Chapter 13: The Past (1)
Nan Mingyuan was lobbying, and saw Lin Sheng suddenly lowered his head, as if he was thinking about something, so he also stopped, intending to give him some time to think quietly.
After a while, Lin Sheng seemed to think of something, slammed his right fist into the palm of his left hand, and then stood up.
Seeing this, the corners of Nan Mingyuan's mouth rose slightly: "I know you have been ......"
"My ...... As for breakfast, I said how I always felt like I had forgotten something. ”
Lin Sheng turned around and walked to the depths of the store, and it didn't take long for him to come out with a bowl of pasty food that had been slightly condensed.
"Sure enough, it's so cold that it's going to clump."
Scratching his head in some distress and chagrin, he immediately began to eat.
“……”
At this moment, the look on Nan Mingyuan's face was almost indescribable, as if he had experienced from joy to confusion, from confusion to sudden enlightenment, mixed with shame that came from not being angry.
The man in front of him didn't care, but completely disregarded the image and pulled a few mouthfuls of paste into his mouth.
"Gi continue, say death?" Even while chewing, he vaguely urged her to continue.
Nan Mingyuan looked at Lin Sheng's appearance, thought about it and said helplessly:
"I've done the math, you should have run out of potion."
"Uh-huh, so what?"
"It's been three years, and you still haven't let go."
"Is it that important to let go or something?"
"You know what...... In one year, sixteen dream events and four reality events were executed in a row, and eleven of them were saved while solving them one by one, which is still at the forefront of this record. ”
Lin Sheng didn't answer, Nan Ming wanted to watch the other party gulp the remnants of the bowl, and wanted to say something, but after a few seconds of dumb speech, he couldn't speak.
In the end, I just sighed.
Lin Sheng's decadent but indifferent appearance made her not know how to continue the following.
"Actually...... I was mentally prepared before I came here, and from what you've experienced over the years, it will definitely change a lot. ”
"And like I said before, this time, I want to come over to meet you, after all, this is probably the last time."
"So...... Almost, nothing else. ”
Nan Mingyuan said silently.
"Okay, now I'll see you off."
Lin Sheng swallowed the last bite of breakfast, casually threw the key to the door of the store to the woman, then burped, and sat down on the chair without care, ready to watch the guests leave.
There was silence for a long time.
Nan Mingyuan stood up and looked at the other party with complicated eyes:
"I thought...... You're just tired and want to take a break. ”
"I'm really tired."
"You just don't believe in the shrike anymore."
"One that chose to continue spying on my organization after I decided to wait alone for death, and to be honest, I don't know what to trust it with."
Lin Sheng, who was sitting in the chair, also looked at each other.
"The dreamer can't be adjusted, and you left with a dozen potions, you know, there are many forces that have been staring at this thing, so...... Necessary monitoring is understandable, and even protects you. ”
Nan Mingyuan said as he took out a brown paper file from his satchel and gently handed it to the other party:
"Besides, there is no very detailed content on the file, it is just a summary of your experience in the past three years and the people you have come into contact with."
Lin Sheng didn't take the file, but bent down, stretched out his hand to grope through the pile of all kinds of old furniture around him, and then took out something like a button.
"Not too detailed? This thing doesn't agree with you. ”
Throw it out gently, and after Nan Mingyuan catches it, "Do you like it?" I could give you another dozen or thirteen. ”
"It's ......"
Nan Mingyuan conducted a careful inspection and confirmed that the source of the listening device was none other than the Shrike Bird, and that it was currently working properly.
"I've roughly calculated, the working time limit is about 174 hours, which means that every week or so, my dear old boss will send someone to sneak into my residence and update all the listening equipment, never missing a single one, and the service is quite in place."
"So you know now why I'm only using those old locks to get in the way of my landlord? What can you do with some so-called high-tech security doors, if you can't stop the people who should be stopped, then it doesn't matter if it's open or not. ”
"Even at this moment, there may be a middle-aged man in the nest, who has been staying up for several days in a row in order to record my daily life, listening to our reunion after a long absence, huh...... I still hope to be a beautiful flower girl, just like you used to. ”
Lin Sheng pursed his lips and continued to lean in a posture of looking up at the sky.
"That's probably not going to happen, after all, it's not too good for someone to be as good as me...... Wait a minute, do you mean I can't do it now? ”
Nan Mingyuan suddenly found the point in his words, and because of this, he had some small emotions.
But seeing the appearance of the boy in front of her, who was no longer a boy, quietly staring at the ceiling, she gradually calmed down.
"Actually, after all these years, I have understood."
Lin Sheng smiled self-deprecatingly, and then said to himself.
"Whether it's surveillance, or the old system."
"It's not easy for natural and man-made disasters to get the world back on track, isn't it?"
"But the reason why I don't want to go back is very clear just now."
Nan Mingyuan seemed to understand, "It's because of ......"
"Xiaoqian...... It was my most important family member in the orphanage, and to be able to see her adopted by that kind couple, I ...... Really happy. ”
"I thought what I was doing was protecting her, and if I tried hard enough, hard enough, I could prevent her from suffering the same thing."
"But that's what she got into because of that."
"Maybe I'm destined to defeat people, so are my biological parents, and so is she."
"The idea of a chain infection...... It has been falsified. Nan Ming replied silently.
The initial group of members believed that the "ghosts" parasitic in the dream, while randomly infecting, had already exhibited the characteristics of a chain infection, that is, radiating the infected object to the people around the dreamer.
However, this view has been officially disproved as the sample size continues to increase.
However, Nan Mingyuan knew very well that this was one of Lin Sheng's knots.
He always believed that it was his frequent contact with Morpheus that caused his sister to suffer.