Chi Ting thought about it for a while, but still felt that he didn’t agree with the content of this statement. “Maybe he did mean to target you, but overall, I am more inclined to believe that No 7’s provocation was directed at the two of us… Hmm.”
The rest of the words came to an abrupt end as a strong body pressed down on him, breaking between his lips and teeth and covering him again.
In fact, judging from height alone, Lou Yueren was indeed taller than Chi Ting. As long as Chi Ting didn’t resist, he would naturally embrace Chi Ting in his arms.
“No matter who he provokes, this isn’t the main point.” His breathing after another deep kiss was unusually hot, lingering between the lips and teeth that had just opened. He kissed the side of the neck little by little along the jaw. The tone of the culprit sounded as nonchalant as ever. Due to the obvious low and hoarse voice, it was filled with strong greed.
He only tasted it briefly as if using this to silently vent something.
Chi Ting let the man press on him. He lowered his gaze slightly and what caught his sight was the soft black hair.
The two bodies pressed together through thin clothes. At that moment, their body temperatures blended with each other.
Chi Ting’s fingertips moved. Then he reached out a hand, inserted his slender index finger into the other person’s hair, and gently rubbed it. Then he asked in a gentle voice, “So what is the point?”
This action made Lou Yueren stop. After a while, he chuckled. “Chi Ting, do you have to talk about those disappointing things at this time?”
Chi Ting’s voice came again after a few seconds of pausing. “But you look very confused now.”
Lou Yueren: “……”
After a while, he sighed, “So let me sort it out first.”
Under the sudden deep kiss that occurred again, his breathing was as chaotic and rapid as the thoughts in his mind. “…Help me, sort it out, um.”
There was a push from the hand on his back. Chi Ting felt that this person seemed to want to completely rub him into his body.
He actually didn’t know how he could help the person in front of him. He just cooperated with this demand without any resistance. Unknowingly, under the sudden heartbeat, he seemed to be swallowed by this burning sensation.
He reached out and grabbed Lou Yueren’s clothes tightly.
The only sound left in the room was the sound of deep breathing.
They were entangled together faintly, intermittently, and were full of tender and ambiguous feelings.
For the first time, Chi Ting felt the suffocation caused by a deep kiss. In a trance, he finally caught a gap. The hand that was holding the man’s clothes suddenly exerted force. He turned around and sat on Lou Yueren’s body.
His breathing was still a bit unstable. His fingertips gently stroked the other person’s sexy earlobe, which finally calmed the ups and downs of his heart. He looked steadily into the other person’s eyes. “Now, are you calming down a bit?”
His voice was much lower and hoarser than usual.
If it was someone else, he would’ve been thrown hundreds of miles away by Chi Ting before he could do what he just did. But at this moment, his mind was full of the way this person looked while unconscious just now. He was extremely uneasy, lacking a sense of security, and struggling and desperate. It wasn’t at all what the person he had seen before should look like.
If the gentleness he usually displayed was mostly superficial, he was afraid that even Chi Ting himself didn’t realize what tone he was using now.
In this posture, his long hair gently brushed Lou Yueren’s cheek.
The slight itch was like an invisible hand, soothing all the passion just now, bit by bit.
Lou Yueren stared straight at Chi Ting, not hiding his blatant gaze at all.
When he woke up again, he felt that the ‘Yue Ren’ in the Love Apartment was just a phantom in the dream.
Then the extremely real feeling of the kiss just now was enough for him to finally find a sense of reality in such a dream.
This was probably the effect that No 7 wanted.
He did remember some things from the past, but he also forgot a lot of things. This was a way of telling him that the man who was also the designer wasn’t afraid of him looking for the designer again.
“Yes, it should be about time.” He should be in a very bad state, but for some reason, Lou Yueren felt that he was in a good mood. He smiled slightly. His eyes moved around the other person’s face a few times before clearing his throat meaningfully. “But Chi Ting, if you continue to sit on me like this then I might lose my composure soon.”
“……” Chi Ting lowered his eyes and saw that their current posture wasn’t very elegant. He coughed, turned over, and got out of bed. He buttoned up his collar bit by bit to cover the overly shocking marks below. Soon, he stated as if he didn’t notice the awkwardness in the room, “Just make sure there won’t be a third time.”
Lou Yueren blinked. After a few seconds, he realized what the so-called ‘third time’ meant. He couldn’t help laughing. Instead of answering, he asked, “Does this mean you don’t like it?”
Once Chi Ting finished cleaning up, he glanced at the man and said, “This isn’t a question of like or not. Everyone else was watching when I carried you back. So much time has passed. In order to prevent them from worrying too much, it is better to tell them as soon as possible.”
“It isn’t a question of like or not, which means you like it.” Lou Yueren also slowly started to tidy up his clothes. He suddenly noticed something, paused slightly, and slowly looked up.
Chi Ting noticed this change in expression. “What is wrong?”
Lou Yueren looked a bit incredulous. “Didn’t I ask you to carry you back? You actually did it?”
Chi Ting: “……” Was this the point?
He silently held his forehead, casually grabbed a coat, and threw it over. “Put it on first to avoid catching a cold. I’ll send a message to the others.”
Lou Yueren immediately put on the clothes. His mouth was so dry that he was about to get a glass of water. Then he saw the hand that Chi Ting held out to him.
The corners of his lips rose slightly, and he reached out to stand up.
The feeling of dizziness had long dissipated. The feeling of having his mind torn repeatedly had consumed too much of his energy. In a tired manner, he walked to the table and poured some water to moisten his throat. Finally, he leaned against the wall with his head tilted, watching Chi Ting sending messages seriously.
Soon, Lou Yueren let out a low ah and said, “Chi Ting.”
