The group arrived at a shopping mall near the gymnasium. They had agreed to eat hot pot. They had already driven a distance from the base and didn't want to go any further, so Meng Yan found a hot pot restaurant in a nearby shopping mall.
It was past lunchtime, and the weather wasn't very good, so there weren't many people in the mall. Even so, because the game next door had just ended, they still ran into several groups of players coming out of the gym when they entered the store.
At first, only a few friends saw them, came over to say hello, and cheered them on for the next game. When they saw Shen Yanming was with tmm, some fans suddenly realized something, and some even told Shen Yanming to do a good job.
Shen Yanming: “… Not really.”
Later, two girls came from different tables and probably didn’t know each other.
After one of the girls greeted us and asked for a group photo, she casually said, "I just ran into Lan upstairs. Isn't he coming down to eat with you guys?"
Meng Yan raised his eyebrows. When they went back in the afternoon, they didn't see Lan at the base. When they called people to eat hot pot in the group, Lan didn't reply. Pudding said there was no need to waste energy calling him, saying that he ran away at noon and no one knew where he went to be a lone wolf.
Anyway, it's been a while since Lan stopped playing with them. It was okay before. The teammates were not very close, but they got along well. But in recent times, Lan can be said to be not very sociable.
I didn't expect Lan to come here by himself.
But these certainly can't be told to ordinary fans and players. Meng Yan responded: "He has something to do, he will come over later."
But another girl next to him reacted strongly: "Have you seen Lan? Where is he?"
The person being asked didn't understand, but still answered honestly: "It's the model toy store upstairs..."
After a few pleasantries, these fan players did not continue to talk to anyone, and Shen Yanming and the others were led by the waiter to the private room inside.
Shen Yanming looked back and saw that the girl who had just asked where Lan was did not return to the table. Instead, she quickly walked out of the store, towards the escalator, as if she was going upstairs.
After they sat down in the private room, Shen Yanming asked, "That girl just now is a crazy fan of LAN, right?"
fish: "I don't know, probably."
Pudding curled his lips and said, "Why bother with him? Just order the food."
There was really nothing to gossip about. Several young boys gathered at a table. Meng Yan couldn't eat spicy food, so he ordered a shabu-shabu hotpot and a lot of different kinds of meat.
The dishes were served quickly.
The table in their private room was round, and it wasn't the kind that could rotate. Shen Yanming stared at a plate of fish balls that was farther away from him. No one had ordered this, and he wanted to eat it again. When he was about to stand up and pick it up, He Changkong, who was closer, seemed to have noticed something and put a few fish balls into the pot.
Shen Yanming: “o(*￣▽￣*)o!”
After a while, the fish balls were cooked. He Changkong scooped up two with a public spoon and put them in Shen Yanming's bowl.
Shen Yanming: "…Thank you, Brother Kong!"
Shen Yanming was shocked. He thought He Changkong ordered it because he wanted to eat it, but he didn't expect that he ordered it for him. He was flattered.
Is this the nanny who is full of maternal love? I love her.
Not only Shen Yanming was surprised, but Meng Yan and Pudding on the opposite side also stared with their eyes wide open.
Pudding even raised the bowl directly in front of He Changkong: "Kong-chan, I want one too."
He Changkong: “…”
But I still got one for pudding.
Meng Yan vomited: "It makes me sick."
Fish also raised his bowl and blinked: "Brother, I want to eat too."
He Changkong then also caught one for the fish.
Damn it. Shen Yanming thought, no wonder the children in families with many brothers and sisters always fight over a disagreement, after all, no one likes to have their mother's love, which they originally had, taken away from them.
Seeing that everyone had eaten the fish balls, Meng Yan shamelessly said, "Kong Jiang, I want some too."
He Changkong glanced at him, picked up the last one in the pot, dipped it in the sauce... and put it in his mouth.
Meng Yan: “…”
Meng Yan put down his chopsticks and said exaggeratedly: "It's boring. I feel isolated. I want to quit the team."
Pudding: "Retreat, quickly."
Meng Yan couldn't believe it: "Is there any love left in this team?"
pudding: "No."
