Chapter 31 Chapter 31 Conscience
Li Hua didn't care what the police thought of him... or rather, he didn't want to think about what the criminals he beat up and the police who listened to his confession thought of his women's clothing.
After all... it's impossible not to wear a skirt. If you don't take the bullet even though it has a bonus, you're a fool.
After a night of hard work, and the selfless contributions that the criminals were forced to make from public funds to the change in their pockets, it was enough for them to rent an old, dilapidated single-family house on the outskirts of Bludhaven.
This place is quite far from the city center. The house is older than the combined ages of the three of them. Not only is there no furniture inside, but the roof is leaking and the floor and walls are moldy. But this is enough for the teenagers who have slept in the wild for three days.
At least this place has water and electricity, and most importantly, there is a toilet!!!
In fact, with the money they have, they can definitely buy this hot potato that the homeowner is eager to sell, but there is no need to do so. They will not live here for a long time, and if they want to buy a house, it will take at least 30 days to complete the transfer.
During this period, there are a lot of procedures that are much more cumbersome than renting a house, and they also involve third parties or even fourth parties, which is very troublesome for Li Hua and the other three illegal residents.
After signing the rental contract, paying two months' rent, and instructing when to collect the rent every month, the landlord drove away in his car without verifying their identity information or asking why three children who were obviously underage wanted to rent a house here.
Benjamin: "It's unbelievable. He didn't even ask Li Hua and my name."
"He's in a hurry to make a move, and this is Bludhaven. Examining it too closely will only harm him," Jason said. "By the way, I signed under a pseudonym. Remember to call me George Smith in front of the landlord."
Li Hua: "Why do we have to pay two months' rent?"
Jason: "One of them is for a deposit on rent."
In any case, they had a new home, and the first priority was to make it livable.
First, there is nothing in the house. They need cleaning tools and basic furniture.
These things cannot be made of metal, otherwise we won’t see the sun the next day in this room.
Furniture like beds and tables can be made natural, green, and pollution-free using swampfire vines, but rags, mops, and toilet paper cannot be made that way.
So the three of them got on the motorcycle again - of course it was also "sponsored" by the criminals from last night.
Benjamin and Jason each drove one, and Li Hua, who didn't even know how to ride a bike, had to sit at the back of their car.
The landlord hadn't dared to ask Li Hua just now, but now he finally remembered: "You guys used to drive a motorcycle?"
Benjamin: "No, I've only driven an electric scooter. After all, I'm not old enough to get a driver's license, but it's pretty much the same. See how quickly I got the hang of it?"
Li Hua, who was sitting behind Benjamin: ???
Jason, who was driving alongside Benjamin, whistled: "You're so steady on your first drive! It seems you're not as good a kid as you look!"
Benjamin: "I'm really good at playing the good son in front of my parents. Otherwise, how do you think I could run out in the middle of the night and beat up an alien monster?"
Li Hua wasn't as calm as the other two. "Benjamin, you dared to pick someone up on your first motorcycle? Is it too late for me to change the driver now? I'm wearing normal clothes now, but they don't have any protective protection!"
No. 666, Jason, I want to get off!
"Don't worry, a driver's license shouldn't be a constraint for a driver," Benjamin said. "I was only ten years old when I first controlled a spacecraft. Any means of transportation is similar to riding a bicycle."
Li Hua: ...
Can this be the same?
I have never driven a spaceship, don't lie to me!
Jason exclaimed, "Wow."
It made me more determined to build a spaceship.
Benjamin: "Don't worry, young super heroes don't lie to young super heroes."
Li Hua: "But...but I'm not a young superhero."
"Oh, yes," said Benjamin, "but Jason has already run ahead of us. Hold on tight, we'll go after him."
Please, it's really lame to be asked to stop and change seats by a passenger while driving a motorcycle.
Li Hua: Jason was obviously half a tire faster than us!
Jason was not willing to be outdone and stepped on the accelerator: "Ha, come and chase me if you dare!"
Come on, getting caught up on a motorcycle is lame.
Li Hua: "No. 666!" Take care of them!
"Come on, Li Hua," No. 666 responded emotionlessly, "Falling off the back of a motorcycle is lame."
