The barriers between the 'worlds' quickly vanished into thin air, connecting them together in a naked manner.
Sensing that the filthy feeling brought by the sand and dust at the tip of his nose seemed to be getting stronger, Zhang Lisheng's pale face hidden under the foundation turned pale. Looking at the sky, he muttered, "It can't just 'open up' like this, right? Don't tell me that they don't even leave a chance for me to try at all …"
The collapse of the red light wall ignored the young man's anger and frustration and continued to accelerate. Fortunately, it finally stopped slowly after about half an hour.
When Zhang Lisheng saw that the speed of the light wall's collapse had slowed down and gradually disappeared, he breathed a long sigh of relief. He calmed his heart and roughly calculated according to his visual observation. When he realized that the passage from Earth to the Shrimp World No. 2 had expanded by about two times, the smile that had just appeared on the corner of his mouth disappeared without a trace in an instant.
After continuing to ponder for a while, he turned around and climbed down the tall building with a blank expression. His action that was comparable to a top parkour player caused a commotion among the young people on the street. From time to time, someone would shout loudly, "Cool! Buddy! Cool! Can you do it again? I'll record it for you …"
The young man ignored the cheers around him and returned to Maddie. He took the two big bags of food from the girl and saw that there were still people gesticulating at him in the distance. He could not help but frown and say, "Are those guys crazy? It was the collapse of the world's wall just now. Don't they think that thinking about how they're going to survive in the future is more important than watching a stranger climb up the wall so quickly?"
"They're just children, Lisheng, and they don't have the responsibility to think about the future of mankind because they don't have that ability."
"You mean that I have the responsibility to think about the future of mankind, don't you, Maddie? Because the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility." Zhang Lisheng shrugged and sat in the car. "But I'm not Spiderman. I have a stronger ability than him, but I don't have his kindness."
"Has anyone ever told you that you're cute when you're angry?" Maddie sat next to the young man and glanced at his still very solemn expression before asking with a smile.
"When I'm angry, I usually only make people feel fear and awe," Zhang Lisheng looked back at the girl and replied coldly.
"They're all wrong, baby. You're so cute right now …" Maddie did not care about the young man's gaze at all. Suddenly, she stretched out her head and quickly kissed his lips. Then, she quickly started the car and turned onto the main road.
The car sped for a while in silence and drove out of New York's Chinatown. It came to a neighborhood that looked old and dilapidated. The roads were narrow, the ground was dirty, and there were cats and dogs barking from the apartment buildings on both sides of the street.
"We're here, Lisheng," Maddie, who had not spoken a word along the way, stopped the car by the side of the road and whispered.
"Listen, Maddy, I'll leave right away if there's a next time." Zhang Lisheng said as he picked up two big bags of Chinese cuisine and got out of the car. Maddie smiled quietly and pointed at a low apartment building beside her as though she had not heard anything after she got out of the car. "I've been living here since I was born, Lisheng."
The street lights were dim. The air in the poor urban community seemed to be much colder and dirtier than Manhattan. Fortunately, compared to the neighborhood where the new immigrants lived in Queens, there were no young people wandering around with guns before 12 o 'clock. It could be considered as a' good place 'for the poor to live.
"Oh, this street is called Jasmine, but in reality, it's not fragrant at all …" The young man stepped on the gravel-filled street and followed the girl into the apartment. He could not help but say with a bitter expression.
"That's right, it's really interesting to think about it. The first girl who had an intimate relationship with you was born with a 'golden spoon' in her mouth. She lives in the 'palace' in Manhattan and can help you all the time.
The second girl who had an intimate relationship with you, on the other hand, was born in a 'slum.' It was all thanks to your charity that her poor family was saved. The difference between the two is like heaven and earth.
It's only right that you love the first one and hate the second one. " Walking in the narrow stairwell, Maddie came to an old iron door on the second floor and stopped. She turned to look at Zhang Lisheng, who was in a daze, and said with a smile, "We're here." Then, she knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" A high-pitched female voice resonated from the room.
"It's my mom!" The girl outside the door also shouted in a tone completely different from usual.
"Oh, dear Maddie, are you back? You're much earlier than usual today!" The door opened very quickly. A tall, old, middle-aged woman who still had her former beauty could still be seen stretched out her head and hugged Maddie tightly, before kissing her cheek with a 'tsk tsk' sound.
"I brought a friend home for dinner today, so I came back a little earlier, mom," The girl also kissed her mother's cheek and said.
"A friend?" The middle-aged woman let go of her daughter in surprise and looked at Zhang Lisheng by the side before exclaiming in surprise, "And it's a man!"
"Oh, mom, it's like this. Lisheng is my colleague. He went on a business trip a while ago, and when he returned to New York, his mom immigrated to the Noah World. I saw that he had nowhere to go, so I invited him to our house for dinner."
