gray manor

Xin Xi on the other end of the phone dragged the siren and borrowed Eli's ability to teleport back to the manor. It didn't take long for him to take a bath to get rid of the dirty smell. He walked to the bedroom with the heat and didn't even have time to put on his clothes. Pin of the manor's defense system said to her through the electronic assistant butler in her room: "Xin, there are unidentified vehicles outside the manor. The license plate is from the [Blue Bird] organization. Is it a guest you invited?"

Although Xin Xi felt that it was weird to communicate with Pin on the other end of the network cable half/naked/naked, Zhaoxi was much more important than her little shyness. She clicked on the electronic assistant without thinking, and replied: "Yes Yes! You must not do anything! I asked her to park the car outside!"

Pin said succinctly: If you understand, you will be automatically logged out.

Xin Xi frantically found out her mobile phone and made a second call to Zhao Xi. Fortunately, her friend was always cautious and had a perfect sense of distance, and did not dare to get too close to this exaggeratedly large manor.

"Zhaozhao—yes, yes, I've seen your car. Just park the car there, and then people get down and walk to the gate. Yes, there is a mechanical board there, see it? Move your face closer, I'll record your ID for you. Alright, the door is open, don't worry about leaving the car there, just come in. Yes, just follow the electronic butler, and just give him your luggage, I'll get dressed and come right away!"

Sitting on the bed in the bedroom, Xin Xi finally managed to get Zhao Xi in with some remote control of the electronic assistant. Her slightly curly long hair was still dripping wet, but she couldn't care less, so she randomly found a sweater and pants to wear. Go up, step on the slippers and leave the room.

God knows how long it has been since she saw Zhaoxi!It's what made her think.

Some people say that good friendship is often more precious than love, Xin Xi thinks it is very reasonable.The two of them have been a match made in heaven since they were soy saucers. One is lively and cute and the other is obedient and restrained. They act and deal with things but are equally free and easy. Their personalities are complementary and similar.Even if it has been more than [-] years until now, due to life or work reasons, the opportunity to get along day and night and accompany each other through the wind and rain together is the only irreplaceable white moonlight in each other's hearts.Of course, one thing that is absolutely certain is that they are in a relationship where they can call each other soul mates.

Running all the way downstairs, Xin Xi didn't care about his image at all, he only knew to run faster.She pushed open the door of the hall and saw a person walking behind the drifting electronic butler from a distance, walking through the garden, admiring the ten-meter radius in the center of the flower garden with great interest, which can make people feel happy in it Oversized fountain for swimming.

Xin Xi couldn't wait to continue running wildly, the smile on his face became brighter and brighter.

The current situation of the two of them is very similar to those old movies about love in the early years - on both sides of the beautiful and beautiful garden, the protagonist can't see the appearance of the opposite person through the mist, but he knows that it must be very important The person you love is the kind of important person who deserves to be hidden in your heart and secretly protected.

"Zhao Zhao!" Although Xin Xiren was a small one still wearing kicking slippers, she ran fast. Her long brown hair fluttered behind her head, looking frizzy and agile.

In such a classical and elegant background, seeing the rushing Xin Xi from Zhao Xi's perspective, he didn't feel that it was inconsistent.The bouncing Xin Xi in her eyes was like an unfettered elf, comforting her heart one by one.Of course, what Zhaoxi refers to is that if you only look at Xin Tiantian’s face, because no elf would wear a baggy hoodie and baggy trousers with clip-ons, only slovenly nerds and Xin himself would dress like this That's all.

The little elf who could only look at his face jumped into Zhaoxi's arms, and the two hugged each other.

If Zhaoxi has always believed that she is a calm and undisturbed backwater, then Xin Xi must be the only person who can arouse her inner fluctuations.

"Ah, your hair is wet, you splashed water on my face." Zhaoxi's tone was not good, even though she said something disgusting, the corners of her mouth curled up uncontrollably.

"Hee hee, I haven't had time to blow my hair." After Xin Tiantian said, she let go of Zhao Xi with some embarrassment, "I'm sorry, I got some work temporarily today, so I didn't have time to pick you up."

