Chapter 055 Chapter 55
The two walked into the corridor of their own house.
Li Zhou reached out and pressed the elevator button.
It happened that the landlord and his wife came back from their walk.
The four of them met in front of the elevator door.
The landlady greeted us with a smile: "Did you two just get back from playing?"
Xia Meng rubbed her shoulders and said, "Where are you? I just got back from overtime."
The elevator quickly reached the first floor.
The four of them walked into the elevator one after another.
The landlord raised his hand and pressed the button for his own floor. Then he glanced at Li Zhou and said with a smile, "Xiao Li, right? I'll press the button for you."
Li Zhou raised his eyes: "Oh, no, thank you."
These five words were spoken with such force and force, as it should be.
At once, the other three people in the elevator looked up at the same time.
Need not?
Does that mean he doesn't go back to his own home but goes to hers?
The landlord and his wife immediately showed gossipy expressions and kept glancing at Xia Meng: Oh wow!
Xia Meng: “…”
no……
she……
So what...
……never mind.
It can't be explained clearly, it can't be explained at all.
She felt that her innocent image within a three-kilometer radius could no longer be restored.
…
As soon as the elevator door opened, she rushed out.
I didn't dare to look at the teasing smile in my uncle and aunt's eyes.
Open the door, enter, pull Li Zhou in, and close the door.
All the movements are done in one go.
Xia Meng put the key in the entrance and changed into slippers.
Li Zhou stood behind the door and looked down.
He had wanted to ask this before, he had come here so many times, was she really not planning to prepare a pair of slippers for him?
Xia Meng glanced back at him and knew what he was thinking.
“Not many people come to my house usually, so I never thought about buying it.”
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously.
Li Zhou took off his shoes and walked in.
He leaned against the wall with his arms folded, watching Xia Meng's back as she poured water in the kitchen.
Since she is too lazy to think about it, then he can help her think about it more... She shouldn't mind, right?
He suddenly asked, "Do you mind if I buy a pair for myself?"
Xia Meng was drinking water and made an OK gesture without turning her head.
So he took out his mobile phone and opened the APP of the nearby shopping mall.
Open the page and you will see a wide variety of daily necessities.
Li Zhou first selected a pair of cotton and linen summer men's slippers and put them into the shopping cart. After a pause, his eyes fell on the row of thick slippers for winter wear.
Calculating the time, it will take at least three or four months before I have the chance to wear it.
Li Zhou hesitated for only a fraction of a second before quickly adding the pair of winter slippers to the shopping cart.
Scroll down again.
There are many other kinds of daily necessities.
For example, the one he just wanted to buy at the convenience store...
Li Zhou raised his eyes from the phone screen.
Watching Xia Meng finish drinking the water, she washed the cup and walked towards her room very naturally.
As he walked, he said, "I feel a little sticky. I'm going to take a shower first. You can do whatever you want."
Li Zhou quickly put away his phone.
Forget it, he should go downstairs himself.
The shopping mall is not far away.
It only takes Li Zhou a few minutes to go back and forth.
When he came back, he first went back to the house downstairs.
Put the double bags of daily necessities on the table.
One copy is for use downstairs.
Another...
Li Zhou lowered his eyes and couldn't help thinking expectantly.
Maybe... I can move upstairs slowly in the future.
…
Xia Meng pushed open the bathroom door and came out.
She changed into loose pajamas and took a shower, feeling much more comfortable all over.
She stood in the living room and stretched out.
When I turned around, I saw a set of white porcelain tea set on my dining table.
She walked over, picked up a teacup, and looked at it.
It seems to be some high-end brand of bone china tea set, and it looks very valuable.
She turned her head and asked Li Zhou: "What does this mean?"
Li Zhou had just come in from the balcony and looked at her innocently. "Didn't I ask you before if you minded?"
Xia Meng was speechless.
She lowered her eyes and saw the slippers on his feet.
They are a bit similar to hers, similar style, but different colors, hers are red and his are blue.
Xia Meng couldn't help but find it funny.
Why didn’t I realize before that this person’s little thoughts were so obvious?
Or is it that this person is beginning to liberate his nature?
"...I really don't mind." Xia Meng shook the teacup in her hand, "But are you planning to have afternoon tea here with me?"
Li Zhou coughed lightly and nodded.
I bought tea sets and tea leaves.
He really bought these because he was thinking of sitting down and drinking tea with Xia Meng in the future.
Xia Meng smiled and put down the teacup.
When she went to the house downstairs from him before, there was almost nothing there except a set of toiletries he had bought.
At that time, she thought he was a rough man who had no demands on the quality of life.
Looking at it now, it seems I misunderstood him.
Maybe he is actually a delicate boy.
As if to confirm her opinion, she turned her head, her eyes passed over the sofa, fell on the coffee table, and saw that he had produced a bouquet of flowers from somewhere.
