When the magic flower blooms

This lunch on the 59th floor is more like a big display of Asian food culture.From the various ingredients in a thick volume, Ming Ruoxing carefully selected four dishes and one soup: grilled piranha, butter stewed shipworm with garlic bread slices, curry leech, boiled dandelion and suckling mouse ham soup.

The names of these ingredients are scary, and He Tiansi dare not think carefully about what they will be made into in the end.But he decided to investigate the location of the bathroom first, lest he couldn't bear to spit it out in front of Ming Ruoxing.

On the way to the bathroom, you need to pass the food display area of ​​the restaurant.It looks a bit like a transparent version of a Chinese pharmacy here.In addition to the glass sinks and vegetable display racks that are common in restaurants, there are more of those huge plexiglass high cabinets.Up and down are covered with a grid of small drawers.

If you look closely, some of these drawers are filled with colorful frogs, some are palm-sized beetles, and some are completely unnamed.

He Tiansi wandered around and returned to the box, tugging at Ming Ruoxing's sleeve.

"Let's go to McDonald's."

"Counseled?" Ming Ruoxing ruthlessly exposed him.

"how is this possible!"

Unable to lose face, He Tiansi deliberately lowered his voice, as if he had learned some great secret.

"This store sells wild animals illegally!"

"No, all of them are artificial breeding, and there are franchise certificates."

Ming Ruoxing obviously enjoyed the process of teasing him, "If you're afraid, just tell me, I'll take you to McDonald's children's meal."

"Who's scared! It's fine if it's not wild."

With a bitter mouth full of eternal hatred, He Tiansi quickly missed the children's meals far away in the kingdom of heaven - the dishes he ordered just now were served quickly, and the presentation was good, but a little association was still unbearable.

Stretching out the head and shrinking the head is also a knife.He Tiansi knew that he couldn't avoid it, so he put his mind on the sidelines and stretched out his chopsticks.

Facts have proved that as long as you are brave enough and choose the right chef, there is no truly unbearable food in the world.The piranha meat is delicious, the shipworm tastes like some kind of shellfish, and the deep-fried leech with curry sauce tastes like protein.

What's more interesting is that He Tiansi found that while he was burying his head in eating hard, Ming Ruoxing, who finalized the menu, drank water the whole time and hardly touched the food in front of him.

The time for revenge has come.

"Come on, I'll get you a leech!"

"...let me do it myself."

"Dip some vinegar on this shipworm, it tastes very good."

"you eat first."

"Hey, aren't you a cat? This suckling mouse is so tender, so good!"

"Don't let it go!!!"

Ming Ruoxing with deep-fried hair is really rare to see, He Tiansi covered his stomach and blushed with laughter, and asked: "If you don't even eat, then what is the meaning of this store's existence, novelty hunting?"

"Isn't it okay to change the taste once in a while?!"

Although Ming Ruoxing was angry at him for teasing him, he still explained what should be explained well.

"The regular customers of this store are basically sub-humans with very pure blood. They are very picky about food. Some seemingly ordinary ingredients, such as chocolate grape peanut butter, etc... may trigger their severe allergic reactions. So If you want to go out to try something new, or treat them to dinner, you can only find a demihuman-only restaurant like Hermitage."

"Demi-humans with a particularly pure bloodline? Didn't you say...it's hard to find even a purebred dog these days?"

"It's hard to find, but it's not impossible. Some families deliberately pursue pure bloodlines, so they have intermarried for a long time. In this way, although the purity is improved, the incidence of genetic diseases is also high. It can only be said that this Those cultivated in this kind of family are either geniuses or cripples."

"It is possible to become a genius with a pure bloodline? Which one is more powerful, a cat with a pure bloodline or a tiger with an impure bloodline?"

"Which one is better, an expert or a politician?" Ming Ruoxing rolled his eyes at him: "There is no comparison like this. Quickly eat the remaining leeches, let's drive to the next stop."

"It's a leech, not a leech. Also, let's go eat the children's meal later, and I will accompany you."

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The two servings of honey aphid shaved ice presented by the store put a "satisfying" end to this expensive adventure feast.After paying the bill and taking the parking coupon, the two of them took the elevator downstairs, but they didn't go to the parking lot to pick up the car.

Ming Ruoxing pressed the button on the sixth floor.

Unlike the Hermitage Restaurant, this time there is no waiter waiting outside the elevator door.But a huge yellow arrow can be seen on the opposite marble wall.

