Chapter 6 Chong Chong is a liar 2
"I like white shallots..."
"I don't like white shallots..."
"How could I possibly like white shallots... hehe..."
I rubbed my eyes, which were dry due to lack of sleep, and walked while holding the textbook for the next lab class, thinking about the problem that had been giving me a headache all night.
Woohoo, it's all Baibai's fault. Last night, she suddenly asked me "Who do you like?" This question made me so confused that I couldn't sleep at night. My mind was full of Bai Xiaocong's face. This morning, not only did I have to break my excellent record of not being late for school for three consecutive semesters, but I also almost fell asleep in my homeroom teacher's class due to lack of sleep...
"...Xiaoduo..."
"…Student Xiao Xiaoduo!"
As I was walking, a shadow suddenly covered my eyes and I seemed to hear someone calling my name.
I raised my head and suddenly felt a dazzling light coming towards me.
"Lu...Lu Zhan..."
In the sunlight, Lu Zhan wore an armband that only students on duty had on their arms, and wore the school's uniform. Standing in the dazzling sunlight, he seemed to have his own soft light system.
“Ahhhh——Great God Lu Zhan——”
"The great god is so handsome!"
"My male god, please look at me, please look at me!"
"Who is she to dare to talk to my idol?"
I heard the girls screaming.
"What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell? I see you're not in a good mood..." Lu Zhan ignored what others were saying, frowned slightly, and asked with concern.
"...Can't you see that they all have a crush on you..."
What A Baibai said last night suddenly emerged in my mind.
I swallowed, took a step back, and gently avoided the hand that Lu Zhan stretched out to help me hold the book.
"You..." Lu Zhan looked at me with some confusion, and stretched out his hand, but when he didn't get a response from me, he put it down with a little disappointment.
"Well...well...we have to go to the laboratory next class. I'll leave first--" I was so depressed that I didn't even want to say more. I hurriedly said goodbye to Lu Zhan and left him as if I was fleeing.
I rushed forward as if there was a vicious dog chasing me, without looking back, until I was completely sober.
Wait—Xiao Xiaoduo, what on earth did you just do!
You actually misunderstood Lu Zhan because of a few words from A Baibai and wanted to avoid him. Isn't this really rude?
Think about it this way, maybe people only care about you because they know you!
Ahhhhh——
When I thought about the stupid thing I had just done, I couldn't help but hold my head and squat on the ground.
Xiao Xiaoduo, how could you think that the school's male god Lu Zhan likes you? You should know that just having this thought is enough for the male god's fans to destroy you more than a dozen times, okay!
Who is standing opposite you?
Great God Lu Zhan!
He is a handsome, prince-like figure in the school with excellent academic performance and good character. He is the face and signboard of the school. He always ranks first in every exam and is the student representative at the beginning of the school every year!
And... and white shallots...
Inexplicably, I thought of Bai Xiaocong's warehouse-like home, and how calm he was in front of the computer, as if he had a way to solve the problem even if the universe collapsed - I heard from A Baibai that he is very smart and has a brain as powerful as a computer. He used satellite monitors to locate A Baibai and find us, invaded the monitors in Tian Moli's house, used magical instruments to help pets, and had a transformable, super-smart mechanical dog... All of this is not something that ordinary people can do, right?
Besides, just with his flawless face that is more handsome than any star in the world, as long as he stands on the street, there will be countless outstanding girls confessing to him, right?
I'm so ordinary...how could Bai Xiaocong like me?
Thinking of this, my mood, which was not very good to begin with, became even lower.
No matter who they are, I seem to be separated from them by a deep Mariana Trench...
“Buzz—buzz—”
The phone in my pocket vibrated, and I took it out to see Bai Xiaocong wearing a frog hat, huge black-framed glasses on his nose, and a blank expression as he made a "V" sign. It suddenly appeared on my caller ID. I had been thinking about Bai Xiaocong, and when I suddenly saw his call, I couldn't help but want to throw the phone away...
“Plop, plop…”
I took a deep breath to calm my excitement, cleared my throat, and pressed the call button as if I were answering a phone call normally. However, the content of the following call made me feel like I was falling into an icy cave.
Standing at the door of the busy teaching building, I have never felt so helpless. I was clearly being bathed in the warm sun, but I could not feel a trace of warmth . I just felt like the sky was falling.
