Swallowing the mineral water, Yunfan walked out of the revolving door holding a plastic bag filled with medicine.
And at this time,
A ray of golden-red sunlight shines on the plastic bottle in Yunfan's hand. After being refracted by the water, rainbow-like colorful light shines on Yunfan's eyes.
"In a dirty world, there are dirty bytes everywhere..."
The song that had been looped countless times finally stopped, and Yunfan pressed the pause button on the headphones with one hand.
When the Adam's apple was raised, a pill mixed with the water flow slipped into the esophagus.
Yunfan raised his head in confusion.
At this moment, wisps of sunlight pierced the sky mixed with drops of ink and projected down.
The singing disappeared and the pills went into the throat.
Yunfan suddenly felt that at this moment, the dead world came to life.
The cries of vendors, passers-by walking on snow, and...
A hint of tea egg aroma.
"ha......"
Yunfan threw the mineral water into the bag and at the same time turned his head to look at the iron pot standing next to the crossing.
The weak sunlight cannot penetrate the soup that looks like ink, and the tightly packed tea eggs float and sink with the turning of the ladle.
The snow particles smashed into the soup and blended into the dark juice.
Taking medicine on an empty stomach is a taboo.
Yunfan thought.
then......
Brushing the snowflakes from her hair, Yun Fan slowly approached the stall.
Peeling open the broken egg skin, the aroma of the densely brown-lined tea eggs poured into Yunfan's nose.
three mouths,
Downed.
...
"ha......"
Yunfan took a deep breath, and the heat waves and noisy shouts that hit his face brought him back to his senses.
The aroma of meat overflowed and floated out of the hot pot restaurant. The moment it entered his nostrils, he thought of the satiating tea egg in the morning.
It was already six o'clock in the evening.
Yunfan, on the other hand, was just as hungry as in the morning.
Wearing cotton boots, Yunfan stood in the white snow and the dark night. In front of him was the hot pot restaurant door that emitted white mist and light.
This is,
His second appointment today.
With Bai Chenxi.
she,
I owe myself that hot pot meal.
After swallowing the pill and returning home, intense sleepiness flooded my brain.
That's the effect of sedative drugs.
So he fell asleep.
If it hadn't been for the phone call from the squad leader, Yunfan doesn't know if he would have slept until the next day.
During this period, no water naturally entered.
Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Yunfan burst into the door and was led by the waiter to a private room on the second floor of the store.
Crunch.
Pushing open the door, a rush of hot air hit my face.
Yun Fan walked into the house, and the first thing he saw was an old-fashioned copper pot with a smoke outlet stacked on top.
This is a typical northern pot.
Charcoal-burning.
The hollow cylinder in the middle is used to exhaust smoke and allow the ingredients in the pot to be heated evenly.
Subsequently,
Only then did Yun Fan lower his head, and then Bai Chenxi appeared in his sight.
"coming."
The squad leader, who was wearing a white turtleneck sweater, put down the chopsticks that were stirring the dipping sauce of sesame sauce and fermented bean curd, and made way for Yunfan.
"Um."
Yun Fan nodded, snorted softly, and immediately passed by while brushing against Bai Chenxi's body.
"hiss!"
At this time, his nose twitched slightly: "Smells good!"
"I..."
The squad leader's cold voice caught Yun Fan's eyes, and he turned around.
"What I sprayed today is a light perfume."
Bai Chenxi seemed confused. She grabbed the collar of her sweater and smelled it.
"What?"
Yunfan was stunned for a moment, but the next moment, he showed a playful smile.
"I said it smells good..."
"It means the pot."
The scene that was still somewhat lively suddenly came to a standstill.
Bai Chenxi's body was trembling, and her usually cold face looked even colder under the illumination of the incandescent lamp.
She sat down and carefully mixed the dipping sauce.
"Ah."
Yunfan laughed inexplicably and stopped looking at her.
Walking around the middle chair covered with the monitor's black down jacket, Yun Fan sat on the other side.
at this time,
The two of them were located at opposite ends of the room, farthest apart.
The atmosphere is depressing.
In this isolated house, there seemed to be silence everywhere.
