Chapter Twenty-Three: Peeping Out of the Heart
While Carette was drinking the soup, José sat across from her, looking at her and asked:
"My mentor invited me to his house for dinner this Saturday, okay?"
"Why?"
"That great professor has always been interested in the study of Renaissance art, and I mentioned you and your expertise in this area to him during the previous discussion with me, so he invited you this time as well. ”
"However, I don't know him well......"
"Please, please, give your boyfriend a face, and move the compassion of your gods!"
José clasped his hands together and flattered.
Carette moved her two fingers as she pinched the spoon and twisted the handle of the spoon. She thought about it for a moment and felt that she should promise Jose. As his girlfriend, she really needs to do her duty to socialize with her boyfriend.
"Okay, we'll meet again then. ”
"No problem!"
José breathed a sigh of relief at Calette's answer, and he quieted down and watched with one hand on his cheek as she continued to swallow the soup he had made with his own hands.
Sure enough, after taking a breath, Carette's cheeks began to rise a lovely pink, and a slight fine sweat broke out on the tip of her nose, which couldn't help but make Jose believe that this black chicken soup with Chinese medicine and Dalian high-grade sea cucumber really worked faster than the previous soup.
Karet, I don't have the strength and financial resources of a senior, and I may not be able to bring you the best of life...... But I love you, I love you as much as he does! I even love you more than he does—
Thinking about it, Jose naturally recalled that evening three days ago, as usual, after visiting Bai Xiu, who had recovered from his injuries, he habitually stayed in the lobby area for an extra moment, not wanting to really look forward to Carret, and at the same time saw that scene, she and her senior stood outside the hotel, and each other's bodies were getting closer and closer......
It can be said that Jose rushed over at that time to be prepared, and his motive was very simple, just to cut off the senior's delusion!
However, it is easy to lengthen the distance between the bodies, but what about the distance between the minds? Is it farther? Or is it that the harder you pull, the closer it becomes? Jose seems to have no confidence and certainty.
He admits that his girlfriend Carreta is gentle and beautiful, as pure as a puddle of clear water. And his senior is handsome and wealthy, and when he was studying in Paris, his ability to pick up girls has already stunned Jose, who only reads sage books. As long as he wants, there is no woman who can't get it. Of course, if he doesn't want it, no matter what means he uses, he can still get rid of the burden of not liking.
If your senior and girlfriend spend a lot of time together, a handsome man matches a beautiful woman......
José couldn't think about it anymore and hurriedly smashed all the speculations in his head.
I can't tell you exactly when a huge pressure began to feel in his heart, and this negative force often made him breathless, and he could not sleep after suddenly waking up from a nightmare in the middle of the night.
However, Jose also confirmed that this invisible psychological pressure was generated precisely because of the two around him, because of their transcendence and excellence......
The doorbell rang twice.
"You drink yours, I'll open it. ”
José stood up and ran to open the door. It was Pasiu who came in. As soon as I saw Jose, I laughed and joked.
"Are you here to deliver love soup again, Chef God? You're really punctual every day. ”
"You've come just in time to try the one I cooked for Carreta today. ”
"Spare me, I'm a big man who is scared of you!"
As early as two days after Bai Xiu escaped from the underwater temple with Jose and came back to heal himself, Jose had already brought his own tonic soup when he visited Bai Xiu every day, and the ingredients sent by Jose's family were still flying in the sky at that time, so the ingredients for Bai Xiu to make soup did not have the many tricks of Carette now, only a single chicken soup and pork bone soup.
Carette was almost finished, so José put the rest of the soup in a bowl and put it on the table, then gathered up the bucket and got up and left the restaurant.
"How are you doing? I haven't officially apologized to you since I came back from the bottom of the sea. ”
In the room, when Carette and Percius sat down again, she was ready to say "I'm sorry" to him with a serious expression, and she felt guilty for stabbing him in the temple of Aquaman.
"It's all gone, you forgot what my eyes were for? At that time, from the time you walked towards me with a knife, I already knew your intentions, you were bitter, and I blamed me for not thinking about it at the time, and in the end I dragged you down. ”
"We'll have a meal together tomorrow when Jose returns, and the two of us still have to thank you. ”
Hearing Karete's suggestion, Bai Xiu didn't respond immediately, he put away his warm smile, his expression turned a little serious, and his amber eyes fixed on the leading girl in front of him.
"You're not ready ......"
"Huh? ...... you said What is it?"
"I mean, what are you going to do with his future?"
Seeing the confusion on Karete's face, Bai Xiu simply stopped playing dumb riddles.
"Me and Jose...... To be honest, I don't know yet, what the hell to do...... Bai Xiu, I don't have a plan at all......"
A dark cloud rose on Carette's face again, she really wasn't lying, if she had already made a detailed plan, she wouldn't have frowned with sorrow when Jose told her about "meeting her parents" just now.
