Volume 1: The Tide of Dusk: A Prelude to Teenage Girls (5)
"Somewhat selfish, right?"
"No, in fact, most of this world is not good enough to be protected. ”
"Then why are you clinging to? ”
"No matter how bad the world is, there will always be a small part of it that is worth protecting. ”
"Are we talking about the fate of this world?"
Lin Xiaojia was a little embarrassed by his inexplicable self-confidence, this boy who usually always has a sense of frustration seems to be able to switch between deep and off-line at will, so that she can't figure out whether this is his characteristic or deliberate.
"Hey, you're my superior, since your wish is to protect this ruined world... ”
An Yiran pretended to suppress his voice deeply with the strength of the wine, and his wording became extremely middle-of-the-road.
"I'll be with you to the end. ”
He followed Lin Xiaojia's example before, and drank the wine in the bottle with a grunt, and the spicy and sour rushed up from his chest, choking him with a cough.
"I'm a little reckless, but I'm just a rookie. ”
A pun intended.
Looking at An Yiran, who was choked with plum wine, a faint smile appeared on his face.
She rarely confides in others what she thinks, and her years of experience have long allowed her to forge a strong psychological defense, but An Yiran can always break this defense line with laughter.
Could it be that he underestimated him? Maybe he was actually a hidden philosopher?
She smiled to drive away the inexplicable thoughts in her mind, but even she herself noticed that it seemed that during this time, her smile really increased a lot, obviously at this special juncture, and the battle with the night wreckage was also getting hotter.
What's wrong with you?
If there were no undercurrent of blood and fire in this world, what would I be like? Will I hold that warm hand and smile at the innocence that I dare not ask for in the happy age that should belong to children?
She looked at An Yiran's eyes gradually hollowed, the boy had just recovered from a violent cough, the chef laughed and handed him a non-alcoholic drink, his chest rose and fell, and the dark luster of the stars loomed in his pupils.
If that hadn't happened to the boy, he might be munching on a half-price weekend meal at Burger King, curled up on the couch in a sullen pink Diva, yelling at his teammates in the online world.
What kind of happiness is happiness for him?
"We are all slaves to this world. ”
She had heard that person say this, and she didn't understand why that person could fall into the miserable situation of the words.
Maybe in the near future, we'll all get it.
Lin Xiaojia sighed lightly and nodded to the chef in front of him. The door of the private room was slowly pushed open by the waiter, and the heavy big bag returned to An Yiran's hand again, making black lines stand up in front of his forehead again.
"Let's go. ”
Her figure once again blended into the brightly lit hall, and An Yiran followed behind and trotted away, far away in the eyes of the executive chef.
The chef shook his head slowly with a smile, in his opinion the boy was like a very well-behaved little boyfriend.
"Really?"
Lin Xiaojia's eyes were slightly hesitant.
"No problem, I'm not a rookie at the beginning. ”
It was completely dark, and the engine of the sports car was roaring rhythmically, and An Yiran helped the guards on the side move the road cone away from the front of the car.
The neon lights on the exterior walls have been fully lit up, and rows of pillars of light make up the words "Global Center", which must be seen from afar.
"It's not me who hits you, you're really a rookie in the organization at your current level. ”
Lin Xiaojia replied to him one by one, although his calm and serious eyes and tone did not have any mockery, but they were still rooted in the young man's self-conscious and fragile heart. It's like just brushing out a good piece of equipment, turning around and going out to meet the top few bosses on the server.
The big guy tilted his head, shook his golden armor, and asked seriously, How can your equipment be so bad?
"Miss, it's more than ten minutes for me to go home, and when I was in elementary school, I was farther away from school. ”
He reluctantly stuffed the paper bag into the trunk and said helplessly.
"Feel free to contact you if you have any situation. ”
Lin Xiaojia was not reluctant, although the appearance of the night wreckage was mysterious, it was not so much that every street and alley had their eyeliner. She stepped on the accelerator, and the car sprang out with the sound of a roar, merging into the main road under the gaze of a crowd of pedestrians, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"You'd rather slow down!"
He wasn't sure if Lin Xiaojia heard this, this girl was so resolute no matter what she did, and the dense monitoring probes on the main roads in the city made him sweat for Lin Xiaojia's driver's license again.
The more he thinks about this, the more his scalp is numb, and it seems to be a luxury to ask her to take a driver's license based on the purpose of this organization's actions, but since Lao Zhang can control the actions of normal people, it seems that it is not a big problem.
He sighed softly and walked towards the path home.
As the saying goes, young people don't know what it's like to be sad, and An Yiran feels that this sentence is purely fart. It's not sad to be like this, so what's the point of worrying?
