"Come on, Zijing, let's have a cup of tea first."
"The tea smells so good, thank you so much, Brother Mo."
When Gongsun Ce rushed to Mo Yuankai's home, the first thing he saw was two tall men drinking tea facing each other at a small table.
The gray-haired boy breathed a sigh of relief, moved a stool and sat down: "What are you doing, President? Come all the way here to drink tea?"
Chi Zijing said with a smile: "Tea is available everywhere, so why go out? I came here this time because I really have something serious to talk about."
Mo Yuankai said in surprise: "It's rare, Zijing, you, a fisherman, actually say you want to do something serious? What big thing has alarmed you?"
The president was not ashamed of his reputation as a fisherman, but felt proud of it. He smiled and said, "It can't be said to be a big deal. To be specific..."
He straightened his back, changed his tone, and spoke like a supermarket salesman: "Mr. Mo, Mr. Gongsun, there are some unscrupulous little guys in our mutual aid association who want to cause trouble for you two. I'm really too lazy to deal with this matter, specifically. I will steal a copy of the plan and give it to you. The two warriors can fight if they want, and try not to kill. I just ask that you don’t hold grudges against our small organization."
Gongsun Ce just sat down on the sofa, his hand reaching for the tea cup froze in the air after hearing the words. He glared at the president with a blank expression: "Huh?"
"That is to say, some young men want to attack you two." The president explained patiently, "I asked someone to steal a copy of the plan. You can see it right here. You can solve it how you want..."
The president quietly stopped talking. Gongsun Ce's face was extremely ugly, and his eyes were as fierce as if he wanted to tear him alive.
"What did *** say? Do something to my eldest brother?"
Chi Zijing silently covered his ears, and the gray-haired boy's roar sounded like thunder.
"Are you ashamed?! Tell them all to get over here!
"
Mo Yuankai grabbed his angry little brother, frowned and said, "A Ce, calm down."
"I'm so calm! Wings of Death didn't even do anything, but a bunch of gangsters waiting to die are planning to do this? Chi Zijing, you still have the nerve to come here!" Gongsun Ce's eyes widened angrily, "What do you mean you're too lazy to care? Those are your subordinates!"
The president had a grimace on his face and said to himself, "I knew you were going crazy." He took a sip of tea and said helplessly: "You also know my character. I just don't want to get involved in these troublesome things. Besides, there are no subordinate leaders in our mutual aid association. Aren't we just a bunch of students who stick together for warmth?"
Gongsun Ce was so angry that he stood up. Before he could make a move, Chi Zijing directly raised his hands, looking like a rogue who is not afraid of boiling water.
"I know you have resentment in your heart. Naturally, you and Brother Mo have stood up for urban security over the years, and many people have benefited from you, so you deserve the title of hero. However, whether to fight or not has never been based on status or morality. is the decisive factor." Chi Zijing said with a posture of surrender, "Brother Mo was once invincible, but now his strength has been greatly reduced. This is an extremely tempting reason. For quite a few people, this reason is enough to make They came out in droves..."
He retracted his hands, raised the tea cup to the two of them, and saluted: "Many people don't remember what you did in the past, they only know that you are weaker now. This is a troublesome, bad, but helpless thing."
Chi Zijing drank the tea, stood up from the chair, and was ready to leave.
Gongsun Ce grabbed his arm and said, "Chi Zijing, stop teasing people with your troublesome nonsense!"
"I don't have any trouble with you, Gongsun Ce."
Chi Zijing turned his head, his words lost the cynicism and became more serious.
"I can't participate in these things, but I really hate them. Why do I have to get involved in so many entanglements now that I have the power? Gongsun Ce, I also want to ask you, why don't you take over from your elder brother? Go with your burden?"
Gongsun Ce was almost furious: "If I could do it-"
The president interrupted him simply: "Look, you are unwilling to try or do it. And I am equally unwilling... Then how can you order me? If you want to force me to do something, You must use your super power to knock me to the ground and make me beg for mercy and have to comply.
