soul seeker

"And then? What are you going to do after we part?"

"Beat." Lin Xue opened the drawer, took out two mixers, put one of them into the container of egg yolks in front of Weibai, picked up the egg whites and said while beating, "Don't forget to add Corn oil."

"Oh, just keep beating like this?" Wei Bai asked while picking up the basin while beating.

"Ah."

"But why is your speed so slow? Are you lazy?" Seeing that Lin Xue's beating was not as fast as his own, Wei Bai asked jokingly.

"Who's being lazy? It's because you beat too fast, okay? Oh yes, after you add the corn oil, you have to sift in the low-gluten flour, and add a little sugar and salt too." He put down the pot in his hand. With the mixer, turn around and dig a few spoonfuls of sugar into it and continue beating.

"Whose birthday is it this time? Do I recognize it?" Because of repeating the same actions, Wei Bai was a little bored, so he chatted.

"You definitely recognize it."

When Lin Xue said this, Weibai thought of Lin Xue's friends he had met, but in fact there were not many of them?It's so late, it's already tomorrow when I finish it and send it over, right?Is it tomorrow's birthday?No, with his personality, tomorrow's birthday must be done early tomorrow, who?his father?

"Okay!" An hour later, their work was done. Lin Xue poured the egg yolk paste into the mould. He turned his head and looked at the time. Not in time.

"Can you help me see if the oven is preheated?" He turned to Wei Bai and said.

It's almost twelve o'clock.

Lin Xue also waited more and more anxiously in front of the oven.

Wei Bai, who was watching from the side, asked in puzzlement: "Whose birthday is it? If it's past twelve o'clock, it will be today. That person is not here now, so he must not be able to make it."

"Isn't it you!" Lin Xue, who was in a hurry, didn't have the heart to hide it anymore.

"Huh? Me? Is it today?"

"Yes! Can you remember that year?"

"After all, the Gregorian calendar is used for both work and daily life. Besides, I'm too busy. I just don't remember my birthday. Why did I remember to bake a cake for me today? Didn't I always say happy birthday? I can't eat it again, isn't it a pity?"

"I'm eating, I just want to have fun with you, why not! I can't catch up soon! It's all because the guests at that table insist on not leaving."

"It's okay." Wei Bai walked behind him and patted his head, "It won't matter if it's a few minutes late, I'm anxious to see."

"Well, don't!" Lin Xue frowned, "It should be fine, so hurry up and say it before twelve o'clock!"

Seeing that it might be too late, Lin Xue stood up and said to Wei Bai: "Happy birthday! N-year-old birthday star!"

"Thank you." Wei Bai smiled and lowered his head slightly to kiss Wei Bai's hair. At this time, the oven also "ding".

"All right!"

Lin Xue took out the cake and put it on the table, took off her gloves, and looked at the clock: "Fortunately, there are still two minutes until twelve o'clock, so I should squeeze this in time." The flower bag squeezed a circle of cream flowers on the cake, and put a cherry in the middle, "You're done! Go in, and I'll put candles and sing birthday songs for you. There is no place to sit here."

Lin Xue held the cake in one hand and held the candle in the other, with a happy smile on her face.

In the lounge of the center.

Wei Bai looked at the finished cake, although it was beautifully decorated, but always felt weird, "It seems that there is something too much."

"I know." Wei Bai who put the candles on the cake felt a little guilty, "But if you wait until the mold is removed, you will have to wait until tomorrow morning, and it will be too late. Well, let's make a wish."

"So it's like this." Wei Bai smiled helplessly, closed his eyes, and began to wish that my glass disease would recover later...

After making his wish, Wei Bai lowered his head and blew out the candle.

"All right."

"What wish did you make?" Lin Xue asked while taking down the candle.

"Can you say this? Isn't it invalid if you say it?"

"Hey? You still believe this, such a young girl."

"Believe it, why don't you believe it?"

"But I'm curious to see you make a wish..." Lin Xue sat down, "Can't you really say it?"

"Ah."

Downstairs of Tongzi, next to the tree in the yard.

