Chapter 23 Maeve
Xu Shen was a little confused, but his expression was numb and there was no change.
"I haven't seen you for a few days. Have you eaten so badly?" The girl turned her head to look at Xu Shen, and looked around him, sometimes close to his eyes, sometimes to his chin, and the distance between them... was almost touching.
Xu Shen couldn't keep up the exercise anymore.
Although he tried hard to restrain himself, it was still difficult for him to be completely calm.
"I'm tired, let me take a rest." Xu Shen said to himself, turned around and lay down on the bed.
"Are you pretending not to see me again?" The girl laughed, "If you really can't see me, you're the only one here, why are you talking to yourself?"
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Xu Shen was speechless, feeling that he had made a mistake.
But he still pretended to be calm, as long as the truth was not revealed, he would pretend to be calm.
Anyway...if I don't pretend, I don't think I can beat her.
After all, the Zhanxu team found the "mom" but didn't notice her, which can only mean... she is above C-level!
Soon, Xu Shen saw that the other person was also lying on the bed, and, lying next to his pillow... on his side.
The other person's eyes, as pure and clean as a lake, were staring at him with a smile and tenderness.
The girl's body seemed to emit a faint fragrance.
This scene was extremely erotic and tempting, but Xu Shen knew that he must not reveal the truth, otherwise the voice and smile in front of him might instantly turn into the hideous true face...
However, being stared at by the girl next to him like this made Xu Shen feel a little numb and uncomfortable.
He was even more devastated in his heart. Why, after leaving home, did she find him?
So many people were staring at me...
"Don't be nervous. Do you still remember my name? My name is Maeve..." the girl said with a smile.
Of course Xu Shen remembered her name. When he opened his eyes for the first time, in addition to seeing "Mom", he also saw her sitting on the cabinet next to him.
The other person was dressed in snow-white, like a glowing saint in the darkness.
But it was not until he saw her jump onto the dining table, standing in front of "Mom" and staring at him with interest that he realized that the girl in front of him was also different...
"Are you going to keep pretending that you can't see me? Actually, I know you can see me, right, right...?" The girl smiled as she leaned close to Xu Shen's ear. Xu Shen seemed to be able to feel the soft words and the breath that came out of her lips, and his heart trembled slightly.
He felt that something bad would happen if he continued lying like this, so he turned over.
However, Maeve quickly came around to him and it looked like they were eye to eye.
“…”
Xu Shen was speechless.
It would be weird if I turned over right away, right?
He closed his eyes and saw that the other person was still looking at him. He didn't dare to stare. Even if he closed his eyes and used the feeling of "seeing", he didn't dare to look closely at the other person's eyes.
After lying down for a while, Xu Shen turned around and got up, found his spare clothes in the closet, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
However, when Xu Shen closed the bathroom door, he found that Maeve had also floated in through the bathroom door.
“…”
Xu Shen felt his scalp bursting slightly. Could he possibly get out?
He sighed, took off his clothes, and started taking a shower as usual.
"You've become much stronger..." Maeve chuckled, covering her mouth, but opened her pure eyes wide, looking around Xu Shen curiously, and even stretched out her fingers to gently touch Xu Shen's chest.
But they did not actually touch each other, but passed through his body like an illusion.
As you look like a woman... don't you know how to avoid it... Xu Shen felt bitter, but he still gritted his teeth and quickly finished washing.
Back in the room, Xu Shen lay down.
Maeve also lay down beside Xu Shen, like a piece of taffy sticking to .
Xu Shen had no choice but to endure it, control his attention and shift it to other things.
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The next day, when Xu Shen woke up, he saw Maeve sleeping soundly, curled up like a kitten beside him.
The sunlight shone through the window, illuminating her fair skin, her extremely long eyelashes, and her face, so delicate and beautiful as an angel, that one could not bear to disturb her.
Suddenly, the girl's body moved slightly, then she slowly opened her eyes, looked at Xu Shen, smiled, and then stretched.
Xu Shen had a blank expression on his face. He stood up, changed his clothes and went out.
Behind him, Maeve floated out from the door and followed Xu Shen.
"Where are you going? Is there anything fun?" Maeve asked curiously.
Xu Shen naturally didn't say anything, and soon arrived at the training ground.
Maeve stood beside Xu Shen, looking around with a curious look on her face.
Not long after, the bald coach came and taught everyone some tips and common sense about Zhanxu, and then regular training began again.
Xu Shen was speechless when he saw that the bald coach was also unaware of Maeve beside him. It seemed that the coach's level was not good enough...
