pretend to be a boss

Chapter 138 The third wish

The huge encirclement net is gradually shrinking, and the people at the bottom have not yet understood what happened.

This battle is just like the riots at the bottom decades ago, even more exaggerated than that time.

After all, there were no trial knights who looked so indifferent at that time.

Looking at everything around him, Liu Lang shook his head with a wry smile and said:

"Miss Li, I'm sorry, I can't help you this time."

Li Xiaoyu nodded calmly and said:

"Boss Liu, I hope to see you again in the future."

Despite the great momentum, it is just a game for rich people.

Liu Lang believed that Li Wanye and Li Zheng would not do anything to their relatives in the end.

Li Xiaoyu walked towards the back street.

The avenue, which was a little empty in the past, now looks oppressive and chilling because of the large number of defenses.

Liu Lang walked towards the gate of the blacksmith's shop. In this situation, he could only adopt a frank and lenient attitude, hoping to save himself from suffering.

The time is two hours.

Li Xiaoyu's idea is very simple, as long as he can hold on for two hours, he can forcefully leave, and after arriving at the mining area, he will work with Akas and the others to find a way.

Li Zheng seemed to see through his sister's thoughts, he shook his head and said:

"Xiao Yu, don't think about doing stupid things. The trouble is over, it's time to go home. As long as you are willing to go back, Dad will not pursue anything."

In Li Zheng's eyes, it was his own irrationality that caused unnecessary troubles with his younger brother Li Xiaonian.

He thought he understood Li Xiaoyu.

From the age of fourteen to eighteen or nineteen, everyone may have a rebellious period during this time.

He has opposing beliefs and worldviews with the adults in his family, and wants freedom, recognition, or love.

But in the end, after all, it is back to the family.

Some are quick to compromise.Some people use it for years, or even decades.

But it was the result after all.

"Go back." Li Zheng said.

Li Xiaoyu shook his head:
"You and I both know that after we go back, no matter whether father pursues it or not, I will have no way to leave Li's house."

Seeing Li Xiaoyu's appearance, with a little haggard look in his eyes, Li Zheng said distressedly:

"This is a game, you have a period of time to live the life you think you want, but when you are found, it should be the end of the game.

Look at you, you are in such a mess now, why is it still the little princess of my Li family? "

Li Zheng then became more gentle:
"I will beg my father to lift your restraint earlier."

Li Xiaoyu knew that she was in a mess, and she didn't like it either.

Wearing dirty and old clothes, some injuries that have not faded can still be seen on the body.

Like a well-raised Persian cat, after a month of wandering in the dirty streets, it gradually turned into a stray cat.

"I know that you have been accommodating me since I was a child. Brother, thank you."

Li Xiaoyu thanked Li Zheng very earnestly.

From her point of view, it was already a bit inconceivable that Li Zheng could be persuaded by Li Xiaonian.

This may be the most irrational decision my brother has ever made in his life.

"This time... I can't accommodate you. Come back with me, Xiaoyu, be obedient."

"I know. But I also know that Dad is not so easy to talk to, and none of us can convince him. This time, there is a rift between me and him that cannot be repaired, unless I marry another family .”

Li Xiaoyu shook his head and said firmly:
"So I'm not going back."

"But this is your life! Just a few months ago, didn't you agree to such an arrangement? No matter which family you marry, at least your life will not be too bad in the future. "

Li Zheng said with a serious expression:
"If you don't want to go back, I can only take you back by force. The entire ground floor, every street, is actually blocked by defense. This is Fort 39, how can you escape?"

Li Xiaoyu, who was already surrounded by guards, heard more guards' footsteps at this time.

Li Wanye has already arrived with the rest of the defense.

The person with the highest status in the 39 fortresses, before the fortress can open up the eighth floor, he can even be said to be the highest-status person in the world.

When seeing Li Xiaoyu, Li Wanye didn't look angry, on the contrary he had a faint smile.

Just like the father who played hide-and-seek with his daughter and found his daughter.

