Chapter 670: Mikael, Kevin, and Ying Work Overtime

Chapter 670: Mikael, Kevin, and Ying - the Overtime Trio

"Today (April 2) at 19:00, the promotion ceremony began with the solemn song of the Earth. At the promotion ceremony for the Inner Asia Region Major General held by the United Government, Archbishop Theresa Apokalis personally signed and read out the order for promotion to the rank of Major General. The head of Shenzhou Taixu, Ms. Li Sushang, presided over the promotion ceremony.

"The officers promoted to the rank of Major General this time are: Captain Famas Statlak of the 135th Search and Rescue Construction Brigade of the Inner Asia Region, and Deputy Captain Vashak Princes of the 135th Search and Rescue Construction Brigade of the Inner Asia Region.

"The two officers who were promoted to the rank of major general came to the rostrum in high spirits. Ms. Theresa Apokalis presented them with orders and congratulated them. She also emphasized the outstanding contributions made by the two officers in stabilizing the order of the Inner Asia Region and rebuilding the Inner Asia Region. The two officers wearing the shoulder straps of the rank of major general saluted Ms. Theresa Apokalis, Ms. Li Suchang, and all the comrades participating in the ceremony, and the audience burst into warm applause.

"The promotion ceremony ended with the loud military song of the Inner Asia Region. Afterwards, Ms. Theresa Apokalis, Ms. Li Suchang and other leaders took photos with the officers who were promoted to the rank of major general. ”

In order to save electricity, the fluorescent lights were turned off. In the dark office, slender fingers were clacking on the keyboard. Soon, with the final period, an impeccable official document was completed. The silver-haired man raised his hand and held the mouse to skillfully open the mailbox. After typing the recipient's address, he pressed the return key in a cool manner, then raised his hands high, kicked his feet and floated back with the stool, and did not forget to shout to the pink-haired woman in the front seat:

"The copy is ready and sent to you, Ying. There are still seventeen minutes before the deadline set by Team Leader Himiko. You can directly convert the copy into subtitles and paste it, and then add an AI synthesized voice to read it aloud. We will get the overtime pay of 100 yuan each! "

"Well, I got it. AI synthesized voice is still convenient..."

Listening to Ying's sigh, Mikael stood up while stretching. He first went to the toilet and washed his hands, then stopped in front of the vending machine in the corridor outside the office, bought three cans of coffee, and then walked back slowly.

Kevin's blue eyes turned, cleared his throat, and couldn't help but raise his voice a little.

If you keep your eyes fixed on the front, you will look a little wise, so Mikael's eyes swept and saw Ying holding a can of coffee in her hand, as if to warm her hands.

"Ha-you are actually watching V?"

"It's because I'm free and my salary is not high enough, so I have to code to make extra money."

Mikael pulled the pull ring, and the cold and smooth liquid swirled in the tongue cavity, and was swallowed after the bitterness was fully diffused.

"You watch so seriously, you don't like this anchor, do you? "

"I can't say it's very clear, but if you are stared at by someone for a long time, you will always have a feeling."

"I don't know. I don't know who that person is, and I probably haven't... gotten along with him... But I occasionally wake up from a tired dream, and I feel like I have had a very long dream. The specific content of the dream has long been forgotten. I only remember that I seem to have experienced an extremely long war. The double pain of the mind and the body, as well as the strong loneliness and emptiness, always wake me up in the middle of the night-wasn't it because of this that you recommended your classmate Su to prescribe some medicine for me.

"No."

My heart beat quickly, and Mikael was not unfamiliar with this feeling.

"Is the home code bad? Don't you have a graduate student girlfriend who has been dating since high school? I remember you said before that she was originally studying in another province, and this time she and her mentor Dr. Mebius were transferred to Canghai University together."

"My name is Fu Hua... No, just call me Hua."

When I first met Ying, when I first met Kevin... I had similar feelings.

"Uh... Be careful not to get caught by Minister Weiwei... She will definitely force you to be her assistant in performing magic at the next holiday party..."

"Uh, thank you."

"What are you talking about?"

Ying shook her head awkwardly, and then rushed into the convenience store.

"Ahhh! You are so disgusting, stay away from me! Stay away from me!"

"Well... Generally speaking, the person you are waiting for is your childhood sweetheart, right? When you were very young, both parties made some promises, but as you grew up and separated, those memories were buried, and only some seemingly true and false echoes were left in the end."

He saw the cartoon girl making a heart shape on the screen and waving her hand. Mikael knew that she was going to go off the air.

