You are my wife, don't doubt it!

Xiao Yao climbed the steel ladder all the way to the top, pushed open the manhole cover above his head, looked around and saw that there seemed to be no danger, so he climbed up.

After climbing out of the sewer, Xiao Yao found that the surroundings were just like the alley outside his home, but the pedestrians' avoidance and pointing in his direction reminded him of the abnormality here.

After walking a few steps forward, Xiao Yao was stopped by two people in firefighter uniforms.

Xiao Yao took a half step back and tried to draw his sword, but his hand was empty. He looked down and found that the armor on his body and the sword on his waist were gone. He was only wearing ordinary clothes, which were stained with blood and were extremely dirty.

This was a great shock, and he tried to summon Don Quixote, but there was no response.

During this time, the two people blocking the road had already connected a fire hose from the fire hydrant on the side of the road. One of them turned the valve, and the water flow soaked Xiao Yao from head to toe.

Xiao Yao wanted to struggle at first, but he felt that the water was warm and there was no sense of oppression. Instead, it was quite comfortable, more like taking a bath.

After a while, the water stopped flowing, and Xiao Yao found that his clothes were not wet, but the blood stains were gone. He felt a little strange.

One firefighter began to pack up the hose quickly, while the other walked up to Xiao Yao and said, "Now that you're here and have washed yourself, you must follow the rules here and work hard."

As he spoke, he stretched out a hand to Xiao Yao. Seeing Xiao Yao's puzzled look, he reminded him impatiently: "Cleaning fee."

Xiao Yao then remembered the copper coins he had just picked up in the battle in the sewer. He reached into his pocket and took out all the coins and handed them over. There were about 7 or 8 coins in total.

The firefighter shook his head. Xiao Yao thought he thought it was too little, but he only reached out and took two, then patted Xiao Yao on the shoulder, called his companions and left.

The "cleaned" Xiao Yao seemed to have successfully integrated into the city, but he did not forget his mission. After asking several passers-by, Xiao Yao quickly found the elevator that Shen Jie had mentioned, as well as the agency that issued the elevator usage permit.

He found out that the elevator permit could be purchased with money, but the zero after the price made him give up the idea of ​​spending money to avoid disaster.

Another way is to take exams.

Xiao Yao took the test again with ease. This time the questions were more difficult and Xiao Yao only scored 66 points, but he still got a pass to the 2nd floor and took the elevator to the second floor smoothly.

Although Xiao Yao was not good at taking exams, he felt that it would be a good idea to reach the top by taking continuous exams. It was safer and faster than fighting with indescribable things in the dark sewer to pick up copper coins.

Unfortunately, Xiao Yao was completely overwhelmed by the second-level exam and failed to obtain promotion permission.

He tried to ask people around him about ways to get promoted without spending money or taking exams, and surprisingly he got two answers very easily.

One is to win various types of competitions held from time to time, including but not limited to music, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing, dancing and acrobatics - unfortunately, none of these were achieved today.

The second is to take the stairs.

Yes, how could a building have only one elevator?

Xiao Yao regretted his short-sightedness and rushed to the stairwell.

Walking into the stairwell, Xiao Yao found that Don Quixote, who had not responded when he called him just now, had returned. He once again became a knight in armor and holding a sword - it seemed that there was indeed some kind of restriction like a barrier outside.

The stairwell was dark and narrow, the air was turbid, and there was a bad smell in the air, which reminded Xiao Yao of the underground sewer he had walked through before, and he couldn't help but prepare for a fight.

As expected, there were countless shadows lurking here and they were full of hostility. Their attacks caused some trouble for Xiao Yao, but he could still deal with it. However, this time he didn't have the energy to collect the copper coins dropped by the shadows.

Xiao Yao fought and climbed up, not knowing how many steps he climbed or how many shadows he knocked down, before he finally saw the "3F" sign in the corner of the wall.

When I opened the door and walked out, there was a "firefighter" sitting in front of me, as if he was waiting for Xiao Yao.

The firefighter didn't say anything, he just picked up the faucet and sprayed Xiao Yao again. Then, he still reached out for money.

Xiao Yao took out two copper coins and gave them to him, but he laughed at him like a fool.

"Twenty," the fireman held up two fingers arrogantly. "If you don't have money, go back to your rat hole!"

