Su Lin took the envelope and took out the letter paper from it, only to see that the neat handwriting on it read:

"Hello Suning parents:

"I am Xiao Chenying, the director of the Moral Education Department, and the school feels obliged to inform parents about Suning's recent performance in school. In view of the repeated inability to call your phone, the school can only communicate in writing. If you have some time to spare, I hope you can come to Minglong Junior High School at 3pm this Thursday to discuss your child's performance at school.

Moral Education Office of Minglong Junior High School

September 27, 2023"

Is it almost October? After all this time, he remembered that when he entered the closed-loop world, it was just a summer vacation.

I suddenly disappeared for so long, my father and sister must be very worried, I don't know what happened during this period, my father, who has always been paralyzed in bed, miraculously supported himself and his sister in the days when his mother left with money that he didn't know where to get.

It's just that after he came back, his father went somewhere. In other words, who took his father away, he had a faint bad premonition.

He walked into his father's room, picked up his father's shabby clothes, closed his eyes, and tried to turn the star track, but the world of the sea of knowledge seemed to be intervened by an invisible force, without the slightest wave or any hint.

Su Lin tried to operate and communicate with the Star Ancient Tree in the Lower Knowing Sea World, making sure that even in different worlds, his spiritual power could still work.

However, among the abilities of the "astrologer", all scenes related to family members cannot be divined, while other events related to oneself can be divined.

This is the result of many attempts by Surin, such as the pen in his room, he divined the scene after his disappearance:

Among those who have disappeared from the real world into a closed-loop world, Surin is not alone. In Su Lin's star track divination, the writing pen suddenly flashed into the world of knowledge where the ancient spiritual tree existed, and the tip of the pen began to condense countless spiritual powers, transforming into a huge paper curtain, on which to write rustlingly.

In the writing of the pen, Su Lin gradually learned that after he or they were involved in the closed-loop world by the "Death Closed Loop" applet and disappeared, due to the large number of people in the city who were missing, the police department also launched a further investigation.

Because the vanished disappeared in this world without a trace, the initial investigation results of the police department were only a guess, and it is possible that there are some unknown underground forces in the city, and it is this part of the force that traffics people who may be missing outside the border.

But gradually, the police department got some clues, especially those players who failed in the closed-loop world, and returned to the real world in another suicidal way, and the police department's confession was also revised to:

Most of the missing persons are involved in underground forces, and there may be some motive for killing or a fait accompli of the crime, such as absconding in fear of crime and suicide in fear of crime. And the reason why these people disappeared and reappeared was nothing more than a farce performed to divert or draw the attention of the police department.

And these people are also on the special concern list of the police, where citizens can see these people and provide corresponding ......

In the world of knowing the sea, the paper condensed by spiritual power, when writing this sentence, suddenly could not withstand the sudden and violent impact of spiritual power in the world of knowing the sea, and collapsed by itself.

Surin tried to mobilize several times to recondense himself, but was broken by an invisible rule.

"Maybe the sea of stars can see the past opportunity?" But Su Lin then thought about it again, with his current ability, he had been clearly told that the cooldown time after each use of the Timing Star Sea ranged from one month to three months, if it was just to spy on the timing or teleport within the opportunity, it was okay, but it was impossible to travel between different dimensions.

It's not right, this is another world outside the closed loop, maybe after returning to the real world, the limits of the timing star sea will also change accordingly?

Su Lin tried to communicate with the sea of stars, and found that he was able to successfully enter it, but the restrictions remained unchanged, and since he had no physical contact with anyone in the real world, there were no red stars associated with it.

It seems that I can only go to my sister's school first to find out what has happened recently. He kept comforting himself in his heart that no matter what happened to his father and sister, they would definitely be able to turn evil into good fortune.

Picked up the calendar on the table and looked at it, today is September 29, 2023, and it happens to be Thursday, is it a coincidence, he smiled lightly, relieving his nervousness and the unknown.

It's about one o'clock in the afternoon, and it's still a while before three o'clock in the afternoon.

He took off his dirty clothes, treated the dirt on his body with cold water, went into the kitchen, found the remaining half of the bread, boiled a pot of hot water himself, and gnawed on the hot water.

At three o'clock, the neatly dressed Su Lin appeared on time in the director's office of Minglong Junior High School, along with his sister Suning and a blue-haired woman with a quiet and elegant temperament and a deep heart like the sea.

"Brother, ...... you" Seeing Su Lin walking towards her, Su Ning's eyes were slightly stunned at first, and then full of shock and incredulity, only to see her shouting loudly with red eyes and shouting out her long-lost brother, and then quickly threw herself into his arms, no longer the eccentric in her impression.

Su Lin gently stroked his sister's hair, which was slightly thicker than her age, and comforted: "It's okay, it's okay Ding Ning, aren't I coming back, everything will pass." ”

The blue-haired woman behind her was slightly surprised, she seemed to be a little incredulous when she heard Suning's title, and she felt as if she had seen this man somewhere before, so she only followed with light steps, and appeared in front of Su Lin's eyes briskly:

"Hello, I'm little Gula's sister. The director was not there, so he said that we should negotiate on our own first, and then tell him the results. ”

After the blue-haired woman shook hands, when she saw Su Lin's confused gaze on the side, she took the initiative to explain: "The two children had a conflict in the class, and the director provided us with a venue for the two families to reconcile." ”

"Oh, hello, I'm Su Lin, Suning's brother." Su Lin responded suddenly, and his right hand lightly shook the white jade hand of the blue-haired woman, and the soft touch swept through, like a delicate electric current that made his entire body tremble slightly.

