Chapter 102 [End of Text] Feeding the Cubs is Prohibited...
"Damn it, it's raining outside again, what awful weather!"
As school was about to end, Zhou Yan packed his schoolbag and said while looking at the rain-soaked glass window.
"Rongzai, is Uncle Wang coming to pick you up today? Can I get a ride?"
Gu Rong was wearing a blue and white school uniform with a white T-shirt underneath. Around her slender white neck was a silver necklace with a black key hanging at the end.
He lowered his head, taking out his phone from the hole in the table to reply to the message, without even looking up: "No, I won't answer it anymore."
Zhou Yan wailed.
Gu Rong took out a folding umbrella from his schoolbag and gave it to Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan held the umbrella and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Rongzi, did your family open an umbrella shop recently? How come every time it rains, you always take out a new umbrella for me?"
Gu Rong was busy replying to someone's message and didn't respond for a long time.
Zhou Yan discovered that since returning from the museum study tour two weeks ago, Gu Rong has been playing with his phone whenever he has a free moment. The key is not to play games, but to chat with people.
Not only was he absent-minded, but he also often laughed for no reason.
To put it simply, this state is an online love state.
Yes, he remembered.
The last time he went to the museum, he saw Gu Rong walking with a tall man in black ancient costume. Gu Rong did not follow the school bus, but followed the man.
He only saw the man's back at the time, who looked almost a head taller than Gu Rong. Men and women wearing Hanfu were common on the streets, so the other man's attire wasn't unusual for him.
Zhou Yan glanced at the man's black robe dragging on the ground and secretly complained.
He was not with Gu Rong at the time, mainly because he accidentally fell asleep and had a nightmare.
He dreamed that the museum was a game copy, he and Gu Rong entered the game, and everyone else disappeared.
The copy was like a nesting doll, one inside the other, and no matter how hard you tried, you could never reach the end. Finally, Gu Rong was dragged down by a water ghost in the artificial lake, and then he woke up in fright.
When I woke up, it was almost dark and the school had started to organize people to return to school.
At that time, he was sleeping in the pavilion on the artificial lake, and it was Tang Xiaoyue who woke him up.
Zhou Yan was a little confused at the time and had no idea how he fell asleep. The dream was extremely real, but when he woke up he couldn't remember the content of the dream clearly. He just felt dizzy and caught a fever and a cold when he got home. He only recovered a few days ago.
Now that I think about it, maybe the person Gu Rong chatted with every day was the man in ancient costume that she saw at that time.
Zhou Yan poked his head in and muttered, "Who is in your phone?"
Just as the bell rang for the end of get out of class, Gu Rong turned off his cell phone, picked up his schoolbag and left.
Zhou Yan hurriedly chased after him: "Rongzi, wait for me, let's go together!"
*
The rain was drizzling and the sky was dark and damp.
It was not yet seven o'clock, but the street lights were already on.
At school dismissal time, the school gate was extremely crowded with people and vehicles everywhere.
Loud, noisy, and extremely lively.
Girls chatting and laughing with umbrellas, young boys riding bicycles in the rain, and kittens licking their paws to avoid the rain in front of a shop.
Gu Rong and Zhou Yan walked out of the school together. They searched the crowd with their eyes, and soon their gazes fixed on someone, and they smiled with their eyes curved.
"My friend is here to pick me up. See you next week."
Zhou Yan was stunned and slow to react: "Friend? Which friend?"
Gu Rong had already rushed into the rain and ran across the street.
Zhou Yan stood there holding an umbrella, following Gu Rong's figure with his eyes, and saw him jogging towards a boy standing under a camphor tree.
The boy was holding a black umbrella and wearing a black windbreaker. His head and face were obscured by the brim of the umbrella, revealing only a pair of incredibly long legs. Standing at the school gate, he stood out like a crane among chickens, his posture as straight as a pine tree, and as tall and straight as a model.
Although their faces couldn't be seen, people around them kept looking at the boy from time to time.
Zhou Yan's mind flashed back to the day at the museum when he saw the man in ancient costume walking with Gu Rong.
Although they are dressed differently, their figure and temperament are very similar.
