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

"No way. I just got to know Xu Wanyue and Lu Xiaoxiao."

"At once?"

"...Okay, I am guilty."

Lizhi soon felt bored again, so she put her white and tender feet back and continued to eat hot pot seriously. After the two of them had eaten their fill, Lizhi looked at Lin Cheng and said, "Let's go pay the bill."

"I... have no money." Lin Cheng wanted to cry but had no tears.

"Where's the money?"

"I lost the Landlord game with Xu Wanyue and Lu Xiaoxiao some time ago."

"Oh." Lizhi paid the 300 yuan hot pot bill and said, "300 yuan will be deducted from your living expenses next month."

"Can I get an advance?" Lin Cheng was about to cry.

"What do you think?"

"Yuyu."

Lin Cheng followed her upstairs. Lizhi had to deal with some company matters, so Lin Cheng went to Lemon's laboratory first. Lemon was currently sleeping soundly in a pile of exploding bubble balls.

The moment she heard footsteps, she opened her eyes, looked at Lin Cheng approaching, and slowly sat up, "Where's your cat?"

"I forgot to bring it. I'll bring it to you next time. I'll give you something good."

Lin Cheng took out the Kurosawa energy core. Lemon took a look at its quality and said, "Not bad. Where did you get it?"

"I encountered this a while ago when Kurosawa dug it up. Can you give me this energy core and make a dog for me?"

Lemon rolled her eyes at him. "What are you dreaming about? Xiao Qi cost me six SS-level cores and a bunch of alchemical materials refined by abyssal creatures. Do you think you can make a Xiao Qi with just a Kurosawa core?"

"…Then save it first, and I'll make it when I have enough."

Lemon got up from the pile of bubble balls and came to a recliner and lay down lazily. Soon, a small silicone hand stretched out from the recliner to give her a full-scale massage. Lin Cheng's eyes lit up, "What a good thing."

"I'll lie down too."

Lemon got up from the chair and glanced at Lin Cheng. Lin Cheng ran to the chair and lay down. The next second, Lemon jumped into his arms. Lin Cheng shouted, "You can crush me to death."

Lemon didn't bother to pay attention to him. She leaned her head on his chest and whispered, "Two-player mode."

A bunch of little silicone hands stretched out from the recliner. Although the scene was a bit strange, Lin Cheng found that the massage effect of these little hands was really good. He gently hugged the waist of the girl in his arms.

Lemon was wearing a loose T-shirt, and her figure was no different from that of a 14 or 15-year-old girl. This was not due to any disease, but she drank an alchemical potion that stopped her body from growing. As for the reason? She just didn't want to grow up.

"I heard from Sister Lizhi that you've been entangled with a lot of women recently?"

"There aren't that many women, just... one or two."

"Hey, you've become bad, Lin Cheng."

"Maybe it won't be relevant after a while. Oh, and what's the use of Kurosawa's tailbone in alchemy?"

"Hmm, Kurosawa's tailbone?" Lemon thought about it seriously, flipping through her alchemy inheritance in her head. "Kurosawa's tailbone can be used to make weapons. The bone marrow in the tailbone is active and can be used to make alchemical puppets. Other than that, I can't think of any other uses."

"Is that so?" Lin Cheng nodded, and continued to lie on the chair holding Lemon, massaging comfortably. The sound of rain outside the glass window was tinkling, and the rain gradually got heavier.

After a while, Lin Cheng got up from his arms, walked to her table and began to draw the alchemy matrix. Lin Cheng looked at her curiously, "What is this for?"

"This is the alchemical potion Jiang Lingxue asked me to make."

"what?"

"Well, if she drinks it, she will grow fox ears and a tail?" Lemon tilted her head. "Maybe she wants to be cute?"

The corners of Lin Cheng's mouth twitched slightly.

Why does he always feel like his world is being watched in full view? Whatever comics and novels he read recently are all clearly understood. Lin Cheng reached out and touched the alchemical ear clip, "Put that aside for now. Help me see if the energy of this sword can be replenished?"

In his hand was the black-gold rapier - Broken Branch.

Lemon took it up and looked at it carefully, then shook his head. "No, this sword was originally designed to only be infused with power once. If you infuse it again, it will break. If you want to infuse it, you have to modify the alchemical runes on the sword. Do you want to modify it?"

