Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 965: Ask Ji (Part )

"Good evening!" said Luo Binhan.

Cai Ji, who was about to leave the store, stopped. He only glanced at Luo Binhan's cheerful face, then took back his half-step and resolutely closed the store door.

"What are you doing?" Luo Binhan stuck his foot in the door and pulled it back with his hands. "I'm a guest!"

"Closing!"

"There's someone else inside!" Robin Han shouted, "Don't think I didn't see anyone!"

"No reception!"

"Is this your attitude towards running a shop?" Luo Binhan asked, "I'm going to complain to your boss!"

Maybe this really worked, or maybe he just didn't want to alarm the other people in the store, so the other person relaxed his grip on the door. Luo Binhan squeezed in when he saw a gap, stood in the aisle, straightened his clothes, and wiped off the raindrops that fell from the eaves on his face. "This damn weather is so wet and stuffy, hurry up and get a cup of iced drink."

Cai Ji gave him a sinister look and turned to walk towards the counter. Luo Binhan followed him like a ghost, poking his shoulder with his hand. "How can you make money with such a service attitude? You don't even smile when you see customers. People will think we have a bad relationship!"

Cai Ji opened his mouth and took a deep breath, about to curse. But Luo Binhan had already caught a glimpse of the other two customers in the store. "Hey!" He greeted the one he knew first, "Are you ready?"

Red-haired Anthony was sitting in his usual position, concentrating on his computer. When he heard Robin's voice, he looked up, glanced around aimlessly, and then said, "Oh, it's you... Well, I'm fine." Then he went back to his work.

Luo Binhan glanced at another guest. It was a young girl, sitting alone by the window, wearing headphones and reading on a tablet. Her profile looked vaguely familiar. Luo Binhan thought about it for a few seconds and was sure that he had seen her before. When she first came here, the girl looked at Chen Wei a few more times. Maybe she thought Chen Wei looked special, but she didn't say anything else. It seemed that she was not a curious person. He hoped that Yu Xiaorong was as less curious as she was.

Before he came, he had not thought that there were other people in the store, so he had to move a chair to sit next to the counter and wait for the two quiet customers to leave. As soon as he put his arm on the counter, Cai Ji, with a gloomy face, moved all the small things on the counter away from him, and then sat down next to the wine cabinet in the back, where Luo Binhan's arm could never reach. Luo Binhan whistled twice, and he immediately turned around and took out a booklet from the bottom of the cabinet to read.

"Hey, what are you looking at?" Luo Binhan said, leaning forward to look at the book. Cai Ji immediately covered the book with both hands and glared at him.

"Get out of here."

"Why should I get out? You asked me to stay here this morning."

"I asked you to stay and seek refuge!" Cai Ji growled, "Get out if you want to die!"

"I don't want to die." Luo Binhan said leisurely, "I come here to take shelter at night and go out to work during the day. What a healthy life!"

If there weren't two outsiders sitting behind him, Luo Binhan estimated that he might have been thrown out. He observed Cai Ji's rising and falling chest, thinking that this was really strange - these people with shadow blood were still breathing. Were they still pumping oxygen in and out, allowing oxygenated hemoglobin to flow throughout the body? But when they turned into shadows, where did the blood, brain matter, tissue fluid... go? Cai Ji could breathe, and so could Zhou Wenxing. What about Luo De? He couldn't remember clearly, but he vaguely knew how to do it. Only Asabam didn't care about this at all. She could really be as quiet as a crutch.

  He guessed it was because she had never been a human, or any kind of life that made sense biologically. She had been the embodiment of wind since she was born. As for Cai Ji and Luo De? They were both undoubtedly human. As for Zhou Wenxing, he regretted not asking Jing Huang more carefully about this thing's background, because he felt in his heart that none of this had anything to do with him. There was nothing of value in him except a little rural wealth that no one outside looked down on. As Li Li asked him: What was the motive? What could the thing get from him before the flowers on the moon bloomed?

He stared at a paper flower on the counter and said involuntarily: "I want to ask you something..."

A desperate cry interrupted him. Luo Binhan's hand twitched and he almost pulled the gun out of his coat pocket. Cai Ji also looked up at the same time. They nervously saw Anthony covering his face with both hands, but the glaring white light of the computer screen illuminated his face, allowing people to see two dead fish-like eyes between his fingers.

