The moment Spades accepted the challenge, the roaring in the tavern almost shook the roof.
“Hey, take it easy, they’re new recruits!” Alex tried to stop him helplessly, “Don’t deliberately get them drunk!”
There was a meddlesome person next to him. The half-drunk soldier gave Alex an ‘OK’ gesture, squeezed Alex away with a playful smile, and turned to explain the rules of the drinking contest to Bai Liu: “Since Alex said so, how about the simplest way to drink alcohol?”
Tang Erda pulled on Bai Liu’s elbow, frowned and shook his head, signaling him not to drink.
He could tell that Bai Liu was not very good at drinking. After drinking the high-concentration vodka just now, the man was a little flushed.
Spades’ eyes glanced at Tang Erda holding Bai Liu’s elbow. He paused, then turned to look at the soldier explaining the rules: “What is the most complicated way to have a drinking contest?”
“Wow! You are such a good and courageous soldier!” The soldier clapped his hands excitedly, then turned back and pointed at Spades and shouted to Alex, “Alex, I let them go for your sake!”
Alex rubbed his temples with a headache. After realizing that he couldn’t persuade Spades, he turned to look at Bai Liu: “Don’t accept what they say. If you get drunk, you won’t be able to walk back tonight…”
The soldier clicked his tongue regretfully: “Alex, you are such a letdown.”
Spades looked straight at Bai Liu: “Would you like to drink?”Bai Liu raised his head slightly and smiled: “I will stay with you until the end.”
“Okay, look, the most complicated drinking contest is this.” The soldier snapped his fingers, attracting everyone’s attention.
He kept pouring alcohol into a small iron bucket on the bar that was used to hold bartending ice cubes until it was full.
The soldier proudly held up the small iron bucket and shook it: “——My glorious work, the Kiss of War. The person who drank it last time is said to have seen the God of Death.”
Two people next to them handed Bai Liu and Spades two conical goblets with a height of 15 centimeters and a capacity of about 400 milliliters, and smiled and motioned for them to hold them on their heads.
Spades took it and put it on his head without hesitation, then stared at Bai Liu. Bai Liu hesitated slightly after taking the cup, but under Spades’ gaze, he quickly put it on his head and looked back calmly.
When the soldier saw the funny sight of these two outstanding-looking people holding wine glasses, he couldn’t help laughing.
He laughed and said: “The rules of the drinking competition are like this. You have to continuously scoop the wine from this small bucket and put it on the wine glass above your head. Be careful not to spill it outside. If it spills outside, you have to drink the whole glass you’ve ladled.”
“Then, if you fill up the wine glass on your head and haven’t spilled a drop, the other person must drink the alcohol on your head. At the same time, during the drinking process, neither the wine glass on his head nor the wine glass on your head can be held. If it falls, you will be responsible for drinking twice the amount of alcohol in the glass.”
“When both parties are completely unable to hold the cup on their heads, the drinking competition ends, and the party with the most broken cups is the loser.”
The soldier opened his hand: “Do you understand?”
Bai Liu and Spaides both nodded and looked at the wine glass above each other’s head.
The soldier whistled and threw the two small cups used to scoop wine into the small barrel: “The game begins!”
Bai Liu stretched out his hand to hold the cup between his two fingers, turned his hand and poured a cup steadily on top of his head.
But to everyone’s surprise, Spades didn’t care about the small cup at all. He directly held both sides of the small barrel with both hands, raised it high and poured alcohol on his head, looking straight at Bai Liu.
The wine barrel was held extremely stable, and the flowing alcohol stretched into a transparent line, sliding into the wine glass on Spades’ head, quickly passing the half-capacity line.
Tang Erda: “!!!”
Alex:”!!!”
The onlookers were stunned.
Can you still play like this?!
Bai Liu didn’t hesitate at all. He reached out to grab the wine barrel above Spades’ head and interfered with his pouring.
