Please Have a Cup of Green Tea

Cecia was dreaming again.

In the dream, she was the first to discover the ruins, and she was the one who answered the mystery of the Sphinx.

In the dark secret passage of the ruins, she managed to get the side glances of her fellow Arnold and Christian, and their eyes looked at her intently, with a deep meaning that she could not guess.

After returning to the seaside hut, her "great achievements" were made public, and the blond lady in the dream also showed a very unpleasant expression.

Cecia liked the sour and unwilling look on the other's beautiful face.

And what made her proud of this dream the most was that Phoenix had asked herself for information about the ruins that night. Before that, he was chatting with Miss Blonde.

Seeing that they were chatting awkwardly and unfamiliarly, Cecia didn't look like a real childhood sweetheart at all, so she dared to stab the man, and quickly led the man away with her relic experience.

The blond girl whose beard was cut was so angry that she was about to explode, but she couldn't find a better way to deal with it.

In the dream, she doesn't seem to be familiar with Phoenix, and she doesn't have the ability to attract other people's attention as she does in reality.

And Cecia, who woke up from this beautiful dream, touched her chest, and even felt the joy and excitement of being regarded as an "important person" by all the male guests.

She didn't even think it was a dream at all.

"If I go to the ruins first, it will be me who will be treated differently by the sentries, right?" She gritted her teeth in her heart, but felt bad luck.

This resentment climbed to the top when Cecia came to the restaurant downstairs.

On the long table, two breakfasts were placed on the table without a hitch, in the special seat of a certain eldest lady.

Neither Phoenix nor Christian were there, but Cecia knew they must have done it.

These two are big men who govern one side's forces, and they need to deal with a lot of things, and they usually start the first. But even so, they did not forget to please someone.

This made Cecia, who had just woken up from her dream, feel a great difference. He De He Neng, the lazy princess who was sick, knew that even when she was dreaming, no male guest would cook breakfast for the female guest.

Cecia approached the table and looked at the two completely different foods on the light-colored tablecloth, and she couldn't help but feel sour.

One is freshly baked lava cake with thorax juice, and the other is crispy fish steak with light cream mushroom soup, which is comparable to the restaurant outside.

"They have used up all the ingredients, really..." Cecia murmured.

At this moment, Tang, who came down from the stairs, yawned. The white T-shirt and coffee-colored shorts on his body made him look like the most ordinary leader boy, with fluffy and soft flaxen hair, and tired eyes. Half-open, looking a little more lazy.

"Morning." He waved at Cecia casually, then walked straight to the kitchen.

"Morning," Cecia was a little surprised. This was the first time she had met this person so early, and the other party took the initiative to say hello, "Don, don't you only drink nutrient solution in the morning?"

After bending over in the kitchen to rummage for a few ingredients, Tang Cai raised his eyebrows and said, "I suddenly got a little bit of interest today, and try to make something delicious."

Listening to the other party's lively and smiling tone, Cecia couldn't connect the harmless young man in front of her with the conspirators that night.

"Oh... I just want to prepare something to eat..." She was beating in her heart, rationally reminding her not to approach the dangerous person, but last night's dream made her feel that she was still very special to these sentinels, "We Let's go together."

Tang, who was throwing the egg into the pot, glanced at her, and replied casually, "You can do whatever you want, I'll be quick here."

"What are you going to do?" Cecia also used her previous experience in love affairs, and approached each other while wearing an apron, narrowing the physical distance, "Boiled eggs?"

"Steamed eggs," Tang shrugged, "I brought back these bird eggs from the spirit beast yesterday. In the past, our Mecha Department's field practice often went to the mountains to find the delicacy of this Central Plains ecology."

"Wow, it sounds really good." Probably because Tang's performance was too normal, Cecia really forgot the other party's performance that night, and gradually let down her guard, "There are such special ingredients on this island. "

"Of course," Tang replied, "this island has many secrets."

"What secret?" Cecia asked curiously.

"..." The other party did not answer her, but turned his attention to the other end. Then, Cecia saw his eyes that suddenly lit up, and the big smile that suddenly rose from his lips, like a day star with the clouds completely scattered, extremely bright.

