On the way back, Huai Shi sat in the car and watched the dazzling neon lights fade into the distance. He walked into the more familiar and dim streets.
Under the smashed street lamps, homeless people in cardboard boxes poked their heads out of the alleys and looked around. Angry voices and scolding voices came from afar, as well as the cries of children.
Amid the sound of metal scraping, the grocery store closed its doors.
Soon, other than the hurried footsteps of pedestrians, there was only the sound of drunkards vomiting …
It was not a happy or beautiful moment, but for some reason, Huai Shi finally relaxed. It was as if he had returned to reality from a fleeting bubble and felt the familiar gravity.
He closed his eyes and sighed silently.
"Boss, you seem to be in a bad mood," Shangye, who was driving, suddenly said.
"Hmm?" Huai Shi asked, "Why do you say that? Is my expression that obvious? "
Shangye thought for a long time, then patted his head and shook his head. "I don't know, it feels like …"
Huai Shi was speechless. Was this the sharp intuition of a single-celled organism? It was really admirable.
He thought for a long time and finally could not help but ask, "Shangye, if one day, you don't have to do extreme dao anymore, what do you want to do?"
"Huh?" Shangye did not understand at all.
"I mean … if you don't do extreme dao anymore, what do you plan to do?"
Shangye widened his eyes in disbelief. "Then I won't be able to live anymore, right?"
"… That can't be, right?"
"Boss, although it's a little embarrassing to say this, I don't even know how to use a calculator," Shangye said seriously. "If I have a tattoo, the people in the convenience store won't want me. Besides, with such a bad temper, what if I hurt the customers? "
Huai Shi could not help but want to roll his eyes.
"… Okay, let's not talk about realistic conditions. I just want to know, if you have the chance to choose, is there anything you want to do? For example, dream or something. "
"I haven't thought about it. That kind of thing is too complicated, right?" Shangye thought for a long time and suddenly looked back. He widened his eyes and was full of curiosity. "Boss, what about you?"
Huai Shi didn't think that she would be counterattacked.
After thinking for a moment, he couldn't help but shrug.
"To be honest, I used to want to be an artist. Well, the kind that plays music. But later, I felt that being a teacher wasn't bad either. Seeing my students grow up, I felt like I had grown up too …"
Before Huai Shi could say anything, he frowned when he saw the look of realization on Shangye's face. "If you dare to say 'I'm the same', I'll throw you out of here."
"Me too … cough, cough, cough."
Shangye paused halfway through his sentence. After thinking for a long time, he asked tentatively, "Then it shouldn't be a problem for me to become a physical education teacher, right?"
"Teach what?" Huai Shi sighed. "Teach the children how to fight for territory with blades?"
"… You can't?" Shangye widened his eyes in disbelief.
Huai Shi couldn't help but want to cover his face.
What kind of misunderstanding do you have about school? Which normal school in the world would teach students such things …
"Ah, it feels very complicated."
Shangye smiled awkwardly. "If you can live happily without being an extreme, it's always a good thing, right? But I don't think there's a need to think so far ahead … Anyway, a rice ball only costs 30 yuan. At most, I'll work hard.
As long as I'm alive, there's always a way. "
He thought for a moment and said confidently, "My mother taught me: Deal with today's matters today, and deal with tomorrow's matters tomorrow! What's the point of thinking so much? "
"…"
In the silence, Huai Shi looked up at him in shock, as if he was meeting him for the first time. After a long time, he couldn't help but burst into laughter. He leaned forward and backward, overjoyed.
Shangye looked at him from the rearview mirror with a blank expression.
"Did I say something wrong, boss?"
"No, your mother is really a wise person, Shangye."
Huai Shi patted his shoulder and laughed happily. "This is the most reasonable sentence I've heard tonight!"
"Eh? Is that so? "
"Of course, we're going for a drink tonight. Want to join us?"
"Okay, okay."
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"Ah, I really want to drink. I want to eat sushi and sashimi, curry rice, fried pork chops, peony pot, ramen, tempura … I want to soak in hot springs, massa, and bubble baths …"
Under the gloomy moonlight, Tony held a bowl of instant noodles and sighed at the moon.
The soft horse-face mask swayed in the wind, making the abstract face look even sadder.
"Why is it like this? It's rare for me to come to Yingzhou for a business trip … "
In the bleak wind, he sighed sadly. "Is life only like this when I'm working overtime, or is it always like this?"
