Chapter 18: A Boy in a Stable World
Even though Anastasia had been open and honest about the magic lock, Ye Fan still had a hard time believing her.
Be discerning from words and looks...... This is one of the laws of survival in this world.
The silk on a weed can also have many postures when encountering various conditions. When the soil and water are fertile, the silk grows and stands as strong as the weeds. And when the soil and water are thin, the silk will wilt like grass, or curl up in a place where no one can see, or even disappear, reducing the consumption of nutrients.
In order to survive, living beings will change their posture in response to the environment.
The metaphor may not be very appropriate here, for Anastasia and him are not weeds, nor are they silk on weeds, neither barren or rich soil, nor air.
The world in which they live is silk.
When the water is sufficient, the ecology on the silk is ever-changing. And when water is scarce...... No, not yet.
Moisture is only reasonable, full of unknowns, full of contradictions.
It will be frightening step by step.
Balanced and reasonable, this is what the world is like now. Once the balance is upset...... The unknowns will come.
And now there is a balance overhead, and it seems that it is not just now, but has always been in that place. Ye Fan didn't think that the problems caused by his momentary negligence would affect the left or right side of the scale, so he didn't need to pay too much attention to it. But the law of survival is like engraved in genes, everyone has to weigh it, and no one wants to be the one who tilts the scales.
So, in the face of this insignificant thing in front of him, he had to observe his words and colors, for fear that his weight would be on the wrong side.
Although it is now a stable generation among many people, it is only a stable generation of people who are already happy.
Ye Fan, who lost his parents since he was a child and learned to be independent early, understands a lot of potential rules. If this generation also belonged to him, then his parents who refined the magic stone might still be alive, and he would not be facing a mind-reading envoy here now, but just an ordinary teenager.
Anastasia began to ask him: "Of so many people, your information can be said to be the least. Is your place of birth not in Selmi, but in the Empire? ”
"Yes," Ye Fan affirmed.
Anna: "Where you are from?" ”
Is that the southern town that was attacked by monsters back then?
Ye: "Yes. ”
A hint of doubt appeared on her beautiful face, and then she smiled lightly: "Then Ye Fan must be a child who is favored by God." ”
What does this mean? He was a little puzzled. And she was afraid that this would be misunderstood as malicious, so she quickly explained: "Sorry, there is a data that you may not know yet...... Do you know the population of Schillavoz before the monster attack? According to the statistics of the spring of S$2291, the number of registrations was 876. Do you know the data after the attack? ”
Ye Fan shook his head.
Anna: "According to the statistics of the autumn of that year, only 23 people were left who had been registered in the local area. ”
Ye: "......"
The mortality rate exceeded 95 percent, and he ......
"The monster cataclysm that year was terrible, and the whole empire was terrified...... I'm sorry you've had this experience. Anna: "Can you tell me...... How did you survive when you were only one year old? ”
Ye Fan was silent for a while.
"Sorry...... This is a question you can leave unanswered. ”
"It's okay," he said, "it was Master who saved me, otherwise I would have ...... too."
"Master?"
She didn't remember this, so she rechecked Ye Fan's information in the retina, and the communication equipment of the mind reader was implanted with a magic lock, and many functions were more convenient than magic beads. It can be operated directly through the consciousness in the brain. This not only improves work efficiency, but also protects personal privacy to a certain extent.
It took a while for her to speak again: "Your profile mentions a man who raised you until ...... A 14-year-old adult man, whose name is Ye Ying, is the legal guardian, is he the master you are talking about? ”
"That's right."
Anastasia was curious: "Do you have anything to say about this master?" ”
"Nope."
It barely took time to pause to give the answer, and he didn't bother to say anything about this rotten man.
Anastasia didn't feel like she was closed, but just smiled slightly: "After living for so long, there should always be something to share." ”
Seeing that Ye Fan still had nothing to say, she asked, "For example, why do you call him Master instead of Father, or Uncle or something." ”
“……”
Ye almost threw up his breakfast.
Call Ye Ying as a father? I can't even think about it. If the social requirements at that time had to be like this, then he must have run away from home first, not Ye Ying, and it would not have been until the 14th year.
……
It dawned on him.
Running away from home? Why didn't you think of such a fragrant plan at the time? Why didn't you do that all those years? Anyway, his life is not the same without Ye Ying? Maybe even better......
