Chapter 39 Powerless
"It's quiet here, no one will disturb us." Li Chang opened a room in the corner of the first floor. "Meals are delivered here. I've already asked someone to invite Brother Xu's ex-girlfriend. You guys can rest. If you need anything, just tell the patrol guards outside."
Zhu Ci nodded: "It's hard work."
Li Chang smiled, and seeing Xu Zhiyang with his head drooped, he asked cautiously, "What's wrong, little brother? You were fine just now?"
Zhu Ci reached down and held Xu Zhiyang's wrist. "It's okay. Children sleep a lot. Maybe they are sleepy."
Li Chang: "Okay, then I won't disturb you. You guys have a good rest."
"Um."
The door was closed, and Zhu Ci took Xu Zhiyang in. The room was simply furnished with only two beds, a table and a plastic chair.
The room was cleaned fairly well. Zhu Ci asked Xu Zhiyang to sit on the bed, propped up the boy's chin with his palm, and asked in a low voice: "Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something or drink some water? Or do you want to take a nap?"
Xu Zhiyang shook his head and forced a smile, "Sorry, I always hold you back."
"Why do you say that?" Zhu Ci let go of his hand, hooked a chair with his foot, sat in front of Xu Zhiyang and looked at him.
Xu Zhiyang's thin shoulders slumped. "I don't know why, but I'm trying so hard to be like you, to be more mature and not be affected by other things... but I can't seem to do it."
"Seeing... seeing that kid... I started wondering how many organizations like the Six Gods Gang there are out there... those ordinary people without superpowers... the one whose throat was cut... them..."
Xu Zhiyang rubbed his cheeks fiercely, his eyes reddened. "I'm sorry, I spoke without any clue, I don't know what I was saying. Don't worry, I will try not to pay attention to those people. We just saved Huiyin and Xiaoyu..."
"It's okay." Zhu Ci suddenly interrupted him.
"We lack the ability. We have trouble protecting ourselves and cannot save ordinary people. I know how powerless we feel."
Xu Zhiyang curled his fingers tightly, his knuckles turning white. After a long silence, he whispered, "That little boy is an ordinary person. He didn't have any energy fluctuations. He was just eating weeds."
"How long has it been since he last ate? I've never seen him..."
Once again, he couldn't finish his words because Zhu Ci in front of him suddenly reached out and hugged him in his arms.
A large palm covered Xu Zhiyang's back, and the arm was strong and warm.
"You are tired, take a nap, I will accompany you."
Xu Zhiyang was really tired. He had been rushing on the road and running for his life these days and had not had a good night's sleep. He also had to devote his energy to suppressing Ayang who was ready to make trouble.
Once I close my eyes, I don’t want to open them again.
His eyes slanted through the window at Xu Zhiyang, and the boy's breathing gradually became slow and long.
Zhu Ci lowered his eyes and looked at him quietly. Xu Zhiyang was not very tall. Standing in front of Zhu Ci, who was 190cm tall, he only reached his shoulders. His facial features were still a little childish, between mature and immature.
"Xu Xiaoyang! Woohoo, I'm so scared!"
Li Huiyin kicked the door open and ran in, wailing all the way, "Wow, wow, wow, damn it, they locked Xiaoyu and Momo up alone and said they needed a favor! I scolded them for an hour and they wouldn't let them go!"
"Hush." Zhu Ci glanced over coldly, "He's asleep."
Li Huiyin immediately fell silent, stifling her wails. She then frowned at the two of them and said with a click of the tongue, "Hugging and embracing in broad daylight! How disgraceful and disrespectful!"
Blessing: "Shut up."
"oh……"
Li Huiyin walked back and closed the door again, then sat on the other bed and asked quietly, "How are you two? Did those grandsons give you any trouble?"
Zhuci: "The boss of the Six Gods Gang, Wang Xiangcheng, wants us to stay."
"That won't do!" Li Huiyin spat. "Just now, when I came in, I saw the people working in the fields outside. Oh, they looked so pitiful, it brought tears to my eyes. If I hadn't remembered Xu Xiaoyang's words about being cautious, I would have picked up a telephone pole and stabbed all those bastards from the Six Gods Gang to death!"
"Oh, by the way, you haven't told me whether Wang gave you any trouble?"
Zhu Ci pulled a blanket over and wrapped Xu Zhiyang in it, adjusting him to a more comfortable position. Then he said, "I originally had a lot of questions to ask, but Xu Zhiyang fooled me with his jokes."
Li Huiyin was puzzled: "Xu Zhiyang? Joking around? Hasn't he always been a serious guy?"
Zhu Ci suddenly smiled briefly as he remembered something. "He made up a story about having the same father but different mothers and lied to Wang Xiangcheng that you were his ex-girlfriend. Be careful not to let it slip if anyone asks."
Li Huiyin was unhappy. "Ex-girlfriend? I'm such a beautiful girl, I should be the wife of a bandit leader, right? Why did I end up being the ex-girlfriend?"
Zhu Ci finally realized that the saying "birds of a feather flock together" was not a lie.
Li Huiyin's focus is always the same as Xu Zhiyang's, and can go astray.
"As the saying goes, if you can't be his wife, then be his stepmother! But Xu Xiaoyang's father died a long time ago."
At this point, Li Huiyin chuckled and said, "Then I'll just settle for being his sister-in-law."
“…”
Xu Zhiyang didn't sleep for too long and woke up in less than an hour. When she opened her eyes, she saw that she was still in Zhu Ci's arms, so she quickly got up.
"sorry……"
"fine."
“Slurp—!”
Li Huiyin took a big mouthful of noodles, met Xu Zhiyang's gaze, and quickly said, "Want to eat? This is the vegetable noodles that the Six Gods Gang just brought over."
"No." Xu Zhiyang's face looked bad. She was about to get out of bed to drink some water when Zhu Ci handed it to her.
"water."
"Thanks."
Li Huiyin raised her eyes to look at Xu Zhiyang and observed her carefully for a while, "Xu Xiaoyang, are you suffering from anorexia again? Your waist has become thinner."
Zhuci frowned: "Anorexia?"
"No, don't listen to her nonsense." Xu Zhiyang glanced at Li Huiyin, "Can you please stop staring at me?"
Li Huiyin complained: "I didn't!"
"Then how did you tell that my waist is thinner?"
"I'm innocent! I only noticed it when you were changing clothes that day! I didn't mean to see your abs! I swear I never even had the thought of touching it!"
Zhu Ci didn't let him avoid the topic. He reached out and pressed Xu Zhiyang's head, asking, "What's wrong with anorexia? You always say you're not hungry, and I've rarely seen you eat in such a long time. Is that the reason?"
"Oh! It's not a big deal!" Li Huiyin put down her bowl and said, "It's a common problem among naughty children. It's a psychological problem. Whenever Xu Xiaoyang sees anything bloody or disgusting, he won't want to eat for two or three days in a row."
"It seems that sometimes he doesn't want to eat even when he's stimulated." Li Huiyin is very good at exposing her best friend's secrets.
"My brother Han took so much trouble raising him. He was often sick in school and was as thin as a bamboo pole. A gust of car exhaust could blow him up!"
Xu Zhiyang: “…”
"I'm not exaggerating that much!" Xu Zhiyang turned to look at her sinisterly, gnashing his back teeth.
Two seconds later, because the gaze on the back of her head was too intense, Xu Zhiyang turned back to Zhu Ci and smiled, "Actually, it's just a bad habit I've had since I was a child. I'm an adult now, and this problem will go away in a year or two."
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