Ming Ruoxing led He Tiansi to walk in the direction indicated by the arrow, and passed through two automatic sensing doors that obviously functioned as identification, and the front finally opened up.

It turned out to be a supermarket.

Through the last screen door, the two finally entered the supermarket lobby.Although this is the sixth floor, it is actually almost two floors high.The huge space is like a three-dimensional parking lot, covered with movable shelves of steel structure, full of various goods.

"Why is there no one, are you resting today?"

He Tiansi noticed that the place that looked like the cash register was empty, not even the stern-faced loss prevention staff that are common in supermarkets.

"This is an unmanned supermarket."

Ming Ruoxing handed him a metal shopping basket casually.

"The total population of Asian people is small, and there are few people engaged in the grassroots service industry. Half of the waiters in the Hermitage upstairs are work-study students, and half of them earn higher salaries than ordinary office white-collar workers. In this way, they often make troubles about labor. shortage."

Hearing the artificial height, He Tiansi was eager to try: "Then can I also serve the demihuman society in the future?"

"Aren't you acting as my landlord now?"

Ming Ruoxing waved his arms proudly: "Choose whatever you want, and I will count my food expenses and rent for these few days."

He Tiansi wandered around the supermarket immediately after hearing Ming Ruoxing's treat.But looking around, he didn't know what to put in the basket.

Like ordinary human supermarkets, this supermarket can be roughly divided into four major sales areas: food, daily necessities, publications, and tobacco and alcohol.But none of the items sold in each area was familiar to He Tiansi.

The food area is okay, after all, I have seen some world in the Hermitage just now.He no longer fussed over fresh eucalyptus leaves or maggot-ridden cheese.It was the bottles and jars in the daily necessities that caught his attention.

"Deodorant... potion."

He picked up a blue plastic bottle and read the product name on it.

"Smell out of what? For foxes and skunks?"

"It's the pheromone smell of estrus."

Ming Ruoxing already has a certain immunity to his nonsense, "I told you before, I don't have a long memory."

"Oh~~ just to cope with the 'those few days' that every demihuman has every year."

He Tiansi prolonged the ending on purpose, while looking around in Ming Ruoxing's basket, he quickly fixed on a small plastic white medicine bottle.

"Hey, the one you bought is a suppressant, right? It's for heat suppression! Are you going into heat?"

"..."

Ming Ruoxing was suddenly very grateful that this was an unmanned supermarket, he didn't even bother to complain, and turned his head and left.

He Tiansi behind him was still muttering.

"By the way, what's the scent of your pheromones during estrus? Hey... Then what will my pheromones smell like?"

After wandering aimlessly in the supermarket for about half an hour, Ming Ruoxing bought several boxes of catnip-flavored chewing gum, a jar of suppressive tablets, and a few copies of Yaren's current affairs magazines.Looking at He Tiansi again, he actually had a lot of potato chips, ranging from the fragrance of grass to the flavor of braised earthworms, and even the flavor of charcoal-grilled plankton.

Ming Ruoxing still paid the bill with the chip on his wrist, and the two of them finally carried their things downstairs and returned to the car.Ming Ruoxing asked He Tiansi where else he wanted to go, He Tiansi thought about it and said why not just take me for a stroll in the city.

So Ming Ruoxing kicked the accelerator and started, and he really took He Tiansi for a ride in the city.From the new district with few pedestrians, to the densely populated residential area, through the commercial district with rich historical accumulation and bustle of people, to the education area with many campuses.

Along the way, Ming Ruoxing has been conscientiously serving as a tour guide.He Tiansi pointed out which building on the side of the road housed some kind of Yaren's organization and hidden some strange shops.Or which private elementary school is actually the basic education institution for the demi-humans in this city. All demi-human children need to receive at least three years of demi-human education and pass the exam before they are allowed to transfer to ordinary social schools...or else they are on the side of the road Which star on which billboard is actually a demihuman, and some news on the Internet about his playing big names is actually related to the special demihuman habits.

Although Ming Ruoxing's tone was flat throughout, these things themselves were so interesting that He Tiansi listened with gusto.

In this way, the silver hunting truck wandered aimlessly in the bustling streets of this international metropolis, and drove to the eastern suburbs of the city.

"This area used to be an old wharf area, but because of the narrow port, narrow and shallow inland rivers, and loose soil and rich groundwater, urban planning is very difficult. In the past ten years, construction has basically stagnated, and locals have gradually moved to the area. In fact, outsiders can't find a job and don't want to live near here...but there are quite a few demihuman institutions."

