Who says those who retire at the speed of light are not heroes?

Well, girl’s intuition, you can still be a girl at 21.

"Is this fate?" Lin Cheng suddenly laughed.

Lu Xiaoxiao turned around and walked to the side of the street. Lin Cheng caught up with her and heard her answer slowly, "Just barely."

It can only be barely considered, because this street is not far from the bar where Lin Cheng worked last night, and she also had supper near here. She said in a faint voice, "Who knows if someone deliberately came here to find a chance to meet?"

She was staying in a nearby e-sports hotel. She was tired after playing games all day and wanted to come down for some fresh air, and we met by chance.

"You guessed all this? I've been hanging out here naked for an hour, just waiting for you to notice me." Lin Cheng followed her, "I have a question."

"Ok?"

"Wasn't it black silk yesterday? Why is it white silk today?"

"I just bought it." Lu Xiaoxiao looked up, "Any questions?"

Lin Cheng lowered his head a little, looking at the white silk over-the-knee socks that were slightly tight under her skirt. The lace straps were tightly wrapped around her thighs, making a swish sound.

"I must make it clear that white silk knee-high socks are definitely not something that normal girls can wear. They are not suitable for your skin tone and leg shape, so they are a particularly difficult item to control. But on you... they are really cute."

After all, she has a pair of long and straight beautiful legs. Her thighs are not as thin as bamboo poles. They are slightly plump like a sporty girl and so tender that they seem to be able to squeeze water out of them.

Lu Xiaoxiao sneered, "Is this what you're focusing on?"

"Then what should I pay attention to? The fact that you didn't wear lipstick today?" Lin Cheng continued her answer.

"My lips look good even without lipstick." Lu Xiaoxiao looked up and snorted.

"That's right." Lin Cheng nodded, "Wait a minute, I'll buy a T-shirt."

Lin Cheng stopped at a roadside stall that sold clothes directly from manufacturers. They were all very cheap, with a T-shirt costing only thirty or forty yuan. Lu Xiaoxiao glanced at him and said, "These clothes are of poor quality. Won't they be uncomfortable to wear?"

"Do you think everyone is the Princess and the Pea?" Lin Cheng answered helplessly. Lu Xiaoxiao glanced at him and said, "You did a great job yesterday. Follow me and I'll buy you something nice."

"No, how come you are suddenly a generation older than me?"

"You are half a month younger than me." Lu Xiaoxiao snorted, and Lin Cheng looked a little weird. "You didn't go back and look through my information again last night, did you?"

"I saw it last time. I have a good memory, okay?" Lu Xiaoxiao's voice revealed a hint of guilt.

"Oh, no privacy at all." Lin Cheng muttered.

"Come to think of it, weren't your grades in high school pretty good? Why did you drop out?"

"It's a long story. This is a particularly tragic story of teenage abuse. If you want to listen, you need some wine first."

"Just treat you to a drink. I just happen to want to have a couple of drinks." Lu Xiaoxiao answered casually, but she still felt that Lin Cheng was not telling the truth. She took him through the streets and finally walked into a buyer's store.

Lin Cheng lowered his voice and leaned close to Lu Xiaoxiao's ear, "What does a buyer's store mean?"

"Based on the target customers' unique fashion concepts and interests, we select different brands of clothing, accessories, jewelry, bags, shoes, cosmetics and other products and integrate them into the store." Lu Xiaoxiao's answer was like a textbook.

"That sounds awesome."

"Vulgar." Lu Xiaoxiao walked to the men's clothing shelf and picked up several pieces. Comparing them with Lin Cheng's figure, it always felt weird for Lin Cheng to be shirtless. At this moment, he looked like a good boy. Lu Xiaoxiao looked at several pieces and finally picked out a plain shirt for him. Anyway, Lin Cheng didn't know much about the style, fabric, and style, and he didn't feel much difference when he put it on. But when Lu Xiaoxiao checked out, the invoice of six hundred and forty-eight made his eyes widen for a moment.

After leaving the buyer's shop, Lin Cheng couldn't help but mutter, "It's so expensive."

"It's not your money." Lu Xiaoxiao's tone was casual and free. The lights in front of them were bright. Lin Cheng walked a little slower than her. The two of them walked forward aimlessly until Lu Xiaoxiao turned back inadvertently, "You walk so slowly."

"Well, there are benefits to walking slower."

"What's the benefit?"

"You don't understand." Lin Cheng shook his head, looking very secretive.

