Chapter 69 "If you do not abandon me, I am willing to acknowledge you as my sworn father." (Second chapter upon release!)
Along with the sound of the Tuberculosis Rabbit's voice.
The players surrounding the sleigh scattered in all directions, exchanging glances without a word, merely hiding to one side with snickers.
Naturally, no one took the Tuberculosis Rabbit's words seriously.
Nor was there anyone audacious enough to speak up and say, "I want it."
"Hey."
Looking at the scene before him, the Tuberculosis Rabbit nodded in satisfaction, "Now I can finally understand the feeling of those who drive luxury cars to dinner."
Yi was about to store the sleigh back in his backpack, but the Tuberculosis Rabbit insisted that he must park the vehicle in front of the door.
Which is the current situation.
Indeed, it turned out as he expected.
Many people were observing their sleigh, checking what made this world's first vehicle so special.
"It's just a bit of a pity."
The Tuberculosis Rabbit looked around regretfully, "The restaurant's class is a bit low, there's no valet to park the car, and I've got a classic line left unsaid. I wonder when I'll have the chance to use it."
"Let's go."
Chen Yi casually patted a child's head by the roadside, playfully tweaked his nose, then strode towards the sleigh and slowly ascended under the watchful eyes of the public.
He then shot off into the distance, leaving behind a long, colorful trail of rainbow flames.
Just like a rainbow after a rain.
Quite spectacular.
...
Before long, they returned to their own neighborhood and, as usual, parked the sleigh on the rooftop of their building.
"Here you go."
Chen Yi pushed the twice-cooked pork and potato rice he had been carrying towards the reindeer, "You gonna eat this?"
He bought two servings of food, ate one himself, and took the other with him.
He decided to pack a serving for the reindeer after seeing it seemed to resist the oddly flavored carrots in the Sands of Time Map, which led him to a theory.
Maybe the reindeer didn't actually like those ordinary carrots.
Maybe it would eat anything that didn't have an odd flavor.
That's why he tentatively took a serving of rice for the reindeer to try.
The previously listless reindeer suddenly looked up at Chen Yi with disbelief and bright eyes when it saw a portion of twice-cooked pork rice being slowly pushed in front of it.
Seeing Chen Yi nod and gesture for it to start eating,
The reindeer's eyes instantly reddened, tears welling up, and it let out a long howl to the sky.
"Meh!!!"
Then, with a flash of human-like excitement and exhilaration in its eyes, it buried its face in the lunchbox and started gobbling up the food, looking as ravenous as a ghost that had been suppressed under Five Fingers Mountain for five hundred years.
"You really like it that much?"
A look of surprise flashed in Chen Yi's eyes, and he couldn't help but laugh, "It seems that aside from those carrots, you're quite fond of everything else?"
"Our future teammate cook might have to prepare a meal for the reindeer as well."
When he stored the reindeer along with the sleigh in his backpack, the creature would fall asleep but wouldn't be in absolute time stasis, meaning even when inside the backpack, the reindeer could still get hungry.
He had to take care of the reindeer's diet.
After all, if the reindeer had any issues due to hunger, that meant the vehicle would be out of commission.
It wouldn't be easy to catch another Santa Claus's reindeer again.
Luck doesn't come knocking on the door every time.
"Well, how do I put this..."
The Tuberculosis Rabbit stood still with hands in pockets, looking at the content reindeer with a strangely colored expression, and murmured, "If only the reindeer could speak, I feel like it would be on its knees thanking you right now and preparing a little speech."
"Adrift in life, lamenting not meeting a great master."
"Should you not reject me, I wish to acknowledge you as my adoptive father."
It must be said that the reindeer's current state really does fit this little speech.
You could see it.
If this No. 2378 reindeer known as Five-Spice told the other Santa Claus's reindeer about its treatment with Chen Yi, they would probably all defect and come to Chen Yi's side the next day.
Then they would wait eagerly at his doorstep every day for him to feed them.
After the reindeer was satisfied with its meal, burping contentedly and collapsing back on the ground,
Chen Yi only then put the reindeer and sleigh back into his backpack and headed downstairs, "Let's go, when we get back we'll upload the post, and then get ready to sleep."
...
However, as they arrived at the door of their home, they suddenly saw the hallway in front of their door blocked by about seven or eight people.
All holding machetes with unfriendly looks, as if ready to start a fight at any disagreement.
"Get lost."
The Tuberculosis Rabbit took a step forward, flicking away his cigarette butt at Scarface, who was leading the group, with irritation, "Do you understand me? I'm tired and want to sleep."
"I don't want to kill anyone before sleeping; it tends to lead to nightmares, get it?"
Scarface's face went cold as he looked at the cigarette butt that fell at his feet. He said nothing, but stepped slightly back, revealing a middle-aged man in a suit standing behind him.
"Good afternoon to you both."
