Chapter 25: 025 Dangerous Sprout
When walking into the McDonald’s restaurant, Pei Ningle really wanted to act more calm and composed, but the smile on her face just couldn’t be suppressed.
“One Juggernaut set meal, and…” Standing in front of the counter, the young girl suddenly turned her head and asked, “What do you want to eat?”
Wang Heng shook his head: “Just order what you want to eat. I’m not hungry.”
Pei Ningle was a bit surprised: “You’re not eating? You’re the one treating, and you’re not eating at all?”
“Yeah, no appetite.”
Wang Heng was telling the truth; he really had no appetite and just felt a stomachache.
His encounter with Pei Ningle couldn’t even be called a coincidence; it was obviously the administrator’s doing. This time was fine, but what about next time?
Wang Heng had a premonition that no matter how much effort he put into avoiding it, that deadly assassin girl group would inevitably come together. Since he couldn’t escape, all he could do was firmly prevent these karmic ties from upgrading further. As long as he stayed single, there shouldn’t be any more Asura Field, right?
In short, he had figured out what to do about his future self. But looking down at the little hamster in his palm, he really couldn’t completely relax.
But the young girl across the table was the opposite. While eating non-stop like a hamster, the corners of her mouth couldn’t help but curl up, looking very comfortable.
After a long silence, Wang Heng asked: “Are you very happy?”
Having just finished gnawing on a big hamburger, the young girl nodded vigorously, bit down on the straw, and took another sip of cola. The stimulation of the ice cola going down her throat made Pei Ningle let out a low “ha” hum, squinting her eyes.
Then she said: “Because today was really super super unlucky. Luckily I met you, otherwise I would’ve been done for!”
“Oh, unlucky?”
After taking another sip of cola, Pei Ningle explained: “First time coming to Rongdu and I got lost, got lost! Brother Song had already told me, but this morning my mobile phone ran out of battery… Then I couldn’t… The train station had too many people…”
Wang Heng had already anticipated this girl’s disjointed speaking style and quickly summed up what she meant—she took the train to Rongdu for the first time but couldn’t contact others because her mobile phone was dead. Unable to find Brother Song who was supposed to pick her up, Pei Ningle had to leave the train station on her own and got lost in the unfamiliar city.
As for getting lost, happening to Pei Ningle was, in Wang Heng’s view, the least surprising thing. But why this girl came to Rongdu piqued his curiosity.
So he asked: “No money, so not travel. So what are you doing in Rongdu?”
Pei Ningle put down her cola cup and said somewhat melancholy: “Because the Imperial Capital is really too hard to make it in. There’s no opportunity there, just singing in bars. Brother Song found me online, and the studio he runs is in Rongdu, so I came over.”
Wang Heng nodded thoughtfully: “So Brother Song happened to notice you and invited you to Rongdu to join his music studio?”
At this point, Pei Ningle remembered to show off: “Yeah, and I don’t just sing, I also write lyrics and compose music. How about that?”
“Impressive, impressive. Admire you, admire you.”
“But being impressive doesn’t help much. Beiding is really too hard, just this one month… Sigh, you can’t even imagine, really.”
Wang Heng shrugged: “No way around it, life is always full of ups and downs and downs and downs.”
The young girl smiled: “Haha, well said. But in the end, there’s at least an ‘up,’ meeting a kind person like you!”
“Mm-hmm… But speaking of which, since you lost contact with that Brother Song because your phone died, why aren’t you charging it now?”
Wang Heng’s reminder made Pei Ningle suddenly realize.
“Oh yeah!”
Pei Ningle finished the last sip of cola and pulled out her mobile phone from her bag. Like Wang Heng’s, it was also a black-and-white button phone.
“Even this kind of phone can run out of battery. How long has it been since you charged it?”
“Eh, forgot…”
The young girl found the charging cable and plug, bent down under the table to look for a socket.
However, awkwardly, her sportswear was quite short, and bending over like this exposed her fair lower back. Wang Heng glanced at it and immediately looked away, staring down at his shoe tips.
Pei Ningle, of course, had no idea about his subtle thoughts. She was just glad that there really was a socket on the wall under the table. She connected the charging cable and sat back up holding her mobile phone.
“Charging now?”
“Yeah!”
Pei Ningle held down the power button, and after the boot animation, she saw a string of missed calls and unread texts. After tapping to look at a few, her face suddenly looked a bit panicked.
“I need to make a call!”
With that, Pei Ningle called a number, and after a dozen seconds, the call connected.
“Hello, is this Brother Song? Sorry… I’m not at the train station. Are you still there? No, with a new friend… My current location? But I don’t know either.”
Hearing this, Wang Heng casually reminded: “This is Guanghua Avenue, near the Second Ring Road.”
Pei Ningle: “Is it?”
Wang Heng: “Of course.”
So the young girl quickly corrected: “I’m on Guanghua Avenue, Second Ring Road… Yeah, still with a friend!”
Just like that, Pei Ningle finally got in contact with Brother Song from the music studio.
After hanging up, she said happily: “Brother Song said he’s driving to pick me up, told me to go to the doorway of a big shopping mall on the edge of the Second Ring Road to wait and meet there! Gotta go, I’m heading to the restroom first, then we’ll head out. Want to come with me?”
Wang Heng shook his head: “Your meeting spot is very close from here; you shouldn’t get lost again. So no need for me to go with you.”
“Okay then. He said he’s driving and will be quick, so I need to hurry too; can’t stand him up again!”
With that, Pei Ningle hurriedly got up and rushed to the restroom in the McDonald’s shop.
At this moment, Wang Heng suddenly heard the hamster’s voice: “This is the bud of danger…”
He sneered: “You knew you just tricked me?”
“No, the danger I’m talking about isn’t aimed at you. Think about Han Yixuan’s matter; don’t you get it?”
Wang Heng frowned, realizing the matter was more complex than he had imagined.
He quickly asked in a low voice: “What do you mean? Is Pei Ningle going to run into danger too?”
Hamster: “I’ve already explained the worldline correction mechanism to you. Because you came to Rongdu instead of the Imperial Capital, their trajectories must change accordingly. But without me watching, they can’t escape heaven-sent misfortune. I actively brought about your encounter with Pei Ningle not to trick you, but so you won’t regret it.”
Wang Heng immediately understood its meaning. If something irreparable happened to Pei Ningle and he only found out later, his mentality would definitely explode…
He tilted his head up, gazing at the bright ceiling, speechless for a moment.
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