Seeing everyone working hard on the Zhanxu Technique on the training ground, Xu Shen felt an indescribable weirdness in his heart, especially when Maeve beside him was smiling at the way these people were practicing...
The ruins is right beside you!
Xu Shen also started training , still drawing his sword and swinging it.
"Are you also practicing this kind of superficial stuff? Doesn't it teach you some 'vegetable cutting' techniques? That's much more effective than these." Maeve asked curiously.
Xu Shen had a blank expression on his face and continued swinging his sword.
The way of cutting vegetables taught by "mom" is indeed more efficient, but the posture is not very elegant. If I perform it in front of others, I will probably be locked up, right?
"It seems like you want to fight in 'their' way..." Maeve looked at it for a while and shook her head, "The posture is wrong. The forelimbs should be raised higher. Judging from the structure of the joints, this will be smoother..."
She kept chattering beside him, giving Xu Shen some advice from time to time.
Xu Shen's face was numb, but his sword-drawing gesture was getting faster and faster. He made adjustments very slowly... according to what Maeve said, and found that it was indeed a lot faster.
"You see, this is much more efficient," Maeve said with a smile.
Thank you so much...Xu Shen said in his heart.
Maeve watched for a moment, seemed a little bored, looked around for a while, then ran to sit on the chair next to the bald coach.
Xu Shen glanced around between swinging his sword and saw the bald coach sitting in the observation chair with a cool look on his face, looking down on the whole audience, but completely ignoring the weak and innocent girl beside him...
He shifted his gaze away and focused more on practicing sword skills.
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The days in the training camp passed one by one.
Half a month passed in a blink of an eye.
Xu Shen was training sword-drawing and slashing every day, and for the past half month, Maeve had been following him. Although Xu Shen had been pretending not to see and ignore her, it seemed that the other party had set her eyes on him and had no intention of leaving.
They trained together during the day, Xu practiced deeply while Maeve sat next to the coach and watched.
During lunch, he sat at the same table with Deng Feng and the others, and they were all chatting. Maeve, like a girl next door, rested her chin on her hand and listened with great interest.
Sleep together at night.
Xu Shen gradually got used to having Maeve around. As Maeve showed no ill will for the time being, he had no choice but to continue pretending not to see it, and they got along fairly well.
The bald coach was dissatisfied with Xu Shen's repetitive sword-drawing training day after day for half a month. However, after Xu Shen showed his "all-round" ability, the bald coach let Xu Shen practice hard on his own.
"Today is your actual combat training."
When we arrived at the training ground in the morning, the bald coach arrived half an hour late, and with him came a checked cage.
Under the cage was a trailer, its wheels rustling across the grass.
In the cage lay a beast that was half python and half human.
"Gather at the fifth training ground."
The bald coach ordered.
Qi Tianming, Xia Jingxiang, Xu Shen, Deng Feng and other people from the fifth training ground all gathered together, knowing that today they were going to get serious.
"Come one by one. Today you will all fight this Xu beast to test your actual combat results. Don't be so scared that your legs go limp when you see Xu!" The bald coach said, "Tianming, Xiaoxia, who will go first? Set an example for them!"
Qi Tianming and Xia Jingxiang had gone through the observation assessment and seemed relatively calm at the moment. Moreover, Zhao Yuan and earlier students had also undergone actual combat training here, so it was not their first time to see the ruins.
"I'll go first." Xia Jingxiang looked like she was ready to take on the challenge, but she didn't do it to show off. Instead, if she challenged the beast later, the beast's physical strength would decrease, causing her training effect to decline.
Qi Tianming did not fight for it, but just smiled quietly.
"Okay." The bald coach asked someone to put the cage into the protective cover of the sixth training ground, and then opened the cage.
"Go ahead."
Xia Jingxiang took a deep breath and walked into the sixth training ground with sword in hand.
The newcomers in other training grounds all gathered together, nervous and excited. Some of them were seeing the ruins for the first time, their faces were pale and their bodies were shaking.
Some newcomers had not yet mastered the skills of opening and closing the eyes of the prison, and only saw an empty prison van being dragged over but did not see the prison, and they were so anxious that they scratched their heads.
Xu Shen saw that there was a scar as thick as a bowl on the belly of the beast, indicating that it was injured. With Xia Jingxiang's strength, it would not be difficult to kill it. It just depended on whether he could stay calm and exert all his strength.
This is also the main purpose of actual combat.
"Can such a weak little guy be a sparring partner..." Maeve said with some boredom beside Xu Shen.
The corner of Xu Shen's mouth twitched slightly.
