Chapter 40: Change [Asking for Recommendation Votes]

[Legend from Cornell Stokes +25]

Sitting in the small room converted into a storage room, Li Ran couldn't help but raise his eyebrows as he looked at the content that suddenly appeared on the data panel.

The name Cornell Stokes is a little unfamiliar, obviously not a well-known character in the American comic world, but the system shows a lot of legends, even more than the legend number given by Luke Cage in the barbershop, which makes Li Ran a little confused for a while.

In short, no matter what, it's a good thing to have a legend.

Sitting on the bed, thinking left and right for a while, Li Ran immediately gave up this obviously futile approach.

The room converted from the storage room is not too big, and after barely putting down a bed, it is a little narrower at first, so Li Ran is not so picky, just lying on the bed in the moonlight, it didn't take long to fall asleep.

The cards of the system gave Li Ran extraordinary power, but they did not give him the ability not to sleep.

Besides, he's not a daredevil, or a superhero like the Punisher who takes it upon himself to fight criminals at every turn.

No, sacrifice your sleep time to keep New York City safe.

……

The next day, as the chaotic night in Harlem passed.

The sun returns to this place and sweeps away all sin into shadows.

Just looking at the people rushing on the road, Harlem seems to be no different from any other area in New York City, of course, if you ignore the obviously broken glass of the Chinese restaurant, although the thugs who made trouble last night were solved by Li Ran, the damage they left behind in the Chinese restaurant did not disappear so quickly.

Especially the huge floor-to-ceiling window at the entrance of the store, which leaves a big hole, is still Li Ran's masterpiece.

Last night, he kicked the thugs out of the Chinese restaurant, showing his great power and adding some unnecessary trouble to the Chinese restaurant.

Such a large piece of glass, it is also a troublesome thing to replace, so the Chinese restaurant did not open in the morning, and they need to deal with the damage marks left by several people in the store last night.

And Li Ran also fell relaxed and came to the barber shop near the Chinese restaurant.

The purpose, of course, is still for Luke Cage.

"Hey, Ah Xing, good morning."

"Good morning."

In the barber shop, Daddy Henry saw Li Ran walking into the shop, and immediately nodded and greeted him: "How is it, are you still used to working in Connie's shop?" ”

"It's okay." If you ignore the part where he made a big move in the second half, judging from the performance of his previous part-time job in a Chinese restaurant, Li Ran thinks that his performance is not bad, with quick hands and feet, quick response, hard-working and hard-working, and the performance of an excellent employee.

"At least, Mrs. Connie was very pleased with my performance and promoted me."

Li Ran didn't lie about this, he was indeed promoted.

Last night he agreed to Mrs. Connie, and he changed from a part-time job to an employer of a Chinese restaurant, specializing in protecting the restaurant from the harassment of the neighborhood thugs.

"Promotion?"

Turning his head and glancing at Li Ran in some surprise, Henry looked at his serious expression and didn't look like lying, and said a little puzzled: "In this way, you have done a really good job." ”

It's just that Li Ran did a good job to be promoted in just one night.

Henry couldn't help but be curious.

"By the way, why didn't the Chinese restaurant open today?"

After a brief chat about Li Ran's first day of working in a Chinese restaurant, and receiving a lot of questions, Henry immediately asked.

"Because last night a few thugs went to the Chinese restaurant to destroy it, and smashed a lot of things in the store, and they need to be dealt with." Li Ran explained the reason why the Chinese restaurant did not open, completely ignoring that a large part of the damage was actually caused by his actions, no, feet.

Li Ran's answer made Henry in the barbershop and Luke Cage, who was cleaning the windows, subconsciously stop the movements in their hands.

After a few seconds of silence, Henry shrugged his shoulders at Li Ran and made a helpless expression: "Kid, welcome to the real Harlem." ”

Even if Dad tries to maintain the rules of the barbershop and tries to steer the kids in the shop on the right path, he still can't change the fact that Harlem is chaotic.

"Harlem, everybody has a gun, everybody doesn't have a father."

By the window, a silent Luke Cage spoke, giving the most accurate description of Harlem.

"In that case, why not stand up and change here?"

"Change." Facing Li Ran's question, Luke Cage shook his head helplessly, he put away the rag in his hand, and turned to look at Li Ran behind him: "Do you know the past of Harlem, chaotic and poor, countless people die on the streets of Harlem every day, and countless wives lose their husbands and children lose their fathers, Chico's father died like this, Harlem's past is like this, and it hasn't changed much." ”

"The new district councillor, Maria Dillard, took office, but she herself was the umbrella of the water-bellied snake, and it was the water-bellied snake who destroyed the Chinese restaurant, so Harlem never changed, only sank, this is the reality. Change is not something that happens if you, a foreigner who has only been in Harlem for a day and can't even pronounce the name Harlem, will just say it. ”

Luke Cage seems to have a lot to say about Harlem but didn't.

"I'm just an outsider to Harlem, but I also know that change doesn't happen out of thin air while sitting at home and waiting, those street gangsters are using violence to affect Harlem, why can't someone use their own way to stop these violence, so as to change, if you don't do a lot of things, you never know the result. If you don't have a dream, what is the difference between being a human being and a salted fish? ”

After a bowl of chicken soup, Luke Cage's expression visibly faltered slightly.

Standing aside, Daddy Henry also unconsciously clenched his fists, looked at Luke Cage's appearance and opened his mouth, but in the end he chose to remain silent and handed over the choice to the other party.

However, he soon restrained his emotions and reverted back to his previous taciturn appearance.

"You don't have to talk to me so much, I'm just an ordinary cleaner." He shook his head, picked up the bucket in his hand, and was about to go inside.

"No, you're not." Stretching out his hand and stopping Luke Cage, who wanted to leave, Li Ran looked up at this tall figure and said categorically: "I can feel that you are not an ordinary person, you are the one who has the power to change this place and change the fate of Harlem that continues to sink in your mouth." ”

[Legend from Luke Cage +55]

[Legendary from Henry +25]