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Chapter 196: Isn’t that honest enough?
By the time Shousui put on his shoes and tidied his wrinkled clothes, and filled his stomach with the meat on the coffee table and went downstairs, Gu Xulin was still talking to a burly middle-aged man downstairs.
Shousui walked towards them.
"Who is this?" The man looked at the strange young man walking towards them and couldn't help but ask Gu Xulin.
Gu Xulin turned his head and glanced at Shousui, and said to the man simply and concisely, just as he had introduced him to others before, "A new friend."
Perhaps he was afraid of the same embarrassment as before, when Xiang Aoqing greeted him enthusiastically but was rejected by Shou Sui, so Gu Xulin did not plan to introduce them to each other this time. He just said a few more words to the middle-aged man and then said goodbye, "Then you go and do your work. If you need anything, come to me. I'll take my friends to look around first."
"Okay." The man responded and was about to leave.
"Wait a minute," Gu Xulin shouted at him as if he remembered something.
The man turned around and asked, "Anything else you want me to do?"
Gu Xulin estimated the time and said to the man, "I have a few guests coming around in the evening. Ask Ao Qing and the others to prepare some more food to entertain the guests."
"Guest?" A trace of surprise and confusion appeared on the man's face. Living in the apocalyptic world, he had not heard this word for a long time. At this moment, when he heard Gu Xulin say "I have guests coming in the evening" instead of "I rescued a few survivors and they will probably arrive at the base in the evening", the man felt as if he had returned to the pre-apocalyptic world.
"Well," Gu Xulin added, "Prepare five more portions for dinner, and three more portions of raw meat. That's about it, and we can add more if it's not enough."
"Okay." Seeing that Gu Xulin had a serious expression and didn't look like he was lying, the man agreed without asking any more questions.
After Gu Xulin gave the man instructions, he took Shousui out and they did not return until the evening.
Along the way, Gu Xulin took Shousui around the town and saw many survivors who had gathered here and set up camp. Among them were men, women, young and old, but the oldest was only in his forties or fifties, and the youngest was only seven or eight years old.
Everyone here respects and is grateful to Gu Xulin. Shousui can see from their eyes and every greeting to Gu Xulin how the love here comes from the bottom of their hearts and turns into smiles to greet them.
No matter how cold Gu Xulin's face was, it did not affect their enthusiasm at all. When they saw Shousui, a stranger, they were more curious than wary.
Gu Xulin also took Shousui to the lower village to see the breeding ranch they had built, as well as the crops planted on the land waiting for the autumn harvest. They were self-sufficient in all their daily needs, and Gu Xulin's people set up defenses around the base for security, and other materials, electricity and other energy sources were also solved by Gu Xulin.
After seeing the living environment of their base, Shousui realized that it was deserved that Gu Xulin was loved by them.
On the way back, Shousui didn't quite understand Gu Xulin's intention. He glanced at the man and asked, "So, why did you bring me here? What's your purpose?"
"Don't tell me again that you like me or don't like me. I can see that you are a little interested in me, but it's not love at all." Shousui said impatiently.
Gu Xulin turned his head to look at him and smiled, "Haven't I been good enough to you since I changed my mind? How can you tell that I don't like you?"
"Eyes." Shousui pointed out bluntly.
"Oh? Tell me about it?" Gu Xulin raised his eyebrows at him with interest.
"It's different from He Ci's."
"..."
After the comparison, Shou Sui saw it more clearly. The look in He Ci's eyes when he looked at him was not only gentle and tolerant, but also full of passion and desire, but Gu Xulin was different.
Although the man had brought him here captive, Gu Xulin had never treated him like a captive. Not only did he provide him with good food and drink within his ability, but he was also very good-tempered. Take this morning, for example, Shousui had pissed him off so much that almost everyone was unhappy, but Gu Xulin had not hurt his life.
Although Gu Xulin said that all this was because he liked him, Shousui could see that Gu Xulin probably only liked him as a friend.
Gu Xulin was speechless for a moment before continuing, "I have no other purpose, I just want to make friends with you."
"Just making friends?" Shousui glanced at the man suspiciously, "Didn't you want to kill me before?"
"Didn't I tell you that I changed my mind and didn't want to kill him anymore?"
"Ha, isn't this your mission? Although I don't like your mission and I hate talking to you about it," Shousui frowned, "but how are you going to explain to your system if you give up the mission?"
"Are you willing to die in my hands?" Gu Xulin looked at Shousui with a smile instead of answering.
"Get lost!" Shousui cursed, "I'll fight you with all my strength and it's not certain who will die!"
Gu Xulin smiled, and then answered, "Change the task, what else can I do?"
"Your system won't embarrass you?"
"This is nothing you should worry about."
