Fire to the Abyss

Two Thursdays from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] pm is the regular outdoor activities day of the detective agency. On this day, the president Zhao Yang or the vice president Liu Xiran will buy milk tea for everyone, and then a group of people gather in the gazebo behind the Second Teaching Play board games or tell suspenseful stories to pass the time.

"Come and drink milk tea." Liu Xiran carried two bags of milk tea, and walked up the steps with heavy steps like a barbell. Xia Lin's eyes followed the stone steps Liu Xiran stepped on, for fear that she would knock down any step. crushed.

"Sister Xiran, did you buy an extra cup?"

The person who spoke was the youngest member of the club, Qin Yuhang, a freshman in the Department of Fine Arts. After carefully distributing milk tea for everyone, she found that there was an extra cup of milk tea.

Biting the straw, Liu Xiran picked up the milk tea and glanced at it: "I just told the handsome guy in the milk tea shop the same old way, I have an extra cup of jasmine milk green, it's..." Liu Xiran fell silent before finishing his sentence. The noisy crowd suddenly quieted down, and the atmosphere became slightly awkward for a while.

Xia Lin took a sip of milk tea on purpose and made a loud noise. His eyes quickly swept across the faces of the silent people, and then he said in a low voice, "It's not that there are too many milk teas, but that there are fewer people."

On the last outdoor activity day, there were still ten people gathered here, but now there are only nine, so there is a dusty seat in the corner.Xia Lin put the milk tea on the seat. The light green milk tea was plated into a grayish green by the dim light, which was in stark contrast to the brightly lit Erjiao not far behind, which looked very strange.

Zhao Yang suddenly put down the milk tea and stood up, and said solemnly: "Everyone, get up and mourn Senior Sister Li Xueen for 3 minutes."

Liu Xiran put down the milk tea and stood up first, followed by others.Xia Lin put the cup of jasmine milk green back in the middle of the stone table, and finally seemed to have bones, and slowly stood up straight.

Zhao Yang said: "Let's get started." Then he lowered his head and closed his eyes, his eyebrows and eyes looked sad and solemn under the projection of the dim light.Everyone else quickly lowered their heads, except Xia Lin.His usually half-closed eyes suddenly opened without any laziness, and his sharp eyes scanned back and forth on everyone's faces like an eagle, not letting go of any subtle expressions.

Three minutes later, Zhao Yang lightly knocked on the table to signal the end of the silent mourning: "It's ok, today's outdoor activities will be changed to indoors."

Xia Lin drank a cup of warm milk tea and still didn't warm up, rubbing her hands together and said, "Yes, go to the activity room, it's too cold today, Dad froze to death."

Liu Xiran walked clumsily to Xia Lin's side, reached out and patted his head: "Who do you call Dad? Look at you, you're dressed like a monkey, no wonder you're not cold."

Xia Lin didn't take it seriously: "Cut, don't you want to look like a bear in your clothes?"

Liu Xiran was stopped by Zhao Yang when he was about to have a seizure. Zhao Yang dragged Liu Xiran, who had doubled in size, away.At this time, Qin Yuhang walked up to Xia Lin and took off the pure white scarf around her neck: "Senior Xia, why don't you wrap my scarf around me first."

Xia Lin looked at Xu Luo, who was walking steadily not far away, and paused for two seconds on the smoky gray scarf around his neck, then pushed Qin Yuhang's hand back, and said with a smile: "No, my father, bah, Xu Luo Lo has a scarf."

After Xia Lin finished speaking, he chased after Xu Luo without looking back. Qin Yuhang silently wrapped the scarf around his neck and looked at the backs of the two people in front of him. .

"Father, wait for me." Xia Lin called Xu Luo's voice with obvious tremors. When Xu Luo stopped to look at him, he rubbed his hands even more exaggeratedly. Heat takes self-help, and the bloodless lips indicate that this self-help is about to end in failure.