Xiao Yao fought his way up with red eyes. He only negotiated with him patiently because he didn't want to get into trouble. How could he tolerate his domineering behavior? He immediately raised his leg and kicked him to the ground. Then he took a step forward, grabbed his chest, and punched him three times in the face with his right fist.

The firefighter fell to the ground motionless, red, black and white liquid flowed all over the ground and splashed all over Xiao Yao.

Without you, Zhang the butcher, would you still not eat hairy pigs? Xiao Yao pouted, picked up the fire hose on the ground, and turned on the switch.

But the strange thing was that no matter how Xiao Yao washed, the blood stains on his body did not decrease at all.

After failing, he gave up trying and took to the streets.

But this time, passers-by ran away in panic when they saw Xiao Yao, as if the words "I am a bad guy" were written on Xiao Yao's face.

Soon, with a burst of rapid whistles, a policeman ran towards Xiao Yao with a baton in his hand.

Xiao Yao wanted to deal with him, but he was always at a disadvantage with his bare hands.

He has played GTA3 and knows that there is no end to the number of "Cops". The more you kill, the more there will be, and the higher your police star will be.

With the reinforcement of other policemen, Xiao Yao did not dare to fight and had to fight and retreat towards the stairwell where he came from, and finally escaped into the stairwell.

The police did not chase after them, but simply locked the door of the stairwell.

Xiao Yao thought about it and decided to continue upwards, continuing to kill shadows along the way, and paying special attention to collecting coins.

The door to the fourth floor was locked. Maybe the guarddog here had just been killed?

Xiao Yao tried very hard but failed to push it open, so he had to continue moving forward.

After that, Xiao Yao discovered that as he collected more coins, the shadow's attacks became more and more crazy, and they could even attack from various angles without being blocked by the environment or walls.

Xiao Yao felt increasingly overwhelmed and had no choice but to throw away some copper coins to distract the shadow.

There were no doors leading out of the fifth and sixth floors. Xiao Yao stumbled to the exit of the seventh floor, exhausted.

The door was locked again. Xiao Yao no longer had the strength to break it down, and all his coins had been thrown away. Even if he went out, he would not have enough money to buy a legal identity to launder his wealth.

Xiao Yao leaned against the door, waving his sword unwillingly to drive away the shadows that kept pouring in, while helplessly reciting the scripture to escape from the holy medal.

I hope that the inability to produce the trills of the upper and lower tongues will not lead to a failure in the startup, otherwise I will really die here, Xiao Yao thought.

Xiao Yao's first rescue attempt for Shen Jie failed.

take a bow.

Chapter 248 Sneaking into the Western Suburbs Garden

2023-06-28

It turns out that the holy medal can be used successfully without making trills of the upper and lower tongues.

Come to think of it, how could such a sacred and majestic being in Heaven have such poor hearing? He couldn't understand without a vibrato, right?

Xiao Yao came out of the fitting room of the clothing store - he found that the clothes he had placed on the leather stool were gone, and the latch had been opened from the outside.

When he walked out, the salesgirl who reminded him, "Sir, this is women's," happened to see him again. She widened her eyes in surprise and opened her mouth slightly.

It was already dusk, and a half-used black sedan was parked outside the store. Xiao Yao knew whose car it belonged to without having to guess.

He opened the back door of the car with ease, only to see Yu Luying glaring at him with her hands folded.

"Who told you to sit in the back? Get to the front." Yu Bo's voice floated from the driver's seat from front to back.

"Hey." Xiao Yao responded, looked at Yu Luying again, closed the car door, opened the passenger door, and sat in.

Before he could fasten his seat belt, he was hit by a violent storm of "hairy chestnuts". Xiao Yao held his head in pain and shrank his neck without resisting until Yu Luying screamed in the back seat: "Uncle! It hurts!"

Yu Bo made the sign of the cross on his chest, recited a sentence from the Bible, and started the car.

"How did you know I would come out from here?" Xiao Yao asked curiously.

"Don't talk nonsense," Yu Bo drove lazily, "Tell me everything you encountered."

When the car arrived at the church entrance, Xiao Yao had not finished speaking, and everyone chatted in the car for a long time.

"The situation report has been completed, and that's basically it." Xiao Yao said.

Yu Bo turned around and looked at Yu Luying, then said to Xiao Yao:

"Xiao Yao, call Liang Yanan and tell her you need her help."

Xiao Yao silently took out his cell phone.

"Hey, it's me."

"..."

"I see."

"..."

"Bogo, she wants to talk to you."

