Chapter 25: SpongeBob
When Xia Cun opened her eyes, a flash of white light passed by the window. She checked the time: 04:07 AM. Then, thunder boomed outside the window, and the French windows were slammed by the incoming rain.
Another storm came, more violent than the last.
She blinked her eyes, walked to the window in the dark and opened the curtains.
It was pitch black outside, with only the sounds of rolling waves and swaying trees, sometimes far away and sometimes near. It wasn't until the next flash of lightning struck the sea that she saw a purple-white mist rising above the thick black water.
There were continuous flashes of lightning and thunder. She returned to the bedside with the help of a flash of white light and found her cell phone.
She wasn't the only one awake; others had already been sending messages in the group. Lu Xu had first taken a photo of lightning and posted it to the group, saying it was cool. Then Zhou Yun noticed that the villa seemed to have lost power, and the two of them began discussing possible horror film elements based on the thunderstorm and the power outage. Ban Li soon joined in, and the group began sharing supernatural ideas. It was then that Xia Cun received Miao Wen's message.
Miao Wen: "Are you awake?"
After Xia Cun responded to her, she sent another message: "Great, can you accompany me to find something to eat downstairs? I'm so hungry!"
Miao Wen: "Lu Xu and the others are so annoying. I don't even dare to go downstairs alone."
Xia Cun did not refuse, so the two met in the corridor. As soon as Miao Wen saw her, she quickly put her arm around her, and Xia Cun couldn't help but freeze on the spot.
Miao Wen noticed her strangeness and asked casually, "What's wrong? Are you scared too?"
Xia Cun shook his head.
She just had never felt someone's arms around her like this before.
If Xia Cun is always colorful and even a little messy in the eyes of others, then Ren Yi is an out-and-out black rock cool girl in the eyes of others. She has been cool since she was a child, or at least she loves to pretend to be cool, so Ren Yi would never make such intimate gestures towards Xia Cun at any time, so that Xia Cun felt a little unfamiliar with Miao Wen's intimacy at this time.
Miao Wen didn't realize that Xia Cun had stiffened because of her actions. She thought he was just denying his fear, so she straightened her chest and said, "It's okay. We're together, so we're not afraid of ghosts."
“…”
She is not afraid.
The two of them walked down the stairs with the help of the flashlight from their cell phones.
Lightning and thunder continued outside, and Miao Wen couldn't help but mutter to herself to boost her courage: "It's so scary. The last time we saw this kind of weather, it was at least during the day... Oh, by the way, the movie we saw last time was called 'The Island'. It was really scary, and the twist at the end was also really exciting. It's a pity you didn't watch it with us."
“But I’ve seen it.”
"Wow, what do you think?"
"I don't remember."
“…You.”
When Xia Lan has no inspiration, she often watches horror movies or suspense movies to relieve stress. Sometimes, out of fear, she will drag Xia Cun to watch with her, under the pretext of letting her relieve stress, but in fact, it is because she feels safe with Xia Cun by her side. After all, she is a child with a expressionless face, and even the close-range killing move like Jump Scare can't scare her.
But Xia Cun's mind wandered easily. Consequently, after watching many movies, she often remembered not the plot but details like a dog running past in a certain shot. She would even imagine the life of a dog that lived decades earlier in that moment. She always remembered only the smallest details and a feeling that touched her, and horror films were no exception.
Miao Wen yawned and said, "Okay, I'd better not think about any horror movies."
After saying that, she walked down the last few steps. At the same time, a black shadow jumped out from the side of the stairs, accompanied by a series of erratic threatening voices. Miao Wen immediately took two steps back, fell on the steps and screamed.
Screams rang out in the intervals without thunder, extremely piercing, followed by laughter, but a dull thud interrupted the laughter, replaced by cries of pain: "Fuck, it hurts so much!"
The chaos at the bottom of the stairs quickly alarmed others, and someone quickly rushed out from the room on the second floor. Zhou Yun and Lu Xu each held up their cell phones and took pictures downwards.
