Chapter 230: Stars!
Silence is tonight's Cambridge...
Mann's sudden onset of illness caught everyone present by surprise, and also made the more harmonious and joyful atmosphere become dull and dull.
After that, even though Jack tried to save the pleasant atmosphere of the chat as much as possible, it didn't help in the end.
It's like a broken mirror, so no matter how much you try to fix it, you won't be able to return to its original appearance, and the cracks will remain around everyone, hindering the harmony of the chat atmosphere.
Although the sudden appearance of signs on Mann's body does not affect the friendship of everyone.
But after such a trouble, the atmosphere in which everyone got along with each other undoubtedly became a little stagnant.
In the end, it was Mann who followed his teammate Dorio out of the booth with a straight face, citing that he still had something to do.
He also seems to understand that staying here will only affect the communication of the rest of the people, just like the students and children are in the same room, but they insist on an adult, then as long as the adults are still there, these students and children will not be able to talk freely.
Mann is not a parent, but he is already a "sick number" in the eyes of everyone, and after thinking about it for a long time, he finally decides not to disturb everyone.
After Mann left, Rebecca, Lin Mo, and Jack were left in the booth.
Glancing at Lin Mo, who was still silent, and the girl sitting next to him, Jack touched his nose and was about to get up and leave in a playful manner, but he reluctantly found that the corners of his clothes were tight.
Looking back, I saw that Lin Mo stretched out a hand at some point and grabbed the corner of his clothes.
However, the young man's face was not facing him, and he was still talking to Rebecca, with a modest and gentle look on his face, and it seemed that the two of them were chatting quite happily.
But the strong pull from the corner of the clothes is a very obvious expression of the young man's wishes.
In an instant, without any communication, Jack suddenly understood what Lin Mo wanted to express.
Obviously, this kid didn't want to stay here alone to deal with this girl, and wanted him to stay here as a shield.
I'm really convinced by this kid... Jack sighed, but chose to stay, and then poured wine on the empty cups of the three people present, and said in a deep tone:
"It seems that only the three of us are left here now."
Rebecca's big eyes rolled, and finally settled on Jack's body, and whispered:
"If you want to drink alone, uncle, you can actually go out alone, we won't mind..."
"Forget it, Xiao Nizi, if I'm not here, then if Lin Mo vomits, there will be no one to wipe his buttocks, come, let us drink this kid down!" Jack couldn't help but cheer up, and the words just catered to Rebecca's heart.
Sure enough, as soon as this sentence came out, Rebecca quickly let go of her concern for Jack, regarded him as a member of her own group, and dragged him to persuade Lin Mo to drink.
Lin Mo couldn't help but admire Jack's emotional intelligence, and with a simple sentence, he instantly narrowed the distance between himself and Rebecca and eliminated the hostility of the other party.
......
After half of the wine, the faces of the three were a little drunk.
But Lin Mo was consciously okay, and his consciousness was still lucid.
Since implanting the Centius Anwestein Type 4 and unlocking the effect of "Infinite Time Slowdown", he has discovered one of the great uses of this prosthesis in his daily use.
That is, when you drink on weekdays, once you feel a little drunk, then in the process of subsequent drinking, as long as you turn on Sianweistein from time to time, under the stimulation of the prosthesis, the speed of physical movements will be accelerated.
In this way, the body's metabolic ability will also be greatly enhanced, and the speed of digesting alcohol will also become faster!
In a sense, he will not pour a thousand cups!
Wanted to get drunk and tease me, the door didn't have ... Lin Mo watched Rebecca holding the empty wine bottle, shaking her body a little drunk, and her heart was filled with an inexplicable desire to win.
Shibei should be impressed for three days, little girl, this time it's time for me to dominate the battlefield.
"Here, Rebecca, and drink a little more." With a demonic smile on his face, Lin Mo continued to fill his wine glass, first dry as respect, and drank it all in one gulp.
Rebecca opened her hazy eyes, looking at Lin Mo's mental appearance, her brain, which was almost about to stop, couldn't turn around, and asked in a daze:
"Why aren't you drunk?"
"Because I've been training for a long time to drink with you." Lin Mo explained casually.
Rebecca's cheeks were slightly red, and she seemed to be a little dissatisfied, her eyes staring at Lin Mo's face.
In the end, the empty wine bottle in her arms fell to the floor with a clatter, and the whole person fell forward.
"Can't you just let me order...", she whispered in a low voice, like whispering in a dream, struggling in Lin Mo's arms, as if she wanted to get up.
Lin Mo's eyes froze, and a scene that had happened suddenly appeared in his mind, which seemed to match the current scene very well.
Immediately, he no longer hesitated, and turned on Sianweistan on the spot, turning thirty-two times in one second, and successfully shaking the girl in his arms unconscious.
Seeing that Rebecca had completely fallen asleep, Lin Mo also breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly said that this trick was really good.
Then, he picked up the girl and gently placed her on the vacant sofa on the other side, so that she could rest on her own.
