4. Seventy-three - Cyan
Dino felt that his heart had to be the size of the Pacific Ocean to be able to pick his teeth with a trident without changing his face.
"What do you think this thing ......" Dino opened his mouth with difficulty, and found that his weightless lip flap was now as heavy as a scale, "- can you put it in your mouth?" β
Youdou glanced at the silver trident, I don't know if it was Dino's illusion, there seemed to be a few golden runes flashing in the empty blue pupils, which were fleeting.
"Can't?" Yuto asked suspiciously, and retrieved some of the trident that he held towards Dino, as if he wanted to hand it to his eyes for a closer look.
Dino, who finally came to his senses, took a deep breath, and before he could think of a speech, Youdou's next action gave him a thousand scare points, and the breath that he hadn't finished inhaling was stuck in his trachea, almost taking away the soul of a mafia boss.
"Stop, stop!"
He grabbed the handle of the trident as fast as he could in his life, preventing the boy from stuffing it into his mouth.
Aside from the time he was on the run before he became chief, Dino Gabrione had never tasted the deep meaning of the word 'despair' so deeply.
Really, he was about to despair of this weird boy's unconventional way of playing cards.
"Even if you don't believe what I say, don't do it yourself." Dino tried to ignore the ominous throbbing in the corners of his eyes, always feeling that his hands holding the trident were covered with sweat.
He was afraid that the trident would slip out because of his slippery hand, so he could only hold the halberd handle harder, so that the green tendons on the back of his hand jumped out.
Youdou showed a puzzled expression: "How to test if you don't "run"? β
Is it still running, thinking it's a code program that checks for bugs?
Dino felt tons of heart congestion and the illusion of being forced to be a daddy, holding a baby helplessly to keep him from putting a toy in his mouth and biting it.
It's stressful.
He should have known that he was wrong, outrageously wrong, where is this simple lack of involvement in the world, he doesn't know much about the 'Lost Forest', this kid doesn't even know the most basic common sense.
Never ...... Is it because of persecution that people are stupid?
Dino, who didn't guess another possibility, made up all kinds of tragic jokes that had to be said, and with the 'blood-stained' cloth that was still hanging on the boy's right eye, the tolerance of the teenager suddenly increased by dozens of percentage points.
"Anyway...... You can't use a trident for tooth picking, you put it down for me! β
Finally let the young man put down the dangerous murder weapon and avoid the tragedy of his lips breaking and bleeding, Dino tiredly found a place to sit down, raised his eyes and stared at the young man who was lowering his head, as if he was thinking hard about something, hesitated, but still said softly: "Your eyes ......"
Before he finished speaking, the boy suddenly lay down straight in front of him, his hands folded on his upper abdomen, and his starry eyes stared blankly at the sky.
ββ¦β¦ What are you doing? Dino found that his fragile heart had begun to learn to be numb.
"When you're full and want to sleep, you should go to bed after eating, shouldn't you?"
"......" Dino had nothing to say, but he held back for half a minute, and saw that the young man was still staring at the sky with his eyes open, and he couldn't hold back his mouth and said, "Why don't you close your eyes yet, aren't you going to sleep?" β
"I want to sleep, but why close my eyes?"
".................." Dino swore that if anyone could hear him, he would be deeply shocked by the magnificent sight of thousands of horses galloping in his heart.
ββSomeone asked such a question, did ...... never sleep? Or does he sleep with his eyes open?
The overly excited voice lacked a calm and calm demeanor, but Dino had to admit that since he met this young man named Youdou and Liudaoqing, his self-cultivation as a calm and reliable leader began to plummet.
After letting his heart roll for a long time, Dino finally calmed down those who were shocked, raised his eyebrows and asked the question in his heart, "Of course, you have to close your eyes to sleep...... Do you sleep with your eyes open all the time? β
But when he thought that weirdos had all kinds of quirks, and that his governess, Reborn, really slept with his eyes open, Dino felt that his reaction was really fussy.
As far as the commonality of strange people and strange things is concerned, maybe Youdou is really from the same country as his teacher?
However, Dino never expected that he would be slapped in the face in the next second after racking his brains to justify himself.
