Merit Book·Xinghai

"The reason why I ran away from home back then was because an adventure group promised to take me to interstellar adventures. In fact, the other party just chatted nonsense and teased me, but I... I was young at that time and had been in school all the time. I didn't study here, and I don't have much experience, so I believed it, and decided to leave them with all my eggs in one basket."

After closing the stall, Muzhe and Shadaao ate together outside the barbecue restaurant on the street.After drinking for three rounds, Shadaao couldn't help asking about Mutel.This matter has also been held back for a long time, and at this time, through the drunkenness, he said it with a drunken eye.

"At that time, my mother was very strict with me. I was afraid that she would not agree, so I left a letter and ran away. I was afraid that they would use the positioning device of the communication bracelet to find me before I left. Even the bracelet was stolen. I smashed it."

Hearing this, Shadao couldn't help shaking his head.Even though he knew that it was his friend's past experience, he still felt that that kid really deserved a beating.

"I saluted with my back behind my back, went to find the adventure group, and said I wanted to go with them. The result... the result, do you know? They all laughed like crazy."

Half a catty...or Mu Zhe poured himself another glass of wine, drank most of it in one go, and smiled wryly.

"The head of the group frankly said that they were just making a joke and had no intention of recruiting people at all, let alone a child who didn't understand anything, and everyone else was laughing at me."

Today's Mu Zhe can already tell these past events calmly, but the young man who was just a fledgling, ignorant of the world, but with higher self-esteem almost went crazy.Every laugh from the crowd was like a knife on his face to him.

"So I jumped up and fought with them. Of course I didn't fight. Instead, I was beaten up. While lying on the street waiting to die, a homeless man saved me. I thought he was a good man, and I thought I waited until I got home and tried to find a way to repay him, but I didn't expect...he actually wanted to sell me to the second floor! You also know what happened afterwards."

Sha Dao nodded, and couldn't help but think of the time when he first met Mu Zhe.

Cats have cat paths, and rats have rat paths.Although a group of people living at the lowest level on Leucas'ao could not afford the tolls to go to each floor, they dug out a smuggling route that belonged to them.In fact, it is to use the sewers, ventilation pipes, heat dissipation pipes and other gaps between floors, and sometimes even change into simple space suits to climb over the outside of the spacecraft.

At that time, Shadao was a newcomer who had just joined the second-tier combat department, and was responsible for arresting these smugglers with his predecessors, and then blocking their smuggling routes.Once, when he was tracking the target, he found a scruffy bearded man dragging a thin boy out of an underground pipeline.

The teenager cried and yelled and punched and kicked, but his resistance was like a cat scratching to a slovenly man.The man slapped down, making half of the boy's face red and swollen.He went to bite the man's arm, but was thrown to the ground and kicked twice by the other party. The boy clutched his stomach and curled up into a ball, so painful that he couldn't even cry out.

Shadao, who was hiding in the dark, knew what was going on at a glance.

Even though the young man is dirty and smelly all over his body and his face is blue and purple, he can still see that he is handsome and handsome.The second layer is doing the skin (rou) business, both men and women.A boy of his age and appearance is precisely the most popular.

Shadao has long been disgusted with this, but he alone cannot compete with the rules of the entire Leucasao.But at this time, the boy has not been sold into that kind of place, and has not been imprinted with an indelible mark for life. If he can be rescued, he is still a free man.

Sha Dao was equally passionate when he was young.He didn't take into account the various unspoken rules repeatedly warned by his predecessors, and rushed to save people without thinking.As a result, he accidentally killed the homeless man during the fight, and because of this action, he annoyed the upper echelons of the martial arts department on the second floor. No one was willing to protect him, so he was finally sentenced and sent to the arena on the first floor to fight.Step by step, from the bottom criminal to the star of the arena.

Thinking of the past, Shadaao couldn't help but think of that handsome young man back then, and then looked at this friend in front of him who was so fat that he weighed at least 200 kilograms, and couldn't help shaking his head again, thinking to himself: Time is really a butcher's knife!Forcibly turning a person into a head... cough cough.

Shadao coughed twice, and asked again: "Then what happened afterwards? Why haven't you gone back?"

"At the beginning, I couldn't save face. I was afraid that everyone would laugh at me when I went back so disheartened." Mu Zhe said drunkenly, "And... you saved me, but you fell into the arena. I owe you, can't not return."

Shadao's hand holding the wine glass froze for a moment.

When he first came to the arena, he had no advantage other than being taller, not even stronger than others.Every time he played, he was beaten half to death and then carried back, and then Mu Zhe, who was dressed like a beggar, would come to the prison crying to see him, and brought him food, drink, wound medicine, and information about the arena , and various fighting training materials.

