Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 1194: Did he finally give in?

Because of this unexpected action, the forest fell into deathly silence.

Bai Ye's expression was unbelievable, as if he had seen some terrifying monster. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Ling Ge would have found it hard to believe that such a wonderful and vivid expression could appear on that face that always looked down on him. This finally made her a little more human, rather than a statue that was deliberately decorated for herself. But the girl herself obviously didn't agree with this idea. She was so angry that she was shaking all over, clenching her teeth, and staring at the young man in front of her angrily, but for some reason, Ling Ge didn't find it scary. Instead, he suddenly had an illusion, as if he had seen the stress reaction of a young bird whose feathers were soaked in a storm after being touched. The appearance of never giving in was just to cover up the panic and uneasiness in his heart.

Even the tone of his anger was so weak.

“You bastard, you bastard——!”

She slapped the young man's hand away and shouted excitedly: "Do you know what you have done? Who allowed you to do this? It is unforgivable! Absolutely unforgivable!!!"

"Wow, what an intense reaction." Gloria in the consciousness space couldn't help but complain. It was the first time she saw Bai Ye lose his composure like this.

But why is it that when he says this with his hair already a mess, even though it's very powerful, it feels inexplicably funny?

Lingge ignored her overreaction, but took back his hand, looked at it in front of his eyes for a while, and then nodded and said, "Not bad."

"What, what's not bad!?" Bai Ye was shocked when he heard that. "You actually said something like that after messing up a girl's hair. You must be a pervert, right? It's so disgusting! Get away from me!"

She took two steps back, but this distance was not enough to make her feel at ease, so she took two more steps back until she leaned against a tall and thick yellow pear tree. With no way to retreat, she was forced to stop, her thin back pressed tightly against the tree trunk, and she looked at Lingge vigilantly. When the latter cast a helpless look at her, she showed her white teeth to intimidate, just like a young bird would spread its wings when facing an unbeatable enemy, trying to make its body look bigger.

"Wow, Bai Ye actually retreated on his own initiative, how rare."

Gloria in the consciousness space was like a spectator, commenting on the scene happening right in front of her with great interest: "But Ling Ge is indeed a bit... that, actually treating a girl like this, and saying such... well, such strange words, no wonder Bai Ye was scared."

She hesitated for a moment, but still didn't describe him as "perverted" like Bai Ye did. After all, Lingge usually left her with a decent impression, no, it should be said that he was very decent. When he was with beautiful and good-natured girls like Saint Xia Liya, Olvera, and Yieta, he didn't do anything excessive, let alone Bai Ye?
Of course, this is not to say that Bai Ye is not a beautiful girl. After all, the latter shares a body with her. If Bai Ye is not a beautiful girl, then she is not a beautiful girl either. This is not acceptable. The main reason is that Bai Ye's personality is really something that makes it difficult for people to get along with her. Gloria thought, if I were Ling Ge, of course I would get along with beautiful girls like Sister Xiao Xia. For people like Bai Ye, I'd better stay away from them.

Ling Ge couldn't hear what Gloria said, but he could roughly guess what Bai Ye was thinking by looking at her reaction. He quickly defended himself: "Well, you seem to have misunderstood. I didn't say that your hair feels good, I just think your reaction is good."

"Isn't that even more perverted, you bastard!!!"

Bai Ye clenched her fists in front of her chest. Even though those thin little fists could hardly bring her a sense of security, there was no other way. She would never yield to this guy who seemed to be a decent person but was actually a psychopath. She would use all means to protect herself, unless it was absolutely necessary. Then, uh, let Gloria control the body.

"Wow, you are so mean, Bai Ye!" Gloria noticed her thoughts and couldn't help but exclaimed: "You actually want to push me out as a scapegoat?"

"Shut up!" Bai Ye scolded fiercely, "You are only this useful anyway."

"Well, that's an exaggeration."

Gloria was hit by her and couldn't help but sigh, then she muttered something like "Let me go first", "Lingge won't do anything to me anyway", "It's because Bai Ye was too much that he treated you like this", etc., which made Bai Ye a little confused. Which side is this guy on?

