Chapter 6

In the silence, there is only the sound of rain falling.

Ji Jue looked at all this sluggishly, and after a long time, fell on the threshold.

Exhausted to death.

"What the hell is this!"

He pried open his stiff five fingers, threw the railing he was holding tightly to the ground, and looked around—the desolate yard was still silent. Fortunately, Ji Jue's house was relatively remote, and the two neighbors on the left and right had long moved away, otherwise, he didn't know how much chaos would be caused.

He held the phone in his hand, and several times, wanted to call the police, but the moment the number was dialed, he hung up again.

Call the police?

How to call? What to say? An old man broke into my house, ate my white-cut chicken, smashed my door and refrigerator door, and wanted to eat me? Corpse? Oh, burned to ashes, it's in the mud, you take a look, I am absolutely innocent, I am self-defense.

Is it useful?

For more than ten years, Yacheng's security budget has become less and less, public security has become more and more chaotic, and the police have become more and more human-like. It is said that the new Viceroy couldn't stand it, and when he first took office, he planned to outsource all police station business.

Moreover... it turned into ashes.

Ash.

Ji Jue looked at the two tattered clothes and sighed powerlessly.

What are you trying to do?

It's fine if you pedaled a tricycle to hit me yesterday, and today you came over to gnaw on people... In the end, you suddenly turned into ashes and disappeared!

Why!

Just to come and say "brother, you are so fragrant" to me? And then leave a permanent psychological shadow for an unlucky child?

Are you crazy?!

No, that appearance is indeed not sober, from beginning to end it was full of madness, and... that scarlet spiritual quality that ordinary people absolutely don't have, like a living thing, no, it's more like a parasite hidden in his shell.

What kind of ghost is that?

Just in bewilderment and panic, he felt his phone vibrate, and the cracked screen lit up, revealing a familiar name, which made him stunned for a moment, and then his heart settled.

Lu Feng!

Brother Feng served in the Middle Earth for four years, rolling in that mud pit and being a paratrooper, and came back whole. Although he never mentioned those past things to others, judging from the dense tattoos and those medals thrown to his younger brothers and sisters as toys, this kind of thing must have experience.

"Hello? Brother Feng!"

Ji Jue answered the phone, summoned his courage: "Listen to me, I..."

"Little Ji, are you free now?"

Lu Feng's voice on the phone was hoarse: "Come to Cici Hospital."

He said: "Mom had an accident."

Ji Jue shivered.

Struck by lightning.

Half an hour later, unable to take care of his head and face, Ji Jue, who had changed into a set of clothes in a mess, rode his eight-hand small motorcycle, waded through the accumulated water, and rushed to the hospital.

In the hospital, which was almost crowded with people, temporary beds were set up everywhere in the corridor, and the air was filled with a musty smell. Although the moldy smell was not obvious after repeated washing, it was still impossible to ignore.

Unable to afford private hospitals, unable to pay the bill of thousands of yuan for a single registration and consultation, the civilians, besides a few public hospitals that had to queue until the end of next year, only had charity hospitals sponsored by the Chongguang Church.

Amidst the hurried running of nurses and doctors, Ji Jue finally found Lu Ma in the corridor outside the clinic.

"Oh, it's no big deal, just a bump, it doesn't matter. That child, Little Dog, just likes to make a fuss."

Lu Ma, whose face was still wrapped in bandages and whose short hair was shaved off by more than half, waved her hand, squeezing out an indifferent smile: "Don't worry, don't worry, Mother is fine."

Didn't see the third and youngest, they should be honestly staying at home doing homework at this time.

Lu Feng lowered his head and said nothing, squatting at the door outside the corridor smoking, holding a slip of paper waiting for the test report.

"What happened?"

Ji Jue looked at the bandages on her arms and the scars on her face, dumbfounded. Lu Ling, the second girl accompanying her, had obviously red eyes, and kept blaming herself: "I should have accompanied Mom to watch the shop last night, it's all my fault, it's all my fault."

Lu Ma slapped her on the back of her head: "You? If there was one more of you, wouldn't it be sending food to the robbers? Maybe robbing money would turn into robbing color!"

Last night, near midnight, a thief pried the door and entered the auto repair shop, rummaging through boxes and cabinets.

Lu Feng went out to drink with his comrades and didn't come back. The second girl was studying at home and taking care of the two children. The only one watching the shop was Lu Ma. After being awakened, Lu Ma glared and roared, holding a wrench longer than Ji Jue's arm, wanting to fight the thief, but two fists were no match for four hands. In the dark, she was hit on the back of the head, fainted, and was almost kidnapped.

If it weren't for good luck, when the thief was moving people, he met the night snack cart that was closing the stall, and was recognized by the old lady pushing the cart, maybe people wouldn't be seen.

God knows where she would be sold.

Thinking of the consequences, Ji Jue felt a chill in his heart.

"Oh, it's okay, small problem."

Lu Ma patted her chest and raised her arm, which was thicker than Ji Jue's thigh, and shook it: "Mother's physique is good, isn't she still jumping around?"

"It's good that it's okay, it's good that it's okay."

Ji Jue didn't know what to say, slumped beside Lu Ma, and stopped talking several times, feeling even more fearful and powerless than his own near-death experience.

For so many years, how difficult it is for an orphan without parents to survive alone in Yacheng is not enough for outsiders to know, but if it weren't for Lu Ma's care and shelter, Ji Jue would definitely have become a dead Ji by now.

