Chapter 24
"Beep - the game is over!"
The big screen in the stadium flashed twice, and the final score displayed was a huge difference.
Xi Ze jumped off the mecha and watched the hatch of the mecha opposite slowly open. A gloomy look flashed across the face of the female soldier inside, and she also jumped down.
“There has been no regression, but there has also been no progress.”
Xi Ze pointed at him from a distance, and said in a somewhat stern tone, "Anto, you don't care."
The female soldier opposite had brown hair and brown eyes. She was undoubtedly strong and handsome, but her narrow eyes and high cheekbones made her look a little mean.
Anto laughed dryly, "It's not that I don't care, it's just that the admiral is as scary as a monster. He can refresh the highest score in the arena every once in a while. How can ordinary soldiers like me compare to him?"
Xi Ze frowned fiercely and said coldly, "Be serious!"
"A lot of your moves just now were superfluous. There are obviously more concise and neat ways of attacking, why not use them? When you were showing off your wing flip skills, I could have ended the game with one strike."
The soldiers who were watching came running over. Caesar was too lazy to argue with him, so he said calmly, "Go back and train yourself. Let me see your progress before next week."
As they passed each other, Anto's expression changed slightly.
Normally he would not lose his temper, but the sympathy or ridicule in the faces of his colleagues around him was like a fuse that ignited an evil fire.
He whispered indifferently, "It would be fine at any other time, but now everyone is watching us, can't you give me some face, Admiral?"
Xi Ze stopped suddenly, and the molten-gold eyes under his military cap were as sharp as a knife, piercing Antoxia's consciousness and making him shrink.
"When you go to the battlefield, will the enemy give you face?"
The female soldiers around were instantly terrified, and subconsciously stood at attention, following the instructions very skillfully.
Anto's expression turned pale and blue, but he didn't dare to say a word.
"Don't treat training as training, treat it as a real battlefield. How many times have I told you?!"
"How many lives do you have to support you in doing those empty tricks? Do you think fighting is just playing house?"
"Don't deal with those extravagant, corrupt and decadent idiots. You've been getting worse and worse lately."
With these last words, Caesar left Anto behind and walked out of the training ground. When he looked up, he saw the female insect with gray hair in the audience.
"teacher."
There was a smile in his eyes, and his expression was very respectful. "How did you find time to come here?"
The female insect, who was respectfully called teacher, said with emotion, "You are still so strict. You treat your soldiers like this. Aren't you afraid that they will rebel?"
Caesar explained in a low voice, "You know, being lenient during training is the greatest cruelty to them. I must do my best to ensure that they can come back alive from the battlefield."
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about that."
The female insect waved her hand and looked at the young female soldier who was obviously angry.
"You and Edka are both my students, how can I not understand him? Zhang Yang is used to being arrogant, and his heart is higher than the sky, but he has no bad intentions, so you should just give him some respect."
Xi Ze pursed his lips and compromised, "...Yes, don't worry."
…
"Admiral, there is a bug looking for you."
Xi Ze turned around and saw a female insect standing at the entrance of the training ground.
Although the distance was a little far, he could still see that the female insect had the same hair color as him.
"Disband, free practice."
The expression on his face faded, and after disbanding his troops, he walked straight to the door.
"What's the matter?"
Xi Ze had an indifferent expression. He slowly took off his white gloves and put them into his pocket. He never even looked at the female insect.
The female insect opposite also had white hair and golden eyes, with long hair tied behind her head, and was wearing luxurious clothes of the nobility. His eyebrows and eyes were very similar to Caesar's, but he was a little warmer and gentler than Caesar.
"Can't I come see you if I'm alright?"
He complained in a low voice, but his tone was still gentle, "You haven't called me father for a long time."
Xi Ze didn't respond to his words at all. He waited for a few seconds and turned around without saying anything else. "If everything is fine, I'll leave."
"etc!"
"This is for you."
Lance took out an old pocket watch from his pocket. All the blue diamonds on its surface had fallen off, making it look broken and pitted. A few engraving marks could be vaguely seen on the cover.
"Didn't you like this very much when you were a child? You said it was your lucky gift, and your father had finally found it from your brother's belongings... When the battle starts, take it with you, maybe it will bring you good luck."
Caesar glanced at the little piece of junk and wanted to say something sarcastic, but when the words came to his lips, he felt tired and was too lazy to open his mouth.
