The hard work began after Tiechui and Haozi put down their luggage. Not only Xu Zhe was the only one who put on that ridiculous apron, but Tiechui was also forced to dress like that and come downstairs to help.
I don’t know if Xu Zhe’s “inducement” was really effective, but Haozi enjoyed the “privilege”. He stayed in his room and surfed the Internet with his mobile phone. The notebook he carried with him was the best “entertainment”…
That night, the business of Xianqing Food City was much worse than usual, probably because Tiechui insisted on standing at the door to receive customers
Xu Zhe was naturally happy to have some free time. It was another six full hours of work, but the intensity was not even half as great as yesterday's.
But when the work was over, it was Grandma Yoshida's turn to get mad and start scolding Tiechui. During the time, there were some objections, so Tiechui had three more footprints on his face. He wanted to cry but had no tears...
Finally, I returned to the resting room. It was already midnight, but Haozi was still playing online games, not knowing what tiredness was.
"Damn it, we're exhausted down there, but you're so comfortable." Rubbing his aching cheek, Tiechui sat down unhappily. The tatami floor made it difficult to distinguish the floor from the bed. The sorrow of Japan
"Stop making noise, I'm checking porn websites! Japan is indeed Japan, worthy of being the overlord of AV. Many things can't be found in China, otherwise why are Japanese men so lewd?" Haozi sighed sincerely, full of admiration.
"Really? Let me see too!" Forgetting the pain in his cheek, Tiechui moved closer with a strange smile.
He sat quietly in the corner, looking at the familiar friends in front of him. Although their arrival made the already narrow room even narrower, there was no dissatisfaction on Xu Zhe's face, but he could not solve the confusion in his heart.
"Haozi, how did you know I was here?" Xu Zhe was curious that it was obviously a secret operation, but it was discovered so easily.
"Just interrogate the boss. Although it took a lot of effort, he still told us. I guess he's not afraid of annoying us, but is mainly worried that you are alone in a foreign land with no relatives. He just wants to do something but doesn't know how to start, so he asked us to help you..." Turning around, Kong Liu Tiechui continued to search. Haozi only looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old, but he looked mature as if he was in his forties.
"Play for two days and then go back. Since you are here on vacation, don't do anything weird. I don't need your help, just don't hold me back." Xu Zhe's words were so dry and bitter that they were heartbreaking, and his cold face seemed as if he had forgotten all the friendship of his friends.
"Stop being so conceited. Do you think we are really here for you? How come Wu Qian is still our team member? We couldn't even say a word when she was kidnapped. Do you think we in the Spiritual Adjustment Department are all gigolos?!" After hearing the harsh words, Tiechui wanted to punch this ungrateful guy twice on the spot, but was stopped by Haozi.
"Xu Zhe, I was transferred to this damn department when I was 15, and I've known you for three years. Who do you think you can fool with that heartless look? If you're worried that we'll die, just come out honestly. Why do you have to make yourself look like a bad guy..." This is a tacit understanding, and any concealment is meaningless.
"Honestly, will you listen to me?! This is no longer something you humans can help with... This time... I don't even know if I can survive..." I really don't want to admit that I can't protect my friends' lives.
"Really? Then you don't want this thing either?" Haozi disagreed. He took out a folder from behind him and threw it in front of Xu Zhe.
"What is it?" Xu Zhe didn't understand what Haozi meant and started to look through it.
"The location of the secret branch of the Founding Heavy Industry Group in Tokyo, and the detailed structural information map there. Don't think I spent the whole afternoon looking up pornographic websites!" Xu Zhe could not think of any other adjectives for Haozi except admiration. He was the only example that made him believe in "the amount of wisdom and age"...
"You brat, it's not too early to know the location. Let's go there today, capture the person in charge, and torture him severely. I don't believe that we can't find out any information about Wu Qian." Tiechui was still impatient.
"Calm down, please. Do you think you are in our country and can go anywhere you want with the name of an investigator? This is not our territory. We need to be skillful in doing things." It was Haozi who stopped the impulsive Hammer.
"You don't need to help this time. I will take care of it myself tomorrow. It's getting late. Get some rest. The quilt is in the closet next to you." After that, Xu Zhe picked up the folder and walked towards the door without even saying thank you.
"Hey!" The moment he stepped out of the door, Haozi called out to the ruthless man, "Xu Zhe has changed a lot from the past to the present. The guy I knew was always so confident, everything was under control, and he was equally indifferent to all life. He might be lonely, sad, or unlovable. But he is like a real person...
But now in you, I only see cowardice and self-righteousness.
Never forget that you are a human being after all, not a god who should bear all the responsibilities..."
"The former Xu Zhe is dead..." This was a sad response, and Xu Zhe closed the door from the outside.
Only the helpless mouse and the confused hammer were left in the narrow room.
"I really want to beat him to wake him up." Tiechui clenched his fists, feeling a bit impatient.
"If fists can make him sober, I will be the first to beat him. But what he needs now is not fists, but someone to lead him out of confusion." Returning to the keyboard, Haozi continued typing, which can be seen as a kind of waiting.
I don’t know how to deal with mental fatigue, but there is the most primitive and effective way to deal with physical fatigue.
The bathtub made entirely of wood is like a large pot, with heated firewood underneath to ensure that the water does not cool down, but it cannot guarantee that people will not get cooked.
She soaked in the tub, a white towel draped over her water-soaked face. I didn't know if it was because of the buoyancy of the water, but I felt so weak that I couldn't even clench my fists.
