The group was as lively as Chinese New Year. Ji Zhixin looked at the photos and felt weird.
[Ji Zhixin: @Ji Zhixun, was that a child just now?]
[Ji Zhixun: @Ji Zhixin's hand slipped for a moment, sorry. ]
It's not a dynamic like, but this slip of the hand is very interesting.
The group was like a drop of water falling into boiling oil, with a crackling sound and a string of bubbles popping up.
[Ji Zhixiang: !!!]
[Ji Zhixiang: @Ji Zhixunxunxunxun, I didn’t see it! Please post it again! ]
[Ji Zhile: Xunxun, the child is going down the mountain, is he going back to Tianji? ]
Ji Zhixun leaned against the car window, half leaning his body, thinking about the destination that Zhizi had mentioned before, restrained his expression, and typed.
[Ji Zhixun: Today I am just going down the mountain. Where the child wants to go, only I know.]
The younger generation of the Ji family, who had never seen a child, howled in the group, and coaxed Ji Zhixun to send the photo again.
Ji Zhixin had already exited the group chat interface, stood up and walked out of the furry shop, heading towards the blind box shop across the street.
Ji Feiming stood at the door of the blind box shop and stared outside. A few months ago, some dilapidated buildings around the shop were demolished and rebuilt, and now the rebuilt houses are habitable.
People in this world work from sunrise to sunset and rest from sunset to sunrise, as if they have returned to the era when men farmed and women weaved, and time has become leisurely and peaceful.
Blind box stores no longer just provide essential survival supplies. A new batch of lipstick and facial cream blind boxes were launched the day before yesterday and were sold out in less than half a day after being put on the shelves.
As soon as Ji Zhixin entered the room, he saw Ji Feiming who seemed to be in a trance.
"Uncle, the child has gone down the mountain."
Ji Feiming's eyes narrowed and his brows were furrowed.
No one informed him of this.
Ji Zhixin took out his cell phone and handed it over: "Something seems to be wrong."
Ji Feiming's eyes fell on the screen of the mobile phone handed to him, his expression changed slightly, he reached out to take the phone, walked outside the door and looked at it carefully for a while. He already had a guess in his mind, and couldn't help but confirm it again.
He asked, “What is this?”
Ji Zhixin: "The photo Ji Zhixun posted in the group. I asked her and she admitted it was Zhizi."
The photo must have been taken secretly, the picture is not very clear, and only the side face is captured.
But the information revealed is exactly the same.
This child has silver hair, red eyes, snow-white skin, and eyes that are clear, distant, and as calm as the quiet snow on a mountain top.
This look and expression were too familiar to the uncle and nephew of the Ji family.
There must be a reason why the child walked out of the sacred mountain.
Ji Feiming immediately contacted his clan and dialed three numbers in succession, but none of the calls were connected.
Ji Feiming's face looked gloomy.
Ji Zhixin said: "Don't worry, I'll ask my mother."
The call was not answered either.
Ji Feiming couldn't wait any longer and walked out the door.
"I'll go find the owner first."
Unfortunately, it was such an unfortunate coincidence that Lu Yao had just taken Bai Yi, Xie Molin and Jiao Huo to tutoring.
Hu Jiao opened his eyes and returned to his residence in Jinju Community.
He looked down at his hands. His fingers were stubby and there were shallow dimples on the back of his hands, no different from last time.
There was a knock on the door and he looked up: "What's wrong?"
Lu Yao's voice came in: "It's time to have breakfast, but you haven't gotten up yet?"
Pepper lifted the quilt and rolled out of bed, "Get up."
Five minutes later, Pepper sat at the dining table, with a steaming hot breakfast in front of him: lightly burnt yellow fried eggs, fried sausage covered with oil, boiled corn, fresh tomatoes cut in half, two slices of soft toasted milk-flavored bread, and a cup of warm milk next to the white porcelain plate.
Pepper was stunned for a moment before speaking: "Aren't we going to eat buns today?"
Lu Yao sat down opposite him: "Compared to the breakfast that mom prepared carefully, you prefer the meat buns downstairs? Woohoo, so sad."
Pepper's face froze, and he spoke stiffly, "That's not what I meant."