A light blue hydrangea paired with two light purple Phalaenopsis orchids.
Arranged in a beautiful slender glass vase.
Put it on the coffee table and the whole living room will have a different atmosphere.
It suddenly went from minimalist style to exquisite style.
He is indeed a sophisticated boy.
In comparison, Xia Meng inexplicably began to feel that she was living like a rough man.
She walked over.
When passing by the single sofa, I saw Master Mao and Ergou hugging each other at some point.
Of course, Ergou was suppressed as usual.
Master Cat pressed it down and licked its fur.
Ergou seemed to have gotten used to this daily routine, lying numbly in Master Cat's arms and letting him lick him.
Xia Meng leaned over and stroked the fur on Ergou and Maomao's heads with both hands.
I don’t know what’s going on, but the cat Li Zhou never seems to hang out with other spirits and only likes to play with Ergou.
Ergou lost his temper after being chased by it.
Xia Meng smiled.
This is probably a case of tit for tat.
Who made it chase the red-feathered chicken in Old Wang's family?
The spiritual being will have to pay for his mischief.
She sat on the sofa next to her and looked up at Li Zhou.
Li Zhou was leaning against the floor-to-ceiling window, his attention shifted from outside the window and he looked back at her.
Xia Meng waved at him: "Come."
Li Zhou hesitated for a moment, but still walked towards her obediently.
He walked over to the couch and sat down, turning to face her.
Just now downstairs, he remembered she said that she wanted to help him find the engraving guide.
It's strange.
He initially approached her because he wanted to use her power to help him find someone.
But when she suddenly mentioned it, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have not thought about this for a long time.
Obviously, for the past ten years or so, he had been looking for that person day after day, and it had almost become a physical instinct.
He once thought he would find eternity.
Who would have thought that he seemed to have never thought about it once in the past few days.
Follow Xia Meng wholeheartedly.
He focused on just her.
He stared at her blankly and asked hesitantly, "...What do you want to do?"
Xia Meng rested her chin on her hand, raised her eyes and teased him: "Why are you even more confused than me now? Didn't you say before that you wanted to ask me for help? Now I have thought it through, and I officially agree to you."
Li Zhou blinked blankly.
Xia Meng's thinking has always been clear and straightforward.
She said without any intention of hiding anything, "I can help you find that person. I can also help you understand why you knew you had a mission from the first day of your awakening."
Li Zhou looked at her straightly: "Why? Weren't you..."
Xia Meng interjected: "Didn't I clearly refuse you when I heard you wanted to kill that person?"
She nodded: "Indeed, this involves a matter of principle. If I help you, it would be like aiding and abetting the evil."
But she has come to terms with it now.
After coming out of Lin Fei's mental picture, some of her ideas changed.
Instead of dwelling on appearances, it is better to find the root cause.
Why did he insist on this when he clearly didn't have any engraved guide?
Why did he clearly confirm the existence of that person from the first day of his awakening?
Why did he insist on killing him when he didn't even know who that person was?
There are so many mysteries.
Why should she bother to worry about whether his persistent idea was correct?
For a person who is confused himself, does he really know what position is correct?
Just like Lin Fei who is lost in pain and regret, does she really know what choice is the right one?
She herself doesn't know, and people standing by as an observer may not know either.
So why judge so early?
Obviously, she hasn't seen his world with her own eyes yet.
…
However, at this time, Li Zhou hesitated.
Xia Meng quickly caught the fleeting flinch on his face and stared at him: "What are you hesitating about?"
Could it be that he has some secret that he is hiding from her?
But Li Zhou was worried about another aspect.
He lowered his eyes and hesitated: "But... my mental picture is very dangerous."
Xia Meng did remember this.
From the day he first asked her for help, he had made it clear to her that his mental picture was dangerous.
She had already prepared herself mentally for this.
after all……
When they first met, she had already felt the "weirdness" in him.
It was the first time she stepped into the halls of the Black Tower.
He had just subdued the runaway sentry.
The moment he turned around, she heard those voices that came to her like a tide.
Pain, malice, crying, screaming, shouting, wailing, roaring...
Complex and clear.
Like the cries of millions of people.
At the same time, she also heard his anxiety and hesitation as he searched desperately amid the cries of thousands of ghosts.
She still remembers his voice: "Where are you?"
…
Xia Meng looked into Li Zhou's eyes and asked slowly, "How dangerous is it?"
She: "What is it like in your mental picture?"
After experiencing those mental images before, she felt that her psychological endurance had made a qualitative leap.
How dangerous could it be?
Ten thousand ghosts cry together...
Could it be hell?
Whose good person’s mental picture is hell?
Is he the reincarnation of the King of Hell?
Li Zhou couldn't say anything for a moment.
He couldn't find a suitable adjective.
