Chapter 59: Cell Phone Incident
Ever since Lin Yun disguised himself as Cuiqiao in front of his daughter, it has become his habit to carry two mobile phones with him.
In order to avoid being discovered when using the phone, he even consulted the female clerk in the flagship store before buying the phone. Taking her advice, he deliberately chose a phone case to make the "Delphinium phone" look more feminine.
There are only three contacts on this phone, namely Lin Xiaolu, Xia Liang and Hong Siyu.
In order to be able to contact them in time when the beasts appear or there are emergencies, Lin Yun does not deliberately turn off his mobile phone or switch it to silent mode. He only changes it to vibrate mode when he is at work.
The same is true today.
When he went out in the morning, he deliberately took Delphinium's cell phone out of the pocket of his formal suit and carried it with him, ensuring that Delphinium's identity and communication with the two girls were smooth enough.
However, he did not expect at that time that the two little girls had followed him at some point and followed him all the way to the shopping mall.
At first, he was concentrating on acting to deceive Mo Ke; after meeting the two girls, he began to try to smooth things over for them in this awkward situation; then, when shopping, he was immersed in the sentimentality of this special day, so much so that he completely forgot that there was such a time bomb in his inner pocket of his shirt.
The result is now: the clear ringtone made Xia Liang move his eyes over, and he reached into his shirt, holding the phone, not knowing whether he should take it out or not.
In just a few seconds, several plans flashed through Lin Yun's mind: First, he quickly turned the volume of Cuiqiao's phone to the minimum, then took out his original phone and pretended that he had just answered a call.
This plan is the most logically flawless, but it is difficult to implement - he set the incoming call tone of his mobile phone to ringtone and vibration, just to prevent himself from ignoring the calls.
Even if he could turn the volume of his phone to zero, the vibration sound was still hard to ignore in this restaurant where there were not many people.
The second option is to answer the call, but cover the speaker of the Cuiqiao phone with your hand so that your voice will not be received by the phone; then take out Lin Yun’s phone and pretend that you have received a call from someone else.
The logical loopholes of this plan are also not big, but it is more difficult to operate. First of all, he cannot ensure that he can completely cover the mouthpiece, and the slightest sound leakage will give him away; secondly, doing so will make his movements very strange, with his right hand inserted inside his coat, and his left hand reaching to the right to touch the phone to answer the call, which looks very strange no matter how you look at it.
The last method is to hang up the phone directly, then use Lin Yun’s phone to call Cuique, and if Xia Liang calls, he will only get the prompt "call in progress".
This was simple to do, and he could even say that it would succeed as long as he wanted to. But there was a huge logical loophole: he couldn't explain why Xia Liang's call was hung up when his ringing stopped.
Just as he was making a decision in his mind, Xia Liang had already taken action.
She held the phone to her ear and tilted her head to look at Lin Yun, her eyes filled with confusion and inquiry: "Uncle, aren't you going to answer the phone?"
Lin Yun knew that there was no time to delay.
"Well, thank you for reminding me. I was just thinking about something and didn't pay attention."
He first answered expressionlessly, trying to distract Xia Liang's attention with the conversation; at the same time, he began to fumble on the side of the phone, trying to find the volume button, thinking of at least turning off the ringtone first.
In his opinion, since several plans have been listed out, it does not mean that they cannot be used together. He can just deal with them one by one and act according to circumstances. He should still have a chance to fool them.
"That's really weird... Let's hang up and try."
However, before he could take any other action, Xia Liang was already muttering to himself, tapping the screen of his mobile phone lightly with his finger.
As she made this move, the ringing in the restaurant stopped after a while.
The empty restaurant returned to silence, except for the mall aisle outside the window which was still filled with exclamations and screams. The glass partition of the store became a boundary, dividing the inside and outside of the restaurant into two worlds: outside, the crowds were pushing and shoving, noisy and spreading panic; inside, it was cold and deserted, you could hear a pin drop, and full of embarrassment.
There is no doubt that Xia Liang just pressed the hang up button.
After this series of operations, she first held the phone virtually and looked at Lin Yun, blinking innocently, and then asked in astonishment: "Ah, it really stopped?"
