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

The area where she has been using her abilities the most recently is to secretly snoop on Lin Cheng's past every day. Fortunately, judging from Lin Cheng's current appearance, he should not have noticed anything at all.

299 It's not

Xu Linglan sat at the table, tapping it lightly with her slender knuckles, her eyes empty.

The emptiness was because at this moment her mind was recalling the past of Lin Cheng and Lu Lingling.

When Xu Linglan met Lin Cheng for the first time, she had a severe headache because she accidentally recalled the experience of how he and his sister met. Now she has gradually mastered this ability. Everyone is connected by a thread of cause and effect. Every time you do something in the past, there will be an extra thread entangled with you. What Xu Linglan was looking at was the thread that connected him and Lu Lingling.

She saw the young and confused Siming, his childish appearance when he took off the mask, the young man at that time sitting on the rooftop of the city looking out at the night sky, and Lu Lingling at that time sitting beside him, chatting with him softly about family matters.

She saw the many cream cakes that Lu Lingling made for Siming and her doting eyes. She thought that the story would be about Siming becoming a villain and starting to have evil thoughts towards Lu Lingling, but the scene in the flashback suddenly changed to Siming tied to a soft, white bed with his wrists wrapped in her stockings.

She wants a child.

He was going to the abyss alone, and even he himself was not sure whether he would never come back. So Lu Lingling wanted a child, a child who could inherit some of his abilities, a child who could grow up and protect this world.

Looking back, Xu Linglan can see not only the pictures, but also some fragmentary psychological activities.

She suddenly realized that before that incident, Siming had always had respect for Lu Lingling, and a little bit of attachment to her. Because Lu Lingling was very gentle to him at that time, the kind of gentleness that seemed to treat him as a child. He seriously considered that if he could come back after the abyss ended, he would agree to go to her house and become her child...

But no one expected that the girl he had always respected and loved turned out to be a crazy woman.

She has a daughter, who was born to fight against the abyss. She also wants a child, who is also born to fight against the abyss. Perhaps this woman has never had love in her heart, only endless hatred for the abyss.

So that night, Lin Cheng did not feel excited, he only felt inexplicable desolation and pain, but it seemed that even the pain was numb at that time. He also retaliated by pressing Lu Lingling under him, his fingertips tightly grasping her ankles, pressing her ankles to her shoulders. In the dim room, the originally gentle and calm boy also had a violent side because of the anger of being deceived.

Later, he came back from the abyss.

The gap through which the abyss descended was closed by him, and the natural disaster belonging to mankind came to an end. Later, he saw Lu Lingling again, but there was only subconscious disgust in his heart. No, maybe it was not disgust, but just sadness. He didn't know how to deal with his relationship with Lu Lingling anymore, and rejected Lu Lingling's suggestion that he should come to her house and become a family with her... Damn it, how can we still be a family after such a thing happened?

After that, they met sporadically, and it seemed that every time they met, Lin Cheng was not very friendly to her.

Ten minutes later, Xu Linglan finished her retrospection.

She looked up at Lin Cheng, who was standing by the window, looking at the hazy dark clouds in the distance, and sighed softly, "I've finished reading."

Lin Cheng turned to look at her, "You should know who is the best at keeping secrets, right?"

Unfortunately, his threats had no effect on Xu Linglan. Her legs were still crossed under her skirt, and she was holding a lollipop stick in her mouth with a disdainful expression. "It's not impossible for me to keep your secret, but..."

She blinked at Lin Cheng and said, "I want to eat spicy chicken tonight."

"Okay, okay, okay, okay." Lin Cheng agreed weakly.

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At noon, Lin Cheng called Xu Wanyue and told her about the danger of the person with reality distortion ability. He asked Xu Linglan to stay with him for a while. Xu Wanyue agreed, and Lin Cheng went downstairs with Xu Linglan. He went to buy ingredients for making spicy chicken.

"It's going to be super super spicy!"

"Oh." Lin Cheng was busy in the kitchen in the afternoon. In addition to spicy chicken, he also made some other dishes such as boiled beef and spicy and sour chicken. He and Xu Linglan sat at the table for dinner. Xu Linglan was full and lay on the sofa for a long time holding her mobile phone.

It was almost nine o'clock when Lin Cheng reminded her that it was time to go to bed. She finally got up and went to the bathroom. Lin Cheng listened to the sound of water splashing in the bathroom, and she seemed to be humming a song softly.

After a while, Xu Linglan finally came out wrapped in a bath towel. The soft bath towel was draped over her slender body. Her legs were slightly pink under the bath towel. She looked at Lin Cheng's face and asked, "Where should I sleep?"