No one responded.
Only Horse-Face shook his head. He picked up the bowl of instant noodles, held the soft horse-face mask with one hand, and poured the soup and noodles into the hole in his big mouth.
After a hollow sound like a kettle being poured, there was the sound of chewing.
Finally, there was a burp.
Dinner ended just like that. Perhaps there was also supper and tomorrow's breakfast.
The sad Astronomy Society animal put a lighter into the horse's mouth. After pressing it twice, two wisps of smoke came out of his nostrils. He looked up at the bottom of the rooftop.
In the stillness of the night, the dusty storehouse was silent in the darkness.
"By the way … is the place where old colleagues meet so unostentatious? The level has dropped, bro. "
Tony muttered to himself. He took a step forward, stepped on the edge of the floor, and looked down at the drop below the rooftop. After confirming the height, he turned around, opened his arms, and suddenly jumped up.
Just like that, he fell to the ground behind him.
In mid-air, he nimbly flipped his body, swung his horse face, and spun in the wind. He flipped his body two and a half times, then turned his body two and a half times. Then, like a small spinning top, he spun a thousand and eighty degrees in the rapid fall. After drawing an exaggerated arc, he finally smashed into the fragile ceiling of the warehouse.
He fell from the sky!
In the burst of loud noise, the uninvited guest broke into the light behind the ceiling and fell to the ground with a hurricane. However, not a trace of dust was raised.
"Yeah — full marks!"
Under the pale light, Tony slowly got up, stroked the horse's mane at the back of his head, held the gun with both hands, aimed at both sides, and looked around.
"Hello? May I ask if Mr. Phoenix is home? "
In the silence, no one responded.
However, Tony did not relax his vigilance at all. He searched every place in the warehouse step by step.
The warehouse, which should have been abandoned for many years, was full of all kinds of equipment that should not have appeared here at all. The densely packed surveillance screens showed the images of various key areas in the capital, but more of the scenes inside the Danbo Inner Circle.
As the search program ran, the server soaked in a huge water tank continuously emitted high heat and a dull buzzing sound.
The surrounding walls were hung with a dazzling array of weapons, including piles of boxes, alchemy explosives enough to blow up an entire stadium, and shoulder-mounted rocket launchers that should not have appeared in the city at all.
The table in the deepest part was piled with countless complicated files, information, and records. On the wall, there was a huge map of the capital. It was densely packed with different marks.
Tony approached step by step and casually picked up a piece of information. He saw the intelligence analysis about the 'Great White Fox'. He picked up another one, which was the change of position in the Luming Hall.
Then, there were the records of the external operations of the imperial army, as well as the information of the important figures of the shogunate under the general's command, and the monthly briefing of the Yingzhou Governing Authority branch to the public …
And finally …
Under the countless information and records, there was a resume printed with the mark of 'Top Secret'.
Under the mark of the former Dark Army, the man in the horse mask in the photo looked at himself in a daze.
It was at that moment that the cold barrel of the gun was pressed against the back of his head.
A long-lost frivolous voice sounded from behind him.
"Did you miss me? Mr. Centaur. " In the darkness where the table lamp could not illuminate, the former ace assassin of the former Dark Army, Phoenix, greeted him.
Tony's movements stopped in place, as if he was stiff.
"A trap?"
"Ha, who knows?" Phoenix asked nonchalantly, "How long have you been looking for me?"
"About half a month? Well, since the sanatorium in Shambhala found out that you wanted to skip the bill. "Tony reminded him warmly," You can't stop taking the medicine, Yoo Dong-ri. "
"Don't worry, I stole a lot of money before I left. It's enough for me to eat until my birthday next year."
Tony smiled, "Then what are you going to do after your birthday? Explode with a bang and become a pollution source? "
"Thank you for your concern. I will find a good place with beautiful mountains and clear waters to dig a hole and bury myself in. When the time comes, please remember to give me flowers."
"I have to say, your colleagues and your family are very concerned about you." Tony sighed, "In order to avoid any unpleasant friction, can you please return to the picturesque sanatorium?"
"Ah, don't worry, I have confidence in you. My colleagues are magnanimous, my family is reasonable, and this world is so beautiful. Even without me, everyone can live in harmony."
Behind him, Yoo Dong-ri whistled, "As long as the company is willing to give more compensation."
"I don't think so."
