If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

"They're coming to the door," the woman said.

".Sooner or later, I already expected this day when I left there."

"I'll help you get rid of them. This is our territory."

"This is your territory, not ours."

"Dom, don't do this."

The black Dodge Charger was parked in the dark alley. The noise of the bar in the distance could be heard faintly from the rotating exhaust fan high up in the alley. Occasionally, mice were swimming through the stagnant water, and their reflections were reflected on the rippled water. The profile of a tough guy behind the windshield and the woman in front of the car window with her head lowered and her hands on the roof of the car.

"It's time for me to go." The man in the car gently put his hands on the steering wheel and looked at the fire on the ground outside the alley and said softly.

"You leave this time and I don't know when you will come back. Mia and Brian heard that you escaped and are looking for you."

"Tell me you didn't tell them about me."

"Nothing happened to me. The family will solve it together. Isn't this what we agreed at the beginning? Don't bear everything on your own."

"No, this time is different." The man shook his head, "This time I can't drag you into the water. You don't know what kind of enemy I face. I don't want you to know these things. You just need to stay away. It's best not to follow. All I need is a connection. Those guys’ noses are more sensitive than hyenas and they can smell me from far away. It turns out that they also found me, faster than I thought.”

"Dom, you can't handle this alone," she whispered. "You're not wrong at all."

"They won't listen, so I won't speak either." The man stretched out his hand, but then took it back after shaking his head slightly, as if he was afraid of something, "I saw the two people in that car. I can feel it. The sense of danger one of them brought to me was something I had never felt with the group that had hunted me before, and that said a lot, and I trusted my instincts because it had saved me. Many times."

"Does your gut tell you that you can leave successfully this time?"

"My intuition tells me that I must not involve you again this time. In fact, I shouldn't have come to you in the first place, but I will try my best to solve the next matter."

"This is New York, your home court, but do you think it's forced?"

"I have a hunch that one of those guys is the best of the bunch. The best of the best, so I can't promise you anything. I can only try to do my best."

"Let me give it a try."

She paused for a long time and then said, "If it doesn't work, just leave. I won't mess around. You know this."

"Don't do anything to them." The man said, "Don't, remember this, they are not ordinary people, just like me."

"I know." She took a deep breath, "Do you have enough money from the previous competitions? I still have it there. I have some savings over the years. Although it's not much, it should make it easier for you on the road."

"Just make yourself more relaxed." The man shook his head. "It's more important to me that you and Brian can live a stable and safe life than anything else. But I will be on the road alone for the second half of my life."

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The bell on the bar rang. Lin Nian and Lin Xian, who were sitting in front of the bar, stopped talking and turned to look over.

"Hell, is that car at the door your car? Koenigsegg? What model is it? I've never seen this type of car on the market." Letty came back from outside the bar and looked at the people who had been sitting there for a long time. Lin Nian and Lin Xian were looking at each other in front of the bar, with happy smiles on their faces.

If the people gathered here tonight because of the racing have some car-loving problems, then the problem of Letty's group of people is cancer-level and incurable. They can't walk on the road when they see a good car, or even The idea of ​​​​returning to the old career and giving it a fuck will come up.

"It doesn't have an official name. It's the only one in the world. It's handmade and belongs to the batch of concept cars." Lin Nian stepped on a high bar chair with his legs and looked at Letty with milk in his hands. "It only takes 100 kilometers per hour to reach a speed of 100 kilometers per hour." 1.9 seconds. The modified rear wing and carbon fiber body are more suitable for rapid cornering. Isn’t this car enough to qualify for this event?”

"It's completely enough, but a beast always needs an experienced trainer. Neither of you looks like it can handle that beauty." Letty stood at the door and looked at Lin Nianhe. Lin Xian smiled and shook his head, "I really don't know where you got this car. If it had been a few years earlier, I would have pried your car away while you were drinking. Unfortunately, I have given up on it." .”

"This car was lent to us by a very powerful friend. As for who drives this car, it only needs to be driven fast enough. In terms of speed, I have never lost to anyone." Lin Nian played with it. He looked up at Letty while drinking the empty milk glass.

"But the track we are competing on is not a regular track. Although your car is great, it will not take advantage of you at all on this track." Letty reminded, "The place we are competing on is not a lap track. But the city of New York!”

"Run a city track?"

"Starting on the street outside the bar, starting from Brooklyn, crossing the Williamsburg Bridge, passing New York University, the Empire State Building, then to the Metropolitan Museum, Columbia University, and then going down the Bronx Expressway to the Whitestone Bridge and looping back to Brooklyn , and finally took the Central Expressway all the way back to the starting point." Letty re-entered the bar, glanced at the photo frame on the counter and stretched out her hand to gently adjust its position, then sat on the chair again and looked at the two of them, " The route will be entered into the car's GPS. Because there is a possibility of traffic jams on the established route, shortcuts are allowed, but you cannot deviate more than two blocks from the route. If you are stopped by the police on the road, you are not allowed to reveal any information about the game, unless you are prepared to offend New York City. All the gang members in there.”

"The competition is very fierce, and the urban track means extreme situations can occur at any time. It's very challenging, and we want to join in." Lin Nian nodded.

"Forget it." Letty paused and shook her head with a smile, "I don't know why you are here, but it is definitely not for the bonus. I have met many people who are as obsessed with money as their lives. People account for a large part. I know what the eyes of people who are eager for wealth look like. But I can’t see any desire in your eyes. In this case, I don’t want to see you doing it for temporary stimulation. Put your life in it."

