Chapter 21

When Xiaohua woke up the next day, he finally realized that he had been cheated. No, it was more like he had realized who he was.

——He is no match for the Abyss!

Lin Ling lay on the bed, folded his hands in front of his stomach, and reflected on himself calmly.

He deeply understood the truth of life: no matter whether you are a person or a flower, you will always have to pay the price for your wrong judgments.

He had never thought that Shenyuan's learning ability would be so strong that he could even learn things by himself without any teacher! Just based on this point, Xiaohua was no match for him.

When Lin Ling thought of this, he jumped up, took out the book he had hidden before, and decided to give it to Shen Yuan.

Shen Yuan was taking care of the rows of small white flowers on the terrace. Lin Ling walked over and stuffed the book into Shi Changyuan's arms.

"This is the book that Lu Jiajia gave me. Read it yourself! Don't ask me that question again in the future!" Lin Ling stuttered while speaking this sentence.

As soon as he thought about what happened at the end of yesterday, he felt himself getting hot all over again as Shen Yuan kept asking him what he should do and whether it was the right thing to do.

Since he hid the book and said he could teach Shenyuan, it was a huge mistake on his part, so he should have cut his losses in time.

Xiaohua thought about it and felt that her decision should be correct. People should not and cannot make mistakes twice in important decisions, right?

Shi Changyuan looked at Xiaohua who was walking in front of him, unhappily put the book in his arms aside and replaced Xiaohua.

"Lingling won't teach me anymore?" Shenyuan asked frankly and directly, "I think Lingling teaches very well."

Xiaohua's face turned red all of a sudden, and she reached out to cover Shi Changyuan's mouth, "What did I teach you yesterday?"

When Xiaohua is mentioned, she gets angry. "You don't listen to my don'ts and don'ts. You only listen to what you want to hear. What else do you want me to teach you? You are just teasing me."

"I didn't tease Xiaohua."

Shi Changyuan kissed Lin Ling's palm and said, "Yes, I like Xiaohua."

The place where his lips were kissed still hurt a little, which made Lin Ling suddenly recall how he had been taught step by step yesterday, and he was immediately confused again.

"I, I won't tell you anymore, just continue watering! I didn't even answer Sister Mo's call just now."

As he said that, Xiaohua suddenly got out of Shi Changyuan's arms and was about to go back to his room. But when he was about to leave the terrace, he suddenly turned around and caught a glimpse of Shenyuan who was still standing there, watching him leave.

...Why do you look so pitiful?

Xiaohua paced back and forth for a few times, and finally walked in front of Shi Changyuan and poked his arm, "Then go get the communicator for me, and we can bask in the sun together."

The next second, Shi Changyuan disappeared from the spot and then reappeared. The whole process took less than one second, and he handed the communicator in his hand to Lin Ling.

"Um."

Human communicators are upgrading very quickly. Unlike mobile phones before the apocalypse, communicators only have contact functions, and the lighter the better. After all, we are all escaping in the apocalypse, so there is no point in having so many fancy functions.

The research institute developed a new communicator, and Mo Cheng gave two of them to Xiaohua to play with.

Lin Ling nestled on the sofa with a hanging basket, letting Shi Changyuan hold her in his arms. Together, they worked on changing the communicator from a bracelet type to an ear-hanging type.

"I know how to play!" Lin Ling found the callback button in one go, and the call was answered almost immediately. Before he could even open his mouth, he heard a deep male voice praising from the communicator.

"Well, smart little flower."

Humans who ate a mouthful of dog food because their hands were too quick: …

"Sister Mo is looking for me?" Xiaohua asked straight to the point.

"Yes." Mo Cheng smiled and continued, "Everyone is gossiping about whether Xiaohua and Shenyuan have reconciled, so they sent me to find out."

In front of Xiaohua, Mo Cheng would mostly use joking methods to obtain information.

"We've made peace."

The voice coming out of Xiaohua's communicator was very happy, and then she hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but didn't know where to start.

That's too easy to guess.

Mo Cheng smiled and said, "By the way, Xiaohua, do you know that if a couple is together, they have to invite friends to dinner or come to their home for a party?"

Lin Ling was stunned for a moment, and answered honestly, "I don't know, why?"

"Because they want to introduce their partners to all their friends."

Mo Cheng said, "We call this an official announcement, announcing that this person belongs to us from now on."

"So that's how it is." Xiaohua nodded, "I understand."

The two chatted for a few more sentences, asking whether the new device was easy to use, collecting some feedback, and then hung up.