"Hey, what are you doing standing there like an idiot when class is about to start? Oh, I see. Are you afraid of messing up the lab? I can make an exception and…"
Behind me, I heard Tian Moli's voice.
"Please ask for leave for me. I'm not feeling well." After hanging up the phone, I turned around and said to Tian Moli.
"Why do you want me to ask for leave for you... You, you feel uncomfortable somewhere, I can ask the driver - Hey, stop..."
I forced back the tears that were about to burst out and ran towards the school gate, thinking over and over again about the content of the phone call.
Bai Xiaocong was attacked at home in the early morning, and the award-winning mechanical dog was also stolen. Bai Xiaocong was injured in the process of resistance and is currently receiving emergency treatment in the hospital...
Xiao Xiaoduo, you have to stay calm at this time!
When I got in the taxi to the hospital, I held my hands, which had been shaking since I received the call, and told myself countless times in my heart.
Don't be afraid, the shallots will be fine! The white shallots will definitely be fine!
He is so smart and powerful...he...
It was not until this moment that I suddenly realized how little I knew about white cong.
All I knew about Bai Xiaocong was from A Baibai's introduction. I claimed to be Bai Xiaocong's friend, but I had never cared about him. Apart from knowing that he was a genius, his name, and where he lived, I knew nothing about his family, school, and hobbies.
I called home and it was Abaibai who answered the phone. After telling Abaibai that Xiaocong was in the hospital, I leaned against the car window with mixed feelings, listlessly watching the scenery rapidly receding outside the glass.
When I arrived at the hospital entrance and just got out of the car, a furry white object at my feet quickly pounced in front of me and hugged my calf tightly.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time, you're so slow--" A Baibai said dissatisfiedly.
"I'm sorry..." I bent down and hugged A Baibai in my arms, "I have tried my best to ask the driver to go faster - but why are you faster than me?"
"I—" Abaibai in my arms was half frozen, and it took him a while to answer me, "I am Master Abaibai, and as the messenger of the God of Pets, I do have the ability to teleport!"
"Okay... let's go in and see Bai Xiaocong." I stroked A Baibai's fur to comfort her, and in my heart I couldn't wait to go to Bai Xiaocong's ward.
Holding Abaibai, who was dressed as a doll, I successfully found Bai Xiaocong's ward at the hospital front desk and trotted over.
Now is the busiest time in the hospital. The corridors are filled with worried-looking patients' families, as well as hurried doctors and nurses.
I heard hurried footsteps from behind me, and I subconsciously turned sideways. Two doctors and several nurses came jogging to the ward in front of me. I stood at the door and saw through the open door that the doctor was performing emergency treatment on the patient on the bed. The person lying on the bed was motionless, with one hand hanging weakly from the bed.
My nose was filled with the unique smell of hospital disinfectant. I should have been used to this smell, but for some reason, I felt like vomiting at this moment.
"Xiaoduo?" Abaibai pricked up his ears and licked my chin gently.
"Ah, it's okay, let's go find Bai Xiaocong--" Shaking my head, I put away the inexplicable feeling in my heart and smiled at A Baibai.
Following the room number given by the nurse, I successfully arrived at the door of Bai Xiaocong's ward.
The door of the ward was ajar, leaving a gap. From my angle, I could just see the doctor standing in front of the bed.
I was about to push the door open when a feeling of fear suddenly surged in my heart.
What if… What if…
"… This is already the limit… If I continue like this… my brain…"
The doctor's voice came from the room, but because the voice was not loud, I couldn't hear clearly what the doctor was saying. My intuition told me that the doctor must be telling Bai Xiaocong something very important...
The doctor said the brain...
Could it be that Bai Xiaocong was beaten stupidly?
No! Bai Xiaocong's brain is comparable to a supercomputer! How can this be possible!
When I thought of this, I pushed open the door and rushed to the doctor without caring about anything else: "Doctor, you must save him. You can't restore him to his previous level, but you can't let him become mentally retarded either—"
"What's so stupid?" a voice came over.
"Wow, doctor, Bai Xiaocong is really smart, he can't...ah?" Halfway through my words, I finally realized that the person who just spoke to me seemed... not a doctor?
I turned around and saw Bai Xiaocong lying on the hospital bed, waving her hands, which were wrapped like dumplings, at me.
