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

Lin Cheng dripped the slightly cool liquid on her legs and gradually spread it evenly with his palm. Xu Wanyue's hands gently grasped the bed sheet, her eyes quietly looking at Lin Cheng's profile. At a certain moment, she suddenly felt that Lin Cheng's eyes were so gentle.

During countless lonely days and nights, she had fantasized that one day there would be someone living with her, cooking and washing dishes with her, rubbing bubbles together in the bath, snuggling in bed together to watch movies, and even asking him to help her apply body lotion, after all, it was too troublesome to do it by herself.

Lin Cheng originally thought that Xu Wanyue was going to complain again. This guy has been nagging for a long time. But surprisingly, Xu Wanyue was quiet for a long time. When he turned his head inadvertently, he found that Xu Wanyue was staring at his profile in a daze.

"Huh? What are you thinking about?" Lin Cheng was puzzled.

"Nothing, I just suddenly felt that the serious look on your face just now was... so cute." Xu Wanyue came back to her senses and smiled at him.

"Of course you have to be serious when you take advantage of someone." Lin Cheng answered proudly, but this time Xu Wanyue didn't get any resentment. She pointed at a small bottle in the cabinet and said, "You still need to apply foot cream on your feet. I'll leave it to you as well."

Lin Cheng went to get the bottle, opened it, and poured the cold liquid on the back of her snow-white feet. He spread it lightly with his fingertips, and gently pried open her pearl-like toes. The girl's toes were small and cute, and slightly pink. After he pried them apart, they subconsciously closed again. Xu Wanyue always felt as if her head was getting a little dizzy.

A few minutes later, Lin Cheng finished applying the ointment for her. Before he could say anything, Xu Wanyue suddenly leaned close to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

Lin Cheng was stunned for three or four seconds. He slowly turned his head, looked at Xu Wanyue's slightly evasive eyes, and asked, "Why are you suddenly..."

"Reward." Although Xu Wanyue's eyes were shy, they were unexpectedly bright.

Lin Cheng was stunned for a long time before he stood up and washed all the liquid on his hands. When he returned to the living room, Xu Wanyue had already returned to the room. He turned off the lights and went into the room. Xu Wanyue was lying on the bed covered with a quilt. Seeing him coming, she lifted the quilt. As soon as Lin Cheng got into the quilt, Xu Wanyue moved slightly towards him, and their arms touched.

"Want to watch a movie?"

"I'm fine with that. What do you want to see?"

"How about watching a horror movie?"

"You don't seem to be afraid at all." Lin Cheng remembered that Xu Wanyue didn't show much fear when she watched a horror movie in the afternoon. Xu Wanyue shook her head and said, "No, I never watch these movies by myself. I would definitely be scared."

"Two people can't do that?"

"Yeah, I used to watch it with my sister often. As an older sister, I have to save my reputation, so I wouldn't say it no matter how scared I am." Xu Wanyue said as she used the remote control to find a classic horror movie, then hugged Lin Cheng's arm and leaned her head on Lin Cheng's shoulder.

Lin Cheng's arms seemed to sense the warmth from her chest. Xu Wanyue seemed to notice something, but didn't seem to care. Lin Cheng occasionally turned his head to look at her and found that she was actually afraid. When she was afraid, she hugged Lin Cheng tightly. The light in the room was very dim. It was two hours later when the movie ended, and it suddenly started raining outside the window.

"Can you accompany me to the amusement park tomorrow?" Lin Cheng suddenly leaned close to her profile.

"But the weather forecast says it's going to rain in the next few days. But...if it rains in the next few days, I can go with you later."

"Is it as Xu Wanyue, or as a girlfriend?"

"Well, if you want to be my girlfriend, that's fine." Xu Wanyue answered gently, and Lin Cheng leaned close to her ear, "You're so nice."

Xu Wanyue subconsciously escaped a little, "No, go to bed... Good night."

"I want a kiss, and it won't rain tomorrow, I promise."

"Okay, we'll go if it doesn't rain." Xu Wanyue leaned closer and kissed him on the lips, "Good night."

The two of them slid into the bed, and Xu Wanyue raised her legs to hold him, hugging him tightly as if she were a pillow.

72 summer

Just as Lin Cheng said, it was a sunny morning this morning.

It's early summer now, and we should have a date in the bright summer.

