Chapter 48 I came up with the idea and put a price on it. Pay for it! Buy me a big...
"Don't hang up." Yu Chen's voice tightened, and he exhaled slowly and restrainedly, "Stand there and don't move. I'll come pick you up."
Bai Ling stood in the wind's outlet, the cold air rushed towards him with fangs and claws, ruffling his soft hair that was soaked with cold sweat, and also taking away some of the drunkenness.
He opened his lips blankly and lowered his cold grey eyes.
I'll come and pick you up.
It's a common phrase that many birds have heard from their guardians. If you feel uncomfortable, upset, or encounter difficulties, just call the guardian and you will most likely receive responsible instructions like this.
It's not sweet talk, it's just simple actions.
But such words are still unfamiliar to Bai Ling.
He lowered his head and silently made a dent in the aluminum beer can. "Don't come out. It's not safe outside."
No matter how upset he felt, he knew his limits.
Yu Chen is different from others, not an ordinary alpha. His identity and experience mean that he cannot be expected to behave like other guardians.
Bai Ling has kept this in mind since he established a relationship with Yu Chen.
Therefore, Bai Ling would report to the palace on time, would bring back a small cake, and would agree to report the itinerary... Everything was done to tell Yu Chen -
He is a worry-free omega. He is already an adult and does not need much care.
Even though Yu Chen is blind, it is easy to raise him.
"...I'll make a fuss for a while and then go back by myself. I know the way...back...back..." His voice paused in the middle, Bai Ling bit his lower lip until it turned white, and wanted to say something, but he couldn't utter that word no matter what.
go home.
Is this gloomy bedroom his home?
He didn't dare to ask the answer to this question.
The old man is gentle and polite. In order to protect his self-esteem, he will say all kinds of comforting words. He can't tell which ones are true and which ones are just compliments.
Calling "baby" or something like that is just sweet talk in the atmosphere. It's enough to just hear it and make you happy for a while. Bai Ling is not so arrogant as to think that he can completely win Isuparaiso's heart in less than a month.
The same goes for the matter of “deceased wife”.
Perhaps what made Bai Ling more panicked than Schrödinger's white moonlight was that he suddenly saw the huge gap between himself and Yu Chen.
Age, experience, means, control...
After all... he wanted to say -
This is Iso Paraiso.
This mermaid, this old emperor who spanned centuries, once flourished in the long river of time and left a deep-rooted ideological imprint. It is the empire's richest cultural heritage, but now it is sealed and banned from reading under the pretext of recuperation. But no matter where you go, you can get a glimpse of the former grandeur of this civilization from the awe, respect, or fear in other people's eyes.
His nails dug deep into his palms and Bai Ling was breathing unsmoothly.
He originally thought that maintaining the status quo would be fine.
But after spending some time together, he also developed an unrealistic idea, wanting to... monopolize her.
This is not right...
They are just a guardian and ward relationship.
"I'll go back tomorrow... Okay, tomorrow morning..." Bai Ling leaned against the icy wall and slowly slid down. There was the whistling sound of the wind in his ears, and he didn't notice that his voice was trembling:
"Give me some time, I'll figure it out..."
On the other end of the line, Yu Chen was taking the long-handled umbrella handed to him by the AI, and unconsciously tightened his grip on the terminal:
"The sensible children will not have any candy."
"Then give the candy to someone else."
"How can I bear to do that?" Yu Chen sighed, a trace of heartache flashing across his face, "I still want to take you home."
Xuxu talked to him for a long time, but she felt very aggrieved. The poor child didn't dare to expect anything from him and could only force himself to compromise.
Many omegas will experience this moment of extreme anxiety during the differentiation period.
Yu Chen didn't think it was unreasonable. Instead, he thought that he had not taken good care of Bai Ling's emotions.
But the information he could obtain was really limited. There is only the bird's confession, and at most the description of the AI.
Many times, Bai Ling had to swallow her embarrassment and explain her needs to him carefully before he would respond. This may sound insignificant, but in fact it will over-analyze and expose the omega's psychological safety zone, increasing the omega's anxiety.
If he could see and read Bai Ling's emotional changes by vision, this problem would be greatly alleviated.
Yu Chen calmly covered the receiver of the terminal and asked the AI in a low voice: "How long will my medication last?"
The AI called up the record sheet: "According to the interstellar universal mental pressure measurement table, the normal pressure should be around 100 Pa, and your value is 5679 Pa, which is 55 times higher than the normal value, and this is the result of continuous use of mental nourishing drugs."
