Chapter 52 The Roar of Bones

Chapter 52 The Roar of Bones

Shang Nan clasped his fingers on the bone in the middle of the table. The coldness under his fingers penetrated the skin and hit the bottom of his heart.

"It doesn't hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt."

Shang Nan looked at Lu Ji and picked up the knife and fork. His posture and expression when cutting the ingredients were quite leisurely and elegant. Apart from the white bones protruding from his sleeves, he looked quite normal.

Shannan asked again, "If there are missing parts, won't it fall apart?"

Lu Ji's posture was leisurely, "It can be reorganized."

"..."

After Lu Ji finished his meal, he raised an eyebrow at Shang Nan, waiting for the next step.

Shannan raised his finger and said, "Swear, I will always love you, otherwise..." He didn't think about it, he was not from this world after all, and he didn't know if the oath he swore could cross over to his original world.

"Otherwise, you will never be able to eat delicious tempura." Lu Ji said softly. Its neck bones were slightly curved and its pipes were unobstructed, supporting its head. No matter how you looked at it, it didn't look like it would say "If you don't like me, you can't eat it."Tempura" is the way to say it.

"No, it's not," Shannan leaned back in his chair, "otherwise I would have died badly."

After saying that, Shang Nan accepted the bones Lu Ji gave him and said, "Good night, Lu Ji."

Since he dares to like her, he dares to swear any oath, because he and the monster will never betray each other. They depend on each other in this world.

After going upstairs and approaching the room, Shannan heard the 14 prompt.

[14: The blackening value is -10, leaving 30, and the love value is 85.]

Shang Nan pushed open the door to the room. Li Xibei was still snoring and sleeping soundly. He passed by him carefully, climbed onto the bed, and asked 14: "Why is the love not worth 100%?"

[14: When the moon is full, it loses and water overflows. Even a human being will lose his mind if he loves you too much, let alone a monster. This is to protect you, not that he doesn’t love you. Monsters love you equally and can be with humans.of one hundred.]

Shang Nan put the bone under his pillow and looked at the ceiling, "14, I think I like this world very much."

[14: You said the same thing in your last world, and the rules at the beginning were that you could leave after the blackening value was cleared, and the system would pinch your ideology to stay in the world, but you refused at the time. You wanted toStay by yourself.]

[14: You don’t like this world, you like Lu Ji.]

[14: As expected of a monster.]

14 is supposed to be the person who knows Shannan best. There are three pages of Shannan’s real personal information, but almost all of them are locked. In the original world, its host must be a person with rich experience, otherwise he might not be in the world.You can remain calm when facing monsters.

Shannan was not sure when Lu Ji returned to the room. He struggled to fall asleep amidst Li Northwest's snoring. When he woke up, Li Northwest had disappeared. The quilt on the floor had been rolled up and placed on the sofa. There was a sound coming from outside the window.Come barking.

So, he had no choice but to get up.

The house is much livelier than usual. There is one more person in the kitchen, Mother Li. Uncle Li and Mother Li are discussing cooking skills. Mother Li has never seen the high-end ingredients and cannot cook them. She doesn’t even know many kitchen utensils, butShe wanted to cook a few meals for Shannan with her own hands, so Uncle Li was explaining to her how to use the things in the kitchen.

Mother Li has been in the countryside all year round. In the town, her specialty dishes are local flavor dishes and various side dishes. She peeled radishes to make pickled radish and dried radish, boiled beef tendon to make beef sauce, and said thisAll can be released.

Uncle Li loves food and is very busy with it.

The heat in the kitchen engulfed the entire kitchen, and Shang Nan could only see two figures wandering inside.

Mrs. Xiang came out of the room holding the phone, "I told you to use gold thread, gold thread, gold thread!"

Shonan poured a glass of water on the table and drank it, watching Mrs. Xiang scolding the person on the other end of the phone who might be a factory or a designer. After she finished scolding, she put the phone down hard and saw Shonan, she smiled slightly, "Morning."

Shang Nan: "Morning."

Mrs. Xiang tied up her hair with a headband, "The house we picked last time has several parts that need to be repaired. There are still a few pieces of furniture in the house that cannot be transported in until after the New Year. We will probably be able to move out after the New Year."

"Will Mei Mei come with us?" Shang Nan leaned on the back of the sofa and asked curiously.

