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After coming out of the small dark room, Ji Dong returned to the arc-shaped hall of the ‘Colosseum’.
Compared to when he had returned last month, it was obviously much more lively in the ‘Colosseum’ this time. People were coming and going, and when Ji Dong paid attention, he found that they were all unfamiliar faces he had never seen before.
Just by observing the reactions of these people when they left the ‘Colosseum’, Ji Xiao’niao could immediately see that there was indeed an essential difference between newcomers and experienced players.
People passing by looked tired, frustrated, happy, sad, relieved, numb, and other complex emotions this time, but there was no newcomer’s unique curiosity and helplessness; instead, they either left the ‘Colosseum’ right away, or found a quiet corner and waited for someone, or went straight to their companions; everyone seemed to have their own clear goal.
Ji Dong turned his head around and quickly found Mo Tiangen standing near the exit.
Mr. Dagen had already reverted back from the black, tall, and strong version of the Hulk to the usual muscular and handsome man with thick eyebrows and big eyes.
He also noticed Ji Dong and waved at him.
Ji Dong took two quick steps to catch up, grabbing Mo Tiangen before he could open his mouth and hurriedly asked, “Where is Mr. Ren?”
After all, they were near the exit of the ‘Colosseum’ where others often pass by. Ji Xiao’niao remembered the basic common sense of not calling yourself and your partner by name.
“Oh…”
Mo Tiangen responded with great disappointment.
He had wanted to show off the supernatural powers he had just acquired to Ji Dong, but he didn’t expect him to ask about Ren Jianmo first… Humph, it was amazing to have a target to consider dating even in this situation!
“I didn’t see him.”
Mo Tiangen shrugged his shoulders and answered.
Ji Dong’s little heart sank.
He thought to himself, could it be that Ren Jianmo had gone straight out of the ‘Colosseum’ again like last time, and had not considered waiting for them at all?
But Ji Dong still held onto the hope that “Maybe Ren Jianmo just hasn’t come out of the darkroom yet,” and dragged Mo Tiangen to wait for a full twenty minutes.
By then, the wave of people who had left a [Film] almost all dispersed, and the ‘Colosseum’ had returned to a deserted state.
Ji Dong finally had to admit that Ren Jianmo had probably left long ago.
“All right, let’s go, let’s also go back to the ‘Apartment’ to rest.”
Mo Tiangen saw Ji Dong’s dejected appearance like a puppy abandoned by his owner, and comforted him very considerately, “Anyway, there is a phone in the room. He won’t grow wings and fly away, are you still afraid that you won’t be able to find him?”
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Ji Dong gave a sullen “hmm” and followed Mo Tiangen dejectedly out of the ‘Colosseum’.
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“Mr. Ren!”
He trotted all the way towards Ren Jianmo and ran straight over.
Teacher Dagen: “……”
Damn, why is he now feeling incredibly redundant?
Ren Jianmo smiled at Ji Dong and pulled out from a small bag like a trick—two cups of pearl milk tea.
Ji Dong: “!!!”
Mo Tiangen: “???”
“Here, it’s for you.”
Ren Jianmo naturally handed both cups of milk tea to Ji Xiao’niao, smiling and teasingly said, “Didn’t you say that the first thing you would do after you came back is to order two cups of pearl milk tea, one cup for you to drink cup and another cup to pour?”
Ji Dong dumbly took the two cups of pearl milk tea.
The cup was little, barely a palm-length long, the temperature was cold to the touch, it had big pearls that had sunk to the bottom, and there was a thick layer of cream on top, it looked like it was just brewed.
Ji Xiao’niao’s ears were so hot, his lips trembled, and whispered, “Thank you.”
So, instead of leaving directly, Ren Jianmo especially went back to his apartment and came back with two cups of milk tea, just for his thoughtless sentiment in the [Film]?
Ren Jianmo didn’t seem to think that it was a touching thing to bring two cups of milk tea to Ji Dong. He just rubbed Ji Dong’s little curly hair affectionately.
“Go back to the ‘Apartment’ to rest for half a day,” he said.
“We’ll find another place tonight and we’ll exchange the information we each got.”
So the three of them went back to the apartment together.
On the way, Ji Dong slurped down the pearl milk tea that Ren Jianmo brought him.
In fact, as a nineteen-year-old young man who was still developing, Ji Xiao’niao, after experiencing both physical and mental exhaustion, would prefer to eat a high-calorie, high-protein meat meal, such as roast meat or fried chicken, rather than a sweet pearl milk tea.
But this was something that Ren Jianmo had specially brought to him, so of course, Ji Dong couldn’t afford to waste the sweet drinks, so he took sips from left and right and finished off all the two cups of milk tea with a gulp before he got back to his ‘Apartment’.
“Tsk tsk tsk!”
Mr. Dagen smacked his lips and felt the envy and jealousy of being a single dog.
——It’s true that you don’t want your brother once you’re in a relationship!
Obviously, he was also a master who narrowly survived and returned to the [Peach Blossom Spring] just now, yet why was he so miserable that he couldn’t even get a cup of pearl milk tea?
