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

"I know." Lin Cheng answered helplessly.

"you know?"

"I knew her well before."

"How familiar is very familiar?"

"Otherwise, why did she ask directly when we were going to get married after I came to your house that day? Maybe she felt comfortable handing her daughter over to me."

"Oh, how did you two meet?"

"She took good care of me at that time and often made cream cakes for me to eat."

"What do you think of my mom?"

"What do you mean, how's your mom?"

"Just...how do you feel about her?"

"It must be very lonely." Lin Cheng sighed softly.

"Lonely?" Lu Xiaoxiao didn't understand.

"Yes, lonely." Lin Cheng was silent for a while, then answered softly, "Because in this world, apart from you, she has no one to contact, and no one to love. If you are more pessimistic, your birth was not because of her love for you. Twenty years ago, she did everything for revenge, and twenty years later, the hatred disappeared, and there was only nothingness in her heart, so... she must be very lonely."

Lu Xiaoxiao was silent for a while, then nodded slightly, agreeing with Lin Cheng's statement.

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The next day.

Lu Xiaoxiao completed her task yesterday, so she had nothing to do today. Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly said she wanted to go to the zoo. She came to Lu Lingling's room, where Lu Lingling was sleeping soundly with her quilt hugging her.

Although he is already forty years old, his sleeping posture is almost curled up, like a child.

"Mom." Lu Xiaoxiao called softly.

Lu Lingling slowly opened her eyes and looked at her. She heard Lu Xiaoxiao ask, "Do you want to go to the zoo together?"

"Hmm?" Lu Lingling thought for a moment and said, "Okay."

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So today's trip to the zoo was driven by Lu Lingling, while Lin Cheng and Lu Xiaoxiao sat in the back seat. The three of them bought tickets and watched the cute little animals in the zoo along the way. Lin Cheng took photos of the two with his mobile phone. After a morning of shopping, Lu Lingling suddenly said she wanted to buy clothes, so Lin Cheng accompanied them to the mall. The two women changed clothes one by one, and Lu Xiaoxiao asked Lin Cheng if they looked good. Then Lu Lingling followed suit.

Because Lu Xiaoxiao was present, Lin Cheng did not show deliberate indifference to Lu Lingling. He accompanied the mother and daughter to buy a lot of clothes, and they also went to eat hot pot together in the evening. Lu Lingling would deliberately put the boiled tripe into his bowl, and said with a gentle and doting look, "Xiao Cheng, eat more."

"I can perm myself." Lu Xiaoxiao pouted her lips in dissatisfaction.

"Oh, are you jealous again?" Lu Lingling laughed even more happily, and also boiled a piece of tripe for Lu Xiaoxiao and put it in her bowl, "Then Xiaoxiao, eat more too."

After eating hot pot, the three of them went to the jewelry store together. Lu Lingling was lost in thought when she saw a pair of wedding rings in the window. She suddenly turned her head and smiled at the two of them, "I'll buy you a gift."

She used a declarative sentence, not a question.

Lu Lingling had someone pack up the pair of wedding rings and delivered them to Lin Cheng and Lu Xiaoxiao respectively. Then Lu Lingling gently patted Lin Cheng on the shoulder and said, "Since it's still early to get married, let's get engaged first. Get engaged to my daughter in three months. Do you have any objection?"

"No." Lin Cheng answered decisively this time.

Lu Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, and suddenly moved closer to Lin Cheng. Lin Cheng smelled the pleasant fragrance on her body and looked at her bright eyes. The girl's pink lips moved slightly and asked softly, "Really?"

"real."

The corners of her lips curled up like a bright flower.

Lin Cheng also went back to Lu Xiaoxiao's house tonight. After returning home, Lu Lingling took a shower first and came out wrapped in a bath towel. Then Lu Xiaoxiao took a shower. Lin Cheng's eyes fell on Lu Lingling. Her bath towel wrapped her body, but her slender thighs under the skirt were completely exposed, slightly pink.

"You always say that I don't act like an elder in front of you." Lu Lingling wiped her hair with a towel and said softly, "But you never look at me like an elder."

"Nonsense, it doesn't look like the elders are looking at anything?"

"Looking at a woman, a woman who will make you desire, a woman who makes you helpless." Lu Lingling wiped her hair, "If you want me to always play the role of an elder, maybe I can try to do it."

"That's very good."

