Chapter 70
Chapter 70
Seeing him zone out, Ning Wang waved a hand in front of his eyes. “What are you thinking about?”
Ning Shuo snapped back to himself and frowned as he looked into Ning Wang’s eyes. “Have we met before?”
To sneak into the cafeteria, Ning Wang had changed to a different human mask; only his eyes were still his own. “Before? Which time do you mean-”
He swallowed the rest of the sentence and turned off the livestream. “Do you mean the first time I entered the Script? Why do you ask?”
“Just now, I…” Ning Shuo paused.
The memory that had suddenly surfaced was like a dream he’d been awake from for a while. In the blink of an eye, only scattered words remained. Ning Shuo frowned, took Ning Wang’s fingers, and pressed them against his face.
Recreating the scene had no effect. Suspicious, he lowered Ning Wang’s hand, but Ning Wang seized the chance to stroke his face. “Ge…”
Ning Shuo immediately retreated three steps. “Private negotiations are forbidden!”
Ning Wang: “…”
Ning Shuo handed the mini fridge to Yu Qian and shielded him as they got into the elevator.
The lightbulb in the elevator was still shattered, but the ghost was gone.
Fortunately, it did not come a second time, and the elevator slowly rose.
Because the bulb was broken, the elevator remained dim.
Yu Qian was scared, so Ning Shuo openly gave him the mini fridge, calling it something he could hug for a sense of security. In reality, Ning Shuo was taking the chance to be lazy while pondering what had just happened.
A hand quietly hooked around Ning Shuo’s pinky. While no one was looking, Ning Wang quickly kissed him on the face.
Ning Shuo glanced at him and let out a soft laugh. “That’s it?”
Yu Qian hadn’t heard clearly and thought Ning Shuo was talking to him. “What?”
In the dark, Ning Shuo’s voice was gentle. “Nothing. Let’s wait for the elevator first.”
Just as the elevator reached the second floor, Ning Wang felt a weight at his neck, and something soft pressed against his lips.
It touched and parted at once. Ning Wang was still holding Ning Shuo’s hand, and before he could react any further, the elevator stopped on the third floor. With a ding, the doors opened.
Ning Shuo pulled his hand free. “Let’s go, Shuishui. We’ll pick out a cake for little Xiangfeng.”
Ning Wang stood there for quite a while before following.
…
Ning Shuo pinched the little girl’s chin and looked expressionlessly at Ning Wang. “You’re telling me this is Zhu Xiangfeng?”
Ning Wang played dumb flawlessly. “Does the face not look like hers?”
“The traces of Disguise are so obvious even an idiot could see them.”
Shen Zhiwang, who had been about to say, “The Disguise is pretty good,” shut his mouth.
Ning Shuo made a round of Shen Zhiwang’s office. After confirming no one was there, he dragged Yu Qian toward Lolita’s ward.
Shen Zhiwang nudged Ning Wang with his arm. “Your man isn’t angry?”
Ning Wang put on an exaggerated look of surprise. “How did you know my ge and I are in love with each other?”
Seeing him show off without the slightest attempt to hide it, Shen Zhiwang laughed. “Congratulations. When did you two get together?”
The question had only just left his mouth when the person who had been bragging a moment ago slowly turned grave.
Ning Wang looked pained. “What a shame. He doesn’t want to be with me.”
Shen Zhiwang: ?
“It’s fine. I’m willing to wait for him forever.”
Shen Zhiwang: “…”
How could someone describe the ambiguous stage in such a melodramatic and devoted way?
Luo Li looked expressionlessly at the two people in front of her. “Don’t tell me you came storming in here just to bring me cake.”
“Of course not. It’s for little Xiangfeng.”
“Oh,” Luo Li said, curling her lip. “Then it might as well have been for me.”
Ning Shuo opened the fridge door. “Which one do you want? Pick whatever you like.”
Luo Li said, “Whatever I like?”
“Of course. I have so many cakes. I’m only letting you try one.”
Luo Li’s eyes flickered slightly. She pointed at one piece of cake. “Then I want that one.”
