Chapter 4: Illusion
"Meow ......"
After Raymond thanked the front desk attendant at the express station, he leaned his face to the luxurious plastic pet kennel, and stared at the residents inside, quite speechless for a while.
"So that's where the 'special' of the special package is......?"
As if to understand his feelings, the snow-white and spotless in the box, unable to distinguish whether it was a short-haired cat, a forest cat, or a little guy with two cute bloodlines, called again.
"Meow ......"
The movement of tilting the head slightly is elegant and subtle.
In an instant, Raymond had the illusion of being ashamed of himself when he met a celebrity gentleman!
On closer inspection, the white cat's pair of topaz-like eyes and black pearl-like pupils are frozen in innate nobility when they are not moving, and when they flicker, they are overflowing with the aura of wisdom.
"Old James's vision of choosing 'old wife' is not bad, just by looking at the appearance of this cat, you know that the price is expensive......"
When his gaze inadvertently swept over the mailing address of the mailing label, Raymond's pupils shrank, "State Institute of Life Sciences?"
Three of the four members of the family are elites in the biological science community, and Raymond has been exposed to it since he was a child, so he naturally knows some little-known industry secrets.
Among them, the State Institute of Life has always been notorious and criticized in the circle for its deep background, strong strength, miscellaneous projects, many accidents, and no bottom line in live experiments.
"No wonder old Jaime's physical condition is so miserable, weird......"
Raymond's heart suddenly shuddered, he didn't dare to think further, and at the same time, his eyes became solemn when he looked at the white cat in his hand.
The white cat lazily raised its front paws and licked it, Amber's eyes were motionless and looked at Raymond, and meowed, as if to say: "I know I'm afraid......?
After hesitating for a moment, Raymond wisely dismissed the plan to take the white cat around to grind for time, went out of the express station, tied the pet box to the back seat of the electric motorcycle, and galloped directly to the nursing home.
After a while.
A sharp-looking convertible sports car flashes like a silver arc, and when it stops after a dashing flick, the front bumper is only a fraction of a centimeter from the steps outside the delivery station, as if measured with a ruler.
The car door opened, and a slender leg poked out, fair, round, and flawless......
The waiter at the front desk of the site couldn't help but hold his glasses, and his eyes slowly climbed up along the white high heels, but the door that came out of the air made him grit his teeth.
Just as he was looking at him with anticipation, the owner of the beautiful legs, the plump buttocks tightly wrapped in the light blue fashion short skirt, was about to leave the passenger seat, and at the moment when he showed his amazing arc, the man driving suddenly snorted, and his face changed: "Damn! We're late, the 13th has already been taken......"
The woman closed the car door again, "Raput, can you determine the time and route of the other party's departure?"
The voice is soft, even if it is a slightly annoyed frown, the faint softness of inadvertently is irresistible.
"Mina, are you underestimating me by asking that?" the man named Raputt raised an eyebrow and feigned anger.
He is obviously not middle-aged, but his sharp inch hair is very distinctive, silver white is full of small and dense black spots, at this moment his nose, which is slightly fatter than ordinary people, is constantly stirring, as if he has dropped out of some invisible silk thread in the air, and slowly turns to the direction of the nursing home.
"I just walked for less than ten minutes, and I must have been sent by the old man...... It doesn't seem to be fast, but it can still catch up!"
Before the words fell, Laputt couldn't wait to start the sports car and rushed out with a whoosh.
......
The scorching air was a little hotter than in the morning, which made Raymond more and more impatient, and when he saw the suburban road, the road was wide and there were few cars, and he immediately twisted the handlebars, waiting for the surge of speed to leave all the excess heat behind him.
Tick Tick!
There was a sudden sound of a horn.
Raymond glanced back at the lonely silver luxury sports car behind him, and couldn't help muttering: "I'm sick, and no one is competing with you!"
As if to infuriate him, the sports car caught up with him as soon as he accelerated, and the front of the car followed tighter and tighter, almost clinging to the rear wheel of the electric motorcycle.
The horn of the car is even more non-stop.
Raymond's eyelids jumped wildly, and he wanted to scold his mother, which mental hospital madman came out of this mental hospital?
Helplessly, two wheels must not be able to beat four wheels, Raymond decisively accelerated to the left, out of the sideway, unexpectedly the sports car did not stop, followed the electric motorcycle to the middle of the road, and continued to honk wildly.
Raymond: "......"
The rearview mirror clearly reflects the interested expressions of a pair of handsome guys and beautiful women, fortunately they didn't wave baseball bats and shout in their hands, otherwise Raymond really thought that he had met the legendary unscrupulous rich second generation or prince's ** party who had nothing to do and careless about people's lives?
