Rebirth before Apocalypse: My Whole Family are Bigshots!-Chapter 72: Kid, Haven’t We Met Somewhere Before?
"It’s already the post-apocalypse, and you still haven’t reformed. I have to step in and teach you people a lesson. What a hassle!"
Liu Jing glanced disdainfully at the three men.
Scum like this, who bully the weak, need to be properly educated.
Otherwise, who knows who they’ll bully next time!
"We won’t dare anymore, we won’t dare! Next time, we’ll walk away from old people and children!"
Brother Hu kept shaking his head, sincerely admitting his mistakes.
The pinpricks caused by the Ice Needle were slowly bleeding.
The densely packed sensation of pain swept through his whole body.
This feeling was worse than getting stabbed directly!
He never thought that an elder looking like this could be so fierce!
His initial goal was just to bully the weak a bit and steal a car!
"Can a dog change its habit of eating filth?" Liu Jing’s fingertips emitted a faint frost, "Tell me! What bad things have you done, how much have you stolen?"
For a moment, Liu Jing felt like the heroine from the animated shows Bai Yifan watched as a child.
In the name of the moon, I’ll punish you!
A sense of pride welled up.
"We really haven’t done anything bad since the apocalypse!" Brother Hu looked at Liu Jing’s frosty hands and recoiled slightly, explaining with a pained face, "This is our first time, we’ve never robbed anyone before!"
Others don’t hang around in secluded places without people!
"You haven’t done anything bad since the apocalypse?" Bai Yifan keenly caught the loophole in Brother Hu’s words, "That means you did bad things before the apocalypse!"
Brother Hu’s face stiffened for a moment, and he said weakly, "I was a good person before the apocalypse. It’s all this damned apocalypse’s fault!"
"Yes! We were all exemplary citizens before the apocalypse!"
"Right, right, right! We were good citizens!"
The other two quickly chimed in.
"People who call themselves good are usually bad!" Liu Jing adjusted her non-existent glasses, looking intelligently at Brother Hu, "Confess, and you’ll get leniency; resist, and you’ll face severity."
If they are truly irredeemable, she would have to act in the name of the moon!
Sigh, it’s perfect that Bai Yifan is here, let him see his childhood idol!
"We are truly good people!" Brother Hu forced a bitter smile.
"I advise you to speak properly, because I hate it when people lie!"
Liu Jing extended her fingers, her eyes fixed on her fingertips.
Five sharp Ice Blades extended from her fingernails, looking more formidable than Wolverine’s claws.
Though not as hard as adamantium, there were five of them, winning by quantity!
Brother Hu looked at Liu Jing’s fingers, feeling utterly hopeless.
What sort of person had he encountered!
I failed a robbery, you retaliated, and I got beaten up, yet you’re still interrogating me about past crimes!
"I haven’t done anything outrageous before too." Brother Hu lowered his head, his voice weak.
He also had to make a living!
Go to school, score zero.
Move bricks, can’t lift them.
Build walls, doesn’t know how.
Plaster, can’t do it.
Cook, food is so bad that guests hit him.
Work in an office, no one wants him.
Eat, eats a lot!
No choice, can’t survive without shortcuts!
"I advise you to talk, otherwise—"
Liu Jing suddenly thrust her fingers forward, sharp Ice Blades resting on Brother Hu’s chubby face, as if they could pierce flesh any second.
"I’ll tell, I’ll tell..." Brother Hu gritted his teeth, his neck stiffening as he spoke, "Before the apocalypse, I was a loan shark!"
He had a fierce appearance, so he could only take such shortcuts, then intimidate for debt collection.
Of course, his targets were all middle and high school students.
Couldn’t do college students, couldn’t beat them.
"Loan shark?"
Bai Yifan’s face stiffened slightly.
He recalled the dark days before the apocalypse, trying to buy computers for classmates who didn’t have them.
He gave up a man’s dignity.
"Hmm..." Brother Hu sighed reminiscing about the days before the apocalypse, "Business wasn’t good! Everyone got smarter, teachers kept telling students not to take loans lightly, I was barely scraping by!"
"Such scum!"
Liu Jing rolled her eyes.
First time seeing a bad guy lamenting about honest people’s intelligence!
"Tell me, is there anything else besides this?" Liu Jing asked with a slightly serious expression.
Clearly, she had already assumed the role of the Moon Goddess.
To represent justice, to judge the other side.
"No, really nothing else!" Brother Hu spoke with great sincerity.
He indeed only engaged in this illegal profession, initially even making a small profit.
But not anymore, everyone understood the tricks now, even the girls knew about the traps of student loans, his sources of profit were dwindling.
Lately, he’d only managed to earn a little from some thick-skinned male classmates!
"I don’t believe it!" Liu Jing looked at him, full of disbelief.
The person in front was the embodiment of evil forces, she, representing the moon, needed to pass judgment.
"Really, that’s it." Brother Hu complained, "Nowadays, the girls are too alert, they don’t touch student loans at all, recently I’ve only been able to make a bit of money from male classmates!"
Ah, even for bad guys, making money is hard!
"Which city are you from?" Bai Yifan’s face stiffened slightly.
"S City!" Brother Hu looked innocent, "Does it matter which city?"
"Truly a societal pest!" Liu Jing looked at Brother Hu with disdain, "I never expected, a bad guy right beside me!"
Never expected it!
A bad guy from S City! 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
"You guys are from S City too?" Brother Hu’s eyes lit up, "We’re fellow townsmen, we shouldn’t have conflicts, how about we let it go?"
Bai Yifan: What a damn coincidence!
"Shoo, shoo, shoo, who said I’m your townsman!" Liu Jing rolled her eyes, "I’m from the countryside, not your townsman, you and Xiao Fan are fellow townsmen!"
The Moon Goddess cannot be associated with evil forces!
"So you’re a youth from S City!" Brother Hu smiled at Bai Yifan, "Young man, let’s just consider this hurdle crossed, we promise not to do bad things anymore!"
Finally got a chance to rob the elderly, but ended up sanctioned instead.
This left him with psychological scars!
"Granny, should we just let it be..." Bai Yifan turned his head towards Liu Jing.
Quickly let him roundly leave!
Bai Yifan didn’t want to see him again for the rest of his life!
Before Bai Yifan could finish, Brother Hu suddenly stared directly at Bai Yifan’s face, slightly surprised.
"Young man, have we met before? You look really familiar!" Brother Hu persistently tried to establish a connection, "Maybe we could even be neighbors or something!"
Brother Hu was just trying to make connections, to avoid having his throat slashed by the Ice Blades.
Besides, he genuinely felt Bai Yifan looked familiar, but couldn’t remember where they’d met.
With such a powerful family, Bai Yifan probably wasn’t one of his loan shark targets.
Perhaps they lived in the same neighborhood or district, crossing paths without knowing each other!
Heaven knows, Brother Hu never thought of it that way.
He just purely wanted to make connections, hoping not to be obliterated by the moon!
Bai Yifan’s face slightly stiffened, taking a step back, pretending to be calm, "You have mistaken me, I haven’t met you!"
"Impossible, I truly feel you look familiar, maybe we’ve really met!" Brother Hu persistently tried to connect.
How could Brother Hu be wrong?
He just wanted to leave here soon!
"Granny, finish him off! He’s beyond saving!" Bai Yifan looked resolutely at Brother Hu, "Villain, accept your punishment!"
Brother Hu: ???