"Xiao Nan," Mrs. Xiang smiled mysteriously, "do you know how enviable a widow with money and a backer can live?"

She thought Shan Nan didn't understand.

Shan Nan nodded, "I know."

Mrs. Xiang looked at Shan Nan for a while, then pointed at him, "If you are a bad student, I will tell the young master to go."

She turned around and went back to the room to fiddle with herself. She ran out of the room without makeup, without washing her face or brushing her teeth. Even if she was in the room, even if she was alone, Mrs. Xiang would dress up beautifully.

Shannan was going to find Lu Ji, who still had 30 blackening points to deal with.

The kitchen door opened, and Mother Li walked out. When she saw Shannan, she was startled, and her whole body began to feel happy and uneasy, "Why don't you sleep more?"

Shannan scratched his hair and said, "I can't sleep, it's a bit noisy outside."

"Oh, it's... it's your first brother. The outside is blocked by snow. He is shoveling the snow, and those wolf dogs are barking outside." In fact, they were not wolf dogs, but Mother Li didn't recognize them, and she only thought they were fierce..

"I'll go out and take a look." Shang Nan patted the back of the sofa and said to Li's mother by the way: "Don't be too tired. Just take a good rest here during this time. There are many people doing the work in the kitchen." He did not forget Li's mother.Xixi said that Li's mother was in poor health. She had given birth to three children. Li Xixi was already in her thirties, and she was almost an old person.

"Hey, hey." Mother Li only thought that Shannan was sensible, really sensible. When Li Xibei was his age, he was still in his rebellious stage, smoking, drinking and fighting. He had no shortage of three-piece suits.

Mr. Lu taught Shang Nan really well. Mr. Lu should become a teacher.

Shang Nan took a coat at the door and put it on. He put on his gloves and walked outside. Not only Li Beiwei was in the yard, but also Lu Ji. Li Beiwei was squatting in front of a dark snowmobile, holding a hand in his hand.Holding a shovel, he almost drooled, "Lu Ji, do you really want me to drive?"

The shovel in Lu Ji's hand stood by his feet, and the shovel squatted beside him, covered in snow, "I really give it to you."

Shang Nan strode over and looked at Li Northwest, "What are you doing?"

"Adults speak, children don't interrupt."

Shang Nan had no doubt at this moment that Lu Ji was trying to bribe Li Northwest.

Lu Ji dropped the shovel and pinched Shang Nan's face, "Shall I take you out for a walk?"

"Now?"

"I'll take you to Miwu Mountain. It's cold these days and there are few prey. We will release a batch of small animals such as chickens and rabbits into the mountain every three days. Counting the time, today is the day to release food. Maybe go nowYou can see foxes." Lu Ji's tone really sounded like he was raising a child - walking into nature, getting close to nature, and feeling nature.

Shangnan hid his chin in Maomao's collar, "Do you want to go?"

"I want to take you there."

"Then let's go."

One second it was the motorcycle that Li Xibei called "sexy baby", and the next second it fell into Shannan's hands.

This is a car specially designed for driving in the snow. The speed is not high, and there are almost no requirements for the driver's driving skills. This car does not require a driver's license.If you don't want to drive, you can tie a rope and let the dog pull you forward.

Shannan had never ridden such a bicycle. In the original world, it seemed that it didn't snow where he lived, let alone that there was no such thing as a snowmobile.

But it was easy to get started with. Although his height in this world was a bit of a hindrance, he had good proportions and his legs were long enough. He could ride on the bike as soon as he stepped across.

Lu Ji handed him the hat and put one on his own head.Then, he dragged Li Northwest a few steps back and sat behind him easily. He seemed to be able to move much more easily than Shang Nan.

Li Northwest looked at the two of them and felt something was wrong, because the outside world's evaluation of Lu Ji seemed to be different from the Lu Ji he saw. This feeling was very strange, "Aren't you going to take me?"

Lu Ji glanced at Li Northwest and said, "You can only bring one. Mr. Li, you can go to Mrs. Xiang to apply for another one. Thank you for your hard work."

"Let's go." Shang Nanyi turned the drive hard for half a turn. The snow in the yard had just been shoveled, and the manual shoveling was not as clean as the forklift. The snow that was still on the ground was lifted up by the wheels, giving Li Northwest a manual performance.It was snowing, and the screwdriver and the screwdriver who were rolling in the snow immediately spread their legs to chase Nan and Luji. They wanted to run in front of the car, but also wanted to look back at their two owners, and ran out of the S route.

