Chapter 52: The Human-Shaped Cataclysm Defuser (Part 5)
For several days, Yu Lin’s lips were slightly swollen from being bitten.
He had no experience and just felt that it was strange. He would usually lick them lightly. If Yu Zhao passed by and saw him, Yu Zhao would come over.
Then his lips would be a little more swollen.
Day after day, Yu Lin decided to increase his time outdoors.
Jiangcheng had been in the news a lot recently. Some of the news was mixed with strange and illogical things, but most ordinary people did not pay much attention.
After all, whether it was a cataclysm or a person with superpowers, it was still too far from the lives of ordinary people.
The popular post on the forum had not been deleted, and the discussion was still hot. Recently, some people with superpowers had begun to worry below, saying that besides White Bird, the appearance of other small-scale cataclysms had become abnormally frequent, as if they were being commanded.
This was like a signal of an impending storm. Some people had therefore speculated that this might be the worst start in history. The world would have to be rebuilt before the apocalypse even arrived.
As memory-holders, they could not be as carefree as ordinary people, and they had no way to deal with these terrifying monsters. It was said that the psychological counseling rooms had been full recently.
However, no matter how terrified they were, this world was still mostly made up of ordinary people.
A few days ago, Yu Lin had received a call. The caller was a class monitor from high school, inviting him to a class reunion.
Yu Lin himself was not very interested in this kind of activity, but one of the participants was a teacher who had been very good to him. For sentimental and logical reasons, he should go and greet her.
The class reunion was scheduled for Saturday, at a famous hotel in Jiangcheng. The specifications were high, and it was glamorous. It could be seen that the organizer was now living a decent life.
Yu Lin stayed in his room all day and was not familiar with these projects at all. Under the link for the Lijin Hotel, he had even received a coupon.
The organizer, perhaps amused by his poverty, had left him a smiling comment.
Shu Yu and Cheng Lang were worried about how to please their living daddy. Seeing the post on their Moments, they rushed over.
They rang the doorbell and waited patiently.
Ten minutes later, Yu Zhao, with a bright scratch on his neck, opened the door with a gloomy face and looked at them with great displeasure. “What is it?”
He was not happy.
Because Yu Lin did not plan to take him to the class reunion, saying that there was no precedent for bringing a family member.
Although it was nice to be considered a family member, he was still very unhappy to be separated from his wife for several hours. He also did not like the two useful tools.
But Yu Lin had insisted and had not given in. Even if his lips were bitten, he would not agree. Only when he was kissed on the two very sensitive spots would he tremble and pull his hair.
Yu Zhao was working hard to be oblivious to the world, so of course he was not happy to see the people who were disturbing him.
Seeing his brow furrowed and he was about to get angry, Cheng Lang quickly raised his hand. “Bro, I saw Brother Lin’s Moments post. A class reunion on the weekend.”
Yu Zhao was even more unhappy to hear this. He couldn’t even squeeze in, so what did it have to do with them?
His tone was dangerous. “What’s it to you?”
Shu Yu pressed down on Cheng Lang, who was about to speak, and smiled. “We want to go together.”
A few strange things had happened at the Lijin Hotel recently, and their team suspected that a cataclysm was at work.
Besides that, Shu Yu pondered for a moment. “It’s not safe there recently, and the Lijin Hotel has many connections. I’m afraid he won’t be used to it.”
The consumption at the Lijin Hotel was high. She had checked, and although Yu Lin’s high school was a key high school, most of his classmates were ordinary people. It was strange that they had chosen the Lijin Hotel, which was famous for its extravagance.
The human-shaped cataclysm knew nothing about human relationships, so anything had to be explained to him clearly.
Sure enough, Yu Zhao frowned when he heard this and looked over with vigilance. “What do you mean? Be more specific.”
Cheng Lang glanced at Shu Yu, turned a corner, and translated it for him in a way he could understand. “It’s fine, bro. I’ll find you a movie. You’ll understand after you watch it.”
Yu Zhao looked at him with confusion. At night, after he had coaxed Yu Lin to sleep, he held a tablet and seriously watched two hours of videos of Long Aotian being humiliated at a class reunion and his classmates looking down on him.
After he finished, although he did not understand, he still cautiously typed in the three-person group chat and asked the tool people, “Are you guys so free?”
Noticing that he was referring to them as “people,” Cheng Lang’s smile stiffened. After they had gotten to know each other, this bigshot was too lazy to even pretend anymore.
