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

Lizhi conjured up a lemon-flavored lollipop like a magic trick. Lin Cheng tore open the candy wrapper and put the lollipop into his mouth. Then he looked at the chair next to him. There were some wet marks on the chair. Lin Cheng whispered, "Clean it up and give the other party some face."

"What's there to keep for a traitor?"

"It's just that we have different positions temporarily. Maybe one day we can use love to persuade her to our side. After all... her ability is quite useful."

Lizhi said "oh" reluctantly and called the waiter to move the chair away and replace it with a new one. The two waited in the room for a long time. The bathroom door opened and Xu Wanyue, with her hair still slightly wet, walked out.

In Lin Cheng's heart, Xu Wanyue should be considered a nine-point beauty... Forget it, I won't be a man who gives points, Lin Cheng silently knocked his head.

This little black dress fits Xu Wanyue surprisingly well, showing off her beautiful curves. Her waist is also slender, and the slightly tight skirt wraps around her waist and hips, revealing her seductive curves. The little queen has a very attractive figure, especially her breasts which are not bound, looking plump and plump.

It looks soft and bouncy.

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"Please sit down." Lin Cheng's expression was rarely serious.

Compared to her previous contempt and arrogance, Xu Wanyue's expression was obviously much softer at this moment. She seemed vaguely uneasy. She quickly adjusted her mood, made herself look more calm, and sat opposite Lin Cheng and Lizhi.

"You should have guessed what I want to say." Lin Cheng's tone suddenly became much gentler.

Compared to the depth in Lin Cheng's eyes when he fired the gun, the tenderness at this moment gave Xu Wanyue an inexplicable sense of security, but she still shook her head, "I... don't know."

"Your ability is very interesting." Lin Cheng didn't mind continuing to act with the other party, "So... I invite you to join our organization."

"I belong to the alliance." Xu Wanyue raised her head slightly.

"I know, I know. Of course... I'm not asking you to quit the alliance. I just hope to cooperate with you. We have some areas where we can use you. In return, we can also provide you with a certain degree of help."

"for example?"

"If you have a special wish that you want to fulfill, we can do it for you at our discretion, and you also need to do something for us... that is not dangerous, that's all. I am very sincere, so... I hope you can put away your arrogant expression at the moment."

Arrogance was just her disguise. After Lin Cheng said this, her arrogance gradually disappeared. She bit her lip and said, "I need to think about it, and... I don't know much about your organization."

“You’ll understand once you join.”

"Until now, I don't even know the name of your organization."

"Fruit shop." Lin Cheng replied with a smile.

Xu Wanyue was stunned for a moment. She looked at Lizhi, but Lizhi didn't seem to have any intention of refutation. There was only some helplessness in her eyes. It was obvious that she was used to it.

"Fruit...shop?"

"Yes, she is Lychee, I am Watermelon, and we also have Lemon, Grape, Peach... There are not many names left. You can prepare a code name for yourself in the organization. Of course, you don't have to choose one. After all, we are just a deep cooperative relationship."

"I need to know the information about your organization. If I don't know anything about it..."

"Leave the negotiation to Lizhi." Lin Cheng said this and suddenly yawned. He stretched out the back of his hand to wipe the tears that flowed from his yawning. Then he stood up and put his hand on Lizhi's shoulder and squeezed it gently. "You can talk to her slowly. I'm going to go back to sleep first."

“There are guest rooms right here.”

"Grape will kill me tomorrow when she comes back. Let's hide for now." Lin Cheng smiled and gave Lizhi a massage for a while. It was obvious that this massage was particularly effective for Lizhi. Lizhi's expression eased a lot. She threw the car keys to Lin Cheng and said, "Drive back by yourself."

"I can't drive."

"Didn't you ask me for money to get my driver's license some time ago?"

Lin Cheng scratched his head and said, "Looking at those questions makes me feel overwhelmed."

"What about the money I gave you for your driver's license test?"

