Luo Binhan thought that he must have asked a question that was difficult to answer. He believed so, because when he raised the eighth, both Jing Huang and Black Cat fell silent. No one gave him an answer, so Zhou started to break off his left hand and play with it.
Jing Huang looked at Zhou Ba for a while with half-open eyes. In less than half a minute, Luo Binhan had already conceived seven or eight answers for himself. August may be a controller of time and space, an alien potted plant that can split itself at any time and spread its seeds, a pelican that becomes a spirit, or a parasitic beast that can create mental hallucinations and hide in Jinghuang's hair.
"Child." Jing Huang said.
"Who?"
"she."
Luo Binhan weighed Monday again. Her legs were dangling in the air, and she successfully stepped on the sofa, then turned to look at Luo Binhan. Luo Binhan wasn't sure whether she could fully understand what he said, but for a twelve or thirteen-year-old child, she was too honest.
That's a kind of honesty that has nothing to do with personality. At the age of twelve or thirteen, Luo Binhan had seen the most noisy and difficult devils, such as Yu Xiaorong, and the quietest and introverted type, such as Luo Jiaotian. But they look very different from what they look like on Saturday. They are all full of life and have their own worries and hobbies. But none of these existed on Zhou Ba, and Luo Binhan couldn't tell. He just felt that children of this age were not like this. Zhou Ba acted as if she existed only because of Luo Binhan's gaze: when Luo Binhan thought of her, she stood there, doing some things that proved that she indeed existed. But when Luo Binhan thought about it carefully, he found that she had never shown any of her own interests or opinions.
He pushed down the uncomfortable thought. Although that made him feel strange, he couldn't fault it. Maybe he didn't understand the growth curve of alien children. Personality is hardly conclusive evidence, but there's another thing that's not so easy to explain.
"She appeared in front of me out of thin air." He said to Jing Huang, "Either she was teleported here directly from the Silence, or she has been following us - following us, but no one noticed her presence. Normal. Can a child do this?”
"...You didn't see her."
"Fart. Do you really think I'm stupid?"
Luo Binhan is ready for a long-term struggle. In order to get the answer, he would inevitably have to fight to the death with Jing Huang's hair. But Jing Huang didn't say anything perfunctory, but just stared at Zhou Ba for a while. Some kind of concern limited his speech, but finally the pirate leader said: "She is human now."
"What happened? Were you a god before?"
"It used to be a black box core with failed translation and an incomplete execution module," Jing Huang said.
Luo Binhan stared at him quietly, his thoughts spinning in his head like two spiral arms. These two spiral arms lead in two completely different directions. On the one hand, he was thinking of some fresh words to criticize the immortal child in front of him whose speech seriously violated his identity, and let him know that the most beautiful boy in the Demonic Fairy Castle is not that easy to be. On the other hand, he was still dealing with this matter seriously after all. With his highest level of mathematics that stopped at the concept of derivatives, and his rich practical experience in computer repair (restart, restore and system reinstallation), he tried to understand Jing Huang Tu What do these words that come out mean? He thought he could try hard - if this matter was completely beyond his scope, he shouldn't even be able to hear these words. Since these words can find corresponding words in his hometown, it means that Zhou Ba is not something he does not recognize at all. He did his best and finally came to a conclusion that he thought was most appropriate.
"She's a robot." Luo Binhan said, shaking the Zhouba in his hand, but didn't hear the sound of any parts. But this did not affect his judgment, because there was no movement when Popa walked.
"...It's okay for you to understand it this way."
"So how is she invisible? Like Bon Bon?"
"No. She doesn't have that kind of micronization ability now. You can't see her because she really doesn't exist anymore. Although I don't know who she was following before, but now she pays more attention to you because of you. The shadow on the left hand is very translatable. Just leave her alone."
Luo Binhan began to short. The black cat squatted on the back of the seat, observing him coldly. It said to Jing Huang: "Since you have no intention of using it, you don't need to explain this to him. That is causing trouble for yourself."
"Didn't he ask all the questions?" Jing Huang said, "It's okay to let him know."
The black cat swept its tail.
Jing Huang took Zhou Ba away from him. He hugged her and walked all the way to the door, and then the automatic door closed behind him again. Luo Binhan stared at him blankly until he completely disappeared.
"Why did he run away?" He poked the black cat's paw and asked, "Isn't this his own room? Just gave it to me?"
"He just did what I wanted to do." Black Cat said, raising his paw and stepping on him. But that had no effect. Luo Binhan discovered that even a violent beating cat still had fleshy pads under its paws. He boldly grabbed its front paws, raised it high before the black cat could react, and glanced at the flesh pad.
"Black rocket type," he concluded.
The black cat jumped on his chest and punched him in the face. It controlled the force well, but still made Luo Binhan dizzy. Luo Binhan had no choice but to protect his face with his arms, and then loudly announced his surrender.
"Let's talk serious, okay?" He covered his face and said, "I heard that you can eat people's souls. Is it true?"
"It used to be true."
"Why can't you do it now? Do you want to be a good cat too?"
"I made a promise." Black Cat said disapprovingly. After a while it added: "To be precise, Will made a promise, but that also affected me. Unless he decides never to set foot on the soil of Chi County, we have to try to avoid this happening."
"I still don't understand." Luo Binhan said, "Where is he now?"
"In a long dream. In that dream he had no sense of self, it was like you turned yourself into a stone... It was part of the commitment he made."
"But does this dream ever end?"
"It's not that easy. He hid his body well and set up some guards to protect the dream."
Luo Binhan frowned. He thought of "Li Li" smiling at him on the changing sand sea. If what the black cat said was what he understood, what he saw was the sleeping person. But there was a truth to it that he still hadn't figured out yet.
"Why is he paying attention to me?" he asked pointedly. "Just because I'm on the Silence? What does he want to achieve from me?"
"I don't think he wants to achieve anything from you." Black Cat replied standing on his chest, "Let's put it this way, he is preventing others from achieving something from you and affecting other people through you."
"You guys are thinking too much." Luo Binhan said matter-of-factly, "Actually, the young master won't listen to me, okay? He has already come out to live independently, and I am not his mother."
The black cat looked at him with shining eyes. It raised its toes as if to weigh it, as if it was planning to say something. But then the door opened again. Luo Binhan looked out the door with the black cat on his chest, and saw Jing Huang coming in holding a dark brick. When he walked in further, Luo Binhan saw clearly that it was not a brick, but a heavy and thick book like a big dictionary.
Luo Binhan pushed the black cat away and sat up, asking him, "What's in your hand?"
"I borrowed it from the database with red lightbulb eyes." Jing Huang said, "The outline of the elementary course of intellectual education in their eternal light realm. You can't use their telepathy, so I made a paper version."
Luo Binhan was in awe and asked, "What's the use of it?"
"You'll know what happened to that kid after reading it."
Luo Binhan's eyes returned to the book. He had never read such a thick book in a book other than a dictionary. But he remained optimistic and asked positively: "How many pages do I need to read?"
"What nonsense." Jing Huang said, "From the cover to the back cover."
Luo Binhan took the black cat from his lap to the ground again. He stood up and ran away.
