"She's in my body!"
This sentence made John shudder, just like watching a horror movie when he was young when the old world was not destroyed.
However, he soon discovered that this was not the point.
The point is that the captain actually responded to Shang Jianyao's words!
Before that, the part of the human beings that Ruo Wang and Shang Jianyao met who were in a state of chaos and madness could not communicate at all. Even if not all of them remained silent, they just said something on their own, almost raving, unlike the captain who "has questions and answers".
Of course, because he was hiding most of the time, there were actually very few "chaos" John encountered, and he couldn't be sure whether the captain's current state was special.
This is not what he wants to know, he only cares about one thing:
Does this mean that the captain can still communicate, and that he and the future "business" can get some information from him
John calmed down, looked at the captain who was posing in a courting posture towards no one, and asked tentatively:
"Do you know the source of the abnormality at night?"
Oh, the cold wind of the winter night poured in from the open window, making John unable to help shrink his body.
The captain still knelt there and repeated the previous "aria":
"Oh my goddess!
"Please accept my love!"
This... Ruo Wang frowned.
Shang Jianyao next to him laughed:
"You're not attractive enough."
"What does this have to do with charm?" John muttered.
He initially suspected that only topics related to "goddess" could make the captain make a conditioned response in a state of confusion, madness, and unconsciousness.
This realization made John very disappointed.
He thought about it and said to Shang Jianyao:
"Haven't you been trying to figure out the reason behind this
"We are now cooperating with the division of labor to search this room, hoping to get some results."
"Okay!" Shang Jianyao couldn't wait.
John ignored the center of the room and sometimes knelt down, chanted and wooed, sometimes stood up, paced back and forth, and the tearful captain walked directly to the red desk with books and papers on it.
Those books were all popular before the destruction of the old world, and John had read a few of them himself and knew that they were all right.
However, he still carefully picked up the books and shook them down to see if there was anything caught in them.
This shake really shakes out some items.
They fell down, scattered on the table, a few slightly yellowed photos.
The protagonist of these pictures is the same person, a rather beautiful woman.
She has long brown hair, blue eyes as charming as lake water, and always has a smile on her face, either sweet or sunny.
In different photos, the age of the woman is different, the youngest is seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a cheerleading uniform, with a rather hot figure, the oldest is twenty-five or six, wearing a hat, wearing a short skirt, and waving a racket.
"Is this the captain's goddess?"
Shang Jianyao's voice suddenly sounded behind John.
John was startled, turned his body halfway, and blamed:
"Why are you walking without a sound?"
"Because it's carpeted here." Shang Jianyao explained sincerely.
He turned his attention to those photos again, and said curiously and excitedly:
"Crush for many years?"
Shang Jianyao's tone reminded Ruo Wang of one of his cousins, when the old times had not been destroyed, and she was in such a state when discussing certain stars.
Ruo Wang carefully looked at the photos again, looked at the captain subconsciously, and cursed in a low voice:
"Beasts!"
"The reason?" Shang Jianyao asked with bright eyes.
John pointed to the photos and said:
"This young lady is so young, he actually calls others a goddess!
"Doesn't he even look at his age?"
At least forty!
Shang Jianyao seemed to be a little disappointed that the reason for the "beast" was not strong enough, and instead asked:
"Aren't you a little jealous?"
"Well, what's there to be jealous of?" John asked stubbornly.
Frankly speaking, he was a little jealous, because the woman in the photo was as beautiful as a star, and she and the captain didn't know if there was any substantial emotional entanglement.
This made John, who was not very outgoing and lacked female friends, feel sour before the destruction of the old world.
"Yes." Shang Jianyao didn't care whether the other party was really jealous, he pointed to the photo and said, "Judging from the degree of yellowing, it should have been some years."
John suddenly woke up: these photos should have been taken before the destruction of the old era, when the captain was in his twenties.
Moreover, the age of the women in those photos is progressive. When she was the youngest, the captain might not be twenty.
Thinking of this, John unconsciously weaved a story in his heart and said it:
"The captain has a crush on this young lady, and the other party already has a boyfriend. He can only secretly collect photos and fantasize in private. When the old era is destroyed, the two have no contact at all. So after the captain fell into a state of chaos, he had hallucinations and The backlog of longing in your heart has manifested?"
