Experience in building a branch of Crab Castle King in Hong Kong and Heilongjiang

Lao Liang's full name is Liang Lihui, a native of Yuefu, Longguo, whose ancestor was a certain Wing Chun master with the surname Liang.This person was young and Dangerous when he was young, sold arms, ran on the battlefield, started a company, planted avocados, and finally picked up a little mixed-race girl to play with, and sold her when he grew up ( Note: more than once).

For Taketori Che, Lao Liang is as kind and kind as a second father.Although he was temporarily entrusted by his ancestor Kuro Hirata to save himself back then, the relationship between the two of them in the next few years was a real father-daughter relationship.

As soon as he came to the United States, he met his master who had lost contact with him for several years. Taketori Che was very happy.

——She lay on the window and wagged her tail, her palm almost smashing the glass window of the taxi by accident.

"You take it lightly! The bigger the point, the more stupid you are!" Lao Liang yelled in Cantonese dialect, trying to stop her rough behavior, "Get in the car!"

"Oh."

Taketori Che accepted the criticism of "the older you get, the more stupid you get" as if nothing had happened, rubbed his head, and didn't ask Lao Liang why he wanted to see him so much, but opened the door and got in the car.

The taxi drove away, leaving the underground garage passage of the airport.

Taketori Che sat in the co-pilot seat and took out his mobile phone, and sent a message to Lin Fan and the others to report that they were safe, and asked them to go to the North American branch by themselves, as he had other things to deal with.

Lin Fan quickly replied to the message. The seemingly ordinary inquiry message contained a secret code that only two people knew.The code came from a dialect joke in a remote place in Longguo, and most people would not think of it for a while, so Taketori matched the code accurately, and he was relieved.

"Who was that guy just now?" The mixed-race girl asked her master, "Hacking skills are good, and the way of escaping is also very skilled. Where did you find the talent?"

"It's a deal, that person is Aiden Pierce." Lao Liang replied while driving, "Chicago's private law enforcer hacked into the ctOS system headquarters a few years ago, causing a major power outage in Chicago all night, and lost Tens of millions of dollars. Have you heard of that?"

"Oh! He did it!" Taketori suddenly realized, remembering the international news feed he saw one morning, which said that Chicago had a power outage overnight due to "some unknown reasons" and it was repaired all night. Xiaodi was taken aback.

——Our majestic free country, a shining beacon of democracy, and a great country with blue waves in the industrial field, the colored people living here can no longer breathe. How can there be such a long blackout night?It turned out that someone was causing trouble!

"Well, let's not talk about him, I've already paid the final payment." Lao Liang didn't turn his head to look at her, the light from the street lamps on the expressway shone through the glass again and again on his wrinkled face, making the light and shadow mottled , more vicissitudes.

But some things don't change.

Taketori Che suddenly realized this, and now she is no longer the ignorant young girl she used to be, unable to understand the emotion in this man's eyes.

What is he chasing... For years, he has been running around in foreign lands, looking for someone or something that does not know whether it still exists.

In fact, the two haven't seen each other for so many years. In the past, they used to call and insult each other verbally. If they really want to get along face to face suddenly, they will be a little unfamiliar and unaccustomed.

While driving, Lao Liang tried his best to find something to say: "My boy, a few years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the days when you pestered me for sweets seemed like yesterday... Time flies so fast. "

"Yeah, I was surprised too." Taketori Che took a deep breath and couldn't help asking, "Master, where are you taking me?"

"I don't know... Uh, I'll take you for a ride in New York." Old Liang answered heartily.

"???"

Nighttime New York City rides at three in the morning?Still go to great lengths to let big hackers hack into my phone and "invite" me out?

As expected of you, Master.

Yes, this is Taketori Tetsu's master, sometimes even he himself doesn't know what he is doing.

But without exception, all his actions affect the "fate" of this land.Because his ability is to "tie the string" for others, but he can't do it for himself... Although it is a bit troublesome, it can still come in handy occasionally.For example, asking a long-established hacker to deliver letters for him or something.

