Chapter 118 - See you next time
Chapter 118 - The next time we meet
After Yu Zhou and Duan Yunhong parted in the conference room of the research center, they never met face to face again.
The two of them coincidentally concealed the topic in the meeting room from Ning Fei. It’s not that they don’t want to sue each other, but because this topic involves themselves, they can’t explain it clearly. After weighing the two options, the two fell silent.
It could also be a bet on who will lose patience first.
Ning Fei had no idea of all this. He could only vaguely sense that the two of them didn't get along with each other, but he didn't think it was a big deal. It is normal for a debt collector and a lucky bandit to be hostile to each other. Even Ning Fei himself was still wary and cautious of Duan Yunhong. Besides, doesn’t Ning Fei have any good feelings towards Yue Fengping? Even if two people can be considered "teammates" in a sense, if they don't get along, then they don't get along. There is no need to become good brothers just because they are acquaintances of each other.
So until Duan Yunhong left, the four of them never gathered together again.
Duan Yunhong stayed at the Tianyue Base for less than two weeks in total, and was finally urged back by Huichuan. Before leaving, Duan Yunhong managed to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with Ning Fei.
Well, it wasn’t like he caught up. Ning Fei judged that Duan Yunhong must have deliberately stayed until this day. Because when Ning Fei returned home that day, he found a box of mooncakes in the house.
"How come there's already a box?" Ning Fei raised an eyebrow, walked forward and put down the one in his hand, picked up the one on the table and looked at it back and forth, "Ha, the one with Yunnan ham filling, it's really precious. I brought back another box, this one is redundant."
Duan Yunhong reached into the bag he brought back and pulled out two loose mooncakes, both of which were lotus seed paste and egg mooncakes.
"You like this flavor?" Duan Yunhong said calmly, "Then you can eat this too."
"Hey, I don't have any particular favorites. I just got them from my company when I was at work." Ning Fei shrugged. "If I liked them, would I just take two back? As for you, you should have put this box in your personal space when you were in Huichuan, right? You ordered it so many days in advance. You attach so much importance to the Mid-Autumn Festival, why don't you tell me in advance what you have planned?"
"I don't take it that seriously, and I didn't order it specifically. Some mooncakes go on sale a month in advance, and some time-honored brands in Huichuan go on sale even earlier. The mooncakes arrived just before I left, so I just put them in my space." Duan Yunhong said, "I don't have any other plans, so I can just spend the day as usual. It doesn't matter if I don't eat them."
Ning Fei: "Oh, then I won't eat it."
Duan Yunhong: “…”
"Pfft...Hahahaha! Come on, Duan Yunhong, don't I know you? If you really don't want to eat it, you can sulk until the day after tomorrow when we leave, and you will still be angry when you get to Huichuan!" Ning Fei laughed, "I see your mooncakes must be expensive, so I'd better open a bottle of good wine tonight and treat it as a practice for you. After dinner, let's enjoy the moon and eat mooncakes together later, that's quite thoughtful, isn't it?"
He knew that what Duan Yunhong said was all bullshit. If he really didn't care, there's no way this man would have kept a box of mooncakes in his space for so long and waited to take it out tonight. Anyway, this guy was about to leave, and Ning Fei didn't really want to quarrel with him, so he just teased him.
Duan Yunhong asked: "You don't want to spend today with your teacher?"
"It feels like I haven't heard you mention him for a long time. Of course he celebrated with Yue Fengping today. Why would he celebrate with me? He celebrates every festival with Yue Fengping." Ning Fei sneered, "Fortunately, Yue Fengping's parents have been killed by zombies, otherwise if Yue Fengping had to go home to celebrate this festival with his parents, Yu Zhou would be so angry."
These words sounded a bit cruel, but Duan Yunhong didn't react much. To be honest, considering Yu Zhou's situation, Duan Yunhong would not be surprised at all even if he was the one who designed to kill Yue Fengping's parents.