Lu Xiaoxiao looked up and thought for two or three seconds before she realized that he was walking behind her, probably just to see her swaying skirt and slender legs. She was speechless for a moment.

"Why do you look so pale?" Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly realized that Lin Cheng looked a little listless under the street light.

"I'm still in shock. I was almost caught by the rich woman's husband. A beating would be the least of my worries. If he sets me on fire or slashes me with a knife, I won't be able to survive."

"Are you serious?" Lu Xiaoxiao frowned slightly.

"What else?" Lin Cheng's expression was frank and innocent, and it seemed that it was really the case. Lu Xiaoxiao snorted coldly, "He deserves to be caught. He should be tied to a stool and shocked."

“No, I’m making money.”

"With hands and feet, there are so many ways to make money. Why do you have to do this?"

"Three hundred and sixty lines, and he will be the number one scholar."

Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly became even more angry. She stopped and crossed her arms over her chest. She stared at him without blinking. She stared at him like that for seven or eight seconds. A normal person would have felt a little embarrassed, but Lin Cheng acted as if nothing had happened and looked particularly innocent.

"A dead pig is not afraid of boiling water." Lu Xiaoxiao quickened her pace, and Lin Cheng followed slowly. As they walked, it began to drizzle. The hazy rain was rendered golden under the lights. The streets gradually became deserted, and passers-by in a hurry kept running past them. Lin Cheng was always at a distance from Lu Xiaoxiao.

Until Lu Xiaoxiao stopped in front of an alley with a light sign on. There was a small garden inside. It was a craft beer bar hidden in the city. Lin Cheng followed her in. The two sat down face to face in the courtyard with a big umbrella over their heads.

Lu Xiaoxiao sat very straight, and gradually leaned back in her chair. She ordered two beers, and then she finally turned her gaze to Lin Cheng, looking at him with a slightly scrutinizing look, "Tell me about your tragic love story in high school."

Lin cleared his throat, and the waiter brought him beer. He took a sip of the beer.

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"It's a long story..."

"I lived in the north of the city when I was in elementary school. The north of the city was much more chaotic back then than it is now. My parents died in the natural disaster when I was seven years old. I was still in elementary school at that time. Because of the natural disaster, my classmates and I hid in the school and waited for the alliance to deal with the natural disaster creatures. When the disaster was over, I stood by the school gate and watched children of my age being picked up one by one. I waited until I fell asleep that day, and my parents didn't come."

“I later found out that they were not coming.”

"I was an unlucky child. My grandparents died early. After my parents passed away, there was no one to take care of me, so I stayed in an orphanage for a while. When I was thirteen or fourteen, I was too old, so I moved out of the orphanage. My parents actually left me some inheritance. I have a small house in the north of the city. Later, I continued to go to school. From junior high school to high school, my grades were pretty good. At that time, I had a few good friends, and there was a girl I had a crush on in high school... Bai Yueguang, do you understand? Bai Yueguang... The first time I liked a girl, I saw her dancing in a white dress at the school art performance. At that time, I secretly swore in my heart that I must protect her smile."

Lu Xiaoxiao had a strange expression on her face.

What's going on with this sudden second-year atmosphere?

"and then?"

"Then... one day I encountered another natural disaster. It was a spring outing organized by the school that day, and a natural disaster creature called a predator attacked us... I watched with my own eyes... the girl I liked died in front of me."

"She kept telling me to save her, save her, but I had no strength in my body. I watched her arms being bitten off piece by piece, and she fainted from the pain... The Alliance's Judge came and saved me... By then, my tears had dried up... I had no idea what to do..."

Lu Xiaoxiao took a sip of beer and was silent for a while. "And then you... suffered psychological trauma, so you... stayed home from school?"

"No." Lin Cheng shook his head. "Then I awakened the SSS-level potential ability [Destiny]. At the age of fifteen, I joined the Alliance, put on a mask and called myself Siming, and vowed to end the natural disaster. In the three years, I experienced countless battles, big and small. The team I joined at the beginning kept changing members, until I grew up to be the captain and led my team to the largest natural disaster rift. This was the first time that humans took the initiative to fight against natural disasters. Entering the abyss, I closed the door of natural disasters and retired after completing my mission."

Lu Xiaoxiao took a deep breath, while Lin Cheng continued to speak with an exaggerated expression, "It's a pity that after retiring, I developed post-traumatic stress disorder. I always have nightmares, and I tend to go crazy when I see blood and certain specific scenes. So I muddled through the years until now."

