It turns out that Calvin is quite strong both in his prediction of the crisis of fate and his desire to survive, otherwise it would be impossible to survive the crisis-ridden city of Gerthorne and still be able to get to his current status in Hogg Mining.

He immediately explained excitedly and incoherently:

"Vena, listen to me, it's not what you imagined... This kid... This kid is just me."

Poof.

Vina's sudden laughter interrupted his defense, she waved her hand and smiled: "Don't mind, it's just that it's been more than twenty years, you still haven't changed, you are nervous when you are teased by me, and the way you are nervous is still so cute." ”

The faintly dazed Calvin also laughed abruptly, and before he could continue to explain, the haunting shadow had already thrown himself into his arms, and the mature and intellectual voice with a trace of tiredness that could not be concealed sounded in his ears again:

"Calvin, you... Finally back... That's nice... This time, it's finally no longer an illusion..."

Hearing this, Calvin only felt an unspeakable throbbing pain in his heart, and hugged the figure in his arms tightly, as if he was afraid of losing it again, he opened his mouth, only this time, he didn't know what words of comfort to say in his sour throat.

"No need to speak, that's all... That's it... Let me hug. ”

Vina came with an almost murmuring sound, pressing her entire weight on Calvin's body.

"Wow. ”

Luo Jiali on the side first shrugged her shoulders and held her two small hands in front of her chest, but when she looked at it, she didn't know why tears filled her eyes, but she stubbornly refused to let it flow out.

She thought of her dead father and mother, who had loved each other so much that until the end of death, they could not separate them, but she was left behind.

In the distance, Calvin's female classmate used her elbow to pestle the handsome middle-aged man who was already heartbroken and could hardly breathe, and looked at him with pity:

"Hey... Sure enough, let's go, let's go, hey, what are you still doing here? Don't you see that other people are in love with each other?"

Seeing that the other party was indifferent and even had the urge to step forward and question, he hurriedly dragged the man who turned back three times and walked to the garden rest area on the side, and whispered while dragging back:

"Don't look at it! everyone's real boyfriends are back, you don't have a chance!!"

When they were about to walk out of this cemetery, the female classmate who took the opportunity to hold the handsome middle-aged guy turned around and glanced at Vina Calvin and them with a complex gaze of blessing and gratitude.

I don't know how long it took, but Vina, who seemed to be asleep on her shoulder, let go of Calvin, who had begun to have sore shoulders and a swollen waist, and looked at him with a smile in her eyes and said:

"Okay, I've had enough, as for your adventures in the dark region, think about how to make it up with me on the way, now go back with me to see your uncle and aunt, they were worried about you when you just disappeared. ”

"Are they all okay?"

When Calvin suddenly heard the news from his parents, his expression immediately became excited, and he didn't even have time to complain about why he had to make up his story.

"How to say it, my uncle and aunt are in good health, but in the orc siege battle nineteen years ago, my uncle went bankrupt and liquidated because of a large backlog of red wine and paid too many liquidated damages, and even the house was pledged to the Charan Chamber of Commerce, you know, George Rose Winery has always been my uncle's brainchild, so... Now it may be a little bad spirit, but nothing else. Vina pursed her lips and explained.

Calvin also sighed when he heard this, "That's good... It's okay if people are okay, so let's go back first. ”

"yes... It's okay if you're okay, you wait for me first. ”

As she spoke, Vena bent down and respectfully placed the bouquet in her hand in front of the teacher's tombstone, bowed deeply and prayed:

Calvin is back, and I'm in a hurry to go to the world with him, so I can't talk to you a little more today. ”

After Vena turned around, she first squatted down in front of the elf, and pointed her finger at her little red nose because of the sea breeze, and said:

"Luo Jiali, don't learn from Uncle Calvin's stupid fool in the future, when you see young and beautiful girls, you always have to call your sister, you know?"

"Well, my sister is so beautiful!" said Luo Jiali, nodding vigorously.

Looking at the cute appearance of the elf, Vina felt that her tough heart was melted in an instant, and she hugged the giggling Luo Jiali with a strange scream:

"Oh my God, Calvin, where did you get such a cute little angel from!"

Calvin was secretly relieved to see that Vina was so fond of Locarrie, but he was stubbornly joking:

"Hey, why did you become a kidnapper? Can't it really be my own daughter?"

Vina was not fooled at all, and sneered: "Give back your daughter, then the premise must be that the damn elf looks at you, isn't it? Besides, even if it is really your daughter, it must be a half-elf, right? Are you really old and can't even distinguish the characteristics of a pure-blood elf from a half-elf?"

