si-mexico Chapter 712 - 624: You Look Really Good—I Like You
Chapter 712 - 624: You Look Really Good—I Like You
There are only two minutes left until the appointed time, and Chen Chou hasn’t seen Xu Xiaoyou’s figure nearby; in fact, there’s no one in sight, besides the armed helicopter sweeping by overhead, the surroundings are unusually quiet.
The other party specifically emphasized that at the appointed time, one must appear at the designated location, even a second late is unacceptable.
He doesn’t know much about the blonde girl. At the casino, the first impression she gave him was elusive, always maintaining calm and confidence.
However, this overly quiet atmosphere made Chen Chou feel a vague sense of uneasiness, and yet he couldn’t pinpoint where this unease came from.
Chen Chou thinks the saying is true: when someone is very intelligent, often their emotional intelligence is low, and when someone has both high intelligence and emotional intelligence, they tend to have habits or quirks that ordinary people can’t understand.
Chen Chou considered this seemingly unreasonable request as a small idiosyncrasy of the other party.
He stood there silently, waiting for the time to come.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
On the colonnade leading to the celebration square, a figure swiftly swept by, her legs rapidly stepping out afterimages on the ground. Her cloak flung in the air and suddenly halted.
Xu Xiaoyou gazed at the figure ahead. In the moonlight, a red-haired girl with twin tails sat on the bench of the colonnade, humming softly, her fingertip lightly touching the white flower extending from the wooden railing beside her.
In her perspective, the figure was obscured by a blurred red shadow, occasionally displaying a distorted square characteristic, only the eyes shone with a red glow, like phantom-like gems floating up and down.
Noticing her arrival, the girl lightly pushed herself up with hands under her, the skull pendants on her ears clinking together, the gothic short skirt neatly pleated. Her calves appeared straight under the decoration of black over-knee socks, and her high-heeled strapped shoes clicked on the ground, the sound echoing above the colonnade.
Xu Xiaoyou looked expressionlessly at the girl approaching her step by step, rotating a complex-patterned pistol in her hand; the skull entwined by thorns exuded a pale, deathly aura under the moonlight.
"Hmm... let me think." The corners of the girl’s mouth slowly curved upwards, revealing a playful smile.
"It’s our first meeting, right? What should I call you?"
"After all, you’re the notorious Rose Witch; I used to admire you very, very much~"
"How about ’dear’?"
Xu Xiaoyou frowned slightly.
The feeling the other party gave her was unfamiliar, yet exceptionally intense, a feeling difficult to describe, like a piece of candy she hates eating.
Bitter, the aura exuded by the other party was pervasive, making her feel bitter, beneath the seemingly sweet veneer was endless bitterness.
Instinct told her she should quickly distance herself from this person, yet there was no part of this person from head to toe causing her to feel a sense of crisis; only five individuals in Oasis could truly cause her a sense of crisis.
"Dear..."
This address somehow sounded familiar to Xu Xiaoyou, someone once used a similar address for her behind the curtain, and she opted for firm refusal at the time.
"You forgot, we have a date." The red-haired girl’s red lips slightly parted.
"You promised me, in the ashes of the apocalypse, you would take my hand and dance a ceaseless dance until the sea evaporates and everything collapses."
"I don’t remember knowing a piece of red mosaic." Xu Xiaoyou’s expression was blank.
The red figure paused. Even though the expression was distorted by red squares, Xu Xiaoyou could still ascertain that the other party’s eyelids twitched together just now.
"Demon Hunter, you can call me that." The red-haired girl sighed softly. "If you want to be more intimate, calling me March would make me happy too."
"The request for you to keep the appointment seems unachievable." March spun the gun between her fingers, stepping within a five-meter range of Xu Xiaoyou.
A sharp whip brushed past her neck, leaving a bloody mark, March clung back-to-back closely to Xu Xiaoyou from behind with an extremely flexible posture, her chin slightly raised, her mischievous smile growing more flamboyant.
"But a simple date, that’s no problem, right?"
"Accompany me for a few minutes; it won’t do you any harm."
March laughed loudly, turning around, putting distance between her and Xu Xiaoyou, nimbly leaping away from Xu Xiaoyou’s successive slashes, firmly landing on one leg on the bench, her eyes narrowing slightly, gazing at the blonde girl as if sizing up a long-desired treasure.
"Why is it that whenever I’m in a hurry to do something, a neurotic lunatic jumps out to waste my time?" Xu Xiaoyou pressed her forehead.
Upon opening her eyes, "Rose Destiny Armor" empowered her.
In full state, Xu Xiaoyou burst forth, the wildly dancing long whip formed a sharp net in front of her, shredding everything along the way, splintering the bench’s columns, wood chips flying.
March retreated while laughing, her phantom-like silhouette flickering unpredictably; the afterimage of the long whip repeatedly grazed her throat, yet she always managed to avoid it with astounding angles.
Seeing March’s figure elegantly crossing the colonnade, stepping on the ground one moment, the next second swept into the long whip’s path, everything exploding apart.
For a brief moment, Xu Xiaoyou lost sight of March, a chill spreading from behind her neck.
March appeared behind Xu Xiaoyou at an unknown time, smiling while reaching out, gently wrapping an arm around her waist, her head slightly bowed on her shoulder.
"Rose Witch... Rose Witch, mastering ’destiny’ yet being toyed with by destiny."
Xu Xiaoyou cast a glance, meeting the playful red pupils.
"Valuing dignity above all, yet bowing before fate, allowing fate’s roulette to move at will; isn’t it when the dice lands, your chips are still only so much?"
March’s hand slowly moved from her waist to her shoulder.
Xu Xiaoyou turned, and the Silent Hand surged from the ground, pouring out a barrage formed by multiple skill cards; the colonnade was consumed by flames in an instant.
The other party’s speed wasn’t fast, whether agility or power, it was way below this stage’s elite monsters, she judged correctly.
This guy was just an ’ordinary’ NPC without any potential threat to her.
But it’s precisely this guy who always manages to find the right angle to dodge her attacks.
Advanced predictive chips might supersample target movement data and pre-calculate the opponent’s movement trajectory, but that’s useless for someone at her level.
If she wanted, she could simply use her speed to present three completely different forecasts to the chip.
March still clung behind her, though the girl’s gaze became serene, quietly resting her head on Xu Xiaoyou’s shoulder.
"Don’t ignore me like that; it’s hard to find someone to talk to. I get very bored usually."
"If you don’t like what I say, I can say something you’d like to hear or simply shut my mouth."
"For example, you’re really pretty, I like you?"
Xu Xiaoyou turned and swung a whip; the long whip swung down from above, the swirling blade wind erupted all along the length of the whip, spiraling through the entire corridor in an instant, leaving intricate patterns on every column, collapsing under the force of the blade wind.
Xu Xiaoyou stood up, "Say something I don’t know?"