Chapter 30: Shouldn't Have Smelled Her Beauty
"…What's wrong with you again?"
"Nothing, just my sense of smell is a bit off."
Saying nothing was wrong, yet climbing onto the second-tier bed early in the morning, pressing himself along with the bedding onto the bed with a face full of grievance. Lappland, with an inexplicable expression of being cuckolded , and even some twisted, greener expression that Li Lin couldn't understand at all, said sullenly:
"Nothing, nothing major. How should I put it, after all, everyone has things and lifestyles they like, life isn't always smooth sailing, occasionally some not-so-good things happen. I know, I know all of it. But some things happening too suddenly is also not good, isn't it? It's like you wake up one day, originally wanting to welcome a beautiful new day, but the whole world has changed; such a thing, that's not too good either, right…"
"Has anyone ever told you that your forced appearance is very off?"
"…Do you want me to laugh?"
"It's fine, I won't laugh at you or anything; feelings are something that can't be helped."
Li Lin shrugged, instantly knowing why this husky was acting like this.
"Let me clarify beforehand, Texas and I did nothing. It was purely because my legs weren't good when I was on the rooftop, Texas saw I was about to fall, so she came over to help me downstairs. Besides that, we did nothing. Don't overthink such random things."
"Then why did you two meet on the rooftop in the middle of the night?"
"…"
You're so annoying, why is your sense so sharp at this time?
Glancing at Lappland, whose sense of smell was inexplicably very sharp at this particular moment, Li Lin thought for a moment, unsure what to say.
Tell her the truth? Doing so would be betraying Texas. Li Lin himself still valued his own credibility very much. Even if others didn't ask for anything, Li Lin felt he should still maintain basic confidentiality . As for emotional matters, that was entirely a tangled mess among these few people.
Li Lin even suspected Exusiai also played an indispensable role in it. He hadn't dared to interact too much with the girls recently, only able to shoot the breeze over beer with Croissant because of this. Ordinary people could sense this undercurrent of surging emotions, but pointing it out wouldn't be good. So Li Lin pondered for a long while, looked at Lappland before him showing an expectant look for an explanation, and revealed a brilliant smile.
"Mm… Secret?"
"Secret… Secret huh… That's right too…"
Lappland was instantly as if struck by lightning; her ears and tail drooped limply, and she listlessly returned to her own bunk, slowly pulling the bedding up, burying her head under the quilt. The tail exposed outside twitched twice then lay still on the bed, passing away on the spot.
Li Lin didn't even know what to say to that autistic (slang for being antisocial) appearance. Because explaining was too troublesome, he was too lazy to explain. Just a mere Lappland , if misunderstood, then misunderstood; anyway, a straight body isn't afraid of a crooked shadow ( if one is upright, one fears no slander). I'm even helping you cover up, go be happy. Looking at Lappland being autistic on the bed, Li Lin took a deep breath, changed from his pajamas into yesterday's uniform. Pushing open the room door, he walked into the main hall.
Compared to the miserable scene seen at night, Croissant now clearly looked much more normal.
Wearing a sports bra and shorts, squatting by the doorframe gluing it with adhesive, seeing Li Lin walk out of the room, she immediately waved very happily, put down the work in her hand, ran over, and patted his shoulder cheerfully. Exusiai, meanwhile, was sitting on a chair organizing files, coincidentally positioned between the two.
"Yo, Li Lin, how was the barbecue yesterday?"
Croissant smiled brilliantly, with some mysterious component Li Lin didn't know.
"Going to eat barbecue with the Lungmen Inspector must have been very happy, right? The atmosphere in the private room for two must have been very good?"
"It was okay. Anyway, I wasn't paying… But how did you know I went to eat barbecue?"
"Of course it's because—Oomph!"
Croissant, standing in front of Exusiai with a smug expression, wanted to say something, but under Li Lin's gaze, she seemed to lag like a dropped frame, her whole body arching like a shrimp as if punched by air, and she collapsed onto the table looking unwell. Exusiai, concerned, covered Croissant with a blanket and explained to the puzzled Li Lin.
"Because when you came back, there was a strong smell of smoked barbecue. Prophet, you might not be able to smell it yourself, but for us, the smell is quite strong."
"Is that so? Is the smell that strong? I thought there wasn't much smell…"
Clearly said it was a specially made uniform.
Sniffing his uniform, Li Lin somewhat doubted the original slogan of the Penguin Logistics uniform.
It's one thing if Lupo can smell it, but how can Exusiai also smell it? If encountering some dangerous area when delivering packages in the future, wouldn't it be like shining a searchlight for others, signaling the opponent to throw bombs this way? Safety would become a problem then.
"No need to sniff, definitely can't smell anything now." After comforting Croissant, who was unable to speak and struggling to say something, Exusiai smiled and placed a fireproof blanket over the bread person. Gently stroking the bull's head , after a short while, Croissant closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep, completely unlike her lively appearance just now. Watching this, Li Lin's heart pounded, wondering if Croissant had offended Exusiai at some point.
But in Li Lin's memory, there seemed to be no instance of the two having a conflict. The only explanation was, perhaps the yuri flower civil war (metaphorical for romantic rivalry) last night made Croissant see something she shouldn't have, and she was about to subconsciously say it just now?
That's really something, better just pretend I didn't hear it.
Pretending not to see Croissant being suppressed, Li Lin looked seriously at the stitching on his shirt sleeve, as if there was some code on it.
And Exusiai, having settled Croissant, clapped her hands, looked at the pretending Li Lin, smiled, and made an inviting gesture.
"By the way, Prophet. We haven't operated together for a long time, right? This is a rare opportunity, want to go out and operate together?"
"Hm? Okay. But what about Texas's side?"
"She's teamed up with Lappland."
"…Oh, so that's how it is."
This is definitely a yuri war, isn't it?
Looking at Exusiai, who tidied up neatly and prepared to set off, Li Lin immediately knew her intentions and nodded seriously. This, in turn, made Exusiai somewhat baffled.