The end of the world begins with failing an exam.

Chapter 239 That Ray of Sunshine in the Abyss

"Let's hurry up."

At the dinner table, Li Mobai opened a bottle of white wine for himself first, and didn't intend to pour the wine for Chen Jing and Qiao Youning, and directly blew a third of the bottle.

"After this meal, I have to go to the city, there is still a meeting over there..."

"It's different for Brother Li to be the vice president." Chen Jing said in a voice, "Now you can feel the feeling of a busy person, right?"

"Can you stop hurting me, I was not idle before!" Li Mobai couldn't laugh or cry, "I'm going back soon, let the candidates prepare before leaving, don't do any dangerous things before crossing, go elsewhere In a dangerous environment..."

"They're not stupid." Qiao Youning couldn't help complaining, then turned her head to look outside the room, "Ah Jing, won't they eat with us?"

"There are plenty of opportunities to eat when we go back, so don't be in a hurry." Chen Jing said with a smile, "Let's talk about ours."

"I don't know if friends on this forum can still use it when they return to the home world..." Li Mobai seemed a little uneasy when he mentioned this, "If it can be used...it should be much more convenient for us to communicate..."

"It's a pity that you are not in Yongye." Chen Jing said helplessly, "The communication methods in the other world are not uniform, and it is useless for us to leave our phone numbers."

"Ji Zhou doesn't even have a phone..." Qiao Youning lowered her head, poking the white rice in the bowl with her chopsticks, "I want to meet again... I guess I can only wait until this round of exams is over..."

During the period when he first returned to the watch world, Chen Jing always felt that his days were like years, because for him, the "home" in the other world is the real home.

There are grandpas and friends.

Living there is much more comfortable than watching the world.

But today.

Chen Jing suddenly felt that time passed quickly, and 30 days were gone in a blink of an eye.

"I heard from You Ning that you have worked hard during this time..." Li Mobai took another sip of white wine, and the gleam in Bibi Yi's eyes flickered faintly, "I didn't see you when I came here today...you Ning said that you took them to practice their sequence power..."

Chen Jing hummed and nodded.

"It's always right to make some preparations first. When I return to Eternal Night City, there will be a Raphael waiting for me..."

"Damn it, you'll kill him when you go back!" Li Mobai scolded through gritted teeth, as if he was very angry, "He's really capable! We haven't been able to find his position until now!"

"It's okay, we'll talk about it when we go back to the other world." Chen Jing picked up the cold soda in his glass and touched Li Mobai's wine bottle, "You don't have to worry about me here, after you go back, pay attention to your own safety, and don't fall down for no reason. .”

"Oh, the big guy on the list just speaks differently..." Li Mobai panicked when he thought of the ranking on the leaderboard, and couldn't help but start to get angry, "You have to cover me when you go back to the back world!"

"It's easy to say." Chen Jing grinned.

Three wine tours...

In fact, it didn't take long.

Less than 10 minutes after the meal started, Li Mobai received more than 20 messages urging him to go to the meeting.

Chen Jing and Qiao Youning didn't dare to keep this busy man, so they could only bid him farewell and let him go back to the city for a meeting.

"There are so many things about these dogs..."

When Li Mobai left, he was still cursing non-stop. When he was parting, he shook hands with Qiao Youning, hugged his good brother Chen Jing, and then left gracefully with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Live well." Li Mobai only left this sentence.

Looking at the back of Li Mobai leaving in a hurry, Chen Jing sat on the chair and couldn't help being stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the briefcase on the sofa.

"Does he go out without a brain... Those documents for the meeting are just left behind..."

"I'll go and give it to him." Qiao Youning stood up, and picked up the briefcase without waiting for Chen Jing to refuse, "You've been busy with cultivation all day, so take a good rest now, and I'll go."

"Okay...then you come back quickly! There are still about ten minutes to go back to the examination room!"