"Sleep in my bed. I just changed the sheets today."

"how about you?"

"I'll sleep on the sofa." Lin Cheng replied weakly.

"You are such a good person." Xu Linglan's eyes were sincere.

“…” Lin Cheng was speechless.

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At two o'clock in the morning, Lin Cheng vaguely heard the sound of gunfire.

He got up from the sofa, walked to the door of his room and knocked. There was no response, so he quietly opened the door a crack. Xu Linglan was wearing headphones and sitting at his computer desk, engrossed in playing games.

It feels numb.

He reminded her to go to bed early after nine o'clock, but this guy was still playing games on his computer. The lights in the room were off, except for the computer. Lin Cheng put his hand on her shoulder. Xu Linglan's body trembled and she almost jumped up. She looked back and said, "You scared me to death."

"Don't go to bed yet!"

"I'll go to sleep after playing this game."

"Can't you play on your own account?"

Lin Cheng had played this game with Xu Wanyue and Xu Linglan before. Xu Linglan replied innocently, "You have skins, and I haven't played many of them."

“You buy it.”

"I have no money." Xu Linglan answered aggrievedly.

"Ask your sister."

"Skins are expensive, anyway I can just pick up other people's skins to play with."

Lin Cheng looked at her single-digit kills and reminded her, "Go to bed after this one."

"I know, I know."

Lin Cheng saw her being killed fiercely by others, but she was having a lot of fun. Her body would tremble when she fired. Lin Cheng suddenly realized that her bath towel was about to fall off her chest, and her white and soft chest was almost exposed. When the game reached the match point and overtime, Xu Linglan looked back at him and said, "Come and play. If you lose again, you will lose gold."

"Wait, I'm not a diamond? How many games have you lost using my account?"

Xu Linglan stuck out her tongue innocently, stood up, and was about to make room for him, but her bath towel suddenly slipped down, and in the dim light, the girl's snow-white skin was exposed.

Lin Cheng was stunned for a moment.

He thought Xu Linglan's scream would soon break through the sky, and then the upstairs neighbors might come to him to explode because of his late-night noise, but unexpectedly, Xu Linglan just covered her chest in panic and quickly pulled up the bath towel again. Her snow-white cheeks were flushed pink in the dark night, and she whispered, "You didn't see anything, right?"

"correct."

Lin Cheng sat on the chair, which was still warm. A second before he put on his headphones, he seemed to hear Xu Linglan muttering softly, "I always feel like you've seen me so many times..."

Lin Cheng pretended not to hear and kept shooting, but because he had not warmed up yet, he lost the match point. When he switched to the interface, he saw, haha, he lost another game and went back to gold.

"Hahaha, you can't beat me either!" Xu Linglan laughed happily behind him.

“No warm-up, no warm-up, this round doesn’t count.” Lin Cheng muttered, and suddenly his hands were itching, so he played another round. Xu Linglan lay on the bed, leaning against the back of the bed and looking at the computer screen. She just sat there watching him play, but Lin Cheng seemed to be possessed tonight, losing a lot, until four in the morning, when Xu Linglan could hardly open her eyes, but she still kept saying, “Hahahahaha, you can’t win either!”

"...Don't be impatient." Lin Cheng opened the next one.

When he finally returned to the diamond realm and looked back, it was already dawn. Xu Linglan had fallen asleep a long time ago, but the quilt was messy and did not completely cover her body. She was lying on her side, her chest rising and falling with her breathing. Lin Cheng pulled the quilt to cover her, turned off the computer, drew the curtains, walked out of the room, and lay down on the sofa.

Before going to bed, he specifically told the black cat that if any being with energy exceeding 10w came within ten kilometers, it should come over and wake him up with its paw.

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"I'm so hungry." Xu Linglan squatted beside the sofa, looking at the sleeping Lin Cheng, and muttered softly.

Lin Cheng slowly opened his eyes, "I'm so sleepy."

"Then I'll order takeout... do you want to eat?"

"I'll sleep a little longer."

"OK."

Xu Linglan ordered takeout for herself. After eating alone in the living room, she began to clean up Lin Cheng's house and put away the messy things one by one. While cleaning up, Xu Linglan opened the drawer of his cabinet out of curiosity and saw a lot of strange things, such as ropes, candle clips, and small stoppers, but she was not surprised. When she looked back on Lin Cheng and Jiang Lingxue's past out of curiosity, she had seen these things in their past scenes.

