Mr. Melancholy Wants To Live A Peaceful Life

CHAPTER 10

I'm sorry for not updating yesterday. As a compensation, I'll update 4 chapters today.😊

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First thing next morning, the handsome uncle Protector once again dropped Zhen Li into his space, and he was returned in confusion to the Xuyang district, left in a park with no people in it. Zhen Li blankly walked two circles around the park, saw the elderly men and women taking their morning walks nearby, and felt bewildered. Had he been let go just like that?

Why had they let him go? Zhen Li didn't understand it at all. Truthfully, Zhen Li felt his intelligence wasn't up to following that master who had sent him messages through the mirror. He didn't understand what the master's next move was.

So Zhen Li, in the park, quietly said, "Sir, great master, senior? Are you there? What should I do next?"

For a while, he called out like a thief. An elderly man carrying a bird and wearing traditional dress was quietly watching Zhen Li from off to the side. Zhen Li: "..."

He spoke in a forced voice: "Ahem, I was exercising my voice."

The elderly man smiled. "There aren't many young people who are up as early as you."

The parrot that the elderly man was carrying flapped its wings and loudly said, "Great master, are you there? Great master, are you there?"

Zhen Li sucked in a breath. He'd been very quiet, how had the parrot heard him?

He stiffened his face, got wireless earbuds out of his pocket, and put them in his ears. "Great master, e-sports great master, are you there? Are you sleeping? What's my next step after my big move?"

After some aimless play-acting with the unconnected Bluetooth, Zhen Li scratched his head towards the elderly man and smiled awkwardly. "I didn't get up early. I just haven't been to sleep yet. I thought since it was morning anyway, I'd go right to the park to move around, then go to sleep after I ate."

The elderly man shook his head and was about to say something when Zhen Li quickly continued, "We young people have unhealthy living habits."

The parrot repeated after Zhen Li: "Unhealthy living habits, unhealthy living habits."

Following his very imperfect cover-up, Zhen Li trotted away from park. He had to find a mirror and contact the great master!

When Zhen Li left, the elderly man walking in the park stared at his back, tapped the parrot's head, and said with a kindly smile, "Parrot, oh, parrot, do you think he's really dumb or playing dumb?"

The parrot spread its wings and said, "Really dumb, really dumb!"

"I also think he's really dumb." The elderly man stroked his mustache. He used too much force, tearing the false mustache off.

"Really dumb, really dumb!" The parrot hopped around in its cage; it was unclear whether it was mocking Zhen Li or the elderly man who had torn off his mustache.

After fleeing the elderly man, Zhen Li returned to his underground little dark room in a flutter. He was starting to understand why so many levelers had been lost in this world. There were people with super powers among the natives of this world. They were organized and disciplined, hidden in the crowd like ordinary people, so you couldn't take precautions against them.

Maybe their individual strength wasn't great, but gathered together to safeguard the world, they could exert tremendous force. Unless the levelers overturned the whole world's power, they couldn't defeat this unknowably huge hidden organization. No wonder the System had been unable to open this world all along.