Cecia followed his gaze and looked out, and sure enough, she saw the blond girl sitting in the dining room outside the glass door of the kitchen.

She let her hair down today, and the soft strands of hair dangled down her cheeks, like an angel who just woke up in the morning light, and the white dove standing on her shoulders adorn her ears The white pigeon feathers add a little more sacredness.

"She got up quite early today." Cecia's tone was a little subtle, "but as soon as I wake up, there are two breakfasts, and I will get up early too."

Tang didn't answer, but he was clearly in a good mood. He prepared tableware while humming a song. After a while, he lifted the lid of the pot and took out the steamed egg.

Seeing that the other party took three eggs, Cecilia moved slightly. This amount plus her and Testai's are just enough. Tang shouldn't be so low in emotional intelligence and eat alone, right?

Soon, after Cecia made her own bacon omelette with slices of bread, her expression was frozen by the picture on the dining table.

Tang sat beside the eldest lady, lying on the dining table, her honey-colored pupils were dazzling, and she kept pouting something in her mouth.

And the eldest lady tasted it with a knife and fork gracefully... a poached egg that was translucent white and trembling.

"Be careful when you bite," Tang reminded Bi Ming with a smile on his face, "This is a whirling bird's egg, and the egg yolk inside is semi-liquid after being cooked, just like popped cheese, it tastes very fragrant. concentrated…"

The girl's pale pink lips were slightly open, and she took a small bite very reservedly, only to feel that the egg whites in the mouth were fresh and sweet, not comparable to eggs at all.

She chewed every sip slowly, and Tang didn't think it was a waste of time, and his fingers were still tapping happily on the table.

"It's not bad. Although the cooking method is simple, it melts in the mouth, and it is delicious and not fishy." After she swallowed it, she commented with a unique and proud attitude, "How did you find the ingredients?"

"My spirit beast found it." He raised his eyebrows with a hint of pride, "This is an exclusive secret recipe, you can feel satisfied."

"It's just normal." Bi Ming glanced at him, but the corners of her lips were slightly curved, "However, thank you for sharing." The plump white dove also raised her chest on her shoulders. , with a charitable "goo" sound.

"My honor." Tang looked at her and her little pigeon's duplicity, and the dimples on his lips got deeper and deeper.

After a while, the blond girl lowered her eyes and took another bite, and the warm egg liquid poured out, and her-her movements made the barrage in the live broadcast room sluggish. Her lips pressed softly against the small mouth, and she began to sip softly, as if sucking on nectar.

This comes from the authentic way of eating xiao long bao in Yizhong: first take a small bite, then **** the juice, and then eat the rest of the filling.

But in the interstellar era, where have they seen such a refined and elegant way of eating. They eat eggs roughly in a few mouthfuls, or divide them into large pieces and directly fork them into their mouths. The eggs in them are often full of mouths. .

Tang used to eat in the wild with his classmates. They cut them in half directly, then put them in their mouths and swallowed them whole.

So now, seeing the eldest lady's pink lips **** - it's just terrible.

Tang, who was picked up by the star thief organization since he was a child and raised in a heap of rude men, has never seen such a noble girl who can pay attention to everything. The most terrifying thing is that he is not only annoying, but also has a throat. Itching, the movement of her mouth was replayed repeatedly in her mind, and she imagined what it would be like if the translucent egg liquid dripped down from her lips.

Bi Ming didn't seem to notice that the eyes staring at her were getting hotter and hotter, and she still slowly finished sucking the sweet and fragrant egg liquid, and she also stretched out her ruddy little tongue and quickly licked the corner of her lips, pursing her lips, and the tip of her nose shrugged. Shrugged, as light and lovely as a small animal.

Words can't describe the impact of these small movements in seconds.

Perhaps only from the live broadcast of the golden ball into the wings of the afterimage can glimpse the shock of the netizens' hearts.

Tang has already subconsciously pushed his plate in front of her: "Eat more if you like."

"I'm full." The eldest lady started wiping the corners of her mouth with a napkin tired after finishing a bird's egg, "Didn't you say the rest is for breakfast?"

"I'm tired of eating, these are all for you." The star thief, who was fascinated by her **** eating method, squinted and suggested with a smile, "Even if you can't finish it now, you can keep it until Eat at noon."