"Get to the point."
“It is recommended that you continue to take your medication.”
"What if I want to stop?"
A red light flashed in the AI camera. "Then you should prepare for the worst, such as death," the cute mechanical voice suddenly turned deep:
"Or worse, being consumed by the curse until..."
Before he could finish, he was interrupted by a strange man's shout from the terminal:
"Hey, don't move. Put your hands up! I'm the regional investigator, and I've received a report that you beat up innocent passers-by in this area. You have white hair? Humph, then I have reason to suspect that you are involved in the 'ship' attack. Get down, I want a close search."
Bai Ling sneered over there.
The investigator was furious: "Who are you talking to? Give me the terminal immediately!"
At this point, the call came to an abrupt end.
I don’t know whether it was taken away by the investigator or suppressed by Bai Ling.
·
Late at night, water splashed under the covered bridge near the square, and the noise of a series of pursuits and shouting gradually died down in front of the embankment.
The investigator stamped his boot and spat, "Damn it, he got away."
He accepted bribes from the gang and wanted to find a random excuse to arrest Baimao, but he didn't expect that the other party ran so fast. In a blink of an eye, he climbed over the fence and jumped into the sea.
The search officer cursed viciously: "Freeze to death, you bastard."
Ten minutes later, at another shallow beach far away from the square, someone was shivering as he climbed ashore, digging through the frozen soil.
The chill of ten degrees below zero flowed into the bones, and the soaked coat turned into thick ice in a few minutes. It became heavier and heavier as people walked, and they were afraid that their knees would bend and they would fall to pieces at any time.
Bai Ling was forced to find a small hotel to stay in.
The kind front desk clerk brought him a large bath towel and asked him if he needed anything else.
Bai Ling rolled his dull eyes for a while, then said in a hoarse voice, "Give me some wine, the stronger the better."
The girl at the front desk brought the wine to the room, but her eyes were following the other person.
The guest took off his frozen coat, as if he had unpacked a package, revealing his thin and upright figure.
He was pale and bony, with occasional hints of indifference and cold-bloodedness in the corners of his eyes. The finger bones are slender but sharp, and even if the fingertips are resting on the edge of the table, there is an illusion that they will pierce through someone's throat at any time.
A blood-drinking desperado.
This was the girl’s first reaction.
But she couldn't help but sneak a peek at that face. The lines were delicate, and the gray eyes with blurred pupils had a sense of fragmentation, which reminded her of the documentary she watched recently.
Antique porcelain with ice cracks looks clear but has a sense of age. It is always collected by aristocrats and placed high on mahogany shelves.
A contradictory beauty.
"Is there anything else?" Bai Ling glanced at her.
"No, no." The girl blushed and lowered her head, adding, "Oh, I just want to remind the guests not to open the windows. This building is old, and there is a fire escape outside. From time to time, people climb up and pass small cards to you. Don't pay attention to them."
"What little card?"
The girl gestured hard: "Uh, that's the kind of massage and health care... Anyway, a beautiful customer like you definitely doesn't need it!"
Bai Ling lowered his eyelashes and bit open the bottle cap with his teeth, as neatly as a bottle opener.
He spat out the bottle cap, his expression a little tired: "That's not necessarily true."
The girl was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth and quietly walked out.
So wild... This must be an alpha, he looks as cool as a mannequin, prettier than those celebrities, but his actions are...
It’s just as wild as a gang boss!
The girl at the front desk is a beta and can't smell pheromones. She was just wondering what kind of partner such a beauty A would need, when suddenly another customer arrived.
Business is pretty good tonight.
The girl bowed as per procedure: "Welcome, how many people are staying at the hotel——"
"Sorry, we're here to look for someone." The man in front pushed up his thick glasses with the bottom of a wine bottle, smiling and looking quite kind. It was Uriel.
"I smell him." A deep and beautiful voice like a waltz.
The man was wearing a low-key and luxurious cloak that mysteriously covered most of his face. From this angle, only one or two strands of golden hair could be seen. He walked up the stairs with his long, straight and strong legs, and the aisle that was wide enough for two people to pass through suddenly became narrow.
"Sir, you can't go up directly!" the girl leaned forward and shouted hurriedly.
The tall figure turned around and slightly raised his lips to her. In an instant, the entire shabby hotel was made magnificent and glorious by that face.
