In the evening, Jessica and I talked a lot, and I was more interested in the past of her parents when they were young, in fact, I didn't really care whether her parents were really spies or adventurers, after all, everyone has the right to decide how to spend their lives, especially when I regained the chance to be reborn in this life, and I have a new understanding of fate.

If in my previous life, I would have felt that some people's life choices were strange and difficult to understand, now I will have a deeper understanding that life is only once for everyone, and instead of living in the eyes and expectations of others, it is better to accept the voice from the depths of my heart and let it decide how to go in my life.

I now also understand that there is not only one possibility for many things in this world, and there is not only one way for us to live, when everyone is faced with different choices, they can make some choices that they think are right, and there is really no need for others to interfere too much or blame their choices.

From this point of view, I understand Jessica's parents, but even so, I still feel a little pitiful for Jessica, after all, her parents have spent so little time with her since she was a child, and how many challenges she has to face alone, but I think about it, isn't this very similar to Kobe's childhood experience.

Although Kobe's father has always taken Kobe with him, because they are in a foreign country in Italy, and his father needs to constantly fly between various cities to play, so naturally Kobe Bryant's care is not enough, which indirectly contributes to Kobe's slightly withdrawn and even paranoid personality later.

Now, after being reborn as Kobe Bryant and actually playing in the NBA for more than a dozen games, I also realize that a professional basketball player's time is actually very valuable, and if he wants to maintain a high level of competition, then he must spend more time training and learning outside of the game.

Basketball is actually a very simple but actually quite complex sport, a person who only has physical talent and lacks a smart brain and good learning ability is difficult to really become a top basketball player, and this kind of learning is not limited to those things on the basketball court, you also have to learn with coaches, teammates, media, fans, and agents and so on, and finally you can put the rest of your energy into getting along with your family.

Jessica's parents didn't leave the diary they had written, in fact Jessica told me that she hadn't seen it in years, and she didn't even know when her parents had stopped recording their experiences, or if it was because Jessica had become sensible as she was older, so her parents had deliberately kept the diaries hidden, unwilling to let Jessica know more about them.

Perhaps Jessica's parents did this out of some protection for Jessica, but for Jessica herself, this did hurt her very much, and judging from the tone and expression of her voice and expression when she told me these things, she must have hidden these things in her heart for a long time, and she has never been able to find anyone to listen to her.

When I noticed that Jessica's mood was getting very low, I gave up on asking questions and tried to turn Jessica's attention to other things, such as asking her to play chess with me.

To be honest, although I thought I played chess quite well in my previous life, but at this moment I was repeatedly frustrated when facing Jessica, it needs to be explained that I have no place to let Jessica at all, but I feel that she is merciful to me, as if she can beat me more easily as long as she wants, although I have lost very badly.

At this time, I could see the completely relaxed smile on Jessica's face, which was actually full of healing power, like the rising sun, and like a warm spring breeze, making people feel comfortable and at ease.

That's one of the reasons I'm fascinated by Jessica, even though I've been with her and I've had all the weird things I've been with, but whenever I'm with her, I feel like I'm full of power, and it's an indescribable feeling that I don't have at all when I'm alone.

And since I found out that she is a fan of the Lakers, every time she comes to Staples Arena to watch me play, it can stimulate me a little bit more, so I really feel that she is my nobleman and a lovely girl who deserves my love.

It's just that occasionally I can see some fleeting sadness in her eyes, and I don't know what unspeakable past is hidden in her heart, in fact, I don't want to understand those things, and I don't want her to reopen the scars that have already healed, in fact, everyone has some scars in their hearts more or less, but some people are strong enough to face everything calmly, and some people are a little more fragile, You need the help of others to really open your heart, and what kind of person does Jessica belong to?

Towards midnight, Jessica somewhere brought out a bottle of red wine that looked old, and I couldn't tell anything from the slightly mysterious smile on her face, but when she pulled out the cork that blocked the mouth of the red wine bottle, I was drunk by the smell of the wind.

Is this the legendary wine that does not get drunk and everyone gets drunk? Well, it doesn't seem particularly right to use this sentence, I just want to say how special and intoxicating the smell of this wine is, so that you don't need to actually drink it in your mouth to feel intoxicated.

Don't think I'm exaggerating by that, I'm not exaggerating at all, of course I've never seen such a mellow red wine before, and when I actually poured the bright red wine into my throat, the fragrance wafted up my airways, and I saw a scene of lush grape fields, those plump grapes growing vigorously under the care of bright sunshine and drizzle.

"Can you tell what year it is?"

I shook my head, looking at Jessica's smile and curling the corners of my mouth.

"This wine must have an extraordinary origin, okay, then let me guess a little, this wine should not be produced in the United States, I feel that there is no place in the United States that can produce such a mellow wine, and the place that can breed this top wine should be on the Mediterranean coast of Europe, where the special Mediterranean climate is possible."

"It seems that you still know a little about wine, but you can't guess the origin of this wine, and there is even a love story in it!"

Jessica grabbed the bottle in her right hand and shook it in front of my eyes, as if waiting for me to say something.

"This wine is as red as blood, and the feeling of the mouth spreads to the whole brain, and I guess this love story is mostly a tragedy."

"Hey, I didn't expect this to make you guess, you're right, this wine feels like blood, and it's like love, sweet but also tragic, so are you willing to live this life plainly or do you want to live this life vigorously?"

My eyes were fixed on Jessica's eyes, trying to see the reason why she asked this in those beautiful eyes, but I failed, her eyes became deeper and deeper, and I admitted that it was becoming more and more difficult for me to see the deep meaning behind it, so I was silent for a moment, and deep down I couldn't help but ask such questions to myself.

