Chapter 12: Choices (Part II)
The night always brings uneasiness and fear to people, and in such a city, everyone is working hard for their future life during the day. Ben came to night, and when he returned home, he could take a rest, relax himself, let his tired body get some leisure, and think about the gains and losses of the day. But for this city, such a night does not exist, the night is the main theme of the city, and the day is just a foreshadowing for the night of the city.
Zhang Yongzheng picked up the envelope, but he didn't expect it to be the letter that his grandfather gave him, and after tearing it open, he took it out:
Dear Yong'er
Open this letter, it means that you have caught that blue butterfly, it is my family's guardian beast Mingyue Blue Butterfly, which has been accompanying this family and guarding us. Yong'er, when you get the recognition of the blue butterfly, you get the strength and ability of the blue butterfly that surpasses ordinary people. With the ability given to you by Blue Butterfly, all the kung fu and swordsmanship I taught you before will be greatly improved, and these powers will be able to be experienced by Yong'er herself in the future.
Reading this, Zhang Yongzheng almost shouted excitedly, he had no doubts about the power of the family, but he still didn't expect that there was such a power hidden in the family, it was incredible. With such strength, who else will you be afraid of, Gao Qiao, you wait for me, and Qin Yuehua, it was because he didn't have the strength before. Now that there is such power, it is time to take back everything that belongs to you. Calm down a little excitement and look down.
Yong'er, you have to remember that this power was given to our Zhang family by God, and it must be used to protect this city. The night of the city is not peaceful, the night of the city is riotous, and the night of the city is even more riotous. Yong'er, you must use this power to protect the night of this city, so that every night of this city can be peaceful. Since the establishment of Shanghai County in the 29th year of the Yuan Dynasty, the stability of this city is guarded by my Zhang family, which has continued until the Republic of China, the city has developed too rapidly, and is directly under the central management. Our Zhang family had to gradually withdraw from the historical stage of Shanghai, but in such a prosperous city, the night is the most unpeaceful, and everything at night is handled by the Zhang family. The same is true of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which has been continued, and then after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the night of the city is also strictly forbidden. The heavy responsibility of guarding this city is becoming easier and easier, but for this city, our Zhang family must pay our lives to protect its stability, and we cannot ignore it for a moment. The power of the government is limited after all, and there is still a lot of darkness roaming and rampant in the city. Yong'er, if you get the approval of Blue Butterfly, you must stand up and use your life to protect the city, and you must not dishonor the honor of your family.
Seeing this, Zhang Yongzheng was shocked by these histories, and was also intimidated by his grandfather's stern words, but he soon sobered up. Grandpa's idea is really strange, there is something I need to help with in such a prosperous city, I am about to lose my job, and soon I will not be able to eat, so I will not go to do what a nameless knight of the night, I have a sick head, so I will not go. Think about it casually, put this passage out of your mind, and read on.
Yong'er, everyone's mind at night is to return to that warm home, eat a warm meal, and experience the joy of home. Blue Butterfly chooses you, you don't deserve such enjoyment. I know that Yong'er is kind-hearted and it is difficult to punish the wicked, but you must do this. The warrior in the night is lonely, lonely, and you must bear this loneliness. Do you see the clothes in the box? Nine Butterflies Black Trench Coat, wrap your hot heart in this trench coat, showing only indifference and ruthless means, and all the wicked people who destroy the stability of the city must be mercilessly killed. That mask, the Blue Butterfly Wood Set, was made from a branch of a thousand-year-old iron tree, and it was extremely cold. Only when you get the power of the blue butterfly can you take it with you, otherwise you won't be able to resist its cold at all. Put it on, erase your face with a joyful and sad expression, and only a cold and heartless face. There is no personal affection for anything, only right and wrong, life and death.
Seeing this, Zhang Yongzheng realized that this matter was not a joke, not to mention that his grandfather would not joke with himself, but he had changed his thoughts about his life after leaving the city for all these years. It turns out that his family has always been burdened with such a mission, the Night Warriors, which sounds a little mighty. But it doesn't fit into the modern city, it doesn't fit into such a social system, can it really kill people, and if it's wrong, will it die? Shake your head and continue to read.
