The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

Chapter 670 Mikael, Kevin, Sakura—the overtime trio

"Today (April 2) at 19:00, the promotion ceremony began with the solemn Song of the Earth. During the promotion ceremony of the Major General of Inner Asia held by the coalition government, the Archbishop of Destiny, Ms. Teresa Apokalis, personally The order for promotion to the rank of major general was signed and read out. Ms. Li Sushang, the head of Shenzhou Taixu, presided over the promotion ceremony.

“The officers promoted to the rank of major general this time are: Famaz Statrak, captain of the 135th Search and Rescue Construction Brigade in Inner Asia, and Vasak Princes, deputy captain of the 135th Search and Rescue Construction Brigade in Inner Asia.

"The two officers who were promoted to the rank of major general came to the rostrum in high spirits. Ms. Theresa Apokalis issued orders to them and expressed her congratulations. She also emphatically commended the two officers for their role in stabilizing order in Inner Asia and rebuilding internal affairs. The two officers wearing major general epaulettes saluted Ms. Theresa Apokalis, saluted Ms. Li Sushang, and saluted all the comrades who participated in the ceremony. The audience burst into warm applause. .

"The promotion ceremony ended with the loud military song of the Inner Asia Region, and then Ms. Theresa Apokalis, Ms. Li Sushang and other leaders took photos with the officers who were promoted to the rank of major general."

In order to save the electricity bill, the fluorescent lights were turned off. In the dark office, the slender fingers were tapping on the keyboard. Soon as the final period was struck, an impeccable official article was completed. The silver-haired man raised his hand. Holding the mouse, he skillfully opened the mailbox, typed in the recipient's address and pressed Enter. Then he raised his hands, kicked his feet and floated backwards along with the stool, not forgetting to shout to the pink-haired woman in the front seat. made a sound:

"The copy is ready and I'll send it to you, Sakura. There are still seventeen minutes left before the deadline set by Team Leader Himihu. You can convert the copy directly into subtitles and paste it up, and then add an AI synthesized voice to read it aloud. We'll get overtime pay of 100 per person. "

"Well, I received it. AI synthesized sounds are quite convenient..."

Listening to Sakura's emotion, Mikael stretched and stood up. He first went to the toilet, washed his hands, then stopped in front of the vending machine in the corridor outside the office, bought three cups of canned coffee, and then walked back slowly.

Rolling his blue eyes, Kevin cleared his throat and couldn't help but raise his voice a little higher.

It would look a bit wise to keep staring in front of you, so Mikael glanced around and saw Sakura holding a can of coffee in her hands, as if she was using it to warm her hands.

"Ha-you are actually looking at V?"

"It's just because I'm free and the salary isn't high enough, so I have to code to make extra money."

Mikael pulled the tab, and the cold and smooth liquid swirled around in his tongue, fully diffusing the bitterness before he swallowed it.

"You watch it so seriously, you won't like this anchor, right?"

"I can't tell you clearly, but if you are watched a lot by someone, you will always feel it."

"I don't know. I don't know who that person is at all, and I probably haven't... gotten along with him... But I occasionally wake up from a tired dream. I feel like I have been having a long, long dream. I have long forgotten the specific content. I only remember that I seemed to have experienced an extremely long war. The double mental and physical pain, strong loneliness and emptiness would always wake me up in the middle of the night. Isn't it because of this that you recommended your classmate Su to prescribe some medicine for me?

"No."

His heart beat rapidly, a feeling that Mikael was not unfamiliar with.

"The home code is not good? Don't you have a girlfriend who has been a graduate student since high school? I remember you said before that she was originally studying in another place. This time, together with her tutor Dr. Mebius We were transferred to Canghai University together.”

"My name is Fu Hua... no, just call me Hua."

The first time I met Sakura, the first time I met Kevin... I had a similar feeling.

"Well... if you are caught by Minister Velvet so carefully... she will definitely force you to be her assistant in performing magic at the next holiday party..."

"Uh, thank you."

"What are you doing?"

Sakura shook her head in embarrassment and rushed straight into the convenience store.

"Ahh! You're so disgusting, stay away from me! Stay away from me!"

"Well... Generally speaking, the person you are waiting for is your childhood sweetheart, right? The two parties made some agreement when they were very young, but as they grew up and separated, those memories were buried, and in the end only Some specious reverberations.”

He saw the cartoon girl making a heartbeat and waving her hand in the video screen again. Mikael knew that she was getting ready to go off the air.

"Are you two okay? Come on...who has the key?"

