Chapter 3: The Unbreakable Ten-meter Restriction 3
I pulled Hongze and finally ran to the first floor of the old library. Along the way, Hongze's appearance attracted many people's attention, but I had no time to care about these. I could only keep pulling him and running.
I stood in the stairwell, holding onto the wall and breathing heavily, feeling like I was about to pass out. Even in physical education class, I had never experienced such intense exercise.
Hongze looked at me calmly, and after a long while he said, "CO...what is Quosipule?"
"Ding ding ding dong..." The lunch break bell suddenly rang from the speaker above our heads, reminding us to return to the classroom.
I just opened my mouth to speak, but the ringing startled me and I started coughing. I felt like the little oxygen in my lungs was about to be coughed out, and my face immediately turned red.
"Ahem... Cosplay is a kind of real-life role-playing, ahem..."
"Human! Are you laughing at me?" Hong Ze waved his sleeves and stared at me with his phoenix eyes, as if he was thinking about how to tear me apart.
"It's unfair!" I couldn't help but feel aggrieved. "I'm just catching my breath. You weren't angry at all when they did that just now. Why are you like this when it comes to me..."
Having said that, I stopped talking. This kind of coquettish talk made me feel a little weird, and I stared at the ground.
"What are you doing?" Hongze patted my head lightly, walked up the stairs as if nothing had happened, and turned his back to me. "Where did I say I wouldn't let you laugh at me..."
When I heard this, I looked up at him in surprise, not really understanding what he meant. Was he saying it was okay for me to laugh at him?
"Didn't you say you were going to the classroom? Why don't you lead the way?"
"Lead the way! Lead the way right now!" I was a little happy after hearing Hongze's words, and even the tone of my voice rose by two degrees. As if I was greatly encouraged, I jumped and ran in front of Hongze and led him to the roof of the red brick house.
Hongze stood on the guardrail on the second floor of the old library, raised his eyelids and glanced at the roof of the red brick building, and said with some disdain: "Is this what you call a holy place?"
I felt a little discouraged, so I jumped over the guardrail and walked towards the center of the roof of the red brick house.
"Don't think there's nothing here, but no one can see me here, and I won't be disturbed. It's very quiet. How about it? Awesome, right?" I turned around proudly, but there was nothing behind me .
"Haha...you left. I thought...you at least said goodbye..." My mood suddenly became depressed and I spoke in a low voice.
"I really want to kill you!" Hongze's low voice came from behind me.
He's still here! I turned around in surprise. The light smoke around Hongze hadn't completely dissipated yet, and he looked at me with a sullen face.
"Uh...what did you do just now?" I asked cautiously.
"What do you think?"
“But how far is this?” I turned around to look at the guardrail, which was about ten meters away, and said awkwardly, “This restriction is quite powerful, haha…”
Under Hongze's gaze, I smiled awkwardly until my face froze. He finally spoke with great compassion, "Why are you bringing up such a topic? Take me to the waterside now. I'll find someone to break this restriction."
"Now? Now it's already..." Hongze looked at me threateningly, so I quickly changed the subject, "There's a pool down there. I'll take you there, but be quick."
Hongze looked at me without comment, and just motioned for me to lead the way. I had no choice but to trot a few steps and walk in front of Hongze to lead the way.
Although I really wanted to ask Hongze why he went to the waterside to seek help, I had long given up thinking about the various things Hongze had proposed. I could only silently say to myself in my heart that I would be a good person to the end and send the Buddha to the west. Thinking of this, I quickened my pace again.
Soon, we arrived at the figure-8-shaped pool.
"Here it is. Let's get started!"
I looked at the time. It was already ten past one. Now was the time for the on-duty committee members to start patrolling the school. They had to leave before the Discipline Inspection Commission arrived here.
Hongze seemed not to hear anything, and slowly walked around the pool, taking two steps and then stopping, looking up at the sky, looking down at the ground, and then taking two more steps. He strolled leisurely, planning his strategy, calm and imposing, and his navy blue robes set off the red brick wall covered with vines, looking more like an unfolding scroll.
But now I have to be wary of the on-duty Discipline Committee. Looking at Hongze's appearance, I want to push him into the pool.
I was so anxious that I stamped my feet and cursed him hundreds of times in my heart. Hongze finally slowly chose a place and sat down cross-legged.
Ah! Thank God, I finally sat down!
I opened my eyes wide and stared at him, not missing even the smallest movement. I couldn't see anything special about the place he chose, I just hoped that he would tell me that it was over in the next second.
"Hey... why are you staring at me..." Hongze turned his head to the side unnaturally, straightening his neat folds of clothes with his hands.
After hearing what Hongze said, I realized that I had been staring at him for a long time. I felt my head was so hot that it was smoking. I stammered, "Eh? I, this..."
"You... forget it, just stand there." As he said that, Hongze stretched out a finger and put it into the water. After a while, all the koi in the pond gathered there.
Seeing the koi fish gathered around his fingers, Hongze puffed up his cheeks like a goldfish and moved them. Seeing Hongze's handsome face making such a strange expression, I didn't find it strange at all, but rather I thought it was very cute.
As expected, a handsome man will be handsome no matter what he does, I thought randomly.
