The Soul Is In Everything Chapter 2

When Lucas found the contractor Bruce Zhao, he was sitting around a small table, drinking beer with several big men from the construction site with their bare arms. On the table were several plastic bags filled with braised tofu, pork heads, peanuts, etc.

Seeing him coming, Bruce put down his chopsticks, dragged out a not-so-clean plastic stool from the side, and greeted Lucas enthusiastically, "Come, come, sit down and eat together."

Seeing that Lucas was fair and clean, with nice legs and a nice waist, several big men couldn't help but make fun of him: "Brother Zhao, which junior of yours is this? He's so handsome."

"Hi!" Bruce pulled Lucas to sit down and said to the big men, "This is my fellow villager. He came here to eat with me."

"Can he do our job?" The big men laughed loudly, obviously they were used to making jokes. They originally wanted to tell a few dirty jokes, but they didn't know what happened. Seeing Lucas sitting obediently on the plastic stool, they were too embarrassed to say it out loud.

"Don't be fooled by his fair complexion, he is quite strong." Bruce patted Lucas's shoulder and pointed to a stone nearby, "Come on, show it to the uncles."

Lucas looked at Bruce hesitantly, these people hadn't lived as long as him, wasn't it taking advantage of him to call them uncle?

"Don't just stand there, go and let them see what it's like." Bruce took a chicken claw and put it to his mouth to chew on it, with a smug look on his face.

"Oh." Lucas stood up and walked over, looking at the stone on the left, which seemed a little smaller. He turned his head to look at the stone on the right, which was half the size, and then looked back at Bruce, who looked encouraging. He bent down and hugged the stone on the right, and the stone rose from the ground.

Several big men were so frightened that they were stunned for a long time and couldn't recover: "Brother Zhao, your fellow villager should join the weightlifting team to win glory for the country."

This stone weighs several hundred kilograms!

Bruce was also shocked. He just wanted Lucas to hold the smaller stone next to him as a token of his appreciation. He didn't want him to break the world record! There are rules in their demon world that demons cannot participate in human competitive events. If they are discovered by the demon world management department, they will be arrested and imprisoned.

"Haha," Bruce laughed dryly and changed the subject, "This child has been very strong since he was young, but he is not good at studying. Unlike your child, he is always in the top five in the class in every exam."

When they heard others praising their own children, the big men immediately became excited and started to boast in a humble tone.

Lucas threw away the big rock and sat back next to Bruce, who was already gnawing on a duck's paw.

If he was not mistaken, Bruce's true form should be a mallard duck.

Bruce ate the duck's paw quickly and cleanly, and there was no meat on the bone when he spat it out. Lucas couldn't help thinking that he was indeed a country devil with no knowledge. It turned out that ducks not only eat their own kind, but also pigs, cattle, sheep and rabbits.

After everyone finished drinking and eating meat, Bruce took him back to his rental house, gave him a few instructions, and fell asleep with a loud snoring.

Lucas didn't sleep well that night because Bruce went to the toilet at least five times.

When the sun rose, Lucas stood by the window and worshipped the sun. Turning around, he saw Bruce still sleeping. He couldn't help but shake his head and sigh. The times are developing, humans are progressing, but the monsters are becoming more and more degenerate. The bird monsters he knew before were diligent and capable. They worshipped the moon before going to bed and greeted the sun in the morning. They are nothing like now...

The evil heart is no longer the same as before.

People who are good-looking will always have the advantage no matter where they are, even on a construction site.

In less than a week, Lucas had won the favor of many people because of his good looks, hard work, and reading in the shed after work. Even the fat aunt who cooked at the construction site would deliberately put two extra slices of meat in his bowl when serving him food.

"Xiao Hu, are you reading again?" Uncle Zhang, who came to say hello, was from eastern Shu. Sometimes he couldn't distinguish the words h and f when speaking, but he was a very nice person. Seeing that Lucas had given up his studies at a young age to work, he specially asked his son, who was already on summer vacation, to bring some old books and study notes from home.

"This is my son's study notes. See if they are useful to you." Uncle Zhang put the old books and notebooks in front of Lucas.

Lucas took the books and looked at them. Although the books were a bit old, they were very clean and the handwriting was neat. It was obvious that the owner of the books took good care of them.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhang." Lucas carefully put away the books and notes, "I'll return them to you after I finish reading them."

"It's okay. My son has already taken the college entrance examination this year, so he won't need these books anymore." Uncle Zhang was beaming. "He received an admission letter from Imperial Capital University of Science and Technology a few days ago. His mother and I are planning to take him around the Imperial Capital in a couple of days to get familiar with the environment here."

With a university admission letter, you can go to university, and after graduating from university you can take the civil service exam.

Thinking of this, Lucas's eyes were full of admiration: "Uncle Zhang, your son is really amazing." Human beings are really amazing creatures. They have only lived for a short period of more than ten years, but they can remember so much knowledge and get into college. Unlike him, all these years have been lived in vain.