"No." Bi Ming refused.

"Eh—" The boy dragged his voice aggrieved.

"You can share it with others, I really can't eat it." The second rejection.

"Don't." Tang learned Bi Ming's tone and successfully won the eldest lady's eyes, "This is not for others."

"Learn less from me..."

The two were talking with a smile in their tone, and the playful atmosphere made it impossible to get involved.

Cecia stood at the door of the kitchen with a plate and looked at them, feeling ridiculous in her heart.

It was her who thought it was wrong, Tang is not low in emotional intelligence, nor can he eat alone, and he is even very selfless—

It's just not her.

In the kitchen, she thought she was "getting along well", but in contrast to her enthusiastic attitude, she seemed so perfunctory and hypocritical.

In the afternoon, underground ruins.

Nina is photographing and documenting the details of the ruins and comparing them with the Near-Ancient sources she is investigating.

Arnold's fingers stroked the spherical "port key", and a mathematical model appeared in the air, which was the law corresponding to the "port key" and the room number he concluded.

"There are a total of 108 unopened rooms here, and the password and room number of each room can be calculated using the functional equations of ancient mathematics..." Arnold, who has a lot of experience, has solved the big trouble of "how to unlock the room" , but the problem occurs after opening all rooms—

"Which room is the rest of the keys hidden in?" Christian walked out of an empty room with a hint of tiredness in his eyes.

The entire ruins, walking up the stairs, have hundreds of large and small rooms, and they are of various types.

Some are simple bedrooms, some are training rooms, as well as kitchens, dining rooms, storage rooms... As they speculate, the ruins here were definitely a "colony" in the past.

Arnold lowered his eyes and thought deeply. As the leader of the Science Department, he was very aware of the secrets hidden in this island—

Here are the ancient human genetic stock solution and related scientific research materials.

According to the historical fragmentary records discovered by the government, this planet was the first extra-galactic planet that humans in the Blue Star Era arrived and settled on. At that time, the superpowers among humans were genetically affected by cosmic radiation, and gradually differentiated into today's Sentinels and Sentinels. wizard.

The original human genes before differentiation were hidden on the island.

This is also the reason why Arnold, as the chief scientist, did not stay in the laboratory to race against time to conduct research, and went off to participate in the show in person.

Each of their S-rank sentinels represents various forces, and the genetic stock solution is something they must grab—

For Arnold, that was the key to helping their project team crack the genetic code, a cornerstone of human evolutionary history.

And for those ambitious, ancient human genes could allow them to develop genetic weapons against murderous sentinels.

The silver-haired man glanced at Christian, who had already turned over the entire ruin, and pursed his lips indifferently.

He has enough reasons to believe that this guy, who is apparently the head of the Chamber of Commerce, is actually an underground arms dealer, and his real purpose must be to find and seize the genetic stock solution and develop new weapons.

Arnold didn't know what kind of agreement the other party and the government reached, and what price they paid, but in any case, the question now is who can find the hidden location of the original liquid faster.

As such, they are all contenders to watch out for each other.

In order to disguise the real purpose and explore the island in depth, the government gave them the "Garden of Eden" program as a cover, so as not to scare the snakes and arouse the vigilance of the primitive tribes.

Those old folks are willing to open the ruins only because they are sure the government will never find the secrets of their ancestors.

Arnold knew, however, that the government had been looking for connections between the planet's remains. A large number of scientific expedition teams were dispatched to study the ancient Blue Star culture constantly, and finally they found the clue.

The ruins here—the key to the other dimension is hidden.

By obtaining the key, they can open the real ruins and obtain the coveted ancient human genetic stock solution that represents infinite possibilities.

"Doctor... Then what are we going to do?" Nina's voice interrupted Arnold's thoughts. "If this goes on, finding the key is like looking for a needle in a haystack."

The blue-haired girl stood up straight, her brows full of worry.

Arnold glanced at the subordinates of the institute and said lightly: "Don't worry, if you can't find it once, just look for it a second time, and things won't run away."

Nina sighed, and suddenly remembered a casual question from her friend before leaving this morning: "Nina, do you know the meaning of that Sphinx mystery?"

She shook her head honestly then.

