As usual, he had only taken a few steps and was about to cross the highway when a truck appeared on the other side, honking its horn.
Because university entrance exams in Korea are extremely important, traffic police would never allow someone driving such a noisy truck to enter traffic. Of course, if they were bribed, that would be another matter.
There could only be one reason for a truck, swerving left and right, speeding straight toward Leo.
The brakes had failed.
"Hey kid, watch out ahead!"
"Hey, be careful!"
"Damn it, are you blind?"
Meanwhile, the crowd noticed Leo crossing the road without caring about the world and immediately shouted to warn him to be careful.
At that moment, Leo already had a guess about what the upcoming lucky event was.
He had encountered similar situations many times before, which was why he remained so calm.
Calmly, he turned his head to the right and looked at the approaching truck, without even attempting to dodge.
10 out of 10… 8.
Let alone a truck with broken brakes, not even a group of armed soldiers could kill him right now.
And the expected event occurred;
A middle school student, riding a bicycle at high speed from the side street, entered the road and noticed the truck, turning the handlebars sharply to the right.
This maneuver didn't exactly save the student's life, but it wasn't completely useless either, because as the student turned, they fell off the bike and hit one of the streetlights lined along the roadside.
At that precise moment, the bicycle that shot out from under the student flew in front of the truck.
Could a bicycle stop a truck?
If the bicycle was crushed under the left wheel of the truck, and a piece of it got stuck between the right side of the truck chassis and the road, and if the truck was tilting left due to the driver's reaction, it wouldn't stop—but the right side of the truck would lift into the air.
Parents waiting for their children to finish the most important exam of their lives feared that Leo would be crushed under the truck, but suddenly, the right side of the truck lifted into the air.
There were only a few centimeters between Leo's head and the truck's right wheel.
The truck passed over him, rolled onto its side, skidding a short distance along the street before hitting a shop at the roadside and stopping.
Leo calmly savored the adrenaline he had released, like an Englishman sipping tea in the afternoon, while briefly wondering if anyone in the shop hit by the truck had died.
Even if someone had died, he wasn't a doctor nor had he ever received professional first aid training.
Knowing there was nothing he could do, he put his hands in his pockets and continued walking calmly.
Naturally, the people around him were left with their mouths open in shock at his composure. Some even swallowed audibly, reminding others nearby that their own throats were dry.
Was Leo truly calm?
Ha ha…
Absolutely not.
Was he scared?
Absolutely not.
He was simply imagining the reactions of those around him to his actions and secretly enjoying it.
For a moment, he put himself in their shoes and reflected on what had just happened.
Definitely an S-rank moment.
A crazy stunt that would be remembered for decades and probably recounted to grandchildren.
Indeed, many people couldn't react until Leo disappeared from sight. Even those kind and brave enough to run toward the truck wreck kept turning back every two steps to glance at Leo's back.
Leo continued walking, unconcerned, until he entered a street. The golden thread above his head slowly transformed into a liquid and flowed into the luck energy test tube, floating in the air alongside him.
At once, 40% of the energy tube filled—a massive amount.
What Leo didn't know was:
Until the luck energy collection test tubes disappeared, a strangely shaped white tube made with nanotechnology in the infinite universe was racing toward him at light speed, millions of years in travel.
When Leo's cheat disappeared, the cube stopped hovering right above the world and ceased moving. A sudden ripple of strange energy appeared on the cube, transforming it into a hexahedron bipyramid (two pyramids joined at the base).
After walking a little longer, Leo hailed a taxi and headed home.
Half an hour later, he was about to reach home and asked the taxi driver to stop briefly at a convenience store by the roadside.
The driver, in his late forties, said he could stop if Leo wished, but the meter would keep running during the stop.
Leo smiled and said it wasn't a problem, then entered the store to buy groceries for dinner.
Leo was the child of an American father and a Korean mother. Since his family had spent most of the last three years abroad, they frequently sent him an allowance.
Leo's father, having started a company in America at a young age and achieving a certain level of success, chose to spend his life traveling the world rather than growing the company further. During these travels, he met Leo's mother in Korea.
Shortly afterward, Leo was born, so they lived in Korea for a while—until he was old enough.
Now that Leo could handle daily life on his own, both his parents left him in Korea to continue their world travels.
In short, although Leo wasn't a multi-millionaire, he received a monthly allowance from his father that exceeded the earnings of many office workers.