"You and I both know that the ultimate goal of the Athena Gem is to appear in the human world, and once the Holy Mountain gets the news, the gods will soon gather here, and then you may not have a chance to retreat!"
"Patrick...... You want me to ...... Escape?"
Kareta felt incredulous, and from what he had just said, she could hear a clear question.
"Haven't you reported to Zeus about finding the Athena Jewel?"
While staring at Bai Xiu and slowly asking this sentence, Kareta found the answer on the other party's strict face, and she was even more shocked for a while.
"That's not your usual style. If you don't report it, if you are discovered by the gods......"
"I know what I'm doing, have you ever thought about it, if I report to the Holy Mountain as soon as I come out of the underwater temple, no matter how you get the gem back in the end, will you, as a participant in the operation, have you ever had another chance to fly away with Jose? ”
"Original...... You've always been thinking about me...... Thank you. ”
At the same time, Kareta still had a lot of questions in her heart. She knew that her companion Bai Xiu must have an extremely special situation, otherwise he would never have made such a move.
What's wrong? What is the special situation?
As her brain raced through her judgment, Kareta remembered the time when their group had just landed on the land of the human realm.
When he saw the boundless and desolate temple, wasn't the abnormal expression on Bai Xiu's face exactly like he was now?
Immediately, Carette was also reminded of his strange question:
"Kareta, do you know why we chose to awaken at this time in accordance with Zeus's will?"
At this moment, the question in my memory has become so weird.
"Persew, Olympus, no, the Protoss... Is something going to happen?"
Kareta asked cautiously, and at the same time, she felt a little creepy all around her.
For her persistence, Bai Xiu reluctantly smiled bitterly.
"Those...... What does it have to do with you?"
After a pause for a few seconds, she was stunned and speechless, and he continued to speak clearly.
"You told me that you came to the human world only to find the Athena gem as a guise to find a real opportunity to stay with the person you love. Now I tell you, escaping before the gods come is your only chance. If you want to hold this life with Jose, you must not delay any longer!"
Bai Xiu's gaze finally moved away from Karete's face and stopped on the white porcelain bowl in her hand. Inside the bowl, there is chicken soup left by Jose.
"José is a nice human youth. As a fellow Titan, I shouldn't have encouraged you to do something deviant, but watching you and him get to where you are today, I have to admit that your happiness is indeed hard-won. If you want, Carete, cherish him and cherish your love. Unless ......"
At this point, there was another pause, and this time the pause was significantly longer than the previous one. His gaze gradually raised, and eventually, a pair of golden eyes fixed on Karet's chest for a long time.
And he walked in anyway...... The other figure I see in your mind is the reason why you are still hesitant to stay......"
Broken by Bai Xiu's words, Kareta was a little embarrassed, and she couldn't tell who the "he" in his mouth was referring to?
"I ...... What should I do, Bai Xiu?"
Carette understands that there is no need to deceive herself in front of the "Soul Catcher".
"yes, what are you going to do...... The troubles that are often encountered on the road to the growth of beauties, even human beings will encounter such and such temptations, not to mention that you are such an excellent Titan, if you can not forget your original intention, it is the best. ”
Like an experienced brother, Bai Xiu taught and comforted Karet.
"Thanks, I'm not as good as you think I am. I am very self-willed, impatient, do not care about things, do not work seriously, often bring confusion to others, I still ......"
Embarrassed by Pasiu's affirmation of her, Kareta became incoherent, and it wasn't until she noticed that Paciu's eyes had been listening attentively and with a friendly smile that she realized her crampedness and uneasiness.
"I'm still stupid and greedy......"
After whispering the last sentence, she felt much more comfortable in her heart, as if she had unloaded a heavy burden like lead, and her heart was instantly much lighter.
"Of course, even if I don't explain it that way, you know what I mean, your eyes always teach people to hide secrets. ”
"yes, so...... Isn't it boring to communicate with me?"
Bai Xiu suddenly changed the subject.
"Huh?"
Kareta was stunned.
"I always know in advance everything that is in your heart, so that the conversation is undoubted and suspenseful, and therefore cannot such a conversation be an exchange?"
"No, no, I didn't mean that, I know your intentions, but ......... What the hell is wrong with you today?"
Kareta heard the self-deprecation in Bai Xiu's words, and between the explanations, she felt more and more that Bai Xiu was really abnormal.
"Nothing ......"
Bai Xiu stood away from Karete's concerned gaze and walked to the door in a few steps.
"I just want to advise you that you will eventually make a choice and choose who to continue with the rest of the way. So before the gods gather, before the unknown variables of the Holy Mountain arrive, fly as far away as possible—"
"Kashiwa...... Pasiu—"
After Bai Xiu finished speaking, he quickly pulled the door and walked out, and without waiting for Carette to ask anything more, as if fleeing, he flew into his own guest room at the opposite door.