The password for the security door downstairs in the apartment, Luo Zhan remembered clearly just by seeing Tang Ran pressing it once. Entering the building unimpeded, Luo Zhan turned into the elevator on the first floor.
In the place where the elevator had just turned into, there was an old lady who looked to be in her 80s, with gray hair, her back was trembling as she walked, and she was still leaning on crutches.
Luo Zhan walked past the old lady and pressed the elevator.
One of the elevators stopped on the first floor, the elevator door opened immediately, and Luo Zhan stepped into the elevator lazily with his eyes down.
Anyone who knows Luo Zhan knows: Young Master Luo has always had a lazy and indifferent temperament, and it is impossible for him to be willing to help others for no reason.
Same thing this time.
When the old lady was not in trouble, and when she didn't ask for help, he was a stranger passing by, and he didn't look at the old man from beginning to end.
Seeing that the elevator door began to close, in the elevator car, the sound of the old man's crutches tapping the ground again and again spread into the elevator car.
"..." Luo Zhan's eyelids twitched.
The sound of the crutches outside the ladder door and the tentative tapping of the blind stick in his mind coincided unexpectedly.
"Di-"
The closed door was suddenly held down by a slender and powerful hand.
The two-page ladder door slowly retracted with the sound of induction.
The old lady had walked slowly to the elevator at this time, and when she heard the sound, she looked up at Luo Zhan in surprise.
Luo Zhan still had that indifferent expression, and he didn't respond to the old lady's grateful look. Holding the ladder door with one hand, he turned sideways to make room for the old man to enter and exit more easily.
The old lady laughed, "Thank you, young man."
"You're welcome." Luo Zhan replied lightly.
When the old man walked into the elevator, Luo Zhan withdrew his hand. There are buttons on both sides of the elevator car. Luo Zhan didn't need to ask the old man.
- He was obviously disgusted by the little girl like that, and he ordered an expulsion when a glass of water disappeared. He really couldn't figure out how he couldn't help but come back after hearing Luo Xiu's words.
Luo Zhan frowned unhappily.
Just then, the phone vibrated in his pocket. Luo Zhan took out his mobile phone and glanced at it. The name of "Tan Yunchang" was on the caller ID. He picks up the phone.
Tan Yunchang asked in surprise from the opposite side: "How can your brother have my phone number?"
"My brother?" Luo Zhan frowned.
Tan Yunchang: "Yes, he just suddenly called me, claiming to be Luo Xiu, and then told me that you might not be able to go back to the laboratory today."
Luo Zhan was silent.
Tan Yunchang didn't notice it, and continued to say, "But he hung up the phone without telling me the reason... Did you give him my phone number as an emergency contact person in the school or something? Hahaha that's such an honor— "
"You think too much." Luo Zhan interrupted indifferently, "If he wants to know, he can get the mobile phone numbers of everyone in int."
Tan Yunchang sighed: "Okay, I should know that you, a heartless person, can't do such a thing."
Luo Zhan narrowed his eyes lightly, "I haven't settled the account of the AI voice assistant with you. Are you taking the initiative to provoke me now?"
"Ah, that's what," Tan Yunchang called on the other side of the phone with a haha, and quickly changed the subject: "So you really won't be going back to the lab today? Didn't our group promise to check the fault of this bionic robot again today? "
Luo Zhan was silent for two seconds, "There is something wrong with Tang Ran."
Before he could finish speaking, the opposite replied: "Ah, I understand, you are going to accompany that little girl at noon today, right? Did she leave you for lunch?"
"… "
Thinking again of the tragedy of being expelled without even drinking a glass of water, Luo Zhan said with an expressionless face and a cold tone: "What do you want to eat? I'll just take a look and leave after handing over the keys."
"what?"
"Go back and talk."
"Hey-"
Too lazy to listen to Tan Yunchang's talk, Luo Zhan hung up the phone lazily and put the phone back in his trousers pocket.
Then he remembered something and looked up at the small LED display above the ladder door.
Still on level "1".