Walking through the crowded neighborhoods, the path leading to the river was especially quiet, and walking on the path surrounded by low bushes, he felt like he had never felt calmer.
Greenery and coke, games and nights when no one is around, these few things can completely calm him down.
Ever since I stepped into the world of the able, there has always been a constant situation, and although my control of the ability has become more and more proficient as the training has deepened, the sense of crisis that has come with it has not diminished in the slightest.
The more you learn more about this mysterious world, the more it feels like a giant open mouth, which not only wants to shatter your own worldview, but also pushes more crazy things in front of your eyes little by little, and overwhelms you.
The more you know, the more you feel like an orphan in this world.
He dropped a bill into a dilapidated vending machine on the side of the road, leaned over and took out a can of Coke from a compartment that had not been used for some time, and with a pop, the foam swelled up and carried the cool moisture to his nose.
It was a moment of healing. He thought so, but his raised hand stopped in mid-air, and he wanted to stuff the thought back into his head.
From the shell of the vending machine, he could see a not-so-tall figure leaning against a scrapped lamppost on the side of the road, a golden glow flashing through his eyes in the darkness.
"Damn me, don't you?"
can appear so quietly on the dark road, whether it is in fiction or reality, he will not be a good person!
In the past, he didn't think much about such a situation, but now he has somehow become the sweetheart of the night, and the mysterious person who suddenly appears in front of him will only make him feel that the person who is coming is not good.
"Wait, wait, I'm not a bad person. ”
The visitor waved his hand at An Yiran, who was in an offensive posture, and walked out of the shadow of the lamppost.
He was dressed in a well-made Zegna gray suit, his brown leather shoes were shiny on the floor, and the watch in his left hand shimmered in the moonlight, and the smiling moon icon adorned the bright dial.
What doesn't match this outfit at all is the sunglasses that he hangs on his face that are obviously one size larger, and the black all-around mask that is obviously from MINISO, and then there is the warm knitted hat that is exclusive to winter.
Transvestite, still a rich transvestite!
Seeing the dress of the person on the other side, he raised his hand a little higher, aiming at the person's funny facial dress, a little energy surged between his fingers, and the fluctuations of space slowly spread around his body.
"Hey, calm down, I'm really not a bad person!"
Seeing An Yiran's reaction like this, he seemed to be a little panicked, and raised his voice again to emphasize.
"Sound familiar?"
His hand did not relax, and his mind began to search for memories of this voice, such a loud male voice was rare in his impression.
"Is that you?"
The doubt in his eyes gradually turned to surprise, and he slowly lowered his raised hand, really unable to figure out how he could appear on this remote path.
Seeing An Yiran let down his guard, the man breathed a sigh of relief, pulled off the knitted hat wrapped around his head and threw it aside along with the mask, and turned around and took off the big sunglasses on the bridge of his nose.
"Don't worry about it, I bought it on the side of the road, after all, I'm quite conspicuous as a target. ”
He straightened the white hair that was turned back to the back of his head, and his eyes were shiny on his face that were rarely wrinkled, and he couldn't tell that this was the eyes of an old man.
"Qi, Qi Lao?"
An Yiran, who confirmed the guess in his heart, unconsciously closed his mouth into an O-shape, and the old man standing in front of him smiled a little embarrassedly, and his hearty laughter undoubtedly belonged to Qi Tianming.
"Why are you here?"
"Hahaha, I can't bear to disturb you young people on a date, so I have to wait for you to be alone. ”
Although the laughter is still hearty, the playful tone in the words still can't be hidden, An Yiran thought to himself that it was this uncle who had a temperament, and this ridiculous laugh rested on Lao Zhang, maybe how obscene it was.
"You're looking for me?"
was said by the old man in front of him to have a fever on his face, he had been with Lin Xiaojia all day, presumably he also knew.
"Hahaha, it's not a big deal, it's just that there are some things I want to talk to the newcomers who just joined. ”
He tried not to let the disbelief in his heart come out, after all, this person's identity was really very unusual.
Indeed, the leader of the Lego Construction Group, the man who holds the lifeblood of the city's economy, is also the prophet of ability, the head of the eastern subdivision. If Qi Tianming, who is blessed by this series of titles, said that he could have anything to do with him, An Yiran would resolutely not believe it.
But the old man in front of him didn't want to have a showdown at all, but just made a gesture of invitation to An Yiran on the dark path in front of him, clearly wanting to walk with him.
He grinned and squeezed out a smile that was not rude, and slowly walked into the night with Qi Tianming on the side.