Gu Rong trotted to the boy, and the boy raised the edge of his umbrella slightly, revealing an extremely handsome face. He looked at Gu Rong and slightly curved the corners of his lips.
Zhou Yan exclaimed, “Oh shit!”
So beautiful? It's so beautiful that it seems like there's a wall between it and the real world.
Gu Rong naturally hid under the umbrella, and the boy naturally took Gu Rong's schoolbag, but only held it with two fingers, as if he was condescending. He held the umbrella in one hand, but unconsciously tilted it towards Gu Rong.
After the two men left, Zhou Yan stood there, staring blankly at their gradually receding figures.
Holy shit, wasn't Rongzi refusing to share an umbrella with him before, fearing it would look gay? Now why is he sharing an umbrella with another boy? This boy is so striking and outstanding, his looks are comparable to Rongzi's, aren't they more similar?
Zhou Yan: “…”
Why say “more”?
At this moment, a boy came over and stood beside him. His eyes also fell on Gu Rong and the strange boy, and his tone was chilling: "Who the hell is that?"
Zhou Yan shuddered and turned around to see Qin Ran with an exasperated look on his face, his eyes full of unwillingness to admit defeat and resignation.
Qin Ran's love for Gu Rong was known to the entire school. But Gu Rong's repeated rejection of Qin Ran was also known to the entire school.
Zhou Yan couldn't stand Qin Ran's persistence in pursuing Gu Rong. This was not the way to be a bootlicker.
As soon as Zhou Yan took one look at Gu Rong's friend's appearance, he knew Qin Ran definitely had no chance. "Oh, you mean that guy who looks like a celebrity, is hundreds of times taller than you, and can even share an umbrella with Rongzi?"
Qin Ran turned around and glared at him, wanting to stab him.
Zhou Yan grinned and said, "Of course—" He dragged his voice, "Rongzai's friend."
At this moment, the boy walking next to Gu Rong suddenly turned around and glanced at Qin Ran, his eyes as deep as a pool.
As their eyes met, Qin Ran shuddered inexplicably, an unprecedented fear surged from the bottom of his heart, and his face turned pale as paper in an instant.
Zhou Yan noticed his strangeness and was puzzled: "No, your mental state is too poor, isn't it? Rongzi doesn't like you, so you break down like this. You have a fragile heart!"
Soon, the boy turned his head back, and the indescribable fear and oppression disappeared.
Qin Ran frowned, his face full of confusion. Was he hallucinating?
After coming to his senses, Qin Ran quickly put aside the fear he had just felt and snorted coldly, "That umbrella was the one I gave to Gu Rong before. Who the hell is that? Is he worthy of using my umbrella?"
As he said that, he quickly chased after Gu Rong.
Zhou Yan: “…”
The hatred for stealing the umbrella... is irreconcilable?
*
"What are you looking at?"
When Gu Rong saw Lu Li looking back, he also subconsciously turned his head back, but his view was blocked by passers-by and he didn't know what Lu Li was looking at.
Lu Li quickly turned his head back, twisted the umbrella handle, and raised his eyes intentionally or unintentionally to look at the black umbrella in his hand, and chuckled: "Nothing."
The two of them were holding an umbrella together as they passed the bus stop, but did not stop. Instead, they continued walking forward, preparing to walk home.
The day after coming out of "The Museum of Weird Things", a new neighbor moved in next door to Gu Rong's house, and it was Lu Li.
Lu Li announced to the public that his parents and family were all abroad and not around, and that he lived alone in a three-story villa.
When they reached a crossroads, Lu Li smiled, his voice rising at the end: "Rongzi?"
Gu Rong: “…”
Gu Rong slowly turned his head and looked up at him: "...Hmm?"
Logically, Zhou Yan called him Rongzi every day, so he should have been used to it by now. But for some reason, when this name came out of Lu Li's mouth, it made him feel inexplicably ashamed.
Moreover, Lu Li was half a head taller than him, and his voice was low and deep, ringing in his ears and making his ears inexplicably itchy.
Lu Li said, "Nothing, just calling you."
Gu Rong: “…”
At this moment, Qin Ran's voice came from behind: "Gu Rong, Gu Rong!"
He ran towards Gu Rong in the rain without an umbrella.
