Lu Yao and Jiao Hu landed back on the rooftop of the pedestrian bridge, ready to take the elevator down.
When the elevator door opened, Lu Yao noticed that the flyer he had specially posted in the afternoon was gone, and he muttered to himself, "Blown away by the wind?"
Huo Jiao's emotions had not yet completely calmed down, and her mind was in a mess, but she couldn't help but pay attention to the owner's every move. From her troubled expression and the direction of her eyes, she knew what she was talking about, "Even without those strange flyers, your shop would be popular."
Lu Yao raised his hand to press the floor button: "It's hard to say."
Huo Jiao felt a little strange. At first he thought the owner came to rescue him because she saw the live broadcast, but she looked like she knew nothing at this moment.
And just now she was on the phone, he took a look.
It seemed that there was no software for watching the live broadcast installed on her phone.
Pepper thought about it and asked, "How did you know I was on top before?"
Lu Yao: "Just happened to come out to get some fresh air. You're lucky."
In fact, it was the system that notified her.
"…" Hu Jiao felt that he was being criticized. After hesitating for two seconds, he said, "Actually, I was also live streaming just now."
Lu Yao blinked and reacted for a moment, realizing that the situation was more serious than expected. His eyebrows gradually gathered together, "From when to when?"
Hu Jiao: "In the afternoon at the cram school, at night when I was eating, when I jumped down... and when you took me flying, it didn't stop until you said you were going to arrange tutoring for me. When the live broadcast was disconnected, there were about 9 million people watching online."
Lu Yao: “…”
Huo Jiao had been observing the shop owner's expression. As he told her one word at a time, her brows furrowed and she scratched her hair in annoyance.
After a few seconds, the shop owner looked up and his face relaxed. "Forget it. Since it has been seen by more than nine million people, I'm afraid the number of customers will increase significantly starting tomorrow. At least before that, settle your tutoring first."
Pepper was already tense, leaning against the elevator entrance, intending to turn around and run away if she got angry, but this was the result.
Her calmness was extremely unreasonable in Hu Jiao's eyes, and she asked, "Are you not angry?"
Lu Yao had just seen Huo Jiao's memory and could understand his confusion to some extent. He shook his head and said, "The situation is indeed beyond our expectations, but it is futile to get angry at this time. For me, the most important task at the moment is to arrange tutoring for you."
Pepper's eyes widened, his nose felt inexplicably sour, and a thin mist rose in his eyes.
Her glasses had fallen somewhere long ago, and without any props to cover it up, Huo Jiao felt at a loss as to what to do. She had to lower her head in embarrassment to avoid being seen by the owner.
The elevator quickly reached the third floor, and Lu Yao walked out with Huo Jiao. Before they even stepped off the overpass, they saw a group of people gathered at the entrance of the cram school, most of whom were owners of nearby shops.
Some people noticed Lu Yao and Jiao approaching, looking excited, and some people hurriedly took out their cell phones.
Lu Yao pushed Huo into the store and asked Xiaoxiao to take him to the cram school.
She turned around and chatted with a few bosses, and supervised them to delete all the footage they had taken, before watching them leave with a faint smile.
Back in the store, Lu Yao saw three people sitting in the glass tea room, recognized Zheng Siyao, and greeted them.
Zheng Siyao stood up immediately, "Luyao, is the boy who just came in Huo Jiao?"
In fact, Huo's identity can be discerned from her inner voice, but Zheng Siyao just needs a topic to talk to the owner.
Lu Yao glanced at the two people behind Zheng Siyao and nodded in response, "Sorry, I'm a little busy at the moment."
Du Haoling looked past Zheng Siyao and looked directly at the shop owner, "Hello, my name is Du Haoling, and I want to sign up for childhood tutoring."
Xiaomei stood up in a hurry and raised her hand, saying, "I want to experience it, too."
Zheng Siyao reacted and immediately looked at Lu Yao: "I'm signing up too."
The three thought the owner would refuse, but she just glanced at them and turned to the cram school: "Okay, please come in and register."
"Xiaoxiao, you have to work overtime. Help me set up two tables." Lu Yao instructed as he walked into the cram school room, and then said to the four cram school students, "You guys go help as well. Sit down once the tables are set up."