"Are you two done? Let's go... Who has the key?"

Kevin pursed his lips and clapped his hands:

When he walked to the gate of the community, Mikael suddenly spoke.

"Ling and I are classmates. We met before when you picked her up from school for her sister."

She stood there like an old pine tree, without any movement, and almost no one would notice her. Only her long hair was lifted by the wind that ran through the street, swaying like the branches of pine trees.

"That's wrong. I invited you to drink coffee, why did you want to kill me?"

When there were few people in the live broadcast room before, he would still type some barrages to communicate with her. Now, even if he said something, it would be drowned in a large number of barrages and could not be seen.

But Mikael had already walked past her.

Mikael pinched his chin and nodded.

When you really fall in love with someone, you probably won't be rational, and you may not even be able to tell a single good thing about that person, but you just fall in love with them.

"I... uh... I'll say it first, Kevin. I'll say it later, so don't laugh at me."

"Mikael! I'm going to kill you!!"

"Here I am."

When it was Kevin's turn at last, he wanted to say good night coolly, but he finally reacted belatedly.

While I was still thinking about it, Kevin gave me a gentle pat on my head.

The elevator door opened, and everyone in the elevator breathed a sigh of relief before they each ran to their next stop.

As the two of them spoke, they both turned sideways and looked at Kevin for some reason.

"Then you must balance work and rest... No, this anchor named Miss Pink Fairy, I have seen you watch it while working overtime several times..."

"Give both to Kevin."

Mikael and Kevin said goodbye in tacit agreement.

"Honestly, based on my experience, if you say that, you probably have no chance with her..."

"Also, the night I met Sakura for the first time, I had a strange dream, which was different from the previous dream... Alas, it is really difficult to explain. In short, if Sakura is really that person, I will meet her after I meet her. I should never have that kind of dream again, but the fact is, that kind of dream still continues, and it still reminds me that I want to meet someone again.”

"Huh? I'm going to sue you for slander!"

Finally, when Sakura walked out of the convenience store carrying a black plastic bag, Mikael was holding his head proudly. Kevin, on the other hand, was sitting on a stone ball beside the road, with flour between his legs and a sad face. .

Kevin quickly ran out with his bag. Mikael closed the office door, and then the three of them moved forward. The voice-activated light in the elevator turned on by itself when they heard the footsteps. Sakura pressed the elevator button, and Mikael He turned around and took out the key left by Himihu and locked the door of the company. Only Kevin was there drinking coffee with nothing to do.

"Speaking of which, in our media company, you, a guy from the technical security department, shouldn't be idle all day long, right? Why do you feel like you work overtime more frequently than me and Sakura?"

"Uh...well...you're right..."

The silver-gray pupils silently reflected the image of a smiling cartoon girl on the computer screen. Although Kevin was wearing headphones and couldn't hear the sound, even though he didn't know what she was talking about, he still felt relaxed in his heart.

"What, what does she want to buy..."

"This...can't be a prophetic dream, right? Mei told me about this kind of dream...By the way, do you still remember the appearance of the person in the dream? In particular, are there any easily identifiable features?"

Sakura was busy, but she didn't forget to turn around and give Mikael a smile.

"Who are you……"

But this time, Kevin was also extremely candid:

"Um……"

"Isn't tomorrow the weekend? Mei will have to do experiments all day tomorrow. I have nothing to do. Why don't I go with you to see it?"

"Pfft...hahahahaha!"

"I may have to move in a while. The monthly rent for one person is two thousand five thousand. Although it is cheap in Canghai City, it is really too much to bear."

The girl in front of her blinked slowly and calmly introduced herself:

"Why don't you give me both?"

In fact, he didn't pay much attention to other people when he picked up the bell from school, and he didn't know if he really saw this girl, but the other party should have an impression of him, right?

How else to explain it? Could it be that we met in a dream?

As if it was an illusion, there seemed to be light in the eyes of the girl in front of her, and the brilliance was constantly flowing, but she quickly closed her eyes.

"Don't you want to drink?"

"Uh...was it for me?"

"When did you come back? I didn't hear a sound."

"Since I am Ling's classmate, I... well, where is he?"

"Isn't your Mei going to do an experiment tomorrow?"

Kevin was holding the can high up, shaking it slightly to let the last drop of coffee flow into his mouth. Suddenly, he found himself being stared at by two people, and he was inevitably a little embarrassed.

"What do you see me doing?"

"I don't know. But that feeling is quite real, 'I will spend my whole life waiting for her, even if we meet again at the moment before death', that's the feeling. Before that, I didn't plan to start any relationship. emotion."

