Chapter 115 Light
Something fell on the eaves.
Very light.
Just like snowflakes falling.
If Huo Xiu had not been awake at the moment, he might not have been able to hear such a slight sound.
But it was already early morning.
Logically, the Garden Town has been closed.
So the identity of the visitor is obvious.
——Since Carlos can ask Star Company to produce prop cards, he can naturally "break" the curfew.
Huo Xiu had already been to the real world, and Carlos had not hidden it from him.
He is a notorious space pirate, so he naturally has no shortage of money, power and means.
Huo Xiu didn't move, and neither did the uninvited visitor on the roof.
They faced each other in silence until the rain began to hammer on the roof.
The rain is getting heavier.
Coincidentally, Huo Xiu checks the weather forecast almost every day - this affects whether he needs to get up early to water the vegetable garden.
Last night's weather forecast showed that it would not rain today, tomorrow, or even the day after tomorrow.
So this rain is another masterpiece of some insect.
They remained deadlocked for a while.
The bug on the roof couldn't bear it anymore. He curled up his index finger and tapped the eaves twice with his knuckles.
With a creak, the door opened a little.
A figure quickly squeezed in, as if afraid that the owner of the cabin would go back on his word.
His wet wings drooped to the ground, leaving two trails of water.
Huo Xiu looked at the water stains on the ground and then threw him a bath towel.
The white and soft bath towel exudes the fragrance of soapberry, covering the head of the visitor.
He raised his hand and pressed the towel, gently rubbing his platinum curly hair.
Carlos was still wearing a white bath towel, revealing his rain-soaked face, his lips pale, and his eyelashes completely soaked by the rain, drooping and protecting his emerald green eyes.
Looks pitiful.
Huo Xiu didn't say anything. He sat on the chair and looked at the person who came in silently.
Perhaps the designer wanted to make it consistent with Huo Xiu's identity as an ancient Zerg, so the cabin still uses candles that have long been eliminated in reality.
The candles swayed gently in the wind outside the window, and the light and shadows in the house flickered.
"You have such a cruel heart, little farmer."
After a while, Carlos whispered.
Huo Xiu looked up at him and said nothing.
——But he was not driven away.
Carlos interpreted the signal again, and his heart began to beat rapidly, as if the heavy rain outside the window was hitting his chest.
He took two steps forward and draped the half-wet towel over his shoulders.
Wet clothes cannot be dried with just a bath towel.
But Carlos didn't want to change.
He wanted to remain in this miserable and pitiful state.
After spending so much time with Huo Xiu, Carlos knew clearly that although this ancient male insect looked cold, he was actually gentle.
"Carlos."
Huo Xiu looked at him with deep black eyes.
He has never been one to dodge questions or beat around the bush.
"What were you doing that day?"
Huo Xiu's tone wasn't a rebuke, but it was too calm. To Carlos's sensitive ears, it sounded like a question.
Just like he had experienced countless times.
【What are you crazy about? 】
Carlos wanted to keep up this weak face and bet on Huo Xiu's soft heart.
But he simply couldn't do it.
He remembered Huo Xiu's coldness towards him. He had just teased him in the morning, but in the afternoon he was hanging out with that female insect again.
The golden bug even grabbed his wrist!
Fueled by jealousy, anger burned wildly in his chest, forcing out that sarcastic voice.
"Oh--"
"What do you want to ask? Why did I appear in the ring? Why did I kill that female insect? Or why did I kill you?"
"I wish I could tear him to pieces in real life. What's death in the game?!"
Carlos spoke very quickly, like a bullet out of control.
He quickly stepped forward and trapped the black-haired male insect in the seat.
The violent movement caused the fragile wooden chair to creak.
The dim flames appeared again in the depths of Carlos's emerald green pupils, like phosphorous fire burning in a skull, which made people shudder.
It seemed to burn away his sanity.
This is indeed the case.
"I really want to kill you."
Carlos made a sound like a sigh.
"Your lightning energy is just data."
"So are your skills."
"Even you."
Huo Xiu seems powerful, but he is like a dandelion that falls by chance - even more fragile than all male insects in reality.
No matter how fragile a male insect is, it still has a physical body, but what can Huo Xiu rely on?
"but……"
Even though his fingers were on Huo Xiu's throat, he couldn't break it.
Because Huo Xiu is an NPC, a data with awakened self-awareness.
If Carlos's finger pierced his throat, he would be annihilated, and then perhaps Lily Garden would regenerate a "Hoxiu".
'He' might have the exact same face as Huo Xiu, and almost the same personality.
——But that’s not Huo Xiu.
And he couldn't even keep Huo Xiu's body.
Because it's just a string of data.
Where will he land next?
Carlos had no way of betting on such odds.
Even if it was just an imagination, he felt the pain of being crushed by something.
He jerked his finger away.
He took two steps back in panic.
Then, Huo Xiu grabbed his wrist.
"Carlos, that's not what I'm asking."
Huo Xiu said in a deep voice.
Carlos couldn't help but tremble, his emerald green pupils trembled slightly, and the flames burning in them swayed along with them.
"Why did you bite me?"
Hearing this, Carlos let out a sob that was half a smile and half a laugh.
"...It was a kiss." He covered his face with his hands.
"I'm an NPC." Huo Xiu's voice was calm.
