Love Apartment: Yifei is my junior aunt

Chapter 112 Wan Yu Catches the Cicada, Da Li Follows Behind

"Senior sister, here's your power bank."

Zhanbo handed Xiong Nini a power bank he was carrying: "Are your and Ziqiao's phones going to run out of battery so soon?"

Upon hearing this, Xiong Nini laughed awkwardly: "I've never been very interested in movies, let alone these days, where romance movies are getting worse and worse. I couldn't watch more than a few minutes before I started scrolling through my phone."

As for Ziqiao...

[Ziqiao emerged from the toilet, leaning against the wall, looking utterly helpless: "I know it's best to keep your phone charged when you're trying to pick up girls... but I've been in the bathroom for tens of minutes. What else can I do besides use my phone?"]

[You can't just randomly chat with the guys coming and going in the next room, can you?]

"Since you don't like watching..."

Zhanbo wanted to ask again: If you don't like watching movies, why did you come with Ziqiao?

He was about to say something when he was abruptly pulled back by Dali.

Dali looked at the innocent and bewildered Zhanbo, wanting to say something but holding back.

Do you really think everyone goes to the movies just to watch the movie?

Just then, a girl dressed in high school attire appeared with her head down and back hunched over, as if she had just been scolded by her stepmother.

She quietly sat back down in her seat and silently tidied up the snacks on her seat, casually opening her schoolbag to put the snacks inside.

Perhaps because there were too many things in her backpack, the girl buried her head in it for quite a while before finally managing to organize it.

Seemingly feeling that her backpack wasn't big enough, she took out a Doraemon clock before squatting down to put all the snack bags into her backpack.

After doing all this, the high school girl left with her head down, looking sullen.

It seemed that no one had noticed any of this.

Apart from Dali, who had been silently watching the high school girl the moment she entered.

Judging from the shape of the bottom of her backpack, there should be a fairly large box-like object inside. This kind of box doesn't need to be organized, so her actions of tidying up her backpack seem more like she's searching for something.

Judging from the style and size of this backpack, it's large enough to hold the boxed item and a full bag of snacks, so there's no need to specifically take out a relatively small clock.

[Furthermore, judging from her walking posture, she shouldn't have anything in her hands.]

So Dali squatted down, turned on his phone's flashlight, and searched around under the seat for something.

"Dali, what are you doing?" Zhanbo and Nini asked curiously.

"I think I've lost my keys. Let me look for them."

Using the flashlight, Dali found the clock and... a pen under the seat in front of him.

A fountain pen?

Dali didn't make any rash moves; she simply turned off the flashlight and sat back down in her seat.

"Have you found the key?"

"Mm." Dali nodded gently.

I have found the key to the truth.

Nini, watching the educational film playing, muttered to herself, "These days, even educational films seem more interesting than romance movies..."

……

"Done." Wan Yu ran out excitedly and snapped her fingers at Curry Sauce. "I told you, keeping the recording equipment inside was incredibly easy."

Curry Sauce gave Wanyu a thumbs up, "Wanyu, you're awesome."

However, Curry Sauce quickly raised her own question: "Are you sure this time when we listen, it won't be like last time where the headphones are full of static?"

While pulling Curry Sauce to an inconspicuous spot, Wan Yu explained, "Guan Gu asked Xiao Hei. The reason there was too much noise last time was because this thing hasn't been completely improved and upgraded yet. The pen is too far from Zhan Bo, and the distance between the clock and the vertical range is too large."

"I placed the pen so close this time, and the clock was within ten meters of them, how could there be any problems again?"

Wan Yu was full of confidence and very proud of her own cleverness.

I'm such a clever little genius!

"But if this recording equipment requires so much trouble to hear clearly, why don't we just put the listening devices from our detective toolbox on our chairs?"

“Eh…”

Wanyu clapped her hands in sudden realization and said, "That's right, how come I didn't think of that!"

[Waaaaah, this is so embarrassing... /(ㄒoㄒ)/~~]

"Oh, never mind that for now." Wanyu took out a Bluetooth earphone and handed it to Curry Sauce. "Let's quickly listen to what they're talking about."

The two put on Bluetooth earphones, and this time, sure enough, there was no more of the electrical noise that made Wanyu and Curry's eardrums hurt. Zhanbo and Xiong Nini's voices seemed to be whispering in their ears.

