northernbook Chapter 8: Zhao Kongcheng sighs, Wu Xiangnan is depressed.
Chapter 8: Zhao Kongcheng sighs, Wu Xiangnan is depressed.
After briefly teaching Lei how to use some modern appliances, Liu Lang washed up and went straight to his room to sleep.
Lei Dianying was given his own room, so he had to sleep on the sofa.
It wasn't that he couldn't sleep in his mother Liu Sisi's room, but rather that he hadn't thought of going there for the time being.
As far back as he can remember, he has never slept in his parents' bed, nor has he ever had the idea of doing so.
So, after my bed was taken, the first thing I remembered was that I slept on the sofa.
After Lei finished showering, she came out wearing a pink crepe camisole nightgown.
Waves were faintly visible, and her purple hair, wet and draped over her shoulders, exuded a fresh shampoo scent.
She gently dried her smooth hair with a bath towel...
Liu Lang, that sleepyhead, lay on the sofa, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.
He was exhausted, both mentally and physically.
"Sleep well, little guy~" Lei Yingdian took a blanket from the room and covered Liu Lang with it.
of course.
In this sweltering summer heat, after the Lei movie leaves...
The blankets covering Liu Lang had all "run away," leaving only the blanket covering his stomach.
***
The next day, early in the morning.
Liu Lang was woken up by his biological clock. After getting up and washing up, he casually made two breakfasts.
He knocked on his bedroom door. "Shadow!? Get up!"
Inside the room, Lei Yingdian slowly opened her eyes at Liu Lang's call, and stretched, revealing her slender waist.
Her purple hair shimmered with a mysterious light in the morning sunlight, adding to her air of mystery and nobility.
She casually smoothed down her sticking-out hair and went to open the door.
Lei Yingdian opened the door without any warning, yawning and saying, "Good morning, Liu Lang~"
"Good morning...good morning!" Liu Lang was stunned to see that Lei Movie was different from usual, and had more 'popularity' or rather, more lifelike atmosphere.
"I've prepared breakfast. I have to go to school later. Do you want to come with me?"
"Me? I don't need it."
"I want to sleep a little longer, you go ahead."
"Okay, I'm going to talk to the Night's Watch at noon, then I'll come back to find you."
"Ah."
When Liu Lang arrived at the entrance of No. 2 Middle School, he saw a "waiting-for-husband stone"—Zhao Kongcheng.
Zhao Kongcheng squatted on the ground, a cigarette dangling from his lips, looking around as if searching for someone.
When he saw Liu Lang, his eyes lit up. He patted Liu Lang on the shoulder as he walked over and said, "Oh, it's you, kid."
"Yes, it's me... I'm also a student at this school. What are you looking for?"
"It's that student who was with you yesterday," Zhao Kongcheng sighed.
He heard yesterday that the kid's master had directly agreed to let him join the Night's Watch.
Neither he nor the vice-captain could persuade the kid; instead, they were persuaded by him.
In the end, they didn't even know each other's names.
All they knew was that the other party was a student from No. 2 Middle School, had a cousin and an aunt, and the team leader had already agreed.
Liu Lang thought for a moment and said, "Lin Qiye is in the same class as me. I'll go back and check first. If he's there, I'll pass on your message."
Zhao Kongcheng thought it was a good idea, "Then I'll trouble you."
"No trouble."
***
When Liu Lang stepped into the classroom, Liu Yuan, Jiang Qian, Wang Shao, and Li Yifei all breathed a sigh of relief.
“My dear son, you were the first to notice something was wrong last night, why didn’t you run with us? By the time I realized what was happening, you were nowhere to be found.” These words were spoken by Li Yifei.
Wang Shao pulled the hesitant Liu Yuan over, looked down at the ground and said, "Liu... Liu Lang, thank you so much for yesterday. If it weren't for you... I would have..."
Although Liu Yuan looked unconvinced, he still whispered, "Thank you."
"There's really no need for that. We're all classmates, so it's only right that we remind each other in that kind of situation," Liu Lang said politely, accepting their thanks.
Jiang Qian pulled him aside and asked anxiously, "Qi Ye... he was with you, is he alright?"
"He's fine, we ran away together."
"That's good." Jiang Qian breathed a sigh of relief. Lin Qiye was blind, so he definitely wouldn't have had time to escape.
so far so good.
Jiang Qian had a dream last night that the monster she met last night "ate" her.
When I woke up in the morning, I was covered in sweat.
She was worried that something might happen to Lin Qiye, who was running behind, but now it seemed that he had escaped.
"Liu Lang, why are you packing your schoolbag?" Li Yifei asked curiously when he saw Liu Lang packing his books as soon as he sat down.
Looking at Nan Liyifei, Liu Lang remembered his identity—the second personality of the Nanta Snake Demon.
Finally, she sighed and said, "It's nothing, I just have some things to take care of at home these days. I need to take some time off... so I'm packing my things first."
After asking the homeroom teacher for leave, Liu Lang found Zhao Kongcheng, who was still waiting outside, and said, "Don't wait anymore, Lin Qiye didn't come to school today."
