Chapter 38 Meeting Preview
June 6, afternoon, Beijing Huanjing No. 20 Middle School.

As the school bell rang in the teaching building, the two-month summer vacation arrived. The students could no longer hold back, dragging their schoolbags out of the drawers and running out of the classroom noisily. The festive sound of the table legs rubbing against the ground could be heard in every corner of the teaching building.

Ke Mingye slung his schoolbag over his shoulder and stood in front of the table. He ordered the puppet squatting in the toilet cubicle to stand up while sending a message to Bai Ziling on his cell phone.

"Where is the cinema you are talking about?" he asked.

"Yandai Street, opening in half an hour." Bai Ziling replied quickly. Her writing style is as concise as her speaking style.

Ke Mingye was stunned, thinking why do you have to come to Yandai Commercial Street to watch a movie? Are you here to supervise us in completing the dungeon? But he still replied to the message calmly.

"Is everyone from the family coming?" he asked.

"Except for my parents." Bai Ziling typed, "You and my eldest sister go to the same school, so you can take the bus here."

As soon as the message came, Ke Mingye turned his head and found someone staring at him outside the classroom. It was Bai Qiuwu, who was wearing a school uniform.

She looked down at her phone and tapped the window with her finger, signaling him to hurry up.

Ke Mingye pursed his lips, walked out of the classroom, and walked out of the teaching building shoulder to shoulder with Bai Qiuwu. He received a lot of looks along the way, but he didn't care because he was busy controlling the trick puppet to follow the two of them.

The three of them walked in fairly coordinated steps to the bus stop outside the school, with the puppet blending in with the crowd.

Soon, a bus to Yandai Commercial Street arrived. Bai Qiuwu and Ke Mingye boarded the bus one after another, and the fraud puppet boarded the bus with the group of students.

In the slightly swaying carriage, Bai Qiuwu stretched lazily, and her upward school uniform outlined the curve of her body.

The afterglow shone through the car window, casting a faint golden rim on her cheeks, and the fluff beside her ears swayed slowly like bird feathers.

"Finally, it's vacation time," she said.

"Yes, I am free."

Ke Mingye responded, but his eyes were vaguely cast towards the puppet in the corner of the carriage.

He suddenly had an idea and wanted to try whether Bai Qiuwu could see the original appearance of the puppet, so he controlled the puppet to take two steps forward and grabbed the ring next to Bai Qiuwu.

Bai Qiuwu turned his head and glanced at the puppet's face.

As the doll approached, she seemed to realize something, and a barely visible layer of red appeared in her pupils.

Then, in her eyes, the puppet's face turned into a strange face that was completely different from that of an ordinary human being, with the corners of its mouth curved upwards almost to its ears.

Are the Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils really that powerful?
Ke Mingye observed the change in Bai Qiuwu's expression with his peripheral vision, and was basically sure that she had seen the original appearance of the puppet. While secretly sweating, he lowered his head and opened the short video software.

Bai Qiuwu glanced at the puppet, was silent for half a second, and spoke to him: "You..."

"What's wrong?" Ke Mingye asked, controlling the puppet to turn around and look at her.

"Your shoelaces are untied, classmate."

As Bai Qiuwu spoke, she lifted a strand of hair from her forehead and calmly lowered her eyes, motioning him to look at the pair of large-sized children's shoes.

"Oh, thanks."

The puppet squatted down and tied his shoelaces slowly. Ke Mingye even deliberately changed the way of tying shoelaces that he didn't usually use, so as not to let his sister associate it with him.

He wondered in confusion why the node reward for contacting Bai Qiuwu was not triggered. Was it because Bai Qiuwu used his normal identity instead of his hidden identity "Black Wukong"?

After coming to this conclusion, he felt a little disappointed.

