Chapter 228: A Day on Earth
After Becky had adapted to the huge crowd of people on Earth, Hao Ren began to stroll around in the shopping mall with a bunch of unusual creatures. He thought about it and realized that this seemed to be the first time that he brought so many people out to buy things. Before that, he only went out occasionally with Vivian to buy groceries near home, or accompany Lily to the supermarket to buy food. These unusual creatures usually stayed at home busy their own stuff most of the time.
Anyway, Hao Ren now felt that bringing these people out seemed to be quite… interesting.
Nangong Wuyue was an ordinary girl for most of the time, she was more normal than anyone else, except for some funny acts when she was transforming into a siren. Therefore, she was soon attracted by the crafts and small decorations shops along the way and left the team. Hao Ren continued to walk with the rest of them who were not interested in such things. Becky could not stop looking around and told Hao Ren, “Eh, you see there’re so many people here, imagine if I throw them a Pyroblast…” “Look at that automatic ladder over there, if I place a blizzard at the exit…” “Hey! That’s the best spot to set up an acid trap!”
Hao Ren broke out in a cold sweat while listening to her and asked, “Why do you always have such a lunatic idea?”
“I’ve no choice, this is my occupational disease,” Becky scratched her hair while talking to Hao Ren, “Usually when I walk in the streets of my hometown I often make such a deduction, like what place suitable for the trap, where is the place for magic, what object looks like it can be disguised as an explosion chest… I’ve been a mercenary for a long time.”
Hao Ren rubbed away the cold sweat and thought to himself that not every mercenary would be as neurotic as this girl!
After they had studied the map of the mall, they decided to help Y’zaks to pick some clothes first. Along the way when they were heading for a men’s shop, everybody avoided them. Y’zaks stuck on the ground like a horrible totem. There were no people in the radius of several meters. Though it was embarrassing, it was a good thing, which was, no matter how many people around them, it was not crowded. There was one thing that they could not control. There were people outside the circle secretly taking photos of Y’zaks and post it social media. Y’zaks’ photo was worth more than 300 reposts without the need for any caption.
Finally, Hao Ren led Y’zaks into the large-scale brand shop and asked the sales assistant nearest to him “Excuse me, can you help the man beside me to pick a coat.”
The young lady was not facing them. She was tidy up the hangers and turned around as she heard Hao Ren’s voice and said, “Welcome, please…”
Then she looked up at Y’zaks and stunned.
Hao Ren could not help but slapped his forehead: again. He waved his hand before the young lady’s eyes and said, “Err, can you help him pick a coat. Let’s not judge a person by his appearance. Although this man looks ferocious, he’s, in fact, a good person…”
Fortunately, the young lady’s psychological quality was better. She did not call the police or turned around to take money from the cash register. She just looked dully at Y’zaks’ figure and said, “This… I’m afraid it’s hard to find such a large coat.”
“Not so tall?”
“…Not so wide.”
Hao Ren suddenly realized that Y’zaks’ stalwart stature was both tall and strong. 2.15-meters giant man did exist on earth, but it was hard to find someone who looked like Y’zaks, with the height of 2.15 meters and whose upper body was almost as big an strong as an inverted triangle. Y’zaks also knew it. He shrugged at Hao Ren and said, “So I said I really don’t want to bother you, my clothes need to be custom-made, otherwise there’s nothing I can wear on earth except for the curtains. I better go home and ‘toss about’ something for myself.”
Hao Ren knew what Y’zaks meant was using magic to condense new clothes, but it clearly was not something that the big demon was good at. The clothes he was wearing now took her two months to create after he landed in England, and it was as ugly as the kind of clothes worn by reform through labor criminals. Hao Ren felt bad for the best fighter of his house to live such a bad life. Therefore, he shook his head, holding the last hope to look at the sales assistant and said, “Just try your best. I guess any clothes you pick for him will be better than what he’s wearing now.”
The young sales assistant had no choice. She felt that the customer with the height of 2.15 meters and whose upper body was almost as big a strong as an inverted triangle was someone she could not afford to offend. Therefore, she had to go and rummage through the store to find the biggest clothes and measured it with Y’zaks body. “… This is the biggest size we have. It was worn by a mannequin as our shop sign. We didn’t expect it to be sold…”
It was a thick long jacket, and Lily was able to use it as a kennel but it looked like a waistcoat if put it on Y’zaks. The big demon shrunk his shoulder awkwardly and said, “I guess it’s OK to put on, but I need to hold my breath for a long time, maybe a sneeze will turn it into pieces.”
Hao Ren looked at the sales assistant expectantly and asked, “no bigger size?”
