Chapter 99 - 1#
Chapter 99: 5 Triangle Relationship 5
Although Duan Bai suppressed his anger in front of Qin Qing, his mood was still terrible.
Qin Qing sensed it, so he asked: “Shall we walk back? Take a walk to relax?”
“Can you walk that far?” Duan Bai looked Qin Qing up and down.
“It doesn’t matter, if I can’t walk anymore, we’ll take a taxi.” Qin Qing waved his hand.
So the two walked aimlessly on the street, while Zhang Ming followed silently behind. He constantly observed the backs of the two, not missing any subtle body language.
When crossing the road, Duan Bai would nervously hold Qin Qing’s hand and walk on the side more likely to be hit.
When the wind blew and messed up Qin Qing’s hair, Duan Bai would carefully and meticulously help smooth it out. The street trees were turned yellow by the autumn wind, and the leaves fell slowly. Duan Bai would subconsciously grab the one that was about to land on top of Qin Qing’s head.
This was not an unnecessary move, but a decision made by a racer’s extraordinary dynamic vision and reaction speed.
Before Duan Bai could distinguish that it was just a light fallen leaf, not some falling object from a height, he would immediately turn on the protection mode and quickly grab anything that might disturb Qin Qing.
Is this really a brotherly relationship? Even couples in passionate love probably don’t have such meticulous care.
Zhang Ming hooked the corners of his lips, finding things more and more interesting. If he could make Qin Qing fall in love with him, what would Duan Bai’s reaction be? Would he fall completely into madness?
Lost in wild thoughts, the three passed by an arcade. Noisy music came from inside. A boxing machine placed at the entrance was being punched fiercely by a man, punch after punch. The man’s friends formed a circle and cheered loudly.
“Holy shit, 600! Awesome, bro! Another punch!”
“570, are you tired? Again!”
“Hit it, hit it hard, use all your strength!”
The shouts carrying excitement and violence provoked Duan Bai’s nerves. Because Qin Qing was right beside him, he had to suppress himself, but actually, he needed to vent very much now.
Vent anger, vent frustration, vent the sense of defeat.
He could tolerate losing to any racer, but he couldn’t tolerate not even having the qualification to step on the track.
Duan Bai turned on his heel and walked into the arcade.
Qin Qing immediately knew what he wanted to do, so he followed in and silently bought a large jar of game tokens. Zhang Ming stood at the door watching the abused game machine. He also knew Duan Bai wanted to play this.
After waiting for about two or three minutes, the previous man finally left panting.
Duan Bai immediately walked to the machine and assumed a punching posture.
Qin Qing helped him insert the tokens and raised his chin: “Hit it.”
As soon as the voice fell, Duan Bai’s fist swung out fiercely. The sensor cotton ball of the game machine made a loud bang, the screen displaying the score kept jumping numbers, and then a ding-dong sound of breaking the record came out.
“1100!” Zhang Ming shouted in surprise.
The crowd standing around watching the excitement let out cries of disbelief.
“Holy shit, this guy is too awesome! Professional boxer, right!”
“Looking so tall and strong, must be a professional boxer.”
“With one punch from him, my head would explode!”
Discussing, admiring, taking photos, recording videos… the scene was bustling. Such attention from everyone could completely satisfy anyone’s vanity.
However, Duan Bai didn’t have any special reaction. He twisted his wrist, shook his arm, and prepared for a second punch.
At this moment, Qin Qing put down the fat cat in his arms, clapped his hands hard, and said with extreme admiration: “1100, this score broke the record! Duan Bai, your punching movement is super handsome! If you went boxing, you would have won the gold belt by now!”
Duan Bai, whose expression was cold and eyes were gloomy, suddenly stiffened, and then pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled happily.
Qin Qing’s praise was different from the people around. It filled the emptiness in Duan Bai’s heart.
So for the second punch, Duan Bai used all his strength. He couldn’t drop the ball in front of Qin Qing.
“1500!” Zhang Ming stood back, afraid of being swept by the wind of the punch.
No wonder when Brother Hai came to the auto repair shop to pretend to harass him that day, all of Duan Bai’s good brothers held Duan Bai firmly, telling him absolutely not to make a move. It turned out that Duan Bai didn’t chicken out at the time, but once he made a move, it would probably cause a fatality.
Zhang Ming wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with lingering fear.
The people around let out even more enthusiastic cheers.
Qin Qing widened his eyes and kept applauding: “Duan Bai, you are so amazing! You are Superman!”
Duan Bai grinned, smiling even happier than before, so the third punch was a bit heavier than the second one.
The scores constantly breaking records made the machine ring non-stop. Wherever he went, Duan Bai was the most dazzling one.
Zhang Ming stood aside watching silently, feeling a little scared in his heart. He was considering the consequences of angering Duan Bai. Could he take such a heavy punch? Would he be beaten to death?
Different from Zhang Ming’s silence, Qin Qing was a very responsible atmosphere creator. He knew Duan Bai needed to vent, and at the same time knew very well that compared to venting, what Duan Bai needed more was affirmation.
So he applauded again and again, cheered time after time, the admiration in his eyes eager as if to burn.
Under Qin Qing’s foil and praise, Duan Bai gradually lost himself, and he hit more and more vigorously.
