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

Lin Cheng scanned the code and ordered a half dozen beers and two cocktails. Without even raising his eyelids, he said, "I ordered a mojito for you."

"I don't want a mojito. I don't like mint."

"Then you order it yourself." Lin Cheng threw the phone to her. Xia Ning pretended to pick up the phone and started to order, but wasn't it a bit too long for her to order? Seven or eight minutes later, Lin Cheng saw that she was still holding her phone and frowned slightly, "What are you doing?"

"Order." Xia Ning answered guiltily, but the next moment her phone was snatched back by Lin Cheng. She was looking through his chat history and saw the ones Jiang Li sent him. He looked up at Xia Ning, who stared at him without blinking, "You are too much. Others send you messages every day... and you don't reply to them."

It seems that she was looking at Jiang Li's chat history.

“Why reply if you don’t want to respond to other people’s expectations?”

"Then make it clear. It's too much to keep others hanging like this."

"You have to feel the warmth or coldness yourself. When you don't feel love, you should naturally withdraw. Blindly clinging to someone is just an illusion to deceive yourself. Just like you like Jiang Lingxue, why did you look like you were dying when Jiang Lingxue made it clear last night?" Lin Cheng said lightly, but these words broke Xia Ning's defense. She couldn't refute Lin Cheng for a long time. When she finally thought of some words to refute and wanted to say them, she found that Lin Cheng was holding his mobile phone and didn't even look at her.

"You're not right anyway." She managed to say this after a long time.

"If she had said in person that she liked me, I would have rejected her explicitly. But because she didn't say it, but expressed it in a tactful way, I also expressed my dislike in a tactful way. I don't need you to judge whether I'm right or not. What's it got to do with you?"

The drinks ordered by Lin Cheng arrived quickly. He ordered six Corona beers, a mojito and a classic. He bit the bottle open with his teeth and drank the whole bottle of beer first, then picked up his cocktail and took a sip.

"Are you a whale? Drinking so fast..."

Xia Ning muttered quietly. She ordered a Margarita, took a sip, and looked at Lin Cheng, "So why did you ask me out for a drink?"

"Because you're safer."

"What do you mean?"

"After drinking, I won't be grabbed to sleep with her, and I won't want to grab her to sleep with me."

The former refers to Lu Xiaoxiao, and the latter refers to Xu Wanyue.

160 Why?

Xia Ning's face turned red with anger.

What exactly did this sentence mean? It took her a while to figure it out. She was trying to find Lin Cheng's pain point, and she had to find a pain point that would break his defense and hit him back.

"You mean you're flirting with several girls at the same time and you're proud of it?"

“…I committed murder and arson?”

"No morals." Xia Ning's nose twitched slightly.

"Has my lack of morals affected you?"

"No."

"What's your dog's name?"

Xia Ning took a deep breath and tried to argue, "If all the men in this world were like you, it would be a mess. The moral system exists for social stability."

"If all the girls in the world like girls as much as you do, the world will be extinct in a hundred years." Lin Cheng shrugged. He was not stumped at all.

Xia Ning could only shut up.

Lin Cheng picked up the mojito glass on the table and took a big sip, even pouring the crushed ice in it into his mouth and chewing it hard and swallowing it. Xia Ning picked up the wine glass on the table and took a small sip, her movements graceful and appropriate.

Lin Cheng's eyes were no longer on her, but at the guests in the bar. In the hot summer, there were many beautiful girls with long legs to look at. This was the only motivation for Lin Cheng to go out and sell flowers in the summer.

He just watched happily for a long time until he heard Xia Ning's faint voice, "You don't even plan to chat with me, and you're asking me to come out for a drink..."

"What are you talking about?" Lin Cheng finally turned around.

"Can you teach me how to pursue girls?" Xia Ning winked at him.

"I'm not good at chasing girls." Lin Cheng looked at her innocently.

"Haha." Xia Ning sneered, "Is this a joke?"

"I'm really not good at it, and I don't know why they like me." Lin Cheng's tone was light, but it made Xia Ning's teeth itch. She couldn't help but ask, "Who is the girl who sent you the photo of her legs in white stockings? Her legs are so beautiful."

"Xu Wanyue, from your alliance." Lin Cheng answered casually.

"Why haven't you guys chatted these days?"

"Because I didn't send her a message." Lin Cheng replied.

"Then it seems that you are not invincible."

"Yes, this is indeed a very sad thing." Lin Cheng said as he took another big sip from the wine glass in front of him. He thought for a moment and looked at Xia Ning in front of him. "Xiaoxiao lost to you in your alliance's competition a few days ago, right?"

"Yes."

"How shameless! An SS-level fighter is participating in an S-level battle."

Lin Cheng could tell at a glance that Xia Ning's energy points were 50000, more than a hundred times that of Lu Xiaoxiao, but the energy points she claimed to the outside world seemed to be only .