Miao Wen had already stood up with Xia Cun's help. She also saw the person who had just teased her in the light of the flashlight. Then, regardless of whether the others were still asleep, she asked angrily, "Are you sick, Shi Yu? Do you know that this is dangerous?"
Shi Yu also covered his head with an unhappy look on his face, and said with a strong sense of righteousness: "Didn't I wait until you came down to scare you?"
Miao Wen certainly wouldn't calm down just like that, but she thought of Xia Cun and turned around to ask her, "Are you okay?"
She almost pulled Xia Cun down, but luckily she managed to hold on to the handrail.
Xia Cun nodded, indicating that he was fine.
Shi Yu's jump scare was just another jump scare and it didn't frighten her.
"Of course she's fine!" Shi Yu said angrily, "She even threw her phone at me!"
"Can't you speak a little more quietly? Everyone else will wake up soon." Zhou Yun said this as he walked to the bottom of the stairs.
"Do I need to make a fuss about such a loud thunder?"
Shi Yu retorted, and just as he finished speaking, a beam of white light projected from the entrance to the bottom of the stairs. When everyone looked over, they saw only a tall figure walking towards them. It was Shinji Mizuno who came downstairs to inspect the circuit.
"What's going on?"
Mr. Mizuno approached the teenagers. He was outside just now and did not hear the noise in the living room.
When Miao Wen saw him, she hurriedly told him about Shi Yu's frightening incident. Shi Yu snorted after hearing it: "You two scared me. I just came downstairs to drink water, and who knew two people would come floating up the stairs? And I was hit by this guy, my forehead is swollen."
"You already have a bump on your head, this doesn't make a big difference." Zhou Yun was as sharp-tongued as ever.
"I said, why do you always go against me——"
Before he could finish his words, another blinding white light shone from above the stairs onto Shi Yu's face. He raised his hands to shield his eyes. Before he could get angry, he heard Jiang Song's voice say, "Uru saina, arrest da." (You're so noisy! I caught you.)
"..." Shi Yu said angrily, "Are you an elementary school student?"
Jiang Song did not deny it and lowered the flashlight. The others looked up to the second floor and found that he had also been leaning on the railing to look at them, and He Shizhao was standing beside him, also looking at the bottom of the stairs.
"Mizuno-san, it's raining so hard, when will it stop?"
He sounded like he was asking for the weather forecast, his voice echoing above the empty living room. And Mr. Mizuno, true to the weather forecast, answered him, "If nothing unexpected happens, it will be calm in an hour."
"Soka, I thought it would never stop."
He spoke childish words and his voice sounded listless, but Shinji Mizuno could still tell from his voice that his condition was different from the previous two days - something must have happened yesterday, so he was in a much better mood.
As for Jiang Song's bad mood, Mizuno certainly didn't think it was because he had let others ignore him. It would only cause Jiang Song a momentary displeasure, not the kind of silence he'd experienced the previous two days. Therefore, his bad mood was simply due to something his master had said to him when he contacted him that day.
Sure enough, the gentleman was the biggest stumbling block in his plan.
However, judging from the current situation, Xiao Xia seems to have defeated the "villain stumbling block" that made Jiang Song feel bad, but he can also sense that this is only a temporary victory and not the final victory.
Mizuno's thoughts were racing. In fact, he was just waiting for the thunder to stop. After the roar faded, he suddenly asked Jiang Song a question: "Do you want the rain to stop?"
There seemed to be something else behind his words. Jiang Song didn't know if he understood or not, so he just asked him, "Can you make it stop just because I want it to?"
"Why me?"
"Because you're Mizuno-san." Mr. Spy who can do anything.
"I'm sorry, but I didn't cause the rain, and I can't control it."
Mr. Mizuno said this in a rather cold tone, and everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.
It was so strange. They were clearly speaking Chinese, so why didn't I understand? Even stranger was why they didn't speak Japanese. Speaking in Chinese would have been like playing charades anyway.