"Xiao Che, how have you been in recent years?"

"It's so-so, working for others to make ends meet." Taketori Che talked about the working life of the port mafia, and thought of that person again... her expression dimmed a little inadvertently, but she quickly cheered up, "Master, how about you?" ?”

"It's okay, I used the money I earned to gamble, and my luck is not good, and I always lose." Lao Liang scratched his gray hair with one hand, and smirked, "But I don't owe as much money as before. "

"That's good. If you need money, just tell me." Taketori Che changed his sitting position, twisting and twisting under the seat belt a little uncomfortable, "You are now driving a taxi in New York for a long time?"

"No, have you forgotten the side effects of my ability? I can't stay in one place for too long."

"Yes."

At this time, their car passed by Manhattan Island far away. The Statue of Liberty on the island, holding a torch and a book, stood quietly under the night, and the 24-hour lights that would not be extinguished shone on her body, casting a bronze-colored light.

This is reminiscent of the famous scenes in Hollywood movies where various natural and man-made disasters knock down the statue that symbolizes this country...

Taketori Che couldn't help turning her head to look. Speaking of which, when she was in the society in Los Santos in the past, she hadn't really come to New York like a tourist to visit the "Lighthouse of Freedom" attractions.No way, there is still a distance between the east and west coasts.

Seeing that she was engrossed in watching, Lao Liang stepped on the brakes and stopped on the side of the road with double flashing lights, letting her watch as much as she could at once.

Taketori Che got out of the car, stood on the side of the road and took out his mobile phone to take a few photos of the Statue of Liberty.Lao Liang walked up to her, with an unlit wrinkled cigarette dangling from his mouth, speaking indistinctly.It's the same with old smokers, and it's terribly uncomfortable not to smoke for a while.

"Does it look good?" Master asked.

"It's okay. The feeling of visiting here is relatively large."

"Next time I will take you to see the Great Wall and Terracotta Warriors."

"You say that every time. In the end, I went around outside the Potala Palace and came back."

Taketori Che replied casually, and soon found that the surrounding wind was too cold, and Master's lighter could not be ignited.

"Why is your lighter so bad... I'll help you."

"I can't help it. The pure gold anniversary Zippo you gave me was mortgaged by me for my gambling debt..."

On the streets of New York late at night, the master and the apprentice lit cigarettes while watching the scenery. The strange thing is that they didn't feel bored or too lonely.

So the supernatural person ignited a blue flame at his fingertips, put the five fingers of one hand together to block the wind, and carefully lit a cigarette for the master with the other hand.

Successfully lit a cigarette.Taketori Che dissipated the ghost flames from his fingertips in satisfaction.

"Thank you. Your ability is still so useful." Lao Liang thanked him habitually, and then took a deep breath, the white smoke that he exhaled quickly drifted in the cold wind.

"Not as useful as you."

"Don't flatter me, silly apprentice."

"No, I really feel that way." Taketori Che smiled cutely like a child, "After all, it is the ability to manipulate fate. Who wouldn't be envious if I said it."

Old Liang shrugged his shoulders noncommittally, and took two more puffs of his cigarette, as if he had a grudge against this thing.

The girl turned around and continued to take pictures. It was rare for her to come here with her master, and she was not in a hurry to go back to the stronghold to join her subordinates.

"Little Che."

Taketori Che, who was holding a mobile phone, heard the master calling himself this.

She turned her head and met the man's complex and somewhat quiet dark eyes, the light of the cigarette flickered on and off in the dimness. .

"Actually, before I came to the airport today, I thought about this meeting many times, and I also thought about what to say to you. But it wasn't until after the meeting that I realized that those words don't need to be said... because you have grown up, You are no longer the kid I remember."

Taketori Che was stunned.

"And I'm old too." He laughed wryly at himself.

Taketori looked at him blankly, the long-lost feeling of being surrounded by the warm sea brought tears to her eyes.

"Master, master! You are not old! You are still so handsome!"

