The two went to the Sichuan restaurant and ordered two dishes and one soup. Shi Yue looked thin and felt like there was a hole in her body after eating.
Xu Youyuan sat opposite with a bowl of soup, watching Shi Yuetian eat two bowls of rice slowly, one bite after another without stopping, sweeping almost all the dishes.
Xu Youyuan opened the ordering screen in shock and planned to order two more dishes.
"Don't." Shi Yue stopped, "I'm full, don't order, it's a waste."
"Really? I think you can fight at least two more rounds."
"I don't have a small appetite, but I'm not a pig... Enough is enough, I should order the rest. But you, just drink a bowl of soup? So reserved."
"Some time ago, I often ordered takeout to eat, but I didn't eat too much. I weighed three kilograms on the scale. What else do I eat? Just be honest."
"That's right, you used to have a fat physique." Shi Yue also filled a bowl of soup, giggling.
Xu Youyuan squinted at her and said, "Turn on me. You are just relying on your youth and fast metabolism to dare to eat like this. When you are 30 years old, you will try again? It blows you up like a ball."
"Then I don't have to take advantage of my life to eat now."
Xu Youyuan smiled and saw at a glance that the back of her hand holding the bowl had turned from red to blue-purple, and it looked more serious.
Xu Youyuan asked her to wait for a while, got up and went to the pharmacy to buy the medicine, and handed it to her: "This medicine works very well, I have personally tested it, rub it every two hours, don't rub it too hard, or it will hurt. Three days of rubbing is basically good."
Shi Yue thanked and accepted.
Xu Youyuan saw that she had almost eaten and suggested to go back.
There was a bowl of boiled fish on the table next door. When it was served, the oil was sizzling, and Shi Yue watched intently, obviously greedy.
Xu Youyuan really did not expect that the child's appetite was unexpectedly good, and there was room in his stomach when he bought a medicine.
Seeing the appearance of other people's dishes is really pitiful, I also ordered one for her.
When the boiled fish came to the table, Shi Yue enjoyed the first two bites, and it became more and more difficult from the third bite, and the speed of eating became slower and slower.
"Okay, if you can't eat it, let it go." The child thinks about it on a whim, but it's just greedy, it may not really be able to eat it all, "Don't eat hard, you won't be able to sleep at night if you eat too much. "
Shi Yue covered her mouth and burped lightly, put down her chopsticks, and asked the waiter to pack it.
Xu Youyuan wanted to check out, and scanned the QR code on the ordering screen, indicating that the bill had been settled.
"When did it end?"
"Let's go." Shi Yue didn't answer her question, and was about to leave with the packing box.
"Agreed that I'll treat you." Xu Youyuan followed behind.
"I have a long-term plan." Shi Yue turned back and said in a sly tone, "This time it's cheap, I'll take it. It's worthwhile to invite me to a big meal when Sister Bird returns to her peak next time."
Seeing her smug look, Xu Youyuan asked abruptly, "So you thought about ordering boiled fish later? Did you end it together?"
Shi Yue's eyes were round, and she didn't have the slightest guilty conscience to be dismantled. Instead, she laughed, as sweet as ever, and walked out happily.
Xu Youyuan walked behind, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
Does it take so much effort just to stay a little longer
When she got in the car, Shiyue suggested to have some desserts to digest food.
Xu Youyuan really can't continue to hang out outside. The pet store where Ah Shuang fosters is open until eleven o'clock in the evening. She has to hurry up and pick Ah Shuang back, otherwise it will cost an extra half day to pick it up tomorrow.
Shi Yue: "A Shuang? Is that the one I found in your community back then?"
Being reminded by her like this, all the past events that I almost forgot were remembered: "Yes, that's it."
At that time, Shiyue often came to Xu Youyuan's house to make up lessons. She arrived at a fixed o'clock every day. One day, she didn't show up for half an hour. Xu Youyuan was a little worried and went out to look for it.
As soon as she arrived at the door, she saw Xiao Yue holding a heavy big cardboard box, unable to see the way, and walked forward upside down.
There are three milk dogs huddled together in the cardboard box.
"Where did you pick it up?" Xu Youyuan easily hugged the cardboard box and put it on the ground.
"In the grass in front." Shi Yue blushed, and excitedly lifted the schoolbag hanging on her arm, "They are pitiful, my mother doesn't know where they are. Sister, I want to give them something to eat. "
Xu Youyuan turned around, but the three milk dogs didn't respond, and they all died.
She looked at Xiao Yue and didn't know what to say to her for a while.
"What's wrong." Shi Yue felt the abnormality very keenly, and immediately squatted down to check.
"There seems to be something wrong with them. I'll move into the house to see."
Shi Yue immediately followed, and Xu Youyuan took out the milk dogs and wiped them all over with a warm towel, but there was still no movement.
Shi Yue watched quietly without crying, her big eyes slowly turning red.
Xu Youyuan couldn't bear to see the little girl crying, so she searched with her mobile phone, brought an electric heater over to get the temperature up, massaged her back and patted her chest, and one of the small paws actually twitched.
