On the Phantom Scale Flash, Lin Fei carried Rose as they weaved swiftly through the forest.
It was as if familiarity had come with repetition.
Rose still sat behind him, and quite naturally wrapped her arms around Lin Fei's waist.
Her gaze lingered steadily on Lin Fei's side profile under the moonlight.
"Hm? Rose, did you change your mind and decide you want my autograph and a photo now?" Lin Fei teased.
"Get lost. Who'd want that," Rose replied.
Seeing Lin Fei turn his head and look at her with a joking expression, Rose rolled her eyes at him.
"I was just wondering—what kind of super gene do you even have? How did you train it? Being this strong is just insane. You're basically a freak."
Back when she'd raced Lin Fei across the lake, the Phantom Scale Flash he used had already felt like cheating compared to her motorcycle.
She hadn't expected that when he truly fought seriously, it would be the same—no, even more exaggerated.
"It's not freakish. It's genius~" Lin Fei said smugly.
One hand held the Phantom Scale Flash steady, while the other waved lightly as he laughed.
"And I don't have any super gene, either."
"Yeah right. Like I'd believe you."
Rose didn't buy it at all.
Without a special gene, how could he possess such terrifying energy and use so many miraculous abilities?
If he didn't want to say it, fine. She didn't really want to know that badly anyway.
Rose stopped paying attention to Lin Fei's nonsense and lightly punched his back.
"Focus on driving. We're about to reach the lake."
"No worries. Rose, just relax. The Phantom Scale Flash has auto-driving."
"So… have you been pretending to drive this whole time?" Rose asked suspiciously.
"That's not it. I only switch to auto-drive when I'm not watching the road."
"I see."
Rose nodded, recalling what Lin Fei had said before—that the Phantom Scale Flash was a form of his own internal energy.
Put that way, even if it was on auto-drive, it could still be considered Lin Fei himself doing the driving.
Still…
She couldn't quite figure it out.
If this was a manifestation of Lin Fei's internal energy, how could it also include so much advanced technology?
Auto-driving, flame-boost acceleration from the exhaust, and even a high-tech speed display screen.
Unable to make sense of it, Rose decided not to think about it anymore.
Lin Fei had far too many secrets. If she tried to unravel them all, she'd probably exhaust herself to death.
Then she noticed something was off with the surroundings.
Instead of skimming across the lake, the Phantom Scale Flash veered toward a stone bridge on the highway.
That bridge was dozens of meters high.
If Lin Fei hadn't rushed into the forest earlier and driven normally, they would've crossed the lake and then followed this bridge toward the road leading directly to the Supergod Academy.
"This time we're not going across the lake?" Rose asked.
"Oh? Did you scrape your skin crossing it earlier?" Lin Fei replied lazily.
"A little," Rose admitted honestly.
On the way back, she'd actually been expecting Lin Fei to ride across the lake again, and had even felt a bit of anticipation.
"We crossed the lake on the way here. On the way back, we should switch things up."
"Oh?"
Rose's eyes lit up. The disappointment instantly turned into curiosity and anticipation.
Next, she saw Lin Fei twist the throttle.
At the same time, she realized that they were already rapidly approaching one of the bridge pillars—and Lin Fei showed no intention of changing direction at all.
She vaguely guessed what Lin Fei was planning.
Sure enough—
Just as they were about to slam into the stone pillar, the Phantom Scale Flash not only didn't slow down—it accelerated instead.
Rose felt the body of the Phantom Scale Flash tilt sharply, and her own body leaned backward with it.
Instinctively, she tightened her arms around Lin Fei.
She watched as the Phantom Scale Flash stood completely upright, its tires gripping the bridge pillar directly, shooting straight upward at a ninety-degree angle.
"Whoo—!"
Rose let out a breath, excitement flashing across her lightly made-up face.
Although she possessed a spacetime gene and could perform wormhole teleportation,
Just like she'd never ridden a motorcycle across a lake before, wormhole transport could never give her the sensation of riding straight up a vertical bridge pillar like this.
Especially with the cool night wind constantly slapping against her face,
Watching the ground below grow farther and farther away—
The adrenaline rush was overwhelming.
This heart-pounding thrill was no less intense than crossing the lake earlier—if anything, it was even stronger.
Very soon,
They shot past the bridge pillar, their remaining momentum carrying them upward more than ten meters before they landed back on the bridge deck.
Then they sped off toward downtown Juxia City.
...
When they returned to the city area, the Phantom Scale Flash slowed back down to a normal speed.
Rose felt a slight sense of emptiness.
But she was used to racing and then suddenly decelerating once back in the city.
So she quickly adjusted.
"Lin Fei, where do you live?"
"It's pretty late. You can just drop me off here. I can get home myself—you don't need to see me all the way."
"Uh…"
Lin Fei stopped the Phantom Scale Flash.
"What's wrong, Lin Fei?"
"I… actually don't have a place to stay in Juxia City."
"Huh? Aren't you from Juxia City?"
"Nope."
Lin Fei chuckled.
"And I don't have a place in any other city either. Right now, I'm totally clean—no phone, no money, no ID, no bank card… nothing."
Rose: "???"
Even if you were an illegal immigrant, you'd at least have some cash and a phone, right?
If Lin Fei had said he was missing one or two of those things, she could've accepted it.
But none at all?
And you still claim you're from Blue Star?!
"Then earlier, when you had dinner with Su Xiaoli…"
"Oh, that. She treated me to dinner to thank me. But later you showed up, and you paid for the meal anyway."
Seeing Rose stare at him with a strange expression, Lin Fei opened his mouth as if to say something, then didn't know what to say.
He could only keep smiling awkwardly.
"So that condition I mentioned to you earlier was about this," Lin Fei continued.
"I wanted you to help me find a place to stay."
"And my phone and money… money's not a big deal. I can just ask your dad for it."
"…Sigh."
Rose sighed helplessly.
"Alright, I get it."
A ripple appeared in space, and an unopened phone box dropped into Rose's hands.
"Phone shops should all be closed by now. I bought this phone a few days ago, left it at home, and then went straight to the Supergod Academy. I didn't even get a chance to use it. I'll give it to you."
"As for the SIM card… those need real-name registration now, and you don't have an ID…"
"With that situation, you can't stay at a hotel either."
"And it's so late—there's no time to look for a rental…"
As Rose thought through Lin Fei's arrangements, she subconsciously covered her face.
This was the first time she'd ever encountered something like this.
In the end, she really couldn't think of a solution.
Maybe it was because she'd experienced too much today and her brain was a little fried.
So she simply blurted out:
"Why don't you just stay at my place?"
Lin Fei: "..."
"…Huh?"
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