Chapter 29: Do You Eat Apples?
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"Over here!"
Jack spotted Lucy, who was leaning against the underwater mud wall, her eyes somewhat listless as she struggled to stay afloat against it.
She had been under the water too long.
Her clothes were thoroughly soaked.
They seemed somewhat translucent.
The tightly clinging fabric gave a faint glimpse of her prominent chest. If you were to observe from the surface, Lucy's figure appeared flawlessly perfect, the kind that could captivate any man.
They say women are most beautiful when emerging from water.
But isn't a woman in the water even prettier?
Lucy was naturally beautiful, and her dark hair spread out in the water, making her look almost ethereally stunning in that moment.
Jack could hardly bear to look directly at this woman, grabbing her arm and swimming upward.
Whoosh.
As they broke the surface of the water.
Lucy gasped for air, parting her cherry lips to breathe.
"Miss!"
"Miss!"
Anita and others, having heard the sound, divided their efforts between pursuing the assailants and waiting at the river. Now seeing Jack with Lucy, they let out a sigh of relief.
Jack positioned himself in front of Lucy.
He took off his outer coat and placed it on Lucy.
Lucy grasped the coat Jack put on her, looking up at him with her wooden eyes. She quickly grabbed the coat and wore it, indeed needing something to cover her soaked upper body.
It must be said—
Even a man's coat.
When worn by this woman, still looks absolutely stunning, practically flawless in beauty.
"Did you catch him?"
Lucy asked, standing beside Jack.
"I'm sorry, Miss!" the security chief bowed his head and replied.
No matter the situation, his duty was only to respond and obey.
Specially trained by the family from a young age, it was basic for him.
Lucy didn't speak and walked back to the bridge.
"Miss, do you need a change of clothes?" the keeper of the small grove asked.
"No need!"
"Miss, do you feel unwell? I can find a doctor for Miss in the shortest time," the housekeeper asked again.
"No need."
Lucy spoke slowly: "All of you, stand down. I don't want what just happened to occur a second time!"
With just a few simple sentences.
Undoubtedly!
She stood there, like a queen!
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
The security chief and Anita, among others, left the small grove one after another.
Lucy coughed twice, her somewhat haggard face looking calmly at the scenic river, hands behind her back, as if nothing had happened just now.
The night was gradually falling.
The air was subtly turning colder.
Lucy, wearing Jack's coat, felt its warmth.
Jack was both amused and bemused.
He had given his coat to Lucy, now he was drenched...
Lucy stood on the bridge.
He was also standing on the bridge.
After what had just happened, he didn't dare to let his guard down.
He wanted to ask Lucy,
"What's so interesting about this river?"
Perhaps everyone carries their own stories.
"Starting from today, you will be officially working," spoken by Lucy.
That was the first thing Lucy said.
Jack was suddenly stunned.
The next moment, he was ecstatic.
He was officially on the job?
Wait.
He hadn't misheard.
Jack wanted to burst out laughing. He had officially started work. It seemed that whether he could get through the period or not still depended entirely on this woman.
Everything Lucy did was highly systematic. If Jack made a mistake, he would be fined. And if Jack protected her, she let Jack officially start working.
When making decisions, she only chose the best.
"By the way," a thought struck Jack, "Can the deducted salary be compensated? And this month, is the salary of a formal employee, or a probationary one?"
After all, before the probation period was completely over, he had already started working officially.
"Formal Work!"
Lucy blandly said, "The deducted salary will be compensated."
Jack was overjoyed and immediately said, "Miss, you have a heart of gold, you are the heaven's..."
"If you don't want any more deductions, stay quiet for a while." said Lucy, who was still calmly by the beautiful river, hands behind her back, exuding a different kind of poise.
Jack shut up again.
How could this woman be so...
When Lucy didn't speak,
He didn't either.
The night—
Under the bright moonlight, with a crescent moon hanging high, there were two people on the bridge, yet the small grove was extremely quiet.
One second.
Two seconds.
Time trickled by.
It was hard to tell how long it had been.
Jack's clothes had somewhat dried.
"Do you eat apples?" Lucy suddenly asked at that moment.
Jack was taken aback.
What did she mean?
Apples? Where were there any apples around here?
Somehow, Lucy had produced an apple from somewhere. The apple was bright red and clearly ripe, so tempting that one couldn't help but want to take a bite.
"Can you break this apple in half for me?" Lucy handed the apple to Jack.
Taking the apple, Jack thought to himself that he was indeed a bit hungry after not eating anything all evening. Eating an apple seemed like a good idea.
The next moment, he broke the apple into two even halves.
Snap!
"Here, eat!" Lucy took one half from Jack's hand, and with a crunch, bit into it.
Jack was momentarily stunned.
This woman—
He felt that the moment she offered him an apple was genuinely adorable.
It seemed this woman wasn't as robotic as she seemed on the surface, he just didn't fully understand her yet.
Lost in thought, he took his half of the apple and took a bite.
However, when did this woman have an apple in her pocket?
The apple was wet.
This apple wasn't sweet.
On the contrary, it was somewhat sour.
The night sky was hung high, how would this night pass? Jack was already prepared to spend the whole night by the Mimosa River with this seemingly robotic beauty. He couldn't help but wryly smile in his mind. Being Lucy's bodyguard was indeed not an easy task.
Old Fox and Bull had escaped to an abandoned construction site, both bearing various injuries, a result of Lucy's bodyguard team's relentless pursuit. Fortunately, they had managed to escape.
Every one of Lucy's bodyguards was one in a million.
But they were even better at escaping.
Arriving at the abandoned factory, Bull, nursing his broken finger, gritted his teeth and cursed, "Dammit!"
"Did you make it back alive?"
At that moment, a young man emerged from the factory. Wearing hip-hop pants and dressed somewhat eccentrically, it was Scar.
"Hmm," Old Fox nodded, awkwardly using the language of Hua Xia country, "The mission failed. That man is very formidable. It's difficult to kill Lucy with him around."
"Tell me everything about your confrontation with that man," Scar said.
Old Fox detailed their encounter with Jack.
"He's very formidable!"
"At least—"
"Together, Bull and I are no match for him. It wasn't just a fluke!" Old Fox said sternly, a hint of anger in his voice.
"Just as the investigation showed, he doesn't like to kill," Scar said with a smirk.
"What do you mean?" Bull furrowed his brow.
Scar smiled slightly, "Honestly, if he wanted to kill you, even if you managed to escape back here, it wouldn't be without harm! I've looked into him... he doesn't like to kill. This dislike, it's been ages since he's seen blood!"
In his eyes,
The injuries on Bull and Old Fox were indeed minor.
"It's impossible!"
"How could someone in this line of work not kill? And a master who doesn't kill poses little threat. It's impossible." Old Fox said through clenched teeth.
He admitted in his heart that he was no match for that man.
But this answer was still hard for him to accept.
It felt like, his return was merely fortuitous!
"This is his weakness, but at the same time, what makes this man astonishing. Someone who crawled out from a pile of corpses, after enduring such torment, any other person would have likely viewed human life as worthless! Yet, he's different, I even doubt if such a character is just a facade," Scar said with a smirk.
"His master, that legendary figure!"
"He had many disciples"
"The ones before, his senior brothers, went through that legendary person's special training. Not to say they became murderous maniacs who deem human life as grass, but they also became cold-hearted. If their lives were in darkness, then that man, he is the only light in the darkness!"
"He is known as the only one who hasn't changed!"
"Interesting, isn't it?"
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