He and Shu Yu had seen many people and were not surprised by this kind of thing.
He was watching the same movie as Yu Zhao and was also imagining a lot, and he sighed with great empathy. “That’s right. Some people are very free. Shu Yu and I saw that the location is the Lijin Hotel, a holy land for showing off. We’re afraid that Brother Lin will be uncomfortable.”
Then this guy won’t blow them up.
Hearing this, Yu Zhao looked at the screen with approval and typed a line of words, “Not bad. You’re very thoughtful.”
Shu Yu and Cheng Lang: “…”
Damn it, it’s so strange to be praised by you.
***
Yu Lin didn’t know that a few people had silently arranged everything for him. He didn’t really care about these things anyway.
In his memory, he had good grades and a quiet personality. He didn’t have much of a presence when he was in school.
He had gone to the class reunion just to see his teacher. The teacher had taken good care of him when he was in school, but she had retired and was often in another city, so they didn’t have much time to meet.
Shu Yu and Cheng Lang had offered to take him. He hadn’t thought much of it. Their relationship was good now, and it wasn’t strange for friends to help each other.
He couldn’t resist Yu Zhao’s clinginess, so the three of them had ended up taking a car. When they got out of the car, he had told him that the private room was next door. Yu Lin had thought they were having dinner together and hadn’t thought anything was wrong.
There were many people at this class reunion. The class monitor, Liu Ming, had invited them one by one, and more than thirty people had come.
Yu Lin was called as soon as he walked up, but there were many people at the entrance of the restaurant, and he couldn’t immediately identify the source of the voice.
He turned around, pushed up the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and after a moment’s pause, he saw a man in a suit coming towards him.
The man was quite tall, of medium build, and his features were decent. He didn’t look old, but he exuded an aura of maturity and stability.
Yu Lin didn’t have a deep impression of him. After a few seconds of identification, he recognized that this was the person who had called him, and he said politely, “Class monitor.”
His appearance was as usual, his features were clean, and he was quiet and beautiful, and he still had the youthful feeling of a high school student. Liu Ming, who was now considered a little successful, let out a light laugh.
He turned his wrist, and his heart itched. He inadvertently revealed a million-dollar watch and said with a smile, “You’re still the same as before.”
It was no wonder he couldn’t forget.
Yu Lin did not understand and looked at him with confusion, and nodded politely. “Is that so? You too.”
A beauty tells you gently, you are as you were in previous years. Liu Ming’s eyes lit up, and his heart was fluttering.
A few high school classmates were originally standing in twos and threes on the steps. Seeing Liu Ming hurry down, they all came over to tease him.
“Isn’t this the top student, Yu?” A boy whistled.
Yu Lin had good grades and was good-looking in high school. He was actually a popular figure, but his personality was cold, and he didn’t like to talk to people, so others didn’t dare to approach him, which was why he thought he was ordinary.
Liu Ming was doing well now. Someone saw his eyes on Yu Lin and wanted to please him, so they pushed the boat with the current. “Where is the top student, Yu, working now?”
Liu Ming was the best among this group of people. Although Yu Lin had good grades when he was in school, he was obviously not doing well now.
Someone laughed and teased him, “Top student, Yu, how did you come today? Why didn’t you drive? CEO Liu is doing very well now. Why don’t you let CEO Liu recommend a good job for you?”
Liu Ming smiled slightly, and neither agreed nor refused. His rather deep eyes looked at Yu Lin. “Fewer people are using Penguin now. Shall we add each other on WeChat?”
Yu Lin looked at him belatedly and shook his head in refusal. “No need. My current job is very good.”
He didn’t have to go out. Ever since the director had taken an indefinite leave, he had been very comfortable.
Liu Ming thought he was being proud, let out a light laugh, and then thought of what he had to do in a while, and was in a good mood, and said generously, “It’s fine. Don’t be embarrassed. We’re all friends. It’s what we should do. By the way, what was your major?”
This time, Yu Lin did not speak.
Someone looked at Liu Ming, then at him, and couldn’t help but complain, “He’s still not talking. What’s he pretending for?”
“…” Yu Lin was only considering whether to meet with his teacher later. These classmates were all a little strange now.
As he was thinking, a few car horns sounded by his side.
Yu Lin turned his head. Cheng Lang drove over, lowered the car window, and said with a smile, “Bro, we’ll wait for you in the private room. Come over after you’re done.”
Yu Lin nodded. “Okay.”
