Chapter 57. Man in Saint-Martin
"What's wrong with you? Did you fall in love with my friend at first sight? β
Zhou Jinru shook his head: "I'm just a little cold, love at first sight?" You're not kidding. β
He sat at the table next to him, eating slowly, looking at the endless stream of ice cream in the back kitchen, thinking to himself how could Frost Leaf make ice cream here.
And Jian Lei claims to be an old friend of Frost Leaf, but in fact, in the game files, because of the positions of the two sides, Jian Lei used to be Frost Leaf's enemy, has he turned enemies into friends now?
After a while, Jian Lei came out of the kitchen, holding two ice creams in her hands, but the other one was slightly different from the others, and the ingredients were pale green.
Ms. Walper's expression was a little strange, she sat opposite Zhou Jinru, handed him the pale green ice cream, and asked curiously, "Friend, did you know Shuangye before?" She invites you to this mustard-flavored ......."
It's not just that I know her, I used to be her boss!
Zhou Jinru stuffed a piece of lamb meat into his mouth, chewed slowly, took the mustard ice cream, and with a constipated expression, Jian Lei had a faint guess in his heart.
"I had a little bit of a not pleasant experience."
He wailed in his heart that he couldn't live because of his own sin, if he was willing to rain and dew at the beginning, at least the operators would be mentioned to Jingyi, and he would not be embarrassed everywhere now, he could only pinch his nose and admit it, after all, he was the first to lose.
As a spell far position that is easy to obtain in the early stage, Frost Leaf has a very embarrassing status, there is Lapland on it, and there is a moon and night below, and she can't support her status just by that little slowdown, so Zhou Jinru has always left her idle, which is even worse than Shi Huaiya, and the brain axe can still rely on infrastructure skills to control the center to work, and Frost Leaf can only stay where it is cool.
Thinking about it carefully, it doesn't seem to be as simple as unpleasant, miserable.
Zhou Jinru considered whether to change stores, and Jian Lei thoughtfully left his seat, quietly walked into the back kitchen, and saw Frost Leaf who was busy in front of the ice cream making machine.
The girl was dressed in the white costume of a chef, stirring the ingredients seriously, glanced at Jian Lei who was standing at the door, and said lightly: "This is the kitchen, please go out if you have nothing to do." β
Jian Lei leaned against the door frame and asked with a smile, "Do you know that person?" β
She thought about it for a while, and it seemed that she didn't know what he was called, so she had to use "that person" instead.
"I don't know."
only got a cold answer, but Jian Lei was not discouraged, and analyzed: "I found that when he saw you come to the Eagle's Nest, the whole person was stupid, and then he was always restless, probably really didn't expect to meet you here, just now I gave him mustard ice cream, he took it without any suspicion, there must be a story between you!" β
"Eight women."
Frost Leaf was angry, and simply ignored her.
Jian Lei continued: "I'm really curious, what was your relationship before, boyfriend and girlfriend? I think it's very possible, after all, he is so handsome, and it is not impossible to capture the fragile heart of a young girl. β
Frost Leaf's hand that was making ice cream listened, her fingers were dipped in a little raw material, and then she wiped it on the rag, turned around, and stared at Jian Lei deadly: "My relationship with you is not good enough to share everything, right?" β
"Well, if your movements are a little slower, he is likely to run away, he should have no face to face you, the guilt in the heart of the negative man, tsk, I can't imagine that Sister Shuangye has such an unknown past."
Reminiscing about those embarrassing years?
Although it was only half a year, Frost Leaf still felt a wave of embarrassment, but if she didn't send Jian Lei away, she would always pester herself.
A guard who is good at attacking lays down his weapon and becomes a reloader, and Frostleaf has already learned about her past after a drunken time in Kenlei, so now it can be a secret exchange.
No, the secrets that can be exported are not real secrets.
"Do you remember the time I lived with you in Rhode Island?"
It was a warm and uncomfortable time, since joining Rhode Island, Frostleaf has received excellent treatment, the source stone disease has been controlled, and she has regained her life in her hands, all thanks to the tireless efforts of the medical team.