While counting the time in his heart, Wu Ci looked at Yingchen who was practicing.

On the tree stump, Yingchen grabbed the sparrow with one hand, and just when he was about to be happy, the tiredness that he wanted to overcome but could not control surged up. This time, he can only go so far this time. That tough hurdle.

On the sofa in Tongzilou, as soon as Yingchen woke up, he eagerly asked Wu Ci next to him, "How is it? Did you have more time than yesterday?!"

"Well, although it's just a mental calculation, the error should not exceed three seconds, and in the past few days, no matter how bad you are, you haven't retracted it within one minute. It seems that you should have passed that level."

"Really? That's great!" Yingchen sat up excitedly, raised her hands and shouted.

"You don't have to be so happy, right? Your current hit rate and capture rate are still very poor, and there is still a lot to work on in the future. Instead of having time to be happy here, if you have enough rest, you might as well start practicing now."

While talking about Wu Ci, he walked over and sat down where Yingchen's hair was just now.

"Yes, yes, there is still a long way to go to catch up with your old man." Ying Chen squinted at Wu Ci behind him and said bitterly.

When retracting his gaze, Yingchen caught sight of the tail ring on Wu Ci's hand.

"Hey, that, anyway, I'm making good progress now, can you give me a try on that?" Yingchen raised her finger to Wu Ci's hand with a flattering expression.

"this is not OK."

"Your current skill is not good enough, and the tail ring consumes more energy than the red ring. If you wear this ring, the time will probably return to less than 30 seconds."

"Oh, I know, I just want to see if I'm wearing it for practice! Here it is!" He turned around and wanted to snatch it.

"No!" Wu Ci grabbed Yingchen's wrist with one hand, and raised the ring-wearing hand.

Yingchen also stretched out his other hand to grab it. Originally, Yingchen came to grab it half-kneeling. After straightening his upper body, he was much taller than Wu Ci who was sitting. It seemed that he was about to catch it. In a hurry, the hand holding Yingchen's wrist forcefully pulled Yingchen over, "Tsk!"

After some tugging, Yingchen had already been pinned down on the sofa by Wu Cikuan, with his hands on top of his head tightly pinched, only now did Yingchen realize that he had made a fuss.

"Uh, okay, I won't grab, you get out of the way, I'll go down and continue practicing."

Seeing his twisted face, Wu Ci also knew what he was afraid of.

"What are you afraid of?"

Although he was still asking, Wu Ci's hand had already penetrated into Yingchen's clothes.

Feeling Wu Ci's fingertips in his waist, Ying Chen was so nervous that he couldn't even utter a word. He closed his eyes tightly and his whole body was stiff.

Seeing him like this, Wu Ci burst out laughing, let him go and sat up and leaned against the back of the sofa, "Seeing how scared you are, hurry up and practice."

"Wh-who's scared!" Yingchen sat up with a flushed face, and while stammering back, she got off the sofa and was about to go out, "I, I just saw your face so close, I was scared, scared!"

"Oh, is it?"

"Yeah yeah!"

two months later.

Yingchen looked at the sparrow in his hand, and was happily thinking that everything would be easy and smooth as long as he practiced every day, Wu Ci, who was in the tube building, shouted to him from the window: "Since catching the sparrow can be very smooth now, Then you can almost start practicing blind capture."

"What?!" Blind arrest "?!" Ying Chen, who heard the blind arrest for the first time, turned and looked up at Wu Ci who was in front of the window and exclaimed.

"Nature means literally, practice with your eyes closed."

"Why?! Evil spirits are not invisible, why practice this?"

"The speed of the evil spirit after eating cannot be tracked by the naked eye. Unlike a bird, it can still be seen no matter how fast it flies. Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and practice, just close your eyes, it's not a difficult thing."

As he was speaking, Wu Ci turned around and walked to the fax machine that was spitting out task papers.

"What do you mean by just closing your eyes! How can I determine the position of the bird with my eyes closed! Hey, come back, where are you going!"

