The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the misty streets, and the rosy clouds on the horizon are like the colors on the palette, with gray, gold, and red intertwined together.
Shen Sinian's narrow eyes were as sharp as a cheetah's, and his nose was high and clear-cut, full of masculinity.
His eyes slowly swept towards the villa in front of him. The rules guided him here. He couldn't find this place on the map, and asked other friends, but they didn't know about Tianfu Lingcheng.
It wasn't until the weirdness of his contract told him that Tianfu Lingcheng was a very special place where no copies would come, and it was located on the boundary between life and death, that he found the right location.
In front of the villa, Shen Sinian stood upright, with the outline of his broad shoulders and chest looming under the right slim fit suit.
Su Qingyu walked out of the villa carrying a black backpack and proactively greeted him: "Hello, boyfriend."
Shen Sinian's muscles tensed up and he looked at Su Qingyu warily, his eyes full of inquiry.
"Are you Su Qingyu?" Shen Sinian didn't know whether Su Qingyu was human or weird. He lowered his eyes and stretched out his hand. His voice was low and as elegant as a cello, "My little girlfriend, I'm here to pick you up."
His voice was gentle and even full of affection, but Su Qingyu knew that, just like herself, he played his role well in accordance with the requirements of the rules.
The first rule written on the back of the invitation.
[Please be sure to follow the time and place on the invitation and attend your cousin's wedding on time with your boyfriend. Your boyfriend will pick you up a day early. You two have a good relationship. Make sure you travel together and don't separate. 】
They need to appear to be in good company and travel together.
Su Qingyu looked at the hypocrisy and coldness in Shen Sinian's eyes. His rules were different from her own.
The second half of Rule 3 of the Invitation Rules.
[If your boyfriend asks you what gift you have prepared, please don’t tell him. It is a little secret between you and your cousin. 】
This rule made Su Qingyu guard against Shen Sinian.
So in Shen Sinian's rules, there must be something to guard against Su Qingyu.
They may not only be teammates, but also competitors.
Shen Sinian explained his arrangement: "We will take Metro Line 4 to the high-speed rail station first, and then take the high-speed rail to Gongyang Village."
"There's no traffic in the village." Su Qingyu rubbed her arms when she heard Metro Line 4. She had just come out of that copy and didn't want to walk through it again.
Shen Sinian's thin lips parted slightly: "Sit on the outside and find other ways to enter the mountain."
"Let's drive."
Su Qingyu took out the car key and pressed it.
A white car is parked in the garage. It has a streamlined body design and carefully polished paint. It is elegant and dynamic, like a fierce horse ready to go.
"You have a car?" Shen Sinian raised his eyebrows.
Before the strange resurgence, Shen Sinian had an average family and had been working as a security guard in the Luo family company. After the apocalypse came, he awakened the system, cleared several dungeons, and received some rewards.
"The high-speed rail and subway may be new dungeons. We must arrive at Gongyang Village on time and cannot be late." Su Qingyu threw the car keys to Shen Sinian, "I can't drive on mountain roads, so I'll leave it to you."
If you stay in other copies, you may be late for the wedding, which greatly increases the risk.
Su Qingyu's car is a tribute, it will not be polluted, and no copies will come, which can ensure that they arrive at Gongyang Village on time.
Got in the car.
Shen Sinian drove the car steadily, holding the steering wheel with both hands and looking firmly ahead, exuding a calm temperament.
He said tentatively: "Baby, your villa is so beautiful."
"Um."
"Did our parents buy it?" Shen Sinian quickly adapted to the role.
Su Qingyu didn't answer. She sat in the passenger seat, tilting her head slightly, admiring the beautiful scenery of the setting sun falling on the horizon and the light sinking.
Seeing that Su Qingyu was not enthusiastic, Shen Sinian asked with a smile: "How long has it been since you and your cousin saw each other?"
"I went abroad and haven't seen him for a long time." Su Qingyu answered Shen Sinian according to the memory instilled in the copy.
"Then have you prepared a wedding gift?"
Su Qingyu felt alarm bells ringing in her heart, and she said carelessly: "This is a matter between girls."
Shen Sinian said gently: "We will be together when we enter the village, so don't get lost."
Night falls and the moon turns pale.
The white car speeds on the winding mountain road.
On the roadside, strange-shaped locust trees stand on both sides, and the dense shade of the trees is now shrouded in darkness.
The mountain wind howled by, bringing biting chills.
The car's headlights illuminated a small patch of road, but provided only a momentary solace from the encroaching darkness.
Along the way, the mist gradually spread, limiting the sight to just one step away.
A vague figure appeared on the roadside.
Faintly, overlapping with the tree shape.
"There is something waving in front of me." After leaving the city, Su Qingyu rolled up the car window and locked the interior lock of the car.
"It looks like someone is trying to hitch a ride."
Su Qingyu pursed her lips: "This place has no village and no shops. How can anyone hitchhike here? Don't stop and drive over!"
Shen Sinian said nothing.
When passing the woman, Shen Sinian stopped the car.
"Honey, we have to be helpful."
Su Qingyu guessed that in this wilderness, he must have parked his car because of the rules.
Then, Su Qingyu's voice cooled down: "If your rules say that you are willing to help others, then at least you have to make sure that the thing on the roadside is a person."
Shen Sinian's eyes turned cold, and he seemed a little surprised: "You know the rules."
"Of course, I'm not weird, I'm human." Su Qingyu tucked her long hair behind her ears, "As trialists of the same dungeon, our interests are consistent. As male and female friends, we must cooperate well. Mr. Shen."
Su Qingyu talks sweetly, but she must know what Shen Sinian's rules are.
Shen Sinian thought for a while and looked at the woman in a red dress on the side of the road. The woman was pressing her face against the car window, trying to open the door and come in.
The system prompt sounded in Shen Sinian's mind, telling him to leave quickly.
He gritted his back teeth, stepped on the accelerator decisively, and rushed over.
Shen Sinian doesn't believe in Su Qingyu, but he believes in the system.
In the rearview mirror, the woman walked to the middle of the road, got down on all fours, and seemed to be smelling something on the ground.
It doesn't look human at first glance.
After several hours of bumpy driving, the car finally arrived at the entrance of the village.
The adobe houses in the village are mottled and old, and dilapidated old houses stand in an orderly manner beside the bluestone road.
Under the faint moonlight, it looks even more vicissitudes of life.
At this moment, the mountain village was so quiet that only the sound of the wind blowing through the treetops was left.
Shen Sinian stopped in an open space at the entrance of the village. After turning off the engine, he got out of the car and looked around, turning on the navigation on his mobile phone to try to determine the location.
In the dark night, there seemed to be no lights in the village.
The big stone at the door reads "Gongyang Village". The stone is covered with moss and has been aged for a long time.
Su Qingyu took a deep breath of the cool mountain breeze and walked into this weird ancient mountain village.
In the distance, a red lantern lit up.
An old lady, holding a cane in her left hand and a red lantern in her right hand, walked slowly along the dirt road of the mountain village to the entrance of the village.
The old lady's face was as white as paper, with blush on both sides of her cheeks, her eyes were cloudy, and she looked old.
"You two guests who have come from afar, the host has asked me to come and pick you up."
