Volume 1: The Exiled Lands Chapter 3 Yes, the Bitter Meat Scheme
"Tomato & Egg Mask – Pure natural collagen with its own vitamin ABCDE. Anti-peroxide carotene, inhibits the production of free radicals by cells, and the ageless skin is as full as new. Pippi looked at the rotten leaves of tomato and egg sticky, rushed to interview the robot's camera, and read his own advertising slogan. In the camera, the advertisement-style smile, 360 degrees without dead ends, can be called an actor-level performance.
The "advertisement" is like a live broadcast, projected onto the 3D surround screen on the opposite side of the square through the Internet, and the sweet voice of the "actor" comes out of the stereo, lingering over the square, filling everyone's eardrums, as if the light-haired girl on the screen and her voice have crashed into people's brains. In her pale purple eyes, there was an unworldly smile, and there was a soul-piercing irony hidden in the pure and lovely sweetness.
The noisy, boiling crowd in the square suddenly fell silent.
Pippi wiped a handful of eggs, tomatoes and vegetable leaves pasted on her face, her eyes were still messed up by the egg whites on her eyelashes, and she winked at the interview robot flying in the sky, and smiled heartlessly: "Whose tomatoes and eggs want to advertise, can you do it authentically?" Please ask me to be a model, no charge? Two more tomatoes and eggs, girl, I charge by the second. ”
The rainbow farts who surrounded Mu Cheng in the square were stunned. They didn't know where this green tea came from, but they came out openly and openly to "beautiful women save heroes", and blocked tomatoes, eggs, and rotten vegetable leaves for the star captain they loved.
At this time, probably everyone is regretting why they are the ones who smashed tomatoes and threw eggs, not the ones who rushed out to save the heroes.
It's a pity it's late!
No matter how cool the performance is, it is someone else's after all.
"It's just a qualifier, and the champion hasn't been decided yet. Mu Cheng didn't collect money to play the game, the fighting mecha was bought by themselves, even if he lost all the games, it would not be anyone's turn to point at him. Pippi put away the advertisement-style smile as if his face changed, put on a cold face, snorted at the camera, clasped Mu Cheng's wrist back, and pulled him towards the crowd.
As if they had been cast a spell to divide the sea, the crowd automatically separated to both sides, making way for the "actor" and Captain Mu Cheng. The fighting mecha followed him like a bodyguard, and no one dared to stop her.
Mu Cheng Meow was taken away by his "girlfriend", is there any controversy?
People are above board, who dares to be controversial?
One eighth of the group stage is only, the champion has not yet been decided, and Mu Cheng has only lost one game. One should allow a hero to be invincible, and he should be allowed to get hurt occasionally.
The rich ink and color only have magnificent and fantastic colors in the shadows, just like the figure squeezed out of the crowd on the big screen in the square - mixed with retro and rebellious atmosphere, wrapped in a faint night, branded into people's obscure emotions, like a new monster in decadence, alive, but not a continuation of the old, walking its own unusual path.
Leaving the square, Pippi and Mucheng go to the bar they agreed upon.
"Can you take your purple glasses off?" Mu Cheng drooped his head, holding a bubbling beer glass, as if he was so tired that he could barely speak.
"We should change the subject." Pipsqueak refused the waiter's beer, "I'm only nineteen, I don't drink." Bring me a bottle of carbonated drink, any brand is fine, caramel flavored. Pushing away the beer, she clasped her hands together on her elbows on the bar, supported her lazy chin with her crossed fingers, and looked at Mu Cheng with a pair of big light purple eyes.
Pippi probably didn't notice, and when she said that she didn't drink, Mu Cheng lifted her eyelids and glanced at her, a little surprised.
"Yes, the bitter meat plan. You know that Laura asked me to buy a mech. You did not stop me, proving that you acquiesced in me and allowed me to plunge you into a wretch. You didn't sign a 'designated supply agreement' with me......"
"I don't blame you. I want to win the game based on my strength. Mu Cheng cut off Pippi's last note, still keeping her head down, and didn't give her a straight look.
Pipsqueak opened his mouth, his jaw dropping.
"Dragon Ball" is a competitive competition for tactics and skills. In the era of informatization and technology, which may be ten years behind if you miss a day, who can win the game by strength alone?