"Lin Qiye? Is that the person from yesterday?" Zhao Kongcheng realized belatedly.
"Yes, it's him." Liu Lang made up a story. "We've made up our minds and decided to join the Night's Watch. Can you take us to your base?"
"Don't you want to reconsider?" Zhao Kongcheng asked. "Why don't you ask your master for his opinion again?"
"No need, what I mean is my master's idea."
Zhao Kongcheng didn't try to persuade him any further, since the final decision wasn't his to make anyway. "Where's your master?"
"Oh right, my master is still at my house, we need to go pick her up first."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Kongcheng abandoned his plan to call someone to pick him up. "Then I'll take you to your house to pick up your master first, and then I'll take you to our base."
"Ok."
After Zhao Kongcheng and Liu Lang left, Lin Qiye appeared at the school gate.
***
In Beijing, Ye Fan sat at his desk at the Night Watch headquarters, staring blankly at the documents in his hand.
"Gods from mythology who have never been understood before?" Ye Fan murmured.
After returning yesterday, Chen Muye relayed the news to headquarters, and the headquarters' think tank went through almost all the documents.
No corresponding deity was found. The most similar one is Baal, the sky lord in Canaanite mythology, the god who treads on clouds.
And it bears some resemblance to Beelzebub, one of the seventy-two demons in Jewish mythology...
If Liu Lang knew that the Night's Watch had figured out Thor's original god so quickly, he would probably be incredibly shocked, right? Although he himself didn't know who the corresponding original god was.
However, this did not prevent Liu Lang from saying to the Night Watch's think tank: You guys are pretty good.
Ye Fan couldn't think of a particularly good solution for Lei Movie, this agent of an unknown god.
However, it seems that the other party is at least not an undercover agent sent by anyone. Who would send an agent of this level to be an undercover agent?
“‘The eternal way is vast, and the divine land is eternal.’ Well.” Ye Fan read aloud the words highlighted in red in the document. “I also hope it will be like that.”
"Judging from this statement, that deity must be one who is close to the Great Xia Dynasty..."
After all, which Great Xia person doesn't know that Shenzhou refers to our Great Xia?
Since the other party actually conveyed goodwill to our Great Xia with such a sentence, we in Great Xia cannot turn them away.
***
Liu Lang and Zhao Kongcheng arrived at the staff quarters of the First Hospital of Cangnan City, ready to pick up Lei Yingdian and go to the Night Watchmen's stronghold together.
After the doorbell rang, Lei Yingdian opened the door. Her dark purple hair was draped over her shoulders, and her two snow-white legs were still visible under the hem of her kimono. She was wearing pink slippers.
However, she changed back into her original kimono from her pink crepe camisole nightgown, and her delicate face now exuded a cold and noble aura.
"Why are you back so soon?" Lei Yingdian asked, somewhat surprised, when he saw Liu Lang.
"We ran into him at the school gate." Liu Lang pulled Zhao Kongcheng over and pointed at him. "He's also a member of the Night Watch. He'll take us to their base later. Get ready, we'll set off soon."
Zhao Kongcheng looked at Lei Yingdian and scratched his head with a silly smile, "Hello, I'm Zhao Kongcheng."
Lei Yingdian remembered him; he was one of the three people from that organization yesterday. He nodded at him.
Soon after, when Lei appeared again, her dark purple hair was braided and hanging down her back. She had put her original black stockings and brown flip-flops back on.
"Let's go."
In Cangnan City, at Heping Bridge, lies the underground office of the Heping Affairs Bureau, located between "Peaceful Marriage" and "Peaceful Funeral Services."
In the spacious and bright hall, Liu Lang and Lei Yingdian were sitting on the sofa, looking intently at Chen Muye on the opposite sofa.
Of course, Liu Lang was the only one looking at Chen Muye.
Lei was just staring blankly ahead, but even that blank staring made Chen Muye, who was sitting opposite him, sit up straight.
Wu Xiangnan usually does this kind of thing, I never thought it would be my turn now.
Chen Muyi looked at Liu Lang and asked again, "Have you thought it through? Are you sure you want to join the Night Watch?"
"Yes."
After a brief silence, Chen Muye slowly said, "Although you already know me, I still need to repeat myself according to the procedure."
“My name is Chen Muye, and I am the captain of the 136th Night Watch Team stationed in Cangnan City. The one over there, looking down at the floor tiles with a depressed expression, is the vice captain, Wu Xiangnan.”
Liu Lang followed Chen Muye's gaze and, sure enough, saw the man with the black-rimmed glasses from yesterday standing by a pillar not far away, looking down at the floor tiles.
Sensing Liu Lang's gaze, Wu Xiangnan raised her head and nodded at him, then lowered her head again, looking dejected.
Hongying and Wen Qimo had been observing curiously for quite some time.
Before Chen Muyi could even remind her, Hongying spoke up first: "Night Watch Squad 136, frontal combat force, Hongying."
"The Night Watch's main combat force, Wen Qimo," Wen Qimo followed up.
"Combat support and part-time military doctor, Si Xiaonan."
"Leng Xuan."