This middle-aged man in a suit casually pulled out a property certificate from his suit with a mischievous smile, "We are all civilized people; we should talk reasonably. This certificate is for this house of yours."
"You two have struck it rich now."
"But have you forgotten that you're renting this house?"
"I've come to collect the rent; that wouldn't be a problem, would it?"
"No matter where this issue is taken, even if it's to the Law Enforcement Bureau, I'm in the right. Isn't that correct?"
"Huh?"
Tuberculosis Rabbit was taken aback for a moment, then immediately rolled up his sleeve and pulled out a Claw Knife from his chest, pointing it at the middle-aged man in front of him, "Have you come here to cheat your Grandpa Rabbit?"
"We paid the rent for a whole year at the beginning of the year, and there's still over half a year left before it expires. What are you coming here demanding rent for now?"
"Big brother."
The middle-aged man in the suit spread his hands with a helpless look and said, "Go out and have a look, brothers. You need Points for practically everything these days, right?"
"Not everyone has so many Points on hand. We're all tight for them."
"Can you still pay rent with cash now? Of course, it has to be calculated in Points!"
"5000 Points for a year's rent."
"As soon as you two pay the rent now, I'll leave immediately. Otherwise, you two definitely won't be able to return home today and will have to move out temporarily."
"..."
After Chen Yi glanced at the other tightly closed doors on both sides, he looked up with slight weariness at the few people in front of him, "You weren't our landlord before, were you?"
"Hmm, I just bought this property a few days ago, so I'm the landlord now."
"Alright, 5000 Points, right?"
"Come here, I'll transfer it to you."
The middle-aged man in the suit froze for a moment, but without overthinking, he walked over immediately. However, to be on the safe side, he added another sentence, "I have relatives working at the Law Enforcement Bureau."
"Everything I'm doing now is legal."
"I believe you know how to make the right choice."
"Hmm, I know."
Once the middle-aged man was close enough,
Chen Yi heaved a sigh and pulled out a sniper rifle from his chest with an arm as straight as a Sword Cultivator's, and fiercely aimed straight at the man's eye socket and thrust!Nôv(el)B\\jnn
"Bang!"
Under the enhancement of doubled physical fitness, the middle-aged man barely caught sight of something stabbing at him and had no time to react,
While his body immediately stiffened and fell straight backwards, heavily crashing to the ground.
However, just as Chen Yi pulled out the sniper rifle and calmly held it to walk toward the remaining people in the corridor, the middle-aged man who was lying on the ground suddenly stood up shakily.
"Dammit..."
The middle-aged man in the suit, clutching his blood-gushing eye socket with a ferocious and hysterical expression, stared at Chen Yi with bulging eyes and screamed, "You killed Ya!!!"
"You killed my Ya!!!"
Chen Yi frowned, but upon seeing the "Lucky Child of the God of Love" title above the man's head, he understood what had happened.
The judgment must have taken effect.
The man's woman had taken the Fatal Strike for him.
The woman died, and the man was revived.
"What a hassle."
Chen Yi sighed lightly, weighed the sniper rifle in his hand a few times, and then again stride towards the middle-aged man!
So, he was alive again? No problem.
Just kill him one more time.
The doubled physical fitness made killing these little Carlas as simple as slaughtering chickens.
He definitely wouldn't open his mouth for 5000 Points, let alone 5000 Points, he wouldn't give these people even 50 Points.
He could easily give away 50 Points, but he wouldn't let himself be extorted for even 10 Points.
Open his mouth once, and there would be many more times after that, and these people would cling to him like persistent plasters.
Since they had planned to extort him, they must have been prepared for death, right?
"I only wanted to collect some rent; I didn't plan on killing anyone!"
The middle-aged man in the suit screamed uncontrollably with a voice swelled with pain, "Yet you killed my Ya, and now you want to kill me!"
"Then let's die together!"
As his voice fell,
The Prop the man had been keeping in the right pocket of his trousers was abruptly activated!
Then—
The hallway suddenly plunged into darkness, as a somewhat sinister woman's laugh echoed intermittently in everyone's ears.
"Hmm?"
Chen Yi stood still with a slight frown and calmly said, "Damn."
But this time... his title seemed to have failed, as no light erupted from it.
The surroundings remained pitch-black.
Before he could make any more moves, he heard the laughter suddenly go from distant to near by his ear.
"Giggle... giggle."
Immediately after, he felt a warm breath by his ear and a cold hand abruptly placed on his back, creeping towards his neck.
Chen Yi didn't turn his head; he just weighed the sniper rifle in his hand and then thrust it full force behind him!
"Pfft!"
It was as if he stabbed something, and yet it felt like he hit nothing.
But soon, the darkness dissipated, the woman's laughter ceased, everything returned to silence, and the real scene before his eyes was revealed.
Along the corridor,
The middle-aged man in the suit and the seven or eight men with machetes had all shrunk into a corner, their bodies violently trembling, clutching their necks and screaming incessantly.
"Get out, get out!!!"