"What night watchman? You got the wrong person. I'm from the neighborhood committee."
He turned around and walked behind him.
Zhao Zhengbin: "..."
You can't lie so falsely, right? Is there anyone in the whole of Great Xia who doesn't know about the Night Watch?
Zhao Zhengbin was about to say something when the hand holding the man's clothes was pulled away by the force of turning around, and a straight knife clipped in his waistband fell to the ground with a clang.
Zhao Zhengbin and the man looked at each other, and the air suddenly fell into dead silence.
"Sorry, I dropped my crutch."
The young man was silent for a moment, then bent down to pick up the straight knife from the ground and used it as a crutch to explore the road. However, the blade was not long enough at all and could only be swung around in mid-air. The strange scene was inexplicably funny.
"...Are the brain circuits of all of you night watchmen as amazing as yours?" Zhao Zhengbin couldn't help but complain.
"No, I am in the minority."
As soon as the young man was halfway through speaking, he realized that he had said the wrong thing. He looked around and found that no one was paying attention to him, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhao Zhengbin stared blankly at this interesting peer in front of him, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up. The mysterious filter in his heart towards the night watchman also dissipated a lot...
"The presence of the night watchman in the shelter will definitely attract people to watch, and then the order will be disrupted... Don't worry, I won't tell others." After the two were in a stalemate for a while, Zhao Zhengbin took the initiative to extend his hand.
"My name is Zhao Zhengbin."
"... Su Zhe." Su Zhe looked at him for a long time, sighed helplessly, and held the palm of his hand, "Sorry, I can't control my mouth... sometimes it's easy to do bad things."
"You look about my age."
"I'm twenty-one."
"Then I'm younger, I'm twenty." Zhao Zhengbin looked at the red sleeve bands on his shoulders curiously, "So, the night watchmen have blended in with ordinary people and started to maintain public order?"
"That's not true. Most of them just dress casually and are on call at the shelter...I am an exception."
Zhao Zhengbin was about to ask the reason, but after thinking for a moment, he closed his mouth.
A night watchman suddenly evacuated from the front line and returned to the rear to maintain public order... He was obviously demoted. It would be impolite to ask further.
Su Zhe stared at him for a long time and asked, "Aren't you curious why I am an exception?"
"……ah?"
"If it were me, I would definitely keep asking... 'Did you become a deserter?', 'You are too weak', 'Why else can you only maintain order here' and so on...
"Su Zhe said quietly.
"...If you ask this, will you really not get beaten?"
Su Zhe thought for a moment and said, "Yes."
Zhao Zhengbin:……
"You are a night watchman. You should know what is going on outside right now?" Zhao Zhengbin lowered his voice and asked the question he wanted to know most now, "Is there a fight outside?"
"I can't say that." Su Zhe replied seriously.
"If you reveal a little bit to me, I won't tell anyone, really."
"Sorry, this really doesn't work."
Zhao Zhengbin sighed, "Then can you tell me how to become a night watchman?"
Hearing this question, Su Zhe's expression was a little subtle. He looked Zhao Zhengbin up and down again and asked doubtfully,
"Why...why do you want to be a night watchman?"
"How handsome the night watchman is! He is also powerful, and he can fight against those monsters and gods, and protect his family and country." Zhao Zhengbin's eyes shimmered.
"..." Su Zhe sighed and said seriously,
"Brother Zhao Zhengbin... you are in your twenties, and you should have long passed the age of youthful fantasy. The night watchman is very majestic, but not everyone can bear this majesty...
Being a night watchman is hard and tiring. Just the training to become a formal night watchman can cost half of your life. If you are unlucky, you may not survive to graduate from the training...
After I graduated and became a full-time employee, I had to fight with those scary things every day. There were always blood, stumps, and so on. Maybe I would encounter a giant, disgusting, terrifying monster, or a god who would be absolutely crushed.
, in front of them, people are really like ants... Maybe the brother who ate and drank with you one day will become a dirt bag on the grave the next day.
Not only that, the night watchman has almost no holidays and must be on standby at all times. Can you imagine yourself comfortably soaking in a hot bath at home, and then someone calls, and you rush out without having time to get dressed and put on a towel? It is precisely because of this.
Well, night watchmen can hardly get married and have children. Everything you ordinary people have at your fingertips is out of reach for us..."
Zhao Zhengbin's words directly made Su Zhe open his heart and poured out a bunch of words like a basket. Zhao Zhengbin was a little confused after hearing this.
Is this guy... really a night watchman?
Zhao Zhengbin thought that Su Zhe might persuade him to quit, but he didn't expect that he would persuade him to quit so sincerely... It felt like he was almost trying to persuade him to quit.
Su Zhe finished speaking in one breath without any pause in the middle. Zhao Zhengbin was stunned for a long time, wanting to refute something, but couldn't refute...
"But I think..."
Before Zhao Zhengbin finished speaking, there was a commotion in the restaurant next to him. It seemed that someone was having a dispute over dividing the dishes.
Su Zhe glanced in that direction, immediately inserted the straight knife back into his waistband, covered it with his jacket, and seriously straightened the bright red sleeve bands on his arms.
"Nice to meet you, brother Zhao Zhengbin." Su Zhe patted his shoulder. I wonder if it was Zhao Zhengbin's misunderstanding. After Su Zhe said that, he seemed to be much more cheerful.
"Although saying this is a bit like some lines from a novel that are not easy to pass the test and the style of painting is inexplicably strange, I hope you can keep our secret. See you next time."
After saying that, he turned around and ran to the restaurant!
"The security manager of the shelter is here! Don't push! Don't make trouble! Just let me go..."
A faint voice came from a distance. Zhao Zhengbin stood there blankly. After a long time, he sighed and turned around and walked towards the dormitory.