Terra's Magnetic Field

How should this guy be dealt with? Should he tell the police that he ran into a gangster who came to cause trouble at the welcome party after his first day at work? His only companion also died in the fight... This is too outrageous... He will definitely be "specially cared for" later, which will not be conducive to the development of his undercover work.

Just as the handsome guy was thinking about how to deal with this matter, Gui Shao stretched his body lazily and climbed up from the table as if no one was around, "Hmm~~ Yeah! My neck is not sore anymore suddenly."

Gui Shao looked at the leader who had been stabbed into a sieve by the handsome guy in a pool of blood. The guy was lying on his side on the ground covered with blood, his slightly opened eyes full of confusion and unwillingness...

Then he smiled and greeted the big man, "Hey~ Thank you for massaging my neck just now. I was worried about a stiff neck when I slept. You are such a warm-hearted person."

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Gui Qiao was the type who pretended to be ignorant while knowing the truth. How could an ordinary person stand facing the fire for so long and remain unscathed?

Gui Shao's seemingly daily and intimate behavior made the handsome guy's hair stand on end, making him dare not act rashly.

"Brother, what are you doing... I..." The handsome guy's half body was dyed red by blood plasma, and in his hand was still holding the dagger snatched from the gangster. It was impossible to explain the scene now.

Would he be discovered and sent back to Longmen on his first day here? How would Chen Huijie, who was known for being strict with his subordinates, deal with him?

Gui Shao stood up from his seat, tidied up his messy clothes, and walked towards the handsome guy who was seven or eight steps away from him, without getting a single drop of blood on the blood plasma on the ground.

Gui Jiao stopped two steps away from the handsome man and stomped on the back of the corpse lying on the ground. The force of this kick just popped out the short knife stuck in the back of the corpse. The short knife spun in the air, drying the blood on the blade like an electric fan, and finally Gui Jiao grabbed the blade effortlessly and played with it in his hand.

"This thing is really well made," Gui Shao said with admiration for the workmanship of the dagger, "even toys are made so realistically these days."

"Toy?!" The handsome guy naturally knew that what Gui She held in his hand was a real dagger, but he had no idea what tricks the man was going to play.

"Look, this is actually a retractable blade..." Gui She held the handle with his right hand, and with his left hand facing the tip of the blade, he exerted force...

"Sizzle!" The tip of the knife pierced through Guishe's palm. In the blink of an eye, half of the blade passed through his palm and blood flowed down the blade.

Handsome guy: “…………………………”

Gui Shao still had a smile on his face, as if it was just another little joke. He pulled the knife out of his hand without changing his expression and said with a smile, "It was just a joke. If I pressed the blade directly into the handle, you would definitely find it boring. The so-called joke is to be unexpected. That was just a prop just now. You see... I was not injured at all."

He sheathed the sword and turned his hand to the handsome guy to see that the injury on his hand had been healed at some point, perhaps it had been healed the moment he pulled out the blade.

"What's going on... with this guy..." Gui Shao's inexplicable behavior made the handsome guy feel that this man was unfathomable.

"Forget it, let's stop playing..." Gui She thrust the short knife back into the corpse's back and patted the corpse, saying, "How long are you going to lie there? You are so naughty."

"You must have known my background, right?" The handsome boy said to Gui Shao cautiously, and then asked, "What are you going to do next? Are you going to get rid of me?"

"Ah?" Gui Shao looked puzzled.

She asked the handsome boy, "You have been saying something I don't understand since just now. Nothing happened, right?"

Guishao pointed at the dead bodies on the ground and said, "They just fell asleep because they were tired from playing."

He also pointed at the handsome guy and said, "You don't understand Rhode Island, don't jump to conclusions. This kind of thing is actually very common in Rhode Island, you are making a fuss."

Handsome guy: “What’s the big deal?…”

In the eyes of the handsome guy, Gui Shao's words were like saying that death was a common thing in Rhodes Island, and he was the one who was shocked.

Gui Shao reached out and patted the handsome boy on the shoulder. "It's normal to be nervous on the first day of work. It takes time to adapt to a new environment. How about you go back and have a good rest? Nothing will happen after a good sleep. I won't ask you about your affairs. Of course... don't ask me too much."

"Okay..." The handsome guy could only agree. He looked at the corpses and half-dried blood on the ground and couldn't figure out how Guishao would "settle" this matter for him...

He could only pretend to be confused and muddle through with Gui Qiao. Who on earth was this Gui Qiao? Why did he think this guy was more troublesome than Chen Huijie? More dangerous? From beginning to end, he was led by this man by the nose.

But that's all there is, right?

That’s all for today.

