Chapter 42 Magic in Reality (Part 2)

"Ah...!" A scream echoed through the sky, making my ears numb.

Scott covered his ears and whispered beside me: "Why didn't you equip me with this kind of sonic weapon in the first place?"

"Li Ting? Li Ting?" I walked over and picked up the red object stuck to her hand and threw it aside. "Okay, it's okay."

Li Ting raised her head and looked at me, then looked at her blood-red hands. She opened her mouth to scream again, so I quickly reached out and held her mouth down. "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Chili squatted down next to me and pretended to comfort Li Ting with me, but what she said was: "Is there any energy replenishing liquid?" Her face looked very bad, and there was a lot of sweat on her head.

"You...?" Li Ting pointed at me to see what she wanted to say but didn't say it.

I took out three boxes of replenishing fluids from my pocket and handed them to Chili: "Save some of them."

Chili quickly opened a box and shot three in succession on his arm. "I'm feeling better now."

"Are you taking drugs?" Li Ting pointed at Chili Pepper and asked in surprise.

Pepper didn't answer at all, but directly put away the refill solution and stood up and walked to the crowd who were still dumbfounded in the field. "You have also seen that no one can be faster than lightning. If you don't want to die, just surrender."

The other party was obviously a little shaken, but in the end he gritted his teeth and rushed out. I throw away a refill I just finished. "It's really troublesome. I knew it wouldn't be that simple." Everyone intercepted these scattered enemies separately. The advantage of our numbers soon became apparent. I turned around and said to Song Ning, who was still calm among the seven hostages: "Take care of everyone first. I will explain to you when it's over."

I couldn't wait for Song Ning to nod, turned around and joined the battle. Ling and a middle-aged man who were closest to me were attacking each other. The other party was experienced and powerful, but Ling's mind control made the other party suffer a lot, and he often stumbled over his left foot and his right foot. I plan to help with this first, after all, Ling is not a close combat type.

The guy stretched out his hand and punched Ling in the face. I suddenly appeared from the side and put my left hand on his wrist and locked his fist to death. I bent my right arm to the left and then flicked it away and used the back of my fist to face the guy firmly. came on his face. I hit this guy so hard that he flipped several times in the air before landing. I stepped up and stepped on his chest. But unexpectedly, I thought I could kill him with one blow, but I didn't step on it. This guy's sternum is made of special metal, and its hardness is exaggerated. I didn't step on it at all.

This kick did not take advantage but gave him an opportunity. He grabbed my ankle with both hands and planned to break my leg, but he forgot that I was not alone. Ling ran over quickly and suddenly turned around and fell to the ground. The inertia made her slide all the way to this guy. Moreover, Ling's two feet were just on both sides of this guy's head. Ling's hands retreated with force. Hold this guy's head between your two feet. Then the body violently exerted force.

Ling now seemed to be standing on this guy's shoulders, except that the two of them were lying on the ground now. Ling suddenly turned around hard, and the two of them jumped up from the air and spun around in the air. Because the guy had to maintain his balance, he naturally let go of his hands, but because the force was too strong, I was still thrown out, but I put my hands on the ground. He stood up with a flip of his palm.

The guy and Ling spun around in the air for more than ten times before starting to fall down. As soon as I stood firm, I did another backflip and jumped back. I turned my legs towards this guy and stepped on him. Ling took advantage of the opportunity I had to push the guy to the ground and jumped out again. I learned my lesson this time, stepped on him and then turned over and jumped down. He quickly jumped up, but I suddenly turned around and knocked him away with a swing of my fist. Ling grabbed one of his legs that was still in the air, spun him around in a circle, and threw him back. As he passed me I jumped up and gave him a quick, precise blow to the back of his neck with my forked hand.

With a bang, I smashed this guy into the ground. I jumped up and stepped on the back of his neck. I quickly squatted down and slapped his ears hard with both hands. The guy who had already stood up fell down again as if he suddenly lost his strength. This time he was completely unresponsive. The moment just now was the force-feeding technique in Tai Chi, which is to concentrate the power of both palms on one point and explode. It is an advanced force technique. Regardless of whether this guy has a computer or a human brain inside his head, it must have been turned into pieces or mush. I took this guy who looked completely uninjured and threw it next to the Ring Knight who was protecting Song Ning and the others, letting him take care of him temporarily.