In the past, she was bored and couldn’t sleep at night, so she liked to lie in bed and fantasize about interesting things, such as suddenly getting a lot of money, or becoming a big star, being admired and loved by many people... But recently, her boring time before going to bed at night has turned into secretly peeking at Lin Cheng’s past, as if there was a roll of film in front of her, and she was watching a movie with a protagonist named Lin Cheng.

She couldn't explain why she liked to do this, maybe it was because she was curious about Siming, maybe it was because she was curious about her sister's boyfriend, maybe it was because she thought his experience was very interesting and watched him entangled with so many girls, maybe it was because she was initially curious about what methods he had used. Occasionally she would wonder, if she were replaced by those girls, would she become like them?

It’s so strange, how can you think like that? He is my sister’s boyfriend.

No, he's obviously not my boyfriend yet.

299 Dig out

When Lin Cheng woke up, it was still raining outside the window.

He sat up dazedly, looked at the cleaned room, rubbed his eyes, and suddenly thought of Xu Wanyue. That day was the first time Xu Wanyue came to his house officially. She was also wearing a maid dress and also cleaned the room for him.

In a way, these two sisters are really similar.

"What do you want to eat?" Xu Linglan asked softly.

"Ah? I'll just make some instant noodles. What did you have for lunch?"

"I thought about it and didn't eat. I'm waiting for you to wake up."

"Why don't we just eat first?" Lin Cheng smiled helplessly and stretched. "I'm sure you'll be starving by the time the food is ready. Let's go downstairs and eat?"

"OK."

Xu Linglan had already changed her clothes, and Lin Cheng went downstairs with her. Lin Cheng took her to the ramen shop downstairs and ordered two bowls of ramen. After eating their fill, they went home. Xu Linglan found a romance novel in his study and started reading it.

Lin Cheng sat opposite her and started reading another book.

Time passed quietly between turning the pages of the book, and Xu Linglan suddenly asked, "When will that reality twister... come?"

"I don't know." Lin Cheng shook his head. "Logically speaking, he should have sensed the existence of another reality twister in this world through the power of reality twisting. He killed so many people, perhaps to devour the flesh and blood energy. He should also be able to sense your existence through the power of reality twisting. This should only be a matter of time, so all we have to do is wait."

"So what did he mean by creating a new world in my dream?"

Lin Cheng shrugged. "He's probably crazy. Why try to understand a madman's thoughts? When you understand a madman's thoughts, you're not far from becoming a madman yourself."

"That's true." Xu Linglan nodded obediently.

Lin Cheng saw the worry in Xu Linglan's eyes and reached out to rub her head. "Don't worry, I will protect you."

Xu Linglan was stunned for a moment, her eyes looked at Lin Cheng, and when Lin Cheng saw her eyes, he was also stunned for a moment. The next second, he retracted his hand, his face full of vigilance, "You are not going to mock me for pretending to be an anime hero right now, are you?"

It seems shameful to think about killing by patting the head.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

Xu Linglan suddenly burst out laughing.

"No, I just suddenly felt that... you looked so gentle just now."

Lin Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the smile of the girl in front of him. The worry in his eyes had disappeared.

Xu Linglan held her cheek and stared at Lin Cheng's face. After a few seconds, Lin Cheng felt a little uncomfortable being stared at. "Why are you looking at me?"

"I suddenly feel you are so weird."

"strangeness?"

"Yeah." Xu Linglan nodded slightly.

From what she had seen about Lin Cheng's past, Lin Cheng had always been a very gentle guy. She believed in the gentleness and kindness in this guy's heart, but it seemed that most of the time, he wanted to show that he was heartless and indifferent.

"What's so strange?" Lin Cheng asked.

"It's okay." Xu Linglan smiled secretly and continued, "I want to eat sweet and sour mandarin fish tonight."

“This is so troublesome.”

"But I want to eat."

“But it’s so troublesome.”

"But I want to eat."

“But it’s really troublesome.”

"But I really want to eat it." Xu Linglan looked at him eagerly, and then her smile became sly again, "If you please your sister-in-law, it will help you in your quest for sister in the future."

"But isn't my favorability almost enough?" Lin Cheng replied faintly, "Why should I still try to please my sister-in-law?"

"But the sister-in-law can turn evil and destroy the goodwill between you and your sister."

"Haha, do you think I'm vulnerable to threats?"

Xu Linglan winked at him and said, "How about I wear white lace calf socks to show you later?"

The corner of Lin Cheng's mouth twitched slightly, and the next second he put on a serious look, with a solemn expression on his face, his eyes staring at Xu Linglan.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

Xu Linglan's cunningness gradually disappeared, her cheeks still flushed, and her hands began to feel uneasy. She turned her face away, "Can you please stop staring at me like that?"