Chapter 1296: Chapter 8 Brooke Lin (Begging for monthly votes~)_2

He looked up and down at the slender CC:

“Yeah, look, just like you, always eating this stuff won’t make you gain weight.”

“Aren’t you just spouting nonsense?”

CC rolled her eyes at Lin Xian, then continued to eat her soggy bread:

“Who doesn’t want to eat delicious food? Who doesn’t want to eat nutritious things? Grandma used to tell us in the welfare home about Louis XVI, when the queen learned the people couldn’t afford bread, she said…’Then why don’t they eat cake?'”

“Isn’t that exactly what you’re saying now? You don’t really think I don’t want to eat anything else, do you? I just don’t have money.”

Lin Xian reached into his pocket.

There’s 1 US dollar and 23 cents, all in various sized coins, but Lin Xian had counted them many times, just by touch he could tell the value of each.

He thought for a moment.

Recalling CC’s dream from last night, and her mysterious obsession with hot dogs…

“Let’s go to [Coney Island]!”

He suggested:

“Haven’t you been wanting to eat a hot dog from Coney Island? This money should be enough to have a day at Coney Island.”

Coney Island.

Whether in the present year of 1952 or in future times, it is a very famous amusement park in New York, Mi Country.

Not only does it feature bustling amusement parks with various attractions, but it also has the distinction of being the site of the first hot dog stand in Mi Country’s history, known as the birthplace of the Mi Country hot dog.

“Have you ever been to an amusement park?” Lin Xian asked.

CC unsurprisingly shook her head:

“I’ve only heard about the carousel and the Ferris wheel and such.”

“Then let’s go have some fun.”

Lin Xian took out all the coins from his pocket:

“This money should be enough for us to take the bus, buy park tickets, and eat hot dogs.”

“Such a waste!”

CC frowned and said:

“That’s all the money you have, why spend it all on something so meaningless?”

“How is it meaningless?”

Lin Xian looked at CC, and asked back:

“Don’t you want to eat hot dogs?”

“I do, but…”

“Haven’t you not gone to an amusement park before?” Lin Xian continued asking.

“So what if I haven’t been?”

CC tilted her head:

“Whether I’ve eaten hot dogs or visited an amusement park, it’s all my business. You… ”

“[Why are you so good to me?]”

…

A single sentence.

Rendered Lin Xian speechless.

He didn’t know how to answer such a question.

It truly was strange.

The two had only known each other for 24 hours, yet he was like Aladdin’s lamp, leading CC to Brooklyn Heights, letting her stay at an inn, and planning to use his remaining money to take her to Coney Island for hot dogs.

He himself could not explain this matter.

There was a feeling…

He wanted to make up for what he owed Chu Anqing through First Generation Pillar CC;

Or perhaps, because he had long seen First Generation Pillar CC as An Qing, seen her as the CC from 600 years ago…desiring not to see her suffer in any way.

Especially.

According to the predetermined history, this Millennium Stakes girl will, at an unknown day, become blue stardust and dissipate, entering a helpless millennial cycle.

Lin Xian knew so much of this truth.

How could he not be moved with pity towards the current First Generation Pillar CC, wanting to fulfill her every wish?

Seeing Lin Xian not speaking, CC blinked:

“You… when we met yesterday, you said you knew another girl named CC, who looks a lot like me.”

“Could it be, you…”

CC bit her lip, hesitated to speak:

“[Could it be that you liked that girl… and then mistook me for her?]”

“Cough, cough, cough…”

Lin Xian choked on the corn chowder, coughing several times.

Then wiped his mouth.

Turned to look at CC:

“Where did you get such melodramatic thoughts, replacement literature? I just think since we now have money, we should eat well and improve our lives.”

“Alright, that’s enough talk, since we both have nothing to do now anyway, why not find a money-making opportunity at Coney Island’s amusement park.”

“As you can see, my shooting skills are great, and I’m skilled at parkour, if there’s a related competition at the amusement park… isn’t this a chance to earn some prize money?”

“With the prize money, we can live better lives, go to bigger stages, and seek greater chances to earn money, that’s called sustainable development, forming a positive cycle.”

“Oh.”

CC listened to these terms, feeling lost:

“However, over there at Coney Island it’s not very peaceful, though it has amusement parks and resorts, it’s also a place where gangs run rampant, gunfights are common, very dangerous.”

Lin Xian shrugged:

“If there’s danger it’s a danger for the rich people, we on the other hand have only this 1 dollar plus a little more, less expensive than a gangster’s bullet, danger won’t befall us.”

He finished eating his bread, clapped his hands:

“Then let’s set off, see if there’s any opportunity to make money at Coney Island, and besides…”

He smiled slightly:

“I am also very curious, just how delicious the hot dogs of Coney Island are.”

…

Coney Island.

Located at the south end of Brooklyn in New York, it’s the oldest large amusement park in Mi Country.

Once, it was an offshore island, a bay isolated Coney Island from Brooklyn, accessed only by boat.

During World War II, for strategic purposes, Mi Country filled the bay, connecting Coney Island directly with the mainland, creating a ‘man-made peninsula’.

But CC was right.

Coney Island is rampant with gangs, territorial fights and gun battles frequently occur, the law and order indeed being poorly managed, a situation that didn’t see improvement until the 1980s and 90s of the century.