Lu Xiaoxiao raised her hand and poured all the wine in the glass onto Lin Cheng's face.

Before, the two of them were just joking, and Lu Xiaoxiao had never been really angry, but this time was the first time that Lin Cheng saw Lu Xiaoxiao's true anger, with anger hard to conceal in her brows.

"Si Ming is a hero who saved the world. Do you know what he went through in those three years?! In those three years, he witnessed countless separations and deaths, and was seriously injured and on the verge of death countless times. But he never gave up his belief until the natural disaster ended. When the natural disaster ended, all his former teammates and seniors died in the abyss. He also said in person that his strength was about to run out, and his time was running out. He left all his strength behind and wanted to leave the alliance to spend the last few years of his life as an ordinary person. A person like him, a true hero, is not something you can make fun of or joke about. Do you understand?!"

Lu Xiaoxiao's chest was rising and falling violently with her breathing, and even her shoulders were trembling slightly. It was obvious that Lin Cheng seemed to have played a joke that was not appropriate.

"I'm wrong." Lin Cheng took out a tissue and wiped his face, then lowered his head silently to admit his mistake.

16 Perfect

"Don't be angry, don't be angry...I was wrong..." Lin Cheng immediately apologized sincerely.

Lu Xiaoxiao's anger did not subside. She stared straight at Lin Cheng in front of her. Lin Cheng lowered his head again, "I'm sorry... I didn't figure out what he meant to you... That story... It's not like that..."

"so?"

"The story is... on that day of the spring outing, we did encounter a natural disaster, but it was also on that day that the masked man appeared and saved the girl I liked, and also saved me."

"I was injured at that time, so I took a break from school for a while. After that, I couldn't keep up with the progress of my studies. It happened that I had psychological problems during that time. I was afraid of the monsters that would appear after the natural disaster, so I stayed in my rental house all year round and didn't dare to go out. I played games at home all day. At that time, I started to play games with others. Later, I met a rich woman named Sister Luzi in the game companion group. I happened to be broke at the time, and she recommended me to go to the bar to drink with others. She opened the door to a new world for me. Later, I was in a daze until now."

"I just made up the story to liven up the atmosphere. I didn't mean to slander Siming at all. If he hadn't appeared that year, I would have died... I am also his fan, the real number one fan. I also have COS of the mask and clothes he wore at that time, which are still well preserved in my home."

"If he hadn't appeared at that time, I would have died...So, from that day on, I truly believed that there are real heroes in this world."

Perhaps because Lin Cheng's tone was particularly sincere, Lu Xiaoxiao's anger finally slowly dissipated. She hesitated for a moment and lowered her head, "I'm sorry, I was a little excited just now."

After all, she had just splashed beer on Lin Cheng.

"It's okay. It's common to get splashed with wine when you flirt with girls in a bar. I've gotten used to it after so many times." Lin Cheng shook his head indifferently, then asked carefully, "But... why are you so angry?"

"Si Ming saved my life."

"Ah?" Lin Cheng was a little stunned.

Lu Xiaoxiao lowered her head slightly. "When he left, he left ten evolution bloods in the alliance. My ability suddenly went out of control when I entered A level from B level. If I hadn't used the evolution blood he left behind, I would be a corpse now."

"I see." Lin Cheng nodded.

"It was because of him that I chose to become the judge."

"because of him?"

"Natural disasters that befell this world are misfortunes for everyone, and as a person with special abilities, I am the only one who can save this misfortune. My wish is the same as his. I don't want to be a hero admired and worshipped by everyone. I just want to protect the people around me because I have obtained this power. That's all."

Lin Cheng nodded gently, "That's great."

...That evolutionary blood was not wasted.

As he said this, he raised his beer and toasted Lu Xiaoxiao. Lu Xiaoxiao ordered a new beer. After clinking glasses with Lin Cheng, Lin Cheng said, "I'll drink it, you can do whatever you want. Just consider it an apology... I didn't mean any harm in that joke just now. I'm sorry."

He finished drinking the bitter beer, but he seemed to still be thinking about what Lu Xiaoxiao had just said, and even the corners of his eyes became a little bitter.

Being a hero has its price.

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In the next half hour, Lin Cheng and Lu Xiaoxiao talked a lot about the legendary judge [Siming]. As Siming's number one fan, Lin Cheng was of course very interested in these stories. Perhaps it was because Lu Xiaoxiao also rarely met someone like her who had been saved by Siming, so she chatted with Lin Cheng until very late and drank beer one after another.