"I used it to buy mobile games..."

"I'll deduct 1,000 yuan from you for living expenses next month." Lizhi said unhappily. Lin Cheng looked at her aggrievedly, but Lizhi remained unmoved. "Didn't you earn 2,000 yuan by selling your body yesterday?"

“…That’s the result of my personal labor.”

"I told you you're fat and you're out of breath." Lizhi reached out and poked him in the chest several times, "Take your driver's license test quickly."

"I know, I know." Lin Cheng nodded helplessly and let go of the hand that was pressing Lizhi's shoulder. "Let's go."

Lizhi nodded slightly, said nothing more, and watched him leave the room.

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"Who is he?"

After Lin Cheng left, Xu Wanyue asked her biggest question.

"A non-staff member, a gigolo kept by this lady." Lizhi raised her toes slightly and chuckled.

Xu Wanyue's eyes were full of confusion, and Lizhi's answer was obviously perfunctory.

"He usually doesn't move around in the organization, nor does he participate in most of our activities, so you can assume he doesn't exist and only summon him when you need him occasionally."

Xu Wanyue hesitated for a moment and asked softly, "I want to know...what is his ability?"

"Why are you asking this question?"

"I want to know how I lost to him...at least I want to be convinced."

"He has no ability now." Lizhi said lightly.

Xu Wanyue was stunned. It clearly sounded like a perfunctory response, but Lizhi's expression contained a hint of disdain, and that disdain seemed more like a disdain for lying.

"Then how did he see my abilities?"

"I guessed it." Lizhi answered as a matter of course.

Xu Wanyue stared at the lychee in front of her seriously, feeling a little dissatisfied. She certainly didn't believe such an answer, "Then why was he completely expressionless when he shot himself... and then when he was joking with you, he shot himself in the head four times?"

Xu Wanyue still remembers the man named Lin Cheng. When he was joking with Lizhi, he picked up the revolver on the table and fired four shots at his temple. Every time he pulled the trigger, her heart skipped a beat.

Lizhi understood Xu Wanyue's confusion. She tucked the hair beside her cheek behind her ears and sighed softly.

"Because... he doesn't care."

08 Hell

Lin Cheng's home is in the old town in the north of the city.

The Old Town is the most desolate area in the city. Compared with the brightly lit Rose Street, only the dim street lights are still on in the Old Town. He rides a shared bicycle that he scanned the code on, riding slowly on the moonlit road.

He wanted to buy a bottle of Coke and instant noodles on the way home, but all the convenience stores were closed. He could only sigh, park the shared bike, and walk back home silently.

The old city was probably even more desolate in the past than it is now. Five years ago, this was the place with the most space cracks. Every time a space crack opened, it meant the arrival of killing machines from another world, so many people eventually moved out of the old city. Until three years ago, the legendary existence closed all the space cracks by himself. In the past three years, the frequency of natural disasters in the whole world has decreased by 90% compared to the past.

It is said that the old city has recently begun planning, and there may be a chance that it will be demolished and rebuilt. Lin Cheng returned home and walked in. He was the only one at home, oh no, there was also a cat.

A black cat lying lazily on the sofa licking its paw.

Lin Cheng has been living alone for more than ten years. His parents died in a natural disaster when he was seven or eight years old. Since then, he has been the only one left in the world. Fortunately, social welfare allowed him to study until high school. Later, for some reasons, he chose to drop out of school, retired with injuries, and has been living in a daze until now.

The only flavor left of the instant noodles at home was braised beef, and he originally wanted to try the Sichuan pepper flavor.

He picked up a worn-out kettle and boiled water, tore open the seasoning packet for instant noodles, and filled it with water below the water line so that the instant noodle soup would taste good. He had finished the Coke in the refrigerator and there was only a can of beer left.

He sat at the table with a beer and instant noodles, opened the video website and browsed marketing accounts and short videos. As he was browsing, he came across an interview video about the Alliance Arbiter.