Xiaohua took off the communicator on her ear, turned her head and looked at Shenyuan, asking, "Should we invite our friends to our house to play?"

Shi Changyuan refused without even thinking about it.

"They are not welcome in the Abyss."

Xiaohua curled her eyes, stretched out her hand and pulled the corner of Shi Changyuan's mouth, and said coquettishly, "We didn't invite them to the abyss, but came here to let everyone know that we are together."

"Otherwise, every friend will call me to gossip about it, and I'll be embarrassed!"

Shenyuan had never seen anyone who could say that he was shy so confidently, but whatever his Xiaohua said was right.

Shenyuan did not refuse this time, but he made his own request, "Xiaohua, give me a kiss."

Lin Ling blinked and judged the exchange terms, which didn't seem to be a bad deal. So Xiaohua raised her head and neck, waiting for what Shenyuan called a "kiss" with a willing attitude of offering sacrifice to the gods.

Shenyuan lowered his head and exchanged a wet kiss with Xiaohua. Then, while Xiaohua wasn't paying attention, the kiss moved from the corner of her mouth to her fair neck, leaving a beautiful mark.

"You, you didn't say..." Lin Ling's words turned into tiny sobs before he could finish them, and Shenyuan also replied.

"Kiss the little flower, the whole little flower."

…

Lin Ling felt that he had suffered a great loss.

He didn't understand why Shenyuan, who couldn't even speak human language before, was now playing word games. It was hard not to say that this was intentional.

So in order to make the best use of everything, Lin Ling decided to turn the ordinary dinner into a carnival party. He had sacrificed so much, so what was wrong with throwing a party!

Xiaohua learned the word "party" from a book. Since the end of the world, humans have basically lost this kind of activity as everyone is struggling for survival.

Of course, except for a few second-generation people.

But the Abyss is a resource-rich place, with its own resources. It can hold a large party by just digging out anything from the Abyss space.

"Have you sent out all the invitations?" Xiaohua stood on a stepladder, decorating the party venue according to the book, and turned to ask Shenyuan, "I didn't invite many people, but they all helped me many times."

Especially for them being together, they made outstanding contributions.

"Be careful." Shi Changyuan reached out and supported Lin Ling, "I've given them all away."

"Are our little cakes ready?" Xiaohua said again.

“It’s in the oven.”

"Then the drinks..."

"Xiaohua can't drink alcohol, it will burn your roots." Shenyuan rejected Xiaohua's curiosity and said, "I prepared some fruit juice."

When it comes to raising Xiaohua, Shenyuan is surprisingly well prepared.

Then Xiaohua and Shenyuan waited for everyone's arrival.

Lin Ling's friends attached great importance to Xiaohua's invitation, and they all arrived at the gate of the villa in advance.

When the doorbell of the villa rang and the door opened, Mo Cheng was about to give the gift in his hand to Xiaohua when he saw a yellow-haired man standing opposite him.

They were both stunned.

Mo Cheng was silent for a while. How come he met his most troublesome subordinate during his vacation?

Huangmao's heart is full of rely on rely on rely on. When he meets the leader on vacation, the party turns into a group report.

"Why are you here?" Mo Cheng was really confused.

As far as she knew, Huangmao was not a native of the Seventh Base and had no previous interactions with Xiaohua, but it was obvious that this was a meeting between two acquaintances.

For the first time, the young man dared to face his leader's doubts, "I, I am the chief planner, and I deserve half the credit for this party!"

When Huangmao heard that Xiaohua was going to hold a party, he immediately came to recommend himself and introduced Xiaohua to a bunch of games that could be played at the party, such as Truth or Dare and Game of Thrones.

The yellow-haired man joined in the fun and didn't mind making trouble. He was thinking that this kind of game was most fun when the young couple was present, hehehe.

When Xiaohua heard about this punishment mechanism, she immediately remembered her previous disastrous defeat against Shenyuan, and she began to think about how to avenge her previous defeat.

The two people smiled at each other, seemingly reaching a consensus, but in fact they each went their own way.

"You're all here!"

Lin Ling ran out of the house and immediately welcomed everyone in, "Come in, come in!"

Xiaohua invited Mo Cheng, Lu Jiajia, and this yellow-haired young man who very spontaneously came over to join the party.

This yellow-haired boy's name was too difficult to pronounce, so Xiaohua decided to call him Ah Huang.

Huangmao chuckled and didn't care. He just emphasized that his yellow hair was natural and much better than those that were dyed.

