Chapter 38: The Monster and the Moonlight (4)
Cheng Mo grabbed Athena's arm and dragged her towards the door of the café, he looked at the terrain of the café and was ready to speed up. However, Cheng Mo didn't expect the interception to come so quickly, but it was not the clerk who hindered him from accelerating, but Athena.
Before he could run out of the range of the two tables, his hand was ruthlessly thrown away by Athena, and Cheng Mo turned his head to see a cold light shooting out of Athena's pupils.
"I see that your hands are a little redundant. ”
Athena's voice was not loud, but her voice had a strange cold texture, like metal dozens of degrees below zero, so cold that it was difficult to touch, but it was brittle and pleasant. In a quiet café, the sound is very eye-catching. When Cheng Mo got up, no one noticed them, and with Athena's cold scolding, the entire café looked at them, including the waiter in the café.
Probably noticing that something was wrong, one of the waiters approached them, apparently to ask what was going on.
Cheng Mo noticed that Athena's gaze wandered over the steak knife on the dining table, as if she was about to cut off his hand first. Cheng Mo suddenly had two heads and two big, he went to pull Athena's wrist, but he was afraid that the two of them would go in different directions when they ran away, and now that the two of them didn't have mobile phones, it was just troublesome to find, and he didn't want to take advantage of it.
However, Athena definitely wouldn't understand such an explanation, and Cheng Mo immediately said softly: "Can you go out first, it will be a big trouble for the police." ”
Athena gave up the idea of chopping her hands with a steak knife for the time being, and said to Cheng Mo expressionlessly: "Police, what kind of trouble can the police count!"
If someone else said this, Cheng Mo would definitely think that she was deliberately finding fault, Athena is different, this woman is so strong that she dares to blatantly fight with the gods on the top of the Acropolis, which means that she does her own thing and no one cares about it. Na Cheng Mo could only be forced to "it's okay" and quickly think about how to solve the current problem.
Cheng Mo glanced at the waiter with his spare eyes, the other party was getting closer and closer, and he found that Athena's expression was indifferent, thinking that it seemed a little wrong, so he asked vigilantly: "You can't eat the overlord meal, and you have to smash other people's stores, right?"
Athena looked at Cheng Mo like an idiot, and said confidently: "Who said that you have to beat people and smash the store? I told him that I would give him money next time?"
Cheng was speechless, raised his hand and scratched his head, from which it can be seen that Athena's secular life experience is basically zero, he looked up and down Athena's disguised somewhat bloated figure, and said angrily: "Do you think you are Athena now? You are Wendy now, a fat woman with a height of 178 and a weight of about 178, who looks like she eats white food, and others will believe you?"
Athena looked down at the slightly raised "swimming ring", frowned and said, "Surely there is no 178 pounds, at most 150, it's not very fat, right?"
Cheng Mo glanced at the table full of empty plates behind him and sneered: "Do you want us to make a bet on whether the other party will believe a fat woman who ordered five parts of Musaka and five parts of Sofrazzi, I'm sure he will think that you are a refugee who escaped from the slums....."
Athena is not stupid, after thinking about it carefully, she still agreed with Cheng Mo's statement, "Then I'll press the briquette...... Uroboros is here, and I'll change it when the time comes!"
Cheng Mo was touched by Athena's innocence and generosity, but he did not hesitate to refute her, "Urobolos? That's better, you have another charge of fraud with a fake watch......
Athena frowned, "This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what are you going to do? It's impossible to escape, it's a big deal I'll smash the store today, and next time I come to pay for the food and medical expenses, it's ....."
Cheng Mo rolled his eyes and said, "Don't look like you're great if you have money, if you have the ability, you can pay for the meal now!"
The quarrel skill Athena didn't get at all, and she was speechless by Cheng Mo's words, and she didn't look angry, she just looked at the shiny steak knife on the table with a straight face, and then looked at Cheng Mo's hand again.......
The waiter who walked over was completely unsure what was going on, so he smiled at the two people standing in the corridor across the table and asked, "You two, do you want to pay?"
Athena naturally ignored the waiter, and Cheng Mo turned her head and said, "I'm sorry, my girlfriend is angry because I complained about how much she ate....."
Athena sneered, "Who's your girlfriend?"
Cheng Mo didn't explain, but shrugged his shoulders helplessly at the waiter, and the waiter immediately shook his head and smiled in understanding.
The exchange of expressions between the two people was inexplicable, and she also turned her head to look at the waiter, and said seriously: "I'm not his girlfriend." ”
The waiter raised his hands slightly, making a "none of my business" gesture and expression, "Just don't quarrel in our shop." ”
"No, no, my daughter and I ....." Seeing that Athena finally couldn't hold back and reached out for the steak knife, Cheng Mo withdrew the word "friend" and coughed lightly, "We are not such unqualified people, and we will not quarrel in your store." ”
Athena picked up the bright silver steak knife on the dining table with lightning speed, pointed at Cheng Mo and said lightly, "It's only going to fight." ”
The sharp fangs on the silver blade emitted a dazzling halo under the orange light.