"Girl, come back with me. Don't let so many people see the joke."

Li Xiaoyu stood alone in the center of the guards.

She suddenly smiled, and the chilling atmosphere was not diluted.

"Father, I don't want to be like my mother. In the future, I will live a life of being respected as a guest with someone I don't love, and being insignificant after others."

This sentence is like a thorn.

Li Zheng's complexion suddenly turned ugly, but Li Wanye didn't change at all, and said with a smile:
"Your mother, at least you don't have to worry about food and clothing, and you don't have to worry about your children's future. You don't have to dig mines like these people, but you may not be able to dig out enough to eat three meals a day."

"I said that in the end of life, there is only whether it is suitable or not. It doesn't matter whether you like it or not. You will understand in the future."

Li Xiaoyu lowered his head, looking at his blurred shadow reflected on the floor:
"You always say that when you get older, you will accommodate, but if you accommodate, does that mean those regrets have disappeared?"

Li Wanye still smiled and said:

"A life without regrets is a lie. The only difference is whether there is a small regret or a lifelong regret."

"If in the future, the person I live with is Tang Xian, I will not regret it."

Li Xiaoyu raised his head and looked at Li Wanye with unyielding eyes.

Li Wanye, who was always smiling, finally frowned.

"People of the Li family, I have to swallow the great regret! No matter who you marry, this is something you must accept, as long as it is beneficial to the family and the fortress. What I can do is to give You find the best people."

Li Wanye continued:
"I'll give you one last chance. I hope you can follow me back decently instead of being taken back."

This stubborn father-daughter dialogue seems to be coming to an end.The guards also waited for orders to arrest.

Li Xiaoyu didn't speak any more.

Li Wanye, who she looked at fearlessly, put her hand on the portable teleportation crack, without any hesitation, directly patted on the teleportation crack.

But unlike the gentle orange rift entrance in the past, when the target is detected, the portable teleportation rift does not teleport away the target, and the entrance does not show irregular distortions and dangerous red.

She stood firmly at the entrance, raised her slender arms, and poked straight, as if she would poke in at any moment.

Li Zheng said urgently:

"Xiao Yu, are you crazy! You can't enter the crack at all now."

Li Xiaoyu calmly felt the terrifying vortex-shaped energy at the other end of the crack, which seemed to be able to split everything.

If you leave the mining area for less than ten hours, you are forced to use the teleportation rift. This danger is equivalent to staying in the mining area for seven days.

The first version of the teleportation rift does not have a safety mechanism. Once used in this situation, the body will be forced to inhale until it is cut.

Subsequent technological improvements provided an insurance mechanism for the teleportation rift.Will not send if it cannot be delivered.

But it will still open that terrifying crack, like an entrance to the underworld.

Li Wanye said in a deep voice:

"Do you know what you're doing?"

"Father, is Tang Xian a human being or Eden Devil Boy? This is the biggest difference between me and you. I won't go back until you change your mind.

Li Wanye finally got angry and shouted:

"What did he do to you? You want to like him so much?"

This question made Li Xiaoyu slightly startled.

What do you really like about Tang Xian?

And why do you like it so much?
Li Xiaoyu thought about these questions in the past, but he never got the answer.

Until today, when her father led a large team and forced herself to make a choice, she only vaguely understood.

Li Xiaoyu shook his head and said:

"Father, since I was a child, I have been doing one thing, and I want to become better."

"I started to learn all kinds of survival knowledge when I was six years old. I know that my talent is not as good as that of my brother, so I can only do my best in the pyramid."

"When I was about ten years old, you started to expose me to various businesses. Although they were all small businesses, I always regarded these things as your test for me."

"I want to get your approval, and I want to be like my brother and become someone who can bring prosperity to the Li family. It's not a commodity that can only be traded for another family's friendship."

"I'm working hard for this. I revitalize the inconspicuous and dying businesses in the family one by one. I learn how to bring wealth to the family every day."

