Harbour City, Old Town

The old town was not an old town before, but a suburb. However, in a few decades, the population of Harbour City has increased to more than 20 million. The former suburb has become an urban area, and then the new urban area appeared and became the old town.

It was still dawn, and Li Chang was doing boxing in the park. Like other retired old men, he did a set of soft Tai Chi. When it was completely light, he went home and bought breakfast on the way.

When he returned home, Li Chang found that there was someone at home, and he picked up a clothesline outside the door. Don’t think it’s just an ordinary stainless steel clothesline, but in his hands, it can become a murderous weapon.

"Mr."

opened the door and saw the person coming. Li Chang exclaimed and then put down the clothesline.

"Li Chang, I came to see you"

"Sir, you wouldn't come here if you were fine, is there something wrong with the organization?"

"What a bullshit problem, eight of the top ten killers in the killer world are your disciples and grand disciples, if there is any problem, I really came to see you"

Lin Jiang said with a smile, Li Chang was once the most powerful killer under his command, and he was ranked first among the underworld killers for thirty consecutive years, and then retired, but his disciples and grand disciples have occupied the top three among the killers for more than ten years.

"Sir, would you like to have breakfast?"

"Not hungry, not interested, you eat it"

"Okay"

Li Chang didn't say much, sat down in front of Lin Jiang, and quickly finished his breakfast, neatly and tidy.

"Li Chang, how is your life?"

"My son and daughter are dead, and my grandson is helping my great-grandson take care of the kids in Kyoto,

so we can just make do." "Is that so? How about I be your grandson for a while and live with you for a while?"

"Sir, please don't say that. It's beyond the level

of respect." Li Chang said seriously and was very angry. Lin Jiang was both a teacher and a father to him. He followed Lin Jiang when he was eleven years old. How could he let him be his grandson, even if it was just pretending?

"Don't be so nervous. We are already this age. I don't like us being so serious."

"Sir, respect is respect. You can't be like this. Many people don't have a sense of boundaries. Without a sense of boundaries, they are the source of trouble, just like Xiao Guo some time ago. If I were in charge, I would definitely destroy them. They are committing treason and should be killed."

"..."

Lin Jiang was speechless for a moment. The brainwashing that Lin Jiang gave Li Chang when he was a child was still deeply rooted in his mind, which made Lin Jiang feel bored. He still wanted to have more friends with whom he could confide.

"Okay, okay, Li Chang, you live in this old house alone, why don't you rent it out?"

Lin Jiang changed the subject quickly. He didn't want to argue with the old stubborn man.

"The organization gives me a pension of 30,000 Chinese yuan every month, which is enough for me. Why rent it out? Young people are so impatient."

"That's right, then how about I be your tenant?"

"Sir, what exactly do you want to do?"

"Change your identity and live for a few years, Li Chang, you have to know that people who live too long are very tired. I need to constantly change my identity to keep my young mentality, otherwise I will slowly become a ruthless and heartless monster."

"Okay"

Li Chang was deeply touched after hearing this. He was also a hundred years old. Almost all of his friends around him died. Those who didn't die were difficult to move. His sons were almost dead. This is the loneliness of the long-lived.

"Thank you very much. I will move here in a while."

Lin Jiang nodded. He wanted to change his identity again. It was lonely at the top. That position was not as good as he imagined, and he had been there for too long.

In the past, being an emperor or something like that took decades, and the old people around him were still there, so he could talk to them. Now that the old people have left one after another, he has become more and more lonely.

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In the sixth month of the 5972nd year of the lunar calendar

, Lin Jiang moved to Li Chang's house. This is Li Chang's old house, which is more than 100 square meters and has four rooms. Lin Jiang asked for two rooms. One of the rooms has an Internet connection, and Lin Jiang set up a computer in it, which can be used to remotely control some things. The other room is much more life-like.

"Xiao Lin, it's so early."

Lin Jiang spent a few days getting familiar with the neighbors around Li Chang. When he got up in the morning and went out, some people took the initiative to greet him.

Li Chang's relationship with his neighbors is not very good, mainly to avoid some problems. Li Chang is the first martial arts master trained by Lin Jiang after this awakening. His life span is several decades longer than that of ordinary people, so even if he is over a hundred years old, he does not look very old.

Although this life span is not too much, Li Chang does not want to have trouble.

Lin Jiang holds a digital camera and starts his work today. His current identity is a documentary director and a freshly graduated college student.

This era is changing very fast, technology is growing explosively, and people's lives are also changing very fast. It is very interesting to use technology to record something.

