"You..." Tu Ran stared at her in a daze, opened his mouth, and swallowed the greeting.
She is not the real Tu Ran.
This sentence reminds her all the time.
Xi Chunzhi seemed not to notice her hesitation. He put his arm around her shoulders and led her away from the center of the road. A motorcycle sped away from where they were just now.
Xi Chunzhi waved his hand in front of Tu Ran's eyes, then moved closer to look at her, "What's going on? Are you stupid? You wouldn't be so excited to see me, right?"
Tu Ran raised her hand and patted the hand that was swaying in front of her, then held her hand and dragged her to a corner. She turned her head and looked around. No one noticed them, so she looked at Xi Chunzhi and frowned, "When did you come back?"
He looked at her undisguised face again and was shocked, "How did you just walk in here so carelessly?" There are so many people here. Even though Ling helped to cover up, what if there is someone here who knows her?
"Don't worry, I'm wearing a helmet." Xi Chunzhi patted the helmet clamped on his right arm, and with his other hand, he held Tu Ran's shoulder and hugged her into a narrow and deserted street.
Tu Ran followed Xi Chunzhi. They walked through the streets with little traffic, turned a few corners, and came to an empty corner where a motorcycle was parked.
Xi Chunzhi stepped forward, put on a helmet, and threw another helmet to Tu Ran, "Put it on, let's talk somewhere else."
Tu Ran was silent. Ling couldn't invade "Jie" for a while, and she probably wouldn't be able to enter the manor where Xie Xieao lived before dawn, so this plan was temporarily postponed.
He put on a helmet, lifted his legs and stepped onto the back seat of the motorcycle, and put his arms around Xi Chunzhi's waist.
After making sure Tu Ran was seated properly, Xi Chunzhi started the motorcycle.
The motorcycle shot out like an arrow from a bow. Tu Ran's body dodged and she hugged Xi Chunzhi even tighter.
The motorcycle sped along the street. At first, there were still a few passers-by on the roadside, but in the end, the only sound on the road was the sound of the motorcycle engine. They entered a narrow alley that was only wide enough for one motorcycle to pass through.
Tu Ran sat silently in the back seat, head tilted, watching the scenery on both sides of the road rapidly receding.
Endless walls, dazzling graffiti.
She couldn't see the content of the graffiti, she could only see various colors whizzing past her retinas.
"I'm not the real Tu Ran." Tu Ran was the first to break the silence.
"I know." Xi Chunzhi's voice came with the wind.
Tu Ran loosened her grip on Xi Chunzhi's waist a little and looked at the back of her head. She wanted to see Xi Chunzhi's expression, but unfortunately she couldn't.
She tightened her grip on Xi Chunzhi's clothes. She could read Xi Chunzhi's memory.
She was eager to know Xi Chunzhi's reaction when he learned that she came from another world. Would he be angry, furious, disgusted, or something else?
But she didn't want to read it. She respected Xi Chunzhi and didn't want him to pry into her privacy as he did with other people.
"Then we..." Tu Ran's voice was so weak that it was about to be blown away by the wind.
"Of course we are still friends," Xi Chunzhi slowed down the car. The sound of the wind in her ears became quieter, and her words became clearer. "You won't disown me when you become rich, will you?"
Tu Ran was still immersed in the words "Of course we are still friends" and was excited when she heard the second half of Xi Chun's sentence.
The previous sensational atmosphere is gone.
Tu Ran: "How am I rich?"
Xi Chunzhi released the accelerator and squeezed the brake. The motorcycle stopped immediately. She stretched out one leg to support herself on the ground, opened the eyepiece on her helmet, and turned to look at Tu Ran. "You are worth 1.5 billion now. Isn't that rich?"
Tu Ran stared at the man in front of her whose face showed "Are you going to abandon your wife and children?" and also put one leg down on the ground.
Looking up from the ground, there are two long legs, one wearing studded boots and tight leather pants, and the other wearing black mid-calf boots with the trouser legs tucked in.
Tu Ran raised her eyelids slightly and stared at Xi Chunzhi with a smile, "What? You want to take me to collect the bounty?" "It's just 1.5 billion, I don't care about it." Xi Chunzhi put down her goggles and held the handlebars with both hands again, "Sit tight, I'm going to step on the accelerator, don't fall off, it's so embarrassing to fall off the back seat of a motorcycle if you are the most wanted criminal in the Federation."
Tu Ran retracted her legs, hugged her waist, and pinched her, causing Xi Chunzhi to tremble. She said contentedly, "Sit still, let's go."
