Night Meeting with Garcia
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After dinner, after Zero went back to her room to review her homework, Roland came to the door of apartment 0827 as he had promised.
He knocked on the door several times and it opened with a squeak.
Garcia still had the same cold expression. "Come in."
Entering the apartment, Roland found that her decoration was much better than his own apartment. The floor had been replaced with a solid wooden floor, there was a special shoe cabinet at the door, a crystal chandelier overhead, and even the white paint on the wall had been repainted. Judging from the gloss, it was definitely not the original paint that had been applied in the early days of the apartment.
"I don't have extra slippers. You can wear mine first." She pointed to a pair of furry rabbit-eared slippers at the bottom of the shoe cabinet. "I like to wear large ones. They shouldn't be too small for you."
Roland tried to put his feet into the slippers. They were not small, but they were winter slippers. He felt hot all over. Besides, the furry rabbit ears on the slippers... He really could not imagine what Garcia would look like in these slippers.
It was totally different from her indifference that kept people thousands of miles away!
He walked to the sofa and sat down. "By the way, do you have water here? I might have put too much salt in the dinner. "
Garcia frowned and glanced at him. "I only have ice water."
"Then let's have ice water."
While she turned around to go to the kitchen, Roland poked his head into the room. All the apartments in the apartment were basically the same, except that the two adjacent apartments were symmetrical on the left and right sides. 0827 was the next door, so the passage facing the door must lead to the storeroom.
Sure enough, at the end of the passage, he saw a cubicle of similar size, but Garcia had obviously redecorated it and replaced it with a sliding shutter door. The good news was that this kind of sliding door was usually not locked. The bad news was that she might have dismantled the iron door and rebuilt the outer wall during the renovation.
When Garcia returned to the living room with the water, Roland had already pretended to be indifferent, leaning against the sofa and watching TV.
"Thank you." He picked up the glass of water. "Do you live here alone? During the parent-teacher conference this morning, they all said that you're from the Clover Family … "
"I'm not," Garcia interrupted coldly. "Three Leaves have nothing to do with me. You can even say that we're enemies."
"Enemy?" Roland was startled. "Then your cousin …"
"They know this and want cousin to persuade me to go back." She looked a little depressed. "If I leave, the group can tear down the building."
"So the expansion of the shopping mall next door is a project of the Clover Group?"
"Otherwise, who would dare to demolish these cultural relics in public?" Garcia was puzzled. "You live in a tube-shaped apartment. Why don't you know this?"
Oh no … the other party was not Zero, but a mature adult. If she inherited the character of Princess Tilly, it would be even more difficult to fool her.
"Ahem … I rarely care about what happens in the streets. Besides, I lost my job a while ago and haven't been out for almost half a year." Roland hurriedly changed the topic. "Do martialists have other jobs besides participating in competitions?"
"Yes. Competitions are equivalent to competitions and training. Spreading martial arts to the audience and winning prizes are not the most important content. Our top priority is to fight against the Erosion of the outside world."
"What Erosion?" Roland asked in surprise.
"You know about the Fallen Evils, right? They're one of the most common ones. They're not people who have awakened the Force of Nature and lost control of their power, but the Erosion of the outside world has turned them into another kind of creature," Garcia said in a low voice. "Ordinary force can't do much harm to Fallen Evils, so we need to stand up and fight against them."
Roland could not help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, a faint sense of unease rising in his heart … The Dream World was being eroded?
"What do you mean by the outside world?"
"I can't tell you too much unless you join the Martialist Association and get a hunting license."
"Why?"
"Because not all people who have awakened the Force of Nature will stand on the side of martialists," Garcia said word by word. "Many people even hope that the forces of the outside world will enter our world. They're hostile to all human beings, so the hunting license not only allows martialists to fight against the Fallen Evils, but also allows martialists to kill those awakened people who try to disturb the stability of our society."
"So that's why it's called a hunting license?" Roland suddenly felt a little creeped out. In other words, if he was confirmed to have awakened the Force of Nature and refused to join the Association, wouldn't he become their natural enemy?
Garcia seemed to see through Roland's concern and shook her head. "There are indeed some people who don't want to join the Martialist Association or work for those evil people. These people are called the middle. The Association won't do anything to them, but the Fallen Evils are different. Most of the middle people like to act alone, so they're often attacked by the enemy. So if you don't want to join the Association, you'd better never expose your power. "
Looking at the "Princess Tilly", Roland could not help but feel a little strange. She always looked indifferent, but in fact, she was not that difficult to communicate with. When he first met her, he even thought that she was an arrogant lady who did not like to look people in the eye.
After he expressed his doubts tactfully, Garcia rolled her eyes. "The first thing you did when you saw me was to reach for the weapon on your back. Do you think I should give you a look? Fortunately, you didn't take out your weapon, or you'd definitely go to the hospital and get a cast. "
Just then, Garcia's cell phone rang. She glanced at the screen and could not help but frown. "I'll take a call."
Then she picked up her cell phone, walked into the bedroom, and closed the door on her way.
Obviously, she did not want Roland to hear the content of their conversation.
This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Roland immediately stood up, took off his rabbit-ear slippers, and walked quickly to the end of the corridor barefoot.
Through the gap of the shutters, he saw the things stored in the compartment — Garcia had actually turned it into a cloakroom! In addition to a variety of dresses, there were also many women's underwear.
However, nothing could stop him from exploring the truth of the world.
Without hesitation, Roland pushed open the shutters and walked in, smelling the fragrance of the clothes.
After passing through the layers of clothes, an iron-blue door appeared in front of him! And he also noticed that there was a layer of dust on the handle of the door, which was in sharp contrast to the clean surrounding walls, although there was no padlock on the door.
"Did Garcia not enter or leave this Gate of Memory?"
But now was not the time to think about this. Roland took a deep breath and gently opened the door a gap.
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