Chapter 1: A Deep Sleep, a Fresh Start
Saigon is magnificent, flowers for the rich, and tears for the poor.
Although this is one of the richest and most developed cities in Vietnam, mixed with luxurious streets and crowded vehicles, there are still dark hidden corners that few people can see.
- Slash it!
- Slash his mother to death!
In a long narrow alley, a young man with shaggy hair and a naked body revealed his strong muscles that were squeezing his neck and running.
His hands were constantly swinging, grasping anything in front of him, throwing it backward and shouting:
"Fuck, Ava likes me, take the initiative to approach, am I harassing her!"
Chasing closely behind were dozens of young men dressed in flashy clothes, with blue, red, purple and yellow hair. The most prominent leader, with a white nose, wearing a white shirt, has a very good-looking appearance, and it is very easy to make people fall in love at first sight. However, the long and zigzag horse in his hand that constantly slashed towards the naked youth would make you shudder, and immediately rethink the assessment of this marshal as a gentle person.
"Beggar, Ava is the one I've been pursuing for almost a year. I haven't even been able to hold her hand, what can you rely on? I have to cut off your dog's hand!
The juniors behind him shouted loudly:
- Are you good at standing back!
"Stand back and let us slash, I'm not stupid, if you're good, don't chase us!"
The two sides chased each other for a long time. It's strange to say, the young man was naked even though he was being chased east and west, sometimes thinking that he was about to be caught again, he would somehow get out, more slippery than a catfish. At that time, he broke the rotten door of an abandoned house and ran straight inside, jumped through the window to another alley, and when he swung again, he jumped on the wall full of barbed wire, causing the people behind him to take a detour to surround him.
- Hazz..haizz, Fuck, it will never be able to escape!
The naked young man was sweating profusely at this time, glancing horizontally and vertically, not seeing anyone chasing behind him, and then he walked towards the slum south of the city.
His name was Mason, twenty-six years old, an orphan who had been struggling to make ends meet in the slums.
He used to do everything no matter what job it was, including stealing, or delivering hot goods, just to earn a piece of rice every day.
Mason reached into the old pocket of his torn pants, took out two dumplings that had not been crushed, and smiled happily:
"Fortunately, he can still eat, otherwise Henry and little Luna would have starved tonight.
Shortly afterwards, Mason finally arrived at the slum. At this time, in front of a row of old and dilapidated abandoned houses, there was a new SH car parked.
A stylishly dressed girl sitting in the car with a long-awaited look on her face, the moment she saw Mason appear, she immediately stepped down and approached:
- Are you okay? Did Ethan hurt him?
This beautiful girl is Ava Williams, a famous beauty at a university in Saigon. Originally, with his status as a street leader, Mason could never reach Ava, but God was unlucky, three months ago when Ava ran away from home, he accidentally saved her. The girl was lost alone in the middle of the night and got close to the slum, Ava was blocked by thugs, fortunately Mason appeared in time, otherwise, she would have died.
"It's okay, but I'm leaving. I'm in this place, and if I'm being watched by the Ethans, I'll have to move out again...
Mason smiled, although he said that, there was no fear on his face.
Ava was silent for a long time, and then suddenly said:
"Or you can lend me the rent for a new room to live in, you and Arthur and little Luna will move there first, and you can send me back when you go to work.
Mason shook his head:
- I don't accept it!
-Why? You don't need to be afraid, I lent it to you, not to you...
Ava was very sincere, but Mason still refused:
- We are nothing to each other... In addition, he was not used to receiving other people's things before...
After saying this, Mason's heart was also stunned. A street leader specializing in petty theft said that he was not used to receiving from others, it must be said that he was used to stealing and deceiving others.
But he had no choice. A person who does not have a birth certificate and resume, moreover, from childhood to adulthood is arrested at the police station like a meal, how can he ask for something kind to his soul.
Without a job, this eighty-nine-year-old Arthur would starve to death in an abandoned house. Even six-year-old Luna is not immune to this fate.
The two of them, an old man and a small child, lived in an abandoned house with Mason, and were not related by blood at all. They are just people who accidentally meet and rely on each other. For Arthur and Luna, he was the one who supported them materially, taking care of every meal for them. As for him, they are the biggest spiritual support, giving him the motivation to live every day after the chases, being beaten to death by people.
