The content of the photo looks like a happy family of three.
The tall, strong man bent his arms in an exaggerated gesture, using his arms as a horizontal bar for the lively girl to slide on;
The lady next to her, with a rather heroic look on her face, showed a childish smile and reached out as if to compete with the girl for the horizontal bar "toy".
"This is a group photo of Sister Yueyin's family of three. The man is the master of Xiu Shen Yu Xiu Hall... Ah, my aunt had not yet made clear the legal relationship with him at that time."
"Yeah."
Ronan responded. He guessed who the people were in the photo, but in another situation, he probably wouldn't be able to identify them - at first glance, it was really difficult to compare the figures in the photo with their images ten years later.
The traces inevitably engraved by the passage of time seem to be completely divorced from the truth. Thin and strong, lively and calm, happy and indifferent... With completely different images and contradictions, it would be too hypocritical to insist that there are any similarities between the eyebrows and eyes.
It is conceivable that such a huge change must be caused by a rupture-type impact in the subsequent life course.
This is indeed imagination and Ronan's inference. But as He Donglou's introduction deepened, he realized that the context of the incident was much deeper than imagined.
"This photo was taken in 1985. At that time, the master of the temple, I mean, had just returned from a vacation in the Deep Blue World... It should be his last vacation."
He Donglou was still too nervous. Ronan's casual remarks made him lose his rhythm. All the opening remarks he had prepared were thrown out of the sky, and the logic of his words was terrible.
But it is this confusing description that exactly fits the feeling given by the photo, as if a silhouette was randomly extracted from the passing years. There are clearly hundreds of strands before and after, which are constantly cut and cannot be sorted out.
Well, no matter how nice the words are, with the detailed information in front of him, Ho Tung Lau's explanation has basically become a supplementary foil. What's more, the human eye absorbs information far more efficiently than the ear...
However, Ronan deliberately controlled the rhythm of reading so that it was basically synchronized with Ho Tung Lau's stumbling explanation.
This allows him to have more room to think and evaluate, to discover hidden details that may exist in the data, and of course, it will also give him a deeper understanding of the experiences of the parties involved.
According to the data, Xiu Shen Yu was born in 1950, 4 years younger than Ronan's father, and a typical member of the post-war generation.
He wandered around when he was young and had no fixed place to live. However, he had a good family background and practiced martial arts since he was a child. Xia City was built when he was a boy, and he grew up amidst the rumbling cannons of the battle between the offshore fleet and the mutants. All his parents and relatives died one after another in the process.
Xiu Shen Yu's experience was not an isolated case, and his subsequent life was not much different from other people's at first glance.
He went to school in Xiacheng and joined the army, but he didn't stay in the army for too long. After he retired, he worked as a mercenary and bodyguard for a while, but his jobs changed very quickly and there seemed to be no longevity.
The only thing that persisted for a long time was martial arts practice.
He Donglou didn't talk about it, probably because he didn't dare to mention it. The evaluation of Xiu Shen Yu during this period in the materials is: withdrawn, cold and stubborn, clumsy in finding a career, and poor in managing interpersonal relationships.
This is somewhat similar to the current monastery master.
Oh, the information shows that the master of the monastery and Xue Weilun, Xue Lei's father, are actually comrades-in-arms. No wonder Xue Lei would enter his gym.
Ronan's train of thought was somewhat skewed: the body shape of the monastery master back then was somewhat similar to Xue Lei's. Xue Lei was able to pass on the true story and put aside his earlier friendship with his elders. Perhaps it was also the monastery master who saw
A shadow of his own past?
In any case, the change in personality must come from the changes in life later.
"In 1975, he met my aunt. It was similar to a sweet drama, where the wealthy lady and the bodyguard go both ways..."
His usual thinking made He Donglou sound frivolous even when he was trembling. What the information shows is much more restrained.
At that time, He Jiwei, who was studying in the Social Sciences Department of Xiacheng University, was also He Donglou's aunt. The heroine of this story, in order to complete her master's thesis, went to Xiacheng Gang's satellite city to conduct field research. It was probably homeless people and citizens. Research on the mutual transformation of groups.
During this period, she got acquainted with Xiu Shen Yu, who was wandering around the satellite city making a living...
Of course, a bodyguard cannot be a bodyguard. People from a family like He Jiwei's will definitely be accompanied by professional bodyguards even if they are doing fieldwork.
But the harsh environment at that time, and perhaps the arrangement of fate, gave Xiu Shen Yu the opportunity to show his abilities.
The details are not important, and perhaps neither is the ability itself.
The important thing is that since then, Xiu Shenyu has been trying to change the old habits of the previous twenty years with unprecedented enthusiasm, as well as his future life.
He was almost there... maybe minus the almost.
In order to ensure that the details are appropriate, Ho Tung Lau omitted this too smooth period, turning this possibly the most precious and infatuated memory of the person involved into a simple three or five sentences:
"The two of them had a great relationship. Although they didn't get married due to some resistance from their families, they still lived together and gave birth to my cousin. They had only known each other for a year at that time.
