Heroes Return

"Hahaha, boss... no, hahaha!!"

The thug's tears were streaming down his face, but at that moment it looked as if he was laughing so hard that tears were falling.

"So you're really mocking me for being chased and beaten by a seven-year-old girl, aren't you?" The leader glared at his underling, furious. "Beat him! Beat him until he cries!"

Then a dozen or so burly men behind him, arms outstretched and sleeves rolled up, rushed over. They were already furious after being chased and beaten by two little girls today, and they never expected to be mocked by a gatekeeper when they got back.

Standing atop a building, Xiao Zhan struck a dashing pose as he looked at the scene before him: "I told you you were dead." Then, he saw two seven-year-old girls in his line of sight.

"Lin Jie! Mu Mu and the others have been found. My delaying plan has succeeded," Xiao Zhan said to Lin Jie, who was sitting on the roof behind him.

"Really?" Lin Jie walked over. "Mu Mu and the others are really smart."

"Don't you even know who taught you that?"

"It seems I've taught them very successfully."

"I was the one who taught them."

The two shameless men started arguing on the rooftop.

"Found you!!" Qingqing pointed at the thugs who were beating up the underling and said, "You've only been gone a short while and you're already doing bad things again."

"Hurry up and chop it down." Mu Mu said, reaching her hand towards the wall. A massive, reinforced concrete sword, over ten meters long, appeared in her hand, completely disproportionate to her current height. "That way, the homework assignment about fighting organized crime is done!!"

"What kind of teacher would assign this kind of homework to kids?!" The thugs present couldn't help but curse inwardly.

"Boss, what do we do?"

"What else can we do? If we don't teach these brats a lesson today, we can forget about ever working in this underworld again."

After saying that, the leader went straight for the two little girls. At that moment, Qingqing took a deep breath, opened her mouth slightly, and a sound wave rushed towards the leader. The leader was hit by the sound wave and flew backward, crashing into the wall behind him, foaming at the mouth and rolling his eyes back.

"Boss!" The underlings were about to go see their boss, but they quickly missed their chance because Mu Mu, the little girl holding a big knife, was already smiling and walking towards them.

"Hey, big brothers? Can I chop you up once? Just once, and I can finish my homework." Mu Mu smiled and walked towards the remaining thugs.

But for some reason, that smile looked distorted...

"Hey!" Xiao Zhan nudged Lin Jie beside him: "Our Mu Mu is in danger of developing into a yandere."

"Huh? Really?" Lin Jie watched with great interest, shouting to Mu Mu from upstairs, "Go for it, chop them down..."

"I think I should call the police; there's an instigator here."

“If you’re going to call the police, you should report their teacher first,” Lin Jie said to Xiao Zhan. “This is the first time I’ve ever seen such Spartan homework.”

"Never mind that for now. Aren't you afraid that Mu Mu will learn to kill people right now?" Xiao Zhan said with a pained expression, "She's only seven years old."

"Just cut them down." Lin Jie waved his hand at Xiao Zhan and said, "I've been around for so long and I'm still a virgin. I never thought these guys would learn to rape young girls and force them into prostitution!! They even use drugs to control those girls... I only ever thought about these things!! These scumbags, just cut them down."

“But they are one of our main sources of films…” Xiao Zhan said, “If we cut them off… many of the smuggling routes for films from Japan will be disrupted…”

"Damn it!! Why didn't you say so sooner!!" Lin Jie immediately shouted down, "Spare their lives! At least make them reveal the source of the video before you kill them!!!"

However, the city seemed a bit too noisy today, and since Lin Jie and his group were observing from buildings several blocks away from the two little girls, they couldn't hear Lin Jie's shouts at all.

……

Faced with a little girl wielding a massive sword over ten meters long and walking towards them with a strange smile, the dozens of thugs immediately cowered. Their only thought was to run away; these new-age little girls were simply too ferocious.

"Big brothers, don't run away!" Xiao Mumu said to the fleeing people. As soon as she finished speaking, the ground beneath their feet seemed to turn into liquid. By the time they came to their senses, their feet were already sunk into the soil.

"Brothers, you can't run away!"

