Late autumn, in the cemetery.
Jian Ning, wearing a thin and loose white T-shirt and long pants, sat quietly in front of a new stele. He seemed very tired, and after gently leaning his face against the stele, he closed his eyes.
The red stone necklace around her neck slipped off and hit the black and white photo on the tombstone, making a light and crisp sound.
The man in the black and white photo has a handsome face, thin lips and a straight nose. His eyes are looking straight ahead without any emotion, and his temperament is gloomy and cold.
This was her husband, who died in a car accident a week ago.
"Huo Lin, you are lying."
Jian Ning muttered with his eyes closed, his forehead still wrapped with several layers of gauze. In the car accident a week ago, although he was held in Huo Lin's arms, his head was still hit hard, and the wound on his forehead had not healed yet.
He thought of the promise Huo Lin made to him when she proposed to him -
"Jane Ning, follow me, I will let you live a good life."
When he made the promise, he was not familiar with Huo Lin. He was doing odd jobs in the car dealership and met Huo Lin. Their eyes met, and then, he was stared at by Huo Lin.
Huo Lin's pair of dark eyes are actually quite beautiful if you look closely, but his aura is too strong and his temperament is too cold. When he stares at people, it makes people feel cold on their backs.
Jian Ning felt as if he was being firmly locked by a ferocious beast, and the way the beast looked at him seemed like a sign of hunting and eating.
In the end, it turned out that he was right.
A month later, Huo Lin found him again, and before meeting him, he found out all his background: an orphan from an old welfare home that was about to go bankrupt, a recent college graduate, financially strapped, his main job was an intern in a small company, earning two thousand two hundred a month, and he also worked part-time in a car dealership, earning fourteen a month, for a total salary of three thousand six hundred, and he had to remit more than two thousand to the welfare home every month.
Less than ten minutes after the meeting, Jane Ning received a check and a marriage proposal.
Huo Lin told him that he would save the old welfare home where he had been sending money, and would provide a proper escape route for all the children in the welfare home.
Huo Lin also said: "Follow me, I will let you live a good life."
Jian Ning held the check in his hand, looked up at the handsome face of the man in front of him, and after a long moment, he nodded.
He didn't know why Huo Lin chose him. In his poor and miserable life, he had never tasted the feeling of being favored or treated preferentially.
Huo Lin had never said the word "love" to him, but every day and night after marrying Huo Lin, he had always been favored.
On the day of the accident.
Huo Lingang gave him a redstone necklace worth hundreds of millions. Redstone is not an ordinary gem, but a gem that combines recording, storage, projection and other functions. There is only one such gem in the world, and it is unique.
When it was delivered, Huo Lin showed him the pictures stored inside. In the pictures, there were a lot of times when the two of them were together.
Jian Ning looked at those scenes and took the initiative to hug Huo Lin for the first time. He buried his face in Huo Lin's arms and whispered "husband".
He thought at the time that they still had plenty of time to fall in love with each other and grow old together.
But on this night, he lost Huo Lin.
They didn't have time to love each other properly.
The redstone necklace swayed in the wind, and the sound of hurried footsteps not far away drowned out the crisp sound of the redstone hitting the tombstone.
Several men and women rushed over, their faces filled with anger and anxiety. They walked past the other tombstones and headed straight here in a hurry.
"Jane Ning!"
The moment he spotted Jian Ning, the middle-aged man in the lead shouted angrily, "Stop right there!"
Jian Ning, who was sitting in front of the tombstone and had no intention of running away, said: "..."
He opened his eyes and sat up straight. When he saw who was coming, there was no trace of surprise in his eyes.
These are Huo Lin's uncles and aunts. They ignored Huo Lin when he lost his parents when he was in his teens. After Huo Lin suffered a lot and reached the peak of wealth, they all poked their heads out like loaches.
They always wanted to take advantage of him, but Huo Lin was not a kind person. Even if Huo Lin donated a lot of money, he would not give a penny to these loaches.
Jian Ning agreed with Huo Lin's approach.
But Jane Ning didn't expect that these were not loaches, but poisonous snakes!
Dushe relied on the fact that he was a blood relative of Huo Lin. As long as Huo Lin died, and then Jian Ning died... this newlywed couple who had no children, their property would be divided up by other relatives with good reason.
So, blinded by greed, they caused a car accident.
"Jane Ning, did you make something up? I tell you, you and Huo Lin got into a car accident because of your bad luck! No, that's not right. It was you, the unlucky one, who killed Huo Lin. It has nothing to do with us! Don't think that you can use something you made up as evidence!"
The Huo family's uncle who was speaking had an extreme expression on his face. He stared at Jian Ning with hatred in his eyes: "Give us all the videos and recordings you made up, as well as other things... honestly. You are an orphan. Even if you die in Pingchuan City, no one will support you."
