"You're wearing so little. Isn't it cold when you go out at night?"
In the kitchen, Lu Mingfei stood in front of the stove, studying how to turn on the stove in this era, and asked casually.
"not cold."
Behind Lu Mingfei, Renata, wearing a white cotton nightgown and holding a wombat, lowered her head and said.
Her voice is very small and difficult to hear if you don't listen carefully.
To be honest, she herself was a little confused about coming here.
She didn't understand why the other party just asked: "Your name is Renata, right?"
I brought myself here, this kitchen that only appears in dreams.
Instead of taking yourself to the nurses for "re-education".
"Phew~, finally done."
Looking at the lit stove in front of him, Lu Mingfei nodded with satisfaction.
After Xu wiped the sweat that was not on his forehead, he took out a few slices of bread from the food storage area in the kitchen and put them on the fire.
Then he turned around and sat near Renata.
The reddish light shone on the platinum hair, and the fire in front of her made Renata feel very warm.
But despite this, she still lowered her head and did not dare to raise her head to look at the strange man wearing a mask.
It's like the other party is some kind of scourge, even though the other party doesn't treat him like those nurses.
"Why are you being so reserved? Do you think I'm scary when I'm wearing a mask?"
Seeing that Renata had no intention to speak, Lu Mingfei joked to himself that he seemed to want to use this method to open the other party's conversation first.
It's just that this method not only failed to make the other party relax, but also made the other party more nervous.
The way Renata huddled herself with the wombat was a good proof.
Lu Mingfei was quite speechless about this. He could only say dryly:
"In fact, the most important thing to look at a person is his heart, not his appearance."
Seeing that the other party still showed no reaction, Lu Mingfei felt like he was constantly seducing the child like a strange man.
"Damn it, no one taught me how to talk to children!" Lu Mingfei roared in his heart.
After being embarrassed for more than a minute, Lu Mingfei looked at Renata who lowered her head and said nothing, and then looked at the wombat in her arms.
Then suddenly he said:
"Your little bear is very cute. Does it have its own name?"
"Zorro, his name is Zorro."
Renata said, hugging her precious wombat.
The wombat was a birthday gift from the doctor. It was bought from Moscow by the first mate of the icebreaker.
In Black Swan Harbor, this is a luxurious gift.
As for why it is called Zorro, this is because Renata has read in the book that Zorro is a knight wearing a mask, and all bad guys will tremble in fear when they hear his name.
Renata also hugged it when she slept at night. If there were any monsters hiding in the dark that wanted to harm her, Zorro would kill them.
"Is he the knight who wears a mask, upholds justice, eliminates evil and promotes good?" Lu Mingfei asked with a smile.
"you know too?"
Renata looked up sharply, her eyes flickering.
"Of course, in fact, I was influenced by Zorro when I wore the mask. Since I was a child, I wanted to be a knight who punishes evil and promotes good, and never shows his face."
Lu Mingfei said blindly without changing his expression.
Of course, even if he has other expressions, others cannot see them because he is wearing a mask.
"But the nurses said you were wearing the mask because of other problems and Zorro's mask doesn't seem to be like yours."
Renata said hesitantly.
"These are just rumors. You should know that in this closed environment, only gossip can make people here live more comfortably."
Lu Mingfei explained.
"What is gossip?"
Renata asked again, like a curious baby.
"Ah, this, you are still young, you will know when you grow up. In short, you can regard me as someone like Zorro."
Looking at the thin Renata, Lu Mingfei touched her head.
"oh."
Renata lowered her head and let the strange man touch her.
It's a bit strange, I'm not as disgusted and scared as before.
"By the way, were you looking for something just now?"
Lu Mingfei asked after getting up and turning the toast over.
"Find a friend," Renata said hesitantly.
Although the doctor Alex in front of her spoke very gently, she was still unwilling to tell him about the black snake she saw in her dream.
And the other party probably wouldn't believe her, after all, she was isolated as mentally ill just because she told other children.
She still remembered the scene when the black snake first appeared. That night she made a mistake and was locked up. She was still young at the time, lying on the cold iron door and crying.
She shouted hoarsely for her mother. That was the most violent cry she had ever cried.
But the nurses yelled through the iron gate, saying, "Cry." If you become dumb from crying, you will be quiet.
So she cried loudly and wanted to call people all over the world to save her, until she cried so much that she could no longer make a sound and no one came.
That day, she saw the black snake. The black snake's huge tail slapped the iron door hard. When the door opened, she could only stare at the huge figure blankly.
After that, she could see it every full moon night.
But, that was all in a dream.
But now, she always feels that the other person is real, so she has been trying to find traces of the black snake in reality recently.
"Looking for a friend?" Lu Mingfei thought for a moment, then took off a piece of toast, squatted down and handed it to her, and asked, "Can I be your good friend?"
The moonlight shone in through the small window, illuminating her thin white cotton nightgown and her thin, almost transparent calves.
Beyond that, it was the light from the fire that shone on her skin.
There are also slices of bread that are delicious and toasted to perfection.
With a grunt, Renata nodded against her will:
"Okay."
For this newly acquainted adult, weirdo, doctor, or Zorro?
In fact, Renata did not accept him as a friend because she had only known him for a short time. According to the book, friends must at least have known each other for a long time and be very close to each other.
But there was no way, Lu Mingfei's bread was very toasty, and even through the mask, she always felt that the other person's eyes were very warm. (End of chapter)