Lu Yao stood up, stretched his hand across the table, and rubbed the top of Pepper's hair, "I know, eat it quickly."
After breakfast, Pepper was about to say something when the doorbell rang.
Lu Yao stood up and threw the dishes into the dishwasher, saying, "Hu Qi is here. But you don't have to go to school today. I've already asked for leave for you."
There was confusion on Hu Jiao's young face.
Lu Yao picked up the bag on the sofa and turned to walk to the entrance. "This is an adjustment for this tutoring session. Teacher Xie will come to pick you up later. Don't be afraid, just follow him out."
The door opened, and Lu Yao spoke to Hu Qi: "Brother Hu Jiao has a cold, so he won't be going to school today."
Hu Qi stood at the door, looking helpless.
Lu Yao bent down and took his hand, then closed the door. "It's okay, we'll go together."
Huo Jiao sat alone at the dining table in a daze, unable to figure out Lu Yao's intention.
Lu Yao went to school alone with Hu Qi and placed Hu Qi in the co-pilot seat.
On the way, Lu Yao caught a glimpse of him with his hands clenched tightly together, his lips pursed seriously, and he was not as lively and talkative as he usually was when he was with Jiao Huo.
He is very nervous.
Lu Yao looked ahead and tried to speak in a gentle tone: "Little Hu Qi."
Hu Qi tilted his head and looked over: "Huh?"
Lu Yao: "Brother Huo and I both like you very much. Do you want to live with us?"
Hu Qi blinked and shook his head slowly.
Lu Yao was surprised but not surprised, but he still asked: "Why?"
Hu Qi lowered his head, seemingly struggling for words.
The car turned the intersection and was about to arrive at the school when the sound of Hu Qi's grandmother's puffing was heard.
"I'm worried about my mother being left alone if I leave."
He did not mention his father.
Hu Qi, who is less than seven years old, is soft-hearted, while Huo Jiao, who is seventeen years old, is determined to die.
As cute and sensible as Hu Qi was when he was a child, as regrettable as the seventeen-year-old Huo Jiao is.
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The doorbell rang and Pepper jumped off the chair to open the door.
Xie Molin, who was standing outside the door, was wearing a neat suit. "Little Pepper, I'm here to pick you up."
Pepper had met the new teacher at the cram school this morning, "Where are you taking me?"
Xie Molin: "You will know when you go to the place arranged by the boss."
Before leaving, Xie Molin handed Huo Jiao a necklace.
Pepper took it and put it on. A silvery-white halo overflowed from the necklace and gradually enveloped Pepper's body.
When the white light faded away, Pepper's figure grew taller and turned into a young man, wearing a suit.
The two left the apartment one after the other.
Xie Molin drove out of Jinju Community and headed straight for the central business district.
Taking the elevator upstairs from the underground garage of the office building, Hu Jiao gradually remembered where this place was.
The elevator opened and closed, some people came in and some people left, and finally stopped on the 27th floor.
Xie Molin was the first to walk out of the elevator and looked back at Hu Jiao.
Pepper pinched the corner of her clothes, took a breath, and walked out of the elevator.
After walking through a corridor, Xie Molin walked straight into the company gate with Pepper, and no one found it strange.
When Hu Jiao raised his eyes, he saw the man sitting at his workstation. Even from his back, he recognized at a glance that it was his cruel father.
They came to the workplace of Huojiao's father, but Huojiao still didn't understand the owner's intention.
Xie Molin took Jiao to the workstation across from Hu's father and sat down, whispering in his ear: "You are an employee here today, don't be so reserved. I'll pick you up after get off work."
Hu's father works in a financial company, but it was not until today that Hu Jiao learned that his job is to keep calling clients. Most of the time, the other party hangs up before he can say a word.
At this time, an expression that was familiar yet a little new to Pepper appeared on the man's face—angry, irritable, but helpless.
The former is familiar, and the latter feels new.
After lunch, Jiao Jiao saw another strange scene - three or five men with Hu's father were talking in the smoking room, discussing the company's new female employee. After coming out of the smoking room, the others returned to their workstations one after another. Hu's father turned around and walked into the tea room next door, stopping the new female employee.