Mu Cheng is not an old antique who doesn't understand technology, Pippi didn't understand it, did he say it with "strength" or "brute force"?
"Heh, give you a few manual mechs, and you can also win the game with your strength? Mu Cheng, I thought the fans said that your brain was flooded with fake......" Pipsqueak laughed and turned on the poisonous tongue mode. "Your brain is not only in water, but also in cement and petrochemical, right? Buried in the ground for millions of years? Move into the museum and rest, okay? ”
"The fighting mecha you sold me half a year ago is very good in all aspects. I've won twelve games in a row with it. Mu Cheng's eyes were submerged in the beer bubbles, but the volume was several decibels higher.
Under the confusing lights of the bar, Mu Cheng did not hide his decadence as a loser at all. He didn't want to vent his frustration and anger on Pippi, but he couldn't help but raise the decibel level. He knew that the girl across from him wasn't going to talk to him properly.
"You're missing a chance to upgrade your mech." Pippi sells himself and never blushes. "Tu Shanxing doesn't even have a technician to repair mechas, can you find a better mecha master than me?"
"Pipsqueak!" Mu Cheng said solemnly, "Yes, you are very talented. Tu Shanxing has no more powerful mecha master than you, and few people in the entire Penglai galaxy dare to call you for mecha design. But what about the other twelve galaxies? What about Nova? ”
"Those all-intelligent fighting mechas, who can I beat? They are decades ahead of us, and they can fight 24 hours a day. We are all human beings - carbon-based creatures, we have to eat, we have to sleep, we have to recuperate when we are injured, how can we fight? His suppressed voice was at its limit, and the earth and fire rolled in his throat like magma. The words came out, but it was just a little sorrowful baritone, very gentlemanly.
He paused, picked up his glass, and sullenly poured half a beer down, finally holding down the lava tumbling in his throat.
"I can go find a combat mech from another galaxy to disassemble and study, we still have time." Pippi doesn't give up. She took the caramel soda from the waiter, looked at it, and handed it back, "Add ice." ”
"Pipsqueak, where are you going to get one of their fighting mechs? The space mech you modified looks good, enough to fly out of Tushan's atmosphere and circumnavigate the Penglai system. But do you have a pass to enter other galaxies? You can't enter the jump tunnel without a pass, you know. But the jump tunnel, which is often tens of thousands of light-years away, how do you plan to get to other galaxies? Mu Cheng drank the rest of the beer, and the glass rested heavily on the bar. He looked into Pippi's eyes so earnestly that she had nothing to say. "No kidding, silly girl."
"It's not...... And you? Aren't we friends? Pipsqueak herself believed it to be delusional, but she said it anyway.
"yes, friend, we're just friends." Mu Cheng did not shy away from tearing off the mask. Pippi has nine tricks in her heart, and she can point through it with one sentence, and he doesn't care if she will be too careful. "Do you expect me to take you to Nova or do you expect me to get you a fighting mech back?"
Pippi looked at Mu Cheng and didn't speak, it was really like it had been debunked...... Speechless. There was a stagnant look in her clear eyes, both surprised and lost. She understands everything Mu Cheng said, but when no one breaks it, everyone pretends that Godzilla doesn't exist, and they can't feel the distortion behind the calm, as well as the anxiety and uneasiness that the distortion creates for people.
"If I had that ability, I would have taken you aboard a starship to Nova a long time ago, would I have used to participate in this kind of game similar to an ancient 'gladiatorial fight'? Having a girlfriend like you, whether it's facts or scandals, sounds very good, and I won't refuse. But I don't have that ability, so I can only buy your mecha to participate in the competition and enter Nova with strength. Mu Cheng said a lot of things in one breath. Finally, he sighed heavily, clicked on the electronic terminal on his wrist, scanned the payment code on the bar, and got up to leave.
His voice, in the thick and ambiguous light and shadow of the bar, left a cold conclusion: "Thank you today!" Don't ask me out about the game again. I don't deserve your attention, Laura is more of a player than I am. ”
"Miss, caramel soda on the rocks." The waiter came over with a standard smile of eight teeth, and almost stood on the spot when he met Pippi's smoke-filled eyes. I saw his shoulders tremble, put down the soda, and walked as if he was running away: "You use it slowly!" ”