Chapter 31: The Hidden One (Part II)
Jumping down from the secret passage, Xie Junping looked up and saw that the mimic film perfectly blocked his vision, and it looked like a whole alloy steel plate.
Who would have thought that there was a short, narrow secret passage that led to the strange tree hole space?
Ronan didn't say a word, and returned silently, Xie Junping glanced at the surveillance screen again, hurried two steps, and walked side by side with him. But soon, he regretted his decision.
At this time, all system modules of the laboratory have resumed normal operation, and when they go back, they are no longer blinded by black lights, and the dark purple light shines under the special black light inside the glass curtain wall, making this water area dreamlike.
But the long road is simply torture for Xie Junping.
Ronan next to him is not in a normal mental state......
Along the way, Ronan continued the depressed and bipolar state in the tree hole, always circling in the circle of self-thinking. Sometimes he stopped coldly, turned his head to look at the corridor behind him, and the darkening waters next to him, in a daze for a long time, every moment, the blood red in his eyes was bright and dripping, making it difficult to look directly, and even a few times, Xie Junping heard the low sound of his teeth clenching.
Just a few minutes passed by stopping and stopping, Xie Junping became more and more confirmed:
Ronan is going crazy!
He had no doubt that if someone dared to say, "Lao Tzu is the one who lives in the hollow of the tree," Ronan would immediately pounce on him, bite the man's throat, and then roar and ask:
Damn what are you doing there!
What do you think...... If it goes on like this, Xie Junping feels like he's going crazy!
Something must be done.
Xie Junping racked his brains to recall some communication courses he had taken, weaved language, and hesitated for a long time before he spoke:
"Uh, junior brother, do you know very little about Auntie?"
Ronan was obviously stunned, the circle of self was broken, and this power came from the nostalgia for his mother. This wonderful emotion is like a surging river washing over my heart, slightly painful, but not bad.
After a long time, Ronan nodded: "Yes, very little." ”
There's a door!
Xie Junping was overjoyed in his heart, and he hurriedly made persistent efforts: "Auntie's side has no relatives?" ”
Ronan went on to respond: "My mom was a war orphan and grew up in a welfare home. ”
Xie Junping almost didn't choke, but calculating the time, Bu Qingwen was indeed born before World War III, and there were many such situations in that generation.
Anyway, the conversation finally began.
"Is it locally? If you want to collect more information, I still have some energy in Xia City. "Xie Junping is a big bag again, and the effect is actually not bad.
Ronan bowed to him: "Thank you, senior." ”
Not again! It feels like Ronan is like a man from the last century, or acting exactly according to the patterns in the books...... Well, maybe that's it. It's just that a cold face matches the action mode very well, giving people the illusion of relative maturity.
As soon as he thought of this, Xie Junping was more confident in this exchange, and he waved his hand: "Actually, I admire my aunt very much." Being able to design the 'gear' single-handedly, more than 20 years have passed, and it still makes people fight for their heads, and I think it is the masterpiece of some master. ”
"It's the first time I've ever known."
"So, what did you know before, Brother Nan? The family didn't mention your aunt to you at all? ”
“……”
The sudden silence made Xie Junping almost think that he was self-defeating, but in the end, Ronan still opened his mouth:
"Mom died before I was born......"
"You said that."
Uh, wait, why does that sound weird?
Without waiting for Xie Junping to figure it out, he heard Luo Nan say again: "Mom and him, we met in Zhixing Academy, and we went to the wilderness together to meet grandpa." At the time, my aunt had a bad relationship with them and knew very little. ”
There are some inversions in the words, and there are more subtle references, Xie Junping finally understood it in combination with the information he had collected before.
Presumably, Ronan's parents met and fell in love while studying at Zhixing Academy, and later went to the wilderness together to assist Ronan's grandfather in his research. At that time, Ronan's current guardian, that is, his aunt, did not have a good relationship with the family and did not know much about the situation. With his grandfather going crazy and his father missing, it was naturally difficult for Ronan to get information about his mother.
As he spoke, Ronan subconsciously stretched out his hand, his fingertips touched the glass curtain wall, and made a dull friction sound: "Since I was a child, I only knew one thing about my mother: he died before I was born." ”
With this sentence again, the strange feeling resurfaced.
Xie Junping pondered back and forth twice, and finally woke up to what went wrong:
How did you give birth to a child who has died?
Well, I heard that in the old days when medical conditions were relatively backward, there were cases of unfortunate dystocia, and the mother was exhausted, but she was able to keep the child.
Ronan is probably like that?
Xie Junping thought that he had figured out the trick and was about to continue the topic, but he saw Ronan take out the highlighter from the black notebook and draw an oval cabinet on the glass curtain wall, with a slender figure sitting next to him.
The lines of the picture are extremely simple, but the content to be expressed is very straightforward and clear.
"This is my mother'......"
Ronan's voice was surprisingly soft: "I haven't seen her with my own eyes, but I've heard that this is how she gave birth to me." ”
"Huh?" Xie Junping was a little confused.
"Supposedly, it was June '80 and I was 7 months old...... In mom's belly. When something went wrong at the base and my mother was seriously injured, she sealed off the lab and used the only nutrition pod inside to save me. Look, I'm here. ”
Ronan drew a small circle in the ellipse, in the middle of the nutrition pod.
Xie Junping opened his mouth, but he couldn't make any sound. In fact, he originally wanted to ask how to put the fetus in the nutrition cabin in the womb, but when the words came to his mouth, he suddenly understood the tragic process, and he was stunned all of a sudden.
Ronan pressed the edge of the silhouette lightly, still in a tone that was so soft that it was frightening: "I can't see her, but she's always there...... This is my mother. ”
Xie Junping looked at the fluorescent lines stupidly, and didn't know how to respond for a while.
Ronan walked forward, changed the area, and drew a few more lines, using the light pattern of the black light to form a depressing shadow. At the front of the shadow is a prison-like fence structure, in which a person sits at the top and next to another small figure.
"Three years later, my grandfather was prosecuted, imprisoned, and went crazy, the laboratory was gone, the experimental materials were gone, and the research results were gone...... At this time, someone is gone. ”
Ronan smiled strangely at Xie Junping: "He should be there, but he is not there...... This is my father. ”
At this point, they just walked to the beginning of the underwater promenade. Ronan put away his highlighter and bowed to Xie Junping again:
"I just said some boring things, and it's hard for seniors."
Obviously, Ronan understood Xie Junping's thoughts. On the other hand, Xie Junping finally got a glimpse of Ronan's tortuous and depressed inner world, and Ronan's mood was obviously much calmer, which can be regarded as a credit!
Xie Junping sighed secretly, and was about to respond, when a voice came from not far away, seven or eight people crowded into the rest area outside the underwater corridor, and some people greeted Xie Junping:
"Brother Ping, we're here."