Chapter 9: Peter Pan

After helping "Winter" sign it, Russell went with the inferior to hand over the signed extension to Peter Pan.

As the saying goes, there may be a wrong name, but there is no wrong code.

The head of the reengineering agency, codenamed "Peter Pan", looks even younger than Russell.

His limbs were unusually slender, even to the point of being morbid.

And between his elbows and ribs, a flying film grows—a feature alone that allows Russell to judge the other's spiritual relatives.

It must have been some kind of animal of the Flying Squirrel Clan.

Another name for flying squirrel is flying squirrel. It's a small creature that glides and flies through the forest and looks like a squirrel.

"Put the file there and I'll read it."

Peter Pan wore a gaming goggle that looked like an eye protector, lay on his back in a massage chair, and said casually, "And then, Shabi?

"Is there anything else you'd like to say?"

"I have to take two original copies of the chip and give it to me."

The inferior looked at the documents on Peter Pan's desk without changing his face, and said unceremoniously: "I want the original chip of 'Blind Snake' and 'Winter'...... Well, the kind that can be copied fifty times will do. ”

"Fifty times?"

Peter Pan ripped off the blindfold: "You're thinking about fart, the original that can be copied fifty times has been scheduled for next year!"

"I mean, you haven't been back for over a year - is there anything you want to quibble?"

That moment.

Russell clearly felt a strong sense of crisis.

It's as if the space around you is distorted......

It's like getting drunk and standing up straight and looking around. It was as if every space was bulging inward and then expanding outward, and the whole world seemed to be crashed into a transparent balloon of water. An inexplicable feeling of dizziness made Russell subconsciously stretch his hand into his arms.

The inferior suddenly reached out and put his hand on Russell's shoulder, signaling him to calm down.

But he said merciless words: "Because the existing chips have not been used up, and there are no new chips that need to be applied, of course I don't need to come back."

"You don't think I have to stay here with you, do you?"

“…… Isn't it possible? ”

Peter Pan, who was originally fierce, suddenly had red circles in his eyes and cried directly: "I want you to stay here and play with me......"

As he cried, the distortion of space dissipated.

Russell suddenly felt a strange feeling of psychological discomfort.

You know, as early as when the inferior was only six or seven years old, Peter Pan was the head of the reinvention agency. At that time, he could not have been a minor.

By now, exactly twenty years have passed...... But Peter Pan still lives here.

Although he looked like he was only eight or nine years old, he looked like a skinny boy in the second or third grade of elementary school—the age that even a dog would hate.

But his real age should be at least thirty or forty years old.

Strange to say, he looks like a mentor in his early twenties, and his real age is 600 years old, but Russell doesn't feel anything; But Peter Pan, who was only seven or eight years old on the outside, was only thirty or forty years old, and he was not even a fraction of Sally Ruth's, and Russell felt a little uncomfortable......

And the inferior ones are not moved by this.

He just reiterated coldly: "Take two original copies of the chip and give me a review." If you don't have fifty times, you can do it ten times. This is what I have received from the Board of Directors to carry out your orders. If you want me to stay here, go to the board and submit a request. ”

In the end, Peter Pan opened the drawer with a pouted mouth and a stinky face, and handed over the original chip that had been prepared before to the inferior one.

Russell still wanted to stabilize the other party, but before he could speak, he was violently pulled by the inferior man's arm.

So Russell immediately understood that he would shut his mouth and leave with him.

It wasn't until they had left the Reinvention Mechanism that the inferior said, "Don't get involved with Peter Pan." ”

"He's a madman?"

Russell guessed probably.

The inferior added: "To be exact, a mentally ill person.

"Tricky, he's also a psyker...... His psionic powers are about time. That's why he will never grow up and never grow old. ”

"Is the time system psionic ......?"

Russell frowned: "But why is he here?" ”

- Peter Pan has been in the Reinvention Agency for twenty years, maybe more.

In a sense, Peter Pan himself was a prisoner held here.

The only difference is that the demon will eventually die, but he will always live here...... If Peter Pan's psionic powers could really make him immortal, I'm afraid this sentence would be "forever".

"Because he too is a sinner."

The inferior replied, "A serial murderer who killed more than a dozen children." ”

“…… What? ”

"Have you ever heard Peter Pan's fairy tales?"

"Ah...... Will Peter Pan never grow up? ”

Russell's expression became a little subtle.

He had roughly heard of this fairy tale.

He was in another world and even watched a film adaptation of this fairy tale.

There are the same fairy tales in this world...... Just slightly different in details.

In other words, the story of "Peter Pan" is closer to the original novel.

"What version of the story did you hear?"

The inferior asked rhetorically.

Russell thought for a moment: "That's what my mother told me when I was a child.

"Roughly speaking, it is the story of a giant flying baby who will never grow up and tricks other people's children into adventuring on the 'never-ending island'. It's fighting with fierce beasts again, and it's forming an air thief group to rob homes and houses, and in the end they take the treasure of a big thief, and defeat a robot that looks like a big thief. ”

"Then I'm going to tell you, it's not actually a fairy tale. It's a true story. ”

The inferior said, and got into the floating car parked outside.

He patted the seat next to him and motioned for Russell to sit in the front row. This way he can easily tell the story without having to look back.

…… Speaking of which, has the relationship between them become less cold?

Russell thought so and sat in the co-pilot's seat.

"Have you ever wondered about the characters in this fairy tale...... Why is it called Peter Pan? ”

"Why?"

"Because that's his name."

The inferior replied, "It's not a code name, it's Peter Pan." ”

Later, he told another version of the story:

Peter Pan was a best-selling author. He was the last user of the first chips, and it was only after his birth that the second chips became available.

Throughout his life, he wrote many fairy tales for children, which have been passed down to modern times. But people don't even know who the author is.

"Until one day, he ran out of inspiration."

"He's got a movie?"

"Not really."

The inferior unexpectedly knew what the word meant.

But he denied: "He received a letter...... It may be hard to imagine that there were paper letters in those days.

It was a letter from a young reader to him. It was written with sharp criticism in childish strokes, claiming that the children in one of his highly rated fairy tales at the time were "not like children at all", but "adults in children's skins". Of course, we later learned that this was a conspiracy played by peers who were jealous of his talents. The purpose was to influence his creative status, so that he would not have time to participate in a very important cross-island selection of fairy tale awards at that time.

But Peter Pan didn't know about it. He really thought he was writing badly.

So he began to think hard about how a child should think. In the process, he received five or six letters of criticism in different handwritings, all in the voice of a child, against his previous book. That award is called the 'Childish Heart Award', and it is the highest level fairy tale award on Happiness Island.

He began to wonder if there was a disagreement between the judges as adults and the readers as children on the aesthetics of fairy tales. His excitement after winning the award darkened. He was not married, so he had no real children...... Therefore he cannot get a real 'child's evaluation'.

So he tried to imitate the child's behavior, imitate the child's tone of voice and speak to others. And people saw him as crazy...... Soon, he really went crazy. ”

"So, he became a demon?"

"No, he just awakened the psychic energy—the psychic energy that returned himself, along with his mind, to the spiritual energy of childhood."