If it weren't for the shouts and shouts of drinking wine coming from outside from time to time, Yun Fan almost thought he had fallen into a silent hell.
but...
eat,
That's what matters,
Isn't it?
This is exactly the purpose of his trip.
Whoosh!
He reached out with his long chopsticks and picked out a piece of meat from the boiling water. Yunfan, who had already moved his index finger, swallowed it into his mouth like the autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves.
then,
Fragrance lingers on lips and teeth.
The warm heat flowed down his stomach, but Yunfan was still savoring the faint smell of the plump mutton rolls.
This meat...
Compared with the spliced meat I ate yesterday, it is completely different!
Yun Fan's eyes lit up.
He quickly picked up a vegetable leaf and also picked up a piece of tender fish tofu that had just emerged from the water.
This skilled chopstick skill is truly astonishing.
It was smooth and tender and entered the mouth, and Yunfan's eyes seemed to become brighter.
Speaking of which,
How long has it been since he had hot pot?
Three years? Five years?
He relies on expensive tranquilizers to maintain his rationality, and the remaining money is only enough to maintain food and clothing. He has not even tasted meat a few times in these years.
Looking up at the hot air coming out of the chimney, Yun Fan turned his gaze to the incandescent lamp that had blocked the light, chewing silently.
It took him a long time to come back to his senses.
"Ah."
A laugh that was self-deprecating or had some other meaning squeezed out of Yun Fan's throat.
Just do the cooking and that's it.
What are you still thinking about?
Shaking his head with a smile, Yun Fan reached out the tip of his chopsticks again. At the same time, he inadvertently glanced at Bai Chenxi who was sitting upright.
The small white teeth tore into the equally white and tender shrimp paste in small mouths, and the monitor looked very elegant while eating.
but...
Those round almond eyes locked tightly on Yun Fan, and their eyes met in the air.
Snapped!
Immediately afterwards, the squad leader quickly pulled the long chopsticks away from his lips and knocked off the tip of Yun Fan's chopsticks that was reaching for the beef slices.
"you..."
Bai Chenxi opened her oily lips slightly, and narrowed her almond-shaped eyes with suspicion: "Are you really a stranger?"
Speak the truth,
I saw this classmate Yun Fan, who usually had a kind face, now lowered his head and became a crazy foodie.
Bai Chenxi found it difficult to connect him with the voodoo puppet master who cut off his ponytail and the clown who used blood to make up his face.
Is it really him?
Although she already knew Yunfan's identity as the Peak Slayer Emperor, she still subconsciously couldn't believe it.
In other words, I don't want to believe it.
An inexplicable feeling of boredom arose in his heart. Bai Chenxi bit his lower lip with a complicated expression, then grabbed the soda next to the dipping bowl and took a generous sip of it.
Gududu, Gududu...
The soda fell into the stomach along the esophagus, and the refreshing feeling of the bubbles bursting made Bai Chenxi feel inexplicably comfortable.
But this time...
"Hee hee hee!"
Cold and huge laughter suddenly exploded in the room!
Bai Chenxi's slender body was shaking wildly, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying, and her pupils suddenly shrank into small dots.
puff!
The soda that couldn't be swallowed spewed out of his mouth, and the splashing water fell into his food bowl, and the green vegetable leaves immediately became covered with water droplets.
"Cough cough cough cough..."
Taking out a few tissues and wiping the corners of his mouth, Bai Chenxi looked at Yunfan angrily.
"What are you doing?"
The monitor's cold voice was filled with anger.
"oh?"
Yunfan picked up a cuttlefish ball and chewed it, his voice a little unclear: "Don't you believe it?"
"Let me prove it, it's wrong?"
Yun Fan's questioning came crashing down on him, and Bai Chenxi suddenly felt that his heart was congested and he couldn't breathe evenly.
"you..."
Bai Chenxi puffed up her chest and widened her eyes.
But in the end,
She just held back one sentence: "Why should I give it to you...it's really crazy."
well!
A long sigh.
This time she completely believed it.
Seeing the cunning light in Yunfan's eyes flash away, how could she not believe it anymore?
Through the mist, for a moment, she almost thought he was the cruel clown in the game.
déjà vu,
Appeared.