Xia Ning had no way to refute what Lin Cheng said, so she had no choice but to keep silent.

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The bar's resident band has been singing sad songs tonight.

Lin Cheng listened intently, leaning back in his chair and slowly drinking bottles of beer. The dim light in the bar made him relax a lot. It was a long time before he heard Xia Ning ask in his ear, "What are you looking at?"

"Look at the next table."

"What catches your eyes?"

"The couple at the next table are arguing. The two people at the door are a middle-aged uncle and his female college student. The table of four men and three women over there seems to have two men targeting the same girl. The people at the table over there are already drunk and kissing. The girl at the table on the far right is waiting for someone. Her eyes are red. I don't know what the story is."

Xia Ning was startled, and followed Lin Cheng's gaze to look at the tables. She found that they seemed quite interesting, but she said, "You are really boring."

"Because you're too bored, you just have to watch others."

Xia Ning took a deep breath and said, "You don't want to chat with me."

"What can I talk to you about? Or do you have anything of interest, such as your relationship with Arata?"

"When I was seven, my mother died because of him, so he entrusted me to an uncle to take care of. When I was sixteen, I moved out and joined the alliance to start my own business. I haven't met him many times, so there's nothing much to say."

"Oh...my condolences."

"It happened many years ago." Xia Ning's voice was soft.

Neither of them spoke anymore. There was silence for a long while. Xia Ning also began to observe the movements of the people at the next table, watching the changing expressions on everyone's faces, as if it was a movie playing on the screen.

She seemed to understand what Lin Cheng found interesting, and watched with gusto while holding a glass of wine. Guests in the bar came and went, and by the time she came to her senses, the wine in the glass had been finished.

"Order me another drink," she said.

"No, don't drink too much."

"You care about me?"

"I don't want to send you home." Lin Cheng explained, but Xia Ning said calmly, "Then take me home?"

There was a hint of understatement and provocation in her tone. Lin Cheng thought about it and shook his head, "No, I feel like I'll be entangled."

"Narcissist." Xia Ning picked up her mobile phone, scanned the code and ordered another glass of wine for herself. Lin Cheng did not stop her. Soon the wine she made was delivered. The music in her ears gradually soothed her, and her eyes slowly became blurred.

She always felt intermittent and indescribable sadness.

She herself couldn't explain this feeling, nor did she know when it started. She always felt dizzy and her chest seemed to be blocked by something and she couldn't breathe. At the age of sixteen, she joined the league, signed up for the league's idol program, and became a dazzling and super popular idol. She didn't know whether Xinjun had any influence on this, but she had been working very hard, practicing dancing and singing. Only when she practiced to exhaustion and couldn't lift any strength in her fingers, did the emptiness in her heart seem to be slightly dispelled.

She met Jiang Lingxue a year ago. Perhaps it was not only Jiang Lingxue's figure and face that attracted her, but also her cold and indifferent eyes. She saw in Jiang Lingxue the kind of indifference she longed for, indifference to everything, not caring at all. If she didn't care, she wouldn't be in pain, and she wouldn't have to pretend to smile to deceive herself.

Maybe what Lin Cheng said last night about "love yourself" really made some sense, but in this world, everyone can talk about big principles, but small emotions are difficult to control.

Who can really let go of the past, pursue their inner self, and not care about other people's opinions? Living in this world means being influenced by the world constructed by countless others, so...others are hell.

If I had been carefree as a child, I wouldn't be like this now, right? I keep deceiving myself, constantly recalling everything that happened in the past, constantly hating, constantly sad, everything seems to be a cycle that repeats itself over and over again. Whenever I muster up the courage to tell myself to start changing and stop being a heartbroken puppy at midnight, within two days I'm back to locking myself in my little room and staring at the sky in a daze.

I hated and shed tears, and stood still without moving forward.

She suddenly wanted to drink another glass of wine. When she was drunk, she wouldn't have to think about anything. She took out her phone to order again, but Lin Cheng knocked on the table. She looked up at him, and Lin Cheng looked into her eyes and said, "Don't drink anymore."

"I want you to take care of me, not to send me off."

"You can't drink it then."

"why?"

"Because I asked you to drink, I have the obligation to take care of you and not drink too much." Lin Cheng suddenly stood up from the chair and stretched out his hand to her, "If you are unhappy, I will take you for a ride."

"How can you tell that I'm unhappy?" Xia Ning turned her face away, but Lin Cheng had already grabbed her hand and pulled her up. "Not many people's eyes can lie."

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"You...are you not drunk?"

"No."

"But if you get caught driving under the influence, your license will be revoked."

"Then I need a driver's license first."

Xia Ning was startled, but Lin Cheng was already saying, "Hold on tight."