"Don't! Don't! Don't!" he shouted in despair, "Don't freeze--"

The white light of the screen suddenly turned blue, making his tired and swollen face look like a dead ghost. Soon even the blue light went out, and Anthony froze in place with his mouth wide open. Luo Binhan and Cai Ji stared at him. Luo Binhan came to his senses first and waved his hand behind his head: "Is he normal?"

"There's been some trouble these days. He said he got into some trouble."

"Does your store allow him to yell like this?" Luo Binhan asked, "Will you ignore me yelling like this? Aren't you afraid of scaring away other customers?"

Cai Ji didn't say a word. Luo Binhan glanced at him and saw that he was trying his best to pretend that he didn't care. "He is your biggest customer, right?"

"...It has nothing to do with you."

At this time, the girl wearing headphones was also startled. She took off her headphones blankly, looked at the other three people in the store, glanced at the time on the tablet, and immediately stood up in a hurry, packed her bag and left.

"Oh my!" Luo Binhan said, leaning against the counter, "I scared someone away!"

"She was supposed to leave during this time period!" Cai Ji said angrily.

"Do you usually run away like this?"

"Because you scared her away with your bullshit here!"

"Nonsense," Robinham said, "Look at the three of us brothers. I'm already the most well-dressed one."

Cai Ji sneered, threw the booklet in his hand to the counter, and said, "He looks like a decent human being, so how do you know he's not a beast in human clothing?"

"High-frequency vocabulary for the college entrance examination in English." Luo Binhan read the title on the booklet, "Efficient root word plus associative memory method to quickly develop golden attack--"

Cai Ji threw away the booklet and was about to rush out of the counter to argue, but Anthony had already stood up from his seat and moved to the counter. Luo Binhan looked at him carefully and saw that his eyes were completely unfocused, his skin was shiny with oil, and his messy hair was almost tangled into strands. When he opened his mouth to get another glass of iced cola, his voice was completely hoarse.

"What's the matter?" Luo Binhan asked, "Are you having trouble at work?"

"Something else." Anthony said. He stared at Robin Han and it took him a while to remember who he was. "...How have you been lately?"

"good."

"What's with that patch on your neck?"

"I was caught by a dog on the road."

Cai Ji put a bottle of Coke on the table with a thump, then looked at Luo Binhan expressionlessly. "I met a stray dog ​​on the road," Luo Binhan said, looking at him, "it jumped out from the dark and hit me."

"You were the one who provoked him first, right?" Cai Ji said.

"That's terrible." Anthony asked blankly, "Have you had your rabies shot?"

"Yes. How long have you been awake?"

"I do not remember."

"I think you haven't slept for at least forty hours," Robinson said. "Go get some sleep."

"Oh... I still have one thing to finish... I'm almost there... I'm almost figuring it out..."

"Do you need some enlightenment?" Luo Binhan said, "Maybe you can get it after a good night's sleep?"

The phone in his pocket began to vibrate violently, and it kept vibrating. Luo Binhan reached out and pressed it as if nothing had happened. "Okay, just ignore what I said. But you really should take a break. Look, even your computer is taking a break."

In fact, he really hoped that Anthony would leave so that he could talk to Cai Ji alone. But the foreigner pulled up a chair and sat down. He leaned over the counter, opened the ring of the Coke can and gulped it down like a drunk struggling to drink the last bottle of wine of the day. Luo Binhan knew that he would not leave immediately, so he turned his head to look at Cai Ji and smiled helplessly.

"Give me something to drink, too," he said. "Why? Am I the only one who can't pay the bill?"

Cai Ji reluctantly threw another bottle of Coke in front of him. Luo Binhan looked at the churning liquid in his head and didn't dare to open it immediately. He could only put it on the counter and flick the bottle with his fingers.

"You two have made up?" Anthony asked, putting down the bottle.

"What are you talking about!" Robin Han said, "We are good friends."

"That's fine. So what's your problem?"

"what is the problem?"

Anthony looked at Cai Ji, then tapped his head. "Do you remember the little problem you mentioned?"

“Oh, that,” Robinson said. “No. I gave up.”

The red-haired foreigner's lifeless eyes suddenly became active. He looked at Luo Binhan in confusion. "You gave up?" He asked hesitantly, "You mean you don't want to know what you forgot anymore?"

