Chapter 237 Meeting (Part 2)
"Cough!" A dull roar uttered from the expressionless Far East Army female's throat.
Valentine Fenghun shuddered, his wrist bones ached, and he subconsciously let go. He ran closer to Destiny and also to the tree seed. But after a moment of distraction, Valentine held it back.
Destiny suddenly pulled his hand away, and Valentine von only had time to grab Destiny's fingertips.
Shi Cunjin turned his wrist, held Valentin's hand backwards, covered the back of Valentin's hand with his other hand, and clasped their hands together and shook them up and down for a few seconds.
"Okay, shake hands."
Shi Cunjin said gently, "The suspended elevator made into a ladder platform can accommodate two people at a time. Let's go together." He gently took away Valentine's hand and politely refused to hold hands.
Valentin is now in his prime, tall, handsome, and has a pair of green cat eyes that still reveal a bit of childishness, and a strong sense of youth. The young A-level gentleman from the cat's eyes is also wearing a light-colored neoclassical style three-piece suit, with all the etiquette accessories, diamonds and gold, and a high-quality velvet collared animal felt coat on his shoulders. His whole body is as luxurious and elegant as the head of the Jane family next to him.
Shi Cunjin has only known Valentine in the book for three months. Today is their second meeting in real life. Shi Cunjin does not have a cleanliness fetish, but he does not like strangers to get close to him suddenly. When someone suddenly got close to him, Shi Cunjin emptied his magazine into the other person's abdomen. He did not wait for a second.
"Okay, okay." Valentine von withdrew his hand and stood away.
He remembered something and turned to the Guardian leader who followed closely and ordered: "This meeting is private, you stay in the parking area and don't move. Fran and I will go upstairs to have tea. After that, even if my heart rate monitor explodes, none of you are allowed to take off to the Sky Garden without my order."
The new leader of the Guardians frowned, and glanced at the other side, his face full of disapproval and worry. "Okay, we are always waiting for your call." He turned to look at the head of the Jian Ning family, and said in a low and rumbling voice: "Please pay more attention to you."
Fran Janning nodded gracefully but said nothing.
Valentin von noticed that his childhood friend was unusually silent, but he convinced himself in a second: It was normal for Fran to remain silent in such an epic social suicide! It was reasonable and correct! If it wasn't for the fact that the offender was Indivisible Little V, Valentin von himself would have wanted to turn around and run away.
"Let's go, I'm fine now." Valentine von said to Destiny who was waiting on the side.
"Yeah." Shi Cunjin took the lead and walked towards the ladder.
Valentin Von followed in sync, side by side with Destiny. He was too excited but had to act normal. He knew very well that before they had a private conversation, there was a chance that Destiny was not from the same hometown.
But even so, because of that one sentence, that little bit of hope like fine sand falling between his fingers, Valentine Feng's heart surged, his senses were so strong that he almost felt like a thin balloon filled with water.
As if the relief of being freed from a lonely and awake dream for ten thousand lifetimes flowed from his eyes - Valentin von looked closely at Destiny's profile; from his ears - Valentin von always confirmed Destiny's breathing, alive and real; and from his mouth.
So much so that on the short trail, Valentine von wanted to talk to Destiny: "I received the news of the tea party time adjustment temporarily. I was still asleep when the guardian knocked on the door this morning, and I had breakfast on the tour bus. What about you? When did you receive the news? Have you had breakfast? The climate in the Far East is really suitable for making dairy products. The cheese ripened in snow caves is very flavorful. I ate a whole pound of Pruebeest fresh cheese this morning. I didn't get tired of eating it alone."
Shi Cunjin listened with his ears tilted, his lips moving slightly...
"Mr. Roxy told me that the contract stipulates that the negotiation time is 60 minutes. Once the 60 minutes are up, I can leave at any time, but I think this setting is meaningless. I would like to talk longer." Seeing that Destiny was listening and speaking faster, Valentine Feng said happily: "In fact, it would be better to move the meeting time to the morning!"
Shi Cunjin's lips moved again...
"It's only 9 o'clock in the Far East after we complete the additional terms." Valentine von said continuously: "I have time all day after 9 o'clock, what about you? Are you free at noon and in the afternoon? If so, we can travel together for the whole day! My friend has collected the names of all the special attractions in the Second District and the restaurants that provide district-specific food. Some of them just opened yesterday. Can I invite you to eat? The Second District of the Far East retains a lot of original landforms. Many restaurants are directly built on the snowy frozen tops or in the cracks of the ice layer... In addition, there is a special landscape hall under construction in District 17. The theme of the restaurant is mirage and landscape aquatic monsters! The aquatic monster sent to District 17 comes from Mercury in the West District. It is one of the gifts from the Cat's Eye Council."
Shi Cunjin's lips moved three times...