Xi Chunzhi laughed, stepped on the accelerator, and the car shot out.
Facing the wind head-on, the corners of his lips behind his helmet slowly drooped and tears welled up in his eyes. However, the tears were quickly dried up by the wind that came in through the gaps in the helmet and disappeared without a trace.
The dark and narrow alley leads to the depths with no end in sight. If a person keeps walking on such a road, he will go crazy sooner or later. She is lucky because there is someone standing behind her, accompanying her unwaveringly.
Once upon a time, that person was called Tu Ran.
Today, this person is still called Tu Ran.
…
The car stopped in front of an inconspicuous bar.
Tu Ran got out of the car, took off her helmet and handed it to Xi Chunzhi. Xi Chunzhi took it and hung it on the handlebars, parked the car, and took Tu Ran into the bar.
Tu Ran felt that the inside of the bar was the same as the outside, so simple that there was no bar atmosphere at all. She looked around and saw only two beam lights, one of which was broken, and the other one occasionally circled around the place. It could barely be considered a bar. There were not many people inside, sitting scattered in various corners, not next to each other. There were a lot of wines on the wine rack, which looked to be carefully crafted.
When Tu Ran's eyes fell on the wine rack that covered an entire wall, she understood something and looked at Xi Chunzhi with an ambiguous look.
Xi Chunzhi pretended to adjust his bangs, avoiding Tu Ran's sight, and waved to the uniformed bartender in front of the wine rack, "Two drinks."
Tu Ran clearly saw the bartender habitually reaching for the leftmost bottle on the sixth row of the shelf. His hand had already touched the edge of the bottle before he realized what was happening and turned back to Xi Chunzhi to confirm, "Drinks?!"
Xi Chunzhi: “…”
Tu Ran moved her gaze back to Xi Chunzhi's face and crossed her arms, "Sure, a whole wall of wine, your biggest dream has come true. But when did you come back to build this bar? Why didn't you inform me?"
Xi Chunzhi laughed dryly twice, his scalp tingling. He didn't dare to turn around with his back to Tu Ran, and looked at the bartender dimly, "You ask so many questions, I'll give you more money this month so you can get a cochlear implant quickly. Two drinks!"
"Yes." The bartender hurried to prepare it.
Xi Chunzhi then turned around, looked at Tu Ran with a smile, and took her arm, "Come on, let's go to the private room and talk about how to deal with Xie Xieao."
When Tu Ran heard the three words "Xie Xieao", she became serious and followed Xi Chunzhi into the private room. Tu Ran first looked around every corner to make sure it was safe before sitting down on the sofa opposite Xi Chunzhi.
"When did you come back? Why did you come back? How did you know I was looking for Xie Xieao?" Tu Ran asked a lot of questions in a row.
Xi Chunzhi sank into the sofa, his voice lazily saying, "I came back not long ago. I had someone buy this bar and cleaned it up a long time ago. In addition to this bar, there are some other places that are the bases for the hunters to do business."
"I came back to do some work a few days ago, and I happened to hear that you had returned from another world, so I went to look for you, and then I saw you being chased by Xie Zhao. When I saw you running away, I followed you. But you ran too fast, and I lost you. It took me a lot of effort to find you, especially when you looked like this," Xi Chunzhi pointed at Tu Ran's hair, "I almost didn't recognize you."
"Were you there when I killed Xie Zhao?" Tu Ran tried hard to recall, but couldn't remember where she had seen Xi Chunzhi.
"I wasn't there when the killing happened. You guys were so brutal. If I had been there, I would have been killed by you two by mistake." Xi Chunzhi was glad that she ran fast. After running for a distance, she looked back and saw that the floor where she had been standing was separated into two parts. If she had stayed there, she would have been beheaded and dead by now.
Xi Chunzhi pointed two fingers at his eyes, "My Fortuna Eyes see Xie Zhao as transparent."
It means he will die.
He was fighting with Tu Ran before he died, so it must have been Tu Ran who killed him.
Xi Chunzhi propped up his chin and looked at Tu Ran. "We have been together for a while, so I know your character. What's the point of killing Xie Zhao alone? If we want to kill him, we have to kill all those people in the Xie family who have the say. Only then can we vent our anger and delay the invasion of Blue Star."
Tu Ran also looked at Xi Chunzhi. She had to say that Xi Chunzhi really understood her.
There was a knock on the door and the two paused their conversation. Xi Chunzhi called out, "Come in." The bartender placed two drinks in front of Tu Ran and Xi Chunzhi and then left.