Seeing Athena aiming the knife at Cheng Mo, the bearded male *** student was frightened, and his frightened appearance was very charming of the Bulgarian demon king. The demon king waiter subconsciously threw away the menu in his hand, hurriedly raised his hand to make a "stop" gesture, and said loudly in a panic: "Madam, you calm down, you must calm down, there is nothing that cannot be solved by quarrels......"
Cheng Mo stared at the curved tip of the steak knife and smiled calmly at the nervous waiter, "Don't be nervous, she's just angry, I'll communicate with her well and it'll be fine." ”
The demon king waiter pointed to the same orchid as the king, and said with a look of approval: "Yes, many things are caused by lack of communication, your girlfriend does eat more, but this is not a big problem....." The demon king waiter raised his arm, hugged the sleeves of his shirt, and showed his biceps brachii, " I also eat a lot, but I will exercise and fitness, as long as I keep in good shape, my boyfriend will not complain that I eat too much, speaking of fitness, we have a good health club near here, do you want to know about it....."
Athena shifted her gaze from Cheng Mo to the demon king's waiter, and her eyes seemed to be looking at a dead man.
The demon king waiter seemed to feel the murderous aura, his expression froze slightly, he withdrew his orchid finger, and smiled awkwardly, "If you don't want to understand, it doesn't matter......"
Cheng Mo wasn't sure if the demon king was gagging or really selling, these didn't matter anymore, he only knew Athena's mood and anger, and it was really hard to be sure if she would cut the demon king's waiter's mouth with a steak knife, he wasn't worried about the demon king's waiter, but he was afraid of exposing his whereabouts for this.
He suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and he didn't care about the possibility of losing his hands, anyway, Athena really wanted to chop his hands, and he might not be able to stop it, so he raised his hand again and grabbed Athena's wrist, and said to the demon king waiter: "Excuse me, leave for a while, let us solve the problem ourselves." As he spoke, Cheng Mo approached Athena a little and whispered in her ear, "Don't you want to know why I can use the artifact without 'Uroboros'?"
This question successfully diverted Athena's attention, and she stared back at Cheng Mo, a ripple in her blue eyes like a flat lake.
Cheng Mo didn't expect that the ultimate killing weapon he had prepared would be used as soon as he left the slums, he sighed in his heart, and dragged Athena back to the table and sat down again.
The demon king waiter didn't know that he had saved at least one mouth, and at most he had picked up a life, and when he saw the two of them sitting down again, he said "okay", turned around and walked towards the bar, and turned back from time to time, paying attention to whether Cheng Mo and Athena continued to clash.
This time the two did not sit opposite each other, but sat down next to each other, Cheng Mo still held Athena's wrist tightly, and the silver steak knife was also held tightly by Athena.
"This knife may not be so easy to use, but it should not be difficult to cut fingers and be faster. Athena said casually.
"I just touched the sleeve of your shirt, and that's not fair. Cheng Mo plans to try to argue with reason first.
"Why should I be fair with you?" Athena asked rhetorically.
Obviously, it was useless to reason with Athena, so Cheng Mo switched angles, and he said in a complaining tone: "Hey, Athena, I don't know where your antipathy to humans comes from, I have reason to think that you are a lizardman racist against us human.....s!
Cheng Mo's complaining attitude and statements are too novel for Athena, no one has dared to do anything to her like this for so many years, and no one has threatened her that she can't be friends with her. All in all, Cheng Mo's words and deeds made her find interesting. However, this emotion of "feeling funny" has nothing to do with the affection between men and women, but the kind of high deity, who finds a different human sample and is curious.
Therefore, tolerance for Cheng Mo does not come from pity and affection, but from curiosity about new things.
This curiosity can't simply be attributed to Cheng Mo's words and deeds just a moment ago, if it were to be done by another person, Athena would have chopped off the other party's fingers with the steak knife in her hand. The reason why he was more tolerant of Cheng Mo was because of Nebuchadnezzar's appreciation, and Cheng Mo's excellent performance in the "Hydra Building" also played a big role.
So Athena didn't break free of Cheng Mo's hand this time and cut off his white fingers with a steak knife, she just asked with a little confusion: "Racism?
Cheng Mo, who had read countless people, realized the subtle changes in Athena's mood and knew that he was safe, he took the initiative to let go of Athena's hand, nodded and said, "It's already obvious." Your identity has always allowed you to recognize that you are a minority, but you are ignoring that you are experiencing a minority within a minority, because you are still the ruler at the top of the pyramid. After a slight pause, Cheng Mo added, "An extremely beautiful ruler......"
"So what?"