"I often watch my mother cry and look at the north in the garden. The pyramid is like a cage, blocking her sight and missing. She lives the most exquisite life every day, but she is still depressed."

"She would occasionally say to me, Xiao Yu, you have to work harder, surpass your older brothers and younger brothers, and become the best person in this family. Only by doing that, you will not be like your mother in the future."

Li Wanye was slightly stunned.

Li Xiaoyu's expression was so resolute:

"I have never had any friends since I was a child. It has something to do with my own personality. But if you think about it carefully, what's the point of making friends?

"How many times can you leave the pyramids in your life? Except for the owners of the fortresses, how can others suffer the loss of self-demotion in order to meet a friend far away? If this is the case, why should I go to meet people?"

"The more I grow up, the harder I work, and the better the business, the more hesitant I feel. Because no matter what I do, I can't seem to change my life."

"When I was 12 years old, I went to the school district. This kind of thing was unnecessary, but it was just a one-time process, but I am still very grateful for the encounter that year."

"Father, have you seen the scene when the students in the school district graduate?"

When Li Xiaoyu asked this, his face was full of sadness and mockery:
"Those people who seem to be close on weekdays, when they learned that their talents are different, the relationship between them has also changed greatly.

The gap in talent can directly subvert a person's perception of another person for up to six years.

It's like a genius with full marks in every subject, but a trash without talent, who is obviously ten times stupider than him, but can laugh at him wantonly.

The relationships in the past also began to break down one after another, leaving only a very small number of contacts.

Everyone at the bottom has dreamed of changing their destiny with the test of heaven's election.

But no matter how hard they tried, in the end, even if they broke away from the bottom, they still could not change their fate of being enslaved.

It's just another place.

I have also thought about it.

If I didn't have the relationship with the Li family, I would probably be just an ordinary employee on the third or fourth floor.

Living an ordinary life may still be the envy of many people.

The boss can only be someone with higher talent, and he looks at me with eyes full of superiority.

It seems that people like us are born to be despised by them.

Do you know why those thriving family businesses fail?Why was it revived by me again?

In fact, it is very simple, that is, there are many people who can really do things, but because they have no talent, they are never reused.

Some talented people will only grab their credit and have nothing else to do.

I just expelled those talented people and gave opportunities to those who can really do things. They were grateful to me, so those family businesses slowly came to life and even prospered.

But that's all I can do for them.

Presumably after I marry the other Bastions, they will probably be replaced soon.

Because all the criteria for judging us in this world can't compare to the slight difference in talent. "

Li Xiaoyu smiled softly, but she smiled with vicissitudes:

"it's so funny.

Human beings are like the animals in the Colosseum. What everyone cares about is whether it has the ability to tear apart the opposite side. Who cares how much business this animal can do and how good its moral character is?
We are obviously human beings, but what measures our value in this world is our ability in another world. "

Li Xiaoyu's voice gradually gained momentum.

In the quiet street, it looks loud.

These words have also reached the ears of many low-level people.

When the imprisoned Liu Lang heard this, he couldn't express what he felt, and for a moment the owner of the blacksmith's shop felt sour.

"So I was wrong, and my mother was wrong too. Without any effort, I can't change my destiny at all..."

When talking about this, Li Xiaoyu tried his best to maintain his composure, but his eyes were still blurred with tears:

"Brother is destined to become a hero of the mining area, a hero of mankind. And me, no matter how hard I try, no matter how well I do, I am just an ordinary person with two talents.

In your heart, I will always be just a commodity waiting to be married off in exchange for family benefits. "

Li Xiaoyu took a deep breath, and his unwillingness burst out like a tidal wave:
"It's like these low-level people. They are waving their mining picks hard, trying to dig out their own destiny bit by bit.

They spent thousands of days and nights with one ax and one chisel, naively thinking that they could change their own destiny and the destiny of their family if they became regulars.

But in the final analysis, they just changed the way of being squeezed.If you go to a higher level, you will not be recognized.

