Si Qingyue, who had been waiting upstairs for half a day, saw them breathe a sigh of relief:
"You've finally made it up! I was so slow, I almost wanted to go down and get you."
Mu Qinwan chuckled, then moved closer in a sinister manner:
"You still dare to talk back!! You brat Yueyue, why are you walking so fast!!!"
"I brought my camera so you wouldn't miss the sunrise. I was worried you wouldn't see it."
Si Qingyue waved the camera in her hand and laughed it off.
Mu Qinwan asked blankly, "Really?"
"It's fake." Hearing Si Qingyue trying to fool people again, Xia Shizhao flicked Mu Qinwan's head from the side, looking at her with amusement:
"How can you be so easily fooled? We can see the sunrise from our spot. Otherwise, why would I have you stand there and watch the sunset when you're too tired to walk any further?"
"Really?"
Her question made Xia Shizhao's eyes widen in disbelief.
"Huh? No, Qin Hanhan! You believe her but not me!"
"No way!"
Mu Qinwan felt guilty and lacked confidence, then shouted, "Who asked you to like fooling me with Nan Nan!"
Hearing Mu Qinwan's commotion, Zhan Nan walked over to her, put his hands on his hips, and looked at her with an air of self-righteousness, saying:
"It's because you're so easy to fool!"
Mu Qinwan pouted, looking aggrieved, and drew out her voice as she tugged at Xia Shizhao's sleeve:
"Zhaozhao~ Look at her!"
"Okay, okay, I won't associate with her anymore!"
Xia Shizhao smiled and raised her hands in surrender. She and Zhan Nan both liked to tease Mu Qinwan because her facial expressions were so lively and interesting to watch.
Zhan Nan gave a light snort and turned her head away arrogantly, only to find Bai Jing staring at her with bright eyes, her ears turning red, and she turned her head away again.
Then she saw Xia Shizhao's teasing look, pursed her lips, got anxious, stomped her foot, and shouted angrily:
"Zhaozhao!"
"Hey~ What's wrong? What's wrong? I didn't say anything~ Ouch, why did you hit me~"
Xia Shizhao laughed as she dodged Zhan Nanchao's hand that was slapping at her.
A group of people started chasing each other and playing games. Some classmates joined in. When they got tired of playing and the sun rose, they started taking pictures and chatting.
"Qingyue, Shizhao, Wanwan, Zhannan! Come over for barbecue!!"
A classmate called them over, and they immediately stopped playing around and went over, lining up to receive the skewers.
Zhan Nan took a bite and raised an eyebrow; she knew who had done it.
"Mmm! Delicious! Who made this? The cooking is really good. It's cooked just right, and the meat is tender and not dry."
"It was done by those Alphas from Class A."
The student handing out the barbecue said with a smile.
Mu Qinwan took a bite: "Wow, their cooking skills are really good."
She finished eating in two or three bites and asked:
"Xi Xiaoxiao, is there any barbecue left?"
"I'm not sure, I don't know if they still grill it. If you want to try it, you can go and see, it's in the yard of that house in front."
Xi Xiaoxiao pointed to the courtyard house in front of her.
"Okay! Thank you, Xiaoxiao, my darling~~"
Mu Qinwan grabbed Xia Shizhao and Zhan Nan beside her and ran away, disappearing from Xi Xiaoxiao's sight. Xi Xiaoxiao blinked, a little confused, then chuckled and shook her head before handing out skewers to others.
"Bai Jing! Your cooking is amazing??? It tastes even better than anything baked by a machine!"
Mu Qinyue was surprised to see the person making barbecue.
"Really? There's more. Or..."
As Bai Jing spoke, he handed her the items and then glanced longingly at Zhan Nan beside him.
Zhan Nan silently walked over and gently patted his head. "I want to eat butter."
Xia Shizhao, standing to the side, seemed to see a big dog wagging its tail happily after being petted by its owner. If that were real, she felt that Bai Jing's tail could probably be used as a fan.
Then Xia Shizhao couldn't help but smile like a proud aunt, she was totally smitten.
Zhan Nan glanced at Xia Shizhao, feeling something was off. She silently removed her hand from Bai Jing's head, and couldn't help but rub it against her hand. It felt so good, just like her cat, so soft.
Encouraged by the praise, Bai Jing worked tirelessly, grilling and making several more plates. Luo Chuyi, sitting beside him, couldn't help but shout:
"Bai Jing, you're such a womanizer! Yu Heng and I never cooked for us before, but today you've made a whole table of food. Do you think we can finish it all?!"
Bai Jing stopped and turned around, only to find Zhan Nan and the others propping their heads up, looking somewhat desperate.
Xia Shizhao had stopped talking long ago, but when he came back and saw a table full of barbecue, he mechanically picked up a skewer and ate it bite by bite.
Feeling a bit nauseous from being so full, Mu Qinwan pondered. They had just gone out and divided up a lot of food, and when they came back, there was another table full of food. They had eaten a lot, but still hadn't finished. She thought that if Luo Chuyi knew they couldn't finish, she would tell them to stop, so none of the three of them said anything.
Luo Chuyi knew that omegas had small appetites, but she didn't expect them to be this small. They didn't even eat a quarter of what she ate. It turned out that her calculations were wrong. It seemed that they were already out of food.
Bai Jing ignored her, nudged Zhan Nan's hand, and asked with a worried expression:
"Are you feeling full? Are you alright? Do you want some digestive pills? There's a pharmacy at the foot of the mountain, I'll go buy some for you."
He was about to run away after saying that.
Jannan, with lightning speed, grabbed it:
"I'm fine, and I'm not that full. You eat first. It's a shame you didn't get to eat after all that work."
