The Universe's First Hide and Seek

"Do you have a date?"

Dai Bowen smiled when he heard the question: "Is Mr. Stewart very concerned about this?"

"It's just chatting, don't be nervous." Shen Xiuyuan said, "If you don't want to answer, don't answer. It's okay."

Dai Bowen said: "Oh, then I won't answer."

Shen Xiuyuan: "..."

"Such a secret?" Shen Xiuyuan said, "Then is there anyone you like, can you say that?"

Dai Bowen: "Guess?"

Shen Xiuyuan: "...All right, I guess you have such a strict mouth."

Dai Bowen chuckled and swallowed a piece of beef: "Then there is. Ask for another question, does Mr. Stewart have any?"

Shen Xiuyuan looked at him meaningfully: "Then I have it too."

Assistant Liang, who was forced to listen to the whole process at the same table: ... Am I a little redundant?

***

After eating, Dai Bowen went to the toilet before leaving.

Assistant Liang took advantage of this moment to ask Shen Xiuyuan in a low voice: "Boss, will you send him back later or continue to take him with you?"

Shen Xiuyuan wiped his hands slowly with a disposable towel: "Take it."

"Really?" Assistant Liang said, "The person we're going to meet, what we're going to talk about, and even what we're going to present may involve very confidential content. If he hears it..."

Shen Xiuyuan said: "It doesn't matter."

Assistant Liang: "..." All right, I've already fulfilled my duty of reminder, I can't stop the boss from being a fool!

While talking, Dai Bowen came back soon.

Shen Xiuyuan stood up, his movements were so natural that he didn't look like a person with prosthetics, obviously he had practiced perfectly a long time ago: "Let's go."

Dai Bowen thought he was going home, so he nodded: "Okay."

He was still thinking about just having a meal, just changing his face, it doesn't seem necessary to change his name, after all, no one came to talk to him during the whole meal.As a result, when he walked into the elevator, he realized that something was wrong.

He leaned close to Assistant Liang's ear and asked, "Do you want to go somewhere else?"

"Hmm." Assistant Liang was about to open his mouth to explain a bit, when Shen Xiuyuan said next to him, "I'll take you there to see and see."

Dai Bowen was at a loss: Is there a second event for the co-author?

He thought for a while, then leaned closer to Shen Xiuyuan's ear and asked, "What is it probably? Do I need to make any preparations?"

Shen Xiuyuan smiled: "Just put on your eyes."

Dai Bowen said "Oh", but thought "Hmm?" in his heart.

"Bring your eyes", do you want me to shut up and just watch, or do you want me to... "see" something else?

Dai Bowen thought to himself, the elevator has already descended to the fourth basement floor of this building.

When going to the restaurant from the grounded floor of the spaceship, Dai Bowen obviously didn't see the sign of "B4" in the elevator.Now he has come to the negative fourth floor, obviously this is not a place open to everyone.

After getting out of the elevator, there is a place similar to a reception hall outside, and there is a door facing the direction of the elevator.There are guards at the door, and it is impossible to tell whether it is a highly intelligent creature or an anthropomorphic machine at a glance.Near the door, some other guests can be seen coming and going, even standing at the door talking, they are dressed more formally than the restaurant above, and there are more people wearing masks.

However, there are more people wearing masks, so the mask no longer looks strange, and it has become a bit like a masquerade ball atmosphere.Shen Xiuyuan didn't say hello to these people, but just flicked the communicator under the supervision of the guard at the door, and brought Dai Bowen and Assistant Liang inside.

After entering the door, instead of going to the noisy conference venue, they turned around and boarded the elevator.Of course, this elevator also needs a communicator.

In short, the last three entered a box on the second floor.

One side of the box is a circular landscape window, which is visible on one side by default. You can see the outside from the inside, but you cannot see the inside from the outside.Of course, it is possible to adjust to other visible and invisible states.

After the three of them entered, Assistant Liang took out a portable instrument and scanned the box, then said to Shen Xiuyuan, "Nothing unusual, boss."

"En." Shen Xiuyuan nodded, and picked the chair in the middle, "Probably not. If there is, the business of this place will basically be ruined."

Dai Bowen guessed that what they were talking about was probably a problem with the monitoring and monitoring equipment, so he didn't ask any more questions, but just walked out of the landscape window and looked down.Looking at it, I found that the following is like a theater.There is a stage in front, and there are semi-circular booths in front of the stage and rows of seats in the back. Guests in formal attire and some wearing masks began to sit down one after another. It looks like the performance on the stage is about to start. up.

However, the stage now has nothing but a podium-like space on the side.

Dai Bowen guessed what this was about, but he turned around and asked, "Is there going to be a performance later?"

Shen Xiuyuan said: "Yes."

"What show?"

"you guess?"

"..." Dai Bowen felt that it was a continuation of the conversation at the meal just now. After a two-second silence, he said, "...Like, a speech or an auction?"

Shen Xiuyuan finally gave up on it: "The auction."

Dai Bowen asked, "Does Mr. Stewart want to buy anything?"

"Maybe." Shen Xiuyuan replied a little casually, and then changed the topic, "Come and sit down, order what you want to eat."

"...Ah?" Dai Bowen asked suspiciously, "Didn't we come here when we were full?"

