Please Have a Cup of Green Tea

In the confined and narrow space, dust was flying, Bi Ming curled up and coughed a few times in a low voice.

One hand was hugging her from behind, and the other hand was on top of her head, blocking the rocks falling from the ceiling for her.

If you adjust the viewing angle a little farther, you can see that in this small room full of mud and collapsed, a man with long silver hair and a girl with blond hair are huddled in a narrow corner, their bodies are very close, while The man is raising his hand to shield the girl from dangerous rubble and branches.

"Cough cough..." Bi Ming opened her eyes with difficulty, but all eyes were dark and there was no trace of light.

If the man behind her hadn't blocked it in time, the small rocks above her head would have smashed and bleed.

How did all this happen?

About three minutes ago, she was studying the red-gold mechanical Rubik's Cube that Arnold handed to her near the statue on the first floor.

She was careful enough to slowly try to turn the grids one by one—

But it only took a moment for misfortune to come. When I didn't know which cube to turn, the entire mechanical cube suddenly made a slight vibration.

The next second, she saw the familiar blue light spot haunting her, exactly the same as the "Port Key" effect in the first stage.

Before she could throw the Rubik's cube out, her body was already in a very delicate particle state, and at the same time, she heard the exclamation of Nina who was closest to her, and another cool palm touched her. on her shoulders...

When she woke up, she found that she had been teleported to a small, abandoned room built with rock and earth walls.

The most terrifying thing is that it seems that because of her arrival, loose stones began to fall from this dilapidated room, and the man who arrived later raised his hand in time and wrapped her in his arms. , covering her head and body for her.

The atmosphere right now is awkward.

Bi Ming turned her head slightly, trying to avoid the hot and humid breath behind her ears, but was pressed on her shoulders.

"Don't move—" The man's cold voice sounded so **** for the first time, rubbing her eardrums hoarsely, "There are stones behind me, this should be a disrepaired utility room."

The blond girl felt the heat coming from behind her, and her back was tingling with heat: "But, but..."

Her awkward voice also made the silver-haired man behind him frown.

He didn't know how he could teleport to her subconsciously at that moment, and his rational explanation for this was that he needed to determine the rules for using the "door key", so it was okay to take a risk.

Arnold has always been nicknamed "the insulator of the opposite sex", but now holding the piece of warm nephrite in his arms, he just felt that the other party was like a fragrant ointment, and a slight movement made him unable to concentrate his attention.

Due to the dark and narrow corner, the two had to lean against each other, and the sound of each other's breathing was clearly audible, and the man's hand on the girl's waist was half-clenched into a fist, avoiding an overly affectionate touch, but Even so, it's still ambiguous enough.

"Arnold..." The girl tugged at his arm, "Can you let go first, I can't move..."

The man behind also wanted to let go, but as soon as his elbow moved, he hit a huge stone wall.

"Sorry." He could only apologize. No one thought that this tree tower would have such a small room. It was just right for one person to stand, and two people could only huddle together.

Because of the darkness in front of you, the sense of unease will also increase.

Arnold felt the body of the girl in front of him was shaking, and a strange emotion surged in his heart, like a pebble thrown into a deep lake, stirring a faint ripple.

He moved the corners of his lips, and finally comforted: "Don't worry, pick up the Rubik's Cube, let's find a way to get out first."

Men obviously rarely speak like this, and the overly blunt tone and imperative tone made the girl tremble even more.

"I, the Rubik's Cube I was holding was thrown out." Her voice was low and low, with slight shame and fear.

Arnold's night vision ability is very good. He glanced around and saw a glowing mechanical Rubik's cube parked on a low rock in front of him.

However, this thing is still a bit far from them.

Arnold measured it and asked Bi Ming softly, "You reach out and see if you can reach something in a certain direction."

"I'll try my best." The girl avoided the breath of the man speaking, her earlobes were already red from embarrassment.

At the prompt of the man, she saw the Rubik's Cube rolling down the ground. It was about two meters away from her, a distance that could be reached with a little effort... Unfortunately, even though she was about to dislocate in pain, her fingers were still some distance from the Rubik's Cube. .