Xu Wanyue took out several sets of clothes in front of the dressing mirror, and Lin Cheng sat in the living room, waiting for her to change into one set after another. Lin Cheng clearly said that she could wear whichever set she liked, but Xu Wanyue was very persistent in letting him choose one.

In the end, Xu Wanyue was wearing a white off-shoulder lace camisole with white lace trim on the chest, a denim jacket on the outside, loose jeans on the bottom, a pair of sneakers, and her jet-black hair tied behind her head, looking youthful and lively.

The suspenders revealed a small piece of white and tender belly skin. When Lin Cheng got close to her, he quietly stretched out his finger and gently poked her waist.

Xu Wanyue was not angry, but when he was not paying attention she reached out and poked his waist.

Xu Wanyue was responsible for driving to the amusement park. Lin Cheng sat in the passenger seat, leaning lazily on the chair back. The sunlight outside the window was warm and gentle.

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A City Alliance, headquarters.

The underworld knocked on the door, and it opened naturally soon. The person in the room had obviously been waiting for a long time.

As the leader of the A City Alliance headquarters, he has rarely shown up in recent years and has been issuing orders in secret most of the time. He has ruled the A City Alliance for fifteen years. Every decision he made in these fifteen years was absolutely correct, and the A City Alliance was thriving. In the past three years, the natural disasters ended and the alliance encountered unprecedented challenges, but to this day, the alliance is still the number one among all ability organizations and suppresses all civilian forces.

The man sitting on the chair is thirty-nine years old.

In fact, compared with those congressmen, he is still very young. He is not an absolute monarch, and many proposals ultimately require a vote in parliament. But he can sit in his current position because he is one of the no more than ten SSS-level people in the world.

His title in the alliance is [New King]

Ming Si sat down opposite to him. As an old man in the alliance, he had watched Xin Jun grow up step by step. Even Xin Jun's ability to become the leader of the A City Alliance was due to his vote. He believed in the ability of this young man and thought that he would be able to lead the alliance and all mankind to prosperity in the future.

So of course he also knew the new king's real name.

The new monarch’s name is Ji Yun.

"Xiao Ji, how long have we not seen each other?" As soon as Ming Si sat down, Ji Yun had already poured tea for him. This tea set was brand new, and in the cup in front of Ji Yun was a cup of black coffee. He did not drink tea.

"Six months and three days." Ji Yun replied softly.

Ability can delay aging, so at the age of 39, he actually looks no different from a young man in his twenties. He has rarely appeared in public in recent years, and most of the time he stays in this room to handle official business.

"Have you guessed what I was going to say?" Ming Si's tone suddenly became a little higher, and his slightly turbid eyes were looking directly at Ji Yun in front of him, so that his aura of majesty without even being angry dropped in an instant.

But Ji Yun's hand did not tremble as he poured the tea. He just replied respectfully, "Yeah, I guessed a little."

"Do you have anything to explain?" Ming Si snorted coldly.

"The original intention of designing the alchemy matrix of the Alliance prison was to obtain the energy of those criminals and use it for the advancement of alchemy technology. It has always been like this."

"As for taking those people with special abilities away for experiments..."

This was the main point of the conversation. Ji Yun did not shy away from the topic but went straight to the point. "I don't think there is anything wrong with this."

Obviously this was not the answer that Hades wanted.

Ji Yun picked up the coffee cup on the table and took a sip. He looked at the smoke rising from Mingsi's teacup in front of him and said, "Times are completely different from the past."

"After the natural disaster ended, the number of crimes committed by people with special abilities increased by 268% compared to the past."

"And among all the crimes committed by people with special abilities in the past three years, no more than 60% were eventually closed. This was because the Alliance did not have enough resources to solve every case, nor did it have enough deterrent power to scare the criminals."

"A total of eighteen people were taken away from the Frost Prison. Their lives contributed immeasurable value to the entire society. The deaths of some people promoted the development of new drugs, and the deaths of others promoted the birth of new alchemy technology. Compared to being directly sentenced to death by the Alliance, their deaths have created countless value."

"For the crimes committed by each of them, they should be shot dead the moment they are arrested and sentenced. Since they will die anyway, why not let them die with more value?"