"Since your friend has come to see you, I'll leave first, but you still have to think carefully about what I said." The doctor looked at me, then at Bai Xiaocong, pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, closed the medical record book and walked out of the ward.
The moment the door of the room closed, Abaibai jumped from my arms onto the bed.
I looked at Bai Xiaocong, who was pale, with his limbs bandaged and lying on the bed like a mummy, and my previously tense nerves finally relaxed.
"That's great... your head is fine..." I said, tears streaming down my face.
"Wow, wow, wow - you scared me to death. When I received the call, I thought of many bad endings. Fortunately, you are okay..."
I clearly wanted to appear reliable, but when I saw Bai Xiaocong forcing a smile to me while lying on the hospital bed, I couldn't stop crying.
"I'm sorry for making you worry. Hehe... Actually, my injury is not serious, it's just that the bandage in the hospital is a little scary. I knew it when the alarm in the yard sounded before, but I wanted to test my new defense system. But you know, there are not many opportunities for someone to break into my house, so the defense data is a little less, allowing them to enter my house. They probably just want to steal things and have no intention of hurting anyone. My injury... is just that I was pushed away by them when I tried to grab something, and I accidentally bumped into it..." Bai Xiaocong said while smiling foolishly, and he habitually wanted to scratch his head, but because his injury was wrapped like a dumpling, one hand pulled the wound before it reached his head, and the smile on his face solidified into a strange expression.
"Are you an idiot?" I interrupted Bai Xiaocong angrily, "You can buy more if you run out of things, but... you have to know... it's a good thing they didn't intend to hurt anyone..."
When I thought that I might never see Bai Xiaocong again, my heart almost stopped beating in pain.
"But...they took away Duoduo..." Bai Xiaocong put away the expression on her face, lowered her head and spoke in a low voice.
"What?" I didn't hear clearly and asked again.
"It's... the mechanical dog you said was so good. I originally wanted to improve it and give it to you, how could it be snatched away by someone else..." Bai Xiaocong looked at me carefully while speaking, as if she was afraid that I would be angry. The look in her eyes was exactly the same as that of A Baibai after he made a mistake.
Bai Xiaocong, who was not wearing strange clothes or black-framed glasses, was lying on the hospital bed at this time, just like an ordinary person who had taken off his usual aura of genius. He would grimace because of the pain from the wound, and would also smile awkwardly because he was embarrassed to change the subject.
The him in front of me and the him who was lonely watching the sunset at the door of my hospital before overlapped in front of my eyes. At this moment, the person code-named "Bai Xiaocong" finally became clear in my mind.
"Thank you..." After hearing Bai Xiaocong's words, a touch of emotion passed through my heart, and then my face turned red uncontrollably.
No, now is not the time to say thank you!
"I... I'm not the most important! I'm not the one who's injured now! You have to know that you are the inventor of the mechanical dog. If your things are stolen, you can make another one for me, but if something happens to you, no one will be able to make these things!" Seeing Bai Xiaocong not taking her own safety seriously, the anger in my heart erupted like a volcano. The more worried I was before, the angrier I am now.
Actually... I was admitted to the hospital because of this kind of thing...
I was breathing heavily, and when I came to my senses, A Baibai and Bai Xiaocong both had their eyes wide open in surprise.
"Xiaoduo is angry..." A Baibai muttered to himself.
"Are you angry?" Bai Xiaocong looked at me with blinking eyes.
me……
Yeah, what am I angry about?
Looking at the man and the dog in the ward, I really want to go back in time and sew up my mouth a few minutes ago...
Who am I to be angry at Bai Xiaocong?
Wow, so embarrassing.
"Xiaoduo, are you concerned about me? I'm so happy--" Bai Xiaocong looked at me steadily, and suddenly gave me a clear smile that I had never seen before. His clear eyes narrowed into a slit because of the smile, and his long eyelashes trembled slightly like feathers. The golden sunlight shone on his face, giving him a layer of soft light, like the first ray of sunlight in the morning shining on the morning dew, crystal clear and incomparably beautiful.
“Bang-dong—”
My heart suddenly skipped a beat.
"Xiaocong, Abaibai cares about you too! Mother Xiao originally opened a can of fish and cheese flavor for me, and I gave it all to Xiaohei and ran over to see you. You must be nicer to me in the future!" After hearing what Bai Xiaocong said, Abaibai jumped on Bai Xiaocong with dissatisfaction, trying to grab her attention.