"I'm here to look for the child who didn't come home, is that okay?" the other party said indifferently.
The girl at the front desk was like a robot infected by the virus, repeating incoherently: "Yes, yes."
"Thank you." The other party replied politely.
After Yu Chen left, the girl was still in a daze for a long time. It took her a while to come to her senses. She pinched her arm and said, "Hiss, it hurts so much. It turns out I wasn't dreaming..."
Uriel held his forehead helplessly.
I'm afraid this is why the emperor's uncle never appears in public.
Who would want to work if they look at that face all day? The GDP will be affected and decline. The only thing that will increase is the output rate of unfertilized eggs...
In short, it is a huge drain on people’s health!
It is better for this kind of "painful" happiness to be enjoyed by only one person.
Uriel began to pray for the little white bird.
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Cigarettes, biscuits, and vodka are the three most common things on the battlefield.
The six rebel leaders of Yexing each controlled an area, and Commander Bai's area was the most impoverished.
Next door, General Sava was eating veal, while Commander White was chewing on old biscuits; General Sava was drinking freshly squeezed grape juice transported by air, while Commander White was thinking about growing vegetables in the desert.
Commander Bai also invented a new way to eat compressed biscuits - soaking them in vodka.
As the saying goes, biscuits and wine make the food more delicious. Lying in the desert of a barren planet, looking at the magnificent stellar corona above your head, the expired biscuits don't seem so hard to swallow.
Wild Star is located in a no-man's land at the junction of the Empire and the Federation.
As a famous barren planet, it conscientiously implements the principle that the land is small and the population is sparse, and everyone wants to run away when Satan comes.
There is a lack of vegetation in that area, and there is no natural source of vitamin C in the local area, so people basically have to rely on supplementary pills to survive.
But for a period of time, the Central Army cut off the transportation lines, and the interstellar pirates who made a living by smuggling fruits and vegetables had no way to get them medicine. Many of them suffered from sepsis and had a mouth full of rotten teeth when they opened their mouths.
Therefore, Commander Bai hated General Sava from the next district the most.
Especially when the fruit transport ships from Sava rumbled past overhead.
In his impression, that guy always has an endless supply of supplies, as if they came out of a black hole. No, now that I think about it, maybe it was really exchanged for a chicken stock hole.
One day, Commander Bai couldn't hold on any longer, so he took a few people and did his old job alone - robbing the rich to help the poor.
They hijacked the Savoy Corps' transport ship and carried away large boxes of fresh cherry tomatoes, still covered in moisture.
When the hen got the news, she would be so angry that she would cackle and fly the most powerful aircraft in her regiment, with six large speakers tied to the wings, playing on a loop:
"Stinky bird, you have no shame, give me back my tomatoes! Stinky bird, in your next life you will be an omega and get your eggs stuck every day!"
Bai Ling initially reflected on himself, thinking that everyone was a revolutionary and they would meet each other sooner or later, so it might not be a good idea to rob people on the road.
Later, he became so shameless after being scolded by Sava.
If Bai Ling and Sava have been enemies for ten years and learned something from each other, it must be that -
You really shouldn't be too shameless. You should spit and curse when you should. If you are in a bad mood, just shoot him twice.
After drinking this, Bai Ling felt that he had finally understood what vodka was all about.
He figured it out.
It's just a mermaid, why would he treat himself so badly? He doesn't want to play anymore and wants to show his cards.
Just treat it as a spice of life, right? Bai Yueguang’s meal replacement, right?
Sure, mark the price clearly and pay! Buy me a big warship!
Bai Ling sat on the ground with a serious face, not realizing at all that his emotional split had worsened. He took off his shoes, dumped out the rotten leaves inside, and sent a message to Sava.
[Bai Ling]: You’re right, stinky chicken. I'll return you a basket of tomatoes tomorrow.
[One Shot One B Guy]: What the hell is wrong with you so late at night? Have you had enough fun? Come back to me quickly!
[Bai Ling]: I won’t go. You set a mine to blow me up.
[One shot at a B person]:? You discovered all of this.
[Bai Ling]: I’m going to have some fun. See you later.
Bai Ling closed the chat interface and prepared to make a call to harass the mermaid. He was thinking about what to say, preferably something that would make that old bastard... lose his rights and humiliate the country!
As soon as I called, there was a sound outside the door.
Bai Ling subconsciously made a move to avoid the sniper and rushed behind the table.