"So what?" Carlos asked, "What are you to me and my like—"
He stopped abruptly.
Then he repeated in disbelief, "I like you?"
This is obviously a question.
Huo Xiu looked at him silently. This was a question that no one who had confessed to someone could answer.
Huo Xiu released Carlos' wrist.
But Carlos found it even harder to digest than he did.
His emerald green eyes appeared particularly deep in the dim environment, and his expression was even more obscure.
Unable to see either of them, Ome's eyes doubled in size and he looked at Carlos in disbelief: "No way, Carlos is so jealous he could open a vinegar factory, and he doesn't even know he likes Huo Xiu?"
Euphemia smiled without saying anything. She stretched out her finger and tapped Ome's head, signaling it to look at the progress of the world.
Ome let out a sharp explosion. "No way! Why is the danger level red?!"
Did Carlos want to kill Huo Xiu??? After he knew his feelings???
In Ome's eyes, the danger level kept changing from red to green, and then from green to red, repeating several times, making Ome dare not even breathe.
During the game, Carlos suddenly tiptoed towards Huo Xiu. Huo Xiu reacted very quickly, grabbed his collar and twisted it, and at the same time pushed Carlos under him with his knee.
Blue-purple lightning gathered into a net around Huo Xiu, but it did not strike down for a long time.
"What are you crazy about?"
"Little farmer, I really like you..." Carlos muttered to himself. After a moment, he suddenly raised the corners of his lips, showing some excitement.
The bright green fireworks just now have all been extinguished, and the vibrant green has returned.
Huo Xiu felt that Carlos's expression was a little distorted.
And noisy.
"No need to repeat yourself." Huo Xiu said expressionlessly.
"You know I like you? How did you know?"
Carlos's sparkling green eyes fell on Huo Xiu, and he looked at him carefully as if he was meeting Huo Xiu for the first time.
“…”
I didn’t know it before, but I know it now.
That day, after the conflict with Carlos, Huo Xiu thought for a long time.
He couldn't understand Carlos's motives and completely contradictory behavior.
He wanted to kill him.
The sharp nails didn't even leave a trace of blood on his throat.
But what if that bite represented a kiss.
The murderous intent he felt that day didn't seem like an illusion.
Now he completely understood.
——Because Carlos is a madman.
——He doesn’t even know his own feelings.
But then again.
Can he know his true thoughts?
"What about you?" Carlos suddenly asked.
His thoughts were still confused, but he instinctively grasped the most important point.
——Huo Xiu’s reaction.
"Do you like me?" He leaned closer to Huo Xiu, insisting on getting an answer.
"……No."
Huo Xiu stood up again and ordered them to leave. It was already two o'clock in the morning and Huo Xiu didn't want to argue with the excited Carlos all night.
"You hesitated." Carlos turned a deaf ear to him. He raised the corners of his mouth and smiled charmingly, "That means I like you."
“…That doesn’t make sense.”
"Then why do you want to know why I kissed you?" Carlos questioned, still lying on the bed. "Little farmer, are you such a prying worm?"
"You're not." He asked himself and answered.
"You wouldn't give that pesky bug a chance to show up in front of you." Carlos began to list the evidence for himself. "In this whole garden, you only left me."
Carlos completely forgot about the scene of himself defending the Lily Garden.
"You only enter my companion system."
"When you turn into a cat, just let me hold you."
"You even cook for me!"
"You couldn't even bear to kill me in the ring! You clearly had the chance—"
"Because you are not in the right state." Huo Xiu replied. At that time, he had already noticed that Carlos's eye color had changed.
Considering the "defect" Carlos mentioned, he did not choose to use too much force.
Of course, this is only part of the reason.
Another part of the reason was something Kang Mang said.
[The pain in the arena is much more real than in the living area! ]
He thought that he and Carlos had a special relationship and there was no need to make him suffer like this.
The pain when lightning burns the body is extremely severe.
And Carlos is not his enemy.
At that time, if Carlos had not insisted on killing Kang Mang, Huo Xiu would not have fought with him at all.
Carlos suddenly turned over and pressed his index finger on Huo Xiu's lips, and the ghost fire burned in his pupils again.
But this time, he was excited. He keenly sensed the pity in Huo Xiu's words.
"Fiancé." Carlos threw away the towel draped over his body and continued, "Let's do it tonight-"
Huo Xiu was sure that he heard the obvious "beep" sound again.
The word that was harmonized by StarNet is about to come out.
Carlos paid no attention and began to strip off his clothes.
The movement was so fast that it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was torn into pieces.
"Carlos!"
Huo Xiu summoned lightning, and a blue-purple ball of light flickered in his palm.
However, at that moment, Huo Xiu saw light of other colors.
The entire room flashed with the blue-purple of lightning, the dim yellow of candlelight, and a bit of dazzling emerald green.
The next second, Carlos' leathery wings were released and hung behind him.
And the bright green color had disappeared along with the blue-purple light of the lightning.
Huo Xiu frowned: "What is that?"
Carlos had already obediently wrapped himself in a bath towel, muttering, "If you don't want to do it, then don't do it."
After hearing Huo Xiu's question, he tilted his head and looked at him puzzledly: "What?"
Seeing his expression, Huo Xiu was 100% sure that Carlos was hiding something from him.
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