"Sister, over here." Tian Qi stood up and greeted Tian Si from a corner of the bar.
Tian Si also saw her cousin. She carefully bypassed the bustling stream of people and walked over.
"I haven't seen your shadow for almost a month. Are you also in seclusion?" Tian Qi pulled out the chair where his jacket was placed and invited his cousin to take a seat. He complained incessantly, but the target of his attack was quite subtle.
Tian Si laughed. Before she could speak, Tian Qi had already noticed the relaxed and joyful expression on her face. He lightly slapped the table. "It looks like there are no problems on Grandma Pan's side."
"Yes, I've received the official notice. Although there's still half a year before school officially starts, I'll be following the project starting next month. "
"Congratulations, congratulations. Grandma Pan's graduate student quota is enough to make people fight over it every year."
"I can only say that I was lucky." Tian Si didn't want to talk about this topic. She called over the waitress dressed as a witch. "A cup of mocha, thank you."
The waitress recognized Tian Si. She apologized softly, "Senior Sister Tian, the coffee is sold out..."
"Then a cup of hot cocoa."
The waitress accepted the order and left. Tian Qi rushed to claim credit. "See, it wasn't easy for me to save you a seat."
Tian Si's gaze swept across the corner of the bar. This was the public activity area located on the second floor of Northern Rock Gear. It was close to the Sandbar Waterway and faced the scenery at the bottom of the lake. It was originally a good place to cultivate the body and mind, but the surging stream of people made it seem more like a popular tourist spot.
"Your society's theme week is pretty good."
"You know, it's not purely based on the theme week... Right now, this place is almost bursting with people. I really miss the days when it was just Luo Nan and the others, even though I didn't come here many times. "Tian Qi sighed. He consciously lowered his voice." Sister, did you come here to find Luo Nan? It's not easy to see him right now. "
"I made an appointment." This kind of conversation shouldn't have happened between schoolmates, but the Tian siblings felt that it was very normal.
"That's good..." Tian Qi suddenly cried out before he could finish speaking. "Behind me! Look at the lake."
Tian Si subconsciously turned her head and saw a huge and flat body slanted at a certain angle in the Lake of Chaos separated by tempered glass to the side of the public activity area. It silently streaked past, blocking the line of sight of everyone in the bar.
There was no source of light at the bottom of the lake, only the lights from the public area projected into the lake. Under the illumination of the lights, the demonic fish that looked like giant bats were showing off their wingspans that were more than twenty meters long and their pale lower abdomen, which had hideous mouthparts, to the "tourists".
Especially when the demonic fish turned around, its ten-meter-long "thin tail" of scales slammed into the tempered glass. The heavy impact seemed to make the entire glass wall tremble. The tail even carried its own electric flames. Every time it jumped and flashed, it seemed to burn the hearts of the onlookers.
Many men and women cried out in fear and excitement.
Tian Si stared blankly at this scene. Even though she had been mentally prepared, when she saw this demonic fish, the terrifying scene from two months ago seemed to replay itself. She couldn't help but shiver, her cheeks almost draining of blood.
In comparison, Tian Qi had seen a lot more, and he didn't know what his cousin had experienced in Ocean Sky Cloud City. He let out a sigh of satisfaction. "It's different from what I saw in Ocean Sky Cloud City. It seems like they could break through the glass at any time! Actually, I don't think any theme week can compare to this thing going around in a circle … Uh, Sis, are you okay? "
Tian Si seemed to wake up from a dream, but it wasn't good to turn her head and let her cousin see her current expression. She could only speak randomly. "This stingray is the one from Ocean Sky Cloud City?"
"Yes, that's the one."
"It's grown quite a bit."
"Who says it isn't? I heard that its wingspan has grown by nearly a third since it was first captured, and its growth has been concentrated in the past two months. It must have eaten and drunk well in Ocean Sky Cloud City and fattened up. "
The stingray swaggered around behind the tempered glass for a while, then turned and entered the depths of the lake where people couldn't see. It left the ground full of exclamations of admiration.
However, no one here knew that among them, there was someone who had previously come into close contact with this Aberration — the kind that was almost eaten.
Tian Si turned around and subconsciously picked up the hot drink on the table. Only then did she realize that her hands had become cold, and her legs were even trembling. But at the same time, her heart was boiling hot, and then a vermilion blush stained her face.
This was also a mixture of fear and excitement — her mood wasn't much different from the others present, but it was more deeply colored by memories, or perhaps it was sublimated by expectations.
Last time in Ocean Sky Cloud City, this ferocious monster had used its long electric tail to wrap around her legs, and it could tear her to pieces in the next second. But it was also from that incident that she truly glimpsed the scene behind the scenes of today's world and touched upon a magical corner of the "Inner World."
She took small sips of the hot cocoa to calm herself down, then asked, "This mutant should be very dangerous. Why did it move here?"
"It's said that the family that left the stingray in Ocean Sky Cloud City couldn't afford the rental and feeding fees, so they sold this thing at a high price. The buyer was someone in our society, but no one knew that this person was willful enough to directly move this monster here as an ornamental fish. "
"You don't know …"
"What?"