To Lin Cheng's surprise, Lu Lingling just hummed softly. It turned out that her words just now were not playful, but sincere.

Did she suddenly have a change of heart? Did she realize that she couldn't just seduce her daughter's man? Lin Cheng's mind was still full of malicious speculations, but Lu Lingling suddenly whispered, "You've actually hated me all these years."

Lin Cheng didn't know how to answer.

I can’t tell whether it’s hatred or sadness.

"At first I wanted to have a child with you." Lu Lingling gazed at him tenderly, "I know that if I seriously ask you for this, for the future of mankind, you might be willing to leave your genes behind and go to the abyss."

"You're angry because I'm completely unreasonable, because I don't care about your feelings, and because I forced you to combine with me in the most primitive way...right?"

"But there is obviously a better way to choose. I just need to tell you properly. With your personality, for the future of mankind, you will be willing to leave your genes... But I didn't choose to do that. Do you know why?"

"You say." Lin Cheng was stunned for a moment.

"Because I want to do it with you." Lu Lingling answered frankly and innocently, "For a 40-year-old woman, love is an empty and hypocritical lie, but the feeling of wanting to do it with you is real. Because I wanted to do it with you, I tricked you into coming to my house when you were weak, and tied you up and forced you to have sex. It was great to see your face full of reluctance but your body very honest. I felt you pinning me down and bullying me because of your anger... My legs still go weak when I think about it now, but I am very happy and satisfied."

"This was the craziest moment in my life, the only time I had a crazy desire since I was 20 years old."

"This is my love for you, Lin Cheng."

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"Is it me you love, or your own desires?"

“Who loves something other than his own desires?”

The two people in the living room looked at each other, and after two sentences, there was suddenly a long silence.

"Too."

After a long silence, Lin Cheng suddenly nodded gently. Lu Lingling was sitting there quietly in front of him. Lin Cheng looked at her dark pupils. At this moment, countless scenes seemed to flash back in front of him.

Lu Lingling, whom he always regarded as an elder, would bring him cream cake and sit with him on the rooftop to watch the setting sun.

What was Lu Lingling thinking when she tied his arms behind his back with stockings and her black skirt looked like a blooming flower? Did he feel pain at that time? No, he didn't feel any pain, he just felt lost.

The pressure from the natural disaster had long since crushed many of his scattered emotions. When emotions could no longer be maintained within the scope of reason, desire dominated everything. That was why he suddenly threw Lu Lingling to the ground when she untied his hands.

At that time, he didn't know whether he could come back from the abyss. He was afraid, uneasy and panicked, so he longed for a hug, longed for skin, longed for hot temperature, and all other thoughts were thrown out of his mind.

After returning from the abyss, he always avoided Lu Lingling on purpose. If Lu Lingling never mentioned what happened that day, maybe he could pretend that it never happened. But when Lu Lingling met him for the first time after he came back, she tilted her head, smiled slyly and asked him if he wanted to...

That's why Lin Cheng has such a great resentment towards her.

"Really?" Lu Lingling raised her head and her eyes fell on his face.

"I just think it makes sense when I think about it. Who doesn't love their own desires?"

"So, what role do you want me to play in the future?"

"That's your own business. Don't ask me. Just do whatever you want." Lin Cheng walked to the balcony and stretched. The stars and the moon outside the window were very beautiful. Lu Xiaoxiao came back from taking a shower soon. She pushed Lin Cheng to the bathroom to take a shower. After Lin Cheng finished taking a shower, there was no one in the living room. He turned off the lights in the living room, came to Lu Xiaoxiao's warm bed, and lay down beside her.

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The next day.

Lin Cheng accompanied Lu Xiaoxiao in practicing swordplay in the sports field.

"What level are you now?" Lu Xiaoxiao asked him curiously.

Because Lin Cheng stayed by her side these days, her energy points increased a lot.

Because Lin Cheng was able to counter all of her moves with ease, he quickly answered her, "Five hundred thousand."

"How many?"

"Five hundred thousand." Lin Cheng spread his hands. "Some time ago, in order to kill the reality twister named Yun Qiu, I ate Liu Sen's energy core and absorbed all his power into my body."

He scratched his head and continued, "But these energies are rather messy and cannot be stored in the body for a long time. I will give them to an old friend of mine in a few days."

"Old friend?"

