668 Let It Go (2/2)
”I only asked for one.” Wang Tong murmured.
Zhang Jin shook her head as she lamented on his innocence. If he were able to defeat Patroclus, he would be the most powerful man on Earth. By then, all factions would beg or even coerce him to marry their daughters. In the political world, love was a luxury and marriage was never a personal business.
”Whatever! Most people would die to live your life right now. On a more serious note, did Zhou Sisi mention anything about the queen?”
”She said that she agreed with our guess. The Queen had to be on the ark, which is neither close to earth nor parked anywhere in space.”
”It's in the hyperspace?”
”Bingo!”
”It wasn't that difficult to guess. Patroclus had been working on a device to extract a section of the hyperspace five years ago, and it seems like he has succeeded.”
”It is an ingenious idea, I have to give him that!”
”It would require a tremendous amount of energy to stabilize the hyperspace once it is extracted. It should be too big to miss.”
”You have forgotten one key feature of the Ark: its new battery. Those batteries alone should be able to supply most of the energy required to sustain the hyperspace in our dimension.” Wang Tong's words had hit the mark and revealed a dead end in their search.
The door was suddenly thrown open as the two were deep in their thoughts about their problem.
”Wang Tong!” The voice startled Wang Tong and sent a chill down his spine. He looked up at the visitor and knew why. Before he could utter a word, a sumptuous girl threw herself at Wang Tong and hugged him tightly. Perfume filled Wang Tong's nostrils, and his face was assailed by hot kisses.
Li Shiming stood far away from his sister, seemingly wanting nothing to do with her outburst of affection.
Wang Tong wasn't sure where to put his hands, so he waited for Li Ruoer to let go of him, but she didn't. Wang Tong gingerly dodged a kiss and gave Zhang Jin an imploring glance; to his dismay, the latter just ignored him.
That was not where Wang Tong's misfortune ended on that day, far from it, in fact. He had heard doom's beckoning when he caught the glance of Ma Xiaoru and Zhou Sisi walking out of the room while Li Ruoer's lips were firmly pressed on his. Overtaken by fear, Wang Tong grabbed hold of Li Ruoer's shoulder and pushed her away.
As Li Ruoer furthered her tactics of the Enchantress, she had become an increasingly intensifying headache for Li Shiming. After discovering that he had arranged a meeting with Wang Tong, Li Ruoer insisted on tagging along. Ever since the death of Li Zhedao, the influence of House Li had eroded significantly on the Earth as the Templars had quickly risen to become the leaders of the human world, the former role of House Li.
However, Li Shiming knew that the era of house Li had ended with the life of his father. Not only the humans looked up to Wang Tong as their savior instead of Li Shiming, but the war itself had more and more resembled a personal feud between Wang Tong and Patroclus. In other words, House Li had become increasingly irrelevant. However bitter the reality was, Li Shiming had accepted it without rancor. Wang Tong had proved his power and earned his trust.
Not until Li Ruoer saw Ma Xiaoru and Zhou Sisi did she realize that she had gone overboard. Despite having to catch Li Ruoer red-handed, the two girls rushed to her and hugged her like old friends.
Seeing the crisis get averted, Wang Tong heaved a sigh of relief. Zhang Jin cracked a smile and said, ”Old friends are the best, aren't they?”