Chapter 68: Older Brother, Your Head Is Green
After leaving the area most suspected of reptiles, Luo Shuangyue split from Jiuye and Heiting, heading solo towards the busier Lion and Tiger Park.
Her current outfit was no different from an ordinary girl, walking among the crowd without drawing any attention, while Heiting and Jiuye, well, anyone could tell they weren’t up to any good just by looking at them.
One was wearing a long coat with sunglasses in the sweltering summer, the other wrapped tightly in black clothing, each more suspicious than the last.
They would do better to explore somewhere with fewer people for stealth.
“It’s clearly a weekday, yet there are so many people,” Luo Shuangyue sighed while struggling to navigate through a swarm of children.
Through the thick glass, she saw the lions and tigers in the park exhibiting varying degrees of frenzy, engaging in fierce fighting and biting each other.
Some lions and tigers even bore noticeable scars.
Compared to the snake area she had just visited, it was like two different worlds; over there, life was tranquil, and Ye Lin dared to feed the snakes without protective gear, while here was filled with chaos.
If the keepers here wanted to learn from Ye Lin, they would likely have been torn apart and devoured by the beasts by now.
“Xia Mo, look, there are lions and tigers over here!”
A voice floated into Luo Shuangyue’s ears, and she instinctively looked up in the direction it came from.
There were three girls walking together, intently observing the animals at the zoo.
Xia Mo, Luo Shuangxing, Xiaomimi?
Luo Shuangyue could understand Xia Mo being there; she had sent her a message last night warning her that there might be issues at the zoo, so it made sense for her to check it out today.
As for her sister, she probably came along with Xia Mo, which was also understandable.
But what was up with Xiaomimi?
Were they really good friends? Or had these three girls, during the days she was absent, become the best of friends?
That couldn’t be right; it couldn’t be that simple to become friends.
While Luo Shuangyue was secretly watching Xia Mo, Xia Mo also sensed something and looked up, locking eyes with Luo Shuangyue.
From about a hundred meters away, amidst the bustling crowd, Xia Mo still immediately recognized the Dark Butterfly.
Her outfit was too iconic, never changing, and having seen it so many times, Xia Mo had almost developed a reflex; whenever she saw a girl dressed like that, she thought of the Dark Butterfly.
And this time, she was not hallucinating.
Did she see me too? Luo Shuangyue calculated in her mind, since they had encountered each other, she might as well go over and greet Xia Mo.
It would also help her appear familiar in front of her sister and Xiaomimi, eliminating the need to find another excuse for her identity later.
Thinking this, Luo Shuangyue stepped towards Xia Mo.
Seeing the Dark Butterfly approaching, Xia Mo quickly shot her the ‘don’t come over here’ look.
There are too many people around! Please don’t walk over here!
She wanted to keep her distance from the Dark Butterfly. If she did this, it would be really hard to explain, okay?
However, in Luo Shuangyue’s eyes, that look meant something entirely different; to her, it was Xia Mo wanting to protect her friends from her evil grasp, not letting the villainous Dark Butterfly lay eyes on them.
Hey, this made Luo Shuangyue even more excited; this is the price of being a magical girl!
Being a magical girl yet not wanting to bear this kind of price? What kind of good fortune is this?
Thus, a malicious smile appeared on Luo Shuangyue’s face as she quickened her pace to reach Xia Mo, “Mo Mo, you came to the zoo to play too?”
As she spoke, Luo Shuangyue opened her arms and gave the stiff Xia Mo a big hug.
This is bad; this is getting completely out of hand! Xia Mo’s eyes lost their shine entirely, and she could already feel the incredulous gazes directed at her.
In a battlefield filled with chaos, the so-called senior and enemy turned out to have such a relationship; anyone would be stunned, right?
And Luo Shuangxing was clearly the most stunned of all.
She saw the Dark Butterfly walking towards her and guessed that the Dark Butterfly must be there to find Xia Mo, but she hadn’t expected the Dark Butterfly not to be looking for trouble, but instead looking for a hug from Xia Mo.
Xiaomimi, on the other hand, was completely confused; she recognized the girl hugging her senior as the one who had delivered the photo album to her a few days ago, but she still didn’t recognize that this was the Dark Butterfly she had met a few times.
This was also normal since during their previous encounters, there hadn’t been any intense conflict, and in fact, the Dark Butterfly had helped them; to Xiaomimi, the Dark Butterfly was a strange figure who seemed both enemy and friend.
Luo Shuangxing had fought with the Dark Butterfly, nearly having her head twisted off, so her impression of the Dark Butterfly was clearer.
“Are these two younger sisters your friends?” After hugging Xia Mo, Luo Shuangyue turned her friendly gaze towards the two girls beside Xia Mo.
“Um, they are…”
“No need to introduce; I know their names, Luo Shuangxing, Xiaomimi, right?”
Xia Mo’s pupils shrank; did Polar Night’s intel reach such precision? It was only natural for the Dark Butterfly to know Shuangxing’s name, but Xiaomimi had only known her for a few days—how did the Dark Butterfly know her identity?
And soon, the shock in her heart grew even greater.
Xiaomimi actually smiled and greeted the Dark Butterfly, “What a coincidence, I didn’t expect Miss Die to be here too.”
“You two… also know each other?” Luo Shuangxing gasped, so I am the only one unfamiliar with the Dark Butterfly?
Sister Xia Mo had clearly seen the Dark Butterfly more than once or twice, and judging by Xiaomimi’s tone, her relationship with the Dark Butterfly wasn’t bad, while it seemed like she was the odd one out!
“Yeah, Miss Die is a friend of a good friend of mine who brought me something very important last time, so we got acquainted.” Xiaomimi nodded naturally.
Oh, so that’s how it is, Xia Mo suddenly felt relieved; she had almost forgotten that the Dark Butterfly was likely just an ordinary girl with her own social circle, which was perfectly normal.
While the possibility of knowing Xiaomimi was low, it wasn’t zero.
“Ahem, Miss Die, why are you…” Xia Mo began to copy what Luo Shuangyue had said, but before she could finish her sentence, the girl in front of her pressed her finger against her lips.
“Just call me Die; adding Miss makes it sound too formal.”
Luo Shuangxing looked at Sister Xia Mo, then at the smiling Dark Butterfly, and her internal alarms began to blare.
The Dark Butterfly’s attitude towards Sister Xia Mo was off, clearly, she wanted to take Sister Xia Mo away!
Older brother, there’s a woman trying to take your woman away!
