Chapter 139 Wife

I'll pick you up

For several days in a row, Bu Qianli noticed that Chi Dong didn't really want to see him. Every time he saw him, he showed a surprised expression.

There were a few times when Bu Qianli's car had just stopped and everyone hadn't gotten off when he saw Chi Dong running towards the subway exit with his head down, as if he was hiding from something dirty.

Bu Qianli was so amused by his behavior that he had to quickly step forward to block his way, and then he caught the man back into the car.

Chi Dong was not a dull person. After seeing the familiar car outside the school gate for several consecutive days, he quickly guessed Bu Qianli's intention.

Chi Dong felt complicated and entangled in his heart, but he couldn't hide away from it or avoid it. Helplessly, he had to get in the car and let the driver take him to the company.

When Chi Dong once again asked to get off farther from the company, Bu Qianli was silent for a long time, but finally agreed. Looking at Chi Dong's hurriedly leaving back, Bu Qianli's dark eyes flashed with a trace of loss and deep thought.

During these few days of getting along, he could clearly feel that Chi Dong's love for him had not completely disappeared. That vague care was like a thin thread, tightly entwined between the two of them.

But Bu Qianli knew in his heart that this kind of love was based on the premise that Chi Dong didn't know that he was the "Kill One Person in Ten Steps". If Chi Dong knew the truth, would he think that he was playing a trick on him?

Thinking of this, Bu Qianli couldn't help but frown, his face slightly sank, and his eyes became deeper than before. He felt a little irritated, his fingers tapped the steering wheel unconsciously, and his thoughts were in a mess.

He knew that he couldn't delay it any longer. Hiding the truth would only make things worse, and rather than letting Chi Dong learn the truth from others, it would be better for him to confess it himself.

However, just as he was about to ask Chi Dong out for dinner to explain everything, news suddenly came from City B that Jiang Ying and Han Yun had been in a car accident.

Jiang Ying and Han Yun went to City B this time to discuss a cooperation for the company. The day before yesterday, Jiang Ying called him excitedly and said that the contract could be signed today.

As a result, he suddenly got into a car accident and his condition was unknown. As his boss, partner and good friend, he had to go to visit him and deal with the urgent matters on the project. After all, the project was at a critical stage. If it was delayed, the subsequent losses would be serious.

Bu Qianli weighed the pros and cons in his mind, pondered for a few seconds, then opened his phone and asked Chen Lian to book two tickets to City B.

As for Chi Dong, he could only put it aside for the time being. After he finished dealing with the matters in City B, he would come back and find a chance to explain to him.

Bu Qianli imagined Chi Dong's pale and bloodless face in the morning. A hint of tenderness appeared in his cold eyes. He sighed softly, then moved the screen and sent a message to Chi Dong.

——"I have something to do and need to go to City B. Wait for me to come back."

After sending the message, he did not wait for a reply from the other party, but turned around and started the car, driving towards the airport. Bu Qianli did not bring Chen Lian with him this time, but asked another assistant Linda to go with him.

Before leaving, Bu Qianli specifically instructed Chen Lian, "During the time I'm away, you should arrange for someone to deliver meals to Chi Dong every day. Avoid other people in the company and don't let him know that it was me who delivered the meals."

Chen Lian nodded in agreement, but he felt a little troubled - he needed to find a suitable person to do this matter, so as not to arouse Chi Dong's suspicion and ensure that the news would not spread.

After thinking about it, Chen Lian suddenly thought of a very suitable candidate - Jiang Yuzhou. He was not only Bu Zong's cousin, but also Chi Dong's colleague. Moreover, he and Chi Dong had a good relationship and they often ate at the same table in the cafeteria. It was perfect for him to be the one to go.

After selecting the candidate, Chen Lian called Jiang Yuzhou without thinking and said with a smile: "Yuzhou, General Bu feels that you have lost a lot of weight recently, so he specially asked me to arrange some nutritious meals for you to replenish your body."

Jiang Yuzhou was confused when he heard this, but he didn't think much about it. After all, Bu Qianli was usually quite caring towards his cousin.

So from that day on, he would receive two exquisite and high-end lunch boxes every day. The meals inside were delicious and you could tell at a glance that they were from a high-end hotel.

When he got the lunch box, Chen Lian reminded him: "If you can't finish it, you can ask your friends to share it. Don't waste it."

Although Jiang Yuzhou felt it was a bit strange, he didn't ask any more questions. As for the extra portion, he naturally thought of Chi Dong.

The two of them usually went to the company cafeteria for lunch together. So after getting his lunch, he ran to Chi Dong excitedly and handed one of the meals to him, looking like he had gotten a great bargain.

Chi Dong took it absentmindedly. His phone got wet when he went to the bathroom in the morning and now it couldn't be turned on. He hesitated whether to change it.

"What is this?"

