Su Lin took the envelope and pulled out the letter paper, only to see it written in neat handwriting:
"Hello, Suning parent:
"I am Xiao Chenying, director of the Moral Education Department. Regarding Suning's recent performance at school, the school feels it is obliged to inform parents. Since your phone number has been blocked for many times, the school can only convey it through letters. If you have time, I hope you can come to Minglong Junior High School at 3pm this Thursday to discuss your child's performance in school.
Minglong Junior High School Moral Education Department
September 27, 2023"
Is it almost October already? So much time had passed, and he remembered that when he entered the closed-loop world, it was just summer vacation.
My father and sister must have been worried about my sudden disappearance for so long. I don’t know what happened during this period. My father, who has always been paralyzed in bed, relied on money he got from nowhere in the days when his mother was gone. Miraculously, he was able to support himself and his sister.
However, after he came back, his father went somewhere. In other words, he had a vague premonition about who picked up his father.
He walked into his father's room, picked up his father's shabby clothes, closed his eyes, and tried to turn the star path. However, the world of consciousness seemed to be intervened by an invisible force, but there was no ripple or any hint. Come.
Su Lin also tried to operate and communicate with the ancient star trees in the world of the lower consciousness sea, and confirmed that his spiritual power could still operate even in different worlds.
However, among the abilities of the "Astrologer", any scenes involving family members cannot be divined, but other events related to oneself can be divined.
This is the result that Su Lin came up with after many attempts. For example, using the writing pen in his room, he divined the scene after he disappeared:
Sulin is not the only one who disappears from the real world and enters the closed-loop world. During Su Lin's star divination, the writing pen suddenly flashed into the world of consciousness where the ancient spiritual tree existed. The tip of the pen began to condense countless spiritual powers, transforming into a huge paper curtain, with rustling ground on it. Start writing.
While writing, Su Lin gradually learned that after he or they were involved in the closed-loop world and disappeared due to the "death closed loop" small program, due to the large number of missing people in the city, the police department also launched a Further investigation.
Because the disappeared disappeared without a trace in this world, the initial investigation result of the police department was just a guess. There may be some unknown underground forces in this city, and it is this part of the forces that will have Missing persons may be trafficked across national borders.
But gradually, the Police Department got some clues, especially after those contestants who failed in the closed-loop world returned to the real world in another suicidal way, and the Police Department's confessions also followed. change into:
Most of the missing people are involved with underground forces, and there may be some motive for murder or a fait accompli of crime, such as absconding in fear of crime or committing suicide in fear of crime. The reason why these people disappeared and reappeared was nothing more than a farce performed to divert or draw the attention of the police department.
Moreover, these people are also on the police's special attention list. Any citizen who can see these people will provide corresponding information...
In the world of the sea of consciousness, the piece of paper condensed by spiritual power, when writing this sentence, suddenly could not withstand the sudden and violent impact of spiritual power in the world of the sea of consciousness, and collapsed on its own.
Su Lin tried to mobilize and re-condensate several times, but was broken by an invisible rule.
"Perhaps the Sea of Opportunities can see the past opportunities?" But Sulin immediately changed his mind. With his current ability, he was clearly told that the cooling time of the Sea of Opportunities after each use ranges from one month to three months. If It is possible to just spy on the timing or teleport within the timing, but it is impossible to travel between different spaces.
That’s not right, this is another world outside the closed-loop world. Maybe after returning to the real world, the restrictions on the sea of time will also change accordingly?
Su Lin tried to communicate with the Sea of Time and found that he could successfully enter it, but the restrictions remained unchanged. And since he had no physical contact with anyone in the real world, there was no one in the Sea of Time. associated red stars.
It seems that I can only go to my sister's school first to find out what happened recently. He kept comforting himself in his heart that no matter what happened to his father and sister, they would be able to turn danger into good.
He picked up the calendar on the table and looked at it. Today is September 29, 2023, which also happens to be Thursday. Is it a coincidence? He smiled softly, relieving his anxiety due to nervousness and unknown.
It's about one o'clock at noon, still some time before three o'clock in the afternoon.
He took off his dirty clothes, briefly treated the dirt on his body with cold water, then walked into the kitchen, found the only half piece of bread left, boiled a pot of hot water, and started gnawing on the hot water. .
At three o'clock sharp, a neatly dressed Su Lin appeared in the director's office of Minglong Junior High School on time, along with his sister Suning and a blue-haired woman with a quiet and elegant temperament and a mind as deep as the sea.
"Brother, you..." Seeing Su Lin walking towards her, Suning's eyes were slightly startled at first, and then full of shock and deep disbelief. She saw her eyes red and shouted loudly, "Long-lost brother," and then She quickly threw herself into his arms, no longer the strange spirit she remembered.
Su Lin gently stroked his sister's hair, which was slightly thicker than her age, and comforted her: "It's okay, it's okay Ding Ning, I'm back, everything will be over."
The blue-haired woman behind him was slightly surprised. She seemed a little disbelieving when she heard Suning's name. She also felt as if she had seen this man somewhere before. She just walked lightly and followed him, appearing in front of Su Lin with brisk steps. In front of you:
"Hello, I am Xiao Gula's sister. The director is not here. He said that we should negotiate among ourselves first and then tell him the result."
After the blue-haired woman shook hands, when she saw Su Lin's confused eyes, she took the initiative to explain: "Two children had a conflict in the class, and the director provided us with a venue for the two families to reconcile. one time."
