Chapter 18: Shopping, Chance Encounters
The summer days are long, and when Shiho Miyano walked out of the laboratory building for the first time in a long time, the sun was still blazing and brilliant on the horizon.
She walked out into the sunlight outside the building, and quietly merged into the bustling flow of people with unhurried steps.
Along the way, you will only see some ordinary city streetscapes:
Cars, crowds, high-rise buildings, dense signboards, full of hustle and bustle.
But this made Miyano Shiho feel a rare relaxation.
Unlike the cold and monotonous laboratory, walking in the sunlight with these ordinary people can give her a sense of freedom.
It's a pity that this feeling of freedom is a dream after all.
"Why do you always walk behind me?"
Shiho Miyano stopped, put his hands in his pockets, and turned around to shake off a pretty frozen face.
Lin Xinyi: "....."
Nonsense, if I don't follow you, how do I know where the road is going?
He thought about it for a while, and soon gave a reasonable answer based on his identity as a "personal bodyguard":
"Walking in the back will make sure you're in my sight."
"It's better for your safety."
Shiho Miyano stopped talking.
Faintly, there was a lingering gloom on her face:
Better protect my security?
Probably when you find that you have the intention of escaping, you can quickly take out the Beretta M92F of the same style as the gin, and give her a 9mm copper-shelled peanut from behind, right?
Oh, think about it...
Being held at gunpoint behind her all the time shouldn't she have gotten used to it?
Why bother to show these superfluous emotions to Lin Xinyi, he is just a gun in someone else's hand.
Thinking of this, the corners of Miyano Shiho's mouth couldn't help but show a helpless smile:
Speaking of which, this guy was just in the office and said that kind of ambiguous thing to her...
Could that relationship be real?
If it's true, that's really sad.
Because the gun doesn't need to have feelings, not to mention, feelings for her as a prey.
Killing intent and love have to be placed on the same person, Lin Xinyi, this guy, may be more complex, more humane, and more like a tragedy than the one she knew before.
"Ugh...."
Shiho Miyano sighed softly, and looked at Lin Shinichi's eyes full of pity:
From another perspective, if Lin Xinyi is not simply regarded as a tool sent by the organization to monitor, but as a person who has the same disease as himself, then he looks much more pleasing to the eye than before.
Of course... Pleasing to the eye, good feelings are still not at all.
Thinking of this, Shiho Miyano immediately restrained his emotions, for fear that Lin Xinyi would see his quietly changing attitude-
Since you don't like it, and there is no possibility for both parties, you must not show any good faces, so that the man has any illusion of "I have a chance".
This is not ruthlessness, but a manifestation of responsibility.
However, Shiho Miyano obviously overestimated Lin Shinichi's mind-reading ability:
"One moment is dissatisfied, one moment laughs, one moment sighs, one moment and a cold face..."
"What the hell is this woman thinking?!"
Lin Xinyi was confused:
Miss Miyano's mental activity was so rich that he couldn't imagine it at all.
Really... Compared with this elusive opposite sex, it is better to guess the mind of a dead man.
And Miyano Shiho's expression quickly returned to normal, that is, the appearance of the iceberg beauty with a little sickness.
But she didn't move on directly, but covered her mouth reservedly and yawned restrainedly.
Wiping away the tired tears oozing from the corners of her eyes, in the end, she said to Lin Xinyi with a hint of tiredness:
"Give me some money, I'll go buy some coffee from the vending machine over there."
Forehead... This eldest lady didn't bring any money?
Lin Xinyi was a little heartbroken when he heard the money now.
After a moment's hesitation, he reluctantly opened his wallet and pulled out a 500 yen coin from it.
I don't know if the company will reimburse you for this additional expense.
"Not enough." Miss Miyano spreads her hands and robs online.
"Not enough?" Lin Xinyi has been to a convenience store, and he knows that 500 yen is definitely enough to buy bottled coffee, and the high-grade ones are enough.
"I'm not just drinking a bottle." She covered her mouth again and yawned.
Lin Xinyi pondered for a moment and said very seriously: "Drinking so much coffee is not good for your health. ”
It's not really that he's picking on the door, but making suggestions objectively.
Excessive fatigue also consumes a lot of caffeine, which is a risk of sudden death.
After graduating from medical school, he has not practiced cardiopulmonary resuscitation much, and his skills are not skillful, and he is prone to accidents.
"Oh...?"