Lin Cheng hesitated for a moment, "I need to ask the sword master for his opinion... let's talk about it later."

This sword was lent to Lin Cheng by someone else. It was the inherited sword in the other person's family. However, the other person returned to his family during that time, and the sword has remained with him ever since. The sword owner left him a letter before leaving, saying that she would find him based on the runes on the blade, and asked him to keep it well before that.

This sword is indeed one of the greatest alchemical creations of mankind. It helped Lin Cheng a lot in the abyss. But it has been almost three years, and Lin Cheng has not seen the sword owner come to look for the sword yet.

120 Cold Poison

Lin Cheng played two-player games with Lemon in her laboratory for several hours, and then came to Lizhi's office. Lizhi had changed back into a white shirt and a black hip skirt, wearing high heels and gold-rimmed glasses, and was looking at the report in front of her seriously.

The fruit shop controls many entertainment venues in the north of the city, but they are just shareholders. They abolished the original gray organizations in the north of the city, got their share of the cake, and are also responsible for the safety of the north of the city.

Lin Cheng walked behind Lizhi and gently pinched her shoulders. This move was obviously particularly useful to Lizhi.

Hehe, he is a professional in massage.

"Massage your feet."

Lizhi moved her chair back, raised her slender legs, and placed her feet in high heels on the table.

Lin Cheng felt that he always had the talent to be a lackey, so he moved a chair and sat aside, carefully taking off Lizhi's shoes. She was wearing 30D black stockings, and her white and tender feet were as soft as jade under the black stockings. Lizhi's feet were white and fragrant, hehehe.

Lizhi looked down at him, then continued to read the report carefully. She seemed to have thought of something and said, "Jiang Lingxue's movie is released."

"How's the box office?" Lin Cheng asked curiously.

"Although the official arbiter of the league starred in the film, unfortunately, the director made it too artistic and yuri-themed. Although there were some positive comments on major forums, all our investment was wasted. A rough estimate is that we lost 10 million."

"Ok."

Lizhi's tone didn't matter. She didn't feel bad about the money. In fact, she had a pretty good relationship with Jiang Lingxue. To be precise, Lizhi had a good relationship with everyone in the fruit shop. After all, she was the shop's nanny and took care of everyone in an orderly manner.

"How many days are left for the final screening? Do you want to go and see it?"

"I'm going to watch Jiang Lingxue kissing someone else?"

"You know about borrowed shots and body doubles."

"I feel uncomfortable. I'm a pure love warrior!" Lin Cheng answered confidently. Lizhi glanced at him and said, "You'd better not let me see that you secretly bought movie tickets in your shopping history."

"..." The corners of Lin Cheng's mouth twitched slightly.

"So you are still arguing with her?" Lizhi put down the report in his hand.

"It's not, it's very complicated." Lin Cheng scratched his head, "I can't explain it, just let it go."

Lizhi let out an "oh" and her black silk feet broke free from his hands. Her toes lightly tapped his chest, then slowly moved up to touch his neck. Finally, the back of her feet touched his chin, lifting his head slightly.

"Why do I feel that Lizhi has become more and more aggressive recently?"

…Even though I was the one being teased by him before.

"You have to treat a bitch the same way you treat a bitch."

"Give me back the lychee that makes me blush when I touch my legs!"

Lizhi's calves were raised a little high, and Lin Cheng's eyes were subconsciously attracted to her thighs under her hip skirt, but Lizhi's thighs were closed tightly together, without any sign of exposure.

"I want to take a group photo shoot in the future."

"Okay, pick a time and I'll take the photo for you."

Lizhi nodded slightly, and her white and tender feet moved away from his chin again, but this time they almost stepped on his face. She tapped his forehead with her toes, "So good."

“Is there any reward for taking good photos?”

"Is the chance to lick your feet a reward?"

"I'm really not a pervert!"

"Oh, that's not the point." Lizhi spread her hands, "I want to take a photo shoot with Grape Sister. You can ask Grape Sister to give you a reward."

“… Still no.”

Lin Cheng shrank his head in dismay. He suddenly realized that he hadn't seen Grape yet. "Where is Grape?"

"She went to the comic convention."

"Her? Attending a comic convention?"

"Yes, she always wants to know what you like, so she went to the comic convention alone. Don't worry, Sister Grape's temper is much better now than before, and she can go to crowded places alone."

