Chapter 891: California, America

"I know you're a left-behind child, your parents aren't around."

"Me and this brother of mine, we just walked into your place without saying hello, wanted to help you out, show some care for a left-behind child."

"But what do you do? You call the police."

"Now we've had to sit through a lecture and got fined money because of it."

"You've broken my heart!"

Zhang Yao clutched his left chest with his left hand, pretending to sob a few times.

Jin Hai said, "Then... what if I pay you back? How much were you fined? I'll pay you back however much it was."

He regretted it. He regretted skipping out on paying this man's food delivery last time.

If he had just paid up like normal last time, maybe none of this would have snowballed into what it had over the past few days.

Truly, man proposes, heaven disposes.

"Pay back?"

"Heh heh heh."

Zhang Yao didn't say whether he agreed or not. He just let out a few cold laughs and left Building No. 2 with the person beside him.

Jin Hai watched them go, lowering his head, the two eyeballs in his eye sockets darting around ceaselessly.

This scene was witnessed clearly by Manager Wu Meiling, who was in the management office on the first floor of Building No. 2.

She simply treated it like a spectator watching a show, savoring every bit of it.

Of course, the one thing that had been bothering her these past few days.

Was that her new bedmate, Xue Kai, had actually died.

Died so quickly.

Of course, regarding Xue Kai's death, Manager Wu Meiling still felt some regret.

After all, Xue Kai really had suited her tastes quite well.

With Xue Kai dead, she'd have to go looking for the next bedmate.

Such a hassle and a waste of time.

Room 204 in Building No. 1.

This was Kim Yoon-ah's home.

Speaking of which, Kim Yoon-ah was also quite unlucky.

Being transferred by the Diamond Bachelor using his privilege, from Alice Apartment in Korea, all the way to Alice Apartment in Hua Country.

To kill Jiang Ran.

Who would have expected, no ability to kill.

And now he himself was trapped here.

Every day, he had nothing to do but stay at home watching Korean dramas from back home.

Speaking of which, his life here was actually pretty similar to how it was in Korea.

The only discomfort.

Was still the food.

After all, he was a Korean, so he'd naturally always prefer his own country's cuisine.

"When will I ever get to go back?"

Kim Yoon-ah collapsed onto the sofa, his gaze drifting aimlessly toward the big TV in the living room.

His voice was weak and lifeless.

Live stream room, chat section.

Middle-aged Uncle: [Kim Yoon-ah is really pitiful, getting brought over here, and since he can't complete his assigned mission, he's stuck here.]

Domineering Female CEO: [Nothing to be done about it, who told him he was assigned to kill Jiang Ran... that kind of monster... no way to deal with that...]

[I wonder, will the Diamond Bachelor who used the privilege be able to send him back?]

The Diamond Bachelor suddenly popped up: [Wants to go back? Dream on.]

Fairy Sister: [Senior Bachelor, don't be so heartless. Look, Kim Yoon-ah's overall condition is way worse than when he first arrived at Alice Apartment in Hua Country.]

The Diamond Bachelor sent a sneering emoji.

Then never surfaced again.

...

America.

California, which is what Hua Country people often call: "Cal."

This state was the state in America with the most Chinese people, no exceptions.

More than a third of all Chinese people in America lived and worked in this state.

Zhou Yan, Li Miguo, and Jimmy also lived in this state.

Zhou Yan was the younger sister of Zhou Wu, the boyfriend of Jiang Ran's ex-girlfriend Shen Xing.

Li Miguo, her boyfriend.

Jimmy, Li Miguo's classmate and friend.

The three of them had once traveled together back to Hua Country to help Zhou Yan investigate the deaths of her father and brother.

But in the end, they had no choice but to return to America.

The three of them were only around twenty years old, actually about the same age as Zeng Yan and those fourteen people including Zheng Zihan.

But, at the same age, they had completely different lives.

Zeng Yan lived at Alice Apartment for money.

Zheng Zihan and those people, at this age, were still scraping together money to share those crappy little rooms.

While Zhou Yan and her group were studying in a distant foreign land.

There was a saying that circulated quite widely online:

[The channels of transmission for wealth and power are the same as AIDS, only three ways]

[Mother-to-child transmission]

[Blood transmission]

[Sexual transmission]

Zhou Yan belonged to the mother-to-child transmission.

The university the three of them attended was the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ranked 40th in all of America.

It was considered a prestigious school.

The weather in America was nice today, sunny and bright, a perfect day to go out and have fun.

The three of them, along with seven or eight other male and female schoolmates.

Drove a few cars to an ancient forest in California for camping, to experience the beauty of nature.

Hua Country's land area ranked third in the world.

Big Bear Country and Maple Country were first and second.

As for America, it was fourth.

Hua Country had a population of 1.4 billion, spread across 9.6 million square kilometers.

America had a population of 336 million, spread across 9.37 million square kilometers.

Few people, lots of land.

As for this kind of ancient forest, one with not much trace of artificial modification.

America had an absurd amount of them.

Zhou Yan and the others drove a few cars, the group traveling along the road, listening to the powerful pounding rock music on the car radio.

Their bodies swaying along with it.

Pure happiness from the inside out.

Soon, they drove up to a gas station.

This gas station was pretty small.

Old, rundown, and shabby.

But it was still open for business, not the kind that had been abandoned.

The staff were also very few, just one person.

The group drove their cars into this gas station.

Li Miguo, who was tall enough at 185 centimeters, shouted loudly to the other young men and women from school:

"I've checked the map!"

"This is the last gas station before we enter that ancient forest! So, everyone, fill up your tanks!!!"

These people weren't entering the ancient forest just for a single day, they were planning to stay there for at least ten days or more.

Besides having fun, they also needed to help two botany students with some plant sampling and related work.

Therefore, for this trip, most of their vehicles were pickup trucks.

They could carry both people and cargo.

They had loaded up quite a bit of cargo, including spare gasoline.

But to avoid running out of gas, these people needed to completely fill their tanks one more time before fully entering the ancient forest.

"America's air is just so good."

Zhou Yan, who had been sitting in the car for a long time, got out.

Standing at the gas station, she gazed at the scenery around the gas station, stretching her body with satisfaction.

Li Miguo sidled up, smiling: "America has few people and lots of land, so the air is naturally good. And anyway, we're heading into a pristine ancient forest where no one treads. If you went to Maple Country, the air there is even better."

Zhou Yan nodded.

She turned her head to look at a young man who was refueling their car.

That young man looked to be in his twenties.

An Asian, of Asian descent.

But it was hard to tell exactly which country he was from.

"Let's guess which country that guy came from?"

Zhou Yan giggled: "Looking at him, I think he's from Hua Country."

Li Miguo had actually thought he was from Hua Country too.

But, in order not to dampen his girlfriend's spirits.

He guessed Korea.