Gu Rong paused and was about to turn around, but he saw a hint of displeasure and irritation in Lu Li's eyes, which disappeared before he could see clearly.
Qin Ran had also caught up and stood in front of Gu Rong, panting.
He first looked at Lu Li with hostility, but when he met Lu Li's gaze, he shuddered unconsciously.
Damn, this boy’s eyes are so scary!
He immediately turned his gaze away and looked at Gu Rong.
With Gu Rong around, Lu Li restrained his overwhelming aura, so Gu Rong was completely unaware of it.
Qin Ran said, "Gu Rong, didn't you tell me before that you didn't want to have a premature relationship in high school because you were worried it would affect your studies? And you're not gay, and you don't like boys?"
After hearing the first part, Lu Li did not react. After hearing the last two parts, Lu Li raised his eyebrows slightly, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
Seeing Qin Ran bring up this again, Gu Rong felt it necessary to make it clear all at once.
In fact, he had made it very clear every time before, but Qin Ran obviously did not give up.
Gu Rong said: "The college entrance examination is coming soon. I don't think about falling in love before college."
Why only clarify the first question and not the second one?
Qin Ran asked sharply, "Are you still straight? Or do you not like boys?"
Gu Rong blinked, his thick eyelashes hiding the emotions in his eyes, and he didn't speak for a while.
Seeing that he was actually hesitating, Qin Ran just stared at him and couldn't help but look at Lu Li again. Just as he was about to say something else, at this moment, a black kitten jumped out from the bushes by the roadside and rushed straight in front of them.
As luck would have it, the kitten inserted itself directly between Qin Ran, Gu Rong and Lu Li, separating the three of them into two sides.
As soon as he saw the kitten, Qin Ran's face changed immediately and he jumped back reflexively.
The cat, however, was acting aggressively, meowing as it began to chase and bite Qin Ran. If it weren't for the meows that were actually coming out of its mouth, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a puppy.
Qin Ran was terrified of cats, so he ran away. Suddenly, he saw a cat that was more ferocious than a dog, and was chased and bitten by it. He was so scared that he lost all his image.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, you are a cat, not a dog, don't chase people and bite them, wake up!!!"
The scene was extremely funny. Gu Rong couldn't help laughing when he saw the kitten whose running posture was like a dog.
Lu Li, carrying Gu Rong's schoolbag on one shoulder, leisurely watched Qin Ran's fleeing figure and gave him a two-word evaluation: "Trash."
Then he looked at Gu Rong, his narrow eyes filled with gloom.
Gu Rong felt uncomfortable being stared at by him: "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Lu Li said, "I've noticed that since this meeting, you, my little follower, have been addressing me by my first name, which is insubordination."
Gu Rong: “…”
Gu Rong said indifferently, "Oh, do you think if I wasn't two years old at the time, I would have called you a middle school devil?"
Lu Li raised his eyebrows and smiled: "You love to talk back just like when you were a baby."
Gu Rong: “…”
*
When I got home, the rain had stopped.
The night was pitch black, and the street lights cast a dim halo of light on the figures of the two young men.
Lu Li said, "Come home, my dear."
This sentence brought back Gu Rong's memories. Lu Li said this to him when he disappeared before.
Gu Rong was agitated. He kicked the stone at his feet and said, "I'm not two years old now. Why do you always call me cub?"
Lu Li fixed his gaze on his fair and beautiful face and asked Qin Ran the same two questions: "Are you straight and don't like boys?"
Gu Rong: “…”
There's no way around this problem, right?
Gu Rong was silent for a moment.
Lu Li did not urge him, his eyes remained on Gu Rong's face, never moving away.
Under such close scrutiny, Gu Rong felt like he had nowhere to hide. He clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and, as if mustering great courage, was about to speak.
However, at this moment, the door next door creaked open, and Ye Lan came out from the next door carrying a box of fresh and tender strawberries.
As soon as I came out, I ran into the young man standing face to face.
“…”
Gu Rong and Lu Li also turned their heads and looked at Ye Lan.
The air stagnated for a moment, and an awkward atmosphere filled the air.
But this was only what Gu Rong and Lu Li felt. Ye Lan didn't feel the slightest bit. As soon as she saw the two of them, she smiled and said to Lu Li, "Xiao Lu, are you going to pick up Xiao Rong from school again? Auntie said she'd bring you a box of strawberries."