"It moved!" Shi Yue was surprised.
The other two were indeed dead, and the other one was quickly sent to the animal hospital and survived, and is now Ah Shuang.
Shiyue's family doesn't allow pets. Seeing that this little puppy finally saved a life, Xu Youyuan couldn't bear to abandon it again, so she adopted it. After that, I took it with me when I went to work in the headquarters and took care of it all the time.
It has been more than ten years, and A Shuang is old, and Xu Youyuan almost forgot that it was picked up by Xiaoyue.
Shi Yue: "Then I have to go and see it. Where is the pet store, you can locate it."
Xu Youyuan set the position, Shi Yue turned on the music and drove to the western suburbs.
Xu Youyuan glanced at the playlist, all of which were old songs she listened to when she was a child: "Your taste is quite novel, so retro."
"Don't look at me as a 10-year-old, all the psychological tests I have done say that my psychological age is 40 years old."
"Do you believe in psychological testing?"
"Believe."
"It means that he is still a child."
Shi Yue: "… "
The road to the western suburbs is long, and half of the roads leading out of the city according to the navigation map are red. Xu Youyuan suggested that the next exit is to take the expressway and go faster by another road.
"Which exit?" Shi Yue asked after a long time.
"... the exit that has just passed."
"Oh. Is there any other way out?"
"There is an exit after five kilometers, and go back around seven kilometers."
"Then it's better to keep going forward. I guess that there should be an accident in front of the road. It's just like this. It's good to pass. According to the slowest speed, it will definitely arrive at eleven o'clock, don't worry."
Shi Yue sang along with the old song, one cup to the morning sun and one cup to the moonlight. She didn't care about the congestion at all, and she was in a good mood.
Sure enough, at ten forty-five, it was time for the pet shop to close.
Ah Shuang looked at Xu Youyuan across the fence and began to shout excitedly. The wild wagging of her tail was completely the rhythm of tearing down the house.
The clerk took Ah Shuang out and handed it over to the owner. Ah Shuang happily clinged to Xu Youyuan, and could spare some energy to hear Shiyue, and even stepped forward to pick her up.
"A Shuang, sit down." Xu Youyuan ordered while pulling the leash.
"It seems that she still knows me." Shi Yue touched Ah Shuang's big head.
"It's heartless. It's the kind that everyone sees like this, and the thief will help you open the door when you enter the house. Don't take it to heart."
Shi Yue: "… "
Leading Ah Shuang and their dog to the downstairs of the unit door, Xu Youyuan was holding the suitcase in one hand and holding Ah Shuang in the other, thinking that under normal circumstances, Shi Yue should be invited to sit up. If it wasn't for her tonight, I don't know when I would get a taxi.
But her relationship with Shiyue is a little sensitive, and she invites someone who has had a relationship with him to be a guest at a house where she lives alone at midnight... Adults, don't play stupid, this is a very obvious hint, she is afraid that Shiyue will misunderstand.
Xu Youyuan hesitated what to say, how to end tonight, Shiyue's cell phone seemed to be ringing, she picked it up to answer it, it seemed to be a work matter, she beckoned to Xu Youyuan while talking, and went to the community go out.
It really saved Xu Youyuan's affairs.
Shi Yue, you say she's sensible, you can't wait to give her a cramp when she's skinny; say she's skinny, most of the time, it's not easy to go back and forth, and it's not easy to get really angry and hate her.
Xu Youyuan took the elevator upstairs. When she got home, her suitcase had not been opened. She walked to the window and looked down. In the decaying darkness, Shiyue's car could no longer be found.
When Xu Youyuan went to take a bath and came back, there was a WeChat prompt on the computer screen.
She sat down, wiping her wet long hair, and opened her voice.
Shi Yue: "Do you want to get up early tomorrow?"
When Xu Youyuan added her friend, she found out that she actually used her real name as a WeChat nickname, her head portrait was still a bright red peony flower, and green leaves were the background color. Where is the post-10s generation? There are not many people who are so simple.
Does the child have any misunderstandings about the aunts? Pretending to be mature is too much.
Xu Youyuan replied with a smile that Shi Yue couldn't see: "The homeless don't need to get up early."
Shi Yue quickly replied: "Then when I get home, go to the dark compartment."
Xu Youyuan asked: "I don't go to work and you don't go to work?"
After sending it out, Xu Youyuan went to blow her hair, and she went to feed Ah Shuang before she could reply when she came back.
At one o'clock in the morning, Shi Yue finally replied to WeChat with the simple word "online".
Xu Youyuan entered the dark room, and when she went online, Yue sent a date invitation. After Xu Youyuan "agreed", a huge amount of sea water poured around her. A side of arched thick glass blocks it.
Various marine fish swarms peacefully behind the glass. Xu Youyuan found herself in an aquarium. From time to time, there were children around her playing with their parents' hands, and couples on dates came and went.
There was soothing music in the venue, which was a little different from the scenes she had been in before.