"I know~"

……

Compared to driving back to the city, Li Mobai chose to run back directly. After all, his speed is much faster than that of a car, but his running posture is a bit indecent.

If Chen Jing sees it, he will definitely complain that he is a wild monkey running wild in the mountains...

When Qiao Youning caught up with him, he was almost down the mountain.

"Bag." Qiao Youning threw the briefcase over.

"Damn it, I almost forgot... Thank you!" Li Mobai nodded with a smile, holding his briefcase tightly with a look of rejoicing.

"Tell you something."

Qiao Youning had no intention of leaving just now, she stood under a tree with her hands behind her back, looking at Li Mobai who was more than ten meters away, looking a little wary.

"Tell me." Li Mobai nodded.

"I probably know what you've been up to these days...Ah Jing is not a fool...he can tell..." Qiao Youning said calmly, "So be careful...don't involve him... "

Li Mobai froze for a moment, then laughed.

"In what capacity are you warning me?"

"Friend." Qiao Youning replied with a smile, "Aren't you too."

"Hey, you really have changed, the world has become..." Li Mobai shook his head helplessly.

"It's become less stupid." Qiao Youning put away the smile on her face, and her expression gradually became serious, "He doesn't like those worldly things, you should know... But I think you, as his friend, you Probably wouldn't do that."

"I know you still ask me!" Li Mobai scolded angrily, "Do I have such a grandson!"

"I'm afraid that one day you will accidentally say something wrong. After all, you know his character. If you let him hear that you are in trouble and need help, he will definitely..."

"I know, you don't need to remind me."

Li Mobai raised his head to look at the cloudless sky, only felt that the afternoon sun was a bit harsh, making people feel inexplicably irritable.

"Speaking of which, how are you doing with him now?"

"what?"

"Relationship." Li Mobai seemed to have thought of something funny, and suddenly gave Qiao Youning a playful look, "Don't you like him? We've been living together for almost a month now, and the relationship hasn't made any progress yet?"

"Being friends is enough." Qiao Youning turned around and prepared to go back, as if she didn't want to continue this topic.

"I don't even understand you anymore. You obviously like his face to death. Now that you see it every day, you can still bear it... You don't even confess?"

"I'm not as superficial as you think. It's not because of his face that I like him." Qiao Youning stopped and looked back at Li Mobai. "From the time I was sensible until high school, I never felt respected. Only he respected me." Willing to help me..."

Li Mobai lit a cigarette, just smiled and didn't speak.

He knew what Qiao Youning was like in the past, so he was not surprised to hear these words.

After all, a child who is neglected by the family, coupled with a scruffy appearance, is indeed not easy to be respected or liked by others.

Adults don't like it.

The same goes for peers.

Li Mobai still remembers that Qiao Youning in high school was actually inconspicuous, and she was very different from her now... thick glasses that can cover half of her face, plus acne on her face during adolescence, and dry and messy hair. Always a random braid.

Can't say ugly.

It can only be said to be inconspicuous.

Like air.

Even before the last class reunion, Li Mobai didn't recognize Qiao Youning at first sight when he first got the message from Qiao Youning.

"When I was in high school, I was always treated like air, even those female classmates who seemed to have a good relationship with me. They liked to use me as a servant, and from time to time they made excuses to suppress me, saying that I was not good here. ..."

Qiao Youning seemed to be telling another person's story, but a layer of mist appeared in the eyes looking at Li Mobai, but her tone was still so calm that it was outrageous.

"At that time, you also know my submissive character. I listened to what they said, because I only had their friends."

"I have tried to talk to them more than once about my family and the grievances I suffered since I was a child, but they never took it to heart and used it as a joke to others. When I got angry, I said I couldn't take a joke. Too stingy... I have to apologize to them in the end."

Li Mobai stopped laughing, and scratched his head with an embarrassed expression.

"Only Chen Jing has never done this. The first time he heard about my family from an outsider, it was my best friend who told him as a joke. Everyone else was laughing at me for being worthless, only him He handed me a note in private, first to explain me, and then to teach me how to change the status quo..."

