Of course, it is impossible to take a photo, as there is no tool in Smiley City that can achieve this function.
But Jia Qing wasn't disappointed. After all... the beautiful store manager smiled at him! Smiled! Smiled!
He must show off to Brother Yang when he gets back!
On this side, Jia Qing was like a fan meeting his idol, and on the other side, Lu Chenfei looked left and right like a child entering amusement park for the first time.
The first thing he noticed were the fruits and vegetables. After all, they were too conspicuous and were scattered all over the safe house.
This crazy growth momentum was too familiar. Lu Chenfei had an idea and walked to an apple tree. He moved the soil with his hand and easily saw the monster body hidden under the soil.
A plant growing on a piece of meat.
It is obvious where the seeds of this plant come from.
Lu Chenfei turned around and glanced at Xia Jing.
The young man's eyes curved in a slight smile, without the slightest change in expression. He was flawless, like a beautiful fox.
Lu Chenfei turned his head.
But, speaking of it, isn't there a supermarket in the safe house that sells all kinds of monster props? So it's normal to have seeds there, right?
Thinking of this, Lu Chenfei convinced himself, then rushed into the small supermarket and started shopping. He laughed wildly while shopping: "This time when we go out, Song Yang will be scared to death by my props, hahahaha!"
Jia Qing was also laughing wildly: "I have more props than Brother Yang!"
Lu Chenfei: "Buy it, Song Yang is so jealous, kakakaka!"
Feng Shi was a little speechless about these two people.
He sat down at a dining table, thought for a moment, looked at Xia Jing inquiringly, and asked, "Can we order anything here?"
Xia Jing played the role of a competent store manager and smiled politely: "Yes, what can I get?"
Feng Shi didn't really want to eat. He looked at the handsome and gentle young man in front of him and continued to ask, "Can I ask where the food here comes from?"
Xia Jing didn't avoid the topic and asked with a smile, "Where does the food that players eat in the dungeon come from?"
Seal: "..."
Although I had guessed this possibility early on, hearing the answer with my own ears was another feeling.
Feng Shi's expression became subtle.
Xia Jing curled his lips and kindly reminded: "Those in the flowerpots are grown from seeds."
Feng Shi's expression immediately relaxed, and he said calmly, "Then I'll just eat some fruit."
Xia Jing smiled: "Okay, I'll bring you a fruit platter."
Before Feng Shi could find out more, the young man had already turned around and brought a plate from the kitchen.
Until Xia Jing placed a plate of cut fruit in front of him and turned to go to the front desk to count the newly received monster parts, Feng Shi didn't even have the chance to ask anything. He could only eat the fruit with full thoughts...
Jia Qing and Lu Chenfei returned with a full load.
As soon as Jia Qing sat down, he started to eat. Lu Chenfei looked at the small symbol on his body that represented the prop with satisfaction, and then he noticed the bowl of fruit and asked, "Where did you get it?"
Feng Shi said casually, "The store manager picked them fresh from the fruit bowls."
Jia Qing exclaimed, "Brother Feng, this fruit is quite sweet!"
Feng Shi tasted it carefully and said, "Indeed, it's sweeter than the ones grown at my second aunt's house. I wonder what kind of soil the store manager uses."
Lu Chenfei: "Well, after all, it's a fruit grown on human flesh, so it's definitely different from ordinary fruits."
Jia Qing and Feng Shi immediately stopped stuffing fruit into their mouths and looked at him with stiff expressions: "...What?"
Lu Chenfei blinked: "Song Yang hasn't told you yet? Oh, right, after he woke up, did he have no intention of telling you about the dungeon we just broke through?"
"The seeds in that dungeon take root in the human body and can grow into any kind of vegetables, fruits, or melons. They're all delicious, but they're addictive. If you're addicted, you might even eat the person. I don't know if these seeds will still have the same function after becoming props. Be careful not to eat too much..."
"By the way, you actually expect to eat normal food in this damn place? Hahahaha!"
Lu Chenfei was chattering away, and Feng Shi and Jia Qing had already turned into two stone sculptures with colorful faces.
At the front desk, Xia Jing curled the corners of his lips and put the monster's body parts into his pocket one by one.
Just then, the shop door was opened again.
This time, two beauties came in.
"Shit, Mianmian, we're in the safe house!"
"Um."
"Wow, Mianmian, look, the safe house manager is so handsome!"
"Um."
Fei Shengxiao started making a lot of noise as soon as he entered the safe house. Li Mian looked at Xia Jing with a mixture of inquiry and amazement. Then she noticed Lu Chenfei and the others and nodded.
