Mo Qiang looked at Mo Xifeng with a poker face before saying to her, "I brought you here because I want you to do something for me." She paused and then explained the matter to Mo Xifeng: "It's like this; these plants are called bulbous plants. And they are really, really toxic. And I need to open the small latch on the top of the dome."
She pointed to the small opening, and Mo Xifeng turned to look at the latch tied on top of the dome as well. When she saw the small opening on the dome, Mo Xifeng turned and looked at Mo Qiang and asked, "Why did you bring me here?"
Was her sister trying to show off her strength and abilities to her because she teased her earlier? Though Mo Xifeng had nothing against it, she would have liked it if her sister did it in the morning and not at night.
"I brought you here to protect me," replied Mo Qiang brazenly.
"I am sorry?" Mo Xifeng was certain that she had misheard something. What did her sister mean by protecting her? What did she need protection from?
If anything, her sister was a force that many needed protection from!
"I am going to open the latch silly, though I trust Ya Ya," she added in a voice loud enough for the spirit to hear her. She swiftly relayed to Mo Xifeng, "But what if, in one in a million cases, this thing did not work? What if the plant had undergone another mutation? And this protective layer did not work on it?"
Mo Qiang raised her hand and placed it on Mo Xifeng's shoulder before clapping on it twice. "So in that case, you need to pick me up and run as fast as possible. Or else the two of us will turn into vegetables."
Mo Xifeng: (≖_≖ )
"Sister, you mean to say that you woke me up – and brought me here in a hurry as if the world was coming to an end, just for me to act as your shield?"
Was her sister trying to play a joke on her?
Mo Xifeng looked at the expression on the face of her sister and knew that Mo Qiang meant every word that she just said! She actually wanted her to act like her shield.
This woman—
'You cannot kill her,' Mo Xifeng told herself again and again. She was her sister; no matter how annoying and wilful she was, Mo Qiang was her sister.
And not to forget. Mo Qiang was now the beacon of hope for every human living in the Imperial Star. If she was to hurt Mo Qiang in any way, Mo Xifeng knew that she would be locked up for sure.
Of course, no matter how angry she was at Mo Qiang's brazen request, she would not hurt her.
Instead, she would refuse her.
Politely!
That's right.
"Sister, I am sure that this thing is going to work fine. You do not need to worry about—"
"Don't tell me that you are leaving me in a pinch here." Mo Qiang looked at the woman beside her. "Are you refusing your sister, Xifeng?"
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