She subconsciously hugged Lin Cheng's waist tightly. The next moment, the sound of a motorcycle engine rang in her ears. There was no one on the street at this moment. Xia Ning's scream was heard. She could do nothing but hug him tightly, wishing she could stick her whole body to him. The wind whistled in her ears. Lin Cheng quickly drove her out of the city and came to the road in the suburbs.

Lin Cheng stopped at the side of a highway. There were seven or eight heavy motorcycles parked here, seemingly preparing for a race. The moment Lin Cheng arrived, everyone was stunned for a moment and began to talk. The sound of the wind in Xia Ning's ears had just died down for a while, and then she heard everyone cheering, "God of Cars!"

"What..." Xia Ning was so embarrassed that she wanted to find a hole to hide in. She sat on the back seat of Lin Cheng's bike and didn't get off. Lin Cheng rode to the starting point and opened his helmet. "As usual, I'll give you ten seconds."

Soon Xia Ning knew what the phrase "God of Cars" meant. There was a speed race going on on the highway here. A group of young people wearing helmets were racing down the mountain road like they were risking their lives. She hugged Lin Cheng's waist tightly from behind, watching him overtake one car after another. She felt an inexplicable sense of accomplishment. Her screams turned into cheers, and she kept shouting in Lin Cheng's ears, "Speed ​​up, speed up, speed up!"

Five minutes later, Lin Cheng arrived at the finish line first, but was too lazy to wait for the people behind him and continued riding towards another intersection. Xia Ning hugged him tightly from behind. The wind was too loud and Lin Cheng couldn't hear what she said. She suddenly felt like she was drifting in the sea, with waves pouring down on her body. She didn't know where she would go, but it seemed that it didn't matter if she fell at this moment.

Lin Cheng rode with her for nearly forty minutes, completely out of the bustling city, and finally he stopped at a remote road. There was a convenience store on the side of the road with the lights on, and a local dog was lying in front of the convenience store.

"Where is this?"

"How would I know? I just drove here and saw a convenience store so I stopped to have a drink."

"I thought you were taking me somewhere fun."

"Isn't this journey fun?" Lin Cheng went to a convenience store and bought two cans of cold beer, and threw one to her. Xia Ning had a manicure and couldn't open the beer, so she looked at her pitifully. Lin Cheng handed her the opened beer, took the can from her hand, opened it and took a big sip.

He looked up and saw many stars faintly visible in the night sky. It seemed that they were indeed very far away from the city.

Xia Ning took a big sip of beer, and she suddenly felt that beer seemed to be a very delicious drink. She always thought beer was bitter before.

"Were those people just now crazy?"

"Ok?"

"They are not people with special abilities. What if they fall to their death?"

"When people feel stimulated, their bodies secrete pleasure hormones, which can make people addicted. Addiction is desire, and desire drives them to overcome fear. Even if they have to die, it is their own choice, and they cannot blame others."

"Then their relatives will be very sad, right?"

"Although it may sound selfish to say this." Lin Cheng drank the can of cold beer and continued, "But we never chose to come to this world, so... why can't we just live for ourselves?"

161 Fishing

A warm orange light fell on the door of the convenience store.

The dog at the door was lying on the ground to enjoy the cool air, sticking out its tongue and panting. Xia Ning looked around. The light was sparse and there seemed to be a watermelon field nearby. It was already the end of June and large quantities of watermelons would be on the market next month.

The sound of cicadas and frogs could be heard faintly all around. Looking up, the stars became brighter and the moon cast a silver glow. Lin Cheng had already walked back to the motorcycle. Xia Ning hurriedly caught up with him, jumped onto his back seat, hugged his waist tightly, and asked, "Where are we going?"

"Where do you want to go?"

"I don't know." Xia Ning shook her head.

Lin Cheng didn't ask any more questions. He started the engine and continued driving forward on a good road, but his speed was much slower. The wind along the way was slightly moist, and gradually there was some fog around. Lin Cheng turned on the high beam of the headlights. The fog was thick in the dark night. After a long time, he stopped when he saw the light.

They didn't reach the bustling city, but seemed to have arrived at a small town. Lin Cheng parked the car, yawned, got out of the car with Xia Ning, took out his cell phone, took a look, and asked her, "Are you hungry?"

"It seems a bit."

"Then let's go have a barbecue."

The barbecue in the town was quite cheap. Lin Cheng and she ordered a full plate for just over a hundred yuan. Xia Ning always ate in a reserved manner, taking small bites. But seeing how fast Lin Cheng ate, she learned to speed up a bit. She choked and raised her glass to take a big gulp of beer with Lin Cheng. As she drank, Xia Ning burped and shouted to the boss behind her, "Bring me four more bottles."

"Four bottles? Where's the health supplement? Boss, move another box."