Kevin pursed his lips and clapped his hands suddenly:

Walking to the gate of the community, Mikael suddenly said.

"Ling and I are classmates. We met before when you picked her up from school for her sister."

She stood there like an old pine, without any movement and almost unnoticed by anyone. Only her long hair was held up by the wind that passed through the street, swaying like the branches of pine and cypress.

"That's wrong of you. Why do you want to kill me when I invite you to drink coffee?"

In the past, when there were few people in the live broadcast room, he would still post some barrages to communicate with her. Now, even if he says something, he will be buried in a large number of barrages and cannot be seen.

But Mikael had already walked past her.

Mikael pinched his chin and nodded.

When you really fall in love with someone, you probably won't be rational, and you may not even be able to tell a single good thing about that person, but you just fall in love with them.

"I... uh... I'll say it first, Kevin. I'll say it later, so don't laugh at me."

"Mikael! I'm going to kill you!!"

"Here I am."

When it was Kevin's turn at last, he wanted to say good night coolly, but he finally reacted belatedly.

While I was still thinking about it, Kevin gave me a gentle pat on my head.

The elevator door opened, and everyone in the elevator breathed a sigh of relief before they each ran to their next stop.

As the two of them spoke, they both turned sideways and looked at Kevin for some reason.

"Then you must balance work and rest... No, this anchor named Miss Pink Fairy, I have seen you watch it while working overtime several times..."

"Give both to Kevin."

Mikael and Kevin said goodbye in tacit agreement.

"Honestly, based on my experience, if you say that, you probably have no chance with her..."

"Also, the night I met Sakura for the first time, I had a strange dream, which was different from the previous dream... Alas, it is really difficult to explain. In short, if Sakura is really that person, I will meet her when I meet her. I should never have that kind of dream again, but the fact is, that kind of dream still continues, and it still reminds me that I want to meet someone again.”

"Huh? I'm going to sue you for slander!"

Finally, when Sakura walked out of the convenience store carrying a black plastic bag, Mikael was holding his head proudly. Kevin, on the other hand, was sitting on a stone ball beside the road, with flour between his legs and a sad face. .

Kevin quickly ran out with his bag, Mikael closed the office door, and then the three of them moved forward. The voice-activated light in the elevator turned on by itself when they heard the footsteps. Sakura pressed the elevator button, and Mikael He turned around and took out the key left by Himihu and locked the door of the company. Only Kevin was there drinking coffee with nothing to do.

"In our media company, you, a guy from the technical security department, shouldn't be idle all day long, right? Why do you feel like you work overtime more frequently than me and Sakura?"

"Uh...well...you're right..."

The silver-gray pupils silently reflected the image of a smiling cartoon girl on the computer screen. Although Kevin couldn't hear the sound due to the headphones he was wearing, he still felt relaxed in his heart even though he didn't know what she was talking about.

"What, what does she want to buy..."

"This...can't be a prophetic dream, right? Mei told me about this kind of dream...By the way, do you still remember the appearance of the person in the dream? In particular, are there any easily identifiable features?"

Sakura was busy, but she didn't forget to turn around and give Mikael a smile.

"Who are you……"

But this time, Kevin was also extremely candid:

"Um……"

"Isn't tomorrow the weekend? Mei will have to do experiments all day tomorrow. I have nothing to do. Why don't I go with you to see it?"

"Pfft...hahahahaha!"

"I may have to move in a while. The monthly rent for one person is two thousand five thousand. Although it is cheap in Canghai City, it is really too much to bear."

The girl in front of her blinked slowly and calmly introduced herself:

"Why don't you give me both?"

In fact, he didn't pay much attention to other people when he picked up the bell from school, and he didn't know if he really saw this girl, but the other party should have an impression of him, right?

How else to explain it? Could it be that we met in a dream?

As if it was an illusion, there seemed to be light in the eyes of the girl in front of her, and the brilliance was constantly flowing, but she quickly closed her eyes.

"Don't you want to drink?"

"Uh...was it for me?"

"When did you come back? I didn't hear a sound."

"Since I am Ling's classmate, I... well, where is he?"

"Isn't your Mei going to do an experiment tomorrow?"

Kevin was holding the can high up, shaking it slightly to let the last drop of coffee flow into his mouth. Suddenly, he found himself being stared at by two people, and he was inevitably a little embarrassed.

"What do you see me doing?"

"I don't know. But that feeling is quite real, 'I will spend my whole life waiting for her, even if we meet again at the moment before death', that's the feeling. Before that, I didn't plan to start any relationship. emotion."

