"Here." Chen Yijun stood up and waved to him with a smile.

Li Cheng颐 walked over and sat down next to the three girls, sitting with Chen Pi.

"Quite a coincidence today."

"What coincidence? Our company just moved nearby. I'll be working around here from now on," Chen Yijun said with a smile.

"Then we can have dinner together more often in the future?" Li Cheng頤 said with a smile.

"That'll have to wait until after work. Did you see my WeChat moments from a while ago? Increased salary and workload. If you dare not do it, you'll get a job adjustment letter right away." Chen Yijun began to complain about work.

Usually when she and Li Cheng頤 meet, it turns into a complaining session. After complaining, she pretends to be a big sister and gives Li Cheng頤 all sorts of advice.

Now, she can only find a bit of her former commanding presence in front of a few friends like Li Cheng頤.

"Oh right, let me introduce you. These two are my good sisters." As she spoke, Chen Yijun changed her tone and began to introduce the two girls beside her.

"Zhou Xingtong, Xue Xue, my college roommates."

"So you're all alumni?" Li Cheng頤 shook hands with the two girls lightly.

"We've heard Chen Pi talk about you all the time. When are you starting a company and letting our Pipi be your secretary?" Xue Xue joked.

"That was when I was young and didn't know any better," Li Cheng頤 said helplessly.

"Hello... I'm Zhou Xingtong..." Zhou Xingtong on the side didn't know how to greet him, so she awkwardly said hello.

"Hello. Li Cheng頤." Li Cheng頤 gave a simple introduction, not saying much else, since they weren't familiar.

He glanced at Chen Pi, who was winking at him, and immediately understood that this guy's intentions were not pure.

The four of them chatted about this and that, and somehow the conversation turned to views on love and marriage.

"I'm so tired of this boring life," Chen Yijun said impatiently, pulling at her hair. Her hair was now long, and the roots were faintly black, giving it a strange ombre effect.

"If life is just about going to work, resting, and sleeping every day, how boring is that? Then, following the same old routine, getting married and having kids, and then being stuck raising kids and taking care of parents for the rest of your life. Look at those middle-aged couples, they have to wait for their kids to have vacation to travel. Every day is muddled and busy, with almost no time for themselves," Chen Yijun sighed.

"I don't want to live that kind of life..." she concluded.

"Then what kind of life do you want to live?" Li Cheng頤 asked. "Many people envy that kind of life."

"I want to pursue something different, something exciting. Something cooler." Chen Yijun picked up a napkin on the table and folded it into a paper crane in a few quick movements.

"I can fold a paper crane in five seconds, can you?" She looked at Li Cheng頤 seriously.

"What are you trying to say?" Li Cheng頤 raised an eyebrow.

"Learned it at work. Impressive, right?" Chen Yijun sighed. "Life is too boring, so boring that I really... really want to die."

"It's really boring. I also discuss makeup and fashion with my colleagues every day at work, because my work doesn't require personal opinions at all. You just have to listen to the arrangements from above. Whether you do more or less, the feedback is the same. It's meaningless," Xue Xue agreed from the side.

Zhou Xingtong didn't say anything, but lowered her head and sipped the watermelon juice that had just been served.

Li Cheng頤 was speechless. Having just experienced the dead corner of Mist Street, he felt that life was already exciting enough, but Chen Yijun actually wanted to actively pursue excitement.

She had no idea that so-called excitement always comes with risks and dangers. Without crisis, there can be no excitement. The two complement each other.

He wanted a quiet life but couldn't get it, but here, someone else wanted to pursue excitement and danger.

"I... I think a stable life is very good," Zhou Xingtong weakly replied as the others chattered about how to pursue excitement in life.

Li Cheng頤 nodded subconsciously, and was immediately caught by Chen Yijun.

She immediately pointed at Li Cheng頤 and laughed.

"What's going on? How are you two so compatible the first time you meet? Do you have to be so tacit?"

The topic suddenly took a turn and landed on Li Cheng頤 and Zhou Xingtong, and they began to talk about their commonalities.

Her skill was so practiced, it showed Chen Yijun's years of experience.

More than an hour later, the casual meal finally came to an end.

Li Cheng頤 got up to pay the bill.

"Wait! I'll do it!" Chen Yijun stood up and shouted, "I'm the big sister! You all have to listen to me!"

She had drunk a little beer, her cheeks flushed, and she suddenly stood up.

"None of you can fight me for it! I said I'm treating today, and if any of you pay, you're disrespecting Chen Pi!"

Getting drunk and going crazy was already a standard part of her personality since Li Cheng頤 had known her.

He was speechless and could only watch her slowly walk to the cashier while holding onto the back of the chair.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Xue Xue pretended to make a phone call, leaving Zhou Xingtong and Li Cheng頤 alone together.

Li Cheng頤 roughly guessed what Chen Yijun was up to. The Zhou Xingtong across from him had delicate features, a shy expression, a typical oval face, big eyes, and thin lips that were pale, as if she was anemic.

Overall, she was a silent girl with a delicate face, a pure temperament, and a rather hot figure.

