LRAB Chapter 77: 77 Brother Lian
Chapter 77: 77 Brother Lian
Chapter 77: Chapter 77 Brother Lian
“Big Face Cat!”
Lin Xian had never imagined that after the entire Dream World had been turned upside down... he would still be able to meet Big Face Cat here.
This wonderful feeling of encountering an old friend in a foreign land nearly made Lin Xian want to rush up and hug him.
“Gah?”
Big Face Cat furrowed his brows, sizing up Lin Xian from head to toe:
“Have you heard of my formidable reputation, kid?”
...
“Damn!”
Seeing that he was outnumbered, the thief turned his head and ran.
“You really think you can run away!”
Big Face Cat swung his stick and tore the thief’s clothes apart from behind, then with another swing, he hit the thief’s arm, knocking the sharp knife out of his hand.
“Nice moves!” Lin Xian started with awkward flattery to ingratiate himself.
The three underlings from behind swarmed up and pinned the thief down. Big Face Cat picked up the handbag from the ground and handed it to the only fatty among the three underlings:
“This is Auntie Li’s bag; take it to her. Since we’ve taken her protection money, we need to maintain peace in this area.”
The fatty left with the bag.
Lin Xian blinked and watched Big Face Cat... hardly believing that this guy had actually become a force for justice.
Just as he had predicted.
After the Temporal Flux, not only would history and the future change, the world would change, and everyone’s fate would change with it.
Now, Big Face Cat was clearly no longer a bold bandit; he seemed to have become a local thug who collected protection money, but at least he was doing good deeds.
Whish——
Yet another cold flash swept by, and the two underlings holding down the thief let out a scream:
“Big Brother! He’s got another knife!”
Lin Xian turned his head to look...
Only to see the thief pull out another knife from his boot and make a run for it.
“Impressive...”
He was genuinely amazed that this little village could harbor a Triple Blade Master.
“Don’t let him get away!”
Big Face Cat shouted an order and then patted Lin Xian on the back:
“Lend a hand, little brother, block him up ahead!”
Upon saying this, he took off in pursuit with his two underlings.
“Oh...”
Lin Xian responded, not quite sure what he should do.
But with Big Face Cat, a familiar face, he felt a sudden warmth towards this dream.
Anyway, exploring the Dream World also started with questioning the natives, and the current Big Face Cat didn’t seem like a bad guy. He might as well connect with him later.
The main thing was that this guy was honest and simple-minded, believed anything he was told, and was gullible, making him the perfect question-and-answer robot.
Lin Xian sped up his run and directly parkoured against the mossy stone wall, overtaking Big Face Cat and his men in an instant.
“What the hell?”
Big Face Cat and the two underlings stood there dumbfounded:
“What is this trick?”
“Big brother! He’s flying!”
This complicated network of small pathways was simply a paradise for parkour enthusiasts, and Lin Xian, with a grasp here and a leap there, quickly caught up with the thief again.
“Here we go!” “Ahh—”
The same flying kick once again sent the thief tumbling to the ground.
Lin Xian frisked the thief:
“Don’t tell me you’re a nine-blade style...”
Fortunately, he found nothing.
...
Later, Big Face Cat and the three underlings turned the thief over to the police station.
Lin Xian wasn’t sure if that place could be called a police station, but it was an institution he didn’t recognize, although it looked like a police office of sorts.
“Little brother, not bad with the moves,”
Big Face Cat slapped Lin Xian on the shoulder:
“I’m joking, my brother, things like meeting the sister-in-law are not to be taken seriously,” said Big Face Cat with a hearty wave of his hand:
“Actually, the real benefit of joining the gang is—”
“I’ll join.”
Lin Xian declared righteously:
“No need to say anymore Brother Lian, I’ll join.”
He turned around, gripped the crevices between the bricks on the stone wall, and vaulted up the wall in a single step, flipping in mid-air.
Thud.
After landing, he smiled at Big Face Cat:
“How’s that for agility, Brother Lian? When will you take me home?”
At those words, Er Zhuzi stiffened, his face turning pale:
“No, big brother, we can’t take this kid!”
“What’s the matter?” asked Big Face Cat.
“This kid is after the sister-in-law! He’s got ill intentions!” Er Zhuzi said anxiously.
“Hey! What nonsense are you spouting!”
Big Face Cat, with a sweep of his arm, embraced Lin Xian’s shoulder:
“I trust my brother! Bro! From today onward, you are one of us, a member of Lian Gang!”
“...Are you really not considering changing the name to Cat Gang?”
“Cat represents ideology, face is metaphysics.”
Tap.
Lin Xian stopped in his tracks, staring at Big Face Cat.
He couldn’t believe these two philosophical terms came out of Big Face Cat’s mouth.
Although in the previous dream, Big Face Cat was spouting English nonsense, which was not odd in that modern city.
But now.
In this backward, impoverished village, clearly reeking of illiteracy, Big Face Cat could actually utter such systematically philosophical terms... Lin Xian found it very strange.
Even if Big Face Cat’s use was completely wrong, even if he did not understand the true meaning of those words... the presence of such philosophical terminology here was much too “discordant.”
“Where did you learn those two terms?” Lin Xian focused on Big Face Cat.
“My dad said them.” Big Face Cat replied nonchalantly, lighting a cigarette.
“Is your dad a philosophy teacher?”
“He doesn’t know shit about philosophy; he’s just an elementary school math teacher, quite delirious too, always shutting himself in the room, studying some ancient text.”
“Ancient text?”
“Yeah, a book dug out from a tomb.” Big Face Cat exhaled smoke and explained:
“It’s a book from hundreds of years ago, preserved quite well by accident.”
Ancient text?
Tomb?
Hundreds of years ago?
Lin Xian felt the whiff of a fantasy novel:
“What’s the name of that ancient text?” he was curious.
Big Face Cat exhaled smoke and scratched his head:
“I remember it’s called... ‘Introduction to the Cosmological Constant’.”
?
Lin Xian was dumbfounded:
“That doesn’t sound like something from ancient tomb sects; it’s a bit too avant-garde.”
“Oh, don’t ask me! How should I know so much!”
Big Face Cat, with his head feeling larger from the questioning, looked at Lin Xian with disdain:
“You look like a bookworm too! Just don’t go mad studying like my father did!”
“Ever since he fully understood that ancient text, he’s been like a nutcase. He stopped going to school, wouldn’t leave the house, cooped up all day, endlessly muttering something as if he’s gone mad!”
“Muttering what?” Lin Xian grabbed Big Face Cat’s arm with a serious gaze.
If the Genius Club might have been the killers of Big Face Cat’s father, then his research findings, that ancient text, matters related to the cosmological constant... might all be the very things the Genius Club feared and dreaded!
For Lin Xian’s current situation, this was crucial.
“What exactly is your dad muttering?”
Lin Xian shook Big Face Cat’s arm, urging him:
“Quick, quick, Brother Lian, tell me.”