Hongze straightened up suddenly, and the next second he jumped across the pool and rushed towards me. I had no idea what was going on and I took a few steps back in fright.
My back hit the wall and I groaned in pain: "What happened?"
"Are you teasing me on purpose?" Hongze slapped the wall I was leaning against. "This is basically a pool of stagnant water with only a few koi fish in it. It's a waste of time for you to bring me here! Or do you think there would be dragons in such a small place?"
As soon as I heard the word "dead water", I knew something was wrong. I regretted that I had brought Hongze here in a fit of anger. Although this was the closest water, it would be completely meaningless if it was not living water. Whether I wanted to convey a message or anything else, it would be impossible to achieve it.
I bit my lip and was too ashamed to care about being the duty committee member.
"What are you doing?" Zhou Mian rushed over, grabbed Hongze's shoulders and pushed him aside, "Don't you know that men and women should not touch each other? What do you want to do?"
"No..." I retorted subconsciously, my face burning. Fu Lingmiao, Fu Lingmiao, what's wrong with you today? If the person in charge knew about your stupid look, he would definitely kick you out of the "Elite Program".
"Humph! She was teasing me on purpose, but I couldn't scare her a bit?" Hong Ze didn't care and raised his hand to brush off the non-existent dust on his shoulders. "She said she would take me to the water, but it turned out to be a pool of water like this, and I actually believed her. "
"What waterside?" Zhou Mian turned around and asked me, and his hand that was across my body slowly dropped down.
I was "buried against the wall", I was "buried against the wall", I was "buried against the wall" just now, right? This sentence kept circling in my mind, and Zhou Mian's question made me feel embarrassed. If he knew that I was frightened by Hongze and brought Hongze to a pool of stagnant water to "seek help", I would probably be laughed at for a week.
Thinking back carefully, Hongze only seemed to have raised his hand to chop me in the first dream. At that time, I was protected by the Soul Binding Cage, and Hongze deliberately chopped me off. After that, although Hongze kept shouting that he wanted to kill me, he never really did it, not even in the dream.
He doesn't seem to be hurtful?
As soon as this thought came to my mind, I looked at Hongze again. He was wiping his hands with a handkerchief he had taken out from somewhere, with his brows lowered, and he looked very gentle.
My heart was moved, and I couldn't help but say, "I didn't mean it just now. I just got carried away and misunderstood. Wait a few more hours, and I promise to take you to the river after school."
Before Hongze could respond, Zhou Mian jumped up first: "What? You want to take this guy to the river?"
"He said he wanted to go to the waterside to find someone for help and see if he could find a way to unlock the Soul Binding Cage." I explained as I took out the Soul Binding Cage and faced Hong Ze. "I'll have to trouble you to stay in the Soul Binding Cage for the time being. You'll be too conspicuous if you show up around our classroom. You also saw how the girls looked when they saw you before, so..."
I know my request is a bit excessive, letting him return to this cage less than an hour after regaining his freedom. However, weighing the consequences of his showing up in school, I think entering the Soul Binding Cage is a better choice.
"Humph, do you think ordinary people can see me casually?" Hong Ze raised his chin and said contemptuously. A puff of smoke slowly emerged as he shook his body. "If it weren't for..."
Before I could finish my words, Hongze had already disappeared. I frowned, looked at the Soul Binding Cage in my hand, which had not changed at all, and tilted my head and said, "It's nothing?"
But Hongze's voice did not appear in my mind as I expected. I didn't know if he was too lazy to answer or for some other reason.
"Shh! The school inspection disciplinary committee is here!" Zhou Mian lowered his voice and pulled me quickly towards the spiral staircase next to the pool.
I tightly grasped the soul-binding cage in my hand, fearing that it would drop if I wasn't careful. I followed Zhou Mian's steps and staggered over the three steps. Finally, my legs went weak and I half-knelt in the corridor on the second floor of the old library. Fortunately, Zhou Mian was quick-witted and held me up, so I didn't kneel directly on the ground.
"I seemed to hear some noise over here just now, but I didn't see anyone."
"Maybe he ran away. Never mind, if we didn't see him, then we didn't see him."
The voices of the two patrolling school discipline inspection officers came from below. I heaved a long sigh of relief when I heard their footsteps leaving. I finally escaped...
Zhou Mian climbed onto the roof of the red brick house skillfully, turned around and stretched out his hand to me: "Are you really planning to go to the river after school?"
"Go ahead, I've already promised him. I won't go back on my word." I reached out and held Zhou Mian's hand, letting him half-drag and half-pull me onto the roof before I answered him.
"This is something of unknown origin, why bother..." Zhou Mian sighed and sat down casually on the ground, "Well, forget it, just think of it as you are kind enough to help the kitten find its mother."
"Hehe, if Hongze heard you say he is a cat, he would definitely jump up and scratch you with his paws!" Zhou Mian's metaphor made me laugh, and I said it with some gloating.
"Him? I don't believe you can't see that he won't hurt anyone. I've been busy all afternoon and haven't even had any food. I'll lie down for a while." Zhou Mian waved his hand nonchalantly, lay down on the ground generously, closed his eyes and rested.
I smiled. Sure enough, Zhou Mian also discovered that Hongze was actually a gentle person.
