Monster Escape Room Re-Employment Chapter 13

original sin

“You want me to mix among human cubs?” Pang Mei protested, “I look like this because my time travel went wrong. I’m five times as old as you.”

It’s a pity that the mental age is no different from that of middle school students.Jiang Lingyi looked at him with pity: “A nursing home is also fine, you can choose it yourself.”

“Can’t you just stay in the store like everyone else?”

“No.”

“Are you so resistant to humans?” Lou Xian asked suddenly, his expression and tone were the same as before, but his eyebrows felt shivers down his spine.Seeing that Pang Mei didn’t answer, Lou Xian added, “If you really don’t want to go anywhere, I can tie you up in a big formation. You only need to sleep every day and don’t have to do anything.”

Even Jiang Lingyi could hear Lou Xian’s displeasure and thought that it would only work if someone with a good temper got angry.He turned to be the peacemaker: “Going to school is also very interesting. You have to move around a lot anyway, right?”

The shopping mall, Lou Xian’s house and Jiang Lingyi’s apartment are all within this block, about a triangular distance apart, and the school is in the middle of the triangle. The next plan is to have lunch at Jiang Lingyi’s house at noon, stroll around the neighborhood park in the afternoon, familiarize themselves with several traffic arteries, and send them back to Lou Xian’s house in the evening, even if the day trip is over.

“You guys sit down first.” Jiang Lingyi poured two cups of tea, put on an apron, and got ready to show off her cooking skills. “What do you want to eat?”

“I can do either.” Lou Xian said.

“Me too.” Pang Mei obediently put her hands on her knees. She had to ask Lou Xian’s permission before she dared to pick up the cup before taking a sip of water.

Jiang Lingyi made some ordinary home-cooked dishes with the ingredients in the refrigerator, including both meat and vegetables. She took the opportunity to observe Lou Xian’s favorite tastes and found that he was actually a carnivore.By the way, what did Pang Mei say before?The Louxian he heard about didn’t seem to be what it is now. It was just…a what?

After lunch, Pang Mei was basking in the sun by the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, and fell asleep leaning against the glass. Jiang Lingyi had no choice but to drag him to the sofa and cover him with a thin blanket. The sleeping Pang Mei looked harmless, as soft as a small animal, exposing his vulnerability. In fact, he was much cuter and pitiful than when he was awake.

After placing Pang Mei, Jiang Lingyi turned back to find Lou Xian and found him looking at the camera on the shelf, which he had put there after reading the photos last night.

“Can I take a look?”

Jiang Lingyi could not refuse any of Lou Xian’s requests and pretended not to hear: “I’ll change clothes.” He hid in the bedroom, leaned against the door, and slowly slid to the floor. The afternoon sun shone warmly on his body through the window, and every part that was illuminated was warm. He covered both cheeks as if to measure the temperature. If he had known that he should bring in a bottle of iced Coke, it would have been better than being baked on one side.

There was a rustling sound from the door panel behind me, and someone sat down through the door.He heard the music of the camera turning on, and after a period of itching silence, there was a very slight sound of the shutter.Maybe he wasn’t looking at the old photos at all and was just playing with the camera?Or maybe he has deleted all those stalker-like photos?Jiang Ling’s intention was unknown.

He actually took a piece of clean new clothes from the cabinet, put them on, and opened the door again.Lou Xian was sitting in the shadow of the dining table, drinking tea from a cup of water. His camera was placed neatly on the shelf, as if no one had ever touched it, and his expression was no different from before Jiang Lingyi entered the room.

“Do you really want to send him to school?”

“Well, I can take care of Xingzhi Middle School we just passed by.”

Jiang Lingyi is a local and has never studied at Xingzhi Middle School, but he has heard of the name of this private middle school that combines junior and senior high schools.There are two main reasons why I like it: it is a boarding school, so you don’t have to worry about taking care of Pang Mei; it is light on academics, unlike ordinary middle schools that have the pressure of entrance exams. Most of the students are children from rich families who want to go abroad. They can get in by paying money, and they don’t care about grades. It is also suitable for special students like Pang Mei who are just messing around.

Then there are the documents and admission procedures… Jiang Lingyi has connections, and he knows who can get it done. When he thinks of asking for help, he subconsciously feels a little nauseous. It’s not disgusting, but nervous, and a little guilty, like a mouse asking a cat for help.

He glanced at Pangmei, who was sitting on the sofa with his mouth open and wondering what he was dreaming about, and swore he would never raise a child in this life.

Looking at the time, it was almost time to rest and it was time to go out to the next stop. Jiang Lingyi shook Pangmei awake, and the three of them set off to the park again.

The autumn weather is crisp, and the parks on weekdays are full of retired old men and old ladies doing fitness. The weather is really not suitable for work, so it’s time to spend time doing nothing with the people you like.

I don’t know if it was because of Pang Mei’s influence that Jiang Lingyi also yawned loudly. He chose a shady spot under a big tree and spread it with a square picnic mat. The lunch box contained a sandwich made with extra ingredients at noon, cut into regular shapes, and filled with sweet and sour tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and cheese slices in the middle.The thermos cup also contained Earl Gray black tea, which Lou Xian seemed to like to drink. The aroma was mellow and tangy. Jiang Lingyi poured it into the lid of the cup thoughtfully and handed it to Lou Xian as if nothing had happened. After he drank it, he took it and drank it himself.

