Gu Bei didn't take Patsy's recruitment too seriously.
It's just a casual move.
It is true that Passi's talent is very good. Being able to serve as the senior secretary of the Gattuso family shows that his ability is not bad. If he can join anywhere, he will become an effective member of Gu Bei's staff in a few days.
But Gu Bei didn't really care.
In other words, he doesn't care about many things.
Gu Bei found that he had changed.
When did it start?
Maybe it started after entering Kassel, maybe after the day of freedom, or maybe after sealing his own strength.
The more he lived through this ordinary and fulfilling life, the more he felt that his heart was becoming calmer and calmer.
The pace of his life is getting slower and slower, and he no longer has the same sense of urgency about growing in strength.
Now turn around and think about it, from being discovered by Lu Mingfei's true identity, to the showdown with Lu Mingze, to Tokyo and Changbai Mountain, to the one-year trip that followed, and the collision with Odin in the capital and New York.
His experiences in the past few years seemed to be too hasty.
It's like being urged by something.
Urging to improve the strength, urging to establish universal access, urging to plan the five major families...
Like a headless fly, it has done everything and nothing.
Now that he thinks about it carefully, Gu Bei has actually been living the life he hates the most.
He was originally a lazy person, he just hoped to live a good life, have a stable career, and have a wife and children.
But there were some things that Gu Bei did instinctively without knowing why.
In fact, the world does not necessarily require universal access, but Gu Bei felt that people needed a method that could compete with dragons and hybrids, so he established universal access.
But even now, the Qi training method has been popularized to about 40% of ordinary people in the world, but the existence of being able to do it everywhere is still not necessary.
In fact, it has nothing to do with him how Eri Yi is, but the girl looks at him too coldly, like a shabby rag doll.
Does Gu Bei love her?
To be honest, Gu Bei didn't even know what love was. He should have a kind of liking and pity for Eryi.
But loving something like this is really too luxurious for Gu Bei.
In fact, it doesn't matter to Gu Bei whether Chu Zihang can find his father, whether Cassel can slay the dragon has nothing to do with him, and whether Lu Mingfei can inherit Lu Mingze's power has nothing to do with him. matter.
Even if this world is really going to be destroyed by the Black King, what difference does it make if there is one more of him and one less of him?
But Gu Bei never thought about these things.
By the time he reacted, these people and things had already gathered around him, making it impossible for him to break free, or... he actually didn't want to break free.
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In fact, Gu Bei is just a lonely person.
He hopes to live a peaceful life, but is afraid that everyone around him will leave one by one.
If he has nothing, no magic, no eight magical skills, no power, then the most he can do is give up everything around him and start an ordinary life again.
But this damn god just gave him hope of seizing it all.
So he could only keep chasing and being driven into this river of destiny.
Thinking about it carefully, he is not this kind of person in the first place.
So he acted as a hands-off shopkeeper for Nadu Tong, he let Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze do nothing, and he acted accordingly when it came to Chu Zihang and Odin.
Even for Eri, he always said it was time to go see Eri, but he never went.
Is there no time?
How can it be!
Even if there is no time, it will not be so difficult to meet.
He is escaping.
Putting aside the magic and the eight magical skills, he is just an ordinary person. It is normal to want to escape when encountering problems.
He sealed his power, and his life in Kassel was fulfilling and simple.
He is actually looking for an answer.
He is not a murderer like Chu Zihang who stabs people with a knife when he is in trouble. He is not a leader like Caesar who is born with a mission. He does not have the strong heart like Fingel who endures humiliation and burden, nor is he like Lu Mingfei. A bad person who has a clear understanding of himself.
He is not Zhang Chulan who will do anything to achieve his goals, nor is he Wang Ye who has the righteousness of the world in his heart, nor is he Zhuge Qing, the proud man of heaven whose talents have been suppressed.
Gu Bei is Gu Bei, but why did Gu Bei come to this world?
Establish anywhere access? Kill the Dragon King? Save humanity?
Do not make jokes……
Gu Bei is just a mortal. If he didn't have the Eight Magic Skills given by God, he would probably still be on the hot bed with his wife and children.
