Time in a collapsing world

In the kitchen, Sakura finally let Alicia take a hand, one washing the vegetables and the other cutting the vegetables. The scene seemed quite harmonious.

"Miss Alicia..." Sakura spoke up first.

"Just call me Alicia~?" Alicia pulled out the roots of the vegetables in her hands, "What's the matter, Sakura?"

"Li... do you also work at Fire Chaser Moth?" Sakura asked this question that she had been wanting to ask since the beginning. No, it was more of a verification than a question.

Dr. Mei said before that he took Ying to see a colleague. Based on her words, Ying could guess that this colleague must be someone she knew. But now the only people she cares about are her sister and Li. , excluding the child Ling, the only option left is Li.

Sakura took the vegetables that Alicia had just washed, and her chopping speed did not slow down because of talking, "Do you know what his job is in Fire Chaser?"

"'Yes'? Wow, it turns out that Sakura is also from the Fire Moth~?" Alicia heard the hidden meaning in Sakura's words. Of course, this was also because Sakura had no intention of hiding anything.

Sakura will still give a certain degree of trust to Li's friends. She believes in Li's vision.

"Yes." Sakura nodded.

"Sakura, which department are you in? Post-war cleanup? Or assassination? Or... logistics?" Alicia made a few guesses based on Sakura's temperament.

Hmm... I can cook, and I have good knife skills...

The more Alicia thought about it, the more likely it was that Sakura would work in the logistics department.

"Please don't go off topic, Miss Alicia." Sakura did not answer her this time, but brought the topic back.

"Okay, okay~?" Alicia handed the last vegetable to Sakura and leaned on the sink, "Li... He works as an assistant under an amiable doctor~ This A doctor calls him before every experiment. It can be said that Li played a very key role in her experiments~?"

"There is truth and lies in your words."

"Really? Then Sakura, where do you think I lied?" Faced with Sakura's doubts, Alicia didn't feel guilty at all, but asked directly.

"..." Sakura didn't respond. Although there was no evidence, she somehow felt that the word 'affable' in Alicia's mouth was probably a lie to her. The rest... Sakura's sixth sense told her that there was nothing wrong with it, but she just felt something was wrong.

"Sakura?" Alicia waved her hand in front of her eyes.

"...Thank you for your answer. I have one last question." Sakura came back to her senses and did not delve into the truth of Alicia's words. It's okay for her to know some things in her mind, and there's no need to get to the bottom of unimportant details.

"Are you asking about the gossip about Li?!" Alicia suddenly became excited. She indeed discovered a lot of little secrets about Li that she had kept in her heart. She wanted to share them with others!

"..." Sakura was in a dilemma. She hadn't thought of asking this question at first, but after Alicia mentioned it, she suddenly felt a little moved.

Li's gossip news...

I really want to know...

However, Sakura's will was still very firm. She shook her head and brought her thoughts back again.

"No, that's not what I want to ask..." Sakura managed her expression and said seriously: "What I want to ask is, is the relationship between you and Li really just colleagues?"

"Yes~?" Alicia said this without any hesitation, as if she didn't need to think about the answer at all, or in other words, she had already expected Sakura to ask this question.

Sakura frowned. Compared to before, she couldn't tell any more information from Alicia's smile this time, as if a clumsy actor was really starting to show off her talents.

"...I have no more questions."

...just colleagues?

"Huh? Just two questions? Then...it's my turn next~?" When Alicia's turn came, she immediately bombarded Sakura with a lot of questions she had prepared. Indiscriminate bombing.

"Where did you and Li first meet?"

"Do you have any photos of Li when she was a child?"

"Has Li confessed to someone before?"

"And there's more..."

Alicia had many questions, but they did not involve too much privacy between the two of them, and Sakura patiently answered the questions she could answer one by one, taking it as feedback.

……

On the other side, Li, who left early, didn't know that Alicia had obtained a lot of information about her past from Sakura, including even the fact that he wet the bed for fifteen days in a row when he was a child.

"Ok?"

Li stood at a traffic light intersection and looked to the opposite side of the road to his right in confusion. He could feel a line of sight secretly watching him from that direction.

And it was at this glance that Li saw a figure that stood out among the crowd.

Slightly messy long blue-black hair and those timid big sea-blue Kazilan eyes, hiss... isn't this the weird girl who changed her color from red to blue that night?

Looking at this situation, he is definitely targeting himself, right? !

Li struggled for a moment, but decided to take the initiative to meet him. It was a blessing or a curse, but it was a curse that could not be avoided. If she followed her back to the orphanage, Li was worried that her hometown would be torn apart by the blackened version of her.

Rather than dragging him, it would be better to negotiate while she is still in her sane blue form. Although this involves a very high risk, Li doesn't know if she will suddenly change color and turn herself into a puddle of flesh with a slap. , but it’s better than being taken directly to the base camp, right?

The girl was a little surprised and a little scared when she saw Li taking the initiative to walk towards her. She glanced at Li timidly, walked to a narrow alley next to her, and waved to Li to follow her in.

Li Chao looked inside for a while. The cute girl, the dark alley, and the suspicious man following the girl, well... they were good material. Unfortunately, Li Cai, as a suspicious man, might become a victim in this drama. .

Li sighed. Even though he was here, he had no reason to back down. After confirming again that no one was paying attention, Li immediately followed quickly. However, the two of them always maintained a distance of two or three meters. This was not because Li did it deliberately, but because the girl took the initiative to distance herself from him.

...Is she also afraid of something?

The two of them walked to the end of the alley. It was a deserted place, perfect for talking and doing unspeakable bad things.

Li stood at the only exit so that he could escape at any time after the conversation collapsed.

"Brother, you don't have to be so afraid of me..." The girl turned around. This time she restrained her inner cowardice and allowed her eyes to meet Li's, "She... the other me is sleeping. , you don’t have to worry that I will attack you suddenly.”