"Order it. If you don't buy it, there will be low consumption. It's better to buy some." Shen Xiuyuan said, "Just don't order too sweet."

"Then how about some fruit? Do you want ice cream?" Dai Bowen sat on the chair next to Shen Xiuyuan, took the orderer, and flipped through it, "Mr. Stuart, and Russell, what do you drink?"

Shen Xiuyuan said: "You guess."

Dai Bowen: "...Then I'll just click on it and see if I'm right."

Shen Xiuyuan laughed: "Okay."

Dai Bowen asked, "Does Mr. Stewart drink whatever I order?"

Shen Xiuyuan smiled meaningfully: "It depends."

"Understood." Dai Bowen chuckled, then turned to Assistant Liang, "Russell?"

"Uh, lessing black tea with grapefruit, thank you." Assistant Liang didn't dare to say "guess".Even if he is blind now, he can feel the delicate atmosphere between his boss and Dai Bowen.Every sentence of the dialogue sounded normal, but when you carefully tasted it, you felt that there was always something deep in it, as if you were constantly playing charades. Assistant Liang absolutely didn't want to get involved in this troubled water.

Dai Bowen just ordered snacks and drinks.

Things came quickly, fruit, ice cream, light snacks, and drinks from Dai Bowen and Assistant Liang, all quite normal.Only Shen Xiuyuan's drink was a tray with several utensils - a cup of coffee with a strong aroma, a milk jug, a sugar dish, and two more...

"Salt and pepper?"

After Shen Xiuyuan "looked, smelled and licked", he confirmed the true identities of these two things.To be honest, coffee is indeed what Shen Xiuyuan often drinks, and it’s normal to drink it with milk and sugar, but salt and pepper, or the salt and pepper that doesn’t look so ordinary...

Young Master Shen raised his eyebrows and looked at Dai Bowen.

"This is sea salt from planet X, and pepper from planet Y." Dai Bowen clicked on the description on the orderer and handed it to Shen Xiuyuan to see, "It says that the taste has many layers, and the feeling is very unique. Appreciated by celebrities, it is a coffee that coffee lovers cannot miss..."

Shen Xiuyuan glanced at it: "Do you think I like coffee with a unique taste?"

Dai Bowen blinked: "I just think Mr. Stewart should be a coffee lover."

Shen Xiuyuan: ...I knew you would take advantage of this loophole.

Dai Bowen said again: "And this coffee is so unique, I think it is worthy of the identity of Mr. Stewart."

"Using praise as an excuse?" Shen Xiuyuan sneered, "Do you really think this will taste good?"

Dai Bowen: "...Maybe?"

"Really?" Shen Xiuyuan really scooped up sea salt and pepper with the rationed spoon, sprinkled it into the coffee and stirred it, then brought the coffee to Dai Bowen, "Then you have a taste."

Dai Bowen:? ? ?

As long as he didn't move, Shen Xiuyuan held it for as long as he seemed to be in a stalemate with him.After about ten seconds, Dai Bowen felt that if he served his boss coffee for a longer time, he might be put on shoes, so he took down the coffee cup as if admitting defeat.

Then, heartbroken, he took a sip.

First, the most intense pepper flavor takes the lead, and then the unique bitterness of coffee, herbal flavor and the salty taste of sea salt follow closely, and they explode back and forth on the tip of the tongue.This taste doesn't mean that you can't drink it at all, it's just that Dai Bowen really can't appreciate it.

Shen Xiuyuan stared at his expression and knew that it was not so easy to say.However, Young Master Shen still wanted to ask, "How do you feel?"

Dai Bowen thought for a while and replied: "It feels like coffee, sea salt and pepper. The three of them do not blend with each other and are not next to each other. I am standing there. Coffee is coffee, sea salt is sea salt, and pepper is pepper."

Assistant Liang: The description is a bit inexplicable at first, but after listening to it, I can really imagine the taste. What's the matter? !

Shen Xiuyuan was also happy when he heard it: "So, do you still think I will like it?"

Dai Bowen said: "I'm not sure, what if? Shouldn't people be brave enough to try new things? Why don't you at least try it?"

Shen Xiuyuan showed that meaningful expression again, and there was an imperceptible tolerance in his tone: "You insist?"

"I insist." Dai Bowen said, "Shall I order you another drink?"

"No need, you won't finish this anyway." Shen Xiuyuan took the coffee that Dai Bowen had drunk, turned around, and took a sip directly.

Assistant Liang:! ! !

——Although he drank in a different direction, Mr. Shen actually drank coffee from the same cup as others? !

Under the slightly shocked eyes of Assistant Liang, Shen Xiuyuan took a sip of coffee, and then fell silent like Dai Bowen just now.

"It really is... coffee, sea salt, and pepper themselves." Shen Xiuyuan sighed, "Even if sugar and milk are poured in, at most it will be mixed with coffee. The taste of sea salt and pepper is too independent."

Dai Bowen took the coffee cup from his hand, and handed the orderer to him: "You should order another one."

"You order." Shen Xiuyuan returned the orderer, and in order to prevent this guy from messing around again, he added, "If you order this weird thing again, you can drink it up yourself."

Dai Bowen put down his coffee cup, glanced at him, replied with an unidentifiable "hmm" or "huh", and ordered another drink.

Assistant Liang: Should I go out first? ? ?