"A cup of caramel alcohol coffee and a cup of chocolate flavored Frappuccino."
After placing his order at the front desk, Lin Nian returned to his seat by the railing on the second floor of the coffee shop. The warm yellow chandelier sprinkled on the walnut tabletop, and the wooden ashtray and coffee grounds exuded a faint aroma. The LED The lanterns hung on the railings were not powered on.
He sat in his own seat, holding his hands and turning his head to look at the scenery downstairs. Sitting in this position, he could have a panoramic view of the first floor and the door. There was no obstruction at all. The decoration style of the open glass curtain wall and the sunshine on part of the street outside the store provide a good afternoon atmosphere inside the store. Anyone who walks in from the front door at sunset cannot escape his eyes.
He just sat here without saying anything. From time to time on the street outside the store, boys in Shilan school uniforms walked arm in arm, and occasionally girls held hands and pushed open the door of the cafe decorated with black cats to come in. Buy a Frappuccino and leave.
It wasn't until the two drinks he ordered before were brought up the stairs by the clerk that he withdrew his gaze. He nodded slightly and thanked the clerk before taking his Frappuccino. The person sitting opposite picked up the coffee when it was placed in front of him. I just poured it into my mouth, and under the gaze of the dumbfounded clerk holding an empty plate, I quickly swallowed the cup of coffee with a low alcohol content into my stomach.
"Please give her another cup that is exactly the same. You can add a little more liqueur." Lin Nian looked at Su Xiaoqiang covering her face and rubbing her face hard after drinking the cup of alcoholic coffee and asked the clerk for an additional order.
"Okay, no problem..." The clerk was a little strange. Before leaving, he couldn't help but take a look at Lin Nian and the girl who looked rich at first glance, but was somehow dirty and covered with dirt. There are a lot of plots about chasing husbands in the crematorium, such as the rich girl lying on the ground after being PUA, holding the man's ankle and begging hard not to leave me. As long as I can do it, I am willing to do anything...
Today is a working day. Even in the afternoon, there are not many people in the store, which just provides a good environment for chatting. Lin Nian took a sip of Frappuccino and looked at the person sitting opposite, leaning on the table with his elbows and clenching his hands. Su Xiaoqiang, who was deep in thought and squeezing her eyes hard with the heel of her palm, said, "How about you ask the boss to give you a glass of vodka? I saw a few bottles of vodka and white rum on their coffee table. They should be used to make free-ice Americano." use."
"No, I don't have the habit of drinking before night, I just... (take a deep breath) I just need time to relax." Su Xiaoqiang spoke very hard, feeling a little weak, as if she was a frustrated candidate who didn't see her name when the results were released. It means that her world has collapsed, and the beliefs she has adhered to in her life for the past ten years have collapsed - her three views have been reshaped, and it is somewhat unclear what is true and what is false.
"You're shaking." Lin Nian noticed that her legs were shaking uncontrollably under the table. The heels of her high heels were slightly off the ground, and her toes moved forward involuntarily to support her whole body. This was a sign of fear.
In fact, her reaction was relatively small. If it were any other person, she would have fainted on the spot after seeing the effect of the Tomahawk cruise missile punched by the humanoid monster. But Su Xiaoqiang was different. Hey, she could still get out of the mud. I crawled out and spit out the dirt from my mouth, and tremblingly wanted to get on the highway to see if I could hitch a ride and escape.
But it was obvious that she failed to escape and was caught by Lin Nian. At the same time, the tattered Ferrari 488, which was indeed made of Italian craftsmanship, fell to the ground and was carried on the highway with one hand. After tearing off the cocked hood and right door, he actually drove the car back to the city. Now it was parked on the street outside the coffee shop, being watched and photographed by a group of people, who were amazed by the rich kid. Can be made.
"Huh..." Su Xiaoqiang took a few deep breaths. She didn't know if the alcohol in the cup of coffee just now had a little effect, allowing her to calm down temporarily. She would not be forced to swallow her words due to vibrato, and looked at Lin Nian asked, "Who are you?"
He was very strict. He didn’t ask who Lin Nian was, but what “thing” he was. The main reason was that it was impossible for “people” to change the terrain with one punch. That kind of potato free spiritual energy recovery type of network could collapse the earth with one punch, and two people could change the terrain with one punch. It was not that she had never heard of the fantasy scene about the collapse of the Fist Building in books. She admitted that she had enjoyed listening to it, but in reality, she saw that someone really interrupted the highway with a punch, and hundreds of meters of ground were plowed. After one lap, she couldn't be happy anymore.
That person can interrupt the highway with one punch, and he can also beat her into a meat pie with one punch. That is violence that transcends the social system and makes anyone's sense of security under the protection of the law be blown away by the wind. Violence that chills the whole body.
"That's not the point." Lin Nian said.
"This is not the point. What is the point?" Su Xiaoqiang grabbed the corners of the table with both hands. She was not trying to overturn the table, but to try to calm herself down and not shake like chaff. She had sat at the negotiation table many times. You know, you can't show timidity in a conversation like this. If you show timidity, you will lose and you won't get any information you want.
Lin Nian silently picked up the Frappuccino on the table, otherwise the top of the snow would have to be shaken off by the vibration frequency on the table. Sometimes too much fear cannot be completely suppressed.
"Now I just want to know how you did that exaggerated scene. Is that a movie special effect? Fixed-point blasting? What kind of reality show prank director and crew are hidden somewhere I can't see? What kind of reality show prank director and crew are you? When they made that move, they detonated the explosives hidden underground?" Su Xiaoqiang said quickly, while staring at Lin Nian closely, trying to see any flaws. People can always find reasonable explanations for incomprehensible phenomena. , this is the norm, and it can also be regarded as the thinking inertia of intellectuals.
