LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 223: Suspision? (4)
For Chloe, making sure Aiden could also feel good made her feel good, knowing she was taking care of her friend, and him being the brother of one of the strongest people on the planet was just a coincidence. However, if she got to have a good relationship with Alicia Cross because of this, it could only be called a cherry on top for her.
The embarrassment on her cute face was still not gone as she clearly remembered what had happened between her and Ling Xue.
Ling Xue was now observing Chloe's facial expressions, which were changing from time to time. She could see the excitement on her face at first, with a wide smile on her lips, which also scared her a little, knowing the person in front of her had gotten even stronger than before.
This was why she had decided not to upset her, even by mistake, and to be mindful of her actions in front of Big Sister Chloe. However, as she observed the reactions on her face, her expression changed with each passing second. Sometimes she could see embarrassment on her face, sometimes anger, and sometimes annoyance.
She didn't know what Chloe was thinking that was making her show so many emotions. However, whatever it might have been, she wasn't going to ask. But this rapid shift in her mood scared her even more because what she feared the most was unpredictability, and currently, how Big Sister Chloe was behaving was only terrifying her.
Chloe looked at Ling Xue, who was looking at her with a terrified expression, cold sweat dripping down her face. Chloe had thought of just giving her payback right then, somewhere in her mind. However, seeing Ling Xue's current behavior and knowing the result of the battle, she wouldn't feel satisfied even after getting payback. This was why she held off her revenge on her ass cheeks for now and only showed Ling Xue an annoyed look on her cute face, which made Ling Xue in front of her shiver slightly.
Chloe enjoyed her reaction. While she couldn't get her payback, seeing this new side of Ling Xue was clearly entertaining her. Now that she had already confirmed she wasn't going to kill her, Ling Xue feeling scared of her and reacting on her behalf only brought Chloe amusement without any guilt.
After looking at Ling Xue for a few seconds to enjoy her reactions, Chloe turned her head to look in the direction of Mark, who was sitting on the ground and, like everyone else, looking at her and Ling Xue's interaction from afar.
She only smiled faintly as she looked at him for a second and then turned her whole face away while thinking of how to take care of him before leaving tomorrow morning. His father was likely going to find him.
She felt a little sad thinking about his father. However, knowing his end and the people he had made suffer in her previous life, Chloe wasn't going to go easy on him and was determined to take care of him, to take the burden of his father's revenge. She knew he would come after her because, even in her previous life, James Ford had been after Ling Xue's life after finding out what Ling Xue had done to him.
But this had happened a few months afterward, as no one had given him any information due to fear of Ling Xue and their loyalty to her. However, it didn't stop him from finding out what had transpired by buying a member of the organization using his resources.
In the end, they had to face each other from time to time due to his assassination attempts to kill Ling Xue using various means. But he wasn't the only one after them. The government was also after them for other reasons. Ling Xue still sustained their group, but they had to live in secret bases because of all the threats from monsters and other humans.
Chloe looked at the bag in her hand, which still had cores left, mainly red cores. She had used only about 60 of them, approximately, so there should have been nearly 100 left inside.
She didn't have any use for them now. However, if she wanted to, she could keep them and use them afterward when she would be able to break through after maxing out her mana stat and then using her cultivation technique to enter her cultivation journey. While their value would decrease, they could still be used if she wanted to, and 100 was also not a small amount for the time being.
However, Chloe still decided to give them back to Ling Xue. Extending her hand along with the bag, she moved the bag in front of Ling Xue and said in a haughty voice, "Hmph! Take it!"
Ling Xue looked at the bag in front of her for a few seconds after hearing Big Sister Chloe's words. She could see there were still some cores inside the bag. Chloe giving her back the cores made her feel skeptical, and she started to think about whether she should take it or not.
Knowing how dangerous the cute little girl in front of her was, she didn't just take the bag from her hand and started to think carefully. While she was very tempted to just take the bag, as she really wanted to become even more powerful, after what she was experiencing today, her hunger for becoming stronger was even more than before.
A thought appeared in her mind, just like the previous time, as if Big Sister Chloe was testing her by asking her to take the bag. But she remembered how wrong her assumption was earlier, which had almost caused her a heart attack. So this time, even though it looked like bait to her and even though Chloe's voice sounded a little annoyed, she didn't reject Chloe and accepted the bag from her small hands by slowly extending her hand and taking it carefully.
One reason for her taking the cores was that if she rejected them and upset Chloe, making her not give her any cores at all, she would regret it very much. So, even while she felt a little skeptical, she still took the cores as she really wanted them.
Chloe could see how Ling Xue had taken the cores from her hand, even acting scared, which made her a little annoyed once again. If Ling Xue had rejected her this time, she would have just kept the cores herself, as sooner or later they would be useful to her. But, unfortunately for her, Ling Xue didn't reject her this time.
After a second, her mood returned to normal, as these small amounts of low-ranked red cores didn't mean much to her and would be much more useful to Ling Xue. After hearing Ling Xue's words afterward, all her annoyance completely vanished into thin air, leaving only satisfaction and pride inside.
"Thank you, Big Sister Chloe, for your kindness," Ling Xue said.
Chloe only moved her hands slightly in the air while having a bright smile on her face to show her generosity and replied, "It's nothing."
After saying those words, she didn't focus on Ling Xue anymore and started walking in Mark's direction with a rare sharp expression on her face.
Ling Xue, who was left alone with the bag of red cores in her hand, decided to follow her with a joyful expression on her face, as these cores would really be helpful to her. She had also seen Big Sister Chloe's expression when she thanked her, which made her question even more what Big Sister Chloe's real personality was.
'Who are you, Big Sister Chloe?'
While being lost in her thoughts, she followed Chloe as both of them neared Mark. Ling Xue didn't think they were going to meet Mark, as she didn't think Chloe and Mark were even acquainted, from what she knew.
But she didn't jump to conclusions, as it was something related to Big Sister Chloe. From what she had assumed, Chloe was someone who likely knew about these crazy events that had happened. She couldn't just believe what she knew previously about Chloe anymore. She didn't know now if the things she knew about her were true or not, or what her actual nature was, as she couldn't understand her behavior or the reasoning behind her actions.
So she only followed after her without knowing about her actual intention of walking toward Mark or is she actually going toward him or she is just thinking too much because of their past as she must be just walking in that direction and Mark just happened to be in the same direction.
Whatever it is she could do anything so she only quietly followed after her but she didn't want her to come in contact with that scum.
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Chloe is ready to confront Mark or End his life before him knowing why he is dying at the hands of someone he had actually met for the first time, Aiden and his group are now done with collecting all the cores inside the body of all the zombies they have killed.