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

“I never thought about pursuing it.”

The woman in the bunny pajamas nodded slightly and shifted her gaze to Lu Lingling who was fighting with Kurosawa. It was called a battle, but in fact it was more like a one-sided slaughter. After all, Kurosawa was just a young child, with energy points not exceeding 50,000, and his tailbone and wings had not yet fully evolved. In front of Lu Lingling, he was indeed no different from a toy.

"Bless you." The woman in the bunny pajamas said to Lin Cheng lightly. The battle between Lu Lingling and Kurosawa came to an end, but the woman in the bunny pajamas took a step forward, her lips moved slightly, and she just whispered, "Decompose."

Then Kurosawa's body suddenly split apart, limbs, arms, head, coccyx, energy core, like a doll being taken apart, all the parts were suspended in the air, and she raised her hand, and the tailbone flew into her hand.

With this piece of tailbone, the purpose of her trip was achieved. She turned her head and looked at Lin Cheng who was about to disappear from her sight, and asked, "Will we meet again?"

"I hope we won't see each other again." Lin Cheng smiled bitterly.

The woman in the bunny pajamas nodded slightly. After she grabbed the tailbone, she glanced at Green Hair and said "teleport" lightly. The bodies of the two instantly disappeared on the top of the mountain.

At this moment, only Lin Cheng and Lu Lingling were left on the top of the mountain.

Lin Cheng looked at Lu Lingling who was frowning slightly, then walked back and picked up the energy core of Hei Ze on the ground. It was a blue crystal the size of a goose egg. The energy core was Lemon's research material. Lin Cheng also wanted Lemon to make a puppy for him. He thought the puppy was really practical.

"Who is she?" Lu Lingling suddenly asked.

"She used to be a member of the alliance, but you don't remember it."

"Who?"

"Even if I tell you, you won't know, and you won't have any memory of her. She has deleted everyone's memory of her."

"delete?"

Lin Cheng was too lazy to respond to Lu Lingling's questioning. He put away the energy core and headed down the mountain. Lu Lingling was behind him and asked softly, "Are you angry?"

Lin Cheng didn't answer, as if he didn't hear it. He quickly went down the mountain. The steps were a little slippery. On the way down the mountain, he saw Lu Xiaoxiao trying to go up the mountain. Their eyes met. The next second, before Lin Cheng could even say anything, Lu Xiaoxiao ran towards him and bumped into his arms.

The girl's body in his arms was soft and warm, but she was trembling slightly at the moment. Lin Cheng reached out and patted her back gently, "Okay, it's okay. Your mother came and killed that monster called Kurosawa."

"How are you?"

"She arrived just in time. What can happen to me?" Lin Cheng smiled helplessly and turned his head to look at Lu Xiaoxiao's cheek. Hey, there were still some tears in the corners of her eyes. She always looked proud, but like a crybaby at critical moments.

Lin Cheng held her like this for quite a while. As expected, it was very comfortable to hug a big and soft girl.

Until Lu Xiaoxiao looked up and whispered, "Mom..."

At this moment, Lu Lingling was standing behind Lin Cheng. Lin Cheng loosened his hand, and Lu Xiaoxiao came out of Lin Cheng's arms. Her cheeks flushed slightly. She wiped her tears and was about to say something, but Lu Lingling spoke to Lin Cheng first, "Listen to my explanation."

"I'm not angry. There's nothing to explain. I promised to help Xiaoxiao solve this problem. It doesn't matter whether you come or not." Lin Cheng's voice seemed to be really calm. He continued to walk forward. Lu Lingling's high heels jingled on the steps. She seemed to want to say something else. She followed Lin Cheng closely. When she was about to reach him, Lin Cheng turned his head impatiently.

"Get out of here!"

Lu Lingling stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.

Lu Xiaoxiao didn't understand what was going on, she was a little dazed. Lin Cheng was followed by the puppy that Xiaoqi had transformed into. When Lin Cheng shouted that Xiaoqi had transformed into a car, Xiaoqi happily turned around beside him and then turned into a black motorcycle. Lin Cheng rode on it, turned the accelerator, and disappeared from the sight of Lu Lingling and Lu Xiaoxiao in almost an instant.