Zhaoxi was in a good mood just after meeting her, and she didn't intend to ask her to blame on the spot, but she was fine, and brought up the issue herself, and rushed to the muzzle of the gun.

"You have to explain and apologize to me, there is still a lot—oh, but forget it for now," Zhaoxi sighed, and continued: "Take me in first, I am exhausted, tired and hungry, and you still have to treat me well." Me? We'll settle these accounts later."

It's true that I'm tired and hungry, but in the final analysis, it's just that Zhaoxi lost most of her anger the first time she saw this person, and this person also put on a meek and innocent appearance to admit her mistake , she really couldn't blame it.

"Okay! I've thought about it a long time ago. We must eat hot pot to celebrate your first day! By the way, I'll show you my new friend! He's quite interesting!" Xin Xi said with some sunshine With a brilliant personality, after admitting her cowardice, Zhaoxi's tone softened, and she immediately became more energetic, grabbing her hand and dangling it, she actually acted coquettishly.

27 years old, still naive.

But Zhao Xi still nodded and agreed.She has always been obedient to Xin Xi, and has never refused. ...Okay, there are occasional times when she is rejected because of unreasonable demands, but as long as Xin Xi is a little coquettish, Zhao Xi can compromise without principle.

Besides, she also wants to know what kind of contrasting experience it is to eat hot pot sweating profusely in such a large manor with elegant and exquisite decoration.

The two of Fa Xiao moved quickly, Zhao Xi was not the only one who was starving, and Xin Xi was also busy with busy schedules and had no time to eat a full meal. Now that he was free, he had to eat the hot pot from the motherland that he had been longing for to satisfy his hunger. OK.

Walking through the blooming flower beds and stepping on the winding stone steps, the mystery inside the manor building was finally revealed.Xin Xi pushed open the exquisite and solemn wooden door, and Zhao Xi was overwhelmed once again when he entered the house—from the outside, the house looks like a typical classical style in the early and mid-[-]th century, but the house is full of automation technology everywhere. trace.The intelligent machinery embedded in the wall skin has a clear and fine division of labor, which is comparable to an industrialized assembly line.Although this kind of mechanical facilities is not uncommon, except for public use, ordinary people will not install them, mainly because the complete set of customized machinery is not only expensive, but also requires designated maintenance personnel.The high cost and complicated operation make the working people discouraged, and they can only rely on their own hands to create life.Zhao Xi was mentally prepared when she first saw the manor, but the richness was beyond her imagination.So she had no choice but to take a deep breath and continue to be led away by Xin Xi.

While the two were walking towards the front hall, a mechanical hand helped Zhaoxi take off her coat and hang it up properly, and the electronic butler who led the way took her luggage and took her upstairs quickly.

"Hi, Jessie, we meet again." The voice of the auburn-haired woman came from the upper floor, with a lazy and cheerful tone.

Zhaoxi raised her eyes and saw the inspector who had helped her twice was leaning on the second-floor escalator on the left side of the hall and waving. Although she didn't feel disgusted with this inspector, she didn't like him enough. To the point where she could warmly greet her, she only nodded her head slightly out of etiquette, and then consciously turned her head to look at Xin Xi, waiting for her to speak.

"Zhao Zhao, this is Yi Lai, I think you have met her before, she has nothing to say." Apparently, Xin Xi didn't intend to introduce the inspector solemnly.

"Eli! There is a [Blue Bird] car outside, please take it away later." She said this sentence to the upstairs, and from her tone, it can be felt that Xin Xi is not close to her .And she obviously didn't want the two of them to have any unnecessary contact, but Xin Xi, as the intermediary, only briefly exchanged the names of the two, and then blatantly issued an order to expel Yi Lai.

However, the inspector named Yi Lai didn't seem to mind, waved at the two of them, and then disappeared in front of their eyes. The scene that gradually faded away was exactly the same as what Zhaoxi saw on the plane.

"Aren't you going to introduce me to my friends, why are you so perfunctory?" Zhao Xi didn't speak until it was confirmed that Yi Lai had left.

After hearing this, Xin Xi curled his lips and said: "She doesn't count, she is a member of [Red Light], and they are not pure, and this one is even more outstanding. Don't have too much contact with them if you have nothing to do, or you will be infected with bad habits. .”

