Chapter 155 Youthful Vigor Comes at a Price
Under the wall of the backyard of the dessert shop, Gwen looked around quietly. After making sure that no one had discovered her, she turned over and jumped into the wall.
"Manager, do you need help?" Gwen asked Su Heng, who was walking towards the bakery in the backyard while putting the clothes in her backpack on herself.
"Today is Thursday, what do you think?" Su Heng said to Gwen without looking back, "Your apron is in the old place in the employee room. Remember to put it on after you change your clothes."
"Okay!" Gwen nodded and ran towards the employee room with her backpack.
Crazy Thursday is still crazy. Peter sometimes comes to the dessert shop to help out in his spare time.
As for Harry, after knowing Norman's condition, he rarely comes to school, let alone to help in the dessert shop.
This also led to the fact that there was no big change in the dessert shop from before. Su Heng and Gwen were still busy.
Students at Zhongcheng Middle School usually finish their day's study at three o'clock in the afternoon, and then rush to Su Heng's dessert shop.
In the past, some students even skipped classes to line up in advance at the dessert shop, and there were countless cases of being caught by security guards.
Later, under the coordination of the school director, Su Heng's dessert shop was connected to the face recognition system of Zhongcheng Middle School, and school rules were issued, stipulating that students who skipped classes were not allowed to buy desserts from the dessert shop, which made these students so well-behaved and sensible now.
Johnny was in a very bad mood today, or he had been in a bad mood since last night.
Originally, he finally ran out of the sanatorium of Dum Industries in the middle of the night last night, but before he had time to spend the night with his new girlfriend, he was called away by Susan.
Johnny thought it was something important, so he pulled up his pants that he had just taken off, left his girlfriend who was taking a shower, and drove in the direction Susan had located.
After they arrived, Susan told him seriously that it was Ben who was missing.
Come on, who is her brother?
I was in the sanatorium for most of the night, but you didn't notice that I was missing.
That big guy just broke a wall and ran away, and you were so nervous.
Johnny was so angry that he accompanied Susan and Reed to find Ben on the street from early morning to dawn.
He finally found the guy on the Manhattan Bridge, but just because he said a few words to Spider-Woman, Susan, Reed and Ben scolded him.
Susan was fine, after all, she was his sister.
Ben and Reed, how dare they scold him?
I won't talk about Ben. Everything from last night to today was caused by his disappearance. He had no guilt at all, and he still had the nerve to scold him.
And Reed, did that guy really think of him as his brother-in-law? Just because of his genius brain with no emotional intelligence?
There is nothing to be done, tui!
Thinking of this, Johnny couldn't help but spit on the ground fiercely.
After comforting himself fiercely, Johnny raised his head and looked at the bustling street outside Zhongcheng Middle School.
"Is this the gold content of the dessert shop that has exploded on the Internet?" Johnny looked at the long line of people and secretly smacked his lips.
Although in Johnny's opinion, this kind of store is quite like the kind of store that is marketed, but Johnny happened to have nothing to do, so he lined up behind the line.
"I want to see if this dessert is really as delicious as the online reviews!" A trace of fire flashed in Johnny's hand.
"If it's not delicious, I'll smash this broken shop directly!"
Obviously, Johnny, who had nothing to do, did not come to taste the dessert sincerely, but to cause trouble.
"Sorry, today's discounted desserts are sold out." When Johnny was about to line up to the door of the dessert shop, a slightly apologetic voice sounded in the ears of the people around him.
"Ah——"
The students of the surrounding Central City Middle School wailed.
"We came so early, but we still missed the chance?"
"Damn it, we were almost there, why are they selling out so fast today?"
"Sorry, sorry." Su Heng walked out of the store and said to everyone with an apologetic smile: "Today, there are not enough people in the store, so we didn't make many desserts. Next time, I will try to make more desserts and strive to make everyone happy."
Under Su Heng's consolation, everyone could only leave the dessert shop regretfully.
Only Johnny was left standing at the door of the dessert shop with an unhappy face.
