It was the first time for Muhe and Mr. Skeleton to go shopping.
For Chen Xian, who was born and raised in Ningchuan... it was also the first time.
When everyone discovered that Chen Xian started to search for the location of Ningchuan Shopping Plaza on his mobile phone as soon as he left the house, Xu Yanan and Lu Yisheng fell silent almost at the same time, thinking to himself what the hell is going on
Perhaps sensing Lu Yisheng's strange gaze, Chen Xian looked up at them, with a slightly ashamed expression on his face.
"I haven't gone shopping, I usually buy clothes online, so..."
"It's okay, I understand." Lu Yisheng patted Chen Xian on the shoulder, as if I understand you don't need to say more, "I actually bought this outfit online, and the 200 yuan suit also includes free shipping. I'll send you the link next time."
"Okay." Chen Xian nodded hurriedly.
Hearing the conversation between these two dead straight men, Xu Yanan didn't even bother to feel disgusted, but felt that such a cute little fairy like Mu He was living in such a living environment... It was simply too difficult!
Chen Xian and Lu Yisheng were taking a taxi on the side of the road, chatting in a low voice from time to time, while Mu He and Xu Yanan were standing at the back, seeming to be muttering about something too.
At this moment, they can't see the appearance of being aliens at all. They don't have the mystery of ordinary aliens, and they don't have the pride that some aliens show all the time... From a certain point of view, their way of life is more than ordinary people. Aliens are much more comfortable, because the boundary between aliens and ordinary people is very blurred in their hearts.
Living in human society, they don't regard themselves as beings that are higher than ordinary people.
Whether it is a foreigner or an ordinary person, they are actually the same kind of life, but their abilities are different.
"Do I have to stay like this?"
The voice of Mr. Skeleton was very dull and depressed. He pointed to the densely wrapped bandages on his face, and couldn't help but think of a certain kind of life that appeared in his ancient memory... In modern human terms, it should be called mummy huh
"If you want to go out, you have to do this, or you can go back and stay." Chen Xian said without looking back.
"Oh... well..." Mr. Skeleton looked at Chen Xian aggrievedly and didn't say anything.
Before going out, Chen Xian deliberately changed it into the temporary uniform that the staff of the Secret Keeping Bureau found for it. Although the skinny Mr. Skeleton looked a little strange in the uniform, it still blocked its bloody body... Of course, before changing into clothes, Chen Xian also did "special treatment" to its body.
From head to toe, Chen Xian and Lu Yisheng tied two layers of bandages on it together. If that kind of weird shape is seen by people in the circle, they will probably be treated as a mummified corpse.
"Sister will buy you some nice clothes in a while, and she will definitely dress you up very nicely." Xu Yanan stood beside Mu He, looking at Mu He who had just reached her chin, with countless stars in her eyes, "You like Lolita style Do you still like the small and fresh style of the forest system?"
Mu He ate Baiqi slowly, looked at Xu Yanan who was full of enthusiasm, felt a little scared for some reason, and couldn't help leaning towards Chen Xian silently.
Just then, the taxi came, and it happened to be two empty cars.
Chen Xian and Mr. Muhe Skeleton sat in the front car to lead the way, while Xu Yanan and Lu Yisheng were arranged in the back car. Along the way, there were chattering sounds from the car from time to time. The group of them seemed to be the last Ordinary young people who go out to shop.
It seemed that they were not the ones who experienced the darkness on Jiuling Mountain before.
Everyone felt a relaxed and pleasant mood, even Chen Xian, who was in a detached state of mind. For him, shopping was a meaningless and time-wasting activity, and he didn't like to go shopping. Areas with too much traffic, so places like business circles have always been kept at a respectful distance.
But the strange thing is that this time he went out in a very happy mood, and he himself did not realize that subtle psychological change. Perhaps this is the difference between being alone and being accompanied by friends.
When Xu Yanan came to a large commercial plaza in the city center, Xu Yanan seemed to have returned to her hometown of happiness. Even if this was not the southeast city she was familiar with, she still led the way in the shopping plaza with ease, ignoring Muhe's resistance and dragging her to go. Wander around various luxury stores.
At first Mu He wanted to struggle to get back to Chen Xian, but slowly she let Xu Yanan go, because she suddenly found that shopping like this is actually quite interesting, not as boring as Chen Xian said before.
Perhaps this is a certain nature of women.
Seeing the dazzling jewelry on the counter, or seeing the carefully designed styles in the window of the clothing store... Even if you don't plan to buy it, you will feel happy just looking at it.
"Xiao Muhe, come here quickly, I think this dress suits you very well!"
"Does it suit me..." Mu He looked a little at a loss, looked back at Chen Xian, pointed to the light khaki dress held by the clerk, "Chen Xian! Does this dress suit me!"
Hearing Mu He asking for his opinion, Chen Xian glanced at it, nodded without hesitation and said it was suitable.
At this moment, he also realized that his aesthetics did not seem to reach Xu Yanan's level. Compared with this expensive dress, the clothes he saw on the Internet some time ago were really not ordinary.
Xu Yanan led the team to visit four stores in a row, and Mu He was arranged by her to try on clothes no less than fifteen times, but every time she just tried them on and didn't buy them, as if she hadn't met anyone she liked.
"Why don't you just buy a few pieces first?"
Chen Xian couldn't help but said, although he only followed Xu Yanan for less than 100 meters, the strange thing is... the fatigue that he had never felt before when he went through mountains and mountains to deal with different cases, now he appeared!
"It's not like the wind blows the money, what's the point of buying something inappropriate?" Xu Yanan glanced at Chen Xian angrily.
