Chapter 340 Calculate the safe period first

Lu Mingfei looked at Xia Mi silently without saying a word. The girl was slim and cheerful. She shielded herself from the sun with her hands and looked out at the tiger park in front of them with her bright eyes. The winter sun was reflected on her flawless face, and her beautiful profile outlined a warm arc of light.

If you just want to ask a question, it's very simple. You just need to open and close your mouth, vibrate your vocal cords to make a few syllables, and wait for a while. Then you can get the answer to the question from the other person.

It's like a broken axe dropped into the river by a woodcutter while chopping wood, and the answer is the golden axe and the silver axe given to you by the goddess after she floats to the surface. Maybe there are many different answers, maybe there is only one obvious answer, and maybe the answer you get is not the correct answer at all. But as long as you ask, you will always get an answer.

But getting an answer is not enough for many things. For example, you like a girl, but you know that the girl has a close relationship with your best friend, and this best friend is your life-long friend. Can you still ask the girl the question in your heart so easily? Even if you get the answer in your heart, how should you face the change in the relationship?

After hesitating for a moment, Lu Mingfei finally decided not to ask the question in his mind.

But at this moment, another hand suddenly reached out and held Lu Mingfei's hand. Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment. It turned out that Xia Mi suddenly came close again, looking not far away. The furtive look reminded Lu Mingfei of the little female thief who stole the Coke.

"What are you doing?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"People from our class are following us." Xia Mi curled her lips, "Brother, let's keep going forward."

Xia Mi narrowed her eyes, turned around, pulled Lu Mingfei up and continued walking forward. Lu Mingfei looked at her back, jumping up and down, with his ponytail rising and falling.

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The two ran all the way to the rare bird house before stopping.

The Rare Birds Pavilion is almost the innermost attraction of the zoo. It will take some time for others to get here from Tiger Mountain. Xia Mi looked around and made sure that no one in her class had come here yet. Then she turned around and gently patted Lu Mingfei's half-carried schoolbag.

"The walls here should be deaf." Xia Mi raised her head and blinked, "Brother, did you have anything else to ask me? I saw you staring at me for a long time. Is there something on your mind?"

It turns out that Xia Mi had already noticed me when I was staring at her in a daze just now, Lu Mingfei thought.

But think about it, the dragons are natural warriors, and the dragon king is the creature at the top of the evolutionary chain in this world, and every cell of his body is jumping with the fighting instinct. Although Xia Mi's strength has temporarily disappeared because of the "Spear of Kungunir", how could she not notice the gaze falling on her side face?

“I’m not worried.” Lu Mingfei denied.

"Really do not have?"

Xia Mi held her chin with both hands and smiled. Her pretty face tilted between her palms. Her face was full of curiosity like a canna in full bloom. "It's rare that I'm in a good mood today, so this is a rare limited-time opportunity to ask questions. No matter what you ask, I will answer you without reservation...ah, except for those very difficult questions."

The tone of his speech was just like a salesperson in a supermarket promoting "limited time special" discounted food that is about to expire.

But Lu Mingfei still denied it and said, "No."

So the smile on Xia Mi's face suddenly wilted, as if the canna lilies were not soaked in water and given nutrient supplements in time after being bought, and the petals wilted the next day.

Xia Mi curled her lips, looking disappointed, and snorted disdainfully: "Tsk, forget it, if there is no chance, then there is no chance. I am in a bad mood now. Even if you change your mind and want to tell me, I don't want to listen. If you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again."

In some ways, Xia Mi has a personality similar to the character she likes to cosplay, Haruhi Suzumiya, who is moody and expresses her emotions. You can't generalize about tsundere.

A tsundere girl only has two personalities: tsundere and coquettish. Little Tiannv is the representative of tsundere. Sometimes she says she doesn't want to get involved with Lu Mingfei, but as long as you block her mouth, her body will be obedient.

But Xia Mi's personality is complex and changeable. Most of the time, she really seems like a cute, clingy and considerate little junior sister, like the little tail that you can't get rid of, calling you senior brother all the time, so sweet and sticky.

But besides that, she also has times when she is angry, times when she is proud, times when she is gentle, times when she is domineering, times when she really doesn't care about you, and times when she is a bit of a middle school student and a sarcastic person. If I have to say, she is more like a radio wave type girl.

