In the lakeside scenic spot on the south side of the Navy Pier, Lu Mingfei and Xia Mi were sitting at a table drinking Starbucks, Americano coffee and vanilla latte, one with ice and one at room temperature. The one with ice was Lu Mingfei's
, the one at room temperature is Xia Mi’s.
Drinking coffee is probably not lazy, because the two of them thought that they might have to stay here very late, so they had something refreshing to eat in advance. You must know that it would be too late to drink coffee when you are sleepy.
"What do you think super-rich rich people usually think about?" Lu Mingfei held a straw that was still plastic at that time in his mouth and smacked an American straw that was so cold that his teeth hurt.
"Um...alive?" Xia Mi answered casually while holding a warm latte.
"Isn't this definition too broad? It's a bit imaginative, junior sister."
"Please, Brother Mingfei, I can't read minds. How do I know what rich people are thinking in their minds?"
"You said you would spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy a big ship. Isn't this mentally ill?" Lu Mingfei looked at the brightly lit ship on the other side of the lake.
"There are still people who spend money to send their ashes to the moon! Buying a yacht is considered normal. Brother Mingfei, has anyone ever said that you are suspected of hating the rich?" Xia Mi, who was across the table, hid his hands in his sleeves.
In order not to get burned by the latte, he took a sip and tilted his head to look at Lu Mingfei.
"Hate the rich? Me? How is that possible! I just think it's abnormal to buy such a big yacht. Can he live in so many rooms? It feels like he would be exhausted climbing stairs inside. The only purpose of this yacht is to show off his wealth."
Lu Mingfei held his chin up and stared at the super yacht and said in a sour tone.
"It can also be used for parties. Just like now, I hear music from the headphones. Is there a dance party on the ship?"
"We are on the second floor of the yacht, and a dance is indeed being held here." Lin Nian's voice appeared on the public channel.
"What kind of dance party has 'Candy Fairy Dance' playing in the background? Are the dance parties on this yacht so hardcore?" Xia Mi asked in surprise.
"Why do you say it's hardcore?" Lu Mingfei tried his best to listen to the sound on the other side of the public channel, but the surrounding environment was so noisy that he couldn't distinguish the music Xia Mi was talking about.
"Haven't you heard of 'Candy Fairy Dance'?" Xia Mi hummed a few nice tunes to him softly.
"It's very familiar. I feel like I've never heard of it before." Lu Mingfei said subconsciously.
"It has been used in many productions, but it first appeared in the ballet "The Nutcracker"... Do you think a group of people on a yacht would try to dance ballet at a ball?"
Lu Mingfei was surprised: "What kind of yacht party is so hardcore?"
Even if it is a normal party at the student union, everyone dances international ballroom dancing, or ballet tango and Viennese Waltz, and ballet is only skipped during the warm-up performance of Caesar's Lace Girls Dance Troupe. It really makes the guests
I'm afraid I'll be blinded even if I jump.
"It's not hardcore, it's the rules of the game at this level." Lin Nian said.
"Rules of the game? If you are a human, you have to dance ballet?" Lu Mingfei said in his heart, what if an old lady in her 70s or 80s was on the scene? Can her body be able to jump up and do a cross in the air?
"Senior Brother Lin Nian, so you are dancing ballet and talking to us now?" Xia Mi suddenly became excited.
Lu Mingfei suddenly looked at Xia Mi in shock, thinking, What a guy! I can only imagine the old lady making crosses in the air, but you are better off, how dare you imagine your senior brother Lin Nian making crosses in the air!
"Of course not. Ballet is not the theme of this level. The dance on the dance floor mainly depends on the music played by the band behind the red curtain at home. The last song was "One Step Away", so everyone was dancing tango. The next song
It's the "Radesky March" so everyone is dancing ballroom. This one is ballet, so ladies who know ballet can perform in the venue, and those who don't can only be spectators."
"Then what if the band plays a trick 'haka'?" Xia Mi said unexpectedly.
"What is the haka dance?" Lu Mingfei turned around and asked in confusion.
"Maori war dance... the band probably won't be so difficult. The theme of this game is to use the most elegant posture in various dances to obtain the highest recognized score. As long as you get the score, you will get a mysterious reward." Lin Nian.
said.
"Mysterious reward?"
"It can lead to the fifth floor of the yacht. According to the owner of the yacht on the fifth floor, it is not open to most guests. Only those who win the party themes on the first four floors will be eligible to be invited to the fifth floor."
"Very... mysterious!" Xia Mi nodded, "The target we are looking for is on the fifth floor?"
"I'm not sure, but my intuition tells me that if she was on this yacht, she would definitely choose a place with the fewest people to hide," Lin Nian said.
