Chapter 149: Can I Choose No
"What a civilized barbarian, who only knows how to smell everything, like a dog, hehe."
Xia Ke was frowning, and someone on the other side stood up from the blanket, and he did not go to Xia Ke's side, but took a blanket from his chair, and gently unfolded the blanket and covered the person closest to the fireplace. The man sat cross-legged, his body dangling from time to time, giving the illusion that he was likely to fall into the fireplace. He was already covered with a blanket, and the man did not hesitate to cover it with another blanket.
And the person wrapped in the blanket didn't seem to have the slightest intention of refusing.
"Hey, that's better than your daddy, right?" The man in the pink shirt smiled smugly, didn't say much, and continued to join the previous topic.
"Now that we're all here, let's get started." The person who spoke was the one sitting on the inner floor, and he was one of the two people who didn't look at the Hakkers, and the other was the one who was asleep.
As soon as this person's voice fell, all the voices of discussion disappeared, and someone quickly gave up his position, while Liu Ruyan pulled Xia Ke and sat on the inner floor together.
"Everybody knows what I said. This is Xia Ke, the representative of the Qilu branch, let's introduce ourselves first. Liu Ruyan's hand was on Xia Ke's shoulder, pressing Xia Ke's shoulder to prevent her from standing up.
Xia Ke's shoulders moved slightly, and he stopped struggling, struggling? How to struggle? She may understand Liu Ruyan's mind a little now.
Originally, the people here were all double-numbered, and they were divided into inner and outer layers, that is, a branch should send two people, one person to perform and one person to assist.
Similarly, she and Liang Zhousheng sent by the Qilu Branch, Liang Zhousheng should be the people sitting on this floor, and she Xia Ke should be at the same level as the man in the pink shirt and the blanket just now. It was because he couldn't find Liang Zhousheng, so he snatched her from Qin Huai's hands in this way.
"Vice President of the Xiangshan Branch, Xu Wu." The man who had just spoken had given his name first, he was dressed more formally than everyone present, the others were black suits at most, but he wore a dark blue tie. The facial features don't seem to be very easy to get along with, and this is not the kind of difficulty that means to get along with, but that Xu Wu doesn't seem to like trouble. Of course, he couldn't have liked someone like Xia Ke who looked like a troublemaker.
"This is He Yuanbao, vice president of the Liaozhou branch." The blanket man followed Xu Wu to speak, and he sat cross-legged behind the man who was wrapped in an unknown number of blankets.
Liu Ruyan smiled and asked, "Is it the sleeping doll He Yuanbao?" β
Hearing Liu Ruyan talk about the title of sleeping doll, the blanket man nodded proudly, and at the same time turned his head sideways and cast a contemptuous look at the man in the pink shirt, "It's the vice president of my family." β
The people around them immediately cast puzzled glances at the person wrapped in the blanket, but the person who fell asleep in the blanket had no intention of waking up to say hello.
"I'm the vice president of the Xudu Branch, You Ling'er." The Sichuan accent immediately made everyone look at the woman sitting in front of the man in the pink shirt, You Ling'er saw that everyone was looking at her, and smiled heartily, "Do you want to watch me do a sako?" β
"Sichuanese?" Xia Ke couldn't help but ask, and at the same time looked You Ling'er up and down.
This girl is estimated to be a few years older than her, but the whole person looks extraordinarily bright, especially those eyes, which are so sparkling that people can't help but want to smile.
"By the way, the girl doll looks so good."
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You Ling'er smiled kindly, but Xia Ke was stunned.
Bashi ...... What do you mean?
"The vice president compliments you on your good looks." The man in the pink shirt also saw Xia Ke's confused state, so he reluctantly translated it for her.
Xia Ke nodded meaningfully, and then asked the man in the pink shirt: "Your vice president, do you speak Mandarin?" β
Before the man in the pink shirt could speak, You Ling'er shook his head, "I won't." β
"......" Hehe, Xia Ke smiled awkwardly but politely, wouldn't he still speak so arrogantly, and now the dialect is already so loud?
Before she could finish laughing, the man in the pink shirt answered: "It's okay, my people will do it." Xia Ke raised his eyebrows, good guy, this little pink is provoking her!
Although she was very angry in her heart, Xia Ke still sat firmly on the blanket, and when the other party saw that Yuan Li was taller than her, she didn't dare to go back. Waiting for an opportunity, I can always send him a few words.
The first three introductions are all at the level of vice ministers, and the latter ones are only older drivers. Of course, no matter what, it is stronger than the newcomer Xia Ke.
