Chapter 13 (1/2)

A month had pa.s.sed. Based on the sayings of those from Highwood – the Federal Capital Star System, it should now be late autumn. In books, characteristics of late autumn were cold winds, drizzling rains and pale skies. However, the differences between the four seasons were never clear for those at Eastwood.  Perhaps this was due to the never clearing layer of dust on top of the atmosphere turning the whole planet into a bizarre gla.s.s house.  For them, the so called late autumn was merely putting on an extra layer of cloth.

Xu Le was wearing a navy blue jacket today. It resembled a uniform, adding a sense of vitality that a youngster should posses on that ordinary appearance of his. He was currently sitting outside the display window of the repair shop at Xiang-Lan Boulevard. He seemed carefree but in fact he was observing the movements across the street attentively.

The corner of the fourth block was where the second branch of Riverwest Police Department was located. A middle aged man in windbreaker was walking lazily down the moist steps. As he got into a car, the police officers around saluted him, yet at the same time they were also looking at him with sympathetic eyes.

Seeing this, Xu Le was relieved. He had been observing Bao Long Tao for a month. It seems like this deputy chief was indeed scared s.h.i.+tless by his so called federal secret service ident.i.ty and no longer dared to investigate the Bell Tower Street riot. Even the group of orphans led by Li Wei did not suffer any suppression.

Xu Le possessed a calmness surpa.s.sing his age and had an innate sensitivity towards certain matters. He would definitely not approach Bao Long Tao stupidly with a fake ident.i.ty to test whether Bao Long Tao could recognize him. He would also not give up observing Bao Long Tao just because everything appeared calm on the surface. He would simply monitor things attentively with patience until everything settled down.

Even though he, like the repair shop boss was also a fanatic supporter of Jian Shui Er, he would never perform such a dangerous act just for a TV show. This totally did not match his personality. If the repair shop boss did not entice him using the operation room, he would only let out a few sigh regarding this incident of the 23rd channel and simply proceeded to buy more of Jian Shui Er's CDs.

He can't stop feeling scared whenever he remembered that he was actually going against the Governor's Office.  This was especially true whenever he recalled that night where Bao Long Tao was looking at him.  His thighs would twitch without control as this was his natural reaction when frightened to a certain degree.

During that night, if he was not quick witted and used two b.u.t.tons as fake communication tool and the standard military electric rod to intimidate Bao Long Tao, he really had no idea how to handle that situation.  Under the night wind, the finger pointed at the electronic monitoring tool seemed steady and arrogant, yet in truth he was incomparably frightened.

”Pretending to be a federal secret service…” every time he thought of this, his face would look unsightly. He would lower his head and talk to himself, ”It's not that I like to act cool, I simply want to be a good guy.”

”In the first place, being a good guy is much harder than acting cool.”  Boss Feng Yu that was just back from the recreation center swept pa.s.s Xu Le like a gust of wind and went upstairs to rest.

In the past two years, Xu Le had never appeared at the repair shop of Xiang-Lan Boulevard and had always performed his repairing works in the operation room of the mines. Hence in the eyes of Li Wei and the other orphans, he had been missing during daytime for two years.

This persists until one month ago when Xu Le was promised that the dust grade of the operation room would be increased by a level after completing that task for Feng Yu. Subsequently, Feng Yu felt lazy and brought Xu Le to the repair shop instead. At the very least, this would count as a formal introduction of the existence of this young apprentice to the fourth street neighbors.