The vampire stood in the crowd and smiled at her. This appearance was still familiar, but for some reason it overlapped with Shi Yue's real appearance.
Xu Youyuan knew that all appearances were put on top of the user's original face. I didn't notice it before, it turned out that Shi Yue also pinched her face according to her real facial features.
"If you haven't slept so late, how many cups of coffee do you want to make tomorrow morning?"
"It's okay, young people are not afraid of being sleepy."
"Even if you are young, you should be afraid of sudden death if you are not afraid of being bald."
"Sister, please, don't curse me."
Xu Youyuan, who was still dressed in the most civilian clothes, and Shi Yue, who had a gorgeous vampire appearance with a sense of freshness wherever she went, were next to each other, and the NPCs around them turned back and watched them secretly.
Xu Youyuan felt very keenly: "They are not NPCs, they are all players?"
Shi Yue: "Yes, this is the same as our blind date Titanic, it is a public space, an open dating scene that can accommodate 200,000 people online at one time. You have made up your mind to unlock all achievements with me, as a senior Player, some precautions should also be explained to you, so be prepared early."
Shi Yue took her to the entrance of the aquarium and unfolded the bulletin board, which was the announcement of the new season in the dark room.
"The last time I looked for you, the preliminaries had already started, and the deadline was a month and a half later. We still have time to move forward." Shi Yue said, "This is the first season in the dark room, and the winner is only one team. In addition to being the first couple account to unlock all achievements, there are many other rewards. Like a unique dating scene and a couple's couture look, this look alone is enough to make a huge price on Caps."
"Wait a minute, do you mean that we not only have to pass the customs ourselves, but also defeat our competitors?"
"Yes. So you really didn't read the tournament announcement at all."
Xu Youyuan wanted to see it, but the mailbox was full of messy gifts from whom she didn't know, and when she opened it, it all exploded, blinding her eyes.
A scantily clad game elf appeared and introduced Xu Youyuan to the precautions for the new season.
The dating scene in the dark room is divided into three themes, adventure theme, horror theme and love theme, all themes are divided into 5 scenes with progressive difficulty.
The two of them had passed through the first scene of the adventure theme before, and they had already qualified for the second stage.
The first 3 scenes are qualifiers. There are no competitors. In all the scenes, except for two or two teams of players, all other players are NPCs. It is only the survival plus the difficulty factor to score, and there is no competition.
Only teams with a difficulty score of 5 or more in the first three scenarios of the three major themes can enter the last two stages of the competition. In the competition stage, the three themed scenes are all disrupted and randomly generated by the official. Teams will face brutal elimination in the competition, and in the end only one team will be able to win and become the overall champion of the first season.
Before the introduction of the game elf's delicate voice, Xu Youyuan had already glanced at the bulletin board and understood all the rules.
Therefore, the purpose of the developers of the dark room is very clear. As a dating app, simply selling the appearance and traffic can no longer satisfy the ambition of the developers. They began to look for the direction of transformation and gradually moved closer to the game.
The first season that has already started is to explore the path for transformation.
Xu Youyuan is not afraid of competition. As a game producer and senior player, she is very confident.
but…
Xu Youyuan pointed to the big character "love theme" and asked Shiyue: "What does love theme mean?"
"Let's fall in love." Shi Yue thought she was asking too much.
"...I know how to read, I want to ask, this love theme is that two members of a team fall in love? How do you rate the relationship? If you enter the competition stage, how will you compete?"
"Probably to see who has a good relationship and a good talk."
"Listen to your bullshit, there must be a standard for judgment." Xu Youyuan beckoned the game elf to come over, talk to her, and understand the entire competition system.
Shi Yue sat on the bench and squinted, watching the huge beluga whales floating in the sky, and the penguins galloping past like cannonballs.
Look at the sky for a while, then look at Xu Youyuan's back for a while, snickering.
Xu Youyuan looked back at her with a strange look in her eyes.
"Huh?" Shi Yue raised her eyebrows, feeling guilty that her voyeur had been exposed. But Xu Youyuan turned her back to her, so she shouldn't have noticed.
"The team must be two people, right?" Xu Youyuan asked her.
Shi Yue nodded.
"That's really embarrassing for you."
Shi Yue: "?"
"Didn't you say that you unlocked all the other achievements, so the adventure-themed two-player quest is just one step away? So you have already unlocked the horror theme and the love theme with others. Now combine with me, it will not affect your previous grades?"
Facing Xu Youyuan's soul torture, for a few seconds, Shi Yue completely crashed.
"Huh?" Xu Youyuan walked towards her with interest, and found that she really didn't move, and soon her whole body turned gray.
Actually offline.
Xu Youyuan laughed out loud.
A few seconds later, Shi Yue came back and asked Xu Youyuan, "My sister is calling. What did you just say?"
"Nothing." Xu Youyuan leaned on the back of the chair, her heart full of childish joy of victory.
This kind of childishness made her miss her. After so many years of stepping into the society, KPIs are always hanging over her head.
It was only when I was a student that I was so unscrupulous, that I could be proud and happy for the little things.