At the moment, they had two choices laid out before them. Either to backtrack and find another path or let Shang Jinxiu stow the vehicle, and they would traverse on foot by the side of the deep pit, return to the expressway surface, retrieve the car, and continue on their journey.
Shang Jinxiu and Fang Yuxin were in the same car, and she immediately spoke up, "Sister Xin, let me do it."
Fang Yuxin raised her hand to stop her from continuing and released her Spiritual Sense to scan the surroundings. She was very cautious, and using her Spiritual Sense had become an instinct for her to assess the situation.
Shang Jinxiu’s Space superpower was extremely rare and sufficiently tempting. Although this matter was no secret within the Yongcheng Team and Bai Ye’s team, they were, after all, out in the open and should be wary of being seen. They had just encountered people not long ago—who knew if anyone around this deep pit was watching?
Once Fang Yuxin checked, she discovered something amiss.
There were actually people watching nearby!
Her expression darkened as she spoke softly about her finding, "There are about ten people around us watching and on guard; it’s best not to expose Axiao’s Space superpower."
Those ten people were not gathered together but were scattered, hiding in different places, all armed, with two individuals holding binoculars and watching them.
After Fang Yuxin finished speaking, she simply got out of the car, walked over to Bai Ye’s window, and gently tapped with a bent finger. The window quickly rolled down, and Fang Yuxin leaned over slightly, using the car body to block the other party’s line of sight and whispered her recent discovery. She then asked Bai Ye, "What do you plan to do?"
Fang Yuxin wore a close-fitting protective suit inside and had on a relatively loose shirt and pants on the outside, hiding any signs of a problem. As she bent over, her collar fell slightly, giving Bai Ye the perfect angle to see a delicate stretch of her collarbone and that porcelain-smooth skin.
Bai Ye suddenly became tense, his breathing filled with the scorching air and the faint wood fragrance coming from Fang Yuxin’s body. They had turned off the air conditioning to save fuel, and due to caution, after they found the road blocked, they had rolled up the open windows to prevent the others from seeing the specifics inside the vehicle. Luckily, Chen Si was an Ice Ability User and had placed several buckets of ice inside the car; aside from a bit of stuffiness, it wasn’t too hot.
The moment the window opened, the scorching air outside rushed in, making one’s head reel with heat and consciousness groggy. But Fang Yuxin was a Wood Element Superpower User with a Spiritual Pet like Lan Re, always emanating a very light fragrance of vegetation that was refreshing and invigorating.
However, this time, smelling the vegetative fragrance from Fang Yuxin, Bai Ye felt as if his blood was boiling. A burning heat surged towards his lower abdomen, and a certain part of him seemed to be stirring restlessly.
He was frightened, quickly averted his eyes, and hardly dared to look at Fang Yuxin’s expression. Struggling to maintain a poker face to not give himself away, Bai Ye asked calmly, "What’s your plan?"
His mind was muddled at the moment, with no interest in thinking carefully about what to do, so he simply asked for Fang Yuxin’s opinion.
He was behaving too normally, and Fang Yuxin did not have the slightest doubt. She coolly shared her thoughts, "These people are hiding quite secretly. Considering the time it took us to come from there to here, they can’t have come after us; they must have been hiding here all along. From where they’re concealed, it doesn’t seem like an ambush but rather like sentinels monitoring for enemy movements." Fang Yuxin finished speaking and subconsciously looked for Bai Ye’s reaction.
Bai Ye was after all an expert in this field; she herself was a novice, relying only on some pitiful experience from her previous life. Therefore, privately, Fang Yuxin was very confident in Bai Ye’s observational skills and judgment, and she cared a lot about his opinions.
Since discovering these people, she had a thought, but she and Bai Ye were after all partners; how to proceed definitely needed mutual discussion, and she couldn’t just act on her own will, completely disregarding Bai Ye’s thoughts.
Bai Ye was desperately suppressing his desires. His usual lifestyle was exceptionally routine, to the point of being rigidly boring. Because of his dual obsession with emotional and physical cleanliness, he had never indulged himself, the only exception being the time he was set up, which resulted in Bai Qianqian, his son.
He rarely felt this kind of desire, and if not for the occasional physiological impulse, he’d almost doubt if there was something wrong with him. But he hadn’t expected that just a normal conversation, with Fang Yuxin dressed quite conservatively, revealing only a small section of her collarbone, could render him so helpless. Even the revitalizing fragrance of vegetation from Fang Yuxin’s body had become an ultimate temptation for him.