Chapter 1

Early summer night, Jinghai City, pedestrian street.

Zoke, with his hands on his back, walked around in a bored way.

Through the hustle and bustle of people, passing large and small stores, Cao Ke is always an absent-minded lazy expression.

His upper body is a sky blue vest with white color, and his lower body is a pair of huge shorts that don't fit well. His feet are a pair of flip flops. This is Cao Ke's current dress. With his messy hair like a bird's nest, dark skin and slightly emaciated figure, Cao Ke looks like a slovenly poor boy.

From the pocket of his giant shorts, he took out a box of cheap cigarettes with only five yuan, threw out a cigarette and held it in the corner of his mouth. Then, Cao Ke began to feel all over: "he meow, where's the lighter? I remember I brought it with me... "

When Cao Ke was in a hurry, a lighted lighter stretched out in front of Cao Ke, and a light smile rang out on Cao Ke's right side: "brother Cao, fire."

Cao Ke turned his head and looked in the direction of the voice. He knew Cao Ke. He was a waiter in a shop on the side of the pedestrian street. Cao Ke couldn't remember his name. He just vaguely remembered that others all called him Xiao Gang.

Cao Ke put the cigarette in his mouth on the lighter that Xiao Gang stretched out. He took a few mouthfuls and exhaled a cigarette ring. He said casually: "thanks, brother!"

Xiaogang's face was full of smiles: "brother Cao, why do you have to be polite to my younger brother? It's my honor to light a cigarette for brother Cao!" With that, Xiao Gang put the lighter in his hand into Cao Ke's: "brother Cao forgot to bring the lighter. Take it with me. You're welcome!"

Cao Ke took the lighter and tossed it in his hand. He looked at Xiao Gang with satisfaction, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder. Then he waved his hand smartly: "you are busy, I'll go first."

"Ah Xiao Gang answered. Cao Ke wandered forward leisurely.

See Cao Ke go far, another shop assistant ran out of the shop, came to Xiaogang's side, asked in a low voice: "Xiaogang, you and Cao Ke such a gangster to deal with, are not afraid to suffer losses?"

"At a loss?" Xiao Gang smiles and shakes his head: "dealing with other gangsters may really suffer losses, but Cao Ke is different! Because he's a principled thug! "

A principled thug, this is a sentence that Cao Ke often talks about. That's right. Cao Ke is a gangster, a senior gangster with seven or eight years of "Hun" age. The whole kilometer long pedestrian street is the place where he has to walk back and forth every day, because this is his "workplace".

Cao Ke's work is actually very simple. He collects protection fees.

You may find it funny that in today's peaceful society, there are still people collecting protection fees? You can't believe it. This Cao Ke is really in this business. Moreover, he makes his business prosperous. The whole pedestrian street, whether it's big or small, has to give him some face and give him 10 yuan and 20 yuan a month. Therefore, although Cao Ke idles all day, the fees he charges from nearly 300 shops on the pedestrian street every month are enough for him to eat and drink, It's a happy life.

Some people are jealous and pester Cao Ke to tell him his secret of success. At this time, Cao Ke always sticks out three fingers and says solemnly, "my secret of success is three points. One is perseverance, the other is being able to stand beating, and the third is honesty."

Many people are not very clear about these three points.

When Cao Ke was in a good mood, he would explain something about it: "perseverance means that no matter where you go, you must wipe your face, kneel down, roll, relax, cheat, harass and abuse. No matter how others can't drive you away or beat you away, you should always be with persistent tenacity, Until the diaphragm should take him

"It's easy to understand that you have to resist beating. If someone beats you lightly, you have to fight with them. If they beat you hard, you can fight with them when they are tired. They can beat you to the hospital for countless times. But when you get better, you must come back and fight with them!"

"If you want to be honest, that is to say, if you accept the protection fee of the shop, you have to really do something for others, catch a thief, drive away a hooligan, and solve a mental illness, you must be on call."

After listening to these, a lot of red eyed people have played a retreat drum. Cao Ke said it easily, but if we really want to do it, how can it be so simple? No matter which of the three, without a persistent heart, is not so easy to complete.

There are also some people who consciously have a good relationship with Cao Ke. Out of good intentions, they remind Cao Ke whether he can seriously find another job to do. However, after hearing this, Cao Ke said with righteous words: "since I'm on this road, I won't retreat. I'm a principled thug!"

