"Wait?! Where's the boss?"
"Didn't we make the pact in Yue Lao Temple?"
"It's all over, and everyone is gone!"
Yue Lao Temple is only for signing contracts. After signing the contract, there is a special teleporter to send players back to Yue Lao Temple Flower Sea. After Su Mo came out, he realized that there were too many people. There were even magpies in the sky. At a glance, there were so many people that the road was blocked. The side of the teleporter was full of people.
It is easy to enter the temple and make a covenant, but it is difficult to leave Yue Lao Temple among the crowd.
Fortunately, there were props bound to special scenes on the Yu Zhen. After he was teleported to Sunset City, Su Mo used a thread to transfer him there.
"I sent them a message." Su Mo looked at the world channel: "It seems that something strange happened at Yue Lao Temple. I saw the world channel discussing it."
Yu Zhen looked through his friends' messages and noticed the question from Ta Yunzhong. He was confused but still said, "But Ta Yunzhong seemed to have misunderstood and thought we had encountered something strange, so there were so many people in Yue Lao Temple just now."
Sunset City seemed a little emptier than before, and the two walked side by side towards the restaurant they had agreed on earlier.
On the way, Yu Zhen supported Su Mo to prevent him from knocking over the vendor next to him, and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"Look at the skills. I didn't pay attention when we made the contract." Su Mo's attention fell on the two new skills. He grabbed Yu Zhen's sleeve and stared at the skill page. "The third skill of Yixianqian is unlocked..."
The thread of connection was originally a strange item for Sumo, and later became a two-way strange skill during the Qixi event. In addition to the commonly used teleportation and blood sharing, there is also an unactivated skill position. This time, the contract directly opened this skill slot, and a more special 3rd skill, the Winged Couple, was released.
[Winged Love: When you are in the same scene with your destined person [Freedom of Action] and the distance is no more than 30 meters, you can activate the special anecdote skill Winged Love. During the duration of the skill, the attack power of both destined people will increase by 5, the defense power will increase by 5, and the effect of skills directed at the destined person will increase by 10. This skill cannot be cleared, lasts for 10 seconds, and the recovery time is 5 minutes.]
Judging from the skill description, this is a same-field enhancement skill. As long as he and Yu Zhen are together, they can both be enhanced. The most special one is the effect of the skill of targeting the destined person... Su Mo paused, "Targeting skill, your formation locks on me, does it count as a targeting skill?"
"Yes. The same goes for your Xuanwu's damage reduction line." Yu Zhen explained: "The advantage of this skill is that my formation can give you an additional 10 bonus effect for 10 seconds, and your Xuanwu's damage reduction has a more prominent effect on my damage reduction."
Good skills...
After reading this, Su Mo fixed his eyes on the latest companion skill in the strange news skills. He heard that the triggering of the companion skill was related to the tacit understanding test before the players formed a contract. They did not trigger the tacit understanding test this time, so he thought that there would be no companion skill, but he did not expect that one would be spawned for them... Moreover, he had never seen this companion skill in the strategy guide, and it seemed to be a new type of companion skill.
The Taoist companion skill [Resurrection of Lovesickness] is a resurrection skill.
[Return of Longing (Daoist Companion): Life and death are in vain, but longing is hard to stop. When your Taoist companion dies in the scene and the distance is no more than 30 meters, you can use Return of Longing. Once this skill is activated, you can return to your companion. The skill has a 24-hour recovery time.]
Su Mo didn't think that strange skills like "A Line of Connection" were useful before, but later he became more and more proficient in using them and felt that these skills were very convenient to use when necessary. Apart from teleportation, the shared blood and strengthening are very applicable in many scenarios... Besides, this resurrection skill seems useless for 24 hours, but it can save a CD for treatment at a critical moment. It is a two-way skill. He can revive Yu Zhen, and Yu Zhen can also revive him.
When he saw the skill, Su Mo had already thought of many ways to use it.