“I want to drink too.” Pang Mei took a bite of a sandwich and reached out to ask Jiang Lingyi for a cup.

Jiang Lingyi smiled slightly: “Drink the northwest wind.”

Pangmei slept, ate, and basked, and gradually regained her vitality like a wilted balloon inflated. She ran around happily on the grass, one moment joining a group of elderly people, and the other studying how to ride a cooperative bicycle.Maybe Lou Xian’s words had an effect, or maybe he figured it out and began to accept this world he was not used to.

Jiang Lingyi was lying on the picnic mat, with his arms behind his head, staring at the green shade of the trees, with mottled light leaking from the gaps in the leaves. He closed his eyes and felt the breeze blowing by his ears, with the building string beside him, so comfortable.It would be better if there was a knee pillow, he thought vaguely, with many thoughts flashing through his mind. He didn’t know whether Lou Xian was happy with his high performance today, there were still a bunch of invoices that had not been reimbursed, those difficult customers, and even the home he had never returned to since he left on his eighteenth birthday…

“It’s so peaceful.”

Lou Xian’s soft murmur melted into the rustling wind of the leaves.

“Jiang Lingyi.”

“Yeah.”

There was a rustling movement next to him, and Lou Xian’s breathing suddenly became very close.Jiang Lingyi opened his eyes, and Lou Xian’s warm palm stretched out from the side to cover his eyes, covering them with a calm and stable darkness.

“Turn around.”

Jiang Lingyi turned over obediently, and Lou Xian pressed close to him, not very closely, but just put her head and hands on his back in a slightly curled-up posture.

“I’ve passed by this park many times before, but never found it so beautiful.”

“For us, this magical desert should be cruel. Why…”

His muffled voice was tinged with pain.

“Why do I feel that this world…has become better.”

“Because you like it.”

“Isn’t that weird? What kind of prisoner likes his prison cell?”

“But if you like it, you just like it. There’s nothing you can do about it.”

“That’s also very wrong. I’m here to serve a sentence and atone for my sins. I shouldn’t…shouldn’t feel happy.”

Lou Xian finally mentioned the restricted area that he had been silent about.Jiang Lingyi asked the employees in the store to find out what crime he had committed, but everyone remained tight-lipped. Even the most frivolous Bai Wuchang was tight-lipped on this matter.

“I don’t know what you did, I just know that you have suffered from it and paid a huge price.”

“Besides, if you like this kind of mood, it won’t be a fault no matter who it is.” If you just hold that kind of mood and think about it in your mind, this level of tolerance still exists in this world.

“Am I right?” Lou Xian whispered, “Can I have it all and have more and more?”

“Okay.”

Jiang Lingyi felt like a depraved demon in fairy tales.

If it were him, he would be delighted and inspired by the satisfaction of desires under any circumstances, and would never feel guilty. He would spend a lot of money and drink heavily. From the lowest level of food and drink to the higher level of self-worth, he would equally release dopamine for each level of Maslow’s pyramid of needs.The characteristics of human beings as the “inferior race” in Pang Mei’s words are vividly reflected in him, and he can even be proud of his own despicability.

Just like the quickest way to learn a language is to start with swear words, the quickest way to turn Lou Xian’s heart into a human being is to contaminate him with the sins of human beings.During the night chat in the Hanging Garden, Lou Xian understood what jealousy was; now, Jiang Lingyi taught him that he could be greedy.

After returning home from the day’s trip, Jiang Lingyi saw the camera on the shelf and opened it again on a whim. Sure enough, there were some new photos. The time watermark was exactly at noon today.

The first few pictures are blurry and useless pictures with nothing visible, and then there are empty shots of some scenes at home.

The next picture shows Pangmei’s face curled up in a ball on the sofa, sleeping in the warm sun.Jiang Lingyi subconsciously wanted to delete this photo, but when she thought it was taken by Lou Xian, she resisted the urge to press the delete button.

The next one, and the last one, was a selfie taken by Lou Xian. The angle was a bit strange. He just set up the camera for time-lapse photography and put it on the ground without looking for an angle at all. However, he looked forward naturally in the camera, as if looking at Jiang Lingyi through the screen. His heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat. Jiang Lingyi remembered that he had been a part-time model since college. Although he was not familiar with photography, he was already very accustomed to the camera. He didn’t know what the sudden picture meant.

As he was thinking about it, he received a WeChat message from Lou Xian on his phone. He clicked on it and saw another photo. It turned out to be him taking a nap with his eyes closed on a picnic mat in the park. He was completely unaware that he was being secretly photographed.A message popped up from underneath.

[This will make things even. If you want to take pictures in the future, you can do them openly.】

There is also a cute emoticon package that looks like it was stolen from a crooked employee.

Jiang Lingyi was afraid that the camera would break if he slept with it in his arms, so he transferred the selfie to his phone and quickly set it as a screensaver. The aluminum-silicon glass was not afraid of drool, so he slept soundly that night.