"Nothing. I'm just a little curious as to who would spend so much money to open up their connections and place a mutant in the jungle of the north bank. Professor Wu and the others can't bear to see this happen. "
"You're talking about Professor Pan's husband, right? Hehe, he's probably going to go mad with anger. Apparently, he took advantage of Professor Pan's trip to act first and report later. It's hard to say whether or not he'll be able to stay here for a long time. "
Tian Qi was quite open-minded. "I think it's most likely temporary. It just so happens that the theme week needs a gimmick. Speaking of which, Vice President Ou's Eleusis Apparatus Replay program has already collapsed. I heard that Luo Nan was the one who stopped it. Now that the stingray is here, no one would have the guts to run to the lake and cause a ruckus. From this point of view …. You understand. "
"Yeah, we all understand." Her slender fingers were placed lightly on Tian Qi's shoulder. They were like jade tubes, yet they carried the pressure of a steel pipe.
Tian Qi jumped in fright. He reflexively wanted to get up, but he was pressed down to the point where he couldn't move. Tian Si stood up and greeted the mature and sexy woman behind Tian Qi. "Hello, Ms. Cat Eyes."
"You're welcome. I'm just an errand boy. I'm in charge of delivering and receiving messages." Cat Eyes very naturally pulled Tian Qi out of his seat. She used this willful manipulation method to indicate to the young man to go do what he needed to do.
Tian Qi more or less had some understanding of this woman. He didn't say much. He winked at Tian Si, shrunk into the back of the crowd, and soon disappeared.
Cat Eyes was the famous queen of nightclubs in Xia City. She really liked to join in on the fun, but she hated the bustling environment of Gear because it brought her unnecessary workload. So she made a long story short. "Luo Nan, Gao Meng, and Papercut. Oh, you know the one in the back. They're discussing some technical issues and forgot about the time. If you're willing to wait, I can take you to the sixth floor to rest. "
"Ah, actually, I just want to help an elder send an invitation."
"Elder?"
"It's my instructor, Professor Pan Wen. She …."
"I know. Luo Nan's mother's instructor, right? From now on, you'll be his teacher's aunt. "
"That's not necessary." Tian Si was still a bit reserved when facing Cat Eyes. She wasn't used to chatting and joking with her.
"Okay, I understand. Come with me."
"Won't I disturb him?" Tian Si was still a bit worried.
"You've already agreed to wait. What's there to disturb?" Cat Eyes smiled and stood up. She led Tian Si around the stream of people and slowly walked down the fire escape passageway. She casually explained, "Right now, there are too many idle people waiting. For the sake of tranquility, the fifth, sixth, and seventh floors have been sealed off from the outside world. It's not too convenient to go in and out. It's not good to have an elevator or something like that. We'll go down the stairs. There'll be a clearance check to get to the fifth floor. It'll be a bit troublesome. You should be prepared. "
Tian Si grunted in response and subconsciously sucked in a breath. She didn't feel that it would be troublesome. Instead, she felt quite expectant.
The two ladies walked down one floor at a time. After passing through two floors, the clamor of the public activity area was more or less masked. Only the rhythmic sound of footsteps could be heard in the stairwell.
Tian Si slightly adjusted her breathing. She pondered for a moment on what to say when she saw Luo Nan. Actually, she had rehearsed this conversation many times before, but she still couldn't help feeling nervous and anxious at this moment.
Tian Si sighed to herself with such a state of mind. What the heart desires, there must be fear. Perhaps this was a type of 'blinded by greed'?
It was at this time that Cat Eyes spoke, "You want to enter our circle?"
Tian Si's inner thoughts had been exposed in a single sentence. She subconsciously shivered and raised her head to look.
Cat Eyes raised an eyebrow, "What's there to be nervous about? It's not like you're a bandit. If you want to do it, just say it. Do you want to become an ability user? "
The corner of Tian Si's lips twitched. She laughed self-deprecatingly, "Anyone can probably tell what I'm thinking."
"Who was the last person who could tell? Luo Nan? "
"It was Mr. Papercut."
"Oh." Cat Eyes came to a sudden realization. Though she didn't participate in some matters, she still possessed the relevant information. "You've crossed paths with him twice. That's right. The matter with Ocean Sky Cloud City will certainly affect you. You must have seriously considered it for you to be able to endure for so long before saying it. "
Actually, I didn't say it …
Tian Si didn't dare to say these words. She could only nod.
"Papercut is a rather steady person. He didn't blindly encourage you back then, did he?"
Tian Si shook her head immediately. The matter with Ocean Sky Cloud City didn't need to be mentioned. She had yet to recover from the shock, causing her memories to be a bit messy. Her memories were especially deep and fuzzy. However, she had a clear memory of the entire matter from the get-together at Aurora Cloud City.
She remembered that she had once mustered up the courage to ask Papercut, but he seemed to have intentionally avoided this topic.
Cat Eyes snorted, "He's quite responsible. His mind is clear. He knows that this is a field where talent is the most important."
"Talent?"
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