No longer a Colombian boy soldier, the underage girl was out of battle, she was extremely uncomfortable, and after a period of psychotherapy, she re-entered the battlefield and everything became unfamiliar.
After that, she never went to the battlefield again, which was a good thing, but for Frostleaf, who had grown up in the mercenary group since she was a child, she left the only realm she knew and began a never-ending vacation.
Everyone is learning cultural knowledge, because she has not studied systematically, and she didn't know much before entering Rhode Island, so she passed like this, and suddenly there was a hazy desire in her heart when she watched two operators who had returned from fighting out to get promoted.
She also wants to be promoted.
However, in addition to the necessary accumulation of knowledge, she must also have enough combat experience for promotion, and her previous combat experience cannot be recorded in Rhode Island's review criteria, and now when she is scheduled for shifts, not only is she not required to participate in the battle, but she is not even required to work overtime in normal times.
Am I an idler in Rhode Island?
Suddenly realizing the problem, Frost Leaf panicked, she went to the control center to find the man, hoping to get a chance to prove herself, since Rhode Island gave her everything, then she also had to fulfill her obligations.
"Frost Leaf, I understand your feelings, it's completely understandable, but now the battle outside is very intense, and I'm worried about your safety."
The man said this.
She was on the deck of the Rhode Island Landcrow, watching squad after team of combat operators go out, barely having time to rest, fighting in turns, one of the operators was too tired to pick up a weapon, and had to continue fighting.
That's the Pioneer Operator Red Bean.
Even if the shield value is crushed, after a short rest, it must be put back into the battlefield, but where is there such a fierce battle that it is worth Rhode Island to move boxes and boxes of materials accumulated before out of the warehouse?
It wasn't until a woman named Scati stepped onto the deck of Rhode Island with a sword taller than her that Frostleaf realized that it was all for the sake of this senior operator.
Even without the fierce fighting, she still didn't have a chance to fight, and then the man suddenly disappeared, and the operators of Rhode Island went their separate ways.
Frostleaf leaves alone after saving a sum of money, which she thinks is enough to pay off the medical bills she owes.
After returning to Colombia, she lived in the infected community for a while, and with the help of the cooking skills she learned from Gumi, she saved a little money and came to San MartΓn to study and work to support herself.
When Jian Lei heard this, his eyes couldn't help but widen: "You are the man outside, he is your former boss?" β
"Hmm."
"He's still a doctor from Rhode Island Pharmaceuticals?"
"yes."
Jian Lei looked like she had seen a ghost, she pointed outside, and said suspiciously: "Did you add a lot of exaggerated descriptions to his description?" β
Frost Leaf narrowed his eyes and said dissatisfiedly: "I just met once, and you are facing him?" β
Jian Lei shook her head, and went through what happened inside and outside the Eagle's Nest Bar, she repeatedly confirmed whether Frost Leaf recognized the wrong person, and after getting a positive answer, she came to her own conclusion, she said seriously: "I think you should go and see him, maybe something happened in the more than a year since he left, his current appearance is simply different from what you described, if he is a greedy person, then he will not refuse my request to pay for him at all." β
"I can't figure out what happened to him, that a person like you would want to spend money on him."
Jian Lei smiled bitterly: "How do I know, anyway, he gave me a good first feeling, and then he was very polite, humorous and restrained, if I didn't know you, I would think you were slandering him." β
Frost Leaf keenly discovered a very vague word, she took off her gloves, and her eyes flashed with a dangerous brilliance: "You know me?" β
"Calm down, you're not my opponent right now, you know that very well, right? There is a saying in the distant Yan country that only by understanding the opponent can you defeat the opponent, I understand you, because we used to be enemies, but now we are friends, friends who talk about everything. β
Jian Lei skillfully comforted Frost Leaf, she knew this Walper sister's temperament too well, and sometimes she needed to touch the hair, otherwise she would bite and ravine.
"Maybe you should meet him?"
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Zhou Jinru ate two portions of food to fill his stomach, a person's life in St. Martin is more comfortable, unlike in Rhode Island, where there is a doctor in each class who cares about his nutritional intake, even to the point of slight knocking, it is a kind of morbid protection, which he can completely understand, because they don't like lose him again.