"Then what are you doing on the first floor?"
"A group of old foxes are playing a financial version of the bluffing game. Sitting at a table are real rich people and fake rich people. Everyone is falsely reporting their net worth. The rich pretend to be poor, and the poor pretend to be rich.
There will be another round of questioning and answering to see whose lies are exposed first."
"It's quite interesting. It feels like a high school board game. Why don't you join in?" Xia Mi asked.
"I didn't find the target there, and neither Su Xiaoqiang nor I are good at playing this kind of game."
On the public channel, Lu Mingfei nodded in agreement after hearing this. Lin Nian is a pure fool. He is not suitable for playing Werewolf and looking for werewolves. He is only suitable for killing werewolves. Reading people's emotions is indeed his weakness.
.
"So...Brother Lin Nian, if you don't know how to dance ballet, how can you win the championship at this level?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously, "Could it be that you learned from Caesar's Lace Girls Dance Company? You really can do aerial work.
Crack?"
"You are sick, I will slap you on the head."
"Hey, everyone, please be nice, this is a bit offensive...Senior Brother Mingfei, please stop being rude!" Xia Mi quickly smoothed things over and gave Lu Mingfei a look, but found that Lu Mingfei was holding back a weird smile.
Woolen cloth.
She didn't know that Lin Nian and Lu Mingfei had been talking to each other like this a long time ago. If everyone hadn't stayed in the public channel, Lin Nian might have just said in private: "You are stupid, I will slap your motherfucker."
"Forced".
"There will only be one winner on the first floor. Even if I go to the fifth floor, I will find a way on other floors. I heard that the fourth floor is a casino, and I am going to look for opportunities there to check it out." Lin Nian said.
Lu Mingfei suddenly realized: "But you stayed on this floor, so the person dancing now is..."
"Quiet." Lin Nian suddenly said.
On the third floor of the 'Anthem', Lin Nian, who was wearing headphones, stopped talking. The band played light and simple dance music with only silhouettes behind the red curtain fluttering above his head. The entire dance floor was dimly lit, leaving only silhouettes.
A dazzling spotlight hit the center, where the girl in the light blue dress was.
Everyone in the dark, both male and female, was looking at her. She stood barefoot on the clean and cold ground and danced nimbly. Her stretched insteps were so beautiful that they reminded people of white bread. Sometimes her skirt was extended and exposed when it flew.
Her legs were spinning lightly, enjoying the cheers and applause one after another.
The sudden beauty makes people's visual residue restricted by time. The elegant swan movements occupy the space of the hall like sculptures. Ballet and girls are both beautiful, even if they cannot be fully expressed due to the constraints of the dress.
It is the art of ballet, but the blue swan only needs to use the most basic 'Brisé' and 'Pirouette', as well as tap jumps and single-toe pirouettes, and it is already so beautiful that people will be fascinated by it.
There may be other ballet dancers in the venue, but they all stand quietly in the shadows watching this girl's performance, just because they may feel that the spotlight of this scene should be given to this girl.
It's not because the girls' dancing postures are too perfect, or their postures are too elegant, but they all remember that when the "Candy Fairy Dance" played, many ladies were still hesitant and worried that the ballet steps would tear apart their exquisite dresses.
By that time, the girl had already invited the boy next to her to take off her Mary Jane high heels and stepped on the cold refracted floor towards the spotlight in the middle of the dance floor.
When she stood there, there was no need for other ballet dancers to walk up. Her fingertips drew an infatuating arc, her feet rotated on the edge of love. It was a dance for boys, and swans crossed their necks in courtship.
The romance of caressing. Just like when a boy asks a girl why she learns ballet, the girl says that she likes ballet because she likes to stand on tiptoes. By standing on tiptoes, she can kiss your lips better.
Lin Nian stood in the darkness, holding the girl's high heels, feeling the residual warmth on his fingers. Wherever his eyes fell, there was tenderness. No matter how much depression and impetuosity he had, they were broken in the dance, as if the whole world was falling apart.
Get involved in the rhythm of dance.
In the public channel, Lu Mingfei could no longer hear Lin Nian's words. Lin Nian suddenly became quiet after the previous chat. He shouted several times but there was no response. He probably guessed what happened.
"I must be stunned." Under the pavilion of the coffee shop by the pier, Lu Mingfei raised his head and said to Xia Mi across the table.
"Senior Xiaoqiang, can you do ballet?" Xia Mi bit her straw and looked at the shining golden ship.
"Yes? You underestimated her too much. Back in high school, every year's party was the finale, and the ballet club had to go to the literary club with a knife to rob people."