…The veteran’s PTSD strikes again.
Then, the doorbell rang. Bai Ling's head was dizzy, but he still remembered to find weapons with high lethality for an ambush. He picked up the half-empty bottle of wine, and with still agile steps, he dodged to the back door, lowered his voice to pretend to be a sixty-year-old man to deceive the outside world, and asked:
"who?"
There was silence outside the door. "Room service."
It turned out to be a housekeeping robot coming to deliver something. Indeed, just now when he went upstairs he saw a few people pushing carts distributing soap.
Bai Ling immediately put down the bottle of wine, but felt something was wrong.
Are AI voice packages so advanced nowadays? The sound also has vibration and echo, the tuning is really good.
Bai Ling leaned against the door, blew into the bottle, and said vaguely, "Put the soap at the door. I have something important to do, so I'll go get it later."
His voice was quite fluent, but a little nasal, and he still had a cold.
Yu Chen could hear the subtle difference.
He lowered his voice and asked, "What's so important?"
The bird with the nasal voice muttered inside: "You won't understand even if I tell you. You AI don't understand this."
"I am a super intelligent AI with strong computing power. There is nothing in the world that I don't know." Yu Chen said this without blushing or beating his heart, his voice extremely steady.
"Hehe, then can you calculate my future?"
Yu Chen dutifully accompanied the drunk bird in acting, and specially imitated the "beep" sound of plugging in a data port for him, waited for two seconds, and then told him:
"It's settled."
At this moment, the housekeeping robot that passed by and wanted to hand out a small soap was stunned: "Uh, this guest..."
Yu Chen looked back coldly, and although he couldn't see, the housekeeping robot's radio waves were still startled, and it was threatened and driven away by his deadly glare.
After it left, Yu Chen also grabbed and rubbed two handfuls of golden hair.
Seducing a sub-adult bird through the door of a small hotel and tempting it to open the door... He had never done such a ridiculous thing even when he was a prince.
"What's the result?" asked the bird, sticking to the door.
Yu Chen spoke in a low and mellow voice, lowering his eyes and telling him: "I hope you will have a safe and smooth life and find a good match."
This is not a prophecy, but a solemn promise.
Bai Ling's expression was stagnant, and then he took a big gulp of wine, waiting for the strong liquor to burn all the way from his throat to his stomach, and then he said self-deprecatingly:
"You are wrong. I am not that lucky."
The mermaid AI said confidently: "If you don't believe me, you can ask me other questions. Any questions are fine."
Bai Ling leaned his head against the door, rubbing his forehead against it. "I don't want to have my fortune told anymore. I already know the ending. Do you have any other services?"
Yu Chen forcibly changed the scope of business: "I can summon magic."
Bai Ling became slightly interested: "How do you summon it?"
"You can instantly summon a mermaid to you."
"How can we do this?"
"Knock on the door three times, say the mermaid's name, and then unlock the door and you will find it." Yu Chen said in a clear voice.
Bai Ling was very alert: "If I don't open it, how can I know if this is the black magic of the AI world?"
He was dazed and thought about life for a while while looking at the bottle, then said, "I don't need yours, I have my own summoning method."
"What are you going to do?" Yu Chen's direct seduction failed and he began to ask for his negotiation conditions.
"Wait... I'll go out for a moment."
The sound gradually faded away and then disappeared. After a long while, the bird came back and said, "I climbed through the window and came back."
Yu Chen was horrified, but he still had to appear strong and calm, "Well, then what?"
Bai Ling had a bunch of random thoughts popping up in his mind, and he just put them together and said:
"I picked up three small branches. You AIs probably don't understand... This is the magic of our bird world, a mysterious summoning ritual. Just put three branches in the corner of the wall, and you can summon delicious turtle doves."
The spotted dove is the main food source of the Falconidae family. The tools they use to build their nests are often only three branches. They can lay eggs of any size anywhere. Their lifestyle is the most sloppy in the bird world.
These doves like to incubate their eggs on human balconies or air conditioner units. Before the earth was covered by nuclear winter, falcons in the city would catch turtledoves on the outdoor units of air conditioners every day.
The little bird still remembers it, which shows that this custom is really deeply rooted in the bloodline...
Yu Chen tried to change the subject back to himself: "But you can't summon mermaids with branches."
Bai Ling insisted: "This is a random magic circle, it can be summoned randomly. If the mermaid wants to come, she will definitely come."