"Then how do you explain that the captain said 'she's in my body'?" Shang Jianyao was very interested in this topic.
John unconsciously fell into the atmosphere of discussion:
"Maybe this is a fantasy picture. In our culture, we like to describe love as the fusion of spirit and flesh."
"I don't think so." Shang Jianyao shook his head.
When Ruo Wang looked at him, Shang Jianyao continued:
"First of all, the two are really not a couple, otherwise the captain would not only have a single photo of each other, but not a group photo of the two."
"That's right!" John reacted.
In the future, people's "business" reasoning ability is still very strong.
Shang Jianyao further imagined:
"After the destruction of the old world, the captain who had a crush on the other party tried to rescue her, but found that she was mixed with other men, sharing weal and woe and supporting each other.
"Under intense jealousy and disappointment, in the apocalyptic environment out of order, the enraged captain acted irrationally. He killed his goddess and her boyfriend."
Having said that, Shang Jianyao showed a gloomy smile:
"After a while, due to lack of food, the captain turned his attention to the corpse of his goddess...
"That's why he said that the goddess is in his body."
Ruo Wang was stunned and inexplicably nauseated.
His luck is not bad. From the destruction of the old era to the present, he has always been able to find food. The longest period of starvation did not exceed three days, and he did not need to do those cruel and terrifying things.
"Yours, what's your basis?" John felt that the situation described by "Shang" was too dramatic and dark.
Shang Jianyao said in a teaching tone:
"That's called a bold assumption!"
"..." John was speechless.
However, the captain's words "she's in my body" always made John feel that the room was gloomy, and it was difficult to completely deny Shang Jianyao's "speculation".
He slowed down and said:
"Keep looking for clues."
The two separated again, went to each side, and looked at the various things in the room.
In the process, John became a little jealous again.
Because there is even a wine storage room in the room, which contains many famous wines of the old times.
"Damn, he would rather waste energy in these places than turn on the air conditioning system!" John complained.
This allows them, the passengers and crew, to enjoy the "glamour" of the combination of "winter" and "sea breeze" at night.
"Maybe he is fat and not afraid of cold." Shang Jianyao came back here at some point.
John glanced at the captain's obviously rounder body than ordinary people, and accepted this explanation.
After the destruction of the old era and the food shortage, the captain's stature shows that he has never been short of resources.
"Have you found any clues?" John asked concerned.
Shang Jianyao asked seriously:
"He loves candy, does it count as a higher than normal consumption of paper towels?"
"No." John replied without hesitation.
The disappointment on his face could no longer be concealed, because he had not found any useful clues on his side, and the search of the captain's room was almost complete.
Shang Jianyao's expression became serious:
"I think I still have to ask him directly."
"He" refers to the captain.
Infected by that seriousness, John nodded slowly and said:
"You can try it."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shang Jian Yao turned around excitedly and asked loudly:
"Why do you think she is your goddess?"
Aren't you looking for clues about anomalies at night? Ruo Wang couldn't keep up with Shang Jianyao's thinking at all.
A smile appeared on the face of the captain who had just completed an aria:
"She is as beautiful as the morning sun and as kind as a pure angel.
"I was seriously ill once and needed a bone marrow transplant. She just matched her and stood up."
It turned out that this is the correct interpretation of the phrase "she is in my body"... John found that he and Shang Jianyao were wrong.
Things are far less terrifying and do not involve the mingling of spirit and flesh.
"What an angel!" Shang Jianyao echoed the captain's words.
He didn't mean to ask the source of the night anomaly at all.
The captain's eyes were obviously confused, as if in an unconscious state.
He muttered to himself:
"She is also the captain of the cheerleading team, she is cheerful, enthusiastic, good at tennis and dancing..."
"Awesome!" Shang Jian Yao praised.
The captain continued:
"She also has a good mind, not one of those women who only have breasts and faces.
"She published papers when she was in college, and after graduation she chose to go to the laboratory as a researcher..."
Shang Jian Yao's smiling expression changed.
He raised his hand and rubbed his chin, and asked thoughtfully:
"researcher?"