novelAm I sort of useless?
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Chapter 25: Am I sort of useless?
Translator: DragonRider
This was Mimi's second jailbreak today.
Rong Yi checked the box and found that the buckle on the lid was loose. It looked like it was fastened, but in fact Mimi could slide out smoothly with a slight push from inside.
Rong Yi was stunned, holding the empty box, and his fingers turned icy cold as he panicked.
At least two hours had passed since he covered the box with the cloth. Whether Mimi had escaped from the box and whether or not it was still in his room was unknown.
He scanned his room quickly in panic and found nothing unusual.
Zhou Li's voice came from the phone: "Don't panic, it will not be very active when it's full. It's probably a bit scared in a strange place, so it wanted to find a safe corner. Usually it will be some small hidden space.
"I'm scared too!" Rong Yi wailed in a low voice into the phone, "What if it suddenly came out to bite me when it was frightened?"
"It's not likely..." Zhou Li's tone sounded very uncertain."Or, you can just let it be. It had been like this as well when it first came to my home. Just be careful not to step on it when you walk."
Rong Yi kept his voice down for fear of being heard by the other person at home: "No, if Chen Keyao saw him, he would collapse!"
Imagine if Mimi had crept all the way into Chen Keyao's room and even got into his bed when they were not looking. When Chen Keyao went to bed, he turned off the light and took off his clothes. Suddenly he felt something cold...
This human being and this snake both looked fierce, and both were also very gentle in nature, but in fact they were both particularly lethal. Once these two panicked at the same time, God knows what tragedy would happen.
It was hard to say what kind of kung fu power would burst out of Chen Keyao when he was in extreme panic. If Mimi died on the spot, not only would Rong Yi have a hard time explaining to Zhou Li, but the Lightning which had been half digested would also have died in vain.
So thinking along this line, Rong Yi thought it'd be better to tell Chen Keyao about it in advance so that he could be mentally prepared.
But on second thought, maybe Mimi had not gone far and was just hiding under his bed, which would not threaten Chen Keyao at all. Whereas if Rong Yi told Chen Keyao about this, Chen Keyao might be so worried that he would lose sleep, then his mind would go unstable and then he might burn the whole building down. Now that would be unnecessary.
Just as he was struggling, he suddenly heard an earth-shaking scream coming from the living room.
Flinging open the door, he saw Chen Keyao flying over the walls.
Rong Yi stared at him in shock as he flew up to the ceiling with one hand on the curtain pole, one foot on the corner of the ceiling. Sprawling all over the ceiling, he was screaming loudly.
"Did you see..."
Before he finished, Chen Keyao shouted, "Snake! Snake!"
Although Rong Yi was scared too, this situation forced him to be brave. He took the empty box and went out cautiously."Where did you see it?"
"There!" Chen Keyao shouted from the ceiling.
"... Where?"
Chen Keyao couldn't spare his hands to point, so he raised his chin crazily: "There!! There!!!!"
Where his chin pointed at seemed to be the direction of the sofa.
Rong Yi walked over carefully, and appeased the frightened Spider-Man with a gentle voice: "Don't panic too much. Rest assured, I'll catch it right away."
"Why is it outside?" Chen Keyao seemed to be losing his support."Hurry up! I'm going to fall down!"
'Then come down!'
'Such a burly Alpha, and you're asking an Omega like me to protect you!'
Rong Yi was grumbling in his heart, but his voice was still trying to soothe: "Don't worry. I don't want to rush over just in case it should get panicked and run up the wall suddenly."
Unfortunately, this sentence had a negative effect.
Chen Keyao's pale face was instantly colourful.
Rong Yi went to the edge of the sofa, took a deep breath and slowly knelt down on the floor. He looked underneath the sofa for a while, then took out his mobile phone, turned on the flashlight and searched back and forth.
"Nothing under here." He looked up at the ceiling."Are you sure you saw it?"
Chen Keyao fell into hesitation.
Rong Yi stood up and said, "Did you just get yourself scared?"
Chen Keyao blinked twice in a daze.
Rong Yi couldn't put up with this anymore. He rolled his eyes, and then looked at Chen Keyao and pointed at the floor with great force: "You get down here right now!"
Chen Keyao still didn't dare to land his feet on the floor. He sat on the sofa with two long legs crossed in front of him. His face was tense.
"I was sitting here just now." His face still showed some residual panic."Suddenly something cool rubbed my ankle from under the sofa."
Rong Yi visualised the scene for a moment, and could also feel a chill coming down his spine.
"And then?"
"Then I looked down, and there seemed to be something black coming out from below, " Chen Keyao recalled, his face wrinkled."My goodness..."
"But I checked just now. There's nothing down there really."
Chen Keyao seemed to be unable to judge whether he was being a bit oversensitive for a while. After hesitating for a moment, he suddenly remembered something: "But, isn't this box empty? Where is it now?"
"..." Rong Yi was embarrassed."...It's definitely not under the sofa."
Chen Keyao's face was earth-coloured. He paused for a few seconds and took a deep breath. Then he cautiously got down to the floor and walked quickly to his room.
"What are you doing?" Rong Yi subconsciously followed him.
Chen Keyao rushed into his room, picked up a backpack, and then began to fill it.
