Chapter 68
"Have you heard that the puppet shop across from the school seems to be closed."
"What a shame! I was just thinking of going there this weekend."
"I heard that the owner and the clerk inside are super handsome. How could they close the store for no reason? What a shame."
In the lecture hall of Huada University, the girls were whispering.
A few tables away from them, a boy in a white shirt seemed to have heard their discussion and was looking at his textbook.
Suddenly, there was a bag of bread on the table. Then came a familiar voice.
"Zhao Zhao, eat something? Hmm?"
The boy in the white shirt is Pei Zhao.
After returning from the main world, Pei Zhao did not stay in the puppet shop, but returned to campus and attended classes peacefully.
Zhou Ran felt very strange about this. Zhou Ran asked where Zhou Yuli had gone more than once, but Pei Zhao's reaction was that no matter what he was doing, he would immediately become stunned, as if in a trance, and would not move or speak. After one or two times, Zhou Ran didn't dare to ask again.
Zhou Ran privately thought that Zhou Yuli and Pei Zhao had had a quarrel, and even guessed that they broke up. So I followed the clues and found the puppet shop. Unexpectedly, there was a notice posted on the puppet shop that said "Business is temporarily suspended indefinitely".
Fortunately, Zhou Ran knew where their "nest" was. He went up to the second floor with ease and saw Bai Zhou staring at the coffin in a daze.
"Why are you alone? Where are Lan Ji and the others?"
Zhou Ran knew what this coffin was, but he still felt scared when he saw it.
Bai Zhou didn't say anything, and his reaction was almost exactly the same as Pei Zhao's. Zhou Ran then realized what might have happened.
From Bai Zhou, Zhou Ran learned that Zhou Yuli and Lan Ji were temporarily unable to transform back into humans. Bai Zhou asked him about Pei Zhao's condition. Zhou Ran sighed, sat down on the sofa and shook his head.
"Why do you think I came to see you? Pei Shen's reaction was so scary that I thought Zhou Yuli broke up with him."
"That's impossible." Bai Zhou said.
"Of course I know it's impossible!" Zhou Ran shrugged, "That's why I came to ask you what's going on. As for the result... it might as well be that we broke up."
At least after breaking up, there is still a chance to reconcile.
"Ptah, ptah, ptah." Realizing what he was thinking, Zhou Ran spat loudly a few times.
"You... I see the puppet shop is closed." Bai Zhou's expression was not very good, so Zhou Ran could only ask tentatively.
Bai Zhou sat up from the ground and stood there in a daze. After a moment, he walked to the window.
Zhou Ran followed behind him trembling with fear. He thought, this guy won’t jump down…
However, Bai Zhou just took out a cigarette box from his pocket, took out a cigarette, and didn't smoke it, just held it in his mouth.
Zhou Ran said: "You...learned to smoke?"
"No. Lan doesn't like it." Bai Zhou exhaled like someone else smoking, but unfortunately the cigarette was not lit, so he exhaled only invisible air. "But people here say that smoking can relieve sorrow."
"That's just an advertising slogan..." Zhou Ran whispered, "Don't smoke, it's bad for your health."
But he was just dissuading him. Even if Zhou Ran had a hundred guts, he wouldn't dare to really go after Bai Zhou.
This person has a very strong aura, like one of those superstars who is uneducated but gifted. When he doesn't speak, he looks cold and unapproachable, which makes people feel distant.
Bai Zhou didn't say anything, just looked into the distance for a long time before answering the question Zhou Ran asked at the beginning.
"I'm the only one left and I don't want to open a shop anymore," said Bai Zhou.
Zhou Ran took a moment to react before realizing that he was answering the topic he had mentioned about the "Puppet Shop" being closed. No one wants something like this to happen. Bai Zhou is the saddest person to see Lan Ji become like that.
Zhou Ran stumbled and comforted him: "Don't, don't be sad."