"Also, I remember that more than once, when she had to stay and work overtime but you didn't need it, did she ask you to help her pick up her sister from school? How could she let a member of the opposite sex pick up her sister if she didn't really trust her? ? "Aren't you afraid of something happening?"

"Then let's separate here? Tomorrow is the weekend, so let's stay in bed together. Good night!"

"Then why did you..."

Kevin was no exception, but Mikael was unusually calm.

"No, I don't think so. When I met Sakura, I did have a...how should I put it, when I met you, I also had this...very familiar feeling, as if I met you too late."

"Seriously, Michael, don't you think Sakura is interested in you?"

Mikael waved his hands indifferently, neither refuting nor agreeing.

"Don't make trouble, I'm serious..."

"Uh...what's the problem?"

"It doesn't matter to me. I have the medicine prescribed by Su. There's no way I can't sleep."

"Uh... I don't have anything to buy."

"ah?"

In order to prevent Kevin from saying anything embarrassing to everyone, Mikael simply confessed.

"Mikael is not free tomorrow, have you forgotten? Eden is coming to Canghai City to hold a concert tomorrow night."

"Yes, she will stay with you every time you work overtime..."

Mikael touched his nose.

Kevin picked up the coffee on the table, straightened the headphone cord, and drank half the can in a flash.

"abnormal!"

"Who said I want to go to the concert with Mei? I can't go with Su?"

Sakura's figure quickly disappeared from sight. Kevin closed the computer, put the headphones and water bottle in his bag, and leaned into Mikael's ear and asked:

"Did you buy another can?"

Mikael's brows frowned slightly - why was Sakura's eyes flashing as if she was very excited while pointing at them and scolding them as perverts?

But no matter what, the three of them soon set foot on the road home again.

"I made an appointment with Ling before to take her to the amusement park. That child... is not very interested in music."

After walking only two steps, Kevin suddenly stopped Mikael, pointed to the convenience store nearby with his thumb and said:

"Uh... Well, Mei just sent a message asking me to buy some flour. Why don't you leave first? Or, do you have anything to buy? Let's go together?"

"What does this have to do with knowing?"

Mikael's lips wriggled twice, and then turned away.

"Are you familiar? To be honest, I also feel very familiar with this pink fairy lady... How should I put it, sometimes, it seems that I can always predict what she will say in advance, and it is not something I am familiar with after seeing too much, but the first time I am familiar with it. I felt this way once I watched her live broadcast.”

Mikael placed one of the cans of warm coffee on Sakura's desk, deliberately keeping a certain distance from her hands that were operating the computer.

"Huh? It seems so."

Mikael smiled awkwardly and scratched the back of his head.

"Ah? What does that have to do with him? Oh... oh oh oh!"

Looking back, Mikael noticed a gray-haired girl standing behind him.

"Isn't that Sakura?"

"ha?"

"I feel...of course I have feelings. After all, Sakura is also a very beautiful girl, and our partners work well together. And she is also very generous. When she first joined the company last summer, she treated everyone to watermelon every day. For a whole month, although the watermelons in Canghai City were much cheaper than those in her hometown of Jidong, it was still a big expense. Well... I just don't know if she is the type to spend money lavishly. The most important thing is that she can also do kendo. , that’s simply Taikoo!”

Kevin wanted to ask more questions, but the elevator suddenly stopped on the eighth floor.

Sakura denied it flatly.

"I want to buy some... uh, that thing. I'll go with Kevin. Are you waiting for us here?"

Sakura took a deep breath and couldn't help but said a kind blessing:

"have a good night."

Seeing that Mikael didn't look like he was joking, Kevin also started to analyze it seriously.

Mikael and Sakura both backed away, and several unknown men and women in formal attire walked in while chatting and laughing. However, after seeing strangers in the elevator, the laughter disappeared in an instant, and everyone maintained a tacit understanding. There was silence until the elevator stopped on the first floor again.

"I want to buy sanitary napkins."

The two people soon started to quarrel, and their hands began to touch each other's butts intentionally or unintentionally...

By the time she reacted, Sakura had already stood up while taking off her headphones, and the shutdown animation was flashing on the computer screen.

Mikael rubbed his brows tiredly.

Snapped--

Mikael laughed twice and stopped thinking about it.

"I really didn't say anything."

"Okay, then we'll wait for you."

Kevin was stunned for a while, and finally realized something——

"What are you doing here? Did you see a beautiful woman on the roadside?"

