"You mean, we live in an era where humans and taboos coexist? And... now there is a foreign taboo force that intends to kidnap me?"

Li Ren, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the pink car and had obediently followed Qingcai home, was pointing at his puzzled face and asking.

Since Jiang Ye came to the rescue last night and protected Li Ren who was besieged by the swarm of insects, he was taken to the Wulin branch of the committee, where he tasted the cockroach dishes carefully prepared by the cafeteria aunt.

After a hearty meal, Qingcai explained to him all the things about taboos, overlapping days and the committee, and also let Li Ren watch the shocking propaganda film of the committee.

After all this, it was already dusk outside the car window, and the sky was getting darker. People were walking, walking their dogs, and walking their children on the road.

As for the person holding the steering wheel, it is the young vegetable who has been working overtime for many days and has not slept for a whole day and night.

When she heard the question from Li Ren, the passenger seat, she put on the smile that looked like she was about to die from overwork again: "Yes, there is a group of foreign taboos who are thinking about how to kidnap you. You better be careful recently."

Qingcai said jokingly.

At the same time, she turned the steering wheel to the right and drove the pink two-seater car that she bought with a loan of 36 installments into the ground parking space in the community that she also bought with a loan of 36 installments.

"Excuse me..." Li Ren looked at the passers-by outside the car window, holding their phones and laughing, and said hesitantly: "This is just an ordinary community, right?"

Just as Li Ren said, the community where Qingcai lives is next to Wulin National University of Defense Technology. It is just an ordinary old community built more than ten years ago, with dark and damaged small high-rise buildings and moss on the surface of the buildings.

Qingcai naturally heard the confusion in Li Ren's tone.

She first looked at Li Ren meaningfully, and then suppressed the urge to blurt out: "The housing price in this shabby community is already 150,000 yuan per square meter."

Then, Qingcai parked the car and took a deep breath. She immediately replied with a professional smile, "It was Minister Jiang's arrangement that I live here."

As she spoke, she opened the car door first and then led Li Ren towards the building where she lived.

"In short..." Qingcai said as he skillfully opened the damaged and paint-chipped gate of the apartment building: "As long as the committee decides to protect you, then no matter where you are or what you do, it is under the committee's control."

"Of course, the premise is that you are in the country. Because... the committee has corresponding jurisdiction divisions with countries around the world." Qingcai continued to add.

Then, she suddenly screamed "Ah!——", instantly turning on the voice-controlled lights in the corridor.

The roar was so sudden that even Li Ren, who was as calm as he was, was startled.

On the other hand, Qingcai continued the topic calmly: "So... as long as you are in the country, you are relatively safe."

"Relatively safe?" Li Ren asked back.

"Yeah..." As he was talking, the lights in the corridor suddenly went out. So Qingcai yelled "Ah!——" again and turned on the voice-activated lights again.

Seeing this, Li Ren wanted to complain about something.

But before he could open his mouth to complain, Qingcai continued: "If you were allowed to stay in the committee every day, with a conceptual bodyguard by your side..."

"…The taboo group that wanted to kidnap you probably don't dare to do it anymore."

Li Ren nodded when he heard this. Taboos are divided into three levels: phenomena, rules, and concepts. The most mysterious and powerful of these is the concept-level taboo. He has heard Qingcai talk about this kind of knowledge.

Meanwhile, Qingcai was still climbing the stairs, panting, and said tiredly, "Look, there's a famous saying: 'It's better to lure out the thief and kill him than to guard against him for a thousand days.'"

"Who said this famous saying?" Li Ren wondered.

"Minister Jiang Ye."

Then, the two looked at each other and remained silent for a few seconds.

"So..." Qingcai continued the previous topic: "Instead of guarding you closely every day and forcing those enemies with unknown motives to hide in the dark and remain silent."

As she was speaking, the voice-activated lights in the corridor went out for the Nth time.

This time, even a professional woman like Qingcai could not help but smile apologetically: "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you..."

Qingcai took the initiative to explain: "In order to save electricity, other owners of this building set the voice-controlled lights to this mode of turning off every few seconds."

"In addition, after the old elevator in the building broke down, there has been no consensus on how to share the elevator maintenance costs among the floors..." Qingcai's tone was filled with deep fatigue.

"Now, every day..." Qingcai said with a helpless smile: "I basically have to climb the stairs while shouting to the beat."

