“whiskyontherock.” (Whiskey on the rocks)

Richard was a little flustered, but his face remained silent, and he fluently asked the bartender for a glass of whiskey on the rocks, and sat down next to the woman.

"You like to drink whisky too?" The woman noticed the fluency and naturalness of Richard's tone when he ordered, and took it for granted that he was a whiskey drinker who loved whisky as much as she did.

"Hmm." Richard was well aware of the truth that if you say more, you must lose, so he nodded slightly, his eyes were down, and he looked like he had the decadence of an artist like Chiba Xiu.

"People here don't like to add ice, but I just like the different flavors of the ice cubes as they melt." The woman seemed to be somewhat self-familiar, which made Richard breathe a sigh of relief, and it didn't seem to be a particularly difficult target to deal with.

The woman continued, "Are you too?" ”

"It's usually on the rocks or neat." Richard smiled politely at the woman, but his heart was tormented like crawling over 10,000 ants. In fact, he doesn't know much about wine at all, he understands machinery, but the boss had some wine in the repair shop back then, so he knows a little more than ordinary people, but that's all.

To prevent embarrassment, Richard took a sip of the wine glass, and a wry smile appeared on the other side of his mouth that was hidden by the wine glass. If this woman continues to ask, she will definitely show her stuff.

"I see you're wearing the emblem of the Ice and Fire Academy, you should be a student there, right?" Richard quietly changed the subject, smiling and looking away, "I wonder which of the three faculties is Lu Dao?" ”

……

Slowly the night is getting darker, there are more and more people in the bar, and the heavy metal rock music is becoming more and more noisy and harsh, Richard kept a smile and left the woman's side and walked back towards Chiba Xiu, habitually raising his hand to touch his nose only to find that he was already nervous and sweating, and even his nose was slightly wet.

"Twelve minutes," Chiba looked at Richard with some dissatisfaction, "it's timeout." ”

"It only took five or six minutes to get the words out, but the woman pestered me and wouldn't let me go." Richard explained with trepidation.

"I can't see that our reserve is still quite talented, let you ask for some information and go to bed, it seems that there is a successor to my ace agent beautiful man's plan." Chiba Shu quipped lazily.

"......" Richard choked there, and he could tell that the instructor had absolutely nothing to praise him in his words.

"Actually, it's only been more than 4 minutes." Richard couldn't argue, and honestly he thought he could do it in 12 minutes for the first time.

It's a pity that our ace agent didn't claim it.

"Four minutes?" Chiba Xiu sneered, "If you delay for one more minute when you actually carry out the mission, you may never be able to leave, or even leave your life there!" ”

Chiba Shu grabbed Richard's collar, "Say!" Do you want to die! ”

"I don't want to!" Richard gritted his teeth and grabbed Chiba Xiu's hand, not understanding what the latter was doing, and suddenly he burst out, the mutated force in his body seemed to feel that the owner of the body was threatened, and the ice force spread uncontrollably from his hand to Chiba Xiu's entire arm!

"Hiss————!"

Chiba Shuyi pulled his arm away and slammed it directly into the table next to him, and one piece after another of the ice was smashed and fell to the ground, shattering into fragmented beautiful crystals.

"This is the Ice Force in the report?" Chiba Xiu shook his arm, and his arm was still a little numb, so he couldn't help but be glad that he reacted in time, otherwise his entire arm might be frozen off, although he naturally had his own hole cards useless, but this kind of ice force was really a little weird.

"Who told you to choke me all at once?!" Richard was also a little angry at the moment, and he kept looking at Chiba Xiu as lazy, who would have thought that the latter would suddenly go berserk as fiercely as turning into a gangster.

“……”

Half-loud, Chiba Xiu didn't speak, but there was more decadence in his eyes, and after taking a deep breath, he patted Richard on the shoulder and said, "I'm sorry, I'm too excited...... It's just that I used to have a few brothers in the CIA because of those minutes or two, and now they are separated from me and his family...... Being an agent is like being a killer, every minute and second is a countdown to life. ”

"I just hope you understand this truth sooner, and the indifferent look that your kid said just now that it was only more than 4 minutes is really inadequate!" For the first time, Chiba Xiu put away that lazy tone, and admonished like an order, "The next time I hear this kind of happy thought, you will find another instructor!" I won't teach anymore! ”

"I'm sorry......" Richard didn't expect that the reason why Chiba Xiu went berserk would be because of those dead brothers, and apologized with some guilt, and at the same time made up his mind that he would never have such a shameful luck mentality again!

"Good." Chiba Shu's tone returned to that lazy tone, but Richard always felt that the decadence in Chiba Shu had become real, and it was no longer as ethereal as the smoke around him......

……

After three or four more bar-to-bar tourists, Richard had made a noticeable improvement in his conversations, at least not as nervous as he was the first time.

It was already 9 o'clock in the evening when he came out of the old lame man's bar, looking at the gloomy clouds in the sky, Richard's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly remembered that Zhan Qinghan was probably waiting for him in the library now, and he was obviously going to be late!

Saying goodbye to Chiba Shu in a hurry, Richard jumped directly into an autonomous navigation car bound for the Ice and Fire Academy, returned to the academy at a galloping speed, and rushed to the 5th floor of the library.

There were very few people in the library now, and there were one or two people sitting two or three rows apart, and when I looked at the time, it was already 9:32, and he was 32 minutes late!

Richard walked to the depths of the fifth floor of the library with trepidation, wondering if the girl would be waiting for him here.

Passing through rows and rows of bookshelves, the back of a girl who was cleaning up books came into Richard's eyes, he opened his mouth with some guilt and wanted to stop the girl to apologize for his unpunctuality, but the girl had already packed up her things, hugged a stack of books, raised her head and prepared to walk back, at this time, the eyes of the two people met and met in mid-air without any other, quiet, gentle, but so expected, as if waiting for a long time, no more explanations and explanations were needed.

At this time, Richard suddenly remembered a poem from before the Common Era:

He glanced at her, she smiled back at him, and life awoke!