Yu Chen asked helplessly: "Who taught you to summon like this?"
Bai Ling couldn't help but say, "I thought of it myself."
“…”
Yu Chen pointed out: "Summoning is a sacrifice. The more valuable the thing you want to summon, the more generous the sacrifice. Summoning with branches is too crude and has no scientific basis."
The bird inside asked in confusion: "But you are here and you are still talking to me."
Yu Chen quickly changed his words: "So I never believe in science."
Bai Ling: “?”
How can there be such an AI? Is it acting? AI can’t lie, so how come this guy just... tells lies without thinking?
Yu Chen used all his life's gentleness to coax her softly, "Why don't you wait by the window, I'll give you a pearl neck grouper."
"You're so weird." Bai Ling narrowed his eyes and exposed him: "You sound like you're trying to sell something, not like a pure AI at all."
"Oh, I see. You are not..."
Yu Chen's strong mermaid heart was beating fast, waiting for the bird to say his name.
"——Are you here to sell massage? How much is the charge? Give me a full massage. I have a stomachache, can you give me a massage?"
·
Uriel went out to smoke a cigarette and came back dumbfounded.
He seemed to have witnessed history with his own eyes.
Uriel is a squid.
As a member of the royal family of the ocean, he was chosen at the age of five and sent to Isupalaiso to become one of countless backup heirs.
Before he came of age, he found that he had little interest in politics, so he voluntarily withdrew from the competition and was willing to engage in the mecha manufacturing industry.
However, from the time when he was pulled by a mechanical arm to kneel under the throne to the present half a century, his impression of Yu Chen has always been that of a monarch with lofty dignity, deep thoughts, and rationality to the point of lacking humanity.
But just now, he witnessed The One climbing up the hollow fire escape ladder. The cold wind blew off the hood, and a dirty window opened. A hand holding a wine bottle stretched out from inside, and with a hook of the arm, it pulled his uncle in.
A magnitude nine earthquake shook Uriel's heart, as severe as when he learned that the old empire had fallen.
The old house was on fire, the Abitate Palace collapsed, Isupareso climbed the window...
Oh my God, history is about to change drastically!
Meanwhile, the fleeing furball has been trapped in the sturdy arms.
Yu Chen's forearm went across and passed through the back of Bai Ling's waist. He pinched the thin waist with his palm and clenched it tightly. In an absolutely protective posture, he embraced the whole bird and pressed it between his chest and the wall.
The soothing pheromones swept through the entire space, forcing the old air purifier to start humming.
In the small, dim room, the only sounds that could be heard were Bai Ling's panicked and rapid breathing and the sound of the purifier operating.
Yu Chen's eyes drooped and he kicked the socket of the purifier out.
The slightly impatient noise made Bai Ling break out in a cold sweat on his back and he sobered up instantly.
"Do you see who I am?" The precious jewel earrings shone brightly in the shadows. Yu Shen pinched the tip of his chin and raised his eyebrows slightly.
The mermaid spoke softly, but every word struck Bai Ling's heart.
Bai Ling was forced to immerse himself in the slightly fishy and strange fragrance and accept the strict and airtight protection of his guardian.
His palms gradually became hot, his frozen blood began to flow faster, and a thin layer of sweat seeped out of the tip of his nose.
All his physical reactions were telling him honestly that this was the alpha who had marked him, his legal guardian, and that he had absolute responsibility and control over his physical condition.
But he still pursed his lips tightly, turned his face to the other side, and refused to make a sound.
Old bastard...
I told you not to come out, but you actually came out to find him.
Yu Chen leaned close to his neck, where blood was gushing out, and sniffed gently, frowning, his words involuntarily carrying some parental intimidation:
"You've got a cold and you're drinking so much. Which puddle did you fall into and how did you crawl out of it? Your clothes are frozen, your feathers are soaked, and you're sitting at the door without turning on the heater. No wonder you complained to me that you have a stomachache. I really should give you a couple of health education classes to teach you a lesson."
Bai Ling's mouth drooped, and his indifferent expression finally broke. He fluttered his eyelashes and said, "I haven't eaten yet!"
"so what?"
"So, I have low blood sugar right now, so you have to speak a little sweeter."
The voice was still stern and cold, but Yu Chen unexpectedly caught something from the tone that he had never seen before.
That was a hint of anger and grievance.
A privilege only parents can enjoy.
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