"Yeah. I figured it out. None of that matters."

"But I remember..."

"I met a girl during this time," said Robinson. "She's nice. I don't want to dwell on the past anymore."

"Ah, that's it."

Anthony was at a loss for a moment, then reluctantly said, "That's a good thing, um, you can let it go. Congratulations. It's a good thing to let it go."

"You've been here for a while," Robinson asked. "I'm not unwelcome, but doesn't anyone in your hometown miss you? Or are you ready to settle here for a long time?" "I have to go back," Anthony said. But after a while he added, "I have to stay here for a while."

Luo Binhan wanted to stop talking here. He and this poor foreigner were just casual acquaintances, but somehow, Yu Xiaorong's face flashed into his mind. This red-haired guy was also a stranger in a strange land, with no one to talk to, and he didn't seem to be willing to enjoy the joy of solitude.

"You should move on too." He said a little rashly, "You have a sister, right? And I have the impression that you have a pretty good relationship. She would be sad if she saw you like this."

"Yes, she will," Anthony murmured. His vision blurred again. "I promised her that she could take care of herself. Well... I just..."

"Still thinking about your ex-girlfriend?"

Anthony mumbled something vaguely, all in English, and Robinson couldn't quite make it out. He could only roughly hear something like "She's a jerk." He shrugged, remembering what Yu Xiaorong had told him about a guy who tried to woo Anti-Pierre and what a sad ending it was.

"Hey," Robin Han patted him on the back, "woman!"

"Don't talk about women in my shop." Cai Ji sneered, "If you want to do anything dirty, get out of here."

"There's only one person here who has a head full of dirty thoughts and has never been in contact with a woman." Luo Binhan hummed happily, "I won't tell you who it is--"

Cai Ji glared at him. Luo Binhan looked around the store again. "By the way, where's the parrot?" he asked. "Where did you leave that little thing? Zhou Yu hasn't come back from his business trip yet."

"I roasted it and ate it." Cai Ji said coldly.

Luo Binhan said nonchalantly: "Then give me a discount on my order?"

"I'll give it to you if you get out of here right now."

"Would it offend you if I asked?" interposed Anthony. "What's the quarrel between you two?"

"A little grudge. My brother had a fight with his boss at his last job and he lost his job."

"You call this a small festival!" Cai Ji said angrily.

“Then he opened this store,” Robinson continued. “I just found out about it not long ago. Somehow he found out about my relationship with my brother and got to know me.”

Anthony nodded. "I see," he said. "Well... I don't mean to be nosy, but you better keep an eye on your brother. If no one is watching, he might do something worse. There was a guy in my middle school who was a bully at first, but later he was arrested for robbery."

"Everyone here has sibling problems," Robinson said, "except one person, and I won't tell you who it is."

Cai Ji lowered his head and slowly wiped a clean cup. The light in the store seemed to be getting dim, and a damp and cold breeze seeped out from the shadows. Anthony sneezed and poured the rest of the Coke into his mouth.

"I should go now." He rubbed his nose. "I really need to rest or I'll catch a cold. See you next time."

He paid for the Coke, jumped off the chair, and walked out of the store with his computer under his arm. Luo Binhan turned around and watched him leave, then said, "I feel that his complexion is getting worse and worse. I hope he can go back to his hometown as soon as possible."

"You might as well go back to your hometown." Cai Ji said.

"Why? You wanted me to stay and hide yesterday." Luo Binhan turned around and said, "I just want to know, if that thing is coming for me, is it really safe for me to hide here?"

"You're not going to tell him the address directly?"

"That's not the case. But what if he comes here on his own? If you asked me to stay here just because he didn't know the address, I can just stay in a random hotel, or even go on a trip." Luo Binhan raised his head and said, "The turtle's neck shrank like that--"

"Do you know how dangerous he is?" Cai Ji shouted, "Stop smiling at me!"

Robinson sat up straighter. "All right," he said. "Then, in a nutshell, I'm going to kill him. It's a done deal."

Cai Ji's cheek twitched. "Just you?"

"And my OneNet smart phone," Robinson said. "But, indeed, I tried it this evening, and it didn't seem to be enough. So I wondered if I could talk to your boss. I know we can't meet, but you could at least send me a few words."

Cai Ji was obviously hesitant. "Not now," he said finally, "It'll take a while... I can't contact him now."

