Chapter 146: Cultivating the Heart Demon
"Iris, don't think I do?" Outside Alice's kindergarten, as soon as Iris climbed onto the airship, he was picked up by a pair of hands that seemed to be carved from white jade, and the bamboo hoop put Iris on his lap with a smile and nodded Iris forehead and asked.
Iris's cheeks were flushed, and he lowered his eyes a little shyly when he heard this, and then raised a small hand, separated his five fat short fingers, and said with a serious face, "I thought about Xiao Zhen five times today, once when I went to school, once in art class, once for lunch, once for a nap, and once for a physical fitness class in the afternoon." No more. "Thinking too much won't make you go, so you can't think too much.
Bamboo hoop smiled and kissed Iris on the forehead, put his hand on Iris face to cool him down, Robert started the airship, the airship took off steadily, and after a while returned to the Roland Manor villa, before going out, Bamboo Hoop had already prepared dinner, and now he only needs to wash up and eat.
And Iris has long been accustomed to this kind of life, and he likes this feeling very much, after returning home, he went to wash his hands, sat at the dining table and waited for the bamboo basket, dangling his legs and looking into the kitchen, he was always not sure whether the machine was working hard, and he always felt that the machine was not good, and he still grew up quickly.
As long as you grow up, you will be able to fulfill Xiao Zheng's wish.
Iris is very scrappy when he thinks about this, and he wants to grow up.
I don't know if it's out of guilt, or Winston's apologies for being angry at the bamboo hoop for no reason, the second week after his business trip, the service staff of the mermaid center first sent a mermaid nutrition warehouse, and said that the customized auxiliary machine qì people need to install the latest defense system, and it will take two days to deliver, and yesterday, the two machines of about one meter and three people were also sent to the villa, and they were put into use after practice. Going up and down stairs adds an extra layer of security.
The machine qì people or something, the bamboo basket said that it is dispensable, such a machine qì person, at most, just to make his life a little easier, not what he needs, but the arrival of the nutrition warehouse, really solved the urgent need of the bamboo basket, so that the bamboo basket is very surprised, is really happy.
After eating, Bamboo Hoop and Iris sat side by side on the sofa, tomorrow is the weekend, so Iris will not be busy with homework, Bamboo Hoop knocked Iris on the head, and when Iris looked at him, he pointed to his wrist and smiled, "Iris, can you call your father?" ”
Even though Iris has given him full access to the bracelet, Takehoku will ask Iris for his opinion first, and he will give Iris the highest respect possible.
Iris was a little depressed, and his little face couldn't help but be a little unhappy, but he was still very obedient, and moved to the bamboo hoop, and the bamboo hoop picked him up and sat on his lap, Iris opened the bracelet, found Winston's number and dialed it, there was a white light on the light curtain, and soon the phone was connected, the handsome Winston projected in the living room, Winston seemed to be dining, so facing the bamboo hoop and Iris, it looked like they were sitting face to face.
"Winston." The bamboo basket tilted his head and rubbed Iris's soft hair, and there was a touch of natural concern in his eyebrows, "Dining?" Is the selection thing still smooth? ”
Iris lowered his eyes, did not look at Winston or speak, but raised his little hands, as if holding a posture to allow the bamboo basket to better talk to Winston.
"Yes." Winston picked up the handkerchief, wiped the corners of his mouth very elegantly, and then replied to the bamboo hoop, did not say much about the selection, and lightly changed the topic, and talked about other things with the bamboo hoop.
Bamboo hoop has no intention of exploring the topic that Winston wants to avoid, Winston looks down on mermaids in his heart, it is normal for him to talk about things at work, and chatted with Winston a few more words, Iris did not speak the whole time, Bamboo hoop secretly prompted several times, Iris did not move, only when he was about to hang up the phone at the end, he reluctantly said "goodbye" under the disturbance of Bamboo Hoop's fingers pinching his stomach, and then the phone hung up, Iris breathed a sigh of relief, leaned back sullenly, and rubbed his little head into Bamboo Hoop's arms without speaking.