It’s none of his business whether humanity is destroyed or not!
Why did you come to this world?
This was not the first time Gu Bei thought about this problem, but the more he thought about it, the more confused he became.
The world does not seem to lack him. Destiny has already written the ending of every life. Lu Mingfei will always ascend the throne, and Chu Zihang will also find his "dead" father, just like the rebellious Caesar never got rid of Gattuso's surname throughout his life, and Nono, who pursued freedom, lived in the script written by the Chen family until his death.
Gu Bei is like a pillar standing in the river of destiny. He changes the flow of the river, but cannot change the course of the river. The river will eventually flow to its original ending.
So, why did you come to this world?
Gu Bei walked past the bright lights, and the surrounding light dimmed unknowingly. Gu Bei came back to his senses, looked back, and found that he had walked out of the academy and walked to the mountain behind the academy.
Kassel College is located halfway up the mountain. A mountain ring road passes in front of the door. Looking out from the distance, the layers of coniferous forests in the valleys undulate in the wind, like black waves.
Although Kassel College is called the Hilltop Campus, it is not on the top of the mountain, but on the mountainside. At the bottom of the mountain are the train station and the valley campus.
Gu Bei's current location is not far from the top of the mountain.
There were no vehicles or pedestrians on the mountain road. The moonlight shone down, illuminating only one turn sign after another, circling upwards. Gu Bei accidentally caught a glimpse of the sign in front: "Please pay attention to the presence of bears." .
"Wow, there's a bear!"
Gu Bei sighed, but no one answered, let alone some wild Slavic man who jumped out with a bear and gave Gu Bei a live performance of hugging him.
At the end of the winding mountain road was a stone monument blocking the road, and Gu Bei stopped here.
The Bugatti Veyron was parked on the side of the stone monument, its high beams turned on, and its bright beam sword pierced the sky in the distance, illuminating the entire mountain top.
The terrain on the top of the mountain is flat, with few trees and covered with grass. A spring gushes out from under the rock, forming a small lake on the top of the mountain. After the lake overflows, it flows down the mountain, forming a snow-white waterfall. The faint sound of water can be heard from the bottom of the mountain. Come.
"There are no stars."
Nono stretched his body, leaned on the backrest, and looked at the sky.
Nonsense, Norma's weather forecast says there will be sleet and snow tomorrow morning, and it will be cloudy tonight. Damn it, there will be stars.
Gu Bei cursed, but was not surprised by Nuonuo's existence.
Although he has sealed most of his power, the physical quality brought by the Liuku Immortal Thief remains unchanged, so he will naturally not be unaware that there is someone on the top of the mountain.
Gu Bei sat casually on the front hood of the car, not paying any attention to this fastest sports car on land.
"The heroine didn't go to the party tonight, so why did she go to the top of the mountain to look at the stars?"
Nono was wearing a dress. It was not difficult to tell that the heroine slipped out in the middle of the banquet.
Nuonuo did not answer Gu Bei's words, but asked: "Go to the spring to soak your feet?"
After she finished speaking, she jumped out of the car door wearing only her socks, walked through the late autumn meadow, and followed the sound of rushing water to the edge of the spring lake on the top of the mountain.
The only light source was the headlights of the Bugatti behind her. The spring water reflected light, and the water surface seemed to be plated with silver.
Nuonuo chose a rock to sit on and saw Gu Bei looking at her curiously.
"What are you looking at?"
"I'm thinking……"
Gu Bei's bad taste got the better of him.
"Do you have to wait until I turn around to take off your socks?"
Nuonuo made a face at him, took out a pair of delicate scissors from the small bag beside her, and cut the stockings along the ankles, revealing her white and tender feet.
Gu Bei felt no emotion in his heart, but felt disappointed that his prank had failed.
"It's very cold, so you have to be brave!" Nono said.
"Haha, I won't be affected by the cold or the heat, okay!"
Gu Bei also chose a rock to sit on and took off his socks.
The two people who met by chance looked at each other and slowly put their feet into the spring water.
The coldness penetrated into the skin from every pore and jumped up the body along the spine. Nono shuddered involuntarily.
