And Thus, Potentiality Activated
Gu Wen Qiao inconspicuously glanced at the movements from a group of people eating on the table to the right. He did not have any way of observing the actions of the neighbouring tables at the front or back, the risen partitions blocked this pair of human eyes' vision, but good thing that the right neighbouring table's people were gorging on delicacies, and he then tried to use his fingers to grab the two chopsticks—— but how does one grab it?
He first tried to separately grab the two chopsticks in between the few fingers he could already nimbly use. He used a forefinger and middle finger to clip one, the ring finger and middle finger to clip another, but in this moment, he didn't know where he should place his thumb, and confusingly pressed it, and then tried to use them just like other diners.
The fingers originally as pretty as a statue at this moment appeared very clumsy- the middle finger clipped in between two chopsticks became a sort of stubborn obstruction, Gu Wen Qiao hurriedly crooked his middle finger, placing it together with the forefinger, and then once again tried the motion of grabbing.
Thank the heavens and the earth, this time, he finally could pick up a bit of something.
Gu Wen Qiao reached for the griddled beef, and then pick up a pinch of shredded onions. He opened his mouth, placed it into the mouth with a bit of unnaturalness to the motion, and then closed both his lips—— throughout the entire process, he carefully examined Chi Yu's expression, and used that to confirm that he did not do anything wrong.
But the object in the mouth truthfully could not draw in any of his desires, they were that bland, and merely stopped for a moment in the oral cavity. Gu Wen Qiao swallowed, then moved them into the stomach.
Gu Wen Qiao felt like he did it all very perfectly.
Even if he had never made contact with these, but as expected, he could...
"If you eat like that, won't you feel like choking?"
Chi Yu picked up a chopstick full of shredded meat, and agilely placed it in the mouth. The cheeks slightly bulged up not too obviously, moved a bit, and then the Adam's apple made a swallowing motion.
Gu Wen Qiao watched Chi Yu's movements, and silently changed the pose of holding the chopsticks, but when he tried to use it, he was still very inexperienced.
This made Gu Wen Qiao very nervous.
He was going to be exposed.
In an instant, the past of him chasing after Chi Yu for several eras uncontrollably broke through the chains on his memories and surged into the brain, the closest time, was at Bering Strait in 1748—— on the pitch-black surface of the sea raining down with a storm, how he climbed onto the ship, and reached his tentacles out wanting to bring Chi Yu into his embrace, and how Chi Yu shrieked and fearfully shot at him until it was all blank shots... he carefully got close, and used tentacles to wrap around the person, wanting to bring him back, like in the long period of time in the past, however, Chi Yu seemed to not like this too much...
In the three hundred years after that, he once again wandered all around. He used various kinds of disguises, and at the same time, there was always someone who wanted him to continue slumbering, this mostly made a majority of his consciousness a bit hard to control, and could only send out a portion, then turn into an animal, or perhaps vegetation, or metal, or a mineral...
Up until he found Chi Yu once again.
And this time, he finally learned how to pretend.
But he still got exposed. Even if Gu Wen Qiao tried his best to realize he had to turn into a human in the tens of years, and slowly hid in the human world, after all, he was not a genuine human, and most of the time, the drowsy and muddled brain also delayed his speed. Right now, Gu Wen Qiao anxiously sat in the seat, however, another uncontrollable thing instead started spreading out.
For example, if Chi Yu left, what should he do, he would immediately beg him, he could learn anything... or perhaps, perhaps, change into a newer, much better body again...
The deeper part of Gu Wen Qiao's eyes started spreading with a kind of chaos and madness, and many more ideas uncontrollably emerged- Chi Yu who was in front did not feel it at all, and even used his tongue to lick away the juice on his lips.
Chi Yu thought inside: It's pretty good... why would Gu Wen Qiao just eat the onions... this was also very tasty too, but...
He suddenly realized something, and lifted his head and looked towards Gu Wen Qiao, "Have you never eaten Chinese food before!"