Yu Zhen took Su Mo and walked two steps outside, avoiding the wandering vendors' carts.
Just as he was about to remind Su Mo to pay attention, he noticed the summoner beside him who was concentrating on the skills. The summoner seemed to have focused on the skill ranking. At this time, his left hand was tightly holding the sleeve beside him, and his other hand was quickly arranging the skills. He didn't pay attention to the outside environment, as if all his trust was placed in the person who led him forward.
Yu Zhen's gaze moved from Su Mo's face to his hand. The hand that was pulling his sleeve was slender and small, and looked fair and handsome, which made him think of Su Mo in real life.
He held Su Mo's hand. The joints of his hands were distinct, and there were thin calluses between the fingers, probably because he had been fiddling with parts for many years. The blood vessels on the back of his hands were clearly visible. He held them in his hands and they were cold and fragile, as if he could break them with just a little force.
"elder brother?"
Yu Zhen met Su Mo's gaze and came back to his senses: "What's wrong?"
Su Mo asked: "Aren't you leaving?"
"Let's go." Yu Zhen took the initiative to hold Su Mo's hand, "Give me your hand, I'll take you away."
The fingers held in the hand are very warm, the finger bones seem very strong, there are no calluses, and no visible blood vessels... Everything in the game is very realistic, so real that it integrates the vitality of human beings.
But Yu Zhen thought, it was still different after all.
When we arrived at the restaurant, most of the Fruit Gang members had already returned, and the remaining ones were stuck in traffic. The restaurant was filled with delicious food, and the expensive experience seats were placed outside the restaurant. Many people came to eat and drink for free, and many acquaintances came too.
"Did you see it?" Hong Guoguo asked.
Qingfeng nodded: "I saw it, they came in holding hands."
Huo Shu Yin Hua stood between the two of them, "And then?"
"No, he was just wondering if Momo and Xingzhi got married because they were going to do some weird mission." Apple continued expressionlessly, "He also thought that the two chose to get married in order to improve their Taoist partner skills."
Hong Guoguo said, "I'm not wrong. Wasn't there someone who went to get a certificate just to show off his skills a while ago?"
"What now?" Zhi Ge asked.
Hong Guoguo laughed and said, "We can't hold hands when we get married. No, I have to go ask."
He felt like he was completely blind having been in the team for so long, and all the gossip and fan fiction he had read over the years was in vain. It was only when the two big brothers got married in the game that he suddenly realized that there was something wrong with these two people from the beginning.
Seeing Hong Guoguo leaving, Huo Shu Yin Hua looked at Apple and spread his hands and said, "Do you still need to ask? I understand everything."
apple: "… "
Yu Zhen stopped at the entrance of the restaurant to talk with Ta Yunzhong and others, while Su Mo was pulled away by Hong Guoguo to ask questions. Doubts and excitement intertwined, with floats parading in Sunset City and fireworks continuously...
People were coming and going in the restaurant, and Su Mo was pulled to a table by Hong Guoguo to play cards.
Hong Guoguo was the banker. "Brother, there are no brothers in the card room. I am sorry for offending you tonight."
"Oh." Su Mo rarely played cards with them, but he got excited when he saw them, "How much is it per time?"
But Hong Guoguo miscalculated, because his brother was as good at counting cards as he was at counting numbers.
The excitement lasted until 11 o'clock in the evening. When Su Mo went offline to rest, Hong Guoguo saw him off with tears in her eyes for the first time. Not only did she not see him off, she also urged him to go to bed early.
After Su Mo logged off, he noticed that Yu Zhen had logged off earlier than him. When he came back from brushing his teeth, he found that Yu Zhen had brought him a foot bath bucket with various medicinal herbs in it. The strange smell was even more bitter than the medicine.
The medicinal materials arrived not long ago, and Yu Zhen went offline early to get this.
