Laste's home is closer to Strip Avenue than Dean's home, showcasing the bustling side of the metropolis.

Rare trees and exotic plants from all over the world are transplanted to the heart of the city at a high price, and they bloom all year round.

The main road is lined with strange shopping malls that resemble pyramids, pirate ships, and iron towers, cinemas, and casinos with slot machines at the entrance, painted in a variety of strong and vibrant colors, even in broad daylight, a large number of neon billboards on the rooftops and gates are still dazzling and eye-catching.

There is an endless stream of luxury cars on the road.

On the side of the street and in the middle of the square, a clown with funny oil paint on his face throws and catches the ball on a wheelbarrow.

A man in a tuxedo on stilts with colorful balloons hanging behind him is showing off a beautiful singing voice comparable to that of a dolphin.

The black man with a lean upper body folded his body back like a snake,

The third Indian brother performed the levitation technique cross-legged like a high-ranking monk, and the statue man painted in brass suddenly screamed, causing the passing woman to giggle in fright.

……

Dean watched with relish, but in 80 years, the famous Venetian and Bellagio hotels had not yet been built.

Today's Las Vegas Long Street is a little less of the glittering luxury of the top.

……

The two gradually moved away from the hustle and bustle, pushing their bicycles through a narrow and dark alley behind a department store for ten minutes, and entered a dilapidated apartment.

Dean meets Rust's mother, Grace Spencer, a very different middle-aged woman he imagined to be fattened by the pressures of life, with thick red hair, a tall figure, beautiful features, and a fashionable red dress.

"Hi, Grace."

"Dean? Welcome, Rust often mentions you and says you're his best friend! ”

Grace welcomed the little guests into the house and gave them a warm welcome.

It's almost time for dinner.

In order to thank Dean for helping her son in his schoolwork, Grace carefully prepared the creamy golden mashed potatoes and the sweet dregs of the flavored crepes, which Dean was not used to, but in order not to disappoint the two overly enthusiastic owners, she still ate it all.

The main course pan-fried pork chop was a big surprise, the skin was crispy on the outside, soft and juicy on the inside, and there was no fishy smell of pork.

……

After dinner, the hostess dressed up brightly went to the hotel for the night shift.

Dean and Rust were left at home.

Dean, paralyzed on the couch, twists his neck to the music while enjoying the "Grease" playing on the CRT TV with a big black butt - a man with oily hair dances an uplifting disco with a hot Australian girl.

He turned his head to look to the side, where Rust was staring out the window in a daze.

"Man, don't you like Travolta? Let's change the channel. ”

Rust smiled a little embarrassedly, "I don't like watching TV, and I don't like boring movies. ”

Dean looked puzzled.

Rust explains,

"I hadn't watched TV until I was seventeen. My dad made this rule... He said that 99% of TV, movies, and music have a negative impact on the human brain, which is more harmful than DND (Dungeons & Dragons). It's not just the radiation, but also the bad content in it, and if you come into contact with too many people, you can't calm down and read and work in a down-to-earth manner. ”

Dean was stunned.

Could it be that his father had traveled from the future?

In the future, short videos will not make people more and more addicted, and the more addicted they are, the more impatient they are.

"If you don't have a TV, how do you spend long nights reading and studying?"

"Sometimes when I read a book, I look at the starry sky outside the window. I was born in Texas, but then I lived in Alaska for a long time, and the starry sky in the countryside was completely different from the day and night lights in this part of the city, the vastness was quiet and clear, suitable for divergent thinking, quiet thinking. ”

"Thinking about what? Get into a good university and get a beautiful girlfriend? Dean joked,

"This is just one of them... I prefer to make up stories, dark night skies and twinkling stars, like dark Satan and angels of light. Rust paused, and said with a serious face,

Dean pondered for a moment, what kind of family would raise such a second-class child.

"By the way, why didn't you see your wise father today? What does he do? ”

This problem is like a switch that turns off the lights in the house.

A dark mood crept in.

Rust suddenly lowered his face, gritted his teeth, was silent for a long time, and suddenly raised his head, as if he had made up his mind,

"I never told anyone, but I admired Ling's bravery in the cafeteria today, so I told you. My dad is long gone. And Grace and I didn't know he was a police officer until we got that death benefit. ”

The frozen smile on Dean's face instantly shifted to the void,

"Sorry, man. I shouldn't have mentioned it. ”

"Why apologize? I'm so much luckier than you. ”

Rust looked at it with a serious face,

Dean's cheeks stiffened, and his heart tingled twice like a pinprick.

Right!

He forgot that the disappearance of both his parents was much worse than that of Rust, where his mother was still alive.

"Then your father, is he an undercover anti-narcotics policeman?" Dean asked.

It is not clear that his colleagues have not disclosed his specific work from the beginning to the end. But when he was a child, he was always elusive, and he didn't see each other all year round. Rust looked at the night sky outside the curtain and paused for a moment, "The last time, I haven't seen him for two years, and when I see him again, he is already lying in the coffin." ”

"You know what, Dean." Rust turned, a faint fear on his youthful face, "His face looked so strange at the time that I could barely recognize it. Although a clever makeup artist put makeup on him, he is still a little... Not humanoid, bullet holes, knife wounds, burns? I don't know what kind of inhuman torture he endured before he died. ”

Dean listened quietly, and asked in awe, this group of incognito workers forgot to die, and they were a group of great people.