Sakura covered her mouth and suppressed laughter.

Mikael walked around the desk, pulled out the stool next to Kevin and sat down. From that angle, he could clearly see the screen on Kevin's computer.

The elevator has to cover a distance of more than ten floors, so it will inevitably take some time.

"Have it……"

After a brief hesitation, Mikael spoke with some expectation.

"It's not easy to find a shared apartment... You are the only people I know well in the company. You want to share the apartment with Mei, Sakura and Suzu. It's not suitable for me to go anywhere... Forget it, we'll talk about it later. The worst is to join the Himiko group. long."

"Yeah, late... wait... I... I... I just drank coffee!!!"

"Are you a middle school student who didn't graduate?"

"I slapped his butt thirteen times, pinched him seven times, kicked him four times, and he touched me twice."

Whenever similar topics are discussed among men, they will inevitably become excited.

It's like it's really just a dream brought by the mid-spring evening breeze.

"He invited you to a concert?"

"Have it?"

There are only a few residential areas near the company. They need to be close together and the rent should be relatively low. After many choices, everyone finally gathered together. The distance between them is only a few buildings and tens of meters.

As soon as Mikael loosened his fingers, the two tickets were in Kevin's hands.

Kevin volunteered to raise his hand, but before Mikael could say anything, Sakura had already spoken:

"I'll definitely wait for you, but what do you want to buy?"

"Then what is he doing?"

In response to Kevin's interruption, Mikael just shook his head in disbelief.

"Thanks."

Mikael scratched the back of his head in confusion, confused.

"Well, here you go, you asked me to work overtime last time."

"Well……"

Kevin smirked and was about to get the tickets.

"Stop talking nonsense! Don't run away if you can!"

Mikael was a little hesitant and embarrassed, but finally decided to take this opportunity to say what he had hidden deep in his heart for a long time.

"But there are also times when you just need the copywriter to work overtime, so she stays with you, right?"

It's really strange. Even if he didn't hear anything, the cartoon leather case couldn't faithfully restore the lip reading, but Mikael still knew what the girl was saying and what she would say.

"What are you two talking about together?"

"Hey!"

Mikael responded with a meaningless sound, and then said:

"Stop! Stop fighting!"

"Characteristics...does long pink hair count?"

Although most of what Mikael said were the advantages of the other person, if a person can list the advantages and disadvantages of a person of the opposite sex so rationally and objectively, it means that he is rational in his view of the other person.

"Well... then you are actually quite suitable to be a killer."

"How is that possible? It's just a leather case. Who knows what she looks like under the leather case? Maybe she's still a boy."

"Oh, stop it! Stop it! Stop talking. I don't dare to watch it anymore..."

Sakura stood on tiptoes, tilted her head, and responded with a smile.

Mikael didn't hide anything and responded openly - sometimes when faced with ambiguous teasing, this is the best way to deal with it. After all, what the teasing person wants to see is just a red-faced denial by the teasing person. , and get pleasure from it. As long as you stay calm, the other party will become less interested, and there will be less trouble in the future... But where do these insights come from?

He quickly took out two more concert tickets from his pocket.

"Uh... with all due respect, may I ask... have we ever known each other?"

Kevin quickly reacted and turned from defense to offense, but what he faced was Mikael's confused and sad face.

"Don't worry! I won't be caught!"

Mikael stood up quickly and pushed the chair back under the desk. As he walked out, he looked at the fox-eared headband that Sakura didn't wear before going to the toilet. He suppressed his facial expression and asked with some guilt:

However, when he tried to continue the conversation, the girl in front of him had disappeared without a trace.

"What's wrong?"

"Someone from the Eden team told leader Himihu that Eden has prepared a 'big news' for tomorrow's concert, and we must go there and squat."

A voice without sadness or joy came from behind. At first glance, it was a bit difficult to distinguish between male and female.

"I almost forgot. I really wanted to invite Sakura to the concert, but then the team leader said that I would go to the scene to do news, so I wanted to take out these two tickets, but the team leader said that the company had already bought them Tickets...Tsk. So what do you think of these two tickets? One for each of you, or one for Sakura and Ling?"

He came to the work station with a blue light on the screen in the other corner of the office, and placed the iced coffee in front of the white-haired man.

"Huh? I just came."

Kevin waved his hands twitchingly and winked wildly, but Mikael only thought he was expressing "spicy eyes".

Sakura was stunned for a moment, then smiled back:

"No, it's the same bottle as before."

"What's wrong?"