"Why did Senior Xiaoqiang join the literary club? She doesn't look like a literary person!"
"Who made Lin Nian hang up in the literary club at that time?"
"Senior Brother Lin Nian is not a literary person, he is more like an ascetic person."
Lu Mingfei glanced at him sideways and thought to himself, should I tell you that Lin Nian was in the literary club because your senior brother Mingfei was in the literary club at that time?
But since he himself doesn't seem to be a literary person, Xia Mi will probably continue to ask questions... The next questions he will ask will be about the past that he cannot talk about, so he chooses to avoid this topic and continue talking.
, tsk-tsk said, "At that time, it was normal for little goddesses to be soft-hearted when winning awards. However, some people later complained that she relied on her father to win the award. She never went to the competition again after knowing these dazzling things. Some people said that she would never go to the competition again.
I don’t do ballet anymore, but it seems like it’s just a rumor.”
"Dancing well in ballet is like the courtship of a white swan. Of course, such a romantic thing can only be done for the people you like." After hearing this, Xia Mi suddenly said with a smile, "Dancing itself is to please yourself. If it is really to please,
Others, then this other must be limited to one person. Just like a swan on the water only needs another swan to draw a perfect love on the lake at sunset."
"Junior sister, you know ballet very well." Lu Mingfei looked at this inconspicuous junior sister in a new light.
"Will I tell you that I also danced ballet in high school?" Xia Mi let go of the straw between her teeth, lay on the chair and burped comfortably, enjoying the night breeze of Lake Michigan.
"I can't tell." Lu Mingfei looked at Xia Mi up and down and said honestly.
"Hey! You are telling lies with your eyes open. With my good figure and flexibility, your junior sister and I are born to dance ballet!" Xia Mi stretched his body and couldn't help but bared his teeth in a fierce manner at Lu Mingfei,
But because it's so beautiful, it just makes people think it's weird.
Lu Mingfei didn't say anything, he just turned his eyes away from Xia Mi's stretched figure on the chair.
It's not that Xia Mi has a bad figure. When she was playing beach volleyball, the girl's well-proportioned waist and long legs were already clearly visible. She said she couldn't tell because she couldn't tell because of her temperament! Just like he still doesn't believe it to this day.
That guy Fingal was the Elvis Presley of Kassel back then!
"You seem to be very free." Chu Zihang spoke in the public channel.
"I'm not idle, I'm not idle, I'm watching, checking if there are any suspicious people around, and I'm ready to control the crowd at any time." Xia Mi corrected himself and looked away from his lazy cat-like appearance just now.
"I've run into some trouble here, and I need your help." Chu Zihang said.
"Brother, where are you now?" Lu Mingfei asked quickly. They were divided into groups before taking action and each performed their duties. He and Xia Mi were doing the easiest tracking work. If necessary,
Make some trouble to evacuate the crowd at the dock, while Chu Zihang has other troublesome work to do.
"Did you see that skyscraper? It should not be difficult to find it from your angle on the south side of Navy Pier."
"I saw it, it's very colorful and it's not far from here." Lu Mingfei leaned out from his seat and easily saw the huge rotating skyscraper in the crowd.
"I'm under the skyscraper. You can find me there after you decide who comes." After Chu Zihang finished speaking, he fell into silence. It seems that he was worried that the noisy environment would affect the public channel and closed the microphone. He is such a dedicated execution department model worker.
, talkative and efficient, it’s like he and Xia Mi go on missions and chat for afternoon tea.
"Well, then who of us will go?"
Lu Mingfei scratched his head and was about to ask this question, but turned his head and saw Xia Mi opposite him looking at the skyscraper with flashing eyes and a look of wow, so he decisively shut up.
"Senior brother, I voluntarily accept the mission." As expected, Xia Mi turned around and saluted Lu Mingfei with a serious look on his face as if he was going to die.
"The organization trusts you, so this task is up to you. You can only succeed, and you are not allowed to secretly ride on the Ferris wheel." Lu Mingfei also saluted Xia Mi and said in a complaining tone.
"Thank you organization for giving me this opportunity." Xia Mi jumped up and slipped into the crowd. Lu Mingfei also wanted to remind her that she didn't take her latte, but when she raised her glass, she found that it was already empty.
.Did the caffeine excite her?
Lu Mingfei sat alone in his seat and stared blankly at the place where Xia Mi disappeared, and then at the endless sea of people passing by him. The lake wind blew his forehead, and he raised his hand to cover his forehead.
It's as cold as coffee in your mouth.
What a mess.
He took a sip of his iced Americano, and while his head hurt from the cold, he thought to himself endlessly.
...Are these people here to catch dragons, or are they here to fall in love?