."

"Shut up."

"Huh? What happened?"

The operation started at noon and lasted for several hours; it's almost dark outside now.

The boy turned off WeChat, ordered takeout, tossed his phone aside, and sat down at his desk.

The corridor is one thing, reality is another, and there are still many problems he needs to solve.

Cheng Fei opened his laptop, and the desktop background that came into view was a dilapidated courtyard, with a girl in a white sailor uniform looking out at the blue sea and sky with her back to the screen.

With the open port on Shen Xi's study server, he can now communicate with Isena using any device.

The boy clicked on the girl's back with his mouse. She turned around, a look of surprise on her face, opened her white umbrella, and flashed in front of the screen. "Governor!"

"Bring out the previous design drawings," the boy said seriously.

"Yes, sir." Isena saluted.

One after another, the industrial design software windows popped up, making my head spin. However, since the data was processed on the server and then streamed to the laptop, there was no lag whatsoever.

As with his daily routine, the boy threw himself into robot development.

373. Shen Xi kindly reminded

"Xiao Yi, how do you want me to process these nanoscale fluid channels?" Cheng Fei repeatedly checked the things on the screen.

"Can't this even be processed?" Isena's eyes widened slightly.

"I'm sorry that we humans on Earth are so primitive. Let's find a simpler solution here."

"Yes, ma'am. Begin the redesign."

As soon as she finished speaking, the server turbine fan on the 36th floor of the upscale apartment building across the street suddenly emitted a sharp, loud bang, causing the aloof young woman who was organizing the bookshelves to cover her ears as if struck by a heavy blow.

While Isena was calculating, the boy didn't stop either. His takeout arrived, and he ate while reviewing his textbooks. He was determined to hold onto his top spot in the grade, both to keep Shen Xi below him and to give Lin Xuanqi a satisfactory answer.

After filling his stomach and resting briefly, the boy resumed his routine physical training, mainly performing challenging exercises such as handstand push-ups, one-arm pull-ups, and right-angle supports. These exercises would likely shock an ordinary person, but for him, they were merely a means to slightly increase his experience bar.

While exercising, he also watches English current affairs and financial news without subtitles. He plans to switch to learning other languages ​​once his English reaches a level similar to a professional level 8.

If all goes well, I'll choose Japanese as my second foreign language. I already have a foundation in it, and with Asuna Nagasaki's help, I should learn it quickly.

After finishing his workout, the boy took a nice hot shower. As he dried himself off, his phone on the sink rang.

He picked it up, glanced at it, and answered, "Good evening, my little cutie, missing me? By the way, I just took a shower."

"Cheng Fei, just a friendly reminder, there are still three and a half hours left until the end of this week." A cold, emotionless voice came through the conversation.

"What's wrong? Did I forget something again? No way." The boy wiped the water stains off his chest, his tone relaxed.

"Cheng Fei, if you think you're satisfied with me holding and hugging you on Monday, then I won't let you touch me again this week, even if we have another meeting. I'd rather pretend I've forgotten about you and go off to fool around every day. I'll be disappointed. From now on, don't even think about touching me again." One could almost imagine the girl lowering her eyes, a chilling aura gradually emanating from her.

"Just kidding, don't get excited, cutie. How could I forget? I'll come find you in a bit. By the way, if you miss me that much, I'll send you a treat. You can use it yourself first."

"What kind of nonsensical nonsense are you spouting now? I don't understand. You have ten minutes to get back online." The girl's tone was indifferent.

"There's no need to go online. You guys handle Leia's situation. I have other things to attend to..."

"Whatever you're busy with, this is this week's meeting. Cheng Fei, think it over carefully. Goodbye."

The girl interrupted him with an unyielding, cold voice and hung up the phone.

The boy looked at the end of the call screen, smacked his lips, thought for a moment, opened the camera, raised his phone, pointed it at his upper body, and snapped a picture with a serious expression. He then sent the picture to his friend Xiao A via WeChat.

*Selfie

"Princess, please feel free to use this."

A reply popped up two seconds later.

"Cheng Fei!"

"What's wrong, Your Highness? Don't you like it?"

"It's so disgusting it makes me want to vomit."

Really? I hope you haven't secretly saved it on your phone next time.

"What a ridiculous delusion; even the chat history has been deleted."

"I order you to keep it safe."