Huo Jiao joined Xu Xiaoxiao silently, and Zheng Siyao and the other two did not hesitate either. They were really curious about how the childhood tutoring would proceed.
After the four of them sat down in a row, Lu Yao directly explained the process of childhood tutoring.
Pepper immediately became upset: "We still need to take out the bones? What kind of weird procedure is this?"
Du Haoling, who was sitting next to him, raised his hand to cover his mouth, his expression lost in thought, muttering to himself: "It's a very interesting theory, but with the current scientific technology, can we really extract memories from the bones of living things?"
Xiaomei and Zheng Siyao looked at each other and felt that this theory was too idealistic.
Xu Xiaoxiao, who was standing aside, couldn't help but speak out: "Others may not know, but the owner's ability is indeed good."
Zheng Siyao listened to Xu Xiaoxiao's inner voice. Her heartbeat was warm and strong, without a trace of cowardice or uneasiness. This person really believed in the owner from the bottom of her heart.
Xiaomei looked at Xu Xiaoxiao, "Are you the girl who received childhood tutoring that the owner mentioned? Is it really effective?"
As Xiaomei spoke, she gently touched Zheng Siyao with her knee.
Seeing the two people's little movements, Lu Yao couldn't help but say, "If you don't believe it, you can just refuse tutoring. There's no need to be so roundabout in testing."
The last time they chatted on the tram, Lu Yao already knew Zheng Siyao’s abilities, and also knew that she couldn’t hear his own thoughts.
Xiaomei asked Xu Xiaoxiao just to let Zheng Siyao make some judgments based on her inner thoughts.
Hu Jiao stared at Lu Yao, somewhat puzzled: She seemed angry? Why was she angry about something like this
Xu Xiaoxiao also felt that the owner was in a bad mood, but she didn't think about herself. She just felt that the trip she had just taken was not easy and she must be very tired. She took the initiative to say: "The thing I am most grateful for is that I received childhood tutoring. The owner and teacher Alfred rescued me from the quagmire called 'the past'. From today on, every minute and every second of my life will be renewed, and every day from now on will be a brand new day."
Xiaomei didn't understand why she was being criticized yet, and was shocked by Xu Xiaoxiao's answer.
This is really a very high evaluation.
The most important thing is that the tone and expression of the clerk's voice are so sincere that it is touching.
Thinking back to the live broadcast I just watched and listening to the clerk's eloquence, I really felt like I was in a cram school.
These two people are so good at speaking, it’s like they’re writing poetry.
Xiaomei was not shy, she raised her hand and asked, "Shopkeeper, what did I do wrong? Did I make you unhappy?"
If these words were said in a different scene, the fragrance of tea would be everywhere.
But Xiaomei's expression was also very sincere, revealing an indescribable cuteness.
Lu Yao shook his head gently: "I'm not angry yet. I just suddenly wondered if superpowers are really not a sign of some kind of degeneration for humans?"
There was one prospective student, three potential students, and a shop assistant in the tutorial room, all looking at the owner in confusion.
Superpowers are clearly a sign of human evolution towards a higher level, and this has long been authoritatively proven by countless experts.
Lu Yao casually pulled over a chair and sat down. "Do you know how assassin organizations in ancient times gathered intelligence?"
Everyone looked at each other and finally shook their heads.
It’s not that I can’t think of the answer, but I can’t understand why the owner suddenly brought up such a strange topic.
Lu Yao: "In order to obtain reliable intelligence, they often go undercover - gaining the trust of the target, living with them, observing them, understanding their interpersonal relationships, and finally making a judgment."
Of course, this approach may occasionally backfire, such as being accidentally "turned" by the target of the mission and then poached.
Seeing that they were still confused, Lu Yao frowned slightly: "Ancient assassins knew how to explore, understand, and then use rational thinking to judge things. But humans in this era rely purely on superpowers to make simple and crude classifications and judgments on people and things. Tsk tsk."
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That's it.
But the little numbers don’t know that the owner actually likes them very much. They are powerful and interesting.
In fact, this example is not appropriate.