Not to mention the unreserved teaching of auto repair technology... Tianmen University is one of the best institutions in Haizhou, one of the five school alliances of the Federation. How difficult it is to get into it and change one's life is enough to make every student feel suffocated. If it weren't for Lu Ma's all-out support, Ji Jue would be a promising Tianmen student now?

Dream of your mother!

Go to the South Station train station and the wharf to cut bags, boy!

Now that he saw Lu Ma was okay, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but when he leaned beside Lu Ma, a prompt that made his hair stand on end appeared before his eyes again.

【Detected abnormal spiritual quality, do you want to absorb it?】

Ji Jue's smile stiffened on his face.

He turned his head with difficulty, looking at Lu Ma, who was pale but still forcing a smile, and swallowed his saliva.

On Lu Ma's body... at this moment, when his spiritual quality activated the watch, he could faintly see dots of scarlet light under the bandage, like mold.

"Lu Ma, there seems to be some dust on the bandage." Ji Jue raised his hand and landed lightly on the bandage, "I'll pick it for you."

The metal matrix-like patterns reappeared from his palm. In an instant of contact, it swept past, all the scarlet disappeared, and then, the matrix faded.

"Ouch, you child, clumsy..."

Lu Ma cried out in pain, and soon, she beamed with joy: "Eh, don't say, it's much more refreshed now, and my chest is not stuffy anymore. Just now when Little Dog was applying medicine, it was like killing his own mother. I have to say, it still needs to be practiced. What is taught in the army..."

"Mom." The second girl pushed Lu Ma, signaling her not to say anything.

Lu Feng, who had taken the test report, came back, with a slight smile on his gloomy face.

"It's okay, Mom, the wound is just a little infected, just get two shots of anti-inflammatory medicine and tetanus." He handed over the report: "But there is a slight concussion on the head. The doctor said to rest, and you should rest at home these days. Brother and Little Ji will take care of the shop."

Lu Ma certainly wouldn't agree. She was still thinking about going back to tidy up the auto repair shop. Lu Feng and Lu Ling could only persuade her for a long time, and Ji Jue also persuaded her for a long time, and finally dispelled the idea.

In fact, including Lu Feng, the four brothers and sisters were not Lu Ma's biological children.

Lu Ma had a serious illness in her early years, and excessive hormones ruined her body, so she never got married in her life.

Including Lu Feng, the four children in the shop were all picked up by Lu Ma from the street. For so many years, she raised them with great difficulty, and the family's feelings were better than biological ones.

Unfortunately, except for the second child who just got into college, none of them were good at studying...

No wonder Lu Ma treasured Ji Jue, who came to work part-time. Since he came, she never had high blood pressure because of the youngest's math and foreign language.

After so many years, she had long regarded him as a family, and never saw him as an outsider.

Now that Lu Ma agreed to rest for a few days, Ji Jue also breathed a sigh of relief.

After persuading, Lu Ling took the slip to get medicine, Lu Feng winked at Ji Jue, and the two borrowed the excuse of smoking and went outside the door, standing under the eaves watching the rain pouring down.

Ji Jue didn't smoke or drink, Lu Feng was an old smoker, a bad habit brought back from the army.

"Thank you for running." Lu Feng thanked: "I was panicked in the morning and have been busy until now, my brain is empty."

"Who are you being polite to?" Ji Jue glanced at him, said nothing, just asked: "Any clues from the police?"

"No."

Lu Feng shook his head, "Relying on those who mess around, hey... let us go home and wait. The license plate number is also fake. White cargo vans are everywhere in Beishan District, and they can't be found at all."

"Any surveillance?"

"There is one in the shop, but it didn't capture the face, and the surveillance outside... it has been a decoration for many years, and it's almost broken."

"..."

In the silence, Ji Jue looked at his watch, and after a long time, suddenly said: "I'll go back to the shop to see, maybe I can find some clues."

"By the way, tidy up, otherwise Mom will definitely not be able to stay idle. If things are broken, repair them if you can. If you can't, don't tell her, throw them away quietly, otherwise she will feel distressed again." Lu Feng patted his shoulder and hugged him hard again: "Thank you, I'll change you to a new computer later."

Ji Jue rolled his eyes and didn't eat this cake at all: "You just want to change to a new computer to play games, right?"

"Hahaha, you guessed it."

Lu Feng grinned, threw away the cigarette butt, and threw the car key to the second girl: "You drive Mom back later, the family depends on you these two days."

"Ah?" Lu Ling was sluggish, staring: "What about you?"

Lu Feng lowered his head and just waved his hand, "I'll go out and ask a few friends to see if there is any situation, I won't be back tonight."

"..."

"Little Feng!"

Watching him turn to leave, Lu Ma suddenly raised her voice, wanting to say something, but after seeing him turn his head, her lips opened and closed, but she didn't know what to say.

It's just that this time she didn't call his nickname.

Lu Feng laughed and waved his hand.

"Don't worry, Mom, I'll just ask."

He turned and left, disappearing into the rain curtain.

Half an hour later, Ji Jue raised his hand and lifted the rolling shutter of the auto repair shop.

Seeing a mess.

From the counter to the shelves, everything was overturned.

It was not as light as Lu Ma said at all, it was completely a life-and-death struggle with all her strength!

Ji Jue pulled down the rolling shutter and walked towards the counter.

The old man who harmed people, the weird blood color, the inexplicable attack.

There are too many things he doesn't understand.