After dealing with this guy, I rushed to Xiao Chun's side. Before the guy who was fighting Xiao Chun could react, I jumped up from behind and slapped his chin, and then I fell backwards, knocking him over with me. He pushed hard against his vest and sent him out. Ling rushed over and kicked the guy who was thrown out with a sideways kick in the air, and kicked the guy back. I hit his waist from the side with the Great Ultimate Broken Palm.

With a bang, this guy was broken into two pieces in the middle and fell to the ground. There were actually a bunch of wires in the purple-red internal organs. What a poor reformer.

I pointed at the man fighting with Chili and said, "Kill him first."

Xiaochun pressed his temples with both hands, and then stared at the guy. The guy was playing neck-and-neck with Chili Pepper, but suddenly he found that his movements had slowed down. Ling also stared at the guy with the same posture, and he suddenly fell down on his feet. Chili raised her right hand, and the electric light flashed in her palm. She moved her hand on the guy who could not move at all. She heard a snap, and the guy suddenly stopped moving, and there was smoke coming out of his ears.

Chili raised her head and took a deep breath, then closed her eyes and stretched out her arms as if to embrace the sky. The surrounding air suddenly became abnormal. First, there were screams from our hostages, and green smoke suddenly appeared from their mobile phones.

The leader of the spies was originally fighting against Vina, and he was the strongest among all the enemies here. But he couldn't take advantage of Wei Na. When Vina got close, she would attack him with strong high-voltage electricity, but it was more dangerous when the distance was further away. Although Vina couldn't use ball lightning, small arcs were still not a problem. Looking at the arcs flying all over the sky, he still chose to get close. Fight hand to hand, at least this way you won't be roasted into a hot dog by the electric arc.

Now that this guy had distanced himself from Vina and started to look at Chili Pepper, he suddenly found that the hairs on his body stood up. Although he knew something was wrong, he couldn't understand what was wrong.

Xiaochun suddenly shouted: "Oh! I understand. Ling, let's help Chili. Shenlin, help us replenish the energy liquid later."

Xiaochun and Ling also quickly stood next to Chili Pepper and entered the same state as Chili Pepper. I gave each of them an injection of energy fluid, but they had no reaction at all to the injection I gave them. I've figured out what Chili is doing, she's actually charging the air around her. She activates the surrounding electrons to a free state, just like the ionosphere above the atmosphere. High-density living electrons are a dangerous environment for electrical appliances, but they do not pose any danger to living creatures like us, and the most important thing is to maintain To put it bluntly, Na's special ability is to use these ion energy. Chili uses itself as a generator to provide energy to Vina.

I shouted to Vina: "Vina. Let go and blast them!"

Wei Na was a little confused at first but she understood immediately. A proud smile appeared on his face. The spy chief knew something was wrong when he saw this smile. But now he had no time to run.

Vina stretched out her hands, and with the three people on Chili's side as the center of the circle, a spherical area with a radius of more than 100 meters appeared. At the edge of this area, you can clearly see something flickering on the dividing line. A small insect suddenly burst into flames when it flew across the boundary. Only then did everyone realize how dangerous this thing was.

"Electrostatic field?" The other party looked at the cover-like area around him in surprise. This thing will automatically attack everything that crosses the boundary, regardless of whether you are entering or exiting. It's over if you touch it.

Wei Na suddenly pointed at the guy, and an electric arc flashed out from the surface of the electrostatic field and quickly gathered above Wei Na's head. Then these arcs gathered at a point and broke away from the surface of the electrostatic field and shot directly at the person. As the leader of the interstellar space, this guy is definitely not an ordinary person. Although the plasma that escapes from the electrostatic field is not as fast as lightning, the speed is not something that ordinary people can react to, but he actually jumped out. However, the electric ball was too powerful. He was still rubbed when he jumped out, and the muscle tissue on the outside of half of his legs was scorched along with his clothes.

A spy realized something was wrong and wanted to rush over to help the commander, but when he turned around, smoke suddenly came out of his ears and nose and he fell straight down. The conductor shouted to the people around him: "Don't move too much. The charge here is abnormal. The static electricity on our bodies will continue to accumulate. If you use too much force, you will short-circuit."

I looked at him with a smile: "Hey! You finally discovered the key problem, but it's a pity that you have no hope. Vina, blow him up."

