MTL - How to Feed an Abyss!-Chapter 10 Spike Pendant

When Lu Ting was in the cold zone, Shiyuan walked into a shop familiarly.

The store's door sign reads "Wheat Field Noodle House", and the decoration is simple, but the boss smiled when he saw Lu Tinghan: "It's the same, a single room on the second floor."

old acquaintance.

The two of them stepped on the creaking stairs, went up to the second floor, and went to the room at the end of the corridor. Once the door was closed, nothing could be heard. Lu Tinghan took off his mask and pushed the menu in front of Shi Yuan: "What do you want?"

Shi Yuan looked at it for a long time and said, "I want to order this devil's chili noodles."

He has always been curious about what the legendary "chili" tastes like and why humans like it.

Lu Tinghan asked: "Can you eat spicy food?"

"I want to try it." Shi Yuan said, "It should be edible."

Lu Tinghan ordered, and not long after, two big bowls of noodles came out, one bowl of red oil and one bowl of clear soup, the boss added a lot of meat to it.

Lu Tinghan took the chopsticks, and was not in a hurry to sandwich the noodles, so he looked at Shi Yuan.

Shi Yuan: "What's wrong?"

Lu Tinghan: "You eat." He pushed a glass of ice water to Shi Yuan's hand.

Shi Yuan picked up a chopstick noodle, blew on it, and stuffed it into his mouth.

Shi Yuan paused.

Shi Yuan opened his eyes wide.

Shi Yuan's tail scales exploded.

"Cough, cough, cough—" He coughed violently, and the terrible spicy taste made his throat sore and rushed straight to his forehead!

He quickly drank water, poured down a glass of ice water, and it took him a long time to recover. When he raised his head, Lu Tinghan still looked at him, and there seemed to be a flash of smile in his eyes, as if he had expected it a long time ago.

Lu Tinghan asked: "Can I still eat spicy food now?"

Shi Yuan: "I can't..." His tail was still bursting, and he couldn't calm down.

Lu Tinghan exchanged two bowls of noodles and said, "Go ahead, I ordered beef noodles."

Shi Yuan would honestly eat non-spicy food.

The beef noodles are very fragrant, the soup is rich, and the shallots are green and crisp. He didn't know that such a bowl of noodles was ridiculously expensive, but he just thought it was too delicious.

He asked Lu Tinghan: "Do you come here often?"

"I'll come when I'm free." Lu Tinghan replied.

Shi Yuan asked again: "You really don't find it spicy?"

"is acceptable."

"Okay," Shi Yuan said, "You're really amazing." With lingering fear in his heart, he picked up the cup and drank water.

When Shi Yuan was almost finished eating, Lu Tinghan said, "Shi Yuan, who gave you your spike pendant?"

He didn't look up, as if he was just mentioning a small matter.

Shi Yuan lowered his head, the small pendant was originally hidden under his clothes, but it was easily thrown out.

Now it lies on the chest shining silvery white.

It was given to him by Xie Qianming.

That's when they found an abandoned quarter, tucked away in a safe corner. The heater in the car was broken, and Xie Qianming lit a fire. The purple lantern worm that parasitized him felt the heat source and began to agitate, causing him to break out in a cold sweat.

"Shi Yuan, go to sleep." Xie Qianming said, "I can't sleep anyway."

Shi Yuan slept until midnight, when he woke up the sky was full of stars, Xie Qianming gave him this wolf tooth pendant. He said that he would not live long, and hoped that Shi Yuan would take it to the city.

Shi Yuan told Lu Tinghan: "It was given to me by someone who was with me before."

Lu Tinghan was silent for a while, until Shi Yuan thought the topic was over, and he said, "How did he die?"

This question is a bit strange.

He was sure the giver was dead.

Shi Yuan said, "He was bitten by a bug, that kind of purple bug."

Lu Tinghan nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.

He didn't ask much, and didn't explain, but Shi Yuan felt that they seemed to know each other, and they were familiar with each other, so familiar that they could recognize each other's items at a glance.

After Shi Yuan finished drinking the noodle soup, he still asked Lu Tinghan, "Do you know Xie Qianming?"

"know."

"Are you friends with him? Do you want to take this pendant back?"

"No need, you can keep it." Lu Tinghan said, "Lieutenant Xie was my superior before, and I received a lot of attention."

Shi Yuan was very surprised, he didn't know that Xie Qianming was a soldier and had such a relationship with Lu Tinghan.

He also thought that Lu Tinghan might have noticed the spike pendant long ago—as early as when they first met. Xie Qianming died, and Shi Yuan was the one who spent the last time with him, and took his cherished pendant. Perhaps, Lu Tinghan took him away so easily because of his friendship with his old superior, and because he was in Xie Qianming's favor.

It's also quite a coincidence that they just ran into each other by accident.

He thought he was special enough.