Meng Yan: “…”
Shen Yanming couldn't help laughing when listening to their conversation. Then he looked at He Changkong beside him, who still had no expression on his face, but his eyebrows were obviously much softer.
He Changkong was eating slowly. Even though he was eating hotpot, he didn't look as miserable as the others who were sweating all over and had chili oil on their mouths.
Shen Yanming couldn't help but sigh: "I couldn't imagine what Kong Ge looked like when he ate hot pot before."
He Changkong stopped and looked at him. Meng Yan was also confused: "Is there anything unimaginable about this?"
Shen Yanming looked at He Changkong, and finally decided to speak his true thoughts: "I think he is the type who drinks nectar, you know, but seeing him eat such down-to-earth food as hot pot, it always feels a bit incongruous."
He Changkong: “…”
Pudding rolled up his sleeves: "Don't you think it's inappropriate for me to wear such elegant and gorgeous clothes to eat hot pot?"
Shen Yanming: "Is everything okay? I saw some girls online wearing lolita clothes while shopping at the vegetable market."
“Damn, your fan filter is too heavy,” Meng Yan said with disdain, and then he seemed to remember something, “Don’t look at him as a decent person now. Let me tell you, when he was in junior high school, he hadn’t started to grow yet, so he was only this tall. He hugged books all day long, and his mind was only on studying… Once he didn’t do well on an exam and only ranked second in the class, so he got scolded, and then he dragged me to a fake McDonald’s in our area, and we ordered several meal sets. We ate a lot, and in the end we couldn’t finish them, so we sat there sulking in front of a pile of hamburgers, hahahaha.”
Shen Yanming listened to Meng Yan very seriously. When he heard the first half of the sentence, he couldn't help but imagine what the tiny little Kong that Meng Yan was gesturing at looked like. After hearing the second half of the sentence, several question marks popped up in his head: "Is it not good to get second place in the exam???"
Meng Yan answered as if it was a matter of course: "Yes, this is how the world of top students works."
Shen Yanming: “…”
After all, people are different. If he had ranked second in the exam, his parents would probably have thrown a big banquet to treat everyone in the community, young and old.
But He Changkong has such good grades. As everyone knows, he was admitted to a 985 university in the capital. Why did he drop out of school to play games
It's a good thing that I played the game well. If I didn't, it would be a big loss.
He Changkong seemed reluctant to continue discussing this topic: "Let's eat."
Meng Yan felt that he had said too much, so he changed the subject and said, "Eat, eat, eat. Let me try your hot pot. Is it spicy?"
Pudding contestant from Yu City said: "It's not spicy at all."
Meng Yan certainly didn't believe this man's lies, so he asked Shen Yanming, who came from a coastal province that didn't like spicy food, "Brother Luanzi, do you think it's spicy?"
"It's just so-so, not spicy," Shen Yanming was used to talking nonsense, but he had restrained himself a lot in the past few days with He Changkong. He had a lot of power in his body, but now he was showing a tendency to lose it. He started to talk nonsense again, "Anyway, it's not as spicy as me."
Meng Yan: “???”
Meng Yan automatically ignored the second half of Shen Yanming's words and took out a few pieces of meat from the hot pot: "I believe you."
He Changkong said coldly: "Don't force yourself to eat it if you can't eat it."
Then Meng Yan took a bite and started howling: "Water, water, water, give me water."
Others: “Hahahahahaha.”
Meng Yan said with a bitter face: "I really can't believe the nonsense of you spicy food lovers. It's all lies. I feel like I'm going to heaven now."
At first, it was fine. Meng Yan's expression seemed to be intentional, but then his face turned pale: "Damn, my stomach hurts a little."
Shen Yanming was a little panicked. He didn't expect Meng Yan to have such a strong reaction after eating something spicy: "I'm sorry, Brother Yan, I didn't know you couldn't handle spicy food at all."
Meng Yan waved his hand: "It's not your problem. I eat it occasionally. Recently, my diet is too irregular. I feel irritated when I eat something spicy... Damn it."
Meng Yan didn't say this to comfort Shen Yanming. In fact, forcing himself to eat spicy food even though he couldn't handle it has become a must-do for Meng Yan during TMM team-building meals. Every time after eating, he would pant like a husky and drink water crazily, but he still had to eat every time.