Shousui rolled his eyes at Gu Xulin and said bluntly, "Isn't this because I doubt your intentions? You said you wanted to kill me one second, and you wanted to be friends with me the next. Anyone would be suspicious!"
"I brought you here and told you all my secrets. Isn't that honest enough?" Gu Xulin spread his fingers and pointed at the surroundings and asked Shousui.
"..." Well, he was quite honest, and didn't seem to have any ulterior motives. Shousui admitted it, and then asked curiously, "Then why do you want to be friends with me? Even at the cost of defying the system?"
Gu Xulin counted the reasons and replied, "First, I think you are quite interesting. Second, I can't beat He Ci. Third..." He pondered for a moment before adding, "The reason Xi Yan gave is not sufficient. I have received a good education since I was a child. I have a very upright moral character. I can't kill you just because of his personal grudge, can I?"
"Besides, you, He Ci and I are all the same kind of people. If you are the same kind of people, why do you have to fight to the death? Isn't being friends also an option?"
Shousui looked at him and nodded, "That's true."
"Okay, I promise to be your friend!" Shousui stopped and turned to the man beside him, and extended his right hand to him formally, "Thank you for saving me from Fuso that day!"
Gu Xulin stopped and looked at the bony hand stretched out in front of him. He smiled and shook hands with Shousui, "You're welcome!"
As they were talking, the two had already returned to the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
Going up to the second floor, Xiang Aoqing and several other men and women were still busy shuttling between the restaurant and the kitchen preparing dinner. However, Shousui saw that there were already many dishes on the long dining table in the restaurant, more than enough for them to finish. Why did they still feel it was not enough?
Just as Shousui was wondering, he suddenly remembered what Gu Xulin had told the middle-aged man before he left the house in the morning. He couldn't help but ask Gu Xulin, "That morning you said you had guests coming. What kind of guests do you need to prepare so much food?"
Gu Xulin walked towards the bar in the beverage area. After hearing Shousui's question, he glanced back at Shousui and smiled, "Aren't you quite smart? How come you can't guess who the guest is?"
Shousui frowned and thought for a while. When an answer came to his mind, he stared, "Could it be..."
Before the sun set, Xiang Aonan was called by Uncle Song to the entrance of Xinxi Village in the town to wait and welcome the guests that Gu Xulin mentioned.
But until the red sun set in the west and the sky began to turn light gray, Xiang Aonan still hadn't seen a single person.
He was so bored that he sat on the cement floor, using a stone to draw circles on the ground to trap an ant. Seeing that it was getting dark, Xiang Aonan looked up at the man next to him and asked, "Uncle Song, is the guest that Brother Gu said is coming?" They had been waiting here for an hour and no one showed up. Xiang Aonan said that his patience was almost running out.
"He should come," Song Jianguo was not too sure, but thinking that Gu Xulin was so sure, he chose to believe and continue to wait, "Wait a little longer, why rush? If Xiaolin says he will come, he will definitely come."
"Ok."
Almost as soon as Xiang Aonan's voice fell without much energy, Song Jianguo saw a car with its lights on coming from afar on the road in the distance. His eyes lit up and he hurriedly called out to the person on the ground, "Here it comes, hurry up and get up."
"Where is it?" Xiang Aonan jumped up from the ground and looked ahead. When he saw a car coming towards him, he sighed, "It's finally here. If it hadn't come earlier, I would have suspected that Brother Gu was playing a trick on us."
They thought there was only one car, but when it drove closer, Xiang Aonan and Song Jianguo discovered that there were two cars.
Before seeing seven people getting out of the two cars and walking towards them, Xiang Aonan and the others were skeptical about what Gu Xulin said about "guests". They never expected it to be true.
Song Jianguo greeted the man in front with a amiable smile and asked politely, "Excuse me, is this He Ci, Brother He?"
"How do you know me? Who are you?" He Ci looked surprised.
When he was still in the car, he saw from a distance two people waving at their car at the intersection ahead. He Ci thought they were survivors seeking help. Unexpectedly, when he got out of the car and took a look, before he could even ask, the other party actually called out his name?
Just when He Ci suspected that the other party was a survivor from Gu Xulin's base, the other party spoke again, "Major Gu told me that you would come. You should be our Major Gu's friends, right? My name is Song Jianguo. We have been waiting here for a long time. Major Gu has already ordered people to prepare food. Everyone, please follow me."
"???"
After hearing this, He Ci and his friends behind him were greatly surprised for a moment.
"Aren't we here to save Shou Sui?" Chi Yu asked a soul-searching question, "When did Gu Xulin become our friend?"
"Hongmen Banquet?" Luo Tingyu raised his eyebrows.
The first thing He Ci thought of after being surprised was that this might be the Hongmen Banquet set up by Gu Xulin?