Ning Shuo’s eyes curved with a smile. “Sure. This one, then.”
He took out that piece of cake and packed it up, then set the entire mini fridge on the cabinet by Luo Li’s window. “Let’s go, Shuishui. We’re going to find Xiangfeng.”
Luo Li finally caught on. Furious, she grabbed a pillow and hurled it at Ning Shuo. “You tricked me!”
“It’s called being clever. Zhu Xiangfeng gave you her favorite doll, so I figured you might have a clue about her favorite food too. Who knew I’d actually guessed right?”
Luo Li pressed her lips together. As Ning Shuo was leaving, she called after him, “Hey! Zhu Xiangfeng is just an NPC. Why do you like her so much?”
Ning Shuo turned back, puzzled. “First of all, how did you figure out I like her? And whether I like her or not, am I supposed to hate her for no reason?”
Luo Li froze. “You can like an NPC too?”
“Does an NPC have to be a Ghost/Monster?”
Ning Shuo’s eyes curved with a smile. “An NPC like Ningning even became a Player. I like him a lot too.”
His words carried a pointed meaning. “Besides, Ningning isn’t the only one.”
Luo Li’s heart skipped. She blurted out without thinking, “You know?”
Yu Qian watched the two of them talk in riddles from the side. “Huh? Know what?”
He looked at Luo Li. “Know that Lolita knows what Zhu Xiangfeng likes to eat?”
Ning Shuo said, “That sounded like a tongue twister.”
The topic was successfully diverted. Yu Qian scratched his head. “It’s not that bad. As long as you can understand it.”
After the two of them disappeared, Luo Li was silent for a moment, then quickly took a slice of strawberry cake out of the mini fridge.
She looked at the strawberry cake and was just about to put it into her Backpack.
A hand suddenly reached out. “I knew you were holding something back. There was no way you’d let the two of us leave that easily.”
Luo Li’s eyes widened. “You!”
Yu Qian, standing beside him, put away his item. Ning Shuo glanced at her body, then suddenly lowered his voice. “Kiddo, if I’m not mistaken, that body of yours is human, isn’t it?”
“It was a Player’s body, and then you took it over?”
Without giving Luo Li a chance to answer, Ning Shuo smiled, took the cake, and left.
Luo Li stared at the fridge full of cakes. Her fingers clenched tight as she ground her teeth. “Ning Shuo… sooner or later, I’m going to bite you to death…”
“No can do. I’m the only one who gets to bite my brother.”
Luo Li looked at Ning Wang, who had climbed in through the window. “You were hiding there? Aren’t you afraid of being discovered by an NPC?”
“This ward faces south. That spot is right across from the garbage dump. It isn’t shift change right now, so no NPC is going to run over to the garbage dump.”
Luo Li folded her arms and snorted coldly. “Heh. Then why didn’t you come out the first time they left? If you had, the cake might not have been snatched away…”
Seeing the smile rippling at the corners of Ning Wang’s eyes, Luo Li’s words came to an abrupt halt.
In that instant, a miraculous image flashed before her eyes: the scene from back then, right after Rao Lin’s confession had succeeded.
The silly joy radiating from Ning Wang right now was exactly the same as Rao Lin’s had been back then.
Luo Li stared at him in disbelief. “Are you crazy? He only said that to coax me!”
“So what?” Ning Wang was clearly in an excellent mood. “Even if he was coaxing you, those were his true feelings. He likes me.”
“The two of us are the same person. I like him, so how could he not like me? If he doesn’t like me, who else is he going to like?”
Luo Li was speechless.
Damn it. She should just bite this guy to death too!
Luo Li sneered. “So that’s why you ignored the team?”
“Hey, hey, hey! Now that’s way too big of an accusation.”
The reason he hadn’t come out all this time was only because, after hearing that line about liking him, he had been so overjoyed that he hadn’t noticed anything that happened afterward.
But that sounded a little too pathetic. Ning Wang thought for a moment, then said, “I was simply giving you a chance to train.”
Luo Li: “???”
“You made a fourteen-year-old girl snatch something out of the hands of a twenty-four-year-old grown man, and you’re calling that training?”