Arnold stopped her from tossing herself roughly like this: "Forget it, I'll do it."

"But you can't reach it either—" Beaming couldn't help but feel frustrated when she thought that Arnold was still one position behind her.

The silver-haired man lowered his head, attached to the girl's ear, and entered her ear with a faintly magnetic and graceful voice:

"It's within reach, it just makes you feel uncomfortable, do you mind?"

The eldest lady was too naive, and now she is full of going out, so she urged: "As long as you can leave this ghost place."

The silver-haired man nodded: "Don't worry." After speaking, his palm rested on the girl's waist, hugged her tightly, and stretched out his arms from her side.

"!" If the other party hadn't informed it in advance, the eldest lady would have screamed in shock.

Because the man's arm is so strong and powerful, like a mechanical arm made of steel, she couldn't move even when she was holding her waist.

"Eh..." The eldest snorted, the back of her neck became numb due to the surge in hormones, and her face flushed red.

"Sorry, bear with me." The man's body was attached to her, only separated by a thin shirt, and the lines of his muscles could be perceived almost perfectly by her.

The worst thing is that the girl was wearing tight sweatpants today, and she felt the heat behind her, so she didn't dare to move.

If Arnold's character is more frivolous, I'm afraid he can't help being distracted.

It's just that the big scientist is very focused now. He really wants to get the door key back, and his arm length is too much longer than Bi Ming. With a flick of his fingertips, the cube is back in his hand.

"Okay..." Holding the "door key", Arnold twitched his lips, and immediately realized that the girl in his arms was in a wrong state.

The sentinel's night vision ability was excellent, and when he lowered his head a little, he saw the blond lady's hair was scattered in a mess, her earlobes were red, and her breathing was short and uneasy.

Arnold's heartbeat suddenly quickened a bit, and his eyebrows also wrinkled slightly.

Did he just...did something outrageous?

Finally, his hand put his hand on her shoulder and released her slightly: "Are you alright?"

The eldest lady didn't want to speak, she felt that she was about to lose her face, and when she was locked in her arms by the other party just now, she actually had a sense of fear unique to those who were dominated.

"Tesla," the man called her name again, trying to stop her trembling, "I didn't mean to offend just now, there's just too little space for us in this room..."

"Needless to say, Doctor." The girl's voice was inaudible, with a bit of shame, "It's my problem." She just felt the guide's desperate lack of physical strength in front of the sentinel, and she couldn't convince herself not to be afraid.

Arnold lowered his eyes and put the Rubik's cube in front of her: "Let's take a look at this, let's find a way to leave first."

The secret room and darkness will deepen a person's fear, but he doesn't want the girl in front of him to be afraid of him.

Bi Ming took a deep breath: "Okay."

They started talking about speculation about the cube.

"This is not the ancient six-color Rubik's Cube, it's more like a combination lock." Arnold pointed to the looming digital patterns in the small grids on the Rubik's Cube, "It's marked from 0 to 9."

In essence, there are not many squares with numbers in the Rubik's Cube. From their perspective, the first column of the Rubik's Cube is 0-9, spanning two faces. The leftmost column is also 0-9, and the grid of 0 overlaps with the row, like a starting point.

Bi Ming recalled where he touched just now, and pointed it out to him: "I finally twisted the number '1' in the first row, so that it and the number above show the value of '10946'."

10946 is the number of rooms on the top floor counted by Phoenix.

Arnold gave a "hmm" and then analyzed: "If the room number corresponds to the door key as in the first stage, then this is the room we came to. It's not surprising why the materials used in the house are so primitive. Their The tops are all small and thin branches, which cannot bear the weight of the alloy wall after being cut through, so an earth wall is used.”

"According to this idea, let's turn the Rubik's cube and turn it into '00001' to see if we can go back."

At this moment, he wrapped his arms around her, holding the Rubik's Cube in his hand, and let her twist it as before.

Due to space problems, the two of them couldn't move their bodies, and could only maintain a hugging posture, while the eldest lady could only shrink her shoulders to minimize physical contact.