"Brother Lin, Brother Lin, I'm here."

After a while, the protagonists of the documentary appeared. They were a group of small vendors in Harbour City. They came to Harbour City from distant villages to work. After working for a few years, they had some savings, but they were dissatisfied with the life of a worker with no future, so they became small vendors.

Lin Jiang greeted them enthusiastically, and then followed them to the night market. Some of them sold cheap clothes, some sold snacks, and some sold daily necessities.

Lin Jiang stood behind them and recorded their lives with a camera. Lin Jiang felt that they were all very smart people. After all, in this era, those who can come out of the factory to do business are courageous people. Many business leaders started by setting up stalls.

There are many people in the night market. Because the rent in the old city is much cheaper, there are a large number of workers renting here, especially some self-built houses, which are seven or eight stories high and divided into small single rooms. The population density is simply too high.

Although the wages of these workers are not high, even if they work for 12 hours to screw, the average level is still more than 1,000, but they still have strong purchasing power, because compared with their lives in the countryside, everything in Harbour City is new, and they need to use consumption to make up for what they are missing.

"Big sister, business is good today, it seems that the ingredients you prepared are almost sold out."

"Yes, Xiaolin, more than 100 have been sold today. My husband went back to prepare the ingredients. I will leave you a portion as a midnight snack."

"Thank you, big sister."

Lin Jiang smiled. This big sister sells fried rice, egg fried rice for two yuan, but many people often add some ingredients, such as ham sausage, which is very popular in the night market.

After shooting for a while, Lin Jiang gave the camera to the barbecue stall next to him, but to be more precise, it was not barbecue, but fried. Lin Jiang didn't know whether it should be considered barbecue.

There were not many people at the barbecue stall. After all, barbecue was relatively expensive. The unit price was not expensive, mainly because people ate a lot. Even if it was a few cents of meat skewers, a worker who did heavy physical labor would order at least a dozen skewers. Add beer, and the expenses would be quite high.

"These idiots, five people ordered eight skewers and three bottles of beer, and sat there for an hour,"

the owner of the barbecue stall quietly complained to Lin Jiang. One of the tables should be street urchins with a Shamatte look, but five people only ordered eight skewers, and they were bragging.

"Boss, don't think that the five of them can't pay ten yuan, but they can call three more girls with just one word, do you believe it?"

"Believe it, those women would have their legs broken in my hometown,"

the boss said. How could he not believe it? There were too many spirited girls. The social atmosphere in his hometown was still very good. People like this would definitely be educated by having their legs broken.

"Oh, there's a fight. I have to go check it out."

After a while, a fight broke out at a stall not far away. It was so intense that you could hear the shouting and cursing from dozens of meters away. Lin Jiang quickly found a good position in the spirit of eating melons. There were more than

a dozen people fighting. The boss was a couple. They were scared to one side. The scene was a mess with tables and chairs, beer bottles flying everywhere, but the people around were not afraid and were watching the excitement.

Not long after the fight, there was the roar of motorcycles. Three motorcycles stopped, and six people rushed down from them and beat up more than a dozen people. Each of the six people was a gangster, with tattoos on their bodies and gold chains around their necks, the kind that could float in the bath.

While the six people were fighting, they also introduced themselves, which made the people who were beaten dare not fight back, because they were the ones who collected protection fees in this area and had a big brother behind them. More than

a dozen people were beaten, and then the money on their bodies was emptied. This money was given to the stall owner to compensate for their losses, and then the people who fought were driven away.

Gangsters nowadays are very disciplined. If they receive protection fees, they have to work and not charge too much.

"Boy, what do you do?"

When the gangsters were about to leave, they saw Lin Jiang and several of them immediately surrounded him.

"Brother, I'm just filming for fun"

"You're not a reporter, are you?"

"No, I'm just a college student who just graduated, studying photography. Our teacher asked us to film some daily life materials"

"Delete what you just did"

"Okay, brother, that, brother, can I follow you to film some materials in the future? Maybe it will become popular on the Internet in the future, and you will be a star"

"Is it true?"

"Of course it's true. Our teacher is a leader in the school. Our excellent homework can be evaluated for awards. If we get awards, it can be broadcast. Then you will be famous and the boss of Harbour City."

Lin Jiang said with a forced smile. Gangster movies have been popular in recent years, and he didn't believe that he couldn't be fooled.

Sure enough, when they heard that they could be the protagonists in the movies, several people agreed and began to call Lin Jiang brothers.