Li Hua: That means he was directly liberated! ! ! !
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"I want to ride a motorcycle, too," Li Hua announced after exiting the mall with a loaded shopping cart. "I'm going to put on my gear so I can do all sorts of exciting moves without getting hurt."
The other two people and the system were not at all surprised by Li Hua's change of words.
What a joke. How could a person who accepts the restart of his life at the speed of light, jumps through two worlds to hammer monsters, and performs thrilling stunts in the air not have strong acceptance ability?
Benjamin: "Okay, then I'll teach you how to ride a bike later."
As they talked, they picked up the huge shopping bags bought from the supermarket and packed the things in the shopping cart. Jason made full use of the space and almost filled the shopping bag solid.
Benjamin tentatively lifted one of the smaller-looking shopping bags. "Hey, buddy, did you stuff a dimensional bag in here? Is this the proper weight for a shopping bag this size?"
Li Hua poked at the contents of the shopping bag, trying to see how much space there was between it and the surrounding items. He found it motionless. "If I hadn't handed it to you personally, I would have suspected you had built a wall inside."
Facing his friends' amazement, Jason clapped his hands and said, "Basic operation, this space is much larger than the universal belt."
Although Jason spoke very modestly, anyone with a normal IQ would know that he was actually very proud. After all, Jason raised his head and the corners of his mouth were almost shoulder to shoulder with the sun.
No. 666 had no doubt that if humans were a species with tails, Jason's tail would definitely be sticking up to the sky by now.
They bought a lot of things, including daily necessities such as cleaning tools and a laptop, as well as tools for house repairs such as wallpaper and waterproof coating for repairing roofs, as well as some thick iron wire that they didn't know whether to consider as repair tools or baby food... Obviously, the motorcycles they rode could not handle such a difficult transportation task.
But that’s okay, because they can just drip-drip-drip on the Kryptonians.
They pushed the cart to a blind spot in the mall's surveillance system. Surrounded by them, Benjamin carefully turned the dial of the Omnitrix. "I don't blame you for making mistakes those few times, Ice Wraith, but even so, you've already made three mistakes. Please, make it right this time, Omnitrix. I've always treated you well."
Li Hua: "It would be fine if you didn't say that. Now that you say that, I feel like this will definitely go wrong."
Benjamin paused, looking up to protest, but then he recalled the time he used a screwdriver to lift the Omnitrix's crown (the dial) and tried to stick it back together with his chewing gum, the time he accidentally activated the Omnitrix's self-destruct mode, and the time he sent the Omnitrix into the shapeshifter's body...
It seems... Li Hua is right.
Benjamin felt guilty, but he didn't want to admit it, so he tapped his watch a lot more gently.
After a flash of green light, another Kryptonian appeared on Earth.
Benjamin: "YES! It's the Hexagon Warrior! I finally got it right!"
Maybe the Omnitrix sensed this apology - that was definitely impossible, it must be that his luck had finally returned!
Jason: "Are you really going to call him the Hexagon Warrior? Wow—you dote on Li Hua so much, I'm a little jealous."
Li Hua retorted, "That's better than that Super Green Lantern name you came up with. Are you really not afraid of those two scammers sending you a lawyer's letter?"
Benjamin really wanted to say, "Stop arguing, the names you two came up with are exactly the same," but he was really dizzy and annoyed by the noisy sounds "around" him.
Benjamin had experienced this feeling when he transformed for the first time. His super hearing allowed him to hear countless voices, including the heartbeats of Li Hua and Jason, the sound of the Omnitrix running, and other sounds that he would normally not be able to hear or pay attention to.
That is to say, Li Hua and Jason were close to each other, and 666 was not affected by the direct projection in his mind. Otherwise, Benjamin in this state might not even be able to hear what his teammates said.
He now hoped to finish the moving work quickly and let his noisy world quiet down again, so Benjamin left a message "I'm going to pick up the kids first, and I'll come back to move things later" and flew towards the sun.
Compared to the Earth, the Sun is much quieter. In this state, Benjamin easily found the fourteen Ice Ghost cubs who were resting contentedly in the solar plasma at 6,000 degrees Celsius, holding their stomachs. He sent them back to the place he had just found in Bludhaven in two trips.