She had met Lu Chenfei before in a certain copy, and they were quite familiar with each other.
Xia Jing stood behind the front desk, his eyes slightly interested.
There are quite a lot of unexpected visitors today.
The two girls sat down at the dining table. Fei Shengxiao touched her stomach and shouted, "I'm so hungry." Lu Chenfei enthusiastically pushed the fruit plate in front of the two girls and asked them which copy they came from.
Then the door to the safe house opened for the third time, and You Ye actually rushed in. Seeing the familiar people, she raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "What a coincidence today."
A large group of people unexpectedly gathered in the safe house. They sat around the dining table, the girls eating fruit, Feng Shi and Jia Qing seemed to be hesitant to speak, unable to get a word in. As they watched the basin of fruit being quickly devoured, You Ye even flirted with Xia Jing and said, "Manager, please give me some more."
Feng Shi coughed lightly and stopped him, saying, "You Ye, there might be something wrong with these fruits."
Unexpectedly, You Ye turned around and said, "I know, these are grown from those special seeds, right? Why didn't Song Yang tell you that I also participated in his last dungeon?"
Feng Shi was shocked.
You Ye looked at him amusedly. "I noticed these fruits and vegetables as soon as I came in. But since the manager brought them out, these fruits should not have addictive properties. You can eat them without worry."
Seal: "..."
He silently asked You Ye with his expression: What kind of food standard is the so-called "eating with confidence"... ?
You Ye turned around and asked Fei Shengxiao and Li Mian, "Are you scared?"
Fei Shengxiao thought about it and said seriously, "To be honest, ever since I went into a monster's belly once, I feel that eating monsters is not only not disgusting, but even quite enjoyable. So, let alone being afraid, I even want more!"
After she finished speaking, she took a big bite of the apple.
Li Mian: "Que clan."
She crushed a strawberry fiercely and licked it calmly.
Jia Qing trembled, my god, girls nowadays are so scary!
When old friends get together, there is always endless topics to talk about.
Of course, as the conversation went on, it was easy for the conversation to turn to the only person who was not present.
When Xia Jing put down the second large fruit plate, these people were complaining about Song Yang.
Lu Chenfei started the conversation, and he quipped, "Hey, do you know Song Yang's friend named Xia Jing?"
Jia Qing: "I know, I know."
Xia Jing's eyes moved slightly, he smiled meaningfully, turned and left, and the conversation at the dining table continued.
Li Mian and Fei Shengxiao were startled and said, "...I know, he's dead."
It was only after they left the dungeon and learned Xia Jing's real name through the system broadcast.
Lu Chenfei was stunned: "Dead? No, you must have the wrong person. He just went through a dungeon with us!"
Li Mian and Fei Shengxiao were stunned when they heard this.
Li Mian frowned and said with certainty, "Xia Jing is really dead. The report that Sheng Xiao and I heard with our own ears cannot be wrong."
Feng Shi pondered and said, "Indeed, Song Yang had been looking for Xia Jing before, but later he told me in person that Xia Jing was dead."
Jia Qing sighed and said, "Yes, Brother Yang personally removed the bounty orders."
Feng Shi asked Lu Chenfei: "Are you sure that the young man you met is really called Xia Jing?"
Now Lu Chenfei himself was unsure: "...The person named Xia Jing cleared the dungeon with us. The system didn't announce his real name, so I'm not sure..."
You Ye pondered the matter for a moment and asked Li Mian and the others, "Is the Xia Jing you met also a very tall young man with a good temperament but a strange face?"
Xia Jing was counting the bills behind the front desk. He raised his eyebrows when he heard the last half of the sentence.
At the dining table.
Jia Qing nodded quickly: "That face is really strange, should I say it's bumpy or crooked..."
Fei Shengxiao: "Yes, yes, that face is actually wavy. I can't draw it even if I spend a whole day and night!"
Lu Chenfei: "Damn, the face of 'Xia Jing' I met was also weird, but it was a very standard hexagon!"
Li Mian noticed a key factor and asked with alarm, "A hexagon? The face of 'Xia Jing' we encountered wasn't that simple. That face was very unique and required a very high level of skill to draw. Isn't a hexagon too simple?"
Xia Jing thought thoughtfully, too simple?
At the dining table.
Lu Chenfei looked confused. "No, from a crooked shape to a hexagon, this is at least an aesthetic upgrade, how can it be called 'too simple'?"
