Chapter 223: Get in the line, dip in, fourth fish.

Chi Xiaochi takes an empty bowl and walks towards the uninvited guest.

"Don't go." Zhao Rou limps a few steps after him, trying to stop him.

She whispered a warning, "Do you know what he's here for?"

Chi Xiaochi asked rhetorically, "Do I need to care what he is here for."

Said he, with a gentle smile on his brow, "What else could it be, if not a friend, who is willing to join us now?"

Zhao Rou, chilled to the bone by his laughter, stopped talking.

While fearing him, Zhao Rou was strangely reassured.

Because of Shan Shuang's sudden appearance, countless pairs of eyes were refocused on Area A6.

Everyone was expecting a reversal.

In their opinion, even the pig teammates who not only expressed a little suspicion, but also took the initiative to approach, Shan Shuang is simply a fool if he doesn't kill a person to get the bounty in a hurry.

Chi Xiaochi walks up to a single double-sided surface and holds the bowl flat.

The ceramic glaze reflects Bai Anyi's face.

He said, "Demonstrate your psychic powers. Get this bowl out of my hand."

Shan Shuang lowered her arms, which were already sore from lifting, and placed them in front of her body in a regular manner, "Good."

He did not make any unnecessary movements, just a sweep of the eyes, Chi Xiaochi felt an uncontrollable paralysis of the muscles in his hand, his wrist was soft, the bowl tumbled down silently, and was caught squarely by Shan Shuang.

Shan Shuang held the bowl with both hands, wondering if he had passed the competency test.

The man in front of him moved his wrists and darted a glance at him, "Take the bowl, come and eat."

After saying that, he exposed his back completely to Shan Shuang and walked straight back.

Zhao Rou just watched and sweated for him.

If Shan Shuang really made a move, did this Bai really have a ten percent chance of taking him down?

Not to mention her, even Shan Shuang was full of doubts.

...... Just a simple test like this, and he's already assured? Isn't that a bit too hasty?

Shan Shuang was only half a meter behind him, and even if he intended to tie his hands loosely or hide a short dagger on his body, he was sure to kill him in a few seconds.

Monodouble was guilty of muttering as he walked.

He remembered that when he was watching the pop-ups, they mentioned that there was someone on this team who could instantly move.

Is that him?

But the man walked away without looking back, and unless he had eyes in the back of his head, how could he be sure he would not do it?

Distracted, Shan Shuang did not even notice that the shadowed reflection reflected in the porcelain enameled bowl he was holding did not belong to him.

--It was the face of "Bai Anyi", looking sideways, closely watching his every move.

As soon as Shan Shuang dared to make any movement, his neck would immediately be snapped by the hand sticking out of the bowl.

Walking up to the pot, the single double who had been tangled up all the way through was a bit too much, and felt that he should have released more sincerity.

He offered, "You guys search me."

Chi Xiaochi, however, waved his hand and picked up his bowl, "Let's finish eating. If we delay any longer, the fish won't taste as good."

Shan Shuang clutched the bowl with a complex expression, occasionally surveying the strange procession from the top of the bowl.

Chi Xiaochi didn't care what he was thinking, he took a bite of the fish and ate it while it was still hot. Lou Ying added some beef sauce to the fish, and held up a small bowl of his own, staring silently at Chi Xiaochi's eating.

Chi Xiaochi ate a half-full meal before wiping her mouth and asking, "Do you know what we do and are going to join us?"

Shan Shuang had been a bit distracted, but after only a few bites, his stomach opened up, and after a windy meal, there was only the bottom of the bowl left.

At that, he lifted his sleeve and offered to show them his wristwatch.

After moving from A12, Shan Shuang received about ten more "bounty orders" one after another.

But he didn't answer any of them.

Not only did he not answer, but he eliminated the "bounties" one by one in front of Chi Xiaochi and others.

"From yesterday to today, I've been wondering what the hell I'm supposed to do right. Now, I've finally figured it out." Shan Shuang lowered his sleeves and said seriously, "If I am asked to defend myself, I can; if I am asked to be an undignified killing tool purely for the sake of staying alive, I might as well die."

Lou Ying asks, "How do you know it's safe to come to us? Aren't you afraid we'll kill you?"

When Shan Shuang didn't smile, he looked like a cold-faced man with no mouth and no heart, who would have thought that when he smiled, he revealed two small, airless tiger teeth, "I've been watching the pop-ups on my way here. You guys obviously already have three people, but you didn't kill the fourth person you saved, and you also gave her a bandage ......"