Not only that, she also stared at Gu Bei's face, wanting to see any interesting expression changes on Gu Bei's face.
But it's a pity that Gu Bei is really invulnerable to cold and heat. Even if he jumps directly from the crater of Mount Fuji into the Greenland Ice Sea, nothing will happen.
This time it was Nono's turn to be disappointed: "Are you really immune to the cold and heat?"
Gu Bei was also naive for once: "I lied to you like a dog."
"meaning--"
Nono no longer held on, and rubbed his arms repeatedly with both hands, trying to suppress the goose bumps that appeared.
Fortunately, the cold was only temporary. After the initial coldness passed, the feet gradually warmed up. All the blood concentrated on heating the feet. Nono felt a little comfortable.
"So? Didn't Caesar say he would make up for your last birthday party tonight? Why did you run out?"
Nono took out one foot, put one foot in the pool water, and stepped on the shore with the other foot. He rested his chin on his knees, and his eyes followed the moonlight in the pool water, which was sparkling.
"I know Caesar is very thoughtful, but this feels weird. All the people are invited here just to see how cool we two are. I have to accept his kindness, and also have to do it while his younger brother wishes me happiness. I kept smiling when I saw Caesar as his natural fiancée, there was not a funny person at the whole party, and... today is not my birthday."
As she said that, she suddenly glared at Gu Bei with an awl-like look.
Well, Gu Bei should indeed take the blame for this matter. After all, it was him and Chu Zihang who messed up the party during the anniversary celebration.
Gu Bei didn't know what to say for a moment, so he could only say dryly: "Happy birthday."
"Received." Nuonuo said calmly.
The air fell silent for a moment, the late autumn wind blew gently, and the cold weather made the insects chirp a lot less. Gu Bei very doubted that the insects that were still "squeaking" outside in this weather might also be inside their bodies. Bloodline and so on.
Hey, half-breed bug.
Gu Bei's thoughts were running wild, and Nuonuo suddenly asked: "What about you? Didn't you say that there was an experiment tonight, so you didn't go to the banquet? Why did you come here in the spare time?"
Nuonuo's eyes were like knives, and Gu Bei suddenly didn't know how to answer.
After all, finding excuses to escape from other people's banquets, and being caught by the banquet heroine who also escaped from the banquet, how do you want to catch him?
Gu Bei paused and suddenly asked without any trace: "Do you like Caesar?"
This is not the first time Gu Bei has asked Nono this question. Gu Bei had asked the same question before when he was performing Ben Parker's mission, but now, this question has a different meaning.
In fact, from a certain perspective, Nono is a person like Gu Bei. Her life is all about escaping from the dark prison of the Chen family, but is pursuing freedom throughout her life really what she wants?
She could have completely obeyed her family's arrangements and lived her whole life honestly, but now she was betting everything on the word freedom.
And all this was not because she wanted it, but because she had to struggle.
Just like Gu Bei, who was pushed by fate into the thousand-year war between hybrids and dragons. He could have escaped far away, or maybe he had only one way to go.
Nono and Caesar have lives locked by fate.
It can be said that Nono's self-righteous freedom was realized through Caesar, and Caesar's thought of breaking away from the family's control was also achieved because of Nono.
But if the two are not together, perhaps both parties are truly out of the family's control.
But in this way, both of them will never be able to break free from their shackles in this life.
In this love based on fate, what is Nono's attitude towards Caesar?
"I like it. If I don't like it, why should I be with him?"
To the same question, Nono gave an answer that was not given last time.
Gu Bei understood what Nuonuo meant.
Freedom is her own choice, but Caesar is also her choice. She will be responsible for her own choice, instead of betting everything else in her life because of an obsession.
Now Gu Bei feels that although Nuonuo is not that strong, he is indeed stronger than him in terms of belief.
Much stronger.
"Do you know why Caesar and I chose each other in the first place?" Nono asked, without letting Gu Bei answer, "Because of attraction."
"We are both the same people."
The same meaning in Nuonuo's words is different from Gu Bei's meaning.
"We are destined to be together in this life."
"It's fate."
The girl's eyes reflected the moonlight. She didn't have any special abilities, but she profiled her own ending.