"But Xiaoduo is also worried about you. When she called me, her voice was trembling - Xiaoduo Xiaoduo, do you care about Xiaocong very much?" A Baibai jumped on the bed and winked at me with ill intent.
I turned around so that they wouldn't see my already burning face, and changed the subject abruptly: "Well... you can't just let the thief go like this, have you... have you told the police about this..."
"Well, I've asked someone to help me find Duoduo. Duoduo has a positioning device installed in his body, and the route is recorded in my computer!" Bai Xiaocong answered behind me, "So, Xiaoduo, are you worried about me?"
Bai Xiaocong continued to ask the same question again without giving up.
I was so embarrassed that I didn't know how to answer.
"call--"
A gust of wind lifted the curtains. I was just about to close the window when suddenly my eyes blurred and a figure appeared at the head of Bai Xiaocong's bed.
The person who came had a face that was 60% similar to Bai Xiaocong, with a pair of eyes that were clearly black and white, and facial features that were also very delicate and exquisite. The difference was that his hair was very black, shiny and fluffy, and the whole person had a different, refreshing scent like mint, unlike Bai Xiaocong.
In his arms, a mechanical dog looked into Abaibai's eyes and let out a soft "woof".
"Hu——" Abaibai arched his back towards the mechanical dog and let out a threatening growl.
"You..." I was just about to step forward and say hello, but the person who came didn't even give me a chance to speak. He just threw the mechanical dog to the side of the bed and started talking.
"I brought you what you wanted. When I arrived at the scene, I saw two fat guys holding this thing and talking about something. But I didn't have the patience to listen, so I used the control instructions you gave me to let the mechanical dog discharge electricity to knock the two people unconscious, and then threw them into prison..."
The person who came kept talking non-stop, and just when I thought he was going to take a break, he didn't even take a breath and continued: "My parents and Bai Xiaomeng are very worried about you when they know you are in the hospital, but they are too far away from here and can't get here in time, so they asked me to take care of you - really, am I so free? I'm on vacation in Greece with Luna at this time! Do you know the pain of being interrupted when dating your dear girlfriend?" said the black-haired boy with a minty scent.
"I don't know." Bai Xiaocong opened her innocent eyes and inserted it forcefully.
The person who came stopped talking for three seconds strangely.
"puff--"
In my heart, I silently made up the sound of that person vomiting blood.
"...Anyway, things have been settled for you. I see you have a girlfriend to take care of you, so they don't have to worry about you. I'm going to continue my vacation with Luna, so don't look for me if you have nothing to do--" The man said as he walked towards the window. When he finished the last word, he had disappeared.
"Over there...over there--" I rushed to the window and looked at the curtains blown by the wind. What just happened seemed like a dream.
"This is the fifth floor! Where did he come from?" I looked down from the window.
"Oh, by the way, I forgot. I will inform them that you found a girlfriend!"
Another gust of wind blew in, and the person who had just jumped out of the window stood in front of me again. He took out his phone and quickly took a few photos of my face, then jumped out of the window again...
This time, I clearly saw that the strange man disappeared strangely after jumping out of the window...
What exactly is going on?
I held my head and felt like I was on the set of a horror movie!
Would a normal person jump from the fifth floor?
Would a normal person disappear in mid-air?
And - the most important thing is, that person seems to have misunderstood the relationship between me and Bai Xiaocong -
Wait, come back here and listen to my explanation!
Because I was misunderstood, I didn’t dare to look at Bai Xiaocong’s expression. I could only look to A Baibai for help, but A Baibai didn’t even look at me. He treated the mechanical dog as an enemy, sharpening his claws as if he was ready for a duel.
"What just happened?"
After a while, I was sure that I was not hallucinating, then I regained my composure and asked.
"Well, Xiaoduo, I didn't mean to hide it from you. In fact, I come from an extraordinary and gorgeous family with super powers. The boy just now was my cousin Bai Xiaoxia, a person with lightning super powers... and I am the one in the family... the person with intelligent brain super powers." Bai Xiaocong blinked and explained to me nervously.
"Super...superpower?" For a moment, I felt like my brain was stuffed into a ball of wool that had been tangled up by a cat. I lost the ability to organize language and could only repeat what Bai Xiaocong said.