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Two hours later, Lin Cheng drove back to the downstairs of his house.

Xiao Qi has a short-term leaping ability, and there are almost no cars at night, so the road is smooth. Lin Cheng patted Xiao Qi's head and stuffed the Kurosawa energy core into his mouth, "Go back to your Lemon mother."

Xiao Qi nodded obediently, wagged his tail and ran away. Lin Cheng went home alone. He took a shower first and then went back to bed. It was already four o'clock in the morning. His bed was against the window. Because of the elemental turbulence, even City A was affected. It was drizzling outside the window.

He always suffered from insomnia during the period when he just retired, so he always listened to the sound of rain. But now he doesn't feel sleepy even when listening to the sound of rain. Lin Cheng lowered his head, stretched out his hand, and looked at the energy spots emerging from his fingertips.

After a long while, he hugged his knees, sat on the bed alone, staring blankly at the darkness in front of him. There was not a trace of light in the room, and the thick darkness seemed to be about to swallow him.

In fact, he was not really angry with Lu Lingling. It didn't matter whether that woman showed up or not. It was he who chose to help Lu Xiaoxiao anyway. It didn't matter how many times he died. He didn't care about the pain of death. But since when did he get involved in everything?

He suddenly remembered what he had said to Xu Wanyue before, that people with special abilities can only make one choice in their lifetime, and he had made his choice when he was fifteen. He thought he would have another chance to choose after he turned eighteen, but that seemed to be just his delusion.

They had clearly agreed not to use their abilities again, but within a year they were shaken by Jiang Lingxue. Many things happened the first time and then the second time. What would they face next? Death after death, rebirth after rebirth, and then what?

It seems that escaping this inevitable fate is nothing more than making the story sound less bleak.

Lin Cheng sensed the spatial fluctuations in the darkness. He slowly raised his head and looked at the woman who had been standing there in the darkness at some point in time.

"Please turn on the light for me, thank you."

Lu Lingling turned on a bedside lamp for him, and looked down at Lin Cheng who was sitting on the bed. Lin Cheng was also looking up at her, and their eyes met in mid-air, as if building a transparent bridge.

Gradually his eyelashes drooped, revealing a bit of unspeakable fatigue.

109 Punishment

"I... have been hiding in the space gap of that mountain." Lu Lingling hesitated for a long time and said carefully, "The man who summoned Hei Ze today is codenamed Ming Xiu in the Styx. Ming Xiu is not the leader of the Styx, but only one of the four leaders in it."

"I want to wait for Ming Xiu to fight you, and then he will call for support after he finds that he is no match for you. According to intelligence information, Ming Xie has also been active in City C recently."

"The existence of the Styx is deeply rooted, and it is particularly difficult to uproot it. I wanted to take this opportunity to capture a few more members of the Styx, so I waited a little longer, but the Dark Evil did not show up. I was worried that something might happen to you... so I didn't wait any longer."

"The main purpose of arranging Xiaoxiao to go on a mission with you this time is not because I want to borrow your power to defeat Minghe, but because Xiaoxiao likes you and I want to give her a chance to be alone with you. If the alliance needs to rely on Siming every time it encounters a challenge, then there is no need for the alliance to exist."

"I said I'm not angry, and there's no need for you to explain to me. Even if I'm angry, I'm not angry with you, but only with myself." Lin Cheng took a deep breath and looked up at Lu Lingling in front of him.

"But you yelled at me."

"Because I'm a child and I can't control my emotions, is this an acceptable reason?"

Lu Lingling was silent for a while. "Your strength is gradually recovering, why are you unhappy?"

"Then why do you think I sealed my power when it was exhausted?"

"I can't guess." Lu Lingling answered frankly.

Lin Cheng was silent for a while, "When the power reaches a certain limit, bad things will happen."

"Bad things?"

"I don't want to tell you." Lin Cheng turned his face away, and Lu Lingling could do nothing about him.

