**** Potter City On a somewhat crowded street in a hot summer's afternoon, a young man in his late teens could be seen pedaling a bike as quickly as his legs would allow him.Looking at this young man, his body was already entirely drenched in sweat, and his attractive face, which was also completely covered in sweat beads was etched with fatigue.But despite this, the young man appeared unconcerned as the hastiness in his eyes was much more intense.He continued to cycle the bike hysterically as if his life depended on it, dodging both objects and creatures.The young man's eyes finally shone with intense light after a prolonged period of unceasing cycling, as if he had suddenly seen light at the end of a totally dark tunnel.The young man immediately increased his pedaling speed and applied more energy to his legs when he abruptly heard the unexpectedly loud vroom of an approaching car.The young man's delight first gave way to a bewildered and perplexed expression since he was ful

***** Inside a huge dormitory room that was well furnished and doesn’t resemble that of students, five boys could be seen currently seated in a circular position on the floor, playing cards.One of them was displaying unreserved excitement on his face, while the other two were showing signs of nervousness. he As for the remaining two, they wore expressions of unhappiness on their faces.“Fuck you, just one more minute and I would win!”The boy with an unhidden excitement on his face exclaimed loudly as he enthusiastically played a card.“Fuck you too, you bastard. Anything can happen before then, so don’t you dare raise your hope too high or you'd end up weeping!”One of the boys with nervousness on their face spat angrily before also playing his card, making the boy that first spoke giggle without any sign of being offended by the foul language used.“Who’s still minding this cheater? I should have known you were up to a shady business when you suggested this game all in t

***** Although Alex was physically and emotionally broken to the extent that he could barely stand up straight, he knew he mustn’t be lazy, not yet, not even if he was only left with just a thread of life.So, upon leaving his former workplace, Alex instantly rushed to his and his grandmother's house which was located in a slum area.On his way there, it was as if he was a jinx or something nobody wants to get close to. Everybody he passes by would Immediately cover their mouths and run away from him as far as they could, but Alex simply wasn’t bothered by this.He doesn’t even have the time to notice them.Rushing back home, he took a cold water bath to wash away all the dried blood and dirt on him despite the extremely biting pain killing him.When he was done, he hurriedly treated himself with the expired first-aid kits in a corner at home.Just as he was done and deliberating on where to go work next, Alex received a call from one of his customers, and although his f

**** Standing before Alex Johnson right now was a disheveled and vagrant elderly man who was clad in a raggedy brown garment whose initial color should have been pure white, and his grey hair was filled with bits of flower seeds and small twigs from trees and the woods.It was as if the old man just came out of a jungle.Seeing this elderly man, Alex suddenly looked stomped for a while, then a bright and foolish grin appeared on his face as if the old man was his long lost friend, completely forgetting his troubles for a second, then suddenly, he sighed pitifully with a nostalgic expression on his face.Before two years ago, when their circumstances hadn’t gotten this worst, Alex and his grandmother were always able to eat their fill every day despite their struggles. However, ever since he knew this old man which was ten years prior, he was always homeless and extremely impoverished.Because of how pitiful he felt the old man's life to be, Alex always made sure to sneak f

***** The moment Alex reached the hospital, he raced once again like he was being chased by a hungry lion, startling everybody he met on the way.With a loud bang, he entered the public ward where his grandmother had been admitted for over a year now, then to the bed she has been using.But the moment he got there, his eyes widen and his body trembled slightly because the person on the bed was unknown to him, and he knew that there were only three possibilities for that, one, his grandmother has been discharged, two, she was moved to another place, and three, she was gone.Knowing well that nothing could be done without his consent, he automatically cleared the first two possibilities, then his breathing abruptly quickened and his legs began to tremble.He suddenly gazed at the faces of the people within the ward, but most of them were unknown to him and were presently staring curiously at his face.Just as he was having a high hope, thinking he had entered the wrong ward,