You are my wife, don't doubt it!

Yu Luying shook her head and cleared her throat: "Let's talk about it on the way to Zhouzhuang tomorrow - this is for you, this is given to you by your uncle."

Going to Zhouzhuang? Oh, yes, I had planned it before, it was an activity of the literature club, and it was the day after my birthday.

The fact that Yu Luying came to the birthday party, gave him gifts and spoke nicely to him showed that she was not bothered by the misunderstanding of the "night attack" yesterday. Xiao Yao felt relieved when he realized this.

In the girl's left hand was a large-format hardcover copy of Rabindranath Tagore's Poems, and in her right hand was a small and exquisite resin statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which should be her gift and Yu Bo's gift respectively.

"Thank you." Xiao Yao took the two birthday gifts and looked at Yu Bo, who raised his champagne glass to him.

Xiao Yao continued to cross the mountain of legs and the sea of ​​people, squeezed to the other side of the room, neatly placed "Selected Poems of Tagore" on the bookshelf, stood on tiptoe to place the statue's hands on the top of the cabinet, and shook them with his hands clasped together.

When everyone had almost finished eating the cake, they pushed the table back under the window, and Shen Jie put the remaining cake in the refrigerator.

According to what Chen Lu had suggested earlier, everyone played a round of killing game together.

Yu Luying was reluctant to participate at first, but Xiao Yao still forced her in.

Xiao Yao had never played a killing game before, but he had always been curious about it. He was learning while playing and got the hang of it pretty quickly.

Since there were no playing cards, they used the tarot cards that Ouyang Qianqian brought with her instead. Everyone sat on the floor, forming a circle.

Zhao Xiaomei sat diagonally across from Xiao Yao. Wearing this outfit, sitting at this angle, and under the light, Xiao Yao thought she was really pretty. The soles of her socks were already black, especially around her ten toes. The forefoot and heel were also covered in a layer of gray and black, with only the arch of the foot still pure white.

As if catching Xiao Yao's gaze and thoughts, the big toe and second toe of the little foot twisted a few times very deliberately.

Xiao Yao quickly turned his head away and didn't look at her.

Little Bear didn't know when he got close to Xiao Yao's ear and said, "Zhao Xiaomei...what's going on between you two?"

"I'm not familiar with him. We haven't spoken much. I don't know how he found me."

"I was in the same class with her for a while in junior high school," Xiao Xiong continued, "She was a quiet little girl at that time. Has she changed so much in just three days?"

"Do you have any ideas?" Xiao Yao rolled his eyes.

"No, I just wanted to remind you." Little Bear frowned, glanced at Zhao Xiaomei, and found that she seemed to be looking at him as well, so he quickly raised the beer can and took a sip.

"Okay, I got it." Xiao Yao also took a sip of beer. It was flat and not cold, and tasted very bad.

A nobody...? The last time I met her at the wonton shop, she was obviously not dressed like this. Could it be that she dressed like this today because she had gathered information and was well prepared? Including deliberately taking off her shoes, was it also to seduce me? But besides Shen Jie, who else knows my preferences well enough to tell her? There are some things that even Yu Luying may not know, right?

Xiao Yao, ah Xiao Yao, you are getting too cocky. You take yourself too seriously. Girls wouldn't... Xiao Yao laughed at himself.

Compared to Zhao Xiaomei, there are other situations here that deserve more attention.

He noticed that Hairtail was still sticking to Shen Tianyun, and Shen Tianyun was chatting with him enthusiastically.

Don't get me wrong, Xiao Yao likes Hairtail and truly treats him as a brother, but he doesn't like him enough to treat him as his son-in-law.

It’s not that I don’t trust his character - Xiao Yao convinced himself: But, after all, he is 30 years older than Tianyun, and besides, they are indeed not from the same world.

None of this has anything to do with the old father's possessiveness, eh.

Just as Xiao Yao was thinking about how to separate the two of them naturally and in a way that would not embarrass either of them, Shen Jie had already sat over and separated the two of them.

It has to be my wife, Xiao Yao smiled with relief.

But when Shen Jie said something to Daiyu, his eyes lit up and he asked repeatedly: "Really? Really?" Then he and Shen Jie took out their mobile phones together, as if they were exchanging some information.

At the end of the game, Xiao Yao was the second person to be eliminated, and the police played by Zhao Xiaomei and Shen Jie won the final victory.

Chen Lu was still not satisfied and wanted to start a second game, but Hairtail again clamored to go to "Money Box" to start the second half.

"I have to go first." Ouyang Qianqian said as she picked up her bag.

"The last one to arrive and the first to leave, what kind of bureaucratic behavior is this?" said Daiyu.

