Chapter 50 Falling from the Sky
Although the Hezhang Street District is still within the planning scope of the imperial capital, it is already a very marginal area. It is even more dilapidated than the town Lin Guantang visited last time. It can even be compared with the buildings in District 35 of his hometown. All you can see are various old buildings.
But even in such a place, there are still extremely prosperous entertainment facilities.
In other words, it is in such marginal areas that these industries are so prosperous.
Tang Hongyun took Lin Guantang to a remote alley. Wearing black clothes and breathing lightly, he almost completely blended into the darkness.
After a short wait, I saw a thin omega in light clothes staggering into the street. In less than a minute, another shadow followed quietly.
The alley, which was already filled with mixed smells, was now filled with the unpleasant smell of cigarettes and alcohol, as well as the uncontrollable smell of AO.
***
Chen Le has always felt that he is a person who is a little lucky, but not too lucky, and this little luck often brings more bad luck. So he occasionally thinks that he is a little lucky, and often thinks that he is a born unlucky person.
He was unremarkable in every aspect, had an ordinary appearance, and even had freckles. He had already completely accepted his extremely mediocre fate, but he differentiated into an omega rated C.
Differentiating into O is obviously a lucky thing, but too many negative factors, such as too low level, bad looks, and poor background... make this little bit of luck turn into trouble. Troubles accumulate over the years, and what felt lucky at first turned into bad luck later. All the bad luck encountered was attributed to the fact that he differentiated into a C-level omega.
For example, no one cared about his emotional issues originally, but after he differentiated into O, he was forced to meet all kinds of people, and then was rejected again. People with a conscience would send him away with kind words and then tell him anything inappropriate. If they had a bad temper, they would even scold him in front of him, saying that the product was not what he wanted. The intermediary dared to praise an ugly C-level omega to the skies and sell him.
He doesn't want to either.
Chen Le wanted to refute, it wasn't him who wanted to commit fraud, but he was weak and didn't dare to speak loudly, so he was forced to go out to meet again and again, and then the goods were returned.
His hope of picking up a bargain and being noticed by a wealthy family only jumped for a moment when the differentiation was initially completed, but he soon gave up completely. He wanted to fall in love with the beta tenant who moved in next door, but his parents were unwilling to give up. They ridiculed him too many times, and finally made him pack up and move out in a hurry. He even felt annoyed when he saw their family.
Although the other party still exchanged contact information with Chen Le, as time passed too long, it eventually came to nothing.
Later, his father died and his mother fell ill. He had a younger sister who was admitted to a good school. His grades were not good and he had no future in school. Since he was barely an O, he was introduced to work in a club where he could get a high commission. He was not willing to go to such a chaotic place at first, but he was in urgent need of money, so he finally agreed.
When he arrived at the club to take up his post, he was specifically trained in self-introduction. The lesson was that the more miserable his family background, the better, with the usual standard self-introductions of a deceased father, a sick mother, and a younger sister who went to school. The team leader said that only his genuine feelings could arouse the sympathy of the guests. The others were too exaggerated and their tone was stiff, and they could not compare to his genuine expression. Chen Le didn't know why he found it so funny, and then wanted to cry.
But no one would pity him. Who could have a better life than anyone else when they had to work in a club?
In order to make a living, the bottom line is lowered again and again. People think that they are already miserable enough, but in the end they can only get worse and more unlucky.
The streets on his way home were remote and winding. The street lights had been broken for a long time and no one came to repair them. He could only rely on the lights at the street corners and the light from the terminal for lighting. When he saw the shadow on the ground change from one to two people, his heart began to pound and he felt that something was wrong. He turned around and saw a drunk figure smiling at him, and the feeling that something was wrong was completely confirmed.
While he was secretly cursing at how unlucky he could be, he also held onto a tiny glimmer of hope - at least he recognized that the person following him was from the same store security department, and considering they were colleagues, nothing should happen.
Then his hopes were dashed. The other party saw him turn around and called out his name directly:
"Xiao Le, if it weren't for your brother, you would have been drunk to death in the box today. Don't you have to thank me?"
Chen Le forced a smile and nodded quickly, saying:
"Yes, I have to thank you very much, Brother Hai. It just so happens that I got some money today, so I'll give it to you, Brother Hai. How much do you want? Just tell me the number, and I'll give it to you."
He spoke tremblingly, but the drunk Hai Ge opposite him laughed heartily, waved his hand, and said nonchalantly:
"What's the point of that? Your little money isn't even enough to fill my teeth. Why don't you just let me have some fun tonight? I'll give you some money, and you don't have to pay your team leader."
Chen Le thought to himself, "Why are you so arrogant? You're just a doorman. You're just a lowest-level security guard in the security department. You even look down on my salary."