As Lin Mumu spoke, she raised the large knife in her hand.

By this time, all the underlings were cursing the teacher who assigned the homework to these children a thousand times over in their hearts.

Most of them began to beg Mu Mu for mercy.

However, their pleas for mercy seem difficult for Mu Mu to understand now.

Just as Lin Mumu was about to strike, Qingqing, who was standing to the side, finally couldn't stand it anymore.

"Mumu! They've surrendered!" Qingqing said as she rushed over and hugged Mumu.

“But the teacher said we should come out and beat them up, but they’re all standing there now…” Mu Mu said.

"With your feet already embedded in the ground, it's impossible to fall down!"

"Mumu! The teacher's 'knock them down' doesn't necessarily mean they have to lie down." Qingqing quickly explained to Mumu, not wanting to see anything bloody: "The teacher means that we just need to hand them over to the police."

"Really?" Mu Mu asked.

"Really!" Qingqing nodded quickly: "We've finished our homework."

"Really?"

"real!"

"Great!" Mu Mu happily threw the knife aside. "Let's hand them over to the police."

"kindness."

"Great, Mu Mu didn't kill them!" Lin Jie said as he jumped down from the building. "While those two kids are looking for the police, I need to get the video source out of them as soon as possible."

Chapter Four

It was nighttime at Lin Jie's house.

"Brother, have you heard? Zero's cloak was stolen." Lin Wan said to Lin Jie while wiping Mu Mu's mouth.

"Oh? Really?" Lin Jie asked curiously.

“Almost every news outlet is reporting on this now,” Lin Wan said. “If you don’t believe me, just look at the news yourself.”

"Then I'll take a look," Lin Jie said. Although his cloak did have good defensive capabilities, Lin Jie didn't think it was anything particularly valuable. At this moment, Lin Jie had no idea about the influence of his cloak.

The news on television is reporting on this matter repeatedly.

"Now let's see what the only guard present had to say about this," a pretty female presenter said on television. The camera then cut to a world museum, where a guard appeared on screen.

“I don’t know, he just appeared. A few minutes ago he was my colleague, but a few minutes later he was Zero. I don’t even know when he switched identities with my colleague, let alone how he evaded identification. Anyway, he just appeared. Reinforced glass and roofs that could withstand armor-piercing bullets were like tofu to him. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the look he gave me after putting on his cloak. And the sword in his hand! He is Zero, yes, I’m sure it’s Zero! He didn’t abandon us! He’s back! He’s back to retrieve his cloak!! I guarantee that Zero will soon return to the stage of heroes! That’s amazing! I’m so excited!! The one who stole the cloak will definitely be Zero…”

"Next, let's hear what the world governments have to say about this," the female host continued.

A middle-aged man appeared in front of the television. Almost everyone knew him; he was Richard Hosen, the current Supreme Speaker of the World Alliance Government.

"Hello everyone, I'm Richard Hossen. I'd like to share my personal opinion on this matter. In my view, this is an extremely heinous museum theft, and the thief stole a symbol of peace for a new era. Therefore, the government will mobilize all its resources to investigate the mastermind behind this theft, and we will apprehend the criminal who stole the Zero Cloak as quickly as possible."

"Why don't you think this person is Zero? After all, we saw it on the surveillance footage; this person looks almost exactly like Zero after putting on the cape. And that cape is just a souvenir."

"In fact, I don't believe that person was Zero himself. Although I don't know how he disguised himself as Zero and forged Zero's weapons, if he were the real Zero, he wouldn't need to go to such extremes to retrieve his cloak. He could have simply come to the World Government headquarters to find us. You know, I still have a World Peace Medal reserved for him!"

Furthermore, regarding that cloak, it's actually more than just an ordinary garment. Think about the battles Zero has experienced before; almost all of them were battles concerning the survival of the world. Yet, even in such high-intensity combat, his cloak remained completely undamaged.

"So, this cloak does indeed conceal an unknown power?"

"Yes, we hid this secret to make the cloak safer, but it seems it has been completely exposed now."

The camera then cut back to the female host.

"Now let's hear what Representative Hogg has to say about this matter."