"The singing voices of these water monsters are very beautiful and have a calming and tranquilizing effect. Part of my adult assets were invested in the Western District Mercury Management Office. When Lord Roxy drew up the gift list, I gave them a batch of monsters as a gift. I also named them Sirens."
Valentine Fenghu coughed lightly, "Originally I wanted to name them mermaids, but... they are so ugly, like a hybrid of Cthulhu and a banshee, I feel guilty naming them mermaids."
The next moment, Valentine Feng regained his high and cheerful tone: "It's a good thing that the meeting time was temporarily changed. There are many wonders in the Second District of the Far East. How many of them have you seen? Some wonders have not been opened to the public yet because they were developed in cooperation with companies under the name of the parliament, but I have a special pass in my hand. I can take you to see them. At noon, we will eat the specialties of the West District transported from the accompanying ship. And I have also thought about what to eat in the evening. I know an A-level gentleman who came from the Eastern Tiangong Star System. There is a biological ship in the fleet of that gentleman, which specializes in cultivating animals and plants in the East District. Whenever you want to eat, you can dispatch fresh ingredients to the main ship for processing. I can have a video call with that gentleman and ask him to trade some specialties of the East District with me. Destiny, do you have..."
"Valentine, watch your step." Shi Cunjin interrupted Valentine.
The next second, Valentine kicked the glass step and stumbled.
They have reached the elevator. The elevator looks like a glass platform with a guardrail. The steps are made of transparent white glass, and if you are not careful, you will miss the correct position.
Shi Cunjin gave him a hand, and Valentine stood up straight, a little embarrassed: "Thank you."
"It's okay." Shi Cunjin said gently, and replied to Valentine's words in reverse order: "The second district of the Far East belongs to Mr. Fate. I have seen most of the wonders. There are no wonders built by the Far East and the West. My schedule for lunch and afternoon is already arranged, so I can't spare the time to travel with you to taste the food."
Evans Eamon stepped forward in time to open the guardrail door for Shi Cunjin, and Shi Cunjin stepped onto the stairs.
"Don't have time today? What about tomorrow? The day after tomorrow, the 18th? The 19th? Oh, right!" Valentine held the guardrail beside him and took the same elevator with Destiny. "I will stay in the Far East for a while, studying abroad or something like that... Sigh. The contract that Mr. Roxy gave me only said that I will study abroad for three years. What is the major? I don't know. Which region will I study in? It didn't say that either. But it's okay! I can stay in the Far East for a while longer."
Valentine von closed the guardrail casually, his movements as natural as closing his bedroom door, quick and neat.
Once the guardrail is closed, the set elevator protection program is instantly activated. A circle of light emerges from the bottom of the glass platform upwards, and an invisible protective magnetic field covers the elevator. The switch is locked, and the elevator rises and falls.
"Wait a minute... um." Shi Cunjin didn't know whether to laugh or feel helpless for a moment, but he remembered to maintain his persona and coughed lightly, "Wait a minute, you have to say something soft."
"Ah?" Valentin von asked in confusion.
"Today's sky garden has two elevators. Each elevator is 2 meters wide and has a fully enclosed magnetic field protection layer to prevent wind and explosion. Although we all wear suppression buckles, saliva will be secreted when we open our mouths to speak, and the nasal mucosa is also moist. It is unrealistic for hormones to be completely suppressed." Shi Cunjin coughed lightly: "You should leave a few minutes for me to tell Adjutant Amon to wait for the elevator rotation. If you and I stand on the same platform and leave directly, then the other two female insects who are very sensitive and disgusted by the smell of same-sex hormones will not recognize us..."
"..." Valentine Fontaine paused, and the next second he turned around with a force like a tree bent by a typhoon.
Valentine Feng leaned his hands on the magnetic protection layer around the fence, his face pressed against the invisible shield and looking at the ground.
On the ground, in front of the second glass elevator, two female insects looked up with expressionless faces.
Frankie Miller-Jenning: "...": Evans Emond
The two female insects are long and broad-shouldered, with a sufficient height, one is 1.85 meters tall and the other is nearly 2 meters tall. They have a strong presence, and their aura seems to be able to draw a 2.8-meter fan-shaped diagram.
Valentine von: "..."
The two female insects had sharp eyesight. When they saw Valentine looking down, one of them smiled again, took the initiative to open the guardrail door of the second glass elevator, and climbed up.
Another military girl took off her military cap expressionlessly, once again revealing her erect penis. He closed his eyes and boarded the elevator.
As soon as the two female insects got on the elevator, they immediately stood at the left and right poles, turned their heads to look at the scenery, and did not look at each other at all. Halfway up the elevator, the head of the Jianning family standing on the right had a smile on his face, but a pair of whiskers were shaking and erect between his neat black hair.
Valentine von: “…” The high-ranking nobleman, who looked elegant and dressed in formal attire, uttered a sound that sounded like a puppy choking and sucking in a breath of cool air.