Chapter 446: Later He Seems to Have Died

"Yesterday, a gas leak occurred outside the commercial district and caused a huge explosion... When the accident happened... except for the store manager and a few customers in the store, no one else was injured or killed..."

A report of yesterday's incident came from the van's speakers. The handsome guy was sitting in the passenger seat and looking at the left window. He used the reflection of the glass to observe the reaction of Gui Shao, who was driving on the right.

Gui Shao was still as calm as before, without any change.

"Did he really handle it well... Did he disguise it as an accident?" Pretty Boy speculated on Guiqiao's approach, and he inferred that this was not the first time Guiqiao had dealt with such a thing. Could it be that this kind of thing is really common in Rhodes Island? It's hard to imagine...

The handsome guy looked out the window at the rising sun that had just appeared above the horizon. It was now six o'clock in the morning. Today was their turn for the early shift. They had to go to the dock to unload goods starting at five o'clock. Now the back seat and the shelves on the car were full of goods.

This morning, Gui Shao was in charge of driving. He was the only person at the Rhode Island Penguin Logistics Workstation with an advanced driver's license, the kind that could even drive a long-distance truck. Others like Croissant and Kong Deng only had the most basic automatic transmission driver's license.

After they delivered the goods to the workstation, they still had to pick up Croissant and Sora. Normally, these were Texas's jobs, but today was a rare day off for her, so Gui Shao took over the parts she was responsible for.

Without Texas, Lapland would naturally not show up either. The work battle suddenly became much busier without two veterans.

"Brother, you are a part-time worker, right?" The handsome guy suddenly remembered what Texas had told him before. He learned some information about Guishao from Texas yesterday.

"Oh, and then what?" Gui Shao stared at the road ahead.

"That's right... You don't intend to treat this as a serious job, so what are you busy with the rest of the time? Is it some secrets that outsiders like me can't know?" The handsome guy was very interested in Gui Qiao's true identity. He couldn't ask directly, so he could only hint at it in this way.

"I worked in a convenience store, volunteered at the island school, ran errands for the patrol team, delivered takeout, and I even worked as an intern for a while, doing hospice care," Gui Shao said calmly, and his content was as calm as his tone.

"Ah... so ordinary," the handsome guy didn't hear what he wanted to hear. He didn't know whether Gui Qiao was really so well-behaved or just made up something to fool him.

"Just being ordinary is good. Being ordinary is the happiest." Gui Shao replied to him.

"Maybe~" The handsome guy adjusted the seat backwards and sat back. Seeing that he was still halfway to his workstation, he took a nap like this.

From their conversation, it was hard to tell that they had just experienced something as cruel as murder. Their adaptability was too strong, and Rhodes Island was also used to this kind of thing.

Gui Shao thinks driving is an interesting thing. When driving, he only needs to focus on the steering wheel, the front and the rearview mirror, and ignore everything else. Delivery, a tedious job that others think is tedious, is also interesting and can make him forget all his worries for a while.

He had another nightmare last night. In the dream, he became Guishao, which means literally, just returning to the sheath.

In that dream, he no longer had complicated identities such as Wan Bai, Xiao Er, Wu Ming, and no longer had any power. He was just an ordinary person named Gui Shao. In that dream, he had his own family and life, which were extremely ordinary, but made him feel at ease.

As an ordinary person, he no longer needs to worry about crises on earth and threats from space, and can just be an ordinary person.

In that dream, he rarely relaxed. In that dream, he seemed to have spent his life as an ordinary person... He fell in love, got married, had children, grew old, died, and fell asleep normally... There was no resurrection or fate, he just lay down peacefully after death.

Why is this a nightmare? Because when he wakes up from the dream, all the normality and peace of mind are gone, and he has to face the suffering and difficulties that weigh on him again. The complexity of reality almost tears him apart.

The scariest thing is not darkness. What is scarier is that after having just bathed in sunshine, one has to return to darkness again.

The accidental dream last night was actually a gift from Fran to Guiqiao. She used her power to transform his dream while he was sleeping, allowing him to enjoy a moment of peace.

Get everything you dream of in your dream.

After Gui Shao woke up, he did not tell Fran about his dream, and Fran did not mention the manipulation of his dream. Both of them had some feelings and noticed that the other was abnormal, but they did not point it out.

Let this hazy feeling of dream last until the last moment.

Gui Shao vaguely sensed who had written that dream, but he cared more about his own reaction in the dream than the dream itself. Was it really a good thing for him to return to being ordinary? Was this power a burden to him? Did he really want to live an ordinary life?

Gui Shao understood that this power gave him a heavy mission while also giving him the qualification to protect those around him. If he lost this power, he would not be able to protect the important people and things he cherished.