"Oh, hello, I'm Su Lin, Suning's brother." Su Lin responded suddenly, gently holding the blue-haired woman's white jade hand with his right hand, and the soft touch passed through it, like a delicate electric current. His whole body trembled.
He used his spiritual energy subtly to relax his muscles, quickly withdrew his right hand to adjust his condition, and while asking the beautiful woman in front of him to sit down, he asked his sister in a low voice what happened.
The matter of two children and two parents is usually not a trivial matter.
After questioning, Su Lin learned that it turned out that his sister had a quarrel with the boy named Gula during class, and her sister threw the high-grade paint used for painting by the boy in anger.
But in Su Lin's memory, although his sister had always been lively and eccentric, she was also well-behaved and sensible, and would never take the initiative to touch other people's things. How could it happen this time...
Considering that the blue-haired woman next to him was still waiting for his reply, Su Lin did not ask further questions and turned to look at the other party: "We did make a mistake in this matter. How do you think we should handle it appropriately?"
The other party's attitude towards solving the problem was sincere, and Su Lin tried his best to discuss with the other party in a soothing tone.
Seeing the two adults discussing things, Suning took the initiative to sit in an inconspicuous position in the room, trying not to hinder them.
"No, no, little Gula did something wrong too," the blue-haired woman waved her hand gently and turned towards Su Lin, "Other things are not difficult to solve. Just let the two children apologize to each other. only……"
only? The corners of Sulin's eyes trembled slightly, and he had a bad premonition.
"It's just that one of the materials in that bottle of paint was purchased by the Gula family with a lot of money, and it's different from the dyes circulating in the market."
"so?"
Seeing the obviously suspicious look in the other party's eyes, the blue-haired woman felt a slight pain in her chest, but she still resisted saying what her family told her before leaving:
"So, you may be required to compensate 500... no, 10 W."
The woman wanted to say compensation of 500 W, but when she looked at the two men's clothes, she hesitated. Thinking about it, they would not be able to afford so much money even if they went bankrupt.
On the other hand, I tampered with the family's amount without authorization, so I was inevitably scolded again when I returned.
What? A bottle of paint costs 100,000, why don't you grab it? Su Lin's pupils shrank sharply, not in shock, but in anger. Perhaps the other party noticed Sulin's mood, so the blue-haired woman proposed another solution:
"Alternatively, you can also compensate for a bottle of high-end paint, but the paint must contain at least one spiritual object... This is why this bottle of paint is so expensive, because such things as spiritual objects may not exist in our world."
"Not in our world?" Su Lin tried to suppress his irritable mood and murmured in a low voice, "Is she also a person from that world?"
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On the way home, Su Lin stopped by the farmer's market near Tiexizi Street to buy some vegetables.
Although he intended to have a good meal to comfort his frightened sister, when he saw the dozens of dollars in his pocket, he thought that the money might last him until he found a job, and finally gave up this unrealistic idea.
Not long after, two bowls of steaming boiled cabbage came out of the pot. Suning wisely set out the dishes in advance, and brought a stool for his brother who had worked hard all day, and then returned to his seat to sit down.
Due to the "ink" incident in the afternoon, the atmosphere between the two of them was unusually quiet while they were eating. Perhaps because he was afraid of his brother's reproach, Suning kept his head quietly lowered, like a child who had done something wrong and did not dare to look at his brother.
In the afternoon, when her brother and Sister Gula were discussing a solution, she vaguely heard something in the corner. Although the other party was willing to reconcile the quarrel, it did not mean that she did not need to compensate her classmates for the high-grade ink.
She felt a little uncomfortable in her heart. She knew that her brother was worried about work recently, but it was just that she did not contribute to the family at this time. She also had to spend a large amount of money to make up for the mistakes she had made, and her father's inexplicable disappearance also made her feel uncomfortable. It made her and her brother feel heavy in their hearts.
Suning once conducted a survey on the inks circulating in the market. A bottle of ordinary black ink can be purchased for ten yuan, while the more advanced ones only cost a few hundred yuan. Only the legendary and extremely luxurious ink can be purchased. Reaching the standard of tens of thousands of dollars.
But what she knocked over was the high-grade red ink. Due to the difficulty of the extraction process, this kind of ink was rarely circulated on the market, and the price naturally increased to three to four times that of ordinary ink.
If she knew that the other party offered a price of 10 w, she probably wouldn't have to sleep all night.
"Ding Ning, I will figure out the ink matter. Don't worry about it. Maybe you can sleep at night and it will be done tomorrow."
Su Lin already had a preliminary solution to the matter of ink compensation, but in order to avoid accidents, he still wanted to tell Beibei after the matter was completely resolved.
She knew that this was her brother trying to comfort her. How could Mo Mo himself appear out of thin air, unless a miracle happened in this world.
As if thinking of something, Suning raised his head and asked uneasily: "Are you trying to get that strange subsidy the government gave you after your father disappeared?"
She knew that this was the last hope for the whole family after her father left, and she didn't want to waste the money on the trouble she had caused. There was a little sparkle in her eyes that had just been crying for a while.
"Silly sister, didn't my brother just say that that is the dowry left for you, and he will not use that money unless absolutely necessary."
Su Lin looked at his sister half-jokingly, wanting her to focus on studying and not letting these trivial things distract her.
After his father disappeared, he should naturally take on the important responsibility of taking care of his sister and the family.
Hearing the dowry, a flash of shyness flashed across Suning's face, and she buried her head very low, her ears seemed to be red, "Brother, you?"
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