"I'm going to stay elsewhere for a few days."
Rong Yi was shocked.
"Give me a call when you catch it?" Chen Keyao closed the laptop on his desk and stuffed it into his bag."Oh no... Let me know when you've sent it away."
"But..." Rong Yi was a bit caught up, "I am a little scared to stay here alone."
Chen Keyao looked up at him and then waved one hand, "Why are you still standing here then? Hurry and pack up your stuff. Let's go together!"
"..."
Rong Yi finally broke down and laughed.
He was a little scared, but not to that kind of extent. Chen Keyao was exaggerating too much.
"Don't worry, " he said, reaching for Chen Keyao's backpack belt."Give me half an hour, and I'll try to find it."
Chen Keyao stopped and looked at him, his face full of hesitation.
Rong Yi forced a smile and touched his head with his hand.
"Be good, " he said, turning and pointing to the sofa in the living room, "Just go and sit there."
Chen sat up on the sofa with his arms around his legs. Like a sunflower, he rotated around following Rong Yi's movement all over the apartment.
Seeing Rong Yi climbing up and down, and massaging his back after having got up from the floor again, Chen Keyao suddenly said,
"I'm sorry, " Chen Keyao looked a bit sheepish."Am I sort of useless?"
"Yes, " Rong Yi sighed as he sat on the floor."Your big stature is just such a waste."
"..."
Rong Yi turned around to look at him and couldn't help laughing again."Forget it, it's my fault too. I should have asked for your opinion first."
Chen Keyao said nothing.
In fact, half an hour had passed.
Probably because Mimi hid itself too well, the absence of its presence had lulled their sense of crisis. Chen Keyao's mood seemed to have stabilized a lot and he had no plans to run away from home for the time being.
When Rong Yi began to look for Mimi again, Chen Keyao said, "I'm not always so useless, right? I'm still quite reliable most of the time."
Rong Yi looked back at him again.
"No?" Chen Keyao looked at him.
Rong Yi shrugged with his hands outstretched and head tilted.
In fact, at the beginning of their acquaintance, he once thought Chen Keyao was a man of perfection.
He looked tall, handsome, mature, gentle and decent, full of sense of justice and courage, and extraordinary.
But now, the man huddled up on the sofa, childish, big-mouthed, and incapable of looking after himself. He was generally not a very sensitive person, but was totally frightened by a pet snake, even a little bit beside himself.
On this premise, he still insisted that he was reliable most of the time. Obviously he was not that perfect.
So many imperfections. It made Rong Yi want to laugh.
"You see, if you go shopping, I can still be your driver." Chen Keyao thought hard and finally enumerated one of his merits.
Rongy Yi went down to the floor and continued to look for the snake: "The shopping trips are to get the food that can be made into dishes for you."
"I can wash dishes!" Chen Keyao said.
Rong Yi did not raise his head: "I can too."
They had agreed from the very beginning that Rong Yi would cook and Chen Keyao would pay for food. They had not discussed who would wash the dishes. But so far, both of them have been very considerate, basically taking turns to do the dishes very harmoniously.
"I can also collect deliveries for you." Chen Keyao said again.
Since Rong Yi moved in, he was sure that there were people at home most of the time, so he did not leave his company address any more when he was shopping online. After all, the front desk people did not alert people about their deliveries and it was troublesome to carry deliveries home by himself.
"Now that you've mentioned it, " Rong Yi shook his head."Every time when the courier boy comes over in the morning to ring the doorbell, you're always fast asleep like a pig."
"..." Chen Keyao frowned."When you put it this way, I really don't seem to have any merits at all."
Rong Yi thought in his heart: In fact, you can also say, "If I hadn't come to save you that day, you might have lost your life."
This man was truly bizarre. He confronted a gangster with a knife with no hesitation, but a pet snake without aggression frightened him no end.
But in any sense, his merits were not limited to that.
If it had not been for him, Rong Yi would not have got a place to live now. He paid more for his meals than the rent, but in reality the food he bought was eaten by two people. If it had not been for this reason, where could Rong Yi have got the spare money to spend on chasing his idols?
Chen Keyao's father had told him before that Chen Keyao was a good-natured, generous man who would dote on his wife.
That was for sure. He was nice towards an ordinary tenant, or even the so-called lover of the ordinary tenant.
This usually careless man had some particularly caring behaviour. On the second day of Zhou Li's stay, out of curiosity, Rong Yi asked why Chen Keyao would prepare disposable toiletries at home. What's more, it was amazing how quickly he could find things at critical moments in contrast to his daily organisational skills.
Chen Keyao said that because he bought it the night before when he went to the convenience store. He thought that such things might become useful now that Rong Yi had brought someone back home.
What a strange person.
"Ah, and I wipe clean the table after eating every day, " Chen Keyao said.
This guy was still trying to figure out his strengths.
Rong Yi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but as soon as he looked up, he saw Chen Keyao was staring at him, his head resting on his knees.
"I can't express very well, " he looked at Rong Yi, "But I think I'm still reliable most of the time. Honestly."
Rong Yi hurriedly shifted his eyes.
The author's note:
Mimi: I hide my merit and fame extremely well.
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