Chapter 25 Birthday Party
At dusk on June 6, a simple birthday party was being held in a duplex apartment building.

Bai Zini and Bai Ziling turned off the lights in the living room and drew the curtains in advance; Bai Zini argued that this would create a good atmosphere, and asked if they knew what a birthday was.

Ke Mingye brought the birthday cake to the table. The room was dark, with only the light of a few candles. He turned his head to look at the balcony. The light blue curtains were hanging loosely, blocking most of the light from the setting sun. The afterglow only illuminated an inch of the ground against the wall, lengthening the shadow of the French window.

Bai Zini took the initiative to turn on a karaoke channel on the TV. She plugged a USB cable into the TV and connected it to the microphone. She sat in front of the TV and sang Happy Birthday in a tone-deaf and funny voice.

After returning from school, Bai Qiuwu and Ke Yongzhu quickly joined their team.

The brothers and sisters gathered around the birthday cake. Under the dim candlelight, they took the microphone one after another and sang a few lines perfunctorily. Only the elder sister Bai Qiuwu sang decently, because the singing of the others sounded like they were possessed by some indescribable ancient god of Cthulhu.

Birthday songs were played intermittently in the living room, interrupted by the laughter of others. A breeze blew from the dusky sky, blowing up the white gauze-like curtains.

Through the curtains, you can see several figures appearing and disappearing around the cake. One of them is a tall and thin figure with his eyes closed, his hands clasped in front of his chest, making a wish. Someone puts a freshly folded paper wreath on his head.

Among the six people, it was really difficult for Ke Yongzhu to sing this kind of song.

When the microphone came to this grumpy elementary school student, he had a black line on his forehead and opened his mouth without making any sound. He repeatedly pretended to start singing, but actually turned his head away and stared at his family to test their reactions. If someone laughed, he could put down the microphone and stop singing.

As a result, everyone sitting on the sofa seemed to have reached a consensus on the "no laughing challenge". Their faces were serious and they tried their best not to laugh. Whoever laughed would lose.

The corners of Baizini's mouth twitched slightly. Later, she couldn't help it anymore, so she stuffed a piece of cake into her throat, lowered her head, and chewed it in big mouthfuls while trying not to laugh. Her cheeks were puffed up like a panda. This was her last trump card.

Finally, after several attempts, Ke Yongzhu was willing to put her mouth close to the microphone. She had just sung the first word "Happy Birthday to You" when Bai Ziling, who was usually silent and indifferent to everything, suddenly burst out and laughed softly, so Ke Yongzhu immediately turned her head and glared at her.

Seeing Ke Yongzhu's gaze, she wanted to pretend, so she picked up a piece of cut cake and pressed it against her mouth and face. She lowered her red eyes and coughed twice deliberately, her pale white hair swaying slightly on her shoulders.

Seeing her like this, Ke Mingye, who was sitting next to her, couldn't help but feel tense. He seemed to be playing with his phone, but in fact he was slapping the sofa with his right hand, almost breaking the armrest.

Ke Yongzhu's face turned black and he put down the microphone, then pounced on Ke Mingye, knocking him onto the sofa and constantly butting his head against his chest, causing Ke Mingye to knock over the cake in his hand and smear it on the sofa. He shouted, "Stop, I haven't eaten the cake yet," while laughing so hard that he fell backwards.

It can be seen that this little brat still showed mercy. He did his best by not turning into a dragon and biting him.

Just when the two were playing, the door opened and Ke Youqing and Bai Wenna came home.

Bowenna saw a piece of cake on the sofa in the living room, and the traces of cream slid down the armrest of the sofa, some brown and some white. She was about to get angry, but Ke Youqing stopped her, took the cigarette from his mouth, and said something. She sighed and finally just said it would not happen again.

Bai Zini jumped off the sofa, ran to the entrance, took their hands, pressed their shoulders and asked them to sit on the sofa, then forcefully handed the microphone into Ke Youqing's mouth.

The old father took a deep breath expressionlessly and looked at the lyrics solemnly.

However, at the moment when he began to sing in his deep and honest voice, some people around him rolled on the ground with laughter, some people spit out the Coke they had just put in their mouths, and some people rubbed their Tianming acupoints and recited Buddhist scriptures. Time passed quickly, and the setting sun slowly fell below the horizon, taking away the afterglow that was shining on the city.

Bai Zini went to the bathroom and left her phone on the sofa. The second brother Ke Xiaomo picked up his phone, held a piece of cut cake, and walked towards the corridor.

He had just memorized the gesture that Bai Zini used to unlock the screen, so he easily entered the correct password, opened WeChat, and took a look at the chat messages between her and Ke Mingye.

[Ke Mingye: I'm in the elevator. Is my second brother still in the bathroom?]

[Bai Zini: Yes, I have never been out before. I wonder if I fainted? ]

[Ke Mingye: Maybe he was playing with his phone in there. Don’t you often play with your phone in the toilet, often for half an hour?]

【Bai Zini: I've learned from you guys that if the top beam is not straight, the bottom beam will be crooked. I've turned off the lights at home and drawn the curtains. Ziling even went to find the salute and banner left over from last year. I'm just waiting for you to come back, brother, hurry up!】

[Ke Mingye: Okay, if I'm not here yet, you and Ziling will wait at the toilet door and don't let him out. Wait for me to come over and give him a surprise.]

【Bai Zini: Okay.】

After reading the records, Ke Xiaomo put away his phone, leaned against the wall, with half of his face hidden in the shadows.

"Maybe my judgment is wrong? Mingye is still the same Mingye, I'm just too suspicious." Thinking of this, he turned his gaze to Ke Mingye.

At this moment, Ke Mingye was sitting on the armrest of the sofa, drinking Coke, staring at the screen on TV. However, his mind was not here, but on the trick puppet.

At exactly the agreed time of 5:25 pm, the trickster puppet arrived at the Meiyajia Supermarket on Yandai Commercial Street.

This is the meeting place mentioned by the player with the ID "Anti-Dog", but the supermarket in front of us seems to have closed down, and a notice in black and white saying "Temporarily closed" is posted on the locked door.

But Ke Mingye's attention was not on the notice at all, because there was a huge panel floating in front of him.

[Congratulations, you have found the "No. 5 copy" of "Huanjing City". The copy has been recorded in your copy atlas. You can open the atlas to view it at any time. ]

[Instance Name: Giant Zombie Chase]

[Instance location: Yandai Commercial Street, Meiyijia Supermarket]

[Dungeon Difficulty: F Level (It is recommended that players below level 3 form a team to perform the dungeon)]

(End of this chapter)