Several Sentence Sunday
I was tagged by @kingofdarkness00
Here, have some crossover...
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Mu Xing looked up from the book she was pretending to read while trying to stall for time but knew that was rapidly dwindling.
The library would close soon, and she was waiting--
"Hey uh, so you're on this thing too, right?" A too loud voice suddenly asked her in English.
"Huh?"
Xing jolted when the man approached her. She'd been on edge for several hours now.
He was a white man in a leather jacket with messy dark blonde hair. He was a bit short but with well defined muscles, like he worked out.
"Oh hi! I don't think we properly met. I'm Eddie Brock with the Daily Globe. We, I mean I was wondering if you could help me? See uh the Globe sent me here but I'm afraid, um, not too great with the language and I wanted to make sure I got this right--" he asked haltingly, going back and forth between English and Mandarin.
Ugh, Americans. They go to another country and expect everyone to accommodate them.
Still it was a welcome distraction considering--
"Did you know you're being followed?" The man asked softly in Mandarin.
She met icy blue eyes that were filled with genuine concern.
"That lady over, no, don't look. She's been staring at you for this entire time we've been here, like at least the last ten minutes--."
No, Xing well knew she was being watched, being followed by the one the man had noticed. It had been hours. But--
"How did you know?"
"Like I said, I saw your press badge, thought I recognized you from the conference. I'm a reporter too. I wanted to look at those same materials that you checked out but I couldn't help but notice--"
Now that he mentioned it, she remembered him--the foreign reporter who came in late to the presser looking lost. He was probably harmless... Or at the very least he probably was not working for THEM.
"...I'm just like getting really bad vibes about all this you know? Did you want us, I mean me to walk with you?"
Xing knew the woman very likely intended to kill her. Because she knew too much. But would they still try something with a potential witness around? It would likely just be delaying the inevitable and get this man killed as well.
She should try and get rid of him, or least give him an out.
"I um... I have a boyfriend."
"Oh uh... me too. I mean, I'm not looking for anything like that here. I just thought as like a professional courtesy. Safety in numbers, right?"
Xing swallowed "...They'll kill you too."
The man's jovial demeanor became serious.
How much was an act and just how much did he know?
Who was this man? Could she even trust him?
But given the situation she didn't really have another option.
"All the more reason not to leave you alone with her then. If it comes to it, I think I can take her..."
That bravado would likely get him killed...
"I believe she's killed before."
"Noted. Shall we?"
Well she tried. And admittedly she would feel better with company.
"Yes, let's."
As he accompanied her to the parking lot her misgivings returned--she sincerely doubted they'd care about one extra body...
"...You really don't want to get mixed up in all this, Mr. Brock, it's dangerous."
Xing couldn't help but notice how often the man often paused at odd intervals as if listening to someone respond before replying to her.
He said he had troubles with the language and true he often stumbled with pronunciation and yet it seemed he rarely stumbled with understanding her. Maybe he had a Bluetooth or a translator in his ear? That seemed likely given his tendency to mutter to himself in English. Either that or the man was disturbed--she hadn't entirely ruled that out either.
"You know they'll target you too..."
"It wouldn't be the first time." The man grinned, was it her imagination or were his teeth just a little too sharp?
"That's how we know we're doing our jobs right, as reporters?"
She liked him, despite herself, despite the warning signs. There was an inkling now. "Bad vibes" as Mr. Brock had called them that perhaps her companion was more dangerous thst the assassin who pursued her. She wasn't sure yet if that was a good thing or not but again she had little options at the moment.
Xing smiled back tightly, "...Your Chinese is truly atrocious."
"I know, I'm sorry. Our foreign correspondent, the really smart lady they usually send for these things, got sick with the flu. My bad for padding my resumé but I guess they really needed a body to send."
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Tagging if you wanna do it...
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Held in the USA and broadcasted live world-wide, the annual Google I/O 2022 tech-fest for developers was held to showcase the brand’s latest innovations. For the fourth consecutive year, Google appointed Pico to activate the hybrid event, including overall livestream coordination in the Greater China area on the bilibili, CSDN, Huya, JueJin, NetEase News, PingWest, SegmentFault, SinaTech, Sohu News, Tencent Video, WeChat Channels, Zhihu and ZOL platforms. The team also provided material design and production, and simultaneous interpretation services for the event.
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This reincarnation of the series, from “En of Love”, (which in my opinion, SUCKED, all around), is a vast improvement and much more enticing to watch. There’s more drama, better acting, and more time spent on developing the story, properly.
If anybody knows where else to watch it, other than on Ten Cent Video (WeTV), please let me know, because for some reason it’s not Airplaying and I’m paying for it.
There will be 10, 2-pt episodes, in its entirety and it just aired both parts of episode 5.
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