"Anyway, I've always been a childish kid in your eyes, right?" Lin Cheng's tone was slightly self-deprecating.

"I never treated you as a child." Lu Lingling looked at Lin Cheng in front of her seriously, "You have done a great job. You clearly have the power to destroy the world, but you have never lost yourself. You even deliberately drew a circle for yourself and bound yourself with that circle. I don't understand why you did that, but everything you did is close to perfection."

[Lost] is a very common word among people with special abilities. When they have extraordinary powers, when moral boundaries can no longer restrain themselves, and when desires can be easily satisfied, people will gradually lose themselves. This is why the number of people with special abilities in all non-governmental organizations combined is much larger than that in the Alliance. Everyone has greedy desires in their hearts, and the Alliance exists to restrain these desires, but countless people with special abilities are still gradually going crazy.

"Forget it. I'm too lazy to chat with you. Don't disturb my sleep." Lin Cheng stretched out his hand to turn off the lights in the room, but Lu Lingling suddenly fell onto his bed.

"Go away..." Lin Cheng's voice was weak.

"You're still angry with me." Lu Lingling was lying on the bed. She climbed up a little, but her knees were still on the bed. Her calves under her skirt were slightly raised, and her slender waist sank. She turned her head to look at Lin Cheng, "Because I lied."

"So if it's here, it's here. If it's not here, it's not here. Why lie?"

"Well, maybe because... I want to give you a reason to punish me?" Lu Lingling's voice was really too lazy.

"How slutty!" Lin Cheng sat up and moved a little further away from the woman. He turned on the lights in the whole room and looked at the scene in front of him. Lu Lingling seemed to be kneeling on his bed at the moment, with her round and plump buttocks raised high, covered by the black fabric of the dress.

She was still wearing the pair of black high-heeled shoes with sparkling sequins on them. She was kneeling with her knees together, her calves slightly apart, her elbows resting on the bed, her slender waist and plump buttocks twisted into a slightly exaggerated arc.

So tempting, no, so burning!

"Do you really treat Lu Xiaoxiao as your daughter?" Lin Cheng was very confused.

"Why not?"

"Then what are you doing now?"

"Waiting for you to punish me."

Perhaps it was because of this posture that she finally felt a bit of shame, her cheeks seemed to be slightly pink. The more Lin Cheng thought about it, the angrier he became, and the angrier he became, the more he wanted to beat her up. But when he thought that this was clearly what she expected, he would be happy to beat her up. When she was happy, Lin Cheng would be angry. The more he thought about it, the more conflicted he became, and finally he slapped her hard.

Lu Lingling did not scream out, but just groaned softly, as light as a kitten's panting, but the pain was so obvious that she subconsciously lifted her calves a little.

"It hurts..."

The moment she finished speaking, Lin Cheng slapped her hard again. Lu Lingling's body seemed to have almost lost all strength. She collapsed on the bed, no longer kneeling, and looked back at him dimly, while Lin Cheng was staring at her straight, with a scornful mockery in his eyes.

Lu Lingling slowly got up and returned to her previous position. The expression on her face changed to a condescending command. There was a hint of laziness in her eyes, but it seemed like she was challenging him. "Continue."

Lin Cheng lifted her skirt to her waist.

Purple, lace, hollow, bow.

Looking at the red marks on her fair skin, Lin Cheng became angrier and angrier. The angrier he became, the more he wanted to beat her up. The more he beat her up, the angrier he got. It was a vicious cycle.

One, two, three, ten, twenty...

Until Lu Lingling lost the strength to kneel again, she lay on the bed, biting her lips lightly, her eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist. She raised her head and looked at Lin Cheng's face, her voice became gentle again, "Do you feel better?"

"Is this what all older women become?"

Lin Cheng looked at the shadow on her clothes.

"Maybe I just like it more? Or maybe it's because it's you...? These things are not important. Do you feel better now?"

"good."

"The most primitive desire for attack and reproduction is the core of desire. When desire is released, one feels pleasure, but when it is satisfied, one feels emptiness again. But this is what makes one human."

"Oh, you're right." Lin Cheng took out his cell phone and took a photo.

