Chapter 6: One Hundred Cups
Going out shopping was the first time for Mu He and Mr. Skeleton.
For Chen Xian, who was born and raised in Ningchuan...... Also for the first time.
When everyone found out that Chen Xian had just gone out and started to search for the location of Ningchuan Shopping Plaza on his mobile phone, Xu Yanan and Lu Yisheng were silent almost at the same time, and secretly said in their hearts, what is the situation? ?
Perhaps sensing Lu Yisheng's strange gaze, Chen Xian glanced up at them, and the expression on his face was faintly ashamed.
"I haven't been shopping, and I usually buy clothes online, so I ......"
"It's okay, I understand." Lu Yisheng patted Chen Xian's shoulder, looking like I understand that you don't have to say much, "I actually bought this outfit online, and the 200 yuan set is also free shipping, next time I will send you a link." ”
"Okay." Chen nodded idly.
Hearing the conversation between these two dead straight men, Xu Yanan didn't bother to dislike it, he only felt that such a cute little fairy as Mu He was in such a living environment...... It's just so hard!
Chen Xian and Lu Yisheng took a taxi on the side of the road, chatting in a low voice from time to time, and Mu He and Xu Yanan stood in the back position, seemingly muttering something.
At this moment, they don't see the slightest bit of being an Inhuman, they don't have the mystery of ordinary Inhumans, and they don't have the pride of some Inhumans who are high up all the time...... In a way, they live in a much more comfortable way than ordinary Inhumans, because the boundaries between Inhumans and ordinary people are blurred in their minds.
Living in human society, they do not see themselves as a life superior to ordinary people.
Whether it is an alien or an ordinary person, they are actually the same kind of life, but their abilities are different.
"Do I have to stay like this?"
Mr. Skeleton's voice was dull and depressed, and he pointed to the bandages on his face, and couldn't help but think of his old memories. Some kind of life that has appeared...... In modern human parlance, it should be called a mummy, right?
"If you want to go out, you have to do this, or you have to go back and stay." Chen Xian said without looking back.
"Oh..... Okay then......" Mr. Skeleton looked at Chen Xian aggrievedly and said nothing.
Before going out, Chen Xian deliberately let it change into the temporary uniform that the staff of the Secret Bureau helped it find, although the skinny Mr. Skeleton looked a little strange in the uniform, but it managed to block its bloody body...... Of course, before changing clothes, Chen Xian also did a "special treatment" on its body.
From head to toe, Chen Xian and Lu Yisheng worked together to tie two layers of bandages for it, and if that kind of treacherous shape was seen by people in the circle, it was estimated that it would have to be treated as a mummy of a fraudulent corpse.
"Sister will buy you some beautiful clothes in a while, and she will definitely dress you up super good." Xu Yanan stood beside Mu He, looking at Mu He who had just reached his chin, with countless stars in his eyes, "Do you like the Lolita style?" Or do you like the little fresh style of forest nature? ”
Mu He ate Baiqi slowly, glanced at Xu Yanan, who was full of fanaticism, and felt a little scared for some reason, so he couldn't help but lean towards Chen Xian's side silently.
Just then, a taxi arrived, and it happened to be two empty cars.
Chen Xian and Mr. Mu He Skull sat in the car in front to lead the way, Xu Yanan and Lu Yisheng were arranged in the car behind, and there were chatting voices from the car from time to time along the way, and their group was like the most ordinary young people who went out shopping.
It was as if they were not the ones who had experienced darkness on Jiuling Mountain before.
Everyone felt a relaxed and pleasant mood, even the detached Chen Xian, for whom shopping was a meaningless and time-wasting activity, and he didn't like to go to places with too many people, so he always stayed away from these places in the business world.
But the strange thing is that this time he went out in a very happy mood, and he didn't realize the subtle psychological changes, maybe this is the difference between being alone and having friends.
Coming to a large commercial plaza in the center of the city, Xu Yanan is like returning to her happy hometown, even if this is not the southeast city she is familiar with, she is still familiar with the road in the shopping plaza, regardless of Mu He's resistance, dragged her to various luxury stores.
At first, Mu He wanted to struggle to return to Chen Xian's side, but slowly Xu Yanan went, because she suddenly found that shopping like this was actually quite interesting, and it was not as boring as Chen Xian had said before.
Maybe it's a woman's nature.
See the dazzling jewels on the counter, or the elaborate designs in the windows of a clothing store...... Even if you don't plan to buy it, just looking at it will make you feel happy.
"Xiao Muhe, come here, I think this dress suits you well!"
"Is it suitable for me......" Mu He looked a little overwhelmed, looked back at Chen Xian, and pointed to the light khaki dress held in the clerk's hand, "Chen Xian!" Does this dress fit me! ”
Hearing Mu He ask for his opinion, Chen Xian glanced at it, nodded without hesitation and said that it was suitable.
At this moment, he also found that his aesthetics did not seem to have reached the realm of Xu Yanan, and the clothes he saw on the Internet some time ago were really not ordinary compared to this expensive dress.
Xu Yanan led the team to visit four stores in a row, and Mu He was arranged by her to try on clothes no less than fifteen times, but each time she just tried them on and didn't buy them, and she didn't seem to have met a particularly good match.
"Why don't you buy a few first?"
Chen Xian couldn't help but speak, although he only followed Xu Yanan for less than a hundred meters, it was strange that he ...... The fatigue he had never felt when he had crossed the mountains and mountains to deal with strange cases had now appeared!
"Money doesn't come from the wind, what do you buy it for?" Xu Yanan glanced at Chen Xian angrily.