That's why no one stopped him just now.
I just didn't expect that I would have a stomachache.
Pudding got up and poured him a cup of warm water. Shen Yanming also stood up: "I'll go get you some medicine."
Meng Yan tried to stop him: "It's okay, you're not that fragile, just take a break."
Shen Yanming looked at Meng Yan's pale face, and still got up and walked out of the private room.
Not long after he walked out, He Changkong followed and patted his shoulder from behind.
Shen Yanming was a little surprised: "... Why did Brother Kong come out too?"
He Changkong asked: "Do you know where the pharmacy in this mall is?"
"…" Shen Yanming really didn't know, but, "I have Gaode Map."
He Changkong heard him say that and had no intention of going back: "I'll take you there."
The two of them walked up one floor side by side. They were chatting happily in the private room just now, but the atmosphere became awkward when they were the only two left. They both looked like they wanted to say something, but they said nothing.
The pharmacy was still some distance away from them. He Changkong spoke first to break the silence: "The typhoon warning has been lifted. Have you booked your flight back? When do you plan to return?"
Speaking of this, Shen Yanming began to feel conflicted.
He shook his head: "I haven't checked the plane tickets yet..."
He Changkong: "If you plan to go back to school, you should check the tickets as soon as possible. Don't delay your studies too much. Come back and play again when you have the chance."
Shen Yanming hesitated for a while, then said: "Actually..."
He was somewhat unable to put it into words.
He Changkong didn't urge him to say the next words, but just put his hand on Shen Yanming's shoulder calmly.
Shen Yanming thought for a long time and finally said, "I don't really want to go back."
He Changkong: "Hmm?"
Shen Yanming did not mention the game he watched in the afternoon, nor did he mention that Xu Yin's action had been lingering in his mind until now.
He hadn't told anyone about his confusion for so long.
Of course, he didn't say it explicitly this time, but he had a hunch that He Changkong would be willing to listen to his seemingly insignificant troubles, so he tried to open up a small corner of his confusion: "If I had given up my dream because of something, could I get it back?"
He Changkong didn't expect Shen Yanming to ask him such a question. This kid usually looks playful, but he sounds quite serious when he opens his mouth.
"Sure." He Changkong said.
He Changkong didn't know what "something" Shen Yanming was talking about, but he could guess that Shen Yanming's dream should be related to games. Shen Yanming usually said that he refused to play professionally, but there was still a little desire in his eyes. If it wasn't for this, He Changkong wouldn't have asked him so many times if he wanted to play in the game.
He actually wanted to say something more, but this kind of occasion was obviously not suitable for a heart-to-heart talk. As they were talking, they arrived at the pharmacy and their conversation naturally came to an end.
Shen Yanming bought the medicine, and after coming out, he looked at the escalator that was far away, and said, "Why don't we just go down the stairs next to it? It's only one floor up, and it's not a bother to walk that far to take the elevator."
He Changkong had no objection and followed Shen Yanming to the stairwell.
There weren't many people in the mall to begin with, and there was no one in the stairwell. Only a dim light was on, and the atmosphere was eerie.
When they got closer, they heard the sound of an argument coming from the stairwell.
First there was a girl's voice, this voice was hoarse, it sounded like she had just cried: "I just aborted my baby for you, you can't do this to me..."
What the hell. Shen Yanming suddenly realized something and froze in his place.
Is it so exciting
Then another girl's voice joined the battle: "You are hiding from me and not replying to my messages. Are you with her? You even have a baby? You even had someone beat the child? Song Lan, are you a man?"
Oh shit!
Song Lan is Lan's real name.
Shen Yanming opened his eyes wide and looked at He Changkong, but He Changkong seemed to know nothing about it.
"That's not the case. Calm down for a moment..."
After hearing the last voice, Shen Yanming confirmed that this person was LAN. Although he had never met him, Shen Yanming had watched a lot of LAN's live broadcasts and videos and was not unfamiliar with his voice.
If what the two female voices said before are true, is this the scene where the scumbag is defeated