But he didn't dare to say these words, and was afraid that saying them would make the man even angrier. He stepped back cautiously, and when he saw that he had put some distance between them, he immediately turned around and ran away. But before he could take a few steps, the air was suddenly filled with the stench of fermented tobacco and alcohol, which made his legs go weak and he fell to the ground powerlessly, knocking over a trash can that someone had left on the street, and the smell around him became even worse.
And among these unpleasant smells, his nostrils were filled with the very clear scent of citrus that was lured out and belonged to him.
Chen Le turned around and saw Brother Hai was already one or two steps away from him, with an obscene smile on his face. His mind went blank and he subconsciously shouted in panic:
"Brother Hai! No, people in this store are not allowed to release pheromones at will!"
This sentence does not contain any threat:
"You're not in the store now, so I didn't know you were a prostitute. Why are you pretending to be innocent?"
Brother Hai was too lazy to say any more nonsense to him. He took a few quick steps and rushed in front of him. He reached out and held his hands, releasing more pheromones, which surrounded Chen Le like a chain. Soon, even the fingers that were trying hard to resist seemed to be reluctant to give in.
Only the barely lucid mind was confused and sadly thinking:
I am such an unlucky guy.
Even though he was already very lowly, had thrown away all sense of shame, and had no chastity left, he still didn't want to, didn't want to, didn't want to be forced to do something he didn't want to do next to a dirty garbage dump.
Then he would seem to have completely turned into a pile of garbage.
But who can save him, who can——
"Good evening, both of you. No forced estrus allowed here."
A dull voice with no discernible tone, but with a youthful timbre, suddenly rang out in the dark night, startling the two people who were pushing each other. They turned their heads to look at the source of the sound. They didn't know when a third person appeared in this remote alley.
It was hard to tell what he looked like. Only when the hazy light and shadow passed by, his eyes, glowing with a blue light, looked exceptionally bright and lively - but that was enough, enough for people to imagine a good-looking appearance based on these eyes.
Chen Le didn't expect that his prayer was really successful and someone came down from the sky to save him. But when he was so moved that he wanted to cry, he realized belatedly that the other person sounded like a teenager, so his heart, which had been relieved, was lifted up again.
Sure enough, Brother Hai's attention was attracted by the young man who suddenly appeared. In view of Brother Hai's lustful behavior at the moment, he had an additional layer of fragile and boneless fantasy on top of his imagination of the visitor's good looks.
He turned around and pretended to scold the figure who suddenly appeared. Seeing that he was still standing there motionless, Brother Hai thought, "You asked for it." Then he was secretly delighted. He stood up without hesitation and walked towards the beautiful boy with a lewd smile who obviously didn't understand the situation but wanted to take the initiative.
Chen Le quickly crawled two steps on the ground, opened his mouth and shouted silently, because he was afraid that Brother Hai would hear him, and wanted to tell the man who was obviously still a teenager to leave quickly. However, the other person seemed to be completely unable to understand his eyes and mouth shapes, and still stood there in a daze, not knowing what kind of nightmare-like fate would greet him.
Chen Le thought so, and so did Brother Hai.
But before his fingers touched the beautiful boy's mask, he felt a sudden pain in his chin - it should be said that the pain was so severe that it rushed straight to his head, as if all the nerves along the way were pierced, and then his eyes went black, and he fell down and fainted.
When Brother Hai fell backwards, Chen Le, who was still lying limp on the ground, screamed in fright. After the scream, he realized that Brother Hai suddenly came towards him. It was not because he noticed his signal and wanted to hit him, but because he was knocked down by the stranger in front of him.
One move knocks him down——
Although Brother Hai was very thin and was a low-level security guard in the store who didn't have much strength, being knocked down with just one move was still a bit beyond Chen Le's understanding.
He looked at Brother Hai who was lying unconscious on the ground, then raised his head to meet the pair of blue eyes that were still bright in the dim streets. He didn't know whether it was because he had survived the disaster or because he was shocked by the other party's actions, but his heart was beating fast. After looking for a few seconds, he remembered to ask who the other party was.
"You, who are you? Are you someone I know?"
However, the other party just looked at him silently and turned away.
When he finally reacted and mustered up the courage to run over to chase after her, he found that there was no one there.
Is this an illusion?
But Brother Hai was still fainted on the side of the road. It was impossible for him to have the strength to knock someone out all of a sudden, so what happened just now was not an illusion.
Who was it then, and why did they save him?
Chen Le thought about the people he knew in his mind, but he couldn't find anyone who matched the person who saved him. The main reason was that no one he knew had such bright, firm, and compassionate eyes.
Everyone is exhausted from trying to survive and has long lost their yearning for anything in the world.
So is he really just a kind-hearted person passing by, or has he been unlucky all his life just for him to meet the god who saves him tonight?