"Don't come to me again."
Seeing that he was about to leave without mercy, Lance's expression changed slightly, but he still smiled and said, "I put it on the chair next to you. If you don't want it, just let it be cleaned up."
Bang--
The door of the training ground slammed shut in front of her. The female insect hesitated for a while, then bent down, put down her things and left.
After a long while, the door was pushed open again, and Caesar's figure appeared.
He let out a light click of his tongue, frowned, and seemed hesitant, but in the end he still picked up the lonely little piece of junk on the chair.
…
The long-lost memories that had long been blurred surged up, but were crushed into powder in the storm of turbulent mental images.
He caught a glimpse of a corner in the extreme pain, and was shocked to find that all the sufferings had their origins long ago and were not caused overnight.
Strong winds and heavy snow continued to rage across the vast snowy plain, making the surface of the land even more devastated.
Only one small house was protected in the eye of the storm. The small lamp under the window was blown by the wind and made a crackling sound, emitting a warm feeling.
It exudes a familiar soft breath, standing there absurdly and abruptly, as firm as a lighthouse standing in the waves, leading the subversion and reshaping of destruction and rebirth.
…
Wow——
A stream of boiling water sprayed out of the shower, and Yael soaked the surrounding walls and floors.
Not until the warm steam filled the bathroom and melted the coldness in the air did he lower the temperature of the water and slowly wet Caesar's body.
This scene seemed familiar. When he had just brought back the female insect, he had rinsed it in the same way.
The only difference was that last time I was feeling cautious and unfamiliar, but now I was filled with cold, suppressed anger.
He was in no mood to respond to the little thing rubbing against his feet. He mercilessly turned the shower head around, splashing the female insect's face and hair, causing her to cough and sneeze a few times without warning.
“…Ahem…Hmm!”
The water flow was blocked by the female insect's raised arms, and a line of hazy golden light finally lit up with some difficulty, like a glimmer of light piercing through the dripping mist, suddenly burning Yael's heart.
Finally woke up.
Feelings of relief and fear surged up, temporarily covering up the anger.
His hand trembled, and the water from the shower deflected. He realized later that half of his body was weak.
"Ahem... Lord?"
Xi Ze opened his eyes in excruciating pain, and felt that every inch of his flesh and blood was breaking and reorganizing, and his whole body was spasming and twitching uncontrollably.
There was still an impenetrable darkness in front of him, but his wandering mental power imaged everything in the bathroom in his mind. The outline of the male insect standing in front of him was clear, but he still couldn't make out his expression.
But at the end of his mental power, he felt a strong anger and panic from him.
And the overwhelming feeling is one of worry.
After realizing this, the pain that was once unbearable became tame.
Something heavy weighed on his heart, and Xize couldn't help but let out a fitful laugh from his throat, "My Lord..."
He opened his mouth and said with a reluctant voice, "...Don't be angry..."
Yael's pupils shrank slightly, and his hands holding the showerhead tightened their consciousness.
The next second, he turned the water flow to the maximum with a cold face, rushing over the female insect's sensitive waist and legs, stimulating Xi Ze to cry out softly and curl up his body to resist.
It continued to rinse for a long time until the female insect half closed her eyes and almost fell asleep again.
Yael threw the showerhead to the ground with a bang, grabbed the female insect by the collar and pulled her up.
"What do you want?"
The few words were almost crushed and squeezed out between his teeth. He had never spoken to Caesar in this tone before.
Their faces were so close that their hot breaths intertwined and blended, almost indistinguishable from each other.
Yael lowered his eyes and looked into the female insect's eyes, as if he was looking at a door that he had knocked on many times but had never been opened to him. His anger and powerlessness grew and receded.
"Take good care of yourself. You promised me that you wanted to live, didn't you? Why are you dying now? If I hadn't woken you up in the middle of the night, you would have seen a frozen corpse tomorrow!"
He suppressed his anger, but couldn't help but growl in the end.
The feeling of something rubbing against my feet frightened me so much that I froze and didn't dare to move.
Xi Ze panted violently and rapidly, trying his best to relax his tightly wrinkled brows.
Before Yer could get suspicious, he reached out and pressed his hand on his collar, muttering repeatedly, "My Lord..."