Of course, I know that if it was Kobe, I would not hesitate to choose the latter, but I was a little hesitant with the experience and memories of my past life, not that I was unwilling to make my life vigorous, but that some experiences in my previous life made me hesitate, because I knew that the price behind the boom was often not small.

Seeing that I didn't speak for a long time, Jessica didn't continue to ask, but poured some of the blood-red wine from the empty glass again.

There are both good wine and beautiful women, and it stands to reason that this is a very wonderful moment, but there are so many distractions in my mind that I really can't be as determined and decisive as the real Kobe.

"Which answer do you think your parents chose?"

I don't know why I asked such a sentence without a beginning or end, but Jessica's face changed a lot after hearing me ask.

As if she had suddenly remembered something, she hurriedly placed the glass in her hand on the table, and then took my hand again to walk into the room.

I was also frightened by Jessica's sudden move, especially her eyes really changed, but I didn't ask much at the moment, just followed Jessica into a room that had been completely sealed before.

I'd seen an extra lock on the doorknob of this room, and I asked Jessica what was hidden in this room, but she was always quick to steer the conversation in other directions, not wanting me to know what the room was really for.

At this time, she took the initiative to open this room, and the key to open this room was hidden in one of her earrings, which was a thing much smaller than a small fingernail but could be used as a key.

When the door that has been closed for I don't know how long is opened, the dust on the shop surface hits us, I don't know when Jessica has an extra strong flashlight in her hand, this flashlight doesn't seem to look like a civilian flashlight, either military or some special field research organizations will use the flashlight, and I didn't think much about it, I think this flashlight should be left by Jessica's parents, after all, they will definitely use these equipment in their perennial adventures.

The light of this flashlight was so penetrating that even the thick dust that came from the sky could not block its light, and to my surprise, the back of the door was not a normal room at all, but a long staircase leading to an unknown place underground.

The beam of this flashlight can shine a considerable distance, but I can't see the end when Jessica goes down, and God knows how long this staircase leads deep underground.

I shivered for no apparent reason, and I didn't know if it was because there was a cold wind blowing from under the steps, and before I had time to think about why the wind was blowing under the steps, Jessica was already pulling me down.

Seeing Jessica's expressionless face, I felt that I must have been to this place before, and I felt a little less nervous when I thought about it, thinking that this should be the basement of Jessica's house or something.

The distance between these steps is relatively short, and my feet are much bigger than the average person, so when I go down this step, I am not as agile and brisk as Jessica, and I don't dare to walk too fast, God knows if there will be some clutter hidden in some places on these steps, if I trip here, I don't know how long it will take to roll down to the end, I don't want to be reimbursed for a season off the basketball court!

When we walked a certain distance, a small light would automatically turn on on both sides of the passage in front of us, and the light behind us would go out, probably because there was a sensor switch on the steps under our feet.

Actually, the stairs are not as long as I expected, but we probably estimated that we should have gone down to the area five meters below Jessica's previous house, and I don't know why someone would build the basement so deep, which would cost a lot of manpower and material resources!

"Jessica, what is this place?"

I looked around at everything around me, and felt that the underground room was a little huge and a little crowded, and all kinds of things I had never seen before were neatly placed on various high and low shelves, if it was just a first glance, it would seem like nothing, but if I really got closer and looked at it one by one, I would find that the things on these shelves have some origins!

"These are the things that have been handed down from my ancestors, and there are so many of them that each one will be specially numbered, and the origin and story of each of them will be high-fived and recorded in a very large booklet."

"So your ancestors have always been adventurers, collecting all kinds of precious artifacts all over the world?"

"You can say that, but you can't say it completely, because in fact, there were no real explorers in our family for nearly a hundred years before my parents' generation, and my parents can't really be called explorers, they don't act in the same way as their ancestors!"

I'm not surprised by the differences in Jessica's mouth, after all, the history of the United States is only two or three hundred years in total, and the era in which her ancestors lived should have been relatively chaotic, when the world colonial rule was still prevalent, and the so-called explorers were in a sense a kind of foreign invaders, and the cultural relics they collected naturally could not be obtained through normal channels, so behind these precious cultural relics often hide unknown bloody pasts.

However, I don't care what Jessica has done on my ancestors, I just want to know why Jessica brought me here at this time.

"Have you thought of anything? Why did you bring me here? ”

"Don't worry, you'll understand when the time comes, and now I want to explain to you why you may not be able to understand the real reason."

"You can try it, please don't underestimate my IQ so much!"

"It's not a matter of IQ or not, but, well, since you want to know so much, I'll tell you something relatively simple and easy to understand first."

"Listen up."

"I saw my parents for the last time six months ago, and I haven't heard anything about them since, and they used to send letters or small things to their family at least every one to two months, no matter how long they were gone, to prove that they were still alive and well outside."

"But then they stopped sending you letters, didn't they?"

"That's right, I had a bad premonition before they left, desperately trying to keep them, and even threatened them by slitting their wrists and committing suicide."

Jessica took off the jade bracelet she was wearing on her left wrist, and I could see very clearly that there was a long scar on her wrist, no wonder she kept wearing this bracelet, it was to cover the traces of suicide!

"Oh my God, you did it all, but they still left you ruthlessly, why do you have such terrible parents."

"Actually, maybe these are not the ones they can choose, I didn't understand until they left me the key to this room before they left, I have come down alone a few times before, and here I find not answers, but more and more secrets and questions."

"I think so, anyone who sees so many things with countless historical precipitation will deeply feel the weight of history."

"Have you ever heard of bloodstains?"

Jessica suddenly said something inexplicable, and I looked at her with wide eyes.

"Forget it, I'm a bit of an idiot to ask, how can you know, it's something that shouldn't exist in this world!"

"What are you talking about! Jessica, Jessica! ”

"Don't worry, I'm in a clear mind now, more sober than ever."