After a moment of silence, Bai Chenxi held up his chopsticks and asked helplessly: "Eat, eat, eat, just know how to eat."
"You don't know what day it is?"
"What day?"
Yun Fan was confused by her question: "Fruit, the morning sun is lost to a stranger, what is the day to fulfill the bet?"
"What else? What else?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yun Fan noticed with sharp eyes that the squad leader's face was filled with even more turbulent anger.
The two were tit for tat.
At this moment, the sudden sound of pushing the door broke the situation.
Crunch.
"Hello, this is a bowl of longevity noodles given by our store."
The young waitress pushed open the door and placed the hot noodle bowl on the table.
"oh."
Yunfan suddenly realized.
No wonder,
This woman made some overt and covert gestures!
So that’s it.
"Monitor, happy birthday."
He smiled and cupped his hands, making an ancient salute.
However...
Snapped!
There was a crisp sound and the incandescent light went out.
Inside the house, there was no other light source except the soft moonlight.
In the darkness, Yun Fan heard the sound of the porcelain bowl being moved.
The heat wave hit his face, and he was shocked to find that the bowl of longevity noodles was pushed in front of his eyes by the monitor's delicate white hand.
"What are you doing?"
Yunfan was puzzled.
But the next moment...
Zhila! Zhila!
The sudden light of fire interrupted Yunfan's words.
He stared blankly at Bai Chenxi's face. At this time, the monitor was pressing the button of a lighter and lighting colorful candles.
And at the bottom of many candles,
Astonishingly, it was a piece of churning butter fragrant,
Birthday Cake.
"This should be said by Fruit and Dawn to the stranger."
Bai Chenxi's pretty face was illuminated by a few wisps of flickering firelight. She opened her lips slightly, revealing a few teeth: "Happy birthday!"
"Yunfan."
boom!
As if his mind had just been bombarded by a rain of missiles all over the sky, Yun Fan's thoughts were as chaotic as a tangled ball of thread.
"What...what did you say?"
Yun Fan's body leaned backward slightly, and the unevenly painted wooden chair retreated with his movements.
"What nonsense are you talking about! Bai Chenxi..."
Yunfan murmured, his hands trembling as if he wanted to resist something.
But in the end,
Yunfan still grabbed his cell phone that was placed on the tablecloth.
Suddenly,
The fluorescent light on the screen illuminated his face.
lunar calendar,
October 21st.
And that,
It's the one he's been away from for a long time,
Birthday.
This thing lasted longer than he had forgotten the taste of meat.
Long time to arrive,
He had long forgotten this matter.
"Didi da da la la, didi da da la la..."
A cheerful electronic sound suddenly appeared, which was the tone of the happy birthday song.
Yunfan saw that the monitor lit the musical flower in the middle of the cake.
Then...
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."
Bai Chenxi's soft voice echoed the cheap electronic sound. She clapped her hands and sang to Yunfan.
Snapped!
The power button is pressed and the incandescent light turns on again.
"The next step is to blow out the candles."
Bai Chenxi was like a gentle mentor, guiding Yunfan's next actions.
but...
Inexplicable rage rushed into Yunfan's chest.
he knows,
one's own illness,
It happened.
Yun Fan raised his head, his eyes seemed to be filled with red ink, and a restless cold light burst out.
He didn't know why he was angry.
Because of,
Is this farce caused by Bai Chenxi?
He, Yunfan, does not need such cheap sympathy.
The frightening light stirred, Yunfan was like a wild beast, and a purring sound like boiling soup spread from his throat.
The fists hanging under the dining table were clenched until they were red and purple, the veins on Yunfan's neck bulged, and the big neck muscles were beating violently.
In the past, even when he was not taking drugs, he would not show such strong murderous intent.
How he wanted to tear apart the flesh and blood of the woman in front of him and listen to her screams before her death!
However,
At the moment when Yunfan felt that he could no longer control his body.
What appeared in front of him instantly warmed his heart.
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Bai Chenxi's elegant voice came from behind a huge stuffed toy.
At this time, the squad leader's small body was holding a Q-version woolen doll that was more than half her body tall.
