We are truly a match made in heaven.
This... can it be called a match made in heaven?
Lin Mingfei gazed into Xia Tong's eyes. The little Omega's eyes were curved and bright, with a sharp demarcation between the whites and pupils. The shimmering light within them was like the bright moonlight hanging in the sky, without a speck of dust. The Alpha was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled.
Lin Mingfei sometimes felt that Xia Tong was a very strange little creature. It seemed that no matter how many twists and turns he went through, it would not affect his clear and pure heart at all. As long as someone around him was sad, he would immediately reveal Xia Tong's innocent and naive smile, and use the warm little sun-like energy in his body to infect others.
Gu Dongsheng silently watched the two people pushing each other around, but there was no substantial progress for a long time. He couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Xia Tong and Lin Mingfei seemed to be startled and turned their heads together. They saw Gu Dongsheng took out a can of beer from his stall, opened the pull ring, let the white beer foam splash on his fingertips, and drank it relishingly.
"I say you two are too good at embellishing yourselves on this relationship. You're saying 'made for each other', but 'made for each other' is a compliment. You two should really be saying 'the pot fits the lid,' or 'a turtle meets a mung bean,' and they're right on target."
Lin Mingfei: “…”
This old guy can't spit out ivory!
Xia Tong, that silly guy, didn't feel offended at all. He clapped his hands happily and said, "That's an interesting way of saying it!" He pointed at Lin Mingfei with a smile, then pointed at himself, "Zero, if you are a green bean, then I am the one who has taken a fancy to your king, uh-"
Lin Mingfei's right eyelid began to twitch. Before Xia Tong could speak without restraint, he quickly covered her chattering mouth and shouted, "Alright, alright, I know you like me."
"Yeah, yeah!" Xia Tong nodded her head vigorously, with a sincere look on her face, sending waves of approval to Lin Mingfei.
On the other side, Gu Dongsheng made money, satisfied his acting addiction, and built his extra happiness on the "pain" of his godson. At this moment, the dopamine in his brain was over-secreted, and he felt quite ecstatic.
"I think it's getting late." He yawned lazily and waved his palm, saying, "You two should go back and do what you need to do. I'm going home to sleep."
"Uncle, are you leaving now?" Xia Tong looked at him eagerly, feeling reluctant to let him go.
"Of course not. I can't compare with you energetic young people." Gu Dongsheng said.
Lin Mingfei took out a new set of keys from her pocket and tossed them to Gu Dongsheng. "The door lock has been changed for you. Here are the new keys. Don't lose them again."
He lectured her with a stern face, but Gu Dongsheng didn't take it seriously. Instead, he kept grinning and winking at Xia Tong as if to show off: "See, my godson is useful, right? He knows everything and is incredibly capable."
Lin Mingfei was afraid that Xia Tong would say something like "I envy you for having a son like Zero, I want one too" in the next second, so she quickly interrupted his godfather-like sales talk and said, "Stop talking, pack up and go home."
Gu Dongsheng said, "Okay, since we'll often be in the same city in the future, there will be plenty of opportunities to meet. If you have anything to ask, remember to come find me, godfather. Don't be shy."
Lin Mingfei: “…”
Gu Dongsheng's release of this wave of fatherly love came without any beginning or end and without any warning. He didn't know what Gu Dongsheng was referring to specifically, but he just inexplicably recalled the two years he spent receiving medical treatment abroad.
He hadn't told anyone about what had happened to his eyes, not even Gu Dongsheng. At the time, he hadn't known double vision was an organic condition. After seeking medical help everywhere without success, he felt his suffering would have no end in sight. But he still didn't feel the need to tell anyone else, lest another person shoulder this boundless despair. He was as indifferent as a small boat, drifting across the ocean alone... Even though so much time had passed, looking back now, he found it incredible. How on earth had he managed to quietly get through such a dark time, so difficult and hopeless, all by himself? He couldn't seem to tolerate even a little bit of it now; just thinking about it made him feel cold.
Why did it turn out like this?
Lin Mingfei's thoughts had not yet come to her senses, but she had already glanced at Xia Tong subconsciously.
The source of all the changes came from this little Omega. It was Xia Tong who changed him.
Perhaps it was because his straightforward concern was presented to him time and time again, tirelessly. His own defenses were worn down, a crack appeared, and he began to learn to accept the kindness of others through this crack, such as Gu Dongsheng's comfort. From then on, he accepted this external care as a part of his body, and his inner self gradually softened.
Being a mollusk feels... not so bad?
After parting ways with Gu Dongsheng, it was already the quiet late night. The roadside snack stalls were gradually packing up their stalls. Lin Mingfei and Xia Tong walked side by side, returning to the base along the gradually deserted snack street.
"Uncle Gu is so nice to you!" Xia Tong put her hands behind her back and skipped along the curb.
"That's true." Lin Mingfei didn't comment, but after a pause he added, "But he's definitely not a qualified parent. You can tell from the fact that he changed his career to selling fried skewers."
"Why?" Xia Tong asked, "Actually, I think selling fried skewers is better than making movies! I love eating fried skewers!"
