Girl, you form the head.

Chapter 17 Come on, open your mouth
"what is this?"

Bai Chi took the fox tail with considerable confusion.

"You didn't know?" Ruri frowned. "But didn't you buy it?"

“No, my colleague bought it for me.” Bai Chi shook his head and said, “I only realized she bought this style for you when I saw you wearing it.”

The mere mention of the past reminded Liuli Hui of Bai Chi's unfounded gaze, causing her to instinctively tighten her legs before gritting her teeth and saying, "Even if it's your Nanluo people's traditional clothing, I will absolutely never wear it again... Besides, I haven't seen many people on the street wearing clothes like that!"

"I've never seen it either."

“Right? Then your colleague is the problem!” Ruri nodded repeatedly, then pointed to the fox tail, “But I do know about this thing.”

"is it?"

“In my hometown… I mean, I saw something like this when I was very young. Although there were some differences in the details, it looked pretty much the same. Let me think…” Ruri frowned and recalled for a moment, “Oh, a mink scarf!”

"A mink scarf?"

"It's a scarf, but it's made of mink cashmere, which is very, very expensive. Only people from well-off families can afford it!" As if she had finally found something she understood that Bai Chi didn't, Liuli's tone was filled with excitement. "We only have one at home, it's my mom's..."

The glass painting suddenly stopped working.

Bai Chi turned around and noticed an undisguised loneliness in Liu Li Hui's eyes.

"What's wrong?" Bai Chi asked again.

"No, it's nothing." Ruri took a deep breath. "What I wanted to say was that what you bought should also be a scarf, but it feels a bit strange. The quality of the fur is really bad. It's not comfortable to wear around the neck at all, it's itchy, and it's not at all as good as the one my mom... I used to see. Also, this is something that should be worn in winter to keep warm."

Bai Chi kept watching Liu Li Hui and noticed that she quickly concealed her earlier sadness, as if nothing had happened.

“And that strange metal awl.” Ruri tapped the metal awl on the fox’s tail with her finger, making a crisp, pleasant sound. “I have absolutely no idea what this thing is for, and it’s really uncomfortable to wear around my neck.”

Bai Chi was also carefully examining the metal cone. After a moment's thought, he said, "It was probably in someone's mouth."

"Hold it, hold it in your mouth?"

“Yes. Didn’t you say before that mink scarves are for winter? But summers are long in Nanluo, so we designed this scarf for summer.” Bai Chi said, “And to keep it from getting too hot, we designed this piece of metal. If it gets too hot, you can take it out and put it in your mouth.”

"Is...is that really how it is?"

“You can try.” Bai Chi wrapped the fox tail around Liuli Hui’s neck, then held the metal awl to her mouth. “Come on, open your mouth.”

Ruri opened her mouth subconsciously, and then watched as Bai Chi slowly stuffed the metal cone into her mouth.

In that instant, an indescribable sense of shame surged into Ruri's heart, far more intense than the sudden, unprovoked wind that had blown from below by Bai Chi earlier.

“No.” Ruri immediately shut her mouth and tucked her tail in. “I think you’re lying to me… no, I think you’re treating me like an idiot.”

Bai Chi: "?"

……

The atmosphere was somewhat tense in the police car on the way back to headquarters.

Sakura, who was driving, would occasionally glance at Joong-ki in the back seat through the rearview mirror, but dared not make a sound for a long time.

After what seemed like an eternity, Joong-ki finally spoke calmly: "Don't be so nervous. What happened today has nothing to do with you. Would I hold a grudge against you?"

Hearing what Zhongji said, Sakura finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then quickly said, "That brat is too lucky, he actually got lucky twice."

"He's already taken down two special individuals, and you still think he's just picking up scraps?"

“Uh…” Sakura paused for a moment, “But he really does seem to be picking up a bargain. Liang Rong was already on the verge of death by some unknown special being before he met him, and he only fired one shot. As for this Ito Kou, it seems that his special ability is not the type that directly enhances combat power. If his real body is captured, he could indeed be killed on the spot. Under normal circumstances, he would definitely be dead beyond any doubt.”

