Chapter 17: Father
But if it is said to be a kidnapping, Shen Ran has not been harmed by his personal safety.
There was also no financial loss at home.
Xu Guangyuan was also skeptical about this, so at that time, he repeatedly confirmed to Shen Ran whether it was possible that he took more than a dose of sleeping pills when he was sleeping at home, causing him to fall asleep for more than a day.
During this time, he may be sleepwalking without realizing it.
Shen Ran couldn't deny this possibility, and it sounded more reasonable.
Before Shen Ran entered the research institute, his sleep quality was not very good, and he would suffer from insomnia from time to time. When he couldn't sleep, he would take a small dose of sleeping pills.
Xu Guangyuan knew about his situation, thinking that it was too much pressure brought to him by experimental research, and from that time on, he began to pay attention to Shen Ran, talking to him from time to time, reminding him not to overtake medicine.
So Shen Ran knew in his heart that he hadn't overdosed at home in those days. Sleeping pills also do not have this hallucinogenic effect.
He wanted to go to the police station to report the crime, but in this case, it was difficult for even his friends to be convinced, let alone the strict police.
The most important thing is that his personal and property safety has not been damaged, at most there are individual cases, and he may be advised to see a psychiatrist.
They once asked the community security guard to try to get monitoring, but at that time, Shen Ran's rented place was not particular, and the security monitoring facilities were not perfect, but there was a surveillance camera at the entrance of the community.
After checking by the staff, there were no suspicious people entering and leaving and committing crimes in those days.
Xu Guangyuan suggested that Shen Ran move out of the single room he was renting now and go to a better place.
With Shen Ran's position in the research institute, he can fully support his relatively comfortable life in Shen City, but it was the house he rented when he was studying, and he never thought about changing it.
Coupled with the failure of the experiment at that time, Shen Ran received a compensation of nearly one million. The cost was that he could not publicize anything unfavorable to the experiment.
Shen Ran agreed to the agreement. He knew that the root cause of the failure was not in the experiment itself, but a small probability event, which could be avoided and screened from the norms of experimental procedures and candidates.
Since then, his modest living has only begun to improve.
Shen Ran listened to Xu Guangyuan's suggestion and moved to the Xinning community where he is now, Shen Ran values the security monitoring here, Xu Guangyuan thinks more about it seems that this place is close to the research institute, and it is also close to where he lives, so it will be more convenient to move around in the future.
At this point, the matter of him being "disappeared and kidnapped" was stopped.
So Xu Guangyuan didn't expect that Shen Ran was still thinking about this in his heart.
In fact, the reason why Shen Ran still thinks about this is not only because he is worried about safety, but more importantly, he feels that he saw his father in those days when he may have been kidnapped.
So the truth of this matter suddenly becomes important.
If this incident is false, and he just had a dream, then there is no way to talk about seeing his father, and he can only say that he dreamed of his father.
However, if this is true, there is a real possibility that he will meet him.
Shen Ran remembered very well that this was the first time he had seen his father since he disappeared at the age of thirteen.
It's too important for him.
Therefore, even if there is a hint of real possibility, he will not let it go easily.
The real missing person was his father.
He didn't tell Xu Guangyuan about this, he didn't tell anyone.
When he was a child, his family was not wealthy, but with his father by his side, his childhood was happy and carefree.
Later, my father frequently went out to work far away to earn money, and the family's conditions improved, but the opportunity to see my father became less and less.
At this time, the relationship between father and mother also appeared incompatible.
I thought that my parents' feelings would slowly wear out like this, but I didn't expect that when I was thirteen years old, my father didn't return home at the appointed time.
At first, his mother didn't care, but after a while, his father still didn't hear from him, and the family couldn't contact him.
That's when my mother called the police.
However, the police had no clue for a while, but they only knew that my father had gone to the coastal area to make a living, first doing simple retail business, and later came into contact with different livelihoods.
The last clue that he was contacted was that he and one of his business partners said that he was going to close the small shop he was opening and do something else, and that he was never seen again.
Shen Ran didn't believe that his father would suddenly leave him without saying goodbye.
He thought something must have happened to his father. But for several years, there has been no news of my father's reappearance or death.
So there must be hope for my father to live.
In his heart, his father is alive. It's just that he lives in a place he doesn't know, and at this point, his thoughts about his father have become searching.
When he was a child, although his family was poor, his father always spent the most time with Shen Ran. The happiest childhood he can remember was spent with his father.
My mother often complained about my father's income on Weibo.
After his father's disappearance, his mother continued to complain to him.
Soon after, my mother brought home an uncle she had known before.
After living like this for a while, his mother took him and followed the uncle out of his original place of residence, that is, Shencheng.
For several years, he had been eager to get rid of the days of living with them, and when he was a little older, he returned to Shencheng in the name of taking the entrance examination.
He didn't want to reminisce too much about these turbulent pasts, and he never talked about them with anyone.
Over the years, he has also run along the coast several times, but it has been so long that it is difficult for him to find clues on his own.
My father used to praise him for talking to animals as a child, and he could hypnotize them.
He hopes that Shen Ran will study hard and become a scientist in the future. Like all elders who love their children, his father has very high expectations for Shen Ran's future.
Later, Shen Ran was indeed very diligent in his studies, in addition to his mother giving him basic tuition and living expenses, Shen Ran also had to do odd jobs and subsidize some of them.