Tony advised again, "Come back with me, Yoo Dong-ri. Many people are looking for you. The others may not be as reasonable as me. "
"Reason with a gun?"
"It's because I want to reason that I only brought a gun."
Tony reminded him, "It's fine if you ran away, but why did you rob the technical department's deep vault? Now, the overhead floor of the Command Bureau, the Pollution Management Center of the Preservation Institute, and the legal office of the technical department are all looking for you. Some want you dead, some want you alive, and some want you half-dead. "
"It sounds like it's hard to persuade everyone."
"Who said it isn't?" Tony shrugged helplessly, "So, do you want to consider my suggestion?"
At that moment, there was a loud explosion, and the entire vault suddenly shook.
White frost spread out from Tony's body, and with the eternal wind of frost, everything around him was frozen in huge and solid ice blocks.
Including Yoo Dong-ri behind him.
But when he looked back, he saw that the ice behind him was empty, and there was no trace of anyone.
Only the light bulb above his head burst silently, and everything was swallowed in darkness.
Then, gunshots burst out.
The melted alchemy bullets turned into blazing light in the barrel of the gun, crisscrossing in the empty darkness, leaving streaks of light that tore through the air.
Sparks flew.
As the figure stuck close to him, two daggers collided, and in a fleeting moment, two completely different faces were illuminated.
One was the face of a horse with frost, and the other was an ultraman mask that seemed to have been bought off the street.
"Ace?"
In the midst of the fierce struggle, Tony was amused. "Your hobby is really unpopular."
"This is Zoffee, what do you know about the giant of light!"
Yoo Dong-ri roared, "Eat my ultraman flying kick!"
But in the darkness, not only was there no sound of a flying kick, but there was also the blazing light of a bullet behind Tony.
A sharp noise was heard as the burning bullet was deflected by the military knife.
Tony angrily rebuked, "What kind of flying kick is this?"
"You don't understand, do you? Everything can be kicked, including RPGs. Why can't a bullet be counted as a flying kick?"
Yoo Dong-ri pressed on step by step, as if he had already predicted all of Tony's moves. He perfectly dodged all of Tony's counterattacks, and with a dagger and a spell bullet in his pistol, he completely suppressed the Tier 3 Frost Giant!
Tony retreated, dodging the dagger that was stabbing at the horse's face. He suddenly abandoned the knife, and the extreme cold and blizzard in his palm gushed out, turning into a sharp long knife and slashing down.
It missed!
When he was about to remove the flash bomb behind him, he heard a crisp sound from where the flash bomb was.
Then, a dazzling light exploded in front of his eyes.
He didn't even have time to close his eyes.
Then, a punch.
Through the horse's mask, it hit his face, causing him to stagger and retreat. But there was no way back behind him, and he had been forced into a corner.
The dagger that was full of cracks penetrated his palm in an instant, nailing him to the wall.
Then, a pitch-black barrel was pressed against his forehead.
"Don't move."
Yoo Dong-ri indifferently warned, "This time, I won't be merciful, centaur."
In the silence, Tony gasped in a low voice. Through the dim flickering light on the server, he stared at the long-lost face and his eyes that seemed to be unfocused.
Finally, it dawned on him.
"… Time axis misalignment?"
He asked coldly, "How many times have you jumped, Yoo Dong-ri?"
As if he knew he was going to ask this, the face showed a mocking smile, "It has nothing to do with you, Tony. Why do you ask the same question every time? "
"You should know the consequences of time jumps. Without the cooperation of the Bifrost's main frame, the time misalignment between the perception and the body will become more and more serious …"
Unstable time jumps would cause errors, tear the soul and consciousness, and cause time misalignment between the senses and the body.
His body was active at this moment, but his consciousness had drifted uncontrollably to the future.
This was not a good thing that brought about foresight.
It was a precursor to collapse.
It was better to say that after more than seventeen jumps, Yoo Dong-ri hadn't collapsed yet, which was really unexpected.
Even if it was an illegal jump, it should have torn his soul and triggered self-destruction.
It was a miracle that he could live until now.
"How did you do it?" Tony asked in disbelief.
"Of course, this is … a secret."
Yoo Dong-ri finally smiled at him and pulled the trigger.
Tony's vision turned black, and his body twitched involuntarily. He quickly lost all his strength.
"Aha, a tranquilizer bomb, are you surprised?"
Accompanied by a cheerful whistle, the smiling face retreated and disappeared into the darkness before his eyes.
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