"Or...you'll come." She pursed her lips and found that she would touch his arm when she moved her arm.

Arnold heard the girl pretending to be indifferent and sighed: "Okay, I'll try."

Soon, after the numbers "00001" were aligned in vertical columns on the Rubik's Cube, they paused for a few seconds, and saw the mechanical Rubik's Cube made a "humming" vibration, just like the "click" opening of the bicycle combination lock in the earth age feel the same.

Blue beams lingered around them, and soon, the two finally disappeared from the small room and returned to the hall where they came.

"Tesla!" Nina, who was so anxious, immediately grabbed her arm, "Are you all right?"

Bi Ming had to appease her: "It doesn't matter, it's just sent to a small room."

The other sentries who were about to use violent means to open the door were also relieved, and then looked at Arnold with a calm face.

They wouldn't miss the action of the other party hugging the girl's waist the moment they came back.

"Just come back." Phoenix approached Ome, bent down and gently stroked her head, "Will you feel uncomfortable?"

The blonde girl touched her slightly hot cheeks and shook her head gently: "No, Fini, don't worry."

"Testie," he ran his fingers through her blonde hair, warm and relaxing, "I can't help but worry."

Whether it was out of a desire for protection or something else, he couldn't accept the feeling of watching her being sent away before.

The eldest lady only felt that her body gradually became warmer, which was a unique effect of Zhuma's super power.

The anxiety in her heart was relieved a lot, so she raised her head and smiled at the red-haired man: "Thank you."

Arnold looked at the pair of childhood sweethearts who were looking at each other closely, his face was expressionless, but he felt that the air in the hall was getting thinner and harder to breathe.

In his mind, he recalled the previous scene where the girl shrank in his arms, and the evasive, trembling body had silently told her distrust of him.

If there is no comparison, he probably won't feel so obvious.

If it was Phoenix, would she keep dodging?

Though the idea made no sense, Arnold had let his mind go into this clutter for the first time.

Even after knowing the usage of the "door key", the exploration of the ruins is still stuck at the bottleneck, that is, the number of rooms.

Bi Ming mentioned to others that the number of rooms on each floor has a regular pattern to follow, so that the range of room numbers on each floor can also be arranged, and the sentries who used another mathematical tool to calculate it quickly understood construction here.

"Its rooms are built according to the law of natural growth of tree branches. Think of the bottom of the trunk as 1, the first bifurcation is 2, the second bifurcation is 3... All bifurcations will be made by them into passages, passages The room at the end will continue to expand as the tree grows." Sean stared at the spiral staircase, thoughtfully.

Tang glanced at the time: "Even if we know the total number of rooms, we have to exclude them exhaustively. It's meaningless. It's almost noon now, and we still need to reserve time to go to the secret passage you said yesterday."

The search for secret passages and new relics was agreed upon by everyone yesterday.

And after they opened the room on the first five floors of the tree tower and found nothing, they were a little impatient.

"The column with blue liquid in the middle should be the 'aorta' that maintains this big tree. I think we can follow it to find the central control room." Christian suggested.

His thoughts inspired Bi Ming, and she nodded seriously: "We should find the most special room, just like in the first ruins."

"Is it also related to the 'Eye of Horus'?" Nina asked a question.

"The 'Eye of Horus' involves the field of scores, and maybe we can mark several special room numbers based on this feature."

Everyone brainstormed, but Bi Ming vaguely felt that what the "Eye of Horus" wanted to tell them was not an exact number, but an idea.

In any case, the exploration of the tower in the tree could not be accomplished overnight, and they still did not find any trace of the key that day.

On the way back, everyone followed Sean's words and went downstream along the shoal of the stream. In the end, they did see a large field of calamus grass, and the endless green was blowing, fresh and beautiful.

The haystacks on both sides of the strait were as thick as a person and were blown by the wind, like waves in the sea of ​​grass, against the clear blue sky, as beautiful as an oil painting.

But not everyone was in the mood to appreciate it.

"So—where's the secret passage?" They looked at Sean.