Although the above-mentioned personalities may just be Jörmungandr's disguise in the human world.

"Although you have nothing to say to me, senior brother, I do have something to say to you." Xia Mi stood on the stone steps below the fence, holding the railing with her hands, looking at a white crane that landed on the ground and folded its wings in the wetland in front of her, and suddenly spoke.

Lu Mingfei turned around when he heard that.

Xia Mi shrugged and looked ahead, not meeting Lu Mingfei's gaze: "Brother, do you know why I said I would protect you just now?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned. This question was exactly the same as what he had just thought. Lu Mingfei didn't know whether Xia Mi had seen through his expression just now, or whether Xia Mi really just wanted to tell him the answer to this question.

Xia Mi's voice was clear and bright: "Because I still need to continue observing you."

She continued, "Do you think that since I have used you to open Odin's Nibelung, you are no longer valuable to me? In fact, you have lost your role as the key to open Odin's Nibelung.

But I still want to continue observing you. My intuition tells me that there are still secrets about you that I haven't discovered yet."

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew against the wind. Xia Mi turned her head, her hair fluttering in the wind, and her crystal lips curled up in a perfect arc under her black hair, beautiful and charming, like an elf in the wind.

"Oh, it's freezing!"

The words just now drifted away in the cold winter wind. Xia Mi tightened the scarf around her neck, and before Lu Mingfei could come to his senses, she immediately put her hand on Lu Mingfei's neck: "Brother, let me warm my hands!"

The cold touch on his neck immediately brought Lu Mingfei back to reality. By the time he came to his senses, Xia Mi had already run away with her tongue hanging out.

Even Lu Mingfei was a little stunned that she could switch between Jörmungandr's personality and Xia Mi's personality so smoothly.

There is another very small possibility. In fact, she doesn't need to switch so-called personalities at all. She is both Jörmungandr and Shami.

Xia Mi ran for a long distance, and only stopped and stamped her feet when she saw that Lu Mingfei had not caught up with her.

She covered her face, smoothed her bangs that were messed up by the wind, turned her head, and saw the white crane with its wings folded still standing there motionless.

"Liar." She held it in for a long time before uttering two words from the bottom of her heart.

What secret? What value of observation?
They were all lies. When Xia Mi first came into contact with Lu Mingfei, it was because she felt that Lu Mingfei was worth observing, and there were indeed some things about him that Xia Mi was interested in.

For example, why was he chosen by Odin to leave his mark; for example, he seemed to be a very advanced mixed-race, but he was a very unlucky little boy in the third year of junior high school, but after that heavy rain, he seemed to have suddenly transformed into a different person; for example, he seemed to have mastered many secrets about himself.

However, these secrets were just a dispensable thing to her. It was good to know them, but it was harmless not to know them. After Odin's Nibelung opened a gap for her, Lu Mingfei's main value had disappeared.

She is still Jörmungandr now, and has not evolved into Hela, the goddess of death who possesses both power and authority. Therefore, there is no need for her to offend Odin, who is almost in his perfect form, just for Lu Mingfei.

When the golden axe and the silver axe in the goddess's hand were rejected, the only real answer seemed to be the most vulgar broken axe. It was so vulgar that she herself didn't know why she fished out the broken iron axe for Lu Mingfei from the river.

She bit her lip to avoid thinking about it further. No matter why, if you see fish floating up to breathe on the ice in winter, it is a wrong encounter!

Since that guy has been holding back... I might as well keep silent too. It's a good opportunity to see who can hold back longer between the two of them.

Xia Mi was thinking about something and trying to control it. At this moment, she heard footsteps nearby, a lazy pace that was barely speeding up. As soon as Xia Mi heard the rhythm of the footsteps, she knew who was coming.

"…Tell me your name." Xia Mi continued the conversation while complaining in her heart. She was a little angry at the moment and didn't even intend to turn her eyes away to look at Lu Mingfei's face.

Lu Mingfei unexpectedly followed up on this topic, "My surname is Lu, my given name is Mingfei, and I have no given name."

Xia Mi curled her lips and said faintly, "No words? No words won't do."

Lu Mingfei didn't know why Xia Mi was angry when he was the one who was attacked. He secretly put aside the revengeful thought of shoving his icy hand into Xia Mi's neck and looked in the direction Xia Mi was looking.

"That's a white-naped crane." Lu Mingfei said suddenly.