"This customer?" Su Heng looked at Johnny in confusion and reminded him: "Our discounted desserts are sold out."
"Hunger marketing, right?" Johnny stretched out his hand and wanted to push Su Heng away, but Su Heng dodged slightly.
"This customer, you should talk nicely if you have something to say." Su Heng looked at Johnny who came with bad intentions and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"I've seen a lot of unscrupulous shops like yours!" Johnny saw Su Heng dodge his push and said indignantly, "Didn't they just arrange a bunch of agents to line up in front of your store to whet the appetite of customers?"
"I thought the situation in New York would improve after I came back from space. This is really disappointing."
"No, I have to post it on Instagram to scold your store!"
Johnny, who was indignant, took out his mobile phone and started taking pictures in front of the store.
"Manager, what are you doing?" Gwen, holding a broom, poked her head out of the store and asked Su Heng curiously.
"Nothing." Su Heng turned and shook his head: "It's just a customer who didn't buy dessert, so he was angry."
After all, when opening a business, Su Heng has seen all kinds of customers, and customers like Johnny, Su Heng has long been accustomed to it.
After all, the reputation of the dessert shop has always been there, whether Johnny is barking on the Internet or in real life, it will not affect the business of the dessert shop.
But Johnny, who just returned to the earth, didn't know this. He still thought he had the handle of this store and was complacent about being the righteous judge of the Internet and sentencing this store to death.
Just when Johnny had just finished editing a long list of copywriting and was about to post it on Instagram, he noticed Gwen who was talking to Su Heng, which made him pause and his eyes began to light up.
Gwen was wearing a dessert shop apron at this time, and there was still some dust on her face, but in Johnny's eyes, the girl in front of him was full of vitality, and her bright expression touched Johnny's heart.
"Hey, this store manager." Johnny shook the edited copywriting in his hand towards Su Heng.
"If you don't want your dessert shop to be ruined by the copywriting I posted, maybe we can have a good chat?"
"For example, let your clerk accompany me for dinner or something like that."
"?" Su Heng and Gwen looked at Johnny with a fool's eyes.
"Manager, do you know this guy?" Gwen glanced at Johnny with some disdain. If Johnny hadn't spoken suddenly, Gwen really wouldn't have noticed that the arrogant guy standing at the door of the store in the morning would be the one standing at the door.
"I don't know him." Su Heng glanced at Johnny: "Don't worry about him, let's go in."
"Yeah." Gwen stepped aside and let Su Heng walk in, then gently closed the door without looking back at Johnny.
It was obvious that neither Su Heng nor Gwen took Johnny seriously.
"." Johnny, who was about to say something, looked at the two people's attitude of ignoring him, and his face flushed.
"You guys!" Johnny looked at the closed door of the dessert shop, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he got. The flames in his hand melted the mobile phone he was holding.
Feeling that his self-esteem was insulted, Johnny's feet were on fire and he kicked open the closed door of the dessert shop.
Bang!
Gwen, who was cleaning the store, and Su Heng, who was counting the bills on the counter, all looked at Johnny who broke in.
"What a lousy dessert shop, how can you treat customers like this!" Johnny's arms were burning with flames, and he shouted at Su Heng who was standing by the counter.
"Look, I'm going to smash your lousy shop!"
Su Heng frowned as he looked at the door of the dessert shop that was kicked by Johnny, and his sight towards Johnny was already full of danger.
"You like playing with fire, right?" Su Heng's eyes twitched, and his fingers tapped lightly on the counter.
The illusion card drove the illusion, blocking the outside world's view of the store.
The fire card crossed his arms and looked down at Johnny in the store.
"Fire!" The angry Johnny was about to drive the flames in his body to burn the entire dessert shop to ashes.
But when the light suddenly flashed on the owner of the dessert shop in front of him, and the elf with flames all over his body appeared above Johnny after the light,
Johnny suddenly found that the flame in his body seemed to be completely out of control.