"No need to talk?" Lin Nian asked.

"No need to talk about it. I don't want my friend I just met to die on the road. The car you drive is too good. The forces behind you may bring trouble to us people in the gray area, and we don't want to cause trouble. ." Letty spread her hands and looked at Lin Xian regretfully, "You have a really good car. I don't want this car to be ruined on the road. This is my last attachment to a good car. You really don't have it. If you need to participate in underground racing, listen to my advice and go back."

"It's hard to persuade someone who wants to die." Lin Xian smiled, lowered his head and bit the straw.

"You said you saw that we weren't here for the prize, but what else did you see in our eyes?" Lin Nian chewed on what Letty said before and gently stroked the wall of the cup.

"Nothing, I see nothing." Letty smiled and said, "I can't find the passion for racing in your eyes. I can't see anything in your eyes."

"No, you did see something." Lin Nian shook his head and put down the milk glass, slid the milk glass on the table in front of Letty, and the expression on his face finally became calmer, no longer as relaxed as before, "So When you went out to look at the car just now, you notified your accomplice that there was trouble coming to your door."

The bar was still noisy, the high notes of "Elvis Presley" on the singing platform soared over, and the tune continued to rise to the climax of the song, but the bar on the other side was so quiet that you could hear the sound of bubbles rising and breaking in the glass.

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Letty looked up at Lin Nian. Lin Xian was sitting there, drinking his own non-alcoholic drink. Lin Nian, who was standing beside him, just looked at him with his hands folded in front of his face, as if nothing happened. It was as if the person who spoke just now was not him.

"Hey" Letty took a cup and wiped it. She glanced at Lin Nian and then at Lin Xian. The smile on her face slowly disappeared, and an inexplicable emotion passed through her eyes. "If I remember, don't you?" If you are wrong, you have been sitting here just now."

"Letty, right? I'm actually more interested in the photo frame behind you than the game. Who is the man sitting next to you in it? I guess he's your husband?" Lin Nian approached the bar and pointed behind Letty photo frame, "You have been out for a long time. Did you go to see him? But when I came in, why didn't I see this person outside?"

"Maybe you missed it."

"No, my memory is very good. As long as I catch a glimpse of it, I will definitely not ignore it." Lin Nian shook his head, "You care about him? Is he here tonight?"

"Then it's none of your business." Letty wiped the cup and shook her head gently. The smile on her face finally disappeared and she breathed out, "I guessed it right. You guys are not here to compete or drink tonight. of."

"If we haven't talked about it, we are indeed here to compete." Lin Nian nodded and said, "But you are smarter than I thought. You have a good car, a handsome man and a beautiful woman. Coming to the bar at midnight is really not a car chase movie. The plot of the movie is a criminal investigation film, and you know this. Just like you said, we don't come for the bonus, we don't come for the racing, we always come for something else, and you know it in your heart. , that’s why they were so eager to reject our request to participate in the competition.”

"Then I might have to invite you two out." Letty stopped answering Lin Nian's words and put the cleaned cup on the table, her tone gradually turning cold.

Behind Lin Nian and Lin Xian, at some point the singers on the main stage stopped singing. The bar suddenly fell silent, and their conversation that gradually became colder inevitably attracted other drinkers, who all looked over. The people at the bar noticed what was about to happen here.

"Tell the truth, Letty." Lin Nian ignored the atmosphere in the bar, stopped making false polite remarks, and looked directly into the woman's eyes, "Where is he? Is he just outside the bar? If we let him go without mercy, Maybe I’ll escort him back intact.”

Lin Xian whistled softly, looked down at the ground and did not participate in the conversation, because she probably knew what would happen next.

The word "complete" really touched the bottom line and successfully aroused the nerves of the woman behind the bar. After a few seconds of silence, she stood up and approached the bar. She pulled out an M92 pistol from under the bar and used her thumb to pull it. He turned on the safety, pulled the barrel of the gun, and suddenly pushed the muzzle of the gun to Lin Nian's forehead in front of the bar.

Lin Nian did not dodge or move, but next to him, Lin Xian, who had his head lowered, smashed the wine glass in his hand to the corner of the bar the moment Letty drew his gun, and grabbed the glass to hold it against him. On to Letty's neck.

At this time, Letty saw from the corner of her eye that this girl who had always been gentle and intellectual no longer had the smile on her face. Instead, she looked calm, so calm that it made people feel a little scary. The glass shards were accurately pressed against her neck. Artery, she drew her gun and wanted Lin Nian's life, so Lin Xian was also ready to kill her. As long as she dared to take further actions, the girl would dare to insert glass shards into her arteries.

Letty's drawing of the gun and the shattering of the wine glass were like a signal. Even if they didn't know what happened, the other drinkers in the bar all chose to stand in line, took out the pistols hidden in their bodies and aimed at the people in front of the bar. Boys and girls, the mechanical sound of firearms being loaded and safety open echoed continuously throughout the space.

"Say that word again, say that fucking word again?" Letty ignored the crisis on her neck and moved the hammer down with her thumb as she spoke word by word.

"Which word?" Lin Nian tilted his head, and the muzzle of the gun moved with him. He looked at Letty and said lightly, "Complete?"

Letty's thumb was on the trigger in an instant, and the muzzle of the gun was pushed forward, but it did not fire. The fragment of the wine glass that was pressed on her neck was also slightly pushed in, breaking her skin and bleeding. .

Under her gaze, Lin Nian sat motionless, just looking at him. It was unclear whether the expression on his face was calm or silent ridicule.

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