Hidden Corners

Cool breeze.

Marianne glanced at Li Chengyi's outstretched hand, smiled, and finally reached out and shook it gently.

"Actually, I don't like this way of greeting." She said softly, "In my hometown, hands are very important attack tools. Once people get close and touch their bodies, they may be seized by others and killed with one blow. .”

"Your hometown? Can I ask where it is?" Li Chengyi asked.

"A small country called Libiru, where it is chaotic and backward." Marianne pulled out the chair, sat down lightly, and crossed her legs slightly.

"It's full of gangs, drugs, smuggling, arms, every crime you can think of, it's there."

"It's hard to struggle out of that kind of place, right?" Li Chengyi asked.

"It's actually not difficult." Marianne looked at Li Chengyi who was also sitting down, her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, "As long as you learn to completely kill any threat, you can live a good life."

"Hehe... You really know how to joke. But it sounds a bit like the chaotic area in the novel." Li Chengyi smiled dryly, "I have never seen such a place. I have been in Suiyang since I was born. There are only a handful of other places.”

"That's why you're so cute." Marianne leaned forward slightly, ignoring the faint whiteness of the black and purple tube top.

She stared at Li Chengyi.

"Compared to your sister, you are much cuter"

"Miss Marianne, can you not describe it that way? After all, I am also an adult in my twenties." Li Chengyi showed an awkward expression that he was not used to.

"Then do you know how old I am?" Marianne smiled.

"Twenty-seven?" Li Chengyi guessed.

"I just passed my 53rd birthday last week." Marianne said her age without any hesitation, and she spoke Yiguo very well without using any translation equipment at all.

"Fifty-three!?" Li Chengyi was really surprised this time.

No matter how he looked at it, he could not see that Marianne was fifty-three years old.

Even if there are many genetic medicines that can be used to maintain the body and delay aging in this world, it is too exaggerated to look like a 20-year-old at the age of fifty-three.

He had obtained Marianne's information from Boss Syndra.

Marianne West Union, this is an extremely dangerous woman who has been expelled from many countries and has not done too many dangerous crimes.

It's not at the same level as a small character like him who only dares to make trouble in a small city and kill people quietly.

After he got the information, he could basically determine that the last time his evil thoughts suddenly filled up at home inexplicably, it was probably the absorption of Marian.

He is not a fool, and he can judge some facts from the performance of Marianne and his sister Li Chengjiu.

"May I ask, what is the relationship between my sister Li Chengjiu and Miss Marian?" Li Chengyi asked without any pretense.

"It's a very ordinary relationship between a newcomer and a senior." Marianne said with a smile, "You can call me Marlene directly, this is the name I use in Yiguo."

"Okay, Ma Lian, can you briefly tell me which company and unit my sister and you belong to?" Li Chengyi said that I was just curious, and didn't look like I was inquiring about sensitive information.

"We all belong to the Hongli Group. Recently, I was seconded to the branch here in Suiyang. I saw the job application resume sent by your sister, and then I thought she was pretty good, so I accepted." Marianne opened her mouth and said no one believed it. nonsense.

"So what about you?" Suddenly she moved closer. There was an inexplicable excitement in the look in his eyes.

It's the natural desire and curiosity that comes with seeing something you're interested in.

"Xiao Chengyi, do you smell like you've been washed?"

"smell?"

Li Chengyi's heart shuddered, and he also narrowed his eyes. He is not used to this kind of overly approaching distance violation, and unconsciously, the flower language ability has been faintly concentrated in his hand, ready to make the first move at any time.

He lowered his head and pretended to drink the juice, but in fact he was hiding the killing intent that naturally sprouted in his heart.

Some things cannot be hidden by a simple pair of glasses.

"Okay, it's getting late, how about an exchange of contact information?" Marianne stood up, feeling much better than before.

She tapped her glasses lightly with her fingers, obviously she was also wearing AR.

Soon, a friend request was sent to Li Chengyi's mobile phone.

This is a close face-to-face transfer function.

Li Chengyi quickly took out his phone, confirmed, and added.

look up.

Suddenly he was surprised to find that Marianne had walked around behind him silently.

A faint fragrance hit from the back of the head.

"Next time. Remember to wash off the blood on your body before coming out, Xiao Chengyi."

Marianne's voice was soft and seductive, faintly visible, like a whisper.

Xiangfeng left quickly.

The smile on Li Chengyi's face slowly disappeared.

He stood up from the seat and turned to look at Marian who was gradually going away, not knowing where he was spotted by the other party.

Standing in place, watching Marian gradually disappear into a silver-gray car by the side of the road with two bodyguards.

Before getting into the car, Marianne looked at him from afar, with a smile in her blue eyes.

Li Chengyi then withdrew his idea of ​​whether to catch up and kill the three of them quietly.

'Is it really so obvious? '

Instead, he thought about what the other party had just said.

Where on earth was he seen?

Watching the car slowly go away and disappear at the end of the road.

Li Chengyi didn't sit down again, he picked up the juice on the table and drank it down.

Then check out and leave quickly.

He must quickly find out how Marian sees the source of his problems.

Of course, maybe she was just joking, but the odds were too low for him to bet on it.

Within ten minutes, the two left the food stall one after the other.