The black-haired boy frowned, and let his scorpion burrow into the grass to search for the marks left over from yesterday. In the end, he only found a few dilapidated stone carvings, which were scattered on the ground. It was so badly corroded that it was almost impossible to see its original appearance.

"Mr. Major, maybe you can explain, is this your prank? Or did you have hallucinations?" Tang Mi's eyes narrowed in dissatisfaction.

Phoenix's phoenix also hovered overhead for a while, and as an extension of the Sentinel's senses, it hummed, apparently finding nothing.

"Can you describe the situation that day?" Arnold looked up at Sean.

"Although it rained that day, my eyes were not blind." Sean was a little speechless about the suspicions of others, "The contrast was obvious at the time, there were violent storms and rain, only the light from the secret road in the middle of the grass and waves was bright. ."

"Sounds like a fairy tale." Tang sneered.

"Believe it or not." Sean looked indifferent, "The news has been told to you anyway."

Christian, who was beside him, remained silent.

He is a space system capable person. In his perception, the gravitational field in this area is indeed a bit strange, and he is not unfamiliar with it.

This turbulent magnetic field is created whenever someone distorts space.

He didn't tell "partner" Tang about this little problem, but planned to study it in the next few days.

If the secret passage can be found, there may be a real gene stock solution hidden in it... If it can be swallowed alone, who is willing to share it?

At this time, the golden **** flapping their wings around them also recorded the confrontation of the sentries, and the barrages imagined:

[Wouldn't it be a big move arranged by the program team? For example, there is a quantum teleportation array hidden here? 】

[The poor scorpion man was targeted again. 】

[The eldest lady who eats melons with the little sisters looks so good haha...]

[The program team must open this place in the future, I have already been immersed in travel, if I can sit on the grass for a picnic under this blue sky, it must be very cool! 】

[I read the local Star Network announcement, these are newly developed relics and will not be open to the public for the time being. That is, "The Garden of Eden" has a lot of money and has covered the island. 】

[But there are aliens on this island, do you really dare to come? 】

[The government has said that these aliens are ancient laboratory genetic variants, and they pose zero threat to sentinels above A-level. B-C-level sentinels can also be taken with weapons. The waste below D-level can wait for the island to be developed. 】

Now, in addition to being a love drama, "Eden" also plays an unexpected role in tourism promotion. The other holiday islands of Valentine's Star are fully booked, and the places can be queued up to a year later.

If it weren't for the strong security of the program team and the government's interference, there would still be many buddies who wanted to sneak onto the island and "play happily" with Bi Ming and others.

Since Christian, the only space power user in the team, decided to keep it secret, the other Sentinels gradually unified their views after perceiving the ineffectiveness.

"It may be the illusion of space refraction." This phenomenon Arnold said has a more commonly used term on Earth - "mirage".

Even when Sean found the back, he was a little suspicious that what he saw yesterday was just an illusion caused by light and shadow.

In the end, everyone waited until very late and observed it for a few kilometers before returning to the camp.

Cecia, who had been live streaming for a day, and Lilith, who was interested in reading comics, also prepared a sumptuous dinner for them. Of course, most of them were the results of Cecia's live broadcast.

The theme of her live broadcast today is "Chinese Food".

The first thing on the plate is the roast chicken. The material comes from the young bird that Arnold's giant boa brought back. After all, chickens and birds are all birds, and the way of roasting is similar.

Then there was the roasted venison in sauce. Sean brought back the sorrel with a lot of weight. When it was cut into thin slices, the muscles were distinct, but it had a bit of a stinky smell. Cecia taught the audience to use a special spice to get rid of the embarrassment.

And Lilith started beside him and sighed about Cecia's "cooking talent".

Essentially, the trick to getting rid of the stinky smell is that Cecia discovered a spice that is very similar to earth ginger, and it works well.