The mature-looking mixed-race girl threw herself on him, put her arms around Master's thick shoulders, couldn't hold back her tears like a child, and sniffed.

"Actually... all these years, I miss you so much."

Lao Liang was taken aback by her, and almost choked on the smoke—after all, he was hugged by a ten-year-old girl whose body and mind had not yet developed, and a beautiful 20-year-old girl who was almost unrecognizable. The feeling was completely different - he raised his hands in a bewilderment, not knowing whether to hold them back or stroke Taketori's head like before.

But in the end, he still pressed the back of Zhucheche's head slowly and slightly unfamiliarly with his palm.

"I know." He said, "I miss you very much too. But...Silly apprentice, who is bullying you with your expression?"

Liang Lihui was a man with a rough appearance but a sensitive heart, otherwise he would not be able to control that seemingly slender ability, not to mention that Taketori Che was a child raised by him.In other words, he can clearly distinguish the different meanings when the puppy moves its tail to the left once or pats it three times to the right.

Taketori Che's current expression was like that of a poor kid who lost a fight outside, hugging him aggrievedly and complaining.

The girl was obviously stunned, then shook her head frantically: "No!"

"No way, I lied to Master like this." Lao Liang continued to lament, "There is only one possibility to hide it like this... trapped by love, right?"

Taketori Che remained silent.She couldn't figure out what was going on in her heart.

"Do you want me to 'match string' for you?" Lao Liang asked with concern, "As long as you can afford the price, even the richest man in the world can help you 'tie' you to develop a romantic relationship."

Damn, the first half of the sentence is okay, but the second half is what a master should say?

"No need, your ability has no effect on him." Taketori Che replied sullenly.

Old Liang caught a message from it: "Ah, I thought it was 'her'."

"...Master, what are you thinking?!"

"I don't mind if you like girls."

"That's one thing to say, I want to see a male teacher's wife."

The straight male master raised his eyebrows: "Fuck...don't want a male mother."

"I'm going to do it!" Taketori Che made a fuss, but it wasn't too annoying. In fact, she would only make a fuss like this in front of her master.

"This is really impossible." Lao Liang smiled wryly, and patted the top of her head, "Forget it, let me tell you a story. It will save you from worrying about my life every day."

Taketori Che immediately calmed down, blinking his light blue eyes: "Oh."

"A few years before I met you, I actually stopped being a mercenary temporarily. I opened a foreign trade company and did some import and export business."

"Then what were you doing, Master?"

"What to do? Fall in love, get married, what else can you do."

"Eh?! Didn't you say that you are neither married nor have a wife!!"

"I lied to you before."

Lao Liang's life was not full of stories of beatings and killings from the beginning.

When he was very young, he went to Xiangjiang with his parents to develop. He only went back to his hometown in Chancheng to live with his grandfather during the winter and summer vacations. He also learned boxing at that time.Who would have thought that later, when his family was in decline and his parents divorced, when his rebellious energy came up, Lao Liang would run away from home and go into society.Influenced by a series of classic movies at that time, many young people in Xiangjiang dreamed of becoming a loyal young and Dangerous boy, and Lao Liang was also such a reckless and passionate young man.It's a pity that after working for a short time, he was chased and killed because he smashed a private date with the boss's woman and the club's double-bonus red stick.

In order not to be killed by his own people, he had no choice but to temporarily hide in Southeast Asia on a smuggling boat, and started his mercenary career there.

In the dark years of fighting and killing, he was still an ordinary person without supernatural powers, until he met the person in his destiny.

"She comes from a certain tribe in South America. She is that... rare, very special woman. We met because of a mission, and you don't even know how captivating the wild and dangerous beauty she carries soul-stirring."

"Wow! So cool!" Taketori Che continued chatting with his master while lying on the railing by the side of the road, "So she developed your ability?"

"Well... anyway, it was awakened because of her."

Speaking of this, Lao Liang did not show a smile on his face, but still had a melancholy expression, "Although I became a legendary supernatural being, I only wanted to be with her at that time. I...I will never I didn’t want to pick up a weapon and risk it for a little money, so that’s when I became timid.”