Zhaoxi wanted to ask again, aren't you blue and red both from the same organization?But after thinking about it again, since Xin Xi had said that, things would definitely not be as she imagined. It would be better to ask her together later, so he stopped talking.Although she is a friend who grew up with Xin Xi, no matter how close a friend is, she needs some sense of distance, so she never took the initiative to ask about the internal affairs of Blu-ray, except that she probably knew that this was a person who went all over the world to help the awakened. Outside of the running organization, there is no other understanding.

Yi Lai interrupted the rhythm of observing the interior of the manor, and considering that both of them were too hungry, Xin Xi did not intend to introduce the first floor that she was not familiar with, but took Zhaoxi directly to where they lived on the second floor.

Xin Xi let go of Zhaoxi's hand, and the tiny sweat secreted by the palm was exposed to the air, and immediately evaporated, bringing some coolness.

She was walking hard in front of her, but she stopped for some reason, Zhao Xi raised her head and asked silently, Xin Xi said seriously: "Zhao Zhao——I know you have a lot of questions you want to ask me, but you are talking about something." Long, I decided to take the initiative to confess some parts that are easier to understand. Now, I can no longer be regarded as a member of the Blu-ray project. The reason will be explained later, but it is temporarily not suitable or does not need me there.

"Hey! Don't get me wrong! It's not that we violated any laws, it's just that if we continue to stay in the organization, it will cause a lot of trouble for others, so... the management of the organization decided to give me an indefinite leave of absence, to put it bluntly That is, the suspension with an undetermined return date. Siren and Hill also took a vacation with me. Although it is temporary, we don't know when we will be able to go back. But luckily, when we were at the end of the road, there was Mr. Gray The Blue Light members who were willing to take care of us, the few suspended members, gave us this residence."

Zhaoxi quickly digested these premises, nodded back to her and said: "Understood." She did not ask any other questions.

Xin Xi will definitely tell her what should be told to her without reservation, Zhao Xi never has to worry about her covering up, tacit and blind trust is the most basic respect for a good friend.

The stairs are covered with soft and thick carpets, with dark blue as the base, gold and brown embellished with complex patterns, the overall style looks simple and very luxurious, and it must be expensive.

It's just that when people step on this carpet, it's like walking on cotton.Zhaoxi didn't think too much about it, and only attributed this feeling of powerlessness to her lack of exercise. After climbing a few steps, she felt that the stairs were strenuous, so she silently leaned one hand on the handrail and continued to go up in a muffled voice. climb.

She, Zhaoxi, is 27 years old, and she is more and more aware that she is an ordinary teacher in the liberal arts college of a public university. Even if she awakens her abilities, she is still a real "weak chicken".

On the other hand, Xin Xi, her physical energy seems to be inexhaustible. Just running all the way to welcome her, and climbing the stairs with an unscientific sense of gravity, it didn't affect her at all.You should be joking, you should be jumping and jumping, and you don't have the feeling of hypoxia and wheezing caused by the heart qi not keeping up with the lung ventilation speed.Zhao Xi thought to himself while struggling to breathe, people who can work all over the world are really different.

Climbing up to the second floor is a total of 24 steps. There is a rest platform and a turntable. When standing on the last step, Zhao Xi only felt his legs ache, and the energy in his body seemed to be drained. A dreadful long run.

She resisted the embarrassment of breathing with her mouth, but every time the air in and out of the nasal cavity became more and more uncontrollable, she felt her face getting hot, as if the brain was warning the master of this body ——If you endure it, you will be hypoxic!Is body more important than face?

Zhaoxi accepted her fate, she no longer struggled to choose, and asked Xin Xi, who was walking cheerfully in front, angrily, "Is there any ice water, I'm a little thirsty."

Xin Tiantian turned her head with a smile and saw that her complexion was wrong, as if she had realized something, she looked up at the ceiling with a sullen face and shouted: "Pin! Didn't you cancel the gravity radiation experiment? You said that this experiment is too limited, Disabled!"

Her angry voice resounded throughout the second floor, carrying a rare sullenness.

