Chapter 4: Confusing
"Old man Zhou, let's have a big bowl of mixed sauce noodles!"
Li Luo walked into the empty small noodle restaurant and sat down at the table sullenly.
This small noodle restaurant is not large, there are only five or six small tables, and the operating table is in a small back room, just because the boss's craftsmanship is really good, all hand-cooked, and cleaned very clean, so the business has been good, and it is quite famous in this old street, and the surrounding people like to eat some noodles and stir-fry here.
"Okay! Big bowl of mixed sauce noodles!"
There was a quick response from the back room, just listening to the voice, it seemed that the man was not young.
After a while, an old man with white eyebrows walked out with hot noodles and a soft smile on his face, but although this old man looked very old, his complexion was quite good, and his complexion was ruddy.
"Li Luo, you sad face, have you encountered trouble again?"
"Hmm, no, I'm fine!" Li Luo replied absentmindedly, and ate the noodles directly.
At this time, it was the afternoon, there was no one in the small shop, and the two knew each other very well, so the white-eyed old man also sat down.
"I said boy, I haven't seen you for two or three days, and you have more wrinkles on your brow than me, which is also called okay?"
Li Luo hesitated, but in the end he didn't hide it from the old man who had been friends for several years, and sighed: "What else can I do? The savings have been spent, and the work is not going well!
When the white-eyed old man heard this, he was obviously a little unimpressed.
"It's hard to mix, you're so young, and you're afraid that you won't be able to eat if you're hungry?
Li Luo rolled his eyes angrily, and his voice raised slightly: "Hunger is not starvation, but I am so young, it is impossible for me to live like you! Look at the current housing prices, how expensive is that! I will have to support my family in the future, how can I live with my current salary!"
"Huh, don't you have a home yet? You don't have parents to support, and the whole family is not hungry when you feed alone, what are you worried about?" After a pause, the white-eyed old man added: "Oh! I forgot, you still have a little girlfriend to raise." ”
"......" Li Luo looked at the white-eyed old man speechlessly, and ate a few bites of noodles. "You don't have to raise it anymore!"
"What's wrong?" asked the white-eyed old man with a smile.
"It's divided!" Li Luo responded pretending to be indifferent, but his heart became more and more sour, after all, he had been together for four years, and this was divided, no matter how strong he was, it was difficult to pass that level.
The white-eyed old man was stunned at first, then slapped the table and smiled: "That's really good, it's long overdue!"
"Huh?" Li Luo instantly stared at him and looked at him suspiciously.
"Ah, ahem......" The white-eyed old man was embarrassed, and hurriedly changed his words to explain: "I mean, so you don't have such a big burden, and you can break into your career with peace of mind!
Li Luo rolled his eyes instantly: "Old Zhou, you don't have a fever, do you? ”
"Hey!" the white-eyed old man was actually happy, but his face was heavy. "How can it be? Isn't your relationship very good? How can you say that you can divide it? I still expect to drink your happy wine, and you give up so easily!"
Li Luo shook his head bitterly, but he was also very calm: "She is beautiful, her conditions are good, and now she even has a better job than me, and I am a man who is not a martial artist, what can I do? She has parents, a family, and she has to live, and she has to face the reality, and she doesn't even have a home with me, so I have no reason to stay!"
Hearing this, Zhou Lao's eyes narrowed, and he asked with a little reproach: "You are so unconfident in yourself?"
"Of course I have confidence!" Li Luo raised his eyebrows and retorted: "Of course I believe in my own tomorrow, but people don't have so much youth to wait! Look at me, I have been practicing the basic internal strength for seven or eight years, and I don't even have the eighth layer of the mortal rank, and I am a waste material in martial arts." You say career, this world, it doesn't matter, no connections, where is it so easy to mix, there is no ten or eight years of hard work, where is there any achievement, the key is my luck, Nima, unlucky enough to buy a lottery ticket and never won five yuan. ”
"That's right, you kid is really unlucky!" Zhou Lao suddenly nodded again and again.
Li Luo put down his chopsticks in frustration and looked at the noodle soup in the bowl in a daze.
"So, I have no reason to stay, and I can't keep it!"
Looking at him like this, a trace of melancholy inadvertently flashed on Zhou Lao's gentle face, but it was fleeting, and he asked instead, "Then do you hate her?"
"Hate?" Li Luo frowned, and then smiled: "I can't talk about it, people gave me the best four years of youth, I paid without hesitation, I didn't get any good life, I hated it!"
Zhou Lao looked at the sadness hidden under Li Luo's smiling face, and didn't ask any more questions, but said, "Then what are you going to do next?"
"What else, work hard to earn money!" Li Luo blinked, forced the tears in his eyes back, took out his wallet and said, "Forget it, Old Zhou! I won't talk to you, I'll go home and rest for a while." ”
"You don't have to pay the money, I'll invite you this time!" Zhou Lao smiled and waved his hand.
"Don't, you're so old, and you don't have any descendants, it's not easy to open a small shop!" Li Luo smiled and put the change on the table, waved his hand casually, and strode away. "Old Zhou, I'll go first, and when I'm in a better mood the next day, I'll come to accompany you to Kan Dashan!"