Shiho Miyano's gaze became a little subtle:
This guy would even say such things about caring about other people's health?
Seemingly... I didn't know much about him before.
What Lin Xinyi said in the office before is true.
Looking back, Lin Xin's eyes seemed a little strange when he saw her before. It's just that she never thought about it at the time, so she completely ignored it.
Now Lin Xinyi may have finally made up his mind to take the initiative, so he began to change his style and slowly showed his concern for her.
But... Does that make sense?
Don't say I don't have a crush on you, even if I have...
With our situation, what kind of relationship and health are too luxurious.
"What if it's not good for your health?"
Miyano Shiho pondered for a moment, and finally returned Lin Xinyi's cold face:
"We're all just pretending to be alive corpses anyway."
"Maybe you're lucky to die early."
Saying such cold lines, Shiho Miyano unceremoniously reached out her white and slender fingers and snatched a precious 500 yen coin from Lin Shinichi's wallet.
"Hmm..." Lin Xinyi's expression froze, a little heartache.
Moreover, he can now be regarded as aware... At that time, what did Yamada mean by saying "This woman always speaks in a weird way"?
Cold-tempered, strange-tempered, gloomy speech, very difficult to get along with.
The original owner couldn't have been forced to commit suicide by her, right?
Lin Xinyi even had such an absurd idea in his heart.
"Forget it, after all, it's a job of 890,000 a month."
"What's this little thing? Just get used to it. ”
Stopping the slander in his heart, Lin Xinyi was reviewing some unfamiliar cardiopulmonary resuscitation actions in his mind, while accompanying the unruly Miss Miyano to buy the excess coffee she wanted.
The two walked side by side to the vending machine on the side of the road.
This vending machine is placed across the road from a department store, and the flow of people is naturally not small.
When Lin Shinichi and Miyano Shiho came here, there were already two people in line in front of them.
It was two high school students in blue uniforms, a boy and a girl.
They were facing Lin Xinyi with their backs, side by side in front of the vending machine, talking and laughing and choosing drinks.
Soon, one of the boys bought a canned bottle of ice Coke.
Then, while the girl was carefully choosing a drink in front of the vending machine, he suddenly played a prank with no malice, and suddenly pasted the cold Coke can on the girl's face.
"Yikes!" The high school girl let out a coquettish cry from the cold air.
The boy, on the other hand, smiled lightly without malice, while admiring the girl's embarrassed and angry appearance.
"Hmm... Learned..."
"It turns out that young people are in love like this now."
Lin Xinyi thoughtfully:
He spent all his time practicing martial arts and studying back then, and he didn't exercise in this area, so he had to eat more dog food to make up for it.
It just so happened that in this life, he changed jobs and had time to fall in love.
Now that the time is there, and the experience has been learned, the ice cola is better to buy, and the girlfriend is missing.
Forehead... I don't know how...
Speaking of his girlfriend, he suddenly thought of Miss Miyano, whom he had just "harassed".
But as soon as this thought popped up, it was instantly erased.
"Forget it, if it's her..."
The corners of Lin Xinyi's mouth twitched slightly:
A normal girl who is iced with a cola by her boyfriend will show a very funny expression of shame.
But if you play like this with Miss Miyano, let's say there's a chance...
She will definitely take the Coke and drink it with a blank face, and then use her air-cold eyes to send a backhand "Are you a child" soul question...
It's so unlovely.
Lin Xinyi shook his head and expelled those strange thoughts that had come uninvited from his mind.
And when these distractions disappeared, his attention quickly returned to reality.
Then, he soon noticed...
The pair of high school students in front of them who had just fed themselves a large handful of dog food seemed to look a little familiar from their backs.
Especially that girl...
"It's... Could it be..."Lin Xinyi tentatively called at the female high school student in front of him: "Miss Mao Lilan? ”
"Huh?" The high school girl looked back in surprise.
"Mr. Lin Xinyi, is that you?"
It's really her, the Maolilan I only saw in the morning.
Speaking of which, Lin Xinyi has not become familiar with this female high school student who just met in Pingshui to the point where he can recognize him by looking at his back.
Not to mention, Mao Lilan had changed his clothes, and the blue high school uniform was very different from the white practice uniform he wore in the morning.
The main reason for being able to recognize it so quickly this time is...
Standing behind Miss Maolilan...
You can see the horns, too.
"Haha..."
Lin Xinyi politely did not show what he thought in his heart:
"It's really the two of you."
"I almost didn't recognize it."