He looks over to Zhao Rou and nods politely at her.

"...... I don't want to kill anyone, but I don't want to die alone either." Shan Shuang said, "I'm here to find a companion. Take a step back, you guys are really some kind of evil people, I can't find a companion, but I can still find a death not."

"At the end of the day, even if I do die here because I broke the rules and they injected me with poison, at least, I'll die with you guys instead of dying in a corner where no one knows about it and slowly rotting away."

After saying so much in one breath, Shan Shuang was a bit embarrassed and pointed to the pot and spoon, "...... Your rice is quite fragrant. Can I have another bowl?"

Chi Xiaochi : "Be my guest. By the way, what did you say your name was again?"

"Shan Shuang." Shan Shuang said, "Graduate student in finance at University B."

After the meal, Chi Xiaochi put Zhao Rou on Shan Shuang's back and led the group, which had expanded to five people in one day, on the road.

Wei XVI led the way with the dice, Shan Shuang and Zhao Rou were in the center, and Lou Ying carried Chi Xiaochi at the end.

Together, the two of them were convenient for the rearguard and were able to keep an eye on them.

Lou Ying converses with Chi Xiaochi in his head, "Do you believe in single and double?"

"I never trust a person's mouth." Chi Xiaochi was as calm as ever, "Even hearts can change. One moment he says that he would rather die than become a tool of murder, but who knows what he will change that thought the next moment? So, I will keep an eye on him and observe him. Don't worry, I'm not that emotional."

Hearing his words, Lou Ying did not say another word, but put one hand on his heart and rubbed it gently.

...... The hearts of people change, ah.

He had lost almost all of his memories, so he had no way to compare how much his heart, in fact, had changed.

Can he give Chi Xiaochi a complete heart, a complete like or not?

But at such a time of crisis, he would not speak of his troubles and plainly interfere with Chi Xiaochi's thinking.

Eventually, the group of five chose a grassy area on the waterfront in A8.

Chi Xiaochi flattens the grass, walks around with his arms folded, and decides with a flourish, "We're camping here today."

Shan Shuang and Zhao Rou looked at each other.

At first, they thought "camping" was a bitter-sweet expression.

But when Lou Ying removed four military tents, five sleeping bags, full barbecue equipment, a freshly killed and skinned goat, coarse grains of barbecue salt, paprika, pepper, and other assorted seasoning supplies, their jaws nearly dropped right off.

Lou Ying, while taking inventory of the warehouse stock, also looked up and thoughtfully asked the crowd, "Does anyone smoke."

Shan Shuang choked on his own spit, "No, no smoking."

Wei XVI has long since accepted the fact that "Brother Chi is bullish" and raised his hand, "I'll I'll I'll smoke! I'll smoke!"

Lou Ying took out seven or eight packs of good cigarettes and asked with a smile, "What brand?"

In the pop-up screen, those who lost a lot of money already hated them to the bone, and when they saw that they were living so well, they were so angry that they wanted to vomit blood.

...... dry, still really fucking think this place is a park ah.

When Lou Ying set up his tent, he couldn't help but ask Chi Xiaochi, who was standing by, "Isn't it a bit high-profile to show off like this?"

Chi Xiaochi crossed her legs and played human-computer chess on the game console: "It's just better to be high-profile. I'm not only going to piss them off, but I'm also going to ask them to give us free advertisement: we're not only giving good food and drink, but also providing personal protection when we take in a shifter. In this way, the xenos who don't have the intention to kill will choose to defect to us, and I'm afraid the 'catfish' will also take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters. We don't need to run around, they'll all have to take the initiative to lean on us. Isn't this good?"

Lou Ying smiled and probed at the game console he was holding, "What made you think of playing this?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "Relax."

Lou Ying put down the work at hand and looked at him, "Are you nervous? Why?"

Chi Xiaochi, eyes fixed on the screen, replied succinctly, "Not nervous, just want to play."

However, he did have one very important thing to do.

Chi Xiaochi ate very little for dinner, and after drinking only some soup made from goat bones, he said he was not feeling well and had to go into his tent to rest.

Apart from Zhao Rou, in Wei XVI's and Shan Shuang's perception, Lou Ying was the one with the strongest combat power in the squad, so Lou Ying stayed until the end, and only after arranging for the night duty shifts, watching everyone go to sleep and making sure that the campfire embers were all extinguished, did he turn around and burrowed into the tent to see if Chi Xiaochi was asleep.