“…”
The female insect in front of him was obviously still unconscious. Yael took a few deep breaths and tried hard to suppress his anger.
Staying here would only make him feel worse, so he might as well go fix the temperature control and calm down.
He picked up the flower sprinkler on the ground, threw it into the female insect's arms, and said coldly, "Take it, do it yourself."
Outside the living room.
Fortunately, the thunderstorm just now did not cause a power outage, otherwise it would be troublesome.
The central temperature control system is old and cannot be restored automatically. 015 also automatically entered low temperature protection because the temperature was too low and cannot be helped for the time being.
Yael took out a set of tools from the corner, pried open a piece of alloy wall, and began to repair the complicated winding wires.
The hand holding the tool was still trembling slightly, and it was pale and cold, almost bloodless.
He lowered his eyes to look at it, put down his tools and clenched his fists tightly, while using his other hand to continuously press and rub the acupuncture points on it, forcing himself to regain relaxation and stability.
“Click! Beep—”
一聲輕響後，暖氣再次包裹住房子的每一個角落，降至冰點的溫度開始緩慢回升，015也磕磕絆絆地開了機。
耶爾仍然盯着面前的線路出神，感覺心氣稍平後才起身回了房間。
然而打開浴室，映入眼簾的卻不是雌蟲乖乖澆淋溫水的場面——
西澤渾身濕透地躺在地面上，花灑散落在旁邊，正在往旁邊噴灑熱水。
熱水變冷之後會變本加厲地攫取體溫，雌蟲的身體正在輕輕打顫，那股奇怪的精神力似乎變得暴烈，正在浴室裏橫沖直撞。
耶爾又深吸了口氣，只覺剛剛才被壓制下去的怒火，像重新沸騰的水汽即将頂開壺蓋。
穿越以來，讓他控制不住脾氣的事可不多，現在算其中一件。
很好，非常好。
但在被這憤怒波及到理智前，未免真的讓雌蟲的傷勢加重，他還是釋放出了安撫的信息素。
濃醇微苦的甜味逐漸彌漫開，蔓延到整個浴室，和那些水霧一點點糾纏，然後滲透進雌蟲身體的每一寸血肉中。
雄蟲的信息素是最頂級的安撫劑，絲絲縷縷的清涼疏通了淤堵的劇痛，帶來巨大的釋然和放松感。
耶爾本不想總是拿食物形容他，但如何也阻止不了想狠狠咬下去的沖動。
他克制住了很多次，但這次終于不想再忍，索性借着憤怒出一次格——
“……唔？”
受到刺激，西澤猝不及防地低叫一聲，手下意識摸向刺痛微癢的地方，卻摸了一手柔軟的頭發。
又被罵又被咬，加之信息素的作用，西澤總算被折騰得清醒過來。
“雄主……？”
他有些艱難地睜開眼，那唇齒卻從身上離開，胡亂咬上他暴露出來的脆弱頸側，洩憤似的留下尖尖的牙印。
西澤含糊地笑了一聲，伸出手，卻沒有推開身上的雄蟲，反而動作忍耐地輕撫他的肩頸。
“……我現在很生氣，你已經嚴重惹到我了。”
不知道把雌蟲啃了多久後，耶爾終于松了齒關，語氣堪稱平靜地道。
從聲音中聽不出來什麽，但游離在外的精神力末端，卻敏銳地察覺到那些深深壓抑在下的，岩漿般翻滾的晦暗和危險。
西澤動了動唇，卻沒有說抱歉之類的廢話，他知道耶爾要的不是這個。
“我現在在懲罰你，你乖乖呆着不準反抗。”
正扯着劇痛的腦子思索對策，上方卻驀地響起雄蟲這句緊繃的話，無疑是帶着憤怒的，但——
這算什麽懲罰呢？
心髒的某一個角落驀地軟塌下來，常年冰封的高牆破了一角，灌進融融暖暖的春風。
他心尖酸澀無比，卻又難以抑制地歡欣雀躍。
西澤撐着手肘艱難起身，摩挲着身上雄蟲脊骨的手也滑至腰間。
他伸手抱住了耶爾的腰，被專屬于眼前雄蟲的幹淨清冽的味道籠罩。