He imperceptibly mobilized his spiritual power to soothe his muscles, quickly withdrew his right hand to adjust his state, and beckoned the beautiful woman in front of him to sit down, while whispering to his sister about what happened.

The matter of two young children involves two parents, which is usually not a trivial matter.

Upon inquiry, Su Lin learned that it was his sister who had a quarrel with the boy named Gula during class, and the younger sister threw the other party's high-grade paint in a fit of rage.

It's just that in Su Lin's memory, although my sister has always been lively and eccentric, she is also well-behaved and sensible, and will never take the initiative to touch other people's things, how can it be this time......

Considering that the blue-haired woman beside him was still waiting for him to reply, Su Lin didn't ask any more questions, and instead looked at the other party: "We did something wrong in this matter, how do you think it should be handled?" ”

The other party's attitude to solve the problem was sincere, and Su Lin also tried his best to discuss with the other party in a soothing tone.

Seeing the two adults discussing things, Suning took the initiative to sit in an inconspicuous position in the room, trying not to hinder them.

"No, no, little Gula also did something wrong," the blue-haired woman waved her hand lightly and turned sideways towards Su Lin, "Other things are not difficult to solve, just let the two children apologize to each other, it's just ......"

It's just that? The corners of Su Lin's eyes twitched slightly, and he had a bad premonition.

"It's just that one of the materials in that bottle of pigment was purchased by the Gula family with a lot of money, and it is not the same as the dyes in the market."

"So?"

Seeing the obvious suspicion in the other party's eyes, the blue-haired woman's chest tingled slightly, but she still endured the words that the family confessed before leaving:

"So, you may need to pay 500 ...... No, 10 w. ”

The woman wanted to say that she would pay 500 w, but when she looked at what the two were wearing, she stopped talking, thinking that they wouldn't be able to come up with so much money even if they were bankrupt.

It's me, tampering with the family's amount without authorization, and I will inevitably be scolded again when I go back.

What? A bottle of paint costs 100,000 yuan, why don't you grab it? Su Lin's pupils contracted sharply, not shock, but anger. Perhaps the other party noticed Surin's emotions, and the blue-haired woman proposed another solution:

"Alternatively, you can compensate for a bottle of high-grade paint, but the paint must contain at least one spirit object...... That's why this bottle of paint is so expensive, because there may not be such a thing as a spirit in our world. ”

"Not in our world?" Su Lin tried to suppress his irritable emotions and muttered in a low voice, "Could it be that she is also from that world?" ”

……

On the way home, Su Lin stopped by the farmer's market near Iron Cross Street to buy some vegetables.

Although he intended to have a good meal to comfort his frightened sister, when he saw the dozens of dollars in his pocket, he thought that the money might last until he found a job, and finally gave up this unrealistic idea.

Not long after, two bowls of steaming boiled cabbage came out of the pot, Suning sensibly set up the dishes and chopsticks in advance, and brought a stool to his brother who had been tired all day, and then returned to his place to sit down.

Due to the "ink" incident in the afternoon, during the two of them eating, the atmosphere seemed unusually quiet, perhaps because he was afraid of his brother's reproach, Suning kept his head down quietly, and did not dare to look at his brother like a child who had done something wrong.

In the afternoon, when her brother and Sister Gula discussed a solution, she also vaguely heard something in the corner, although the other party was willing to settle the quarrel, it did not mean that she did not need to compensate her classmates for their high-grade ink.

She felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, knowing that her brother was worried about work recently, but at this time, she didn't contribute to the family, and she had to come up with a lot of money to make up for her mistakes, and her father's inexplicable disappearance also made her and her brother feel a big stone in their hearts.

Suning once did a survey on the ink circulating in the market, a bottle of ordinary black ink, ten yuan can buy a bottle, a little more expensive is only a few hundred yuan, and only the legendary extremely luxurious ink can reach the standard of tens of thousands of yuan.

But what she knocked over was the kind of high-grade ink with a red color, which was originally less circulated on the market due to the difficulty of the extraction process, and the price naturally increased to three to four times that of ordinary ink.

If she knew that the other party offered a price of 10 W, she probably wouldn't have to sleep all night.

"Ding Ning, I'll figure out a way to deal with the ink, you don't have to care, maybe you can sleep at night, and you will have it tomorrow."

Surin already had a preliminary solution to the matter of ink compensation, but in order to avoid accidents, he still wanted to tell Beibei after the matter was completely resolved.

She knew that this was her brother comforting herself, how could the ink herself appear out of thin air, unless there was a miracle in this world.

As if thinking of something, Suning raised his head and asked uneasily, "Do you want to get the strange allowance given by the government after your father's disappearance?" ”

She knew that after her father left, it was the last hope for the whole family, and she didn't want to waste this money on the trouble she had caused, and there was a slight sparkle in her eyes that had just cried.

"Silly sister, didn't my brother just say that it was a dowry left to you, and my brother would not use that money unless it was a last resort."

Su Lin looked at her sister half-jokingly, just thinking that her sister would put her mind on studying, and didn't want to be distracted by these trivial things.

After his father disappeared, he should naturally take on the responsibility of taking care of his sister and family.

Hearing the dowry, a touch of shyness flashed on Suning's face, and he buried his head very low, and both ears seemed to be red, "Brother, you?" ”

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