Vina smiled and nodded: "It's magic time now."

The electrostatic field above the head flashed again, and a small thunderbolt directly hit a guy who was fighting the Ring Knight. However, the lightning did not disappear. It flew out from the guy's chest and connected to an enemy next to him, and then again. Jump again to the third person.

Sitting on the ground, our sports committee member muttered as if talking in his sleep: "Chain lightning?" It seems that the sports committee member is also a "zero" player.

This modified version of chain lightning chained 6 people in one go before it ended, but because it was not a real lightning strike, it was a little less powerful. After the six people were electrocuted, they all knelt down with smoke all over their bodies and supported the ground with their hands, breathing heavily. Our people went up and kicked those guys to the ground.

The leader knew that they would be completely ruined if this continued, and his only solution was to kill the guidance mechanism or energy center. The current energy center is a triangle formation composed of Chili Pepper, Ling, and Xiaochun. With me watching next to it, it is really impossible to rush in. The only target that the demon can choose is Vina. She is the guidance mechanism. The thunder and lightning attacks exactly according to her instructions, so as long as she is killed, the lightning strikes will stop.

The spy leader who figured out the key issue immediately rushed towards Vina. But Wei has discovered his intention. Just when the guy rushed to Vina. A white halo suddenly spread out under Wei Na. The spy leader wanted to jump over, but although the halo followed the ground, it even took care of it. This guy was swept by the halo in the air. Suddenly, arcs flashed all over his body and he screamed and flew more than ten meters away.

The sports committee member was once again surprised and said: "Halo of thorns? Someone pinch me, am I not dreaming? Is this our school? Am I still in the game?"

I suddenly saw someone running over from outside the static electricity stand. When I looked carefully, it was Vera, the ring knight who sent Jin Feng out just now, but she still had a lot of things with her. "Vina." I pointed at Vera.

A small door suddenly appeared on the static stand, and Vera just walked through the door. This is something we made. How can we let it hurt our own people? As soon as she came in, she put the pile of things on the ground, and then pulled out a long sword from it: "Lingling!" She shouted Lingling and threw the sword out.

Lingling reached out and caught the sword in the air. After landing, a beautiful sword wind was thrown out, and the guy opposite her suddenly fell down. If you look closely, his legs were cut off at the top of his thighs.

"Jingjing." A shield flew over, and Jingjing caught the shield just in time to withstand an enemy's flying leg. As soon as the opponent retracted his legs, Jingjing immediately stretched out his hand from behind the shield, pinched one of the guy's legs and threw him towards Lingling. Lingling jumped up from the ground, and the long sword was pointed at the guy's chest from behind and in front. Land in this position. Then Lingling grabbed the sword and pointed it sideways. The long sword was drawn out of the guy's body. The guy was also broken into two pieces.

One of the thirteen enemies was electrocuted by chili peppers at the beginning. Later, I killed two of them, and Chili exploded another one with the help of Xiaochun and Ling. One of the remaining 9 people was burned due to a short circuit, and 6 of the 8 people were knocked down by a chain lightning. However, only 5 of the 6 were killed, but the remaining one was killed because of the last one. He was hit by chain lightning and only received a mild electric shock, but he was already dying. Finally, her legs were cut off by Lingling just now. There were two people who were not hit by the chain lightning. One was the guy who was fighting against Jingjing and had just been slashed by Lingling, and the other was the captain who was encircled by lightning. Now the only one who can really move is this captain.

Our sports committee member was rubbing his eyes and saying to himself: "I must be dreaming, this is not real. How could a girl wearing a tennis skirt jump to a height of three or four meters with an epee over one meter long?" He's killing people everywhere! I must be dreaming, I must not wake up!"

The sports committee member was dreaming there. The last remaining enemy on our side, the captain, finally struggled to get up from the ground. "You are all monsters!"

I walked over with a heavy sword that Vera had just given me. "We are monsters, and you are not a human being?"

"Huh, I won't surrender." He suddenly jumped up and rushed towards me.

I raised my sword and said, "Vina, blessings."