"What is she doing? Isn't she busy running a prison in the underworld?"

"I can't go there anytime." Cai Ji said, "I... am not a dead soul."

He must have more to say, but Luo Binhan didn't want to get to the bottom of it. His purpose was elsewhere. "How long will it take you to contact her? And then get back to me?"

"A few weeks at least."

"It's been too long." Robin Han said immediately, "There's not that much time."

Cai Ji laughed and said, "Are you in a hurry to hold the funeral?"

"I'm in a hurry to pick flowers on the moon."

"what?"

"I talked to him this evening," Robinson said. "We talked about a lot of random things. But, I have a friend who I haven't heard from recently. He kindly told me that my dear friend might have gone to the moon without telling me to pick a flower he planted. If I'm right, when that flower blooms, our place will become very, very, very lively."

"……What's the meaning?"

Robin Han tried hard to recall what Upsilon had said. "This is a general term for a type of plant." He repeated what he had heard as accurately as possible. "Their spores can swim in the universe. As long as it is not completely dark, they can swim very fast with a little light. When they find a planet with signs of life, they will immediately land and grow, releasing gases that have a psychedelic effect on local species, making all life happy and forgetful. At the same time, they also release a signal. It is not an electromagnetic wave, but... a signal with hyperspatial properties, which will attract creatures that are sensitive to waves to come here to hunt."

Cai Ji stared at him for a full minute, then asked, "What do you mean?"

"Uh, let me rephrase that," Robinson said. "The moon is blooming, and we are dead."

He looked up at the ceiling and asked curiously, "Can your boss's place accommodate billions of dead people? Or will he kick out those without household registration?"

Cai Ji had already let go of the cup he was wiping. After a long while, he asked, "Where is your friend? He's not an ordinary person, is he?"

"He's on the moon," Robinson said. "But here's the problem: First, he's actually a therapist. Second, our guitarist knows he's there. Third, if he could do it, he should have come back to take credit for it. Can he do it in the end? I can't say, but I've decided to help him from down there."

Cai Ji sat down in silence. For a moment he seemed to want to say something, but in the end he swallowed it back. "Is time really that tight?" he asked, "If we wait another month or two..."

"Maybe the trouble will go away by itself." Robinson continued, "How can I be sure? Maybe he didn't plant anything on the moon? Maybe the flower won't grow? Maybe your boss can strangle it to death in the underworld? Maybe some god passed by and plucked it out? I didn't say it's impossible, but I want to do my own thing, understand? If the flower finally grows and I can't do anything about it, at least the person who planted it must go with me. That's what I mean. I won't change my mind again."

Cai Ji turned away. "I can't beat him," he said defensively, "It's not that I'm a coward... If I get close to him, I can't do anything. I... can't move."

"Why?" Robin Han stared at him and asked, "What would it feel like?"

"It's a voice... the voice of the shadow."

This was exactly what Luo Binhan wanted to hear. He saw that Cai Ji's two palms had unconsciously covered his head, and he was scratching his scalp vigorously with his fingers, as if something was crawling under his scalp. For a moment, he felt that the face under those palms looked like Lot.

He quickly regained his composure, stood up and moved deeper into the counter. "You said that for a period of time, you couldn't see anything about the outside world." He walked around the counter, "You couldn't understand what people said, couldn't recognize words, and finally couldn't see anything meaningful. Right? You felt like you had turned into some kind of creature without vision."

He squatted down in front of Cai Ji and looked at the face that was twitching under his palm. When the other person's dark eyes glanced at him, he felt the hair on his body stand up.

"It keeps going until you hear someone's voice," he continued, reaching into his pocket to grab the gun. "You just keep following that voice until the badass woman catches you."

He stared at the twisted and hideous face. The mouth on the face opened, but the sound that came out was very unfamiliar, like a gust of wind blowing out from a dark cave.

"do not talk……"

"Have you ever thought about what would happen if you caught the owner of that voice?" Robinson continued, "Would that voice have a definite form? Would it suddenly give you a sense of touch and hearing?"

"do not talk!"

"I have to say," Robinson took a step back and pulled the gun out of his pocket, "I don't mean to target you, but I have to make this clear."

"Get it clear, and then, how?"

"Then we go kill people," Robinham said. "That's the key. We'll kill the shadow the same way it finds its master."

(End of this chapter)