He was silent for a moment, then said, "Many guides have tried to enter my mental picture before."
Xia Meng asked: "What happened next? Did they go in?"
Li Zhou nodded.
Xia Meng: "Then?"
Li Zhou lowered his eyes, a little hesitant to look into Xia Meng's eyes.
After a long while, he took a deep breath as if trying to muster up his courage: "...To be honest, their endings were not good."
Xia Meng was silent.
Li Zhou raised his eyes and looked into her eyes carefully.
I was afraid that my words would scare her away.
As a result, Xia Meng looked like she wanted to sigh.
She held her chin with one hand and said seriously, "Baby, don't squeeze the toothpaste yet. Just tell me what happened to them, okay?"
The word "baby" was called out in a very careless manner.
But it strangely calmed Li Zhou's hesitant mind.
Her calmness and composure gave him the confidence to tell her about his past bit by bit.
He gathered himself, nodded, and slowly said, "...For the past decade or so, the Black Tower Headquarters has been trying to contact and analyze my spiritual vision."
He is an S-class Sentinel after all.
If his mental state could be analyzed through mental images, the Black Tower might even be able to control him.
It can allow an S-level sentinel to be used by the Black Tower forever and become a knife in the Black Tower's hand.
And he is as obedient as an arm.
What a temptation this is.
"The Black Tower has been trying to do that since the first day I awakened to S-rank."
He woke up too early.
An S-class sentinel who is just over ten years old, has no background, and has no parents.
It's like a treasure that has no ability to protect itself and is easily accessible to anyone.
It's normal to be coveted.
Once upon a time, Li Zhou even felt fortunate.
Among the many forces coveting him, Black Tower was the first to find him.
At least the Black Tower... is relatively bright and relatively just.
Li Zhou lowered his eyes and stared at his clasped hands.
However, everything has both a bright and a dark side.
The same is true for the Black Tower.
The Black Tower provided him with the necessary protection when he was young, while also trying to completely control him.
The Black Tower sent many guides to try to enter his mental picture.
Even though, he had clearly stated that he had an engraving guide from the first day of his awakening.
At first, his mental landscape was closed.
He doesn't accept anyone's entry.
The innate mental barrier is so thick that no guide can break through it.
So later, he started a long tug-of-war with the Black Tower.
In the three years after awakening, Heita tried many methods.
There are gentle ways and there are tough ways.
Trying to conquer his spiritual world from all aspects, both psychologically and physically.
In the third year, the Black Tower invited a senior S-level guide to come out of the mountain.
There are countless legends about this man inside the Black Tower. It is said that there is no sentinel under his command that he cannot control.
No matter how prickly the sentry is, he will be as obedient as a lamb under his command.
At that time, Li Zhou was only fourteen years old.
That time, his confrontation with the S-level guide lasted for a whole month.
Over the course of a month, his mental and physical states would be exhausted to the extreme.
Until a flaw finally appeared in his mental barrier.
The S-class man saw the right moment and rushed in.
A head-on confrontation between an S-class wizard and an S-class sentinel.
The process was tragic.
That person paid the price for his forced entry—
He was trapped in Li Zhou's mental picture.
It took three days and three nights to escape in a panic.
In three days, his mental power was exhausted, his mental barrier was broken, and his mental picture was highly fragmented and collapsed.
The damage is permanent.
The S-class wizard was permanently relegated to F-class.
Not even a guide.
——Later, the man said that Li Zhou’s mental vision was the most terrifying place he had ever seen.
It's indescribable and hard to describe.
It's so terrifying that it's almost tragic.
It's like hell on earth.
A place that people dare not set foot in again in their lifetime.
Black Tower did not give up.
Moreover, we have already hired an S-level guide. If we give up halfway, the sunk cost will be too high.
Therefore, Heita subsequently found many guides and continued to try.
And among them, there is no exception.
Basically, there were heavy casualties in Li Zhou's mental picture.
In the worst case, one will not be able to get out alive.
Every person who comes out of his mental picture has only one adjective: horrible.
It seemed as if the deepest, darkest and most desperate fear in the world was hidden there.
Even just one look at it is enough to cause a mental breakdown.
Some people describe his mental picture as a nightmare.
There, everything is filled with nightmares.
Later, after several A-level guides died one after another, Black Tower finally had to cancel this plan.
Use a conciliatory approach and try to play the emotional card with him.
But unfortunately, Li Zhou was already fifteen years old at that time.
His views on the Black Tower and the world have become fixed.
From beginning to end, he did not show 100% resistance to the Black Tower, but at the same time he could no longer give any trust.
At the age of fifteen, he began to perform missions as a Black Tower special agent.
His powerful fighting ability quickly made him the strongest sentinel in the Black Tower Headquarters, but he always acted alone.
No guide could get close to him.
No guide could guide him.
The Black Tower cannot control him.