"Man, know yourself." The blonde girl whispered in her ear with a brisk tone, "It's very interesting, the essence of the question is this sentence."

Now, Nina said those words softly.

Arnold frowned. "What are you talking about?"

"Doctor, Testa told me that the riddle of the Sphinx is so hard to solve because people don't always know themselves."

"…"

"I wonder if the password to enter the ruins has something to do with the direction we are looking for the key?"

Christian and Arnold are both human beings. Compared to Nina, who was half a beat slower, they had already discovered the hint from Bi Ming—

"know yourself…"

So what kind of room can you [recognize yourself]?

The two sentries said at the same time: "Mirror!"

After speaking, they looked at each other and rushed to a special room in the ruins without hesitation, the [Mirror Room].

Christian suspected this place, but found that the entire room was just pasted with mirrors, and there was no extra place to hide things, so he left.

Now that the two are here at the same time, Arnold and Christian see a lot of themselves in the mirror at the same time.

"The crux of the matter is, where will the half key be hidden in this room?"

"Are you going to smash all the mirrors?"

Arnold stopped Christian's rude thoughts and suggested: "Forcibly destroying the organs is easy to touch, so observe first."

The silver-haired man's eyes quickly swept across the entire space. The four walls were covered with mirrors, and the light in the room was so abundant that the portraits reflected by the mirrors were exceptionally clear.

Christian followed his gaze, and suddenly thought of something. With a thought, there were some light small hammers in the room, which kept hitting the mirror with a slow and gentle force.

Soon, the sound of a mirror being knocked on in one place was unusual.

The Sentinels smiled keenly.

"A very plain...old practice." Arnold walked over there.

"I remember that Gu Lanxing's mirrors are all made of glass and a reflective layer," Christian said solemnly. "According to the transmittance of the reflective layer, there will be double-sided mirrors and single-sided mirrors."

"And their identification is also very simple. The back of the double-sided mirror is generally empty, and the single-sided mirror is not."

Christian moved his fingers, and the mirror disappeared instantly, revealing a deep hole the size of a fist.

The white fox stretched out its small claws, scratched it inside, and grabbed the shiny objects—

The remaining half of the key.

Arnold looked at the other mirrors, the giant boa slammed into them, and the mirrors suddenly cracked, revealing the dense organs below.

Because the mirror was not completely broken, the alarm mechanism did not trigger, but Christian was relieved: "It seems that your reminder is right, fortunately you didn't directly smash all the mirrors."

The Sentinels, relying on their strong physique, are not afraid of these organs, but if the ruins self-destruct, it will be troublesome.

When he got the key and went out, Arnold suddenly asked, "Did you find any clues when you came that day?"

Christian was slightly startled, then shook his head: "We didn't have time to open this room that day, because the 'door key' hasn't been cracked, and it's locked here."

"Then Testie..." Arnold was suspicious, "how did she think of reminding Nina?"

"It's probably just a coincidence," Christian shrugged. "Don't be too suspicious. She arrived at the ruins that day and was playing flying games with Tang the whole time..." He seemed to be caught in unpleasant memories.

Arnold also thought that at that time, he didn't even start to study the "door key", and people didn't even know the existence of this [mirror house].

"That's true," he returned his thoughts to the key in his hand, "then we have our first key."

After the two half keys were put together, the program team also issued a voice announcement to everyone on time:

【Dear guests, congratulations on finding the key to the second stage with your concerted efforts!

Now for Phase 2 - Notes on the Jungle Tour:

1. The guests need to live in the jungle with harsh environment and rich resources for ten days. During this period, the program team will provide a smart camping tent, which will be shared by two people. must not exceed thirty meters.

2. Start the free teaming mechanism. Sentinels and guides can be matched by themselves. Teams of more than two people will conduct jungle adventures and food collection. There is no need to force rotation of team members. It is recommended to form a fixed team of three to four people to ensure safety.

3. There is a ruin in the depths of the jungle, where the key to the next stage is hidden.

4. The way to enter the jungle is in the ruins of the beach. All guests are invited to go back to the hut tonight to pack up and leave tomorrow morning. 】

In the hall of ruins, after the keys were combined, the statue of the goddess made a "rumbling" sound. After a burst of dust, the eyes of the goddess turned into two holes that leaked light, and the sunlight from the outside leaked through the gap.