"Ever since, I've always had an inexplicable fear. It seems that someone will come out of the darkness and kill me... Then, I would also lie in the coffin like my dad did, and I would start having nightmares and not getting a good night's sleep. Grace took me to Las Vegas for the sake of my health... Took me to see a lot of psychiatrists, and I slowly came out of the shadows. “

Rust rarely brought his friends home, and couldn't help but spit out all the bitterness in his heart,

"Downtown Las Vegas is very safe, and there are police patrols on the streets 24 hours a day, which gives me a huge sense of security, and I can finally sleep soundly. But I didn't expect that... You'll meet Bob Lowe's hateful rich second generation, and he's got a bunch of sycophants... There is no doubt that here the 'dark' is much stronger than the 'light'! ”

He suddenly came to a conclusion,

"Man, don't worry..."Dean put his arm around his shoulders and said with a serious face, "I'll cover you in the future... If Bob dares to beat you again, I'll take you to beat him up. ”

Practice skills by the way.

Rust's eyes lit up,

"But Bob is a ruthless character, and the people who offended him in the past will either transfer or drop out, and eventually disappear. He won't give up! Don't you think about saying an apology? ”

Dean was also shocked after hearing this, this rich boy is so ruthless?

He began to congratulate himself on his decision to stay overnight and prayed that his family would not be hacked.

"Apologies, impossible."

Rast's gaze swept over his friend's face, this kind of firm expression he had never seen before, and the question in his heart couldn't help blurting out,

"Man, I'm 100% sure you're not like yesterday or before! You used to see Bob and the others like a mouse sees a cat. And you can't remember a lot of things! ”

"What happened to you?"

Dean was silent, rubbing his fists together, trying to make a look of indecision, and then, with great determination, he pointed to the many faded strangulation marks on his neck, and said with a pretending of apprehension,

"I've been attacked, probably Bob's guys, or someone else. They almost strangled me...... For a moment, I felt like my brain was desperately starved of oxygen, my consciousness was blurred, and everything was dissipating before my eyes. Darkness consumes everything I have like a whirlpool. ”

"When I woke up, some of the memories in my mind seemed to be swallowed up by the indescribable darkness, I forgot most of my school experiences, the names of my classmates, teachers, my past experiences at school, but other memories are still there."

Rust picked up the orange soda on the table and poured a few large sips, suppressing the shock.

His first feeling was that the other party was joking, but the scar on the other party's neck couldn't be faked, and he couldn't help but believe it with a serious expression.

There was a glint of wonder in his eyes, and partial amnesia could make people more courageous?

"You should see a doctor."

"What if I get well and become a coward again? Let's leave it as it is. Dean took a deep breath, "Man, I've told you my biggest secret, so keep it for me." ”

"I swear to God..."

"Well, now tell me, except for Bob Lowe... Have I ever offended anyone else? Or, is there anyone who hates me in particular and is most likely to sneak up on me? ”

Rust shook his head without thinking,

"The most people have sarcastically mocked you in the wrong way, but Bob at the baseball stadium is the most excessive."

"Have you been doing anything strange lately?"

Rust took a licorice-flavored twisted candy from his desk and chewed it as he looked at his companion's expectant eyes.

"Does being depressed count? You haven't laughed much in the last half a month, and you obviously have something sad in your heart, like you're out of love, but you don't want to tell me, and you always hide it. ”

Persistent low mood?

The progress of the investigation inexplicably jumped by five percent to twenty-five percent!

Problematic!

Depression, sadness, are all related to suicide.

Dean couldn't help but tense his body, and he suddenly had a strong feeling that the departure of the previous body might have more to do with what Bob's gang did yesterday.

"Rust, your answer has helped me a lot."

Rust patted his chest, "We've always been on the same side!" ”

"I've got a bit of a request."

"Just say!"

"Do you have a camera at home?"

"Grace bought a new Nikon F3."

"Will you use it?"

"I've used it to take a few scenic photos in the birding area."

"How about taking a few photos with me? I said in advance that I was going to teach one of Bob's henchmen, a big fool on the baseball team. ”

Take the initiative to anger the accomplices of the rich second generation?

Rast's green face showed a hint of fear, and he unconsciously shrunk his shoulders, he didn't want to be hung on the baseball field again.

"Rust, now there is a bright avenue in front of you, join me to regain our lost self-esteem. I have made a plan so that I will not alarm outsiders. And when the time comes, I'll be at the top and bear all the consequences, you just need to cooperate from the side - if you miss this opportunity, you will live forever in the shadow of that group of bastards, and you will not be able to turn over! ”

Raste's lips moved, but it was as if an invisible force had sealed his mouth, and he couldn't respond.

"Last, answer me! Are you still a man? ”

Dean suddenly shouted, the screams echoing through the living room, his expression cold as ice.

Rust was startled, and finally, weakly, stretched out a trembling finger,

"I'll just take a picture?"

"Maybe there's something else to get you revenge and make them pay a little interest for what they've done in the past!"

"That's... OK！ ”

Rust gritted his teeth and nodded.

"Happy working together!"

Dean crushed the hard candy from his mouth, smiled, got up from the couch, and forcibly shook his companion's hand.

Then twist your neck and wrists.

There was a crunch of muscles and bones.

He glanced at the system—

Fighting Lv0 (9/100)

"Now we are true allies! You don't mind if I borrow your living room for an after-dinner exercise, do you? ”