"Yeah!" Mu He also nodded to express his agreement with Xu Yanan's words, there was no trace of fatigue on his small face, on the contrary he seemed inexplicably excited, and seemed to have an inexplicable enthusiasm for shopping, "Let's go shopping again!"
"..."
Maybe it was because they realized that Chen Xian and the others couldn't move anymore, so Xu Yanan found a corner for them to rest in the center of the shopping plaza, just like placing cats and puppies, and told Chen Xian and the others to stay there obediently. Run around and come back to pick them up later.
"Damn it next time you go shopping, I'll be a pig if you follow me!" Lu Yisheng came over with three cups of milk tea he just bought, and handed a cup to Chen Xian first, and then to Mr. Skeleton, with regret on his face. The original expression, "Wouldn't they be tired after walking around the street for so long?"
"Maybe this is a kind of special ability that belongs to women." Chen Xian took the milk tea and drank it slowly, "We will go to Yinshi later, there is a barbecue restaurant there that tastes good, I will take you to try it."
When Chen Xian was chatting with Lu Yisheng, Mr. Skeleton had been studying the milk tea in his hand. It was like looking at a certain artwork. He held the cup and looked left and right for a long time, and finally imitated Chen Xian and his actions. Carefully erect the straw and poke it into the cup, then take two sips, enjoying it all over your face.
In this rest area, apart from Chen Xian with outstanding skin, Mr. Skeleton is also the most eye-catching, because his outfit is too weird, his tall and thin figure and the dense bandages on his face, never Some bloody "skin" tissue can still be seen in the gaps of the bandages... No matter how you look at it, it looks like a patient who was severely burned and then went out to relax.
"Human beings are weird..."
Mr. Skeleton drank milk tea lightly, and looked curiously at the passers-by before him.
"Obviously they are all inferior beings... but they don't realize their own weakness... It seems that every individual can live freely... Is it because they haven't seen those powerful life forms..."
"Maybe." Chen Xian replied softly, chewing the milk tea pearls in his mouth, "The job of our Bureau of Secrets is to try to prevent them from seeing those powerful life forms, so that they don't have to be shrouded in fear for the rest of their lives, so that They can live freely in the sun."
"What you create is false, they can't see the truth." Mr. Skeleton glanced at Chen Xian, "Just let them be deceived by fabricated lies for a lifetime?"
Chen Xian nodded noncommittally, but did not speak.
"I remember that human beings have been looking for the truth... It seems that they started a long time ago..." Mr. Skeleton seemed to be lost in memory, and those vague ancient memories kept flashing in his mind.
"Reality is not necessarily a good thing." Chen Xian smiled, as if he had already figured out the problem, "It is enough that some things only exist in novels and movies, if someone suddenly finds that the monsters in horror movies are real , what do you think the world will become?"
Mr. Skeleton shook his head and said he didn't know.
"They will collapse." Chen Xian sighed, "It doesn't feel good to have your worldview shattered. The fear of the dark and the unknown will drive many people crazy. Maybe the earth will become the biggest madhouse in the universe."
"Will they go crazy? Are human beings so fragile?" Mr. Skeleton looked at Chen Xian suspiciously, "It is difficult for them to admit the existence of those powerful beings?"
"Difficult, but... Humans don't seem to be that fragile."
Holding the cup of milk tea in both hands, Chen Xian leaned back on the bench, silently watching the flow of people passing by in front of him.
"The vast majority of human beings have no special abilities. Their lives are fragile and extremely short. The pressure of survival that they have to face in a lifetime is beyond the imagination of other lives. Birth, old age, sickness and death, daily necessities, wives and children..."
"Without the hunting of higher life forms, ordinary human beings would also have a hard time. Although people today don't feel the fear of being prey, they will still be tortured by various negative emotions from time to time. The ancients said The seven emotions are joy, anger, worry, sorrow, fear, and joy is only one of them. It is conceivable that happiness from the heart is indeed a short and rare thing for an ordinary person, but even so, they can still be strong. living in this world, and multiplying from generation to generation... ”
Mr. Skeleton listened to Chen Xian's words silently, and his eyes were shining with thought.
"Human life is so complicated... fragile and strong... reminds me of a creature from long ago... those big black bugs... the whole world has them everywhere..."
Mr. Skeleton murmured, as if feeling something.
"How does it feel to live in this world?" Chen Xian turned his head and glanced at it.
In fact, Chen Xian is also very clear that for the ancient "life" like Mr. Skeleton, all creatures in this world belong to different species. It is like a guest who came from a foreign land but never returned to his hometown. To any of the same kind, even the traces of the same kind living here have long been obliterated by history.
"not bad."
Mr. Skeleton took a big sip of milk tea and looked around at the resplendent shopping hall. His eyes sparkled with curiosity. He seemed to be full of interest in this strange world, and he didn't feel the loneliness that Chen Xian imagined.
"The world is a lot more interesting than the last time I woke up."
Hearing this answer, Chen Xian nodded and said nothing.
"Can I have some more of this?" Mr. Skeleton patted Lu Yisheng's shoulder lightly, and said cautiously, "This is delicious, I want to drink some more."
"Small things." Lu Yisheng smiled, wanting to show Mr. Skull the hospitality of modern people, "How many more drinks do you want? What flavor do you want?"
"This taste is good." Mr. Skull looked at Lu Yisheng expectantly, and his tone of speech was extremely cautious, as if he was embarrassed, "Please buy me a hundred cups, thank you."
"It's just buying a milk tea. My own people still say thank you. Don't do such trivial things in the future... Fuck, tell me again how much the fuck do you want to buy?"
"One hundred cups, thank you."