"Also, I remember that more than once, when she had to stay and work overtime but you didn't need it, did she ask you to help her pick up her sister from school? How could she let a member of the opposite sex pick up her sister if she didn't have special trust? ? "Aren't you afraid of something happening?"

"Then let's separate here? Tomorrow is the weekend, so let's stay in bed together. Good night!"

"Then why did you..."

Kevin was no exception, but Mikael was unusually calm.

"No, I don't think so. When I met Sakura, I did have a...how should I put it, when I met you, I also had this...very familiar feeling, as if I had met you too late."

"Seriously, Michael, don't you think Sakura is interested in you?"

Mikael waved his hands indifferently, neither refuting nor agreeing.

"Don't make trouble, I'm serious..."

"Uh...what's the problem?"

"It doesn't matter to me. I have the medicine prescribed by Su, so there's no way I can't sleep."

"Uh... I don't have anything to buy."

"ah?"

In order to prevent Kevin from saying anything embarrassing to everyone, Mikael simply confessed.

"Mikael is not free tomorrow, have you forgotten? Eden is coming to Canghai City to hold a concert tomorrow night."

"Yes, she will stay with you every time you work overtime..."

Mikael touched his nose.

Kevin picked up the coffee on the table, straightened the headphone cord, and drank half the can in a flash.

"abnormal!"

"Who said I want to go to the concert with Mei? I can't go with Su?"

Sakura's figure quickly disappeared from sight. Kevin closed the computer, put the headphones and water bottle in his bag, and leaned into Mikael's ear and asked:

"Did you buy another can?"

Mikael's brows frowned slightly - why was Sakura's eyes flashing as if she was very excited while pointing at them and scolding them as perverts?

But no matter what, the three of them soon set foot on the road home again.

"I made an appointment with Ling before to take her to the amusement park. That child... is not very interested in music."

After walking only two steps, Kevin suddenly stopped Mikael, pointed to the convenience store nearby with his thumb and said:

"Uh... Well, Mei just sent a message asking me to buy some flour. Why don't you leave first? Or, do you have anything to buy? Let's go together?"

"What does this have to do with knowing?"

Mikael's lips wriggled twice, and then turned away.

"Are you familiar? To be honest, I also feel very familiar with this pink fairy lady... How should I put it, sometimes, it seems that I can always predict what she will say in advance, and it is not something I am familiar with after seeing too much, but the first time I am familiar with it. I felt this way once I watched her live broadcast.”

Mikael placed one of the cans of warm coffee on Sakura's desk, deliberately keeping a certain distance from her hands that were operating the computer.

"Huh? It seems so."

Mikael smiled awkwardly and scratched the back of his head.

"Ah? What does that have to do with him? Oh... oh oh oh!"

Looking back, Mikael noticed a gray-haired girl standing behind him.

"Isn't that Sakura?"

"ha?"

"I feel... of course I have feelings. After all, Sakura is also a very beautiful girl, and our partners work well together. And she is also very generous. When she first joined the company last summer, she treated everyone to watermelon every day. For a whole month, although the watermelon in Canghai City was much cheaper than in her hometown of Jidong, it was still a big expense. Well... I just don't know if she is the type to spend money lavishly. The most important thing is that she can also do kendo. , that’s simply Taikoo!”

Kevin wanted to ask more questions, but the elevator suddenly stopped on the eighth floor.

Sakura denied it flatly.

"I want to buy some... uh, that thing. I'll go with Kevin. Are you waiting for us here?"

Sakura took a deep breath and couldn't help but said a kind blessing:

"have a good night."

Seeing that Mikael didn't look like he was joking, Kevin also started to analyze it seriously.

Mikael and Sakura both backed away, and several unknown men and women in formal attire walked in while chatting and laughing. However, after seeing strangers in the elevator, the laughter disappeared in an instant, and everyone maintained a tacit understanding. There was silence until the elevator stopped on the first floor again.

"I want to buy sanitary napkins."

The two people soon started to quarrel, and their hands began to touch each other's butts intentionally or unintentionally...

By the time she reacted, Sakura had already stood up while taking off her headphones, and the computer screen was flashing a shutdown animation.

Mikael rubbed his brows tiredly.

Snap——

Mikael laughed twice and stopped thinking deeply.

"I really didn't say anything."

"Okay, then we'll wait for you."

Kevin was stunned for a while, and finally realized something——

"What are you doing here? Did you see a beautiful woman on the roadside?"

Sakura covered her mouth and suppressed laughter.