"Uh-huh!" Mu He also nodded and agreed with Xu Yanan's words, there was no fatigue on his little face, on the contrary, he looked inexplicably excited, and seemed to have an inexplicable fanaticism for shopping, "Let's go shopping again!" ”
“.......”
Perhaps sensing that Chen Xian and they were really unable to walk, Xu Yanan found a corner for them to rest in the center of the shopping plaza like placing cats and dogs, and told Chen Xian that they would stay there obediently and not run around, and would come back to pick them up later.
"Damn, next time I go shopping, I'll follow me and I'll be a pig!" Lu Yisheng walked over with three cups of milk tea he had just bought, first handed Chen Xian a cup, and then handed Mr. Skeleton a cup, his face full of regret that he shouldn't have been, "Won't they get tired after walking around the street for so long?" ”
"Maybe it's a special function that belongs to women." Chen Xian took the milk tea and drank it slowly, "Let's go to Yin City later, there is a barbecue restaurant there that tastes good, I'll take you to try it." ”
When Chen Xian was chatting with Lu Yisheng, Mr. Skull had been studying the milk tea in his hand, it was like watching a certain work of art, holding the cup and looking left and right for a long time, and finally learning Chen Xian's movements, carefully erecting the straw and poking it into the cup, and then took two sips, full of enjoyment.
In this rest area, in addition to Chen Xian, who has outstanding skin, is more eye-catching, Mr. Skeleton is also eye-catching, because his dress is too weird, his thin and tall figure and the dense bandages on his face, and some blood-colored "skin" tissues can be seen from the gap between the bandages..... How do you look like a patient with severe burns and then going out for a walk.
"Humans are weird......"
Mr. Skeleton drank milk tea lightly and looked curiously at the passers-by who came and went in front of him.
"Obviously they are all inferior beings...... But they don't realize their own weakness..... It seems that everyone can live freely...... Is it because they haven't seen those powerful lifeforms......."
"Maybe." Chen Xian replied softly, chewing the milk tea pearls in his mouth, "Our job to guard the secret bureau is to try to prevent them from seeing those powerful life forms, so that they don't have to be shrouded by the shadow of fear for the rest of their lives, so that they can live freely in the sun." ”
"You are making falsehood, and they cannot see the truth." Mr. Skeleton glanced at Chen Xian, "Just let them be deceived by the lies they made up for the rest of their lives?" ”
Chen Xian nodded noncommittally and did not speak.
"I remember that humans have always been looking for the real ...... It seems like they started ...... long ago" Mr. Skeleton seemed to be caught up in his memories, vague old memories flashing through his mind.
"Authenticity is not necessarily a good thing." Chen Xian smiled, as if he had already figured out this question, "Some things only exist in movies are enough, if someone suddenly discovers that the monsters in horror movies are real, what do you think the world will become?" ”
Mr. Skeleton shook his head and said he didn't know.
"They're going to collapse." Chen Xian sighed, "It's not a good feeling for the worldview to be shattered, the fear of the dark and unknown will drive many people crazy, maybe the earth will become the largest madhouse in the universe." ”
"Will they go crazy? Are humans so fragile? Mr. Skeleton looked at Chen Xian suspiciously, "It's difficult for them to admit to the existence of those powerful beings?" ”
"Difficult, but ...... Humans don't seem to be that fragile either. ”
Chen Xian held the cup of milk tea in both hands, leaned back on the bench, and silently watched the flow of people coming and going in front of him.
"The vast majority of human beings have no special abilities, life is fragile and extremely short, and the survival pressure to face in a lifetime is not something that other lives can imagine, birth, old age, sickness and death, firewood, rice, oil and salt, wives, sons, and daughters ......"
"There is no hunting of higher life, ordinary human beings are not easy, although today's people do not feel the fear of being a prey, but they will often be tormented by all kinds of negative emotions, the ancients said that the seven emotions of joy, anger, worry, sorrow, fear and fear, joy only accounts for one of them, it is conceivable that the happiness and joy from the heart is indeed a short and rare thing for an ordinary person, but even so they can still live strong in this world, generation after generation of multiplication......"
Mr. Skeleton listened to Chen Xian's words silently, and his eyes also flashed with a light of thought.
"Human life is really too complicated...... Fragile and strong...... Reminds me of a creature from a long time ago...... Those big black bugs...... The whole world has them everywhere......"
Mr. Skeleton muttered, as if to sigh for something.
"How does it feel to live in this world?" Chen Xian turned his head and glanced at it.
In fact, Chen Xian also knows very well that for an ancient "life" like Mr. Skeleton, all creatures in this world belong to aliens, it is like a guest from a foreign land who can never return to his hometown, he can't find any kind here, and even the traces of the same kind of survival here have long been erased by history.
"Not bad."
Mr. Skeleton took a big sip of milk tea, looked left and right at this golden shopping hall, his eyes flashed with curiosity, he seemed to be full of interest in this strange world, and did not feel the loneliness that Chen Xian imagined.
"It's a lot more interesting than the last time I woke up."
Hearing this answer, Chen Xian nodded and didn't say anything.
"Can you do some more of this?" Mr. Skeleton gently patted Lu Yisheng's shoulder and said cautiously, "This is delicious, I want to drink a little more." ”
"Little things." Lu Yisheng smiled, wanting to show Mr. Skeleton the hospitality of modern people, "How many more drinks do you want?" What flavors do you want? ”
"It's a good taste." Mr. Skeleton looked at Lu Yisheng expectantly, and his tone of voice was also extremely careful, as if he was embarrassed, "Please buy me a hundred cups, thank you." ”
"It's just to buy a milk tea, what do you say thank you or not, don't ...... this kind of trivial matter in the future. Damn, do you say again how much fuck are you going to buy?? ”
"A hundred cups, thank you."