Chen Le finally sniffed the air without any hope, and sure enough, he couldn't smell even a trace of anything... Maybe it was some beta who did good deeds without leaving a name.
He returned home feeling lost, but from tonight on, a savior god with blue eyes took up residence in his heart.
***
Lin Guantang actually wanted to stay and comfort the obviously frightened omega, but the teacher had already turned and walked towards the alley next to him, so Lin Guantang had no choice but to leave with him.
As he followed the teacher forward, he couldn't help but look down at his fingers covered with black gloves. He stretched out his hands, opened them, and then clenched them. He felt his fingers were numb from hitting them too hard. He still felt a little unbelievable, and felt that everything that had just happened was a little unreal.
He could feel that after so many days of training, his physical fitness seemed to have recovered better than before the differentiation, but he really didn't expect such an unexpected result.
——After all, the teacher taught me these deadly fighting skills. Normally, I didn’t feel anything when training on dummies, but when it came to real people, I could actually knock people out with one punch. The effect was quite terrifying.
Lin Guantang even wanted to call an emergency number because he was really worried that he had beaten the man to death. Although he could still see the man's limbs were still shaking when he left, he was still worried. However, when he asked, Teacher Tang said very experiencedly:
"Don't worry, they won't die. They have thick skin and can withstand a lot of beatings."
Lin Guantang didn't say anything more, but just wondered in his heart whether the teacher had lived here or a similar place before, otherwise how could he be so familiar with it.
Then I suddenly heard the teacher sigh:
"I was actually knocked unconscious by your punch. I didn't expect that the gangsters are getting worse with each generation."
Lin Guantang: ...
Well, he still has a long way to go before he becomes the teacher.
Lin Guantang shrugged, without dwelling on it any further, and simply asked the question in his heart:
"Did the teacher live here before?"
But Tang Hongyun just glanced at him without answering his question, then said, "We're here," and stopped talking.
It was an alley with a similar situation as before, with no street lights, remote and dark, a perfect place for committing a crime.
So, just like before, they waited for the next thug to come to their door, and Lin Guantang would come forward to deal with him. Tang Hongyun leaned against the wall with a wooden stick, watching Lin Guantang fight with others.
Perhaps he was lucky enough. For two or three hours, Lin Guantang followed Tang Hongyun and ran around in the alleys. He encountered four or five thugs acting alone. Their fighting power was within Lin Guantang's ability to deal with. It was just that the last one was a little difficult to deal with. Because he was too focused, Lin Guantang did not notice that there was a second person attacking him.
Then the second person who was about to launch a sneak attack was knocked unconscious to the ground by Tang Hongyun with a stick.
The action was so swift and fierce that both Lin Guantang and the first gangster were stunned with shock - Lin Guantang finally understood why the teacher said at the beginning that he would not die.
Lin Guantang thought that his movements were smooth enough and his mentality was stable, but compared with his teacher, he was still too green. His goal was just to knock his opponent down, but when his teacher attacked, it was obvious that he was aiming to kill him.
Even when the teacher looked up at him, meeting the teacher's fierce gaze that was obviously in a fighting state, Lin Guantang really wanted to tell the gangster next to him to run away.
But obviously, without Lin Guantang's reminder, the other party quickly realized that this was a real tough guy, and immediately turned around and ran. But before he had taken a few steps, he heard a scream, and the gangster who was trying to run away was kicked directly to the ground. Then he was hit with a stick. The gangster struggled on the ground for a moment and then lay motionless.
Then, in Lin Guantang's shocked eyes, Tang Hongyun still said coldly, "I know my limits. I won't die" - perhaps to reassure Lin Guantang, or perhaps he really didn't care, he took out the terminal from one of the people who fainted on the ground, helped dial the emergency number, casually said an address, cut off the contact, and threw the terminal back.
He then announced that he was done with work and left the Hezhang neighborhood with Lin Guantang.
Lin Guantang didn't say a word the whole time. He felt that the teacher seemed to have become a different person the moment he started to act. He was not just a cold and indifferent teacher, but a cold teacher with hatred and murderous intent. He was really worried that if he opened his mouth to speak, the teacher would punish him as well.
This reminded Lin Guantang of what Huo Shizhen had said when he first introduced his teacher's job. Only then did he truly feel what it meant to be a "spy background."
Fortunately, after walking through an alley, the gloomy aura on the teacher completely dissipated. He and he each changed into coats of different colors in the middle of the journey, and even replaced their masks with ordinary disposable masks. Tang Hongyun put on a baseball cap and took out a very simple pair of black-framed glasses from somewhere and asked Lin Guantang to wear them.
After turning several corners and coming out of another alley, they looked like just ordinary students and parents.