Jiang Yuzhou opened the lunch box, and the aroma of food filled his nose. His mouth was watering. He could not wait to grab the big chicken leg and take a bite. After he finished eating, he replied, "My cousin said that I have lost weight, so he asked someone to send me a meal. The portion is too much. I can't finish it by myself. Can you help me share some?"

After he finished speaking, Chi Dong belatedly realized that there was a heavy and exquisite lunch box in his hand. He wanted to refuse, but he could not resist Jiang Yuzhou's enthusiasm. In addition, the food was indeed tempting, so he gladly accepted it.

What these two people didn't know was that these meals were actually prepared by Bu Qianli specially for Chi Dong, and Jiang Yuzhou was just a middleman "arranged" by Chen Lian.

At this time, Chen Lian was standing in the dark. When he saw Chi Dong really eat it, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally succeeded.

Of course, he had already reported this action to Bu Qianli and obtained his permission, otherwise even if he had a hundred courages, he would not dare to deceive Jiang Yuzhou.

The next morning, Chi Dong rushed out of the school gate without even having breakfast. Because his cell phone was broken, he went to buy a new one after get off work yesterday, so he didn't know that Bu Qianli sent him a text message to tell him that he was out of the company on a business trip.

As soon as he ran to the school gate, Chi Dong slowed down his running speed and slowly returned to a normal walking speed. He held a glimmer of fantasy in his heart, thinking that Bu Qianli's car would stop next to the stone statue early like yesterday.

However, when he looked up, there was no one, not even a car. The empty school gate was like a grinning mouth, silently mocking his self-conceit.

Chi Dong stood still in the morning breeze, his eyelashes casting fine shadows under his eyes, completely hiding the emotions surging in his eyes. It was not until the autumn wind swept the fallen leaves past his feet and the coolness came slowly that he chuckled softly and walked towards the subway exit.

Pushing open the glass door of the office, Jiang Yuzhou's voice floated over amid the hum of the coffee machine: "Have you heard? The boss is on a business trip again." Chi Dong paused in his movement, and suddenly felt a little upset with the breakfast in his hand.

After swallowing the remaining bread with difficulty, Chi Dong sat back in his seat and glanced at his newly bought mobile phone. Only then did he remember that he had not logged into WeChat yet.

After he logged in, he saw the dark bubble at the bottom of the message list. He was stunned. It turned out that the person had sent him a message yesterday to tell him that he was going on a business trip.

The cold light from the screen made Chi Dong's eyelashes tremble slightly. A sudden warmth hit his cheeks, and even the tips of his ears turned slightly red.

At this time, Bu Qianli, who was far away in City B taking over Jiang Ying's cooperation project, didn't know that he almost added fuel to the fire in his pursuit of his wife.

By the time he finished his work and rushed back to the company, half a month had passed. At this time, Bu Qianli suddenly found that Chi Dong was avoiding him more and more, not replying to his text messages, ignoring his phone calls, and even squatting at the school gate to avoid him.

Every time the elevator number jumped, Bu Qianli's Adam's apple rolled, until the metal door reflected the dark clouds rolling in his eyes - the dark mist suddenly turned into coldness when he saw the game interface.

Chi Dong, who should have gone home from get off work at this moment, did not leave immediately. Instead, he turned on his computer and played games.

Chi Dong knew that Bu Qianli had returned and had also seen the message he sent. In order to avoid him, Chi Dong got up an hour earlier every day to take the subway to work, and then deliberately delayed going home for two hours after get off work.

This method is very effective. He has been hiding and hasn't seen Bu Qianli for three consecutive days.

As for the two free hours, he used them to play games. ET. is a game company, so all of its major games are installed on every computer.

Just when Chi Dong was so engrossed in playing the game, he didn't notice a tall figure walking towards him in the corridor behind him.

Chi Dong's teammate was none other than his roommate Zhou Yize. Lin Jie was still traveling abroad and would not be back for some time, so he had been playing games with Chi Dong for the past half month. Zhou Yize's microphone suddenly started to buzz: "Xiao Dong."

Chi Dong thought it was a problem with his headphones, so he raised his hand to adjust them: "... Third brother, you called me?"

Zhou Yize frowned, "Well, why have you been playing games so early these days? Did you leave work early?"

"No, no, I'm still in the company."

The sound of Chi Dong talking came from the earphone. Zhou Yize was silent for a while after listening, "Have you had dinner?"

Chi Dong looked up at the half-eaten bread on the table and said calmly, "Eat it."

Zhou Yize couldn't tell that he was lying: "..."

However, Bu Qianli, who was standing behind Chi Dong, witnessed him lying with his eyes open. He laughed in anger, with his cold eyebrows slightly raised. He didn't expect that Chi Dong was so afraid to go home directly after get off work in order to avoid him, for fear of being caught by him.