The stronger the power and the more outstanding the ability, the more trouble there will be, but how to hide, after all, you can't hide from the prying eyes of others. The world fears the power of others, but it expects it to itself. It is even more so that he can not show this power in front of the world by unscrupulous means. My Zhang family has been in this city for hundreds of years, but in the end, it was destroyed because of this power. In that catastrophe, grandpa injured his life, and it can be regarded as the running out of the oil lamp, and your father was also seriously injured, even if he was cured, he did not have the strength to protect the family. You can only let your parents take you away from the city and hide in a deep mountain to live, maybe this will allow Yong'er to live safely. If it was really possible to hope that Yong'er would not return to the city, the family had borne this fate for too long.
However, Yong'er, since you have opened this box and read this letter, the wheel of fate has been connected, and the mission still falls on your shoulders as you wish. Then you have to stand up and bravely carry this responsibility on your shoulders, no matter how dark and lonely the road ahead is, you must bear it. This is the task given to you by your grandfather, and it is also the mission given to you by your family. This is the glory of the family and must be passed on.
There is one more thing, which must be the thing that your parents expect the most, but before leaving this city, I was stopped by my strict words, and it is also your grandfather and I owe them to them, that is, your sister Cher. In order to ensure your safety, let your parents take you away to live in the mountains overnight. That night, Cher was unfortunately lost, and your mother cried and cried to find it, but I reprimanded her. Yong'er, grandpa doesn't know the mood of being a parent, not to mention that Xue'er is still my granddaughter. In order to ensure your safety, you must give up. This is what I owe them and what I am most ashamed of to your family. Yong'er, you get this power, I hope to help grandpa fill this void, and grandpa will feel relieved when he knows about it. For your sister's trace, there is a lotus flower inside the box, and finding it will allow you to find Cher's whereabouts.
Yong'er must become a true warrior of the night, and must not disgrace the glory of the family
Zhang Huizong
That night, ominous night
After reading this letter, Zhang Yongzheng felt indescribably sentimental in his heart. Imagine yourself being such a big family in the city, and overnight you become nothing, and all these years have passed, and almost everything is a thing of the past. Even if I came back this time, it was just a love word, and I didn't expect such a fate to wait for me. It is no wonder that after his family went to live in the mountains, his mother washed his face with tears every day, and his father's health was even worse day by day, and the two would have a quarrel every late at night. How loving the parents used to be, when did they have a quarrel. And whenever I want to play with my grandfather, I am always scolded nonsensically. I can't see that lovely sister all day long, and every time I ask, my mother will cry, and my father is even more embarrassed.
This scene appeared in front of his eyes, tears had already wet the letter, he reached out and picked up the wooden mask, and the cold feeling spread throughout his body. How I want to use this ability to solve my own problems, to figure everything out. After so many years of study and life, he is no longer a child, and the original family has the guard of his grandfather, and the protection of his father who is in the prime of life, but it is still overturned overnight. How can such a force deal with it now? And from the words of the grandfather, it can be seen that there is a high respect for the responsibility of the family, and there is no room for any blasphemy. Knowing this responsibility, I didn't dare to take it over at all. It all came so fast, and after a storm, everything would be so fast for you.
Zhang Yongzheng put the wooden mask away, and the tear-soaked letter was put back in the envelope, put it back in the box, and closed the box. Sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze, I really thought it was a dream, and nothing came. In the face of these, how to go? Now I can understand why my parents told me not to go back to this city, it turns out that there is a different fate waiting for me here. Maybe they will go to live in the mountains, and so many years of forbearance and hard work may be in vain. I wanted to tell my mother these things, but it seems that I had better not say anything about it yet, so as not to worry her.
One night was speechless, two days passed, everything was calm, Zhang Yongzheng avoided the black box every day, escaping his fate. The wheel has turned, and nothing can be avoided by one person who wants to.
That morning, Zhang Yongzheng woke up a little early and couldn't sleep anymore, so he got up and prepared to go to the company. Because I have been thinking about some things about myself recently, it is inevitable that I will not be distracted and negligent in my work, and I have been called by the editor-in-chief to talk about it a few times. I just want to arrive at the company early today, which can be regarded as good-looking, and I look more diligent since I was younger. I just arrived at the company, sat in my seat, and worked hard for a while. Zhao Shumin rushed in, and when she saw that Zhang Yongzheng was alone in the company, she shouted urgently: "Fortunately, there is a living person, Xiao Zhang, haven't you been following a few people from the camera to go out, you should know some shooting, right?"