When Calvin heard the previous sentence, he said that there were really a lot of elves who took a fancy to him... It's nothing but a drow...

But does he dare to say it?

He didn't dare!

It wasn't until I heard the words 'old' that my scalp suddenly went numb, and I quickly praised it in recognition of it:

"Haha, I really can't hide the smart and clever Vina, haha, ha..."

The two tacitly agreed that neither of them mentioned those unpleasant things and came to the outside of the dead city, Vina sat on the back seat of the bicycle and hugged Calvin, and Lo Carrie was sandwiched between the two like sandwich biscuits, her face was flushed, but she didn't dare to squeak.

Vena felt the warmth in her arms and the sea breeze blowing on her face, and closed her eyes silently.

Finally, Calvin couldn't help but speak first, and asked a little dryly: "Vina, how have you been doing all these years?"

When Vina heard this, she smiled and pursed her lips like a little girl, as if she wanted to complain to Calvin about the past suffering, but after thinking about it, it seemed that she still didn't want to increase Calvin's psychological burden:

"Hmm... It's not bad. ”

But this answer made Calvin's heart even more uncomfortable, and suddenly, an unprecedented impulse sprung up in his heart, and he uttered a request that had been delayed for twenty-three years:

"Vina, marry me. ”

And in the face of this abrupt marriage proposal without the slightest foreshadowing, even if Vina had a hunch, she still laughed out loud unexpectedly, only feeling that all the grievances she had suffered over the past 20 years were gone, but she felt that she would just agree to him so simply, and she was a little unwilling, so she asked with some resentment:

"Hey, you just propose so bluntly, aren't you afraid that I will get married a long time ago?"

But as she expected, Calvin was silent for a moment before he slowly spoke: "Actually, I thought about this question many times before I returned to Jishui City, what if Vina you are already married?"

"What should I do?" asked Vina softly, lowering her eyes.

"I want to... I'll probably find your residence and take a sneak look at you to see if you're happy, but I think you're such a good woman, no man should be willing to live up to it, so you're probably happy, at that time, I will silently hand over my blessings, and... Turn away and go to a place where you will never be seen again..."

Bang!

Vina slapped Calvin the back, and she had always maintained a strong appearance, but her tears couldn't help but flow down after all, and she didn't have a good breath:

"You've seen too much blood, and you've turned away! Aren't you going to punch that man down and snatch me away?"

Calvin, who was originally sad, was suddenly laughed and cried by Vina's even more bloody opinion: "Hey, that's something that only red dragons can do! Shouldn't I be taken by the guards for interrogation?"

"I don't dare!"

Vina muttered, thought for a moment, and then asked, "Then you are so direct at this moment?"

"Aren't you still married? When I held you, I saw that your male companion looked like a dead cat. Calvin laughed.

"You're just a dead cat! I tell you Calvin, I didn't marry because I waited for you!" Vina was furious.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Calvin laughed even more heartlessly when he confirmed this fact.

At this moment, it was Vina, who was lying on his back, who took the initiative to explain:

"Actually... I was originally only going to wait for you for three years, and if you don't come back within three years, I'll die of that heart, and find the most pleasing one among my suitors to marry, otherwise if it drags on, my dad won't let me go, you know him. ”

"Hmm—" Calvin listened, lest he miss a word.

"As a result, just as I was dying, the orcs came, and the siege lasted for three months, and many people died, including our mentor Macheron. Because he was too obsessed with studying his own illusion subjects, he didn't have a family until he died, so according to his old man's last wishes, he left his research topics and laboratories to me. Vina recalled.

"But why you?" Calvin was immediately curious.

"Why can't it be me? Back then, I was the most talented, and I was also the most promising to study the teacher's topic, didn't you see my badge? I'm now a level 6 mage/promotion ** teacher, okay? I don't even know why I'm blind, I fell in love with you back then!"

Vena instantly felt unbalanced in her heart: "As you know, the research of magic topics is the most time-consuming, especially when our school's arcane theory is so lacking, this back and forth, unconsciously mixed up until now... It's younger than me.,Basically don't dare to pursue me.,It's too old.,I can't look down on it.,The only one who meets the requirements and has perseverance.,You also saw it.,Just been forced away by you.,So... You're responsible for me..."

As she said this, Vina's voice unconsciously lowered.

