Chapter 161 Dolls and Dolls, London Trip (asking for monthly tickets)

At 1:30 in the morning of July 24, Xia Pingzhou swiped the room card and pushed open the door of the room.

Xia Pingzhou raised his hand to scratch his nose, then looked up and saw that Ayase Origami was indeed awake.

He took the room card with him when he left, and the power in the house was turned off. She couldn't turn on the light, so she sat on the windowsill, using the moonlight to quietly read the haiku collection in her hand.

"Now that you're awake, do you want to go to the pub for a drink?" Xia Pingzhou asked, "The others are here too."

"I don't want to go." Ayase Origami said without even turning back.

"The Bloodborn are waiting for us downstairs."

"I don't want to go anymore."

"Okay, then I won't go either."

After saying that, Xia Pingzhou silently lowered his head and sent a text message to the blood descendant with his mobile phone.

[Xia Pingzhou: I’m asleep. No need to wait for me. Over.]

[Bloodline: (middle finger)]

Xia Pingzhou turned off his cell phone, casually put the door card into the power slot, and then pulled a chair to the windowsill and sat down.

"What are you going to do?" After a moment's silence, Ayase Origami asked.

"Fight the devil."

"Why didn't you wake me up?" asked the girl in kimono.

There was a hint of cold questioning in her tone, like an owner seeing her cat being fed by an annoying neighbor without a word.

"You don't like staying up late." Xia Pingzhou explained.

"I wasn't asleep."

"Why?"

"I thought you were dead."

"Your joke-telling skills have improved."

"Thanks."

As Ayase Origami spoke, she took out a photo from the haiku collection, lowered her eyes, and stared at it quietly in the moonlight.

Xia Pingzhou glanced at the photo in her hand and asked:

“When was this photo taken?”

The photo shows the courtyard of a mansion with a wooden corridor beside a pond. An old man in a butler's uniform and a girl in a kimono are standing beside the corridor.

There are two rows of beautiful cherry trees planted in the yard, and cherry blossoms fall from the branches, as if to flood the whole world.

The old man had a faint smile on his face; the girl's doll-like white cheeks had no expression, and a double cherry blossom hung at the corner of her mouth.

"Four years ago." The kimono girl said, "We hadn't left the family yet."

“How old were you when this photo was taken?”

"Twelve."

"So how old are you now?"

"sixteen."

"You were so short when you were a child." Xia Pingzhou had a blank expression on his face. "Not as tall as me." He looked at the photo.

What he said was true. During the days when Ji Minghuan was imprisoned in the Salvation Society base, a group of experimenters in white coats would come every once in a while to measure his various physical data.

The last time he was measured, his height was 1.62 meters, while Ayase Origami in the photo looks to be about 1.55 meters tall.

Winning, he thought.

Ayase Origami was silent for a while, then glanced at him indifferently: "Kitten, you're rebelling."

“That’s the truth.”

"Let me see your childhood photos and see who is taller." Ayase Origami said.

"childish."

Xia Pingzhou turned the tables.

The look Ayase Origami gave her gradually turned cold.

"Well, actually I don't have any photos of the past." Xia Pingzhou said frankly.

Long before joining the brigade, in order to leave no evidence behind, he destroyed all the evidence of the past.

"Why?"

"No reason." After a pause, Xia Pingzhou suddenly said, "Actually, I think you and I are a bit similar."

"Where?"

Xia Pingzhou lowered his eyes, looking at the doll-like girl in the photo, and whispered, "It's that feeling of being clearly standing there... but trying to pull yourself out of your body so that you don't get involved."

He paused, "It's hard for me to describe it clearly. Anyway, I just try not to have any relationship with the people around me... I don't want to let myself feel anything, so I close my heart. That's about it."

Ji Minghuan remained silent.

In order to achieve his goals more efficiently, he is indeed trying to ignore the influence of his body's memory as much as possible to avoid developing feelings for the people around him.

Whenever he was with them, he would always remind himself in his heart that these were all false relationships. When they were no longer needed and the body was destroyed, these relationships would disappear, as if they had never existed.

So it’s best to distance yourself from them and not develop feelings for them.

All his actions should serve the "Escape from the Salvation Society".

The same goes for Ayase Origami in the photo. She also seems to be trying to pull herself out in some way...

Although Ji Minghuan didn’t know why.

Thinking of this, he controlled Xia Pingzhou to raise his head and quietly look at Ayase Origami's profile.

She didn't seem to want to answer.

Xia Pingzhou had just withdrawn his gaze when Ayase Origami suddenly spoke.

She said: "When I was little, my dad would always get angry with me for no reason, so every time he got angry with me, I would imagine myself as someone else... a bystander."

"Why?"

"That way you won't get hurt."

"Then... you get used to it."

"right."

Xia Pingzhou was silent for a moment: "When we are talking, do you also habitually imagine yourself as someone else, watching our conversation?"

After saying this, Ji Minghuan suddenly found it a little funny and thought, isn’t this the same as me?

The difference is that he is a real player, and he is also using a real high-dimensional perspective to overlook the conversation between Xia Ping Zhou and Ayase Origami.

But can he really treat everyone around him as NPCs... In fact, he himself is not sure.