"Wow, Lin Ling, did you prepare all this?" It was the first time that Lu Jiajia saw such a scene. She had only seen parties of this scale before the end of the world.

Even Mo Cheng was shocked by the generosity of the item. It wasn't something extravagant or wasteful, but many things were rare in the apocalypse, or even very scarce.

For example, various sodas, fruit juices, and spicy strips have been out of production for five or six years.

But on second thought, the space in the abyss probably really does have room to store such supplies, and the abyss can also protect these supplies.

"Don't tell anyone else." Mo Cheng said to Lu Jiajia and Huangmao. They all nodded knowingly and made a zipper gesture with their mouths.

Although Mo Cheng was older than everyone present and was a leader, looking as steady as Shen Yuan, young people still accounted for three-fifths of the group after all. Once a few people got familiar with each other, the situation was out of control.

It is easy for young people to go crazy when they play together, not to mention that this is an era of high voltage electricity. From video game consoles to various board games, the noise made by a few people playing games is enough to lift the roof off.

"Okay, okay, let's change the scene. Let's play the King's Game!"

The yellow-haired man threw the game console away and drank the fat otaku happy water that he hadn't seen for five years. He waved his hands and was so excited that he even dared to point fingers at the abyss and his leader.

"Don't just stand there and watch, come on, too! Hehehe."

Xiaohua listened to Huangmao's bold suggestion and reached out to ask Shi Changyuan to sit down next to her.

"Then I will briefly explain the rules. The one who draws the biggest card becomes the king, and the one who draws the smallest card can be punished. They can choose truth or dare, that's it."

Then, Huangmao started to shuffle the cards, using some superb showmanship.

In the first round, Xiaohua looked at the abyss beside her, then leaned over to whisper in Shi Changyuan's ear. He fiercely said, "Just wait, I'm going to avenge my past shame!"

Shenyuan smiled, but before he could say anything, a "Yo~~~" sound came from beside the two of them.

Lin Ling's ears turned red, and he immediately reached out to touch the first card with great vigor and confidence.

【Block 4】

Lin Ling's heart suddenly trembled.

"Is the 4 of Diamonds the smallest card?" Xiaohua tilted her head and asked Shi Changyuan in a low voice.

Lin Ling's voice was indeed very soft, but everyone was drawing cards with bated breath and concentration, and they were sitting so close to each other, so it was hard not to hear it.

Then everyone knew that Xiaohua only drew a Four of Diamonds.

"It's okay, Lin Ling. Smaller than the four of diamonds are the three of diamonds, the three of clubs, the three of spades, and the three of hearts." Lu Jiajia held back her laughter.

Xiaohua looked at the pile of poker cards in front of him and was stunned. "How many cards are there?"

"54."

Xiaohua's mind has never worked so fast before. "That is to say, among the 54 photos, only four are smaller than me?"

Everyone nodded in unison.

Then after everyone had drawn their cards, the king of the first round was Lu Jiajia.

"Xiaohua, choose truth or dare!" Lu Jiajia urged with a wink.

"H-Honestly."

Xiaohua looked at Shi Changyuan. She originally wanted to avenge her past humiliation, but she never expected to be slapped in the face so quickly.

"Okay, honestly!"

Lu Jiajia dragged out her voice, rolled her eyes, and asked loudly, "Which part of your boyfriend's body do you like the most, and why?"

All of a sudden, the whole room erupted in the loudest cheers ever, as if they were eager to create chaos in the world.

Huangmao even held a toy trumpet and blew it nearby.

Xiaohua seemed confused by this question. He had never participated in this kind of game before and had no idea that humans were so sinister!

The world is really going downhill! People’s hearts are no longer the same as they used to be!

Lin Ling looked at Shi Changyuan for help, but Shi Changyuan also looked at Lin Ling with a smile, showing his interest in this party for the first time.

"Yeah, I want to know that too."

After hearing Shenyuan's words, Xiaohua's face gradually turned red. He hesitated for a moment, but still completed the challenge quietly. He said, "...mouth."

The honest Xiaohua didn't know that true love only requires answering one question, and the "why" at the end is simply bullying a novice.

So he confessed himself dazedly and foolishly under Shi Changyuan's gaze.

"Because, because you kissed me and said you liked me..."

Lin Ling's answer immediately set the whole place on fire. Amidst the howling of ghosts and wolves, and the uncontrollable smile on his lips, Shen Yuan reached Xiao Hua's ears. His voice was particularly clear in the noisy background, and he said.

"I see."

"But every part of my body is saying it likes it."

"Didn't Lingling feel it?"