Youdou, who fell to the ground and looked like a corpse, blinked slowly, took out the PAD from his arms, clicked on the "Common Sense" text jiΓ n folder, and confirmed Dino's theory of 'closing your eyes when you sleep'.
"Haven't slept before." Youdou explained, secretly thinking that he should find a time to memorize the information on "Teach You How to Be a Man" in the PAD.
It's just that he still has some doubts.
Why do humans turn off the 'display' when they are 'on standby'? Isn't that redundant?
On the first day, Youdou felt that it was really not easy to be a human being, not only to fill the 'host' with some bad garbage (unpalatable food) against his own will, but also to abide by so many rules and regulations.
Youdou, who was distracted by himself, didn't notice the slightly subtle expression on Dino's face. But even if he saw it, he couldn't understand the various meanings of the complex expressions.
"I haven't slept before", this sentence sounds meaningful, combined with the bitter image of Youdou in Dino's eyes when he first met, Dino naturally turned the direction of his brain supplement to a distorted arc.
He had heard of some inhumane dark/potential/force organizations often conducting all kinds of crazy research in the shadows, and one example was to stimulate potential people with strong mental abilities 24 hours a day, maintaining their brain excitement at all times, and monitoring their brain activity without interruption until the cerebral cortex could not bear to die.
This kind of potential ability that is almost "real yΓ n material" is not treated as a human being at all, each one is a one-time use consumable, and the value can be squeezed vigorously, even if they die, it will not make those who are in white frown, at most it will make them pity their research progress for a few seconds, and then go non-stop with the equipment to study the next person who is sent to the base.
Thinking that the young man in front of him was likely to be one of them, Dino couldn't help but sigh silently, and decided that he would take him out of this forest known as the land of demons safely no matter what.
It's not about compassion, it's just that he has always believed in a concept: there are too many things in this world that people can't see, and if you don't see it, you won't be upset, but once you encounter it, there is no reason to let it go.
At this time, Dino remembered the information he had read, about the life history of the Six Dao Skeletons.
The Six Paths were also born in an inhumane dark/potential/force organization called the Estoriagneo family, and were once victims of human research...... Youdou, who has a similar face to him, really has nothing to do with the Six Dao Skeletons?
Looking at the ignorant, quiet, and ignorant appearance of the young man who was standing up to the sky, Dino couldn't imagine how he escaped from that earthly purgatory, and how he survived in this dangerous devilish land.
"Let's sleep in a tree." Dino put away his complicated thoughts, and the two brothers put their hands on the shoulders of the young man who had already sat up, and patted them gently, "Try to find big trees and narrow caves to rest in the wild, prepare some Cordyceps repellent, and if you can't do it, set up some bonfires and traps, so as not to be caught off guard by large beasts when you are asleep." β
"Big beasts?"
Yuto's clear gaze drifted to the campfire behind Dino, successfully making Dino's handsome face hang a black line.
ββ¦β¦ Don't look at the wild boar over there, the big beast doesn't just refer to that. Dino was really afraid that the boy would give him a question of "why do people eat pigs and pigs can still eat people" in the next second, so he started first to cut off the questions he might have, "The weak eat the strong, when people are asleep, they are the weakest in defense and the most lack of alertness, even the best of the best cannot guarantee that they will be foolproof in the absence of defense." β
Good travelers drown, good riders fall, because there are not too many examples of overturning boats in the gutter because of carelessness.
"In that case, wouldn't it be better not to sleep?" Youdou tilted his head slightly, listening to the chime in his ears that only he could hear.
"It's impossible." Dino's voice was a little more harsh, "If you don't get enough rest, the fatigue value of the human body accumulates to a certain level, and it will cause irreversible damage to the body......"
Pursing his lips, his narrow eyes with a flowing amber luster solemnly met Youdou's eyes, "You don't want to stop sleeping in the future." β¦β¦ It's going to die. β
Youdou was listening intently to the prompt sound in his ear, and a dozen small dots of dark red flashing and moving appeared on the holographic electronic map reflected in his eyes.
"There are no big beasts." Yuto raised his eyes to look directly at Dino and asked, "Will humans wearing gas masks and holding guns/guns also come out to eat people while they are asleep?" β