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Chapter 152: Subtle Things

"What is Senior Bai Ge doing recently? I can't see him during the day." Kong returned to the dormitory with his staff, feeling tired from the wind and sand. He was confused to find that someone was gone.

"It's the same in Texas recently. No one can be seen. Bai Ge went to the Guard Bureau, but she ran to the slums... There was something wrong when these two met..." The Archangel who followed behind also found something wrong.

Croissant, who hadn't gone out today, looked worried: "Um... everyone, Texas has been acting a little weird lately. She almost had a fight with Bai Ge the last time she met... I've never seen Texas like that."

"Ah? No way? Why?" Exia and Sora were very surprised and couldn't understand. Because these two people's personalities didn't seem like they would quarrel.

"It seems that because Operator White Dove said that he would go out one day and didn't know what the boss would think, Texas said that Mr. Great would not keep him and Penguin Logistics didn't need him. White Dove looked like he was punched, but he left without saying anything."

"…Is this what Texas would say?" Exia frowned, "Croissant, are you sure you heard it clearly?"

The Fengti girl nodded. She felt bad. Normally, everything was normal in Texas, but once Operator White Dove was mentioned, something started to go wrong...

They were at a loss as to what to do: "Did he and Texas know each other before? That's not right. Texas obviously didn't know him when they first met..."

Even if they were, they knew nothing about Texas' past.

The Angels were feeling low because of the incident between Ling Dengxian and Texas, while Ling Dengxian felt hopeless when faced with the few books on the table in front of him in the Guards Department.

"Longmen Traffic Law, Guard Bureau Rules, Weapon Care Manual... I have to finish reading these today?" Ling Dengxian was a little annoyed.

"Well, I don't have that much time. I have to patrol and investigate cases during the day. Don't think about leaving until you finish watching tonight. I will supervise you." Blue-eyed Filin pulled a chair over and sat opposite him. Seeing that Ling Dengxian was trying to find an excuse to slip away, he knocked the meteor hammer he brought with him on the floor. Ling Dengxian was startled:

"Police Sir Shi... Shi Huaiya! It's Police Sir Shi Huaiya! Won't you damage the floor by doing this?"

"You have a problem? I can fix my office myself!"

"Sir Shijing, repairing it also requires materials..." Ling Dengxian said with a smile.

"Do you doubt that I can't afford the money?" Shi Huaiya laughed angrily without even paying attention to the issue of address.

"No, I mean I can run errands for you..." Ling Dengxian quickly indicated that he didn't mean that.

"And then you take this opportunity to run away, right?! You think I can't see through your little tricks after working in this business for so many years, right?!" Shi Huaiya's forehead was throbbing with veins, "Start now!"

"It's not just about reading. You don't have to memorize the content, but you have to remember at least 80% of it!"

Ling Dengxian sat back on the chair where Shi Huaiya usually sat with a gloomy face, opened the book and began to read as if he had resigned himself to his fate.

Seeing that this guy finally calmed down, the film girl looked down at the communication terminal in her hand with a sigh of relief, and quickly swiped the screen to send a message to a user named Lin:

"Fortunately, I can hold him down. Don't worry."

That night, a Zalak girl curled up in her bed, staring at her cell phone screen for a long time without saying a word.

Her fingers were a little cold, and she exhaled, but the screen was blurred. She wanted to edit some more messages and send them, but when she thought of Ling Dengxian's image, she felt unbearable disgust and clenched her phone.

The pain that was not physical made Lin Yuxia give up not only the idea of ​​asking, but also the idea of ​​going to the Guard Bureau to take a look.

More than once, Lin Yuxia had to admit that she had bowed to this unknown pain many times, just because she had...

"Uh..." Lin Yuxia put down the communication terminal and had to give up the idea.

"Just don't think about him... Why is this happening? Why do I always think about..." The lingering pain made it difficult for her to bear. Her long legs clamped the quilt tightly. She was not afraid of pain. She performed very well in the pain tolerance test, but this kind of pain was inexplicable and without reason. She instinctively wanted to escape.

Finally I fell asleep peacefully.

In the slums, a black and red figure stood in the darkness of the intersection he often went to, silently watching Jiang Sa and others busying themselves with Ling Dengxian's arrangements. Although there was not much content and not much goods, the conditions in the slums were destined to make it difficult to execute.

"Xiao Jiang, we are repairing the water pipes...those gangs really don't know how to take care of it?" The ones speaking were a group of infected people who had some skills in the past. Maybe their professions were not related, but Jiang Sa still called them here. The leader was a bearded man with thick hooves who was speaking now.

"Mr. Ling said that he had consulted the Rat King, saying that at least the gangsters they can control will not mess around, and as for the other bastards... we should just be patient and give in. We can't not even be able to drink a sip of clean water, right?" Jiang Sa helped hold down a key. These things were bought by Ling Dengxian out of his own pocket. Jiang Sa did not agree with his idea at first:

"Even if you fix the water pipe for us, the people from the water company won't be willing to supply water without money."

"Then give it to them. They are certainly not doing charity, and we should give them the money we deserve." Ling Dengxian shook his head and said so.

"...but we have no money..." Jiang Sa was a smart man. He immediately understood Ling Dengxian's plan, but he did not agree with Ling Dengxian's idea.

"I'll cushion it." Ling Dengxian gritted his teeth and said, he has two jobs now anyway, "Water can't be supplied to all the slums, it should be no problem."

"Rogues from other places will come here... They might waste..."

Ling Dengxian did not respond. He knew it was just a drop in the bucket, but he had made the decision with great difficulty. At least it would make water supply no longer a problem for everyone at the intersection.

"Xiao Jiang... I'm not saying anything bad to you, but we should be careful. After all, he is not infected. Maybe he has no good intentions and is setting a trap for us to jump into..." An infected person who was working idly sat aside and pointed at the water pipe in the tone of an "experienced person". "Maybe after it is repaired, he will send us some poisoned water and kill us all-"

"Yu, you better watch your own business!" Before Jiang Sa could get angry, the leader Feng Ti got angry first.

The other party was not in a good mood either. He pointed at the Fengti man's nose and cursed: "Big Beard Liu, say that again?! I'm the only one here who knows how to properly repair pipes. If you piss me off, I'll turn around and leave!"

"Then get out of here." The man who suddenly appeared said coldly.

Who do you think you are to dare to stand out? The man wanted to say something harsh, but the cold eyes of the Sarkaz in front of him almost suffocated him. It was the breath of slaughtered lives.

“……” As he stepped back, his legs went weak and the man surnamed Yu fell, then fled in embarrassment without saying a word.

Jiang Sa and the others naturally did not dare to act rashly, but when the man turned around, his fierce aura was completely suppressed, and he said calmly: "Do you need someone who can fix the water pipes?"

"...Yes, brother..."

"I will. Do you need my help?"

"Thank you very much!" Although Jiang Sa, Liu Da Huzi and others wanted to say that they didn't expect he could do this, it was still a pleasant surprise.

"What's your name, brother?"

"Wu." Anasa's answer was simple and straightforward.

At this moment, no one cared that he was a Sarkaz.

Texas watched silently, and with a glance he saw several gangsters carrying bricks and approaching the water pipes that had been barely installed before, and silently drew out his lightsaber.

Anyway, I don’t have any tasks today, so I’ll just make up for it.