Anyway, Cao Ke is also an orphan, and no girl will take a fancy to him, which makes Cao Ke's whole life extremely casual, plus no worries. Therefore, for a long time, Cao Ke has been active in this pedestrian street, completing his work meticulously.

It is very casual with a cigarette in his mouth, shaking three steps, aimless walking, Cao Ke even comfortable humming a ditty.

All of a sudden, a sharp cry instantly covered the noise on the pedestrian street: "come on! There's been a robbery

"Robbery?" Cao Ke was startled and then said angrily, "he's meow! Who's the dumb bastard who's got me? "

He took the cheap cigarette in his mouth and fell to the ground. Cao Ke ran to the direction of the voice without hesitation.

Before he ran to the position, a middle-aged man, who looked thirty or forty years old, ran to him in a panic. Not far behind the man, an old man with white sideburns tried to chase him out of breath, shouting: "stop him! Stop him! He robbed me

Cao Ke's eyes were fixed. It was obvious that the middle-aged man running towards him was the robber. Cao Ke rushed up with an arrow step and couldn't help but hit the middle-aged man with his head and face.

The middle-aged man suddenly encountered an attack. In a state of panic, he instinctively flashed to the side. Unexpectedly, he dodged Cao Ke's fierce punch and ran away with Cao Ke.

"He's meow!" Cao Ke angrily scolded: "this guy really has some bad luck!" With that, Cao Ke ran after the middle-aged man.

Cao Ke stopped before he ran far away. He couldn't help it. Who asked him to come out this evening wearing a pair of flip flops? Although flip flops are cool, they are not suitable for running. Cao Ke in flip flops can't catch up with middle-aged men.

However, this can't defeat Cao Ke. Cao Ke stoops to take off the flip flop and holds it tightly in his hands. Then, Cao Ke puts on a standard posture of bidding gun and throws the flip flop first and then out to the middle-aged man who is running away quickly.

To be fair, the two flip flops hit the back of the middle-aged man's head and the bend of his leg, especially the flip flop at the bend of his leg. The middle-aged man who hit the flip flop directly faltered and fell to the ground like a dog.

Cao Ke, who was barefooted, jumped on the middle-aged man and wrestled with him.

The middle-aged man desperately protected the black package in his hand and attacked Cao Ke with his hands and feet. Cao Ke was willing to flinch. Fighting was a routine for Cao Ke. It didn't take much effort. Cao Ke put the middle-aged man under his own weight.

Seeing that he was not Cao Ke's opponent, the middle-aged man had to raise his hands and Surrender: "are you a policeman? Even a policeman doesn't work as hard as you do! OK, OK! I'll take it. You let me go. I'll give you something. "

Cao Ke slapped the middle-aged man on the head: "if you were so obedient, why should you be beaten?"

After receiving the package from the middle-aged man, Cao Ke stood up and let go of the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man glanced at Cao Ke fiercely. After he got up from the ground, he separated the crowd and disappeared into the sea of people.

"Don't let me see you in my territory in the future!" Cao Ke yelled at the direction of the middle-aged man's disappearance. Then, Cao Ke looked around at the crowd, waved his hand and said, "there's nothing to see. It's all scattered. It's all scattered."

As the crowd gradually dispersed, Cao Ke walked back with the package, trying to find the old man and return the package to him.

However, Cao Ke looked left and right, and turned around several times, but he didn't see the old man. An hour later, Cao kecai reluctantly sat on a bench in the pedestrian street: "it's a hell of a thing. It doesn't take a long time before and after that. Why is that old man gone? Does he want nothing of his own? "

Looking at the black package in his hand, Cao Ke was curious: "what is in this package? Shall I have a look? "

"Take a look, take a look!" Cao Ke was very single and said to himself, "I don't want to take things here for my own. I just want to have a look."

With that, Cao Ke raised the black package in front of his eyes, gently opened the seal of the package and looked inside.

At this time, an unexpected thing happened. With the opening of the seal, a bright white light rushed out of the package, wrapped Cao Ke in it, and illuminated the whole bench.

When the white light dissipated, Cao Ke and the package in his hand disappeared in the same place as if it had evaporated out of thin air, causing passers-by to be surprised.

No one noticed that at this time, at the door of a shop less than 20 meters away from the place where Cao Ke disappeared, an old man with white hair looked at the direction before Cao Ke disappeared and showed a strange smile.