abyss rose

Lu Qi, who had been looking for Chai Yuening in a hurry all morning, immediately summoned everyone to Chai Yuening's room after hearing Chai Yuening's good news.

Under the warm yellow light, four chattering people poured in from the outside, shouting for Chu Ci to join them, and sat in a row beside a small rectangular coffee table.

They tried to gossip with Chu Ci for first-hand information, but Chu Ci didn't say anything, like a stuffy gourd that couldn't be pried open.

There was nothing to be said out of Mu Hulu's mouth, so everyone could only wait for Chai Yuening to personally announce the sudden good news.

Facing everyone's expectations, Chai Yuening suddenly didn't know how to speak.

She boiled a pot of hot water a little bit, poured a cup for each person in the room, and then sat across from everyone.

Lu Qi: "What good news is there?"

You Lan: "I heard that little girl Jing Mu say that you took the risk to cut off the ventilation ducts in the sixth district. Is the main city going to give you a bonus? Gou Fugui, don't forget me, Captain Chai."

Old Xiang: "What else is there? The base can't allocate a big house to the captain?"

Liandong: "There's no need for an assembly notice, right? Has Du Xia got any news?"

Chai Yuening took a deep breath, cleared her throat under the expectant eyes of the four pairs: "That, uh, um, just..."

Lonicera: "..."

Lu Qi: "Huh?"

Youlan: "Huh~?"

Old Xiang: "Just what?"

Chai Yuening glanced at Chu Ci unconsciously, and finally couldn't bear to tell the truth, only squeezed out a smile, and said: "The base has found a way to send a distress signal to the floating city, and the self-destruct plan of the outer city has been postponed , if the Floating Void City can arrive in time for rescue, there will be hope for everything!"

The moment the voice fell, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then various degrees of joy and expectation appeared on their faces.

"Okay." Youlan sighed softly.

Lao Xiang said that on such a life-threatening day, there is absolutely no news that is more worthy of celebration than this.

He said he'd like a few drinks, if there was any alcohol around here.

As soon as the words fell, Lu Qi stood up suddenly, and rushed to the door with a few steps like a monkey.

"Let's go, Lao Xiang, let's go buy wine!"

The moment the door closed, Liandong's eyes lit up, and the corners of her mouth raised slightly unconsciously, but trembling a little.

Soon, she lowered her eyebrows and pursed her lips, and there seemed to be some tears in her lowered eyes.

Chai Yuening picked up the glass water cup, letting the warm steam send her thoughts far away.

I don't know how long it took, the old and the young who went out came back with a few bottles of wine and a basket of vegetables. They said that there should be appetizers for drinking, and then they got into the kitchen and started tossing.

That day, the room was extremely lively.

"Xiang Hongfei, the wine you bought is too bad..."

"Let's just drink it, Boss You, we are all good citizens and we don't have much money."

"Who are you scolding? Who are you scolding?"

"Eat the vegetables, eat the vegetables, the wine doesn't taste good, but the dishes are always okay, right?"

"Let's be careless..." Youlan said, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and laughed drunkenly: "The craftsmanship is not bad, if you can go back to the seventh district in this life, don't take risks, go to my place Let's go to work... Lu Qi, you will be the security guard for my bar, Liandong, you will help me settle the accounts...Old Xiang, Lao Xiang, you will be a cook, at this age, your bones will be broken if you go to work."

"Where's our boss?" Lu Qi asked, "Where's Du Xia, where's Chu Ci?"

"Security, all of you are security guards, and money is indispensable for you!" Youlan opened his eyes, resting his chin on one hand, and said lazily, "My place is in chaos, there are people making troubles every day...the days are changing, backer The mountain will fall, but the water will flow, I have to rely on my own people..."

As she spoke, she narrowed her eyes and looked at Chai Yuening: "Captain Chai~~ You say it, you say it~ Hiccup... Your team is in need, and I have always been there to help, we... Do we count as our own?"

"Do the math, I won't be the security guard for you, just let me know if there is any trouble." Chai Yuening replied with a smile, "As for Lao Xiang, his old bones are not very good, but his craftsmanship has always been good, so he retired early It’s okay to go to your place to be a chef.”

"Come on, when your father led the team, I was the one with the most steady hand, the most accurate gun, and the best car. Even if I am not as flexible as before, I can still work for another ten years. .You bastards, stop looking down on me as an 'veteran'. I haven't driven enough of that new car yet."

"puff……"

In the temporary residence, everyone sat around a low coffee table.

Eating small dishes, drinking small wines, and chatting about trivial matters.

Everything seems to have returned to the past, to those leisurely days when danger had not yet come.

It's a pity that Du Xia is not here, and no one knows whether she will be here in the future.

After the fun is over.

Drunk people leave the house in a mess and stagger back into the house to vomit.

Liandong, who didn't drink much, accompanied Chu Ci, who hadn't even touched a drop, and helped Chai Yuening clean up the room that was reeking of alcohol.

During the cleaning, the radio, as always, broadcast something very reassuring.

The base never allowed any speeches that would cause panic to appear, and even the top executives of the base fell into despair for a while.