The sales assistant said awkwardly, “Honestly, even the curtains of our shop could not fit him. For normal clothing manufacturers, if not for the world record, who will design clothing of this big? The problem is not about the height, but the width…”
Hao Ren found it funny. It was not easy to make a trained professional sales assistant to say something like this. And the sales assistant also suggested, “I suggest that you guys don’t look have to look around here, the entire mall won’t have such large clothes. For such a big size, it’s better to custom-made for him.”
Hao Ren also planned to buy Y’zaks a pair of trousers, but now look at this situation, he could only give up. If they could not get a shirt that suit him, let alone a pair of trousers. It was still acceptable if the shirt was slightly tight, but not the pants. There was a sentence that could apply on Y’zaks waist: If his trousers were thrown on the floor and no one was wearing it, you did not even know what that was…
They left the shop in disappointment. When they left, Lily declared one thing very seriously with the sales assistant, “Your window is too small–my curtain is just fit to put around Y’zaks.”
Vivian hurriedly dragged Lily out and said, “Why take it so seriously.”
“Forget it, I better order two sets of customized clothes for you,” Hao Ren look at Y’zaks regrettably, “You can wear this bulletproof combat outfit when ‘working’, but on earth, it’s best to wear something that is not eye-catching. And then now we’ll go and buy Vivian’s stuff?”
Lily had little interest to follow them. In fact, she had been trying to run around since the beginning–as the breed of dog that was nicknamed ‘The-dog-that-will-not-listen-to-you’, you could not expect her to go shopping and follow the team obediently. So now she began to get impatient and said, “It’s so boring! I’m going to see the bags upstairs…”
“Bag? For travel or adventure?” asked Becky.
Lily quickly instill the wrong knowledge into Becky and said, “You’ll know when you see it. It’s not a travel bag. It’s simply for carrying with one hand.”
Hao Ren looked at this situation and knew that he could not stop them. He waved and said, “Okay okay, you can go, but don’t run around, we’ll meet at the exit at noon.”
He then looked at the big demon and said, “Y’zaks, help me to keep an eye on two of them–especially Becky. I remember there is a decorative mechanical dinosaur upstairs. Becky can easily rub a fireball to hit the dinosaur.”
So they split up. Finally, there was just Vivian alone with Hao Ren. She had been curious since they left the house and asked, “What are you going to buy me?”
Hao Ren pointed to Vivian body and said, “Let’s not talk about anything else. First I’ll get you some new clothes, and then give you a cell phone.”
Vivian was now wearing an old-fashioned winter coat. In fact, most of her clothes were old-fashioned, and some were even worn out. Although the vampire lady’s beautiful face could make up for the flaws in her clothes, Hao Ren did not think so. He felt that Vivian should dress more beautifully, more like a legendary, noble-looking vampire aristocrat. He did not know when this idea came up, but he was going to do it today anyway. As for the cell phone, it was a temporary decision when they left the house, everyone in the house had a mobile phone, even Y’zaks also got one for himself, except for Vivian. This was not a big deal for an ‘unusual creature’, but Hao Ren still decided to give Vivian a gift.
Let’s put aside the practicality of a cell phone (for this gang of Supermen, a cell phone’s function was actually limited). Hao Ren just hoped that Vivian, who was still living the most simple and shabby life, could live as good as others in the house. He always felt very uncomfortable to see some of the details in Vivian’s life, and now he was almost unable to stand it.
When the vampire lady heard Hao Ren’s plan, she looked really surprised. But after that, she looked reserved and not sure how to respond, “I… I’m fine now. I’m quite satisfied to live in your place…”
“Don’t mention it,” Hao Ren smiled and said, “Just take it as a present. You don’t have a cell phone yet, do you? At least when we’re on Earth, it’s convenient to have this kind of thing to contact each other.”
“I… used to have one before,” Vivian smiled awkwardly, “I was very fortunate to save a little money and then I was curious and bought a cheap one. But then I couldn’t pay the bill, it was turned off for a very long time. Now it’s still in my suitcase and probably won’t be able to turn on again.”
Vivian was not sure how to react to this unexpected pleasure, but she did not refuse Hao Ren’s kindness at last. She followed him with anticipation and a vague excitement.
As they walked through the shops, there was a woman at the back of the counter who raised her head and glanced at them thoughtfully. This was a woman with a cold and detached look, with a scar near her nose.
Supposedly, a shopping mall like this would have a certain demand for the sales person’s appearance. At least a person with a scar on her face would find it difficult to get a job here, especially when she had a cold and detached expression on her face. However, this woman was sitting behind the counter. Whether it was her smiling colleagues or the fussy guests around her, they all seemed to have turned a blind eye to her.
The eye’s of the woman with a scar on her face followed Hao Ren and Vivian for a while until they disappeared in a shop. She then sat down with a blank expression and continued to sit there in a daze as if she was transparent.
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