Ji Yun's voice was sincere, not arrogant or contemptuous. He stared at the Hades in front of him seriously, "The God of Destiny ended the natural disasters and the war between humans and the Abyss, but a new war has begun. This is a war between the Alliance and the people with special abilities all over the world. If the Alliance does not have enough power, it will be swallowed up sooner or later. Human conscience and morality will only become the soft spot that is most easily broken at this moment."

"Si Ming... doesn't want you to do this." Ming Si brought the still hot tea to his lips.

"Because he is a ridiculous idealist, a baby still in swaddling clothes, and an incompetent person who can only escape!"

When Mingsi mentioned this name, Ji Yun suddenly became a little excited.

"Now that I have all the information, Siming is just a young man in his early twenties. I have never denied the great contributions he has made to the Alliance and the entire world. I think he should be a hero and even a god who should be worshipped. But how can a god understand the suffering of mortals?!"

"The natural disaster was ended by him personally. I once told him that I hope he will stay in the Alliance and I am willing to hand over my position to him. I need to borrow his power to deter everything in the darkness. I need his mask. As long as the mask is still in the Alliance, no one dares to disobey the Alliance's orders. But he chose to leave and told me that his power was exhausted."

"Does it really matter whether his power is exhausted? All we need is that mask, a god that inspires fear. He left behind ten evolutionary bloods, and it was those ten evolutionary bloods that allowed the alliance to gain a foothold in the troubled times. From then on, he never cared about anything. With the power you gain, you should take on the responsibility. His choice is just the evasion and weakness of an incompetent person."

"He has really exhausted his strength, so why do you force him? If given a choice, who wouldn't want to live an ordinary life?" Ming Si looked quietly at Ji Yun who suddenly became angry in front of him.

"Do you know the research results of the Alliance on the blood of evolution in recent years?" Ji Yun suddenly turned the topic here. Ming Si was stunned for a moment and listened to Ji Yun continue in silence.

"The Evolutionary Blood is Sima Ming's blood, which contains a part of his power. However, all our research results show that the ten Evolutionary Bloods are only a part of his power. The energy in those bloods is constantly growing. This means...his exhaustion of power may be just an excuse. His power has been slowly recovering. He just got tired of living in the world of people with special abilities and chose to escape."

"How can you, a person who clearly possesses the power but chooses to escape, accuse me of being unscrupulous and immoral in order to achieve my goal? You ridiculous dreamer, you talk about childish fantasies but you are still greedy for an easy life. Do you really think I am wrong? Hades... I ask you to think carefully, think carefully. Now the alliance is the last line of defense for those ordinary people!"

"He said he wanted to be an ordinary person, but if one day he wants all of this because of his greed, or if one day he wants to destroy the world because of his selfish desires, who can stop him? He is like a time bomb. Once it explodes one day, everything will become unstable because of him."

"The alliance is too weak, so weak that it can't even withstand a big storm. In addition to managing those civilians with special abilities, we also have to deal with the occasional natural disasters. Even this city is still shrouded in an inexplicable shadow at this moment."

Ji Yun suddenly stood up and looked out the window. The sun was shining brightly and the sky was blue. He picked up his coffee cup and took another sip.

"Yesterday's weather forecast said that it would rain heavily today, but an unknown force changed the weather in the entire city, just like a day a year and a half ago when it was supposed to be sunny, but it suddenly rained all day."

"This is not a weird natural phenomenon. Someone is manipulating the weather of the entire city simply by using energy. To this day, we still don't know who that person is and what his purpose is. Maybe he is just bored... But because of this, the unknown in the shadows makes me feel fear deep in my bones."

"Fear has been driving me all these years. It is precisely because of fear that I desire power... Or do you prefer to believe that a person's heart is always as clear as a mirror, rather than power?"

Mingsi's eyes also looked at the clear sky outside the window, and he chose to remain silent.

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amusement park.

As far as Lin Cheng could remember, this was the second time he had come to the amusement park in his life. The previous time he came here with Lizhi, who loved all kinds of exciting activities. But that was a long time ago. Lizhi seemed to be only sixteen or seventeen years old at that time. It was two or three years ago.

Today I am with Xu Wanyue, and we can buy couple tickets when purchasing tickets. We just need to kiss each other to verify. Couple tickets are 30% off, and Lin Cheng was able to kiss Xu Wanyue on the cheek.