Bamboo Hoop sighed and hugged Iris tightly, he knew what was wrong with Iris, so he was committed to talking to Winston on the phone - Iris minded Winston's bad attitude towards him, so he had been angry since that day, except for the word "goodbye", he didn't say anything else to Winston, even if he had difficulties with homework, he didn't ask Winston, he asked questions on the light network, waiting for others to answer. Bamboo Hoop kind of understands Iris's thoughts, Iris thinks that Winston is not doing well, not doing it right, and Winston does not apologize at all, which makes Iris feel incredible and unacceptable.
Winston has always been a great father in Iris's heart, although he doesn't come home often, but this does not prevent Iris from worshiping Winston, especially the whole country does not praise Winston, and Winston is so wise and powerful when they meet occasionally, Iris thinks that his father is omnipotent, even omniscient, and suddenly finds that his father has made mistakes, and he does not admit that he has made mistakes, which is too contrary to Winston's image in Iris's heart, not so much angry for Zhuji, It's better to say it's awkward.
Every child may experience such a thing, the image of the father is broken from omnipotent, to ordinary and ordinary, there will always be awkwardness, but for Iris, such a period is a bit too early, although he understands that Iris is precocious, Bamboo Hoop can't help but worry.
"Why," Takehoku touched Iris's head and asked softly, "Your father is not wrong with what he said, and of course Ires is not wrong, don't be angry, okay?" Iris still didn't speak, just shook his head violently in Bamboo Hoop's arms, Bamboo Hoop knew that he couldn't do it, and Iris had his own stubbornness, so he didn't persuade anymore.
It's just a matter of time, and it's better to leave it to time.
Winston is capable, knowledgeable and wise, and Iris is very lucky to have such a father, and although Winston may be a scumbag in terms of feelings, he will teach Iris in this area and make Iris the best person he can be.
Putting aside these thoughts, Takeho and Iris play something similar to parent-child interaction, and Jackie chuckles - Iris always thought of it as a game between friends.
It was getting dark, Iris went back to his room to wash, changed into pajamas and went to the bamboo basket's room, his eyes flashed with undisguised joy, holding his own small pillow and jumping on the bed, he asked Mr. Robert, there are many children who sleep with mermaids at his age, and then Iris decided to sleep with mermaids every weekend, sleeping soundly and beautifully, Iris always remembers the good impression of the last time.
The starry sky was rising, the lights in the room were extinguished, leaving only the night and the stars in silence, and the bamboo basket opened his eyes and took out something from the warm patch attached to his waist, which was a small ring, similar to the bracelet that Iris was wearing, which he had worked hard to get his hands on.
Listening to the breathing of the children around him, the bamboo hoop turned over, put the ring in his hand close to his body again, and put his hands around Iris's small body, with happiness in his eyes, more of a death-like silence, like a firefly about to burn into ashes, while being defeated, flashing with charming light.
Thanks to this child, he didn't lose his bottom line.
The more he goes to the world, maybe he is forced by the form, maybe it is to prevent others from discovering the flaws, for all kinds of reasons, he will give up some of his ego, and play a person who is not himself and is not all others - he is originally an indifferent enough person, using deception to do whatever it takes, he has never regretted or guilty, and the only person he doesn't want to betray is that person. The more he walked through the world, the same, little by little, abandoned, or part of himself was swallowed up by the contract, one by one, gradually eating away at his thoughts, becoming more and more eager to madness, and weakening his reason.
Just like the ship of Theseus, there is inevitable damage during the voyage, and the parts need to be replaced at this time, which is a matter of no choice, if the last part of the ship is replaced, then is it still the original ship?