Lao Liang fell in love with that woman whose life experience was mysterious and everything was unknown. Fortunately, she also loved him.

He gave up his life of continuing to be a mercenary, but opened a foreign trade company. He used some of the contacts he had accumulated before, and his life was enjoyable.

However, this kind of happiness only lasted for less than three years, and the mysterious woman bid farewell to Lao Liang because of some reason that she had to go back.After that, Lao Liang waited and waited until the other party did not come back beyond the agreed time limit before deciding to go to South America to find someone.

"I hired Nathan Drake, a well-known explorer in the industry, and his brother. The three of us worked hard and finally found the isolated tribe deep in the jungle. But the strange thing is that the tribe The people said that my lover had never returned, and they even suspected that we murdered their saintess, and tied us up to kill them for divination... But in the end, Nathan and the others were experienced and skilled , We all escaped."

Having said this, Lao Liang stopped, stretched out his hand to hold the remaining half of the cigarette, shook the off-white ash, and watched them blow away with the wind.

"All the clues about her come to an abrupt end here. Sometimes I wake up alone in the middle of the night and think of that woman. I have also wondered whether those stories back then really happened, or just a love affair I imagined."

"So all these years, I still haven't given up looking for her."

He wanted to find that person, not to blame her, but to ask her where he had been all these years, why he didn't come back to find him, and to say "Long time no see".

But it is such a simple wish, but it may not be realized in this life.

Lao Liang has held the "fate" for others all his life, but in the end, he still can't hold his own "fate".

Taketori Che looked at the lonely-looking master in front of him, and suddenly understood something.

"You used supernatural powers...to attach to the banknotes? Then scattered them out, and used the banknotes to find people all over the world for you?"

She was astonished.

She finally had an explanation as to why Master loves to gamble even though he is so unlucky.

Old Liang smiled, his smile looked tired in the cold wind.

"Most people in this world can't resist money," he said. "It's just an experiment."

But he persisted for more than 20 years for this attempt.

"Actually, good boy, Master has told you so much, but I just want to say that there are signs of the emotional changes between the two of you. She seemed extremely restless and painful a few months before her disappearance. Although I was very worried, it was not Especially understand the details. Thinking about it now, if I don’t just pay attention to her in words, but actually share the pain for that person... Maybe the story will be different?"

Taketori Che listened and fell silent.She inexplicably remembered that thunderstorm night not long ago, when Osamu Dazai hugged her and said to her in a pleading tone that he had never heard before, "This is the last time I will tease you", what was his mood?

...I can't imagine it.

Obviously it's just a superior-subordinate relationship, and at the beginning, it was nothing more than a pity for talents because they coveted their military strength and work ability.

Now that the four-year contract is about to expire, he can leave that black-hearted company, but this feeling of pain and reluctance is magnified to an uneasy level day by day.

Why does it feel like my heart has been cut by a sharp knife when I heard that sentence?

"So, Master, can pain be transferred?" She asked wearily.

"Of course not, my silly apprentice." Lao Liang bent down and patted her on the shoulder like an old father who sees through everything, "but you can share the good stories and bad stories for that person. In this way , he might not be so desperate."

Seeing Taketori Che's still blank expression, Lao Liang sucked the last puff of his cigarette and asked her with a smile, "Do you remember the first time we met?"

"What? The first time we met? I don't remember."

"I still remember."

Lao Liang collected himself and told her, "You were still young that year, and I was hired by Mr. Hirata to look for you in the ruins of Ifran town. When I pulled away the collapsed bricks and stones of the house, you were lying there , covered in blood, as if it would not be surprising to die the next second, but your eyes calmly reflect the color of the sky."

"So I asked you in Arabic, boy, what are you looking at."

"You were four years old and said, 'I'm watching death.'"

"I was taken aback and asked, 'What's beyond death'?"

Having said that, Lao Liang smiled and patted her head.

"You say: 'There are injured people.'"

"From that moment on, I understood, Taketori Che...you are a gentle and spiritual child."