Chapter 47 Chapter 47 Si Ruxu, promise you have never...
May I?
Si Qi felt her breath was faintly hot. She was not sober, like a drunk traveler. The sweet taste was wearing away her remaining sanity, and she was rushing towards the irresponsible and casual promise.
But she also realized that these words were heavy, heavy enough to entrust the rest of their lives to. She shouldn't be careless, she couldn't be careless.
So for the first time, she took the initiative to think and see the real starry sky through the heavy cracks in the gray sky.
She heard her own voice, hoarse, low, and calm.
"Si Ruxu, promise you've never lied to me."
He promised to never lie to her. No matter what happened, he would openly share everything with her. They could stand together through thick and thin.
Some hope flashed in Si Qi's eyes, and the color in his dark pupils turned into vines, carefully stretching towards Si Ruxu.
Speak, tell her. Tell her the whole truth, all the things you have concealed from her.
She has been wasted for too long.
Endless pursuit, endless hostility, and endless exploitation gradually wore away her humanity and vitality. Si Ruxu knew, Si Ruxu understood, that she wanted to be treated sincerely, to be treated as more than a pawn.
But Si Ruxu said nothing, she just shook her head. Her eyes were honest and clear, and there was a hint of familiar tenderness in her amber eyes.
She said, "I promise I won't lie to you again."
Si Qi felt himself shattered by this ambiguous sentence. The tentacles dancing around him also lost their vitality, fell to the ground with a plop, and turned into powdered ashes.
She sat there in boredom, the ambiguous atmosphere and familiar fragrance around her rushing over to tear her apart.
She curled her lips slightly, pulled out a pale smile, and said: "Okay."
"We can be that kind of relationship."
Who doesn't lie?
At this moment, she saw the tenderness in Si Ruxu's eyes, mixed with the ignition of joy, and even her breathing became lighter.
Knowing what Si Ruxu needed most right now, Si Qi curled his lips, with a smile in his eyes, and looked into her eyes gently, word by word.
Take care, be serious.
"Si Ruxu, let's just be together, okay? Just like before."
She broke free from the sticky darkness surrounding her, and for the first time, seemed to breathe the air of Si Ruxu's world, like a dying person breaking through water.
Si Ruxu lowered her eyes, tears falling from her eyelashes. It was just one drop at first, and then after a few seconds, it began to fall in clusters.
Si Qi pressed his forehead against the tip of her nose, then slowly moved down to hold the moisture.
Feeling the burning temperature and trembling of her palm, her tone was gentle and lingering: "Don't cry, I'm here."
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After waking up, Si Qi tidied up the messy chairs. Si Ruxu leaned against the wall, breathing softly. But her eyes always followed Si Qi's movements, gently brushing every wrinkle of her clothes.
The doorbell rang at an inopportune time. After a few rings, no one answered. Then there was a sound of tapping outside and the door opened by itself.
Luo Fenghe rushed in with two large bags. After placing them on the table, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Why didn't you open the door at home? I thought something happened."
His upward gaze paused when it fell on Si Ruxu's messy clothes, and his smile slowly became stiff.
"It's just nightfall, you two don't look like such thirsty people."
"Don't you think so?" Si Qi tidied up the chair and glanced at Luo Fenghe. "Why bring so much food? Are we going to starve?"
"What famine? I don't know what to say." Luo Fenghe turned around and went to the kitchen to get a pot. He washed it, poured the milky bone soup in the kettle into it, and added some red oil and chili peppers.
After he finished, he looked up and asked them, "Can you two handle spicy food?"
Si Qi nodded: "Very spicy, thank you."
Just as she finished speaking, she glanced at Si Ruxu as if she remembered something, and whispered again: "It's just the right spiciness, no need to add more chili."
Si Ruxu had a very light taste for food. Most of the time, she would just boil some vegetables in water, and then pester Si Qi to give her the seasonings, and she would be able to have a simple meal.
Si Qi poured a glass of water and placed it on Si Ruxu's table. The three of them sat down around the table. Luo Fenghe placed the vegetable leaves and meat on a plate together.
There are no exquisite meatballs and seasoned meat slices from before the apocalypse, but the steam rising from the hot pot actually has a more homely feel.
"You came here just to eat hot pot with us?"
Si Qi stared at a piece of vegetable leaf swirling in the hot pot. When it completely changed color and looked softer, he poked it with chopsticks, ready to press it down and cook it again.
"I also brought some wine." Luo Fenghe mysteriously took out a bottle of beautifully packaged wine from behind his back.
Like some brands that were very expensive before the end of the world. Si Qi didn't like drinking very much, so naturally he didn't understand these things.
