Chapter 34: The Last Five Seconds
After an hour, the pheasant meat was finally marinated.
Bai Siyi, who was so bored that he was drowsy, and Lin Feifei, who still looked curious, and didn't stop fiddling with the various condiments in the kitchen for an hour, cheered up and came to the stove. Now, with only one last step left, two people can leave this quest.
Bai Si began to heat up the oiled pot that had been prepared on the stove, and after a while, white heat rose from the pot. Lin Feifei on the side watched intently, and his big black eyes did not miss any of Bai Siyi's movements.
Bai Si threw the processed chicken pieces into the hot pan, and the body of the little pheasant immediately let out a scream of "Zi~" in the oil pot. Hearing the scream of the little pheasant in the oil pot, Lin Feifei couldn't help but be speechless, and let out an exclamation, "It's so miserable." ”
Bai Si was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and said to the oil pot, "I'm sorry." The movement of his hands did not stop, and he turned the chicken over. Immediately, there was another scream of "Zi~" and the sound of oil crackling in the pot.
The killing has been killed, the hair has been plucked out, the corpse has been divided, and now even the oil pot is down, what kind of sadness is it to hurt the spring and autumn? She, Bai Siyi, is not that kind of person.
Maybe she always likes to spend a lot of time analyzing the plan in one way or another before doing things, and when it comes to doing things, her plans are always disrupted for one reason or another, but once things start to be done, no matter good or bad, there must be an end. This is Bai Siyi's most simple principle.
The man outside the glass wall was stunned when he looked at Bai Siyi apologizing to the chicken in the oil pot while his hands kept moving, and he also imitated Lin Feifei's appearance. It's terrible to be a creature like a woman. The man said to himself in his heart.
"Sister, do you regret killing the little pheasant?" Hearing that his sister apologized for the chicken, Lin Feifei asked curiously.
As soon as Bai Si heard this question, he thought seriously for a while before answering Lin Feifei.
"When I entered this game, the only thing that died directly at my hands was a man in the novice training ground." Bai Siyi turned the chicken over again, and the chicken began to give off a foody aroma. Smelling this aroma, Bai Siyi frowned very uncomfortably. I felt her stomach begin to contract in bursts, pumping acid into her throat. "At that time I was fishing with the corpse I controlled, and that man was the fish I caught. You can understand the meaning of fishing, right? ”
Lin Feifei said "um": "Just set a trap and let the other party jump in by himself, and then sister, you take advantage of his careless opportunity to fight back?" ”
"That's pretty much it." Bai Siyi recalled the scene at that time and continued, "At that time, I used a corpse, pretending to be seriously injured, and a man rushed over and wanted to drag me away, and I knew that he didn't drag me away to save me, so I killed him. I don't regret this incident, it's the first time I killed someone, and I feel very uncomfortable. ”
Lin Feifei hurriedly said beside him, "Sister is not wrong, it is that man who wants to kill you, so my sister will attack him." "Lin Feifei didn't consider whether Bai Siyi set a trap to prepare to kill first, in the boy's opinion, in this world, my sister did not go all over the world to find someone to kill in order to complete the task, but passively waited for others to kill her first, which is already the greatest kindness." I completed the newbie dungeon also because someone else wanted to kill me, and then a little coincidence happened. The boy lowered his head and hid his expression in the shadow of the overhead light, without elaborating on what kind of coincidence it was that made the game think he had completed his mission.
Bai Si smiled, and instead of asking the boy, he continued to tell his story.
"Then something happened that made me regret it."
Lin Feifei raised his head, looked at Bai Si's fried chicken on a plate, and asked curiously, "What's the matter?" Why? ”
Bai Siyi let go of the position in front of the oil pot and motioned for Lin Feifei to step forward and make his share of chicken. The boy obediently walked over to the stove and, following the example of Bai Siyi, threw a piece of chicken into the pot. However, looking at the boy's expression, it was obvious that his attention was waiting to hear his sister continue. When the chicken fell into the pot, a few oil stars splashed out, and Bai Siyi immediately shouted "Be careful".
Lin Feifei quickly and obediently focused his gaze on the oil pot in front of him.
Bai Si saw that the boy was also making chicken decently, and then continued to speak.
"Then I heard a little girl shouting for her father, who must have been the man I had killed. Because when I ran away, a little girl came after me with a knife in the man's hand. Bai Siyi smiled bitterly, remembering the immature face she saw in the last second of teleportation, and a feeling of guilt rose in her heart.