Lu Li acted very benign and harmless, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Auntie. It's just on the way."
Ye Lan said, "You're alone at home. Don't cook at night. Come to my house for dinner."
Lu Li readily agreed: "Okay."
Ye Lan smiled and said, "Your uncle just said he wants to play a game of chess with you. You must not give in to him this time."
Gu Rong: “…”
No, this is his biological mother, right? How come Lu Li is closer to him than him?
Ye Lan turned around and glared at Gu Rong: "Just ride your bike to school from now on. Why bother your big brother Lu to pick you up every day? You're not two years old, what's the point of this?"
Gu Rong: “…Oh.”
Lu Li laughed softly beside him.
Gu Rong rubbed his ears, and his palms, which had been clenched tightly, were sweating.
After entering the house, before dinner was even ready, Lu Li was dragged by Gu Baiyu to play chess. Gu Rong was about to face the college entrance examination, which was a period of heavy academic workload, so he could only honestly carry his schoolbag back to his room to review the papers.
Ye Lan and Gu Baiyu liked their new neighbor Lu Li very much. He was not much older than their son, had started to be independent at such a young age, and had no relatives around him. Whenever they made something delicious at home, they would ask Gu Rong to send it to him.
Lu Li is a good-looking man with an extraordinary demeanor. In just half a month, Gu Baiyu and Ye Lan looked at Lu Li as if he were their own child.
Gu Rong stayed in school all day long and had no idea how Lu Li conquered his parents in such a short time.
Sitting at the desk, Gu Rong brushed the test paper for a while, and his mind drifted back to the previous question.
He didn't answer immediately, not because he didn't know how to answer or because he didn't know what he was thinking, but because he was a little unsure.
006 said: [Host, I am not straight. Just because I don’t like men doesn’t mean that the person I like must be a man.]
Gu Rong said: [I'm just not sure what Lu Li thinks.]
006 said: [Then the host should just ask the devil directly.]
Gu Rong pulled out another math paper: [The college entrance exam is next month, I need to focus on studying so it doesn't affect my college entrance exam.]
006: [Oh.]
After a while, Gu Rong slowly curled up the corners of his lips again: [Ask again after the college entrance examination.]
006: [……]
Gu Rong's eighteenth birthday was a few days after the college entrance examination. He circled the date of his birthday on the calendar with a red pen and decided to ask Lu Li on that day.
Young people's emotions should be passionate and open, and there is no need to hide them.
*
Time flies, and the college entrance examination has quietly arrived in the blink of an eye.
The summer is stuffy and the cicadas chirp incessantly in the treetops.
Three days after the college entrance examination, the moment students walked out of the examination room, they put a perfect end to these three years of youth, blood, sweat and tears.
After the exam, unlike other students who had constant parties of all sizes, Gu Rong began planning where to travel with Lu Li after his birthday that night.
Gu Rong's birthday is June 12th. Gu Baiyu and Ye Lan had intended to invite Professor Ming to attend their son's coming-of-age ceremony, but they had been hesitant, thinking that there was no need to bother Professor Ming with such a small matter.
Although Gu Rong wanted to see Grandpa Ming very much, he didn't want Grandpa Ming to worry about it, so he thought that he and Lu Li would visit Grandpa Ming in person in a few days.
But on the birthday, Professor Ming came unexpectedly.
Gu Rong looked at the door of his house and saw Grandpa Ming getting out of the back seat of the car, then looked at Gu Baiyu and Ye Lan in surprise.
Gu Baiyu said, "I sent an email to Master Ming before your college entrance exam, but I didn't really expect him to come."
A warm feeling surged in Gu Rong's heart, and his eyes became slightly moist. He looked at Grandpa Ming, and all the memories of him and Grandpa Ming relying on each other in the end times emerged before his eyes.
Grandpa Ming looked much older than I remembered, but still energetic. After getting off the bus, he leaned on a cane, looking very strong.
When others wanted to help him, he gave them a cold look and refused to let them help. It was obvious that he was an old man with a weird temper and was not very friendly.
Gu Rong burst out laughing. It turned out to be the familiar Grandpa Ming.
