Manman placed the fruit beside him, then sat next to him, eating while watching his slightly flushed cheeks.
She thought to herself, this was the first time she had seen her mother’s face turn red.
After eating some fruit, Ning Su was about to leave with the two children, and Ling Xiao saw them off.
Ling Xiao’s room was a magical space; stepping out of one door led directly to the game hall.
There were many people in the game hall, and no one noticed where they came from.
When they walked out of the game hall, it was still daylight.
After just a few steps, Ning Su heard someone call him.
“Ning Su! Have you had dinner?”
Ning Su turned around and saw the owner of a bun stall.
He was stunned for a moment.
He still remembered this bun stall.
The bun stall was in front of a hotel, affiliated with the hotel, moved outside to serve those in a hurry who needed a quick meal.
Ning Su’s first meal after entering the game base was from this bun stall.
At that time, he had just entered the game base and had no points. He exchanged two buns with a small card that the Lady Driver had secretly put in his pocket.
The owner smiled and waved at him. “We have freshly steamed buns here.”
Ning Su pursed his lips and walked over.
Today was still during the competition period, and there was no need to go into the dungeon. There weren’t many players buying buns to fill their stomachs, so when Ning Su walked over, there weren’t many people there.
The owner whispered to him, “I’m also part of the Yinhua Guild.”
He smiled at Ning Su and said, “You used an NPC invitation card to exchange for two buns with me back then. I handed the invitation card to the guild president, who noticed you and went with you to the <Manman> dungeon.”
He asked, “Did you get along well in that dungeon, so you joined the Yinhua Guild?”
Ning Su was taken aback, then smiled and nodded.
So there was this kind of connection.
“The guild competition was amazing,” the owner said. “I was standing here watching. We have a light screen on the Yinhua wall. It was really impressive.”
The boss looked at him with some emotion.
Due to that NPC invitation card, he had a deep impression of Ning Su.
He still remembered it was more than a month ago, on a very ordinary afternoon.
That afternoon, many people came to buy buns. He was busy packing them, and when he looked up after serving that wave of customers, he saw a young man staring at the buns.
When he spoke, the young man was still staring at the buns, unable to take his eyes off them.
At that time, there was a very obvious sense of stagnation in the young man’s eyes. When the young man received the buns, he blinked slightly, and the boss could see a sense of satisfied happiness on his face.
The boss couldn’t understand why two buns could make him so happy.
At that time, he wondered if this young man had come into the game from some slum.
The boss lifted the lids off several baskets of buns and pointed to them one by one, saying, “Beef and celery, pork and green onion, vegetarian three delicacies, shepherd’s purse and pork, milk-flavored buns, take whatever you like!”
Freshly steamed buns, with hot white steam, poured out, hitting them in the face.
Ning Su blinked and turned his head to call out to Ling Xiao, who was waiting behind him, “Hot buns!”
Gui Sheng was nibbling on a custard bun, while Manman was taking small bites of a vegetarian three delicacies bun.
Ning Su and Ling Xiao each held two meat buns.
Ning Su wanted to give the boss some points, but the boss waved his hand. “What points? It’s on the house!”
Ning Su directly swiped his points like the player he first met. “I have points now.”
Gui Sheng responded, “Hmm!”
He was nibbling on his custard bun while saying, “Our family has money!”
The two adults and two children, holding hot buns, walked into the bustling crowd as night approached.
Ning Su took a bite of his bun, inhaling sharply from the heat, and turned to Ling Xiao, saying, “Maybe this is the answer.”
The answer to why they had to devour the zombie virus.
He had bought two hot buns on the busy street full of people.
Even better than he imagined, he had people by his side.
Ling Xiao turned to look at him, about to speak, “I…”
“Ning Su!”
Ning Changfeng hurried over and saw Ling Xiao, pausing for a moment. “Ling Xiao, why are you here too?”
“......”
Ning Su, feeling a bit guilty for some reason, asked in return, “Why are you here?”
Ning Changfeng replied, “You said you were leaving Yinhua, so I came to find you.”
In reality, he had been waiting eagerly to see his son.
He had just come out of a guild competition instance and needed to go to the Yinhua guild, especially since his mother was there.
Ning Changfeng could understand this, but after dealing with guild matters and seeing his mother, shouldn’t Ning Su come to see him?
Ning Su actually said he couldn’t?
Ning Changfeng didn’t understand. He had rushed out to wait for Ning Su, only to see him with Ling Xiao?
Ning Changfeng asked, “When did you two get so close?”
“......”
Ning Su replied, “We just had some buns together.”
Ning Changfeng thought, wasn’t his barbecue and midnight snack better than buns?
“What buns? Let’s have barbecue together!”
“......”
Ling Xiao didn’t go with them for barbecue. For some reason, Ning Su also felt a bit guilty.
When Ning Changfeng enthusiastically invited him, Ling Xiao hesitated for a moment and declined.
Ning Su felt a bit relieved, yet slightly disappointed in a way that was hard to notice.
Ning Changfeng regretted, “Ling Xiao can’t join us for barbecue and drinks. It’s such a good opportunity to build rapport.”
Ning Su’s heart skipped a beat. “What kind of rapport?”
Ning Changfeng replied, “Just ordinary rapport. If you insist, it’s to build a closer uncle-nephew relationship?”
Ning Su: “......”
Ning Changfeng continued talking as they walked. “I thought if you two got familiar, he could look out for you more in the future.”
Ning Su scratched his ear and realized it was a bit hot.
It had been a bit hot ever since he left Ling Xiao’s house.
Before the boundary of their two-person world disappeared, Ling Xiao held him in his arms and lowered his head to say, “Don’t be afraid.”
In that space where it was just the two of them, Ning Su sat on his lap, looked into his eyes at that moment, and smelled the familiar fresh scent of grass and wood. Somehow, his ears felt a bit warm.
The scene from that time still lingered in his mind. Ling Xiao’s long eyes were dark, and the last ray of sunset fell on his thin eyelids, making his pupils flicker with light and shadow.
Ning Su wasn’t afraid of the system; the system couldn’t directly kill him, so he wasn’t afraid.
But when faced with Ling Xiao’s gaze at that moment, he felt a bit nervous.
Ling Xiao didn’t intend to harm him. On the contrary, Ning Su felt that at that moment, he was looking at him as if he were a precious and wonderful treasure.
Strangely, Ning Su just felt a bit nervous and didn’t understand why.
“Ning Su? Ning Su!”
Ning Su snapped back to reality, “Ah? He will!”
“What do you mean ‘he will’? Who is he?” Ning Changfeng said, “I’m telling you, you mustn’t become Shi Tianzhu’s younger brother.”
Ning Su: “...”
Ning Su: “Got it.”
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