Chapter 54

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Taking a girl to the mountaintop or lakeside to enjoy the starry night, though a bit cliché, is still a powerful tool for winning a girl's heart, no matter how old-fashioned it is.

As long as your methods are good enough, after enjoying the starry night, you can likely also enjoy the thrill of the sky as your blanket and the earth as your bed, or even shake the car a bit.

Moreover, this time, Liu Rui'an didn't just take the girl to look at stars on Earth, but directly took her to space to look at Earth.

Even though Skye was very wary of the guy, when she left the decompression isolation chamber and floated into space, seeing the blue planet she had lived on since childhood, she was still stunned.

After all, even though such scenes are not uncommon on TV and the internet, watching TV or surfing the web is completely different from being there in person.

"How is it? Feeling pretty good, right?" Liu Rui'an, who was quietly floating beside her and using his ability to keep the Sino-American girl from floating away, said.

Of course, in the vacuum of space, sound cannot travel.

Fortunately, this was no problem for Liu Rui'an, who directly used a method similar to a mental link to temporarily connect his and Skye's brain waves.

Since the strength of this link was controlled within a certain range, it could be used for mental conversation without worrying about causing any damage to the other person.

"Too beautiful!" Skye, dressed in a spacesuit, gazed at the Earth she lived on and exclaimed subconsciously.

"If you like, you can come and see it anytime in the future," Liu Rui'an said with a smile, sensing her emotional fluctuations.

After being stunned by the breathtaking scenery for a while, Skye finally realized something seemed off.

"Wait a minute, why can you move in space without a spacesuit?" Skye, who had come to her senses, asked in shock, looking at the other person still dressed in high-end custom clothing.

"This is also one of my abilities," Liu Rui'an said with a smile, looking at her belated realization.

Pointing to his head through the helmet of the spacesuit, Skye, who was already somewhat used to it, quickly calmed down and asked:

"So, you're speaking directly into my mind?"

"You're very smart," Liu Rui'an said with a smile, continuing to use his mental conversation ability.

"Doesn't that mean you can casually read my memories?" As a hacker, and a top-tier one at that, Skye quickly grasped the key issue.

"For others, indeed, but for you, I've only established a basic mental link, which allows for conversation but not reading your memories."

At this point, to prevent the other person from doubting his good intentions, Liu Rui'an explained:

"If I were to forcibly read someone's memories, it would cause significant mental harm. Do you feel anything like that now?"

"No."

Although she still had some doubts, Skye had to admit that from the moment she was kidnapped until now, she had not suffered any harm, either physically or mentally.

Seeing that the second step of the interaction was going smoothly, Liu Rui'an smiled, extended his hand, and made a gesture of invitation, then said:

"Alright, beautiful lady, to avoid alarming certain people, let's hurry and take care of the main business."

"Is it about my background?" Skye asked, suppressing her emotional fluctuations.

"Exactly, or more precisely, about the true background of your mother and your people," Liu Rui'an said, nodding.

"People?" The intelligent Skye immediately associated something from this word.

Without giving her a chance to speak again, Liu Rui'an directly took the Sino-American girl back to the small spacecraft and headed toward their destination.

Bermuda Triangle, Puerto Rico, San Juan...

"Where are we?" Skye asked, frowning as she looked at the holographic map projected in front of her.

"San Juan, Puerto Rico," Liu Rui'an, standing beside her, explained.

"What are we doing here?" Skye asked as the small spacecraft slowly descended toward the sea.

"In a certain sense, the place we're going to next is your true home, or more precisely, your homeland."

At this point, Liu Rui'an made a gesture of invitation and said, "Please, Skye, all the answers to your questions, I believe you will soon find out for yourself."

With a belly full of doubts, Skye obediently followed the person to the open hatch.

She found that the spacecraft had stopped about ten meters above the sea, and the nearest land was at least one or two kilometers away.

Fortunately, her previous experiences had given her some understanding of the person's abilities.

Faced with this special landing site, she couldn't help but feel a bit excited.

"Can I?" Liu Rui'an, very gentlemanly, opened his arms and made a gesture of inviting her to dance, smiling.

"Of course." Skye, who had long since lost her fear and anxiety, walked forward and embraced the person.

Just as Skye couldn't help but like the warmth and safety of the person's embrace, she felt her feet leave the ground and found herself flying out of the hatch and into the air above the sea.

"Don't worry, we are very safe." Sensing the tension in the body in his arms, Liu Rui'an said with a smile, "If you need, I can fly slower."

Subconsciously hugging the body that gave her more security, Skye couldn't help but look around, feeling both nervous and excited.

After the initial tension and excitement, Skye quickly found that in the person's embrace, she felt no disturbance from the wind and waves below.

When she realized that they had already reached the shore without her noticing, Skye couldn't help but feel a bit disappointed.

"If you liked the flight, I can take you for another round, even back to New York," Liu Rui'an said with a smile, sensing her emotional fluctuations.

"Are you sure you haven't read my thoughts?" Skye couldn't help but ask, being caught in her thoughts.

"Ha ha... Your thoughts are written all over your face, do I need to read them?" Liu Rui'an said with a smile, gently landing on the ground with her.

Even though she knew their relationship was far from friendly, Skye couldn't help but feel a strong curiosity about this person.

It's not surprising, considering how few girls can remain calm in the face of such incredible and mysterious abilities.

Just the things Skye used to do in the Rising Tide organization made her curious about the strange and extraordinary people hidden among the populace.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so interested in the hooded figure in the TV series "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."

Liu Rui'an's abilities were far beyond those of the death warrior created using the "Centipede" technology.

Moreover, having just learned about her background, Skye, who had seemingly accepted the reality, was still in a state of confusion and helplessness.

Being "taken advantage of" by a person who was good-looking, well-built, and wealthy was not strange at all, but rather expected.

"Where are we going now?" Skye couldn't help but ask as the person walked toward the entrance of an ancient castle watchtower nearby.

"Didn't I say before that the place we're going to can answer all the questions in your heart?" Liu Rui'an said with a smile, turning around to answer.

Faced with this non-answer, Skye could only suppress her complex thoughts and follow.

"This watchtower was built in 1634 and is famous for being haunted, known as the Devil's Sentry," Liu Rui'an, temporarily acting as a tour guide, said as he walked and introduced.

Soon, the two arrived at the large hall on the ground floor of the watchtower.

"Is this the homeland you mentioned?" Skye asked, looking at the dusty surroundings due to lack of visitors.

"Of course not." Liu Rui'an walked to the area designated by the Starling.

Before Skye could ask again, she was shocked to see the person's eyes suddenly turn red.

As two thick red energy beams shot out, it didn't take long for the originally dusty ground to be cut into a perfect circle.

When the circle was completed, the cut-out circular ground fell into the depths, and after a while, a loud thud was heard.

"Are you ready?" Liu Rui'an asked, floating above the circular tunnel.

"Do you mean we're going down?" Skye asked, looking at the clearly very deep pit.

"What? Are you afraid I'll harm you, or are you afraid of this place?" Liu Rui'an asked with a smile.

To say she wasn't at all afraid would be a lie, but after all the previous experiences, Skye knew that if this person really wanted to harm her, he wouldn't need to go through such trouble.

After a brief hesitation, she stepped forward, hugged him again, and said:

"Quickly, I can't wait anymore."

"As you wish, my princess."

Faced with her initiative, Liu Rui'an smiled, then hugged her and descended into the tunnel below.