"I don't know." Ayase Origami thought for a while.

"Why don't you know?"

"I don't know."

Xia Pingzhou said calmly: "After listening to you talk about so many things, I wonder, no wonder you give me the feeling of a stupid puppet."

Ayase Origami retorted, "You said I'm a lot like you. That kitten is also a puppet."

She seemed to be trying to make her words sound more playful, but her tone was still a little stiff.

I am really a puppet, the kind that is thrown away after use, Xia Pingzhou thought.

"I'm not a puppet."

"And what are you?"

"Cat doll," he said.

Ayase Origami was stunned for a moment, then raised the haiku collection to cover the corners of her mouth and looked away from Xia Pingzhou's face, as if she was trying to hold back her laughter.

She slowly turned her head and looked out the window. The scenery of Venice was charming under the moonlight.

"You give me a feeling..." After a moment, she suddenly broke the silence.

"What does it feel like?"

"There's a child living inside me."

What's going on? Have I been seen through?

Ji Minghuan was slightly startled. After a while, he controlled Xia Pingzhou to look up and said expressionlessly, "I think you can be more direct and just say that I am childish."

Ayase Origami shook her head: "It's different."

"What's the difference?"

“I can’t explain it,” she said. “It’s just different.”

"I understand." Xia Pingzhou said, "You take care of me because you think I'm like a child?"

"possible."

The girl in kimono said nothing and closed the photo between the pages of the book.

Both of them were silent for a while, and the only sound in the air was the rustling sound of Ayase Origami turning pages as she read.

"How about we go to London?" Xia Pingzhou suddenly suggested.

"Why?"

"Relax and take a walk. It's boring to stay in the same city all the time." Xia Pingzhou said, turning his head to look at Ayase Origami, "What do you think?"

"I said, wherever you go, I'll go."

"It's too boring just the two of us, how about bringing the others along?"

"for example?"

"Bloodline."

"No."

"Then let's call the Ripper."

"Can."

"Oh, then it's settled." Xia Pingzhou said, "Aren't you going to continue sleeping?"

"Kitten sleeps first."

"OK."

Xia Pingzhou responded, always feeling that Ayase Origami was afraid that he would run away while she was sleeping.

He lay down on the bed, opened the character panel, and checked the spoils of the night.

[Currently holding disposable demon chess pieces: three flame demons, two blue electric mouse demons, one garbage mountain demon, and one magician demon. ]

"Oh yeah, that mission should be completed."

Thinking of this, Xia Pingzhou called up the main task panel.

[Completed main mission 3: Find clues about "your former teammate", the crazy exorcist - "Red Street Light".]

[Obtained rewards for Main Mission 3: 1 Split Point, 1 Skill Point, 1 Attribute Point]

Xia Pingzhou quickly distributed the attribute points at hand.

[The "Speed" attribute of your second unit "Chess Player" has changed: B+ → B++ (the speed of your "Chess Type" will also increase accordingly)]

As for skill points, currently all three branches of skills require at least 2 skill points to unlock. Only 1 is not enough, so there is no need to worry about it for now.

Xia Pingzhou turned to look at the refreshed main task.

[Main Mission 3 has been updated: Stop the "Savior Society" from taking away the "Red Street Light".]

He took a deep breath and stared quietly at the words on the panel.

In fact, he thought that he could also call on Bai Tanlang for this trip to London. But the purpose of this operation was to snatch Hong Lu Deng, not to fight with the Salvation Society.

After seeing his son Firion, Bai Tanlang would most likely lose control of his emotions and rush forward to start a fight without authorization.

In this way, the situation will completely turn into what Ji Minghuan least wants to see.

At this point, he didn't think these people would have even a one percent chance of winning against the Salvation Society.

Not only that, if the people of the Savior Society knew that Firio's father appeared so coincidentally and suddenly at this time, they would definitely suspect that there was a traitor within the Savior Society.

And Ji Minghuan will definitely be the first person to be suspected.

Similarly, Black Pupa’s position is the same as White Tanlang’s.

The tutor had already suspected the relationship between Black Pupa and Ji Minghuan when he had associated Black Pupa's supernatural powers with Ji Minghuan's childhood photos. It is very likely that he would have thought that Black Pupa was a puppet created by Ji Minghuan using his supernatural powers.

It is even possible that the Salvation Society's action this time was planned around this conjecture.

Therefore, the black pupa must not be discovered by the people of the Salvation Society.

But the Black Pupa is the most maneuverable and most suitable machine for reconnaissance of the enemy in his hands, so it is not realistic not to bring the Black Pupa with him.

Therefore, during this London operation, Ji Minghuan took every step with utmost caution to ensure that Black Pupa would not be exposed to the sight of the Salvation Society.

Otherwise, all his efforts so far will likely be wasted.

Thinking back to Kong Youling's face, Ji Minghuan's expression suddenly darkened. He stared at the ceiling, thinking expressionlessly:

"No matter what happens, you must remain calm... Especially at times like this, you must not be impulsive, otherwise you will fall into their trap."

Thinking of this, he controlled Xia Pingzhou to slowly close his eyelids. Amid the rustling sound of the girl flipping the pages of the book, he fell into a deep sleep not long after.

(End of this chapter)