On May 14, the afternoon before the arrival of the snow dragon, Cosimo used a travel roll to come to Huanjing and found Anson Deer, and the two met in the park.

"Find a quiet place to sit, I want to talk to you." Cosimo bowed his head and said, "I don't want people to know we're together. ”

"Okay, let's go." Anson Lu glanced at Cosimo, and then took Cosimo to walk around the capital and find a café to sit down.

He pushed open the wooden door with the "Open" sign, the bells swayed and made a clear sound, and the afterglow of the setting sun fell into the dim coffee shop, illuminating the old wooden tables and chairs framed in mahogany frames.

There were still a few customers sitting in the café, but the store manager was surprised at first when he saw Anson Lu and the two entering, and then immediately began to catch up with the customers.

"Boss, what do you mean, we haven't finished our coffee yet?"

"yes, how can you open a coffee shop like that?"

"Go, go, when can't you drink coffee?" The store manager picked up a cigarette and said with a curse:

"I'm not going to open this place today, so you all hurry up and get away."

After saying that, those customers were still annoyed, but when they saw Anson Deer and Cosimo, they were stunned on the spot, and immediately understood the store manager's intentions, so they walked away in a gloomy manner, and some people didn't forget to ask for a group photo.

Anson Deer is gentle and patient.

They suddenly felt a lot more cheerful, although tomorrow may be the end of the world, but it is not a loss to be able to get the world's first group photo.

Take 10,000 steps back, and you will be a memento before the earth exploded.

The store manager stared at the two people who walked into the store, took a deep puff of smoke, and called out to the attic above the coffee shop:

"Xia Mingwei, hurry down and help close the door of the store, the store will not be open tonight, and, see what these two guests need."

"Here, what are you doing in such a hurry?" A teenager quickly walked down from the attic, he looked at Anson Deer and Cosimo, his face changed suddenly, and then he looked at the store manager.

The store manager gave him a look, and Xia Mingwei quickly reacted, closed the door of the store, and turned the "Open" sign outside the door into "Close".

In the coffee shop, which renders the warm orange light, Anson Deer and Cosimo sit opposite each other, and although a week has passed since Lorenzo's funeral, Cosimo still looks depressed.

Anson Lu asked the store manager for two drinks, then held his chin and quietly played with his mobile phone.

Soon, Xia Mingwei came over with a plate and handed over two glasses of orange juice with ice cubes on the plate.

The reason why it's orange juice, not coffee, and not wine, is because he saw an interesting interview about the two best players in the world who don't drink alcohol, only orange juice.

"Shall we go up?" Xia Mingwei walked back behind the counter and asked the store manager.

"No, they don't look like they're here to talk about any classified matters, otherwise they wouldn't be here to talk." The store manager said.

"Okay."

"This world is really crazy...... the store manager looked at the two of them and sighed in a low voice: "Let two children bear billions of lives." ”

"That's not just billions, the whole earth is going to explode." Xia Mingwei took back the empty plate and said lightly, "Boss, you wash the dishes tonight." ”

"Okay, okay, you kid is going to the movies again?"

"Well, it's rare to earn some money part-time."

"It's almost the end of the world, and you're still thinking about that broken movie?"

"The end of the world doesn't affect me from watching movies, okay, but it can allow me to watch a few more shows, at least I don't have to think about my wallet."

"That being said, you still don't go out tonight, most of the theaters are open, and now those neurotics are all jumping out, either burning things or smashing things, tomorrow is the end of the world, they are crazier than anyone else."

"It's okay, I'll try to avoid it." Xia Mingwei picked up a chocolate bar and said expressionlessly:

"The movie tickets have been booked, and the movie theater is really going to be closed, so I will give them two 500-word bad reviews overnight."

"Stinky boy, it's almost the end of the world, maybe the earth will collapse tomorrow, and people still care about your bad reviews, right?"

"What's there to worry about." Xia Mingwei shrugged his shoulders and said slowly: "The two of them are the world's number one players, and they still have time to drink coffee here in the middle of the night, so won't they still that white dragon with a black circle under their eyes tomorrow?" ”

Anson Deer listened to the whispers of the two while gently stirring the ice cubes in the orange juice with a spoon, and as the level gradually came up, he had almost superhuman hearing, so he could hear what the two were saying.