Mikael walked around the desk, pulled out the stool next to Kevin and sat down. From that angle, he could clearly see the screen on Kevin's computer.

The elevator has to cover a distance of more than ten floors, so it will inevitably take some time.

"Is there any..."

After a brief hesitation, Mikael spoke with some expectation.

"It's not easy to find a shared apartment... You are the only people I know well in the company. You want to share the apartment with Mei, Sakura and Suzu. It's not suitable for me to go anywhere... Forget it, we'll talk about it later. The worst case scenario is to join the Himiko group. long."

"Yeah, late... wait... I... I... I just drank coffee!!!"

"Are you a middle school student who didn't graduate?"

"I slapped his butt thirteen times, pinched him seven times, kicked him four times, and he touched me twice."

Whenever similar topics are discussed among men, they will inevitably become excited.

It seemed like it was really just a dream brought by the evening breeze in mid-spring.

"He invited you to a concert?"

"Is there any?"

There are only a few residential areas near the company. They need to be close together and the rent should be relatively low. After many choices, everyone finally gathered together. The distance between them is only a few buildings and tens of meters.

As soon as Mikael loosened his fingers, the two tickets were in Kevin's hands.

Kevin volunteered to raise his hand, but before Mikael could say anything, Sakura had already spoken:

"I'll definitely wait for you, but what do you want to buy?"

"Then what is he doing?"

In response to Kevin's interruption, Mikael just shook his head in disbelief.

"Thanks."

Mikael scratched the back of his head in confusion, confused.

"Well, here you go, you asked me to work overtime last time."

"Well……"

Kevin smirked and was about to get the tickets.

"Stop talking nonsense! Don't run away if you can!"

Mikael was a little hesitant and embarrassed, but finally decided to take this opportunity to say what he had hidden deep in his heart for a long time.

"But there are also times when you just need the copywriter to work overtime, so she stays with you, right?"

It's really strange. Even if he didn't hear anything, the cartoon leather case couldn't faithfully restore the lip reading, but Mikael still knew what the girl was saying and what she would say.

"What are you two talking about together?"

"Hey!"

Mikael responded with a meaningless sound, and then said:

"Stop! Stop fighting!"

"Characteristics...does long pink hair count?"

Although most of what Mikael said were the advantages of the other person, if a person can list the advantages and disadvantages of a person of the opposite sex so rationally and objectively, it means that he is rational in his view of the other person.

"Well... then you are actually quite suitable to be a killer."

"How is that possible? It's just a leather case. Who knows what she looks like under the leather case? Maybe she's still a boy."

"Oh, stop it! Stop it! Stop talking. I don't dare to watch it anymore..."

Sakura stood on tiptoes, tilted her head, and responded with a smile.

Mikael didn't hide anything and responded openly - sometimes when faced with ambiguous teasing, this is the best way to deal with it. After all, what the teaser wants to see is just a red-faced denial by the teaser. , and get pleasure from it. As long as you stay calm, the other party will become less interested, and there will be less trouble in the future... But where do these insights come from?

He quickly took out two more concert tickets from his pocket.

"Uh... with all due respect, may I ask... have we ever known each other?"

Kevin quickly reacted and turned from defense to offense, but what he faced was Mikael's confused and sad face.

"Don't worry! I won't be caught!"

Mikael stood up quickly and pushed the chair back under the desk. As he walked out, he looked at the fox-eared headband that Sakura didn't wear before going to the toilet. He suppressed his facial expression and asked with some guilt:

However, when he tried to continue the conversation, the girl in front of him had disappeared without a trace.

"What's wrong?"

"Someone from the Eden team told leader Himihu that Eden has prepared a 'big news' for tomorrow's concert, and we must go there and squat."

A voice without sadness or joy came from behind. At first glance, it was a bit difficult to tell whether it was male or female.

"I almost forgot. I really wanted to invite Sakura to the concert, but then the team leader said that I would go to the scene to do news, so I wanted to take out these two tickets, but the team leader said that the company had already bought them Tickets...Tsk. So what do you think of these two tickets? One for each of you, or one for each of Sakura and Ling?"

He came to the work station with a blue light on the screen in the other corner of the office, and placed the iced coffee in front of the white-haired man.

"Huh? I just came."

Kevin waved his hands twitchingly and winked wildly, but Mikael only thought he was expressing "spicy eyes".

Sakura was stunned for a moment, then smiled back:

"No, it's the same bottle as before."

"What's wrong?"

"Huh? Then where are you moving to? Why don't you find someone to share your apartment with?"