将下巴擱在雄蟲的肩膀上，他幾乎嘆息地道。
“我重建了精神圖景。”
“什麽？”
耶爾愣住，一時沒能反應過來。
後知後覺什麽是重建精神圖景，他瞳孔驟縮，想要推開雌蟲的動作也僵住了。
“你剛才……說什麽？”
他的聲音很輕，透着幾分難以置信。
精神圖景由記憶與潛意識構建，換句話說，由過去全部的生活經歷和情感構成。
雖然之前已經被破壞得一片狼藉，但基底沒有毀壞的話，就還有恢複的可能。
而重建，就意味着徹底的摧毀和剝離。
他舍棄了曾經構成血肉的一切，剜去捂着太久已經發膿發臭的腐肉，迎接一次脫胎換骨的血淋淋的新生。
意識到西澤一直在忍耐痛楚，耶爾下意識加大了信息素的輸送。
舒緩的精神力随之凝聚而起，彙入雌蟲正掀起風暴的精神圖景中。
那原本萎靡下來的精神力倏地一震，像得了赦免令的出籠小獸，在耶爾大腿和側腰上蹭來蹭去、撒嬌賣癡。
“為什麽要這麽做？”
耶爾終于回神，感受到掌心下雌蟲的身體仍然在細微地顫抖。
他眼睫微顫，尾音有些不穩，“明明可以慢慢修養好的，不是已經在好轉了嗎？”
壓下去的憤怒咕嚕冒泡，再次幾近沸騰，他咬牙低聲道。
“就算必須這樣，為什麽不先和我說一聲？如果不是我突然驚醒，你要痛死或者凍死在地上嗎？你知不知道——”
他又憤怒又失望，尾音中帶了一點不穩的輕顫，“你為什麽，總是這樣？”
懷裏是雌蟲濕漉漉的身體，一道炙熱的喘息噴灑在敏感的耳側……至少證明着雌蟲還好好活着，多少緩解了他的後怕。
偏偏懷裏的雌蟲仍然無知無覺地踩在那條紅線上——
“軍雌哪有那麽容易死，雄主大可以放心。”
“如果不是有把握，我不會貿然這樣做，最壞不過就是徹底失去精神力，不會真的危及生命。”
他的聲音斷斷續續，呼吸明顯不穩，讓這話沒有一絲可信度。
反倒像是一潑油，澆在耶爾再次冒出頭來的火氣上。
“是嗎？”
耶爾短促地冷笑一聲，喉結滾動咽下泛起的腫脹苦意，甚至被氣到不停深呼吸。
“原來我撿回來的不是一個雌蟲，是銅澆鐵鑄刀槍不入的機甲啊，就算被傷害也感覺不到痛，只要能繼續活着，甚至不惜拆胳膊卸腿地換零件，是這樣嗎？”
“……對不起。”
西澤靜了一瞬，艱澀道。
耶爾能清晰感覺到，雌蟲一直在回避問題，當下語氣中帶了一點煩躁。
“對不起，但就是不改是吧？”
察覺到雄蟲的怒火，西澤喉結滾動，無奈地啞聲道，“……但是已經沒有時間了。”
這種任由宰割的日子他已經過得太久了，等不及慢慢好起來，必須盡快做出決斷。
他被雄蟲帶走的消息很可能已經傳到了那家夥耳朵裏，這裏已經不再安全。
在混亂的風暴眼中偷得的這幾日空閑，已經是上天賜予他極為奢侈而珍貴的禮物。
他想要繼續活下去，想将身前的雄蟲安穩保護在羽翼之下，就不可能繼續坐以待斃。
這其中的彎彎繞繞和腌臜醜惡，都不需要告訴雄蟲，他要安安全全幹幹淨淨地站在局外，等他将那些雜碎全部清掃幹淨，然後……
只是他本來想瞞着耶爾偷偷完成重塑的，但意識在劇痛中變得混沌。
不知道什麽時候，身體就已經蜷縮在雄蟲的床邊，仿佛離那道清淺的呼吸近一點，就能汲取更多力量硬熬過去。
這已經能說明一些問題了。
“本來沒想吓到您的，只是我控制不住……”
西澤的鼻尖在耶爾下巴處讨好地蹭了蹭，柔軟的唇角不小心擦過下颌，讓那裏瞬間緊繃。
他本想努力讓雄蟲消氣，卻不小心牽扯到傷口，忍不住悶哼了一聲。
“……”
什麽沒有時間了？
耶爾有些怔愣，隐約察覺到了這句話背後蘊含的晦暗深意。
他本該繼續質問雌蟲到底在瞞着什麽，但憤怒和心疼分庭抗禮，不斷撕扯着要占據上風。
耳廓被聲聲隐含着痛楚的呼吸填滿，不斷在心頭增添重量，天平終于忍不住倒向其中一邊。
“你可真是……”
耶爾低聲喃喃，半晌後又倏地閉眼，聲音中帶着一分妥協，“算了。”
他指腹摩挲着雌蟲的肩背，那裏有着大片觸感粗粝的傷疤，不久前才結了新痂，不知道有沒有再度撕裂。
“傷口很痛？”
“不疼……”
身體裏的疼痛正在逐漸退潮，取而代之的卻是另外一種難耐的疼癢。
西澤忍耐地喘息片刻，逐漸放出了自己的信息素。
清苦的茶香逐漸彌漫開，融合在焦糖的甜中，醞釀出一種非常特別的味道。
而身體的燥熱從剛才開始，就一直在不斷發酵，在和雄蟲對話的短短幾分鐘，他已經快要控制不住漲潮的情熱。
雖然是雄蟲先挑起來的，但西澤還是禮貌問道，“要做嗎？”
耶爾原本神色已經稍緩，聽到這句話頓時一黑，“做做做，做你個大頭鬼，你現在這個樣子，我都怕你做一半猝死。”
西澤笑了一下，他也不太想在這種時候不合時宜地說這些，但生理反應沒辦法掩蓋。
但很快他又抿了抿唇，突然有些擔心，自己的雄蟲眼裏形象會不會很重欲很糟糕。
“好了……起來。”
耶爾手心按住雌蟲的腦袋，不甚溫柔地揉了揉。
那次之後，他後來又找了資料，信息素并不會總誘導雌蟲發情，只是他使用的方法有些差錯。
心念一動，浴室中萦繞着的甜膩氣息逐漸變化。
雖然仍然香甜，卻已經沒有那種摧折心魄的誘惑感，反而催生了暖洋洋的困意，只想要松懈防備毫無顧忌地沉睡。
耶爾撿起被丢在一邊的花灑，将熱水重新澆淋在雌蟲身上。
浴室內一時安靜，除了熱水澆淋嘩啦啦的聲音，就只有兩道深淺交錯的沉默喘息。
中央溫控的暖氣終于輸送到浴室，原本還有些冰冷的空氣逐漸回溫。