If the outer city is saved this time, no one will know how cruel the decision was made by the base that shouted for freedom and hope.

After Liandong left, only the base radio was left in the house again.

Chai Yuening locked the door behind her, turned around and looked at Chu Ci who was sitting on the sofa well-behaved, with a smile on the corner of her mouth: "Why don't you drink this time?"

Chu Ci shook his head and replied with a smile, "That thing is too uncomfortable."

Chai Yuening: "Maybe next time you should ask them to buy you some juice, it's sweet and you won't feel uncomfortable after drinking it."

Chu Ci: "Is it expensive?"

Chai Yuening: "It's much more expensive than water, but isn't making money just to live a better life?"

Chu Ci: "I haven't made any money yet."

Chai Yuening: "I have."

Chu Ci blinked, and mercilessly demolished Chai Yuening's stage.

"You didn't, and you still owe Youlan a bunch of money."

Chai Yuening froze for a moment, and couldn't help but frown slightly.

She was embarrassed for a while, then suddenly remembered something, and held her head high for a moment.

"Didn't Youlan say this afternoon? We did a big thing in the sixth district. When the outer city is saved, I will go to the military to claim credit. I will definitely get a big bonus!"

As Chai Yuening spoke, she jumped to the side of the sofa with light steps, and sat down beside Chu Ci, the whole sofa shook instantly.

Chu Ci turned her head to look at her, she only raised her eyebrows, and assured her, "Don't worry, I can afford whatever you want!"

Those confident little eyes, those who knew it was buying food, those who didn't know it thought it was a gift of gold and silver.

Chu Ci looked at her, quietly watching her for a long time.

In the end, he raised his lips and said with a smile: "Then I have to think about it, and then I should eat something good."

Chai Yuening nodded, said nothing more, just looked at Chu Ci silently.

Chu Ci held a collection of poems in his hand, which contained content that she, who grew up with a knife and gun, could not read.

Chai Yuening couldn't help but look more and more curious, wondering what kind of past Chu Ci has?

He is agile, decisive with marksmanship, and won't make a sound when he is injured. Furui Wubo's eyes seem to have seen all the troubled things in the world, but he knows little about the world.

When all the despair swept over, she seemed to have been ignoring the life and death of others, like a bystander looking at everything.

But in the end, it was such a bystander who chose to offer a glimmer of hope to those strangers.

How could there be such a person in this world?

It was late at night, and the pocket watch reached eleven twenty in the evening.

Chai Yuening washed up and lay down on the bed first.

Not long after, the sound of washing came from the bathroom, and after a while, the lights outside the house were turned off.

Chu Ci pushed open the room with a small gap in the door, and climbed onto the bed lightly, and Chai Yuening lay down in it, making more room for her.

The light coolness rolled into the thin spring quilt made it difficult for people to fall asleep for a while.

"Chai Yuening."

"Ok?"

"Dr. Ge said, I look sad." In the darkness, Chu Ci said softly, "Is it true?"

"It seems to be, but not all." Chai Yuening responded in a low voice.

"When I was in the Sixth District, I read from the book that human emotions seem to be contagious." Chu Ci said, curiously asked, "This sentence means that if I am sad, you will Are you sad?"

"I……"

"But actually I seem to be very happy, I don't feel the sadness you said." Chu Ci interrupted Chai Yuening's answer, and said seriously, "If there is, it may be your fault."

"Ah?" Chai Yuening suddenly felt a little speechless, opened her mouth for a long time, and then asked, "Why did I get hurt?"

"You infected me." Chu Ci's tone was very serious, with a little bit of grievance in his seriousness, "I was fine at first, but suddenly I'm not, you must have infected me."

"I..." Chai Yuening didn't know how to refute for a moment.

"You're wrong." Chu Ci muttered in a low voice, "I'm not a human being, and I didn't infect you. How could you harm me?"

Chai Yuening was too shocked to speak.

She should have been sad, at least when Chu Ci asked the first sentence, she felt that she should be sad.

But now she was a little dazed.

She found that Chu Ci was really serious about blaming her, with an aggrieved and unreasonable tone.

Facing this sudden fallacy, Chai Yuening couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

She felt that she should justify herself a little.

But just when she was about to speak, the person beside her moved again.

"I seem to know what it means to be sad." Chu Ci pursed his lips, "It's really your fault every time."

As she spoke, she turned to the outside, with her back turned to Chai Yuening, and muttered softly.

"For the first time, you took me into the base and left me in District Nine."

"The second time, you fished me out of the little dark room and wanted me to go back to the Ninth District."

"For the third time, you looked at me strangely. I thought you were going to be afraid of me."

"Then these two days..."

As she spoke, her voice became smaller and smaller.

It was so small that the bedroom was so quiet and they were so close, but the people beside her had to struggle to hear what she was muttering clearly.

Chai Yuening bit her lower lip, wanting to say something, but suddenly heard a soft sigh.

She froze for a moment, and when she came back to her senses, she only heard a muffled whisper.

It was that night, the unreasonable alien said something softly to her...

"Chai Yuening, please be happy."

You are not happy, how can I be happy.

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The author has something to say:

Why do you feel that you are about to be abused? Isn't it about to start sweetening?