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

"Then why is your cup of coffee milky?"

“I like milk coffee.”

"I want to drink yours."

"I drank."

"I don't mind." Lin Cheng grabbed the coffee cup in front of her and took a sip. His frown relaxed at once. Lizhi took a deep breath, bit her straw while watching him, and clenched her fists.

Patience, lychee, patience.

"Hey, so sweet." Lin Cheng bit the straw and blinked at the lychee in front of him, "It seems to taste like lychee."

Lizhi took a deep breath, "Can you please stop saying so many mean things every day! Boss! I'm surfing the Internet so much and it's getting meaner!!"

"...Don't you think it's funny?"

"Haha." Lizhi sneered, "Do you want me to keep laughing?"

"It really tastes like lychee." Lin Cheng said innocently.

"I added lychee." Litchi replied coldly.

"Then why are you saying I'm down?"

"I always feel that the lychees you mentioned are not the same as the lychees I added."

"How do you mean the same thing? Lychees are lychees. I like lychees the most." Lin Cheng put down the coffee cup in his hand. "Okay, it's time to get down to business. You can't joke with the boss during work. Remember to pay attention. Next time, your salary will be deducted."

Lizhi raised her white silk calf and kicked towards him, and then Lin Cheng firmly grasped her ankle in his hand, "Hehe, your sneak attack was ineffective against me a year ago."

The next moment, just as he let go of his hand, Lizhi's other white silk leg kicked over again. This time Lin Cheng failed to defend himself and was kicked steadily. It was obvious that Lizhi used very light force, and this guy deliberately grimaced and pretended to be in pain.

Lizhi retracted his calves, finally picked up the remote control, turned on the big screen in the conference room, and brought up the image of the casino on the 31st floor of the building.

"It's this woman, Xu Wanyue, the Alliance's Judge. She came to our casino seven days ago and started playing slot machines with a capital of 20 yuan. After winning 100,000 yuan, she went to the table and won money on baccarat, Texas Hold'em, blackjack, dice, and roulette. She never lost. In just seven days, our casino's net loss alone was 30 million. None of the experts we invited could beat her, and no one could see through her cheating methods... Due to the rules, we can't drive her away."

Lin Cheng turned his gaze to the big screen and watched it carefully for more than ten seconds. Lizhi leaned closer and asked, "Boss, have you noticed anything?"

"Such short shorts! Such white legs! Leg rings! She added leg rings! Too much! These girls are wearing too much nowadays! It must be condemned!"

Lizhi reached out and tapped Lin Cheng on the top of his head, "Did you figure it out?"

"I didn't notice." Lin Cheng shook his head, "She didn't cheat."

"Impossible." Lizhi bit her lip. "If you rely solely on luck, the probability of winning money like this is no more than one in ten million."

"It's okay, maybe I'm just lucky." Lin Cheng smiled helplessly.

"Then let her luck continue to improve, and you can expect your monthly allowance of 5,000 yuan to become 500 yuan."

"I'm going to meet her tonight. She's not called the Little Gambling God of Rose Street for nothing."

"You'd better." Lizhi grumbled in dissatisfaction, and then her cell phone rang. After answering the call, she glanced at Lin Cheng in front of her and said, "You're lucky. Sister Grape has something urgent to do and can't come here today."

"what's up?"

"The energy fluctuations of the heretics appeared in the neighboring city K. According to the agreement, we have to help the alliance once more this month."

"Oh." Lin Cheng nodded, "Then can I leave now and come back in the evening?"

Lizhi smiled and looked at Lin Cheng in front of her, "No."

"Why?" Lin Cheng looked at her innocently, "I even made an appointment to play games with someone."

"Although Sister Grape is not here, she specifically told me to look at your head and listen to what you said to that woman last night... So, don't move."

Lizhi came in front of him. Lin Cheng was pressed on the chair and couldn't move. Lizhi stretched out her hand and gently hugged his head with her white and tender palm. In front of Lin Cheng was the girl's slightly bulging chest. Her slender collarbone was hidden under the slightly transparent shirt. She seemed to have a light floral scent on her body. Lin Cheng seemed to remember this brand of perfume. He bought it from the street for 40 yuan last year as a birthday gift for Lizhi. It seemed to be a fake perfume, but it smelled good.

