LWDC Chapter 122

## Chapter 122: Payment in Person

Chapter 122: Payment in Person

Chapter 122: Payment in Person

Bad news: The small base can’t fix Duan Yunhong’s car. There aren’t any suitable glass parts to replace.

Good news: Although his car’s window is broken and parts of the exterior are damaged, it can still be driven normally. It’s just a bit windy.

Ning Fei was overjoyed when he received Duan Yunhong’s message saying “can’t fix the car.” Zheng Liwen, who was next to him, glanced at him: “What’s so great about eating breakfast?”

Ning Fei happily said: “It’s been so many years since the zombie apocalypse, and the small base doesn’t have Hummer window glass.”

Zheng Liwen understood and chuckled: “You’re talking about Director Duan’s car? Understandable. But as long as it can still be driven, he can go to the next base to check. If it really doesn’t work, he can always replace it when he returns to Huichuan. It’s just that he’ll have to deal with some wind on the way. Fortunately, the weather is quite hot now, so a little wind is fine.”

Ning Fei imagined Duan Yunhong’s disheveled appearance in the wind and felt that this man had too few moments of discomfiture. He wished he could take a photo as a memento. He guessed that after this, Duan Yunhong would probably stockpile a bunch of Hummer parts in his space.

Zheng Liwen asked again: “What are your plans for today? We’re probably just going to rest together in the morning, have free time in the afternoon, and buy some supplies for the return trip. We’ll sleep tonight and leave tomorrow morning. What about you?”

Ning Fei didn’t answer but asked: “Where are you resting?”

“We just found out that there’s an abandoned elementary school in the base. We can park anywhere, and the classrooms have been turned into settlements. We’re going there to park, and we’ll all rest in the car in the morning. Those who don’t want to rest can do whatever they want,” Zheng Liwen replied. “At night, some people will probably rest in the car and keep an eye on it, while the rest will set up tents next to the car to sleep. If you want to join us, you can squeeze into a car or a tent.”

He was talking about the most common way for traveling teams to spend the night, saving money and ensuring safety. Although his team already had a decent income, they used to be stationed in the wild, so they weren’t so particular. Sleeping outside was normal for them now.

“If it’s on the way, drop me off at this guesthouse. If it’s not on the way, just drop me off at the nearest intersection.” Ning Fei sent him an address on his phone. “What time are you leaving tomorrow morning? Just pick me up at the address where you drop me off.”

Zheng Liwen glanced at the address and then at him, casually saying: “Staying at a guesthouse? With Director Duan?”

“Adults should still maintain some social distance from each other,” Ning Fei answered irrelevantly, taking a bite of his breakfast. Zheng Liwen took it as a tacit agreement. After all, anyone who wasn’t blind could see the something between Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong. So Zheng Liwen finally confirmed: “I’ll drop you off later if it’s on the way, and I’ll pick you up at eight tomorrow morning. You… will be on time, right?”

Ning Fei stuffed the last bite of the bun into his mouth and smiled: “As an adult worker, I have this basic sense of punctuality. Don’t worry.”

When Ning Fei entered the guesthouse room with his bun, Duan Yunhong was already leaning against the headboard in his bathrobe. Ning Fei raised his eyebrows slightly at the sight of the large, low-key, luxurious solid wood bed.

“Seeing you like this, I guess you don’t need breakfast. It was presumptuous of me to bring it to you for nothing.” Ning Fei put the breakfast on the table and threw his backpack on the sofa. “This guesthouse can’t possibly have a bed like this, right? Did you bring it from your space?”

Duan Yunhong didn’t deny it: “Otherwise? In a small place like this, it’s already good enough that there’s a guesthouse in operation. You can’t expect good furniture.”

“How big did you set your space to be? Did you spend all your luck on it? No wonder you didn’t exchange for an attack-based ability.” As he spoke, Ning Fei leaned over and touched the quilt on the bed. “Tsk, tsk, the bedding set is also high quality, right? You have all this, but you didn’t think to prepare a few pieces of glass, Duan-raemon.”

Duan Yunhong didn’t respond to the comment about the car glass, but asked: “Sit if you want to sit, come up if you want to come up, what’s with the touching?”

Ning Fei chuckled: “I’m in this outfit from my battle, I’m afraid you’ll find it dirty if I sit on it.”

Duan Yunhong said: “I’ve said it many times, I’m not a neat freak.”

“Then I find myself dirty.” Ning Fei waved his hand. “I’m going to take a shower first. I’ve stayed up for so many days and fought all night. I’m so sweaty that I stink. I didn’t feel it when I was with those teammates who smelled the same, but seeing you so clean, I feel ashamed.”

As he spoke, he entered the bathroom, cutting off Duan Yunhong’s reply. But the next second, Ning Fei poked his head out again: “There are new disposable toiletries inside, did you leave them for me?”

Duan Yunhong responded coldly: “I left them for myself.”

Ning Fei didn’t believe him. He had a space where he could take things out as needed. Why would he neatly put a set of toiletries in the bathroom? If it was provided by the guesthouse itself, the other dry bathrobe hanging there felt pretty good to the touch. It was something that even this kind of guesthouse wouldn’t provide even without the zombie apocalypse. If Duan Yunhong didn’t specially prepare the whole set, where would he get such good service?

Obviously, someone was being stubborn again. Ning Fei didn’t mind, winking at him: “Thank you, Director Duan.”

After saying that, he shrank back. Duan Yunhong frowned slightly at the sound of the bathroom door closing with a “bang,” and then looked at the breakfast that Ning Fei had casually placed on the table.