Li Northwest looked at the extended wheel marks, held the shovel, and turned back to the house.

Miwu Mountain is covered with heavy snow, and all the vegetation and the winding mountain roads are covered with a thick layer of snow. The branches of the pine trees have been crushed and hang down from the trunks, like white waterfalls.

Shang Nan felt that Lu Ji's hand on his waist was very cold. His coat was specially prepared by Mrs. Xiang and was very thick. So when he felt the coldness of Lu Ji's fingers, he was startled and glanced down. Sure enough, it was almost...A strong finger bone was firmly clasped on his waist and abdomen, making Shannan feel like he was imprisoned by a hard steel cage.

The road leading to Miwu Mountain was also covered with thick snow and was rugged. The giant wheels were merciless when they rolled over the snow. Shannan was wearing gloves. There was fluff inside the gloves, so he didn't feel cold. He subconsciously wanted to go and take a look.Lu Ji, of course he couldn't turn around in this situation, he could only look through the rearview mirror.

The objects and figures in the mirror swayed at the same frequency as the car bumped. Shannan had a helmet, but Lu Ji didn't. There was no expression on the skeleton's face. It felt like it was being observed. It twisted its neck and looked behind.Shang Nan in the looking glass.

Even though he knew the other party was Lu Ji, Shan Nan's heart skipped a beat. Most of his attention was diverted at this moment. He was not looking at the road. The speed of the car was too fast. He hit a branch buried in the snow and the car immediately turned sideways.turn.

"Fuck." Shannan cursed subconsciously.

It didn't hurt at all, but this area was close to the mountains and forests, and there were all steep slopes. The day was spinning in front of him. Shannan rolled several times and fell face down into the snow. The cold made his teeth chatter.

He got up and said, "Bah." He spit out the snow in his mouth and wiped it off his face. He knelt in the snow and saw the skeleton standing in front of him - admiring Nan's eyes slowly moved up the trousers,Of course it was still wearing clothes, but the clothes looked a little empty, so it was not difficult to guess that the person in front of it had a complete skeleton.

The skeleton stretched out his hand and pulled Shangnan up from the snow.

This time, Lu Ji drove the car and rushed directly into Miwu Mountain.

Lu Ji's driving skills were very good, and he avoided all the branches, stones and pits covered with skin. Shang Nan hugged Lu Ji from behind. His curiosity was greatly increased. He touched the back of Lu Ji's head with his fingers. The back of his head was made of several pieces.It is made up of bones, and you can even see the seams that hold them together.

The frame has a very superior shape, no matter where it is.

Then came the neck bones, cold and slightly curved, extending most recently into the collar.

Shang Nan's arms hugging Lu Ji could be pulled in quite a bit, because there was no flesh, skin, or internal organs, and the fabric of the clothes covered the bones directly.

Shang Nan's fingers could feel the clear direction of Lu Ji's ribs, and upwards were the thoracic vertebrae.

Shang Nan didn't feel scared at all. He felt that he was very close to Lu Ji at this moment.

If Lu Ji has a temperature like humans, if it has a heart in its chest, then Shang Nan can not only touch its bones, but also directly feel the beating of its heart and the temperature of its bones.If there were still trachea and lung cavities under its bones, Shang Nan could still feel its rapid breathing.

But it had nothing, a cold skeleton, and its reaction to Shannan was very pale.

"Shua"!

A large white-tailed animal passed sideways in front of the car. It was so fast that it immediately attracted Shang Nan's attention, which was originally focused on Lu Ji.

"Lu Ji, what is it!"

Lu Ji adjusted his direction to pursue him.

Miwu Mountain was originally a private forest farm for the Lu family to hunt, and the roads inside were convenient for humans to walk or drive. Although the road was hidden by heavy snow, Lu Ji was not a human being, and the obstacles caused by the heavy snow could not hinder it at all.

The nature of monsters is paranoid and bloody, and they yearn for blood.