When Professor Ming saw Gu Rong, he walked towards him with a cane, his steps steady.
Gu Baiyu and Ye Lan looked at each other and turned their gazes over here without any expression.
The others also turned their eyes over.
Professor Ming looked at Gu Rong and snorted, "You little brat, why are you looking at me like that? It looks like you're both crying and laughing."
Gu Rong was no longer the two-year-old kid anymore. He choked up and called out, "Grandpa Ming."
Professor Ming's attitude towards Gu Rong was a little strange, but for some reason, he felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy when he saw Gu Rong. When he heard the words "Grandpa Ming", his heart was even more moved.
There is a kind of fate between people, and this is probably what it means to feel like old friends at first sight.
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Many people came today. Professor Ming was accompanied by an assistant housekeeper and a private doctor. In addition, there were classmates such as Zhou Yan and Tang Xiaoyue. Qin Ran came uninvited.
After greeting everyone one by one, Gu Rong couldn't help but look outside frequently, and checked his mobile phone from time to time, with an anxious look on his face, as if he was waiting for someone.
Qin Ran's face was full of displeasure. He used to be able to deceive himself, but after meeting Lu Li last time, he felt that he and Gu Rong might have no hope in this life.
Qin Ran asked, "Why, where's your friend? He didn't even come to your coming-of-age ceremony? What kind of friend is he?"
Zhou Yan said, "How do you know they're not coming? Maybe they're stuck in traffic? Right, Rongzi!"
Gu Rong didn't know either. He had contacted Lu Li in the morning. He hadn't seen Lu Li or contacted him all day.
When Qin Ran saw Gu Rong's reaction, the sneer on his face disappeared, and he couldn't help but feel restless again.
Does he still have a chance?
Zhou Yan glared at him and pulled him away to avoid being an eyesore.
006 said: [Host, the devil will definitely not forget your birthday. He might be preparing a surprise.]
Gu Rong said: [The key point is, I have never mentioned my birthday to Lu Li.]
006: [Huh?]
Gu Rong had previously mentioned to Lu Li that he should come to their house for dinner today, but did not mention his birthday.
The birthday is not important. What is important is what he wants to say to Lu Li.
He wanted to see Lu Li.
Lu Li didn't show up until dinner time. Ye Lan even came to ask Gu Rong quietly, but Gu Rong could only make an excuse that Lu Li was busy.
Gu Rong sat next to Grandpa Ming. During the meal, Grandpa Ming kept talking to Gu Rong, leaving Gu Rong no time to pay attention to anything else.
The others were all surprised when they saw this.
Professor Ming is famous for his weird temper. I didn’t expect that this was the first time he met Gu Rong... No, this was the second time he met Gu Rong except for Gu Rong’s full moon banquet. Professor Ming was like Gu Rong’s real grandfather.
Gu Baiyu and Ye Lan were also moved. They didn't expect that their mentor loved their son so much. Back then, he was very irritating and glared at Gu Baiyu.
Gu Rong is sweet-talking and likable, and is the best at pleasing Grandpa Ming: "Grandpa Ming, I plan to apply for university in City B. Then we'll be in the same city. When I have time, I'll come to you to talk and play chess."
Professor Ming was a proud old man. He was happy in his heart, but he was very stubborn: "Noisy."
Gu Rong said, "Then it's okay if I don't speak. I've learned hand gestures from others, so I can use hand gestures."
As he spoke, he made a heart shape to Professor Ming and smiled brightly: "Grandpa Ming, if you want to learn, I can teach you."
Professor Ming: “…”
Professor Ming hummed twice, took out a silver straw from his pocket and handed it to Gu Rong: "Here. Happy birthday, little one."
Gu Rong took the very familiar straw in a daze and held it in front of his eyes: "Drinking yogurt?"
Professor Ming snorted again.
Gu Baiyu said seriously, "Xiao Rong, stop talking nonsense. This is a new substance that Master Ming researched. He won the Nobel Prize for it."
Gu Rong gripped the straw tightly, feeling overwhelmed with emotion: "...Thank you, Grandpa Ming."
It turns out that this straw is really Grandpa Ming’s “heirloom”.
At this moment, Lu Li's voice rang in his mind: [Come find me, little one.]