While waiting for the bus on the street, I heard a few people around me whispering about a formidable masked master who had appeared in the Hezhang neighborhood tonight and had assassinated several people in just a few hours. I wondered if it was someone's enemy coming back for revenge, or if someone was trying to establish a new power by using a few thugs to stage a demonstration or something...
Lin Guantang overheard these random speculations and thought they were a bit outrageous, but he held back and didn't say anything until he returned to the shop through the basement. Then he asked:
"They noticed it too quickly. Should we never come to this place again?"
"Wait until they forget about this matter, and then pick a good day to go, but——"
Tang Hongyun looked back at him, thought for a moment, and then said:
"Next time you go, I'll have you wear colored contact lenses. Otherwise, with your eyes, you'll probably be recognized quickly."
Lin Guantang covered his eyes with his hands and said uncertainly:
"No way, O Hospital is quite far from Hezhang Street. Besides, there are many people with blue eyes, and my eye shape is not that special."
For example, phoenix eyes, peach blossom eyes and the like are easy to be remembered from the shape of the eyes, but Lin Guantang's eye shape is not so distinctive. Anyway, he has been described as having all kinds of eye shapes since he was a child.
Tang Hongyun just snorted and chuckled, allowing him to pick the color he liked first, without explaining any more. He didn't like to praise people's personalities, but he had to admit that Lin Guantang had a good appearance, especially his eyes, which were unforgettable - perhaps he couldn't describe it accurately with a precise word, but after seeing him once, he would definitely recognize it as him the second time.
However, who could have imagined that the person who took action tonight would be a weak and powerless student of O College? Even if there really was a gangster who was unlucky enough to be beaten tonight and came to the vicinity of O College, and really met Lin Guantang by chance, and recognized that his eyes were the suspect of tonight's attack, he would probably first doubt whether he had remembered it wrong.
Otherwise, being beaten by an O-school student without any chance of fighting back would be too humiliating. Even if I told others about it, they would think I had told some ridiculous joke, or even laugh at me.
***
Perhaps there really is such a thing as what you say coming true. Not long after Lin Guantang and Tang Hongyun discussed the topic of cross-dressing with colored contact lenses, this issue was also discussed in the group chat.
That mainly involves the issue of Shao Qingbai's partner.
Although Shao Qingbai is still a freshman in school, he still has a group of friends outside the school who follow him and call him "big brother".
Two or three days ago, one of his pretty good friends came to him crying and wanted him to help him get revenge - the main point was that this friend loved racing, had good skills, and was somewhat well-known in the circle, but then he was brutally beaten by an unknown kid.
Not only was he badly beaten, he was also severely ridiculed, and even a group of his friends were defeated. Finally, he remembered that his big brother still had to fight, so he came to Shao Qingbai, wanting him to come forward to get back at him.
Shao Qingbai was very loyal to his brothers and happened to have no mission, so he agreed readily. But when he told this matter, the mission came to him.
Because the intelligence department's archives happened to contain unusual intelligence related to the racetrack, in order to collect more information, it was suggested that Shao Qingbai take someone with him to act as a cover. In order to avoid suspicion of his identity, it was suggested that someone pretend to be his partner and go along.
Shao Qingbai refused.
Firstly, he had never brought anyone with him when racing before, so even if he went alone, he would never be suspected.
Secondly, he was still single and didn't want his first scandal to be linked to this group of burly military academy students. He felt like vomiting when he thought about it if his friends spread the news that his scandal target was this group of people from the military academy.
So the question is, if you want to meet the requirements of bringing a suitable person without being suspected, and also meet Shao Qingbai's requirement of not wanting to have a scandal with a military academy student, the only choice is -
"Then you can take your sister with you."
Isn’t this even more unreliable?!
Shao Qingbai felt speechless. His sister had never been interested in racing, and his friends knew about it.
"I didn't say you should let your sister go."
When Shao Qingbai refused with this reason, Sikong Tan said confidently that he would arrange a wild sister for him and would definitely satisfy him^^.
Shao Qingbai looked at the "^^" sent by Sikong Tan, and a chilling feeling of being plotted against came over him.
Lin Guantang, who was peeking through the screen, had the same feeling.
From the last time he met Shao Qingbai until now, Lin Guantang actually felt that Shao Qingbai was deliberately ignoring him. Although he was not sure why Shao Qingbai suddenly didn't want to pay attention to him, he was already avoiding him so obviously that Lin Guantang was too embarrassed to take the initiative to go over and disturb him.
Then Sikong Tan privately messaged him and asked him to pretend to be Shao Qingbai's sister and go to the racetrack.
Lin Guantang was greatly shocked. For a moment he didn't know whether to ask him how she looked like Shao Qingbai's sister, or whether to ask, "Senior, can't you see that Shao Qingbai really doesn't want to contact me?"
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