“After all, I guess I probably might be a genius.”
Yun Ruoxi stuck out her tongue, her little face flushing red, clearly not used to this sort of self-praise, so she seemed a bit shy.
Lin Zhen couldn’t help but smile at the sight.
“So cute.”
“I’m dying from Xiao Xi’s adorableness.”
“When I was training in martial arts, Teacher Saxin said I had a beast-like Sensory Intuition.”
Yun Ruoxi said seriously.
A beast-like intuition?
Lin Zhen recalled Yun Ruoxi’s stance during her previous battles and nodded in agreement.
She really was more like a wild beast than a martial artist, making use of everything at her disposal.
“After Teacher Saxin’s training, that intuition evolved into an extremely sharp perception.”
Yun Ruoxi pondered, as if trying to find the right words to describe it.
“It’s a kind of perception like slowing down the flow of time.”
“Later, during that match against Mo Yuan in the arena, I accidentally combined the two and created a domain that once belonged only to me. I named it Synesthesia Domain.”
So it was that battle?
Lin Zhen still remembered seeing Yun Ruoxi appear in the arena and nearly defeat Mo Yuan—the shock it brought him.
You could say it was from that moment he truly realized just how strong Yun Ruoxi was.
He started choosing to trust her at times.
“But why do you say ‘once belonged’ to you?”
“Because Mo Yuan stole it from me!” Yun Ruoxi said helplessly. “His talent isn’t any less than mine.”
“Once I activate the Synesthesia Domain, I can simultaneously harness all five senses to gather information to the fullest, mixing them together and absorbing everything quickly.”
Yun Ruoxi gave an example, “For instance, after opening the domain, I can see sounds, tastes, and things I shouldn’t normally be able to see. So I receive information faster and can spot weaknesses more easily.”
“When dealing with Heishui, it was like that. I saw exactly how his body generated force, so I used telekinesis, shaped like tiny hands, to directly clamp down on his joints and muscles.”
“Otherwise, his physical strength is stronger than my telekinesis, so I wouldn’t have been able to restrain him directly.”
“It’s the same logic for taking out so many ships at once. Those ships weren’t equipped with Starshield and couldn’t resist psychic abilities, so I used telekinesis to slip into their hulls and destroy the engines from within.”
Starsea ships usually have at least three types of shields.
Kinetic Armor for resisting kinetic weapons and meteor collisions; energy shields for defending against lasers and energy weapons;
And Starshield to prevent external psychic abilities from directly affecting the inside or outside of the ship.
But this time, the battle camp probably considered it mainly a boarding battle, so they didn’t install Starshield on the ships.
“So it’s finesse… I see now.” Lin Zhen finally understood.
Dr. Forefinger was, after all, just a researcher; he could provide pretty good directions for developing abilities.
But in the daily training of abilities, he almost never provided any useful assistance.
“And my brain’s computational power is so high partly because I’ve developed it from keeping the Synesthesia Domain open for long periods,” Yun Ruoxi said, making a finger-gun gesture at her little head.
“Partly?”
“Mm…” Yun Ruoxi nodded but didn’t explain, lowering her head and falling silent.
Lin Zhen noticed that Yun Ruoxi didn’t want to talk about it—maybe because it involved some less pleasant memories.
So he changed the topic, joking:
“So Xiao Xi, if you open your Synesthesia Domain now and look at me, what can you see?”
“Hmm… Let me try.”
Yun Ruoxi lifted her head, seemingly unintentionally raising her right leg to rest it on the high stool.
For the girl, this might have just been her usual relaxed sitting posture.
But in Lin Zhen’s eyes, that move was almost too much.
Because with that lift, the mysterious triangle area, previously hidden in the shadow of her clothes, was partially lit by the lamp.
Lin Zhen’s gaze was uncontrollably drawn over.
Was it…White?
“A-Zhen gege, right now… your heartbeat’s a bit fast? Hormone secretion levels seem off, too. I’m seeing pink bubbles floating above your head—of course, the pink bubbles are just what my sense of smell perceives through Synesthesia as visual cues.”
With her Synesthesia Domain open, the girl’s eyes were clearly brighter.
She gazed seriously at Lin Zhen, face full of confusion, as if she couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him.
“What’s going on?” Yun Ruoxi asked in puzzlement, like a cat discovering a cup that shouldn’t be on the table, slowly leaning her head closer to Lin Zhen.
A delicate, fresh scent drifted into the boy’s nose.
At that moment, the viewpoint smoothly switched to the girl’s perspective—just as she described, or even more embarrassing, as the strange bubbles on Lin Zhen multiplied the closer she got.
“(Lick) That’s the scent of hormones!”
“Why isn’t it blue-and-white bowls?! Why isn’t it blue-and-white bowls!”
“A classic fanservice episode, but the production team is really lame. Lust is the root of all evil. Now I’m only curious how ‘Stellar’ world’s technology advanced step by step to this level.”
“Hey, you’re too fast, aren’t you?”
“Too close!” Lin Zhen muttered.
He’d seen a lot, handled most things with ease, but now his face was burning red and his lips were trembling.
“What did you say?” Yun Ruoxi didn’t hear, tilting her head with a worried look.
“A-Zhen gege, you seem sick.”
“I’m not sick—it’s just that you’re too close!” Lin Zhen finally managed to suppress the feeling of his heart racing and spoke.
He suddenly leaned back and tumbled right off the high stool.
Just as the back of his head was about to smash into the alloy floor, a gentle telekinetic force cushioned him, helping him to his feet.
Lin Zhen awkwardly raised his head, about to apologize, but saw the girl gently biting her lip, her face red as if it might bleed, thighs pressed tightly together and twisting her waist a little.
“W-was I too close?”
“S-sorry, I think my mom once said I shouldn’t get too close to boys. But back in the forest, at the battle camp… it was never like this before!”
“That was a different environment from now.”
Lin Zhen coughed and sat back in his chair. After that scare, he barely managed to talk calmly to Yun Ruoxi.
“But don’t mind it, it’s not your fault. It’s mine—I saw something I shouldn’t have seen.”
“Something you shouldn’t have seen?” The girl tilted her head.
“Don’t worry about it, let’s talk about something else. Oh right, our Class Three kept looking for you guys, but we never saw a single ship of yours…”
“That’s because our base was just too far away!”
Yun Ruoxi said helplessly, “The battle camp probably thought I was too strong and would break the balance, so they just put our Class Nine and Class One all the way on the outermost edge and let us fight each other.”
“So that’s how it is?” Lin Zhen nodded in realization.
“Mm, but the battle camp didn’t want our two classes to decide the winner right away, so they placed us on either side of a really weird Junkyard.”
“Junkyard?” Lin Zhen’s heart skipped a beat and his breathing quickened.
Junkyard…in space?!
Could it really be what he was thinking of?
He forcibly calmed his excitement, pretending to ask Yun Ruoxi casually while showing no sign of his true feelings.
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