But gradually Lin Cheng felt a little sleepy, his eyelids were difficult to open, and soon his body fell into Lizhi's arms. Lizhi gently held his head and let his cheek bury in her chest. She bit her lips slightly and began to read Lin Cheng's memory.

This is her ability as a psychic.

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The story begins on a rainy evening.

As a 20-year-old unemployed vagrant, Lin Cheng had just ended his flower stall business. He put the last unsold white rose in his shirt pocket, parked his motorcycle on the corner, locked it, and walked into the newly opened bar on Rose Street.

The bar is divided into two spaces: a nightclub and a lounge. Lin Cheng usually doesn't go to nightclubs, as that's where young people like to play, and it's not very friendly to a skinny game geek like him, so he went to the lounge, sat at the bar and silently ordered a glass of wine.

Couples walked into the bar in pairs. Lin Cheng counted for an hour and saw eighteen pairs of couples walking by one after another. He and his white rose seemed to be alone.

The heroine of the story appeared at eleven o'clock in the evening, wearing a white shirt and a pleated skirt, a pair of black boots, and her long black hair was tied with a big red butterfly headband. She looked like an innocent high school girl.

Lin Cheng was deceived by her outfit, otherwise he would not have taken advantage of her getting drunk, come to her, look into her drunken eyes, and say, "Would you like to see the magic show?"

Lu Xiaoxiao in front of her raised her head. The man in her sight was wearing a white shirt and had deep and gentle eyes. She was subconsciously attracted by those eyes for a moment, and then subconsciously asked, "Magic?"

"Okay."

Lin Cheng put his hands together, and after a moment, a white rose that was slightly wet by the rain appeared in his empty hands. He placed the bouquet of white roses on Lu Xiaoxiao's table in front of him and said, "I'll give it to you for free."

"How did it change?"

"The purpose of magic is not to explore, but to be amused."

"Oh, okay, thank you, goodbye." Lu Xiaoxiao withdrew her gaze.

"I sell a rose for fifteen dollars. Is it too much to give you a rose and chat for five minutes?"

“You just said free.”

"Free things are the most expensive." Lin Cheng pulled out a chair and sat opposite her. He looked into her eyes and examined her from head to toe. "Are you in a bad mood?"

"I guess so." Lu Xiaoxiao answered casually.

"Let me guess... Broken heart?"

"No."

"Did you have a fight with your bestie?"

"No, it's the last chance."

"Give me some hints." Lin Cheng smiled helplessly. Lu Xiaoxiao turned her face away, as if she didn't want to pay any attention to him.

"I'm bored anyway, so I might as well chat with a stranger. It's unlikely that we'll meet again the next day anyway."

Lu Xiaoxiao turned her head. The man in front of her had an unexpectedly gentle voice and expression, which inexplicably made her let down her guard. Her eyelashes drooped slightly, and she said in a low voice, "Let me ask you, a madman tied five innocent people to the tram track. An out-of-control tram was heading towards them and would crush them in a moment. Fortunately, you can pull a lever to make the tram go to another track. However, the problem is that the madman also tied a person to the other tram track. If it were you, would you pull the lever?"

Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes were fixed on Lin Cheng in front of her, but Lin Cheng didn't hesitate at all, "I won't pull it."

"why?"

"What does a madman wanting to kill people have to do with me? I'm just an innocent tram driver." Lin Cheng's voice was very soft, but it seemed that this was not the answer Lu Xiaoxiao wanted. She lowered her head slightly and looked at the flickering candlelight on the table.

"A major fire broke out in this city the morning before yesterday."

"I heard that it seems to be a crime committed by a person with special abilities, and it's being reported very seriously online." Lin Cheng continued the conversation following her topic.