"He does this to everyone." Li Mobai spread his hands, "As long as he doesn't hate that person too much, he will do it. It's not like you don't know that the person surnamed Chen is a bad person...I feel it, you It just magnifies the feeling."

"I do not care."

Qiao Youning was unmoved, she seemed to have known this for a long time, and the expression on her face was still calm.

"For so many years, he was the first person who made me feel respected, and the first person who was willing to listen to me and give me advice."

"So I like him, not because of his face."

"Oh, I know, I know!" Li Mobai interrupted Qiao Youning, and hastily raised his hands to show that he was wrong, "I'm a bitch! Don't worry about it!"

As soon as the words fell, Li Mobai couldn't help asking any more.

"Then why don't you ask him to confess? Are you afraid of being rejected?"

"afraid."

Qiao Youning replied without hesitation.

Speaking of this, she suddenly couldn't help laughing.

"His personality is so good, he is always afraid of causing trouble to others, and also afraid of accidentally hurting others, so... I know he doesn't like me, he just treats me as a friend, but isn't that enough? Isn't it enough? Do you have to make him feel ashamed to be happy?"

"Yeah." Li Mobai lowered his head and slowly exhaled.

"You don't have to say it if you like it." Qiao Youning turned around and walked towards the old house on the mountain, her voice was very soft as if she had no strength.

"I seemed to be living in the shadows for the past ten years, and I wanted to change the status quo more than once, but not everyone is born with the courage to change their lives... I am a poor person, and I must be hateful."

Li Mobai looked at Qiao Youning's back with a complicated expression, only feeling that she looked lonely, as if she hadn't changed all these years.

"For me, he is the sun I saw in the abyss. I am very satisfied to be able to walk a certain distance with his light. I don't even dare to imagine that I can go further... So, when a friend has What's wrong?"

Yes.

There's nothing wrong with being friends.

Don't have unrealistic delusions...

Qiao Youning warned herself like this in her heart.

Until I returned to the old house.

Seeing the busy figure calling Yegtos for help, running back and forth to clean up the mess on the dining table, her heart that had just hardened suddenly softened again, and she always felt that she had a lot to say but didn't have the courage.

"Hurry up and help!"

Chen Jing frantically wiped the table with a towel, sweating profusely, seeing Qiao Youning come back, it was like seeing a savior.

"There are still 5 minutes before I go back! This time it is estimated to be another month! My dishes and chopsticks are still piled up, and the garbage bags have not been cleared..."

"When we come and go back and forth, it's an instant to this world. Put them in the kitchen and they won't get worms."

Qiao Youning rolled up her sleeves and ran into the house, flicking the ponytail at the back of her head.

Although what she said made sense, in the end she still took into account Chen Jingjie's obsessive temperament.

"Put down the rag and let me do it! You go clean up the dishes! Just ask Aji to dispose of the garbage!"

"Hey! That's right! Aji, come here..."

Chen Jing ran into the kitchen in a hurry and took out the food waste bags.

"You won't let me eat it, will you?" Baiaji poked his head outside the gate, looking warily at the King of Deep Space who could give him all his loyalty.

"I saw you flying fast...I told you to take it away...what are you thinking..." Chen Jing laughed awkwardly.

Bai Aji raised his paw vigilantly, pointed to the ground outside the threshold, motioned for Chen Jing to put it on the ground, and then ran out more than ten meters away in an instant.

Seeing Chen Jing obediently put the garbage bag in the designated place, Bai Aji remained vigilant, muttering "Back! Back! Back", then rushed forward, flapped his wings and flew away with the garbage bag in his mouth up.

The sky was bright and sunny.

The wind is also gentle.

It's just that the smell from the garbage bags is a bit stinky.

Maybe this is the taste of home.

"vomit……"

"It really stinks..."

"I don't know if that bastard Jaegertos will smell so bad after he dies..."

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