"The good days don't last long, and when I go back, Fleur and they find that my weight has increased slightly, must it be all kinds of physical training again, alas, it's too difficult for me."
Pulling out a tissue from the table to wipe his mouth, he walked out of the Eagle's Nest Bar with the mustard ice cream, he couldn't rest here, there were Jian Lei and Frost Leaf, it was estimated that neither of them would let him go easily, at least now was not the time for direct contact with them.
As soon as I went out, I saw a young man standing on the side of the road, it was Gaunt, who had previously worked as a bar waiter in the Eagle's Nest Bar, he was a Sakaz native and an infected person.
It is not easy for an infected person to live in the Rose Zone.
Thinking to himself, he walked over and said hello, "Gaunt." β
Gaunt suddenly turned his head and saw that it was the customer who had been drinking milk at the bar before, smiled and nodded, and responded, "Hello sir, did you have a nice meal?" β
"It's good, the food is tasty, and the milk is good."
Zhou Jinru noticed that the young man Sakaz was holding a box in his hand, as if he was going to send it somewhere.
"I want to find a place to rest now, do you have any good suggestions?"
Gaunt still had a smile on his face, but he kept muttering in his heart, obviously there was an Eagle's Nest Bar behind him, providing accommodation and other services, why did this person go far away?
Thinking about it, he still introduced: "I know another place where the price of accommodation is fair, but it is a little farther away and you need to take a bus." β
"No problem, I'm just going to visit the Rose District, do you know how many Central Districts like the Rose District there are, isn't each one about the same?"
"Sir, are you coming to this city for the first time? There are eleven in its central urban area, of which eight are multi-ethnic and multi-national, one is a Yanguo neighborhood, one is an Usasian neighborhood, and one is a Syracuse neighborhood. β
Zhou Jinru nodded, took a bite of mustard ice cream, and suddenly his expression stiffened, and he couldn't even speak.
"It's... "He was like a dumb man who had swallowed Coptis chinensis, and it took him half a time to catch his breath," huhuhu...... Brave New World has previously distributed many posters in the Syracuse community, declaring that the city is a church of the infected, free and fair, where everyone can find their dreams. β
He read it from the slogan on the map he had just thrown in the bar's garbage basket, which did not elicit any reaction from Gaunt.
"Yes sir, everyone can find their place in Saint-Martin."
Gunter pointed to the incoming bus and added, "We'll drop by, but we'll get off at a different stop, I'll remind you." β
Zhou Jinru nodded, took out a Longmen coin from his pocket and stuffed it into the pocket of Gaunt's clothes, and explained in the other party's surprised gaze: "In this city, if you pay, you will get something, you do ten minutes of dismissal, and I will pay for your impromptu performance, which is very fair." β
"Sir!"
"It's time for us to get in the car."
The bus stopped smoothly in front of Liangrao, Zhou Jinru raised his leg to get on the bus, he saw that there were still many vacant seats on the bus, so he found a place to sit down, handed a coin to the conductor, and turned around but did not see Gaunt.
Just as he wanted to look out the window for the figure of the young man Sakaz, the voice of the other party came from behind him.
"I'm here, sir."
Zhou Jinru suddenly realized something, the smile on his face disappeared little by little, turned his head, and looked at Gaunt standing in the back carriage, they were five meters apart, three rows of empty seats, and two worlds.
Gaunt stood alone in the back, pulling on the armrests, and there was no place for him in this car.
Zhou Jinru opened his mouth and didn't say anything, but Gaunt smiled and said: "You are coming to this city for the first time, you don't know enough about it, if you want to survive here, you have to adapt to everything about it, everything is reasonable and unreasonable." β
"Thank you."
The last time he sat in the car with Silver Fox, he didn't have such an experience, but now he had a different feeling, and he wondered if the operators from Rhode Island would be discriminated against as if they were infected.
There was no anger in Gaunt's mood, not the slightest bite, he had adapted to the city, and as he did, everyone would find their place.
But with its hopeful words, it does what it does to distinguish the infected from normal people, and uses gentle means to make the infected feel that this is a reasonable move.