"Ah hahaha, so you are panicking now, right?" Moya, who stayed away from home all night, only called the next morning. After listening to Ronan's story, she laughed so hard.
Ronan frowned: "How can it be so serious?"
"This is how you behave. Just like parents who have been living in confusion for more than ten years, when their children are in the rebellious stage, or even later, they suddenly find that their own species is completely different from the growth model they expected. . It feels like the products that have been cultivated for many years are basically scrapped, and it is impossible to rebuild them. Then I feel panicked, desperate, and at a loss. Isn’t this what it feels like?”
Ronan continued to deny: "It's not that exaggerated... Are you comparing it to this, as if you have passed by it?"
"Just observe. You can learn more or less from observing the mental journeys of Mr. Mo Haihang and Ms. Luo Shuqing a few years ago. Of course, I have also been through troubled waters myself."
"Huh?" Ronan was confused, "You!"
"That's right, have you forgotten, I am the one who provided you with the dream fund! Funding a ten-year-old kid to conduct drug trials... Although the results so far seem to be good, and the return on investment is super high, but I just started from The period when I came back to my senses in the second period was also very anxious."
"Haha, your support is the choice for the second grade students?"
"Isn't it true? In order to take care of your so-called ideals, there is a high possibility that you will get a younger brother who overdoses and dies. Now that you think about it, it makes your hair stand on end, okay?"
Moya said and sighed: "From this point of view, I can understand your current mood. Thank you, little brother, you are still doing your best."
"..."
Moya quickly laughed again: "How should I put it? I still think you are overreacting. Although you may be the most energetic one in the family now, there is no need for you to put more burdens on yourself regarding Ruiwen. You know Before she entered the family, the missing memory was not caused by you; and although you brought her into the family, in terms of the family's ethical structure, you are only an elder brother and not a parent."
"But aunt..."
"She must want you to take responsibility, right? You may indeed be the person Ruiwen wants to be close to the most. No one else can say ten words as well as you, but you still have to see the essence through the phenomenon - I am old Does mom want you to be the head of the family? Come on, they still have a long time before retirement, and they are the kind of super worried people. How can they not imagine that they will let you become the leader of this family? "
Someone seemed to be laughing next to Moya, it should be a woman. Ronan didn't care about this, he just asked, "What does aunt mean?"
"She just wants you to look inward and arrange a task for you at home so that you can feel more like a family member, rather than the one who wanders off to the upper class for no reason and thinks about human beings every day and every night. The so-called world-class expert on matters of life and death!”
Moya concluded: "This is a political conspiracy, a family-style political conspiracy."
"...It seems right." Ronan thought about it and felt that it made sense, but he quickly came back to his senses, "But are you going off topic? What you told me, I admit that it all makes sense, but Rui Wen Like this, what exactly is going on? What should I do?"
"This..." Moya was obviously stuck.
"After all, you don't know either!"
"I only have this inexplicable success experience like yours. If I want to show this to Ruiwen, don't tell me anything else. Are you at ease?" Moya replied confidently, but quickly admitted, "Her reaction is indeed quite good. Surprisingly."
Ronan sighed.
Moya seemed to be talking to the person next to him. After a short while, he said again: "Don't think too much now. People like you tend to complicate things as soon as you think about them. But it's not necessary now. It's best." Let’s observe first.
"Of course, observation cannot be placed in a monotonous and simple comfort zone, but must be pushed into a relatively complex environment. My mother is more proactive than you in this regard... At this time, we are not blindly trusting Rui Wen, but believes in the family's ability to protect her."
Ronan said "Huh".
"Besides, there is you. Even if there are some problems or accidents, you will definitely be able to fish her out in time, right?"
"Definitely!" Ronan still had such confidence.
"Then it's over. Don't worry about any psychological trauma that Ruiwen will suffer. People's personalities are often distorted and expanded in the face of many obstacles, and finally shaped; some are simply cut and chopped, from childhood to adulthood, From birth to death, we are thinking about changes. This is an inevitable process, isn't it? The process of character building is not a disaster, not even creating a freak. Only by completely denying its existence at the root is...well, that's it. ”
Ronan blinked: "Although it makes sense again, it sounds pretty good. So..."
"So please seriously consider whether Ruiwen wants to take the opportunity to make her debut!"
"ah?"
"Nothing. I mean, you can observe her in a school environment first, when she's not skipping class."
"……Ah!"
At this time, Ronan was sitting in a leisure booth in the public activity area on the edge of the sandbank waterway inside the North Shore Gear, speechless for a moment.
How could he explain the fact that Rui Wen had openly skipped most of the morning classes and had come in this direction to join him?
never mind!
Ronan patted the head of Jerry, who had appeared out of nowhere, and decided not to think about such nonsense this morning. He hung up the phone, drank the juice on the table in a few gulps, and ordered another glass for Raven. , prepare to pack it up and take it away, and go to the laboratory.