Bu Qianli didn't say anything, but watched Chi Dong chatting with the man on the team list calmly. Her eyes flickered, and soon, while Chi Dong wasn't paying attention, she left slowly and quietly, just like when she came.

Chidong was left alone in the office.

Zhou Yize took Chi Dong to fight two dungeons in a row. After defeating the last boss, Zhou Yize's eyes couldn't help but look at the team list. He subconsciously slid the mouse with his fingertips and pulled it down.

The amount of small medicines in the lower right corner of the screen was decreasing rapidly, and the more he looked at it, the more his brows furrowed - this was the third time he had bought medicines in the mall today.

Turning around, Zhou Yize saw that Chi Dong's character had been using his staff to attack normally, and even the most basic healing spells were useless. It seemed that he considered himself an output.

Zhou Yize looked at his health bar going up and down under the BOSS's AOE skill, and finally couldn't help but sigh.

"Xiaodong." Zhou Yize rubbed his temples, "If you are tired, let's go for a run. We can earn money to buy skill books."

Zhou Yize was talking, but he was secretly thinking: I'm afraid no one in this game is worse than him! Bringing a healer to fight, but still having to take medicine himself, it's ridiculous.

"...Oh, okay." Chi Dong replied absentmindedly from the other end of the voice.

"Although you already have a pet." Zhou Yize continued while controlling the character to dodge the boss's skills, "but this one's skills are suitable for PVP. I see that you prefer PVE and PVX, so you still have to save money to buy another one."

Chi Dong said with some hesitation: "But I have never run a Grand Prix before..."

Zhou Yize looked at the few medicines left in the package, then looked at the time. He then raised his hand to rub his sore neck and resigned himself to his fate by drinking another bottle of Dalan.

"You haven't run before?" Zhou Yize raised his eyebrows in surprise. "Then how did you get this pet? If I remember correctly, the price of a pet of similar quality in the market is 600,000 gold, which is about 6,000 RMB."

Chi Dong was so shocked by what he said that his pupils shrank and he curled his fingers unconsciously.

What? 6,000?

Did he hear it right? This thing that looks like a small dumpling, is chewy and harmless, but it costs 6,000 yuan?

This is too exaggerated!

[Name]: Jelly Extreme (unnamed)

[Features]: Jump/Triple attack causes heavy damage of 300% of attack

[Exclusive Skill]: I am the cutest, take my punch/attack the enemy head-on, all attribute attack increases by 15%

[Additional Skills]: ① Freeze/confuses enemies within the range and reduces all attribute resistance by 15%; ② Bubble Attack/throws bubbles, swallowing the target's health and converting it into its own health

Chi Dong's eyes were fixed on the pet column. He checked the attribute panel several times, his brows furrowed more and more, and his eyes were full of confusion.

"I didn't expect it to be so expensive..." Chi Dong murmured in a low voice with disbelief in his tone.

"It's actually fine, but yours is particularly expensive." Zhou Yize leaned back in his chair lazily, tapping the tabletop lightly with his fingers, making a regular sound.

He scanned the screen with his eyes, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly. "This rare pet [Jelly] has a unique skill that increases all attributes of attack by 15%. In the PVP arena, it is simply invincible. In addition, it looks so cute that many girls can't help but want to buy it. Naturally, the price is high."

Chi Dong was puzzled: "But why is mine so much more expensive?"

"Because yours is only the best, and it has two more skills - Freeze the World and Bubble Attack." Zhou Yize's tone was understated, as if he was talking about something very ordinary. "These two skills alone can double its price."

"So that's how it is..." After hearing his words, Chi Dong's brows wrinkled even tighter, and a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes, "But I remember that it didn't seem to have these two skills before..."

"Wait." Zhou Yize felt something was wrong the more he listened. He sat up straight and his eyes became sharp. "Did you really buy this pet?"

"No, I didn't buy it." Chi Dong shook his head. "It was a pet egg dropped from a game, and then... Shi Bu helped me hatch it."

"Ten steps?" Zhou Yize paused in tapping the tabletop. His voice was still calm, but there was a hint of testing in his voice. "The ten steps you're talking about are those of the number one on the list - killing one person in ten steps?"

Chi Dong: “Yeah, it’s him.”

In the huge room, there was an ultra-thin notebook on the square table, in-ear headphones were casually hung, the screen was flickering, Zhou Yize was leaning lazily on the back of the chair, and when he heard the words coming from the computer speaker, his eyes suddenly narrowed slightly, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and he continued to ask without saying a word.

"He's a nice guy and has helped me a lot." While replying, Chi Dong subconsciously opened the friend list and took a look. He saw that the top profile picture was still gray and offline.

"My mother's hospitalization this time is also thanks to his help." Chi Dong's voice lowered, his fingers stroking the mouse unconsciously, he suddenly remembered that these days, Shi Bu Sha Yi Ren seemed to be rarely online, because they had been keeping in touch on Penguin, so he almost ignored this point.