"Then, probably the master of the temple wanted to get more recognition from his family. Of course, there were also professional reasons, so he chose to participate in the research project of the Deep Blue World. I am not sure about the situation here, but it is available in the information."
He Donglou is right. The information shows in detail the whole process of Xiu Shenyu joining the relevant research group, gradually moving from within the military to a multi-party public project, and then entering the deep blue world.
From then on, Xiu Shen Yu and He Ji Wei began to spend less time together, but their relationship remained stable. Xiu Shen Yu also relied on his solid martial arts training and perhaps his reputation as "Kong Tian He" to quickly gain a foothold in the research team.
The data shows that he went from being a research subject to the leader of a research group, participating in and presiding over a large number of experiments - most of which used himself as the research subject.
The links in the materials even include statistical summary tables of related experiments, with more than 9,000 related experiments. Its research direction is the most popular individual evolution route in the world in the 1980s.
Starting from the concept of "Jing Qi Shen" in Chuanwu, and taking Xiu Shen Yu's unique method of "getting talismans" as the axis, it explains extraordinary power and even the knowledge of the gods, and constructs a practice theory of universal significance.
"So, the master of the temple actually had dealings with Levi before?"
"Um, this...is it in the information?"
He Donglou became nervous as soon as he was questioned, and almost forgot his words again. In order to maintain the rhythm of the explanation, he made some random remarks: "I think the master of the building and that Li Wei are not on the same page. There is a high possibility of conflict." Da, if you look at his projects, they basically stopped in 1984 or 1985.
"When he came back from vacation, one was to celebrate the tenth anniversary of our acquaintance with my aunt, and the other was probably to relax."
"No need for you to explain."
Ronan was sure that this kid was just talking about it after reading the information, but he wouldn't do it because of this.
What do you think of the monastery master?
Since the Age of Distortion, high-end research in related fields has been basically impossible to bypass Levi. Moreover, this is extensive cooperation from the military to capital.
Ronan also got a glimpse of some valuable details about project development and resource utilization in Deep Blue World before the establishment of Deep Blue Labs.
Of course, the most important thing is that at this stage, something has actually happened to the master of the temple.
Ronan sighed.
He Donglou mentioned this below: "I heard from my family that during this period, the master of the temple should have had an experimental accident, was hit, and was preparing to end his work in the Deep Blue World. In fact, when this photo was taken, The second year after the photo, that is, in 1986, he returned to Xia City and gambled at Boshan Tower... Oh, he bought a gym and prepared to live a stable life.
"But it was also from this time that he began to have health problems. He often fell ill, coughed, and coughed up blood. My aunt was very worried and took him to see many doctors, but in the end nothing happened."
After hesitating for a moment, He Donglou added: "I heard, I heard, that during this period, the monastery owner's temper may be a little erratic. The originally planned wedding was cancelled, but he was still forced to go there by his aunt. Pulled the evidence.
“But many times, he ignored anyone and lived alone in the gymnasium of Boshan Tower, not even letting his aunt and Sister Yueyin visit.
"The relationship between the two people was good and bad, and this state lasted until the 1990s."
Towards the end, Ho Tung Lau's expression gradually became fluent: "1990 was the fifteenth anniversary of their acquaintance, and it was also five years after this photo was taken. At that time, the monk probably also regretted some of the things he had done in the previous years. , took the initiative to repair the relationship with his aunt, and the two discussed going to the place where they first met as a souvenir.
"However, at that time, the wilderness environment was not particularly good, and the mutants appeared very frequently around the satellite city. It may have been just before the 'Red Tide' started. On the way, they encountered a mutant attack.
"It is said that it was fine at the time, with bodyguards and everything else following. Although it was dangerous, it was not unbearable. But during the battle, the master of the monastery suddenly fell ill, causing the situation to suddenly collapse.
"While driving to evacuate, misfortunes never come singly, and a serious accident occurred. Sister Yueyin was seriously injured in this accident.
"Sister Yueyin is one, and so is aunt..."
He Donglou did not say any more.
Ronan saw the following description from the information:
“… all security personnel died in the line of duty.
"Xiu Shen Yu fought to the death with a ferocious beast. Due to his injuries, he was unable to defeat him. His chest and abdomen were split open and his blood flowed out.
"Ms. He held a gun and used it as bait when the beast bit her. Then she shot the eyes, mouth, nose and other parts of the beast, severely injuring it.
"However, he was defeated in the end... He was not completely dead."
Behind it, there was a vague plot of the monastery master's desperate counterattack, but Ronan didn't look very carefully. He just scrolled the information page and saw the photos of the scene at that time.
The data organizers are so hard-hearted!
Although it was a distant view, the image of the monastery master hugging a vaguely human-shaped mass of flesh and blood, with his body curled up and crying, still had a sharp and ferocious look that pierced his eyes.
Ronan subconsciously scrolled through it quickly, but the next second, he suddenly remembered something, and like a ghost, he turned up the information page again, all the way to the relevant records of the acquaintance between the master of the temple and He Jiweichu.
What caught my eye were words that were almost fatalistic and malicious:
“…The security guard was seriously injured.
"Xiu Shen Yu actually fought with the ferocious beast in close combat and killed it with his own hands."
