abyss rose

Chapter 21

Chai Yuening hurried back to the guest room on the third floor. The first thing she did when entering the room was to turn into the bathroom and wash her face with cold water.

This Yulan is inexplicable, the hotel rooms are inexplicably arranged, and the large bathtub in the room is even more inexplicable.

The same is true for Chu Ci, her eyesight is inexplicably good, and she can see when she blushes from so far away, so you can see it when you see it, and you must come up and ask her.

Chai Yuening couldn't help thinking, the past few days have been really inexplicable.

Suddenly there was a sound of closing the door outside the bathroom, it was the sound of Chu Ci entering the room.

Chai Yuening took three deep breaths, wiped off the water on her face, and walked out of the bathroom as if nothing had happened.

"I just checked and found that the ammunition supplies in the cabin are sufficient. In addition to guns/ammunition/ammunition, there are also some water and dry food. The most difficult thing to get is the car. I mentioned it cheekily. I didn't have any hope, she actually got me." Chai Yuening said casually, sat on the bed, and said with emotion, "Anyway, Youlan helped us a lot this time."

Chu Ci sat back on the swing she seemed to like very much: "You are very touched."

"Hmm." Chai Yuening nodded, "I thought she would spend as much money as she wants to do. After all, she is a businessman, so there is no need to do business that might lose money."

"You have changed her mind a lot."

"I might have had a bit of prejudice against her before, but suddenly I feel that she is quite loyal." Chai Yuening said, and glanced at the direction of the swing from the corner of her eye.

Chu Ci gave a "hmm", stood up from the swing, picked up a bathrobe, walked into the bathroom, and gently closed the door.

Chai Yuening: "Do you take a bath?"

Chu Ci: "Yes."

Chai Yuening always felt that Chu Ci's reaction was not right, as if he was throwing a temper tantrum.

She got up and walked to the door of the bathroom, opened her mouth, as if she wanted to ask something, but in the end she only said a mother-in-law's words that she said every day: "Don't touch the wound with water."

"Yeah." Chu Ci's response came from the bathroom, and it sounded quite calm, no different from usual.

Chai Yuening returned to the bed, and unconsciously picked up the soft gauze hanging from the top of the bed with her fingertips.

The ambiguous pink-purple light in the room and some hanging objects disturbed her unconsciously to think of those strange things Youlan said.

——Who doesn't know that you took her back to your home after you fished her out of Ban Xiangming?

——Those things after turning off the lights, as long as you have the right eyes, gender is not a problem.

——The lantern in the bathtub has three light effects to choose from. The atmosphere is very good and the praise rate is very high. You must try it.

"... Hiss!" Chai Yuening took a deep breath.

Something is wrong, something is wrong.

It's fine for that guy Youlan to pretend to be weird, but why is he thinking about it too?

However, Youlan was right about one thing. Chu Ci always had a dull look, and he was full of thoughts at first glance, but he was not willing to talk to others.

Thinking this way, Chai Yuening let out a long sigh, fell backwards on the bed, reached out to grab the long pink pillow at the head of the bed, and pressed it on her slightly hot face.

After an unknown amount of time, the bathroom door was opened, and a burst of fragrance wafted out along with the warm mist.

Wrapped in a bathrobe, Chu Ci walked out from inside with half-wet long hair.

Hearing the sound, Chai Yuening threw away the pillow in her hand, kicked her legs, turned over and sat up, and looked up at Chu Ci.

Chu Ci went to the table and poured a glass of cold boiled water. After drinking, he returned to the bed in a few steps, grabbed the pillow that Chai Yuening had just thrown away, and threw himself on the bed without saying a word. Half of his calf was hanging outside the bed. It was bare, with a few drops of water.

Why did he lie on the bed just after taking a shower?

Chai Yuening pulled Chu Ci up: "Don't fall asleep, you will have a headache tomorrow."

Chu Ci: "..."

Chai Yuening glanced at the pocket watch, got up and went to the bathroom to take out a dry towel, and handed it to Chu Ci: "Wipe for a while, it's still early, and go to sleep after the lights are turned off."

Chu Ci looked up at Chai Yuening, but didn't reach out to pick it up.

However, she didn't expect that in the next second, a dry towel directly covered her head, and then she rubbed it randomly, messing up the hair she had just combed before she came out.

With a chuckle of "puchi", Chu Ci pulled off the towel on his head, and gave Chai Yuening a stare.

Chai Yuening stuffed the towel into Chu Ci's hands, and asked with a smile, "Are you unhappy again?"

Chu Ci: "...No."

Chai Yuening: "It's all written on my face."

Chu Ci: "You read wrong."

This familiar answer pattern made Chai Yuening understand why Chu Ci was angry.

For a long time, this little alien with a lot of secrets all over his body has been minding the matter of whispering between her and Youlan but not letting her listen.

Chai Yuening thought for a while, pulled Chu Ci up and walked into the bathroom again.

She filled a jar of water under Chu Ci's blank gaze, and said to Chu Ci: "Actually, Youlan didn't really say anything to me, she just said that you look a little dull, and let me... make you more happy. "

Chu Ci opened his eyes wide: "Amusing me?"

Chai Yuening nodded, and stretched out her hand to turn the surf and colorful light knobs of the bathtub.