But in front of him, Zhaoxi was out of breath, so weak that he felt that he was getting more and more tired, his physical strength was seriously exhausted, and even his body was about to escape the control of his brain.If nothing else was done, she might be on the verge of shock.

When Zhaoxi was about to lose her vision, a stabbing pain in her upper arm woke her up in time.A mechanical arm held a syringe and injected a tube of light blue medicine into her body. Zhaoxi immediately regained her clarity of mind, and the feeling of thirst and exhaustion disappeared. It seemed that this was the antidote for that gravity experiment up.

"Sorry, I wanted to fix the siren this morning, but forgot to turn it off."

It's a pity that the siren didn't make it, but Zhaoxi was responsible.

He heard his voice before seeing him, and Pin's voice came through the electronic butler standing by in the corner. Before Xin Xi could speak again, he heard the siren sitting up suddenly on the sofa in the public rest area and roaring: "Hey! I'm still here! Don't tell me you're going to fuck me to my face!"

Stand-in Pin: "Then you should cooperate with my new experiment."

The Siren rejected him coldly without thinking: "Your experiment is too boring and not suitable for me. You might as well find someone else."

The stand-in Pin was silent for a while and continued: "Siren, watch your back, I will pester you until you promise me."

Xin Xi was stunned by his words, and couldn't help complaining, and interjected: "...Pin, you use this kind of anger to solve the problem, in fact, it is very naive from some angles."

"..."

Your friend's stand-in Pin, who was ruthlessly complained about, will immediately go offline in embarrassment.

The Siren continued to lie down on the sofa, looking like a salted fish who had lost his dreams.

"Zhao Zhao, that's the Siren, you know him, a member of Blu-ray." Xin Xi pointed to the other side of the sofa and said to Zhao Xi speechlessly.

"You have met another member of our team, Hill, and she will come over later today. Then... the voice from the mechanical butler just now is from Pin. He is also a resident of Gray Manor, but it has nothing to do with Blu-ray. .In fact, the partner I mainly want to introduce to you is him, but he usually doesn't come out of the room when he has nothing to do, and I will call him out for you to meet later when we have dinner."

Zhaoxi nodded. She had heard about Siren for a long time, but she had never met because of various opportunities.Just now, I only heard the siren and the voice named Pin going back and forth, and I just felt that the relationship between the people here is quite delicate.

She followed Xin Xi around and looked around at the spacious public rest area on this floor—an open kitchen, a living room with a sofa set that can accommodate more than ten people, a built-in cooking system, and a ten-meter-long table. The dining table is neatly placed by the window to bask in the sun.Everything is placed neatly and orderly, which is indeed a very comfortable living environment.

The man named Siren who was lying dead on the sofa heard Xin Xi's approaching footsteps, and finally got up lazily from the sofa. Xi greeted him, and said to Xin Xi in a resentful tone: "I'm starving to death, when are you going to cook the hot pot?"

"Now, now!" After saying that, Xin Xi rolled up his sleeves and walked into the kitchen pompously.

Years of wandering overseas has given Xin the ability to cook on his own, especially when your teammates are Americans who have no pursuit of food, and delicious Chinese food is especially precious.In the past, there were too many tasks and the work was very busy. She would only cook on important days. Now all of their team is in a semi-retired state, and the hardware facilities in the residence are complete. Everyone can get together more time safely. The number of chefs also soared.

Xin Xi, who was about to show off his talents, had just picked up the dried spices. The decadent man who looked slumped and his head borrowed strength somehow, stood up neatly from the deep sofa, and followed Zhao Xi and Xin Xi. out of the kitchen, intending to help.

It wasn't until he stood up from the sofa that Zhao Xi could see his specific figure and appearance clearly. He was a typical Asian face. He was at least 1.8 meters tall when viewed from the front, and his shoulders were broad but not burly.His short black hair is soft and fluffy, and his appearance is more delicate than most girls. His peach blossom eyes are inadvertently smiling, and the corners of his lips are curved upwards, showing a soft but not frivolous expression.