Zhou Lao put away the money on the table, looked at Li Luo's distant back, and couldn't help laughing softly: "This stinky boy, he still refuses to admit defeat, he is really the same as him! Early, late, and sooner or later, it's okay, you kid bear it!"
At night, Li Luo stayed alone in the rental house, sitting cross-legged on the ground, practicing the basic internal qi technique he had learned in school.
In today's era, almost all of them are in school to complete this process, where the primary school can be completed in three layers, the junior high school is the sixth layer, the senior high school is the eighth layer, and the university is to break through the mortal level and reach the human level.
Of course, in the school, martial arts thaumaturgy and knowledge disciplines are separated, there are two graduation certificates, one for martial arts thaumaturgy and one for cultural disciplines, but there are many people who can't get graduation certificates in cultural disciplines, but people who can't get graduation certificates in martial arts thaumaturgy are infinitely close to nothing.
It can be said that this is an era of the pursuit of the ultimate in power, and cultural knowledge is a kind of auxiliary.
For two hours, Li Luo, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, had already practiced until he was sweating, but he still couldn't make his internal qi grow in the slightest, and he was firmly stuck at the seventh layer of the mortal level. Internal qi is internal force, it is the foundation of a martial artist, it is a kind of energy, and it is said that practicing to the extreme can break through the limitations of space, although Li Luo has never seen it, and he has not even heard of anyone seeing it.
However, it is a fact that the strong can fly away, and there seem to be many such people. Those heaven-level powerhouses, each of them is like a mythical god and demon, who can cause unimaginable damage with a single move, and the power is endless.
After countless efforts and countless failures, the furious Li Luo finally got up and smashed the tables and chairs in the room.
"Why! Why! Why can't you get by! God, you play with me!"
Tears could no longer be suppressed from his face, Li Luo covered his face and leaned against the corner, his eyes were blank, in the eyes of everyone he was optimistic, strong, no matter what suffering seemed to care, but in fact, it was just that he put all the tears and grievances in his heart.
He put in more effort and more hard work than ordinary people, but he just couldn't, he didn't want how powerful his martial arts were, but he wanted to have a home of his own, because he didn't have the memory of before he was fifteen years old, he didn't have parents, he didn't have anything.
His earliest memory is that he woke up and found a bank card at the head of the bed, and the money in it was enough for him to save a little money for six or seven years, in addition, there was also an admission letter from a senior high school, and a rental contract, on which the name was signed was Li Luo.
The most bizarre thing is that the house was rented for ten years at a rent that was much more than five times what it was worth at the time, which was enough to buy a house at that time. However, the most painful thing for him was that when he asked the landlord who had signed the contract, the landlord looked at him with a strange face, insisting that he had signed it himself.
It was at this time that he confirmed that his name was Li Luo.
At first, he fantasized that he must have some earth-shattering secret, perhaps a magnificent past, and a yearning for the future.
But as time passed, he found that there was nothing, everything was only fantasy. The reality is that he is just a waste material, a martial arts waste material that has not been able to break through the seventh layer of the mortal level so far, and as for other forms of power, he has also tried, thinking that I am born to be useful, such as magic.
But the cruel truth is that he didn't find any resonance with the magic element at all during the test, and in short, it belongs to two realms with magic.
Magic is controlled by mental power, so that the magic power in the body drives the magic elements in the world, and condenses or casts the power of the body, and the attack power is extremely strong. However, if you don't even have the resonance of the magic element, then you can't condense magic at all, and how can you use magic.
When he tried all the strength forms he could try, he was desperate to find that I was born to use that sentence in him, completely, completely! All of this made Li Luo sad and helpless!
Because of these, he has suffered a lot of humiliation, and now he has lost the girl he loves, not because he doesn't love him, but because in him, no one can see the future!
Late at night, Li Luo, who had tears in his eyes, fell asleep in extreme mental exhaustion, and he still had to raise his spirit to meet tomorrow's work, and he also had to work hard for his dream of having a home! Maybe he was an orphan, maybe his talent was worse than ordinary people, maybe there were many hardships and hardships, but he still wanted to break out of his own world with his own hands and wisdom, and have a home of his own......
When Li Luo fell asleep, a villa two kilometers away from his residence was brightly lit, and a young man strode into the luxurious living room, ignoring the servant's greetings, and ran straight to the bedroom and made a phone call.
A moment later, a blue light shot out of the phone, forming a projection in the air, and a middle-aged man with a majestic face appeared on it. It's a two-way street, where both sides can see each other, and it's a development based on video calls.
When the middle-aged man saw the young man, his face softened a little. "Hua Lin, is there anything wrong with calling so late?"
"Uncle, today I saw a person, an unexpected person. The young man named Hua Lin nodded, his fair face full of excitement and eagerness.
"Hehe! Who made you so anxious? Could it be that you met a girl you like?" The middle-aged man in the projection didn't pay much attention to it, just joked like an ordinary chat.
Seeing that he didn't care, Hua Lin didn't talk nonsense, and swallowed his saliva fiercely: "The young master of the Shura people among the eight tribes!"
"Oh!
The middle-aged man first answered nonchalantly, but then his face changed drastically.
"Bang ......"
The sound of a teacup falling to the ground and shattering came from inside the phone......