Fei Shengxiao argued, "This is a question of painting technique, a question of artistic aesthetics! I think that crooked face is the masterful realm. The hexagonal face is just like the face of an internet celebrity, it has no personal characteristics at all!"
Lu Chenfei: "So you prefer that crooked face?!"
"I can't appreciate it," Fei Shengxiao said firmly, "but this is the master!"
Lu Chenfei: "..." He was actually convinced.
At the front desk, Xia Jing nodded slightly and wrote two lines on the paper.
Complex face shape, √
Geometric face shape, ×
At the dining table.
Li Mian said solemnly, "Have you noticed anything after discussing this? Xia Jing has 'reappeared after death,' but his aesthetic and painting skills have changed dramatically."
"He looks like the same person as Xia Jing who accompanied Song Yang before, but in fact, there are huge differences."
There was a moment of silence around the table.
Everyone stared at Li Mian, and as she spoke, a vague and indistinct idea gradually emerged in their minds.
Li Mian said hoarsely: "Is it because Song Yang can't accept Xia Jing's death..."
"…I just found a replacement!"
As Li Mian's sad words fell——
Fei Shengxiao covered his mouth with his hands, his eyes widened and reddened.
You Ye was surprised, then frowned and sighed.
Jia Qing was shocked and stunned.
Feng Shi fell into deep thought, his expression solemn.
Lu Chenfei was speechless and looked confused.
Xia Jing paused with his pen and wrote on the paper - Substitute?
He smiled.
At the dining table, Fei Shengxiao trembled and said, "...How could a good person find a substitute? This kind of feeling, this kind of feeling, is it——"
Lu Chenfei was in a daze for a long time, sorted out the matter, and muttered: "Although I have already seen that something is wrong between him and Xia Jing, but Song Yang...he has already reached this point?!"
Jia Qing was stunned and said, "Indeed, now that I think about it, when has Brother Yang ever been so high-profile as to issue a bounty for someone? I actually never realized that he loved so deeply..."
Feng Shi was silent for a while, then frowned and said, "The question is, if that person is really a substitute, then where did Song Yang find the fake Xia Jing?"
Everyone was stunned.
Yes, this is also a problem.
"If Song Yang specifically found someone and had them wear a human skin mask to impersonate Xia Jing, that would be too unrealistic, right?" Lu Chenfei thought for a moment, his eyes widening as he asked, "Could it be that he just happened to meet this fake Xia Jing? As soon as he saw the mask, he thought of Xia Jing, and then he couldn't stop asking if he could just call her Xia Jing from now on..."
Lu Chenfei's imagination made everyone cover their mouths.
——This is too tragic! This is like engraving that human skin mask into my heart!
Jia Qing quickly said, "Indeed, a mask like Xia Jing's isn't something any ordinary person can draw. It's impossible to find an identical mask. Just a simple hexagon is enough to resemble him!"
You Ye sighed, "Why is Song Yang so obsessed with the human skin mask? Because he has never seen Xia Jing's true face. The only connection between him and Xia Jing is the human skin mask!"
Lu Chenfei: "That makes sense, it does make sense."
Fei Shengxiao: "It's so cruel, so cruel!"
Jia Qing: "Brother Yang won't have to hang on to this human skin mask for the rest of his life, right? If one day this fake Xia Jing is gone, what will he do?!"
Feng Shi: "It would be good if we could find another mask master with such skills, but if we can't..."
Jia Qing lamented: "Brother Yang!!"
Lu Chenfei: "I think I should suggest that he practice mask painting on his own when he has time. It's better to rely on yourself than on others. As long as he learns the skills, he will be able to remember him forever!"
Li Mian: "Que clan."
Silence fell at the table.
The next second, these people all said sadly: "-But without Xia Jing as a teacher, can Song Yang learn such a superb mask painting method in his lifetime?!"
Thinking of this, several people were so sad that they couldn't speak. They took a few bites of fruit and sighed for Song Yang's tragic love.
At the front desk, Xia Jing put his finger to his lips and smiled with his eyes narrowed.
He wrote a line.
Song Yang, do you know?
…
Song Yang...
Song Yangxin browsed the player forum he created until late at night.
The forum was newly established, and everyone was afraid to discuss topics that were too in-depth, for fear of accidentally triggering sensitive words and ruining everyone's efforts.
The only advantage of real-world forums is that you can post pictures. In many new posts, players use different levels of painting techniques to show the forms of monsters they have encountered.
As Song Yang was scrolling, he suddenly came across a post with the title "That person's appearance".
This vague statement is all to avoid the scanning of Smiley City. Those who can understand it will naturally understand it, and those who can't understand it... just let it go.