The strong wind brought by the speed of the car blew on Shang Nan's face, and even small branches swept over the two of them. Shang Nan hid behind Lu Ji, with snow falling on his back. Shang Nan was extremely cold, but he felt excited at the same time.He hugged Lu Ji hard, and his fingers went directly through Lu Ji's ribs - he directly grabbed one of Lu Ji's ribs to stabilize him.

"Lu Ji, what if I break it off?"

"Can you use it as a stick wielder?"

The skeleton didn't seem to like to talk much. It was focused on chasing the little animal.

The little thing was forced to stop in front of a hill that was too high. It was too high to jump up. When it heard the sound of the engine, it became more and more anxious and started chirping.

The car stopped and Shannan jumped out. His boots were immediately half buried in the snow. He saw that it was a small white fox. He probably came out to look for food and happened to be bumped into by them.

Shang Nan didn't want to catch it, "It's so beautiful."

Lu Ji got out of the car directly, took off his gloves and put them on the car, striding towards the little fox.

"Lu Ji, don't catch him, don't catch him..." Shang Nan chased him one step at a time.

The little fox put on an offensive stance towards the thing that came over, but when it saw the opponent clearly, it immediately put its tail between its legs and shouted low. It was picked up mercilessly, without even daring to flutter.

Shang Nan stood two meters away from Lu Ji, staring at the little fox whose eyes were as wide as his own. The skeleton walked up to Shang Nan and gently placed the little fox in Shang Nan's arms.

The fox's fur was very soft, and although it smelled a little bloody, the flaws were not concealed. Its claws were on my shoulders, clearly very nervous.

"Did I let it go?"

Lu Ji nodded.

Shang Nan placed the little fox in the snow, and the little fox took a few tentative steps. After making sure that he could not catch up, he immediately ran away and disappeared in a flash.

The surroundings were quiet, with the occasional chirping of birds, but it was very distant. The tree crowns overhead gathered together to form a tight white giant crown.

Shang Nan has a heartbeat, but Lu Ji does not. Lu Ji can hear the human heartbeat because it is too close to Shang Nan and because it is bound to Shang Nan's life.

The skeleton showed half of its face, with tiny snow particles on its eyelashes, which were warm and soft. It lowered its skull, grabbed Shan Nan's wrist, and pressed it against his body, "Touch for a while longer."

Shang Nan: "..."

Shang Nan directly grasped Lu Ji's throat and held it in his hand with a gentle squeeze. "Lu Ji, can you break it?"

"I told you, it can be reassembled after being broken." Lu Ji looked at the boy in front of him with a slightly red face and slightly white lips. He bent down and made a few small sounds between his bones.

Shang Nan's hand was pinched, and he was pushed into the snow. He sank deeply into the cold snow, and his field of vision was even blinded by the high piles of snow. Only Lu Ji and those few heads were left.The white crown of the tree, and... and the barking of the barkers not far away.

"Dog...dog..."

But Lu Ji couldn't hear it at all.

The skeleton's fingers were astonishingly cold, like snowflakes falling into clothes, but unlike snowflakes, the snowflakes only left coldness, but the place where the finger bones passed by burned.

Shang Nan is going crazy.

He was both cold and hot, and the extreme pull of the two worlds of ice and fire made him shed tears.

[14: The blackening value is reduced by 10, and the love value is 90.]

[14: I finally understand that as long as there is someone you really like, even if it is a monster, you will fall in love with it and feel that the whole world is beautiful.]

It was already an hour and a half after I got home, and lunch was already being put on the table.

Shang Nan was pushed into the room by Lu Ji. His face was white from the cold and his lips were red.

Mother Li was a little worried, "It's too cold outside. Why did we play for so long? My mouth is swollen from the cold."

In the whole room, only Mother Li has a simple mind.

It's not completely innocent. If Shang Nan went out with a little girl or a good friend of the same age, Li's mother would also think about love. But the person who went out with Shang Nan was Mr. Lu. How could Mr. Lu fall in love with Shang Nan?Ah, where is your love?

Shang Nan took off his snow-covered coat, "It's not freezing, the car overturned and hit me."

When she heard that the car had overturned, Mother Li was shocked. Her embarrassment and uneasiness immediately disappeared and she began to chatter.

Li Northwest sat in front of the dining table, frowning and said: "If it turns over, it will turn over. What's wrong with it? Isn't he fine? What a big deal, he is so young, even if his bones are broken, it won't have any impact."