Calvin instantly understood the meaning of Levi's sentence 'If you don't have enough IQ, don't learn arcane arts easily, even if you engage in arcane research, you must be prepared for baldness, and it's best to find a companion in advance, otherwise it's easy to be alone', and at the same time silently thanked the teacher three times in his heart.

At the same time, his mouth was naturally full of promises: "Hmm!"

The two were quiet again, as if enjoying such a beautiful reunion.

But Calvin, who had no eyes, still couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart after all, and asked, "Anyway... What is the teacher's research topic? Have you made any progress here?"

"Don't mention it! Mekelon killed me! I don't know how you chose such a wasted research direction! I made something, but the key is that it is useless at all! After so many years, so many research funds have been wasted! Because we can't find business investment and cooperation, we can't recover the research cost at all, and now the college is discussing to take back our laboratory!"

Hearing this, Calvin became even more curious, "What the hell is that subject?"

"On the Practical Application of Reality Interference Projection Illusion"

Vena said weakly: "It is not directly acting on the human senses, but interfering with reality through magic projection, so as to achieve an almost real illusion effect, what do you say is the use of this thing! ”

"Shhhh This thing feels a little familiar... I seem to have heard my boss say it in a meeting. ”

Calvin couldn't remember it for a moment, but he had a hunch that this thing wasn't as useless as Vina said, so he asked, "Can you show me when you get home later?"

"Okay... It's not worth much money anyway... I finally knew why the teacher was so poor back then, and it would be better if he could sell it, and I guess the teacher would like to see it realized. ”

Vena waved her hand indifferently, and suddenly asked curiously, "Boss... What is it?"

"Oh, that's my employer, he founded an organization, call it a company, the full name is Zeellandia Hoag Mining Development Co., Ltd., so he usually makes us call him the boss, also called... I'll take you to meet him when I go back, and you'll be surprised, because... He... It's a dragon!" Calvin said with a playful expression.

"Dragon!!" Vina couldn't help but exclaim, this time, she was really surprised and curious.

Although dragons are not uncommon in the Korrell Continent, for ordinary people, the word dragon is still full of mystery! At the same time, it is also synonymous with strength and wealth!

She always had a gut feeling that Calvin's twenty-three years of disappearance seemed to be much more exciting than she had imagined.

But just as she was about to ask, they had already driven to the current residence of the old George's family.

Located at the southern end of the city, the Southern District is dedicated to caravan trade, mainly providing necessary transportation vehicles and warehouse services, but also many relatively poor but not outright destitute people choose to live in this area.

Seeing the environment here, Calvin was also relieved.

Living in the South District at least means that his father has not been reduced to the docklands after going bankrupt.

It is the most crowded, dirty, and boorish area in the whole of the city, where the destitute class live, and it is also the famous slum of the city, synonymous with chaos and darkness, and a breeding ground for evil.

But presumably in the middle, Vina also secretly made a lot of efforts.

Thinking of this, Calvin couldn't help but hold Vina's hand tightly.

In this way, he led Vina with one hand and Luo Carrie, a good baby who had been stuffed with dog food all the way, to the door number of an apartment that was already a little old, and glanced at Vina, who knocked on the door gently.

Calvin took a deep breath and waited quietly.

With that experience before, he is not so nervous now.

But in his mind, in the absence of his 'son' family, his parents should have lived a little lonely all these years...

After all, according to Vina, after the winery went bankrupt, her father had been running a small car shop in the South District, providing transportation services to other caravans in the city and surrounding towns to earn a small profit, and at the same time, he had to continue to repay the loan of the winery's vineyard to the Charland Chamber of Commerce, even though the current ownership of the vineyard had long since been reclaimed by the Charan Chamber of Commerce in the name of supply interruption and insolvency.

Their return can finally make up for the lack of their lives...

However, what made him suddenly feel a sense of déjà vu was the voice of a strange young girl coming from inside:

"Ahh

Crunch.

A beautiful girl about eighteen years old pushed open the door, and when she saw Vina, she couldn't help but be surprised:

"Ahh

The girl couldn't help but squeeze her eyes at Vina when she noticed a confused Calvin next to Vina, then turned around and shouted:

"Mom and Dad! Sister Vena has come to visit you again! This time I also brought a little brother with me, come in quickly, and I'll get you shoes." ”

As soon as Calvin stepped into them, a woman with a complicated smile greeted him:

"Vena, didn't you just come here the other day?

But she was halfway through her words when her eyes were fixed on Calvin, as if she couldn't believe her guess.

"Mom! I'm back. In the end, it was Calvin who spoke first.