Since the location of the dungeon and the place where his family watched the movie were both on Yandai Commercial Street and not far apart, he had originally planned to wait until he finished the dungeon with the puppet and then let it run directly from Meiyajia into the cinema, break into the No. 3 giant screen theater, roll twice in front of his five brothers and sisters, jump onto the stage to act cute and introduce itself.

In this way, maybe all the node rewards for the "Contact Family Mission" can be taken directly. But now it seems unlikely.

He also felt that when Bai Zini saw the puppet tumbling twice on the stage, she would probably be so shocked that her jaw would drop, and she would just transform and chase after it without caring about anything else. This would not be a good idea either.

"You're welcome."

Bai Qiuwu stared at the puppet's face for another second, then looked away and said to Ke Mingye beside him, "I suddenly remembered that I have something to do later. How about you go to the cinema by yourself?"

"No."

Ke Mingye knew what she wanted to do and decisively rejected it.

He looked up at Bai Qiuwu and said with a sigh, "If you don't come, then I won't watch it either. I'll just follow you, and I'll do whatever you do. It's a rare opportunity for us to watch a movie together, can you please stop standing us up every day? It's such a bummer."

Seeing him like this, Bai Qiuwu asked jokingly, "But aren't you the one who stands us up the most at home?"

"We're talking about you now, don't change the subject. You see, my second sister asked me to keep an eye on you. She said you always disappear suddenly and stand us up."

Ke Mingye was being unreasonable and turned his phone screen towards her to show her the chat history between him and Bai Ziling.

"Okay, then I won't run away this time, and you are not allowed to run away either."

Bai Qiuwu said this calmly while moving his face away, pretending to look out the window, and barely noticeably glanced at the young man in school uniform standing in the middle of the crowd.

At this moment, she noticed that the man was holding up a piece of paper with an expressionless face.

Written in black and white on it was: "Hei Wukong, see you on the Beijing Ring Road No. 7 Viaduct at 8pm. Don't get close to me, and don't make any noise, otherwise everyone in this car and your brother will be in danger."

The moment she saw the words clearly, Bai Qiuwu's eyes instantly turned cold, like a beast choosing its prey. She frowned slightly, and a layer of scarlet mist spread in her pupils, as if there was fire burning.

Just then, Ke Mingye's voice came from beside her, interrupting her concentration.

"Let's stay with each other. Don't run away."

Bai Qiuwu turned around, but didn't look at Ke Mingye's profile. She just lowered her head and covered her wide-open eyes with her hands. The pupils that sometimes expanded and sometimes contracted gave off a burning sensation like fire.

She had experienced this situation many times. Once her emotions got out of control, her fiery eyes would show up uncontrollably.

At this moment, her face was shrouded in the shadow of her hair, but the blood red in her pupils could not be wiped away.

Bai Qiuwu tried his best to calm his breathing. His trembling eyes stared at the ground, his lips moved slightly, and he muttered to himself almost inaudibly.

"Calm down...Calm down...Calm down."

She took a deep breath, repeatedly, and slowly closed her eyes. When she opened them again, the fire burning in her eye sockets had quietly died, and the color of her pupils had returned to normal.

Ke Mingye noticed her strangeness, so he turned his head and looked at her: "Sister, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay. I'm not used to wearing contact lenses."

Bai Qiuwu casually brushed it off, put down his right hand that was covering his eyes, and slowly raised his head.

She took out a literary magazine from her schoolbag and flipped through it quietly in the afterglow.

Seven minutes passed in a flash, and the bus slowly stopped at the platform at the entrance of Yandai Commercial Street. On the busy street, Ke Mingye supervised Bai Qiuwu to get off the bus together, and walked towards Yandai Cinema with her.

Bai Zini was shouting and waving at the two of them from afar. Standing beside her were Ke Xiaomo, Ke Yongzhu and Bai Ziling.

At the same time, the trickster puppet also got off the car among the crowd, and after walking for a while, he came to the most remote corner of the commercial street and went to the video game store near Meiyajia.

(End of this chapter)