In fact, as they say, since Lorenzo and a group of sequential players died in the Tower of Babel dungeon, people around the world have been terrified.

In this case, there are naturally villains fishing in troubled waters, and even if the official relies on the sequence players to forcibly maintain order, riots are still occurring all over the world, and the crime rate has increased dramatically in just a few days.

But Anson Deer didn't bother to pay attention, none of this had anything to do with him, as long as he spent tonight, whether they were dead or alive would be completely decided.

Since there is nothing to be done about the chaotic status quo, there is no need to care about anything else, it is enough to focus on the last battle at hand.

Cosimo looked down, but still retorted casually: "Well, we drink orange juice, not coffee, and it has no sobering effect." ”

"I'm sorry, I was wrong." Xia Mingwei took a sip of boiling water.

"I'm really not afraid that people will slap you to death." The store manager said angrily.

"I'm only sixteen years old, and I haven't even gotten the qualifications to be a player, so they're going to make the news when they shoot me to death."

"Go and go, bastard, dare to speak so impulsively in front of them, hurry upstairs and read a book, don't make trouble for me."

The store manager patted Xia Mingwei on the back angrily and laughed, and drove him to the attic.

Anson Lu laughed twice, and said in his heart that the relationship between the grandfather and grandson is really good.

However, he also knew that Xia Mingwei's words just now were sarcastic about himself and Cosimo.

After all, two people from all over the world have pinned their hopes on go to the café to pass the time the night before the big war, and the dog has to shake his head when he hears it.

Anson Lu himself has skipped a meeting or two for this, and Team Jiang is estimated to be still looking for him all over the world, if it weren't for the blocking of the message prompt sound, it is estimated that Jiang Yijie's information has already filled his sight.

However, since Cosimo asked him out, there was no reason why he should not come out.

He took a sip of orange juice, the cold liquid into his throat, and then slowly asked:

"So, Brother Cosimo, what do you want me to talk to?"

Cosimo was silent for a long time, lowered his eyelids, and said in a hoarse voice:

"I'm still thinking...... If I could be stronger, then my brother wouldn't have died, and so did Kamidai Ruri, and I didn't protect everyone I cared about. ”

Anson Lu sighed lightly: "Tomorrow's boss battle, it's good to win, for your brother, but also for the sake of Shendai Liuli." ”

"Why, you're always so calm?" "You're always so calm, even when the Icelandic girl is gone." ”

"You don't seem to understand." Anson Lu lowered his voice and said almost word for word: "We carry the whole world on our shoulders, you don't know that I have been trampled on the ground by that dragon like a defeated dog before, this is the second time, I don't allow myself to fail." ”

"But can we really win?"

"We have to win, no matter what it takes."

"But...... What if we win and they can't come back? ”

Anson Lu was dumbfounded, he took a deep breath, and only after a long time did he speak: "Then we have to fight hard, right?" ”

"Anson Deer, do you believe me?"

"Of course I believe you." Anson Lu lifted his chin, "If you're not here, what will you do with that dragon tomorrow, just let me carry it alone?" ”

After a long silence, Cosimo lowered his eyelids and said:

"I also believe in you, to be honest, my brother is gone, and I don't have much confidence anymore, but when I think of you again, I feel that we still have hope."

"That's good, come on, Cyber Kid." Anson Lu paused and said unhappily: "No, I shouldn't call you a little kid now, I'm already the captain of the law enforcement team." ”

Cosimo looked up slowly, a bright light flowing in his blue eyes.

"Well, I'm going back, and my mecha still has to adjust the materials from the Babel copy to prepare for tomorrow's battle."

"Okay, that's all for tonight." Ansen Lu said, "The rest will wait until tomorrow to kill the white dragon and then talk, I should also go back, the Jiang team is about to blow up my phone, if you want to be scolded, I will say that it is all your fault." ”

"It doesn't matter." Cosimo pursed his lips and stood up, "Then I'll go, bye-bye, Anson Deer." With that, he returned to New York using the mechanism of a travel roll.