- Don't say that! I understand very well what kind of person you are for the past three months. I believe that if the living environment changes, you will be a true good person.
Ava advised Mason for a moment. Saying that he had just gotten a job at an acquaintance's restaurant for Mason, he would have the opportunity to be promoted to management in the future.
Mason laughed for a long time, and finally had to nod his head in acceptance. It wasn't that he was inferior to his poor family, but that he was afraid that he would do something to embarrass Ava.
But Ava was so sincere, he couldn't help but agree.
After seeing Ava off, Mason went back to the dark abandoned house in the slum.
Although it is said to be an abandoned house, it is also quite clean because it is regularly cleaned by Arthur and Luna.
"Ah, brother Mason is back, I’m hungry...
As soon as he pushed the old wooden door inside, the child ran out and jumped up and hugged Mason's neck.
He happily picked up the baby, took the dumplings in his pocket and gave them to eat.
"Tell me Mason, how far have you been studying with Arthur today?"
- Yes, today I learned the multiplication table!
Hearing Mason's question, little Luna hesitated for a long time and then answered.
Originally a person who rolled around the market, these expressions naturally couldn't surpass Mason.
He walked past a chair not far away, where there was an old man with a white beard and opaque eyes puffing out a cigarette.
Don't think that Arthur spends it, just calls a pipe for pleasure. In fact, the cigarettes in it are all dried leaves rolled up and burned, inhaling into the lungs only a burning smell without any taste.
"Sensei Arthur, in this slum every old man is literate. He refused to teach Luna to learn to write, but kept telling her those fairy tales. Those stories don't make money!
Mason sighed, taking the last dumpling and handing it to him.
"Well, young people have never experienced it, how can they know that fairy stories are useless. Hasn't he been there reading stories all the time since he was given the old phone by that beautiful girl?
-This... I'm too bored to read for fun.
Mason scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly.
Ever since he was a child, he was only about eleven years old, and when he met Arthur, he began to tell him fantastical fairy tales. For a child who has never watched TV or read a book, it is indeed fascinating.
Strangely enough, it wasn't until three months before he first used his mobile phone to search the Internet that Mason learned that fairy tales had only appeared seven or eight years ago and that the stories Arthur had told had been around for more than ten years.
"I still suspect that you are from the other world!
Mason looked closely at Arthur from head to foot, laughing a few times.
- One speck of dust, one world! A thought can also become a world! A book is not written by chance, sometimes it is the great dharma of another world that influences the writer, allowing them to bring the amazing stories of the characters of that world to sentient beings in another space.
Sensei Arthur hissed his pipe, and a burning smell came out:
- The universe is vast, not to mention that in addition to the third dimension, there is also the fourth and sixth dimensions. After all, how many worlds exist, who knows...
- What do you mean that when we think, we are also creating a world?
Mason thought that these brain hacking problems were too confusing for a guy as uneducated as he was. If it weren't for Arthur's teaching him to read, he wouldn't even know how to write his name until now.
- Brother Mason, little Luna wants to be a fairy! Arthur said that if in another world, Luna was Peerless Martial Arts, she would definitely become a female Emperor in less than a thousand years...
"Arthur, little Luna is a child, don't inject him with these paranoid things, can you?"
Mason really disagreed, and kept rambling all night.
"Ha ha, maybe one day you just regret not hearing me talk a little more!
Finally, he ran out of options, crawled into the corner of his familiar wall, and lay down to hug Luna, and slept.
When his eyes were about to close, he still didn't forget to take out the old electricity and turn it on, looking back at the photo of Ava's beautiful face, his mouth smiling happily.
- Let's sleep! Tomorrow is a new day, a new beginning....
Playing the standard music to make it easier to sleep, Mason gradually sinks into the melodies in it.
"I used to make tea for whom. Whose painting has stepped into each other...
The distant sound of a piano has not stopped for many years. Let's talk to the person who broke up..
Riding horses all over the world, the memories became too far away. Despite the wind and rain far away, I still have memories of the human world...
The earth is hundreds of thousands of feet away, don't ask how far the road to reincarnation is...
Pick up your pen and tell about the wild stories of the past..."