"It turns out that the statue is the 'gate'." Nina took a deep breath and suddenly realized, "Where is the key to be inserted?"

Several people looked up and down the statue, but did not find any "keyhole" positions.

Since it was getting late, Arnold made a final decision: "Tomorrow, we will wait for everyone to find them, and go back now."

Christian didn't care either, as long as the key was in hand, nothing else mattered.

…

During dinner time, under Nina's narration, everyone turned their eyes towards Bi Ming.

"Anyway, if we hadn't said that, we might not have been able to find the most critical room today." Nina's voice was not too small, but it was particularly clear on the dining table.

"Don't say it," the blond girl was stared a little unnaturally, and the knife and fork made a crisp collision sound on the dinner plate, "I just mentioned it casually, it's nothing."

"Isn't it good to mention it casually as well?" Phoenix, who was sitting beside her, smiled and gave her a new plate with the meat he just cut into small pieces.

Bi Ming whispered "Thank you" to him, and then heard Lilith's sigh: "Yes, yes, Tessette, you are our lucky star!" This sentence is a bit flattering, and it is also a bit After that, Cecia frowned immediately—

"I think it's more important that Arnold cracked the 'door key'. There's no way to open that room, and no amount of information will help." Her voice was a little weird.

Bi Ming glanced at her lightly, but did not refute: "I also think that Dr. Arnold is the biggest contributor, there is nothing to argue about, is it?"

Arnold, who was suddenly cued, looked up and looked in Bi Ming's direction. His gray pupils showed a strange emotion: "The ruins are everyone's credit. Without you, we might not be able to enter this ruins."

Bi Ming looked at him with a reserved smile. Seeing this, the corners of the silver-haired man's lips also subconsciously raised an extremely subtle arc, but after he reacted, it quickly stopped.

Tang and Christian were sitting together, not knowing what to exchange, and raised his head at this time, with a hint of teasing in his tone: "Tesla, this is not the time to be humble, don't forget that you found the 'door key' too. ."

As soon as these words came out, the others could only nod their heads.

From entering the ruins, discovering the "door key", and providing crucial "clues"... Even if Bi Ming only went for a day, it still has the same important role as Arnold who unlocked the "door key" password.

And Cecia, who was watching all this silently, gritted her teeth and looked at Bi Ming, who became the focus of the crowd, and felt resentful: She will also be Sphinx, and she also understands the meaning of it. If she goes there on the first day, The "port key" must have been discovered by her.

Why is this Miss Vase so lucky?

Bi Ming's idea is very simple, holding the script in hand is the greatest "luck".

Although at present, the deviation of the script is getting bigger and bigger, and the behavior of the Sentinels is very different from that in the original work.

And she is not a god, and she can only take a step by step for this change.

The next day, everyone who packed their luggage was ready to take the beach buggy provided by the program team to the ruins.

"Tstedi, wait for me, I'll come down immediately!" Lilith shouted anxiously at the entrance of the stairs, looking at Bi Ming and Nina who were dragging their luggage to go out.

She doesn't seem to want to be alone or lose her most popular "ally". She has become more enthusiastic about Bi Ming these two days.

Cecia was behind her, pulling the suitcase and mocking: "Please make way, don't block me."

Only then did Lilith realize that something was wrong. Even Cecia, who usually pays the most attention to appearance and likes to put on makeup slowly, set off, so wouldn't she be the last one?

The fear of being dropped by everyone made her rush back to the room, and quickly stuffed the scraps on the table, the little dolls and clothes on the bed into the suitcase, and then she looked around the room for a week to make sure that nothing fell. For the large items, I hurriedly slammed the door and went downstairs with my luggage.

Impatiently, she did not notice that at the foot of the bed in the room lay a vial of reagents with the words [beta-guide inhibitor] on the label.

The author has something to say: In the world where Bi Ming has not come, Phoenix is ​​a very pure state of doing tasks.

Just like Arnold is now, although he will be teased, his attributes are rational, suspicious, cold, arrogant, and cannot be easily shaken. Any change requires accumulation and opportunity, eh.