Vina pointed lightly, and a huge centipede-like arc of electricity immediately flashed on my sword. The captain caught my sword with one hand, but the electric arc immediately followed his arm and went up his body. There was a crisp sound of electric shock, and the guy was knocked away again by the electric current. Hehe, this sword was just sent from the base. The sword body is made of special metal. The blade has a vacuum insulation bump. Although the ultra-high voltage cannot be completely intercepted, with this insulation bump, the remaining power will not hurt me, but There was no insulating equipment on the sword, and the guy was electrocuted as soon as he touched it.

"Haha! This thing is so useful." I walked towards the guy with my sword. "Do you want to try again?" I raised the sword above my head and pointed to the sky: "Thunder." A small lightning hit the tip of the sword, and the sword immediately flashed with arcs again. I pointed my sword at the guy: "Electric snake!" An electric arc flew out from the tip of the sword and connected to the guy, and the electric guy jumped up from the ground again.

"How does lightning taste?" Vina also walked over, a ball of lightning flashing in her palm. "Would you like to do it again?"

The gang's eyes suddenly turned red, and Vina shouted: "No, he's going to blow himself up?"

Pepper suddenly opened his eyes, and the electrostatic field immediately shrank into a small ball, only covering the guy. boom. We heard explosions. But no shock wave was felt. Just like the last time Chili Pepper used static electricity to restrain the grenade's shock wave in the nightclub, the explosion was restrained again this time. The electrostatic field surrounding that guy has significantly increased in strength due to its reduced size. The lavender ball of light slowly floated up. There were still a lot of flames and some metal rolling inside, but its power was getting smaller and smaller. Chili stretched out his right hand and pinched it in the air, and the purple ball of light suddenly exploded, falling to the ground with broken metal and fly ash.

The sports committee member exclaimed again: "Magnetic ball?"

Pepper walked up to me, her face seemed uglier than before. I was about to speak but she suddenly fell down. I quickly caught her. "What’s wrong with you?"

Chili said weakly: "I'm dizzy! I have no strength!"

Wei Na quickly took out a bottle of replenishing liquid and injected it into her: "Maybe the energy liquid has been consumed too much!"

Ling Ye said: "The main reason is that we don't have weapons, and the opponent is about the same level as us. But Sister Wei Na's chain lightning just now was so beautiful, she knocked down 6 of them at once."

Chili's face looked obviously better after taking the injection. She smiled and said, "Actually, it's mainly because our electrostatic field doesn't have much energy, otherwise Sister Wei Na would definitely be able to connect more than twenty."

Wei Na quickly touched her forehead and said: "You have worked very hard, I don't blame you. Without your electrostatic field, we would have to deal with them for at least another hour."

I picked up Chili and said, "You did very well indeed."

Chili's face turned red. I don't know if it was because of my words or because Cai's injection took effect. "It's better to put me down, I can leave."

"You are the hero of today. This is special treatment. Don't you want it?"

Pepper shook his head violently. Then he hugged my neck tightly and pretended to be a patient.

"If I had known I would have worked harder!" Wei Na started joking again.

"I think it's best if we get out of here first."

"Yes, this is not a place to stay for a long time." Wei Na also agreed with my opinion.

I said to the Ring Knight: "Take the ones on the ground with you as well, as well as the relatively complete bodies. Leave the minced meat alone and let the toilet paper troops handle it later."

"Huh? Toilet paper?" Wei Na looked at me curiously.

I smiled and said: "The real name of the toilet paper force is the special incident evidence destruction force, which specializes in dealing with the aftermath of things that are not convenient for the public to know. People in their team always say that we don't do things cleanly. Every time Whenever something goes wrong, we have to ask them to wipe our butts, so the other teams simply nicknamed them the toilet paper team."

"Haha! Interesting name!" Wei Na and the others burst into laughter.

I walked among the hostages. "Can you leave by yourself?"

"My legs are a little weak." Li Ting obviously had not recovered from the shock.

"Hey, it's normal for your legs to be weak. I'm a little bit too." Song Ning seemed to be joking, but her pale face couldn't pretend it.

Our lovely sports committee member was still mumbling whether he was dreaming, and it looked like he would not be able to recover for a while. Lu Yingying, the art committee member, was almost the same as the squad leader. After all, she was a girl and a very ordinary college student. She had absolutely zero experience of being kidnapped, let alone witnessed an unprecedented magic battle. As for the league secretary Yin Ni, he remained silent from beginning to end and seemed to be thinking about something. The organizing committee member is also a boy. I am not familiar with him, but he is the calmest among the students, and he is still helping to support the sports committee member.