Gu Wen Qiao subconsciously made an ah sound, and from how Chi Yu heard it, this was practically tacitly admitting it, and this time, Chi Yu got anxious.
He was going to go see the movies with Gu Wen Qiao later! In the end, even the place for lunch was no good, if Gu Wen Qiao spoke Chinese, must he be a Chinese person and eat Chinese food? Oh my God Chi Yu! He has green eyes!!
The hand Chi Yu held the chopsticks with hung down. He opened his mouth up as though trying to salvage it, "I'm sorry... I didn't know you never ate Chinese before..."
These words seemed very simple, and thus, Chi Yu used the shared chopsticks to pick up some dishes like he was trying to remedy it, and extended it above Gu Wen Qiao's empty bowl and planned on putting down, "Do you want to try some of this? It's actually very tasty."
Gu Wen Qiao very naturally lowered his head, opened his mouth, and held in Chi Yu's chopsticks.
He brought that thing down, chewed a few times, then swallowed it into the stomach again.
In the entire process, Gu Wen Qiao's expression was natural and smooth, as though this kind of intimate action had no problems with it, and even seriously replied to Chi Yu, "Tasty."
Chi Yu looked at him with his face completely red. His hand still stiffly maintained its original pose, a single "you" spun around thousands of times in the throat, and in the end, he shook as he finished the sentence, "Y-you, like this- don't you know..."
Don't you know this would be too intimate?
Gu Wen Qiao saw Chi Yu like this, and he also got nervous, so he tried to ask, "Is there something wrong?"
That pair of inky green eyes were filled with puzzle and innocence.
How could Chi Yu take this- also, when looking at Gu Wen Qiao's appearance of being obediently fed by him, Chi Yu himself was also very satisfied inside.
His eyes sparkled, and explained for himself, "U-um, if you don't know how to use chopsticks, th-then I can only feed you."
Gu Wen Qiao immediately put the chopsticks in his hands down, and seemingly innocently looked at Chi Yu, then opened his mouth, and waited to be fed.
Chi Yu's heart beat like a drum from this gap moe, and slowly fed the person with a red face and ears.
Once he went out of the restaurant, he then realized something wrong.
He fed that many dishes all to Gu Wen Qiao, and because the other person certainly behaved obediently, Chi Yu did not discover an abnormality at all.
The dishes he ordered were originally more than enough for two people to eat, yet in the end, he forgot to eat himself.
Chi Yu hurriedly opened his mouth to explain, "I didn't eat just now because I haven't been hungry lately."
To ease the nervous atmosphere, he made a small joke at Gu Wen Qiao, "But I didn't think you would be so amazing, is your stomach connected to outer space? Finishing that much! Next time if we're planning to eat, I will definitely need to order some more."
Gu Wen Qiao who actually connected the stomach to space and even secretly tossed the stomach full of dishes into a black hole stiffened his face...
He stiffly and awkwardly denied it in a small voice, "I didn't..."
"Haha, I know! I'm just playing with you!" After Chi Yu gave the ticket checker the printed movie tickets, he pretended to nonchalantly grab Gu Wen Qiao's hand, "You haven't been in this area before, right? I'll hold hands with you, make sure you don't get lost."
Gu Wen Qiao and Chi Yu's heights were just about the same, the two people walked over towards the pitch-black theatre, and when turning, Chi Yu blinked, and saw a face.
If he remembered correctly.
It was that person who observed him at the restaurant.
Why would they follow here and still continue? What kind of person were they?
Chi Yu was a bit angry.
Even if they wanted to do something, it should not be today! He went through such difficulty to exchange for that much time, he did not want his day trip with Gu Wen Qiao to be destroyed.
After all, the circumstances right now were almost just like a date! Is it so hard for a shut-in to play a riajuu!!
However, that was all there is to it- Chi Yu still found the seats in the theatre with Gu Wen Qiao, and not long after they got seated, the movie started.