Except for the shop owner, no one else knew that there really was such a group of killers in the world, but they still understood what the shop owner meant from this somewhat blunt example.
Xiaomei lowered her head, her cheeks slightly flushed.
Their generation does rely a lot on super powers.
In this world, humans were the only creatures among all living things that chose to evolve in the direction of intelligence, and were also the only creatures that possessed multi-dimensional and complex emotions.
And now, they have another kind of power, as if they are gradually forgetting the unique weapons that have been preserved after billions of years of evolution and selection.
Things were much simpler afterwards. Lu Yao took finger bones from the four people one by one, numbered them, and placed them in special containers. He then took them to the laboratory to make them into soul keys.
Among the four students, Du Haoling, a doctor, felt the most uncomfortable - the shop owner simply rubbed the medical knowledge he had learned for many years into the ground.
Lu Yao went to the laboratory to make the keys and asked Xu Xiaoxiao to tell them about the subsequent tutoring process in advance.
When the students heard the words "travel through time and space", their emotions, which had just calmed down, became agitated again.
Xiaomei no longer cared about controlling her expression. She just thought it was ridiculous. "Even if it's a superpower, it can't be like this..."
What's scary is not that she has the ability to travel through time and space, but that her ability allows anyone to travel through time and space.
Even with all the restrictions, it's terrifying to achieve this.
It was not until then that they began to vaguely understand what a perverted superpower it was to "endow matter with desired properties."
This is far more threatening than any high-offensive superpower, especially if its owner is particularly good at using his brain.
Zheng Siyao had never been able to figure out the owner's abilities before, and she had a secret prediction in her mind. She intuitively felt that it was a very unusual ability, but she didn't expect it to be so much beyond the norm.
On the contrary, Du Haoling was calmer: "Since there are successful students who have graduated, it means that the owner's theory is indeed logical."
He no longer wanted to be constantly surprised as if he had never seen the world before.
Pepper held her head with both hands, looking very painful: "I don't want to go back to the past, I really don't want to at all!"
Xu Xiaoxiao comforted him, "I understand your thoughts. I was similar to you at the beginning. But since you have come to the cram school, you just need to trust the owner and teacher Alfred. The situation will definitely not be worse than it is now."
Pepper looked stern.
That's true.
His situation couldn't get any worse than it already was.
Lu Yao came out of the laboratory carrying a small tray.
Four keys of similar shape but with different density of patterns lay quietly on the tray.
Xiaomei was the most curious and stretched her neck to look: "Owner, which key is mine?"
Lu Yao handed over the tray. The keys had been divided into two parts, one large and one small, with a mark on the small bracelet.
At night, I just registered and showed the key to them and put it in my personal drawer along with the tutoring materials.
Tutors can only leave by wearing a bracelet with a miniature version of the Soul Key.
It was only then that Pepper understood the purpose of the drawers on the wall.
Lu Yao had other things to do in the evening, so he simply arranged the order of tutoring for the few people: "There are guests who have appointments tomorrow morning, and Pepper in the afternoon. The three of you will come the day after tomorrow in the order you registered."
The situations of Xiaomei, Zheng Siyao and Du Haoling are not serious, or they just want to experience a childhood of tutoring.
Lu Yao does not reject guests who did not experience any particularly serious regrets in their childhood.
Regret, like happiness, means different things to different people.
However, for this type of customer, one tutoring session is usually enough.
After dealing with the trivial matters of tutoring registration, Lu Yao asked Zheng Siyao and the other two to leave, and also let Xu Xiaoxiao go home from get off work.
Pepper had nowhere to go, so she stayed at the tutorial center.
Late at night, Lu Yao was still busy in the laboratory.
Pepper was placed in the glass tea room, but he couldn't sleep, so he couldn't help knocking on the door of the research room. A soft female voice came from the door: "Come in."
Jiao Jiao, wearing the thin blanket that Xu Xiaoxiao had used, stood at the door awkwardly: "Are you still not sleeping?"
Lu Yao lay on the table: "It's almost done, it will be ready soon."
Pepper: "Can I come in?"
Lu Yao turned around and looked at him, then raised his head towards the door and said, "Whatever you want."