"Well, a woman named Black Phoenix, she used to be my companion. The energy that I can't use may be useful to her."

"who is she?"

"A woman forgotten by everyone, a woman who has gone mad, a woman who has become a demigod."

"So how are you going to give the energy to her?" Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes suddenly showed a hint of vigilance.

Lin Cheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Don't get me wrong. I just need to transfer the energy to her energy core. There's no need to do anything weird."

"What was your relationship with her in the past?"

"We can only consider ourselves friends."

Hei Huang has few friends in this world, and it is an honor for Lin Cheng to be her friend.

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At night, Lin Cheng returned home.

The black cat was lazily lying on the refrigerator. When it saw Lin Cheng coming back, it was too lazy to even say hello. Lin Cheng opened the refrigerator and took out a bottle of water. He glanced at the cans of food that had been eaten up by the black cat, took out his mobile phone and bought a few more boxes for the black cat, then went back to the computer and started playing games.

It was still a little cold in winter, even with the air conditioner on. He made himself a cup of hot tea and sat in front of the computer playing quietly for a long time, until the early morning. The sky outside the window was already dim, so he stood up, stretched, and looked out the window.

After a moment he was stunned.

Because it was snowing outside the window, it was particularly rare for City A to snow, and it was rare to see it for several years. It looked like the snow would be quite large. Lin Cheng moved a chair to the balcony, added another cup of tea to the cup, and watched the snow quietly on the balcony for several hours.

It was not until dawn, when a layer of snow had fallen on the ground, that Lin Cheng put on his down jacket and slowly walked out the door. He did not have Black Phoenix's contact information, but he could barely feel Black Phoenix's presence with the 500,000 energies in his body.

He came to the door of Black Phoenix Coffee Shop. Unlike last time, he brought money this time.

"A cold brew coffee," he said to the woman at the bar.

"No." Black Phoenix replied calmly.

She was sitting at the bar, wearing a black fishtail skirt, her hair pinned up with a shark clip, gold-rimmed glasses, and a butterfly ribbon around her waist.

“You’re still opening a coffee shop when there’s nothing here?”

Black Phoenix was too lazy to respond to Lin Cheng's provocation. A few minutes later, he brought a cup of steaming latte to him. Lin Cheng took a sip and said, "How can I give you my energy?"

"How much are you going to give me?"

"It depends on how much you want."

"All?" Black Phoenix raised his eyebrows slightly.

"You're so rude."

"Anyway, for you, energy is as much as you want, right?"

What Black Phoenix said was correct. His destiny core had already been integrated with the rules of the world. At this moment, his body was more like a simple container with no upper limit. As long as all the seals were unlocked, he could mobilize the power of almost the entire world.

But Lin Cheng didn't know what he would become after all the seals were released. Would he be swallowed by the power of the abyss and his mind be affected, or would the power of fate take over and make the long steps to godhood appear again? He didn't intend to try.

Lin Cheng was silent for a while, then asked her, "After you get these energies, you will soon leave this world, right?"

"Well, at most three months. The seeds I grew in the deep sea are about to bear fruit."

Black Phoenix looked at him quietly and said softly, "I've been thinking about a lot of things recently."

"Ok?"

"I don't belong to this world, so my subconscious mind has been guiding me to leave here. Those memories have been urging me to go and see... where I came from and who I used to be."

Lin Cheng scratched his head.

He had never known much about Black Phoenix, because everything about her was a mystery. She had joined his team before only because she was too strong, so strong that no one else could team up with her. The two of them had been the most tacit teammates, and together they had killed many abyss creatures that were close to the demigod level. She later left the alliance because she was bored, and because she had no interest in power. To be precise, Lin Cheng had never seen her interested in anything.

If Ji Zhezhi's coldness is due to his personality, then Hei Huang's indifference is more like an emotionless AI, so in a way, she is very similar to Lin Cheng.

"Okay... then good luck. How do I give you the energy?"

"I can't directly plunder the power of destiny, so you have to give it to me."

"Ah?" Lin Cheng scratched his head.

But Black Phoenix's eyes did not evade, just looked at him calmly, "After leaving, this body should be abandoned. It just happens to satisfy your desire as a reward."

It seems that she knows how Lin Cheng transfers energy.

"No, isn't it?" Lin Cheng's voice became a little stammering.

"Do you care about this kind of thing?" This time it was Black Phoenix who felt puzzled.