"Fucking bastard!" A man with a large scar pointed his gun at Lucian’s head. "I’ll fucking kill you!"
"It’s useless." Lucian sighed, his voice filled with exhaustion rather than fear. His erald eyes fixed calmly on the man with the scar, as if the barrel of the gun at his head was nothing more than an inconvenience.
The man’s hand trembled slightly. For so reason, Lucian’s calmness and unbothered manners made him hesitate, but he masked his fear with rage. "You think I won’t pull this fucking trigger?"
Lucian let go of the man’s hand and turned to face the other. He took a step forward, the gun now inches from his forehead. "Go ahead," he said, his tone firm. "But if you do, you better hope you find another source of water."
While Lucian was dealing with a bunch of degenerate n, deia was frozen in place. The word ’woman’ repeated over and over in her mind, like a prayer.
She heard the sounds of gunfire several tis, but she stayed where she was, ignoring the battle going on around her.
Did he really call ’wife’?
? His wife?
[Yes, Host. He called you wife.]
[But weren’t you the one who asked him to pretend to be your husband?]
’Oh, shut up. Just let be happy.’
Who cared if it was just an act? The important thing was that Lucian called her ’wife’.
But the happiness didn’t last long because the system always had a way of ruining her life.
[Host, the system must remind you that you haven’t completed your romance quest yet.]
[The system doesn’t give a ti limit, but taking too long to complete a simple mission makes you less interesting.]
deia suddenly ca to her senses as the system’s choice of words sounded odd.
What did it an by less interesting?
Is she in so kind of entertainnt show or what?
[Therefore, a new rule will apply to all romance quests.]
[Romance quests will have a ti limit. The length of the ti limit will vary depending on the complexity and difficulty of the quest.]
[Judging the difficulty of the current Romance Quest: Eating from the Sa Plate ....]
Wait, what?
How can the system suddenly apply new rules?!
[Calculation completed!]
[The current romance quest is Grade E]
[Ti limit: 10:00:00]
deia opened her eyes wide as the ti limit appeared on the green panel.
Ten hours!
She was in the middle of business, but the system wanted her to have dinner with Lucian right away?!
What a joke!
The happiness in her heart imdiately evaporated along with this announcent.
’What if I don’t finish my quest on ti?’
[You will lose half of your C-points and gold coins].
deia kicked the tires so hard her leg hurt.
"deia, are you okay?" Lucian looked at her after grabbing the gun from Doug’s hand.
deia took a deep breath before speaking, "I thought I saw a desert lizard earlier."
She shifted her gaze to the group of n who looked miserable. Lucian hadn’t killed them yet, but so of them had broken bones, while others were unconscious.
"Are you done yet?" deia snatched the gun from Lucian’s hand and pointed it at Doug’s head. "We don’t have all day, so stop wasting our ti. You have two choices, take us to your boss or I’ll blow your head off right now."
deia was an business.
With a ti limit haunting her, she couldn’t afford to waste even one second.
Doug gritted his teeth in annoyance because his pride was being trampled over by a re woman. "I’d rather die than obey you."
"Well, then." deia wanted to pull the trigger, but she suddenly heard the sound of heavy boots thundered through the base.
A horde of muscular n, ard with heavy weapons stord to the front gates. They seed irritated as they saw a lot of their n lying on the ground in miserable states.
"Doug!" a burly man with a shaved head barked as he approached, his voice echoing through the base. "You’re embarrassing !"
Doug turned to face the man, desperation flashing in his eyes. "Colonel Colton! These outsiders are causing trouble! They---"
"Silence!" Colton’s sharp look seed to tear Doug apart. "You’re the first defense of our base, but you can’t even handle these two people! You’re useless!"
deia tilted her head to observe the man who had just arrived. The title "Colonel" was high enough, but she doubted that the head of the military base would go straight to the front door.
"Are you the leader here?" deia asked, her voice sounding sharp as she lowered the gun.
After ordering the other n to take Doug away, Colton’s gaze shifted to deia, then landed on Lucian. Instead of answering her question, he asked, "Is it true that Stormclad is gone?"
Lucian stepped forward and stood between him and deia. "Yes, it’s true. The Stormclad are gone, and their leader is dead. If you want to continue to get water from the Red Canyon, you will have to make a new deal with us."
"Oh, and who are you?" asked Colton in a demanding tone.
"We are the Red Star Alliance." Lucian said, "From now on Red Star will be in charge of Red Canyon. So tell , Colonel ... Colton? Do you want to make a deal with us or not?"
"Aren’t you a fool?" Colton said, "You’re telling that the Stormclad is gone, doesn’t that an that we can easily take over the springs in the Red Canyon?"
Lucian smiled. "Didn’t you hear earlier, Colonel? Red Star has taken over the canyon and we won’t accept joint leadership for the ti being."
Corlon’s lips curled into a sneer. "You are bold to assu you can handle all of us."
deia, running out of ti to complete her quest, finally said, "Enough with the chitchat, Colonel. If you want the water to keep flowing to your people, then you’ll need to learn how to negotiate. Otherwise, you can start harvesting the waterheart plants every day, but it can’t be compared to the fresh water, can it?"
"Lady, you really aren’t afraid of death, are you?" Colton turned around and said, "All right. If you want to make a deal, I’ll let you talk to our general. Please. follow ."
deia scoffed at him. "Do you expect us to follow you into your dangerous base? We’re not silly, Colonel." She sharpened her gaze and said, "We want to talk to your general here, outside the base."
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