Pepper looked around the laboratory as he walked. The glass cabinets, metal shelves for materials, laboratory tables and computers were much simpler than he had imagined.
"What are you doing?" Pepper asked casually.
Lu Yao: "A super-strong energy net that cannot be destroyed."
Pepper: "…I'm sorry."
Lu Yao looked up at him and said, "Well, it seems that you have reflected on it. That's all for today. Let's go and go to bed."
Lu Yao stood up with the newly made bubble gun, added two layers of energy nets in the sky outside the store, and put a box of flying toys on the shelf.
There are three types of flying necklace toys - butterfly, flying bird and dragon, and the prices are 199 Meng coins, 399 Meng coins and 999 Meng coins respectively.
Wearing the necklace will grant you the corresponding type of flying ability.
This necklace is a rechargeable type. A butterfly can fly three times after charging once, a bird can fly four times, and a dragon can also fly three times.
The dragon wings are the ones Lu Yao used today. The flying experience and strength are better than those of the butterfly and bird models.
There is a counter on the necklace, and it is also engraved with an invisible protective magic circle.
Along with the flying toys, there is also a mobile charging station, which is built at the entrance of the Childhood Tuition Center.
Depending on the style, a recharge costs thirty, sixty, or ninety-nine coins respectively.
Pepper immediately bought one of each.
He originally wanted to buy the whole thing, but the owner didn't allow it.
After finishing the chores, Lu Yao took Huo Jiao to rest.
The exciting day finally came to an end.
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The next day, when Lu Yao came from the shopping street, Jiao Jiao had already woken up.
The store door was not open yet, and the noisy sound outside was so penetrating that it was no wonder that he couldn't sleep.
Lu Yao brought breakfast to Huo from the snack bar and asked him to take Erxin to the cram school to eat.
Hu Jiao stared at the steaming porridge and meat pie in a daze, and Er Xin anxiously rubbed against the boy's trouser legs. It took a long time to bring him back to his senses.
There were too many people at the door. Some were buying things, but there were also many customers asking about tutoring programs.
When Xu Xiaoxiao and Xiao Ze arrived, they were blocked outside the door and it took them a long time to squeeze in.
Xu Xiaoxiao entered the store, put down her bag and began to serve customers who came to buy things.
Earlier, many people came to inquire about the tutoring program, but they received the flyers and nothing happened.
There were still mostly people waiting and watching, so Lu Yao didn't pay much attention and took Xiao Ze into the cram school room.
Hu Jiao had finished breakfast and was bored and was amusing Er Xin with snacks. When he saw the owner bringing a young man in, he knew that this man was the morning tutor.
He threw out the snacks and let Erxin fly over to grab them, his eyes always on Lu Yao and Xiao Ze.
Lu Yao briefly introduced the two of them and then opened the key.
Two living people disappeared out of thin air. Even though he was fully prepared mentally, Huo Jiao was still stunned. Then he found that the sleeping little black dragon ornament on the table and the floating little silver ball were gone.
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Xiao Ze opened his eyes and found that his body shape had not changed and the clothes were still the same as he was wearing this morning.
Suddenly, his shoulder was patted gently and Xiao Ze turned his head.
The little black dragon Alfred flapped his mellow little wings and pointed forward: "He is right there."
Xiao Ze had a lot of questions in his mind, but when he saw what was ahead, he didn't care about anything else.
The place they were in was not any place Xiao Ze was familiar with. There seemed to be a river bank in front of them. There were many trees planted along the bank, and the soft branches of the big trees hung down to the river.
The breeze blows gently, and ripples appear on the water surface.
There were many benches on the shore, and a person was sitting on the chair right in front.
The figure from behind looked a little thin, but he was sitting straight.
Xiao Ze knew that it was him.
Another him.
He was deceived by Alfred into believing that there was someone who loved him most in the world, and he received a letter from him and tried hard to grow up on his own.
Xiao Ze quickly walked towards the figure, took a few steps, and then slowly stopped.
Xiao Ze, who firmly believed that he would meet the person who loved him the most when he turned 22, probably never thought that he would meet another messed up version of himself.