"Auntie came to Beijing? And she's in the hospital?" Zhou Yize's voice suddenly rose, with obvious surprise and concern in his tone, "Such a big thing, why didn't you tell us?"

Chi Dong explained: "They came rather suddenly, so I didn't tell you. I will take you to meet them when school starts."

"Okay, it's settled!" Zhou Yize agreed readily, and then asked, "How is Auntie now? Has she been discharged from the hospital?"

"I was just discharged from the hospital a while ago and am now recuperating at home." When talking about Chi's mother and father, Chi Dong's face was full of smiles and his tone was much more relaxed. "The doctor said that I have recovered well."

"That's good. After all, health is the most important thing." Zhou Yize breathed a sigh of relief and returned his gaze to the screen. They had just defeated the last boss, but when they opened the box, they only found a bunch of junk equipment, not even a single valuable item.

Zhou Yize couldn't help but frown, muttering in his heart: Ever since I teamed up with Chi Dong to fight the game, my luck seems to be getting worse and worse. Although I wasn't lucky before, at least it wasn't as bad as it is now.

Could it be that his aura is incompatible with Chi Dong's?

"Come on, I'll take you to run a ring." The rewards for running a ring in "Xia Jiang" are very generous. The higher the number of rings the player runs, the better the reward.

He wanted to see if his aura and Chi Dong's were really incompatible. According to past experience, he had at least found two high-level treasure maps and two level 5 enhanced stones.

Chi Dong obediently followed Zhou Yize and was teleported out. He had been playing for so long but had never run a loop once and had no idea what to do.

However, he often saw people in the gang crying out for help on the channel. Some were asking for rare materials, some were asking for help in beating bosses, and some were looking for the coordinates of NPCs all over the world.

The requirements of these tasks are all kinds of strange, and it is said that the most difficult part is to find the NPCs. Except for those NPCs in fixed positions, the rest can move freely.

If you are doing a mission and it asks you to find those NPCs who are wandering around and have no fixed place to live, then you are really unlucky.

For players with good luck, the NPC will automatically appear in front of them the next second after the mission is refreshed; for players with average luck, it may take three to five days, or even one or two months to find it; as for those with bad luck, it is better to give up and start again, which may be faster.

"Xiaodong, let's run 100 rounds first. The difficulty is easy and there shouldn't be any accidents." Zhou Yize brought Chidong to the NPC who was supposed to accept the task, clicked on the interface, and paused on the mouse for a few seconds. In the end, he chose to start from the lowest number of 100 rounds.

For some reason, his right eyelid kept twitching tonight. Old people often say "left eye twitching means wealth, right eye twitching means disaster", and he always felt that something bad would happen next.

What was even stranger was that this feeling of uneasiness seemed to be directed only at him, as if something was secretly watching him.

"Okay, then we'll start from the lowest level and see what the rewards are after we finish the race." Chi Dong stared at the screen, full of anticipation. Thinking carefully, he realized that he hadn't run a mission for a long time, not even his favorite Easter egg mission.

Recently, he has spent almost all of his gaming time on daily activities and gang missions, and he has almost forgotten about collecting and running around.

Zhou Yize took a deep breath, suppressed his anxiety, and clicked the "Accept Task" button. The first task prompt that popped up on the screen was: Go to the outskirts of Xuancheng to collect 10 "Blue Grass".

"Let's go outside the city first." Zhou Yize said, trying to sound as relaxed as possible, but the feeling of uneasiness in his heart was getting stronger and stronger. He always felt that tonight's running mission would not be as simple as he imagined.

In "Heroes", if you form a team to do a quest, the quest requirements are the same. The 100th quest is the lowest level, and the quests in the first 30 quests are very simple, such as delivering letters to NPCs, defeating a few thieves, finding lost items, collecting ores and herbs, etc. Even the difficulty of fighting monsters is so low that it can be easily crushed.

The mission went surprisingly smoothly, and there was no uneasy situation as Zhou Yize had thought. Only the last 20 rings were left to be completed, but at this moment, Chi Dong found that the atmosphere around him was a little strange.

At first, he just felt that there were more players around, but he didn't take it seriously. However, as more and more players gathered, the bubble messages that kept popping up above his head made it impossible for him to convince himself that these people just happened to pass by.

[World] Liang Feng You Xin: Honey, do you think the two people standing behind us just now look familiar?

[World] Qiu Yue Wu Bian: She looks familiar, I seem to have seen her somewhere before... Ah! Now I remember, isn't this the master's wife?

[World] Flower House: Who? Great God? Which great god are you talking about?

[World] Rose Chant: There is more gossip, just listen.

[World]Duluduluku: Long-term cpdd, I can be sweet or salty, handsome or pretty, rich or poor. As long as you want, there is nothing I can't do.

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