"…Welcome… home…"
Zane suddenly opened his eyes. That gentle, water-like voice still lingered in his ears.
"Damn, I've been single for so long I'm starting to hear things."
Zane smacked his lips, but to be fair, that voice was soft and lazy, yet carried a bit of innocence and coldness, making it unforgettable.
Looking around, as far as the eye could see, the sky was dim and dull, as if covered by a heavy layer of gloom, making it impossible to see the future in the distance.
Yet beneath this dark sky, a vast ocean stretched out before him, waves surging, glowing with a deep blue light like a massive sapphire embedded in the earth. Even under this gloomy sky, it let people see the distance.
The shimmering waves were like lively spirits, lightly jumping, chasing and playing with each other.
They gently and rhythmically lapped against the black shoreline, making crisp and pleasant sounds. Where water met sky, a glow stretched toward the future.
"Where the hell did I end up, is this still Jinzhou?"
Zane scratched the back of his head in frustration, a strange sense of mismatch rising in his heart.
It felt like something was missing…
As he thought, Zane turned to look around. Aside from the quiet shore, there were three figures lying on the ground.
Looking at the unconscious Rover, Zane suddenly smacked his hand, finally realizing where the mismatch came from.
"Got it! I didn't get beaten!"
Stelle, who was lying on the ground pretending to sleep, couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing.
What followed was a full ten minutes of staring at each other.
Being stared at so intensely, Stelle let out a dry laugh. After hesitating for a moment, she lay back down again, placing her hands on her stomach. She even puckered her lips, practically writing "I want CPR" on her face.
Seeing this, Zane wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
Think clearly, there are three people lying here right now. That means what happens next will either be a life-or-death battlefield or a tax battlefield.
He was still young. He didn't want to die yet.
Thinking that, Zane shifted his gaze away from Stelle and toward the Doctor.
The girl, cute like an emperor penguin, lay there quietly. Her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and her doll-like face carried a faint sense of peace and calm.
"Doctor?"
Zane softly called her as he walked over.
"Hey." Stelle's voice came from behind. "Don't you know that to wake Sleeping Beauty, you need the prince's kiss?"
"Huh?"
Zane paused, then turned to look at Rover, who was smiling slyly. He looked her up and down, suspicion in his eyes.
"You guys didn't plan this to trick me, did you?"
"No." Stelle shook her head quickly. The sly smile on her face turned bright in an instant. "If you don't believe me, look at your back."
"My back?" Zane's eyes flickered faintly as he sneered. "What, did someone carve words on my back?"
Even though he joked, he still did as she said and turned his head.
He wanted to see what Stelle was up to.
The next second, a warm presence rushed toward his face. Before he could see who it was, a soft and hurried pair of lips pressed against his, gently sucking at the corner of his mouth.
"…!"
Zane was startled and instinctively stepped back two steps. Only then did he notice that the cute girl had a faint blush on her face, her soft red lips curving into a sly smile.
"Doctor!?"
Before the Doctor could respond, something else happened immediately after.
At that moment, a pale but firm hand gently rested on his shoulder.
"Eh!"
Feeling the weight on his shoulder, Zane's eyelids twitched. As if recalling something unpleasant, his body trembled slightly.
"Rover, listen to my explanation, this is not..."
Before he could finish, a huge force came from his shoulder.
'Well, I'm done for.'
"No!!!"
Zane could practically see the flashing "danger" sign above his head.
With the mindset that if he didn't see it, it didn't exist, Zane tightly shut his eyes.
But after waiting in the darkness for a long time, the expected chop never came. Instead, what he felt was a slightly moist softness at his lips.
Unlike the Doctor's gentle kiss that carried a faint herbal scent, this one had a hint of earthy fragrance and was a bit more forceful.
"Hahaha, fooled you."
Stelle laughed sweetly, hopping away to create some distance, and that fleeting warmth disappeared in an instant. How could she let the Doctor steal a march alone?
Of course it had to be a sandwich.
Being attacked twice in a row nearly caused Zane's already underdeveloped brain to crash.
"Wait… huh?… what's going on?"
At that moment, Zane was grabbed by the shoulder again.
"Doctor, don't think I don't know what you're trying to do. This kind of joke is only funny once."
Having learned his lesson, Zane declared, a truly smart person wouldn't fall for the same trick twice.
As he spoke, he smiled proudly and raised his brows, looking smugly at Stelle as if saying he had seen through their scheme.
"A joke? What joke?"
The Doctor walked past Zane and stood in front of him, her watery eyes wide open, her delicate brows raised, a hint of innocence on her face.
"Of course it's you trying to copy Stelle by patting my shoulder, making me turn around, so you can attack me..."
As Zane spoke, he suddenly realized something. He blinked and confirmed that both Stelle and the Doctor were in front of him.
Then why was there still a hand on his shoulder?
Zane rubbed his eyes again, unwilling to believe it. The fact proved that this wasn't his imagination.
Usually, in horror stories, this kind of situation meant he had encountered a ghost. And the outcome of seeing a ghost was only death…
Although this wasn't a horror story, Zane thought about it and realized his outcome probably wasn't much different.
Well, this time he was really done for.
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After everything was done, Rover clapped her hands, her face refreshed as she wiped the sweat from her forehead.
A cigarette after the fact feels like heaven… no cigarette, but a lollipop should be about the same.
"By the way, where is this place?"
Rover crushed the lollipop in her mouth and looked around. She found that only she, Zane, Stelle, and the Doctor were here.
Yangyang and Youhu were nowhere to be seen.
Zane held his head and tried to contact Yangyang through the Pangu Terminal, but no matter how he tried, he couldn't reach them.
"What do we do? Don't tell me we drifted onto a deserted island!"
Just thinking about having to spend the rest of his life stuck with Rover and the other two made a layer of cold sweat seep out on his back.
"This place should have goji berries, right…"
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