Hello, Arknights

"You haven't folded your quilt yet?" Lin Yuxia frowned.

Ling Dengxian looked back, but Lapland was nowhere to be seen. He turned his head again and saw the silent wardrobe, and was speechless.

This move is fast enough...

"I folded it this morning. Maybe that little bastard Chi Yu messed it up after coming back to sleep. I don't know where he's gone to play now."

At this time, Chi Yu, who was still watching the shop at the intersection of the slums, sneezed.

"Then...Sir, is there anything you want to say?" Ling Dengxian breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Lin Yuxia with a normal expression, as if nothing had happened before.

"...Before, at that time, I was not in a good mood. Please forgive me if I was offensive." Lin Yuxia handed him the gift box that she had been holding in her hand.

Lin Yuxia didn't expect that so many people would come today, and it was not appropriate to give this gift in public. Seeing Ling Dengxian slip into the room alone, she seized the opportunity to come over.

"For me?" Ling Dengxian was a little surprised. He did feel bad before, but from a standpoint, he could understand Lin Yuxia except that she was a little impulsive. And this emotional problem... might be caused by his curse, which he could vaguely feel the pattern of.

"Well... a small item, a decoration." Lin Yuxia felt a lot more relieved when she saw him take the box.

"...My words don't matter. From your perspective, you should have been suspicious of me...How can a superior give a gift to a subordinate..." Ling Dengxian pursed his lips and said in a low voice.

"Are we really superiors and subordinates?" Lin Yuxia smiled bitterly.

"...friction is inevitable." Ling Dengxian spread his hands. Although Ling Dengxian accepted her gift, both of them could feel that the scars from Ling Dengxian's pain were still there.

That rain couldn't wash away everything.

"Then let's get ready for dinner." So Ling Dengxian indicated that the matter was over.

Compared to the beginning, the atmosphere at the dinner table was much more relaxed after Kong and Croissant were seated. Ling asked Fengdi casually, "Flute, you came here alone? Who are you here to pick up?"

"No, it's just that my senior and I asked for leave, and we haven't found anyone to pick us up anyway..." At this time, Fengdi caught a glimpse of the white Waifan sitting opposite her, and was stunned, "Uh... Xiaoxian, why do I feel like I have found the person our team is going to pick up..."

"It's me, Saria. Nice to meet you. Thank you for your guidance." Saria nodded. She felt a little helpless that Bagpipe noticed her only now, but she also understood.

"Ah... Then I'll tell everyone in Rhodes Island later that I'm pretty lucky..." Bagpipe scratched his head and chuckled.

Most of the ingredients for this meal were taken from Ling Dengxian’s stock, and of course the shrimps that impressed a certain messenger were also indispensable.

"... Mostima?" Ling Dengxian pushed his bowl closer to himself, and only one-third of the shrimps were left.

"Yeah, I'm here. What's up?" Mostima looked innocent.

“…There are shrimps on the plate.”

"Ok, I know."

"Then why did you..."

"But you have some in your bowl, and they're still unshelled."

"..." The girl from Liberi who was traveling with her turned her head away, not knowing how to stop this former teammate who was "suspected" to be a foodie.

Why did Mostima start to act stupid when he met this guy...

Anyway, Ling Dengxian was rarely full during this meal, so when he saw that they had started drinking, he found an excuse to go to the rooftop to have some quiet time.

"I'll bring Chi Yu some food and go to the slums later..."

Ever since the Rat King thoroughly investigated the internal traitors, there has been no unusual movement in Longmen in the past few days. If Lappland and Jiang Sa had not told him that this was the plan of Syracuse and Ursus, he might have thought that everything was over.

Ling Dengxian reorganized his thoughts. The information he had was quite limited. Although his memory of going berserk in the warehouse was quite vague, he saw with his own eyes a large group of people suddenly appear before he went berserk. This phenomenon was quite incredible and could not be explained by any ordinary Originium skills.

"...What is Syracuse for?" Ling Dengxian knew from the main story that Ursus probably wanted to provoke disputes and develop itself because some people believed that only war could pull the Ursus Empire back to the golden age, but the main story should be safe and sound at this moment, so why did he encounter this kind of thing now... And what is Syracuse for? From the first sight of Lapland being injured, it can be guessed that their initial target was probably because of Lapland, but why did they go to such great lengths to target such an individual? Is it really worth it to hunt across borders?

And now they don’t seem to be targeting Lappland alone... I can’t quite understand it.

What are they asking for?

A moving city in exchange for the anger of a country? Ursus was willing, but Ling Xian didn't believe that every country was willing.

What a mess... Ling Dengxian looked towards the direction of the lower city, but he was also at a loss as to what to do. Even if the reform of the slums was feasible, it would require great courage, and only Wei Yanwu could show it. He had never even formally met this governor who would do anything to protect a city.

A gust of cold wind from Ursus made him shrink his neck, which reminded him of the days in Torbrand...

"I don't know what happened to Lorna and the others..." Ling Dengxian let out a breath and watched it turn pale and dissipate. The thick clouds did not thicken or melt even a little bit.

It’s quite cold in Longmen at night…

"...It seems like you are doing well in Longmen." Mostima's voice came from behind. Ling Dengxian turned around and smiled: "More or less, you are living well."

"Thinking about something?" Mostima stood side by side with him, the gantry under their feet still brightly lit, "I was really worried that you wouldn't be able to adapt to Penguin Logistics... but now it seems that you are doing surprisingly well?"

"So you were planning to trick me in the first place..." Although it was a dissatisfied remark, Ling Dengxian's tone was very gentle. Mostima chuckled: "'Xiao Xian' has become much calmer."

"!" Ling Dengxian's whole body shook and he almost choked. He turned around quickly and saw a certain Wa Ivan peeking out from the door of the rooftop and watching what was happening. When he was seen by him, he made a cute expression of "Oh no, I've been discovered", scratched his head, and walked out from behind the door.

"Don't make that expression. I heard from Bagpipe that she was the one who picked you up at first, but I don't quite believe it." Mostima smiled slightly. At this moment, Ling Dengxian didn't feel Qingcheng, but just had a headache.

"Fiona..."

"I didn't say that! I just gave a brief description of the situation at the time... Anyway, it really seems like it was picked up..." Fengdi muttered the second half of the sentence, glanced at Ling Dengxian's expression, and quickly added, "Others don't know, Xiao Mo and I said it privately."

"Hmm? Xiao Mo?" Ling Dengxian suddenly heard a nickname that seemed very interesting.

At this moment, Mostima's expression also changed a little, and he smiled helplessly: "It's a bit... it's hard to refuse such kindness, I can't resist it."

"It's worthy of being a bagpipe..." Ling Dengxian was ashamed.

"Yeah, originally I was planning to call her 'Momo', just like 'Chen Chen', but Mostima seems a little..." Fengpipe's regret was evident in his words.

"A little irritated?" Ling Dengxian made a reasonable guess.

"... Ling Dengxian, has anyone ever told you that you seem a little shy?" Mostima raised his eyebrows.

"I think so...you're not the first one anyway."

"Not the last one either," Bagpipe added aptly.