"Are you really alright?"
Bai Jing looked at her seriously.
"It's really nothing, eat up, here you go."
Zhan Nan handed him a plate filled with things Bai Jing had mentioned he liked to eat.
Bai Jing's eyes lit up when he saw the food. He grinned foolishly as he took the plate and ate while watching Zhan Nan. Zhan Nan sat next to him, propping his chin up with his hand, his ears red. He couldn't help but kick Bai Jing and gave him a fake fierce look.
"What are you grinning about! Eat your food, why are you staring at me? I'm not a barbecue grill!!!"
Xia Shizhao's previously dejected expression suddenly turned into a cheeky grin: I'm totally shipping them! These young couples in the ambiguous stage are really interesting.
Mu Qinwan shifted her position next to her with a smug expression, her voice neither too loud nor too soft:
"It's more interesting to watch other people date, hehehe."
Zhan Nan naturally heard it, but pretended not to hear it and did not deny what she said.
Bai Jing blinked and secretly glanced at Zhan Nan, thinking she hadn't heard, and became even happier. Her best friend had approved of him, so it was only a matter of time before Zhan Nan and he got together. Thinking about this, she smiled foolishly again.
Zhan Nan narrowed his eyes slightly but didn't say anything.
After sunrise, there wasn't much to do on the mountain, so the group of people headed back down.
Mu Qinwan and Zhan Nan, for some reason, were excitedly determined to continue. Xia Shizhao: "?"
If we leave later, we won't be able to walk anymore.
Sure enough, they stopped halfway up the mountain.
Mu Qinwan hugged the tree, unwilling to move, and called someone to come and pick them up.
Suddenly, Zhan Nan screamed in terror, his shrill voice almost cracking:
"Qin Wan! Don't move!"
Mu Qinwan, clinging to the tree, stared blankly at her, too afraid to move, and asked in a slightly frightened tone:
"What's wrong?"
Xia Shizhao, who had seen what was happening, quickly grabbed the snake's head that was hanging from the tree and then swiftly picked up a stone and smashed it against the snake's vital spot and head.
The movements were swift and seamless.
Everyone present was stunned.
Their mouths were slightly open, and they all stared at Xia Shizhao in shock.
Xia Shizhao clapped his hands, stored the corpse in his compressed space, and looked at the stunned group of people, asking inexplicably:
"What's wrong?"
Jennan clapped:
"ox."
Luo Chuyi silently gave a thumbs up:
"sharp."
Bai Jing's blank expression:
"Holy crap."
Mu Qinwan was genuinely terrified, especially when she saw the corpse of the blue snake that had lost its sanity. Her mouth trembled for a long time, and she was too frightened to utter a word.
After a while, as if her language system had reacted, she shouted:
"My God!"
Then she burst into tears and threw herself at Xia Shizhao, "Zhaozhao, you saved my life!!! You're my savior! And how could there be a blue snake on this damn mountain?! It's terrifying! Waaaaaah, I'm never climbing mountains again!!!"
Actually, Xia Shizhao wasn't really sure what kind of snake it was, but the snake, which was all blue and had a gaudy appearance, looked like it was not to be trifled with. Since she didn't have any tools to catch it, she could only kill it. It just so happened that the repair agent needed to extract something from the snake's meat, so it was a freebie.
But seeing how frightened the child was, I could only hold her and comfort her softly.
Zhan Nan, who had just realized what was happening, had already contacted the relevant authorities to come to the mountains to investigate. He said that if a person is bitten by this snake, they will first turn blue, and then slowly rot, their body covered in glowing blue pus that is also corrosive. According to the book, the mortality rate of a bite from a blue snake is 99.9%.
After a long pause, Mu Qinwan completely forgot about the incident when she came down the mountain. She started chattering and asking Xia Shizhao how he did it and why he wasn't afraid.
Like a child who loves asking "why" a hundred thousand questions.
After dealing with her, Xia Shizhao rubbed her head, relieved that she had almost given herself away. She didn't know that the original owner was afraid of snakes. After what she did today, who would think that she was afraid of snakes?
Xia Shizhao walked to the stream and sat down slowly by himself. He looked at the moon, put his feet in the stream to feel the coolness of the water, and hummed a little tune leisurely.
Zhan Nan sat down next to her and mimicked her, "Hiss, it's a bit cool, but it's quite comfortable."
"Why are you here too?"
Xia Shizhao lay comfortably on the lawn with his hands behind his head.
"I was afraid something might happen to you if you came out alone, so I came along."
"What could possibly happen to me?"
Zhan Nan lay down as well. "Indeed, you might have been able to now, but you probably won't."
Xia Shizhao, who was lying flat, froze for a moment, his brain racing to figure out how to change the situation.
Then I heard her sigh softly:
“You’ve changed so much, and you’re much more confident now. That’s a good change. You were great before too, but I always feel like you might leave at any time. No matter what you’re like, whether you’re good or bad, we’ll always be good friends.”
Xia Shizhao felt her eyes sting for no reason, and she was also a little envious. In her previous life, she didn't have any close friends. People who were with her would become unhappy, so she simply got used to being alone.
Silently saying thank you, Xia Shizhao felt a great weight lifted from her chest, as if she had completely let go of her obsession and left. She seemed to hear 'her' say, 'Sister Shizhao, you are good, you don't need to feel guilty, you deserve it.'
"It's getting late, and you've had a long day. Go back and rest. You have to go back to school tomorrow."
Zhan Nan stood up and reached out to Xia Shizhao, who was in a daze.
Xia Shizhao hesitated for a moment, then reached out and placed his hand on hers, smiling easily, "Let's go."
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