"Sister, are you okay?" Lin Feifei subconsciously asked this sentence, only to realize that he had asked a stupid question, "I'm asking, why did you run away because of guilt?" ”
"Yes, because of fear and regret. I don't regret killing that man, I regret it, because if I killed that man, I might cause the death of a child who has no ability to protect himself. I was scared to see the kid, so I ran. Bai Siyi gently nudged Lin Feifei and signaled that it was time for the boy to turn over the chicken, "Maybe it's hard to understand, I know that the little girl is not completely innocent, after all, the man wants to drag away the corpse instead of killing the corpse immediately, it must be for the sake of this little girl." Bai Siyi sighed, "But I just can't get around this knot." ”
At this time, Bai Siyi didn't know that not long after she teleported away, the little girl was killed by Bai Kong, who had been hiding in the dark and observing her. If she knew about it, I don't know how she would feel.
"Am I being particularly hypocritical?" Bai Siyi touched Lin Feifei again and reminded him not to fry one side of the chicken for too long.
The boy simply put this piece of chicken that was too charred on one side and not enough to be hot on the plate directly, and it was strange to say that as soon as this piece of chicken with bad appearance was put on the plate, it quickly became the same as the one made by Bai Siyi, it looked very attractive, and it also exuded the same fragrance, and even the faint white light emitted from it was about the same brightness in Bai Siyi's opinion.
The boy turned around and stared into Bai Siyi's eyes, ignoring the large tears welling up in his eyes, and said a word to Bai Siyi in a firm tone.
"In my opinion, this is not hypocrisy, this is kindness."
As soon as Bai Si looked at Lin Feifei's serious expression, tears welled up at the same time, and he was about to look at himself, and the melancholy in his heart immediately dissipated without a trace. With some tears and laughter, she turned the boy's head to the side with her hand, and rubbed it a few times in the boy's soft hair. The boy immediately wiped his tears with his hands and snorted disapprovingly in protest.
"Alright, it's time for us to serve, and we'll leave."
The ordinary man, who was almost forgotten by the pair of sisters and brothers who were busy with their hearts, watched all this silently outside the glass wall, not knowing how well the sound insulation of the glass wall was, and he heard the conversation between the two sisters and brothers. The man just remained silent, staring at the two siblings who were interacting intimately, without any movement. However, his eyes flickered slightly, as if waiting for a moment to come.
Bai Siyi and Lin Feifei, each holding the chicken they had made, shouted into the air: "We're done." ”
Bai Siyi originally thought that as long as this was the case, it would be considered a complete copy, but he didn't expect a mechanical emotionless voice to come to his head.
"Please put the dish on the pick-up table and invite the judges to taste it. The judges will award points based on the dishes. ”
As soon as Bai Si looked around the outside of the glass, obviously looking forward to the chicken made by the two of them, the black figures who were almost drooling three liters from the hole in their heads suddenly had their previous questions in their minds.
These black figures are obviously the so-called judges, so the reward points for making dishes are really given by these things? So, what exactly are these black things? Is the white light on the dish the same thing as the white light on the player? What exactly do these white lights represent? Bai Siyi even raised more doubts, what are the points that are used as currency between players? Is it really just a currency? These shadows can represent the quest to give players points, so are points also a currency for them? Or are these shadows the source of production points at all?
For a while, all kinds of questions and speculations were squeezed together in Bai Siyi's mind, like several large balls of entangled yarn, whenever Bai Siyi thought that he had found one end of a yarn and thought that he could solve these mysteries, but he always found that pulling a certain piece of yarn would only make this large pile of colorful yarns more confusing.
In the end, Bai Siyi could only force his mind to empty himself, allowing himself to focus all his attention on the copy that was about to be completed. Then, a second before she pushed open the kitchen door, she finally remembered that there was an ordinary man outside the glass wall who had attacked the siblings.
Don't blame her for forgetting this man until now, it was really just now that the sister and brother were making a dish with the carcass of a little pheasant as the main ingredient, which made Bai Siyi subconsciously very nervous and disgusted, and the sister and brother had a rare heart-to-heart exchange, and this man had a face that people forgot at first sight, and after the sister and brother began to process the ingredients, they kept standing in place, not even a big move, and there was a large group of strange black shadows that Bai Siyi could see around. This large number of reasons added up to make Bai Si, who was cautious by nature and liked to plan things before, forget about this man.
As soon as Bai Si looked back at the man, he happened to meet the man's gaze looking at her.
What kind of gaze is that? That kind of gentle, with a little joy and praise, should be conveying kindness, right?
Bai Siyi hesitated in his heart, and did not dare to give an answer easily. From the moment this man appeared, his behavior gave Bai Si a strange feeling. It is understandable to attack the two siblings. After discovering that the attack was ineffective, he immediately stopped the attack and stayed outside the glass wall to observe the situation, which Bai Siyi could understand. Even when he knocked on the glass to greet the sister and brother in a friendly manner, and even later had some small actions with Feifei that she didn't pay too much attention to, Bai Siyi could also find a reason for the man.