He couldn't figure out the contradiction for a while, so he simply stopped thinking about it and focused on driving.

"Let's go get something to eat," Guishao parked the car next to a breakfast stand and asked in a Texas tone, "Do you want me to bring you anything?"

After hearing this, the handsome guy unbuckled his seat belt and got out of the car from the other side. He put his hands in his pockets and shouted to Gui Shao across the van, "No, I'll eat with you."

"Let's go," Gui Shao said without saying anything and walked straight towards the snack stand.

This is a traditional Yan country breakfast stall, consisting of a dining cart and several folding tables. Gui Qiao slowly squeezed into the crowd and ordered a bowl of wontons as usual, while Liangzai ordered soy milk and soup dumplings.

After the meal arrived, they sat on small stools that were half a meter shorter than ordinary folding stools and ate with their bowls in their hands. From a distance, it looked like several people squatting by the table, which was very unsightly. But for these "manual laborers", elegance was bullshit.

"Brother, what are you trying to achieve by doing all this? Seeing that you live in that two-story building, it seems that you are not short of money." The handsome guy is still trying to find out the way for Guiqiao. His current speculation about Guiqiao is that he is a reclusive person with some status and means.

As far as the handsome guy knows, there are many such hermits on Rhodes Island. Most of them have lived a happy life in their hometown for a while, and were forced to leave their hometown for various reasons and come to Rhodes Island to live a lazy life, waiting to make a comeback.

The famous "Five-Star Director" Saria is like this. It seems that every time someone mentions a "big shot" who is hanging around in Rhodes Island, she has to be criticized.

"I just want to live a peaceful life," Gui Qiao drank some wonton soup to warm his stomach.

Handsome guy: "That sounds like a big shot... What do we call old big shots in the capital of Yan country? They call them old guns. Hey! Very elegant~ Those old guys are all rich, but they can't sit still. They like to sweep the streets or guard the gates for people. Occasionally, when they take a break, they carry a bird cage and walk around. It's so impressive."

Gui Qiao could tell that the handsome guy was deliberately imitating the accent of the people in the capital of Yan State. He himself spoke with the Longmen accent, and the mixture of these two accents looked weird and awkward.

The feeling given to Guishao was like someone scratching a blackboard with fingernails, making the hairs on his body stand on end.

Gui Shao said to the handsome boy, "From what I know, you are not a pure native of the capital, right? Then please don't speak to me in this strange Mandarin. It's uncomfortable to listen to."

"Oh," the handsome boy agreed, and then asked Gui Shao, "Where are you from, brother? You should be from Yan country too."

Gui Shao hesitated for a few seconds and then replied, "I...my hometown is in the north..."

The handsome guy thought for a moment, "The north, there are not many people there now, and it's cold."

Gui Shao said, "It's like this. Farming there is not possible, and the mineral resources there are not easy to develop. It's basically abandoned."

After hearing this, the handsome guy didn't take it too seriously. He probably thought that Gui Qiao was just one of the large number of people who fled from the north to the inland that year. He would not connect his "return" with the "return" of the Huolin clan, because Gui Qiao looked like just an ordinary Rupert.

"Is Dali Temple still pursuing you?" The handsome guy asked suddenly. He wanted to see Gui Shao's reaction for a moment, but unexpectedly, Gui Shao calmly ate the wonton in his mouth and smiled at him.

Gui Shao: "Dali Temple? What Dali Temple? Why did they arrest me?"

"Nothing? It seems I misunderstood..." The handsome boy had to pretend that nothing happened. He thought Gui Qiao was a fugitive being hunted by the Dali Temple, but now it seems that he is not... No, it may also be that he is hiding too deeply and too sophisticated...

After the handsome guy finished drinking the soy milk, he put his hands back into his sheath and slapped his thighs to get up, stretching his arms to wake himself up, "Well~~ Let's get in the car!"

Gui Shao walked towards the van carrying the small cross-body bag on his back.

"Okay," the handsome guy followed.

Under the rising sun, the two who had just met continued their work. I don't know if it was because of their similar personalities or some other reason, but there was a special tacit understanding between them, and they got along well.

The morning sun slowly moved westwards, and when it reached the center of the sky it was already noon. When people are busy, it is easy to ignore the passage of time, and this was also the case with Gui Shao. Before he knew it, he had finished half a day's work and was resting in the van with the handsome guy.

"That's all I have to do today. I have to go somewhere else next," Gui Shao said to the handsome guy while drinking a can of Coke. "I'll drive you back to the workstation first. Please give the car keys to Kong. She will pass them to Texas."