The most important hostage, the researcher, behaved very normally. He was more or less a member of a special system, at least better than ordinary students. He is now looking at the remains carried by Scott. These half-machine, half-human things can really arouse the interest of scientific researchers.

The one who has the biggest headache at the moment is me. I am still thinking about how to explain these problems while walking with Chili in my arms. Although we are not police officers and can leave hostages alone, killing people and silencing them is not something we can do casually. In the history of Long Yuan that I know, there seem to have been only five genocide operations, and only seven people died in total, and five of them were foreigners. Six of the seven hostages rescued this time need to be silenced. Regardless of my emotional issues with them, even as an ordinary civilian, I cannot silence them casually. That Yin refutation is dead. The other five are also classmates after all. Although our friendship can only be regarded as "just acquaintance". But I am not a murderer after all. My special constitution makes it difficult for the emotional hormones produced by myself to be retained in the body for a long time, so my emotions are very weak. It is not an exaggeration to say that I am cold-blooded, but that does not mean killing innocent people!

What if you make up a lie to deceive them? Probably not. Physical types like Lingling and Jingjing can still use martial arts or special training as excuses, but what about the power control of Chili Pepper and Wei Na? Even those magicians can't create such a pretentious sight as chain lightning! Moreover, when these people were rescued, they were blown up by a thunder. Such a strong current flowed through them. Even a fool knew that it was a thunderbolt and lightning. It was a real thunder and lightning, not to mention the ball lightning of Chili Pepper later. How to explain things?

The more I think about it, the more I get a headache. These east names are completely unexplainable! If you tell the truth, you have to keep your mouth shut, but if you lie, you can't find an excuse. If the chili peppers used small electric balls, I could still say they were fireflies. Although the obvious nonsense of fireflies appearing during the day is far-fetched, it would be better than not having them at all! But now I don't even have a chance to make up lies. What Chili throws is ball lightning the size of a basketball. Fireflies that big can be directly classified as monsters.

By the way, they said they had hallucinations after being struck by lightning? wrong. One person can cheat like this, how can 6 of them cheat? Call it a collective hallucination?

I'm thinking about it. The squad leader Song Ning, who was still sober, suddenly said: "Don't we seem to be heading towards the gate?"

"We're definitely not heading toward the gate."

"Then where are you taking us?" Song Ning seemed to realize something.

"There are reporters and onlookers outside the botanical garden. Don't you want to become a news figure in the future?"

Lu Yingying was actually in the mood to joke: "I have always wanted to appear on newspapers and TV. But I want to appear in the entertainment section as an artist, not in the legal column in this embarrassing state!"

The organizing committee member who had been silent for a long time finally said: "Those flying around just now are obviously not human beings. I think you will appear in the social section, technology section and entertainment section at the same time, and you will be on the headlines."

"We will not appear in any edition." I thought that I would continue to pretend to be a meditator, but I actually spoke. "Because no one will know about this matter, maybe there will be one more social news in the news tomorrow. A foreign terrorist force sneaked into our country in an attempt to carry out terrorist attacks. During the course of carrying out terrorist activities, it was discovered by our public security organs. A shootout broke out. I After the People's Police Force fought with the gangsters, they forced the gangsters into the botanical garden inside Xinlong College. The vicious terrorists kidnapped seven hostages during their escape. The terrorists used the hostages as threats and demanded that China give up its sovereignty over Tibet and many other unreasonable demands. After the unreasonable request was rejected, the crazy terrorists detonated the bombs that had been strapped to their bodies. Seven hostages and terrorists died, and many police officers were injured." At this point, Yin Niu looked at me. "You think so?" He paused and suddenly added a suffix: "Artificial god?"

I was shocked. This guy knows my identity? Is it a coincidence? No, he must know something. Being able to say that he can see artificial gods means that he at least knows a little bit about b13. Although it may not be complete, I am sure that he at least knows what the goal of b13 is. But how could this seemingly ordinary person know such a secret? Song Ning had warned me that Yin Pi's background was not simple, but I didn't expect it to be so complicated.

"who are you?"

"Someone you can't defeat." Yin Niu laughed, and that smile made me feel scared.

"Scott, where's the plane?" I stopped talking to Yin Ni and asked Scott directly to avoid this uncomfortable topic.