The only choice is to continue cooperating with him.
Black Tower developed a special S106 special effect guide element for him.
He was also offered high remuneration and bonuses.
In exchange for his life for the Black Tower.
But for Li Zhou.
He used one mission after another in exchange for the opportunity and freedom to find the engraving guide.
…
At the end of the conversation, the entire living room fell silent.
Li Zhou carefully observed Xia Meng's expression.
The light in the living room is not very bright.
Xia Meng did not turn on the brightest light.
As a result, the light made Xia Meng's expression a little blurry.
She sat cross-legged on the sofa, head down, in deep thought.
I don’t know what he is thinking.
Unable to see her expression, Li Zhou's heart skipped a beat.
Did he scare her by telling her the truth?
Is she... starting to be afraid of him too?
He looked at her tremblingly for a long time, and the next second, Xia Meng raised her hand to cover her mouth, and yawned loudly, "Ha——".
Li Zhou stared at her blankly: "......?"
Xia Meng: "Sorry, I'm a little sleepy."
Li Zhou: “…”
Xia Meng looked very calm. After yawning, she raised her eyes and looked at Li Zhou's cautious gaze.
She finally understood.
No wonder Li Zhou had said before that his spiritual vision was too dangerous and she couldn’t go there yet.
really.
It is indeed dangerous.
He couldn't even deal with a senior S-class wizard, let alone her.
However, after listening to it all the way, her biggest feeling was not fear.
She just realized one thing over and over again - no wonder.
No wonder he has such strong resistance and even hostility towards the guide.
No wonder he always keeps to himself and is wary of others.
If any optimistic and strong person were to go through the things he experienced in his youth, he would probably collapse.
But Li Zhou was able to grow up well. Not only did he not go astray, nor did he think about taking revenge on society, he was still able to maintain his sunny and cheerful side.
This is not easy.
No, it shouldn't even be described as "not easy".
The three words "not easy" are too light and too understated.
It should be said that this is a miracle.
She felt a little sorry for him.
I also feel a little sorry for him when he was a teenager.
Li Zhou glanced at her expression and asked carefully, "...You, don't you have anything else to say?"
Before Xia Meng could figure out how to respond, he took the initiative to speak: "If... you change your mind after hearing this, I can totally understand. It's okay."
Xia Meng: "Who said I changed my mind?"
Xia Meng supported her chin with one hand, blinked, and slowly drew out the ending tone: "Nightmare..."
She smiled and said, "...Isn't that exactly the scope of a psychiatrist's work?"
Li Zhou was stunned.
Xia Meng looked straight into his eyes, chuckled, and said sincerely: "Don't worry, I will help you."
The neon lights outside the window are reflected in the living room.
It was also reflected in her black and white pupils.
The colorful light is extremely bright.
Li Zhou couldn't help but hold his breath.
At this moment, he suddenly felt like a person who had been walking in the darkness for a long time and finally looked up and saw the light.
The woman before him felt just like the first time he saw her.
His whole body seemed to be shining, extremely holy.
Is she the god who came to save him?
He couldn't help but think so secretly.
He struggled hard to find a clean way out of the darkness, and no matter how difficult it was, he would not be dragged into the darkness and sink.
So, did I finally get the mercy of God?
Xia Meng didn't know what he was thinking.
Seeing that he was distracted, she couldn't help but lean over, put one hand on the sofa, raised the other hand, and gently shook it in front of him.
She smiled and said, "Hey? What are you thinking about? You look so happy."
She curled her lips and smiled with a dimple: "I know you must be very touched now, but don't be moved too early. We have to analyze each case specifically. How much I can help you in this situation also depends on the specific circumstances. If you can trust me, I will do my best-"
Li Zhou suddenly reached out and held her raised hand.
He didn't hear what she said next.
At this moment, his attention was completely occupied by her frank and confident smile.
She asked him what he was thinking?
Li Zhou blinked and said softly, "I was thinking..."
He leaned forward slowly, his eyes level with hers.
At such a close distance, her eyes look even more beautiful.
It is as black as the night, but it hides a vast expanse of starlight.
He moved a little closer.
"I was wondering if I could kiss you?"
Xia Meng raised her eyebrows slightly, with a hint of surprise in her eyes.
This unexpected sentence immediately dispersed her heroic spirit.
In the blink of an eye, attention shifted to Siberia.
She watched his face getting closer and closer.
It was so close that there was only a few centimeters between the two of them.
The two people's breathing intertwined.
At a certain moment, something in Xia Meng's brain suddenly broke.
Go to hell with nature.
At this moment, she could feel his heartbeat strongly.
She could clearly read the pure admiration written in his eyes.
She really liked the look of his eyes.
Xia Meng lowered her eyes and glanced at his lips.
The next second, she raised her hand, hooked his chin neatly, and kissed him.
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