The little girl probably wouldn't like to be in front of others... Ronan was in a daze, did he think this "should" was what he thought?
No matter what, let’s not verify this kind of thing for the time being.
"Brother Nan..." Someone suddenly greeted him. When he said "Brother", he was obviously a little restrained, mainly because he was in front of people.
Ronan greeted him "Senior Tian" naturally.
The person who came was Tian Qi from the Higher Education Department of Zhixing College. He was also the cousin of senior Tian Si and was three or four years older than Ronan. Calling Ronan brother, I must be convinced in my heart. After all, he is a child who has been severely beaten by social reality, but he still can't wipe it off his face in front of others.
However, when Tian Qi's eyes followed the lighting and went to the bottom of the lake and saw the huge manta ray swimming lazily in the deep water, he felt more sincere when he said hello again: "Brother Nan, I haven't seen you in the club for a long time. Yes. I heard you dropped out of school?"
"Well, I've been running around a lot lately. Even when I come here, I usually go to the laboratory."
"I understand, I understand." Tian Qi glanced at the manta ray at the bottom of the lake unconsciously. In fact, many people in the Occult Research Society know that this dangerous aberration that was tamed disappeared for a while last month and only returned at the beginning of this month.
There are even fewer people who know that the video of the manta ray flying in the sky that was very popular in Xia City early last month probably featured the one currently at the bottom of the lake!
As for the highly blurred figures in the video
, forget it... I don’t dare to think about it, I don’t dare to think about it!
Although he didn't dare to think deeply, when he saw Ronan, Tian Qi still unconsciously came over and exchanged a few words. Ronan's polite attitude relieved his nervousness a little. Just when he was about to chat a few more words, he saw Ronan waving behind him.
A little earlier than Ronan, the fat Jerry jumped out with all his strength.
Tian Qi turned his head and saw Ruiwen, wearing Zhixing Academy's standard short skirt and summer dress, appearing at the entrance of the public activity area.
Jerry rushed directly to Raven's feet. He wanted to get close to her, but he was a little afraid, so he circled around her feet. Raven bent down and picked Jerry up and brought her over.
It was already quite eye-catching to see students from middle and lower grades here during school hours, but the lively muskrat that came closer intensified the impression.
But what's more eye-catching is Ruiwen's face.
In the public activity area, I vaguely heard someone exclaiming: "Wait a minute, this is the 'Magic Eye Girl', right?"
"Short hair, dark eyes, fair skin, beautiful appearance, looks like...especially that skin!"
"She is from our school?"
The students of Zhixing Academy still have the most basic qualities, and they also hold their voices down when they exclaim. But during this period, there are not many people here, and the bar corner is relatively quiet, so the exclamations and whispers are particularly clear.
Of course Ronan and Raven heard it clearly.
Ronan looked over there and saw that Rui Wen's jade-like cheeks were completely unmoved, and she didn't seem to be aware of being the center of everyone's attention...
Tian Qi also heard it. He knew this fact earlier than most people present, even though he and Ruiwen had never met each other.
He grinned, and before Ruiwen came over, he got closer and whispered: "There are many people in the club who are obsessed with Ruiwen. It seems that someone has guessed it. I heard that Ou Que has asked someone to inquire about Ruiwen. Contact information..."
"Ou Que? Oh, it's the vice president."
In Ronan's impression, he seemed to be a rather pretentious young man.
As for Raven's identity being revealed, it's not surprising. After all, the little girl is a frequent visitor to the Occult Research Club, and her appearance and temperament are particularly outstanding, so it is normal for her to leave an impression on others.
Ronan smiled at Tian Qi: "Ruiwen is here, let's do an experiment, and we'll talk next time."
"Sure, you go about your business." Tian Qi was content to have a few words with Ronan. Seeing Raven walking over with Jerry in her arms, he stood up, helped pull out the chair next to him, and then left.
However, Ruiwen had no intention of taking a seat and only looked at Ronan.
Ronan wanted to chat with her again, but seeing the little girl's calm face and the packed drinks on hand, he finally sighed:
"Let's go."
Ronan and Ruiwen did not do any experiments in the underground laboratory of Gear. Instead, they quickly jumped to the cloud world and entered the fog maze to do the "field investigation" they had promised last night.
Of course, "on the ground" is impossible. The areas that Raven can currently reach are still out of reach for Ronan.
Ruiwen obviously considered this.
In the "tree hole space" created by Ronan that could carry physical matter, Ruiwen called up the drawing software in offline mode, referred to the previous records, and focused her attention on the "sandstorm" area outside.
At the same time, some of the disorderly "debris" that roared and filled the air showed some special trajectories, gradually taking shape and reaching a large scale, like the meandering underground river deep in the broken wilderness with thousands of ravines.