Wan Yu and Curry Sauce's eyes lit up, and they both held their breath to listen to Zhan Bo and Xiong Nini's conversation.

At this moment, Nini was joking with Zhanbo: "So you originally wanted to watch an educational film with that girl named Wanyu?"

"Yes, it's a pity she rejected me."

With Nanfeng and Yifei's encouragement, Zhanbo has now been able to accept Wanyu's rejection, but he still feels a little disappointed when he talks about it.

"Ah..." Wan Yu exclaimed softly, her ears starting to burn.

Xiong Nini then asked, "Why did she reject you? Was it because she doesn't like you?"

Wan Yu pouted and muttered, "If you don't know how to ask questions, then don't ask them. Why ask random questions? I just don't like watching educational videos, that's all. It's not that... it's not that..."

"What is it?" Curry Sauce's eyes widened excitedly, like a badger rolling around in a melon patch.

Wanyu tapped Curry Sauce on the head: "Kids shouldn't ask so many questions, just listen obediently."

Curry Sauce pursed her lips and continued to eat her melon seeds with gusto.

All you could hear on the other end of the earpiece was Zhanbo saying dejectedly, "Senior sister, to be honest, I don't know if Wanyu likes me or not."

Zhanbo's voice was filled with grievance and confusion: "Sometimes I feel like she's very, very close to me, as if we're only 4 centimeters apart."

"Sometimes I feel like she's very, very far away from me, like she's 38.4 kilometers away."

"4 centimeters... Zhanbo can't possibly be that short," Curry Sauce muttered under her breath.

Wan Yu glared at her fiercely: "Curry, don't talk nonsense."

Curry Sauce made a zipping motion towards his mouth.

Wan Yu muttered to herself, "4 centimeters and 38.4 kilometers, what does that even mean?"

"38.4 kilometers is the average distance between a person and the moon."

"...Oh, it's the moon."

Wan Yu murmured softly, then patted Curry Sauce happily: "I didn't expect that Curry Sauce, you not only know how to make dirty jokes, but you even know this."

Curry Sauce pointed to herself in surprise: "Me? I didn't say anything. Didn't you tell me to talk nonsense?"

Wan Yu's eyes widened: "Then who was speaking just now?"

"I thought you were talking to yourself just now." Curry Sauce also moved closer to Wan Yu in fear.

"I was the one who said that." A childish yet highly rational voice rang out, the childish innocence and mechanical rationality blending together in a seemingly incongruous way.

Especially in a dimly lit place like a movie theater, the already eerie sounds mixed with the howling cold wind make it even more unsettling.

Both of them were startled and looked around for a long time but couldn't see a single person.

"Electricity... there won't be anything dirty in the movie theater, will there...?" Curry Sauce was so scared that her tongue almost tied itself in knots.

Although Wanyu was also worried, she still forced herself to say, "What era are we living in? Feudal superstition is unacceptable."

"Then, where did this sound come from?"

"Sigh..." The voice rang out again, its tone filled with a cold helplessness, more like the feigned sigh of an executioner before carrying out an execution.

Wan Yu and Curry Sauce held hands, trembling.

"Don't look up, look down."

"Look down... Shouldn't ghosts be floating in the sky?"

The two looked down and saw a little girl licking a lollipop, looking at them with a helpless expression.

"Why is your first reaction to all of you looking up? Are you subconsciously ignoring people who are under 1.5 meters tall?"

Dali, who is about 1.4 meters tall, licked a lollipop and finally made up his mind to change the main task of this period of puberty from completing his college graduation thesis in his freshman year to exercising his body and increasing his height.

I'm already shorter than other kids my age, and my development is slower than others. If I miss out on these few years of growth and development, I'll really only be around 1.5 meters tall for the rest of my life.

"I'm sorry, little sister."

Wan Yu apologized sheepishly, and soon she realized that the little girl in front of her was the child prodigy sitting next to Zhan Bo.

[Oh no, we're about to be discovered!]

Wan Yu almost wanted to run away with Curry Sauce, but then she thought: even if this little girl is smart, she doesn't know us.

Moreover, there are many super geniuses in this world who have above-average IQ but below-average EQ.

Take Zhanbo, for example...

There's also Zhanbo.

People who can connect with Zhanbo on a brainwave level are probably similar to him.