Scott pressed the earphone and asked for a while before saying: "The plane has arrived and is waiting for us in the open space in front."

Almost as soon as we finished speaking, we came out of the woods. Because it was an artificial forest, the forest ended very suddenly, changing from dense woods to bare grassland in an instant. As we walked out, some scattered color spots suddenly began to appear in the obviously distorted air ahead. These color spots quickly expanded and eventually turned into a large black transport helicopter. The plane had arrived long ago, but the stealth system was always on.

Regarding the way this plane appeared, except for the researcher and us. All 6 students were surprised. The technological level known to the outside world is still far behind invisible technology. Although this stealth technology still has many shortcomings, it is still a little too advanced.

When we walked to the edge of the plane, several people had already walked out of the helicopter with their buttocks facing us. They were the Ring Knights I sent to guard the door. "Why did you come back early?"

"The evidence destruction team and the police had sealed the door, so we left early."

"Yes." I nodded and turned around to signal everyone to get on the plane. After putting down the pepper, I said to the crew in the belly of the plane: "Are you armed? I want a big one."

"Only rifles." The crew member answered my question even though they didn't know why I wanted a weapon.

"Give it to me." I said it firmly and without question.

This helicopter does not use the propeller principle, and the noise is very weak, so everyone heard what I said, and everyone looked at me in a daze. Only the crew member mechanically brought a semi-automatic sniper rifle from the front cockpit.

After I took the gun, I checked the magazine, then I went to the edge of the seat and roughly pulled it up and threw it to the plane hatch. He sat up from the ground and looked at me, with a smile on his face. "Can't stand it anymore? If you want to save face, don't joke with me. You can't scare me. I'm not afraid of you at all. You can't do anything to me."

Without saying a word, I pulled the bolt and pushed the bullet into the chamber. Then I stepped forward and kicked Yin Niu, who was still talking proudly, to the ground. She put one foot on his back to prevent him from moving. Then he pushed the barrel of the gun into the back of his head.

This guy is a scourge to me. At least it's a stumbling block. I have seen many movies and TV shows where the heroes or villains trample the other side under their feet and talk like a winner, only to be caught by the other side and turn defeat into victory, so I don’t speak at all. Now that it is clear that this guy must die, why should I talk to him so much? After I stepped on him, I immediately planned to jump him. I would create a fait accompli first and deal with the subsequent issues later. Before the Americans attacked Iraq, they also said that the other side had weapons of mass destruction. After searching, I found nothing. But after all the beatings, will your theory be useful? It's the same now. If I jump this guy first, I will win no matter what. A dead person has no chance of winning.

With this firm consciousness, I pulled the trigger. It took less than 10 seconds from the time I got the gun to now. Most people were still in a daze, but not everyone after all. Ping...Peng...Dang...! I was thrown to the ground by a figure. The bullet hit the top of the aircraft canopy, bounced off, hit the floor, then bounced off and hit the bulkhead before bouncing off again.

"Calm down!" Vina got up from me and looked at me. "I don't know the rules here yet, but you can't be so reckless. Even if it is necessary, it is definitely not now."

I looked into Vina's eyes and I didn't know what to decide. The sudden smell brought me back to my senses, and I realized that that coward Yin Tuo actually peed his pants! He was so arrogant at first because he was sure that I didn't dare to touch him, but the current situation clearly shows that I dare to touch him, and I want to kill him. If Weina hadn't stopped him, the bullet just now would have turned his head into a pile of messy cell tissue.

I looked at Wei Na: "He knows the inside story. Although it may not be complete, it is a threat. If things go according to the worst predictions, I may not be able to protect you. Killing him is not for myself."

"I know, that's why I stopped you." Weina said, "If you were doing it for your own safety, I wouldn't stop you."

I suddenly laughed: "Hahahaha! This shot was not in vain!" I stood up and helped Wei Na up. He turned to the crew member who was still stunned and said, "Take off, let's go back."

"Eh!... Huh? Hmm... Yes!" The crew quickly got back into the front cabin, the aircraft door was closed, and the aircraft automatically lit up with a special red light source. When stealth mode is activated, visible light will not shine into the aircraft, so internal lighting must be used.

"Are you really planning to kill him?" Song Ning asked, looking at me sitting opposite her.

"Do I look like I'm acting?"

"What's the reason?"

"Stay safe."