She smelled sweet. Xu Wanyue deliberately put on light makeup before going out. She rarely wears makeup on weekdays, but she is indeed a beautiful girl with a beauty score of over 9.5 even without makeup, and she has a good figure and fair skin.

Maybe this is part of the luck?

"Do you want to ride that?" Xu Wanyue looked at the roller coaster in the distance with anticipation, but found that there seemed to be a little timidity in Lin Cheng's eyes.

"But, can I not sit down?" Lin Cheng's voice trembled a little.

"But coming to an amusement park and not riding a roller coaster is like eating dumplings without dipping them in vinegar."

"I can...wait for you down there."

"But I'd be scared if I sat alone. If you sit with me, I'll give you a kiss."

The cute little sister winked at him gently and extended her olive branch without any concealment.

73 eyes

The sunshine today is really warm.

Xu Wanyue stood in the sun, the light fell on her snow-white cheeks, making her eyes look so bright and charming. Her dark, slightly curly hair was tied into a ponytail with a hairband, and the hair beside her cheeks swayed gently in the breeze. Lin Cheng's eyes subconsciously looked at her lips. Lin Cheng clearly remembered that she had applied mint-flavored lipstick before going out.

"But you can kiss even if you don't sit down." Lin Cheng answered confidently.

"Hey, I didn't say yes."

"This is cheating. How can a couple in love not kiss each other?"

"But girls also have their moments of being a little squeamish and not wanting to be kissed." Xu Wanyue's answer was very reasonable. Lin Cheng looked into her eyes and suddenly said, "Look at your tongue."

"what?"

"Look at your tongue."

Xu Wanyue opened her mouth obediently. Her teeth were neat and white. After hesitating for a while, she quietly extended the tip of her pink tongue a little. But Lin Cheng's eyes seemed unsatisfied, so she tried to extend her tongue a little more, and her cheeks soon turned red.

A cute little pink tongue.

"Then... kiss us longer." Lin Cheng suddenly said.

"it is good."

When Xu Wanyue smiled, faint dimples appeared on her cheeks.

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Lin Cheng remembered that Lizhi liked roller coasters very much, but after he accompanied Lizhi on one ride in the past, he almost felt exhausted. Even he himself couldn't explain why he was afraid. It was obvious that he had never been afraid of death in the true sense. Perhaps this fear of heights came from his genes as an instinctive human being.

Maybe this is a good thing, proving that he is still a human being.

At this moment, he and Xu Wanyue were sitting in the front row. It was obviously Xu Wanyue who had cunning eyes just now, but at this moment, the roller coaster hasn't started yet, and it was also Xu Wanyue whose calves couldn't help shaking. Lin Cheng held her hands tightly. After she mastered the skills of energy circulation, her hands were no longer as cold as before.

"Are you scared?" Lin Cheng's voice was also shaking.

"I'm scared." Xu Wanyue held his hand tightly. The roller coaster started quickly and the speed increased slowly. Soon, the screams of Lin Cheng and Xu Wanyue were heard together. The roller coaster was about to fall after reaching the highest point. At that moment, everyone in the car was screaming. The whistling wind and the feeling of weightlessness made people tremble uncontrollably. Xu Wanyue suddenly turned her head to look at Lin Cheng's face, and she felt relieved when she saw him shouting.

She suddenly whispered something to Lin Cheng, but those words were all melted in the wind. After a moment, she also screamed loudly.

The journey was only three minutes long. After it was over, Lin Cheng and Xu Wanyue arrived at the location where the photo was taken. Looking at the ugly photos of the two of them taken in the car, Xu Wanyue laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her back, while Lin Cheng held her shoulders with a pale face. He looked at Xu Wanyue, but Xu Wanyue suddenly grabbed his hand and ran.

She ran to a place where there was no one around, then she obediently fell into Lin Cheng's arms and hugged him gently.

There was not much difference in height between the two, so Lin Cheng only needed to lower his head slightly, and Xu Wanyue's pink lips opened slightly. After a moment, her pink little tongue was touched. She was not good at this kind of thing, so she could only respond awkwardly.

Soft and slippery.

Xu Wanyue's hands subconsciously grabbed the clothes on Lin Cheng's back. Her slender waist was stretched straight, and she felt like she was almost suffocating.

"Men who don't close their eyes when kissing are all scumbags." After a moment, Xu Wanyue suddenly said vaguely.