The scene was silent for a second.
After Cheng Lang had driven away, Liu Ming’s smile stiffened. He looked at the car, then at Yu Lin. “An acquaintance?”
Yu Lin did not understand. “En.”
Liu Ming: “…” No wonder he didn’t let him introduce a job. If he remembered correctly, there was only one of that car in the entire Jiangcheng. He had accidentally seen his boss entertaining someone from above, and he had been nodding and bowing on the side, and in the end, he hadn’t even smelled the exhaust.
He fell silent, and the group of people around him looked at his face, and they did not speak again until they had entered the private room.
In the private room next door, the human-shaped cataclysm did not understand. “What did you mean just now?”
Cheng Lang was finally able to show off to him and smiled mysteriously. “Bro, you don’t understand. This car of mine was specially approved. There’s only one in the entire Jiangcheng.”
“You tell me, who wouldn’t give me some face when I go out?”
“Bro, you tell me, if you really like Brother Lin, you have to make plans early, right? You can’t just be a kept man and eat soft rice every day.”
Yu Zhao: “?”
The human-shaped cataclysm sat on the sofa with his legs bent. After he had figured out the meaning of “eating soft rice,” he first had a shocked expression, and then an unhappy expression. “…”
He didn’t want to admit it, but it made some sense.
He had his long legs slightly bent and was looking at the sparkling lights on the ceiling of the Lijin Hotel. For the first time, he was considering how to make his wife have face in the human world.
***
The private room here was quiet, while the class reunion on the other side was very lively.
Yu Lin did not like a lively atmosphere and just stayed in a corner and talked to his teacher.
Teacher Gao was in her fifties, and the fine lines at the corners of her eyes showed that she was a gentle person. She had been retired for several years and was living with her daughter, and she would occasionally take care of her grandson.
The reason she had come to Jiangcheng this time was because Liu Ming had specially gone to Mengcheng to invite her. His words were sincere, and he said that the students of that year missed her very much.
Teacher Gao was concerned about her students and had gone with him.
When Yu Lin was in high school, his parents had already been living separately and both had new children. No one wanted to take care of him.
His life was difficult, and he was a growing boy. Sometimes he didn’t have enough to eat. Teacher Gao had subsidized him with her teacher’s card, so that he would not be too wretched.
Yu Lin sat in a corner and talked to her in a warm voice. She was the same as in high school. When she saw Yu Lin, she only cared about whether he had eaten well and had lived well these years.
Only after Yu Lin had agreed one by one did she feel at ease.
The most popular topic in Jiangcheng recently was the various cataclysms, which were of unknown truth. In the private room, people were talking eloquently. Some people had strange expressions, but more people just treated it as an urban legend.
After all, the extreme weather had not yet appeared, and the apocalypse theory was not convincing no matter how you looked at it.
Teacher Gao was old and did not have much energy. She sat for a while and then planned to rest. Her room was on the 17th floor. Yu Lin was not at ease with her being alone, so he went with her.
Just as the two of them had gone out, Liu Ming, who had been talking happily with the others, followed them.
He had followed them when the elevator was going down. When he had followed them, Yu Lin was sending a message to Yu Zhao, saying that he was taking his teacher to the 17th floor to rest, and then they would go home.
Yu Zhao, who was waiting on the sofa, was bored. When he received the message, he jumped up happily and shouted that he would go too.
He walked to the elevator, and Shu Yu and Cheng Lang followed him step by step.
Just as he had gotten close, he saw a wild man leaning close to his wife, with ill intentions, and he asked very disgustingly, “Yu Lin, do you believe in the apocalypse theory? Have you heard of the human-shaped cataclysm?”
He was too close. Yu Lin took a step back and frowned. “What?”
Liu Ming looked at his cold expression, and he was even more beautiful. He couldn’t control his excitement and nervousness. “Don’t be afraid later. Stay close to me.”
He had not told anyone that he was actually a reincarnator and had memories of his previous life.
Unfortunately, he did not have superpowers, but he remembered that his high school homeroom teacher, an old lady, on this day, at the Lijin Hotel, for some reason, had accidentally obtained this ability.
In this new life, he had carefully planned, just for today!
What boss, what social status, what car that was the only one in Jiangcheng? When he had superpowers, in the face of this extraordinary power, they were all just younger brothers!
He was overjoyed and was fantasizing about his future.
He didn’t notice at all that a menacing person with a gloomy face was staring at him from behind.