The camera then switched to a somewhat overweight middle-aged man.

"In my opinion, it is precisely because he used this method to retrieve the cloak that he is Zero. It aligns with the image Zero has always presented to the public. After all, he has never asked for anything, and even disappeared for five years after the bill was passed. However, I am more inclined to believe that Zero has returned, and his mystery remains; he still never asks for any glory or applause. In addition, I would like to remind Speaker Richard that his views may very well cost him his chance of re-election."

……

The television then showed scenes of large-scale mass demonstrations around the world.

They were almost all in a frenzy, holding up signs in the streets and shouting zero.

"Damn, it's just a tattered robe, why make such a fuss?" Lin Jie couldn't help but sigh at the triviality of people these days.

Some experts even linked this incident to previous instances of unwarranted worship by all of humanity, making nonsensical claims on television like a charlatan spouting new revelations.

"Sister, who is Ling? Why do I keep hearing about him?" Lin Mumu asked curiously.

“Zero?” Lin Wan thought for a moment and said, “Zero is a great hero, he is the person my sister admires the most.”

"Hearing my own sister say that makes me feel a little embarrassed," Lin Jie thought to himself. "Even though she has no idea that Zero is me, otherwise her dream would probably be shattered..."

"Is Zero very powerful?" Lin Mumu asked curiously.

"He's amazing, incredibly amazing! He saved the world more than once!" Lin Wan said. "He's the most powerful superhero in the world, and also the hero who saved my life. If it weren't for Zero, I probably would have been dead by now."

"Zero is amazing," Lin Mumu said.

“Kids like you have no concept of the greatness of zero, but almost every adult knows how great zero is,” Lin Wan said. “Okay, let’s go take a shower. I’ll tell you a story about zero in a bit.”

"Okay! Okay!" the little girl said happily.

Watching the two girls, one older and one younger, walk into the bathroom, Lin Jie buried his head in his hands on the sofa and muttered, "It's so embarrassing!! Being idolized by my own sister and then having her tell everyone about it is just so embarrassing!!"

……

The next day, Lin Jie arrived at Xiao Zhan's room on the top floor of the Xiao Group building early in the morning.

"Is everything alright today?" Lin Jie asked. "If not, let's continue with the dungeon."

"Nothing's wrong," Xiao Zhan said. "But Glasses probably won't be able to come today."

"What's wrong?" Lin Jie asked curiously.

"He went to pick up the new president."

"When did we need him to take over the new association president?"

"The new president is Dong Xiaoye," Xiao Zhan said.

"Damn it, this guy has no conscience when it comes to women." Lin Jie said angrily. Thinking of Dong Xue'er far away in District M, he couldn't help but lament the unfairness of life. Then, Lin Jie picked up his phone and sent a voice message to the guy with glasses: "You're slapping me in the face with your cold dog food, you're stuffing me with your cold dog food! The road ahead is long, you guys better watch out! Stay together! Cold, Old Wang next door, I'm not someone to be trifled with!"

Upon hearing the dog food, DouDou, who had been sleeping soundly, opened her eyes. Not only that, DouDou also cooperated with Lin Jie, barking once for every line Lin Jie sang.

Lin Jie stroked Dou Dou's fur and couldn't help but say, "Sure enough! The more people I know, the more I like dogs."

Just then, Bu Feiwu brought in tea and snacks. Seeing Lin Jie's appearance, she couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with him?"

"Never mind him. Ever since Dong Xue'er left, he's been like this whenever he sees couples showing affection." Then Xiao Zhan ran to Dou Dou's side with a fawning expression, holding a stain remover stick in his hand: "Dou-ge is awake. Does Dou-ge want some milk?"

"Damn? When did you become so respectful to Dou Dou?" Lin Jie was startled by Xiao Zhan's attitude towards Dou Dou.

"You don't know anything." Xiao Zhan turned to Lin Jie and said, "I admire Brother Dou to the point of worship. After he modified my anti-gravity shoes a couple of days ago, I can do Thomas spins in the air without any difficulty now. Brother Dou, when are you going to modify my anti-gravity gloves as well? Brother Dou, just tell me what you want."