"That person with special abilities is a psychopathic killer with an antisocial personality. He had killed nearly a thousand people before. When we got there, he tried to create chaos and escape, so he set a building on fire... I chose to save people, and they chose to chase the murderer. I saved more than a hundred people in the building, but... because I was not there, they failed to catch the murderer, and the murderer escaped again."

Lin Cheng picked up the bottle of wine on the table and naturally poured half a glass into the empty glass he had put down when he came. "I don't know whether he will kill more people before catching the murderer, but the more than one hundred people you saved are all fresh lives. The scalpel can be used to save people or to kill people. Everything depends on your own choice."

"I've been suspended from the alliance." Lu Xiaoxiao stared at Lin Cheng in front of her, "Did I do anything wrong?"

"Right or wrong... shouldn't it be up to you to decide?" Lin Cheng took a sip from his wine glass and gazed tenderly into the other person's eyes. "As long as you feel that the choice you made at the time was right, why bother asking me?"

"I want to know, do you think I'm wrong?"

"If I were you, I would make the same choice as you. If you feel pain because of your choice, now imagine that time goes back to that day and you are given another chance to choose. Will you still choose to save them?"

Lu Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment. The burning sea of ​​fire seemed to appear in front of her again. The candlelight on the table was flickering. Lin Cheng picked up the wine on the table and poured it into her glass.

"You still choose to save them, because... you heard someone crying, didn't you?"

03 Soft and fragrant

The story of Lin Cheng and Lu Xiaoxiao began at eleven o'clock. Lin Cheng easily switched the topic from the heavy trolley problem to current pop music, and then to folk songs, poetry, Gu Cheng, and from Gu Cheng to Haizi, and then to Sartre and Camus. Later, he didn't even need to pour the wine himself. The drunk Lu Xiaoxiao in front of him poured it for him personally, and then... they went to the nightclub next door together. It was Lu Xiaoxiao's first time here. From the initial restraint, she gradually relaxed when Lin Cheng hugged her in his arms and stroked her waist.

At 2:30 in the morning, Lin Cheng took Lu Xiaoxiao home on a motorcycle. Lu Xiaoxiao, who was drunk, took off her clothes while lying on the bed. When their cheeks were only one centimeter apart, she leaned forward and offered her lips, as clean and soft as petals, and then... Lin Cheng pushed her away.

Then, Lin Cheng woke up.

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"It's soft and fragrant." Lin Cheng lifted his cheek from Lizhi's chest, then stretched out his hand and poked Lizhi's forehead. "The rest of the memories are not suitable for children. Children are not allowed to watch them."

Lizhi looked at him with resentment in her eyes, "Do you have anything else to explain?"

"She kissed me herself. I was... more passive." Lin Cheng looked at her innocently, "I am not guilty."

"Didn't you tell her that it's dangerous for a girl to walk alone at night? Haha, you knew she was a person with special abilities, so it would be dangerous?"

"Yes, she knows that, but she wanted to go home with me." Lin Cheng sat on the chair and blinked his innocent eyes. "She's drunk. We'll have to trouble our bar's security to deal with her. As a boss, you should be considerate of your subordinates. This saves our security a lot of trouble."

"How dare you say that!" Lin Cheng raised his calf. This time, she was not going to step on Lin Cheng's toes. Seeing that he was about to kick him in the face, Lin Cheng hurriedly grabbed her calf and said, "Don't, oh, last night... I drank too much. People are irrational when they are drunk. All their behaviors after being drunk should have nothing to do with their behaviors after they sober up."

Lizhi's legs were still held by him, and her cheeks flushed slightly, "Let go, you lower man."

"Next time you wear a skirt, don't lift your legs so high. That's not right. I haven't seen you wear a skirt in a long time. Aren't you usually a sporty girl? Why are you wearing a skirt all of a sudden?"

"None of your business." Lizhi turned her head away, but still glanced at him secretly.

Her cheeks flushed slightly pink, but Lin Cheng looked puzzled. "Could it be that at the age of nineteen you finally realized that you are actually a beautiful young girl?"

"Go to hell."