Yes, it has only been three years since the end of the world, and the shelf life of wine is still too long. It is normal for Luo Fenghe to collect wine and store it.
He took three glasses and poured some for each of them. The white wine swirled in the glass, and the pungent smell rushed into the nostrils of the three people.
Si Qi and Luo Feng were slightly stunned. They had never seen such a strong-tasting wine.
One of the two people was a college student who had just entered university before the end of the world, and the other was a new office worker who had just worked for a few years and had not had time to come into contact with this symbol of status.
Only Si Ruxu knew how strong the wine was after just a light sniff. She looked at the two bewildered people beside her and spoke after a moment's pause: "Eat something first. Drinking on an empty stomach isn't good for your stomach."
The dishes that Si Qi had pressed underneath were already a little overcooked. She picked them up and put them in a bowl, blew on them and swallowed them in one gulp. Her eyes lit up, like a little animal that had eaten its favorite food.
Si Ruxu's fingertips seemed to be spinning casually on the wine glass, and her eyes looking at Si Qi were always full of tenderness.
Luo Fenghe scooped up a piece of meat for himself while looking at the two men.
What a newlywed couple, very clingy.
"What did you two experience during this massacre?"
The topic returned to the main business. Si Qi picked up a piece of meat and let it cool in his bowl before he slowly spoke.
“He makes us clear of the aliens.”
"Actually, I felt that from the beginning, the alien was referring to me. Either I survived, or those ten thousand people with special abilities survived. His original intention was to make us kill each other."
"I was planning to hide forever. As long as I'm not dead, I'll be the winner."
Luo Fenghe stopped eating with interest, "So Si Ruxu went in and disrupted your plans."
Si Qi glimpsed Si Ruxu's hand clenching the chopsticks, and unconsciously pursed his lips: "Not really, my chances of winning are slim. This massacre is intentionally suppressing my abilities. If Si Ruxu hadn't come in, I might be dead now."
"What’s wrong with you?"
"There was something wrong with my superpowers. I couldn't use them at that time, but it's fine now."
After hearing that Si Qi was fine, Luo Feng and Roujian breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned to other issues.
"Since only one of you and the mutant can survive, why were you and Si Ruxu able to come out together?"
If Si Qi is an outlier, then Si Ruxu should be of the same kind because no matter what, the only one who is different is Si Qi, and Si Ruxu can only be a special person in the branch of people with special abilities at best.
Si Qi didn't say anything at this time, but looked at Luo Fenghe with burning eyes.
"The rest is another price."
"If you want to know, I'll tell you what happened to you. Why are your abilities different from others, and why did you let Si Ruxu kill that little zombie?"
The originally gentle aura on Si Qi's body was instantly covered with thorns, and he looked over with a sharp gaze.
The hot pot was still bubbling, but the gentle atmosphere could not cover up the tense confrontation.
Luo Fenghe looked into Si Qi's eyes and suddenly realized that whether they were enemies or friends would only be revealed tonight.
"The life source of a mutant's superpower core is very difficult to break. Only when some special methods are used, or after the mutant dies, will the superpower core become slightly more fragile."
Luo Fenghe took out a superpower core from his pocket, and the metal superpower appeared in his hand, repeatedly cutting the superpower core, making a harsh sound, but the superpower core showed no sign of breaking.
"So, it's difficult to simply destroy the energy core."
"I once had a very good friend. He went out on a mission, and when he came back, his superpower core was shattered. I asked him about it, but he didn't want to tell me, and just told me not to get involved in such things."
"I was very confused and knew there was something bigger going on inside, but I couldn't just ignore him. So I went to the research institute and asked Si Luoheng to give me a way to repair the superpower core. When I got it, I returned home. His body was still warm, but he had stopped breathing."
Luo Fenghe spoke briefly, but Si Ruxu remembered the desperate eyes of the young man in front of the tomb.
"So I peeled out his superpower core, froze his body, and found a place by following the broken superpower core."
"My friend's superpower core is dry. I think the energy inside has been sucked out. One look at it shows it's definitely not shattered, but rather plundered."
"When I arrived at the cabin, I only saw a small zombie. It was very intelligent and didn't seem to have any ill intentions. But when I approached it, the former head of Si Ruxu's base, the scarred one, appeared."
"He ordered the little zombies to drain the power from my superpower core and then threw me out."
Luo Fenghe's voice was very calm, as if he was telling an irrelevant story.
He looked at Si Ruxu, his tone calm and cruel: "I know you." He said this to Si Ruxu.
"He is the most powerful esper besides your base commander, and the most important person in your base."
"I don't believe you don't know the dirty things your base commander has done, nor do I believe you are clean. So when you came to me to repair the token, I just felt disgusted. So I let you go and kill that little zombie."
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