Of course, feeling as sour as vinegar, Mo Tiangen was not bold enough to ask to share the love drink in the hands of Ji Xiao’niao.
Before they came to the ‘Apartment’, they made an appointment for a time and place in the evening, and then took the elevator back to their suite.
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Although after leaving the [Film], the participants’ physical state would be adjusted back to its original state, not only the physical damage, theoretically, physical and mental strength would also return to normal.
But the psychological effect, when most people returned to the [Peach Blossom Spring], they would feel exhausted, tired and hungry, as if all the energy in their body was drained, and their whole person would feel sluggish, even speaking a few words would require too much effort.
This was also the case with Ji Dong.
After returning to his room, he took a hasty shower, ordered fried chicken and a thick-cut beef burger combo, stuffed his stomach with fats, proteins, and carbohydrates, then dragged his heavy feet back to the bedroom area, threw himself under the covers, closed his eyes, and fell asleep within thirty seconds.
When he opened his eyes again, it was already 7:22 p.m., less than forty minutes before his appointment with Ren Jianmo and Mo Tiangen.
“Fuck!”
Ji Dong rolled over and jumped up, jumped into the bathroom, cleaned up carefully, made sure he looked refreshed enough, then went back to the living room area, ordered a bowl of spicy noodles, accompanied by sour plum soup, finished eating at a normal speed, and changed into a line of clothes to go out before hurrying out the door.
He made an appointment with the two men to meet at 8 p.m. at ‘Lian Ge’.
In a sense, the [Peach Blossom Spring] was very considerate and thoughtful to its own captive participants.
This was not only reflected in the fact that each participant was able to obtain living conditions that were superior to the real world but also had a variety of complete fitness and recreational facilities.
If anyone needed a safe and confidential place to talk, they only needed to pay a small number of points to get it.
Ji Dong and the others spent some points and rented a separate room in the ‘Lian Ge’.
The room was not large and the furnishings were quite simple, except for a conference table for six people to sit opposite each other and a stationery cabinet for them to access paper and pencils at will, there was no more furniture or miscellaneous items.
But this room had a very good view.
The room was on the top floor. In addition to the floor and ceiling, almost all four sides were glass curtain walls, so people in the room could look around the surrounding scenery 360 degrees. At first glance, it looked like a futuristic city that would only appear in the latest 4D science fiction film.
“If you’re afraid of heights, you’ll be scared to death if you have a meeting here, right?”
Ji Dong stood in front of the glass curtain wall and muttered.
Before he could finish his words, the transparent wall suddenly darkened and then turned into a plain white wall.
Ji Xiao’niao looked back and saw Mo Tiangen standing by the door. He tapped his index finger on a touch screen and smiled at him, “It’s a holographic projection, it’s the same as the window of our room.”
After that, he mischievously adjusted all the walls to the coastal landscape of a typhoon day.
So the three of them sat in a scene where the wind was blowing, the waves crashed on the shore, almost realistically enough to submerge the entire room. With the sound of waves, tonight’s meeting started.
“There is one thing that I must tell you first.”
Ji Dong said, taking out the blue-gold “Moon God Stone” from his pocket and putting it on the conference table.
Mo Tiangen: “!!!”
He obviously never expected that this stone would follow Ji Dong back.
“How did you get this?”
Mo Tiangen asked as he pointed to the “Moon God Stone” on the table, and his mouth opened in an “O” shape.
Ji Dong told the other two about the ending he saw [Thirty Years Later] in a short, easy-to-understand summary.
“I think that the stone was probably secretly put in my backpack by Su Lin.”
Ji Xiao’niao said his guess, “But I don’t understand why.
“And I haven’t figured out why he would do that either.”
When Mo Tiangen was in the darkroom, he also learned from his AI the reason why they didn’t get the perfect clearance, and sighed for a long time, unable to say whether he regretted saving the little boy who was destined to cause big trouble for the [Film] in [Thirty Years Later].
He just didn’t know that the child had given the “Moon God Stone” to Ji Xiao’niao, which was a big surprise to him.
“You once said that a parasitic race like “Judas Tears” must be near the “Moon God Stone” in order to produce offspring with consciousness, right?”
Mo Tiangen rubbed his chin, and with the logical thinking of a biology teacher, made a guess about the young boy’s behaviour.
“Then could it be that Su Lin’s original consciousness wanted to give the ‘Moon God Stone’ over in order to prevent the parasitic ‘King’ in his body from having the opportunity to keep reproducing?”
Ji Dong thought about it.
“Well, there is indeed that possibility.”
Ji dong nodded, “Maybe, just like I was able to connect with their minds, perhaps they were also able to access my brainwaves, then it would become logical to learn of our ‘participant’ identities, and so he’d assume he could send the ‘Moon God Stone’ far away by giving it to me.”
Mo Tiangen also thought deeply.
At this time, Ren Jianmo spoke up.
“I do have another guess ……”
Thank you for the chapter!
Tiangen it’s ok 😔 you aren’t the only single dog 😢but it’s not that bad to enjoy the dog food
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Teacher Mo, don’t give up!
Thank you for new chapter
So Su Lin wasn’t as indifferent to humanity as I thought!