Chapter 297

"Welcome back, my friend. You came back earlier than I thought."

On the lush green lawn, a brown-haired man wearing loose casual clothes opened his arms enthusiastically and gave Ning Zhe, who had just gotten off the car, a big bear hug: "Have you finished your business?"

This person is Fan Daike's long-time friend: Fersolus Milicato. Upon learning that Mr. Dai Ke had already taken his private jet and flown back to Vivian Port, he rushed to greet him as soon as possible.

"The situation went more smoothly than expected, so I came back early." Ning Zhe looked up at the thick night sky above his head and smiled: "It seems that God doesn't want me to miss tomorrow's swimsuit show."

"Praise the Lord." Fersolus laughed loudly, patted Ning Zhe on the shoulder, and said while walking: "This is the last one held in Vivian Port, and also the grandest one. After this week, the port residents will start to evacuate and relocate... Ah, I know what you want to hear is not this."

Selling a suspense, Fersolus leaned close to Ning Zhe and whispered in his ear: "After the swimsuit show tomorrow noon, the thing you have been thinking about will also start to be auctioned."

Ning Zhe narrowed his eyes and spent a few seconds understanding what he was talking about.

So it was that thing...

"Then I can't miss it even more." Ning Zhe chuckled, revealing an impatient look at the right time: "Thanks to your reminder, Fersolus, otherwise I would regret it for a lifetime."

Fersolus waved his hand: "Our friendship, no need to say these. Even if you are not present, I will buy that thing back for you and send it to the Dai Ke family's airship."

"I know you will do that." Ning Zhe was still smiling, and the two men walked into Fersolus's penthouse apartment in Vivian Port through the night.

They reminisced until late at night, and the host and guest were happy. Fersolus tried to persuade Ning Zhe to stay overnight several times but failed, so he had to let the servants send the drunken Mr. Dai Ke back to his residence—another apartment on the same floor of the building.

"My god, how much did you drink..." Xia Yubing took Ning Zhe's coat, which was full of the smell of alcohol, from the maid. Two maids cooperated to put Mr. Dai Ke on the round bed and asked if they needed their help to wash and change clothes, but received a negative answer.

The two maids left the apartment. As soon as they closed the door, the smell of alcohol on Ning Zhe dissipated instantly, and he sat up from the round bed.

"Aren't you afraid of surveillance or eavesdropping equipment?" Xia Yubing brought him a glass of water and reminded him.

"Don't worry, there is no such thing here." Ning Zhe took the water glass, took a shallow sip, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"How did that matter of yours go?" Xia Yubing sat beside him and continued to ask: "It was mysterious, and you left so hurriedly. It must be a very important matter, right?"

"It is indeed quite important." Ning Zhe nodded: "But it has been solved."

The "tiger demon" in Vanessa Castle, or the "necromancer," had been captured by him. Ning Zhe had now gotten rid of the domination of the thought steel seal that required him to solve the Vanessa Castle puzzle and had temporarily regained his freedom.

"That's good." Seeing that he didn't want to talk, Xia Yubing didn't ask any more questions and found another topic: "When you left, Fersolus took me around the Vivian Port hypermarket and said some strange things, as if implying something..."

Seeing that Ning Zhe probably didn't look at the message she left in the notebook, Xia Yubing repeated Fersolus's words to him:

【... Flowers have days to bloom again, people are no longer young. Some precious things, once missed, will never be met again. Even if they can be regained in the distant future, what is picked up is no longer the original people and things.】

"That's about it." Xia Yubing thought for a while and said: "This guy speaks mysteriously, as if implying something. Do you have any clues?"

"I probably know what he is talking about." Ning Zhe put down the water glass and said: "Don't care about what he said, it's just some small games of the rich and powerful."

"Okay... if you don't want to say it, then don't." Xia Yubing shrugged, got up to get a kettle from the bar, poured water into the glass again, and then stood by the bed, saying nothing, as if thinking about something.

"What's wrong?" Ning Zhe looked up at her: "Is there something?"

"There is a strange thing, but I'm not sure if asking you is useful." Xia Yubing sighed: "Just now I asked you, and you didn't say this or that. I'm afraid this matter is the same, and it's in vain to ask."

"How do you know if you don't ask."

"That's true."

Xia Yubing thought it was true, so she unbuckled her belt, pulled out the hem of her clothes tucked into her waistband, lifted it to her chest, and showed her well-defined abdomen to him: "Look, what is this." "Stomach?"

"Look again?"

"Abdominal muscles?"

"That's right, abdominal muscles." Xia Yubing nodded: "After leaving Qinzhou, I haven't exercised properly for almost a week, and my diet has been relatively casual. I've eaten a lot of high-calorie fried foods and meat."

"... So." Ning Zhe frowned: "I remember you are prone to gaining weight, right?"

"Yes, that's what I want to say."

Xia Yubing lifted her clothes with one hand and gestured on her stomach with the other: "I have been prone to gaining weight since I was a child. If I eat one more bite of delicious food, my face will become round. If I eat another bite, my waist will become round. Although I have been exercising and controlling my figure, as long as I am a little lazy and don't exercise for a few days, I will soon gain weight back."

But now?

Ning Zhe lowered his eyes, looking at the well-defined muscle lines on her lower abdomen and the two strong thighs like pythons. Every inch of the proportion was breathtakingly beautiful, not at all like someone who hadn't controlled her diet and had abandoned exercise.

"And also." Xia Yubing put down her hem, stretched her hand in front of him, and continued: "Today at noon, I planned to peel some fruit to eat, but accidentally peeled my hand. The skin of my left index finger was peeled off directly. I hurriedly looked for alcohol cotton, and then do you know what happened?"

"Before I found the medicine box, the wound on my hand had already disappeared."

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Ning Zhe held her extended left hand, clasped her palm, and examined it carefully. Her skin was fair, her pores were delicate, her nails were trimmed very neatly, she didn't have a manicure, and there were no wounds on her index finger.

"How is it?" Looking at Ning Zhe's thoughtful expression, Xia Yubing asked somewhat nervously: "Ning Zhe, do you know what happened to me... what are you doing?!"

Ning Zhe said nothing, held Xia Yubing's left hand, put her index finger into his mouth, bit it lightly, bit a gap in her nail, and then held it in front of his eyes to observe quietly.

5 seconds, 10 seconds, time passed second by second, and nothing happened.

"Ni, Ning Zhe?" Xia Yubing's face flushed slightly, and she asked softly: "What are you doing?"

"Close your eyes."

"Ah?"

"Close your eyes." Ning Zhe repeated.

"Okay, okay..." Xia Yubing didn't know why, but still obediently closed her eyes as he said. At the same time, Ning Zhe also closed his eyes.

After counting silently for about 10 seconds in his heart.

"You can open them."

Xia Yubing and Ning Zhe opened their eyes at the same time and were surprised to find that the gap in her nail was gone.

"This, how could..."

Ning Zhe's expression remained unchanged, let go of Xia Yubing's hand, and asked: "How old are you this year?"

"Uh... I was born in 1994, so I should be 24 this year?" Xia Yubing answered: "Why do you suddenly ask this?"

"Nothing." Ning Zhe shrugged: "You will probably be 24 forever from now on."

(End of chapter)