"What night watchman? You got the wrong person. I'm from the neighborhood committee."

He turned around and walked back.

Zhao Zhengbin: “…”

You can't lie so falsely, right? Who in the whole of Daxia doesn't know about the Night Watchman? ?

Zhao Zhengbin was about to say something when his hand that was grabbing the corner of the man's clothes was pulled away by the force of the man turning around, and a straight knife clipped in his belt fell to the ground with a clang.

Zhao Zhengbin and the man looked at each other, and the air suddenly fell into deathly silence.

"Excuse me, I dropped my crutches."

The young man was silent for a moment, then he bent down to pick up the straight knife from the ground and used it as a crutch to explore the way. However, the blade was not long enough, so he could only sway and poke around in the air. The weird scene was inexplicably funny.

"...Are all of you Night Watchmen's train of thought as bizarre as yours?" Zhao Zhengbin couldn't help but complain.

“No, I’m in the minority.”

The young man realized he had said the wrong thing halfway through his speech. He looked around and found that no one was paying attention to him, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhao Zhengbin stared at this interesting peer in front of him, and couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth. The mysterious filter in his heart for the Night Watchman also dissipated a lot...

"The appearance of the night watchman in the shelter will definitely attract the attention of the public, and then the order will be disrupted... Don't worry, I won't tell anyone." After the two of them were in a stalemate for a moment, Zhao Zhengbin took the initiative to extend his hand.

"My name is Zhao Zhengbin."

"...Su Zhe." Su Zhe looked at him for a long time, sighed helplessly, and held the hand, "Sorry, I can't control my mouth... Sometimes it's easy to do bad things."

"You look about my age."

"I'm twenty-one."

"Then I'm younger, I'm twenty." Zhao Zhengbin looked at the red armband on his shoulder curiously, "So, the night watchmen have already mixed in with the ordinary people and started to maintain public order?"

"That's not the case. Most of them just dress in plain clothes and stay on standby at the shelter... I'm an exception."

Zhao Zhengbin was about to ask the reason, but after thinking for a moment, he shut his mouth.

A night watchman was suddenly withdrawn from the front line and returned to the rear to maintain public order... It was obviously a demotion, and it would be impolite to ask further.

Su Zhe stared at him for a long time and asked, "Aren't you curious why I am an exception?"

"……ah?"

"If it were me, I would definitely not be able to help but continue asking... 'Are you a deserter?', 'Or are you too weak?', 'Otherwise why can you only maintain order here?' and so on..." Su Zhe spoke softly.

“…Will you really not get beaten for asking this?”

Su Zhe thought about it and said, "Yes."

Zhao Zhengbin: …

"You're a night watchman, so you should know what's going on outside, right?" Zhao Zhengbin lowered his voice and asked the question he wanted to know most, "Is there a fight going on outside?"

"That, I can't say." Su Zhe answered seriously.

"Just tell me a little bit. I won't tell anyone. Really."

"Sorry, this really won't work."

Zhao Zhengbin sighed, "Then can you tell me how to become a night watchman?"

Hearing this question, Su Zhe's expression was a little subtle. He looked Zhao Zhengbin up and down again and asked doubtfully,

"Why... do you want to be a night watchman?"

"The Night's Watch are so cool! They are powerful and can fight monsters and gods to defend their country." A gleam appeared in Zhao Zhengbin's eyes.

"..." Su Zhe sighed and said earnestly,

"Brother Zhao Zhengbin... you are already in your twenties, and you should have long passed the age of enjoying youthful fantasies. It is true that the night watchman is very majestic, but this majesty is not something that everyone can bear...

Being a night watchman is hard and tiring. Just the training to become a formal night watchman can cost a person half his life. If you are unlucky, you may not even live to graduate from the training camp...

After graduation, you will have to fight with scary things every day. There will be blood and body parts everywhere. You may even encounter disgusting and terrifying monsters, or gods that will absolutely crush you. In front of them, people are just like ants. The brothers who are eating and drinking with you today may become mounds of dirt on your grave the next day.

To say that you live with your head tied to your waist is an understatement. From the beginning, you should be mentally prepared to have your brain tied to a grave... Death may not be scary, but not knowing when death will come is the most tormenting...

Not only that, the night watchmen have almost no holidays and have to be on standby all the time. Can you imagine yourself taking a comfortable hot bath at home, and then a phone call comes in, and you rush out without even having time to put on clothes or a bath towel? It is also because of this that the night watchmen can hardly get married and have children. Everything that you ordinary people have at your fingertips is out of reach for us..."

Zhao Zhengbin's words made Su Zhe open up his heart, and he poured out a bunch of words like a broken basket, which made Zhao Zhengbin a little confused.

This guy... is he really the Night Watchman?

Zhao Zhengbin thought that Su Zhe might persuade him to quit, but he didn't expect that he was so sincere in persuading him to quit... It felt like he was about to persuade himself to quit.

"... Anyway, just listen to me, be an ordinary person, find a stable job, find a good wife, don't tie your head to a grave, and live a stable life is better than anything else... If the sky falls, there are still tall people to hold it up, right? I'm a short guy to begin with, why do I have to risk my life to be the pillar of the family?"

Su Zhe finished speaking in one breath without pausing at all. Zhao Zhengbin was stunned for a long while, wanting to refute something, but he couldn't refute it...

"But I think..."

Before Zhao Zhengbin finished speaking, there was a commotion in the restaurant next door, as if someone was arguing over the distribution of food.

Su Zhe glanced in that direction, immediately put the straight knife back into his belt, covered it with his shirt, and seriously put on the bright red armband on his arm.

"Nice to meet you, brother Zhao Zhengbin." Su Zhe patted his shoulder. It was not known whether it was Zhao Zhengbin's illusion, but after Su Zhe finished speaking, he seemed to become much more cheerful.

"Although this sounds a bit like a line from a novel that is not easy to pass the review and has an inexplicably strange style, I hope you can keep our secret. See you next time."

After saying that, he turned around and ran towards the restaurant!

"The shelter security manager is here! Stop crowding around! Stop making trouble! Let me do it..."

A faint voice came from a distance. Zhao Zhengbin stood there in a daze for a long time. He sighed and turned to walk towards the dormitory.

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