The Veracity

24. Grocery shopping

It was Friday, the last workday.

 Yibo and I had decided to go to the amusement park on Saturday which was tomorrow, and rest on Sunday.

While Yibo was at his work I had come out for shopping groceries, since I had no car and the grocery store was quite far, I took a cab.

Noah was with me as well, blabbering.

He was a very cheerful kid with him not a moment goes silently, he is always chatting, like a chatterbox.

I can only smile, I can't interact with him freely and he knew that as well, otherwise, people would consider me mad.

We soon reached the grocery store, I paid the cab driver and walked inside the store, picked a chipping cart, and got to work.

At first, I just roamed around, I bought vegetables and some spices, some beverages, some snacks as well.

I also bought a large bar of dark chocolate as well, I just wanted to eat it the moment I saw it, looks like I love dark chocolate even though I don't have my memory my body still remembers my likes and dislikes.

"Zhan!!" Noah said

"Hmm..."

"Were you and Yibo arguing last night?"

" No why?" I said as I picked a jar of pickles

"Because I heard a lot of screams from your room"

The jar nearly fell from my hands once I heard Noah's voice

"And what's with cum? I heard Yibo said that 'I was about to come' or something."

I stared at Noah who was giving me an innocent look before bursting with laughter.

"Why are you laughing?"

"It's an adult business Noah, you won't understand."

Thankfully Noah didn't ask anything after that.

My shopping was done as well, but once I reached the billing counter I saw two men, more like goons hovering over the cashier.

The poor young man looked scared while dealing with the goons.

"Are you gonna help him?"

"I am not that good person," I said, I have just been out of the hospital after getting shot and lost my memory and I have no wish to go back there again.

Besides Yibo had said that the ones who hurt me are still out there and I have no intention of getting involves with any more trouble.

At least I don't wanna mess with anyone who is alive.

But all that resolve went down the gutter when I saw those men dragging that cashier who looked like a student and was about to beat them up.

The poor boy was crying badly and begging for help, I looked around and saw a surgical mask, I quickly opened it and put it on my face.

If I am going to put myself in trouble I'll do it anonymously.

The next I picked up a jar of pickle and threw it towards one of the goons the jar collided with the goon's head.

"Woah!! amazing shot Zhan" Noah cheered but I feared.

The goons looked at me with menace, I was a skinny man compared to these two gorillas, why do these goons have to be so tall as a giraffe and built like a gorilla?

"My hand slipped"

"Thay didn't buy it, Zhan," Noah said 

I smiled, but my smile was not a smile, Yibo had told me that I can use ghosts as a weapon and I swear this is the time I need that ability like now.

The two men left the kid on the ground and walked towards me I backed off and took out my phone, the kid also got up from the floor and ran back to the counter and dialed someone.

I hope it was the police he was calling.

"So your hand slipped bastard."

"Um..yeah, I saw a gorilla so I got excited."

"hahahaha" Noah laughed while the two goons were fuming and so was I, I have never felt such strong urge to cut off my tongue before.

"Let's have a civil conversation shall we?" I tried but the goon just lifted his hand was about to punch me when another bottle of jar collided with his head.

All of us looked at my savior it was another man but unlike me, he was smiling, "I am sorry my hand slipped."

The goons looked at him with anger as well.

But the man just smiled and recorded everything on his phone, "Well go on, police, and media will love this footage, by the way, did I tell you that you are live?"

The goons seemed a little nervous as well as they marched towards the man who dogged them and ran towards the cash counter.

"Oh look your family is here to take you back home," The man said and pointed out, I also saw the police cars outside the store and a sigh of relief escaped my mouth.

The goons were captured and I was not worried anymore, thankfully the matter didn't escalate and nobody got hurt.

Once everything was quiet I removed my mask as well and went to the cash counter.

"Thanks both of you" The boy said

"No problem," I said

"No problem here as well but can you give me a discount?" the man said 

"Sure."

The man then looked at me, "Your joke was great back then, they indeed looked like a gorilla."

"Your idea of recording them was brilliant as well," I said as I gave my items to the cashier.

While waiting for the bill to be generated my eyes wandered to the television which was showing a news channel," Recently two dead bodies have been found near the church, the police are trying their best to figure out who the suspect is but till now there is no evidence." 

"The world is such a dreadful place." The man beside me said 

"Well, we humans made it like this."

"Right, humans are really horrible"

"By the way I am Zhan," I said and raised my hand towards the man.

The man smiled and shook my hand, "My name is Zhou Zhishu"

Author's note: lovely reader here you go with another new character.

And yes he is from word of honor as well.