Chapter 14: Guardian of Love
After that day, Xie Jingchu pestered Shen Guanchao to play games every day. His alt account’s national ranking shot up straight like a rocket.
Inside the NAVA training base, Zoe looked resentfully at the freshly refreshed rankings: “Brother, that girl you’ve been carrying recently entered the top 500 nationally.”
“I’m still at 603.”
“Saw it. Very impressive.” Shen Guanchao had explained many times that “Jing” wasn’t a girl, but he couldn’t convince him, so he simply let him call him that.
Cheng Shuyi walked into the training room holding several movie tickets. “Today is the premiere of the Plague Games animated movie. Pack up, go to the cinema to check in, take photos, and post on Weibo for publicity.”
The game background of Plague Games was set in the future. The global biosphere was disordered, and Earth entered a dark era.
Doomsday arrived, and everything fell.
Earth’s magnetic field weakened, solar storms and cosmic rays drove straight in. Cosmic radiation brought unknown genetic mutations, indiscriminately infecting all living things. Almost in an instant, all human scientific theories were overturned by the extraterrestrial virus.
Knowing the road ahead was hopeless, a part of humanity still chose to forge ahead, building high-rises to let civilization bloom again in the apocalypse.
Among them, some were brave and skillful Main Attackers, some were Medics with the wounded of the world in their hearts, some were calm and cautious Snipers, some were Swordsmen licking blood from blade points…
Regardless of class, players feared not their souls being cremated by the plague. Everyone stood together to guard civilization and resist the apocalyptic torrent.
“What is the movie about? I haven’t seen the trailer yet,” Shen Guanchao asked. “A big production by the Alliance this time, launching together with the anniversary celebration.”
“About Salophis, I suppose.” Cheng Shuyi glanced at his watch. “Go change your clothes first, bring hats and masks.”
Shen Guanchao: “OK.”
Salophis, one of the protagonists of the game’s main storyline, was set as a sleeping siren in the Forbidden Zone, possessing a golden tail and powerful strength. In an accident, he was awakened by “Shen Que,” a cold-faced high official in the human base.
Sirens were born in opposition to humans. Both carried the fate of their race on their shoulders. The tension between the two was explosive, yet in the end, they became the only ones to whom they could entrust their true hearts and their backs.
Netizen’s spicy comment: The writing team of Plague Games really knows how to write little couples… ah no, pui pui pui, arch-enemies!! Arch-enemies cannot become wives!
The movie was probably about the story of their first meeting.
The NAVA group packed up roughly and got in the car to go to the cinema. On the way, Shen Guanchao took a nap against the car window and received a few WeChat messages.
[Xie Jingchu: Are you free, Gege?] [Xie Jingchu: Want to ask you to play Arena together later~]
Squinting, he replied casually: [Flesh: No] [Flesh: [Image]] [Flesh: Going to watch a movie.]
Xie Jingchu looked at the session time on the movie ticket in the picture. Changing faces faster than a Peking Opera performer, he typed: [What a coincidence Gege, I’m going later too.]
Shen Guanchao was confused.
[Flesh: Weren’t you going to play Arena?] [Flesh: You still have time to watch a movie?] [Xie Jingchu: I do~ Originally planned to watch the movie while playing Arena with Gege.] [Xie Jingchu: Can I see Gege when leaving later…]
“…” Seeing this sentence, Shen Guanchao didn’t reply to him again.
Getting out of the car, he bought a latte at the coffee shop he often went to. Lu Wuxu considerately carried it for him. Mu Xinyue, who happened to be passing by on a date with his junior sister, saw this scene. Ignoring the girl, he called Xie Jingchu immediately.
“Xie! Jing! Chu!”
“Hurry up and come to Wanhui City here, your idol is about to be rooted (stolen)!”
On the other end of the phone: “…??”
“What are you saying?”
Shen Guanchao checked his ticket and entered. After he found his seat and sat for quite a while, Xie Jingchu finally rushed to the cinema city.
To create a chance encounter, he specially bought a movie ticket for the same session from a scalper at the entrance at a high price.
“Keep the change.”