The interview video shows a silver-haired girl of about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing the white uniform of the Alliance Arbiter. Obviously, this is her daily casual wear rather than combat clothing, with a white blazer and a pleated skirt. Lin Cheng seemed to vaguely remember that he had participated in the vote on the style of the Arbiter female uniform and chose this one. He didn't expect that it would really be used in the peaceful era.

Swish, swish.

The girl in the video is sitting on a chair, looking well-behaved and cute. Her thighs are white and tender under her skirt, her calves are slender, and she is wearing a pair of small leather shoes. She smiles sweetly at the camera.

Lin Cheng suddenly came to his senses. This was a new generation of idols launched by the alliance to comfort the people and convey hope. The girl in the video was clearly without makeup, but she was incredibly beautiful, especially her watery eyes. She looked extremely pure, but inexplicably had a captivating feel.

"A user with psychic abilities?" Lin Cheng muttered.

In the interview video, the girl talked about her mental journey of choosing to become a judge. In addition, she also said that her wish was to protect everyone, that she hoped for world peace, and that people with special abilities existed to maintain social order... and other high-sounding words. Lin Cheng was just about to turn off the video to watch some otaku dance when he suddenly heard something coming from his headphones.

“My wish is to become a judge like my idol.”

"Who is your idol?"

"The Judge who closed the Scourge Rift in the final battle three years ago."

"I know, I know, you mean...Si Ming."

"Yes! Compared to saving the world, saving the people around me is more important. I am not a hero. I just happened to have this power, so I have to bear the mission of being a hero. I don't have a dream, but I can protect the dreams of others."

Lin Cheng suddenly started coughing violently; he choked on his instant noodles.

How could someone steal such a stupid line!!!

The reporter's eyes lit up at this moment. "I know, I know. This is what Siming once said! It is said to have influenced countless alliance judges. Is it true?"

"Of course, Sima Ming is the idol of all of our generation of Alliance Judges."

"Si Ming disappeared three years ago. At that time, this matter was classified as a secret of the alliance. We don't know... Now it is a peaceful era. Regarding the final whereabouts of Siming, can the alliance reveal some information?"

"He... shared his power with the current generation of judges of the Judgement Alliance, hoping that they could live like ordinary people. Other than that, I have nothing to say."

Lin Cheng silently turned off the video, then ran to the bed and rolled over and over.

Unbearable!

After going crazy for two minutes, Lin Cheng returned to normal and went back to the computer to continue eating his instant noodles. He ate all the noodles and drank the beer, and then threw the garbage into the trash bag.

As a young man living alone, his home was not very clean and tidy, and many things were placed in a messy manner. After eating and drinking, he got up and went to the two-square-meter bathroom. He looked at himself in the mirror while getting dressed.

Well, looking at the face in the mirror, Lin Cheng felt that it was understandable that the woman named Xiaoxiao misunderstood that he was a prostitute.

Everything that happened last night was done with the lights off. Lin Cheng woke up earlier than Lu Xiaoxiao in the morning, so Lu Xiaoxiao could not see the scabbed scars on his chest, abdomen, and left shoulder. More than a dozen scars gathered together, looking somewhat distorted and terrifying.

So ugly.

Scars are a man’s best achievement, Lin Cheng comforted himself like this, put on his loose white T-shirt again, lay down on the bed, picked up his mobile phone to watch the latest new episodes, ate and drank enough, watched videos, and felt a simple and lazy happiness.

Seeing that he was feeling sleepy, he threw his phone aside and closed his eyes. Tomorrow would be another beautiful day.

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It was already noon when I woke up.

Lin Cheng's sleep quality has always been poor. He always has all kinds of strange dreams. In his dreams, there are burning flames, all kinds of broken limbs, and all kinds of blurry faces. Their cheeks seem to be stained with blood and tears, but their eyes are so stubborn and firm. However, they are so far away from him, no matter how he wants to touch them, he can't touch them at all.