If it were someone else, he would have hugged her brazenly and snuggled up for warmth, but Xu Luo was different.Although he is gentle and conniving towards Xia Lin, he seems to have an indifferent and alienated temperament, and he doesn't like to laugh very much. Every cell seems to be telling others: don't come close to me.This is also the reason why he, as a popular male god, has never had a date. At the beginning, many girls confessed to him, but he rejected them calmly, and his tone was not tactful at all—sorry, not interested, next one.Later, no one dared to confess to him again. I don't know if it was because of his attitude, or because the girls who had been rejected had secretly formed a strange organization like a support group.

In short, if Xu Luo didn't get close, Xia Lin would never take the initiative to take a step closer to him, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't use deep-dive tactics to lure the enemy.

Xu Luo took off the scarf around her neck and put it on Xia Lin's hand: "You wrap it around, I wear a lot, I'm not cold."

"Father, I love you!" The scarf was softer than it looked, and still had some residual warmth.Xia Lin wrapped the scarf around her neck, then wrapped the remaining part around her hands and covered half of her face, hiding the uncontrollable triumphant expression on her face.

The battle was successful!

As the president, Zhao Yang was still very conscientious. He quickly borrowed the key to the activity room and turned on the air conditioner to the maximum. This was in stark contrast to Liu Xiran who sat on the table with his legs crossed and directed him.

When everyone arrived, Zhao Yang said with a steady posture: "Recently, everyone is playing Undead, and I thought of a new way to play. Everyone write your game ID on a small piece of paper and give it to me. Let's organize a game." Wave team battle!"

This game is already very boring, and everyone usually hurts each other casually with people they don't know. When it comes to team battles, everyone immediately cheers up and handed in their game IDs very cooperatively.

Zhao Yang divided the nine paper balls into three piles, and opened them one by one to announce the team battle groups: "Team [-]: Shero, Zero, XL; Team [-]: Gollum, Queen, Ladon; Team [-]: Lura, Cry, Highland. Add friends to form a team by yourself, you can discuss tactics frequently in the team, and then fight team battles when everyone is online. The team that is still alive on the next event day will have a mysterious reward."

Liu Xiran stuck his neck out from the high collar of the down jacket, and asked eccentrically, "President, what reward?"

Every time Liu Xiran called the president, Zhao Yang felt the hairs all over his body stand on end, and his face was a little hot: "Go, go, I have already mentioned the mysterious reward, how can I say it now?"

Liu Xiran originally wanted to use his spirit to add a few words, but Qin Yuhang suddenly asked: "President, you didn't say who the ID corresponds to?"

Before Zhao Yang could speak, Xia Lin smiled contemptuously: "I said little sister, this is a detective agency, how can we get along if we can't even guess the ID? Right, Queen."

Qin Yuhang's face turned from white to red in an instant, and his voice became thinner: "That's right, Senior Xia is really smart."

Zhao Yang picked up the chalk and wrote down the IDs on the blackboard, and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose: "Well, let's all guess who is who."

Several IDs have been guessed after several rounds. After all, everyone often activities together and know each other relatively well. There are only three IDs left without names: XL, Gollum, and Ladon.There were only three names left that were not written: Xia Lin, Xu Luo, and Wei Ziyi.

"XL" is easy to say, it must be one of Xia Lin or Xu Luo, and the latter two have no clue.Wei Ziyi was drawn into the agency by the deceased Li Xueen. He is not tall, talkative, and a little timid. At first, he was a bit out of tune with the lively detective agency. After joining the agency for almost two years, he was able to integrate into the collective. This is thanks to the Liu Xiran is a big talker.

Except for the three parties, everyone else frowned and thought about the corresponding relationship between the characters. At this time, Qin Yuhang suddenly said: "I see, Wei Ziyi's senior is Gollum, and Gollum is the hobbit distorted by the Lord of the Rings in the movie "The Lord of the Rings" People..." She didn't continue talking, and then said that it might involve personal attacks, because she really didn't think that the tall and handsome Xu Luo and Xia Lin would have anything to do with that ugly monster image.

Receiving Qin Yuhang's prompt, Liu Xiran showed a mysterious smile: "No, no, I think Xu Luo is Gollum." Others also stood in line one after another, and most people agreed with Qin Yuhang.