Gu Rong was stunned: […006?]
Lu Li chuckled softly and said, "It's been blocked."
Gu Rong: [……]
I don’t know if he has ever told Lu Li that his low, muffled laughter can easily make his ears itchy.
The dinner was just halfway through and hadn't ended yet, but the birthday boy, Gu Rong, was about to leave.
Gu Baiyu and Ye Lan were about to object when they heard this. What kind of nonsense is this?
Professor Ming said, "Let the young people have fun on their own. Don't be so particular. Let's talk about our own things."
Gu Rong gave Grandpa Ming a bear hug and ran out with a smile.
Gu Baiyu's voice came from behind: "This kid has been sociable since he was young, haha..."
Gu Rong ran out of the house, glanced at Lu Li's dark villa, and ran straight forward.
The summer night is dotted with stars and the wind blows past my ears.
As Gu Rong ran, the scene in front of him suddenly changed. The buildings and trees became unreal, the whole world was moving away, and at the end of the road stood Lu Li.
Gu Rong did not stop and continued running. Her heartbeat became faster and faster. Her hair was blown by the wind, revealing her smooth forehead and her entire delicate face, which was so beautiful that it seemed to be glowing.
And in Gu Rong's eyes, Lu Li was also shining.
Hearing footsteps, Lu Li turned around and looked at Gu Rong.
This is not the real world, but the virtual space of the game. Gu Rong doesn't know why Lu Li is waiting for him here.
Gu Rong ran to Lu Li, his fair face slightly red and hot, his eyes sparkling, and he looked up at Lu Li without blinking.
"Lu Li, I have something to tell you."
"Baby, I have something for you."
The two sentences were spoken by both people at the same time.
Then, the two of them fell silent at the same time.
Even the air was silent for a moment.
The courage that Gu Rong had mustered up along the way faded away, and he collapsed, "...What?"
Lu Li raised his eyebrows and said, "Birthday present."
Gu Rong was stunned for a moment, blinked his eyes, and muttered: "So, you know today is my birthday..."
Lu Li nodded, stared at Gu Rong intently, and said, "Happy birthday, babe."
Could it be that Lu Li didn't show up all day because he was busy preparing a birthday present for him?
Gu Rong's heart moved, and he tried hard to suppress the corner of his mouth that was raised: "What gift do you want to give me?"
Lu Li curved his lips and said, "I'll take you to see the cub."
Gu Rong: “?”
The next second, colorful bubbles floated in the white void in front of him, and a different picture appeared in each bubble. The protagonist of the picture was a cute two-year-old cub with a round head and a round brain.
Gu Rong was stunned, looking at the countless bubbles and cubs in front of him.
Lu Li said: "You can click it and try it."
Upon hearing this, Gu Rong stretched out his finger and clicked on a bubble that floated in front of him.
The scene changed, and Gu Rong and Lu Li appeared in the picture presented by the bubbles.
This is a rural kitchen, and the background is a haunted village.
Zaizai couldn't see Gu Rong and Lu Li in the void. He sat by the stove with his hands on his belly. Because his calves were too short, his sitting posture was almost like a doll, in a V shape.
The little boy sighed like an adult and said in a baby voice, "I'm hungry."
Gu Rong: “…”
No, it’s so embarrassing to look at myself as a child, who would understand?
The cub has already supported himself with his hands and climbed up from the ground. He is walking around with his short legs, trying to find something delicious to fill his little stomach.
But after looking around, I didn't find anything delicious.
Zizi's face fell and he said, "006, Zizi's stomach is about to collapse from hunger!"
006 said: [Little host, we can't use points to redeem food from the system mall in this dungeon. We can only eat the food in the dungeon. Otherwise, let's scare the players and make them hand over the delicious food!]
When Zizi heard this, his face turned thoughtful. He then looked down at his own small body and said with self-awareness: "But Zizi is so small, how can he possibly scare the players?"
006: [……]
Gu Rong couldn't hear the conversation between Zaizai and 006, but he could see it, just like reading a comic book, with a dialogue box appearing above Zaizai's little head.
In order to get a bite to eat, Zaizai finally decided to scare people and beg for food.
