Chapter 154
Jiang Yunu fell into the water like a small cannonball that suddenly hit the landscape lake.
Before, she came here by hopping two or three steps at a time, and to be honest, she didn't make much noise.
Because the ripples spreading out from the edge of the crystal bricks are mainly the result of sensors and light and shadow simulation effects, and she herself has excellent jumping ability, just like humans have pads on their feet, so she can jump silently.
...But falling into the water is different.
The "splash" sound was so clear, and the sound of splashing water spread towards the lake shore.
People near the connecting bridge were startled, and someone walked quickly on the grassy path beside it that was covered with fireflies.
"Who's there?"
Someone asked.
Jiang Yunu wanted to respond properly, but most of her body was still submerged. The lake was indeed much deeper than she'd guessed from standing on the crystal tiles. Even after falling in, Jiang Yunu didn't even touch the "clear" bottom. She treaded water naturally, floating up to her chest.
Thinking about what she had done and how inexplicable she had been just now, Jiang Yunu couldn't hold back her laughter. She laughed before she spoke to anyone: "Hahahahaha!"
The person next to the connecting bridge: "..."
It would be difficult for others to understand what Jiang Yunu was laughing at. From the perspective of a passerby, it looked like someone suddenly fell into the lake at night. When they hurried over to take a look, they saw the other person still floating on the water and laughing strangely.
In addition, the light here was dim, and there seemed to be no one else except Jiang Yunu and the person who happened to be nearby.
"Rustle."
From the meadow leading to the bridge came the sound of long grass stems being plucked.
It was short, just two sounds.
It was hard to tell whether the other party was approaching or cautiously taking a step back.
But it didn't make any difference to Jiang Yunu.
"Sorry." Jiang Yunu said after laughing, "I fell into the water."
The white-haired girl's voice was still full of laughter, and anyone who heard it could tell that she didn't regard "falling into the water" as a bad luck.
The people on the lakeshore asked, "Did you slip when you were crossing the crystal tiles?"
In stark contrast to Jiang Yunu's lively and cheerful tone, this man spoke in a somewhat cold tone, but his voice was still very clear and he didn't sound very old.
Jiang Yunu found it interesting that someone could say caring words in a cold tone. She paddled the water with her arms and rowed closer to the shore.
"It wasn't a slip," she said. "It was a jump."
"..." This answer may have touched upon the knowledge blind spots of the people on the shore. The other party was obviously silent for two seconds before asking in confusion, "Why?"
The man's tone was triggered by Jiang Yunu's emotional changes.
Jiang Yunu didn't feel cold even soaking in the water. She treaded water closer to the shore and continued to answer with a smile, "I suddenly had an idea and wanted to test whether the water feature here was real water. So when I was crossing the bricks, I deliberately missed a step, and then I fell into the water."
People on the lakeshore: "..."
The other party fell silent again, and the silence lasted longer than the previous time.
Just as Jiang Yunu was idly counting in her head, wondering how many more digits she had to go before the person on the shore would speak again, she had just reached two digits when she heard the other person mutter, "You're crazy."
Jiang Yunu thought about it again and again, and decided to remind the other party: "It's no use if your voice is very small. The sound can be heard more widely on the water surface, and it's also very quiet here, so I heard it."
The grass stems on the lakeside meadow swayed again.
This time Jiang Yunu could immediately confirm that the other party must have taken a step back.
When people feel embarrassed, they will suddenly pretend to be busy, either by doing something with their hands or by moving their legs or feet.
Some people will immediately apologize to reduce the embarrassment when they are embarrassed by being "caught", while others will be so embarrassed after being "caught" that they will become angry and lose their temper.
But the people on the lakeshore made no apologies and didn't seem angry.
He said stiffly, "I completely fail to understand the logic of your behavior. Even if you heard it, I would still think it's insane."
Jiang Yunu tilted her head slightly and tucked the two strands of wet hair that were stuck to her face behind her ears.
She asked curiously, "Is it so unacceptable for you to have illogical things happen?"
The other party asked back: "What else?"
"...Hmm." Jiang Yunu commented, "It does seem unacceptable, because you're the first person I've met here tonight who's willing to abandon politeness and decency to express their true feelings."
There was no sarcasm in Jiang Yunu's words; she was just making an objective comment.
However, it seemed to have stepped on someone else's invisible cat's tail.
"What's the point of being polite and decent all day long?" the man on the lakeshore suddenly said coldly.
His tone was no longer just harsh; something sharper pierced through his "cold and calm" packaging in the blink of an eye, like a discordant awl suddenly piercing out from an exquisite gift box.
But in a very brief moment, it shrank back.