This kind of girl is easily bullied in female groups, and easily arouses the desire to deceive in male groups.

The so-called desire to deceive is the feeling that she is easy to get and wouldn't dare to speak out even if she was bullied after getting her.

Li Cheng頤 sighed in his heart. If there was no dead corner, he might have been in the mood to have a good relationship with such a girl, but unfortunately, the threat of the dead corner could not be shaken off, and his own Evil Flower also destined him to deal with malice for a long time.

Such a life was undoubtedly dangerous and extremely exciting. It would not allow him to have the space to quietly do other things.

While chatting alone at this time, he asked Zhou Xingtong a few questions, and she told him everything honestly.

The two exchanged contact information, which was considered a response to Chen Yijun's enthusiasm.

After paying the bill, the four went out together and strolled slowly along the street, which was considered a way to digest their food.

Chen Yijun was talking all the way, and the other three were listening, occasionally chiming in.

"Yijun?" They hadn't walked far when two men jogging at night passed by them and greeted Chen Yijun.

"Manager Ding? You're jogging?" Chen Yijun greeted them with a smile.

"Yeah, we jog every night. I haven't seen you over here usually, have I?" The man who took the lead was burly, with a ruddy complexion and slightly sunken cheeks, which made him look a little aloof.

But when he spoke to Chen Yijun, he was noticeably more enthusiastic.

The two chatted casually for a few sentences. The man called Manager Ding glanced at Li Cheng頤, his gaze flitting over him like a dragonfly skimming the water. Then he greeted Chen Yijun and left jogging.

But it was just that one glance.

Li Cheng頤 was stunned.

He received a prompt from the Evil Flower in his mind.

'Sensed the evil thought of jealousy, please choose a designated scale armor to absorb and accommodate.'

Evil thoughts are subdivided?

Li Cheng頤 thought to himself. He hadn't encountered this situation when he had the Wisteria Flower scale armor before. It seemed different now.

Was it the second evolution of the Wisteria Flower? Or was it a new change brought about by the opening of the second flower deity position of the Gladiolus?

He had no way of knowing.

At this time, as he walked, he concentrated on the Evil Flower. After he focused more attention on the Evil Flower, more information immediately poured out.

'Scale armor evolution, the nutrients required at different stages are different, and the resulting changes in abilities are also different.

First evolution, can strengthen the material and strengthen the flower language.

Second evolution, can integrate the scale armor into external armor, can choose between visible and invisible states.

Third evolution, can further strengthen the scale armor, and evolve the flower language ability, causing it to undergo major changes.

Different flowers have different evolution limit times. When the scale armor reaches the ultimate form, a new final flower language will appear, thereby enabling the flower to have dual flower language abilities.' www.

Li Cheng頤 was shocked and continued to read carefully.

The information fed back by the Evil Flower was more than just the above. There was also information about evil thoughts.

'Each evolution requires first absorbing variant flower energy, and then absorbing different evil thoughts.'

'First evolution only requires absorbing chaotic evil thoughts, that is, any kind of evil thought is acceptable.'

'Subsequent evolutions will produce different changes depending on the type of evil thought absorbed.

Ultimately, the evolved scale armor will also be different, and there may even be new variant flower languages.'

'Existing types of evil thoughts: murderous intent, anger, jealousy, lust, arrogance, resentment, greed.'

"This is really... interesting." Li Cheng颐 became interested after understanding the entire evolution system of the Evil Flower.

'Different evil thoughts will combine to create different scale armor. Isn't this like planting different flowers by watering them with different nutrients? It's really amazing to use evil thoughts as nutrients.'

'Also, where can I find so many complex evil thoughts?'

Murderous intent seems to be the simplest, anger is not difficult, but jealousy, lust, arrogance, resentment, and greed require finding the right people to produce them.

Most people would hardly generate these kinds of evil thoughts for no reason.

Li Cheng頤 looked at his current situation.

The first evolution of the Wisteria Flower had already been completed, and now it needed a second evolution.

Evolution required two conditions: variant flower energy and evil thoughts.

He had not yet fully absorbed the flower energy for the second evolution of the Wisteria Flower, so he could not absorb evil thoughts for the time being.

As for the Gladiolus, even the evolution level of the first evolution was less than half complete, and it needed to be supplemented with more variant flower energy before it could begin to absorb evil thoughts.

Neither side had met the conditions.

Fortunately, for this goal, he was already using the reward given by Sindera to investigate and try to acquire a small botanical garden nearby.

The supporting botanical garden had ready-made facilities, which was very convenient. Whether it was management personnel or automated irrigation systems, he didn't need to worry about it. He only needed to find the flower varieties he needed to buy and transplant them into flowers later.

Looking at the overall situation carefully.

Li Cheng頤 suddenly realized that the Evil Flower's system was actually very simple.

It was just using different things to water the flowers, so as to grow different scale armor.

Variant flower energy, chaotic evil thoughts, and subdivided evil thoughts were all nutrients, the nutrition for watering the flowers.

Different nutrient combinations would result in different things being grown.

Li Cheng頤 even suspected that absorbing different variant flower energy might also affect the evolution path of the scale armor.