And how can you be sure that Lingge won’t do anything to you?
He is a pervert who even scares me!

Bai Ye clenched her fists tighter. She thought humiliatingly, if she couldn't resist later, she would have to call for help, right? But if she asked for help here, wouldn't the cold and ruthless image she had created all along be completely shattered? Of course, this was still a small problem. The real problem was that she had deliberately chosen the most remote corner of the forest to avoid everyone, which meant that it was very likely that no one would hear her cry for help...

"Yeah, that's the reaction." Linger nodded thoughtfully: "You can also behave like an ordinary girl, Bai Ye."

Bai Ye was startled, and then he realized that his current posture and movements were indeed very girlish, but he was just a weak girl who was forced into a desperate situation with no way to escape. Of course, this was not the most important thing. The most important thing was——

"You did that on purpose just to see my reaction now?" She opened her eyes wide and looked at Lingge in disbelief.

The young man nodded frankly and admitted readily: "Yes."

But this kind of straightforwardness could not make Bai Ye feel relieved, it only made her even angrier, and she even felt that it was a little unreasonable: "So boring! Ling Ge, I originally thought you were just a little perverted, but I didn't expect you to be such a boring guy!"

"I think being perverted is worse than being boring," Gloria muttered.

"You shut up too!!!" Bai Ye didn't know how many times he had told Gloria to shut up tonight, but she was so excited that she didn't even say this in her heart, but shouted it out. Ling Ge couldn't help but look at her twice more, and then in the latter's vigilant and alert eyes, he slowly said: "Frequent anger is not good for your mental state, you should calm down."

Who do you think caused this?!

Bai Ye glared at this ignorant guy fiercely. Of course, she also knew that her emotions were indeed a little out of control, which was not conducive to the cold image she had always created. So, the gray-haired girl took a deep breath and exhaled a long breath. As the curve of her chest rose and fell, her emotions gradually stabilized. Then she reached out and began to take care of the long hair that was messed up by Lingge. During this process, she never looked at the latter, perhaps because she was afraid that she would be unable to help but rekindle her anger after seeing his expression of complacency after doing something inexplicable.

"It looks like you've calmed down."

Ling Ge didn't care about her attitude, nodded and said: "In this case, let's get back to the topic just now, Bai Ye."

Bai Ye ignored her. Gloria thought she had forgotten, so she reminded her quietly, "It was about Ling Ge asking you to apologize to Alice, right?"

"You don't need to remind me!" Bai Ye replied unhappily, then turned his head and glanced at Ling Ge coldly: "If you want to make me angry in this way, then you have succeeded. However, why do you think that I will reconsider your proposal after I get angry, Mr. Ling Ge, a psychopath? Let me declare to you again, it is impossible for me to apologize to that idiot. If you want me to do such a ridiculous thing, you might as well kill me."

Her attitude is still stubborn. The only change is that she adds a prefix to the way she addresses Lingge, which is not very pleasant to the ear.

Considering that proper venting can help calm the mood faster, Linger did not force her to remove the prefix, but just frowned slightly: "You don't want to apologize? It seems that you still insist that you are a cold-blooded person, Miss Bai Ye."

"Isn't it?" Bai Ye sneered.

"Then there's nothing we can do." Ling Ge sighed helplessly, but that didn't mean he was giving up. Instead, he was going to use his last resort: "Since you are so cruel, it seems that I can only conform to your expectations, become a cruel person, and use even crueler methods than you."

"Oh, really? Why, you really want to kill me?" Bai Ye laughed even more disdainfully, looking fearless. Just now, she was indeed thrown off balance by Ling'er's unexpected move, but now she has recovered and is on guard. She is sure that no matter what other tricks Ling'er has, they will not work on her!

Lingge didn't take it seriously. He just looked the gray-haired girl up and down, and suddenly said, "Gloria is still a nun now, right? This is easy to deal with. If she was randomly assigned an athlete like in Sumiya City, it might take more effort."

