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Chapter 6 A Lone Lyre Waiting 16
update icon Updated at 2025/9/17 11:10:12

Atlas Brown Bear is already thirty-four years old.

He has never been in a relationship since he was born.

He has never even considered getting married.

He thinks that living alone is pretty good.

Exercising every day is his compulsory course. This huge body, standing at 1.95 meters and weighing 106 kilograms (212 pounds), requires him to keep exercising; otherwise, he will become overweight and bloated unintentionally.

The favor that the Manranyama Corporation has shown him is the fundamental reason why he is willing to devote himself to the Manranyama Corporation.

The Manranyama Corporation has given him the space to survive when he was once a nobody who could have starved to death on the side of the road.

As for other money, material possessions, and treatment, they are actually unnecessary to him.

Because Atlas Brown Bear's life is very simple.

When there are tasks, he goes on the mission.

When there are no tasks, he exercises, buys groceries, cooks, cleans the house, learns new dishes, and the day goes by.

For Atlas Brown Bear, today is a day without a task.

After cooperating with the administrative staff in the corporation in the morning to complete some procedural document filling, he happened to have the employee meal at the company and then took the bus home.

According to Atlas Brown Bear's plan, after getting off the bus, he was going to the usual fresh food supermarket to buy groceries and then try cooking some new dishes at home.

But just as he walked out of the station gate as usual and passed by a young man with a hood on, he felt that something was missing from his body.

Upon careful inspection, he found that what was missing was his wallet in his pocket.

Atlas Brown Bear immediately realized it was the person he just passed by and turned back immediately. He found that the person hadn't gone far and chased after him quickly.

As a person with rich practical experience, Atlas Brown Bear did not act stupidly like shouting "stop" in a TV drama or movie but silently chased after him.

But it seemed that the person heard the footsteps of Atlas Brown Bear chasing after him and quickened his pace, and even started running.

The two of them chased each other for hundreds of meters until Atlas Brown Bear chased him into a dead end.

—Now you can't escape.

This is what Atlas Brown Bear thought.

But after observing that this person didn't panic, and even after running hundreds of meters like this, his breath remained stable, he immediately came up with a new thought.

—It's not that I cornered him into a dead end, but that he brought me here.

—Does he have an accomplice? Is there an ambush?

Atlas Brown Bear subconsciously glanced around, but didn't see anyone else coming out.

"What do you want?"

Atlas Brown Bear questioned.

His voice, like his body, was deep, low, and heavy, as if coming out of a bass trumpet.

"Just need some money from you. I didn't expect you to chase after me so persistently."

The thief raised his head and took off his hood, surprising Atlas Brown Bear. The thief was wearing a strange white mask.

Atlas Brown Bear's intuition told him that this person didn't come just to steal his wallet; he had another purpose.

But no matter what the person's purpose was, he was not afraid at all.

"It seems you're not going to talk."

Atlas Brown Bear rolled up his sleeves, took slow steps, and advanced step by step towards the thief.

The thief saw the Atlas brown bear like this and also took his hands out of his pockets, walking towards the Atlas brown bear.

The Atlas brown bear could even feel the thief sneering behind the mask.

However, the thief's figure and weight were so different from the Atlas brown bear's that anyone looking at them would see that the outcome was a foregone conclusion.

One might even worry if the Atlas brown bear would accidentally punch the thief to death.

However, the Atlas brown bear himself did not think so.