"I met a Chinese traditional Chinese medicine doctor when I was traveling in the early years of the star voyage. I bought some health-preserving herbs from him." Yu Zhen tested the water temperature with his hand and adjusted the temperature. "You can't just wait for your physique to recover to regulate your body. Keep soaking in these waters. They can cure your cold symptoms. OK, that's it."
Su Mo tested the water temperature with his foot and quickly put it in.
He shivered a bit, and after adapting to the temperature, he took the warm water from Lele and took the medicine. He leaned on the sofa wrapped in a blanket and asked, "Brother, how long do I have to soak this?"
"At least 20 minutes." Yu Zhen said.
Su Mo thought that time was running out, and when he saw that the newly added group was chatting, he joined in to join in. The newly added group was created by Tayunzhong, and it was full of old players of Tianhuan. It was originally called the Zongtianqi Exploration Group, and now it is considered a medium-sized chat group. The group is a channel group shared by StarNet and Optical Brain, which is convenient for Su Mo who does not have a StarNet account.
This group is very lively and all the chats are about games.
Su Mo had not been in the group for long, but the current message had already reached 999. The focus of the current discussion was all on gaming gossip, so he clicked in to read the message. Su Mo had the habit of reading messages, and the Get Rich Early group often accumulated multiple messages. Every time he read it, he would read it one by one, and he saw many familiar faces.
When I swiped to the end, I saw a voice chat invitation, and there were 15 people chatting.
Yu Zhen asked: "What are you looking at?"
"I didn't go into the group chat." Su Mo showed him the screen, "It seems like they were talking about some strange news."
"You can click in." Yu Zhen explained: "They often chat in groups. When they find something strange, they usually start a group chat to discuss it. If you find something strange in the future, you can also go and have a look. Sometimes the way they interpret strange news is also quite unique."
It would take some time to soak the feet, so Su Mo simply clicked in to listen.
In the end, I didn't hear any strange news, but gossip instead. He paused for a moment and said, "I was mistaken. It doesn't seem to be strange news. They are saying that a manager in the heavens was cheated on."
Yu Zhen: “…?”
Su Mo didn't listen to much. He fell asleep while soaking his feet.
Yu Zhen put down his work only after hearing the notification sound of the foot bath tub, and took a towel from Lele to dry Su Mo. After wiping off the medicine residue, his feet were red from being soaked, but the sleeping man was completely unaware, obviously exhausted. He tidied up the things around him, and then carried Su Mo into the house.
The sleeping person doesn’t know that the voice chat is still going on in the light brain.
Although the microphone was not on, it was very scary just to be there, especially for a group of people who were just watching the show. It was really scary in the middle of the night. After all, they were still chatting about the gossip about the Yue Lao Temple in the forum one second, and the next second, the forum hot topic Momo came in to listen in, and he refused to leave after listening.
The Yue Lao Temple incident was a big deal. It caused such a big stir in the game that all kinds of rumors were posted everywhere, dominating the forum front page for the whole night. There were only three topics: what world-class strange news appeared, who was in charge of the heaven being cheated, and momo and Xingzhi Wujiu made a pact.
momo and Xingzhiwujiu were the center of the topic. The two big guys had just won the championship of the discussion meeting in the afternoon, and ran to form a contract before the celebration banquet in the evening... The speed of the contract was so fast that no one could react, and the discussion level was rising crazily.
I knew they had a good relationship, but this was the first time I knew they were in this kind of relationship.
Blessings, blessings, blessings.
Playing a game, I am curious about how they got to this point...
You know what, I just came out of the building next door and it was quite nice.
The excitement of the Capital Star branch server tonight is all in the Yue Lao Temple. The wedding of the two bosses is grand enough.
These three topics obviously would not go together, but with a mixture of truth and falsehood, and a group of onlookers muddying the waters, this topic somehow became two versions. One insists that there are strange stories in Yue Lao Temple, and the other combines the bloody plot with the contract, saying that there are people in heaven who cannot love Momo, so Momo brought a group of elites with her on the day of the contract.