Inside the tent, the pilot light was off, the sleeping bag was zippered shut, and Chi Xiaochi was curled up in it like a big ball of air, unable to breathe.

Lou Ying laughed.

How ...... don't take care of themselves at all.

He unzipped the sleeping bag to give Chi Xiaochi some air, but when he unzipped the zipper, his fingertips touched a piece of skin soaked in cold sweat and so cold it was scary.

Lou Ying, appalled, relit the vapor lamp and took Chi Xiaochi out of his sleeping bag.

He bit a white towel, gagging gasps and faint moans, his body spasmed so much that his calves seemed to cramp and tense into an iron hard mass, and he didn't have much of a conscious look, only subconsciously grasping the lapel of Lou Ying's coat when he was next to his body and tightening it with force, his uncomfortable expression wringing Lou Ying's heart straight away.

In desperation, Lou Ying raised his hand against his brow, trying to use his authority as a system to forcibly awaken him from his abnormal state.

However, Lou Ying hesitated when his fingers rested on his forehead, where cold sweat was pouring out.

Frowning thoughtfully for a moment, he gritted his teeth and took Chi Xiaochi into his arms, telling him to rest on his arms, forcing himself, not to interfere with what Chi Xiaochi was doing.

...... Although he didn't know what Chi Xiaochi really wanted.

But since he did it, it must have made sense.

Lou Ying stayed at his side, not saying a word.

Until the spasms of the person in his arms subsided and his eyelids moved slightly.

...... Then he stopped moving, as if he had passed out.

Really knows how to piss people off.

Lou Ying murmured, "I'll hold you as long as you pretend to be asleep."

Chi Xiaochi said in his heart that he was finished, opened his eyes and playfully arched out of Lou Ying's arms, "Brother, how can I take advantage of you for this."

Lou Ying tossed the towel, which had been changed three times enough, onto the floor, fetched a dry set of clothes, dressed him, and tucked him back into his sleeping bag, zipping it up in silence.

Chi Xiaochi, who was being manipulated by him, tilted her head, a little panicked, "Brother?"

Lou Ying looked at him and ignored him.

Chi Xiaochi: "Brother."

Sure enough, Lou Ying couldn't take it, and stopped waiting for an explanation.

Chi Xiaochi sat up from her sleeping bag and pulled up the cuffs of her pajamas as she said, "I'm off to confirm Bai Anyi's recollections before she died."

Lou Ying's lips quivered, "...... immersion?"

"There's no other perspective, I guess."

Chi Xiaochi, with a slight tone of regret, said, "I've looked underwater several times, and I can't really see who those two people are who killed Bai Anyi."

Lou Ying looked a little bit ugly.

...... No wonder.

Chi Xiaochi only drank liquid food at night because she was afraid of choking on her vomit.

Biting the towel for fear that the noise he made would be heard by others and for fear that the excessive pain would lead to tongue biting.

The cramps and whimpers he makes are the result of his immersion in experiencing Bai Anyi's drowning.

Chi Xiaochi didn't know what kind of minefield he had hit, and only concentrated on his own discovery: "The 'catfish' that have appeared so far include a pink-skinned man with unknown powers; a woman who can minimize her body functions and is good at faking her own death, and two people who killed Bai Anyi at the end of the day. Anyi's people."

"I think that the number of 'catfish' is a little strange."

"In theory, the number of 'catfish' will never be high, because there are only three people who can survive to the final pass, and if I were the organizer, I would definitely leave all three slots for the 'catfish'. Halfway through the 'catfish' misses and is killed does not count, that is their own creation problem, but the ideal state that the organizer hopes for, should still be to let the obedient 'catfish' live to the end and get the quota, and 'catfish ' internal disputes and infighting should not arise because of survival issues, otherwise, the existence of the 'catfish' will be easily exposed. So I think a reasonable number of 'catfish' should be equal to the number of survivors at the end, which is three."

Chi Xiaochi rubbed his still throbbing calf and mused, "...... It should be three, how come there is an extra one."

Lou Ying poured a glass of lukewarm water and handed it to Chi Xiaochi, his voice a little muffled, "You play games in the afternoon just to do this at night?"

Chi Xiaochi cradles her glass of water, taking small sips to rehydrate, "Uh-huh. Regulates the mood."

Lou Ying : "So have you thought about taking care of me a little bit?"