Because in this world, what measures our excellence is simply not something we can change through our efforts!It is something we are destined to be unable to change since we were born! "

Li Xiaoyu's voice was like a cry, full of pain and unwillingness.

Li Wanye's eyes were deep and dark, and his expression became more and more cold.

"I've met a lot of people over the years and everyone is trying to compromise the system as much as they can.

But it is precisely because of such and such regrets that I believe that in our flesh and blood, we are pursuing freedom and equality, not a tool to fight for the pyramids in mining areas.

You asked me why I like Tang Xian, because he has lived out the attitude I want.

He was just a low-level temporary worker without talent, but no matter where he went, whether it was in the mining area, at the bottom, or in the 669 school district, Tang Xian was always able to live according to his own ideas.

I can't be like him, but at least I can choose to like him and yearn for him. I want to be by his side, even if I live a humbler life than now! "

After Li Xiaoyu finished speaking, he moved his hand closer to the crack vortex again.

She could already feel the powerful force from another world in the crack, absorbing her life bit by bit.

Her determination moved everyone.

Li Zheng suddenly discovered that not only did he not understand Li Xiaonian, but he also did not understand Xiao Yu.

But he also knew that these words would not change anything.Because my father's faith was also unshakable.

Li Wanye's expression turned cold, and he said:
"Do you know how many people heard your remarks just now? These remarks are the same as those of the rebels decades ago. I thought you would be sensible. You really disappointed me.

This is the social system in which we have survived for hundreds of years.Everyone came here like this, as long as the mining area is still alive, talent is our most precious wealth.

You have proven your worth, and I have seen all your efforts. There are some things that I don't want to tell you here again.Now I want you to close the teleportation rift and come back with me. "

Li Wanye took a step forward:
"Think about your friends. If you go back with me today, I can stop pursuing their collusion with Eden Devil Boy. If you continue to go your own way, their life will be very difficult."

Li Xiaoyu shuddered.

"The owner of the blacksmith shop is also your friend, right? Including Dongran who has been with you for many years, and the doctor you met before.

I don't know if they can change their fate, but now their life is in your hands.If life is gone, don't talk about fate! "

Older gingers are more spicy.Li Wanye's few words instantly disintegrated Li Xiaoyu's determination.

She was suddenly tired.

In fact, I already knew that no matter how hoarse I shouted, I couldn't get approval and understanding.

Just still a little reconciled.

It was as if all the rebellions in my life had gathered on this day.

If I can't change anything even today, probably after many years, I will become like my mother, living with some kind of self-pity.

After a long time, Li Xiaoyu looked at the front blankly, and gradually retracted his hand.

After a while, she lowered her head and closed the teleportation rift.

Li Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, finally Li Xiaoyu didn't do anything stupid.

"Take Xiaoyu back."

As soon as Li Wanye gave an order, six guards began to move.

The guards didn't dare to get too close, Li Xiaoyu was just surrounded by crowds, walking away feeling a little lost.

The farce finally came to an end.

Although Li Wanye was dissatisfied with making too much noise, time would smooth everything out.

Many years later, when people comment on Miss Li Er, they will probably still remember this scene.

But these people will not remember what she said after all.What they envied was still the exquisite life she lived.

Maybe I will mock it, the lady of the rich family just eats too much.

In fact, what Li Xiaoyu said today did not fail to impress Li Wanye.

It's just a pity that the person my daughter likes is Eden Devil Boy.This is the only thing that cannot be compromised.

The streets were silent.

There was only the sound of the guards walking in the brigade, and after a while, these sounds gradually faded away.

After the large group of people walked for a while, people from the bottom gradually poked their heads out from everywhere, looking into the distance with a sad expression.

Their destiny is different from that of the rich lady at the top, and it is difficult for people in the two worlds to communicate.

It's just that just now, when the girl uttered her unwillingness loudly, everyone was in a trance for a moment.