"Huh? Then where are you moving to? Why don't you find someone to share your apartment with?"

"Ah, you guy, you don't always know, do you?"

"I see... there aren't many people with pink hair, unless they are dyed, but this is not the second dimension. Pink is the color of death hair... It can't be that pink fairy lady, hahaha!"

"have no idea."

"I definitely have some good feelings, but more importantly, I feel a little familiar."

"ha?"

Kevin stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Mikael, but the latter didn't pay attention at all.

"Actually, for so many years, I have had a strange feeling - I feel like I am waiting for something, waiting... to meet someone again. I want to see her again, I must see her again. No matter what What will happen after meeting her, whether we will fall in love with each other or break up, but only after meeting her can I decide... can I decide a lot of things what I want to do, decide me..."

"I do not know."

Sometimes, Mikael understands that there is something wrong with his memory, and many similar experiences and insights cannot be traced back to their roots in memory. Maybe he has fallen into the paradox of the brain in a vat, and maybe the whole world is his imagination - when it comes to extremes, it's not like Mikael has never thought this.

"Yeah, otherwise."

Her tone was still calm, but there seemed to be a little more noise, not as quiet as before.

"..."

It seems that some things that have been lost are being found again, but when I look at myself, I seem to find nothing.

"Didn't you say that you 'concentrate on your work'?"

Kevin joked heartlessly, and Mikael shrugged:

"Don't worry, I'm a professional in love. How could I laugh at you?"

In the dark corner with only the blue light of the screen, two men looked at me and I looked at you, speechless for a moment.

When he first started following her, her live broadcast room had at most seven or eight people, but now it has seven or eight thousand people.

She was probably in junior high school, and her eyes were a similar blue to Kevin's, but not as bright, instead there was a kind of calmness after going through vicissitudes of life.

He could always think ahead of time what she was going to say and what she would say next, as if they were actually quite familiar friends, but...

"Good night!"

Ying's voice was steady, without any fluctuations.

This had happened more than once, and Mikael had no special fetish for leather suits. No matter how exquisite the leather suits were, they were just fake masks after all. But this pink fairy lady gave him a different feeling.

"Yes, we have met."

But I don't know if Kevin took too much pictures, Mikael soon hesitated again:

"Well... where should I start..."

"Huh? So you are like this too?"

But the next moment, Ying's voice sounded behind Mikael:

Kevin remembered that he was like this when he faced Mei.

"But, within a few seconds after waking up from the dream, the specific content faded away like the tide, and the last thing I could see was a pale and empty beach. Something was trying to make a sound, dong dong dong, but on the open beach, the sound quickly dispersed in all directions. In the end, apart from those "feelings", the only thing left was that at the end of the dream, I seemed to have made a promise with that person that we must meet again."

Sakura tilted her head speechlessly, "Do you have anything else to do? If not, wait for me to go to the bathroom, and we can go home together."

"Um..."

"It's because it's in Mebiu I work under Dr. S, so I'm very busy. Sometimes I live in the lab and work day and night. Even if I go back to the house now, there's no one there. I might as well concentrate on working for a while in the company - and I can save a lot of electricity bills, don't you think? "

"Nothing."

"Oh, it's already this late! The beautiful day is about to end. Everyone must give the last time to the one you love, or the one who loves you! Then...see you tomorrow!"

Mikael opened his lips slightly, staring blankly at the place where the girl was originally standing, until Kevin threw a bag of flour on his butt.

"Is that so..."

After Kevin finished speaking, Ying turned her head and looked at Mikael.

Kevin drank the coffee that Mikael offered him and patted the latter's shoulder generously.

"Huh? Could it be you too?"

"That's because we're in the same group. If we have to work overtime, we'll definitely work together."

With a "ding" sound, the elevator arrived quickly. The three of them quickly filled up the space in the elevator. Kevin took the initiative to shrink into the corner behind Mikael. Ying stood in the middle of the elevator, next to Mikael. Their arms were close to each other, separated by only two layers of clothes. Mikael had nowhere to hide and could only pretend to know nothing.

When Mikael finished this long string of words, Kevin couldn't help but sigh softly, his eyes seemed to be avoiding something, and he quickly turned to the side.

"Uh uh uh... cough cough! Then how about you tell me first, do you feel about Ying?"

"Uh... You won't be able to sleep if you drink so late, right?"

The noise was so cheerful that it was transmitted particularly far away in the silent night.

On a tall building not far away, the girl named "Hua" instead of "Fu Hua" held her long gray hair blown by the wind, smiled and turned away.