Lu Xiaoxiao saw through Lin Cheng's lie at the first sight because she knew clearly that Si Ming's first appearance was during the natural disaster that struck during the spring outing at Linglan Middle School where Lin Cheng was studying in high school. That was the first time Si Ming appeared in the Arbiter's field of vision, and he easily killed all the predators that descended with his absolute crushing strength. No one died in that natural disaster. After the alliance's Arbiter arrived, he gently applied to join the alliance.

So from that day on, the legendary story began.

The main reason is that Lin Cheng's lies are full of loopholes. After all, Siming's true ability is still a top-secret file of SSS level. How could it be some kind of second-year [destiny]? After retiring, Siming will definitely not be like him, who spends his days eating and waiting to die in a small rental house, and when he has no money, he finds ways to make money from women, and hangs out in bars all day to pick up girls and cheat for sex... a bad guy.

Clearly a bastard.

But Lu Xiaoxiao found that she seemed to always think of him unconsciously. Last night, she thought about him over and over again and analyzed herself again and again. Maybe it was just because he had the freedom and rebellious spirit that she longed for, plus a little bit of novelty...so she would subconsciously keep thinking about him. Maybe it would be fine after the novelty wore off.

If his apology today wasn't sincere, if he really had no ill intentions, she would have stood up and left after pouring the wine, Lu Xiaoxiao thought in a daze, lying on the table, her cheeks flushed, her fingers unable to muster any strength.

She suddenly realized that she was drunk.

Lu Xiaoxiao's memory suddenly went back to the last time she got drunk. That day was also with the man sitting opposite her. They talked about a lot of things in the quiet bar that day, about ideals, spirit, existence and nothingness, poetry, justice, love. Everything they talked about was illusory, but it gave her some kind of inexplicable psychological comfort, perhaps because his appearance that day exceeded her original expectations.

So she went to the nightclub next door with him in a daze, and was hugged around the waist in a daze. She still remembered the touch of him when he spoke in her ear, the warmth of him when she hugged him tightly on that rainy night, and what happened later that night... Then Lu Xiaoxiao began to grit her teeth.

She raised her head and looked at Lin Cheng, "Take me... back... to the hotel."

"it is good."

Lin Cheng picked up her phone and scanned her face. He didn't even need to ask her. He quickly found out her hotel address, including the room number and door password. They were all in the WeChat contact records. Lu Xiaoxiao didn't seem to have much strength left. Lin Cheng stood up, squatted down, and looked at her who was still lying on the table. "Come up."

Lu Xiaoxiao slowly sat up, looked at the boy squatting there, and suddenly laughed, "Can you do it?"

"Do you think all the exercise I've done every night over the years has been in vain?" Lin Cheng sneered, and then Lu Xiaoxiao fell on him. Lin Cheng slightly adjusted her position, reached out his hand to hold her knee, stood up and set off.

His fingertips also touched the white silk wrapped around the girl's legs, which was a little slippery.

As Lin Cheng was walking, Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly lowered her head and bit his shoulder.

"Tonight...if you dare to touch me...tomorrow..."

"Don't worry." Lin Cheng replied softly, "No."

Lu Xiaoxiao leaned her head on his neck in a daze. For some reason, she suddenly felt that Lin Cheng's voice just now became so gentle. She hugged Lin Cheng's neck, thinking that this stubborn man could not hold on for much longer. But Lin Cheng just carried her on his back and walked quietly under the street lights. The world was still drizzling. Lu Xiaoxiao opened her eyes in a daze, looking at the golden raindrops and the shadows of two people on the ground.

"are you tired?"

"It's OK. I can accept it. I didn't expect you to be so light."

"I weigh less than 100 kilograms."

"That's not right. Girls who weigh less than 100 pounds are either flat-chested or short. Did you wear pads to increase your height?"

"Sister has a thin waist and thin legs. I understand and I don't understand." Lu Xiaoxiao muttered, and Lin Cheng smiled and said, "That's right."

He felt a soft touch on his back. Lu Xiaoxiao's figure was not particularly plump, but Lin Cheng vaguely remembered that she had a nice shape. Well, after kissing her, he didn't know if Lu Xiaoxiao still remembered her.

Hopefully she doesn't.

"You seem to be in a bad mood recently." Lin Cheng suddenly said.

"is it?"