Zhang Heng did not follow the kind-hearted owner's advice to cause trouble for another company.
He wasn't here to collect industry taxes. Throwing hoops was just a small amount of money for fun. He might as well open up a cattle ranch in the west instead of relying on it to make a fortune.
Hayase Asuka might not be able to use the USB drive and bracelet, but the joy of drawing a six-star Charmander was the motivation for millions of players to continue spending money …
Zhang Heng sent Hayase Asuka back to the international student's dormitory and looked at his watch. It was 10: 30 at night, about 40 minutes to the agreed time.
Zhang Heng found a place without cameras, parked his Polo by the roadside, and went to a nearby convenience store to buy a bottle of Pocari Power.
Because of the extra 24 hours, his fitness effects were doubled. Although it had only been half a year, he could already see the results. After taking off his clothes, Zhang Heng could clearly see his abdominal and chest muscles. So, he began to pay attention to his diet. Although excess calories could be burned through exercise, it was better to save yourself some trouble. So, he rarely touched cola (although he had the zero-proof version), and he rarely ate fried food.
After paying the bill, Zhang Heng returned to his car and sent a message to Mei Nan.
[Where are you?]
After a while, the latter's reply came.
[I suddenly have a stomachache before leaving the house.]
[Where do you live? I'll send you some medicine.]
— Ah, you want to use this trick to get my address, and then knock on my door in the middle of the night in the name of asking about my well-being. You want to feed me medicine when I am weak and need someone to rely on the most, so that you can completely conquer my body and mind?
Mei Nan, on the other hand, became vigilant.
[…]
Zhang Heng sent a string of ellipses.
[Give up, I won't give you this chance. I'll be there on time.]
[See you then.]
Zhang Heng put away his phone and drove the Polo to the McDonald's where they agreed to meet.
At 11: 07, Mei Nan arrived on time. Her face looked a little pale, and she was panting as she put the backpack behind her on the table, then sat on the stool opposite her. "Here, the game item you left with me."
"Thanks." Zhang Heng did not open his backpack. Instead, he placed the bag on the seat next to him.
The game items in the bag came from the team of players he killed when he rescued Meinan more than a month ago. He temporarily stored them with Meinan.
Not only did he throw in all the game points he had, but he also redeemed the extra game items he had. In the end, he was still short of six or seven hundred game points. So, he asked Mei Nan to get those game items back. In addition to the more than a hundred game points he earned from this quest, he should be able to clear his debt and return to his debt-free days.
After that, he would have to wait and see what would happen to the Ordinary Katana after it was cast. If it was upgraded from F-Grade to E-Grade, he would have to find some time to kill the owner of the katana house.
But now he was more concerned about something else.
Zhang Heng looked at Mei Nan opposite him. "What have you been busy with all this time? Why is it that every time I send you a message, your reply is getting slower and slower? "
"Ha, I usually have my own things to do, okay? Sorry, I can't be your little cotton-padded jacket that comes and goes at your beck and call. Besides, don't you have a rich woman and a cute Japanese student accompanying you?" Mei Nan curled her lips as she spoke. "Ah, you have been here for so long, and you haven't bought anything to eat. Are you just sitting here? Why didn't the waitress chase you away?"
"I ordered a single set meal for the homeless scavenger nearby, and I packed it," Zhang Heng said lightly. "What do you want to eat? It's my treat."
"That's more like it," Meinan said with satisfaction. "Thank you, boss." After that, she turned her head to look at the ordering counter not far away. However, after squinting for a while, she retracted her gaze and sighed. "Forget it. It's already so late. I'd better starve to lose weight."
"You are even thinner than when we first met."
Zhang Heng still remembered when Meinan pretended to be Ma Wei and tried to prank him. In the end, they bumped into Zavilcha, and Zhang Heng even carried Meinan on his shoulder and ran around the school for a while. Meinan was taller than the average girl, and she was already more than 1.7 meters tall. However, she still weighed less than 90 kilograms. Now, she looked like she only weighed about 40 kilograms, which was a little too thin.
Although Mei Nan was as carefree as ever in WeChat, she looked a little frail in person. Zhang Heng's eyes fell on the back of her hand, where there was a band-aid. When Mei Nan saw Zhang Heng looking at her, she subconsciously retracted her hand and explained, "I accidentally cut myself when I was cutting fruit."
"Do you use the back of your hand as a cushion when you cut fruit?"
"…"
"Damn it! Did you experience Detective Conan recently? When did your observation skills become so good?" Fan Meinan raised her eyebrows. "Didn't anyone tell you that it's a virtue to see through something and not say it?"
"You look a little messed up."
"Everyone is messed up sometimes. Your rich woman almost died in her dream last time. This is the truth of life, right? Also, when are you going to let her drive the Lexus she gave me? I didn't know the maintenance fee for a luxury car was so expensive. I can't afford it with my meager salary." Mei Nan sighed.
"As I said before, you helped me last time. If you have any trouble this time, you can ask me for help." Zhang Heng looked into Mei Nan's eyes.
"Thank you, but you can't help me with this. I have to do it myself," Mei Nan said. Fan Meinan said, "You'd better prepare for your proxy war. You'd better pray that you don't meet me in the proxy war. Otherwise, I will definitely make you run around in circles. By the way, you are so mysterious all the time. Do you think I don't know whose proxy you are?"
"I thought I found the answer, but now I'm a little uncertain," Zhang Heng replied.
He was almost certain that the old man in the Tang suit was Kronos, but the real question in front of him now was who he really was.
What did the scientific expedition in Greenland 17 years ago have to do with him? And why did Kronos approach him? Without figuring out these questions, Zhang Heng couldn't even determine whether the old man was a friend or a foe. He also didn't know what the latter's plan was.
And he had a vague hunch that the latter seemed to hope to accelerate the loss of his emotions through the time magnification effect in the quest. He just didn't know what the consequences would be.
"It seems that each of us has our own troubles," Mei Nan said with her hands in her pockets. Meinan put her hands in her pockets. After hesitating for a while, she stretched out her hand and held Zhang Heng's hand on the table. "Don't worry, everything will be fine," she said softly, looking at Zhang Heng.
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