Lin Yun looked at the undecorated ceiling in the restaurant and let out a long sigh.
He dropped his hands to his chest in surrender.
"Uncle, you have someone else's cell phone on you."
As if aware of the situation, Xia Liang showed a mischievous smile even though he was trying to restrain himself: "Although it's a little jumpy to ask this, it should be the person I'm thinking of, right?"
"You guessed right." Lin Yun admitted it bluntly with a calm voice.
"Why is Senior... No, Senior Delphinium's cell phone in your possession?"
After getting Lin Yun's answer, Xia Liang seemed even more confused: "I remember that the young senior used his mobile phone at my house last night..."
"We know each other and I found her phone at my house this morning."
Lin Yun opened his mouth somewhat numbly, and threw out an improvised excuse in vain: "Although it's not what you think, we do maintain a certain contact."
"I went to see my uncle in the middle of the night, and then I left my phone at your house..."
Xia Liang opened his mouth gradually: "In other words, you two are really in that kind of relationship?"
"I don't know what kind of relationship you are talking about, but I don't think so." Lin Yun closed his eyes.
"Uncle, even if both parties are willing, it is still illegal to have such a relationship with a child, right?"
Frowning, Xia Liang said in a serious tone, "Besides, Senior Cuique is so cute, how could you bear to do something bad to her?"
"…I've already said that we're not that kind of relationship. We just have some intersections because of Lulu and the magical girl thing."
Lin Yun sighed helplessly: "Besides, she should have told you, right? She is much older than you, and is the same age as me."
"That won't work either."
Xia Liang pouted and said with a rare displeasure: "Even if you are all adults, I still think you shouldn't do that. You are also very sorry to Xiaolu, right?"
"Student, I can assure you that it is not what you think."
Lin Yun suppressed his inner embarrassment, put on a serious look, and defended himself seriously: "I know you care about Lulu, and I also know that Lulu is not very accepting of having a... uh, stepmother. So there is really no emotional relationship between me and the 'Centicorn Senior' you mentioned."
"Really?" Xia Liang asked doubtfully.
"If I have to say, she actually has a closer relationship with Lulu's mother."
In order to divert her attention, Lin Yun explained half-truthfully: "If you want to know this, I will tell you on the way back."
"Her mother? You mean..." Xia Liang wanted to ask more, but was forced to stop when the words reached his lips.
Because at this moment, Lin Yun's chest and the phone in her hand vibrated at the same time.
Picking up the phone, Xia Liang found that it was Lin Xiaolu who sent a message in the Magical Girls Team group:
【@Xiaojin: What on earth are you doing? Come here quickly! 】
[@翠雀: There is a beast attack at Jinbao Shopping Plaza in Luoming District. Are you free now, 翠雀? Ah, don't worry. ]
"…It seems we can't continue the conversation."
After reading the information on the screen, Xia Liang lowered his hands and smiled helplessly: "Then uncle, if you can contact Senior Cuique, can you let her know? After all, she told us to notify her as long as there are residual beasts."
Although she was full of doubts, she finally knew what was more important: she could find out some gossip about the family affairs later, but expelling the remaining beasts was her top priority at the moment.
"I will."
Seeing that there was finally a chance to end this awkward conversation, Lin Yun chose to stop without hesitation. He raised his eyes to meet Xia Liang's, and nodded pretentiously, "Hong Si and should be able to contact her."
"Phew, let's talk about the rest when we get back."
After letting out a breath, Xia Liang put away his phone and waved at Lin Yun: "As for what happened before, I'll just take it as the truth, uncle."
"It's all true." Lin Yun had a blank expression on his face. "Just don't exaggerate it with Lulu."
"Don't worry, I won't tell Xiaolu."
Xia Liang smiled mischievously and said, "I know. After all, if I tell her this, who knows what she will think of."
Lin Yun thought to himself that what he said just now was just nonsense, but he didn't argue any more. He just watched Xia Liang leave the restaurant in silence.
Watching the girl jogging away, he leaned back in his seat and let out a long sigh, his tense nerves finally relaxing a little.
Forget it, let’s put all these things aside and think about where to transform first, he thought to himself.
(End of this chapter)
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