“Huh?” Chi Ting glanced sideways.
“Don’t call me by my old name any longer. Call me Lou Yueren.”
Chi Ting looked at Lou Yueren and paused for a moment. A hint of realization flashed across his face. “You… remember what happened in the past.”
“Yes, part of it.” Such a reaction made Lou Yueren sigh helplessly. “As expected of Captain Chi. He is so calm even when faced with a disaster. I admire him.”
Chi Ting asked, “Is my reaction wrong?”
“No, it is right.” Lou Yueren thought about their contact during this period and smiled. “After all, this is you.”
Chi Ting glanced at Lou Yueren and was about to say something when a new friend message popped up on the virtual panel. He took a quick look and showed some surprise in his eyes. “They didn’t even sleep and are ready to come over.”
The world of the two of them was destroyed, but Lou Yueren’s face didn’t show that he was touched about being cared for. “Oh.”
Dawn was used to being given orders in times of danger, so it was normal for them to respond to the news they received as soon as possible.
What’s more, they really wanted to know what was going on since Chi Ting.
Soon, four figures appeared in the originally empty hotel room.
“Old Song, what’s going on? Is everything really okay?” Ji Xingque poked his head over and noticed that Lou Yueren’s expression looked inexplicably ugly, so he asked with considerable concern.
“It’s okay. Just eat more later.” Song Xuefeng yawned lazily after he finished the evaluation.
“I’m glad you are okay.” Ji Xingque nodded and turned to look over. “But your name is Lou Yueren?”
Lou Yueren leaned comfortably against the headboard. “Yes, I just remembered.”
“It is actually amnesia. It is quite a dog blood plot.”
Lou Yueren didn’t comment on this evaluation.
Ji Xingque continued, “If you follow the plot in some melodramatic stories, should you pick up your past beliefs again, leave us passersby, and continue to look for the light that you failed to grasp in the beginning?”
“……” Hua Qianmei thought for a moment before patting the pink hair. “Did you secretly watch the TV series I hid away before?”
Ji Xingque coughed. “Ahem, I’ve seen it once or twice.”
“It is right to pick up my past beliefs again, but you…” Lou Yueren glanced at Chi Ting and smiled silently. “You aren’t passersby.”
“We are all on the same team now. What did you mean by being passersby?” Chi Ting suddenly said. “If you want to go back to the last instance you went through, we can all go together this time.”
Chi Ting looked over, and Lou Yueren’s eyes met his. The curve of Lou Yueren’s mouth slightly narrowed before he finally lowered his eyelids. “You didn’t even ask what instance it is. You just said that we are going together?”
“It should be the ultimate instance.” Lu Nanling spoke in his usual calm and cold tone. He noticed Lou Yueren looking over and said, “What a coincidence. I’ve heard of your name.”
Ji Xingque wondered, “Huh? Is he famous?’
Lu Nanling told him, “Maybe it can’t be summed up simply by whether he is famous or not.”
“Then…”
Lou Yueren didn’t say anything. He just sat there in a seemingly indifferent manner. His attention was silently focused on Chi Ting, and there was an imperceptible trace of self-mockery in his expression.
He never thought before that one day, he would have to wait for others to give him a choice.
Finally, Chi Ting’s voice sounded after a very long, few seconds. “Xiao Lu, if we want to enter the ultimate instance, how long will it take?”
Lu Nanling seemed to have expected such a question and gave an almost seamless answer. “In this unlimited world, the prerequisite for entering the ultimate instance is to collect a full set of cards of the same suit and two special Joker cards. Ordinary cards are easy to get, but the rarity of the big and small Jokers means that so far, only one person has entered the ultimate instance. Compared to the number of players who clear the instances every day, I don’t need to explain how low the drop rate is.”
Hua Qianmei smiled. “Just tell them directly that you don’t want to try to test the drop rate by grinding the instances.”
Lu Nanling continued, “To be precise, the possibility of collecting a set of cards by yourself is indeed much less direct than getting the cards from players who are known to have them.”
Ji Xingque frowned. “Offer a sky-high price to buy it? Will they give it?”
“Of course not.”
“……”
Ji Xingque gritted his teeth. “Then what are you talking about? You can’t just rob it by force!”
Hua Qianmei smiled leisurely. “Why not? If it wasn’t for the fact that the captain definitely won’t allow it, I think it would be a good idea to solve it by force.”
Chi Ting sighed speechlessly and looked at Lu Nanling. “Okay, tell me the final plan.”
Lu Nanling met their eyes. “Yes, the third option is indeed the most suitable for us at the moment, and it is also the most convenient for the time being. The premise is that the rumors revealed some time ago are true.”
“What rumors?” As Ji Xingque asked, even the napping Song Xuefeng looked up.
Under everyone’s eyes, Lu Nanling brought up a virtual interface. He pushed it in front of everyone and said the words, “The century celebration.”
He tapped the table. “We will probably know the details only when the time comes. The current rumors only say that it will be in the form of a team competition. In addition to receiving generous points rewards, the team that stands out will also receive—two Jokers.”
There was a brief silence. Then Ji Xingque couldn’t help exclaiming, “Oh sh*t!”
Chi Ting turned around, and his eyes met Lou Yueren’s.
At this moment, they saw a look of understanding in each other’s eyes.
In the just concluded arcade instance, they first saw a superpower who was inextricably linked to the apocalypse and gave Lou Yueren a gift of memory fragments. After such a series of provocations, such rumors suddenly broke out. It was really hard not to think that these two Joker cards were the declaration of war issued by the instance designer to them.
He was asking them if they dared to go up to him, No 7, with these two Joker cards.
Very interesting.
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