The doll wears a slightly small leather jacket, and has a pair of blood-red triangular eyes sewn on its soft-looking head.
At the mouth, several red triangular pieces of cloth appear to be the doll's teeth, covering the doll's chin.
The appearance of this doll was very familiar to Yun Fan.
That is.
Chainsaw clown.
and,
It is still the skin that represents the pinnacle of King-Slaying Stranger in the first season of closed beta—Retrograde Man.
This is the skin he used when he defeated a third-rate team in the final battle.
Yunfan accepted the soft clown doll in a daze, and wrapped his arms around its back, his arms sinking into the cotton.
Come quickly, leave quickly.
The anger of the stranger,
Dispersed.
"Like it?"
A slight smile appeared on Bai Chenxi's lips. This was her first victory against Yun Fan.
"Do you want to cry?"
Bai Chenxi asked teasingly.
"hiss!"
She saw Yunfan in front of her closing her eyes tightly and taking a deep breath.
Then, when he opened his eyes again, all the emotional fluctuations were gone.
"what is your purpose?"
Yunfan Gujing was calm and asked in a calm voice.
Only then did he realize,
It seemed that I fell into the squad leader's trap step by step.
situation,
You must not be controlled by her.
"I..." Cut off a piece of jam-filled cake and handed it to Yun Fan: "Yun Fan, do you have any ideas about participating in the next league?"
"Can you leave one of your teammates' spots for me?"
Although it was a question, Bai Chenxi's tone seemed to leave no room for doubt.
"Oh." Yunfan smiled slyly, "So, have you planned all this a long time ago?"
He was hugging the clown doll, but still full of momentum.
"But why should I choose you? A fugitive in the diamond rank, hehe."
Bai Chenxi's breathing paused briefly, and the figure of the chainsaw clown gradually overlapped with Yunfan in front of him.
Swallowing her saliva, she raised her neck like a swan and spoke slowly: "Yunfan, you provoked me first!"
"If you hadn't tortured me and cut off my braids, how could I have..."
"Besides, my strength is not bad...right? It's not bad..."
In Yunfan's field of vision, the squad leader slumped down in despair. She gently toyed with the vegetable leaves with chopsticks and whimpered.
For a long time,
Then she raised her head again.
"I don't want to be manipulated by others in my future life."
Bai Chenxi's eyes were so sharp that Yun Fan couldn't open his eyes. "I don't want to live like a puppet on strings."
"I hope that I can make a name for myself on the path I choose according to my own wishes and preferences!"
"Yunfan, can you understand this feeling?"
"Let me beg you, I really..."
After saying that, the monitor's almond-shaped eyes lost their sparkle again, she lowered her head and murmured softly.
Yunfan narrowed his eyes, as if he understood something.
When the freshman entered school, he declared that he didn't like playing games, but he became a famous anchor in Horror Nightmare...
Combined with what she just said...
"Family reasons?"
Yunfan picked up a bunch of vegetable leaves with chopsticks.
Family is a haven from the wind, but sometimes it can also become the most unsolvable bondage.
It will trap your hands and feet, and even lock a person's mind.
Looking at Bai Chenxi who looked pale and lowered his head, Yun Fan grinned.
Her indifference, which usually keeps people away from her, is just a manifestation of her extreme lack of self-confidence.
Under high-pressure discipline, it is inevitable that personality will become distorted.
A rich kid with everything planned out...
Yun Fan narrowed his red eyes, hiding the unconcealable light.
But why is it not the case for myself?
In order to control the violent beast that lives in his soul, doesn't he stay far away from everyone?
Apart from Chen Pengtian, Yunfan probably doesn't have any friends at all.
"I promise you. In the name of a stranger."
Yunfan's words made Bai Chenxi look up suddenly.
"but..."
But then, Yunfan changed the subject.
"Although your strength is good, you are still lacking in many aspects."
"I want you to become the Human Emperor before the end of this season."
"otherwise..."
"No need to discuss."
...
"good."
Bai Chenxi returned to her usual calmness and nodded.
"Eat the noodles while they are hot."
Between the lights and smoke and the lingering smell of meat,
Yunfan smiled playfully and picked up a piece of cake.