"Oh, you're right, Maddie. You shouldn't eat your first 'home' in the restaurant." The middle-aged woman nodded at her daughter with an unusually joyful expression and enthusiastically greeted Zhang Lisheng. "Please come in, young man. We're about to have dinner. Please come in."
"Thank you, madam." Zhang Lisheng smiled and walked into the door. The apartment was much bigger than he imagined. At the very least, he could see a dining table for ten people with a large plate of fried chicken, mixed green beans, and scones in the living room and dining room the moment he entered.
"Oh, Maddie, my dear baby, you're back …" Upon seeing Maddie entering the door, a tall and strong white man sitting on the main seat of the dining room shouted happily. When he suddenly saw an uninvited guest following the girl, he was stunned for a moment before asking with a change of expression, "Who is he?"
"Bob, this young man is Maddie's colleague. He came to our house as a guest today …" When the middle-aged woman heard the displeasure in the tall and strong man's tone, she glared at her husband and answered on behalf of her daughter.
The instant the woman's words left her mouth, Maddie immediately added, "Lisheng also brought your favorite Chinese cuisine as a gift, dad."
"Ah, you're too polite, young man. Remember that you don't have to prepare any special food when you come to a big family like us for dinner next time." The middle-aged woman looked at Zhang Lisheng's thin body and said with a smile.
"Oh, ma 'am, I'm a martial artist. I'm afraid my appetite is much bigger than you think."
"Is that so? Maddie's father is a construction worker and his friends are all strong and 'big eaters'. However, nobody's appetite has ever shocked me before." The middle-aged woman took the two big bags of Chinese cuisine from Zhang Lisheng's hand. "Oh, this is really a lot.
Tara, go get a chair for your sister's friend and put it next to her seat. Hurry up. "
Among the five young people around the dining table, the big-eyed boy wearing a thin brown sweater and black sweatpants who seemed to be the smallest stood up reluctantly and walked into the inner room to bring out a wooden chair. After placing it down, he said loudly to Zhang Lisheng, "Hey, buddy! This is my computer chair. Be careful when using it."
Upon hearing her brother's rude words to Zhang Lisheng, Maddie immediately pointed at him and shouted, "Jesse, that's a sturdy wooden chair! We all know that nobody can break it! Be polite to my friend!"
Under his sister's fierce gaze, the big-eyed man curled his lips and muttered softly, "Okay, Maddie, I'm glad that I finally know that my sister is not gay." Then, he lowered his head.
"Come, Lisheng, let me introduce my family to you." When Maddie saw that her brother gave in, she did not care about his clumsy little joke. Naturally, she took Zhang Lisheng's hand and walked to the table to sit down. Pointing at the tall and strong man on the main seat, she said, "This is my father, Bob Josent. You can call him Bob."
"Oh, Maddie, I-I think it's better for me to call your father Mr. Josent." The young man, who had begun to feel that he should have refused to eat at Maddie's house because of the stigma of being a coward, smiled unnaturally and nodded politely at Maddie's expressionless father. "It's an honor to meet you, Mr. Josent."
In the face of Zhang Lisheng's greeting, Maddie's father scowled and pointed at him as he replied, "Boy, I can see that you have a little style, but if you want to deceive my daughter just like that, then you're making a big mistake …"
"Shut up, Bob! Maddie said that this young man is her colleague! Don't embarrass your daughter, okay?" The hostess, who was unpacking the Chinese takeaway dishes into plates in the kitchen and serving them to the table, happened to hear her husband's nonsense, so she immediately shouted in his ear.
"Colleague! Didn't you see the way Maddie looked at him? She was even holding his hand just now!
Melinda, this is the first time our daughter has brought a man home since she became an adult. Do you still remember the first time I came to your house to eat? Did your father do this? He used a machete to eat his steak, and that steak was not even medium rare. Blood would flow out every time he cut it … "
"Oh, Dad, we're going to eat. Can you not say such disgusting things?" Upon hearing her father's words, a girl who looked very similar to Maddie next to him said angrily.
"Did you hear what Mia said, Bob? Shut up and eat right now! Otherwise, your weekly 'Happy Night' tonight will disappear without a trace right away …"
"Oh, Mom, can you please stop talking too? You're talking about 'Happy Night' in front of six children? T-This is really creepy …"
Just like that, Maddie's family quarreled with each other. The girl watched all of this in silence for a while before suddenly whispering into Zhang Lisheng's ear, "This is my family, Lisheng. They always quarrel in front of me, but I love them.
Tonight, I actually want to let you understand through them whether I, who was hired to pretend to be your girlfriend to accompany you to the school dance when we first met and who has always been by your side asking for help, is a girl worthy of love or not … "
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