Cheng Mo knew that in Athena's mind, the lizardmen were a minority, a human race that could not disclose their identities, so she would have a bias in her perception of herself and humans because of her identity, and he guessed that this was the root of Athena's withdrawn personality. This is an extremely sensitive point and a breakthrough.
After a little deliberation in his heart, Cheng Mo pretended to be casual and said: "So the human beings you know are a very small number of elite human beings, and in the eyes of ordinary people like me, it is a word that originally referred to specific treatment into a word that can be relativized at will, thus confusing the differences between these different human beings." There is a gap between every race, every class, and every group, and there is no way to really understand it without exploring it deeply. It's like if you're a white man and you say to a black man, I know your race, you have a low IQ, you're lazy, you like to sin. It's not just black people, this kind of prejudiced thinking is everywhere, just like many people think that they know China, and they are rude, closed, dirty, and ......messy," Cheng Mo tilted his head and said mockingly, "I guess you think that human beings are a greedy and selfish species, which is very much in line with the self-positioning of elites." ”
Athena asked noncommittally, "Are you an ordinary person?"
"Yes. Cheng Mo nodded, "At least once, just four years ago, I couldn't even afford hundreds of thousands of heart transplants." As for now, the class jump is mixed for me, and most of the time, I don't like the role I'm playing now, and to be honest I hate taking responsibility......"
Probably because of the rare sincerity of Cheng Mo's words, probably because of the phrase "hate to take responsibility", Athena gently placed the new steak knife on the table. Then she said lightly: "Lend your hand to you first, next time you want to make me dissatisfied, I will chop my feet......"
Cheng Mo breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and whispered, "We have to get out of here quickly." As for how to use artifacts and skills with the main body without wearing Uroboros, it's too complicated to explain, so I'll tell you when I'm a little free. ”
"Good. But I don't like to run away..... Athena emphasized again, "I never run away." ”
Cheng Mo thought for a moment and said, "Okay! Let's go out openly." ”
Athena nodded, and without the slightest delay, immediately got up from her seat.
Cheng Mo hurriedly stretched out his hand and grabbed Athena and said, "Wait! It's not like you're such a blatant runner!"
Athena looked down at Cheng Mo's hand that grabbed her wrist for the third time.
Cheng Mo said eloquently: "This is the hand you lent me, but not mine, your hand touches your hand, there is nothing wrong with it......"
Athena kept half-up and thought for a while before sitting down again, and directly and frankly stated the dilemma in her heart, "There seems to be no reason to refute." ”
Athena's voice was full of sincere entanglement, and the thought of Athena's own lofty appearance and her rather innocent words formed a strange contrast. Thinking of Athena's style of acting and her eating appearance, Cheng Mo felt that it was a bit of a sin to perfunctory her so easily.
In a way, Athena was still a very pure person, but this purity was not the transparent purity that people usually think, but pure blue, or pure black, which she was......
Anyway, Cheng Mo found that Athena was not as unattainable, terrifying, and annoying as he had imagined. Although it is said that as long as it is a normal man, it is impossible to hate her. Cheng Mo suddenly felt that the next journey would be very interesting, he bent the corners of his mouth and whispered: "You wait for me, I'll go to the bathroom, we can leave soon!"
Athena didn't ask Cheng Mo what to do, just stared at Cheng Mo's white right hand in a daze, maybe she was still thinking about what was wrong with Cheng Mo touching her with her hand.
Cheng Mo stood up and judged the location of the bathroom, and left quickly.
After a while, about seven or eight minutes later, Cheng Mo returned to the table and sat down, picked up the cup of coffee on the table that originally belonged to Patani, took a big sip, and whispered, "Ready to go." ”
Athena looked at Cheng Mo's right hand and asked, "When?"
"Wait until there is an explosion in the kitchen. ”
"Explosion?"
"Yes! Explosion!" Cheng Mo nodded.
As soon as Cheng Mo's words fell, a loud bang broke out in the right rear of the café, and then a man wearing a white chef's uniform with a dark face rushed out and said something to the waiter at the bar.
Everyone in the café was attracted by the sound of the explosion and looked in the direction of the kitchen and the bar. Cheng Mo grabbed Athena's wrist without hesitation, pulled her and ran towards the door, shouting as he ran: "Oh my God, the gas exploded! Run!"
Suddenly, the entire café became a mess because of Cheng Mo's shouting, and seeing that someone was taking the lead, the others also hurriedly grabbed their belongings and rushed towards the door of the café in a panic. The waiters didn't know whether it was a gas explosion or not, but not only did they not stop it, but some of them rushed out of the café and stood on the side of the road.
There was chaos all around, everyone was panicked because of the unknown danger, the tables in the café were not loose, it was inevitable that someone would touch the tables and chairs, and even the cups and plates fell to the ground, and the sound of "clang" was mixed with the sound of "popping bang" porcelain breaking, and the screams of women, so the scene looked more like a disaster scene.