The degree of exaggeration was so outrageous that the matter finally passed after the heavenly management came out to clarify.
The forum incident lasted for several days before the heat gradually died down.
During this period, Su Mo played games and played with friends during the day, and read books at night. He was on vacation for a while, and the time for the competition he signed up for was up, so he stayed at home to rest and read. Yu Zhen usually went back to the main city to work, and would come back here on weekends.
After staying overnight for a long time, Yu Zhen told Grandma Cheng about their relationship.
The two houses were not far from each other, and Su Mo would go over to play chess when he had free time.
The old lady didn't say anything explicitly, but her attitude towards Su Mo was very good. When Su Mo was sick before, the old lady had always asked the robot to deliver chicken soup. Now that the two are in a relationship, Grandma Cheng delivers chicken soup more frequently. Two days ago, she even sent Su Mo a pair of hand-sewn gloves.
Because Su Mo gained two kilograms, Lele worked harder to learn cooking, and the person he learned from changed from Yu Zhen to Grandma Cheng. Half a month passed in a flash, Su Mo participated in the competition, returned to school to take the final exam, and after the end of this semester, he discussed the topic for the next semester with his tutor. After confirming that everything was correct, he went home to rest. It was almost the end of the year.
"What are you looking at?" Su Mo woke up from a nap and found Yu Zhen staring at the computer, which seemed to be containing photos.
"My grandmother sorted out these childhood photos and sent them to me a few days ago." Yu Zhen swiped the screen to show him the photos, which showed the teenage Yu Zhen. He was wearing work clothes and standing next to a maintenance worker, with a half-disassembled robot next to him.
He swiped to the next picture, which was a photo of Su Mo and Lele.
Xiao Sumo's eyes were red and he held Lele's hand tightly and didn't want to let go.
Su Mo was slightly startled, then recognized it at a glance, "When was this photo taken?"
Yu Zhen said: "My grandfather took the photo."
Su Mo thought of Grandpa Yu who loved playing chess. He had the impression that he really loved taking photos with his laptop. Some of the photos at home were developed by Grandpa Yu and given to him.
"I don't remember much about my childhood. I only remembered some of it when I saw the photos." Yu Zhen pulled the person next to him into his arms and asked, "If I don't ask, does that mean you don't want to tell me?"
Su Mo paused for a moment after being asked this question, "I haven't figured out how to say it yet."
And there was no need to say it... After all, the two of them didn't spend much time together when they were young. At that time, Su Mo's impression of Yu Zhen was just a kind brother who helped find a repairman. He didn't know that the kind brother was Grandpa Yu's grandson. It was not until he met him again when he grew up that he learned Yu Zhen's name.
Su Mo leaned forward and asked, "What else did you shoot?"
Yu Zhen couldn't help but pinch his face and said, "There are only some scattered photos. There are not many group photos. Grandma found the photos in Grandpa's data tablet. The data tablet is a little damaged, and some photo albums have been lost."
"I have it." Su Mo said, "I'll go get the photo album."
Yu Zhen saw Su Mo running to the laboratory and followed him.
He rarely went into Su Mo's lab. When he arrived at the door, he saw Su Mo standing in front of the glass cabinet, not moving, as if he was in a trance. He frowned slightly, a little doubtful: "Mo Mo?"
Su Mo came back to his senses, squatted down and pulled out a box from the bottom of the glass cabinet, "Let me look for it."
… Didn’t you remember where the photo was? Yu Zhen suppressed the strange doubts he had just had and was about to go in to help find the photo when he suddenly received a communication request.
His expression changed slightly when he saw the person he was communicating with. He took a few steps back and left Su Mo's laboratory. After the call was connected, he heard the assistant's very anxious voice.
"Mr. Yu, the institute has detected the latest signal. Do you have time? The experts are all at the First Research Institute now... There is new news about spacecraft B2145."