Ouyang Qianqian rolled her eyes: "I need to get some beauty sleep, okay? Who is like you? Besides, I won't be the last one to arrive."

"Hey, Hairtail," Shen Jie took out her phone again: "Ouyang has to leave for something, don't force him to stay - if he wants to sing, it's the same here."

As she was speaking, a familiar prelude came out from Shen Jie's music phone.

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Readers can use it as BGM)

Xiao Yao was stunned, wondering why the melody of the prelude sounded so familiar. It took him seven or eight seconds to realize that this was the song he sang at "Shen Ji Food Stall" last night.

"Oh, outside the quiet little village, there is a stupid kid, born in the 1960s," Xiao Yao, still drunk, took a magazine and formed a microphone.

The noisy chatter gradually quieted down, and everyone decided to give some face to the birthday host tonight.

Ouyang Qianqian also sat down again.

Many people have a question in their mind - I have known Xiao Yao for so long, but how come I never knew that he sings so well? Not to mention heavenly voice, but at least it is more than 80% of the original singer's level.

What they didn't know was that Xiao Yao originally had a good voice, but his grasp of pitch... could only be said to be much better than Shen Jie's. Now that he had Yu Luying's pitch, and with Yu Luying's voice he had broadened his high-pitched range, so his singing skills were naturally even better.

When Xiao Yao sang the first climax, Zhang Jialong suddenly walked up to him and interrupted: "Hey, pat your chest, stand up bravely, don't be too sad. Hey, worship the sky, don't be depressed, God has his own arrangements!"

When they sang "Bow to the Sky", the two of them were originally bowing to the fluorescent lights on the ceiling. Xiao Yao thought for a moment and then turned to the statue of the god that Yu Bo had just placed on the top of the cabinet: "God has his own arrangements!"

"Oh, they say that in the city, women don't love bad men. I just can't understand it no matter how hard I try." The two continued to sing.

"My mom said that if you love someone sincerely, the love will be wonderful, but I don't have a girl." Daiyu joined in, shaking his head, looking at all the girls present, spreading his hands and shrugging.

"The silly kid is still as strong as a rock, but he feels lonely and unbearable at night." I didn't expect Xiong Ji to be able to sing this song.

Hearing this, the girls all whispered to each other and giggled.

The song entered the interlude. Four boys stood in a row with their arms around each other's shoulders, moving left and right with small steps. They first raised their right leg and kicked to the left, then raised their left leg and kicked to the right, and repeated this process.

After all, the four of them were not a professionally trained boy band, so their synchronization was not that high, and they soon kicked each other's legs, bumped their shoulders, and then fell all over the place.

The rest of the crowd cheered loudly for this terrible dance, and the small room was filled with joy.

"Is there any difference between stupid kids and smart kids?" Xiao Yao spoke with his tongue stuck out, not knowing who he was asking.

"Of course there is a difference." Zhao Xiaomei emphasized loudly, then took out her cell phone and went out.

"Smart kids are very powerful." Ouyang Qianqian smiled.

"But silly kids can be cute too." Shen Jie stood up and touched Xiao Yao's head.

"Hey, pat your chest and stand up bravely," Xiao Yao, Zhang Jialong, Daiyu and Xiong Ji pounded their chests simultaneously, "Don't be too upset."

"Hey, pray towards the sky, don't think too much, God has his own arrangements!" Several girls also joined in, and their clear singing voices merged into one, forming a big chorus.

"Oh, pat your chest, stand up bravely, and don't worry about the mountains or the seas. Oh, bow to the sky, don't be depressed, God will have his own arrangements!"

In unison, everyone fell silent, leaving the last word to the protagonist of the night.

“God loves stupid kids!!!” Xiao Yao sang loudly.

“Oh, God, love, stupid kid!!!” Yu Bo, who had been watching this show, suddenly yelled and slammed the wine glass on the table.

Then, the lights went out suddenly.

In the dim green light, Xiao Yao saw Yu Bo maintaining this posture, motionless.

"What the hell?" Xiao Yao said, "The power is out?"

"A power outage wouldn't turn out this color. It's so scary." Xiong Ji stretched out his five fingers.

"Fuck!" Xiao Yao suddenly realized that this was the mirror under the bridge that night. After entering, wasn't this the filter of the world he saw? Yu Bo asked what that was, the collective subconscious? The palace of the masses?

"Are we in the mirror again?" Shen Jie noticed it keenly.

"Huh? Into the mirror? What's going on?" said Hairtail.

"Look, they're not moving!" Yu Luying shouted.

After being reminded by Yu Luying, Xiao Yao realized that several people in the room seemed to be petrified.

Yu Bo sat at the dining table, bent over, his eyes fixed on the wine glass in his hand on the table.

