[Ding! Ding! Quest Completed: Eating from the Same Plate.]
He looked at her in shock, and Medeia was more shocked than he was.
She had imagined sharing a meal with Lucian, but in a romantic way! Not shoving a spoonful of beans into his mouth and making him almost choke.
[Reward: +150 C-Point // +100 XP]
[Reward Gold Coins: 60]
[New Romance Quest: Kissed on the lips by Lucian (Grade-A)]
[Time-Limited: 7 days]
Medeia would have screamed out loud if she hadn’t pinched her hand. Was the system dumb or what? The last quest was Grade-E, but it suddenly rose into Grade-A.
Also, what the hell did "kiss on the lips" mean?!
[It literally means kiss on the lips, Host!]
[Didn’t you want him to kiss you earlier?]
’Yes, but not so soon! We just got into the cuddling phase and you already think he’s going to kiss me?!’
Lucian was an integrity man with a pure mind. Therefore, Medeia wouldn’t expect him to kiss her out of the blue.
However, she couldn’t think about it any further when she heard Lucian coughing several times. She immediately grabbed an empty glass from the table and filled it with water.
"I’m sorry. I’m so sorry." She helped him drink, then patted him on the back. "Here you go. Drink slowly."
Lucian let out a sigh of relief as the beans moved down his throat.
Before he could say anything, Medeia had already given him an excuse, "You expended a lot of energy earlier, so I thought you needed more food!"
Did that excuse sound good enough?
Medeia wasn’t sure, but it was better than having to say that a crazy system had forced her to complete a quest.
"And can I ask you a question? What happened to Orlon?" asked Medeia to change the subject.
Lucian still didn’t understand what was going on in her head, but he eventually followed her conversation.
"Orlon is in the dungeon." Lucian explained, "He wound up pretty badly so I don’t think he can escape."
This freaking military base had a dungeon? Were they in the medieval era or what?
"Did you beat him up?"
Lucian smiled. "As much as I wanted to torture him, I’m not the one who did it."
After Medeia had lost consciousness, Tian had taken Orlon and Eddie to the dungeon. However, he found many disturbing things down there.
"This is not only a military base, but also an experimental laboratory." Lucian’s face darkened. "They kidnapped people and turned them into lab rats."
Orlon had collected the remains of the surviving doctors, mostly surgeons. He asked them to perform many experiments on mutants who had become the Lost or were still conscious.
Lucian did not yet know Orlon’s purpose for performing those unorthodox experiments, but he was certain that it was more than just a scientific or medical purpose.
"We can’t ask him about it yet, because he still lost consciousness after Tian beat him so badly."
Medeia raised her eyebrows. "Tian? What’s wrong with him?"
Tian had always acted grumpy and mean, but Medeia had never seen him go on a rampage like that because he didn’t want to cause trouble.
"Eddie sent Ren somewhere. That’s why he forced Orlon to disable Eddie’s ability for a while so he could ask him where Ren is." Lucian sighed. "But Orlon pretended to deactivate Eddie’s ability, giving him a chance to escape."
Medeia tried to digest the information for a while before she asked, "But Eddie didn’t take Orlon with him?"
"When Tian realized something was wrong, he immediately pulled him away from Eddie, so he couldn’t leave," Lucian said, "Since then, he won’t stop using Orlon as a punching bag if only Harry didn’t calm him down."
Although Tian often scolded his brother every day and used the word ’stupid’ to describe his brother at every opportunity, no one could deny that he had always protected Ren and would do anything to save his brother.
His brother was a bit foolish and reckless, so Tian had to learn to be smart and responsible in order to survive with him.
Now that Ren was gone, Tian suddenly lost his ability to think and couldn’t stop destroying things around the base. He had been protecting his brother for years since their parents died, if something happened to Ren, Tian might not be able to stay sane.
However, that was the perfect situation for Medeia.
From the beginning, it was hard to gain Tian’s trust and loyalty to her. The only thing that made Tian follow her orders was that he didn’t want Ren to take the dangerous jobs.
If Medeia was willing to help him, he might be her loyal dog in the future.
After all, Tian was a great asset to the base, so Medeia had to do her best to preserve him. Besides, Medeia also wanted to get more points from the system by helping her companion.
But honestly, she just wanted to impress Lucian.
’Can I use the mystical compass to find Ren?’ Medeia asked the system.
[Unfortunately, no, host. The Mystical Compass can only show you the route to where you want to go, not track someone’s whereabouts.]
Back then, Lucian used the mystical compass to find her because he already knew where she was. Therefore, the Mystic Compass was useless in Ren’s case if they did not know his location.
But Medeia wasn’t going to give up just like that. She had to try her best to mesmerize Lucian so much that he wanted to kiss her.
’What a pity ... I’m very worried about Ren and I don’t want Tian to go crazy if his brother dies.’
’Please help me find him. I want to become a better person, just like you want me to be.’
[Host, finally you believe in the system’s words that everyone can learn to become a better person!]
[The system feels touched.]
What touch? It was just a machine without a heart, so how come it had the ability to feel something?
[The system will give you free valuable information as a gift!]
Medeia was surprised because she didn’t expect the system to give her valuable information for free. It seemed that Medeia should start to stop insulting that annoying system so that it could continue to give her gifts.
[You can’t use the mystical compass to find someone unless you upgrade it to Grade-SSS+]