"Ah, you guy, you don't always know, do you?"

"I see... there aren't many people with pink hair, unless they are dyed, but this is not the second dimension. Pink is the color of death hair... It can't be that pink fairy lady, hahaha!"

"have no idea."

"I definitely have some good feelings, but more importantly, I feel a little familiar."

"ha?"

Kevin stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Mikael, but the latter didn't pay attention at all.

"Actually, for so many years, I have had a strange feeling - I feel like I am waiting for something, waiting... to meet someone again. I want to see her again, I must see her again. No matter how I see her, What will happen after meeting her, whether we will fall in love with each other or break up, but only after meeting her can I decide... can I decide a lot of things what I want to do, decide me..."

"I don't know."

Sometimes, Mikael understands that there is something wrong with his memory, and many similar experiences and insights cannot be traced back to their roots in memory. Maybe he has fallen into the paradox of a brain in a vat, and maybe the whole world is his imagination - when it comes to extremes, it's not like Mikael has never thought this.

"Yeah, otherwise."

Her tone was still calm, but there seemed to be a little more noise, not as quiet as before.

"..."

It seems that some things that have been lost are being found again, but when I look at myself, I seem to find nothing.

"Didn't you say that you 'concentrate on your work'?"

Kevin joked heartlessly, and Mikael shrugged:

"Don't worry, I'm a professional in matters such as love. How could I laugh at you?"

In the dark corner with only the blue light of the screen, two men looked at me and I looked at you, speechless for a moment.

When he first started following her, her live broadcast room had at most seven or eight people, but now it has seven or eight thousand people.

She was probably in junior high school, and her eyes were a similar blue to Kevin's, but not as bright, instead there was a kind of calmness after going through vicissitudes of life.

He could always think ahead of time what she was going to say and what she would say next, as if they were actually quite familiar friends, but...

"Good night!"

Sakura's voice was steady, without any fluctuations.

This had happened more than once, and Mikael had no special fetish for leather suits. No matter how exquisite the leather suits were, they were just fake masks after all. But this pink fairy lady gave him a different feeling.

"Yes, we have met."

But I don't know if Kevin took too much pictures, Mikael soon hesitated again:

"Well... where should I start..."

"Huh? So you are like this too?"

But the next moment, Sakura's voice sounded behind Mikael:

Kevin remembered that he was like this when he faced Mei.

"But, within a few seconds after waking up from the dream, the specific content faded away like the tide, and the last thing I could see was a pale and empty beach. Something was trying to make a sound, dong dong dong, but on the open beach, the sound quickly dispersed in all directions. In the end, apart from those "feelings", the only thing left was that at the end of the dream, I seemed to have made a promise with that person that we must meet again."

Sakura tilted her head speechlessly, "Do you have anything else to do? If not, wait for me to go to the bathroom, and we can go home together."

"Um..."

"It's because it's in Mebiu I work under Dr. S, so I'm very busy. Sometimes I live a life of day and night in the laboratory. Even if I go back to the house now, there will be no one. I might as well concentrate on working for a while in the company - and I can save a lot of electricity bills, don't you think? "

"Nothing."

"Oh, it's already this late! The beautiful day is about to end. Everyone must give the last time to the ones they love, or the ones who love themselves! Then...see you tomorrow!"

Mikael opened his lips slightly, staring blankly at the place where the girl was originally standing, until Kevin threw a bag of flour on his butt.

"Is that so..."

After Kevin finished speaking, Ying turned her head and looked at Mikael.

Kevin drank the coffee that Mikael offered him and patted the latter's shoulder generously.

"Huh? Could it be you too?"

"That's because we're in the same group. If we have to work overtime, we'll definitely work overtime together."

With a "ding" sound, the elevator arrived quickly. The three of them quickly filled up the space in the elevator. Kevin took the initiative to shrink into the corner behind Mikael. Ying stood in the middle of the elevator, next to Mikael. Their arms were close to each other, separated by only two layers of clothes. Mikael had nowhere to hide and could only pretend that he knew nothing.

When Mikael finished this long string of words, Kevin couldn't help but sigh softly, his eyes seemed to be avoiding something, and he quickly turned to the side.

"Uh uh uh... cough cough! Then how about you tell me first, do you feel about Ying?"

"Uh... You won't be able to sleep if you drink so late, right?"

The noise was so cheerful that it was transmitted particularly far away in the silent night.

On a tall building not far away, the girl named "Hua" instead of "Fu Hua" held her long gray hair blown by the wind, smiled and turned away.