A few "drops" of champagne splashed out of the glass and just like that, they floated above the glass.

What is suspended is not only the wine drops, but also the baby daughter.

Shen Tianyun's feet were 2-3cm off the ground, still maintaining a jumping posture, with her hands raised above her head. The hem of her shirt was lifted up by this action, revealing a cute little belly button.

Shen Bin sat on the sofa, maintaining the clapping posture.

Zhang Jialong stretched out his arms, stood on one leg, kicked his right leg to the left, and maintained this posture without even shaking.

Ouyang Qianqian was only halfway up, so it looked a bit like she was doing a horse stance - the posture was a bit funny, but no one could laugh.

Xiao Yao looked at the clock in the room, and the hour hand pointed to exactly ten o'clock.

"What happened to them?" asked Hairtail anxiously.

An inexplicable and terrifying roar came from not too far away. Yu Luying ran to the dining table, opened the curtains and looked out, then gasped: "Look!"

The other four people came over and looked out the window, all with horrified expressions.

They saw a huge moon, as big as the ones in anime and games - no, even bigger, so big that it gave people a suffocating and oppressive feeling.

The reason why it is called "moon" instead of "moon" is because it is no longer "bright" - the bright moonlight that once radiated from the sun's light has disappeared without a trace, becoming an ordinary member of the billions of celestial bodies in the dark and empty universe.

If the moon can really become so big, then the distance between the Earth and the Moon would have exceeded the Roche limit long ago. This planet, which is only one 49th the size of the Earth, would be completely swallowed up by the Earth's shadow. The huge tidal force caused by this should tear the world on the surface of the Earth into pieces, right?

Compared with astronomical phenomena, things on earth are more noteworthy.

The alley downstairs was already packed with people.

Not to mention that it was 10 o'clock in the evening, even during the day, Xiao Yao had never seen so many people appear on the same screen in this alley.

How can we describe the density of people? You can refer to the Bund on New Year's Eve.

No, from the color of their eyes, one can tell that they are not "people" at all.

"It's a shadow!" Shen Jie shouted loudly, with flames already burning in the palm of her hand.

"Fuck, what's going on!" Daiyu was frightened by the fire in Shen Jie's hand.

Damn it, I was just celebrating my birthday, eating hotpot and singing songs, how come the five of us suddenly ended up in the mirror world? Is this even reasonable?

This scene of "Zombie Rising" somehow reminded Xiao Yao of the last time in Teacher Yao's hall, when the "Parent-Child Education Center" had just come out and the whole school was experiencing a power outage. It was also like this, with shadows rioting.

"Don't stay in the shadows..." The White Knight's warning echoed in my ears.

"Light! There must be light!" Xiao Yao subconsciously raised the long sword in his hand, which suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The sword flashed with white light, forcing back a small part of the green filter in the room.

“Hahaha, so you gained new abilities because you’ve deepened your bonds with your friends? That’s truly the Fool’s unique talent. Interesting…” An elderly voice sounded as if it came from upstairs.

"Who? Come out! Is it you who is causing this?" Xiao Yao shouted, but he did not dare to swing the sword in his hand, for fear of hurting the friends who were crowded in the room.

The voice did not answer, only a roar answered him.

But this roar didn't seem to come from downstairs.

The direction from which the sound came was more like...

Over there in the soap room?!

Chapter 114: The Narrowness of Time

2023-02-19

"Oh no, this is coming for us!" This was Xiao Yao's first reaction.

Before anyone else could say anything, something started banging on the door.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The bedroom door was constantly vibrating due to the heavy force and even began to deform. The dust on the top of the door fell down and it looked like it would not be able to hold on for much longer.

Xiao Yao acted decisively and thrust his sword forward. The glowing sword pierced directly into the door and stabbed something.

A shrill scream was heard outside the door, as if it was from an... elderly woman?

It seemed that the instant-killing blow had a deterrent effect, and the banging on the door stopped immediately.

"It, they are climbing up the wall!" the cutlassfish shouted in panic.

Xiao Yao returned to the window and looked out. The huge crowds of "zombies" downstairs had actually begun to form a pyramid.

Without saying a word, Shen Jie threw a fireball at the group of shadows from the window. The exploding flames temporarily forced back the first wave of attacks from the shadows, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt fur.

"Shen Jie, don't burn the house! I'll go to the soap room to take a look!" Xiao Yao instructed.

This enclosed space of more than ten square meters is full of flammable materials. If a fire breaks out, we will be playing with fire and getting burned.

What's more, there are so many wooden guys in the room, which will definitely cause major fire accidents and casualties.

"Got it." Shen Jie understood what Xiao Yao was thinking and rubbed a second fireball in her hand.