"what are you doing?"

"Leaving this as evidence to threaten you, you don't want Lu Xiaoxiao to see this photo, right?"

"It's not me who doesn't want to, but you." Lu Lingling smiled playfully, "Of course I don't mind this kind of thing, you can send it to her now."

“Oh, I sent it.”

He quietly observed Lu Lingling's reaction, but Lu Lingling did not look panicked at all from beginning to end. Lin Cheng certainly did not have the courage to do so, as he still had some dignity to maintain.

Those who have shame will never be defeated by those who have no shame.

Lu Lingling knew that he didn't dare to do that, so she just looked at Lin Cheng playfully, even shaking her snow-white hips slightly, "Is this the end of the night?"

Lin Cheng took a deep breath, "Do you think I don't dare?"

"I still remember how you begged me for mercy three years ago." Lu Lingling laughed even more happily.

Another slap in the face, her eyes widened slightly, and the fabric was pulled down to her knees.

Lu Lingling stared at Lin Cheng without blinking, and suddenly smiled, "I thought you could completely suppress your desires. I'm really... disappointed."

"Do you think I'll take this level of provocation?"

“It’s the results that matter, not… the process.”

Lu Lingling's eyes suddenly widened, tears welling up from her eyes in an instant. She stared at Lin Cheng viciously, gritting her teeth, "You... bastard... that's not the right place... you did it on purpose!"

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Lin Cheng and Lu Lingling met five years ago.

At that time, Lu Lingling was already the deputy leader of the alliance, and Lin Cheng was just a member of an A-level team. As he performed well in each Abyss Descent, his level gradually increased and he was gradually noticed by Lu Lingling. He was not in the alliance all day, but only occasionally went to the alliance for training, or attended some meetings and activities.

He was only fifteen years old when he joined the league, but he lied about his age and said he was eighteen. There was a special training ground in the league, and Lu Lingling took special care of him from that time on. She would occasionally bring him some cakes and milk tea she made herself, and even chat with him in private, asking him if he had any girls he liked in the league who could be arranged into his team to create opportunities for him. Even if the league had any new standard equipment, Lu Lingling would approve his priority use rights.

At that time, Lin Cheng was like a relative in the alliance, but he never let Lu Lingling down. In just a year and a half, he was promoted to SS level, growing from a rookie to an independent SS-level team captain. Lu Lingling was still very kind to him, especially concerned about his mental health, and would chat with him in the office after training.

Lin Cheng's impression of her at that time was that of the gentle Aunt Lu, and he also addressed Lu Lingling as Aunt Lu. Three years later, before the final battle with the abyss, the power of destiny had reached its peak and was about to undergo a qualitative change. In a few short days, he would lose his power, and except for not dying, he would be like an ordinary person. He only told this secret to Lu Lingling, and in order to protect him, Lu Lingling took him home. It was at that time that Lin Cheng finally let down all his defenses and took off his mask in front of Lu Lingling.

They drank a little bit of red wine in the room. Lu Lingling gently held him in her arms and said softly that he could call her mother in the future... Lin Cheng was really glad that he didn't call her mother at that time, because after drinking that little bit of wine, he became drowsy. When he woke up, he was tied up by Lu Lingling. Aunt Lu in front of him was wearing a black suspender nightgown, gazing at his eyes gently.

"Aunt Lu..."

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"I want a...child."

"No... My ability doesn't allow me to have a child... No... As long as I don't want to, it's impossible..."

"Abilities are also controlled by the mind. There will always be times when you are distracted and tired, so... try a few more times, there will always be a chance, right?"

From that day on, the gentle Aunt Lu died in Lin Cheng's heart. Three days later, his abilities were restored, and he finally just gave her a complicated look and lay down beside her. However, Lu Lingling, who was almost unable to muster any strength, covered her with a quilt and went to the abyss crack alone.

After closing the abyss rift, Lin Cheng came back to go through the retirement procedures.

110 She Will Never Return

Lin Cheng's retirement was not because of Lu Lingling. Retirement was a decision he made a long time ago.