"Did you bring it?"

This was the first thing Ding Dong said after meeting Mars.

Mars just raised his head, then waved Ding Dong to sit down.

They were in a café. Different from the retro-style English-style café of the Hephaus Hotel, this café has a simple layout and simple decoration style, except for the tables and chairs in the original wood color, it is a large area of white, which can be called embellished, and some special green plants. Perhaps because of this, it seems to be more vigorous.

"What are you looking around?" Mars seemed to be displeased with Ding Dong's observation of the movements around him, "Shouldn't you focus your attention on your boss?"

"Hehe," Ding Dong doesn't think he has an obligation to be respectful when he gets off work, "as if your old man is also focusing on your employees." ”

"Of course," Mars replied very simply, "the uniform of the hotel is more like a woman than what you are dressed now." ”

Ding Dong secretly rolled his eyes.

Her usual outfit is jeans and a white T-shirt, add a plaid shirt when it's cold, add a windbreaker when it's cold, and add a padded down jacket when it's colder. The shoes are small white shoes that have not changed for thousands of years, from single shoes to cotton shoes, and even the snow boots that are changed into when they are the coldest are white.

Aunt Hong often laughs at Ding Dong, if it weren't for her long hair, I'm afraid everyone would think she was a tomboy. Of course, Aunt Hong knew that the reason why Ding Dong had long hair was because she had neither the time nor the spare money to go to the barbershop, but she just saw through it and didn't say anything. Ding Dong never took these words that ridiculed her seriously, in her words, she herself was a universe, so she didn't make any judgments in the unexpected world.

But personal style is one thing, work is another. The Hephais Hotel requires all female employees to wear their hair in a uniform rose color. Ding Dong was also naturally kind and pulled up his hair.

The hotel uniform is pure white texture, and the waist is just right. The neckline and cuffs are trimmed with rose pink, and the left chest is painted with a fancy hotel English Logo, in order to facilitate the work of room attendants, the uniforms of the housekeeping department are designed with long pants, due to the exquisite fabric, which can well modify the slender leg line, which looks beautiful and elegant. Even Ding Dong, after changing his uniform for the first time, once sighed in the mirror that he suddenly looked like a real woman.

Mars has a terrifying sense of observation, and it is better to be honest than to waste time and contradict him.

Ding Dong nodded and said, "What Mr. Ma said is right, but if there is anything we say no, why do we come to this kind of place?"

And it's still this kind of place that doesn't talk about the mood at all, and at first glance it's X cold and windy?

Of course, she and him don't seem to have the kind of relationship that can go to a place with feelings. But the point is that this is quite a distance from the Hephais Hotel, and such a distance makes it impossible for Ding Dong to sit still.

"You're a little anxious?"

It really deserves to be the wolf fox of Hephaus, Mars can see Ding Dong's emotions at a glance.

Ding Dong didn't intend to hide it, she nodded and said, "It's too far from the hotel." ”

Ding Dong rides a bicycle, which means that she needs to calculate the time to get to the hotel, and everything is based on the premise that she will not be late and will not be deducted from her salary.

"What's going on in your head?" Mars said, frowning, "It's boring to be in the same place every day." ”

That's just as well.

Ding Dong remembered that Mars was different from himself, he was sent to the hotel by the management group as the general manager, and he ate and lived in the hotel, which could be said to be all in the hotel 24 hours a day, and of course he would not miss any opportunity to stay away from the hotel.

It's like an aunt who stays at home every day, even if she goes to the vegetable market and changes into beautiful clothes.

"Alright," she nodded, holding out her hand to Mars, "show me." ”

What Mars placed in Ding Dong's palm was a menu.

"Order what you want to drink. ”

"Ah......" Ding Dong glanced at the menu and asked tentatively, "Do you have a treat?"

"Or else?" Mars raised an eyebrow, "please?"

"Or please," Ding Dong has always liked the beauty of adults, she waved her hand to the waiter, and said, "Please give me a tuna sandwich, a latte, oh, please bring sea salt." ”

"You also like lattes with salt?" Mars's expression can be said to be quite unexpected.

"Because I really don't like sugar, but I'm not used to coffee that is too bitter, salt can reduce the bitterness of coffee and enhance the aroma, which can be said to be perfect. Ding Dong gave a perfect explanation, but Mars only raised an eyebrow.

"Weird, right?" Ding Dong smiled, "I don't care, just say it, anyway, you're not the first to think I'm weird." ”

Ding Dong is not a rich man, but he is very stubborn when it comes to coffee, so he is often called a freak by close friends.

As soon as she finished speaking, the waiter brought a latte and a delicate sea salt shaker.

"Ah, here comes my coffee. Ding Dong was about to pick it up happily, but Mars stretched out his long arm and took the coffee.

"This is mine. ”

Hey?

Ding Dong watched in surprise as Mars picked up the sea salt shaker and spilled the sea salt on the coffee in a familiar manner.

The delicate sea salt is like snow, gently sprinkled on the iceberg-like milk foam, and melts away in the blink of an eye.