Luo Zhan turned around in confusion and met the old lady's smiling eyes: "I see you haven't pressed the elevator yet, and you're on the phone again. I'm afraid you'll miss the floor. Which floor are you going to, young man?"
Luo Zhan's eyes softened, "The 12th floor."
"Huh? Are you from the 12th floor?" The old lady pressed 11 and then 12. "I live downstairs, but why don't I remember seeing you?"
Luo Zhan: "My... friends live here."
"Ah," the old lady smiled suddenly, "is she a girlfriend?"
"… "
To an old lady who met by chance, Luo Zhan didn't bother to explain, and let the other party judge.
After the elevator stopped on the 11th floor, Luo Zhan was sent to the 12th floor again.
The ladder door opens.
Opposite the elevator is the middle household on each floor.
Before walking out of the elevator on the 12th floor, Luo Zhan's face was still cold, and there was a cold depression in his dark eyes.
But when he saw the girl squatting in front of the corner with her knees outside the central security door, his figure suddenly stopped.
Probably hearing the voice, the girl lying on her thin white arm raised her face in a daze.
The corners of the little girl's eyes were a little red, and she didn't know if she had cried, or if she was just aggrieved and helpless.
She got up slowly, feeling her blind stick, and asked softly and timidly, "Hello, I'm a resident of Zhonghu. No one opens the door at my house. Can I borrow your cell phone?"
"… "
The restlessness and stagnation accumulated in Luo Zhan's heart were suddenly emptied, and there was nothing but fortunate—
Fortunately, he came back and didn't leave the little girl alone in this empty and deserted darkness.
Luo Zhan sighed and walked over.
There was an inconspicuous bulge on the corner of the carpet of the security door, right at the little girl's feet.
A normal person can still find it if he looks carefully, but for Tang Ran, who can't see anything, it is probably only when he accidentally steps on it before he can notice it.
Luo Zhan stopped in front of Tang Ran.
The girl panicked as he was silent and approached, and took a half step back uneasily, holding the blind cane. It's just that there is a wall and a door behind her, and there is not much room to go.
Luo Zhan squatted down, lifted the corner of the carpet, and sure enough, he saw the key to the security door below.
At this moment, in the quiet corridor, an uncertain and careful voice sounded above his head: "Luo... Luo Zhan?"
Luo Zhan stopped.
In that half-squatting position, he raised his eyes and looked up at the girl standing in front of him.
His eyes stopped for two seconds, and he said, "Yeah."
"—"
Tang Ran suddenly let go of the suffocating breath. She was so nervous that her face turned pale, but at this time she relaxed and finally regained a little blush.
"Why did you come back?"
Luo Zhan didn't answer, but picked up the key and got up. After a moment of silence, he suddenly asked, "How do you know it's me?"
Tang Ran was startled, but answered truthfully: "You have the aroma of amber cedar, which is cool and light."
really.
Luo Zhan: "Does it smell good?"
Tang Ran nodded honestly.
Luo Zhan curled the corner of his mouth lightly, "There will be a fee."
Tang Ran: "?"
Luo Zhan weighed the key in his hand. He lowered his eyes and resumed his usual lazy smile, "I'm thirsty, please give me a glass of water."
Tang Ran lowered her head, "Grandma doesn't seem to be at home..."
"The key is with me."
"—"
The girl raised her head suddenly.
If it wasn't for his invisibility, Luo Zhan thought that these beautiful eyes must be sparkling at this time.
Luo Zhan felt a deep regret in his heart.
"Want the key?" Luo Zhan asked.
Tang Ran nodded quickly.
Luo Zhan seemed to have seen a small fish eager to bite the hook. He smiled silently, "Then this key is another price."
"?" The girl raised her head blankly.
Luo Zhan: "If you don't let me in, I won't give you the key."
Tang Ran: "..."
After a minute.
Young Master Luo sat contentedly on the small sofa of Tang Ran's house.