In order to scare people, the baby pinched his face with his two little hands and practiced "Ah Wu" and "Ah Wu" for a while.
After saying "Ah Wu" about seven or eight times, Zizi thought he had mastered the skills and went to scare the other players.
Gu Rong: “…”
No, believe me, you will only be so cute that you won't scare anyone.
After searching for a long time, Zizi finally found a lone male player.
The kid made a face and went upstairs while humming.
The male player suddenly saw a little dumpling coming towards him, and it was such a cute and round dumpling. He was so touched for a moment that he lowered his head and stared at him blankly, completely forgetting to react.
When Zaizai saw that the male player was scared silly by him (crossed out), he hugged the male player's calves with his two little arms and hung on his legs like a little sandbag.
He punched people with his little fists, almost like tickling them: "Wash you, wash you!"
Male player: “?”
The cub snorted, "Hurry up and give it to me, or I'll scare you! Awooo——"
The male player was so touched by the cuteness that he fed the baby a dried fish.
The cub let go of the player, hugged the dried fish, and ate it with relish.
Male player: “…”
Holy shit, I wasn’t scared to death by ghosts when I entered the game, but was killed by the cuteness of a little dumpling?
The baby was enjoying the meal, but Gu Rong, who witnessed it all, couldn't bear to watch it and immediately left the bubble space.
Coming back to the virtual space, Gu Rong looked at the other bubbles, his ears turned red, and he had no desire to click on them at all.
Lu Li fixed his gaze on Gu Rong's slightly red ears for a moment, pointed at a bubble and said, "Zizi, your old friend is in this dungeon. Do you want to go in and take a look?"
In this bubble, Gu Rong saw Zhuang Yuchen, Lin Xuezhuo and others with a smile.
He didn't click on it immediately, but said, "What are these? I don't remember entering so many dungeons, nor do I remember entering the dungeon just now."
Lu Li said, "Is it probably similar to a parallel universe? You can understand it as follows: Zizi and 006 remain unchanged, and the way to find the key in the dungeon remains the same, but the contents of the dungeon may be different. The five dungeons you entered before are also there."
Gu Rong understood: if he went to a mental hospital, the other kids might go to an orphanage. He was a little zombie, and the other kids might be little mermaids.
Gu Rong looked at Lu Li and said, "Is this the birthday present you want to give me?"
Lu Li said, "Well, if you ever want to reminisce about your childhood, you can come here anytime."
Gu Rong: “…”
No, he doesn't want to.
It was obviously Lu Li who wanted to see the cub.
Gu Rong thought of the cubs in the ice and snow castle. Even when they were in a deep sleep, Lu Li made so many little snowmen for them with ice and snow.
Gu Rong really didn't know what to say, but he didn't have the courage to say what he had planned to say to Lu Li.
It can be seen that Lu Li only loves the cub.
Maybe being nice to him is just because he is a grown-up kid.
Seeing Gu Rong's sudden downturn, Lu Li looked at him with deep eyes, "What's wrong?"
Gu Rong calmed his thoughts and shook his head: "Nothing, I just want to see an old friend."
He didn't look at Lu Li and directly clicked on the bubble with Zhuang Yu and the other two.
Lu Li: “…”
The background of this bubble copy is an amusement park. Zhuang Yuchen, smiling Lin Xuezhuo and the other two are queuing up with their babies to ride the carousel.
Just like the previous bubble, Gu Rong and Lu Li appeared in the void, and neither the players nor the NPCs in the dungeon could see them.
Although the cub is small, he queues up obediently, with a happy face and big, shining eyes as he looks at the carousel.
Shen Hanxiao said, "I had a dream last time. I dreamed that I went into the Museum of Weirdos with the grown-up Little Ghost. Wow, the grown-up Little Ghost looked exactly like the child, completely enlarged in proportion, without any disfigurement at all."
Zhuang Yu said, "What a coincidence! I had a similar dream, and in the end it was the grown-up Tuanzi who saved us all."
Shen Hanxiao looked at him in surprise.
Lin Xuezhou raised his eyebrows and said, "I had this dream too."
All three of them seemed to be lost in thought.
But they are in an absurd and weird horror game, so it is not surprising that they have the same dream at the same time.