Lin Sang stood at the side, her face flushed, and she clenched her hands tightly, watching Li Chengyi finally leave, and didn't even look at her again until she left.

Looking at Brother Kun and the rest of his companions, talking and laughing, pointing in his direction, he got up and left on his own.

The others were smiling, and Brother Kun was also smiling, but the smile was completely different from usual. Although he was smiling, there was a trace of obvious irritation on his face.

Until the last time they left, they were just like Li Chengyi, they didn't look at her again.

This moment.

The sense of shame in Lin Sang's heart finally reached its peak at this moment.

Her lips trembled, and she knelt down on the spot, closed her eyes and covered her head, and began to cry.

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Li Chengyi kept his head down all the way forward, trying not to let others see his eyes.

He glanced at the time on his glasses, it was 17:32 in the afternoon.

'By the way, the evolution of the gladiolus is completed, so the new flower god should be able to open, right? ’ Suddenly he paused, and thought of the mountain red on the Zhaoshan side again in his mind.

The mountain red in the dead corner of Wu Street, carrying the flower language, is the focus that he has been unable to give up until now.

Just as soon as he thought of that Shanlihong, he thought of another aspect.

'If I am determined to choose Shanlihong for the third position, then...for a long time to come, I will definitely be dragged in this progress.

After the dead corner is destroyed, it will restart at least once a week. If I want to repeatedly rely on the restart of the dead corner to absorb Shanlihong, let alone whether it can be done, even if it can be done, I have to wait for a long time to collect the quantity and meet the basic prerequisites for using flower language. .

Of course, it is also possible that a single flower can meet the requirements for forming a scale garment.

But he dared not gamble.

In the future, if I want to complete an evolution and open a new flower god position, it will inevitably be delayed for a long, long time, and if the dead corners of the foggy street fade and disappear in the middle, I may face a situation of being completely stuck. '

Li Chengyi unfolded his mental logic, he knew very well that choosing the Shanlihong was not the best choice. But his desire for high martial arts made him unable to give up this idea.

He couldn't give up the idea of ​​assigning the third Flower God position to Shan Lihong.

Along the edge of the street, he walked aimlessly all the way.

Unknowingly, I walked into a block full of bars, KTVs and barbecue shops on both sides.

Slightly loud music and rhythmic drums keep coming and going.

The flow of people around him gradually became crowded.

Young people who came out to hang out after dinner, couples, aunts who were too fat to show off their figure, and there were a few old men playing songs and dancing on portable speakers in the open space on the side of the street.

Two drunk girls with tube tops singing foolishly swayed past Li Chengyi.

The strong smell of alcohol pulled him back from the entanglement.

He paused.

'What am I struggling with? In any case, Shanlihong is just an unattainable picture for me now. The number of only one flower is too small, since such an abnormal flower can appear once in a blind spot, there must be a second and third time! '

'When I am more calm in the face of blind spots, I will think about abnormal flowers like Shanlihong! '

Finally, he made a thorough decision—to temporarily give up Shanlihong.

At the moment of making this decision, Li Chengyi's heart seemed to drop a big stone. The whole person is much more relaxed.

He looked sideways at the outer glass of a milk tea shop on the right.

His face at this time was vaguely reflected on the glass.

Ordinary, as if smiling, and... Glasses also have some cold eyes that can't be blocked.

'It seems to be in the eyes'

Li Chengyi tried to adjust his gaze, but failed several times. That coldness was biting to the bone, and it was still coming out from the depths of his eyes.

He was a little irritable, and even more annoyed when he heard the loud music and drums in his ears.

Turning around, he walked quickly to the end of the street, wanting to leave the street as soon as possible.

He accelerated forward in one breath, and after a full five minutes, he quickly walked out of the block.

It was getting dark by now.

A row of vehicles of various colors were parked along the road, among which there were tens of millions of luxury cars.

Li Chengyi naturally walked towards the direction with fewer people.

Passing by a small supermarket, he felt a little thirsty, paused, pushed the door open, and wanted to buy a bottle of drink.

Ding dong.

There was an automatic electronic welcome sound at the door.

In the bright small supermarket, there are various colorful commodities on the shelves.

On the side of each shelf, there is a white plastic sign with the category name of the corresponding product.

Snacks, drinks, daily use, fruits and vegetables, frozen.

Li Chengyi walked to the drinks section, glanced around, and frowned slightly.

'It's all undrunk. '

He looked up at the ceiling above his head. There were a few white lights hanging on the white plastic board. The light shone unevenly, and there was a slight current humming faintly.

After looking at it, he casually took out a bottle of strawberry-apple mixed juice and looked at the brand. The brand was a line of letters he had never seen before. The logo was a blue strawberry with a classic three curved lines drawn on it to form a smiling face.

Li Chengyi took the juice and walked towards the cashier at the door.

The cash register is a glass counter more than two meters long, inside which are various black, white and red cigarette cases.

On the counter stood a tumbler full of lollipops and a box of cheap lighters with the lids on.

"Boss, collect the money." Li Chengyi stood by the counter and yelled loudly when he saw that there was no one at the cash register.

No one responded.

The small supermarket was quiet, only the faint sound of electricity from the light tubes.

"Boss?" Li Chengyi raised his voice.

There was still no answer, and his voice echoed slightly in the entire small supermarket.