His breathing became very slow, as if he had fallen asleep. Xu Zhe just wanted a moment of peace.
Unfortunately, reality never gives people what they want...
The bathroom door that couldn't be locked was opened, creaking loudly.
"Why are you still in there? Didn't I set a bath time for you?" The mother-in-law's voice was unhappy, "Forget it, I don't need a bathtub anyway, you cover your face, otherwise I will kill you on the spot." Then, the old woman who didn't know her age walked in. The sound of the shower head echoed in the bathroom...
"Smelly boy, you seemed so happy to have friends over this afternoon, why are you here alone pretending to pickle radishes? Are you upset?" After turning off the shower head, the mother-in-law asked curiously while applying soap. Seeing that Xu Zhe did not respond, she sighed again, "You young people are always so contradictory. You don't know how to cherish your short life of a few decades. Why don't you just live happily..."
"I don't have that long to live." Xu Zhe under the towel finally spoke, "To be precise, I have about 11 months left. After these 11 months, the blood clots pressing on my brain will spread violently, accompanied by bleeding from all seven orifices. I will die within a few hours, and the process will not be painful because the pain nerves will be the first to be destroyed."
"Why, are you scared? For your life which is less than a year away?" After listening to Xu Zhe's calm narration of his own death process, the mother-in-law was not moved at all, as if her heart was as solid as a rock.
"Afraid of death? I forgot what that feeling was like eight years ago, but I have been longing for death for the past eight years. This life is not mine, it is a tool that I owe to others. I have lived to this day with the belief of finding its 'master'. But when I met the person to whom it belongs, I suddenly realized that I really was their tool from the beginning. Everything was a planned performance, and I performed the whole show without even knowing it. It was not until the curtain fell that I realized that I was just an 'actor'..." Xu Zhe was laughing, laughing at his own life.
"Fool, young guys are all stubborn. Listen carefully, we don't own anything in this world. Those who think they own things are actually just illusory and ridiculous. Except for this life, it only belongs to oneself. Giving away one's life at will is a betrayal to oneself." The shower head was turned on again, and the mother-in-law seemed to have finally finished applying the soap.
"You simply don't understand. The world I know is different from the world you know. The so-called life is actually nothing more than a new skin with someone else's soul. It's no different from the garbage recycling process..." A hidden irony, just because he hated this world.
"Boom!" Without any warning, a hand pressed on Xu Zhe's face with such great force that it pushed him into the water.
The water that was supposed to warm his body now choked his lungs. The lack of oxygen made Xu Zhe struggle fiercely. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get his head above the water. The water continued to pour into his body.
I had no idea how much time had passed until my brain started to lack oxygen and my vision became dizzy.
The hand that wanted to take his life finally left. Xu Zhe sat up immediately, climbed on the edge of the basin, and coughed violently. He looked so embarrassed.
"If it's someone else's life, why would you resist? Isn't it okay to die?" Standing aside, the mother-in-law had already put on a white bathrobe. There was no guilt on her face for almost killing someone, only contempt for Xu Zhe. "You obviously have the instinct of a human to survive, but you always act like a god who sees through everything? Since you are a human, of course you need companions...
Since we are human, we cannot shoulder everything by ourselves...
Since we are human beings, we cannot shirk our responsibilities...
Since we are human beings, who can watch his companions die alone...
If you only want to express your own ideas and don't accept the hands extended by people around you, you will end up losing more than you gain...
Reflect on yourself, as a human being..."
Leaving the narrow bathroom, leaving behind the "person" still gasping in the basin. I don't know if he listened to me, but his weak fists were clenched tightly.
When he returned to his own room, Tiechui was already fast asleep, his huge body occupying one-third of the room.
In the dark, Haozi was still looking at the glowing computer screen. He was no longer browsing some boring pornographic webpage, but a three-dimensional 3D spatial structure diagram. This was the building where the Tokyo branch of Hyakki was located. Obviously, Haozi did not take Xu Zhe's words to heart.
Surprisingly, Xu Zhe didn't say anything and quietly got into his thin blanket.
“I’m sorry…” Xu Zhe apologized so weakly that it could be ignored. It wasn’t because he felt embarrassed, but he just didn’t want to wake up his friend who was sleeping soundly beside him.
"It doesn't matter, we are friends." Facing the screen, Haozi smiled. I don't know if it was because he found something good or because Xu Zhe was calm
"But it's still necessary. This is an extremely dangerous action. Just follow me. I will do my best to protect you and not let you die." This can be regarded as another promise of Xu Zhe.
"Although I am not happy that you regard me as a 'fragile object', thank you in advance. We will also be your backers and support you to move forward."
What is a friend? The definition is too vague...
But Xu Zhe understood that his heart was warm at this moment...
Outside the window, on the upper floor of a low old house thousands of meters away, some people cannot experience such delicate emotions.
He was wearing a pitch-black tight combat suit that perfectly hid his burly body under the barrier of night. Only his iconic dark bald head revealed his identity as the leader of a bloodthirsty mercenary group.
Holding the telescope high in his hand, monitoring Xu Zhe's room, a smug smile appeared on the captain's lips.
"There are two more people to be killed. It's time to discuss the price with the old man. This is really an exciting business..." He took out his cell phone and dialed a familiar number. "Notify them that the specific action time is set for tomorrow night. The whole group will act together. It doesn't matter if we take out all our "family assets". Even if we kill them all, we will make a profit this time."
"yes… "