In short, on the Mid-Autumn Night, everything went according to Ning Fei's arrangements. The two of them first worked together to prepare some delicious dishes (pre-prepared dishes), and had a delicious meal with a bottle of good wine each from Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong. Later, when the full moon hung high in the night sky, the two of them sat side by side in front of the window, eating the precious moon cake and appreciating the moon.
"It's really delicious." Ning Fei had eaten a lot of delicacies after all, so he could tell good from bad after just one taste. "This thing must have been expensive before the zombie wave. It still maintains its quality now. It must have cost you a lot, right?"
Duan Yunhong did not answer directly, but said calmly: "I am eligible to order."
"Oh, the special set, worthy of Huichuan..." Ning Fei followed this and changed the subject, "Come to think of it, Huichuan has been urging you to go back, which means they still value you and trust you for not betraying them, right? If they are so anxious, why don't they send you an escort team? Aren't they afraid that you will die alone on the road?"
Duan Yunhong responded: "If I didn't apply, no one would bother with this."
Ning Fei asked: "Why didn't you apply?"
"Why should I apply?" Duan Yunhong asked, "Didn't we have a smooth journey here without encountering anything? Even if something happens, my gun may not be slower than those of the Psychics and the military and police."
"I don't doubt your marksmanship, nor do I doubt your firepower." Ning Fei paused and asked, "Can you flatten a mountain with one shot?"
"It's not that exaggerated. Even with my position, I can't apply for a single-player RPG." Duan Yunhong replied, "But I do have a pistol, a sniper rifle, a rifle, a shotgun..."
"Wait a minute, as the director of a research institute, can you apply for a sniper rifle or a shotgun?"
“Oh, these are bought on the black market.”
"I knew it. You don't have an RPG because it's not available on the black market, right?" Ning Fei snorted and laughed. "But when you travel long distances alone, you may not be safe when you rest. Your space... can't be a place where you can hide from people, right?"
"No." Duan Yunhong finished eating the mooncake in his hand and spoke the truth. "It takes a lot of luck to set up a space ability. If you want to put living things in the space, the luck required will increase several times. If you put people in it, the luck will increase even more times. It's not cost-effective."
"Haha, this is the first time I've heard you ask whether it's cost-effective or not. Although I don't know what your exchange rate is, it sounds like it will cost a lot." Ning Fei said happily, "What about adding an attack or life-saving ability? Will that be expensive too?"
Duan Yunhong said: "It's not more expensive than storing people in the space, but it's not necessary."
"It seems that you are really confident in your ability to protect yourself. But it's also true that the position you chose should not be one that is often in danger. You deserve it to run away alone now." Ning Fei sighed, "Then again, even if you don't need it, you can apply for the escort team. Your position must be eligible for it, why don't you use it? Why save money and effort for others?"
"I don't want to act with a group of people I don't know or even know." Duan Yunhong glanced at the people around him and said slowly, "If something really happens, I have to consider their presence, so I can't just take out the useful things. It's in the way."
"Ha, that's right. If they still force you to do something, you would definitely rather shake them off and leave on your own." Ning Fei also finished his mooncake and clapped his hands, "But if you leave like this, it's unknown when we'll see each other again."
"......Hmm." Duan Yunhong was actually thinking about this question as well. When he entered the world, he set his position in Huichuan, which was actually planned. When the plan has progressed to a certain extent, he will move completely to Tianyue instead of staying in Huichuan. After all, according to the mission, the Tianyue Base where Chen Yikun is located is the "main battlefield". There is no point for Duan Yunhong to stay in Huichuan. After resolving the issue of his adopted daughter, it would be appropriate for him to transfer to Tianyue Base.
But the change in the bet also completely changed his plan, causing him to be nailed to Huichuan. No matter how capable he is, it is very difficult to remotely control Huichuan from a place far away from the Huichuan base, so it is better for him to return to the Huichuan base.
"Anyway, at the latest, it's when the winner is already decided, right?"