Song Yang really didn't understand this time. When he clicked on the post and saw the sketch drawn by the poster, he realized who "that person" was referring to.
The young man in the painting is leaning against the window and smiling, his posture is lazy, his eyebrows and eyes are carefully depicted, so beautiful that you can't take your eyes off him.
Song Yang suddenly recalled the encounter outside the safe house.
At that time, in order to find clues related to Xia Jing, he was searching for the safe house in the one-star copy.
When he saw the store manager, a sense of familiarity emerged in his heart.
Song Yang leaned back in his chair and fell into deep thought.
Where does this sense of familiarity come from?
Does Xia Jing have any connection with the safe house?
As he was thinking, Song Yang's brows suddenly relaxed and his expression froze.
He suddenly realized that he might have made an extremely low-level thinking error.
…He may have avoided an obvious answer and walked into a dead end.
At this moment, Song Yang's heart began to beat wildly.
He sat up straight and stared at the sketch in the main post, recalling the subtle changes in expression that had flashed across the store manager's face when their eyes met briefly.
…
Just then, his cell phone suddenly vibrated.
Song Yang noticed the words "safe house" that were forcibly put together in Chinese and English, and immediately picked up the phone and unlocked it.
It turned out that Jia Qing and the others had left Smiley City and had formed a WeChat group where everyone was chatting using their real names.
Lu Chenfei: "XXX Face Makeup Tutorial.rar"
Lu Chenfei: "@Song Yang, study hard!"
Li Mian: "Repost: "How to deal with falling in love with someone you can't have? Everyone needs to learn to let go"
Fei Shengxiao: "Mini Program: XX Forum's hot post today: 'Substitute literature dame dame dame!'"
You Ye: "@Song Yang's address, come over and I'll buy you a painting set."
Jia Qing: "@SongYangYangBrother, if you feel unhappy, just call me anytime and play a game of basketball!"
Seal: "Mini Program: Book Recommendation: How to Improve Aesthetics"
Song Yang was completely confused by this barrage of messages and replied with a "?"
Lu Chenfei: "[Maomao is worried about you.jpg]"
Li Mian: "Hey."
Fei Shengxiao: "Wow, wow, how cruel."
You Ye: "[sigh.gif]"
Seal: "[pat on shoulder.jpg]"
Jia Qing: "Brother Yang, you should come out and play basketball!"
The corners of Song Yang's mouth twitched. He didn't know what riddles these people were making, but he had a hunch that if he asked, these people would definitely say something unbelievable.
Song Yang was in no mood to talk about anything else at the moment, so he just asked, "Were you talking about the safe house? What happened to that place?"
Speaking of this, Lu Chenfei answered quickly: "Oh, we just went in."
Song Yang was stunned.
He asked strangely, "...'You guys'?"
You Ye: "Yeah, what a coincidence, the six of us gathered in there all night."
Song Yang: "..."
With Lu Chenfei and You Ye taking the lead, the others also started talking.
Jia Qing: "We bought a lot of props, Brother Yang, I'll give you some later!"
Feng Shi: "The environment inside is nice."
Li Mian: "Queshi, the food is delicious too."
Fei Shengxiao: "The beautiful store manager is so beautiful!"
Jia Qing: "Yeah, damn, the store manager even smiled at me. I feel like I'm going to be gay!"
Song Yang: "..."
Song Yang took a deep breath and felt himself choked by it.
—All these guys have been to the safe house, but he hasn't?!
At this moment, Song Yang had the urge to smash his phone.
What was even more shocking was that Jia Qing immediately said, "We talked about you, Brother Yang, for a long time. The beautiful store manager even asked about you before leaving!"
Jia Qing: "He said, Song Yang is your friend, why didn't he come?"
Jia Qing: "We say that Brother Yang, you have such bad luck. With you here, I guess none of us can get in. Hahahaha!"
Jia Qing laughed wildly, completely unaware that Song Yang was on the other side, his face as black as an iron pot.
He asked with a forced smile, "Really? Then what was the store manager's reaction?"
This time Jia Qing sent a voice message.
The guy said in a cheerful tone: "He smiled, such a gentle smile, and then said, 'Yes, there are people in this world who are so unlucky, there's nothing we can do about it'."
He imitated Xia Jing's tone and laughed wildly "Hahahaha" after he finished speaking.
Everyone in the group was laughing wildly.
On this side, Song Yang's mind automatically came to Xia Jing's light and airy tone, which was playful and casual.
Song Yang...
Song Yang's defense is broken :)