"Hahaha, is this an illusion?" Valentine Feng leaned on the railing listlessly, "I seem to hear the crisp sound of precious friendship shattered."
Shi Cunjin thought for a moment and said in the usual teasing tone of young people: "Think about it, we will have to set up a single room for a private chat later. For the next 60 minutes, they will sit face to face and drink tea, just the two of them. Although they can use the smart brain ring to kill time, they are the only two at the tea table. Now they stand together as a warm-up."
"..." Valentin Feng: "The auditory hallucinations are getting worse, and I can hear more crackling sounds."
Ten minutes later, in the sky garden, the central open-air flower hall.
At the foot of the flower hall.
"That's what's going on." Valentine Feng put his hands together and said to Fran Janning sincerely, "Destiny and I are going to talk about some contract topics. We'll sit in the fountain room next to the central hall for a while. Let's put down the special soundproof curtain. The curtain is translucent, so you can see me when you look up. I'll be back after talking to Destiny. Then I'll introduce you to each other and expand your circle of friends. Then it won't be awkward anymore."
"Okay." Fran Jane nodded. "I'll keep an eye on you. If there's anything wrong, I'll go over right away."
Valentin Feng observed for a few seconds, "Wow? So easy to talk to."
Fran Janeen smiled. "What? Should I go sit between you and Mr. Sariel?"
"Okay, that's it. I'll go first!" Valentine von nodded immediately, turned around and trotted towards Destiny who was standing by the pool waiting.
On the side of the flower hall steps, Evans Eamon stood there expressionlessly.
The two gentlemen disappeared behind a translucent curtain ten meters away, and Evans Eamonn and Fran Janeing made eye contact.
Evans Eamonn: "...": Frankie Miller Janning.
They turned their eyes away expressionlessly, not even going into the central hall. One stood in the east, holding his military cap and posing in a military posture, while the other stood in the west, busying his brain with work.
…
On the side of the fountain hall.
Shi Cunjin and Valentin Feng sat down on either side of a jade table.
Valentine Feng was once again filled with tension. When it came to the critical moment of decision, he remembered the powerlessness of just leaving the lucid dream and the fear of being trapped in the cloud of suspicion. Valentine Feng pursed his lips and cheered himself up: It has come to this point. Even if there is a one in ten thousand chance of exposing the wrong person, it doesn’t matter. I am in the Far East, and I can continue to look for opportunities to meet another one.
"Hello, Valentine," Destiny said gently from across the table, "I've been looking forward to this meeting for a long time."
"Hello, Destiny." Valentine von took a deep breath, lifted up his felt coat, and let out his dark brown tail from under his waist. The slender and smooth snake-like tail instinctively wrapped around his calf.
He told Destiny, "I don't know how to explain everything to you in words. I have forgotten a lot of memories and everything is unfamiliar to me now."
“…My memory is patchy and I’m worried I won’t be able to explain it clearly.”
"Can I ask you to connect with me through your whiskers? Just like a parent comforting a child, I try to think that you can see through neural empathy." Valentine Feng's voice was a little dry, but he quickly became cheerful: "Don't worry, until now that I have crossed into adulthood, no senior minister in Cat's Eye has ever used neural tentacles to comfort me. Because I came to Jidong for the meeting, the time for my date application to enter the database has been adjusted to December. At present, I have not started to learn the relevant courses of the tail hook neural tentacles. You connect with me for empathy, and I can't observe you in return."
Valentine von lifted up his tail, and the long, snake-like tail scales were wrapped around his wrist. The scales at the tail hook spread out, revealing tender yellow nerve tentacles.
Now is the time. Shi Cunjin thought that understanding the past of one of the protagonists that was not written in the original novel would be the last piece of the puzzle to solve the crisis in the original novel.
"Okay." Shi Cunjin raised his hand, and a long, pearly silver-scale tail slithered up from his arm to touch the scaly brown tail.
The silver scales opened up, and the tender yellow nerve tentacles that are unique to male insects of the same species probed and connected in resonance.
Valentine von closed his eyes and began to recall all the memories he could remember in the darkness.
But, in the darkness, Valentine's retina suddenly "saw" a piece of exploding and flying ribbon debris, a cream cake covered with canned fruit, and his hearing "heard" a kind female voice: "Happy birthday, Xiaojin, you are 6 years old today."
The darkness was shattered by a burst of dazzling light, just like a night of spring breeze that blew up thousands of pear blossoms. Countless moments of human society rushed into the blind darkness of Valentine von like a sky full of meteors.
Valentine von was shocked and stared blankly at Destiny across the table.
Shi Cunjin picked out some conservative and safe memories and showed them to Valentine. He whispered, "Welcome back to human society."
Valentine von burst into tears in an instant.
The author has something to say:
Added a height tracking bug. I stayed up late to write so my mind was a little unclear. I got the data wrong. 180 is for Valentine. 185 is for Jane.