Your will to do things. Otherwise, you can't interfere with my actions. "
Gongsun Ce looked at him blankly and loosened his hand unconsciously.
Mo Yuankai stood up with a wry smile: "Thank you very much, Zijing. Ah Ce has such a bad temper, don't be offended."
Chi Zijing shook his shoulders without showing anger, and said with a smile: "How could it be? We all have difficulties, so let's understand each other. When this matter is over, I will come to you for tea again."
The president left leisurely. Gongsun Ce sat back on the sofa, his face ashen.
"Brother, give me that plan."
Mo Yuankai glanced at it a few times, folded the plan and stuffed it into his trouser pocket.
"It's a small fight, no one cares." He said calmly, "I can handle it myself. You can rest peacefully and rest."
"Don't be ridiculous!" Gongsun Ce roared, "I want them to——"
"You want them to suffer, yes, but what will happen after that?" Mo Yuankai shook his head, "We have agreed to retire, do you still want to come on stage? Do you want to do these killing things again?"
Gongsun Ce was speechless, and the hot blood in his chest cooled down little by little, like ice cubes stuck in his chest. Mo Yuankai's handsome profile had never looked so decadent. He could hear the feeling of frustration. This was an emotion that the eldest brother in the past would never have.
"You are living a good life now. You have met new friends and are waiting for school to start next week. You are very happy. Why bother stepping into muddy water?"
Mo Yuankai leaned on the back of the sofa, looked at the ceiling and sighed.
"I no longer want to interfere with who is in charge or how public order is. I want to interfere, but I feel there is no reason or motivation. When I see these terrible things, I feel that I have no energy at all.
I'm so tired, Ace. When I first entered college, I felt like an old person. I thought about retirement all day long and didn't want to work. "
Gongsun Ce was filled with depression and felt like there was a lump in his throat.
Brother, you are a superhero, you are always righteous and always strong, you are the most awesome person who stands up at critical moments. How can *** fail? How can you be decadent? What should I do if you give up first? !
But he couldn't say these words. He couldn't say a nice word to his friend who had exhausted all his strength and became so weak that he became an ordinary person. He was just in high school and his elder brother was just in college. No one was considered an adult and no one had any obligations.
"I……"
Gongsun Ce wanted to say that I would solve the problem, but he soon discovered that once he made the matter bigger, the enemies would only intensify their efforts to target the already weak eldest brother.
In fact, he has never been able to change anything.
"...How do you want to solve it?"
"I'm going to take refuge with the principal." Mo Yuankai said in a relaxed tone, "He is a great educator after all. Even if he were to fall, no one would attack his home."
Gongsun Ce said dryly: "Then I..."
"Just go home and rest. I originally thought it was going to affect you, so I called you over first this time. Once I saw that nothing happened, just pretend it never happened." The elder brother laughed twice, "Come back quickly. Don't worry."
"……goodbye."
Gongsun Ce walked out of the room mechanically, feeling unspeakably uncomfortable.
It was almost nighttime, the sky was already dark, and light rain began to fall. The sky was not clear, but still gloomy.
Like a sign of an approaching rainstorm.
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Gongsun Ce hated rainy days, so he took a car back to his home.
The eldest lady next door went out this afternoon. There is nothing to worry about. She has been here for more than a week and should be used to this place by now.
Gongsun Ce stood in front of the door, took out the key in a daze, and opened the door after checking it several times. A letter fell from the crack of the door and landed on the soles of his feet. The envelope has the coat of arms of a double-headed eagle printed on it, and you can tell at a glance that the sender is from United.
Gongsun Ce vaguely guessed who it was. He entered the room, sat down at the desk, tore up the envelope and took out the letter.
As expected, it was a letter from Aurus. The bastard also pretended to write the greeting paragraph at the beginning, which made him sick just looking at it. He quickly scanned the previous greetings and only looked at the last
The important part.
"...As you have personally experienced, the security of this city has improved substantially in the past few years when the Heroes of the Sky have been active. We don't have to worry about being attacked by gangsters when walking at night, and there are rarely large-scale gang fights. .The existence of heroes is a welcome thing for most people in this city. We have adapted to the current order and do not want to go back to the chaotic times of the past.