As expected of Xia Xiaotong, a single-celled organism, Lin Mingfei laughed helplessly, "Don't listen to him talking about how shameful it was to attend my parent-teacher conference. In fact, he only attended a few of my parent-teacher conferences. He either overslept or got the time and place wrong. Later, the teacher probably thought that he and I were of the same lineage and had a strange nature, so he gave up on saving me and gave up on inviting him to the parent-teacher conferences."
Xia Tong was amused by him.
"You've never been to school?" Lin Mingfei suddenly became curious.
"Yeah." Xia Tong nodded.
"Then how did you learn to read?"
"There's Debang! Debang downloads a lot of books for me to read. Even though I don't quite understand many of them, I have nothing else to do anyway, so I just read!" Xia Tong said, "Later, I found that surfing the Internet was more interesting than reading, so I gradually stopped reading. There's everything online, and you can even watch live streams of people playing games. The only downside is that Zheng Linchuan always keeps me in check and won't let me go online."
He spoke of the past lightly, but it made Lin Mingfei feel uncomfortable. She felt so distressed that she wanted to slap Zheng Linchuan a few times.
"It's okay. You can do whatever you want in the base from now on. No one will restrict you." Lin Mingfei said.
Xia Tong lowered his head and sighed softly with a touch of melancholy. "But I can't just eat and drink for free in the base. I should at least be able to help you guys." His steps slowed down, losing their lightness and becoming heavy. "Zero, I still can't do the A-step. What if I never learn to do the A-step?" He paused. "Wouldn't it be better for you guys... to recruit a more reliable wizard teammate?"
Lin Mingfei glanced at him sideways.
The little Omega's nervousness and uneasiness finally showed on his face. This was probably the reason why he couldn't sleep tonight and ran out alone to have fun at night.
"How could someone never learn something?" Lin Mingfei's voice was gentle and firm. "That's impossible. There's a saying in the world that goes, 'Where there is a will, there is a way.'"
"What do you mean?" Xia Tong asked.
"It means that as long as you have perseverance, you will eventually succeed. If you fail once, try twice. If you fail twice, try three times. As long as you are willing to work hard, there is nothing you can't learn, there are only lazy people." Lin Mingfei said, "What's more, you are a very smart Omega."
Xia Tong lowered her head, looking half-believing and half-doubting.
"You know what? Shi Ya used to play an output elf. He wanted to kill anyone he saw. He was a real head-killing dog. It was a torture for him to always focus on his teammates. When we first formed the team, he rushed in faster than anyone else as a nurse at the beginning. When he got to the enemy's nose, he found that he didn't have any output skills. He was beaten and came back with a bloody head. Oh, most of the time he couldn't come back. That terrible conditioned reflex lasted for about half a month. It was not just him. As his teammates, we really had no nurse to rely on. The game experience was very bad. He once threatened that he would never learn to play nurse in his life, and he also clamored to quit the team." Lin Mingfei said.
"Ah? So miserable! Then what?" Xia Tong asked curiously.
"Then? Then we forced him to become the good wife, mother and father he is today." Lin Mingfei replied indifferently.
Xia Tong exclaimed, "Wow!" and poked her chin with a finger. "Brother Shi is such a gentle person. I can't imagine what he's like when he's trying to kill someone!"
"Well, there's also Zhou Yanjun," Lin Mingfei continued. "Before he signed with the club, he was a professional troll. He was incredibly foul-mouthed. Once the game was going against him, he'd go crazy, lose his mind, and bite anyone he could find like a madman. At that time, if you took off your headphones a step too late, you'd regret it for the rest of your life. As his teammate, you know what I mean, right? It was so painful, so painful. Putting down the headphones was like a Buddha."
"What happened next?" Xia Tong was dumbfounded.
"His stubborn illness hasn't been cured yet. We can only say it's been mostly corrected," Lin Mingfei said. "But at least you can communicate with him in human language during matches. We should be content with what we have. Now, let me tell you about Xiaobo. Can you guess why he chose the Axe Warrior class?"
"Is it because you think the axe warrior's skills are more powerful?" Xia Tong speculated.
Lin Mingfei raised a finger and shook it gently: "You think too much. The reason he chose the Axe Warrior is because the Axe Warrior's teaching NPC looks a lot like his deceased grandfather."
Xia Tong: “…”
Lin Mingfei: "The weapon he used is very similar to his family's ancestral axe for chopping wood, so...he is essentially a sentimental party."
Xia Tong: "...It's really amazing that Xiao Bo can still play professionally."
Lin Mingfei snorted. "What a bullshit! When he first arrived, he just took a beating without fighting back. He even had a catchphrase that justified his actions: 'My grandfather told me not to get into fights casually.' An axe warrior who doesn't want to fight, should our team spend money to support a human punching bag? Ha!"
Xia Tong was shocked. He never expected that the formation process of Team P would be so bumpy. Everyone who looked powerful had a dark history, and they were all the kind of dark histories that seemed like mental flaws.
"Compared to this bunch of psychos, isn't 'not being able to walk A' nothing worth mentioning?" Lin Mingfei raised the corner of her lips slightly: "Believe me, everyone who looks powerful has evolved from a nobody."
Xia Tong thought seriously for a moment, then carefully raised her eyelids: "Brother, have you ever been a foodie before?"
Lin Mingfei: “.”
Xia Tong: "Do you... have any dark history?"
Alpha's upper body stiffened and he turned his face away indifferently.
"No, I've never been bad, and I don't have any dark history!"
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