The female insect in my arms seemed to have finally successfully passed the critical period of rebuilding her mental picture, and her tense body gradually relaxed.
Even if you don't try to sense it, the freshness and fullness of the new life almost overflows, wandering and being sensed in the bathroom.
Then one, two, three, four... countless externalized mental powers finally "clicked" and stuck to Yael.
Really, it's so useless.
Sensing the movement of the spiritual power, Xize cursed in his heart, but the tips of his ears inexplicably turned slightly red with shame.
The usually reserved military woman could not express her feelings openly, but her mental strength did not have to worry about that.
Especially the spiritual power reconstructed with the hut as the "eye", was simply unable to resist the familiar light fragrance of the male insect.
In contrast to the lively spirit, Yel always kept his eyes lowered.
"I'm still very angry. Very, very angry."
After a while, he suddenly spoke, breaking the almost warm silence in the bathroom.
Yael has calmed down, but some things have indeed violated his principles and must be made clear.
I don’t know if it’s a conflict of ideas, but even though he has been emphasizing that life is paramount, the female insect has never known how to take care of its body, relying on its strong vitality to abuse itself.
Xi Ze said he wanted to live, but he just lived for the sake of living, maybe for revenge, or maybe for other purposes.
But no matter what, he didn't...really want to get better.
The female insect in his arms stiffened for a moment, gasped for a moment, and spoke intermittently.
"What should I do then... maybe you can punish me until you calm down?"
"You have no idea what I'm talking about."
Yael was too lazy to even open his eyelids. He just pushed the female insect in his arms away, let him sit against the wall with his legs bent, and began to rinse the bleeding area on the front of the female insect's body.
He never seemed to be able to save him.
This thought made Yael feel a little depressed.
But since the problem cannot be avoided, try to find a way to solve it. There is no point in getting anxious if there is no shortcut.