But when he opened his mouth, it was the turn of the blonde girl who opened the door for them to be confused...

Calvin's mother suddenly covered her mouth, and the tears of the bean could not stop rolling down, and she hugged Calvin, who was at a loss, crying heartbreakingly, and couldn't stop choking:

"Child... You're finally back, Mom... Mom misses you so much... The old man always said that you were dead, but I just didn't believe it, and finally... Finally made me wait, you said you kid... Why is it so unreassuring? ”

Calvin hugged his mother tightly and cried bitterly, and the guilt and endless remorse in his heart were like grains of sand floating at the bottom of the sea, and he could only pat his mother's back and caress it.

Xu is movement here also spread to the inner room, a somewhat erratic old man hurriedly walked out with a cane, and when he saw Calvin who was hugged and crying by his wife, he was stunned for a moment, and then the whole person trembled with anger.

Holding a cane, he was about to swing it at Calvin's body, and scolded as he swung it back:

"You little bunny still know to come back!

"You old ghost, you have finally come back, and you are willing to beat him! If you dare to beat him, I will beat you!" Calvin's mother glared at old George like an old hen guarding her cubs.

"You, you, hey... Oh, yes... It's good to be back, it's good to be back... You haven't eaten breakfast yet, sit down, Vina, you too, it's all your own family, you're welcome. ”

Old George seemed to have figured it out after so many years, put down his crutches in a dejected manner, turned around and returned to the dining table, but the back seemed to be more rickety.

After a farce, Calvin's family sat down at the somewhat crowded table, and even Calvin's cutlery was improvised patchwork... This also made Calvin feel uncomfortable.

As if this home, he is superfluous...

And Calvin's family doesn't seem to be ready for Calvin's return at all.

So the embarrassment of a table.

In the end, it was old George who sighed and spoke first: "Calvin, let me introduce you, this is your sister, Sylvia."

"Via, that's what we told you... That died young... Ahem, long-missing guy, your brother, Calvin.

"Calvin, I was completely discouraged after your disappearance for several years, until one of my business associates died under the orc's butcher's knife during the orc siege, leaving only Sylvia, a poor child, so I decided to adopt her after consulting with your mother.

"As an older brother, I have to take good care of my sister in the future. ”

Although Calvin was a little surprised by the fact that he suddenly had a younger sister, he quickly digested this fact with many years of experience, stood up, and said to Sylvia with a bright and sunny smile as much as possible:

"Sylvia, although it is a little abrupt, I will still fulfill my responsibilities as an older brother in the future. ”

But to everyone's surprise, after being silently busy in the kitchen before, Sylvia, who had been bowing her head and keeping silent when she returned to the table, actually put down her knife and fork after Calvin stretched out her hand, and did not hold Calvin's hand, but lowered her head and whispered:

"Dad, Mom, Sister Vena, I'm full, I have to go to the academy today to rehearse the year-end school anniversary stage play, I'm sorry! I'll go to the academy first. ”

So saying, she got up and took her backpack and quickly went out of the house, and softly closed the door, and Calvin's mother chased after her, pushing open the door, but there was no one in sight.

"I'm going to chase her!" Calvin said, a little worried.

But he was dissuaded by old George, "Forget it, don't worry too much, that's a strong child, but he is much more sensible than you, and he won't do anything like running away from home." ”

Calvin's mother sighed and said, "Calvin, don't blame your sister, maybe this kid won't be able to accept this fact for a while." ”

It was Vina who said the most likely guess: "Indeed, perhaps, this child knows her background after all, and I am afraid that when Calvin returns, she will become superfluous." ”

"This stupid boy. ”

Calvin nodded as well, "I'll pay more attention." ”

Due to Sylvia's aggressive actions, Calvin's return was somewhat diluted.

Fortunately, he also brought back a Pistachio Lotalia, such a smart and clever elf, few people can resist.

It soon made the table smile more.

After breakfast, old George put on an old-fashioned coat and pushed open the door, ready to go out to take care of the car, but was stopped by Calvin and asked:

"Dad, is there anything I can help with right now?"

Old George waved his hand, "You don't have to worry about family matters, I'm not completely old." ”

Calvin opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to speak.

He knew that his father was a very face-saving person.

Could it be that he said that you don't have to be so busy, your son is now a local tyrant, just talk about how much money he is?

He felt that it would irritate the old man's heart attack...

"Hey, Calvin, what is this? It's a... Car?"

George Sr. became interested in Calvin's bicycle parked in front of the door.

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