Interestingly, Cheng Mo and Athena were just an escape, and they actually made a thrilling feeling.
This time, Athena did not shake off Cheng Mo's hand, but ran out of the café with Cheng Mo's wrist on her face full of confusion. Cheng Mo didn't discern the direction either, and led Athena into the army of tourists, and before the waiters in the café could react to what was going on, he and Athena disappeared into the sea of people.
Cheng Mo and Athena ran to Ares Park not far from the café and didn't find anyone chasing, so Cheng Mo let go of Athena's wrist and slowed down.
Athena seemed to have accepted the premise that Cheng Mo's hand belonged to hers, and did not show anything unusual.
Ares Park is not a tourist attraction, and it is also a bit far from the tourist attraction of Acropolis Mountain, which is exceptionally sparsely populated at 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening, with only a few nearby residents passing by. The two walked side by side on one side of the stone walkway, which was flanked by lush woods, and the weather was particularly cool after a day of rain, as the battle between Athena and Napoleon VII nearly destroyed the Parthenon, and the lights of the Acropolis, which had never been extinguished, were extinguished, leaving only a shadow under the thick haze in the distance. The weather was unusually cold in such a heavy day.
Cheng Mo's breathing has not yet calmed down, every time he gasps, he exhales a large piece of white air, a cold wind blows, the leaves full of water droplets sway with the wind, the rain sprinkles on Cheng Mo's face little by little, the heat of running is instantly taken away by the wind, Cheng Mo, who is only wearing a long sleeve and a down jacket, can't help but shiver. He turned his head sideways towards Athena, Athena's physical fitness was quite strong, and she didn't blush or pant even after running a long distance, and even her breath was so light that she didn't have it.
I don't know why, Cheng Mo, who regained his freedom, seemed to see Athena's flawless face through the human skin mask in a trance, which made Cheng Mo vigilant, he not only taboo to entangle with the powerful and beautiful woman in front of him, but more importantly, he had an unrealistic view, just like mortals coveting gods.
Athena noticed Cheng Mo's snooping gaze and turned her head to look at Cheng Mo, who subconsciously avoided looking at Athena, pretending to keep looking ahead without squinting.
"How do you get the gas to explode at regular intervals?" asked Athena.
"I didn't let the gas explode, it was too dangerous. ”
"Then how can there be an explosion?"
"I just used the flue, using the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction to make the gas in the flue form a strong pressure and break through the flue, so the explosion is very powerful, but the flue is in the wall, so there will not be too much danger, just a special sound. ”
"There's a lot of cleverness. ”
Athena's tone was flat, making it difficult to figure out whether she was complimenting or sarcastic. Cheng Mo didn't care very much, and asked, "Now we have to find a way to leave Athens immediately." I guess Napoleon VII was guarding every road out of Athens or even from Silla, and he should be looking for you......"
"It's not just him, maybe Bymon and Astaro are looking for me everywhere, let's not risk going to those places. ”
"Now the other problems are easy to solve, the key is that neither of us has a penny. Cheng Mo smiled bitterly and said, "You didn't bring a bank card or mobile phone when you came out?"
"Do you want to bring these yourself?" said Athena, who was skeptical at first, then relieved, "Oh, by the way, you were a poor boy...... I usually go out with maids and bodyguards, and I don't bring these things with me. ”
Cheng Mo could hear that Athena was really confused, not deliberately mocking, he shrugged his shoulders and glanced at Athena's black rucksack, "Out of Uroboros, don't you have anything in your bag that can be exchanged for money?"
"Aside from Uroboros, there is only my laptop and my hard drive to store my research materials. ”
Cheng Mo asked unwillingly: "As a woman, diamonds, jewelry, luxury goods..... None of these?"
Athena shook her head, no disdain or embarrassment on her face.
Cheng Mo said helplessly: "Okay! It seems that the two of us have to be Jiangyang thieves for a while, do some robbery, and get some money first." ”
Athena did not reject Cheng Mo's proposal at all, but only objected, "Is the robbery too inefficient and too easy to be discovered?"
"So what do you think should be done?"
Athena said as a matter of course: "Robbery of the bank! The bank must have money! This is enough, and there is no need to rob the jewels and sell them, and if the family has not grabbed enough money, they will rob the next one." ”
"Is there a risk of being found out if you use a carrier to rob a bank?"
Athena was puzzled and said, "Do you need to use a carrier to rob a bank?"
Cheng Mo felt a little pain in his brain, and the heart path was completely two different concepts for the ontology, and the degree of danger could not be whispered at all. But he knew that safety was of no importance to Athena, so he could only say, "It seems that I am too unproductive, and I can't find any reason to refute it." ”
"Then it was decided, we went to the street to find a bank, and then we went straight to the vault later. ”