Zhaoxi was a little fascinated by it. Generally, boys with good faces would give people the impression of being too extreme, or they would be too soft if they follow the beautiful facial features, or they would be too out of touch and too out of harmony.But none of these exist in front of the Siren. He looks well adjusted, a comfortable and stunning beauty, and he is attractive and loves to watch.

Sure enough, seeing is worth seeing. The siren described in Xin Xi's email is indeed like this. It is so beautiful that it is indistinguishable. People can't find a suitable way, let alone desecrate this dazzling beauty.

Of course, if he wasn't wearing a large loose sweater and wide-leg home pants of the same style and different colors as Xin's.

This is exactly the same way of dressing as a certain person... The interest in admiring beauties is directly ruined after Zhao Xi's vision is pulled down.It is unknown which of these two people is the source of all evil at the beginning of such a waste of money, but maybe it is just that the two people have similar smells.With such a good-looking appearance, why does she have a rough heart that doesn't match her appearance at all?Zhaoxi was really puzzled, she could only sigh in her heart while torturing her own soul that yearned for beauty.

After secretly feeling emotional, Zhao Xi turned his eyes back to the kitchen, and diligently helped Xin Xiaochu wash the dishes. The ingredients were prepared in advance. After opening the double-door super-large capacity refrigerator, everything was available. They presumably prepared it specially for cooking hot pot.Xin is in charge of the soul of the hot pot—preparing the soup base, Zhao Xi is in charge of washing and cutting vegetables to marinate the chicken, and Siren is holding up a knife and concentrating on slicing a large piece of tender beef into thin slices.

In order to have an early meal, the three of them just did their own work without talking, and the common room was filled with the concentration and pyrotechnic atmosphere that only the back kitchen of a restaurant can have.

Such an atmosphere of being alone made Hill, who had just returned home, look like a heretic.This is what she saw when she climbed up to the second floor. She didn't make a sound, but it seemed too deliberate if she didn't make a sound. She was really embarrassed to interrupt their tacit cooperation.

Fortunately, Zhaoxi found her first, and the two had met several times because of Xin Xi's occasional holiday get-togethers, so they were familiar faces.Hill knew Zhaoxi's itinerary, so she wasn't surprised. After the two greeted each other friendly, she went back to her room to wash off the mess. When she came out to help, she found that the bottom of the pot had been set up. It is a mandarin duck pot that is as harmonious as Tai Chi.After many experiments, Xin Xi discovered that Yuanyang hot pot is the favorite type of hot pot for foreigners like Hill and Siren. Everyone eats according to their own tastes, and there will be no conflicts because they like spicy or sweet.

Xiaochu Xin has his own method of stir-frying small ingredients in a pot. The spicy red soup bottom makes people salivate.Siren put the processed meat slices and vegetables on the table, and couldn't help inhaling the aroma of the hot pot. When he was so happy, he couldn't help but order two side dishes.

Strange to say, before he ate the spicy hot pot for the first time, he never had the ability to tolerate chili peppers. It turns out that spiciness is such an extremely beautiful taste.Since then, Siren has fallen in love with spicy hot pot, so every time Xin Xi prepares hot pot, even if only Siren in the audience is spicy, he must be a mandarin duck.

There are not many spicy food in Gray Manor, Siren is a loyal fan, and the other is Pin, a hacker who never sees the end of the dragon.

"Pin! Come out to eat hot pot!" Xin Xi shouted into the air again at the top of his voice.

This time, no one answered, but the door of the room at the top of the corridor on the right side of the rest area opened.

After Hill came out, he helped serve a few dishes, and the bottom of the pot was already showing a slight tendency to boil, so everyone sat down immediately. The sunshine outside was just right, and the long table was sprinkled with a beautiful and hazy petty bourgeois atmosphere.Fat beef rolls and marinated tender beef seem to have their own soft light effects, calling for their favor.The siren stared at the hot pot and the meat so greedy that it salivated wildly, and Zhao Xi was too hungry to appreciate the strange sense of disobedience of cooking hot pot in a magnificent western building, holding chopsticks ready to go, indirectly agreeing This kind of mix and match style should exist.

The soup base was already bubbling, Siren didn't wait for the slow-moving Pin, and went straight to the two platters of good beef, which was considered the beginning of the feast.