Bai Zhou shook his head. He took a deep breath, but still got nothing. He held the cigarette between two fingers and put on a dissolute look. Without Lan Ji, Bai Zhou really didn't care about his image at all.
He turned around, lowered his eyes to look at Zhou Ran, and asked: "Come to me, what do you need my help with?"
Seeing Bai Zhou's condition, Zhou Ran was unable to even utter a word to ask for help.
Bai Zhou saw his embarrassment and said, "It's probably because of Pei Zhao. He's probably not in a good condition either."
After returning from the other world, Pei Zhao did not wait for Bai Zhou to get love from the ice crystal and regain his human form. I hurried back to school, probably because I didn't want to face him.
After all, for Pei Zhao, he gave up the opportunity to save Zhou Yuli in order to save Bai Zhou.
Even because he owed Bai Zhou, Pei Zhao could not forgive himself for doing this.
"Actually, Mr. Pei doesn't have any opinion about you..." Zhou Ran defended Pei Zhao because he was afraid that Bai Zhou would have an opinion about Pei Zhao's behavior.
Bai Zhou interrupted him: "No need to say." He smiled bitterly, "I understand. No matter who is standing here today, Pei Zhao will not come to see him. We put Pei Zhao in a position of choice. He will not want to see us."
Zhou Ran felt a little complicated. He actually didn't know much about Bai Zhou in front of him. He only knew from their interactions that Bai Zhou was once the monarch of a certain country. Since he was a monarch, his only knowledge of monarchs was those in film and television dramas. For Zhou Ran, who had experienced the nine princes competing for the throne and the struggle for imperial power, which ruler could be a simple person?
Therefore, Zhou Ran always felt that Bai Zhou's thinking dimension was above all of them. Although he was a little silly at times, Bai Zhou was the one who saw things most clearly most of the time.
When Bai Zhou said this today, Zhou Ran knew that Bai Zhou understood Pei Zhao.
Now that there is understanding, the conversation can continue.
"Then why don't you go meet him?" Zhou Ran asked.
Bai Zhou frowned and looked at him, puzzled.
"He won't pay any attention to me."
"He will." Zhou Ran affirmed.
"Why do you say that?"
Zhou Ran: "Your Highness Bai Zhou... In your heart, are you no longer friends?"
Bai Zhou looked a little dazed: "Friends? Forget it." He put down the cigarette, folded his arms, leaned against the window, and looked into the distance. He could just see the teaching building of Huada University.
Are we friends? Forget it.
Before the accident, they were such good friends and partners. The same is true when something happens. Otherwise, why would someone sacrifice his life for someone who has no relatives or friends? That's ridiculous.
However, Bai Zhou considered himself to be a proud man. Rather than saying that he understood Pei Zhao, it would be better to say that he believed that Pei Zhao would not forgive him.
...He took away Zhou Yuli's chance to stay with Pei Zhao.
Zhou Ran asked him to persuade Pei Zhao, but he was the one who made Pei Zhao suffer.
Bai Zhou's bright golden eyes dimmed.
Zhou Ran walked to the window and said, "Bai Zhou, I have to go out to compete with the club during this period. My campus card allows me to enter and leave the school and the dormitory freely. You know my dormitory number. There is an empty bed in the dormitory."
After saying that, Zhou Ran left without looking back. Bai Zhou was left alone, looking at a thin card on the windowsill, lost in thought.
…
"Zhao Zhao, would you like something to eat?"
The scene returns to the classroom. Bai Zhou, with an overly delicate face, enters the classroom and causes a burst of exclamations after leaving, but Bai Zhou ignores them. He sits directly next to Pei Zhao and puts the breakfast he bought in front of Pei Zhao.
Pei Zhao was in a daze. After his eyes came back to focus, he slowly turned his head to look at him: "Bai Zhou, is our puppet shop closed?"
Bai Zhou's smile stopped at the corner of his mouth, and he tried to lift the corner of his mouth: "Temporarily, temporarily turned off."
He turned to face the table, his temperament became much colder: "...The balance is enough for several months of rent. I don't want to go into the store for the time being."
