Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

Chi Yu walked out of the hospital. As soon as she went out, she saw the man with black glasses leaning against the gate, smoking. At his feet, there were already several cigarette butts thrown on the ground.

"It seems I kept you waiting for a long time."

Chi Yu stopped three meters away from the man with black glasses, "But can't you do something else to pass the time?"

"After all, I'm a little tired now, and smoking can refresh me." Black Glasses smiled and put out the cigarette in his hand, approaching Chi Yu, "Of course, if you treat me to a meal now, maybe I can be more energetic."

Eating is a good suggestion.

It just so happened that Chi Yu had been drinking energy drinks for the whole day, and even though the taste was pretty good, he felt a little sick of it.

"What to eat?"

Black Glasses pondered for a moment and said, "Hmm... I heard that the crabs in Koruk Lake are good. Why don't we go and try some?"

Chi Yu immediately rolled his eyes at him: "We just came back from there, and you want to go back now?"

It would have been better to let Black Glasses stay there and take two shares of money.

"It was during working hours before, but now it's off work, of course it's different. Besides, the crabs are quite plump in this season, so it's perfect for eating. How about going?"

Chi Yu was suddenly in a dilemma.

This was the first time that Black Glasses saw Chi Yu so troubled by something. He didn’t expect it was just because of a trivial matter like “Should I go eat crabs?”

But eating crabs was just a casual remark made by Black Glasses. In fact, he didn't have any special obsession with it. So after seeing Chi Yu's hesitation, Black Glasses considerately prepared to change his proposal.

However, at this time, Chi Yu had ended his brief entanglement and nodded to the man with black glasses: "Then go."

Since Chi Yu had already agreed to eat crabs, the man with black glasses would naturally not spoil the fun by saying "Why don't we change something else?"

So the two of them took a bus to Koruk Lake together and found a small shop nearby that seemed to be doing good business.

Unlike the previously deserted Tosu Lake, Koruk Lake is now visited by a constant stream of tourists.

Considering that the two might need to communicate away from others, they chose the best seats with a panoramic view of the store so that they could observe the people coming.

Chi Yu has never had a great appetite, so he was wearing black glasses and looking at the menu.

After reading it, he looked up and confirmed with Chi Yu: "Let me make it clear first, although I ordered the dishes, this meal is actually yours, right?"

Hearing this, Chi Yu withdrew his gaze from the scenery outside the window and replied seriously: "I'll treat you, you pay the bill. If you don't have money to pay the bill by then, I'll leave you here to wash the dishes."

This conversation aroused the vigilance of the waiter who was waiting to take their order. He looked at the two of them and reminded them in a low voice: "You two, we don't allow credit in our store, and we don't accept washing dishes as payment."

The man with black glasses laughed immediately: "He is joking with me, little brother, don't take it seriously."

However, this kind of conversation was still a little too advanced for a simple citizen who was just a waiter in a small restaurant.

The waiter couldn't tell whether their words were true or false. He could only see that both of them looked exhausted and didn't look like they were very rich.

Afraid that he would really encounter someone who was eating and free, he quickly ran to report the situation to the store manager, and then shamelessly asked the two of them if they could pay the meal bill first before serving the food. As compensation, the store would give each of them an extra crab.

Black Glasses said, "Boss Chi, please pay the bill?"

Chi Yu glanced at him indifferently and started to take out money. The waiter's suspicion was easily dispelled by the red bills.

Soon, the two received warm hospitality from the store owner.

I didn't pay much attention when ordering the dishes before, but I didn't expect that Black Glasses was so particular.

Chi Yu looked at the evenly matched meat and vegetable dishes on the table, raised an eyebrow, took off his gloves and put them aside.

The pale skin wrapped in leather suddenly appeared in front of the man with black glasses.

Chi Yu's fingers were long, white, and had distinct joints. Perhaps because he always wore gloves, they had even lost some of their healthy color.

The man with black glasses looked at those hands and felt a sense of disobedience.

Because those hands were too clean, so clean that they didn't look like the hands of a warrior - even the most ordinary warrior would have scars on his hands from practicing martial arts.

But on Chi Yu's hands, through his black glasses, there wasn't even a single callus visible from writing.

"Why are you staring at my hands?"

The man with black glasses immediately retracted his gaze. "I rarely see people with no marks on their hands. Did they deliberately maintain them like this?"

Chi Yu also looked down at his hands, thinking that he didn't know what was going on. At least he used to have calluses on his hands from writing.

Anyway, just like his youthful face, it must be the system's fault.

But that would definitely not work, so Chi Yu chose to use a panacea to answer: "No, it's just because of my special physique."

After saying that, Chi Yu picked up the serving chopsticks and took a little bit of each dish to taste.

Knowing that this was another topic that Chi Yu was not going to continue discussing, the man with black glasses tacitly skipped it and began to pay attention to the dishes on the table.

Seeing that Chi Yu had tasted them all, he smiled and asked, "How is it? Does it taste good?"

"good."

Seeing that Chi Yu was quite satisfied, Black Glasses poured himself a glass of wine and raised his glass to him, saying, "Cheers to our acquaintance."

Chi Yu didn't like drinking, so he just ordered a pot of tea. He used tea instead of wine and toasted Black Glasses: "Cheers."

The steamed crabs were brought up by the waiter at this time.

Chi Yu stared at the hairy crabs that were tied up and steamed red on the plate and fell into a long silence.

It’s not that he doesn’t like eating crabs, it’s just that he is not very good at disassembling them, or in other words, he has never done it himself.

In the original world, every time Chi Yu ate crabs, he saw the crabs were already cut into pieces by someone else. He had never encountered a time when he needed to handle them himself - so, after living for most of his life, Chi Yu actually didn't know how to eat crabs.

This is also the reason why Chi Yu felt conflicted when he heard Black Glasses’ proposal.

The man with black glasses was completely unaware of Chi Yu's mental state. He picked up a crab and started to open it without caring that it was still steaming.

But his movements became slower and slower under Chi Yu's silent gaze.

"Boss Chi, why are you just standing here watching me eat? This is so embarrassing." Black Glasses laughed dryly and moved the plate towards Chi Yu. "You eat too, you eat too."

"It's okay, you can continue, I'll watch."

Under the somewhat horrified gaze of the man with black glasses, Chi Yu managed to utter the rest of the words: "Let me learn from you how to eat crabs."