Special District 9 Chapter 27: A Bowl of Plain Water Noodles

Five minutes later.

Bella went over to Qi Lin’s mother and younger sister’s room to sleep whereas Qi Lin brought Ah Long into his own room.

“You seem to be living not bad. You even got yourself a wife,” Ah Long said as he examined the room. He walked straight over to the bed and took a seat of his own accord.

Qi Lin clenched his fists and glared at Ah Long, “If you want to die, you can mess around elsewhere. Why did you come back to Songjiang? Do you know I nearly got done in ‘cause of you?!”

Ah Long’s real name was Qi Long, and he was Qi Lin’s blood-related elder brother. However, their personalities were polar opposite. Qi Lin was a conservative person who would rather live a humble and practical life whereas Qi Long was a risk-taker. He would often hang out outside, rarely coming home at all.

The last time Qi Long came back was two years ago. Since then, he had never sent any word back to his family at all. There were times that Qi Lin wondered if Qi Long had already died outside. He never thought that he would actually see his elder brother during the operation the other day.

Even though the two brothers didn’t have a close relationship with one another, in the end, blood was still thicker than water. He couldn’t shoot at his own brother just to earn some merit.

He couldn’t tell this matter to anyone, so he had been feeling very stifled over the last few days. Furthermore, he was very worried about Qi Long’s safety too.

Qi Long leisurely took out a box of Chunghwa cigarettes, placed one in his mouth, and lit it. As he took a puff, he said, “I didn’t want to see you either. If we hadn’t met that day, I wouldn’t have come home today.”

“Yeah, why would you? You are having a hell of a time outside. Why would you even remember that you had a family?” Qi Lin spat coldly. “So what are you doing here? Do you know that I’ll be a goner if others were to learn about our relationship?”

“Can’t you talk properly?”

“…”

“You can rest easy. I won’t betray you even if I have a gun pointed to my head,” Qi Long replied with his us

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