All of a sudden, lights of various colors flickered from the water, and the jet of water from the surf port stirred up layers of water waves in the bathtub, and each ripple showed a hazy sense of light in the flickering lights in the water.

Chai Yuening stretched out her hand and turned the colored light knob again, the lights in the bathtub no longer flickered back and forth alternately, but were layered.

The bottom layer is a deep purple, the middle layer is a light purple layer, and the top layer is a rose red layer.

The layering is not obvious, and the light of different colors blends in the water, presenting a dreamlike gradient.

The last light effect is dominated by darker blue-violet, supplemented by green.

The green halo floated horizontally in the deep blue-purple along the surfing waves, as if there was an aurora in the night sky on the ground that most people had only seen in books.

The bathtub was translucent, and Chai Yuening pulled Chu Ci to squat down, looking at the dreamlike light effect through the warm water mist and the layer of glass in front of her, she was a little absent-minded for a while.

After regaining her senses, she said softly, "She told me that it would look good this way, let me show you."

Chu Ci was stunned for a moment, unable to speak.

Chai Yuening looked at Chu Ci: "Does it look good?"

Chu Ci nodded, his eyes were clearly brightened.

The light as quiet as night shone on her smooth side face, revealing the beauty that even the messy hair could not conceal.

Chai Yuening was a little stunned, and it took a long time to look away, and said with a smile, "rich people really know how to play."

"Hmm..." Chu Ci responded, seeming to remember something, and asked in a low voice, "Is that what she told you?"

"correct."

"Then why are you blushing?"

"I..." Chai Yuening thought for a while, and came up with an excuse, "I'm not used to people being so close to me."

When she said that casually, the people beside her really didn't ask any more questions, they just moved forward a little, stretched out their hands and gently touched the glass, as if they wanted to look through something to another world.

Chai Yuening asked, "What do you think this looks like?"

Chu Ci thought for a long time, then said softly, "Like the outside."

"I also think it's like a night without fog on the ground." Chai Yuening said, and like Chu Ci, he stretched out his hand to caress the glass, "Sometimes I think, what is the floating city like? Living in the floating city People who can see the sky every day, they shouldn't be like our base, who have to shout slogans like 'human beings will eventually return to the ground and find freedom and light' from time to time?"

"..." Chu Ci blinked, but did not answer, just quietly looking at the halo in the water in front of him.

Chai Yuening looked at Chu Ci, heard the sound of water in her ears, and couldn't help but want to guess what she was thinking at this moment.

After an unknown amount of time, Chai Yuening felt that her feet were numb.

Suddenly, a piercing siren resounded throughout the city.

She and Chu Ci stood up almost at the same time, looking at each other with surprise.

Something happened in District Seven.

On a night that should have been quiet, the heavily fortified urban area sounded the emergency evacuation alarm for the entire city.

Some scolding or doubtful voices came from outside the guest room.

Someone knocked hastily on their door.

It was Jing Mu, she ran over from the next door, panic was written in her eyes.

Jing Mu: "The evacuation alarm sounded again, did the herd break in?"

Behind her, someone hurriedly ran towards the corridor, his clothes were messy, and he didn't even have time to fasten his trouser belt. He bumped into her as he passed by, and even turned his head and stared at her cursingly.

The impact made the little girl's eye circles under her glasses turn red.

"Go, go downstairs." Chai Yuening frowned, and walked ahead.

It's past nine o'clock in the evening, and there are still more than two hours before the power outage in the outer city. The black market at this point, especially the street under Youlan's name, is more or less lively.

In the past few days, too many people have heard about the tragic situation in other urban areas. At this moment, when the emergency evacuation alarm of the whole city is sounded, this excitement has become an uncontrollable chaos.

No one knew what happened, but everyone knew what it meant to sound the evacuation alarm without any city radio.

Suddenly, some people ran away in panic, while others begged not to be left behind.

The crowd is building, people are pulling.

Blank questions, impatient scolding and crying, and the sound of things breaking from nowhere.

Every sound seems to declare that the extravagance and prosperity here will come to an end tonight.

Chai Yuening was driving a new car she was not familiar with, and the chaotic crowd gave way to both sides.

No matter how chaotic it is here, she must find someone.

The siren continued to ring in everyone's heart.

Everyone was on the run, and some people were not only on the run, but also took away a lot of money that didn't belong to them.

The K halls and bars along the street instantly became desolate and messy, with nothing left but neon lights everywhere.

A woman who used to be here for the wind and the rain, but today seems to be forgotten by everyone, stands blankly at the door of the messy bar outside the crowd, holding a communicator in her hand, shouting something, but Obviously not getting any response.

Chai Yuening stopped the car quickly, rolled up the window, and shouted: "Boss You!"

"Captain Chai!" Youlan turned around, and there was a light in his bewildered eyes.

"Get in the car, let's go together!"

Youlan was wearing a cheongsam, stepped on high heels, and ran over with small steps. Chai Yuening pressed the car door. The car was slightly taller. Jing Mu quickly reached out and pulled her up.

As soon as she got in the car, the first thing she said in a loud voice was: "I knew that no man in this world can be trusted, and good words are false ten thousand times! Captain Chai, you are still better, you are better than Ban Xiangming!" That bastard is ten thousand times more reliable!"

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The author has something to say:

Youlan: So did you play with lanterns?

Chu Ci: Played.

Chai Yuening: ...