Lu Yao was eager to open the door and see what was going on outside. But the instinct of safety first still made him suppress his curiosity.
In the kitchen, kitchen knives were constantly falling on the chopping board, and the sound was very clear to Lu Yao’s ears.
He could even tell from the friction between the knife and the ingredients that what was being sliced was a potato, and a potato slice at that.
Oh, now it was slicing the slices into shreds.
His nose caught the smell of broth, it was ribs stewed with lotus root, the flavour was strong.
Lu Yao poked his head out of the window. Outside his room was the small living room, and on the other side of the living room was connected to the small kitchen, so from the window position, he could just see the kitchen glass.
It’s just that the kitchen glass was plastered with floral windowpaper, so it was impossible to see what was going on inside.
The kitchen was lit, and a figure was reflected on the window paper.
The silhouette had coiled hair, was relatively slim, stood very steadily, and was cooking in the kitchen.
Lu Yao found that his eyesight had suddenly become very good, and the visual image was as if it had been upgraded from 720p to 1080p. Even if it was a shadow reflected on the window, he could tell at a glance the lines of the other person’s body, as well as the specific orientation and rhythm of each chopping action.
Is this himself …… entering the zone mode of the legendary athlete?
Not right.
Not only vision, but also hearing, sense of smell, have become far more than before, the body’s sensitivity to external perception as a whole has been raised by one level.
This was simply completely different from yesterday. Why had there been such a big change overnight?
The only reason Lu Yao could think of was that reminder.
[Population is the shell, faith is power.]
Previously, he felt that this should be a description of a god’s character.
In the pixel game world, the larger the population body, the more it could increase productivity and advance civilisation. From there, many hidden rules of the game were revealed and turned into visual data.
Faith is better understood, gods need faith to unleash the power of miracles, faith is strategic resources and ammunition, the more the better.
Lu Yao now realised that perhaps this phrase was not limited to the pixelated world of the lower realm dimensions.
It also included the real world he lived in.
The fact that all sorts of [Sacrifices] and [Gifts] could break through the boundary dimension limitations through the Shrine showed that this game did have an unimaginable power behind it.
Then the changes brought about by the beliefs and population were directly fed back to the players as gods, which seemed to be an easy thing to understand.
Thinking through this layer, Lu Yao found the reason.
The change in his own body’s cognitive abilities this time was definitely due to the physiological changes brought about by the 10,000+ population of Ghost City Saniro.
He combed through his thoughts and returned his attention to the kitchen.
The shadow on the window, Lu Yao had already determined that it was Zhou Qiang’s girlfriend, Miss Yu Yao.
Zhou Qiang had a girlfriend in college, but was later pried away by a rich second generation, both fortunate and unfortunate.
The lucky part is that the girlfriend is now revealing her gold-digging qualities, not after she got married, so the loss is relatively not big. The unfortunate thing is, after all, was robbed of his mate, which is a blow to any man.
Later on, Zhou Qiang desperately ran his online shop, got up early and worked hard every day, and didn’t have any more girlfriends, and there was also a reason for this.
Before today, Lu Yao had never heard of this female named Yu Yao at all.
Combined with her odd behaviour of cooking and humming in the middle of the night, it made Lu Yao feel even more suspicious.
……
The next day when he came back from work, as soon as Lu Yao opened the door, he found that the living room table was filled with dishes: white burnt shrimp, pork chop soup, braised carp, taro chicken, salt water duck, sliced pork with mushrooms, as well as some freshly coloured green vegetables.
“Sit down sit down, eat together.” Zhou Qiang said with a smug look on his face, “Yu Yao made this, it’s not bad, right?”
“This style and colour has nothing to say …… Where is she?” Lu Yao left and right did not see Yu Yao person.
“She went out to buy some things, there are not enough spices in the kitchen, toiletries and mops and so on are also missing.”
Zhou Qiang opened a can of beer and took a sip.
Lu Yao sat next to him and put down the bag on his back, “Old Zhou, how did you and Yu Yao meet?”
“It was sort of fate.”
Zhou Qiang had a smile on his face.
……
He and Yu Yao started dating a week ago.