"Alright, everyone's done." After the last person sitting on the inner floor finished saying her name, Liu Ruyan opened her mouth to cut off the following self-introduction, she didn't seem to have any intention of letting those assistants report her name. Xia Ke lowered her head a little embarrassed, she was not qualified to sign up, but now she is sitting here in the magpie's nest......
"Now let me tell you about our current situation," Liu Ruyan took a sheepskin map from the old man's hand, there were ten red circles on the map, and she pointed at the map with her finger, "The place marked by these red circles is the Nine Great Lost Valleys in the Devil's City." Each Maze Valley has different dangers, and I'll start with this, the Valley of the Condor. β
From the moment the map was unfolded, Xia Ke felt that the aura of everyone around him had changed, except for He Yuanbao, who was still sleeping, the eyes of everyone in the inner layer fell on the map, and the assistants on the outer layer were holding pens and small notebooks in their hands, looking ready to record at any time.
Xia Ke subconsciously looked behind him, well, it's a wall. sighed helplessly, took out a notebook and pen from the backpack, and did it himself!
"The Valley of the Divine Eagles, as the name suggests, is full of eagles circling inside, and the danger is still alive. Yuanli is eccentric on the one hand, and more importantly, it is the eagle inside. The hardest thing to deal with is these eagles. β
Liu Ruyan's topic did not stop at the Valley of the Divine Eagle, and after a brief introduction, her hand pointed to another place, "Broken Bridge Valley, the rock structures inside are more bizarre and exaggerated than what you have seen before. The bridge and the road are almost indistinguishable, and I don't recommend choosing this place if you don't have a strong sense of direction. β
There is only Liu Ruyan's voice on the faΓ§ade of the entire Loulan building, and occasionally the charcoal burning in the fireplace will make a crackling and popping sound, but the sound of the charcoal burning is too short to attract everyone's attention.
The red light of the fire dyed everyone's face a light red, and the people on the inside were listening carefully, and the people on the outside were recording carefully.
waited until Liu Ruyan finished talking about the situation of the Nine Valleys before Xia Ke shook his sore wrist.
To be honest, after graduating from high school, she never recorded anything so quickly. I think when she was in her heyday, she didn't need any bad pen at all, she just needed a good memory. And yet now......
Xia Ke glanced at the content recorded on the small notebook, and sighed, what good memories have long been spent in the university.
Because she had been busy recording before, Xia Ke didn't have a chance to think about the situation of the Nine Valleys at all, and now that she had a cursory look, there was only one thought in her head, that is, she couldn't go to any valley.
However, the actual situation was not as she expected, Liu Ruyan's fingers tapped on the map, and then inspected the inner layer of the exorcists, "Have you thought about it?" Where to choose? β
"We have thirteen, okay fourteen branches," Mo Fu, the eldest head of the Changshan branch, spoke, he glanced at Xia Ke, it seemed that Xia Ke had a lot of perseverance, so Xia Ke was counted as a branch, "But there are only nine destinations, how to choose this?" β
This is indeed a problem, and it is certainly not possible to divide it evenly.
"Simple, isn't it?" As soon as Liu Ruyan's words came out, everyone's eyes fell on her, she didn't care about these gazes, she still looked at Mo Fu, "Everyone also has information in their own hands, and that place is more likely, everyone chooses." β
Xia Ke also stared at Liu Ruyan, she thought that Liu Ruyan would say something very convincing, but she didn't expect it to be such a scoundrel.
However, although the method is a scoundrel, there is nothing wrong with it.
"Let's write down the place where we are going on a note, we are all old acquaintances, don't do so much to calculate, don't let newcomers see jokes."
After Liu Ruyan finished speaking, she turned her head and tore off a page from Lao Fang's notebook, and then picked up a brush and wrote. After she finished writing, she didn't care what others thought, and just threw the paper ball on the map.
Seeing that the people around her didn't move, Liu Ruyan shrugged her shoulders, "Hurry up, everyone, go early and come back early?" β
The next thing went very smoothly, probably because everyone already had their own places to go, so after Liu Ruyan finished speaking, the paper balls were thrown on the map one after another.
There are more and more paper balls, and Xia Ke is becoming more and more anxious. She held the pen in her hand, her fingers clenched and relaxed on the barrel, her eyes swirling around the notebook, could she say that she didn't want to go anywhere? If you don't go, at most the task will not be completed, and if you go, you will probably die. And she didn't know what she was going to do...... Liu Ruyan said that it was related to Yuanjing, but she didn't say anything specifically, she didn't even know what she was going to do, wasn't she looking for death by rushing in like this?
What's more, she still has to find Liang Zhousheng, and she can't run around casually.
Thinking like this, Xia Ke raised his hand cowardly, "I said," everyone's eyes fell on her, Xia Ke swallowed his saliva, and still said what he wanted to say: "Can I choose or not?" β