But Spades was a full head taller than him, and when Bai Liu came closer, he raised the wine barrel above his head, so that no matter how close Bai Liu was to him, Bai Liu couldn’t reach him with his hand.
After realizing that Spades was deliberately suppressing him with his height, Bai Liu narrowed his eyes, turned over and jumped on the bar with one hand, without spilling a drop of alcohol from the glass above his head.
Then, when everyone thought he was going to use his height advantage to grab the wine barrel, Bai Liu stretched out his leg and swept across with cold eyes, trying to kick the wine glass above Spades’ head.
When Spades subconsciously leaned back to dodge, Bai Liu hooked his ankle and kicked away the wine barrel he was holding.
The alcohol was scattered everywhere as the barrel flipped in the air.
Everyone followed the barrel with their eyes like sunflowers following the sun.
Spades’ right hand pulled down the whip on his lower back and circled the lower end of the small wine barrel. He shook his wrist slightly while pulling it back. The barrel was in the air like a slow-motion replay, and all the alcohol that had just overflowed was collected again without spilling a drop.
The soldiers were all dumbfounded – what kind of operation was this?!
Magical Eastern Kung Fu?!
Seeing that the wine barrel was about to return to Spades’ left hand, which was open to catch the barrel, Bai Liu’s eyes turned dark. He pulled out a gun from his waist, raised his hand and aimed at the back of Spades’ head without any pause.
“!!!” Tang Erda suddenly touched the skill gun on his waist – indeed it was gone.
Alex’s expression went blank.
The soldiers opened their mouths wide and stared blankly, unable to react in time.
Bai Liu pressed down his index finger and clicked the trigger. Spades quickly moved his body backwards, pried open Bai Liu’s hand and pointed the gun back at him.
But instead, the muzzle of the gun flew and a bullet shot out in the air, hitting the wine barrel without any bias. A hole leaked in the bottom of the barrel and alcohol fell into Spades’ left hand, continuously flowing through his fingers.
“The barrel leaked on your hand.” Bai Liu retracted his gun, his eyes dimly brightened, and his breathing quickened slightly due to the movement, “I won.”
Spades looked at Bai Liu calmly: “You wanted to aim at the wine barrel from the beginning.”
——Targeting him was just a cover, to divert his attention.
Bai Liu shrugged and said with a smile: “It’s just a drinking contest. I’m not bored enough to shoot you for this kind of thing.”
Tang Erda next to him: “…”
Alex: “……”
The onlookers and soldiers: “…”
You also know that this is just a drinking party!!!
If Spades hadn’t reacted quickly, he would have been shot in the head by you!!
Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Spades: “You lost.”
Spades hummed lightly: “I lost, so I drink.”
He stepped forward and stood in front of Bai Liu, put his hands on Bai Liu’s shoulders, and said naturally: “Lower your head.”
Bai Liu was quiet for a moment, then lowered his head.
Spades didn’t even need to stand on tiptoes to reach the wine glass on Bai Liu’s head with his lips. Bai Liu was facing Spades’ chest and Adam’s apple. They were very close, which made Bai Liu’s originally calm breathing become rapid again.
——This posture is as if he lowered his head actively and let Spades kiss his forehead…
Bai Liu raised his eyes slightly. He saw the way Spades’ Adam’s apple slid up and down when he swallowed the alcohol on top of his head. He could clearly feel Spades’ heartbeat as well.
He didn’t know why, but this man’s heartbeat was also a bit weirdly fast.
Spades drank his and Bai Liu’s wine, wiped the corner of his mouth with his thumb, and said indifferently: “Again.”
Bai Liu lost in the second round.
Spades carried out a suicide attack. He didn’t care about the wine glass above his head, and snatched the wine glass from Bai Liu’s head at first, causing the glass on his own head to slip off.
Both men drank two large glasses.
Spade sat down with a good attitude and let Bai Liu drink the wine on his head, but Bai Liu didn’t know why. He would rather hold the wine glass with his teeth and turn his head away to drink, rather than drink off the top of Spade’s head.
