Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 224: Post-Movie Talk
Xia Shou followed Su Yue to the studio, and Su Yue suddenly mentioned the matter of Dorian Gray's pocket watch.

"Is Natsumori-san learning self-portrait because of that pocket watch?"

"Well, but I didn't learn it for long, and I only managed to draw something that looked a bit like it, barely usable. I heard that the pocket watch's judgment mechanism for self-portraits is very complicated. The more realistic it is, the more damage it is immune to. Using the human eye as the standard, being unable to tell whether it is a photo or a portrait at a distance of ten meters and being unable to tell whether it is a photo or a portrait at a distance of five meters, the two levels of realism bring completely different damage immunity effects.

However... In addition to this, there seems to be another more special way of judging. The archives record that the owner of a pocket watch once painted himself in an abstract style like Picasso, and the result was that the damage reduction ratio reached an extremely exaggerated level. "

As Xia Shou spoke, he fell into serious thought and only came back to his senses after a while.

"Ah, I accidentally said too much. This kind of research sounds boring, right?"

Su Yue smiled and shook her head: "No, it's not boring at all, but very interesting. In fact, I have submitted an application, and the research department has allowed me to participate in the study of mysterious history. I am quite interested in these strange forbidden objects and events."

Xia Shou was slightly surprised: "Don't you still have an acting job?"

"Yes, so I just study on my own in my free time. Dr. Modice said that when it comes to research on the supernatural, what is needed most of the time is not intelligence and logical thinking, but imagination and subversive thinking. So self-study does not necessarily lead to lower achievements than those who study professionally. He said that people with special physiques like me may have some special resonance when studying historical documents related to the Blood God."

"That's good too." Xia Shou nodded, thinking that it would be good for Su Yue to develop in this direction.

Although she survived the Blood Mother Cult incident and the Blood Mother Cult was destroyed, the key figure Yi Lei still escaped and disappeared.

Xia Shou had a feeling that Yi Lei would make a comeback one day. If he could follow clues and find Yi Lei's whereabouts before that, he would be able to seize the initiative.

This is not impossible. After all, the "Song of the Red Cave" that Xia Shou obtained from Grand Duke Rosa is also a document left over from the Middle Ages. The Blood God relic used by Yi Lei is most likely the remains of the "invincible beast" in that document.

This further proves that it is possible for them to obtain Yi Lei's next move from the literature.

In addition, Xia Shou also had his own selfish motives. He hoped that what Dr. Modise said to Su Yue was not just a superficial courtesy. If Su Yue could really find out something from the history of the Blood God, then his chances of obtaining the Blood God's relics would be greatly increased.

At this time, Su Weiyu walked in and said excitedly: "Let's go to the movies!"

"What are you looking at?"

"I don't know. We'll see when the time comes. I have nothing to do now anyway." Su Weiyu said.

In fact, she had already arranged to watch the movie, which was a specially selected high-scoring romance movie, "Love Letter".

Of course, if we order this movie directly later, as 678 said, the intention would be too obvious, so Su Weiyu did a series of advance work for this.

When I watch a movie in my home theater later, the network will definitely be slow, and the reason can be attributed to the thunderstorm.

Among the movie resources that have been downloaded in advance, only "Love Letter" is a high-scoring movie that can be watched, so it is natural for Xia Shou and I to watch a romance movie!

Su Weiyu felt like she was about to become a genius.

……

Ten minutes later, everything went as Su Weiyu had planned. Su Weiyu prepared all kinds of food and drinks, and then chose a movie. Naturally, most of the movies could not be played, so she had to choose from the downloaded movie library. Finally, from a series of horror movies, she chose "Love Letter", which was chosen by Xia Shou himself.

Everything is under control!

She had known for a long time that Xia Shou would not be willing to watch those horror movies. After all, their daily lives were horror movies.

"Does Xia Shou-nii like watching romance movies?"

“I like all high-scoring movies.”

"Really? I actually like watching romance movies."

A brief conversation before the film opened.

Then the movie began and the three of them became unusually quiet. To Su Weiyu, this kind of campus life was almost a dream.

For Xia Shou, these ordinary memories and inner emotions unique to ordinary people are already very distant. Between life and death, he has no time to feel more delicate emotions.

But when Xia Shou saw the male protagonist reading a book under the swaying white curtains, the breeze blowing his hair slightly. When he saw the male protagonist riding a bicycle with a takeaway paper bag on his head going down the hillside, and then mischievously putting the paper bag on the female protagonist's head.

At the end, when the heroine saw the library card with her sketch drawn on it among the books borrowed by the hero during their school days, the ending song slowly sounded.

The melodious melody is like a bird flying over the fields, flying higher and higher, as if implying that the good things in the past have passed, but the good things in the future will still appear.

At this moment, an inexplicable melancholy pierced Xia Shou's body deeply like a soft arrow. He heard Su Yue beside him humming along with the ending song slowly and softly.

The flow of time slowed down, and subtle emotions continued to brew after the film ended.

Xia Shou suddenly understood why he was so melancholy.

Just like the long-gone love of the two heroines in the movie, his ordinary campus life and ordinary life possibilities were also buried in the grave, just like the love in the movie.

Ah, all of a sudden, I feel like I've grown old.

"I was..."

"Hmm?" Su Yue turned her head to look at Xia Shou who had only finished speaking halfway.

Xia Shou shook his head: "Nothing."

He wanted to say that he should have been taking the college entrance examination, then going to college, graduating, and working...but now, he should have been playing games with his friends in an Internet cafe.

Teachers and parents all said that as long as he went to college, he wouldn’t have to work as hard as in high school, so he had always been looking forward to it.

But it's funny to say that before he traveled through time, what he was most looking forward to was the summer vacation after the college entrance examination, when he could go to the Internet cafe with his classmates to play computer games all night long and have fun for the entire summer vacation.

As a result, before even this small wish could be realized, everything suddenly changed. All plans for the future and all connections with the past were cruelly cut off by an invisible sharp knife.

It feels like a dream.

"Brother Xia Shou, have you ever been in love?" Su Yue asked naturally.

It seems very normal to ask this question after watching a romance movie.

But Su Weiyu on the side was stunned for a moment, feeling like something was wrong.

This was the question she wanted to ask, why did Su Yue get there first?
"The school prohibits premature love, and it's too troublesome to have a secret relationship." Xia Shou paused and added very frankly, "But I have had many secret crushes."

Su Yue covered her mouth and burst out laughing.

"What does it mean to be good at crushing? Never pursue someone?"

"How should I put it? Every time I change classes, I have a new crush on someone. What kind of person do you think he is?"

Su Yue was stumped by the question and couldn't answer for a moment.

Xia Shou didn't expect her to say anything, and sighed to himself: "Rather than saying that I like each other, it's better to say that I must have someone I like to entertain myself... Otherwise, that kind of campus life is really too boring... I think that's what I actually thought at the time."

Looking back, those feelings and thoughts seem so far away.

That kind of thought can't even be called secret love. It's purely injecting the fantasy of love into the most suitable person around you.

If Xia Shou were to return to high school now, he probably wouldn't have that kind of emotion anymore.

Su Weiyu on the side gently clenched her fists, rehearsed the questions she had set long ago in her mind, and then said: "If..."

"If you could have a relationship now, what kind of relationship would you have, Brother Xia Shou? If all the conditions could be met, what kind of person would attract you?" Su Yue asked very naturally.

Su Weiyu frowned slightly, feeling that the rhythm was a little wrong.

(End of this chapter)