"The little kid really ...... It's annoying enough. ”

Seeing that Cosimo was finally gone, Anson Lu sat down on the back of his chair, breathed a long sigh of relief, and drank all the orange juice, which belonged to drinking it as wine.

"If you are tired of it, it will expose my sore spots...... What is called I won, and they can't come back. Anson Lu looked at the ceiling and muttered in a low voice, "Even if they don't want to come back, I'll drag them back from the ground one by one." ”

With that, he walked out of the café without looking back.

"Boss, I didn't bring any money, I'll record it in my account first, and I'll come back and pay it back tomorrow when the white dragon is rotten."

Anson Lu's last words fell, and with a "bang", the door of the café was closed.

The store manager, who was sitting behind the counter listening to the radio, couldn't help but snort coldly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

"Today's little kids......"

Late at night on this day, the conference room on the nineteenth floor of the national team building.

The sensor door slowly opened, and Anson Deer lowered his head and slowly stepped into it, finding Asuka Uesugi half-sitting on the table, waiting for him.

"Where have you been?" Asuka said angrily, "Team Jiang has been looking for you for a long time. ”

"Cosimo came to meet with me and said that he didn't want others to know, so I blocked the information for the time being."

Anson Deer said, opening the friends list, and sure enough, his message had exploded, and he had missed several meetings for Cosimo tonight.

Of course...... Cosimo probably missed more meetings.

"I said, tomorrow is the World Boss Battle." Asuka Uesugi stared at him, "How prepared are you?" ”

"Well, everything that should be prepared has been prepared, and there are only two uncertainties left."

"Two uncertainties?"

"That's right, one is the chess set that the principal gave me, and there is a final-level chess piece called 'Terminal Divine Deer', and the effect of the skill is unknown." Anson Deer explained, "One is that Anubis mythological sequence, and I don't know what the second skill does. ”

"Then you can only try it in real combat?"

"Well, the skills of the Divine Deer and the Mythical Sequence can only be used once, and now they are gone."

"It's weird......"

"It's weird, but maybe it works." Anson Lu teased, "Go to bed early, or you will fall asleep tomorrow, and the pot of human extinction must be divided into your share." ”

Asuka burst out laughing, she hugged her stomach: "Ha, I'm really convinced of you, it's been such a time, and you can still be so optimistic." ”

"Anla, Anla, it's a big deal that the earth will be destroyed, let's go to the universe together to eat dust."

"That's good."

"Are you serious?"

"Hmm...... Asuka put her hand to her chin, "as long as I can be with you, what if I float in the universe and wait for death?" ”

There was a shallow smile on the corner of her mouth, as if there was no fear, and there was relief in those eyes that were as smart as a blue bird.

"I'm kidding, Asuka, let's be serious."

Anson Lu scratched the bridge of his nose, and suddenly became serious: "I don't have time to cross the chess game, this time it's over, it's really over, tomorrow's battle, we definitely ......"

His voice stopped abruptly as Asuka Uesugi grabbed his arm, pressed her lips against his, and kissed him gently.

In the cold-toned conference room, Anson Deer's back pressed against the wall, and he let out a muffled grunt.

Asuka quickly let go of him, strands of brown hair obscuring her eyes.

Both bowed their heads and were silent for a long time.

Asuka removed her eyes from his face and broke the silence:

"Anson Deer, I say, what if I had met you earlier...... If that's the case, will you choose me?

"Won't you keep pretending to be in front of me?

"If it had been me earlier, would you have grabbed my hand?

"Are you going to look back at me instead of walking forward?"

Anson Lu opened his mouth slightly, and his words seemed to be stuck in his throat.

He just stood quietly against the wall, his brown eyes dim and his lips still warm and soft.

"This is, for the last time."

Asuka put her hands behind her back, lowered her head, and whispered:

"It's the last time I've been willful, because ...... I don't know if there's a tomorrow, so I don't want to leave regrets, so forgive me. ”

It was rare that she did not cry, her face was calm, and she had a calm smile.

Anson Deer still didn't speak, and Asuka left the conference room, the footsteps fading away, and the sound of the sensor door closing fell.

"Asuka, you're really ......"

He breathed a sigh of relief, felt weak, and slowly sat down against the wall.

"The big idiot."

(End of chapter)