In the third round, the two were tied, and the spare barrel was also damaged. The furious bartender scolded them and ordered the two to drink three large glasses of alcohol.
…
Tang Erda was tense at the beginning, then helplessly sitting aside to watch the fun with Alex.
“I thought something would happen.” Tang Erda sighed fearfully, “Fortunately, nothing did.”
Alex shook his head and smiled: “I thought Bai Liu was really angry with Spades, but I didn’t expect it was just a conflict during the period of love.”
“Guy and I have been like this before, it’s nice to just have a fun time.”
Alex smiled and looked at Bai Liu, who was drinking wine above the seated Spades, and sighed with envy: “——That’s great. Only when you think the other person will love you no matter what, can you dare to point a gun at the other person, and play with each other so intimately.”
Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at the wine glass on Spades’ head. He tried hard to keep his limbs and head stable, and lowered his head to drink the alcohol on Spade’s head at a slow and even speed.
But Bai Liu, who had drunk who knows how much, might not be aware of the difference between the stability in his eyes and the stability of the world itself. In the eyes of others, Bai Liu just tilted his head and let the wine glass slip.
Spades subconsciously reached out to catch the wine glass that had fallen from Bai Liu’s head. He raised his head and was about to tell this person that they had lost another game, but he saw Bai Liu’s eyes were blank, as if he didn’t even realize that he had dropped the glass. He was still lowering his head to get closer to him.
Bai Liu’s lips pressed against Spades’ lips, and the wine glass on Spades’ head fell to the ground.
The two people who had drunk about the same amount didn’t react, they just stayed close to each other motionlessly without closing their eyes.
Someone nearby saw this scene as an ugly appearance of the two drunkards and started laughing and whistling like crazy.
Bai Liu blinked slowly, and he realized that his hands were not holding Spades’ shoulders, but instead came to hold his face at some point.
He pulled away and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something. What finally came out was: “I didn’t want to kiss you.”
“Oh.” Spades raised his head and looked at Bai Liu. He observed Bai Liu intently, “You’ve turned red again, Bai Liu.”
Bai Liu wanted to say it was because he was drunk, but admitting to being drunk during a drinking game made him inexplicably unhappy, so he said: “——I just turn red sometimes.”
Spades looked at Bai Liu: “When?”
“Is it when you kiss me, come close to me, or when I tell others that I have a special relationship with you?”
He simply listed the situations in which Bai Liu turned red, but after he finished listing, Spades said in hindsight: “Bai Liu, you only turn red when you are with me.”
“Why?” Spades approached Bai Liu calmly, his breath filled with heat and a hint of drunkenness. He persisted and asked, “——Is it because we have a special relationship?”
“No.” Bai Liu paused and said calmly, “It’s because I hate you.”
“When I’m around people I hate, I turn red.”
Spades reacted for a while: “You only turn red when you are close to me.”
“Do you only hate me?”
Spades asked reluctantly.
The Judge told him that people’s emotions of liking and disliking are limited and complex.
People generally hate many people at the same time, and they also like many people at the same time, but these emotions are usually short-lived. When a person only hates one person or only likes one person for a long time, this person will wear out the other person. An “emotional inventory” of likes and dislikes.
At this time, like will turn into love, and dislike will turn into hate.
The Judge said that love and hate are the most extreme and crazy desires of human beings, which are deep-rooted and difficult to change.
Spades didn’t understand why Bai Liu hated him, but he felt that at least Bai Liu wouldn’t hate him alone.
In this way, Bai Liu’s “hate” for him can be changed.
Bai Liu’s eyelids drooped, covering all the emotions in his eyes. He touched Spades’ eyes and said very softly, alcohol making his voice a little hoarse:
“Yes, of all people, I only hate you.”
But of all the monsters, I only love you.
EN2: last quote is one of my favourite quotes from this novel.
Sad Naruto
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