The same reason, he gave up more and more in the contract again and again, and the bottom line of insistence was drawn again and again, when a qiē self was abandoned cleanly, even if he still had thoughts, he also had a face that he had not changed at the beginning, but was he still like that? Or has it become a whole new person? In that case, what kind of expression should he use, what kind of mood should he use to face the awakening Xuanxuan?
Thanks to this kid, he hasn't had time to take advantage of him yet.
This child who trusts him wholeheartedly and wants to protect him, he doesn't have so many thoughts, his thoughts are simple to the point of purity, Iris relies on him, trusts him, and even wants to protect him, maybe in the process of growing up, this relationship may change, but at least for now, Iris has no hypocrisy about his feelings.
Sincere to the point of making the bamboo basket ashamed.
The merfolk don't have bracelets, and that alone restricts a lot of the bamboo hoop's activities, and if he wants to make some preparations before the outbreak of war, he must have a human identity to facilitate him to do these things. The identity of the mermaid will be rejected by anyone, because no matter what kind of amazing ideas you have, you will undoubtedly be denied and will be rejected, this is an extremely unfriendly environment for mermaids, and the bamboo hoop can't change the environment, only to change its identity.
No matter what kind of world it is in, no matter what kind of system it adopts and what kind of system it uses, as long as there are people, as long as human beings form certain social relations, then there will be no shortage of people who live under the light of the law, and although they do things illegally, they don't seem to be so evil, they just handle false information and forge household registration for those who need it.
On the condition of the bamboo hoop, it is unrealistic to go to someone to do it by himself, he is like a canary, he has been kept in a luxurious room, and has never touched the outside, so this room is his whole world. The way he understands this world is some deep memories of the original bamboo hoop and what he saw and heard after his own arrival, these are too superficial, he doesn't understand the outside society, now he not only has no conditions to go out, blind action will quickly expose himself, bamboo hoop will not do this.
Therefore, the first thing that comes to mind is the network, and the development of the network system in this world almost constitutes the other half of the society.
The mermaid does not have a bracelet and cannot access the light net, the only way is to enter the virtual net through the guò nutrition warehouse, there is only one nutrition warehouse in Winston's villa, which is Winston's personal one, and Iris is too young to be equipped with a nutrition warehouse. Human beings can log in to the virtual network through the nutrition warehouse, and some of the functions of the virtual network can be used if you don't log in yourself, but the nutrition warehouse is in Winston's room, and the permissions of Winston's room are not open to the bamboo hoop, and the bamboo hoop can't even enter Winston's door, let alone log in to the virtual net.
The bamboo hoop almost gave up on himself, hating the identity of the mermaid for the first time.
There are too few things he can do in the villa, and Winston is that kind of identity, he doesn't seem to be noticed by Winston, but once he does something suspicious, he will immediately be looked at.
And the timing of his coming to this world was too unfortunate, he didn't have the opportunity to use the nutrition warehouse in his room in the mermaid center to surf the Internet, he couldn't make some preparations in advance, and after coming to Winston Villa, he didn't have the opportunity to use the nutrition warehouse, the mermaid not only didn't like to lie in the nutrition warehouse, but also the gentle personality also made the bamboo basket unable to ask for a very expensive nutrition warehouse.
At least not for now.
Expensive, yes.
Zhu Zhen felt very ironic, the function of the virtual net in the mermaid's nutrition warehouse, crowned with the title of protecting the mermaid, many functions were restricted, such as the arena, for fear that the weak mermaid would learn combat skills and then be harmed; For example, in the auction house, I am afraid that the naïve mermaid will be deceived by the rhetoric of people with bad intentions...... There are many functions, all of which are restricted because of the identity of the mermaid, but the price is four times more expensive than the ordinary nutrition warehouse, and it is sold at a high price under the banner of safety, as long as there are conditions, it does not mind buying for the mermaid.