"If you know what's best for you, I'll treat you well."
As soon as the eldest uncle of the Huo family finished speaking, the people behind him immediately echoed him. Although these people had already learned that Jian Ning had evidence, they were still rude to Jian Ning.
Jian Ning has no relatives or friends, and has never been high-profile after marrying Huo Lin. To put it nicely, he doesn't look dangerous, to put it bluntly -
He just looks easy to bully.
Seeing some of these people rushing over and slapping him, Jian Ning's thick and long eyelashes finally moved slightly. He raised his eyes, and before the other party's slap landed, he said softly: "I've handed it over to the police."
"I have handed over all your criminal evidence to the police. Not only this car accident, but also other things. I have evidence for everything you have done."
He spent a lot of money and hired many professionals to collect what these people had done.
Then he handed over all the evidence to the police.
As soon as Jian Ning said this, everyone present was stunned. They looked at the young man sitting in front of the tombstone in disbelief. The young man had a delicate and pale face, with gauze wrapped around his forehead, and a sense of brokenness and fragility all over his body.
"Are you trying to scare us?"
Uncle Huo looked at the boy steadily. He tried to stay calm, and his tone became fierce again: "You are too young to scare us! Tell me quickly, where are all the things you have hidden?!"
Uncle Huo questioned, his eyes suddenly caught the ruby on his neck. This ruby was too expensive, and its value and function were reported in detail in the news at that time.
"Those videos and recordings are all in this stone, right? Show them to me."
Perhaps out of genuine suspicion, or perhaps out of greed, Uncle Huo took the lead in approaching Jian Ning and reached out to grab the ruby on his necklace.
Jane Ning avoided his hand and stood up by holding on to the tombstone.
"Get lost."
The ruby was put back into his clothes. Jian Ning frowned, and the gloom in his eyes was exactly the same as Huo Lin's in the past: "Your death is coming soon. You might as well hurry up and choose a cemetery in this last bit of time."
Jane Ning's words undoubtedly sounded like a curse to them.
The few people who were already in a bad mood became even more aggressive and surrounded them again. They stretched out their hands and tried to push and shove to grab things.
Jian Ning was a thin man, and in this week, all the fat that Huo Lin had carefully nurtured for half a year had fallen off completely.
But even though he looked thin, he was visibly fierce when he fought.
An orphan, especially an orphan who has been good-looking since childhood, can grow up to this age not by relying on the sympathy of others.
It was only after he married Huo Lin that he put away the sharp thorns he relied on for survival and turned from a little hedgehog back into a soft little lamb.
With Huo Lin caring for him, he no longer needs to stick out his thorns.
Several middle-aged men who were a generation older than Jian Ning didn't get any good results. Jian Ning slapped them on the face several times, and many parts of their bodies were in pain, making them howl.
Jian Ning was ruthless, but this advantage didn't last long. He was injured in the car accident, and his head, which was wrapped in gauze, was aching slightly because of the current action. The pain in his head made him a little unstable.
Coincidentally, the Huo family's uncle, who was furious at being beaten, pushed him fiercely at this moment.
His head hit the tombstone and the pain suddenly intensified. In addition to the pain, a suffocating dizziness also followed.
Jian Ning touched his forehead in a daze, and the next second, he saw blood on his hands.
I heard panicked shouting and arguments of blaming each other, and finally—
It was the sound of a police sirens coming from far away.
Before these people came, Jane Ning had already called the police.
The evidence he collected was enough to get these people shot or sent to jail.
The sound of sirens and the sound of people fleeing in panic became increasingly blurred in Jane Ning's ears. Jane Ning ignored the sounds and only tried to crawl forward a little.
When he crawled to Huo Lin's tombstone, he sat up panting. His bleeding forehead touched the tombstone, staining the white tombstone red bit by bit.
The crisp sound of redstone hitting the monument rang out again.
Jian Ning raised her hand, touched the photo on the tombstone, and whispered very softly: "Huo Lin, wait for me, okay?"
He is a staunch atheist who does not believe in reincarnation or cultivating for the afterlife, but at this moment, he only hopes that God can have mercy on him once and let him meet Huo Lin again.
He had never told Huo Lin that Huo Lin was not the only one who fell in love at first sight.
The wind blew. What was louder than the sound of redstone hitting the monument was—
The sound of forehead hitting a monument.
Time and space became ethereal in an instant, and the vague consciousness returned to complete darkness. The tombstone and red stone were soaked in blood, like a silent record.
—
I don’t know how long it took, but a ray of light broke through the air and pierced through the chaotic darkness.