"You mean, he encountered abnormal situations for two days in a row?" Song-ki scoffed, "and both of them were abnormal situations that were in his favor?"

Sakura instinctively wanted to nod, but seeing Zhongqi's expression, he had to suppress the thought. After thinking for a while, he asked, "Then do you think he... is pretending? Is he actually a special being?"

Zhongji pondered for a moment, then slowly shook his head: "Impossible, I've already checked, he's not a special person."

"Well..." Since she's not a special person and it can't be good luck, Sakura really didn't know how to answer.

Zhongji clearly didn't intend to get an answer from Sakura, but having his plans disrupted twice by a lowly policeman he completely looked down on still annoyed him.

In particular, he doesn't have much time left.

After remaining silent for an unknown period of time, Zhongqi finally made up his mind and said to Sakura, "Release the 'monster'."

Sakura was startled: "A monster? So fast?"

“Time is running out,” Zhongji said. “General Bochuan will be stepping down in a month, and his next position will be mayor of City C. I must win a ticket to his mayoral inauguration banquet, and a first-class police superintendent is the minimum requirement.”

Yes, Chung-ki's goal is to become a police superintendent within a month.

However, it is very difficult for someone his age to become a police superintendent; he would need merit that would allow him to be promoted exceptionally.

So Liang Rong came about, and Liang Rong is the most suitable, as it is both flat and the right height.

But now that Liang Rong is gone, the rest of the steps don't fit well.

Therefore, he has to take some risks to achieve his goal.

"I understand." Sakura nodded nervously. "I'll inform the club to make preparations when I get back."

Zhongji hummed in agreement, and then added, "And that guy named Bai Chi."

Are you planning to get rid of him?

“It definitely needs to be dealt with; no one can take things from me,” Song-ki said. “But not now. He’s too conspicuous. If we deal with him rashly, people will definitely suspect me.”

"So you want to?"

“Like I said before, find a way to keep him at headquarters, in the Special Operations Division,” Chung-ki said. “If that doesn’t work, have someone keep an eye on him.”

“Okay.” Sakura nodded, then asked hesitantly, “But isn’t this a bit of an overreaction? Do you really think that guy can stop the ‘monster’?”

Song-ki knew that this was indeed making a mountain out of a molehill.

"Monster" is different from Liang Rong and Ito Kou; he is a real monster.

Ordinary people... no, even low-level special beings, would be torn to shreds the moment they encountered the monster.

Logically speaking, Song Joong-ki had absolutely no reason to worry.

but……

As Joong-ki recalled the scene of Bai Chi standing by the window, covered in wounds, staring at him, his eyes narrowed little by little.

"Just in case," Song Joong-ki said casually without explaining anything. "I don't want to encounter a third 'coincidence.'" ...

When her teeth pierced through the bread and landed on the tender, juicy steak, Ruri's tears streamed down her face uncontrollably, drawing stares from passersby.

"What's wrong with that child? Why is he crying while eating a hamburger?"

"Probably from hunger."

"No way, how can people starve in this world? They must have thought of something sad."

"I think so too."

But what the passersby didn't know was that Ruri was really hungry.

Meat! This is meat!
She couldn't even remember the last time she had eaten proper meat. Ever since fleeing her hometown, she had been penniless and lived in constant fear, surviving by scavenging scraps from garbage dumps.

I finally encountered Bai Chi and thought that no matter what, I could at least escape the sea of ​​hunger... Then I ate Desperate Fire Chicken Noodles for two days in a row.

She was truly desperate, even beginning to doubt whether she would ever be able to eat normal food again, whether she would be locked in that narrow room like a captive, only able to wear the clothes of the passionate AI, only able to eat the desperate spicy chicken noodles, and then have her excessively hungry and emaciated body handed over to Bai Chi to play with at will... no, to merge at will.

If that's the case, she'd be better off dead.

Fortunately, she was finally able to eat normal food, and Ruri couldn't stop crying.