Pepper didn't know what the two were talking about, but after a few minutes, the woman and the man sat down face to face, and the girl facing the door showed a shy smile on her face.
He Jiaomian sneered, raised his hand to knock on the door, went in to get some water, and sat next to the girl with the cup in his hand. He glanced at the man and started talking to the girl next to him.
The female employee who had just arrived at the company was about the same age as Huo Jiao, so the two young people could easily create topics of conversation.
Father Hu's face darkened.
Hu Jiao had been secretly observing the man's expression and said casually, "I met Hu Ge's wife and son at the last dinner party. The child's name is Hu Qi, right?"
Under the inquiring gaze of the female employee, the man nodded stiffly.
Just as Hu Jiao had expected, the owner dared to arrange him into the company and even arranged the relevant information.
His words did not arouse suspicion.
After lunch break, Huo Jiao and the female employee left the tea room one after another, and no one paid any attention to Hu's father.
During the company meeting in the afternoon, Hu Jiao saw the man sitting at the very end of the conference room with his head down the whole time, just like a student who was afraid to answer questions in class and did not dare to meet the leader's eyes.
Huo Jiao suddenly felt very strange. The man at home was like a dictatorial emperor, bossing Chen Jing and him around. If the slightest thing did not go his way, he would insult them at the very least, and beat them at the worst.
But this man is timid, has poor character and accomplishes nothing in the workplace and when he leaves that special place called family. No wonder he calls "beating people" "relieving stress" at home.
And he used to be afraid of such a cowardly and inferior man.
At the end of the get off work day, not a single employee in the entire office packed up their things. They all sat at their workstations, looking at computers, making phone calls, or just slacking off.
Xie Molin came to pick up Pepper on time.
Without hesitation, Pepper turned off the computer, got up and left.
He felt the man across from him looking up, but Pepper was no longer interested in exploring his thoughts.
Coming out of the office building, Hu Jiao stood on the busy street, exhaled, and said lightly: "The weather is really nice today."
Xie Molin looked up. The sky was cut into small pieces by the towering buildings and streets. The dome within his field of vision was high and narrow, and he could not tell where the weather was good.
Xie Molin's gaze fell back on Huo Jiao, and his eyes flashed.
When I went out in the morning, there was a dark cloud as big as an adult's head hanging above my head. Then the dark cloud dispersed and a small sun emerged from behind the cloud with half of its face.
I see.
It's not that the sky is clear, but that the tutor's heart is clear.
Mood weather forecast—a manifestation of Xie Molin’s superpowers.
When he was a child, Xie Molin was only sensitive to people's emotions. Later, after developing his own abilities, he built a set of mood weather forecasts that were unique to him.
He can use his ability to see the feelings of people whose names he knows.
Little Dark Cloud: Feeling depressed.
Little Sun: I’m in a good mood.
Dark clouds with raindrops: sad.
Dark clouds dotted with snowflakes: the heart is dead.
The clouds are turning red: shy and embarrassed.
Clouds are gray-blue: awkward.
…
Xie Molin’s mood weather forecast system is very detailed. As long as you know the name, you can see the mood icon above the other person’s head.
But Lu Yao was an accident.
Just as Zheng Siyao's telepathy failed, Xie Molin could not see his boss's mood icon.
Back at the Jinju community, Jiaohu took off her necklace and her figure returned to that of a six or seven-year-old.
Less than half an hour after Xie Molin left, a sound was heard outside the door. Lu Yao and Hu Qi came back together.
Hu Qi did not go home first, but went in with Lu Yao.
He came to visit Pepper.
Seeing Hu Qi sitting on the sofa, Hu Qi's frown relaxed slightly: "Brother Hu Qi, are you feeling better?"
Huo Jiao had completely forgotten that Lu Yao had asked for leave for him in the morning. He was so excited that he calmed down a little after seeing Hu Qi. "Well, I'm fine. Let's play flying chess."
Pepper and Huggie lay on the living room carpet playing with flying machines.
Lu Yao cleaned up the kitchen and came out: "Pepper, the third tutoring session is over."
Before Pepper could even think of stopping, he had already returned to the cram school.
Bai Yi and Xie Molin had returned a minute and a half ago.