Superpowers... don't they only appear in movies? Things like teleportation, fire coming out of your hands, or freezing water by blowing air...
Am I not awake yet and still dreaming?
I pinched my thigh hard, and the sharp pain made me gasp.
Ouch, ouch—it hurts so much!
This really isn't a dream, hahahaha——
I never thought that in my lifetime, I would actually see living people with super powers besides myself - and two of them!
"...Actually...Abaibai is also a dog with super powers..." Bai Xiaocong's voice came over.
"Awooo - Xiaocong, you can't say that!" A Baibai suddenly gave up the confrontation with the robot dog, jumped onto the bed, and tried to block Bai Xiaocong's mouth with his butt.
"Abaibai! You have to know that if you tell a lie, you have to make up for it with ten lies. Xiaoduo is so good to you, do you still want to deceive her?" Bai Xiaocong hugged Abaibai away and said to her in a stern tone.
"Woo woo--" Abaibai drooped his ears, lowered his head dejectedly, and jumped off the bed, completely losing his previous majestic look.
"What's the matter? So serious..." Looking at Bai Xiaocong's serious expression, I couldn't help but stand up straight and look at him in a formal manner.
"I'm sorry, Abaibai lied to you. When you said you had the ability to understand animal language, I knew it must be Abaibai who lied to you. In fact, the reason you can understand the language of animals is because of Abaibai's superpowers... You... don't have any superpowers... I don't know what method it used to fool you, but..."
What?
I don't have any super powers?
Is this all just a scam?
I looked at Abaibai in disbelief. It tried to squeeze itself under the bed, but there were other things stuffed under the bed. Even though Abaibai stuffed its head into the gap, its butt was still sticking out.
"Abaibai, is this true? Have you been lying to me from the beginning?" I questioned Abaibai.
I have always treated Abaibai with the most sincere heart. Ever since I picked it up, I have regarded it as a member of the family. Even when it told me that Bai Xiaocong was not nice to it, I joined forces with it to fight against Bai Xiaocong. I didn't expect that the action that I thought was just would now be ruthlessly "slapped in the face".
When I thought about how I had analyzed myself in front of Bai Xiaocong and thought I was the pet savior, I couldn't help but want to rush back in time and give myself a good beating.
"Wuwuwu—I'm sorry..." A Baibai's muffled apology came from under the bed.
"Please forgive Abaibai, because... I was also wrong. I wanted to tell you, but Abaibai was worried that the lie he told before would be exposed, and he was afraid that you would chase him away, so he asked me not to expose it... Xiaoduo, don't be angry, Abaibai really likes you..."
Bai Xiaocong hurriedly pleaded for A Baibai, but his words made the little anger in my heart even stronger.
So, even Bai Xiaocong and A Baibai were deceiving me together?
I never expected that the two people I had always treated sincerely, no, a man and a dog, would actually team up to deceive me.
I, Xiao Xiaoduo, am the type of person who, once I recognize you, will trust you wholeheartedly and with all my heart. But at the same time, if I am deceived and betrayed by someone I trust, that would be a big deal for me!
I feel that all the emotions and enthusiasm I had for them in the past, even the ambiguous feelings that I didn't even understand, have now become a joke.
"Haha, you like me? You can lie to me just because you like me? When I thought I had such a superpower and was so grateful and happy, were you laughing at me in secret? Is Xiao Xiaoduo just an easy fool to you?"
Bai Xiaocong looked at me with regret: "Yes, I'm sorry, Xiaoduo..."
"Is it fun to watch me being foolishly played by you? Do you feel happy with my self-righteous sense of superiority? Yes, I am an ordinary person, but can an ordinary person be deceived by you like this? You can choose not to tell me the truth, but can't you not lie to me..."
Tears flowed uncontrollably.
It turns out...it turns out that I have never been their friend!
I always thought that after going through so many things, our relationship would at least be a little closer than that of ordinary friends, but I didn't expect that others didn't regard me as a friend from the beginning.
Who am I?
A fun observation material?
Or a stupidly useful automatic feeder?
I wiped away the tears that couldn't be wiped away, without looking at them again, I walked out of the ward.
"Xiao Duo——"
"Xiao Duo——"
Behind me I heard Bai Xiaocong and A Baibai calling out to me, but I still hardened my heart and didn't look back.
Even ordinary people have dignity!