There are so many memories in this store. Although Bai Zhou considers himself a strong person, it is not worth it to torture himself.
Pei Zhao just asked, and after Bai Zhou answered, he didn't ask any further questions. He turned around, picked up a bun, and took bites of it.
The food is tasteless, but you still have to eat well.
Eat well, and they will have a chance to go again when Sudi recovers and the population of the main world moves again.
Pei Zhao took a bite of the bun. The filling inside was the diced beans and meat that was widely praised on the campus network, but Pei Zhao could not taste any flavor at all.
Swallowing also becomes difficult. The outer skin processed by salivary amylase becomes sticky and rough, and it passes through the esophagus quickly, causing a burning sensation.
"I'm full." Pei Zhao ignored the burning throat and said calmly.
Bai Zhou did not force Pei Zhao to eat much. Since he himself could not eat it, it was difficult for him to ask others to do so. Seeing Pei Zhao finished eating, Bai Zhou was about to leave. Suddenly, he heard two uniform reminders.
Bai Zhou stopped and Pei Zhao stood there in a daze.
They have a common group, which Zhou Ran took the initiative to create when they went to the hot spring villa in order to facilitate communication among everyone.
In addition to the members of their team, there was also Sudi in the group.
Both of their phones rang at the same time, so it could only be Sudi who sent the message.
Pei Zhao's gray eyes suddenly brightened. He opened his phone and clicked on the pinned message.
“Let’s go again this Saturday.”
…
After the first experience, Pei Zhao was well prepared for the second time. He communicated with Bai Zhou about the subsequent procedures, and Bai Zhou only asked one question.
"Then what can I do? Can I revive Lan Ji?"
Pei Zhao pondered for a moment and replied: "I hope so. If you revive Lan Ji and I revive Zhou Yuli, that would be perfect."
Bai Zhou nodded: "I understand."
Because of the lack of two in the four group, the relationship between the two is difficult. Now that the common goal is in front of them, they have regained their previous tacit understanding.
When meeting Sudi, Pei Zhao didn't know if it was his illusion, but the usually listless Sudi actually looked somewhat energetic. The first time he saw Pei Zhao, he took out a necklace from his pocket.
"Pei Zhao, I need your help with something."
Pei Zhao was secretly shocked, thinking that it couldn't be that thing... His eyes fell on his palm, and his heart sank. Sure enough, lying in Sudi's palm was the dim golden star.
"...You want to revive him?" Pei Zhao asked with a difficult voice. If there were two of them, reviving Zhou Yuli and Lan Ji would be just right. If Sudi's was added...
Pei Zhao took a deep breath: "Okay."
Sudi helped them so much for free, Pei Zhao patted his conscience and told himself that he could not refuse.
Unexpectedly, Sudi took back the necklace with a puzzled look on his face: "What are you talking about?" Sudi laughed, "I just wanted you to see if it looks much brighter than before. Yu said it might be related to the substances he has come into contact with recently. I recalled that I have only come into contact with you recently - and the elemental monsters in your hand."
Pei Zhao was stunned, and after a careful examination, he said in surprise: "It really is..."
Sudi proudly stuffed the necklace into Pei Zhao's hand and said, "Yu said that at this recovery speed, he might be able to be resurrected soon. So, these days, I ask you to take care of him and your three..." Sudi's eyes quickly swept across Bai Zhou's face and changed his words, "Oh, two elemental monsters, put them together, that's it!"
Pei Zhao took the ice box off his neck, took off Sudi's Venus from the pendant, and put it carefully into the ice box.
"Is this all right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the golden star flashed twice, and the small green leaf raised its leaves, covering the small golden star underneath. Pei Zhao couldn't help but poke the small green leaf with his hand, but there was no response.
Bai Zhou said: "When you become an element, you can't clearly feel the existence of the outside world, and your memory is also confused."
Pei Zhao nodded, his expression unchanged, "How amazing! You are actually useful."
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