It was raining that night. Zhou Qiang went downstairs to get the returned goods and saw a girl standing under the eaves. She was wearing a short black halter dress and was lost in thought, looking at the ground with a homeless look.
Zhou Qiang hesitated and asked if she needed help.
The girl was silent in response.
As a result, Zhou Qiang returned home, but found that the girl followed him up.
He was startled, and hurriedly felt out his mobile phone and said you can not do anything, I called the police.
Zhou Qiang did a few years of online business, so it is very clear that this world all kinds of people have, the heart of the defence can not be. Don’t look at the other side of a little girl, it is not allowed to say that is the set of fairy jump, accidentally to blackmail their own.
The result of the other side said, you are not going to help me?
Zhou Qiang explained, that is the scene, we are all play, do not take it seriously.
He said on the mouth, while opening the phone to start recording, to avoid falling into some kind of new-style scam.
The girl gave an oh-so-subtle sound and turned to go.
Before leaving, she said that she was hungry and asked Zhou Qiang to order some food.
Zhou Qiang thought to himself, This routine is too old, see how I can restrain you. Give me wait.
So he stuffed the girl a packet of ham sausage, two bags of milk, and a bag of sliced bread. He graciously said, feel free to eat don’t be polite.
The girl ate all of these in front of him.
“Is there any more?”
Zhou Qiang was shocked.
This woman was quite wild.
Fine, if you dare to eat, I dare to give.
Zhou Qiang rummaged through the instant noodles at home and made a big pot for the other party. Then the girl hooted and hollered and ate her belly.
He found out a packet of meat loaf, the girl on the water one by one eat all.
Finally, he took out the bottom of the two cans of herring, the girl used a fork to scoop and eat, even the fish bones are chewed and swallowed.
Zhou Qiang was convinced.
He said: “Do not, you do not compete with me, I admit defeat, okay? Go to the toilet and pick it out. If you eat this much, you’ll kill yourself.”
The girl said, “It’s okay, thank you. You are the first person to give me food, everyone else pays.”
Zhou Qiang was baffled.
He kind of said no.
Did this person have intestinal problems or brain problems?
The girl said her name was Yu Yao, 21 years old, hadn’t studied much, was introduced to the city to work, and was tricked by a black intermediary who withheld her ID card and tricked her into working as a lady in a nightclub. She ran out when she felt something was wrong and wandered the streets, feeling hungry.
Zhou Qiang chatted with her and found that Yu Yao did display a kind of ignorance, an ignorance that was not feigned, but she was really unresponsive to a lot of things that were well known to everyone.
For example, she does not know how to use a water heater, she does not know how to use a smartphone, she eats bananas with the skin on, and she does not deliberately avoid getting naked or avoiding the defence of men and women …… like a female savage who has broken into modern society.
Or a good looking female savage.
Hearing this, Lu Yao still couldn t help but remind, “Old Zhou, don t blame me for talking too much. Is there such a can possibility …… that she is pretending?”
“Possibly.”
Zhou Qiang grinned, “Women are born to act. This I understand.”
“If she’s really pretending, then her acting skills are really at an Oscar level. Constantly performing in front of me every day and still not showing any cracks, I’ll admit it after planting it.”
Lu Yao saw an unveiled happiness on Zhou Qiang’s face.
He liked that Yu Yao a lot.
“She’s very hardworking, really, the hardest working person I’ve ever seen.” Zhou Qiang couldn’t stop talking about his girlfriend.
“After being with me, the clothes she washes all by hand and washes them clean.”
“She cooks, she has a talent for cooking, once learnt.”
“The heavy work of moving things around the house, she also grabbed to do, to be ashamed to say, her strength is also bigger than me, appetite is also much stronger than me ……”
“She really treats me well.”
Zhou Qiang took a sip of beer, “I’ve been unlucky for a few years, and it’s kind of my time.”
Lu Yao always felt a bit unreal.
“Doesn’t she have any requests?”
“There was one request.”
Zhou Qiang put down his beer, “She likes to eat meat and asked me to buy more meat.”
At this time the door was pushed open and Yu Yao, who was carrying a large bag, returned.
Lu Yao’s nose twitched.
The smell of blood.
The strongest smell of blood was on Yu Yao’s lips.
