Chapter 108: Forbidden Love 29
It's so late, why are you still here for sweet soup? Following an old and gentle voice, the door curtain at the back was lifted by a skinny hand. A white-haired old woman stood there, her apron white from washing, and the wrinkles on her face were filled with smiles.
Su Qingyun and Xu Xinghe quickly stood up. When they stood up, Su Qingyun secretly closed the drawer of the cash register.
"Grandma, I'm sorry. We accidentally broke the porcelain cat on the counter when we came in just now." Xu Xinghe apologized to the old lady.
But his expression was full of vigilance.
"It's okay, it's just a porcelain cat." The old woman wiped her hands on her apron and asked Su Qingyun and Xu Xinghe to sit down first.
"Are you boyfriend and girlfriend?" she asked.
"No, they are cousins."
"Dear?"
"Distant cousin."
The old woman walked to the cooking room behind the counter. She lit the stove and placed a small pot on top. Then she asked Su Qingyun and Xu Xinghe, "What would you like to eat? I only have red bean and barley porridge and rice wine dumplings."
"Then give me two bowls of rice wine dumplings."
"good."
The old woman began to cook the dumplings. During this time, Yu Liang stood behind her, but the old woman ignored him, as if he didn't exist.
This caught Su Qingyun's attention. Yu Liang was different from Ye Yi. He was a substance between weird and human. The shadowless man with a name had a form in the copy and could be sensed by NPCs.
The old woman shouldn't be unable to see him.
Soon, the dumplings were cooked, and the old woman put them in two porcelain bowls and brought them to Su Qingyun and Xu Xinghe.
"Wait a minute, I'll get you some spoons." The old woman said as she slowly walked back to the production room. Then she took out two porcelain spoons from a drawer and handed them over.
She wanted Su Qingyun to come and pick her up.
Su Qingyun stood up, but she didn't take it. Instead, she asked Yu Liang to help pass it on.
Yu Liang pushed his glasses and advised Su Qingyun to go by herself, "Otherwise, something bad will happen."
Su Qingyun just wanted to test whether the old woman really couldn't see Yu Liang, but she didn't expect to get such a result.
Su Qingyun has always been a little wary of Xu Xinghe's shadowless man. For this reason, she even doesn't want to have too much contact with Xu Xinghe, because she knows that the shadowless man is a dangerous existence in the copy.
Hearing him say this, Su Qingyun went over and took the porcelain spoon without saying a word.
The old lady was very satisfied with this. She sat at the counter and started chatting with Su Qingyun and Xu Xinghe.
She said her last name was Lu, and everyone in Hunze called her Grandma Lu.
"I've been selling sweet soup on this street for fifteen years."
"How old is this street?" Su Qingyun asked while stirring the glutinous rice balls in the bowl.
"Also fifteen years."
"So you came here to sell sweet soup as soon as this street opened."
"Yes." Grandma Lu picked up a fan and started fanning herself, her eyes looking far away as if she was reminiscing.
"I brought my granddaughter here fifteen years ago. If nothing had happened, she would be old enough to have a boyfriend by now."
Yu Liang coughed beside him.
Xu Xinghe stood up and asked Grandma Lu how much two bowls of dumplings cost.
"No hurry, finish eating the dumplings before leaving." Grandma Lu slowly waved the fan in her hand.
Su Qingyun pulled Xu Xinghe to sit down, and she looked behind Grandma Lu.
The fire was still on, and the rice wine inside was boiling, pushing up the lid of the pot, making a popping sound.
"Grandma, you forgot to turn off the fire."
Grandma Lu was still fanning herself, turning a deaf ear to Su Qingyun's words.
"Grandma?"
"What's up?"
"You forgot to turn off the fire."
Don't speak.
Su Qingyun shouted again, but Grandma Lu still didn't say anything when it came to the key issue.
What is going on here? Is "turn off the fire" set as a keyword in the Soul Ze scene copy, and all NPCs will be automatically blocked when they hear this keyword?
Su Qingyun decided to talk to Grandma Lu about other things first.
She first asked the other person's age, then said a few words of concern, and finally turned the conversation to the old woman's granddaughter.
"Your granddaughter..." Su Qingyun said while observing the old woman's expression. She was wondering if granddaughter might also be a key word.
Before she could even ask for details, Grandma Lu interrupted her and said, "My granddaughter was burned to death in this store fifteen years ago."
As soon as he finished speaking, the fire in the back suddenly jumped up and set fire to the decorations on the roof.
Su Qingyun cried out inwardly, "Not good!", thinking that this scene copy was indeed dangerous. There were two types of keywords, one automatically blocked and the other automatically triggered.
The word "granddaughter" is the key word that triggers the crisis.
She stood up, picked up the rice wine and glutinous rice balls on the table and poured them towards the burning place. Unexpectedly, the fire was not extinguished, but grew bigger and bigger.
It was as if what Su Qingyun poured on him was not rice wine but gasoline.
How could this happen? Su Qingyun sniffed the porcelain bowl. The sweet rice wine just now was now filled with a pungent smell of gasoline.
It seems that this fire must be lit. Even if Su Qingyun picks up a bucket of clean water and pours it on now, it will eventually turn into gasoline.
Although the fire was big, Su Qingyun did not feel the heat, as if she and Xu Xinghe were not affected.
What is going on here?
Su Qingyun took two steps back and turned to look at Xu Xinghe, who was also observing the fire. She asked, "Should we search the candy shop to find out the cause of the fire?"
"Bang" the lights in the store suddenly went out, and the surroundings became pitch black. Then Su Qingyun felt the ground spinning, and then a blue light rushed towards her from the farthest distance at an extremely fast speed.
Su Qingyun subconsciously closed her eyes and dodged. When she opened her eyes again, it was bright outside. She and Xu Xinghe were not in the dessert shop but on the street, and in front of them was the burned-down dessert shop.
Xu Xinghe was the first to understand what was going on. He said, "It seems you just triggered the mission keyword."
"Are you talking about the search I made for the reason why Grandma Lu's granddaughter was burned to death?"
"Yes."
"So, this is Hunze fifteen years ago." Su Qingyun looked at the completely changed candy shop in front of him. "This scene is really interesting, like a detective story."
Su Qingyun looked around again and exclaimed, because Ye Yi and Yu Liang did not appear in this scene.
Could it be that the Contracted God and the Shadowless Man cannot enter the illusion?
Su Qingyun looked at the time. Although she had entered the illusion, the time displayed on her watch was still the real Hunze time. It was now one o'clock in the morning. The Hunze scene mission stipulated that it would end before dawn. The dawn time in this season was between five and six o'clock. There was not much time left for her and Xu Xinghe.
"Xu Xinghe, let's go in!" Su Qingyun invited Su Qingyun.
Xu Xinghe nodded, but before going in, Xu Xinghe took out two respirators from the space and handed one to Su Qingyun.
"Will you wear it?"
Su Qingyun nodded. The school taught her that when she was in school.
But even if Su Qingyun nodded, Xu Xinghe still helped her put on the respirator.
Then he held her face in his hands and said solemnly, "Be careful."
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