Just like when you decided to pick up the stray puppy that was clinging to you and take it home, you were already prepared to take the responsibility of taking care of it. You didn't worry about how much money and energy you had to spend, you just kept moving forward and living a good life.
Xi Ze dodged the water flow, grabbed the hem of the male insect's pajamas again and hugged him, leaving large wet marks on his pajamas.
He whispered, "Don't be like this... Lord, tell me."
"You also know that it's annoying to leave things unsaid?"
Yael hummed softly, but he did not hide anything and let the female insect guess.
"It's not about you hiding your reconstruction from me, it's about your attitude that you don't care about your body and life at all."
"Wouldn't it be painful for a female soldier to die easily? Can't you take care of yourself a little bit?"
Xi Ze was startled and blinked slowly, as if he could not believe it.
The things that he had been subconsciously avoiding and not daring to think about deeply were put in front of him by the male insect without any scruples, and were laid bare for him to see.
He will no longer be able to play dumb and fool around.
It was a sincerity and truthfulness that was unconcealed and hot enough to burn one's heart.
After a while, he couldn't help but chuckle.
There is clearly no conflict of interest and he is even a complete burden, right? Why can Yael do this?
Simply, almost unrequitedly, I care about his feelings, and even get angry and upset about it.
He suddenly recalled the long-lost memory that had just been unearthed.
He originally thought that it was just trivial things that were worn out by the endless wars, and he had long forgotten the specific details and the emotions at that time.
But this does not seem to be the case.
He never forgot.
And at least five years before he disappeared from the sun, in the last second before he "died" while looking at the bloody sky, he was still longing for a glance of pity from that hypocritical and stingy love.
But the crows gnawing at flesh and blood on the battlefield will not forget the tragedy of the poor corpse. The genius admiral who once wore a glorious cape is now dead, and the only survivor is a broken shell riddled with holes.
Fortunately, fortunately...
On that snowy night, Yael passed by that dark alley and saved him from death.
It was as if the cruel gods, seeing him walking alone for half his life and being so miserable, finally felt a little sympathy for him.
Xi Ze's eyes closed slightly, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly.
The male insect whispered in his ear with some dissatisfaction, telling him to stop speaking half-sentences, saying that he really deserved a beating.
Then the question naturally turns to when is the best time to make an appointment with the doctor for a physical examination...
He was so thoroughly moved.
This would have been unimaginable just a few weeks ago, or even in his first half of life.
There was no high-sounding oath, no hypocrisy of sweet words, and not even much definite love.
But this male insect is so gentle and strong, principled and empathetic, and he shines like a star.
Through a thin layer of cloth, he could feel the beating heart nearby.
It was like an extremely stable anchor, the other end pulling him back so that he wouldn't fall to the bottom and end up being shattered to pieces without a burial place.
"Are you listening to me?"
Yael tilted his head to look at his shoulder. For some reason, the female insect in front of him had been distracted since the beginning.
He recalled the terrifying reconstruction of the female worm and was somewhat worried about what kind of aftereffects it might leave.
"…Did you really succeed in rebuilding your mental landscape? Would you not become a fool?"
"How could that be?"
Caesar buried his face in his arms and laughed, "I feel good now...better than ever before."
Yael tutted his tongue and said, "It's over. I've really become stupid."
He turned off the water valve, pulled off the bath towel and covered the female insect with it, and shouted 015 to the outside of the door. After a while, the sound of hurried wheels was heard.
He lowered his head obediently and had his wet head rubbed. Thinking of some unusual movements he had noticed recently, a hint of darkness flashed across Xize's eyes.
I don't know how much that idiot has noticed, and what he will do out of desperation, but the result will not change the slightest.
Not shooting him dead five years ago would have been the worst decision of his life.
soon……
He could feel that during this period of recuperation, his damaged self-healing ability was gradually recovering and the wounds were healing faster.
Just give him a month, or even less than a month, and everything will be on track.
It will be soon.
The author has something to say:
Thoughts:
A general looks fierce and stern (and he is), but once he takes someone to heart, he will devote himself wholeheartedly to that person.
Ye Ye is also beautiful, strong and tragic, but in the future they will be able to redeem and favor each other. The author just loves this tune... Please everyone enjoy the delicious meal together (wipe saliva)