An awl shouldn't be in a fancy, expensive gift box.
Jiang Yunu chatted with the other party for a few sentences. In this short moment of contact, she was able to roughly outline the other party's basic character portrait - this person must not be like her, who came to this dimly lit place specifically to explore entertainment.
She couldn't say for sure who arrived here first, herself or the other person, but it was probably the other person who arrived first.
Perhaps this person was hiding here, calming down some emotions that had been brewing from other events, before she fell into the water with a "plop", shattering the tranquility here like a sudden cannonball.
Jiang Yunu looked up at the grass path and flower path on the shore.
The light over there was too dim, and the firefly ground lights were not enough to illuminate a space above one meter in height.
Jiang Yunu couldn't see clearly where the person who had been talking to her for a long time was, but she had a pair of sensitive ears and had recorded the direction from which the other person's voice came.
The white-haired girl paddled quietly, and her movements in the water were light - unless she splashed around intentionally, the sound of her movement would be covered by the white noise of water circulation in the waterscape system.
"...Why aren't you talking?" asked the people on the lakeshore.
The other party had just taken a few steps back and was already farther away from the place where Jiang Yunu originally fell into the water. Through the bushes on the lakeshore, only half of the human figure could be seen floating on the water.
After hearing nothing from the girl for a long time, the man on the shore hesitated and took two steps back.
"Where are you?" The other person saw the empty lake, which made him take two quick steps forward to the shore.
Judging from how quickly he could reach the shore from a distance in just a few steps, this person's legs must be quite long, and he could cover a large distance in just a few steps. It's also clear that he's getting a little nervous, worried that the girl who "disappeared" on the lake might have met with a new accident.
Just then, the girl's voice finally sounded again.
"I think it would be useful if you were polite and respectful to me."
The girl who couldn't be seen said so.
The people standing on the lakeshore hesitated and moved closer to the connecting bridge.
He was obviously puzzled: how could someone move so much from their previous position in just a minute or two of disappearance?
"Why do you say that?" he asked.
Being able to hear the voice of this girl whose behavior was strange and whose logic was even more unreasonable again, at least confirming that she didn't sound surprised, made people feel a little relieved.
He was really confused just now. According to common sense, when he heard someone fell into the water, his first reaction should be to come over here to check the situation and see if anyone needed help... But he heard the other party laughing first, and then said that he jumped into the water on his own initiative, which completely disrupted this normal process.
Suddenly, a pale, cold hand clasped the soft and moist nutrient soil on the shore.
"Be polite and considerate to me, and I'll be generous enough to overlook your calling me crazy." The haunted hand grasped the man's ankle.
The owner of the hand, in the dim light of the bridge hole, accompanied by the sound of water, chuckled and said, "Otherwise I will drag you into the water."
This person: “…………”
This person: “……………………”
The person whose ankle he was holding in his hand might have been silent for almost a century. Jiang Yunu originally planned to just hold on to the lake shore and pose like a water ghost coming ashore.
She didn't expect that the other person had already walked so close to the lake. She could reach the person with her outstretched hand, so she reached for him.
The ankle was so thin that it seemed to have no flesh. The thin skin covered the fascia and bones underneath, and the outline of the bones could be felt through the dress socks wrapped around the calves.
Jiang Yunu had never grasped anyone else's ankle before, and this was her first time, a bit like touching a novelty. Seeing the other person's lack of reaction, the person remained motionless, and the ankle in her hand remained motionless as well, the feeling was almost the same as when she had touched the pale, soft, white-haired corpses of the children in the isolated island base.
Jiang Yunu also felt along the ankle bone upwards, just like when he felt "Twenty-Two" at the base.
The ankle in his hand trembled.
People also shuddered.
"...Let go!" The person she was holding finally "revived" and said through gritted teeth.
"You should be polite to me first." Jiang Yunu said.
She didn't let go, and her posture was a bit like that of an unreasonable pervert and a niche female hooligan.
"How can anyone be polite to you if you're like this?"
"I'm crazy," she said confidently. "You need to learn how to be polite around crazy people."
Jiang Yunu hadn't forgotten her "threat". Not only did she not let go, she even pulled him into the lake: "Why don't you come down too and feel the water here?"
For those caught by Jiang Yunu, this may be a rare experience in their lifetime.
He was indeed hiding here because he was upset about something. He wanted to take a break and stop thinking about the things that had been weighing on his mind recently.
Now, he really can’t think of those things for the time being.
He was preoccupied with a single question: ...why was there a pervert in the Emerald Dome's Waterscape Night Light Park tonight? Why was he so swift he couldn't dodge, and so strong he was like a high-level elemental beast?!
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