# 795
Chapter 796: Li Zhenzhen
Shangjing City.
A certain deserted alleyway.
A girl of sixteen or seventeen was dressed in a bright red baseball jacket, hands stuffed in her pockets, walking with her head down in the middle of the path. Her eyes were slightly red and puffy.
"What's with all that… Who needs you guys to take care of me? I can do just fine on my own!"
She muttered quietly under her breath, lifting her chin high, blinking hard twice, trying her best to keep the tears from spilling out.
She walked along like this, sometimes looking down, sometimes looking up, but not a single tear managed to break through her defenses and flow from those resentful eyes.
When she reached the mouth of the alley, she seemed somewhat annoyed and kicked a discarded aluminum can from the corner.
The can bounced off the walls on both sides of the alley several times before, by sheer coincidence, landing on the other end of the road and striking the forehead of a hoodlum squatting by the roadside, leaving a faint red mark.
The four or five hoodlums squatting by the roadside saw the red mark on their boss's head and froze in unison.
"Damn! Boss, you okay?!"
"Who?! Who dares ambush the boss?"
"It's that girl, let's get her!"
The several hoodlums spotted the girl in the red baseball jacket across the street and sprang up from the ground. Ignoring the blinking traffic light, they rushed凶神恶煞地 directly across the road!
The girl blinked. Not only did she show no fear, but an excited expression actually appeared on her face.
She stepped forward, but then seemed to think of something. Her gaze fell on the surveillance camera beside the traffic light. After a moment of silence, she withdrew her right foot and stepped backward into the alley behind her, beckoning at the hoodlums crossing the street with a provocative finger.
This gesture ignited the fury in the hearts of the many hoodlums even further. They charged into the alley, picked up bricks and steel pipes scattered on both sides, and spoke with murderous intent:
"A little girl, really doesn't know when to quit… Hit her! Beat her to death!"
Seven or eight hoodlums swarmed forward!
……
"Zhen Zhen?"
Hearing this name, Lin Qiye and the others looked puzzled, "Is she a member of your Squad 006?"
"No." Zhang Zhengting sighed helplessly, "Li Zhenzhen is a girl we rescued during a 'Mystery' extermination operation at the 'Unmeasurable' level a few years ago.
Back then, that 'Mystery' went on a rampage and burst into a stray cat and dog shelter. The shelter was run by a family of four. The husband had saved up quite a bit of money from his entrepreneurial ventures early on and lived a good life. After early retirement, he opened this shelter for stray cats and dogs free of charge as a way to accumulate virtue for his children…
Unfortunately, when that 'Mystery' burst into the shelter, the power it released turned everyone—both human and animal—inside the shelter to ash. Of the family of four, only the youngest daughter survived because she had gone out to buy sweet potatoes for her mother."
Hearing this story, Lin Qiye and the others fell silent.
"That girl is the Li Zhenzhen you're referring to?" After a long while, Lin Qiye asked, "But shouldn't the headquarters have a special place to settle underage children who survived a 'Mystery' invasion? Why has she been staying with your squad?"
"Originally, we did plan to settle her according to procedure…" Zhang Zhengting said with a bitter smile, "But who could have expected that on the very night her whole family died, a deity suddenly manifested and chose her to be its proxy.
As you know, once a deity's proxy appears, conventional handling methods no longer apply.
Later, we coordinated with headquarters. Because Li Zhenzhen was too young to join the Night Watch, and her mental state was very unstable after her family was killed, she was temporarily placed under the care of the Shangjing City squad. Through long-term cohabitation with us, we hoped to slowly wash away the pain in her heart and gradually integrate her into the Night Watch family."
"So she's a deity's proxy, then…"
Lin Qiye nodded.
Once a deity's proxy appeared, the nature of the situation changed entirely. The Shangjing City team's handling was correct. Back when Lin Qiye himself first became a Seraph proxy, he also directly became a reserve member of Cangnan's Squad 136, slowly integrating into the Night Watch collective.
The difference was that Li Zhenzhen was simply younger, so she had been living with the Shangjing City squad for a longer period of time.
"By the way, which deity's proxy is she?" Baili Pangpang asked curiously.
Zhang Zhengting's expression stiffened, and he awkwardly scratched his head.
"The deity she proxies, um… how should I put this…
It's… very… special?"
……
"Oh~~ My most beloved Princess Zhen Zhen! Please, do let your shoe sole linger on my face a little longer. Being this close to you is the greatest fortune of my life!"
"Thank you, fateful aluminum can, for bringing us together. Without it, perhaps… I would never truly understand what it feels like to fall in love~"
"Zhen Zhen! Don't leave me! Zhen Zhen! We can't live without you, Zhen Zhen!"
"The pot is called love!! Love!!"
"……"
Inside the alley, the originally fierce hoodlums were now lying on the ground in tears. They gazed up with their blackened eyes, and in those tear-filled eyes was a sea of deep love…
Li Zhenzhen kicked over a hoodlum who kept trying to grab at her shoe and rolled her eyes.
She turned around, and the golden bow in her right hand dissipated into the wind. She rolled her neck and let out a long breath…
Fighting was indeed the best way to vent emotions!
She didn't feel so awful anymore.
Li Zhenzhen happily walked back along the alley. Just as she turned two corners, her eyes suddenly narrowed.
There, on the crumbling wall of the alley across from her, a white cat with heterochromatic eyes was quietly lying there. Its yellow and red eyes gazed at her, deep and eerie.
"Stray cat?" Li Zhenzhen's heart stirred. She quickly walked to the crumbling wall and examined this exceptionally beautiful white cat.
"What a rare breed… It's very clean, doesn't look like it's been straying outside for long. It must have just gotten separated from its owner?" Li Zhenzhen murmured to herself.
She carefully extended her hand, her fingertips gently stroking the white cat's chin from below, trying to coax it down from the crumbling wall.
"You're a deity's proxy?"
At that moment, the white cat lying on the crumbling wall suddenly spoke human words.
Li Zhenzhen's pupils constricted. She instinctively stepped back rapidly, grabbed in the empty air, and the golden longbow appeared in her palm. She nocked an arrow with a red heart-shaped tip, her expression full of vigilance.
"Who… are you?"