Chapter 40 Are You Kidding Me?
This is a coffee shop, where soothing music and rich coffee aroma interweave to create a lazy and comfortable atmosphere.

Xiao Xiao followed Yang Yi to a seat by the window. The green plants in the corner blocked other people's view.

It's a good place to have a conversation.

"The coffee here is pretty good. What would you like to drink?" Yang Yi had a smile on his face and seemed friendly, but his smile was not pleasing to the eye. His words and actions showed a sense of superiority and wanton unruliness.

This sense of condescension made Xiao Xiao's eyebrows twitch unnaturally.

Haha, which mental hospital did this guy escape from?

Xiao Xiao pressed his forehead and smiled, "Whatever, we're not here for coffee."

"Okay." Yang Yi shrugged with regret, and placed the order with the beautiful waitress with a charming smile.

It was not until the waitress's graceful figure disappeared around the corner that Yang Yi turned around and placed his hands on the table in a tower shape with his fingers clasped together, "So, what do you want to talk about?"

Xiao Xiao raised his eyebrows. Fortunately, he did not expect the other party to be a sunny and athletic young man at the beginning. He was deeply impressed by that pair of bloodshot eyes. And the Gu Diao that was right in front of him was also staring at him with a bad look.

However, it was obvious that the other party's personality was more difficult to get along with than he had expected.

Moreover, it seems that he and Gu Diao get along very well. Now things are getting even more troublesome.

One-sided coercion is much easier to deal with than mutual agreement.

Xiao Xiao raised his eyes and looked at Yang Yi's face, his gaze wandering over the other's face.

Yang Yi always had a faint smile on his face. He didn't care about Xiao Xiao's stare at him, nor did he care about Xiao Xiao's silence when answering his questions. There was even a hint of indifference and mockery in his eyes.

This is a confident and self-centered person. He is determined and never changes his views for others. He is ambitious because he has both ability and desire.

Once such a person makes up his mind about something, it is extremely difficult for him to change it. Stubborn and obstinate are not enough to describe him. It is said that one will not turn back until he hits the wall, but he will not turn back even if he hits the wall. He insists on what he believes to be the truth without hesitation.

Such people are often very capable, but they are also more dangerous because they are very likely to fall into the extreme pursuit of self-imagination and do whatever it takes to achieve it.

In his eyes, results are more important than process.

Xiao Xiao clearly saw a faint circle of bloodstains around the other party's pupils. Even though it was not obvious at this moment, it was clearly not there during the last basketball game. So, Xiao Xiao could fully speculate that this circle of bloodstains would continue to expand until Yang Yi's eyeballs became as scarlet as the Gu Diao beside him.

Xiao Xiao frowned and turned his head to look at the Gu Diao. What exactly did it want to do?
"This is a sickle." Seeing Xiao Xiao turning his gaze to him, Yang Yi's expression was a little weird, like surprise, anger, and excitement. The corners of his mouth cracked uncontrollably, and there was a flash of murderous intent in his eyes. The color of the bloodstains around his pupils seemed to deepen, but what came out of his mouth were words of introduction.

"I didn't expect that anyone could see it."

"Aren't I supposed to be the only one who can see it?" Yang Yi spoke softly, but Xiao Xiao heard it clearly, along with the reluctance, anger, paranoia and madness revealed in his words.

Xiao Xiao was silent for a while, then asked a somewhat unexpected question.

"It's called a sickle?"

Yang Yi was a little surprised, then seemed to think that Xiao Xiao asked a good question and showed a hearty smile. However, Xiao Xiao, who had seen his sinister expression before, got goose bumps all over his body. The situation changed too quickly and he suddenly felt a little indigestion.

"Yes, it is a sickle."

"And I... am the god of death."

The Grim Reaper’s scythe…?

It's such a vulgar name, but is it really okay to tell him so directly?

Is this a simple and crude statement because he has something to rely on and is therefore fearless? Or is it simply out of arrogance, thinking that he can't do anything?
In that case, he won't beat around the bush.

"Did you go to the back alley of the west gate of Yanda University yesterday?"

"Yes." Yang Yi's confession surprised Xiao Xiao, but it was also somewhat expected. After all, since they met, Yang Yi had always been so frank, without a trace of concealment or ambiguity in his words.

At this time, their coffee came up and Yang Yi made a gesture of invitation to Xiao Xiao.

Xiao Xiao raised the white bone china cup. The rich and mellow aroma of coffee carried into his nostrils along with the curling hot steam, spreading to his limbs and bones, and a lazy warmth spread out.

Xiao Xiao took a symbolic sip.

Xiao Xiao prefers to enjoy the aroma of coffee rather than its taste.

It always gives people a comfortable feeling of a leisurely afternoon.

Xiao Xiao put down the coffee cup, but his hand did not leave the handle. His fingers gently stroked the delicate and warm porcelain handle.

"doing what?"

It was a nonsensical sentence, but Xiao Xiao knew that the other party understood it. Yang Yi did not even have the initial doubts and answered naturally: "Feed."

"The Scythe is hungry."

Yang Yi explained again with a smile.

Things are about to come to light.

But Xiao Xiao still asked: "What does it eat?"

"What to eat?" Yang Yi repeated it with a hint of playfulness, as if he was confused but also amused.

"Monsters naturally eat people."

He spoke in such a matter-of-fact tone, and even had a hint of pure doubt between his eyebrows, as if wondering why Xiao Xiao would ask such an obvious question?

Xiao Xiao's hand suddenly clenched the handle of the coffee cup, blue veins bulged out from the joints, but his fingertips were completely white without any color.

"eat human?"

"You took it to eat people?"

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

"Do you know what you're doing?"

Xiao Xiao suppressed his voice, and each sentence became heavier than the last. He stared at Yang Yi, trying to find any sign of a joke on his face.

But Yang Yi still had a faint smile on his face as always, and he even reached out his hand to stroke the back feathers of the Gu Diao beside him, his movements were gentle, as if everything he did was just as normal as eating and drinking, and not a cruel act of taking away a person's most important life.

Xiao Xiao's heart was in turmoil as he looked at Yang Yi, who had no abnormal expression on his face, no guilt, no fear, no helplessness, and similarly, no excitement, no agitation, no madness. It seemed that killing a person was just like killing a chicken to him.

How can a person be affected by the death of a chicken?
It's just the law of nature that the strong survive and the weak survive.

"You are killing someone, it's a crime!" Xiao Xiao simply couldn't understand what the other party was thinking.

"No, I didn't kill anyone. The sickle just needed to eat."

"Besides, those trash and scum have a useless and hard life. They might as well be fed to the sickle."

"Are you joking?"

(End of this chapter)