Some parents held their children and wept silently, praying that their children would not be a useless person without talent like themselves in the future.

There are also elderly people who are very old and want to yell, but they can only cough hoarsely.

There are also young people who have just retired from the school district, with resentment and unwillingness written all over their faces.

This group of people gradually emerged from the block, not too many, not as good as the bustling time on Degenerate Street in the past.

There were dozens of people rustling, all staring into the distance in a daze.

Looking at the Second Miss of the Li family surrounded by guards, watching some figures gradually disappear in the direction leading to the entrance of the level.

Their expressions were different, and most of them were a little sad and depressed.

But at this moment, someone suddenly called out, as if seeing something strange.

One after another, the group of people exclaimed one after another, and everyone saw a strange look in their eyes.

The light in the pyramid is sufficient for 24 hours.Even when simulating nighttime.

But at the end of people's sight, the large group of guards was suddenly enveloped by a huge black.

It's like a ink-soaked brush, with one swipe, it neatly draws a black line in people's sight.

This darkness is so absolute that the light from the pyramids seems to be unable to penetrate at all.

People looked at the scene in the distance in panic, at a loss.

……

……

It was suddenly dark.

In the pyramid without day, night and seasons, this has never happened.

All the guards stopped unexpectedly.

Li Zheng looked around, but he couldn't see anyone.

Only the breathing of the guards and the engine of the Judgment Knight could be heard.

Vaguely, Li Zheng seemed to have heard a sinister laughter.

Li Zheng's complexion changed, he thought of something, and shouted: "Keep in formation! Enter a state of alert."

Li Wanye's ring also flickered for a while, but it was as if the darkness could swallow the light source, and soon there was only absolute darkness left in his sight.

A terrifying sound came, like metal being torn open, Li Wanye was shocked, and also thought of the monster mentioned in the council, he said:

"Protect Xiao Yu!"

There were continuous sharp sounds of metal friction and fracture.

Li Wanye's ring also kept conveying some messages.

He didn't know what was going on with the absolute darkness, but he knew that there was a monster dismantling the trial knights one by one.

The thick darkness made the guards dare not act rashly.

Only let some unknown existence in the darkness tear apart the trial knight bit by bit.

The roar of the trial knight is also gradually decreasing.

That terrifying laughter began to invade people's hearing.

It's just that the voice is too ethereal, as if that person can move quickly in a very short time.

This is a speed that is simply impossible to have in the pyramid.

In just one minute, Li Wanye felt that several trial knights had lost contact with him.Among them were some guards' cries of pain.

The laughter gradually stabilized, as if the monster had stopped within a certain range.

At the same time, a hand covered Li Xiaoyu's mouth.

Li Xiaoyu instinctively wanted to break free, but suddenly heard a familiar voice, very soft, just next to her ear:

"I work one day a year and I'll never get fired. I ride a reindeer and my shadow is reflected on the moon. Who am I?"

Li Xiaoyu's eyes widened instantly, as if his tired soul was infused with vitality by this voice.

"Shh, don't talk, I'll take you away first. Will you come with me?"

Li Xiaoyu nodded vigorously, and the tears that had been stopped fell down again.

Amidst the terrible laughter and the roar of the Judgment Knight, she took someone's hand.

She was at a loss in the bright moment before, but in the moment of absolute darkness, she felt at ease like never before.She didn't have to think about what would happen next, and she didn't have to think about what would happen to Dong Ran Qiao Shan Shan Liu Lang and the others, because when this person came, all the troubles would definitely be resolved.

She finally couldn't hold back:
"I have already said goodbye to the pyramid, Tang Xian, take me away."

A claw shot out, and a hand suddenly wrapped around Li Xiaoyu's waist.

That voice was still close to Li Xiaoyu's ear, with gentleness and ridicule:
"Is this the third wish?"

"Yes."

"Very well, Ben Santa said yes."

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Tomorrow is Qixi Festival, everyone, please be safe.Especially single boys, learn to protect yourself~
(End of this chapter)