Then Lin Mo looked at Jack, who was still a little drunk, who was sitting on the side, approached and patted the other party's shoulder, suddenly waking the other party up.
"Damn, when did you kid drink like this... It's all so good that you can drink it! The first thing Jack said when he came to his senses was a surprised complaint.
Lin Mo didn't reply, and sat back in his place silently.
"Eh, you still drank this little girl, awesome!" Jack looked at the girl in the double ponytail sleeping on the side of the couch and admired it sincerely.
Lin Mo didn't take this stubble, his face returned to calm, and he said suddenly:
"Don't talk about that yet, what do you think about Mann's situation."
Jack shook his arm, leaned around, and whispered:
"What else can you see... To put it mildly, the Mann brothers are now one foot in the ranks of cyber maniacs. ”
"That's right, so as friends, we can't just watch him step into that abyss." Lin Mo nodded, his tone calm.
Mann glanced at Lin Mo in surprise, and had some conjectures in his heart:
"You want to give him to Regina?"
Regarding the cooperation between Lin Mo and Regina, he also knows some details, but not much.
All he knew was that the middleman, Regina, seemed to be working on a study to cure cybermaniacs.
"Yes, I have that idea, but I'm guessing there's no way Mann will agree to it, and if things get to the point where he's completely insane, it'll be too late." Lin Mo said.
Jack bowed, thought for a moment and asked, "What do you want to do?" ”
"I want to leave this matter to you, to be honest, Brother Jack, I'm not good at intervening in this matter, after all, no matter how mature I become, but I still look like a young man, you are the same age as Mann, I need you to enlighten him." Lin Mo explained:
"In addition, I will give you a pillow later, and I hope you will help me hand it over to him."
"That's fine, but what are the pillows you said later?" Jack froze.
Lin Mo didn't answer immediately, but picked up the wine glass, shook the wine in the glass, and said suddenly:
"If I want to explain it to you clearly, the process will be relatively long, you just think that this thing is a magic weapon that has been opened by a high monk, and it can calm people's moods, which is good for Mann's condition."
Hearing this explanation, Jack instantly "suddenly realized", with a look of me understanding everything.
He understood:
"Oh, I see, it's the same thing as those bald donkey's beads and Buddha statues! It turns out that these things still have this effect, no wonder Misty's shop keeps keeping these things, no, I have to go to her store and get a few when I have the chance. ”
You know the... The corners of Lin Mo's mouth twitched slightly, but he didn't explain.
"In addition to this matter, there is another thing that I need you to go back and talk to Lady Gloria, and ask her to help purchase a few Beamon heavy trucks, security robots and other restricted items, and if possible, buy more heavy firepower weapons, which we may need in the future." Lin Mo said.
Jack's face changed slightly, and he looked at Lin Mo solemnly.
Even if Lin Mo didn't explain in detail, he could still hear the strong smell of gunpowder from the other party's mouth, a sign of imminent war.
Thinking of Lin Mo's conversation with Rogge just now, Jack felt as if he had vaguely grasped the truth.
"Are you really ready?" He asked in a deep voice.
There was a long silence that answered him, and Lin Mo turned the wine glass in his hand, his eyes deep and seemed to be in thought.
Eventually, he put the cup back on the table, as if throwing a chess piece, and when the dust settled, he murmured in a low voice like reciting a psalm:
"Jack, if you go up to the top of the building and look up at the stars at night, will you be able to see those twinkling stars?"
"I can see some once in a while, but if I go to the top of the building, I won't look at the stars... Just look at the city. Jack replied.
"Then you should know the nature of these stars."
"I don't understand." Jack replied honestly.
Lin Mo glanced at him helplessly, sighed, and inexplicably felt like a cow playing the piano in his heart, full of despair for illiteracy.
"Every star in the sky, in essence, is mostly a star, and they have the same sun-like light as the sun..."
"It's just that the light they emit must go through hundreds or thousands of years to reach the earth and be captured by our naked eyes, so they are the same 'sun', but the light of the stars is destined to be slim, because the light they convey is wandering most of the time."
"So, the night sky is still dark, but there's no denying that every star is the sun."
Jack listened quietly, and only after a long pause in Lin Mo's words, he asked:
"You want to be a star?"
Lin Mo smiled, glanced at Jack meaningfully, and finally shook his head.
"The stars are so small, even if they have the light of the sun... But the night, after all, is the opening ceremony before the arrival of daylight. ”
"One thing we have to admit is that the stars in the sky, when we see these lights, they may have been destroyed thousands of years ago, but their lights are still on their way to their destination until they are seen by us."
"It's not like our predecessors, the legend you often talk about, it's these stars, hanging in the night sky, even if they are still shining, but maybe they have long been extinct."
Jack sighed, hearing this, he could somewhat understand Lin Mo's riddle.
"I don't like that, as I said, death is only the last glory." He stared at Lin Mo's eyes and said seriously.
"I like that." Lin Mo stared into his eyes and smiled.