Lin Cheng let go of the hand that was holding her calf, his fingertips still seemed to be warm from touching the white silk just now.

Lizhi sat down opposite him again, then handed him a financial report and said, "Here you go."

"what?"

"The income and expenditure of all our industries in the past two years are all recorded on it. Take a look."

"It's okay, you guys just take care of it."

"Look." Lizhi's pronunciation was a little heavier. Lin Cheng immediately picked up the financial statement and began to read it. He pondered while reading it, and then quickly guessed what Lizhi meant. After a few minutes, he put down the financial statement and said, "It's Lizhi after all. He easily made 20 million in just two years."

"It's two hundred million!!!" Lizhi picked up the financial statement and hit Lin Cheng on the head.

"Wow, two hundred million! She's worthy of being my dear sister Lizhi, so great." Lin Cheng began to applaud. Lizhi crossed her arms, glared at him unhappily, and slightly pursed her lips.

This guy's compliments are so perfunctory and disappointing.

"Forget it. I guess your salary when you were a judge was more than that. It's normal that you don't care." Lizhi's tone was a little aggrieved. Lin Cheng spread his hands and said, "I didn't ask for a salary back then."

"Isn't that your own Chuunibyou?"

"I regret it so much." Lin Cheng said bitterly, "If I had known earlier that I would not pretend to be a superhero who understands the greater good, I should have taken the money after solving each incident. Otherwise, why would I let my baby Lychee work so hard every day?"

Lizhi lowered her pursed lips slightly, "You know that too."

"Come, sit over here, and I'll give you a shoulder massage."

"No, you want to take advantage of me again." Lizhi shrank back and snorted, "So why did you want to retire at that time? Obviously, the Heavenly Disaster had been closed down."

"Yeah, the Scourge is closed, what am I going to do if I don't retire?"

"Everyone is happy about world peace. It's time to reward people for their merits and give them promotions. But you're gone."

"Well, false reputation is useless. I gave out a lot of medals at that time, but I didn't see how much they could be exchanged for. I gave them to a scrap metal collector that day, but he didn't want them."

"That's the Meteoric Cold Crystal. Do you expect the junk collector to recognize it? Wait, you're not really going to sell it, are you?" Lizhi stared at him with wide eyes.

"No, but I don't know where I lost it." Lin Cheng scratched his head and added, "It seems that my quick retirement was the right decision. I'm fine fighting monsters, but they shout about justice, morality, and rules every day. It's no longer the time when I was passionate and I was the best. The alliance is weird now. Look at Lu Xiaoxiao, isn't she forced into a state of despair by the current alliance system?"

"So you took advantage of her and slept with her?"

"I comforted her, okay? She did it voluntarily." Lin Cheng answered aggrievedly, but unfortunately Lizhi's eyes were still cold. She stood up and walked to the window.

Under the transparent window is a bustling street. The predecessor of Rose Street was once Fallen Street, a vicious organization formed by a civilian ability user code-named K. They had established a large number of gray industries here to make money. Two years ago, it was taken over by Litchi and Grape, and Fallen Street became Rose Street. Most of those gray industries have been cleared out, leaving only some industries that are slightly related. The casino is one of them, but their casino has obtained certification from the alliance and paid a certain amount of income to be able to exist normally. The rest of the industries are some bars, dance halls, bathing clubs and other highly profitable industries, which have made a lot of money in the past two years.

The Alliance is the only official organization that indirectly manages all civilian organizations of superpowers and at the same time eliminates all superpowers who violate the rules. Its methods are known to be iron-blooded and ruthless. After natural disasters become less and less frequent, the originally united human beings began to divide up the cake, and the Alliance is the knife-wielder who holds the right of distribution.

"Sister Grape cried last night." Lizhi suddenly turned around and looked at the man who was sitting on the chair and secretly drinking her coffee.

"what?"

"You know why she is crying, don't play dumb." Lizhi said calmly.

"Cry...just cry." Lin Cheng bit the straw again, and the ice in the coffee cup slowly melted.

"What's wrong with Sister Grape?"