Shi Yuan hesitated for a moment and asked, "Did you bring me home because of this pendant?"

Lu Tinghan glanced at him: "Not exactly."

Shi Yuan was very happy, and the scales obediently went back.

Lu Tinghan put down his chopsticks and changed the subject: "Shi Yuan, you can see where there are jobs, or contact the distribution center and let them arrange for you. At the beginning, you can do something simple. Money is not a problem, the main thing is to learn to make a living. technology."

This reminded Shi Yuan, he said: "Is there a 'Wild Rose Theater' in the city? I want to work there."

"Why do you want to go there?" Lu Tinghan asked.

"Xie Qianming asked me to go. He said that he likes to watch stage plays very much, and spent a lot of money on the Wild Rose Theater Troupe. There is a shortage of people in the troupe. He asked me to go and see if I am interested. Maybe I can perform." Yuan replied, "I promised him."

"So that's how it is." Lu Tinghan said lightly, "Then go try it, the theater is just to the south."

After paying the bill, the two continued walking along the long street until they left the pedestrian area. A black car waited silently on the side of the road, and the driver opened the door for them.

Shi Yuan got in the car, watched the lights go away, and returned to Lu Tinghan's house.

The room was still empty and deserted, the broken copper and rotten iron were still very indifferent, and said in a mechanical voice: [Admiral Lu, welcome home]

When Shi Yuan finished changing into his pajamas, and the clock was just pointing to ten o'clock, he heard a muffled sound.

"beep-"

"beep-"

"beep-"

There were three sounds in total, resounding through the city, more powerful and mighty than any monster's sound. If he had enough common sense, it would sound like a freighter's whistle.

Lu Tinghan was sitting on the sofa in the living room reading a book, with rotten iron tea in hand.

Shi Yuan asked, "What's that sound?"

"The sound of curfew whistles." Lu Tinghan said, "The electricity and hot water are cut off, and you can't go out unless it is an emergency until six o'clock in the morning."

Shi Yuan looked up at the hanging lamp in the living room: "But the lamp is still on."

"Because this is my home." Lu Tinghan took a sip of tea slowly.

Reasonable explanation.

Shi Yuan went to the window to look.

The dimly lit lights are being extinguished in large swaths, the streets are devoid of pedestrians, and the emergency lights are on alone. The whole city fell silent, into silence and darkness.

It's an amazing feeling.

It seemed that all the liveliness and anger ended in just a few seconds, leaving only the cold reality. The bright lights on the city wall lit up one by one, shining on the wilderness, teams of soldiers patrolling with guns, and the whispers of monsters in the wind.

"It's time to sleep." Lu Tinghan put the bookmark into the book, "Shi Yuan, good night."

"Good night." Shi Yuan said, "Thank you for inviting me to eat noodles, I will invite you back next time."

"What do you want to treat me to?"

Shi Yuan thought for a while: "Anyway, it's not spicy."

Lu Tinghan smiled.

Shi Yuan said: "If you have nightmares and get scared at night, you can come to me."

Lu Tinghan asked: "Why do I have nightmares?"

"I don't know, but everyone will have nightmares. I was scared awake before." Shi Yuan said, "When I was scared, I would hug my tail, and you don't have a tail." He sincerely invited, "It feels very OK."

Lu Tinghan just said: "...Go to sleep."

The temptation was unsuccessful, Shi Yuan's tail drooped.

When Lu Tinghan went upstairs, Shi Yuan returned to his room.

He recalled the new things he saw today, hugged the quilt and rolled twice, but the bed was too soft, he fell asleep before finishing the third round.

When Shi Yuan woke up the next day, Lu Tinghan had already left.

Po Tong put bread and milk on the table again, and said to Shi Yuan: [Please give me the mobile terminal with independent operating system]

Shi Yuan: "What?"

Broken copper: [Mobile phone]

Shi Yuan said, "You are not smarter than me."

Broken Copper: […]

Shi Yuan handed it the phone.

Po Tong stretched out his mechanical arm to catch it, inserted the data cable, and returned it to Shi Yuan after a few seconds: [The bus ticket has been updated, the map data has been uploaded, destination: Garcia Grand Theater]

This is where the Wild Rose Troupe is.

Shi Yuan set off after breakfast.

The navigation is very clear, even he successfully found the bus stop outside the community, and waited for the No. 3 bus. Following the example of other passengers, he swiped the bus ticket on his mobile phone on the fare machine, and got on the bus smoothly.

The bus is like a big tin box, rickety, carrying people who get up early to go to a distant place.

The car was quite crowded, Shi Yuan grabbed the handrail, curled up his tail nervously, and almost got knotted again. The gray buildings and ruins outside the window slowly retreated. At the red light, another bus stopped opposite, and the two vehicles were very close. The little boy on that bus saw Shi Yuan, smiled and waved to greet Shi Yuan, and Shi Yuan also waved to him.