Right at this point, Ming Ruoxing slowed down, and gestured out the window with his left thumb.

"Have you seen this hospital? You will come here for an examination tomorrow."

"It looks pretty good."

He Tiansi peeled the car window and looked out, "By the way, does the subhuman society have a medical security system? Or is it the same as that of ordinary people?"

"Both, the two sets of guarantees can be enjoyed on different occasions depending on the specific situation. And the subhuman set is even better."

"Such a good thing? Why!"

"Because every demihuman is paying taxes to the national government and demihuman self-government agencies at the same time. The state stipulates that subhuman self-government agencies, like administrative special zones, maintain relative financial independence. People have less money and a lot of money, and their welfare has changed relatively. It's so rich."

Ming Ruoxing didn't want to explain in detail these things that he wasn't even interested in, so he changed the subject.

"Aren't you afraid?"

"What are you afraid of?" He Tiansi was puzzled.

"I'm afraid of the hospital. Before you went to Jinyu Village, you should have lived in the hospital for a while? Don't you have any psychological shadow?"

"It's actually okay...I was in a daze at that time. I just remember that there were many people in white coats wandering around me, and then there were various operations, injections and medicines, and schedule questions. I was sad. There must be, but it can’t be said that it left any psychological shadow.”

"That……"

Ming Ruoxing tried another way of saying it, "I've taken you around the streets for such a long time, is there any place you feel familiar with, that might arouse your memory?"

"Oh...well...it doesn't seem to be there either."

He Tiansi seemed to recall it seriously, "Now that I think about it, I don't know the city and the name of that hospital. It seems really strange..."

"Go back and ask Uncle Guang if you know, it's because of your lack of understanding."

Ming Ruoxing quickly interrupted his thoughts, "Let's go here, if you don't drive back, you should hit the evening rush hour."

With that said, he slammed the steering wheel and turned into a small road on the right.

"Are you going back now?" He Tiansi couldn't stop thinking.

Ming Ruo Xingxu responded: "Why? Haven't played enough?"

"No."

He Tiansi reached out and tapped the car screen next to the dashboard: "It would be better if you turn on the navigation, it shouldn't be the direction to go back now, right?"

Ming Ruoxing was stunned for a moment - He Tiansi was absolutely right.He said he wanted to return, but actually wanted to take He Tiansi to the gate of the dormitory of the Yaan Bureau. The directions of the two were indeed inconsistent.

But they drove all the way from the old city, had a meal on the way, and then wandered the streets for so long. Normal outsiders should have been unable to tell the difference between east, west, and north. How could they give directions the other way around?

He questioned it immediately, and He Tiansi's answer surprised him.

"Maybe it's because I lost all the memories I should have, and there is a lot of space in my head. Anyway, I have a very good memory now, basically just a photographic memory. If you don't believe me, you can test me."

There are many high-level demihumans in the Asian Security Bureau, but I have never heard of anyone with this kind of ability.Ming Ruoxing immediately asked He Tiansi to tell the specific route from the rental house to the hermitage.As expected, He Tiansi answered the questions fluently, and what was even more outrageous was that he even memorized the number of lights at each intersection.

Ming Ruoxing pressed further, and learned that He Tiansi only discovered that he had this supernatural ability a few months ago, and he had never disclosed it to anyone—no wonder there was no mention of it in the routine report of the institute.

Fortunately, He Tiansi didn't mention it, otherwise, if the research institute finds out, I'm afraid there won't be such a peaceful and peaceful life in Jinyu Village.So Ming Ruoxing simply made up a random reason to scare He Tiansi, telling him not to mention this skill to anyone again.

After solving this small emergency, the vehicle just drove into the small street where the apartment of the Yaan Bureau was located.

It was a quiet summer afternoon.The whole small street is hidden in the thick shade of tall paulownia trees, and the ground is full of mottled golden spots.Through the green and verdant garden beside the road, you can vaguely see the main entrance of the Yaan Bureau apartment.

Ming Ruoxing deliberately slowed down the speed of the car, quietly observing He Tiansi's reaction.

Strange to say, He Tiansi became very quiet, not saying a word, just looking out through the car window.

"what happened?"

Deliberately pretending to be in a casual tone, but Ming Ruoxing's palm holding the steering wheel was covered with a thin layer of sweat.

However, He Tiansi quickly withdrew his gaze.

"It's nothing... I just think the environment in this residential area is pretty good. The people who live here must have a high happiness index."