Someone who could also connect with Zhanbo on a brainwave level thought this way.

Wanyu quickly relaxed, gave Curry Sauce a wink, and then asked with a smile, "Little sister, what are you doing out here all by yourself?"

"Going to the toilet? What are the sisters doing again?" Dali asked, seemingly confused.

"Shh!" Wanyu said mysteriously to Dali, "The sisters are doing something very, very important. This is something that can't be known by too many people, so you absolutely can't tell anyone."

Dali nodded obediently: "Oh..."

"Good boy." Wan Yu wanted to reach out and pat Dali's head, but Dali turned his head away.

She clutched her head tightly, remembering Nanfeng's advice: "Don't let anyone touch your head, or you won't grow tall."

She knew, of course, that this statement had no scientific basis, but she was determined to listen to what her mother and brother said.

We'll talk about it when they're adults.

Wanyu and Curry were amused by Dali's words and completely began to treat her like a child.

Curry Sauce smiled and gestured, "Don't worry, little sister, your mother is so tall, you'll definitely grow very, very tall too."

My mom?

Even someone as clever and witty as Dali was rendered speechless by Curry Sauce's words.

Why did she look so certain, as if she had seen my mother with her own eyes?

Besides, the height you're gesturing doesn't match my mom's height; it's more like...

Sister Nini?

Dali felt that they must have misunderstood something, but no matter how hard she thought about it, she couldn't figure out how they could have misunderstood like that.

It feels like I just slapped my forehead and randomly came up with a possibility, then believed it to be true.

But isn't this reasoning a bit too hasty?

Dali couldn't figure it out for the time being, but there was no need to force himself to think about things he couldn't understand, especially those involving the cognitive gap between normal people and geniuses.

Sometimes, it's not just normal people who can't understand what geniuses are thinking; even geniuses can't understand what they're thinking.

Despite having essentially similar brain structures, the things they come up with can be so different.

The wonder of life is truly amazing.

"Thank you, sister." Dali thought for a moment and decided to skip the topic for now.

She pulled a handful of lollipops she had just picked from the fruit blossoms from her pocket and handed them to Wanyu and Curry Sauce: "Thank you, sisters, please have some candy."

"Thank you, little sister." Curry Sauce's eyes lit up as she took the two lollipops, then she took all the unopened snacks from Wan Yu's bag and handed them to Dali.

"Little sister, let me treat you to something to eat too."

"Thank you, sister, but I still need to use the restroom." Dali, holding the snacks Curry Sauce handed her, was a little bewildered by Curry Sauce's enthusiastic bombardment.

After all, anyone who knows her, except for Nanfeng, wouldn't treat her like a little kid who needs snacks and toys.

"It's okay, I'll put your things in the bag for you." Wanyu took the bag out of her bag and put the snacks in Dali's arms into the bag and tied it up. "Okay, thank you for the lollipops, the sisters really like them."

Wanyu smiled and patted Dali's head.

Dali instinctively turned her head away, but hesitated for a moment as she did so, so Wanyu gently placed her hand on her head.

Curry Sauce handed Wanyu a lollipop, then unwrapped one for herself and, with a muffled sound, asked, "Little sister, what's your name?"

"Zhuge Dali".

"Zhuge... Dali?" Wan Yu's smile froze, and Curry Sauce almost dropped the lollipop in her hand.

Why name a little girl Dali?

Wan Yu and Curry Sauce exchanged a glance and could only manage a dry laugh: "That's a really unique name."

"Thank you, ladies, I'm going to the restroom now," Dali said casually.

"Okay, no problem."

As they watched Dali's figure disappear around the corner, both of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although in their minds Dali was a little girl with a lot of knowledge, but otherwise just like any other girl her age, Wanyu and Curry Sauce were feeling guilty for their actions.

"It's rare to see you so generous, giving away your snacks like they're free," Wanyu joked, unwrapping a lollipop while holding a piece of curry sauce.

With a lollipop in her mouth, Curry Sauce's voice was sweeter than honey: "Because I've never had this lollipop before, and snacks given to me by others always taste better than those I buy myself."

"Eat as you please, but don't forget about important matters," Wanyu said, licking her lollipop.

So the two of them held their breath and listened again to what was happening on the other end of the earphones.

A small head peeked out from around the corner.

I'm coming

The "Who is the Detective?" segment is expected to conclude tomorrow.

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