However, the good times did not last long. Ever since the two set out for the Kingdom of Morton, the once stable environment has experienced unsatisfactory fluctuations. After the Hero of the Sky returned from Morton, all kinds of ridiculous rumors spread, and the overall environment of the city began to deteriorate in an extremely unstable direction. I can say with certainty that in a month or so, when the message is confirmed, the once-suppressed malice will come back with unprecedented arrogance, and our city will plunge into madness.
I believe that most people don’t want to see this hellish scene, even you and me who were once hostile. I am determined to stand up and deal with the situation before it really gets out of hand and ensure the stability of the most basic order. Now that the Hero of the Sky is planning to step down from the stage, someone must take over his responsibilities.
I will hold a talk at eight o'clock tonight at the Cathedral of St. Chagt in the Thorns. I invited all the most dangerous superpowers and the leaders of all civil forces to participate, with only one purpose: to select a strong person who can truly convince everyone to take over the responsibility of the hero.
Without hesitation, I hope I can be elected because I believe in my abilities. In order to get to a higher place as soon as possible and establish an order that makes the public safe, I will do whatever it takes. If the wave of malice is too large to be directly suppressed, I don't mind using you as an object to attract hostility and making you a necessary victim in the process.
I also say frankly that I don’t want you to come now, because your identity is destined that those who oppose the establishment of order will stand behind you and use you and the innocent Mo Yuankai as a banner to prevent the new leader from coming to power. .
I understand your character, Gongsun Ce. You have a clear understanding of your abilities, you are emotional and impulsive, and you know that you cannot be a leader like me or John Garcia, nor can you become the second Hero of the Sky. Your existence has never had any meaning. You will only bring everything to an end of ruin. This is a fact that you and I know very well.
If you are truly confident in your own strength and wisdom, I welcome you to use all means to compete with me. If not, then I hope you can make a clear decision with a cool head. Be the cornerstone of the new era, rather than standing in front of the wave.
Everyone needs a new order.
Don’t let the past efforts of Heroes of the Sky be in vain. "
Gongsun Ce clenched the letter tightly, and his agitated emotions turned into violent force, tearing the letter into pieces and grinding it into dust. A moment later, there was no more letter paper in the room, only a handful of smoke and dust blown away by the wind.
Go ****** stuff. Do you think you have a hold of me? You couldn't be more wrong. Stop using Big Brother as a shield and don’t think that everyone will fall for your despicable tricks!
Gongsun Ce stood up angrily, walked to the mirror, and looked at himself burning with anger in the mirror. He shouted angrily: "I——"
But the roar of filial piety was only halfway through, and it couldn't continue. The gray-haired boy in the mirror stared back at him blankly. His eyes were empty, without any trace of strength, and full of fatigue and sadness.
"I……"
Gongsun Ce tried his best to open his mouth, forcing himself to say even one inspiring word. But he couldn't say anything. His shoulders suddenly slumped, like a balloon being popped. That disguised attitude can't last no matter what. Scenes from the past appeared in Gongsun Ce's mind, and finally settled on the moment of the rampage on the spaceship.
In the end, only a dry and pale dejected word echoed in the room.
"……I can not do it."
He had met so many people and received so much help, but in the end he was still the same cowardly young man who could do nothing but howl hysterically.
He never really left that prison, that alley.
"Hehe, hehe..."
Gongsun Ce smiled weakly. He can't lie to himself this time
Has. There was nothing he could do. Just like Aurus said, it is not his turn to be the best person in this city, and he has never had that value of existence.
His presence only makes everything worse.
There was fog in his vision again, and the past appeared before his eyes again. Gongsun Ce dragged his body and fell on the bed. The cell phone on the bedside rang, but his ears could no longer hear the sound.
Don't want to do anything.
Don't want to say anything.
Don't want to see anything.
But the past still comes back, and the memories linger. He made no sound, lying alone in the room, just staring at the ceiling with empty eyes.
Like a dead body.