In addition to being depressed, Raymond turned a deaf ear to the annoying car horn, turned right again and returned to the side road, and deliberately slowed down the speed, betting that the pair of dogs**men** women behind him did not dare to mess around.
Sure enough, the sports car slowed down as well, and although the front of the car was still as viciously as before, the pressure on Raymond was no longer as wolf-like and numb as before.
This made him breathe a sigh of relief.
At the same time, Raputt and Mina, who were in the sports car, could see that Raymond's state of mind had calmed down, and apart from being slightly surprised by his unexpected boldness, he also lost interest in teasing the children.
Raputt immediately hit the steering wheel, the sports car accelerated silently, and in the blink of an eye, it drew a graceful arc and appeared in front of the left side of the electric motorcycle, forcing Raymond to pull over and turn his head depressedly to look at a man and a woman in the sports car.
Mina's flirtatious demeanor really amazed him for a moment, if it weren't for the fact that he had a sister who was sinking into the fish and falling into the geese, and the moon was shy and shy of flowers, a pair of eyeballs that had been tempered for a long time, and at this moment, he might have shown a pig brother like other men.
However, what really moved him was Mina's sheared eyes!
At first glance, it was a pair of very ordinary light blue pupils, but once she looked at her quietly, Raymond felt that her gaze was like a soft and mellow spring breeze, gently soothing people from the outside to the inside, making people intoxicated and unwilling to extricate themselves.
"What's your name and what's your relationship with James?"
She spoke, her hazy voice made people unconsciously ignore her specific age, only to feel soft and pleasant, with both sister-like intimacy and motherly care, like nature.
The sound wave blew, and Raymond's soul unconsciously drifted with it, as if he was fascinated.
He blurted out without hesitation: "My name is Raymond, I have nothing to do with James, today I am a volunteer in a nursing home, responsible for taking care of James's ......"
This answer was again unexpected by Mina and Raput, who thought that Raymond was a close junior or a new student of old Jaime, so they decided to make a harmless joke with him, but they didn't expect it to be.
Moreover, old Jaime really left everything behind and lived in a nursing home willing to die?
The two glanced at each other, and then focused their eyes on the light blue standard nurse uniform on Raymond's body and the volunteer nameplate on his chest, and finally shook their heads and laughed together.
However, the strange thing is that Raymond, who is still straddling the electric motorcycle, has maintained a stunned and smirking expression, and has been ignoring the eye-eye exchange between Mina and Raput.
Mina's sharp chin lifted gently towards the kennel on the back seat of the motorcycle, and Laputt realized, and immediately snorted wildly in that direction.
"That's right, it's exactly the same as the smell of Experiment Module 13 I've smelled, it's it!"
Mina's face was overjoyed, and she couldn't help but snap her fingers, her pale blue eyes were full of light, she stared at Raymond again, and lightly opened her lips: "Little brother, help my sister bring the pet box!"
"Okay......" Raymond agreed again without hesitation, lifted his leg and got off the electric motorcycle, turned around to untie the elastic strap of the pet kennel, but was slightly stiff in every move.
The light in Mina's eyes quietly brightened, as if an invisible force was gathering stronger and stronger.
......
"What's going on? Where is this ?!!?"
In the depths of Raymond's consciousness, he was struggling desperately in a twisted whirlpool, but no matter how hard he tried and roared, he couldn't break free from the growing suction at the bottom of the whirlpool.
It's like a grain of rice that falls into a funnel, and it can only fall and fall involuntarily!
An unprecedented sense of powerlessness hit him, and he couldn't even be sure if the strength of his struggle could effectively resist the "suction" of the whirlpool, as if the two were not in the same dimension.
He only had a vague premonition that once he really fell into the whirlpool, he would inevitably lose something, maybe a memory, or even a piece of self, that is, himself at this moment!
This frightened him even more.
It all came without warning!
He only remembered that the pair of sea-like eyes and the spring-like voice, when the two met in his mind, he inexplicably fell into this whirlpool.
At first, the whirlpool was a strange pale blue twist, like a child's graffiti, full of unreality.
But then, with the rapid increase of suction, the whirlpool also became more and more vivid in a few blinks, indigo, turbulent, deep, oppressive...... It's like a real turbulent whirlpool in the depths of the ocean!
"Perhaps, I should have calmed down instantly, concentrated my will, and jumped out of this 'whirlpool' at the beginning, the moment when the suction of the 'whirlpool' was the weakest, it was the only flaw in this 'whirlpool', and it was also the only good chance for me to get out of trouble, fleeting!"
Realizing this, Raymond became more and more desperate in his heart, and at the same time there was a strong unwillingness.
"After all, I suffered a loss of inexperience......"