death of hope

Chapter 951: "Psychic Storm" (27)

Along the way, Li Ang was unable to shake off the unbearable memories until he entered the dormitory building and his attention returned to reality.

I dragged my tired body and swiped my card to get on the elevator. As soon as I entered the dormitory door, I went straight to the bathroom. I grabbed the toilet with both hands and vomited with a "wow!"

Press the flush button, and the dirt will be washed away, and you will feel a lot more comfortable instantly.

Li Ang has always had a good alcohol tolerance, and he can handle business drinking parties with ease. This time, he was happy about his promotion and salary increase, and he drank too much to relieve his sorrow.

The alcohol content of the wine was not high, but it had a strong aftereffect. Li Ang was glad that he did not embarrass himself in front of his colleagues and he vomited it out when he got to the dormitory.

I turned on the faucet and wiped my face. The person in the mirror had messy hair and red and swollen eyes, like a down-and-out street urchin. A sense of guilt surged in my heart:

(Wake up, idiot, you are complacent with just a little success...)
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Leon cares a lot about his image and what other people think of him. A gentleman of the Vilnius family should be elegant and noble, and should never be corrupt and degenerate like a street drunkard.

The earl's spoiled and stupid sons can smoke, drink, and travel as they please, and even hold parties and take illegal drugs. The family's servants will handle crisis public relations and clean up their messes. The noble young masters can fail countless times and it doesn't matter how big a mess they make.

But Leon, the illegitimate son of the Earl's sister, is not a good choice. Just a little indulgence or mistake will lead him into an irretrievable situation.

Li Ang drank some hangover medicine, soaked in the bathtub, and covered his head with a wet towel. The hot water at just the right temperature and the fragrance of the shower gel foam made him relax and comfortable, and he continued to immerse himself in memories...

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After spending more than a year at the bottom of the nest, Li Ang tried to play the role of "Director of the Ministry of Environmental Protection" to make this useless "fat job" meaningful.

But no matter how hard he tried, he was always taught a lesson by reality.

One day, when Li Ang was coming back from investigating the garbage mountain and collecting pollution samples, an old man suddenly jumped out from a shack in the slums and stopped his car. Fortunately, Li Ang reacted quickly and avoided being hit.

Just as he got out of the car angrily and was about to denounce the old man's stupidity, a pair of innocent big eyes behind the old man made him silent, and his anger disappeared.

The old man knelt down, put his hands together and begged him,
She begged him to adopt her granddaughter as a servant or a slave. He said that the girl's parents had been killed by an underground gang and that he himself had contracted pneumoconiosis and would not live long.

As soon as Li Ang took out his wallet, a large group of beggars rushed over, pushing the old man and the girl behind them, and stretched out their dirty hands or mutated tentacles to ask Li Ang for money:
"Mr. Civil Servant! Have mercy on us! Give us some money!"
With the sharp eyes honed in the army, Leon discovered that a beggar had secretly pulled out a dagger and hid it behind his back. There were strange symbol tattoos on the man's mutated tentacles.

Those beggars belong to a mutant gang. Their modus operandi is to use bait to trick passers-by into stopping their cars, rob and kill people, and dismantle the victims and car parts to sell for money...

Li Ang remained calm and pretended to be defenseless. When the other party approached, he pulled out a baton with his right hand and knocked down the dagger that was stabbing him. He pulled out an automatic pistol with his left hand and fired into the air to scare everyone away. He immediately got into the car and drove away.

Compared with the powerful Eldar pirates, the attacks of the mutant gangs were nothing to mention and posed no threat to them at all.

What really concerned him was the vicious look in the girl's eyes in the rearview mirror:

Those are the vulnerable group that Leon has been trying to help, the mutants with contaminated DNA in the slums at the bottom of the hive.

The poor person whom I wanted to save with all my heart was actually willing to sacrifice my life for money. I felt a huge sense of sadness and powerlessness in my heart.

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That night was just like this night,

Li Ang dragged his exhausted body back to the dormitory and sat in the bathtub drinking to drown his sorrows. It was another bad day. His work was meaningless and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't help anyone.

Picking up a newspaper at random, the news on the front page became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and Leon Vilnius was completely devastated:
The Elves pirate ships plundered Ix's mining ships and merchant ships, kidnapped nobles for ransom, and killed civilians as sacrifices to pagan evil gods.
The pirates also included a four-frame cartoon in the threatening letter, satirizing and insulting the Vilnius family for their disorganization and weakness.

The Ixian officers who were supposed to escort the caravan: those good-for-nothings had neither the wits nor the courage to fight.

The only ones who were able to fight were the old subordinates that Leon had led. Those brave sailors fought to the death, but because their teammates fled, they were too few in number to stand alone and were brutally slaughtered by the pirates' evil psychic witchcraft...

The earl's stupid sons only brought shame to the family, while the illegitimate son who was truly capable of resisting pirates was demoted to the bottom of the dark nest, to be the ridiculous "Director of the Environmental Protection Department", repeating meaningless work day after day, rotting in this hellhole...

All the grievances that had been suppressed for a long time came to his mind all at once. Li Ang tore up the newspaper, unable to bear it any longer.

That night, the night watchman in the security booth noticed that the lights in the dormitory windows were on all night...