Lin Cheng breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, right." Lizhi suddenly thought of something, "Did you know that your good lover is lying in the hospital now?"

Lin Cheng was startled, "Ah?"

"Lu Xiaoxiao was injured during a mission last night. It didn't seem serious. Didn't she tell you?"

Lin Cheng took out his cell phone and took a look, but didn't see any message from Lu Xiaoxiao. Well, given Lu Xiaoxiao's personality, she would certainly not tell him about such things.

"How did she get hurt?"

"It seems to be a capture mission. We are trying to capture an S-class ability user from the Styx. The person was captured, but he was poisoned. With the healing system of the Alliance, there is nothing to worry about."

"Then I'll go see her later."

Lizhi nodded slightly. When she said this, she knew that Lin Cheng would go. She put down her black silk calves on the table, crossed her calves under her hip skirt, and tapped the table lightly with her fingertips. "But speaking of it, this organization called Styx... is indeed interesting."

"Ok?"

"I just looked at their intelligence. The Ming Xiu you met a few days ago is only one of the top four. There are three SS-level ones left. Their abilities are all somewhat related to the Abyss. They have infiltrated forces all over the country. They seem to be planning to establish some kind of connection with the Abyss."

Lin Cheng suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. After a moment, Lizhi looked up at him and said, "Let the alliance worry about it. It's not something we should care about anyway."

"Ah."

"If you want to retire, then take good care of yourself. If you want to be a hero again, I will teach you a lesson."

"It's so weird to hear the word 'training' coming out of your mouth."

"Jiang Lingxue and I have talked about many interesting things."

"...Don't let her lead you astray."

Lizhi stood up, stretched, walked to the compartment behind her office, opened the door, and inside was her small room for nap. Lin Cheng followed her in and lay down on the big bed with her. Lizhi hugged his arm and watched the idol drama on TV in front of them with him.

....................................

evening.

Lizhi woke up, sat on the bed, rubbed his eyes, stretched lazily, and patted his head, "Okay, you're done, you can leave."

Lin Cheng also climbed up from the bed. He had just sent a message to Lu Xiaoxiao and knew Lu Xiaoxiao's current location. He took a taxi to the hospital and found Lu Xiaoxiao's exclusive ward. When he arrived at the ward, Lu Xiaoxiao was still wearing a hospital gown and her face was slightly pale.

She was the only one in the ward.

Lin Cheng put the flowers in his arms aside. Lu Xiaoxiao looked at him dimly, "I will be discharged from the hospital soon."

"Oh no, I've already bought it."

Lin Cheng gently grasped her hand and used his energy to probe her body. "It's the poison of the Purple Lan Beast. Even if you are cured, you will still be very cold at night for the next two days. You should rest well."

"No big deal."

Lu Xiaoxiao's hands were particularly cold at this moment.

Her hands were very beautiful, with slender knuckles and white and tender palms. Lin Cheng held them in his hands and played with them for a long time. "Okay, then we'll start special training tomorrow."

"So what is the content of the special training?"

"Well, you'll find out tomorrow."

Lin Cheng did make a training plan for her. It was not difficult to improve Lu Xiaoxiao's ability to S level within a month. Lu Xiaoxiao sat up from the bed and said, "Go out. I need to change my clothes. I was just about to be discharged from the hospital when you came."

Lin Cheng obediently went out and waited. A few minutes later, Lu Xiaoxiao, wearing a T-shirt and denim hot pants, with her jet-black hair tied into a ponytail, went with Lin Cheng to go through the discharge procedures. Lin Cheng looked at her profile and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Eat dinner. I'm hungry."

So Lu Xiaoxiao and he found a random restaurant near the hospital. After eating something, Lu Xiaoxiao, still holding the bouquet of flowers that Lin Cheng brought, stood on the roadside waiting for a taxi and said, "Well, see you tomorrow?"

"I'll go home with you." Lin Cheng winked at her.

"what?"

"The poison of the Purple Lan Beast attacks late at night. Although 95% of it has been eliminated from your body, the remaining poison will make you feel cold all over. In the lonely and cold night, you will need a warm embrace."

"..." Lu Xiaoxiao said "oh", stopped a taxi on the roadside, and sat in the back seat. Lin Cheng followed her into the car and took the taxi back to her home.