But… they all looked at the soft and cute little ball in front of them, wondering what the cub would look like when it grew up. Perhaps it would be just like what they had seen in their dreams, a handsome young man, extraordinary and elegant.
Gu Rong stood beside the three people and the child and said, "It turns out they, like Zhou Yan, just thought it was a dream."
Lu Li didn't care about the strangers at all. He kept looking at the cute cub and said with a smile, "Look, cub."
Gu Rong followed Lu Li's gaze and saw that the baby in the queue had already started eating, and it was the chewy soft candy that was fed to him by a beautiful aunt in front of him.
The cub eats when someone feeds him, nodding his little head as he eats with gusto.
Gu Rong: “…”
When he was a kid, he really ate all the time.
After eating, Zizi said sweetly, "Sister Piao Niang, the candy you fed Zizi is so delicious!"
The pretty aunt fed him another one: "What did you eat to grow up with such a sweet mouth!"
The cub started to nod his head again, chewing the candy and saying crisply, "Cub, you grow up by eating!"
This little zombie cub has short legs, can't catch up with prey, and can't drink human blood. What else can he eat if he doesn't eat?
Pretty Auntie: "What a cutie!"
The cub was praised and happily lifted up his little feet and shook his little head.
After leaving this bubble, Lu Li wanted to enter other bubbles to take a look, but Gu Rong looked absent-minded, as if he was hiding something on his mind.
Seeing that he was in an abnormal mood, and that he only started to behave abnormally after seeing the gift he had given him, Lu Li felt a strange emotion in his heart.
Don’t you like it?
Lu Li always had an extreme sense of control over everything, but this feeling of being out of control made him lose his composure unconsciously: "Zizi, what's wrong? Don't you like this gift?"
Gu Rong pursed her lips, lowered her eyelids, and whispered, "I just think it must be a pity that you woke up to see the grown-up me. Your impression of me is probably still stuck in the game, stuck on when I was two years old. You're probably being nice to me now because I'm a grown-up. The me now is just benefiting from my childhood."
After hearing this, Lu Li didn't speak for a long time and just looked at Gu Rong in silence.
Gu Rong felt nervous when he looked at her, and clenched his palms: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Lu Li laughed, an angry laugh. He said, "The devil's sacrifice was all that was needed to ensure your safe growth, and you think I don't want you to grow up?"
Gu Rong was stunned.
From the beginning to the end, all Lu Li hoped was that he would grow up well.
He remembered what Lu Li said when he disappeared - baby, grow up well.
Now, he has really grown up well, and this time he did not die before he had the chance to grow up.
Lu Li looked at him seriously and solemnly, and said, "Baby, I'm very happy that you can grow up well."
"Whether you're a two-year-old or an eighteen-year-old, as long as you're me, I like you."
Gu Rong's pupils widened slightly, and his heart seemed to pause for a beat. Then, it was as if someone gently plucked his heartstrings, causing fine and numb ripples.
The two were surrounded in the center of countless colorful bubbles, countless bubbles, and countless cubs who were either eating or on their way to eat.
They saw themselves in each other's eyes.
Only yourself.
…
They stayed in the virtual space for too long. When they came out, the long night was almost over and the sky was almost bright.
The two walked side by side in the quiet alley.
The daytime heat was finally dispelled a little by the summer night breeze.
Lu Li pondered and said, "It seems that we need to add a new rule to the game."
Gu Rong looked sideways at him: "What rules?"
Lu Li: "It is forbidden to feed the cub NPC."
Gu Rong: “…”
Gu Rong, this cub, loves food like it's his life. Every time he arrives in a dungeon, eating is his top priority. The world is vast, but filling his little belly is the biggest thing. So no matter how many dungeons are refreshed, the cubs in each universe are all fat and plump.
Lu Li smiled again and said, "Except for the Devil, of course."
Gu Rong: “…”
This is the key point!
Except for Lord Devil, no one else is allowed to feed the NPC cub?
Well, that seems not bad.
"Lu Li, let's go home."
"……Um."
This world is beautiful. There are clusters of flowers under our feet and billions of stars above our heads. It is so beautiful that it seems as if all the disasters and illnesses have never existed.
The two young men walked side by side, their figures blending into the darkness but heading towards the dawn.
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