Half-dreaming and half-awake, Lorraine only felt that she slept soundly. She opened her mouth and yawned while stretching comfortably.
The outstretched hand touched something soft and warm. She quivered and immediately opened her eyes.
Qian Xu looked at her with a smile. Her hand was just on his lips, and his warm breath was like a spring breeze in March blowing on her skin.
Lorraine quickly withdrew her hand and blushingly sat up, "I, I...forgot that I'm outside."
In a dangerous situation, people like her to get drunk and fell asleep like this probably not many.
Qian Xu put away the sleeping mat, and hung a thin insulated blanket as a blackout curtain in the middle of the cave, separating the unobstructed cave into a small private space.
"There is still time. You can do a simply cleaning." Qian Xu lifted the curtain and got back to the other side.
Lorraine was dumbstruck
. She suddenly felt that she could not blame herself for not being serious, but rather she had a big-hearted boyfriend who could turned an adventure into just an outing at any minute.
A few minutes later, Lorraine refreshingly opened the curtain and found that Qian Xu not only cleaned himself up, but also set up the breakfast table.
The expedition backpack lay flat on the ground, covered with a white cloth, and turned into a small table. His personal handgun was set as a peculiar vase with a small bunch of blue mythical flowers inserted in the slender black barrel, giving a different mix-and-match beauty.
Lorraine stunned.
"Please sit." Qian Xu showed his hand and invited.
Lorraine sat down stupidly. Qian Xu was like performing a trick, putting a palm-sized rose-red heart-shaped concentrated nutrient meal box in front of Lorraine. The matching table spoon was a small delicate white arrow.
Lorraine was so shocked that she couldn't speak up: "How, how can there be such a nutrient meal?"
"Ordered on star network, any shape is available."
Lorraine picked up the rose red heart, feeling as if she was holding a heart: "How ...how did you pick this shape?"
"When I was young, my teacher told me a bedtime story. A long, long time ago, there was a mutant called Cupid. He has two wings and the ability to fly around. The weapon was a bow and arrow, but when it was shot out, it's not death, but love." Qian Xu looked at Lorraine and said seriously, "I think I was shot by him."
Lorraine couldn't stand such Qian Xu at all. Her heart was like a crashed deer. Her face was redder than the heart in her hand. "How many times have you been shot?"
Qian Xu thought intently as if he was carefully counting: "So far until now..."
Lorraine was frustrated. It seemed that counting with one hand is not enough.
"Only once!" Qian Xu smiled at Lorraine as if laughing at her nervousness, "I should be a stronger mutant than Cupid and it's not easy for Cupid's arrow to hit me once."
Lorraine's heart went up and down, both happy and angry. " You're good at talking nonsense! I have also heard the story of Cupid, but it is completely different from what you heard."
Qian Xu smiled faintly: "At that time, I experienced some discouragement. I was sad that I was a mutant and wanted to give up on myself. My teacher told me this story to comfort me and said that as long as I am a good mutant like Cupid, humans will like me like Cupid."
The bottom of Lorraine's heart seemed to be abruptly snatched, and she looked at Qian Xu at loss.
Qian Xu smiled and blinked at her. He picked up the heart in front of him and stuck the white arrow spoon into the center of the heart. "I think the teacher probably didn't lie to me. If Cupid is not a mutant, how could he hit your heart for me?"
"Qian Xu, you are more and more bad!" Lorraine's sympathy turned into humiliation and ruthlessly
stabbed the heart in her hand with a spoon.
After eating breakfast, two of them checked their equipment, packed their backpacks, and put on goggles. It was almost time.
Lorraine took out a spray to dissolve multifunctional materials and sprayed the previously sealed gap. When the dense small bubbles popped up, Qian Xu kicked and the well-built small stones fell off one after another, exposing the original gap.
Qian Xu got out first, and Lorrain followed closely behind.
It felt like they had slept all night, but the outside was a deep dark night.
Sparse scattered stars hung in the gloomy dim sky. The surrounding was pitch-black rocky forests, and the air still smelled of dust.
Lorraine and Qian Xu walked side by side in silence. They were close at hand, but Qian Xu did not hold her hand.
Lorraine couldn't help but want to hold his hand, but she was hesitant again, for fear that Qian Xu would think she was too tired of.
Shilly-shally. When she reached out her hand and was about to quietly withdraw back again, Qian Xu suddenly grabbed her hand and held it tightly in his palm.
Lorraine was startled and delighted. Qian Xu complained in deadly earnest: "Yesterday it was like this. Wait and wait and didn't happen. Finally, I have to do myself."
"You...you know?" Lorraine turned pale in shock.
Qian Xu looked at Lorrain helplessly: " This close, if I can't feel anything, would I still be able to say that I am an A level strongman?"
Lorraine was so embarrassed that she wanted to die: "You, you...are too bad! Quietly look at me make a fool of myself!"
"I just love seeing you like me so much." Qian Xu was afraid that Lorraine would misunderstand so he intentionally stopped to explain.
Lorraine gritted her teeth: "You were proudly satisfied when you watched it, right?"
Qian Xu smiled: "Um, proudly satisfied."
Lorraine also smiled: "That's good. It's not wasted that I was chickening."
Qian Xu hugged her and said earnestly in her ear: "People like me to be liked by you, I am very lucky. Thank you!"
"Um." Lorraine's heart felt sweet and joyful, sour and astringent, as if saying one more sentence her tears would flow. She was actually the lucky one, because in spite of everything, someone like her had someone felt lucky because was liked by her.
Qian Xu let go of her, smiled and said, "From now on, you have to take good care of me."
"Take care of you?"
"I only slept for five hours yesterday."
Lorraine was very guilty and immediately said: "Okay, I will be more vigilant."
"Let's go."
Lorraine no longer dared to think nonsense about hold or not holding hands, tired or not tired of. She concentrated all her focus and walk forward with full attention.
Qian Xu looked at her with a smile, his eyes full of tenderness.