Jian Ning shivered and woke up in the chill that chilled his entire body. As soon as he woke up, he felt that the whole world was upside down, not only upside down, but also shaking!
"Yo, the little cub is awake."
A rough voice sounded, and then Jian Ning shook even more violently. His head swung in the air for a few seconds, and the urge to vomit came over him uncontrollably.
He spat out twice.
The milky white liquid that was spit out splashed onto a big hand, and the calloused hand suddenly threw him away as if it had been electrocuted.
Jane Ning flew half a circle in the air in a parabola and was then caught by another hand.
This time, his head was no longer facing the ground and his vision was clear.
In his clear vision, Jane Ning saw the woman who caught him. The woman was wearing strange clothes and there was a horrible mark on her right cheek.
At the woman's feet lay a dead body.
There was more than one. In this strange, cabin-like environment, there was blood and fresh corpses everywhere.
Jian Ning: “!”
Jian Ning subconsciously wanted to speak, but he tried so hard that his face turned red, and he could only utter a series of "Ah, ah!"
The childish sound and his own short arms and legs that just came into his sight made Jane Ning look as if he was struck by lightning, shocked and confused.
While Jian Ning was still confused, the woman holding him had already put him on the lid of the trash can and began to examine him: "Tsk, this little cub is so pitiful. It's such a young age, and he's still wearing this cheapest red glaze necklace."
As the woman spoke, she pulled off the redstone necklace from Jane Ning's neck and threw it to her companions to see.
The companion looked at the necklace and laughed: "Such a poor little cub is rare. Let's send him to a good family, which is also a good deed."
The redstone necklace was passed around for a while, and finally, it was thrown to the ground by a short man.
Jian Ning didn't bother to study his short arms and legs. His eyes followed the necklace and finally stopped on the blood-stained floor.
The woman searched his body but didn't find anything valuable, so she lost her patience and said, "Karl, let's go. The Eagle's information is probably not accurate. This transport ship is just an ordinary ship. There is no treasure at all."
They had already looted all the valuables on the ship, but these were not as much as they had looted in previous robberies.
"Well, load up everything and kill the cub while you're at it."
As they were talking, they quickly packed up the property they had just looted. Seeing this, the woman holding Jane Ning also pulled out a dagger.
Before the cold light of the dagger reached Jane Ning, there was a sudden loud noise outside.
"Fuck! The Fitz Group's spaceship is coming!"
"Retreat quickly! This group of people loves to rob other thieves. If we run into them, our lives will be in vain!"
"It's so damn unlucky to run into them here."
Although the group cursed, their panicked expressions showed that they were very afraid of the group that was approaching. The spaceship that was approaching them was covered with black skulls, and there were a few crooked red characters written on the hull:
Go to hell!
This pirate organization called the Fitz Group has another nickname, which is a few words written on the hull of their ship: Die.
They all went to the Death Star Pirates Organization, which roamed in space all year round, committing many evil deeds and becoming notorious. Their colleagues had to run away when they saw them.
The woman who was about to stab Jane Ning was obviously shaking, she put away the dagger, turned around and ran away. Before running away, she threw Jane Ning into the trash can.
Jian Ning: “…”
Jane Ning, who was listening to their conversation with her little ears perked up, kicked her legs unwillingly in the trash can.
He naturally heard that the bad guys who wanted to kill him were now running away. And the reason they were running away was that a group of people who were worse than them were coming!
The group retreated quickly, and within a few minutes, there was no movement outside the trash can.
Jian Ning was lying in the trash can, trying to shake it to topple over, while thinking about his current situation and ways to survive.
His current condition, to use a trendy term, should be called: rebirth.
He was reborn as a little cub.
Reborn as a little cub... maybe he can find Huo Lin who is a few years older than him. In this life, he wants to be with Huo Lin since childhood!
Jian Ning thought about Huo Lin, and his short hands burst with strength.
"boom-"
The trash can was overturned, revealing Jane Ning, who had been stripped by a group of space pirates and was left with only a pair of shorts.
Jian Ning's forehead was red from the knock. He didn't even bother to rub his head, and he quickly crawled out of the trash can. After crawling out of the trash can, he quickly crawled to his necklace.
The redstone necklace was successfully grasped in Xiaopang's hand, and Jian Ning smiled twice with his crescent-shaped eyes. After laughing, he turned around and prepared to crawl to a safe place to hide.
But as soon as I turned around, a pair of long legs appeared in front of me.
Looking up along the long legs, Jane Ning saw a big man with a beard. The big man looked down at him expressionlessly. He was wearing a black hat with white skull patterns all over it.
Jane Ning's face froze: "Ah."
Finished.
Worse villains are coming.
He was afraid that he would have to be reborn again.
(End of this chapter)