At the end of the road, Zhu Zhen wanted to laugh himself, and in the end, he finally set his eyes on Iris's body, there is no virtual net, he can also pass the guò light network, although it is much more troublesome than the virtual net can hide his identity, but he has no other choice, with Iris's trust in him, it won't take a few days, he has the confidence to let Iris open all the permissions of the bracelet to him, although doing so is using Iris, the bracelet is bound to Iris, use Iris's bracelet on the light network, do these unbright things, Even if he could use technology to cover up a little bit of his tricks, it might make Iris take some risks, but he needed it too much - he needed a bracelet, he needed an anonymous crystal card, he needed a fake human identification, otherwise he couldn't do anything as a mermaid.
At this time, Iris opened all the permissions of his bracelet to him with a look of trust, and the simple reason is Cheng Dù, who can make people feel funny - because you don't have Xiaozhen, and I want you to have Xiaozhen too, I want you to be happy.
Looking at Iris's beautiful eyes, if even such Ires were to be used, the bamboo hoop would feel strange and terrifying! Unlike adults, Iris is a young child who doesn't have so many thoughts in his heart and doesn't take any advantage from him......
When the bamboo basket came back to his senses, he was already in tears, which scared Iris a lot.
In such a world, he was so moved that he couldn't hold back tears and wanted to hug a person tightly, a child less than four years old, gave him all his warmth, so warm that his heart felt a tingle, and then he was alert that he was still alive.
He hugged Iris and told him that he was just too happy, and his heart was very sad, because he really had no choice - even if he became a complete stranger, he couldn't face the one he once was, he was like a mermaid, there was no room for resistance, and compared to the result of Wen Renxuan's eternal sleep, even if he lost it, it was not terrible at all.
As long as you hear people, you can open your eyes well.
Guilt erodes the heart of the bamboo hoop, maybe it is too soft-hearted after becoming a mermaid. The self-deprecation in Zhu Zhen's heart, he was tormented, and for the first time he had an indescribable resistance and guilt for his actions, because he knew in his heart, even if he knew this, he did not stop the terrible thoughts in his heart, even if his soul was trembling, his body was trembling, and his thoughts were screaming, preventing him from doing terrible things, and walking out of the road that once he took a step and never coming back, the end point that led to it was called the catastrophe.
The persistence of not letting go unconsciously strengthened the demons in the heart.
And the bamboo hoop knew this, but he was powerless to break free. The devil stands behind him, controlling his actions in order to reach the paradise of his dreams.
Bamboo Hoop had already decided in his heart, Iris's cousin, but it was just two days late for his action, and within these two days, Bamboo Hoop almost returned to the most anxious and painful time in the previous world, when he reached the limit, the mermaid center sent a nutrition warehouse, and Bamboo Hoop almost cried with joy at that moment - no matter what Winston's reason or purpose, he was really grateful to Winston!
He doesn't have to use this child, he doesn't have to hurt Iris, the heart that has been tightening in the bamboo basket finally relaxed, after those few days of difficult choices, the appearance may not seem to have changed much, but what he accepts is the torture of the soul, the criticism of human nature, and the criticism of the soul, he can hurt a child like Iris, who dares to guarantee that one day, will he betray even Xuanxuan? He couldn't even think about it—
Thankfully, he didn't have that chance!
Bamboo hoop hugged Iris, feeling the smell of this child that seemed to be able to make people calm, exhaled softly, slowly closed his eyes, and swore at this moment, before Iris could bear it, he would give his most sincere and sincere feelings to treat him. Scenes recalling in my mind, Iris insisted on his opinion while comforting his little hand in the bathroom; Iris's eyes sparkled as he opened the room to him; Iris warmed his body temperature when he opened all the permissions of the bracelet.
Without other promises, the extra promises would be too much for him to bear.
Before Iris can withstand it. Iris will eventually grow into an excellent person, and at that time, his survival is probably not so important, Zhu Zhen smiled bitterly.
Selfish people are always selfish no matter what.
Iris, become my child for the time being, Takeho thought to herself, and gradually fell asleep.
There is nothing to say all night, and the night is tolerant.