Chapter 223: Embarrassed Escape

He was too excited.

He didn’t know if it was from the excess energy he’d absorbed, the bottle of relaxing wine, or because—

Mo Si gripped his tail.

It was excited. Even though his conscious self hadn’t sent a single shred of energy to it, the tail was still darting up and down like a little motor.

Six hours had already passed.

Usually by this point, even if he couldn’t retract it, he would at least have it under control.

It seemed to be conveying a kind of inner joy.

...

He still couldn’t sleep.

A dispatch had conveniently arrived from the Military Department office yesterday, so he handled some official documents for a while. Then, the scene from tonight couldn’t help but flash through his mind.

At that moment, Mo Si was filled with nothing but self-reproach. ’I’m such a creep,’ he thought.

’So rude, so disgraceful. I actually exposed my body in front of a young woman. The very definition of a pervert, no doubt about it.’

He sighed. How had things suddenly turned out this way?

’I guess I can only blame it on eating too much.’

He opened his terminal. The young lady had sent him a message. Mo Si didn’t reply—not because he was intentionally leaving her hanging, but because he was at a loss for what to say.

Just then, an urgent message came in from Qiudao.

At four in the morning, an automated Teleportation Mecha stopped at Mo Chengyu’s doorstep. Mo Si, wearing a cloak and hat, jumped into the Teleportation Mecha and vanished without a sound.

-

The next day, Jiang Qiuqiu came over to practice her spiritual power as arranged, only to find that the one greeting her was Mo Chengyu, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time.

"Sister Chengyu? Is that you?"

"...What’s wrong?" Mo Chengyu yawned. "Not happy to see me? I get the feeling you’re disappointed."

"Not at all, it’s just surprising." Jiang Qiuqiu sat down, food container in hand. "It’s just that it’s always been Black Hole before."

"He had an emergency and went back to work last night." Mo Chengyu wasn’t sure what could have happened at the Military Department to make Mo Si leave at four in the morning. "So, I’ll probably be the one training you for a while."

"Then I’ll have to trouble you again, Sister Chengyu."

"No trouble at all! I’m more than happy to!"

They got right to it. Mo Chengyu’s training style was completely different from Mo Si’s; where Mo Si focused on the big picture, Mo Chengyu was all about the details.

"You can try to disperse your spiritual power."

"If your Perception Ability is strong enough, you can diffuse your spiritual power a bit more."

At the end of another exhausting day, Jiang Qiuqiu was resting quietly on the sofa when she suddenly commented, "Sister Chengyu, I’ve noticed that your Sea of Spirit Power and Black Hole’s feel completely different."

"That’s right," Mo Chengyu said with a smile. "It’s because our spiritual power orientations are different. He’s clearly Combat System, and I’m Pure Spiritual Wisdom System."

"There’s a classification like that?" Jiang Qiuqiu’s face was full of curiosity.

"There is. Everyone’s spiritual power attribute is different."

"Then what attribute do you think I am?"

"As for you, while we haven’t tested it with any instruments, both Black Hole and I think you’re Healing System."

’Healing System?’

"It’s a spiritual power orientation that people who are pure and kind-hearted awaken to easily." Mo Chengyu went on to explain the importance of Healing System masters in the Federation.

Jiang Qiuqiu took note of all this.

Around noon, Jiang Qiuqiu went home.

Once home, she sent another message to Mo Si, asking what he was doing.

When he received the message, Mo Si was already conducting an inspection of the Sixth Army.

—I had an emergency. I’m not on Federation Star right now.

—Then when will you be back?

By tacit agreement, neither of them mentioned what happened yesterday.

Mo Si wanted some time to cool down, and since there were issues with the Sixth Army that truly required his attention, he replied:

—I’ll be back at the end of the month.

The end of the month was when the public admission exams for Federation University began.