Thinking of this, he instantly petrified in place.
Seeing that he still didn't react, Anna continued to ask, "Did he teach you the technique?" ”
"Hmmm......"
If the glowing ball illuminates the house in arrears, projects the ghost heroine in the corridor to scare the neighbors, and flashes the bomb to drive away the scolding aunt who dances Kpop downstairs, these count.
Anna: "What kind of warlock is your master?" ”
Ye: "Lightwarlock." ”
"Like you?"
"Yes."
"Wow, they're all pretty rare abilities."
"Maybe."
Anna suddenly remembered his words, "It was Master who saved me", and felt very incredible, because it was so rare to be able to escape with a child in that level of calamity.
The value is not only in ability...... Being able to survive that disaster shows that his master has considerable strength. In addition to this, there is human nature...... The most precious thing is the brilliance of human nature.
For most people, when it is difficult to protect themselves, how can they sacrifice their lives to protect an irrelevant child.
Thinking of this, the person who was called "Master" became taller and taller in her heart.
What kind of character is this? I'd love to see each other if I have the chance. If that was true, if he had gone in a completely different direction from what he is now, his master might have become a hero that everyone praised.
She read the material again, and there was no useful information about the Master's identity. Only hastily brought "raise him until he ...... after the age of 14"
And this paragraph of custom text should have been filled in by Ye Fan himself when he first entered the organization, but in fact, some text was omitted in the middle. But it is not difficult to see that Ye Fan has a deep grudge against this...... Of course, she didn't know the cause of this resentment, but she thought that he might be complaining that the man had left him.
Anna: "Have you ever seen him since?" ”
Ye: "No. ”
"Any news on where he went?"
"Not at all." Don't want to know either.
Where are you proud and indulgent...... If he knew that Ye Ying was living a chic life, then when they met again, it would be Ye Ying's death.
Although he thought so in his heart, it was not that he had not investigated the whereabouts of the man before. After entering the Jingting Division, he asked some colleagues to find out his whereabouts. As a result, there was nothing else to do but call up the surveillance that left the Duchy of Sramie.
"Did you think of any places he might go?"
Ye Fan also has his own guess about this: "It is very likely that he will go back to being an adventurer again." ”
"Adventurers?"
"Yes."
"Was he an adventurer before?"
"As far as I know, it was before Schiravoz."
"Under which guild?"
Ye Fan rarely heard about his past from Ye Ying, and it took a while to think of some of the pictures from the master when he browsed the adventurer's information column from his memories.
"Zhen." He replied.
"Zhen?" Anna: "Just one word?" ”
"Yes."
"I've never heard of a guild name." Anastasia briefly searched the retina for the name, but nothing came of it.
Could it be a guild that has disappeared? Or is it too little famous to be queried? Anyway, let's find someone to investigate afterwards.
What a curious potential power...... If a free body like this can play for Lorraine, it will definitely be a great thing.
"Zhen?" She still remembered the word: "Which country's guild is this?" ”
"I don't know, he never let me know about his past." Ye replied truthfully.
"That's ......"
After a few more moments, Anna asked, "And what else did you do after that...... Of course, I'm referring to the period after you are 14 years old and until you enter the National Games Division at the age of 16. ”
"After that, I worked as an assistant to a painter."
It was a painter who was well-known in Slammi's country, and he held many exhibitions. Ye Fan's talent for painting gradually came to the fore in his work, and the painter asked him if he wanted to try painting something to include in his exhibition. But in the end, it didn't work out. Not only is it a problem of the level of painting, but also the slight difference in style is also the reason why I was not able to participate in the exhibition.
The painter was an impressionist painter who was very bold in color, and Ye Fan also tried to paint like him. The painter actually admired him, but said that he could not understand his work. In the artist's words, while what he paints may feel familiar, a closer look at it does not belong to this world.
He was so confused that he didn't have any follow-up. It wasn't until later that the painter recommended him to go to the national capital to work under a painter with a curious style, but the man was of bad character and did not care about his talent at all. Ye Fan was afraid of being implicated, so he left early.
On his way back to his hometown to work as a painter's assistant, he was discovered by the people of Jingting Division and was intercepted by them.
Fate is so fond of jokes. Since then, he has bid farewell to the drawing board, and the original poor and meager life is gone, and the paintbrush in his hand has become a blade.