"You feed it once, and now it comes asking every time..."
It was nearly noon, yet the sky was still dim and hazy, as if it were early morning. It was hard to tell the time, and anyone caught in the gloom felt listless and drowsy.
Qi Si had only just woken up. In a rare break from his routine, he'd gone downstairs and bought breakfast from a snack shop at the morning market.
The seaweed in the Sea of Hopelessness instance had been so unappetizing that he desperately needed some normal food to reset his taste buds.
It was a weekday, so the park was nearly empty. Only four or five gray-haired old people were there, each accompanied by a preschool-aged child.
Qi Si, still in the prime of his youth, looked completely out of place, with far too much leisure on his hands.
He sat on a park bench, wrapped a handkerchief around his fingers, and pinched off a piece of sausage from his egg pancake.
A gaunt black dog had been waiting nearby for some time. It gazed up at the piece of meat between the young man's fingers, wagging its tail frantically.
Its eyes gleamed with greed, and its intent to beg for food was unmistakable.
Qi Si tossed the piece of meat to the ground. The black dog bent down and licked it into its mouth, swallowing it in one gulp. Then it raised its head again, wagging its tail even faster, like a windmill.
Feeling mischievous, Qi Si formed a black-and-red Identity Card between his fingers and tossed it to the ground.
The black dog licked it twice, realized it couldn't eat it, and looked up again.
It raised its front paws and clumsily pressed them together in a begging gesture. Who knew where