Liu Xiran's confidence was not affected, she did not forget Gollum's classic line, which is the one used by Xu Luocun Xia Lin's mobile phone number - myprecious.

Liu Xiran was confident: "I'm sure Xu Luo is Gollum, if I'm wrong, I'll buy milk tea next time."

Everyone sighed at first, and then shifted their gazes to the three righteous masters. Xu Luo calmly accepted the gazes projected from all directions, and had no intention of speaking.Wei Ziyi didn't know when he stood up from his seat, his back straightened, like a pupil who was punished to stand.Only Xia Lin sat obliquely on the table with his arms crossed, with an inscrutable smile on his pretty face.

Judging from Liu Xiran's experience of being bullied by Xia Lin for many years, it is likely that there is nothing good about him when he shows this smile.

Sure enough, Xia Lin smiled without image: "Hahaha...Actually, I am Gollum. For a serious person like Xu Luo, he will first consider using his own initials XL when choosing a name, and the rest of Ladon is Wei Ziyi. As far as I know, Ladon is the hundred-headed dragon Ladon who guards the golden apples in Greek mythology, but I don’t know if he meant it.”

Xia Lin's words attracted everyone's attention to Wei Ziyi. His already reserved expression became even more cramped, and he nodded with extremely unnatural movements.

Xia Lin had a half-smile: "If you say that, we actually look alike—Liu Xiran, you're such a clever little ghost. Next time, you won't drink milk tea. How about that coffee shop on the left when you go out?"

Liu Xiran roared: "Ah, how is that possible, I clearly saw..." Liu Xiran suddenly stopped talking, and looked at Xu Luo with an ambiguous and sticky look. Xu Luo looked up at her, and lowered his head to play with his phone as if nothing had happened .

Xia Lin: "Hey, what did you see? You're smiling like a bustard."

Liu Xiran: "Hey hey hey, it's nothing."

With Liu Xiran's evil smile and eccentric tone of voice, Xia Lin just thought she was thinking about something inexplicable again: "Just don't forget the coffee, I'll order a caramel macchiato first."

"Sister Xiran, I want a cappuccino."

"Sister Xiran, I want Mocha."

……

Under the leadership of Xia Lin, the others quickly finished ordering. Liu Xiran typed into the memo one by one, and finally moved to Zhao Yang dejectedly: "You are the only one left, what do you drink?"

Zhao Yang: "I will drink whatever you drink."

Liu Xiran squinted at Zhao Yang, who had a playful smile on his face, and said angrily, "Hmph, I'll order you a super bitter black coffee. Why do you think Ermu's mentally handicapped man is called Gollum? It cost me half a month's living expenses." Take it in."

Zhao Yang: "So didn't I just make eye contact with you? But you still spoke harshly."

Liu Xiran stretched out his fist and lightly punched Zhao Yang, his down jacket immediately sank into a small hole and then slowly bulged up. This picture somehow hit her point of laughter, Liu Xiran couldn't help laughing out loud. Out of all the smiles that Zhao Yang had seen her, it was the most reserved one.

Liu Xiran: "Your eyes are so small, who can see. And wow, my name is Shero, why are you called Zero? Wow, it looks like a couple's name."

Zhao Yang expressed his grievance: "Obviously I got the ID first."

Liu Xiran suddenly thought of something, put his hands on the blackboard beside Zhao Yang, and gave him a—no, half a wall, and then asked in a domineering tone: "How do you know that Ermu's name is Gollum, say, What is the conspiracy?"

Zhao Yang didn't expect Liu Xiran to look silly, but unexpectedly his mind turned quickly, and he quickly replied: "We have become friends."

Liu Xiran didn't let go of the panic that flashed in Zhao Yang's eyes: "Everyone usually plays their own things, and didn't mention adding friends. I didn't even notice that there is a function of adding friends. Why are you two secretly?" Added, say, what adultery! Are you two hiding something from me?"

Zhao Yang cast his eyes on Xia Lin for help, he was busy molesting the two beauties in the third group.

Zhao Yang felt himself getting smaller and smaller in Liu Xiran's pupils, and said helplessly: "I, I, I, I will tell you later."