Translator-Rhapsodite
Editor-Musk, Proofreader-adjective
After listening to Ji Dong’s movie theater experience, Mo Tiangen frowned in introspection. He admitted that the scene in the trailer described by Ji Dong was indeed very similar to the city they were currently in, but that still could not explain how they had ended up here.
So they looked at each other; since neither of them could come up with a reasonable explanation to convince the other about their current predicament, they could only fall silent again.
“Alas! No matter what happens, no one wants to die if he can live well!”
A moment later, Mo Tiangen raised his hand and wiped it on his face, “I want to leave this ghost place and go outside to have a look. What do you think?”
Ji Dong nodded aggressively.
He was also planning to do the same.
While chatting, they had come down from the clothing area on the second floor, walked through the escalator, and down to the catering area on the ground floor.
Unknowingly, it had been a long time since they had come to this city. Ji Dong felt that he had been hungry for so long that now he could eat a whole cow.
It was this strong hunger that made him sure that he was neither dreaming, nor playing any damn holographic game—the natural needs of the body told him that he was still alive and in urgent need of food and water.
Mo Tiangen felt the same way. When he saw a whole row of freezers arranged in the catering area from a distance, he couldn’t help accelerating his pace.
However, the second the two passed through the dining area’s glass door, they heard a loud noise.
In front of Ji Dong and Mo Tiangen, a shelf fell without forewarning.
They both took a big step back in concert.
The fallen shelf was less than five meters away, right in front of them. The instant noodles on it had been scattered all over the floor, and several barrels rolled directly near their feet.
“Fuck!”
Ji Dong let out a low cry before taking a step, jumping over the fallen goods by his feet, and leaping out.
Because he saw a man lying on the shelf, motionless.
“Hey!”
Ji Dong’s actions were very agile. In merely two seconds, he had jumped onto the shelf and reached out to help the fallen man, “Are you okay?”
The man held his hand back.
Ji Dong shivered uncontrollably from the hand contact.
He felt as if he was holding onto a piece of ice or some kind of jade. In short, it didn’t seem like a living person’s hand at all; it was frighteningly cold.
“Be careful…”
Ji Dong was in a trance when he suddenly heard the man lying on the ground speak. The other person’s voice sounded low and weak, “Be careful of that lizard…”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
“What?”
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Ji Dong had no time to think.
In such a brief amount of time, he couldn’t think of the fruit knife hanging around his waist, and could only use local materials. He picked up a bucket of instant noodles, and threw them at the lizard on the ground.
But none of it hit the lizard.
The thing dodged flexibly, avoided the instant noodles cup, and twisted its body, hiding into the gap between the shelf and the wall.
Ji Dong was in a cold sweat.
He had learned his lessons from the ‘golden snitch’; he didn’t want to experience what this harmless little reptile could do.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he quickly grabbed the man’s hand; dragging him up, he took a few steps back, and returned to the open and safe area.
At this time, Mr. Mo Tiangen also came over, “Hey, what’s going on?”
He suspiciously stared at the strange man being held by Ji Dong and asked with a confused expression, “Who is he? Do you know him?”
Ji Dong noticed the man who he had just ‘saved’.
He recognized the man with long hair whom he had seen from the overpass.
But the other party’s appearance was far more fascinating than he had thought.
When the young man’s full profile came into view, he never expected that the idiom ‘pretty as a female saint’ could be used to describe a man’s looks.
The man with long hair looked around his early twenties. He was tall, at least 10 cm taller than Ji Dong, who was 175 cm.
He had a beautiful face with soft outlines and exquisite facial features, just like a figure carefully carved out of jade. He was too beautiful.
The most eye-catching thing on the beauty’s whole face was a pair of phoenix eyes with different colors.
The iris of his left eye was a very light amber color, while that of the right eye was pure black. When a pair of contrasting eyes stared at you, everything felt so surreal in that sudden, unexpected moment.
Ji Dong stared blankly at the long-haired man’s face.
Back when he had seen the man’s rear, he had a preconceived notion of what the other person would look like.
That long hair looked very unusual on any man. Therefore, it easily left an impression on Ji Dong, and naturally made him think of the other’s character setting of a “Great Sage.”
But when he saw the man’s appearance, Ji Dong was shocked.
——What kind of Sage was this!?
He roared in his heart.
——This was the face of a little princess!
——If this was a game, this beauty would have been a heroine!
“Cough, cough…”
Ji Dong’s face was expressionless. But in fact, there were already stormy waves in his mind, and the long-haired guy he referred to as the ‘heroine’ suddenly clenched his fist with one hand and coughed in a low voice, “Cough, cough…”
Ji Dong quickly recovered, and then awkwardly realized that he was still firmly holding onto the other’s hand.