After Tang Ran entered the door, he was obviously more used to it than outside. The blind stick was put away by her and put into the long tube in the entrance. Even without its help, Tang Ran still seemed to be able to move like a normal person at home.
Luo Zhan watched the girl fetch the cup and poured a cool white glass in front of him. Then Tang Ran put the pot back in its place, and sat on the sofa on the other side with a good posture.
"You drink it." The girl's voice was soft.
Although Luo Zhan was not thirsty, he could only pick up the cup at this time when he came in through this reason.
After taking a sip of water, Luo Zhan seemed to ask casually, "Have you lived here for a long time?"
"Looks like it's been seven or eight years."
Luo Zhan frowned: "The Tang family hasn't picked you up?"
Speaking of the Tang family, the little girl's pretty face darkened a bit. She was quiet for a few seconds, then rolled her eyes: "Well, but it doesn't matter, I should go back after my 16th birthday."
"Why wait until then?"
"Grandma's daughter-in-law is about to give birth to a baby. When the baby is born, Grandma will have her own little grandson or granddaughter... She will no longer be able to take care of me in the future." Tang Ran closed her eyes and said softly.
She looked a little depressed, but she hid it carefully, "My father said that he would arrange for me to move to a side house, so it would be more convenient to take care of it."
Luo Zhan's voice was slightly cold, "Partial house?"
"Well," Tang Ran didn't notice, and said with the corners of his eyes, "the Tang family has a large backyard, and there is a separate small house in the southwest corner of the backyard, which is the side house of the Tang family. It's very quiet, and I like it too. There."
"… "
Luo Zhan's expression became more and more cold, he leaned into the sofa, his eyes fluctuated with emotions.
After not hearing Luo Zhan's words for a long time, Tang Ran slowly stopped laughing, showing a little uneasy feeling, "What's the matter?"
Luo Zhan came back to his senses and turned his eyes back, "You will be the only one living there by then?"
Tang Ran: "Well, grandma will go back to her hometown later."
"Aren't you afraid?"
Tang Ran was startled. After a while, the little girl hid a bit of timidity and unease in her emotions, and smiled lightly with the corners of her eyes down: "Don't be afraid, 'Luo Luo' will accompany me."
"!"
The water in Luo Zhan's water cup shook.
For a moment, he almost thought Tang Ran was calling him.
What is even more terrifying is that at that moment, he found that he did not reject this illusion.
Luo Zhan was silent.
Tang Ran was quiet for a while, and finally asked, "However, why is the key to my house with you?"
Luo Zhan was reminded, and his consciousness came back, "Your grandma's daughter-in-law was born prematurely, and she rushed back temporarily."
Tang Ran was stunned.
Luo Zhan reminded "kindly": "You can call her and ask about the situation."
"… it is good."
Tang Ran didn't bother to say more, got up and walked to his bedroom.
Luo Zhan waited in the living room according to his temperament.
It was not until he heard the faint chatter in the bedroom that he took out his mobile phone and made a call to go out.
It was connected in seconds.
On the opposite side, Tan Yunchang picked up the phone and grabbed Bai: "Ancestor, tell me the truth, did you 'just go up and take a look' to take a look at a normal person, or did you go according to the standard of ten thousand years?"
Luo Zhan: "I have something to do temporarily, so I can't go back."
Tan Yunchang: "..."
Tan Yunchang: "If you don't come back and troubleshoot with us, what about this bionic robot?"
Luo Zhan: "Even if we can find out the fault, it can't be repaired at the level of our laboratory."
Tan Yunchang: "But it's Tang Ran's birthday in two days. We can't send a completely scrapped robot there, can we?"
"… "
Luo Zhan's eyes swayed slightly.
After a while, he slowly leaned back into the sofa.
Looking at the ceiling of Tang Ran's house, Luo Zhan suddenly let out a low laugh after being silent for a long time.
Tan Yunchang froze opposite, "What are you laughing at?"
"I smile… "
Luo Zhan looked at the dark lines on the ceiling, his eyes unwilling and relieved.
"I might really be going crazy."