Not long after he finished speaking, he was whipped twice by Li's mother, saying that fortunately Shannan grew up in the Lu family. If he had been under Li Beiwei's hands, he would have been either a top-notch person or a gangster.

Her words probably hurt Li Northwest's heart, and Li Northwest didn't speak for a long time.

When it was time to eat, everyone sat down. It could be seen that Lu Ji was in a good mood, with a smile on his face and eyes. He asked Mother Li to sit down at the main table.

"This won't work, this won't work, this won't work..." Mother Li waved her hands repeatedly, how could this work?

"You are Xiaonan's elder, that is, my elder. Please sit down."

Mother Li sat down flattered. At first, her hand holding the chopsticks was shaking.

Although at first glance, Mother Li is indeed the only elder here, but if you really want to calculate it, Lu Ji, who lived more than 600 years ago, is the real elder.

Shan Nan knew that Lu Ji was complimenting Mother Li. Lu Ji had so many rules. People who came to visit his home and disrespected him all took root in the rose garden behind. How could he calmly invite Mother Li to sit down?Next, it means that he accepts Mother Li as his elder from the bottom of his heart, and who is the reason for this acceptance? The answer is obvious, and there is no need to even guess.

Lu Ji sat next to Shang Nan, Li Northwest sat opposite Shang Nan, and Mrs. Xiang sat elegantly next to Li Northwest.

Li Xibei was hurt by Mother Li's behavior before and remained silent. Shannan thought about it and took the initiative to pick up a piece of beef for the other party and said, "Eat."

Lu Ji next to him covered his mouth and coughed a few times.

Shan Nan immediately took a piece for Lu Ji and said, "Eat it too."

Li Northwest also coughed.

"..."

Fortunately, there was a fuss in the first few minutes of the meal. Li Beixi thought that Shang Nan regarded Lu Ji as his brother, so he naturally felt a sense of crisis. He knew that this was inexplicable, and he knew that he and Shang Nan had no relationship at all..

But regarding blood ties, he treated Shannan as his younger brother the first time he saw Shannan, so he had very complicated feelings towards Lu Ji.

At night, a crescent moon appeared strangely in the sky, hanging above the treetops, like a lamp, yellow and clear.

The snow stopped, the snow outside the window illuminated half of the sky, and the room was also bright.

Li Northwest started snoring again, the decibels overwhelming all the movement outside.

Shang Nan threw a pillow at him, but it only made Li Northwest quiet for a few seconds, followed by regular snoring.

"Li Northwest, you'd better go see a doctor for me." Shang Nan whispered.

He hugged the pillow, slid out of bed, and tiptoed around Li Northwest. When he opened the door, Li Northwest said something in his sleep, and the movement of admiring Nan immediately stopped, and he remained motionless for a moment before continuing.

He was not afraid that Li Northwest would ask him where he was going. He went to the guest room, to the living room, to the yard to sit on the ground, but it was just troublesome. He was sleepy and wanted to sleep.

Mrs. Xiang prepared a guest room for Li Northwest, but Li Northwest refused to sleep. He said he wanted to cultivate a relationship with Shang Nan.But if the snoring continues, his plan may be ruined.

The guest room was on the first floor. Shannan met Lu Ji in the corridor. Lu Ji had been sleeping late. It was one thing that he couldn't sleep due to his age. It was also partly due to the fact that there were too many things in the company.

"Why are you running around in the middle of the night again?" Lu Ji frowned. He put out the lamp in his hand, "Where are you going with your pillow in your arms?"

Shang Nan yawned and said, "Li Xixi is snoring, I'm going to go to the guest room to sleep."

The room was well heated, and Shang Nan's pajamas were very thin, revealing her thin white collarbones and slender ankles, with the insteps hidden in slippers.

Lu Ji walked up two steps, took Shan Nan's hand, turned around and walked upstairs. He whispered, sounding like he was thinking about Shan Nan, "Don't you mind it? Go to me."A room is enough. It’s convenient for you to go back to your room in the morning. If you go back late, Mr. Li will definitely think that you dislike him.”

Shang Nan: "..."

"Lu Ji, I am eighteen years old, not eight." He said helplessly.

Lu Ji turned his head, and Senbai's skull was looming on his face, "Eight years old, eighteen years old, one hundred and eighty years old, there is no difference in my eyes."