…

Ning Fei came out while wiping his hair after taking a shower. He saw Duan Yunhong sitting at the table eating a bun at a glance.

He didn’t joke about “your space is so rich, you still like this little breakfast.” He only said: “Does it suit your taste? I don’t know which one suits your taste, so I bought some that don’t have such a strong flavor.”

“It’s okay.” Duan Yunhong put down his phone and stretched out his hand to Ning Fei, taking out a hair dryer and handing it to him. “Where did the others who came with you go?”

“They went to find a place to ‘camp’,” Ning Fei replied concisely. “We’re meeting at eight tomorrow morning.”

After speaking, he went back to the bathroom to dry his hair. He hadn’t cut his hair for a while, so it took a little time to dry. Duan Yunhong also came in when he was almost done.

Ning Fei didn’t think that this person would come to use the toilet at this time. After all, Duan Yunhong still had a bit of an “idol image,” and he wouldn’t squeeze into the toilet when he could be particular. Unexpectedly, although Duan Yunhong wasn’t really here to relieve his urgency, he started brushing his teeth in front of Ning Fei. The two stood side by side in front of the mirror on the washstand, one drying his hair and the other brushing his teeth. It was ordinary if you said it was ordinary, and strange if you said it was strange… It was really a little strange.

Ning Fei had known Duan Yunhong for so long, and the two had briefly cohabited, but he had never gotten along with him so casually. Glancing at the two faces in the mirror, Ning Fei suddenly felt a sense of strangeness, an inexplicable wave in his heart, a false sense of confusion. It was as if the man next to him reflected in the mirror had become unfamiliar, and the shadow facing him had also become an unfamiliar skin.

At this moment, Ning Fei had the urge to “run away.”

At this moment, Duan Yunhong also finished brushing his teeth and simply washed his face with water. When he looked up, the two’s eyes met in the mirror. The next second, Ning Fei looked away, turned off the hair dryer, unplugged it, and put it on the sink next to Duan Yunhong after wrapping the cord a few times.

Then he turned and left.

Seeing this, Duan Yunhong didn’t even bother to wipe his face, and subconsciously grabbed his wrist, pulling him back and pressing him against the wall: “Why are you running?”

“…It’s nothing, I saw you wanted to use it, so I’m going out first. It’s already dry anyway.” Ning Fei couldn’t explain his mood just now, and he didn’t want to show his timidity in front of Duan Yunhong, so he put on a straight face and pretended to be natural and replied, “What are you doing? There’s a big bed, why are you doing it here?”

Duan Yunhong’s actions were also instinctive. Seeing Ning Fei was leaving, he reached out to grab him. Now that Ning Fei asked the reason, Director Duan couldn’t find another good explanation, so he casually found a reason: “Didn’t you kiss me in the toilet before?”

“Oh, so you’ve decided to do it in the toilet.” Ning Fei heard him mention such a small thing from the past, his attention shifted, and he patted the man’s still wet face with both hands. “Okay, I’ll accompany you, who told you to be the one paying?”

Duan Yunhong saw that he didn’t care, so he simply let go of his trance just now and focused on bickering with him: “Can you say it nicely? This is the bathroom, don’t you also like being in the bathroom?”

Ning Fei laughed and hooked his neck: “Yes, yes, yes, I like it, then did you bring anything?”

“I brought it.”

“You wouldn’t have brought my favorite water bed, right?”

“No. I couldn’t find this resource in Huichuan.”

“Pfft, you really looked for it for me?” Ning Fei happily said, “Okay, I’ll count it as you tried, I’ll make a note of it.”

Duan Yunhong saw that he seemed completely happy, and his smiling eyes seemed to be shining. His own mood also became cheerful invisibly. Ning Fei’s chest vibrated when he spoke and laughed, transmitting to Duan Yunhong, and the heat infected each other between the two. Duan Yunhong stared at him and slowly approached him like this.

At the moment when their breaths intertwined, in the second before they were about to touch each other’s lips, Ning Fei suddenly covered Duan Yunhong’s mouth with his hand.

“Wait a minute, Director Duan, Boss Duan, CEO Duan, you wouldn’t think that the ‘paying’ I’m talking about is the points for sleeping in the guesthouse, right?” Ning Fei raised his eyebrows. “What about my one million luck points? Are you still unwilling to give them to me?”

Duan Yunhong also raised his hand, holding his, with their fingers intertwined: “Okay, I’ll give it to you now, you have to catch it.”

As the words fell, a “flood” of luck frantically poured into Ning Fei’s body through their tightly clasped hands!

Ning Fei: !!!

Absorbing such a large amount of luck at once, what Ning Fei felt wasn’t a physical impact, but a feeling that directly hit his soul. Ordinary people often say that when luck gets better, you feel like you’re flying into the sky. What Ning Fei felt was a hundred times, a thousand times this description. The refreshing feeling was indescribable, addicting, forgetful, and would instantly be immersed in it. If Ning Fei’s experience in luck in and out wasn’t extremely rich and his resistance wasn’t already very strong, he would have lost himself in the moment of acceptance.

But now, he was just happy and excited while maintaining his sanity and sobriety.

Duan Yunhong watched his eyes become brighter and brighter and suddenly felt that this million was worth it, not just the kind of “worth” that he was saved once. He squeezed Ning Fei’s fingers and asked: “Is it okay now?”

Ning Fei smiled and proactively moved closer to his lips: “It’s okay, thank you for your patronage, boss.”

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【Ning Fei】 noticed something was wrong! 【Ning Fei】initiated an escape! Escape failed!

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