Chapter 24 Happy Birthday
After confirming everything was correct, Ke Mingye breathed a sigh of relief and opened the contact list on the bus. He still typed in his mind and clicked send in the discussion group.

[Failed Man: How long will it take you to get there? ]

【Fanquan: Didn’t we say half past five? It’s only four o’clock now.】

[Unexplainable dream: We can arrive early. ]

[Good Orange Peel: I have already passed by and will wait for you here. ]

Ke Mingye thought that the maximum existence time of the trick puppet was 3 hours, and he summoned the puppet at exactly pm, so the puppet would disappear at pm.

If you have to wait until 5:30 to meet the three players from the same city, you must try to resolve the matter within an hour and a half and get away from them in advance.

Therefore, the sooner you meet them, the better. Otherwise, if the doll suddenly explodes or disappears while you are chatting with them, the consequences are self-evident.

It only takes 5 minutes to take the bus in front of the school from Huanjing No. Middle School to the Laojingmai Street District. I am about to get off the bus now.

While Ke Mingye used WeChat to select a cake in advance from the owner of a cake shop in the neighborhood, he typed questions on the communication panel.

[Failed Man: Open the store, you can choose two skills for free on the skill sales page. Have you chosen them? ]

【Anti-dog: I chose it.】

[Good Orange Peel: I got two C-level skills and took them all. ]

[Unexplainable Dream: Then you are quite lucky. Among the ten skills I refreshed on that page, only one is C-level, and the others are all E-level and D-level. ]

[Anti-dog: Normal, the refresh rate of B-level skills is only 2%. When the player's level goes up in the future, the refresh rate of advanced skills will become higher. ]

Originally, Ke Mingye was still wondering whether a B-level skill would appear when the skill sales page was refreshed for the first time, so he seemed to be lucky, but in fact everyone was like this.

Now it seems that he was really lucky: he directly ran into a B-level skill with a 2% refresh probability, and obtained it for free with the initial authority; if such a high-level skill was refreshed at other times, he would not be able to buy it due to the lack of mall coins, and could only watch.

"It's a rare chance to have such good luck, I hope things will go smoothly in the future..."

Thinking of this, Ke Mingye looked out of the car window. The residential buildings on the street came into his eyes, but they were fleeting. A pedestrian passed by on an electric bike, but was stopped by the traffic police for not wearing a helmet.

Looking at the figures hanging clothes on the rooftop, Ke Mingye wondered if Ke Xiaomo was following him, or was she really playing with her phone in the bathroom at home? Or maybe Ke Xiaomo was actually hiding on the bus, but he didn't notice it.

In any case, he had no way of confirming it and could only do things in the most conservative way to ensure that every step was accurate.

Ke Mingye put his hand on the phone, but finally put it down. Not long after, the sound of "wheezing" exhaust reached his ears, and the bus stopped at the old Jingmai Street District.

There were many passengers getting off the bus in the same block, and he followed the crowd and got off.

At the same time, there is a billiard club in the Laojingmai district.

On the empty rooftop, Ke Xiaomo emerged from the shadows. Looking down, in the dusk, Ke Mingye left the crowd, turned into an alley, and walked forward slowly.

Ke Xiaomo slowly shuttled between the tops of several high-rise buildings, his eyes locked on Ke Mingye's whereabouts, not letting him out of his sight for even a moment. Soon, Ke Mingye walked into Lao Jingmai No. 3 Street and entered a cake shop with a plaque of "Sam's Bakery". He walked directly to the counter, took out his mobile phone, and said something to the owner. The owner glanced at him, then took out a large packaging box from the back kitchen and handed it to him.

"A cake shop?"

Ke Xiaomo leaned against a large signboard, slightly poked his head out, and silently observed Ke Mingye in the store with his eyes slanted.

After taking the packaging box from the boss, Ke Mingye walked out of the store with it in his hand. He played with his mobile phone and walked towards home, just like a delivery boy.

Ke Xiaomo followed Ke Mingye silently until he saw him walk into the duplex apartment building and get on the elevator, then he stopped.

He watched with his own eyes as the elevator door closed and went up, and the elevator slowly moved upward before it came out from behind a large billboard and turned into the empty alley behind it.

"After school, Mingye only went to that cake shop and then went home." He thought, "He didn't meet anyone. If there is any problem, it should be with that cake shop. It seems that the owner knows him and they talked about something at the time. When Mingye came back, he was holding a box in his hand. I don't know what's in the box. I'll confirm it later."

Thinking of this, Ke Xiaomo looked around the alley, and after making sure that no one was paying attention, he slowly disappeared into the shadows under his feet.

When he opened his eyes again, he was already sitting on the toilet in his home. There was a doorbell outside the bathroom. Ke Xiaomo heard the sound of Bai Zini running to open the door, and knew that Mingye had returned, so he pressed the flush button on the toilet, turned on the faucet amid the noisy flushing sound, washed his hands, and then walked to the bathroom door.

He placed his hand on the door handle, slowly turned it, and pushed the door open.

At this moment, a sudden "bang" sound came into my ears.

Ke Xiaomo had already noticed that there were people outside and knew that it must be the work of his two younger sisters, so he pretended to be surprised and stretched out his hands to protect his head.

When he raised his eyes, the lights in the room were off. In the dim corridor, colorful flowers were fluttering down and landing on his hair and face.

Ke Xiaomo was stunned for a moment, then slowly put down his hands that were protecting his forehead, touched the paper flowers hanging on his face with his hands, and looked at the three people standing in front of the toilet in a daze.

Bai Zini was standing in front of the toilet with a smirk on her face, holding a trumpet-sized paper salute in her hand;

Bai Ziling stood expressionlessly nearby, holding a banner with the words "Happy Birthday to Ke Xiaomo" in her arms;
Ke Mingye stood between his two sisters, holding a cream cake with a few candles on it. The candlelight reflected his awkward expression, as if he was very reluctant.

Amid the colorful flowers scattered all over the ground, the three of them spoke almost at the same time.

"Happy birthday, second brother!" said Baizini.

"Happy birthday, I want a red envelope." said Bai Ziling.

"Happy birthday, I wish you grow another year older." Ke Mingye said.

Ke Xiaomo stood at the door of the toilet for a long time, slowly stretched out his two broad arms, and hugged his two sisters and brother together, with their heads touching.

"Thank you...I am very touched."

He spoke softly, his eyes meeting Ke Mingye in the middle.

(End of this chapter)