Magic Merchant Racial Anecdote

As night falls, the city in the middle of the night is like a dormant monster. The sporadic fires and green smoke are flying upwards in the night wind, bringing out a little smell of fireworks.

"Boss, please bring me another 50 skewers of crispy bones, 50 skewers of beef, 50 skewers of roasted wings in honey sauce, and 20 skewers of kidneys. Don't be spicy! Oh, and add two more bottles of beer." The long-armed and long-legged Ned huddled in a small seat On the table, while munching on the barbecue in his mouth, he still didn't forget to raise his head to ask the boss to add an order.

The penetrating deep voice and the face that is not easy to provoke at first glance perfectly blended into the crowded roadside barbecue stalls in this small town.

"Come on, wait a minute." The rough-looking boss responded loudly, and kept sprinkling a thick layer of chili noodles on the potato chips on the shelf.

Alai and Ned are having supper on a plane in the tenth district. This barbecue restaurant is their new love they found with Ned's excellent sense of smell.The portions are generous, the taste is strong, and most importantly - the price is fair.

Since the opening of "Delai Company", the business has finally improved a little recently, and Alai has gradually adapted to getting along with Ned. It can be said that the little days are getting better and better.

Alai ignored Ned, who was eating happily. He slowly picked up a bunch of beef, dipped the beer in his hand with a lethal dose of chili noodles, and slowly ate it.

The chili dyed his bloodless lips red, and the smoky environment forced some rouge on his face, spreading all the way to his snow-white neck.

The young man sat there coldly, unlike Ned, his white shirt was already conspicuous under the night, and with this expression, he was unconsciously eye-catching.But he himself didn't know it, he seemed to be hot from eating, he raised his hand and unbuttoned the two buttons on the collar of his jacket, and now even the air around him seemed ambiguous.

Ned took the time to look up from the sea of ​​meat skewers, and what he saw was Alai's alluring appearance.He vaguely felt that the atmosphere around him was a bit wrong, but he really couldn't figure it out.I had no choice but to tilt my head and stare at Alai thinking hard, and gnawed down a bunch of chicken wings with meat and bones in my mouth without delay.

"What's the matter?" A Lai, who was already a little dizzy after several glasses of beer, seemed to sense Ned's gaze, and asked casually, raising the end of his smoky eyes.

"It's nothing." Ned shook his head, his eyes were still fixed on Alai without blinking, from his soft black hair, loose eyes, open neckline, all the way to the white fingers holding the plastic cup ——In the end, I only came to the conclusion that Ah Lai might be drunk.

As for what he felt was wrong, what about the feeling like ants crawling over his chest... Well... Ned looked away.

'Ding! At this moment, the systems of the two people rang at the same time, and a new order interrupted Ned's further contemplation.

Ah Lai didn't care about it, now is a rare time to rest, he needs to make money, but he also needs to eat well.Ned, on the other hand, somehow turned his attention away and clicked on the order by accident.

The strange thing is that the order was full of garbled characters, as if the system translation was broken, it was full of fragments that could not be connected into words. [nihaoqingwnndifd, swjfejwdwe]

Ned frowned and looked down for a while, but he really didn't understand.

He raised his head, intending to show Alai the strange order, but he found that the other party had already laid down on the small greasy table with his arms under his head, and fell asleep amidst the noise.

Under the collar of the white shirt, the reddish nape of the neck was exposed, and the back was slightly undulating with breathing.

"Alai? Wake up, are you asleep?" Ned hesitantly stretched out his hand and shook Alai's shoulder, then called his name softly.It's a pity that it didn't work. A Lai was completely drunk and fast asleep.Ned was a little hesitant. He still remembered the consequences of forcibly waking Alai up last time, and he didn't know if history would repeat itself and something more serious would happen.

After thinking about it, he couldn't come to a conclusion, so he had to order the boss to pack it, and hugged Alai with one hand.He weighed Alai who was floating lightly in his arms, held the barbecue in one hand, and hugged Alai in the other, and surrounded him, "Young man is strong enough!" 'In his eyes, he walked steadily towards the outskirts of the city.

***

On the other side, Keke put down the unresponsive black box, or should be called a 'mobile phone', with a blank face, and picked up the old paper book beside him that was about to fall apart.

He fumbled to reply to a message just now, but because he didn't know a single word, all he could do was randomly put together a few words imitating the appearance in the book.

—Of course, he didn't get a reply.

Since the last time he recovered a life from the electromagnetic explosion, Koko began to try his best to figure out what the 'black box' he picked up was.