An inexplicable sentence made Zhang Yongzheng not know how to answer, here Zhao Shumin picked up the work bag and grabbed Zhang Yongzheng, "Hurry up, you won't want to, but there is big news." ”
As soon as he heard the big news, Zhang Yongzheng's whole body jumped up, and he could finally do some work. Just packed up something, picked up a camera and rushed out, and the two of them hurriedly shouted a taxi downstairs. The taxi is suffocating with black fumes, like poison from the mouth of the Grim Reaper, but it can move through the city without any fear.
The sky was gray, and the morning glow had not yet risen in the east, and the silence of the morning was broken by a "bang-" sound, and white smoke rose from the muzzle of the gun, like the smoke of burning paper on a graveyard. The morning sun that had just risen, but ushered in such smoke, the gunshots rang out, a piece of red flowed to the ground, and a very fat man wearing this steel hat and black armed police uniform fell in a pool of blood. It's also strange to say, how can a person covered in fat wear this police uniform. This gunshot broke the tranquility of the past, and the big city, which was originally calm and prosperous on the surface, began to become no longer calm.
This is a cash cart, usually with two armed men holding a rifle in their hands, looking at the big black robbery, the dark muzzle, like a bottomless black hole that will take people's lives at any time. With such an armed force, who would dare to hijack the cash cart. But just this morning, the cash cart was temporarily parked at the intersection of Binhai Avenue, and an obese escort wanted to buy something to eat. A gunshot rang out, the fat escort fell to the ground, and at the turn of the road, three bandits wearing black hoods came out, one holding a pistol in his hand, and walked over with black gas. Another escort saw that his accomplice was killed by a shot, and hid in the car and did not dare to come out, let alone fight with the bandits. A bandit walked up to the car and shot the car open, pulling the car driver down. The escort knelt on the ground with his head in his hands, his legs already wet, obviously scared to pee. These are the two of them, one is full of fat and can't even walk steadily, and the other is as timid as a rat and can be scared out of the urine. The two men came to escort a cart full of bills, either because the city was too peaceful, or because the city didn't pay attention to security at all.
It was ridiculous that the three bandits looked at this trembling whole body and incontinent, but they were wearing clothes escorted by force. One of the bandits put his right hand on his neck, quickly pulled it over, and ordered the man to be killed. Then a gunshot rang out, and the white smoke, the black Grim Reaper, took away a living human life.
"Explode the escort car, there is not much time. ”
"Big brother, why be nervous, the police in this city are idiots, they can't find them when they have something, and when they have nothing to do, they will go to the civilians for trouble, otherwise I won't be so easy to do. ”
"Haha...... It's also said that the little ones have a fortune today. ”
Originally, this kind of cash car needs a car made of steel plates more than ten centimeters thick, and there is a safe made of steel plates more than ten centimeters thick in the carriage. The cart only had a layer of leather less than ten centimeters thick. With some effort, the three bandits sawed open the door of the car, and there were more than a dozen small safes inside, and it was obvious that the money was inside. The three bandits laughed and began to snatch the money from the car.
Such a loud gunfire was in the city again, but there was no movement, everything was unusually quiet. Originally, a few people who were walking around the street immediately hid when they saw this scene, and those who didn't go out didn't dare to go out. A huge city, such a bustling street, usually bustling with people, but now there are only three bandits here to grab money, and there are two dead bodies lying on the ground, two people who can't be escorts at all, in peacetime earning a piece of money that does not fit their identity, but now they are giving their lives, but this street is occupied by three bandits, becoming a stage for them to show their talents. But it's a little ridiculous, this street has tens of thousands of people, but it was seized by three bandits who did not enter the stream, and all of them became turtles with shrunken heads.
A few faint whistles, a bandit said a little anxiously: "Hurry up and clean up, the police will be there in a while." ”
"I didn't expect this group of idiot policemen to come so quickly, and this group of even more pus-filled citizens, since they still know to call the police. One of the bandits sarcastically sarcastic.