Fire Card waved his hand, and the flame in Johnny's body quickly gathered towards Fire Card's hand.
Johnny felt the exhaustion brought by the disappearance of the flame, and quickly retracted the flame in his body and turned back to normal.
"What is this?" Johnny, who was originally arrogant, began to become more and more flustered at this moment.
He swallowed his saliva, looked at the fire card above his head, and then looked at Su Heng who was staring at him with a bad face, and Gwen who was watching the fun with a broom in the guest area, and quickly turned around and wanted to run out of the door.
There is something strange in this store!
Call the police, wait until I get out, I must call the police!
Johnny was already panicking at this time, but just when he was about to escape from the dessert shop, Su Heng's palm had already pressed on his shoulder without knowing when.
"Why are you running? Weren't you quite arrogant just now?" Su Heng's vicious voice sounded in Johnny's ears.
"I really gave you face, didn't I?" Su Heng kicked Johnny to the ground.
"You're really out of breath when I told you you're fat?"
"Aren't you going to smash my shop?"
Johnny's screams were accompanied by the sound of fists hitting flesh. It echoed throughout the dessert shop, but because of the quiet card, it didn't leak out of the dessert shop at all.
In the reception room of the Manhattan Police Department, Coulson nodded to Ben, Susan, and Reed who were released in front of him.
"Hello, I'm Agent Coulson from SHIELD."
"Please don't be nervous." Coulson smiled gently at the three of them: "As long as you don't cause any trouble in New York, SHIELD will not control you in any way."
"Hmm? But looking at your expressions, you're not surprised?" Coulson looked at the calm and even somewhat enlightened expressions on Reed and others' faces, and couldn't help but touch his chin: "It seems that someone should have introduced our SHIELD to you?"
"Yes." Ben nodded: "This morning at the Manhattan Bridge, the Spider-Girl told us about your organization."
"Oh, Spider-Woman?" Coulson was relieved when he heard Ben say this, and continued with a smile: "She is the head of New York The most popular superhero in New York and even in the United States."
"Superhero?" Reed touched his chin: "It seems that the earth has changed a lot during our time in the universe?"
"Of course." Coulson smiled: "If you knew what changes happened to the earth during your absence, you might have some regrets."
"Tsk, it seems that many interesting things have happened on the earth."
"That's right." Coulson shrugged: "At least, exceptions like you are already commonplace in our SHIELD and even in the eyes of most New Yorkers."
"Including me?" Ben pointed to his current appearance of a stone man with some self-mockery.
"Yes, including you, Mr. Ben." Coulson saw the slight loss in Ben's self-deprecation, and whispered to comfort him: "At least when you became like this, you still had your own reason, right?"
"If Mr. Ben is free, maybe I can introduce you to a gentleman who once had some of the same troubles as you do now."
"Isn't my case a special case? This is really..."
Ben couldn't help but get a little excited when he heard Coulson say this.
After all, although Reed, Susan and Johnny had undergone unknown changes like him, he was the only one who had changed even his appearance like himself.
Even if this change only took one day, Ben had already felt extremely lonely.
At this time, hearing Coulson say that there were people on Earth who had the same experience as him, Ben's loneliness was instantly broken.
Susan and Reed looked at each other, and looking at Coulson who began to talk softly with Ben, they both saw that this SHIELD agent did not have any malicious intent.
Such a discovery made Susan and Reed feel relieved.
Buzz——
"Sorry." As Coulson's phone vibrated, he glanced at the caller, nodded to Ben apologetically, and then answered the phone.
"Melinda? What's the matter?"
"Ah?" Following Melinda's voice on the other end of the phone, Coulson looked at Susan and others with some embarrassment.
"Well, okay, I'll take his family over right away." Coulson hung up the phone and looked at Susan with hesitation.
"?" Susan and Reed looked at Coulson, whose face suddenly became a little strange, with a puzzled look.
"Um, Ms. Susan." Coulson said to Susan: "Your brother is now detained by our SHIELD agents for suspected destruction of other people's property. You see..."