He came to the window and a ray of sunlight from outside fell on his cheek.

Natural disasters no longer occur, and human history has turned a new page. Now is a new era of peace. The sun shines evenly in every corner. Lin Cheng thought about it and realized that he seemed to have gotten up too late, so he had no pancakes to eat this morning.

As a 20-year-old unemployed vagrant, his life can be considered very regular. He goes to bed late and gets up late, plays games, watches videos and browses his phone. Occasionally, when he feels lonely at home, he goes to sell flowers or sings in a bar to move himself and find a little comfort for his empty spirit.

Lin Cheng picked up the 1,900 yuan bills in the room, took his bank card, and prepared to go to the bank to deposit the money.

Only the people in the Alliance would carry some cash with them. Every identity ring of the Judge Alliance member has a certain space storage capacity. It was made by the Alliance's deputy leader using her ability. Because of the existence of people with abilities, the Alliance now has a lot of advanced technologies that have not yet been popularized. Lin Cheng heard from Lizhi last time that the Alliance has made the research on virtual world technology very mature, and it can now support the change of the hibernation capsule connection to the helmet connection of the game made ten years ago, and greatly improved the level of realism.

Lin Cheng was quite interested in this. He didn't know if he could still log in to that game account after canceling his previous alliance account... He had obtained a lot of equipment in it at that time. He was a super boss with a 9999 level sword.

These things can only be thought about for now.

After depositing the money, Lin Cheng walked out of the bank and took a look at the balance in his bank card. The current balance was 3,600 yuan. There were still 25 days before Lizhi would give him next month's living expenses. If it weren't for the 2,000 yuan that Lu Xiaoxiao gave him yesterday, he would definitely be short of money again by the end of the month.

Having money to spend is a very happy thing, but having too much money to spend may not be the case.

For breakfast, he had a rice noodle roll at a small roadside shop. In the afternoon, he went to a nearby Internet cafe with better specifications. The computer at his home was a bit outdated and kept lagging when playing games. It was not that he had no money to replace it, but he thought it would be too troublesome. Since it could be used as it was, he just continued to make do with it.

Learning to make do can often greatly improve the happiness in life.

Because today is a holiday, the Internet cafe that Lin Cheng went to is now full. When he asked the front desk, only the private room was left. The private room was for two people, but a woman was already sitting there. Lin Cheng glanced at the bartender's embarrassed look and smiled indifferently, "How about this, I'll go and discuss with her to see if I can squeeze in with her?"

The waiter first glanced at his face and indicated that he had no objection. Then he led Lin Cheng to the private room and opened the door. Lin Cheng was stunned for three or four seconds when he saw the woman wearing pink Razer cat headphones, a JK uniform, with a snow-white profile and serious eyes.

Is this world really so small?

Or am I actually the protagonist of a otaku light novel? Is it inevitable that the beautiful girl who fell from the sky will have a second encounter with fate?

"Oh, it's Xiaoxiao. She and I are friends." Lin Cheng said to the waiter in the box. He also called out Xiaoxiao's name. The bartender had just registered with Lu Xiaoxiao's ID card, then nodded, took his ID card to register, and left the box. Lin Cheng was able to get into the box and he closed the door.

Because Lu Xiaoxiao was wearing headphones and concentrating on the team game, she didn't seem to notice Lin Cheng's arrival. She was playing League of Legends. Lin Cheng turned on the computer very familiarly, and then sat aside and watched Lu Xiaoxiao play quietly. It is polite not to disturb others when they are playing games, and Lin Cheng has always been very polite.

After Lu Xiaoxiao's team fight was over, the screen turned gray, and Lin Cheng said, "What a pity, but there is still a chance for a team fight, and the opponent can't lose in one wave."

Lu Xiaoxiao had just leaned back in her chair when she was suddenly startled when she heard the voice. She turned her head and her eyes fell on his face.

A look as if he had seen a ghost.

09 Unfortunate Fate