After saying that, she raised her head and looked at the voice-activated light. Then she cried out weakly: "Ah!——"

Then, there was light again.

At this point, Qingcai got back to business: "Back to the topic just now... Instead of letting the enemy hide in the dark and think about you every day, Minister Jiang thinks that it is better for us to relax our vigilance on the surface and lure the other side to take action earlier." "You mean..." Li Ren heard the hidden meaning in her words: "I am a bait?"

"Well... in a sense." Qingcai did not shy away from the topic: "You don't have to worry too much about this. When something really happens, the committee will come forward to protect you. And..."

As they talked, they had already climbed to the 13th floor. Then Qingcai slowly walked to the room with the sign "Room 1301" and took out the copper key with a black cat keychain from her bag.

Li Ren discovered that the cartoon black cat on the keychain had a pair of red and blue eyes, which looked very much like the cat-like Jiang Ye he had seen not long ago.

Just as Li Ren was thinking about the possible deep relationship between this man and this cat.

Qingcai had already opened the door skillfully, and then slowly pulled open the door of this apartment - a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment with a total price of over 480 million yuan, which she had taken out a -installment loan on her own.

"And..." Qingcai continued the previous topic while opening the door: "The committee has also arranged a reliable personal bodyguard for you."

After Qingcai finished speaking, she walked into the room first.

Following the space she left, Li Ren saw an indescribable life form "sitting" on the plush sofa in the middle of the living room.

This life form is jelly-like, brown-red in color, and its surface is covered with tiny holes like a honeycomb.

Its height and weight are not inferior to those of medium and large dogs such as golden retrievers, huskies, and Rottweilers. However, the dense holes on its body, which are arranged in clusters like lotus pods, will only induce the intensive phobia hidden in human primitive instincts, and will not bring any sense of closeness to people.

As for things that are even more eye-catching than this.

There were milky white tentacles that looked like worms, vaguely poking out from these densely packed holes.

Li Ren's eyes swept across these thread-like tentacles one by one.

Then he was surprised to find that

One of the tentacles was tightly wrapped around the TV remote control and was constantly pressing the "volume +" button.

Li Ren immediately realized that this indescribable thing seemed to be disturbed by the noise of the two of them returning home. At this time, he was silently turning up the volume of the TV.

"Is it watching TV?" Li Ren wondered in his heart, and looked at the TV screen curiously.

At this moment, the ending credits of an anime series were playing on the 65-inch ultra-thin LCD TV that Qingcai took home in full payment.

In the scene, the crimson mechas are fighting fiercely with various types of giant beasts. The passionate ending song, combined with the fast-paced flashing of battle scenes from different perspectives, which are sometimes far away and sometimes close, is extremely exciting.

Looking at the TV again, the indescribable creature was at ease, its tentacles stretched out of the holes and swayed back and forth happily, precisely following the beats of the anime's ending song.

Just as Li Ren fell into silence because of this scene.

A girl's surprised voice suddenly came from the kitchen: "Hey? Qingcai, you guys are back so early..."

Li Ren looked in the direction of the voice and found that the person who spoke was the girl in tights named "Honglian" who was driving a crimson mecha that he had seen on the street not long ago.

However, Honglian's clothes were not as tight as usual. She was only wearing a pure white camisole and knee-length shorts.

While Li Ren was thinking, Honglian had already walked out of the kitchen holding a plate of watermelon in one hand.

Then she walked into the living room and continued, "My sister was really hungry, so I cut up the watermelon in the refrigerator... hehe."

She said this with a mischievous smile at Qingcai who was changing her shoes.

Then, before Qingcai could reply, Honglian quickly walked to the sofa and put the whole plate of watermelon on the coffee table in front of the TV.

"Eat, sister." Honglian said to the unspeakable thing who was watching TV intently.

As soon as she finished speaking, tentacles began to appear inside her "sister's" body, extending from the holes on her body surface and pulling pieces of watermelon into her body.

Accompanied by the harsh chewing sound of countless teeth colliding with each other in the "sister's" body, and wisps of watermelon juice splashing along the tiny holes.

The ending of the anime playing on TV is finally coming to an end.

The exciting ending theme gradually faded until the screen went black. A line of text slowly appeared on the screen:

“The second season of Red and Kallen is now scheduled to air in August this year.”

In the lower right corner of the picture, there is a line of inconspicuous small words: "Solely sponsored by Wulin Construction Group." (End of this chapter)

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