The cowardly Chi Yu chose what was called a must-have tool to create a suspension bridge effect to quickly progress feelings between and man and woman—— a horror movie.
This film gathered panic, fear, and bloodiness into one, so much that the reasoning segments were much weaker. Chi Yu had to lament that the current majority of horror films were no good, only relying on strange organisms that did not seem human and all sorts of blood and sudden scares to frighten people, but even though he was complaining like this, in reality, Chi Yu already grabbed Gu Wen Qiao's shoulder tight, and completely leaned on Gu Wen Qiao's body with a facial colour completely white.
Gu Wen Qiao's muscles slightly tightened up- he pretty much could feel his own hairs all stand up, the slight fluctuations in the air could be felt, forget mentioning when Chi Yu leaned on him like this.
Gu Wen Qiao looked at the screen once more——in a brightly lit hospital, the fleeing main character's party separated into two groups. One group opened the dressing room and locked the small door, while another group ducked into the doctors' duty room.
The group of people who entered the dressing room nervously crouched by the small door, and heard the dragging sound outside the door go far off... they breathed a sigh of relief, then someone started wiping their sweat all flustered, and there was someone shedding tears after escaping from disaster.
Up until something dripped down from the head.
It was blood.
They lifted their heads up, and saw a headless female corpse that died from hanging.
Along with the sudden rising of horror music and the screen suddenly going black, the screen turned to outside the dressing room, and overflowing blood seeped out from the gap of the dressing room.
Gu Wen Qiao lightly let a sigh out. His expression even seemed a bit relaxed, but Chi Yu was already so scared he let out half an "ah" from his throat, and because the throat trembled, it turned into a shaking tone.
The relaxed and merry air Gu Wen Qiao had when facing the horror film already completely disappeared, he used the other hand to touch Chi Yu's trembling hand, and asked him in a low voice, "Are you very afraid?"
"N-no, ahhhhhhhhh!! No, I-I, ahhhhh!!!"
Chi Yu was about to cry.
It was clearly such a brainless plot- as long as they did not go close to this hospital in the very beginning, they could avoid the tragedy, but it still scared Chi Yu until his face went pale. Right now, he felt like he was like the pitiful bug on the suspension bridge. As for whether or not the suspension bridge effect fished in Gu Wen Qiao, we don't know for now, but Chi Yu right now was certainly hooked on the "bridge(Qiao)'s" body.
As Chi Yu shook, he complained to Gu Wen Qiao, "This kind of plot is completely unreasonable! No matter how you look at it, it's certain death, there is not one bit of equality! If the main character entered the hospital, they won't be able to live at all, and yet they still had to all go in! Too idiotic!"
Gu Wen Qiao earnestly listened to him complain on the side, while his eyes watched Chi Yu without blinking once.
The more Chi Yu spoke, the more excited he got. He could not help but think of that film that Salt Fish and them went in, and thus deeply realized if he were to also get into this kind of situation in the future, then that would be terrible, and thus turned even more angry, "If it was up to me, if this movie was made into a game, it should be changed a bit, for example... en! There must be a neutral character added! They cannot be all ghosts! Also, there must be rules that even ghosts have to follow, this way, the main character can have a way to live!"
After Gu Wen Qiao heard, he actually nodded his head.
"You are always right."
The two went back shoulder to shoulder. Chi Yu still remembered he had to invite Gu Wen Qiao for dinner, and no longer diverted his attention to find that person who might be following himself, and the two very quickly went into a restaurant.
Not far from their back, Feng Cheng sent a confirmation.
「Special Forces C-level Member 0132: The two people who had extremely close contact, no abnormalities to their mentality, abnormalities in their way of mannerisms, applying for brain examination to eliminate the possibility of a high degree of parasitism. 」
Half a minute later, someone replied to his message.
「Special Forces 1: Received. An A-level member is already on the way, please make contact at that time. 」
Feng Cheng sucked a breath in.
Actually an A-level.
Could it be that after the group checked the video, they made a new judgment for the level of the danger?