"Miss, is this our first time meeting?"
Qin Ze looked Lu Tongtong up and down suspiciously, confirming that he had never seen her before.
Lu Tongtong casually said, "I've seen people call you that before."
Qin Ze put his hands on his hips. "Very good, it seems our Mighty Tiger Gang has already made a name for itself!"
The two boys on either side exclaimed in unison, "Our leader is brilliant!"
Lu Tongtong sighed inwardly, " Little Deer Little Deer, you've actually learned to lie."
She looked at Qin Ze again; this was clearly not the Qin Ze she knew.
But what puzzled her was that, judging from the scene on the street, it was at least ten years ago, so why was Qin Ze there back then?
More than ten years ago, Qin Ze was probably about the same age as the little girl next to her.
Speaking of the little girl... where is she?
Lu Tongtong came to her senses and found the little girl clinging to Qin Ze's leg.
"Big pot~"
Whose child are you?
Qin Ze squatted down and pinched the little girl's nose.
Lu Tongtong explained, "She got separated from her family, and I was just about to take her to the Law Enforcement."
Qin Ze raised an eyebrow upon hearing this. "If you take her to the Law Enforcement Department, she might never see her family again."
Lu Tongtong, puzzled, "Why?"
Qin Ze said calmly, "Pay more attention to the news. There are children going missing every day lately. Is Law Enforcement unwilling to take responsibility?"
Lu Tongtong widened. "You mean Law Enforcement...?"
Qin Ze quickly interrupted her, "Stop, I didn't say that."
Lu Tongtong doesn't have many memories of her hometown from more than a decade ago.
However, she had also heard from her parents that she had almost been lost when she was a child, but was fortunate to have met kind people.
It turns out that my hometown was so dark back then.
Composing herself, Lu Tongtong looked at the little girl and asked, "What about her?"
Qin Ze shrugged. "Since you're being a good person, why not take her with you for now?"
"Her family will soon issue a missing person notice; you can then personally return it to her."
Lu Tongtong nodded slightly; it was an idea.
Qin Ze patted the little girl's head. "Goodbye, little brat, listen to your big sister."
The little girl hugged Qin Ze's neck. "No! I want to go with Big Brother!"
Qin Ze said helplessly, "Why are you following me? I was just about to go begging for food."
The little girl thought for a moment and said, "Then... then I'll go beg for food too!"
Qin Ze looked at Lu Tongtong, and Little Deer smiled gently, "Since she doesn't want to leave, then we'll stay with you."
Qin Ze was speechless. Whose young lady is here to experience life?
What's so interesting about begging?
Qin Ze picked up the little girl. "If you want to go, then let's go."
Lu Tongtong followed behind the "four disciples," pondering her intention to Breakthrough Otherworld.
Unlike the Otherworld she had experienced before, Breakthrough Otherworld felt like a warm summer afternoon.
No alien beasts, no AI crisis, no alien beasts...
Moreover, the Otherworld seems to have separated everyone.
Intuition told Little Deer that the other Hunter were not in this city; this was Breakthrough Otherworld unique to her.
"Arrive!"
Qin Ze's voice interrupted Lu Tongtong's thoughts.
She looked up and saw that she was at a very busy intersection.
Qin Ze and two of the Mighty Tiger Gang's underlings sat down by the roadside with practiced ease, taking out a small basin. "Have some mercy, the child has been hungry all day..."
Lu Tongtong was taken aback; he really was begging.
The little girl didn't know what begging was; she only knew that doing it with the older boy was fun.
So she repeated Qin Ze's words like a parrot.
"Please have mercy, the child is hungry... has been hungry all day!"
Lu Tongtong blushed; she had never begged in front of so many people before.
Qin Ze patted the brick next to him. "Sit wherever you like."
After hesitating for a moment, Little Deer decided to sit down, but she kept her head down like an ostrich.
Qin Ze chuckled, "First time begging?"
Little Deer was momentarily at a loss for words when asked this question.
"Yes... I don't have much experience."
Qin Ze: "Then you've come to the right person today. I'm experienced, and I can train you in just one day."
"First step, hold your bowl."
The Little Deer picked up the dented, broken basin.
"The second step is to open your mouth and say, 'Please, kind people, have mercy!'"
"Remember, always choose those who look wealthy and are on the older side."
Ignore those flashy young people; they're all broke.
Lu Tongtong, however, couldn't open her mouth.
She was getting a little frantic. What on earth did he want to do after Breakthrough Otherworld?
Is begging considered a form of spiritual practice?
The little girl sitting in Qin Ze had no psychological burden at all, swaying her body left and right repeatedly.
"The child is hungry... hasn't eaten all day... please be kind~"
With her adorable appearance, the little girl quickly became the top earner among the master and apprentices.
As evening fell and the sun set, the extremely difficult day for the Little Deer finally came to an end.
"See you tomorrow, boss!"
"Your current hardships are only temporary. When the Mighty Tiger Gang recruits more members in the future, you will be the founding members of the server!"
The two underlings were moved to tears, and after paying off a tenth of their daily revenue, they finally left.
Qin Ze picked up the little girl. "What would the top salesperson like to eat tonight? The boss will treat!"
With a little girl as pretty as a doll around, his sales broke records today.
The little girl thought seriously for a moment, "I want to eat mini puddings, cream cake, roast goose, chocolate, rainbow candies, hamburgers..."
Qin Ze waved his hand dismissively. "Buy! Buy them all! That's how much I care about my subordinates!"
Lu Tongtong rolled her eyes; this shameless attitude was exactly the same as Qin Ze's.
As night fell, Qin Ze led the two back to his three-story, unfinished villa.
"Please, make yourself at home!"
Lu Tongtong looked at the bare house, the only piece of furniture being a wooden bed.
Where should we sit?
Qin Ze said calmly, "It seems you haven't mastered the skill yet. You'll need to practice more tomorrow."
He spread the newly bought bedding on the bed, and then took out the order form the little girl had placed from the bags and piled it on the dilapidated wooden bed next to the bed.
After lighting the candles, Qin Ze picked up the little girl and placed her on the bedside table. "Let's begin our candlelight dinner!"
The little girl happily ate, getting cream all over her face.
Lu Tongtong leaned against the wall, watching this scene, and a smile involuntarily crept onto her lips.
You must really like kids.
Qin Ze casually replied, "What else? Leave her on the street?"
"By the way, which family do you two young ladies belong to?"
He had already tacitly accepted that Lu Tongtong had run away from home together to experience life outside.
Upon hearing this, the little girl replied earnestly, "I belong to the Lu Family!"
Lu Tongtong was taken aback. "From the Lu Family? What's your name?"
The little girl licked the cream from the corner of her mouth and replied, "My name is Lu Tongtong."
Little Deer was momentarily at a loss for words. " Lu Tongtong... are you me?"