However, the response of Xingwang was not as popular as she thought, and the general reaction of the audience was—

[This spice is very expensive. 】

[I went to consult the doctor, and he said that eating this will affect hormone secretion and stimulate mental stability, so don’t use it next time. 】

[↑What is stimulating the spirit? do not scare me! 】

[Go back upstairs, this kind of spice is quite expensive, it’s okay to eat less, if it is too much, it will lead to high spirits, the barrier will loosen, and the guide or sentinel who are close to the estrus period will break out early, which is very dangerous. 】

【? ? ? Isn't Cecia a bad thing? Neither Lilith nor Testa have inhibitors! 】

[It's okay, it's okay, the dosage of Cecia this time is not too much, it's still within a reasonable range, it will make the body hot at most, just take a cold shower. —Secondary Medical Officer of Federal Hospital]

At the bonfire, Bi Ming tasted a piece of Cecilia's roasted venison. The sauce was sweet but not greasy, coupled with spicy spices and the aroma of the meat after it was cooked, it was indeed quite good.

It seems that in order to save the ratings of the live broadcast room, the heroine is still working very hard.

"How does it taste?" Cecia asked Bi Ming with a smile while stirring the sauce in the cauldron with a spoon, "I used an ancient cooking secret, do you know what it is?"

Seeing her cryptic "showing off", Bi Ming sighed in her heart, is this showing herself a powerful cooking skill?

Or maybe you lost on the love track, so you had to compete with yourself in another place?

As an eldest lady who is not diligent and indifferent, Bi Ming gently wiped the corner of her mouth with a napkin and put down the tableware: "I don't know, but is this important?"

"I think it's very important to make everyone happy." Cecia's lips painted with warm red velvet lipstick looked very bright, but there was a hidden edge in her words, "Look over there, they all like to eat, so I will Satisfied."

Following Cecia's line of sight, Bi Ming saw a group of sentries who were dining. Their physical exertion is proportional to their food consumption, and they dry their meals very quickly.

But...what's there to show off?

Bi Ming found that he seemed to be unable to understand the other party's brain circuits.

"Just be happy." She could only give Cecia a foolish look in the end, "By the way, I prefer others to cook for me than to cook."

The eldest lady's words are so natural, with the arrogance of being spoiled.

Cecia wanted to hit the opponent, but found that the shell was completely missed, and she was choked.

"Don't you think... girls should learn to cook?"

"I don't think so." If the original owner would be aggrieved by Cecilia's versatility, then Bi Ming didn't care what Cecilia wanted to do at all.

Cecia is a little speechless now.

The reason why she carefully prepared meals and played culinary cards was because she was forced out. You must know that in the CP list of "Garden of Eden", she is neither a sentinel nor a Lily relationship because of her awkward relationship with girls, so she is called "Miss Single".

This is a shame for her, the "Queen of Love", she can't bear to be ignored by herself.

If it weren't for the signing of the contract and the fact that the sentinel's appearance was really top-notch, Cecia would have wanted to break the contract several times and not shoot.

But thinking about the liquidated damages, Cecia, who hasn't absorbed enough traffic to get rich, can only endure. In her eyes, the biggest inside story of the show is Bi Ming, the wealthy eldest lady—

Pretty rubbish, don't have to do anything, the Sentinels are showing all kinds of favors.

It's just like the way she used to hold people in the entertainment industry in her previous life. All resources are pushed to one person. The "Sphinx" and "Eye of Horus" must have been given to her by the program team through the question. The eldest lady highlights.

Although Cecia was convinced that there was a shady scene in the program group, she was not stupid enough to show it, but she was determined to perform well, so that the world could see the incompetence of Vase and her excellence.

Just when her thoughts were surging, a new announcement from the program team came again—

[Distinguished guests, Valentine's Star's annual celebration "Eros Day" is coming. The program team specially arranged the sweet part of "gift giving each other". I hope that everyone will choose a good gift on the star network tonight and write a "gift message" to give it to the person in your heart. ps: The male and female guests who exchange gifts will also receive additional gifts from the program group. 】

"Choose a gift? Can you give it to yourself?" This is Lilith, who is very self-aware.

Nina was also puzzled by the side: "A gift for Eros Day? Um... must it be given to the male guest?"

As for Bi Ming, as soon as she looked up after reading the notice, she received several fiery gazes.

She had a faint tingling in her scalp.

Now that I'm in trouble, who should I give it to?