Although Shen Ran's profession is not yet a scientist, it is very close to his father's expectations.
Thinking about it later, my father said that he could hypnotize small animals, which really had something to do with his profession, but his hypnotics, all of them were living people, not small animals.
As for how he could hypnotize the critters, he had always thought it was his father's exaggerated joke, but since that experimental accident, he began to suspect that the jokes he had as a child might be true.
His physique and talent are indeed different from others, and he can't remember how he did it.
Seeing his father again this time, it was difficult for him to give up this clue again.
Even if it's just a clue that appears in a dream.
Judging from his recent repeated dreams and the confession provided by Sun Hui, there is still a strong correlation between the two.
The first is that I dreamed of a very long hallway. The hallway was dimly lit, and it was hard to see the road ahead, and there was no one else. Wet and sticky water stains oozed from the ground, and the touch was real. He walked dazedly forward until he saw a door.
After a moment's hesitation, he began to turn around and run in the opposite direction, almost instinctively feeling that there was danger in it.
Sun Hui's account is that she dreamed of a dark room.
The location is different, but what they have in common with Shen Ran's dream is darkness, and I don't know if it will be in the same environment without a light source.
But Sun Hui also said that it was her dream, not that she had been to that place.
Shen Ran did not discourage the idea of finding clues because of this.
On the contrary, Shen Ran felt that Sun Hui's feelings were very similar to his own experience.
They all suddenly don't remember where they went or what they did for a while, and then they start dreaming like memories.
Sun Hui's reaction confirmed his suspicions.
Either they've all been to a certain place before, or they've all had similar weird dreams.
Either way, it's abnormal.
Sun Hui said that she saw Shen Ran in the black room.
This was not what he expected.
In his dreams, this part did not appear. If these were not dreams, but real, then he had no memory of what he had done in a dark room.
She said she happened to see herself. And Shen Ran has no memory of her.
This made Shen Ran's speculation hit a bottleneck.
In his dream, except for the corridor, there was only one person.
That man was his father.
Another fragment of his dream, also in a dark room, was a light shining directly overhead.
He saw a man in the light.
This man was none other than his father.
That kind of father made him feel familiar and a little strange at the same time.
In the end, which part of his and Sun Hui's dream is likely to be true?
Shen Ran thought about it. Didn't notice that I was still holding my phone in my hand and didn't hang up.
"If it's because of that, you don't have to work so hard. I can help you look it up. I also know people at the police station......"
Shen Ran didn't respond to his words.
"You've decided, haven't you?" Xu Guangyuan asked.
"Hmm." Shen Ran has always had few words, but he has an idea, and the things he decides will not be easily changed by others.
Xu Guangyuan felt that Shen Ran was a little overly concerned about this matter, but after all, it was Shen Ran's own business, and he couldn't interfere too much.
"Okay, anyway, I'm leading this collaboration project as well, and I'll join it as soon as possible. Also, I'm looking for someone to help you look into this matter. ”
He felt as if Shen Ran had wrapped a layer of ice around his body, and it was difficult to close the distance, and he could only approach him in the name of work.
"Good. Thank you. Shen Ran had no objections, as polite and grateful as ever.
They didn't have much else to talk about, so they just talked a few words and hung up.
Shen Ran knew that Xu Guangyuan was probably because of the experimental accident, and he always felt a little guilty about himself, after all, he was also one of the candidates for the experiment at the beginning, but in the end, Shen Ran went without hesitation. Now that something has happened, he may also have some regrets because of his colleague feelings, and he didn't go for himself, so he has some compensation psychology.
He himself never thought that this matter had anything to do with Xu Guangyuan, so he was very grateful for Xu Guangyuan's concern for him.
In addition, he and Xu Guangyuan also maintained the social distance he had always demarcated, but the frequency of meeting and communicating with him was relatively more.
He also thought that he should find a time to talk to Xu Guangyuan, he thought that Xu Guangyuan didn't need to take special care of him, and he didn't need to have a psychological burden.
Before falling asleep, Shen Ran lay on the bed, remembering that he had told Lu Cheng two days ago that he wanted him to do him a favor.
"I want to join you, I'm going to be the new advisor."
Lu Cheng looked at him, "Okay." "Say yes.
Shen Ran thought that Lu Cheng would ask him about his purpose, at least like Xu Guangyuan, and ask him what he wanted to do.
I didn't expect him to agree so simply.
"Are you ......," he asked rhetorically.
"If you come to ask me for help, then you must be accepting to work under me, at least directly with me. I can see what you've done. As long as you think this can help you, I don't think it's okay, we are a win-win situation, and I have to thank you. ”
Lu Cheng's mind was clear.
He knew what the bottom line of this matter was, and he also made a statement with Shen Ran in advance, that is, he could not go out of line under his hands.
For the rest, he let Shen Ran do it.
Shen Ran didn't say it, he didn't ask.
Speaking of which, Lu Cheng should know him less than Xu Guangyuan.
Except for a brief contact during this time, he was almost a stranger to Lu Cheng.
But every time Lu Cheng appeared, it was always a little unexpected for him, but it didn't make him feel uncomfortable.
Why?
Shen Ran thought for a moment.
Probably, the Marines are such a person with high emotional intelligence.