Then he went to the supermarket to carry the things home. He was also very considerate and took his motorcycle with him, considering that Li Hua could not drive.
Li Hua and Jason found that the goods disappeared and waited for a long time but still stayed where they were:?
Benjamin, don’t you feel like you’ve forgotten something?
Li Hua took out his cell phone and tried to make a call. At the same time, he was extremely glad that they had gone to the business hall to apply for a phone card before going to the supermarket. He was even more glad that the business hall they went to allowed the use of a deposit instead of the ID card name.
Soon, Li Hua found that he was too happy too early, because Jason, who was also planning to make a call, took out two phone cards and two mobile phones from his pocket, one of which was vibrating.
Li Hua and Jason looked at each other in bewilderment: "This..."
"I remember now. Didn't we agree to put the SIM card in our phone before leaving the supermarket to prevent it from being lost?" Jason said. "When we applied for the card, we only had the phone we used when we started our business, so we thought we'd activate it after buying a new phone..."
This job was taken over by Jason, who was the best at this among the three people, and Li Hua took over the cart that Jason originally pushed.
So when Jason retrieved his shopping cart, he returned Li Hua's phone. Benjamin was in the snack area at the time, and Jason thought he wouldn't lose face in the mall anyway, so he would give it back to Li Hua after they met up and left the mall...
Finally he forgot!
No. 666: "...One forgot about his teammate, the other forgot about his teammate's phone. The generosity of human teenagers truly amazes me."
Jason: "It's okay, Ben forgot too. If he asks me later, I'll just say it was intentional. It's his fault for forgetting not only his phone but also me and Li Hua."
Li Hua gave a thumbs up: "You are a genius."
Jason said modestly: "I am just a genius"
No. 666: ...
It's unbearable to watch.
When Li Hua and Jason drove the twenty-minute journey home and were about to complain and laugh at Benjamin for losing things, they almost thought they had taken the wrong path when they pushed the door open.
Is this the house they rented?
This place covered with brand new wallpaper, with spotless floors, windows and stair railings, and bright lights, is the shabby little house they just rented?
If they hadn't recognized that the pattern of the wallpaper was exactly the one they had picked out together in the supermarket, and that the key could actually open the door, they would have thought they had taken the wrong path.
"You guys are so slow."
Benjamin, who had changed into casual clothes, with a towel draped around his neck and his hair still dripping, opened the door and walked out of the bathroom, followed by a dozen squeaking ice ghost pups.
"I've already brought the kids back, cleaned the house, put down wallpaper, waterproofed the leaky roof, and even washed my hair and showered, and you're just now coming back?"
Jason could swear that if Benjamin hadn't shown up on purpose, he would have eaten Li Hua's wand on the spot.
"You should be thankful that I'm a well-mannered person. I won't confront their mothers in front of their children, even if they're male."
Jason looked at the cute ice ghost cubs with fluttering wings and said that the dumb babies were so much cuter. He couldn't help but want to hold an RUA. Seeing this, Benjamin quickly raised his hand to stop him.
"No, it's dirty!"
Unfortunately, Jason was already mesmerized by the cute cub. "Nonsense! How could such a cute baby be so dirty? Besides, it doesn't matter if it's dirty. I don't mind."
"Who's talking about the kids? How dirty can they be when they just came out of the sun? I'm talking about you and Li Hua."
Benjamin had the condemning expression of an elder in his family who would find out that a child had not washed his hands and was about to go to the dinner table.
"How many days have you not washed your hair and taken a bath? Don't you feel guilty about touching a baby who's so dirty? I only touch him in my human form after I wash my hair and take a bath!"
"The hot water is ready, you can just go in and take a shower. I've put the clothes we bought from the supermarket in a plastic bag and hung them on the newly-made hooks in the bathroom. As for dinner, we'll discuss what to order for takeout after you come out..."
While Benjamin was wiping his hair, he suddenly noticed that the surroundings were a little quiet. He looked up and found that his friends were looking at him with strange eyes.
"...What's wrong with you?"
Li Hua clutched his chest and said, "No, I just suddenly felt like I deserved to die."
My conscience hurts.
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