After a dozen punches, the gloom in his heart had long dissipated. Duan Bai twisted his wrist, turned his neck, and took a temporary break. His handsome face covered with sweat beads wore a smug smile, completely different from the embarrassment of leaving the racing track.
“Am I amazing or not?” He looked at Qin Qing with shining eyes.
Qin Qing extended two thumbs: “Super amazing! The most powerful man in the world!”
Duan Bai wiped his coarse hair and laughed heartily.
“I’m going to buy a bottle of water, I’m thirsty.”
Qin Qing then felt relieved, handed the jar containing game tokens to Zhang Ming, and picked up 996 himself to walk towards the vending machine.
“I’ll also hit a few punches.” Zhang Ming put the game tokens into the machine and shook his eager fist.
Qin Qing left, so even if he hit a score lower than Duan Bai, he didn’t need to be ashamed.
Duan Bai stood aside and let out a long breath. If Qin Qing hadn’t been accompanying him, he might not have been able to get over this hurdle in his heart today. He would have torn down the manager’s office and turned the entire club upside down.
“Taking my money, and fucking kicking me off the list! Is that something a human does!” He took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth, cursing in a bad tone.
Zhang Ming threw a punch, looking at the score indifferently, “Do you know the underground racing track? If you are in a bad mood, I can take you there to play.”
Duan Bai, who looked down playing with the lighter, lifted his eyelids, a wild light lighting up in his eyes.
“But underground racing is very dangerous, one careless move and you’ll lose your life.” Zhang Ming threw a fierce punch, the slightly raised corner of his lips carrying a trace of coldness.
He knew that the more he said this, the more tempted Duan Bai would be. This man pursued speed, pursued power, pursued excitement, pursued everything that could make his adrenaline soar.
Actually, wanting to kill him was really easy.
Duan Bai stuffed the cigarette held in his mouth back into the cigarette case and whispered: “Don’t tell Qin Qing.”
Zhang Ming nodded, smiling tacitly.
Qin Qing bought three bottles of water and was about to walk back.
996 hooked his pant leg with its claws: “I want to play that!” Its round eyes blinked at the fighting game machine.
Qin Qing’s heart also itched a bit, hesitated for only a second before going to buy tokens.
“Let’s do it!”
Qin Qing sat on the chair holding the fat cat and started fighting. He picked a Chinese girl wearing a cheongsam, this girl had very powerful leg skills.
“I especially liked playing this when I was a child, my skills were very good. Watch my combo!” Qin Qing bragged about himself, his palms tapping the buttons quickly, busy and happy.
After the combo, the machine made a KO sound. Only it was Qin Qing who was KO’d.
996 looked up at this artist and mocked: “This is called good skills? My cat claws scratching randomly are better than you.”
“Hehe~ Then you try scratching one.” Qin Qing put 996 on the stool next to him and provoked: “I’ll put in tokens for you, let’s fight against each other.”
996 snorted and accepted the challenge.
Qin Qing’s fair fingers quickly controlled various buttons and levers. 996’s cat claws also waved out afterimages.
The two little figures on the screen, you give me a punch, I kick you, fighting happily.
“KO!”
After three rounds, the little figure controlled by 996 jumped up and celebrated loudly, while Qin Qing’s face turned green.
The duel between one person and one cat had long attracted the attention of many people. Kittens especially like to pat things with their claws, so everyone didn’t think 996 was very strange. The onlookers gathered around, joking that this cat had become a spirit, must have gone to college.
Can’t even beat a cat… Qin Qing raised his arm and silently covered his reddish face with his palm.
“Hahaha, hehehe…” 996 let out a rampant laugh.
“Shall I play a few rounds with you?” A deep voice suddenly came from the side.
Qin Qing looked up, and it was a handsome young man. The young man smiled heartily, his eyes sparkling, looking at Qin Qing unblinkingly.
Others were paying attention to that magical fat cat, only he kept gazing at Qin Qing.
Qin Qing was stunned for a moment, then nodded immediately: “Okay.” He immediately hugged the rampant 996 into his arms.
“Heh~ So what if you won? I can stop letting you play.” He mocked in his heart.
996: “…” Meow damn it, Qin Qing in this life is really shameless!
The young man put tokens in for Qin Qing and said with a smile: “My treat.”
“Thank you.” Qin Qing happily held the joystick.
However, not long after, his face turned green, because he found that the man’s skills were very powerful, unknown how many levels higher than the old spirit 996. Before, he and 996 could still fight a few rounds, evenly matched, but in this person’s hands, he was being crushed!
996 was anxious, tapping Qin Qing’s buttons quickly with its claws, “Do you know how to play? Use the big move! Blast him, blast him!”
“KO!” The next second, Qin Qing’s little figure fell to the ground and died.
The young man actually didn’t want to win, but he had already gone easy enough, yet Qin Qing still lost. He looked at the other party embarrassedly.
Qin Qing blinked and said without changing his expression: “My cat kept patting my hand, interfering with me. Let’s play another round.”
996: “…Qin Qing, you are shameless!”
The young man was slightly stunned, and then turned his head and laughed happily. At first, what attracted him was Qin Qing’s looks, but after playing a few rounds, he found that Qin Qing’s personality was also very cute.
“Do you have a girlfriend?” After starting a new round, the young man asked pretending to be casual.
“I don’t have a boyfriend yet.” Qin Qing answered carelessly.
The man was slightly stunned, and then laughed out loud. This person was really too interesting!