However, why does Bai Siyi think this ordinary man is very weird? But if Bai Siyi had to say a definite reason, Bai Siyi couldn't think of it for a while.
The man saw Bai Siyi's gaze on him, smiled gently at Bai Siyi, and took a few steps back until his back touched the food table, and he couldn't continue backwards.
Seeing the man's movements, Bai Siyi relaxed slightly, this is also a way to express kindness, it seems that he is too careful.
What's more, the two of them are not completely defenseless now.
"Let's go, let's go out, you open the door." Although Bai Siyi's heart was half settled, she still decided to let Lin Feifei push the door open, and she just stared at the man and walked backwards out of the glass kitchen. Thinking of the glass kitchen, Bai Si was stunned one by one, now the two of them should have finished cooking, the first man attacked the glass kitchen glass glass did not break, because the target of his attack was the sister and brother, so his attack was neutralized. In other words, the glass kitchen itself is not so strong in defense, and if the target of the man's attack is only the glass itself, the glass kitchen will definitely shatter. Although it will not hurt the two siblings, it will definitely affect the two of them to make dishes.
In this way, the man's act of walking up to the glass and hitting the glass with a coin is not only the meaning of greeting as he thought at first, but also the meaning of reminding himself that he can attack the glass?
So, for so long, this man just stood there waiting for his sister and brother to cook, and did not attack the glass, which is also a man's act of kindness, right?
Now that the siblings have finished cooking, if the man wants to continue the attack, he can start now, and he doesn't need to wait until the siblings get out of the glass kitchen.
So, is it because your nerves are too sensitive, the heart of a villain?
Bai Siyi made these assumptions based on the information he knew. It stands to reason that so many realities have shown the kindness of men, and Bai Siyi should be more at ease, but in the corner of Bai Siyi's heart, there is always a very small voice that keeps telling her that she must be careful of this person.
When what she knows is that reality and intuition conflict with each other, which one should she believe
Do you think Bai Si will hesitate?
Hesitant ghost. This man and the sister and brother have no friendship, and they attacked the sister and brother as soon as they came up, and the sister and brother will leave the copy soon, and it is estimated that they will not meet this man again in the future, if they don't listen to their intuition and be very wary of this man, they will be fooled by a few small actions of this man, and Bai Siyi's head will definitely be stupid by the little pheasant.
"Sister, I'm going to open the door, right?" Although Lin Feifei has a good impression of this man, he does not object to his sister's behavior of being extremely wary of men. The sister he recognized, and a person who had made a grimace with him, Lin Feifei's position was still very firm.
"Be careful, put the dishes on the table when you go out, and choose to return immediately when you hear the prompt." Bai Siyi stared at the man, and slowly said to Lin Feifei while stepping back.
"Okay." Lin Feifei didn't say anything more, and pushed open the door with his left hand, which had grown to the root of his fingers but was still lying soft, and Bai Siyi also followed his footsteps and walked out of the kitchen backwards.
Lin Feifei put the chicken on the rotating table, and in the world that the boy couldn't see, several black shadows stepped forward and stared at the plate of chicken for a few seconds, then turned their heads back to Bai Siyi, who was facing away from them, in disinterest.
"Sister, 70 o'clock." Lin Feifei burst out a number, "I'll wait for you on the road back first." ”
Bai Siyi let out an "um" and put his chicken on the pick-up table with his backhand. Behind her, hula la, surrounded by a large group of black shadows, which even crowded their bodies on top of each other. Each figure stretched out an arm, swept it over the chicken, and went to eat with a plate.
"Get a reward of 200 points, complete the quest quest, do you choose to return?" A mechanical voice sounded in his head, and this voice immediately made Bai Siyi truly relieved. Only then did Bai Siyi have the opportunity to look at Lin Feifei, who had already teleported most of the time around him. The boy's body had teleported under his chest, leaving only most of his arms and shoulders, and his head above him without teleportation. And Bai Siyi's footsteps also began to draw into points of light, dissipating into the air. At most, seven or eight seconds, Bai Siyi could also follow Lin Feifei and enter the road of return.
Bai Si turned around, wanting to take one last look at the ordinary man across the glass kitchen.
A very bright smile appeared on the man's face, and he raised his hand in the direction of Bai Siyi, and a coin flew out of his hand.
In the explosion of the entire glass kitchen, the sky was full of glass fragments flying in all directions, reflecting the light projected by the restaurant's crystal chandelier, which not only made the whole restaurant more brilliant and dreamy, but also turned Bai Siyi's pixel eyes into a blurry scene with only small fragments of messy colors in the sky.
At this time, Lin Feifei, who was almost teleported beside her, let out a frightened shout.
"Sister!"
At this time, there were still five seconds before Bai Siyi finished teleporting.