Most of the people who were sent into the arena as criminals like him died soon. Not many people died directly on the arena, but most of them died of injuries after the game.And relying on Mu Zhena's uninterrupted support, he finally survived stumbling.

At the earliest time, Sha Dao actually looked down on Mu Zhe.I think he is weak, timid, cries a lot, has no abilities, and doesn't look like a man.But after he was able to get out of prison, he realized how lucky he was to have such a friend.

Mu Zhe, who doesn't even have a communication bracelet, is a real black householder. He can't go to many places and can't do many jobs.At the beginning, he could only pick up garbage, sell scraps, and do some hard and dirty work that no one wanted to do. He didn’t even have a decent place to sleep at night. Many nights he curled up in the garbage bin deep in the alley Only later did I dare to sleep, and I was often beaten for various inexplicable reasons.It is conceivable how tormenting that kind of life is for a spoiled teenager, but even if he drinks cold water and eats the leftovers he picked up, he must buy effective wound medicine and send it to Sha Dao.

Although Sha Dao first fell into the arena because he saved Mu Zhe, but with his temperament, without Mu Zhe, he would fall into this situation for other reasons.But without Mu Zhe, perhaps he would have died long ago.

It has long been unclear who owes whom between the two of them.But between friends, why should the distinction be so clear?

After being stunned for a while, Shadaao heard Muzhe hold the wine bottle and say: "...Afterwards, I didn't dare to go back...I didn't dare to face her...I didn't dare to see her disappointed and sad eyes... ...I'm even more afraid that when I go back...she won't be there anymore."

"Day after day, year after year...it has been delayed like this. Until now...I dare not say...I dare not say that I am Mu Zhe, the son who disappointed her...that wayward son The son who ran away from home and left her alone..."

"If she asks me, where have you been all these years? You are so close, why don't you come and see me...why don't you even call me...how should I say it?"

"Did you know? Shadao... I heard from them that my mother searched for me like crazy in those years... She wandered the streets all night and all night, calling my name all the time... ...If it hadn't been for...the person who appeared later, she might have died so alone on the street, not even a person to collect the body..."

Cloudy tears fell into the wine glass. The square-faced middle-aged man was not crying well. His face was distorted, a little ferocious, but extremely sad.

"You said... can I still call her mother? Am I worthy? I don't deserve it!! I'm so unworthy!"

He cried and screamed, and was about to pour himself another bottle of wine, but was suddenly grabbed by the collar and lifted up!

Shadaao pulled him in front of him, and said angrily: "Idiot! It's up to you whether you deserve it or not! What do you think your mother is sitting across from your small noodle restaurant every day to eat? It's not just to look at you! Don't you hurry up and kneel in front of her to apologize and admit your mistake, and you are still struggling with what is there! Go! I will take you to see her now! Ask her if she still recognizes your son!"

Anger and alcohol smelled on Mu Zhe's face, and Mu Zhe looked at him dazedly.After Shada'ao paid for the meal, he dragged Muzhe straight to Mutel's house.Mu Zhe was shocked and struggled in panic, but was mercilessly suppressed by Sha Dao.He begged again that he should go back and change into clean clothes to pack up and come back after sobering up, but Shadao also mercilessly refused.

Shadaol's roar can be heard all over the street:

"Idiot! Do you think your mom would care what you're wearing and whether you've been drinking? Even if you go back with a pile of shit on your back, she'll only be happy that you're finally home!"

Muzhe was pushed all the way to Mutel's house by Shadaao.Knocking on the door, Mu Zhe actually knelt on the ground with a plop.Mutel slapped him a few times, then knelt down and hugged him and cried bitterly.

In the hoarse crying, it seemed that years of waiting, pain, despair, and longing had all been vented together, echoing in the silent night sky.

Looking at the embracing figure with the back of the light from a distance, Rong Yuan's brows and eyes stretched, revealing tender nostalgia in his eyes.

When the two of them cried for a long time, finally stood up, supported each other and walked back to the house, Rong Yuan suddenly said: "Alpha, you should stay too."

Alpha standing behind him was taken aback: "...Master?"

"Stay and live."

Rong Yuan turned around and looked at him, his light brown pupils reflected the light in the night, appearing crystal clear and clear.

"Even if it's... living in a place I can't see."

After being stunned for a long time, Alpha finally knelt down on one knee and said, "...Yes."

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Shadaao asked: "By the way, you later changed your name to Banjin, does that mean [Pang Zhe]?"

Mu Zhe: "Get lost!"