Of course, he also had the idea of ​​selling this thing, whether it was clothes, 'equipment', or the food and drinking water he was most in need of.

But in the end, he decided to hide the thing.He had an intuition that this small box he brought back from the ruins of the 'Old World' had a value beyond his imagination.

He carefully hides this secret.

Fortunately, in this 'paradise', no one has the habit of meddling with other people's business, and most people are able to do their best just to live every day.

Finally, a few days ago, in the hands of an old man who was dying of starvation, he exchanged his companion's old coat for a few books left over from the 'old world', as well as some messy sundries.The biggest gain is the box of small cards, which use pictures to correspond to different words and symbols, and those symbols are almost exactly the same as those on the mobile phone.

The second is the 'book' in my hand, a thin book, most of which are pictures of items, but occasionally there are some words, which introduce the purpose of the items in detail in conjunction with the pictures.

Ke Ke even guessed that the thing in his hand is called a 'mobile phone', which is a tool used by people in the 'old world' to communicate, and when they find the right place, they can send messages outward.

But this understanding is far from enough for him, he needs someone who can understand the text of the 'old world' to help him interpret the contents of the phone.But who else in the 'Promised Land' will remember the civilization of the past?Here, civilization, writing, and art are all the most useless things.

In the dilapidated underground 'paradise', the rotten and moldy smell floated in the small room again accompanied by the vibration of the 'electromagnetic explosion'.

Keke put down the book amidst the sound of 'jingling', picked up the phone again, and skillfully opened the photo album. He huddled in the corner of the crib, and lightly touched the picture on the screen with his hand.

People in bright clothes, beautiful girls eating food he has never seen before, it seems that everyone is living a carefree life, where the sky is blue and large expanses of water can spread to the horizon...

In the darkness, the light of the mobile phone illuminated a corner of the room, the boy's face was hidden in the semi-dark shadow, and there was still blood stains on his ear, which was left by the last time he faced the 'electromagnetic explosion'.

His eyes were dead silent, only the picture reflected in his pupils on the screen ignited a little life for him.

***

When Alai woke up, he was in a daze, the surroundings were very dark, and the hard bed beneath him was heaving slightly.

He blinked blankly, trying to remember what happened to him, but his memory only stayed at the noisy barbecue stand, Ned lowered his head and ate the barbecue, the residual smell of beer and chili still lingered on the tip of his nose.

He stretched out his hand and touched the surroundings. There were large uneven patterns on the bed sheet, which was hard but not as temperatureless as metal—it was as if alive.

As if guessing something, Alai tentatively said, "Ned? Is that you?"

The darkness in front of his eyes was torn apart, a large swath of starlight shone on Alai, and the cool night wind made him shiver suddenly.Ned spread out the wings that wrapped Alai.Under the sky, a huge black dragon crouched on the ground, guarding his 'treasure' until the starlight, 'treasure' woke up from drunkenness.

Ned turned his head carefully, and lightly rubbed Alai with his fangs-exposed upper lip, as if to say hello.Then he stood up, flapped his wings, and took human form.

Alai was fascinated by the wind brought by Ned's wings. He put down his right hand which he subconsciously raised to block the wind, and looked around. They were standing in the wilderness under the starry sky, and the tall buildings of the city could be seen in the distance. contour.

"This is...where?"

"I'm not too sure, the outskirts of the city, right? Don't worry, I've sensed carefully, there are no humans around here." Ned walked up to Alai and replied casually. The night wind brought his smell, a strong of cumin.

"Then how did we get here?" Alai was still dazed, his head ached from the hangover, he squeezed the bridge of his nose, and asked Ned.

"You were drunk just now, I can't take you back." Ned blinked innocently.

"So you just found a place where no one is around, and you plan to wait until I wake up?" Alai looked up at Ned, wanting to ask him why he didn't find a hotel to stay for the night first, or simply call him Awake.

"That's right, it's very warm under my wings." Ned raised his arms unconsciously and said, with a bit of pride in his tone.

"...Then what if I've been asleep and I'm discovered at dawn?" Alai twitched the corner of his mouth, crossed his arms, and stared at Ned and asked.

"Um...well, let's talk about it later, besides, aren't you awake now? Hahaha." Ned said carelessly, rubbing the back of his head, and finally laughed a few times.

"--Why."

Alai stared at Ned, who was showing his white teeth under the night sky, finally he could only sigh, and opened the 'door' with helpless magic, calling Ned to go home first.

For a dragon who is used to doing whatever he wants, it is good enough to find a place where there is no one. As for these small things, I have to wait and tell him slowly.

Mobile phone remaining power: 50%.

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