"Latte with sea salt," Mars leaned back into his chair and raised his coffee cup, "I'm such a freak, too. ”

It can't be such a coincidence, right?

Ding Dong looked at Mars dumbfounded, there are thousands of freaks in the world, and it turns out that not all of them are different.

"You won't be my long-lost brother, will you?" asked Ding Dong.

"Do you have a brother?" Mars narrowed his eyes.

"Nope. Ding Dong's answer was very crisp.

"Your bad joke is a success. Mars said, placing something on the table.

It was the stainless steel dinner knife wrapped in a napkin, the one that was inexplicably lost in room 1414 and inexplicably appeared.

Ding Dong took it in his hand and checked it repeatedly.

"How can it be black?" she muttered to herself, carefully observing the knife and her hand, and unconsciously ruffled the long hair on her forehead.

Mars's gaze, as if attracted by something, slowly stretched out his hand to Ding Dong.

Ding Dong felt the fingers that suddenly appeared in front of him, and his figure subconsciously paused.

The slender and powerful fingers stopped only a centimeter away from Ding Dong, and Ding Dong's gaze fell on his fingertips, seeing it tremble gently.

With a puzzled look on his face, Ding Dong slowly looked upward, and Ding Dong looked at Mars.

Mars's expression was a little strange, as if he was trying to restrain some emotion, but he was so painful that his expression became extremely stiff and even distorted.

"Mr. Ma?" Ding Dong couldn't help but worry because of his expression, and couldn't help but call softly, Mars woke up like a dream, and suddenly withdrew his hand, and his expression suddenly became cold and detached.

"Your face, what's the matter?" he pointed to Ding Dong's face, but didn't look at her.

Ding Dong then remembered that there was still a wound on her face, the wound left by her mother.

She unconsciously turned to the side and lowered her ruffled hair.

"Nothing. She said.

Mars finally set his eyes on Ding Dong's body, her pursed lips, the scars she hid, the sadness in her eyes that she wanted to hide under her stubbornness, all reflected in his eyes.

What exactly is there that you want to hide?

You stingy and shrewd girl, you girl who can cause my heart to beat violently at the slightest touch?

What's your secret?

Mars looked at Ding Dong's side face, and his star-like eyes became deep.

His heart jumped like that.

One after the other, intense and urgent.

Mars quickly turned his head away, no longer looking at her.

You must not look too much, you must not ask too much, you must not care more than even a little bit.

Mars closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

This girl, the girl called Ding Dong, she must be poison.

full of poison that caused him to get sick.

****

As if deliberately closing the distance from himself, Mars's body was tightly pressed against the chair, and with a cold face, he looked at Ding Dong like an interrogator.

Ding Dong had long been accustomed to his hot and cold times, and he didn't think so.

"Stainless steel, as the name suggests, generally doesn't turn black and doesn't rust, right?"

"It depends," says Mars, "that the tableware in the hotel is generally made of food-grade 304 stainless steel, and if there is blackening, the first possibility is that the quality is not up to par." However, Starseason Hotel Management Group is very strict about the quality of guest items, which will never happen at Hefes Grand Hotel. Therefore, this situation can only be an external force. In certain cases, it can also be darkened. ”

As he spoke, he held up a finger: "First, the corrosion of metal." ”

Then he raised a second finger: "Second, the corrosion of salt or acid." ”

The third: "Third, the high temperature." ”

"Of course," he further explained, "there are many other situations, and given your limited level of knowledge, I don't want to say it." ”

It's really a non-poisonous tongue and no wolf fox.

Ding Dong rolled his eyes silently.

"The three situations you mentioned are unlikely, right? The knife was lost on the day the girl committed suicide, and it only appeared in three days at most, so can it be corroded like this all at once?"

Mars snorted coldly, "So you're sure it's not your prank?"

"How idle am I, soaking the dinner knife in sour sour like this, just to play a prank on you?"

"It's not a random replacement to get your salary back?"

"Hehe, you tell me, where to find the hotel's customized models? Besides, even if I look for it, I have to find a good quality, right? This kind of quality thing is simply an insult to my IQ, okay?"

Ding Dong scoffed, she wiped the stainless steel dinner knife with a napkin, and the place where the friction with the dinner knife was stained with a little burnt black.

Charred black again?!

Ding Dong was stunned.

"How?"

Although it was a defensive posture, Mars's eyes did not miss any of Ding Dong's expressions.

"I've seen this happen once in room 1414. Ding Dong said, "Just behind the punctured wallpaper of the female guest who committed suicide, there was a large scorched black wall. ”

Mars's brow furrowed slightly. He neither expressed surprise nor doubt, but stared at Ding Dong in silence, as if thoughtful, as if waiting for Ding Dong's further explanation.

"Do you believe that time will stand still?" asked Mars.

Mars remained silent.

I don't know if it's Ding Dong's illusion, at this time, Mars exuded an icy aura, and the coldness formed an impenetrable barrier that surrounded him layer by layer, like an iceberg.

After a long time, he slowly stood up: "You think you're watching a science fiction movie?"