Milky way; Cai Xukun [✔️]

Eight

"Morning," Justin hummed as I sat on the sofa.

"Adam and August went out, I assume?" I questioned.

Austin said, "Adam with Boogie, not August,"

"I was instructed to bring you shopping, you don't exactly have clothes anyways. Later at night Adam will probably have a talk with you about your parents and the Thana disease, so get ready for it," August said as he appeared from Leo's bedroom.

"Don't worry, he won't do anything to you, he may be dangerous but he couldn't possibly so anything bad to you," Evan patted my back.

"At most you'll get hurt by his words as his words are the most dangerous of all, his words can cut you and hurt you," Azora said.

"You're making me scared, damn," I groaned as I got into their car.

I waved to the other 6 as I set off with August.

"Adam may be scary but when you know him better, he's actually a softie. If it's not related to work he's as gentle as a sheep," August explained.

"Just that most of his things are related to work now,"

"Wait, August, can you tell me more about the official and teir things?"

"So like the first teir is all the officials and president and all those in charge of managing the country. The president is Mr Zhang Yixing, the officials are Mr Jackson Wang, Mr Li Ronghao, Mr Jin Auyeung, Miss Zhou Jieqiong and Miss Cheng Xiao. Second teir is the assistants or the officials aka the 9 of us. We were chosen as you know, by the third and fourth teir. There were orginally 99 of us, and in the end,the 9 of us were chosen. Third teir are those really rich ones, fourth is those whose income is average, fifth is those who are below average and is making the amount just to get a house and basic necessities etc, sixth is those who are homeless and yeah..."

"What do the 9 of you do?"

"That's confidential, sorry," he apologised.

I nodded as the rest of the ride was silent.

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"Woah, I've never seen this mall before, let alone been in here," I gasped.

"Yeah. This mall, the sheep," he pointed to the word on the top of the eight story mall, 'sheep,' "is for third tiers and above. Fourth teir to sixth teir need to shop as the normal mall, shake," he explained slowly as he pointed to another mall further away, 'shake,' where I usually buy my necessities.

"Just wondering, your parents were in the third teir, why aren't you too?"

"After they died, their money wasn't inhabited by me. Their money.. I don't know, probably on some bank that I don't know existed. So yeah... my brother and I had to start afresh and earn money by ourselves,"

"Brother? You have a brother?"

"He was my neighbour at first, but after our parents died we lived together. Our parents have been working together so we were fairly close,"

"Did his parents create the Thana disease too? What's his name?"

"Zheng Ruibin,"

"Wh-What? Ruibin ge?"

"You know him?"

"He wa-was a contestant whom participated in the competition to becoming the assistant... he ranked... 16?"

"Sorry what? Is that why he didn't come back for like... 4 months? He said he was travelling for some course..."

"Most likely. He was one of the few fifth ranking people in the whole competition, but I must say, he's quite good,"

"What did you do in that four month period?"

"I don't think you want to know," he winced as we entered the mall.

"Let's not linger around the rest of the sections and go straight to section 5,"

"There's different sections?"

"This floor is for all the household needs, second floor is for the children, third floor is all the gadgets, fourth floor is all the food, fifth floor is the clothes and jewelry, sixth floor is a club and the seventh floor... well, all the weapons,"

"Eighth story?"

"Don't go there. Really, don't. I don't think you even want to know what's in there,"

"Let's go to the fifth floor then," I said as we entered the elevator and I pressed the number '5'

My curiosity was bugging me though.

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After buying a ton of clothes, ranging from shorts, to jeans, to skirts, to dresses, to shirts and to blouses, we were finally done. This place was extremely cool, they literally had every piece of clothing, in every size and every colour. They even sent the clothes to your own house. Amazing.

"I have something to buy at the seventh floor, you following?"

"Nah, I'll just walk around here," I said. Lied, more like.

"I'll call you when I'm done," he said. I nodded as I waited for him to disappear from my sight as I took the elevator up. To the eighth floor.

As I stepped out, another door appeared. Opening that door, I walked down a long and narrow corridor filled with many turns. I felt like I've been walking in there forever.

After what felt like eternity, I saw another door.

"This must be it,"

It was strangely quiet.

What exactly did they do at this level?

"Angel!" A familiar voice yelled.

"Au-August..."