"No way, no way." Lucas's admiring attitude greatly pleased Uncle Zhang. He insisted on inviting him to his place for dinner. Lucas could not refuse, so he had to go with him.

Uncle Zhang's family member, surnamed Wang, also worked on the construction site. Although the work on the construction site was tiring and hard, as long as the construction company did not delay the payment of wages, a lot of money could be saved every year. The couple usually ate very frugally, and they wanted to spend every penny carefully. Lucas lifted the curtain and went in, and found several dishes on the table, as well as a large plate of roast duck.

A young man wearing glasses was setting the table. When he saw Lucas, a stranger, he was stunned for a moment, gave him a shy smile, and turned around to help Aunt Wang clean the stove.

The rental house was very small, with two beds, a simple table and a stove made of a few wooden boards placed on the balcony outside. The gas tank in the corner was covered with putty.

"Xiao Hu is here, come and sit down." Aunt Wang saw Lucas, bent down, wiped a plastic stool, and placed it in front of Lucas, "There is another dish, it will be ready soon."

Lucas thanked him and sat down on the stool.

The floor fan was clicking, but it didn't bring much coolness to the rental house. Uncle Zhang's back and forehead were already sweating before they even started eating. Lucas, who was dry and cool, looked like an alien in front of them.

Realizing this, Lucas tried hard to make his face blush, and a little sweat appeared on his forehead.

Many middle-aged men become talkative after drinking, and Uncle Zhang is the same. Although he now lives in a shabby rental house, he cares about the country's territory, territorial waters and airspace, and he wishes he could eliminate hegemony on behalf of the moon.

Uncle Zhang's son didn't seem to like talking and just focused on eating. Lucas secretly observed him and found that he had started to add a third bowl of rice.

After dinner, Uncle Zhang and Aunt Wang went out to buy watermelons so that the two young people could have a chat.

Eric Zhang secretly glanced at Lucas several times, and seeing that he was looking at him with a smile, he immediately blushed, and after a long while he spoke, "My dad said that you are going to study on your own to take the college entrance examination?"

Lucas nodded: "That's right, you people... the knowledge in books nowadays is too difficult, I can't understand a lot of it."

"It's difficult to learn high school knowledge when you didn't have a good foundation when you were young." When talking about learning, Eric began to talk more, "Why don't you learn the junior high school knowledge by yourself first, and then look at the high school knowledge points, it will be much easier."

"So what you mean is that I learned very poorly in junior high school?" Lucas stared at Eric with his eyes wide open.

Eric was worried that his words would hurt Lucas's self-esteem. When he looked up and saw those big, bright eyes, Eric regretted it even more: "No, no, it's just... maybe... you have forgotten the knowledge you learned before because it has been too long. It doesn't mean that you didn't learn well."

Eric, who had rarely lied in his life, came up with a perfect excuse in just a few seconds. This was almost a breakthrough for him.

"No, I think what you said makes sense." Lucas nodded suddenly, "I'll go to the bookstore to buy junior high school books now."

"Wait a minute." Eric stopped him. "It's so hot outside. Bookstores may not have textbooks. Why don't you buy them online?"

"Online?" Lucas was stunned. "You mean these things are sold in Internet cafes?"

Eric felt that he had little experience, but he didn't expect that there were people who were even less experienced than him, who didn't even know what online shopping was. His father said that Lucas had no parents and had always lived in a remote mountain village. He wanted to study but could only work as a bricklayer on the construction site. His life must have been very hard.

"Don't buy them. I'll call my classmate and ask him to send me his old textbooks." Eric felt sympathetic towards Lucas. "There's no point in keeping those old books anyway."

"That's embarrassing." Although Lucas said he was embarrassed, he did not reject Eric's kindness.

Because he has no money.

As he was talking, Lucas heard the gas tank on the balcony making a squeaking sound. He asked Eric curiously, "What's in that tank? Why is it making that sound?"

Eric's face turned pale, he stood up, grabbed his arm and pulled him out: "Run!"

Uncle Zhang and Aunt Wang came back from buying watermelons. They saw a crowd of people in front of their rental house. They were so scared that their faces changed. They pushed through the crowd and asked, "What happened?"

The tenants around were all workers on the construction site. When they saw the couple coming back, they started talking at once.

Aunt Wang was so scared about the hot weather and the gas tank exploding that she burst into tears.

"Mom!" Eric's glasses fell off. He walked out of the crowd with a dull look in his eyes. "I'm fine."

Just now, when the gas tank exploded, Lucas blocked him behind him, so he was fine except for a skinned knee. Thinking of the young man who loved studying and had no parents, being taken away by an ambulance covered in blood, Eric's eyes turned red.

He owed the other person a life.

In a regulatory department of the monster world, a staff member received a report from a concerned monster.

"A concerned monster called and said that there was an explosion at a construction site in the west of the city, and that monster power was leaking out. He suspected that a monster was causing trouble."