"No..." The handsome boy took off the upper half of his uniform in a heat, revealing the dark vest underneath. Sweat dripped down his sturdy arms. "I'm only on duty half a day today. I'll be free later."

"Why don't you take me to see your other part-time jobs? I just arrived in Rhodes Island not long ago, so just help me get familiar with the situation, okay?" The handsome guy asked Gui Shao.

Gui Shao thought about the next schedule for today and agreed. He told the handsome boy, "Next I will go to the island school to volunteer. We just happen to be short of people to move tables and chairs. You can go and help."

"The school is run by the island..." The handsome guy wondered what the school would be like. It was the first time he heard that there was a school in Rhode Island. What would the school teach? Would it be about fighting?

No...why would he want to fight? ...

This is because he spent most of his student days fighting, and his youth was much simpler and more violent than those in "Hot Blood High School" and "Hot Blood District". He was either fighting or on the way to fight every day, and he didn't care about studying at all, so now he has fallen to the point where he can only work for Chen Huijie.

After Gui Shao drove the car to the workstation and handed the keys to Kong, he took the handsome boy to take the bus. It took more than 20 minutes to take the bus from the workstation to where he volunteered, which was also the only school on the island.

The purpose of this school is to teach the most basic knowledge to the children who were born on the island or taken in by Rhode Island, so there is no grade distinction, which leads to the chaos of the internal order. For example, the "big kids" of 17 or 18 years old are mixed with the "four or five-year-old" preschoolers. This kind of thing that seems incredible to the outside world is common here.

"This is more like an abandoned apartment than a school, right?" The handsome boy stood at the school gate and commented on the dilapidated scene inside the fence.

Gui Shao guessed that he would say this, so he said bluntly, "This place is indeed a product of the recycling of abandoned apartment buildings. It is expected to be demolished in five years. Some of the stairs and door panels are also in disrepair. You have to be careful when you go in."

The handsome guy said nonchalantly, "Don't worry, I'll be fine..."

Gui Shao: "I'm not worried about you, but this dilapidated building. If this place is abandoned, the children on the island will have to fend for themselves."

Handsome: "It's scary... But it doesn't really matter whether children in Rhodes Island go to school or not, right? After all, they only have a few options..."

The handsome guy also felt that it was quite despairing to say this, so he didn't want to continue.

"So what exactly are you doing here as a tool?" The handsome guy walked around Gui Qiao with his arms folded across his chest.

"As a teacher," Gui Shao gave an answer that surprised the handsome boy. The handsome boy thought he also did physical labor.

"Being a teacher? You? I don't mean to offend..." The handsome boy imagined Gui Qiao standing in front of the podium with a serious face. He thought it would be quite funny, but when he thought about it carefully, it was quite appropriate. It should be said that Gui Qiao was a person who would never surprise anyone in any occasion.

"Then what do they teach?" the handsome guy asked again. When he was walking, he saw all kinds of graffiti on the inside of the school wall and in the corridors, which reminded him of the dirty and messy environment when he was in middle school. He roughly guessed what the students here were like.

Gui Shao: "We teach whatever is lacking. This school does not have fixed teachers. All the operators take turns here voluntarily. I usually make up for any classes they missed this week."

Handsome guy: "Brother, you really do know everything..."

Gui Shao: "I don't know everything, I just try my best to do everything well. If you can do it to my level with the right mindset, most people can do it."

As the two of them were talking, they walked through the corridor. The handsome boy saw many old photos of previous years on the walls on both sides, and he fell into memory again... He remembered that he should have had a similar photo, probably when he was in elementary school. He vaguely remembered that in the elementary school graduation photo, he was next to a Rupert like now...

"Brother, I suddenly realized that you look a bit like a classmate of mine in elementary school," the handsome guy said casually, "That guy lived in the Walled City, that kind of building built illegally, and he seemed to live with his mother... That guy didn't talk much, and kids like to bully those who are lonely and unsociable, so he was always bullied by us, and then..."

Guishao was surprisingly quiet, and there was not even a sound of his footsteps.

"Then...then he seemed to have died."

“……………………………………”, Gui Shao did not respond to the topic about the handsome guy, perhaps he did not have any feelings about it.

That’s right... Handsome guy thinks that a perfect person like Gui Shao would definitely not empathize with that kind of dead kid. He would probably just find this topic boring.

As they were talking, they had already reached the door of the classroom. There were only a few rooms in the whole building that were still in use, and this was one of them. Before they entered the room, they could hear the chattering and laughing inside, not only children but also adults.

"You can just sit aside and listen while I teach. Are you ready?" Gui Shao looked at the handsome guy.

The handsome guy nodded.

That’s all for today.