But this scene was somewhat incomprehensible to Bai Chi.

Why does this guy cry when he eats noodles and when he eats a hamburger?

Is this a custom of the Gaoyang people?
Use tears to express gratitude for the hard-won food?
Bai Chi wasn't sure either, since he hadn't done much research on that mysterious country, so he simply pushed his own chicken roll over as well, and Liu Li Hui naturally accepted it.

So Bai Chi added two more portions for her.

After eating enough for four people, Ruri collapsed into her chair, completely exhausted, while Bai Chi stared thoughtfully at the empty packaging.

About ten minutes later, Ruri finally recovered and felt a little embarrassed after realizing that she had eaten everything.

"Sorry, I... hiccup..." Ruri's face instantly turned red. "I've been hungry for a while, so I ate a bit too much."

"It's alright." Bai Chi shook his head, then thought for a moment and asked, "Will you feel better if you eat your fill?"

“Of course.” Ruri answered without thinking much, “Who would be in a good mood when they’re hungry?”

"In that case, why don't you have a good meal before the next fusion? Wouldn't that improve the synchronization rate a lot?" Bai Chi asked again.

Ruri-e: "..."

Is synchronization rate all this guy thinks about?
Just as Ruri was about to complain about this, a shrill cry suddenly came from outside the fast food restaurant.

Ruri turned her head and saw two elderly men with gray hair, weeping uncontrollably over the body of a boy that the police were carrying out.

Are these the victims' family members?

As Liuli Hui looked at the old woman crying hysterically, another sound of crying echoed in her mind.

……

"Hurry! Hui! Hurry!"

"Don't look back, and don't come back... Go quickly..."

……

"what happened to you?"

Bai Chi's voice snapped Liu Li Hui out of her daze. She came to her senses, blinked hard at her slightly sore eyes, and shook her head: "It's nothing."

Bai Chi pondered for a moment and asked, "Are you still not full?"

"I'm already full! Do you think I'm an insatiable pig?!" Ruri was so angry she almost burped, but she quickly calmed down and looked at the family members again. "I was just thinking, if I could have arrived earlier, could I have saved more people?"

"So you were thinking about this kind of thing?" Bai Chi shook his head and said, "There's no need for it, it's meaningless."

Why is it meaningless?

"It is the people who committed the crimes who should reflect on their actions, not the people who saved lives."

"But how can criminals reflect on their actions?"

“Yes, they will,” Bai Chi said. “When they’re about to be killed by us, they’ll have a moment of regret about why they did it. Wouldn’t that make them reflect on their actions?”

"That's a strange way of putting it! What if they never reflect on their actions until they die?"

"Then they died."

Liuli fell silent. She felt that Bai Chi's statement was unreasonable, but she couldn't find a reason to refute it.

"Alright, I should go to headquarters now." Bai Chi stood up. "You don't need to come with me. There are many special individuals at headquarters, and they might discover your problem. You should go back by yourself."

Ruri nodded: "But you'd better not go too far. Once you get to a place I don't know, even if you ask me to come find you, I won't know how to get there."

"Nothing else should happen today," Bai Chi said. "And even if something does happen, there's no way to transform again."

Does that mean there's a limit to the number of times you can transform?

Ruri nodded thoughtfully, silently memorizing the point.

Then Bai Chi left.

After resting for a while and digesting some of the food in her stomach, with a "bang," four or five more hamburgers stacked together were placed in front of her.

"What... are you doing?" Ruri looked at the returning Bai Chi in astonishment.

Bai Chi said, "Since you like it, I'll buy more."

"Even if you love to eat, you can't eat like this! Are you trying to stuff me to death?!"

"Take it home and eat it slowly." Bai Chi waved his hand. "If it's still not enough, there's a delivery number inside. Just ask them to deliver it to your door."

After saying that, Bai Chi waved his hand and left without waiting for Liu Li Hui's response.

As Ruri looked at the mountain of hamburgers in front of her, her previously somewhat sad mood suddenly became indescribable.

"What a... weirdo."

(End of this chapter)