Chapter 22: 21. Attachment

21. Attachment

Li Ang guessed that it was precisely the Star Soul matter that made the young girl choose to leave the island in the game's plot.

"When I beat it back just now, I perceived that its strength wasn't very high yet. Prepare as soon as possible; I can handle it. Because the Star Soul is closely related to you, it's best if you go too.

"Don't worry about your strength. As long as you listen to my command, no matter what the strength is, I can make it play a role."

Li Ang had many years of experience in commanding team battles and was very confident about this point.

"But," Zoe remembered something, "if I go down to find that monster, I'll have a headache, right? Then I'll become a burden."

She didn't need to worry about this point anymore.

When leaving the basement, Li Ang looked at her panel. The system prompted that due to receiving the information notes, the description of "Star Soul Greenhouse" had been unlocked.

【Skill: Star Soul Greenhouse】

【Activation Method: Passive】

【Special Constitution. It is a host desired by the Star Soul. The host grows together with the Star Soul and can command the power of the Star Soul. If the will is weaker than the Star Soul, one will be drained of life and become nourishment for the Star Soul. 【Blocking the flow of spirits can cut off the Star Soul's detection and inhabitation】】

Spiritual manipulation—that was Li Ang's specialty.

"I have a way to make sure you won't have a headache anymore."

It seemed that even the mysterious Star Soul had spirits within it; this conformed to the laws of the world—the triangle of spirit, magic power, and matter constituted the foundation of the world, evolving everything else.

As long as he used magic power to draw a curse pattern with spiritual elimination effects on Zoe's head and activated the effect on targets other than her, the spirits outside wouldn't be able to flow toward her head.

Before, when she had a headache, Li Ang hadn't perceived any spirits acting on her, which meant her connection with the Star Soul was more special. His perception ability lost its effect; it might be that the way the spirits acted was completely different.

But since the system said so, it should be fine.

Having received Li Ang's promise, Zoe couldn't sit still. Her vitality from the day returned quite a bit, and she walked lightly and nimbly around the room.

Before, when she said she felt her body was light, it might have been that she had absorbed some of the Star Soul's power.

"It's time to sleep."

Li Ang looked at the stairs leading to the attic.

"If there's space in the attic, I'll borrow it for the night."

"There's a lot of dust there; you don't need to go."

Zoe stared with innocent eyes: "We can just sleep together."

"Ahem, children can't just sleep with others."

Li Ang sighed.

"I know that, but aren't we friends? We clearly agreed."

Li Ang originally wanted to say that friends of the opposite sex couldn't do this, but on second thought, same-sex friends might not be safe either, and explaining this for half a day might make it even harder to explain clearly.

He had to say: "Friends shouldn't do this either."

Zoe stopped talking, but silently grabbed his sleeve.

This guy, did she think that being noisy was wrong, so she was protesting silently?

Li Ang got up and wanted to walk up the stairs, but was grabbed by the arm by the young girl. His Rank 1 Warrior physique couldn't compare to the young girl's at all, and he was dragged bit by bit back into the room.

After staring at Zoe for a long time, Li Ang finally compromised and chose to sleep on the floor in her room.

Regarding this, although the young girl couldn't understand why sleeping together would be warmer and why he had to run far away, she finally agreed, because this way she could keep looking at him while sleeping.

She brought bedding from her parents' room. Li Ang didn't want to spread it directly on the floor, so he pulled over the old bedding that belonged to him on the girl's bed.

Regarding this, Zoe disagreed and started competing with him for it.

"This is clearly mine, and you have a quilt, right?" Li Ang said helplessly.

"No, I like this one."

Zoe puffed out her cheeks: "It's big and light, and warm. Every time I'm unhappy from arguing with people in the village, I wrap myself in it and hide. You won't sleep with me, so if I cover myself with it, it's like I'm hugging you."

These tiger-wolf words were really challenging the resilience of my nerves again and again.

Li Ang said with a headache: "Fine, fine, whatever you want, hurry up and sleep."

The young girl grabbed the edge of her dress with both hands and was about to flip it up.

Li Ang was quick-witted and pressed her hand down.

This was really going to be the death of him.

"Remember, don't just do this in front of others..."

It was another lecture. Li Ang had already developed a resistance to "But you aren't an outsider," just mumbling and brushing it off. Anyway, no meant no; if she wanted to take it off, she had to wrap herself in the quilt first.

Her parents must have left behind corresponding teachings, but in the long passage of time, without follow-up explanations, she would have her own understanding.

After passing this hurdle, he saw Zoe kick off her little leather boots and sit on the edge of the bed.

Her figure was petite, dangling her slender little legs. They connected to a pair of fair, white soles that were perfectly shaped and slightly fleshy, with tight, well-defined Achilles tendons.

The little feet kicked and kicked. The young girl noticed Li Ang's gaze, and then she directly met his eyes, extending her soles toward his face. The soles were crystal pink, and the long yet round and cute toes were clearly visible before him.

Just as they were about to hit his face directly, Li Ang dodged them nonchalantly.

"Why aren't you wearing socks?"

"The socks wore out long ago, and so did the other clothes."

That made sense. Her parents hadn't left any daily necessities, and even this dress of hers often couldn't keep its boundaries.

Li Ang glanced at her little leather boots. If she kept wearing them like that... that pitch-black boot opening made him tremble slightly. A little curious, a little afraid.

Feeling his arm itch, he looked back and saw her mischievous toes nimbly crawling up his arm.

Li Ang jumped away as if electrocuted.

"Go wash your feet; they stink."

Hearing this, Zoe stopped her movements, pursed her lips, and then started kicking him more intensely.

"Hey, hey, what are you doing?"

"Hmph, you think I stink? I'll kick you to death, kick you to death."

The young girl kicked her legs *pa-pa*. Following the angle of her soles, he saw the smooth, slender legs extending to the edge of her fluttering skirt; there was nowhere to place his gaze.

Between the chaotic shadows of her pink feet kicking out, Li Ang saw the edges of Zoe's eye sockets turn red. She was clearly very, very concerned that Li Ang had said that about her, and it had nothing to do with any flirtatiousness.

"Anyway, I'm just a stinky wild child." Her voice was as thin as a mosquito's.

"It's my fault, stop kicking. I didn't mean that; I'm just used to talking like that with other adventurers."

The young girl's subtle thoughts were truly not something he could relax about for a single moment—in every sense.

Both sensible and insensible, both dangerous and innocent, or rather, it was precisely because she was simple that she was even more dangerous.

She guarded this piece of heaven and earth alone, wanting to grasp every bit of warmth, which was why her relationship with him had closed so quickly in a short time.

But precisely because it was like this, he knew that her current actions were just the snuggling of a little wild cat that had just found a home.

Li Ang was afraid that he wouldn't grasp the scale well and would walk down a path of not being human. His spirit was tense at all times.

It took a lot of effort to soothe the young girl. When Li Ang lay down, he fell into a completely deep sleep without any struggle.

Mental torment, physical labor—this day had exhausted him to death.

Before closing his eyes, he vaguely saw the young girl staring at him, but he no longer had the energy to think. ===== CHAPTER 23 =====