Jiang Song stopped talking and turned back to the room.
A small incident between teenagers ended in the villa.
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Just as Mr. Mizuno said, the storm stopped after an hour.
After the storm subsided, the teenagers did not continue to sleep. Instead, they got on a car to the beach before dawn.
Shortly after they returned to their rooms, someone suddenly sent a new message in the small group.
Shinji Mizuno: "Let's go to the beach and collect shells after the rain stops."
Several teenagers were busy eating or surfing the internet, and they were all confused for a moment when they saw the news. Only Xia Cun seemed to have received a heart-wrenching blow. It was as if someone had snatched away what she wanted to do.
Before anyone else could react, a new message came in the group.
Hayate: 「はい!」
“…”
Zhou Yun was the most disrespectful and sent a string of ellipsis in the group, obviously having seen through the childish behavior of some people.
Hayate: "What does this mean?"
Actually playing dumb.
Zhou Yun was simply impressed by this guy, but since he could send this childish message in the name of Mr. Mizuno, it meant that Mr. Mizuno must have acquiesced to it, and Mr. Mizuno's acquiescence meant that his attitude towards the previous plan had softened.
As expected, this guy is simply pampered to an outrageous degree.
Zhou Yun complained bitterly in his heart, then edited a reply: "Nothing, it's just that I seemed to be half asleep and hallucinated SpongeBob saying he wanted to catch jellyfish."
Going to the beach to pick up shells is so childish!
And now, he is following a group of childish guys to the beach to "catch jellyfish".
When we arrived at the beach, it was just getting light and the sky was a faint gray-blue.
The sea breeze was stronger than usual, and the boys' hair and clothes were blown messy, but that was not something they cared about. They just chased, ran and jumped on the long beach, cheering at the sea unrestrainedly.
Xia Cun took off his shoes and walked alone along the shadowy edge of the beach.
She looked ahead. Miao Wen and Tong Anyu were taking pictures of each other. The boys had already run to the front. Lu Xu seemed to have said something, which caused Zhou Yun to kick him. He dodged, and then Zhou Yun attacked him again in a different posture. Finally, they tangled in the sea, and Ban Li was recording the video nearby.
Behind her, the waves crashed onto the beach, the seawater pouring into a string of bare footprints, blurring them into a small silver puddle, which then vanished under the next wave...
Behind them, Jiang Song and Shinji Mizuno were walking together.
He was looking at the girl walking in front of him, and at the same time, he was asking Mizuno what the "condition" he just mentioned was.
When he asked Mizuno to send a message in the group to act with him, Mizuno did not immediately agree or reject him, but for the first time ever asked him to agree to a condition.
Since becoming his assistant, Mizuno has never proposed the word "condition" to him. Yes or no, agree or disagree, it is always clear to Mizuno. He will not try to trade with him by proposing a condition at certain times like those previous assistants did, as if having this "condition" would make it easier for them to make him make concessions in some situations.
——You promised me before, so you can’t do this this time. This is my condition.
He hated other people making offers to him, but Mizuno did so today, and he agreed to it.
But it really makes people care.
What kind of conditions will it be?
"You'll know later." Mizuno answered him.
"So you've already thought of that condition?"
"I think so."
"I really want to know now."
Mizuno simply ignored his soft and hard nagging: "Go and have fun."
"I really want to know now."
Mizuno smiled: "Xiao Xia seems to be talking to Xiao He."
Jiang Song turned around and looked. At the edge of the gray-blue beach, a girl and a boy were standing side by side in the sea breeze, talking about something.
Free words, hazy words, nasty words.
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The author has something to say: Well, I succeeded in making myself confused, but I finally wrote it out!
Now I have to go pack up my moving stuff, so please forgive me if I don’t update on time tomorrow [fist] I really write very slowly! I need to write in the morning, afternoon and night to write a chapter [poor]
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