Yu Bo took the phone with a helpless look on his face.

"..."

"I can lend it to you, but don't make a big fuss, officer."

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Xiao Yao walked Yu Luying back home, then walked home himself, washed up casually, and went into Tianyun's room.

At night, Shen Tianyun rested her head on Xiao Yao's shoulder blades, casually swiping her...that thing is called a "smartphone".

"Changsheng, I suddenly thought of a good idea. Let's try it." Xiao Yao suddenly said.

"What's a good idea?" Shen Tianyun tilted his head comfortably.

"Can you go back to Xijiao Garden, go to the room where your mother lived back then, and then go through the mirror? Maybe you can return to your mother 30 years ago." Xiao Yao said.

"It sounds... like... it's OK," Shen Tianyun frowned and said, "But I can't take her out of the room even if I go there, right?"

"Yes." Xiao Yao said.

"We can't just let her hide in the room in Xijiao Garden in 2034 and never come out, right?" Shen Tianyun said.

"No, the point is, you can take messages back and forth between the two of us - so that Mom and Dad can communicate."

"So what if we've made contact?" Shen Tianyun asked.

"In this way, we can formulate some escape plans that involve both internal and external cooperation." Xiao Yao said.

"You can try." Shen Tianyun nodded and said, "But if it's really that simple, why didn't mom get out by herself?"

"How do you know she didn't?" Xiao Yao retorted, "It's useless for her to come here. She can't contact you, me or anyone else."

"That does make sense." Shen Tianyun said.

"You are worthy of being your father's good daughter. You have even started to imitate your father's tone of voice."

"Dead."

"...But," Xiao Yao thought for a moment and said, "Actually, your mother really can't get out."

"What's going on?" Shen Tianyun asked.

"Guess what I did today?" Xiao Yao asked after hesitating for a moment.

"He went to see his mother - I just wanted to ask you for the details." Shen Tianyun said.

"There is a Tower of Babel hidden in the mirror in my mother's room." Xiao Yao narrated vividly.

"I'm not in the mood for bedtime fairy tales," Shen Tianyun pushed him, "If you don't have anything serious to do, go back to your room and rest."

"Hey! Who's in the mood to tell you a fairy tale?" Xiao Yao was anxious. He forced Shen Tianyun to stand up straight and told her roughly what he had seen today.

Shen Tianyun was stunned. After she was sure that Xiao Yao was not joking with her, she asked, "Is this the first time you have encountered such a thing?"

"No," Xiao Yao explained, and briefly told her about Teacher Yao's Hall, Teacher Song's Hall, and the mirror world under the bridge where they often went to practice.

"Such a big thing," Shen Tianyun pinched her nose in confusion: "Why didn't you all tell me?"

"Occam's razor," Xiao Yao told Shen Tianyun, "Telling you won't help you at all. Instead, it will make you feel confused and troubled. So Shen Jie and I never mentioned it to you. We didn't discuss it - because there's actually nothing to hide from you."

"Hmph! I'm not happy! You just treat me like a child." Shen Tianyun raised her eyebrows, indicating that she did not accept this explanation.

"You are a child!"

"Aren't you kids too?!" The girl tried to shoo Xiao Yao back again, but Xiao Yao was paralyzed on the bed, motionless: "Bao'er, there's something I've always wanted to ask you, but I never had the chance to ask you."

"Just ask." Shen Tianyun raised one foot and gently tapped the bed with his heel.

"You said last time that they don't want you anymore, they don't want you anymore," Xiao Yao asked Shen Tianyun, "Who is that?"

"What?" Shen Tianyun subconsciously pretended to be confused and said, "What do you mean he doesn't want me anymore? When did he ever say that?"

"On the day of the thunderstorm..." Xiao Yao suggested tactfully, "It was right here..."

"I suddenly remembered something!" Shen Tianyun patted his sturdy thigh: "Are you really cheating on me with Yu Luying?"

"It's not cheating," Xiao Yao explained to Shen Tianyun, "It was your mother who came up with the idea, and then she discussed it with your Aunt Yu in private, and then the two of them came to inform me - it was a notification, not a discussion, I was forced to accept it."

Shen Tianyun was obviously not convinced by Xiao Yao's words that cleared her of all blame. "Even if what you said is true, have you ever thought that my mother is testing you? Even if she doesn't say anything, she must be very unhappy about you in her heart."

"No, listen to me..." Xiao Yao said.