“W-What do you mean!?”

Bai Ye's newly-built self-confidence was instantly destroyed by these words. She seemed to have remembered something terrible and subconsciously took a step back, but she was stuck against a solid tree trunk, with no way to escape: "You, are you planning to use force?"

"Use force? That's too harsh. I just want to use a slightly tougher method to make the rebellious child behave." Ling Ge showed Bai Ye a gentle smile, but this smile was more sinister and cunning than a devil in the eyes of the latter at this moment: "Although it is tough, it is guaranteed to be an effective method."

"Tough but effective measures?" A curious kid asked: "For example?"

Lingge couldn't hear her words, but he smiled as if he understood her. "For example, I'll carry you on my shoulders and take you back to Alice's room to apologize to her? Or, if you think this posture is not very elegant, I'll just carry you there? Like Yieta, she seems to like it very much, and I believe you will like it too. Also, it's useless to try to resist. Although I'm just a pastor, I'm an adult man after all, and I'm more than enough to suppress you in terms of strength, Miss Bai Ye. Of course, if you resist too fiercely, there is a possibility of an accident, so I will ask Metien to help. Although she is young, she used to help carry bread and milk at the Seven Days Ceremony, and she is actually quite strong. Oh, by the way, let's ask her two idle friends to help, what do you think?"

Hiss!
Are all the pastors of Tianxin Church monsters?
Bai Ye took a deep breath, unable to imagine being carried on Lingge's shoulders or carried like a princess. The former was extremely humiliating to her, and the latter was a thousand times more humiliating! Not to mention Xie Mi and Leticia, two guys who were eager to watch the fun and make trouble, would definitely spread their ugly behavior to the entire Yunjingkong Island!
No, that's not right! There's still room! I still have one last resort...

"Switching personalities and letting Gloria control the body is a good idea." Ling Ge said slowly, "But I will let Gloria cooperate with me in acting. Anyway, other people can't tell the difference between your two personalities. It's enough for them to know that the person I carry on my shoulders is 'White Night'. What do you think?"

"Heh, how ridiculous!" Bai Ye's thoughts were exposed, and cold sweat was already oozing out of his forehead, but he would not admit defeat: "Why would Gloria cooperate with you?"

At the same time, she screamed in her heart: "Hey! Gloria! Come out here, you idiot! You will never believe the bullshit that guy said, right? It's impossible for you to do whatever he tells you to do, right? After all, you are my twin personality, you should be as strong-willed as me and would rather die than surrender, right!?"

What made her despair was that her consciousness space fell into a long silence, as if another resident in her mind had fallen asleep... What the hell! That little idiot was definitely pretending! How dare you betray your own people just because someone is backing you up? Wait until this thing is over, and see how I'll deal with you!
The problem is, even if we want to deal with this traitorous little idiot, we have to wait until this matter is over.

Can I really get through?

Bai Ye raised his head and looked at the young man approaching him step by step. For the first time, he felt that he was so weak, helpless, fragile and pitiful. He was not a cold-blooded person at all. Therefore, the coldness of words could not compare to the coldness of actions.

Seeing the shadow in her eyes getting bigger and bigger, Bai Ye's mood became more and more nervous. She swallowed her saliva dryly and felt her heart pounding, even louder than the sound of thunder. Finally, a string in her mind broke, and the whole person seemed to rise to the sky and then suddenly fell down. The strong sense of weightlessness made her mind chaotic and she almost didn't know what she was thinking. The girl subconsciously stretched out her hand and tried to push the approaching young man away, screaming at the same time: "Stop, stop! I promised you, so stop!"

The young man stopped.

The girl's hands did not touch him, but stopped just inches away from his chest, waving wildly, fighting an invisible enemy.

He smiled, but that smile was not of pride, but of relief.

"It's not easy." Ling Ge sighed, "I finally heard you say something soft. If I can make someone as cold-blooded as you surrender, am I not even more cold-blooded, Miss Bai Ye?"

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