“Are you, are you okay?”
He quickly loosened his hand and hurriedly went to help him, patting his back.
This was when he noticed that the beauty’s face was very pale, his forehead sweating, his lips bloodless. He coughed hard and took heavy breaths, and his physical condition didn’t look very good either.
Ji Dong remembered that when he had been holding his hand a while ago, the temperature of that hand was too cold, “Are you… sick?”
The man with long hair waved his hand to show that he was okay. He covered his mouth and coughed a few times before he could catch his breath.
“Don’t stay here.”
The man turned and looked at Ji Dong and Mo Tiangen. His voice was weak, but his tone was very stern. “Those lizards like to hide in dark places. There is too much debris here.”
Ji Dong and Mo Tiangen looked at each other.
Right now, they had so many questions that they didn’t know where to begin.
But Mr. Mo asked the most important one first.
“Well… You see, Ji Dong and I have traveled for a long time. We are hungry and thirsty. We must find something to eat first.”
He raised his head toward a large row of shelves in front of him, “Otherwise I will faint from hunger later…”
Hearing this, the man tilted his head slightly, the hair on his side swaying with his actions, and asked, “Why don’t you just take the water and food upstairs to eat?”
Mo Tiangen: “…”
Somehow, he had the impression that his IQ, which he had always been proud of, was suddenly reviled by this new person.
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At the suggestion of the long-haired man, both Ji Dong and Mo Tiangen found a mountaineering bag, swept around the food area, and packed the ready-to-eat food and several bottles of mineral water into the bag.
Since they were worried about facing strange lizards that looked like a variant of Axolotl, they were always very cautious when searching for food. Everything had to be weighed up and shaken three times to ensure that there were no ‘unnecessary items’ in it.
After getting enough food and water, the three of them returned to the lobby on the first floor.
According to the long-haired beauty, the dangerous crimson lizard liked to hide in narrow and dark places; so places with many shelves and goods were not suitable for them to rest and chat. Therefore, the empty hall on the first floor was the safest area.
Finally, the three chose the center of the lobby facing the glass door to rest, and sat back-to-back, forming a triangular pyramid. This way, they could stay vigilant in case there was any danger.
“Well…”
After sitting down, Ji Dong raised his head and pointed to the glass dome overhead. “Tell me, in case something falls from it…”
“Bah, bah, bah, don’t talk nonsense here!”
Mr. Mo Tiangen immediately slapped Ji Dong at the back of his head, “Children’s words carry no harm, children’s words carry no harm!”
Ji Dong pouted and stopped talking.
Mo Tiangen opened his mountaineering bag, took out the food and drinks from inside, and distributed them among themselves. Then he opened a meat floss bread and a ham sausage, and stuffed them into his mouth. He basically swallowed the entire thing, wiping it clean within just a few bites.
“By the way, what’s your name?”
He unscrewed a bottle of lemon tea, drinking it with his head tilted up, and asked his new companion on his left.
The man with long hair glanced at teacher Mo and replied faintly, “Ren Jianmo.”
Ji Dong and Mo Tiangen waited for a few seconds.
They both thought that the guy would at least share a little bit more information about himself, so they could make a self-introduction.
As a result, the great beauty, surnamed Ren, just lowered his eyes and began to eat bread without saying another word.
Ji Dong, “…”
He noticed that the way the other person ate was ‘elegant’.
It was as if he was cutting lamb chops in a French restaurant that cost thousands of dollars, and not sitting on the ground eating jam bread. His expression was solemn. He chewed and swallowed each mouthful carefully, appearing perfect.
——Fuck, such a person, if it were not for a golden thigh, I would write my name upside down!
Ji Dong secretly swore in his heart and decided to be a younger brother who had no knowledge about current affairs and held on to the beautiful human plug-in for answers.
“Cough.”
He cleared his throat and smiled flatteringly. “Can you tell us where this place is?”
The author has something to say:
Ji Xiaoniao: I found the plug-in before I left the novice village. I’m developed. Wow, Kaka, Kaka!
… No, you are thinking too much.
Ramble corner of Musk and Adjective
the ML is hereee aaaa (☆▽☆) have fun reading ♡ ~musk, co-editor
Xiao’niao internally: if he stepped on me id thank him
adj: *fanfic time*
Finallyyy the ML appeared heheheheh
Thank you for the chapter!
Hero saving the beauty! Ayo
Hehehe poor ML the first impression his future wifey had of him was…. “ This was the face of a little princess!” 😂😂
Thank you for the chapter 🥰
Ahhh please more chapters…..it’s soooooooooo cooollll screams internally
I was dying to see some ML fanart! Too bad I don’t draw well, if not, I’d make one myself!