"Got a death wish?" Boss glanced at him.
Everyone burst out laughing again.
"Hahaha, let's eat!" Wei Shan laughed, tearing open more food packaging and handing out the rare delicacies to everyone.
The aromas of all kinds of food drifted through the modestly sized Hidden Hide-and-Seek room.
For once, Kuai Hongji hummed an exotic little tune, tapping his fingers lightly against the table.
Mao Feiyang took a small cloth bag from inside his clothes and poured out Student Commemorative Coins with a clatter. After that night, he had somehow obtained a great many Student Commemorative Coins, but none of them had names. He counted them carefully, candlelight trembling against his lowered lashes.
Wei Shan devoured his food, as though nothing important could ever stop him from eating again.
Li Huiyuan rested her slightly flushed cheeks in her hands, looking over everyone present before her gaze finally settled on Lin Yi and Boss.
She watched Lin Yi and Boss, eating the food before her one mouthful at a time, and soon smiled again.
Everyone ate and laughed, their laughter rising in waves.
Mao Feiyang suddenly brought up something embarrassing Lin Yi had done, only to laugh too hard to continue before everyone else joined in. Their laughter nearly shook the Hidden Hide-and-Seek room.
When he laughed, when she laughed, everyone else joined in the teasing. There was no alcohol, yet they all seemed drunk, riding the atmosphere to talk about this and that, saying all sorts of things as though joking.
Rather than a grand banquet, the meal felt more like a somewhat unruly tea party. Yet even a meal like this was incredibly precious under their present circumstances, for everyone knew that once they finished, they would face the gravest crisis this world had ever known-the root of the black