"You can't hear even when you close your eyes and ears?" Ying Chen was about to go in to find him, but Wu Ci had already come out with a task paper, and said as he passed by, "Don't birds make sounds when they take off and land?" ?It can’t be as quiet as something thrown by someone. Wouldn’t it lose the meaning of blind capture if you don’t rely entirely on your ears to catch things? You go to practice, I will perform the task, you don’t have to follow, practice hard. "

"Oh! It's the first time I practice with my eyes closed, and you're not there to remind me, what if I fall to my death?!"

"Depend on yourself. What if one day I'm not by your side?" Wu Ci stopped, turned his head and gave Yingchen a stern look, and then walked out of the yard.

"How is it possible, a ghost can die again..." Yingchen complained and put down the sparrow in his hand, and activated the red ring to carry out blind arrest according to Wu Ci's words.

At the beginning, because of her rebellious psychology, she felt that this method was not feasible. Yingchen didn't even have a way to catch it, but after trying a few more times, after getting familiar with the sound of the bird flapping its wings, it was really possible to distinguish it from other noises. up.

In this way, at least Yingchen can find the law of blind capture, and won't be at a loss like before.

In the evening, Wu Ci, who came back from the mission, saw that Yingchen was still practicing, so he came over and asked with concern, "How is the practice? Is the practice going well?"

"Yeah!" Seeing Wu Ci come back, Yingchen, who was squatting on the tree branch, turned off the red ring and jumped down, "It's easier to master than I imagined. There were several times before when I was tired and slept in the yard. I feel like a homeless man." He scratched his head and giggled.

"Don't talk nonsense, homeless people are much smarter than you. If you really sleep on the ground in the open like this, you will either freeze to death in winter or be bitten by mosquitoes in summer. It's okay, you've practiced all day, let's rest."

With that said, the two of them entered the tube building together.

"Oh, you said the word "rest" and I really feel so sleepy. It's been a long time since I died. I haven't felt tired and dying." They walked side by side on the stairs.

As soon as Yingchen finished speaking, the tail ring that was originally worn by Wu Ci suddenly lost its support and fell on the steps and rolled down step by step.

They both froze there, with surprised expressions on their faces, although the surprised things were different.

What surprised Wu Ci was that he didn't expect the cure of Liuli disease to be so sudden, but after thinking about it, what else would it be?Will you be notified in advance?

"What's going on here?! Why does it look like your hand disappeared?!" Yingchen, who saw this kind of picture for the first time, looked at Wu Ci who was walking down the stairs step by step in surprise.

"Don't worry, nothing major has happened, it's just that the glass disease has been cured. A soul without glass disease cannot touch everything covered with the underworld."

As he said that, Wu Ci squatted down and picked up the tail ring with his hands, wanting to test whether it was really good.

When his fingers touched the tail ring, it was as if they were touching light, and it looked good if he could see it but not touch it.

"What's wrong with you? What's your expression?" Wu Ci got up and turned to look at Yingchen who was still standing on the stairs. The setting sun shone like blood on Yingchen's tear-filled face.

"Don't worry," Wu Ci, who knew what he was worried about, smiled softly, "Didn't I say that even if the glass disease is cured, I won't reincarnate smoothly like an ordinary soul."

He walked up the stairs, reached out his hand to wipe away the tears hanging on Yingchen's face, "Look at you, like a child, you can cry whenever you want."

"What will happen after that? Shouldn't you just stay there in such a calm manner?" Yingchen said with an urgent tone.

"Is this... probably metabolized by weathering disease."

"what is that?"

"Didn't I tell you? It seems that I forgot again. Let's go. I'll talk about it when I get to the top. You still have to report to the top." Wu Ci walked up a few steps, turned around and was still in a daze. Yingchen who was there stretched out his hand, and Yingchen raised his hand to hold his hand.

"I'll make a report? Don't you even have access to a fax machine now?"

"You can touch it, but you have to deal with everything by yourself in the future. You have to get used to it first. You haven't reported to the higher-ups yet, have you?"

Yingchen nodded, seeing that nothing bad happened around her, everything was as usual, she felt a little more at ease, but the panic never faded away.