Bai Yi was talking to the uncle and nephew of the Ji family, while Xie Molin calmly observed the mood icons above the three people's heads.
Not until Lu Yao came back did Ji Feiming and Ji Zhixin stand up immediately.
Lu Yao was surprised: "What happened?"
These two people rarely lose their composure like this, and it looks like something unusual has happened.
Ji Feiming glanced at Ji Zhixin, who took out his mobile phone, opened the photo album, and handed it to Lu Yao.
Ji Zhixin: "Does the shop owner know Him?"
Lu Yao stared at the photo, his expression changed: "What is this?"
Ji Feiming stood up and said, "It's not easy to talk here, let's go somewhere else."
Since this matter concerns the future gods of this world, Ji Feiming instinctively feels that he should not talk about it in the store.
Lu Yao had no objection. He turned around and said a few words, then followed the uncle and nephew out of the cram school.
Standing on the desolate and quiet side of the shopping street, Lu Yao took Ji Zhixin's phone and looked at it again, "Who is this child?"
Ji Feiming and Ji Zhixin looked at each other, and then Ji Feiming spoke, telling the story of the relationship between the child and the gods.
When Ji Feiming started to talk about the child's identity, the dream-fulfilling system kept sounding the alarm.
Lu Yao ignored the system warning and listened to everything about Zhizi with great interest. He asked calmly, "Do you think he has any relationship with me?"
Ji Feiming and Ji Zhixin's expressions honestly reflected their inner thoughts.
Lu Yao shook his head firmly: "I don't know him."
Ji Feiming and Ji Zhixin had different expressions.
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At the end of the third tutoring session, Pepper was in a much better mood than the previous one.
He still has to continue with the fourth tutoring session.
However, after three tutoring sessions, you need to take a psychological test.
Jiao Hu completed the new test under the guidance of Xie Molin and Bai Yi, and made an appointment for a fourth tutoring session two days later.
This time he did not stay in the cram school for long and went straight back to the graduate school.
Hu Jiao returned to the dormitory and her roommates were talking about X again.
X has to take ability test every day.
He still couldn't beat Professor An.
Logically speaking, X's ability value is not as high as Professor An's, but the researchers responsible for deconstructing the intelligence still haven't found a breakthrough.
A roommate asked Pepper, "You go to that place called Childhood Tuition Center every few days. Is it really effective?"
The other people also looked over with inquiring expressions.
Pepper nodded slightly: "Not bad. Why do you ask this suddenly?"
They clearly had no interest in this matter before.
The roommate who asked the question said, "When doing the experiment, I heard the white coats chatting, and someone suggested sending X to that cram school to try. It is said that the owner of that cram school can extract other people's memories. Is it true?"
"The men in white coats are helpless, so how can we rely on a capable person from a private organization?" Hu Jiao didn't respond, and the other person couldn't help but ask.
"The ability to extract other people's memories is actually very abnormal. Send X over. Don't let this person be fooled and run away before you find a breakthrough." Another person also said.
X is good at psychological warfare. He has done things like confusing and exploiting public officials before, and has successfully escaped from prison more than once. The staff at the Sanhua City Super Energy Research Institute are very cautious. They usually keep X in solitary confinement, not allowing him to contact other experimental subjects, and the staff never communicate with him.
If we really send X to a childhood cram school, who knows who will be teaching whom.
Hu Jiao thought of Lu Yao and couldn't help but evaluate it in his mind.
The owner is undoubtedly very strong.
But compared with X, it may be difficult to gain an advantage.
The shop owner has too gentle a perspective on the world, and he will definitely be bullied when faced with vicious criminals.
Pepper selfishly didn't want the store owner to confront X, so she didn't refute.
To others, this reaction is tantamount to tacitly agreeing with their conclusion.
A few people felt bored for a moment and stopped discussing the childhood tutorial center.
Hu Jiao lay down, thinking about the next tutoring session, when he suddenly received a communication request from the front desk, saying that someone downstairs was looking for him.
Pepper got up, put on her shoes, and prepared to go downstairs, but she was confused.
He had no other concerns in Sanhua City, and no one came to visit him except during tutoring hours.