Ning Fei saw that Duan Yunhong didn't react much and didn't even answer much, so he didn't care. He refilled his glass with red wine and took a sip. However, the remaining mooncake flavor in his mouth made the taste of this good wine become strange, just like Ning Fei's mood at the moment.
As if to suppress his emotions, he put the cup back on the table and smiled: "No matter what, I will go and watch you destroy my location mark with my own eyes, so at least we will meet again."
When he said this, Duan Yunhong remembered what Yu Zhou once said.
"What if I don't destroy your location marker?"
"...Huh?" Ning Fei raised his head and looked at Duan Yunhong, and the two looked at each other for a few seconds. Then Ning Fei realized the casualness in his tone and said with relief: "Tsk, can you please stop joking like that? It scares me to death."
Duan Yunhong maintained a half-joking tone: "What can I do if I don't return it to you? Come and fight with me?"
"I think so." Ning Fei lowered his eyes and smiled, "After all, entrusting your location mark to a lucky bandit is like handing your back to a person with a knife. It always makes people feel uneasy."
"...That's right." Duan Yunhong poured himself a glass of wine, picked up the glass, and touched it with Ning Fei's glass on the table. "Then let's say goodbye. I hope we can all get what we want."
"What nice words! We are opponents in the gambling game, how can we both get what we want?" Ning Fei sneered in a low voice, but still picked up the cup on the table, "Anyway, I will not give in, no matter it is the gambling game or my positioning mark."
Duan Yunhong didn't answer, but just drank the wine in the glass silently.
He thought: I won’t give in either.
***
One day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Duan Yunhong really passed away.
Ning Fei was still very busy that day, and when Yu Zhou found out, he came to him and lamented, "I thought you were going to send your lover off, but you really didn't even take a step to see her off."
Ning Fei raised an eyebrow: "He has hands and feet, what's there to give him?"
Yu Zhou said happily: "Doesn't he have any offensive abilities? Aren't you really afraid that he will die on the way?"
"Isn't it just right that he's gone? No one will come to interfere with your plans." Ning Fei replied casually, "Besides, what do I have to be afraid of? Afraid that if he dies, I'll have no one to sleep with? I wouldn't be able to sleep if he went to Huichuan either."
"That's right. Tsk, someone you can't sleep with is like a toy you throw away." Yu Zhou said, "So you really don't like Zheng Liwen? I'll find you something else to satisfy your craving?"
Ning Fei finally couldn't help but turned her head to look at him: "Don't you have anything serious to do all day?"
"Hey, aren't I worried that you won't have a good night?" Yu Zhou smiled, "Okay, let's get down to business. Let's talk about the general office in charge of mutant research. Is it almost time to issue a document to establish it?"
Ning Fei was willing to continue chatting with him: "Almost done, now we just need to confirm with these people again..."
***
In the next few days, Ning Fei was very busy, but not so busy that he had no time to look at his phone. Every time he opened his phone and quickly browsed through the pile of unread messages, there was always one person's message missing.
——Although I didn’t agree with him to tell me when he arrived in Huichuan, but given his temper, he shouldn’t remain silent…
Ning Fei thought so, but in fact he didn't send any new message to Duan Yunhong. At the beginning, it seemed like the two of them were competing with each other to see who could not hold back and speak first. Three days passed, and Ning Fei saw that the man's avatar still hadn't lit up with a little red dot, so he simply tried not to even look at his avatar and let it sink to the bottom.
Time passed and it was the sixth day. Theoretically, Duan Yunhong should have arrived at the Huichuan base long ago.
Late at night, Ning Fei, who was already fast asleep, was awakened by the sudden ringing of his cell phone. He squinted his eyes and picked up the phone. Seeing the caller ID, he answered the call and put it to his ear: "Duan Yunhong, you'd better have something fatal to say..."
"It's really fatal." Duan Yunhong on the other end of the phone lowered his voice so low that he almost spoke in a whisper.
"Captain Ning, are you free to come rescue me?"
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