Chapter 54: Delegation
As soon as Welch came out of the office, Lyanna entered Quentin Cohen's office.
Valera gestured to Welch, gesturing to the office behind her, motioning for him to leave first.
It wasn't until Welch's figure disappeared around the corner of the stairs that Valilla knocked on the door to alert her and enter the faculty office.
Unlike the separate offices of senior associate professors, the faculty offices are shared by many people, with four or five desks in them, and most of the faculty members sit at their desks.
Seeing Valera appear at the door, Azik took the initiative to stand up and said:
"Let's go outside and say, and we'll go...... The balcony at the end of the hallway. ”
The two of them left the office and walked to the balcony one after the other, and neither of them spoke.
At the end of the hallway, on the small square balcony.
Azk leaned on the thick gray stone railing and looked out at the scenery of the Huoyin River not far away.
After a moment, he sighed and asked directly:
"Kaldwin, you're not ordinary, are you?"
Valera learned from Azk's movements, leaned on the greystone railing with both hands, looked at the stone paved road downstairs, showed a slight hesitation, and said:
"Yes, Mr. Azik, I have another identity, called ......"
"I'm not pying on your privacy, and I don't mean it." Azik interrupted Valeera and changed his words, "I'm asking if you're just like me, and you've mastered some strange abilities. ”
In order to ease Valeera's resistance as much as possible, he deliberately revealed a little of his secret.
He continued in a quiet tone:
"I've heard something about you...... I think divination and potions should be the extraordinary abilities you have mastered. ”
"Right?"
Valilla didn't try to disguise her expression, as she didn't know how observant Mr. Azik was.
She calmly shifted her gaze, and glanced at the wide Huoyin River from the stone road downstairs, and then replied:
"Yes, Mr. Azik, about a year ago, I came into contact with the Transcendent World and became the Extraordinary."
"I came to Huo Yin University, but I didn't have any malice."
Like Valeera, Azik looked straight ahead and didn't look at the other person's expression.
"I can tell," he said in a gentle tone, "I suppose you're on the run from someone, right?" ”
"Huh?"
This sentence made Valilla quite surprised, and subconsciously turned her head to look at Azk beside her, breaking the previous tacit understanding between the two.
Azk turned his head, gave her a gentle smile, and asked:
"Do you know why I was late this morning?"
As he spoke, without waiting for Valeera to react, he asked himself:
"Because after I approached the school gate, I happened to see an invisible woman who broke into the campus."
"You give me a little bit of a similar feeling to her."
The news was quite shocking to Valeera.
Although she knew that the calm of these days was a bit abnormal, she still didn't expect that such a monstrous wave that was invisibly eliminated hidden in it.
"Yes, she's a cultist."
"They are the ones who led me to become extraordinary," Valera decided to reveal a little truth, dissociating herself from the Witch Sect in front of the Angel Elder, "but I don't want to believe in the evil gods, so I can only betray and abscond." ”
"I believe in you."
Looking at the solemn expression on Valira's face, Azik nodded, "It's a pity that I only barely kicked her off campus and couldn't help you solve the problem." ”
"Thank you, that's enough."
Valera returned to a state of looking and said in a calm tone: "Tomorrow I will leave Tingen, and it will not be so easy to find me again." ”
"Leave?" Azik was stunned for a moment, then nodded suddenly, "It's a good idea." ”
He looked into the distance, hesitated, and then continued:
"Kaldwin, you know what, I'm not in the same situation as you...... My abilities should be innate. ”
"Valeera, just call me Valeera, Mr. Azik."
Valilla used the technique of meditation to control random divergent thoughts, and said the truth that could not be more true, "As far as I know, most of the extraordinary abilities that I am born with are only very weak, and I don't think you belong to this kind of thing. ”
"Is that so?" Azk muttered.
He could tell that Valeera's reply had always been sincere.
So he decided to say a little more, "The reason I guess that way is because I have forgotten my past." ”
Azik's eyes looked a little sadly ahead, and explained:
"Actually, before I entered the history department at Beckland University, I lost most of my memory, and I only remembered my name and basic knowledge."
"Fortunately, fortunately I have an identity certificate, otherwise I can only become a homeless person, for so many years, I have searched for my parents according to my identity certificate, my past, but nothing has been gained."
"And in the years of college, I gradually discovered that I had some strange abilities beyond the realm of common sense, and I guessed that it was innate."
Speaking of which, Valilla still doesn't know what Azik means, after all, in the original book, he and Crane had a similar conversation.
"So, you want me to help you keep an eye out for clues that might be related to your past?"
As she spoke, she turned her head to look at Azik again, a smile on her face.
"Yes, that's it," Azik said, turning to her, "but you don't need to do it, just remember it when you encounter it." ”
The two glances between them are similar in action, but the meaning is completely different.
In a short period of time, the relationship between them has jumped from far to near, jumping a few levels, from a simple, not too familiar teacher-student relationship, to a certain degree of companionship, with a certain degree of mutual trust.
"Okay."
Valiera nodded in response, and suddenly her heart moved, and she reported the address of the garden villa that Qili had left behind, and continued:
"After leaving Tingen, I will go to the capital, Beckland, where you can find me or write to me."
"I remember." Azik smiled and nodded.
He stretched out his right hand, turned sideways into the corridor and made a "please" gesture, saying:
"I think we've been talking long enough, it's time to go back."
Maybe it's because of a lot of closer relationships, maybe it's because of the joy of meeting people of the same kind, or maybe it's simply because of personality...... Anyway, after saying this, Mr. Azik suddenly chuckled and made a little joke.
"Hehe, if you go back too late, there may be bad rumors, which is something I don't want to see."
Hearing this self-teasing, Valeera, who had just stepped into the corridor, stopped, and after a slight pause, she didn't look back, and replied directly with a smile:
"Thank you, Mr. Azik is a very gentle man."
With that, she didn't wait for Azik's reply, restarted her steps, and walked down the hallway.