"Don't ask if there are too many." Lin Nian said.
"Why?" As expected, the little goddess's spirit of breaking the casserole and asking the truth came back. She was quite stubborn. Even though she was scared, she still had the strength to keep her from taking a step back.
Lin Nian smiled helplessly, but he didn't plan to say much. If he did, he would say too much. The purpose of his trip just now was just to test the unreasonable phenomenon he saw. Some tests He couldn't complete it alone, so he brought Su Xiaoqiang with him to help her complete the test and obtain information. And by the way, it could also make Su Xiaoqiang believe that there is actually a little bit of "fantasy" factor in this world, so that she could I believe even more in what Lin Nian promised he could do.
"Do you now believe that I can help you with the problem you are facing?" Lin Nian pointed to the core of the problem, "I am willing to help you, so are you willing to accept this help?"
"No...that's not the problem." Su Xiaoqiang was a little tangled, and her gaze towards Lin Nian was a little strange, "You have to tell me...how did you do it, right? I admit, if what happened just now on the highway Things are... fantastic, but what does this have to do with you being able to help me?"
"People's understanding of the 'fantasy' factor is that they can do things that cannot be done under the existing social system, break the rules, and make the impossible possible. This is the fascinating point of the 'fantasy' factor. It's like In those networks, authors are always willing to add some "fantasy" elements to daily themes such as urban love, because it seems that adding these "fantasy" elements can make things such as polygamy and harems intolerable in real systems. Rationalization - the 'fantasy' factor has become a synonym for 'rationalization', that is, its appearance seems to be able to do all things that are impossible in reality." Lin Nian said, "This is why I did what I did just now. Bring your reasons and let you witness the existence of 'fantasy' with your own eyes, so that the promises I made to you before will have more credibility."
"I thought you wanted to start a harem." Su Xiaoqiang was stunned for a moment and said.
"..."
"You misunderstood me. What I want to say is... you have to tell me more inside information." Su Xiaoqiang suddenly raised her head and looked at Lin Nian, "This is the same as the 'mixed race' you mentioned when you called me before. Does it matter? What kind of hybrid is it? What kind of blood is it? Are you not fully human?"
"Don't be keen on things you shouldn't be keen on," Lin Nian said.
"You seem unwilling to tell me more?" Su Xiaoqiang didn't understand.
"Yeah." Lin Nian paused and then nodded.
"why?"
"No reason." Lin Nian said, "It will be very troublesome."
Yes, he was indeed not prepared to go to great lengths to explain to her what a hybrid is and what a dragon is. These issues cannot be explained in a short time. As long as she can make her believe that he can solve the problems she encounters. Okay, this is what he planned to do from the beginning.
This involves a factor, which is that Lin Nian cannot regard this specious world as a "fantasy" or a "dream" for the time being, because everything here is too real, and the first person who appeared in front of him was Su Xiaoqiang also made him unable to completely ignore the moral laws of this world.
If this was completely treated as a game, he could indeed take the initiative to explain to Su Xiaoqiang about hybrids and dragons. After the previous section showing the "fantasy" factor on the highway, he could easily make Su Xiaoqian accept that there is something else in this world. A social system that is more highly civilized than modern times. This system can solve many of your problems, and I have the resources and relationships within this system.
But after much thought, he still wasn't ready to talk to Su Xiaoqiang about this.
There was a voice deep in his heart telling him that if he explained those things to the girl in front of him again, it would be hard not to guarantee whether this innocent and clean girl would be like the little goddess over there. Unfortunately, I fell into... that dangerous place over there...
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What am I doing?
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"..." He suddenly opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
He looked up at the frightened Su Xiaoqiang in front of him, a little stunned.
"What's wrong?" Su Xiaoqiang looked at him doubtfully.
Lin Nian stared at Su Xiaoqiang, who was pretending to be calm and fearless, but also full of curiosity. He looked at her carefully for a while, looking at her ordinary people's fear of the unknown, her innocent and ignorant face, and finally smiled. He took a deep breath, nodded slightly and said:
"That's it...you can go back."
"What?" Su Xiaoqiang was stunned, not quite understanding what Lin Nian meant.
"It means you can go back." Young Lin said in a low voice, "I will find a way to deal with your father's side. If someone comes to you to offer help in transferring to another hospital, just remember not to refuse."
"No, please speak more clearly." Su Xiaoqiang was stunned and stood up to ask, but she immediately met Lin Nian's eyes.
"Go back." He said.
Even though Lin Nian's golden pupils didn't light up, the unmistakable emotion in those dark brown pupils was enough to make Su Xiaoqiang freeze up and swallow the words involuntarily.
"Go back and have a rest. If you have anything else to do, contact us again. I know your number." Lin Young said in a low voice.
When he said this, he lit up his golden eyes for the first time and gave a "hint" to the girl. This was something he would never do before, but now he has figured out something. .
Su Xiaoqiang stopped talking, stood up and left mechanically. When she passed by the clerk carrying coffee in the stairwell, the clerk was still at a loss and didn't know whether he should pack the coffee on the plate and take it away.
Lin Nian sat on the second floor and watched silently as Su Xiaoqiang opened the door and left.
He suddenly had some ideas about the meaning of the existence of this specious world, but the concrete verification of these ideas still had to wait until the strange and familiar people he had contacted on the phone came to him.