novelraw Chapter 104
Chapter 104
Chapter 104: You… You Want to Eat Dragon?
Coming out of the internet cafe, Xia Li was full of energy.
Hou Zijie and Fu Yuan looked fine, having played four or five games and basically not losing, their expressions carefree.
But Chen Tao was different.
Chen Tao looked listless and lifeless, his eyes unfocused, as if he had suffered some inhumane abuse.
“Where to next?” Fu Yuan stretched.
Hearing this, all three of them looked at Xia Li.
Xia Li was, after all, the leader of the Building Number Three, Shangdong Chaoyang Residential Complex faction. The three of them had grown up following Xia Li around since they were kids, so even now, as adults, they were willing to listen to his opinions first.
“Let’s eat.” Xia Li glanced at the time and said.
He wasn’t really hungry. But his little dragon was probably starving.
As Xia Li expected, as soon as she heard the word “food,” Lucia’s head popped out from inside her blue bear hat, her eyes fixed on Xia Li.
“What do you want to eat?” Xia Li pinched the ear of the blue bear hat.
“Meat…” Lucia muttered softly.
She was embarrassed to say that she had been cooking at home these past few days, and she didn’t know how to cook meat very well, which led to her and Xia Li being little sheep for a few days, eating a lot of grass.
Xia Li thought about it, too. If they didn’t get some good protein soon, their bodies wouldn’t be able to handle it.
“Is there any buffet? Lots of meat and all-you-can-eat.” Xia Li turned back and asked his buddies.
They were all big eaters, not to mention that Xia Li had a starving dragon with a bottomless stomach by his side, so a buffet was naturally the most cost-effective.
Of the four brothers, two were homebodies who didn’t go out, and one didn’t even work locally, leaving only Chen Tao, the corporate slave who was always running around outside, as the one who knew the most about the local cuisine.
“There are quite a lot of places to eat in Jinjiang District…”
Chen Tao, wilted like a zombie, patted his forehead, recalling.
“There seems to be a new crayfish buffet nearby, ninety yuan per person, wanna go?”
“Yeah, all-you-can-drink beer?” Hou Zijie, who was behind Chen Tao, asked excitedly in a loud voice.
“Included, beer and snacks are all-you-can-eat.” Chen Tao nodded.
“Let’s go, I’m in.”
“I’m in too, let’s go.”
The three of them hit it off. They weren’t picky people, so they immediately took action once they agreed.
“Are you going?”
Xia Li squeezed the soft little hand in his, turning back to ask Lucia’s opinion.
Lucia didn’t understand what these human males were saying, but she understood one word ━ “dragon.”
“Eat… eat dragon?”
Her fair little face was tinged with orange in the setting sun, the blue bear ears on her head looked soft, and her white neck shrank back into her collar weakly upon hearing this keyword.
“Crayfish, not dragon. It has nothing to do with dragons.”
Xia Li couldn’t help but laugh. He couldn’t really explain it, so he could only hold her small hand and say, “You’ll know when we get there.”
Hou Zijie hailed a taxi by the roadside. None of them wanted to be left behind to eat dog food, so the three brothers took one car and left.
Glancing at the location information in the group chat, Xia Li estimated that it wouldn’t take long to walk there, and then looked down and asked the short dragon beside him.
“Let’s walk there? It’s not far.”
“How far is ‘not far’?”
“One kilometer.”
“One kilometer…”
Lucia used her extraordinary wisdom to calculate in her mind.
One kilometer was indeed not far for a dragon. It wouldn’t even take a full flap of her wings to get there. But if she had to walk one kilometer with her little leather shoes, it would probably be…
“With your little short legs, each step is at most fifty centimeters, so you’d have to take two thousand steps.”
Xia Li didn’t need to ask to know what this silly dragon was thinking.
“Amazing… you can calculate the answer in an instant!” The silly dragon was stunned.
Xia Li got excited: “Five times five is twenty-five, six times six is thirty-six, seven times seven is forty-nine…”
“Could this be… the legendary multiplication table!” The silly dragon exclaimed in surprise.
“Stupid.” Xia Li rubbed her loose bear ear hat.
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Taking out his phone, Xia Li casually scanned a shared electric scooter parked by the roadside. After it unlocked, he got on directly.
After doing this, he took off his helmet and put it on the silly dragon’s head next to him, then honked the horn a couple of times proudly.
“Beep beep.”
“Get on, I’ll take you for a ride.”
Lucia was curious. She walked around the shared electric scooter and found that it only had two wheels, unlike the ones she had ridden before.
“You get dizzy on four wheels, two wheels are just right for you.” Xia Li explained.
Evil dragons are easy to keep. They’re not picky about food, they’re not picky about where they sleep, and they can only take the cheapest public transportation.
Moving forward, Xia Li left as much space as possible on the seat behind him.
Lucia climbed up with some effort, her little legs crossed as she sat behind Xia Li. With nowhere to put her small hands, she simply tucked them into her pockets.
Xia Li glanced back at her awkward posture and said flatly.
“Don’t put your hands in your pockets, or you’ll faceplant if you fall. You can’t sit steady like that, put your arms around me.”
“Oh…”
Only then did Lucia reach out her hands and obediently wrap them around Xia Li’s waist.
Feeling the soft body behind him, Xia Li’s lips couldn’t help but curve up again.
“Hold on tight, we’re about to take off.”
“Mm!”
So the evil dragon hugged him even tighter.
Xia Li twisted the throttle, and the two figures shot off together on the street in the setting sun.
It wasn’t that Xia Li was deliberately using this method to make Lucia hug him.
This silly dragon was completely easy to fool. If Xia Li wanted her to hug him, he didn’t need to use any tricks at all. He only needed to mention it slightly, and no matter the occasion, she would obediently do as he said.
It was mainly because he was afraid that Chen Tao and the others would wait too long, and Lucia was hungry, so he decided not to walk the one kilometer.
“Xia Li, you look good even when you’re riding a bike.”
“It’s called handsome.”
“Oh… then you look very handsome riding a bike.”
The wind whistled in his ears, and Lucia’s soft voice poured into them along with the autumn evening breeze.
The electric scooter sped along the asphalt road. When they encountered pedestrians, Xia Li would squeeze the brakes, and then the soft cheek of the little evil dragon behind him would bump against his back.
The cold wind that rushed into his clothes was like icy seawater, drilling into his body through his sleeves and collar. Xia Li felt his body temperature dropping, and he twisted the throttle down another half turn.
“Lucia, are you cold?”
“I what what?!”
The wind was too loud, Lucia couldn’t hear clearly, so she could only press her cheek sideways against Xia Li’s sturdy back.
Xia Li’s voice traveled through his chest and into her ears muffledly.
“Are you cold?!”
“Oh, no, I’m not! Xia Li is very warm to hug.”
Looking at the road ahead, the distant sunset stretched across the sky like a colorful painting, the sky dyed a soft orange-blue by the line between light and shadow.
On the narrow seat of the electric scooter, Xia Li felt a sense of peace, but also a kind of restlessness.
He didn’t want to be squeezed onto such a small vehicle with Lucia.
Although it was really warm like this, he wanted to give Lucia better things.
“…Let’s buy a car in the future, a big convertible. We can close the roof when it’s cold and open it when it’s hot. That way you won’t be blown by the cold wind, and you won’t have claustrophobia.”
“Will it take a lot of money?” Lucia’s voice came from behind him.
“Yes.”
“Then forget it… Let’s use the money to buy delicious food!”