He pulled out a red banknote (100 yuan), handed it to the other party, and hurriedly walked into the inner hall.
Taking the hundred-yuan bill, the scalper thought, Money is quite easy to earn today.
Sure enough, there are still many fools these days.
The movie had started for quite a while. When it played to the part where the protagonist group arrived at Sethes Island, the ruins of the Siren civilization, Xie Jingchu finally entered the theater.
“Excuse me, thank you, thank you.” The seat he bought was in the middle. Walking down the aisle, passersby patiently made leg room for him to enter.
Unexpectedly, just as he was about to reach his seat, the movie showed Salophis being awakened by the blood left behind by Shen Que. On the big screen, mountains collapsed and the earth split, rocks flew and sand swirled. To increase immersion, the audience’s chairs began to shake, imitating the plot in the movie.
Xie Jingchu was startled. losing his footing, he fell onto an audience member. His forehead knocked the other person’s chin painfully, and one of his legs was inadvertently sandwiched between the other person’s legs.
Damn it, did he want to die?
“F*ck…” When he looked up and saw that the lucky guy he knocked into was the person he thought of day and night, Xie Jingchu wanted to die even more.
He stared at Shen Guanchao stammering, not knowing what to say. Panic appeared rarely on his usually cold face.
He was thin-skinned and didn’t dare to move recklessly. Reality wasn’t like online where he was separated by a screen and didn’t panic no matter how he acted up—anyway, if it was game over, he could restart.
It was too dark in the theater. It took Shen Guanchao a while to recognize who this was. He reached out to support Xie Jingchu’s sturdy waist and said calmly, “Stand steady.”
From this angle, he could just see the young man’s bobbing Adam’s apple and the collarbone exposed by his collar, which was beaded with sweat.
Backlit, the young man’s aura swept over him overwhelmingly. This appearance was completely different from the little fox fairy who cheekily acted coquettish in the game.
A moment later, he let go and leaned back to make way for him.
Perhaps due to the psychology of crushing, Xie Jingchu looked sluggish, not knowing what reaction was correct. After looking at him for a few seconds, his ear tips turned bright red, and he fled hurriedly: “Sorry…”
For the remaining two hours of the movie, neither of them had the mind to watch seriously.
After Xie Jingchu left, Shen Guanchao took a deep breath, put his large hand over his violently beating heart, and suddenly laughed out loud.
That little thing with two faces was quite impressive, and his muscles were quite solid too.
He thought playfully.
That person clearly had a face as cold as a banished immortal and spoke few words in reality, yet on the internet, he could whimper and call him Gege while following behind him, making people unable to stop being interested in him, wanting to fondle his two appearances.
Just now.
Just a little bit more, and this shameless pure little fox fairy would have fallen into Shen Guanchao’s arms.
Pity he let go too fast.
Sitting in his seat, Xie Jingchu’s heart beat equally fast. His forehead hair was slightly messy, his lips bitten red, and the lingering warmth of Shen Guanchao’s palm still remained on the side of his waist.
God! Damn! Movie theater! Goddamn movie! Goddamn Salophis!
With so many people, how did he fall onto Shen Guanchao!!
The distance just now was so dangerous that he could feel the vibration of Shen Guanchao’s chest when he spoke.
He could also feel Shen Guanchao’s breath, the airflow hitting his face warmly. A little closer would have been his lips.
Scarlet spread from Xie Jingchu’s ear tips all the way to his cheeks. “F*ck…”
“F*ck…”
truly goddamn.
Why didn’t the protagonist wake up at any other time? He had to wake up right when he was taking his seat.
Looking at his thigh, thinking of how it was accidentally sandwiched by the person he liked just now, Xie Jingchu’s ears turned even redder. He suddenly wanted to saw off this leg.
Does Bald Qiang (character from Boonie Bears) have a link for his chainsaw?
Falling like a dog eating sh*t, what use is this leg?
After the movie ended, Shen Guanchao unexpectedly refreshed a post on his Friends Circle—
[Xie Jingchu: Just finished watching, felt the corpse was warm.] [Xie Jingchu: [Image]]
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