"White-naped crane?" Xia Mi was stunned and finally turned around.

"Yes, this is an endangered bird in East Asia." Lu Mingfei nodded. "I didn't expect that the zoo would have this kind of animal. Speaking of which, there is a very interesting story about the white-naped crane."

"story?"

Lu Mingfei didn't have the hobby of reading obscure stories like Chu Zihang. All his obscure knowledge came from Chu Zihang and his friend Fukube Rishi from the Classics Club of Kamiyama High School when they were in the Japanese Light Novel World. Both of them were keen fans of obscure stories.

From the first time he met Fukube Rizhi, he felt it was a pity that he could not introduce his senior brother with facial paralysis to him. He believed that these two people would get along well and have endless topics to talk about.

"The International Crane Foundation once bred white-naped cranes in captivity. But one of the female cranes, named Walnut, had a very strange personality. Not only was she quite aloof and unsociable, she was also very aggressive towards the breeder.

The keeper spent a long time trying to please Hutao. He would stay beside Hutao, carefully observing its behavior, or try to get closer to Hutao by giving it snacks. He would also let Hutao gradually get familiar with his appearance and smell. Finally, Hutao slowly let down his guard against the keeper, no longer ran away nervously when the keeper approached, and even allowed the keeper to touch him.

Soon, Hu Tao reached adulthood, and the zoo found an ideal male white-naped crane for Hu Tao, but Hu Tao was not interested in that white-naped crane at all. Later, several other male white-naped cranes were found for Hu Tao, but Hu Tao did not cooperate with the other male cranes' courtship, and even kicked the male cranes who expressed their love for her.

Until one day, Walnut actually took the initiative to court the breeder for the first time. Then they figured out the reason why Walnut refused to mate for a long time. She was not a loner, but she had a dislocation of sexual imprinting. She thought of herself as a human being and fell in love with the breeder who had been taking care of her. Instead, she could not recognize the courtship of her own kind, nor could she integrate into her own group of people. "

To be honest, Lu Mingfei felt that telling unpopular stories in a serious manner was not his style. The reason why he suddenly told this story was purely because Lu Mingfei suddenly remembered it and was inspired to write it down.

So after finishing the story, Lu Mingfei originally thought that Xia Mi would immediately complain about him, for example, asking if he had got the wrong script or something.

However, long after Lu Mingfei finished speaking, the energetic little female dragon beside him remained silent, which made Lu Mingfei feel a little strange.

Turning around, I saw Xia Mi looking at the white-naped crane in the distance, quietly, with that perfect profile in a daze.

At this time, a group of middle school students wearing Shilan Middle School uniforms also walked into the park.

Seeing several people from Xia Mi's class in the crowd, Lu Mingfei turned around and called Xia Mi a few times, but there was no response. Not knowing what happened to Xia Mi, he could only stare at her profile.

It was not until the white-naped crane flapped its wings and flew away that the expression on Xia Mi's face finally relaxed. She shook her head and turned away.

"Brother, how come you only know such boring and obscure knowledge?" Xia Mi said in a gloomy tone, "You explained it very well. Don't tell me next time."

I see you are listening very seriously, you are so absorbed in it. Lu Mingfei complained in his heart. But he didn't say it out loud.

Xia Mi also saw several familiar faces from her class in the crowd, and subconsciously wanted to hold Lu Mingfei's hand as she had done before, but after hesitating for a moment, she ended up just grabbing his sleeve.

Lu Mingfei also keenly noticed Xia Mi's little action.

"Everyone else is here, brother, it's almost time for us to go back." Xia Mi said calmly.

"Don't want to continue shopping?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"No more shopping." Xia Mi shrugged. "Haven't we come to the end yet? Besides, brother, don't you still want to know the precautions for improving your bloodline? It's not easy to talk about this in front of a crowd."

After Xia Mi's reminder, Lu Mingfei suddenly remembered that he followed Xia Mi to the zoo mainly to find out about matters related to bloodline improvement.

We kept chatting about all sorts of random topics and almost forgot about the main thing!
Returning along another road, until they reached a road with few people, Xia Mi turned her head and said:

"Okay, the walls here should be deaf, now I can tell you what the precautions are."

"What is it?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"Before you start any bloodline-enhancing activities..." Xia Mi said mysteriously, "...you must first calculate the safe period!"

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(End of this chapter)