Half an hour later, the bus arrived at the "Garcia Theater Station".

Shi Yuan got off the car, walked for five minutes, and came to a huge building.

The whole body of the building is white, with a great sense of design, and the curves are staggered to form smooth lines, like continuous mountains, undulating but integrated.

Above the main entrance is a marble statue, and in the middle is a bust of a man with deep eyebrows, a velvet hat with feathers, and a fine neckband of muslin wrapped around his neck, fastened by a lace ribbon, forming a magnificent collar. To his left and right, women wearing jewels and silk on their heads hold their hands high, as if dancing and cheering. Clouds of white doves surrounded them.

When the sun breaks through the clouds and shines up, the sense of strength from marble and steel almost flows under the golden light. They lived, the elegant man swung his cane, striding forward, the woman's skirt was like a cloud, gorgeous and flamboyant, they won the applause of the audience.

Shi Yuan stopped and watched for a long time.

There were still a few posters hanging on the gate of the theater. He thought they were paintings, and when he took a closer look, it was written on the left:

[Huwei brand Yang Yang oil, a gas station for men, a beauty salon for women, use it to make her agree overnight (love) (red lips) (high heels)]

On the right it reads:

【Do you like playing with water? Then you wash the dishes! Call **** vegetarian restaurant, you can wash the dirtiest dishes today]

In the middle is white text on a black background:

[advertising space for rent

For details, please consult Mr. Wolfgang Berger 220-xxxx-0877]

Before Shi Yuan looked carefully, a lazy voice sounded beside him: "Are you here to apply for an actor?"

Shi Yuan turned his head and saw a young woman. Her dark circles were particularly heavy, and she was listless, as if she would fall asleep in the next second.

"It should... be considered." Shi Yuan said.

"Me too." The woman spoke slowly, "My name is Emma."

"I am Shi Yuan."

Emma yawned: "Your name is so strange."

Shi Yuan and Emma walked into the gate together. It was dark and cold in the theater. A long table was placed in front of the door, and a pale man sat behind: "Come to audition? Fill out this form."

When Shi Yuan was filling out his personal information, he saw that the front and back of the table were full of advertising stands, from "Sunshine Hot Pot" to "Papa Brand Compressed Cans", from "Star Toys for Children" to "Fengchi Medicinal Wine", colorful, I can't wait to fill every corner, and there is still an empty space at the end, and I also wrote "advertising space for rent".

"The form is filled out." Shi Yuan returned the form to the pale man.

The man glanced at it: "You didn't fill in what you want to play."

Shi Yuan said honestly: "I don't know what role there is."

"You haven't read the script?"

Shi Yuan shook his head.

"Have you ever acted in a stage play before?"

Shi Yuan shook his head.

The man stared at him for a few seconds, turned his head and coughed, and said, "You look pretty good, let me give you a simple try." He wrote on the form in a fluttering fashion, and returned it to Shi Yuan, "Go forward Go, the second room on the left."

[Role] In that column, there is a word "Tree Demon".

Holding the watch, Shi Yuan walked through the empty corridor and entered the room. Three or four people were sitting on folding chairs, they all looked up at him when they heard the sound, and then lowered their heads to read the script again.

Shi Yuan didn't even have a script, so he could only be in a daze.

He actually didn't know what a stage play was. Xie Qianming asked him to come, and he came.

Shi Yuan touched the spike pendant subconsciously.

He thought of Xie Qianming's expression when he handed the pendant to him by the bonfire—the sky was full of bright stars, competing to twinkle, Xie Qianming was calm and relieved, he had accepted the imminent death.

He thought of Xie Qianming before he died, holding his hand tightly, and said hoarsely that you lied to me, you are also a **** monster. He is almost hideous.

Shi Yuan liked Xie Qianming very much. Xie Qianming was the first human being he met after he transformed into a human. He took him into the car and gave him food and drink.

Shi Yuan killed the queen bee, thinking that he could save Xie Qianming, but all he got in return was death and hatred.

Sometimes he would think, would Xie Qianming regret it? Regret walking with him, regret keeping vigil for him, regret giving the pendant to the monster.

He has no way of knowing the answer, nor who to give the pendant to. So he entered the city wearing the pendant, and as promised, he came to the Wild Rose Theater.

He just sat there for a while, until the corner of his clothes was ripped off.

The little girl with cat ears stood behind him and asked in a low voice, "May I ask if you are the one who auditioned for 'Tree Demon'?"

"I am." Shi Yuan replied.

"Then come with me." The girl flicked her ears, bent her green eyes and smiled, "I'll take you to get the costume."

The two of them left the room, and the little girl turned around and said, "My name is Teresia, what about you?"

"My name is Shi Yuan."

"You look so young, younger than everyone else here. I'm 11 years old, how about you?"

Shi Yuan thought for a while, he estimated that he was at least 2,000 years old, but he decided to report his age a little younger.

He said, "20."