Pepper came out of the elevator, calmed down for a moment, and then walked towards the front desk.
When he got closer, he didn't call out to anyone, his brows knitted together, and he looked irritated all over: "Why are you here?"
Chen Jing turned around and looked up and down at her son whom she hadn't seen for a year. Her face was numb: "I came to see you."
Pepper ran away from home, and they hadn't come to look for him for over a year, but now he came.
The boy suppressed his anger and said, "Nothing to see."
Chen Jing was much calmer than when she was young. She was used to Huo's attitude and led him to a coffee shop nearby.
After sitting down, Chen Jing said, "Your father and I are getting a divorce."
Huo Jiao had a blank expression on his face, his eyes fixed on the milk foam in the teacup, without any reaction.
Chen Jing frowned and looked at him for a while, then looked away and looked outside through the glass: "You are in that cram school now, how are you doing?"
Pepper sneered: "I have signed the experimental subject consent form. After two more tutoring sessions, I will not go to the tutoring center again. From now on, I will be used as a guinea pig in the Super Energy Research Institute until I am used up."
After the words came out, Huo Jiao's face showed a sense of satisfaction, but then he felt confused.
Even if he ends his childhood tutoring and becomes a test subject, has his life really gotten better
He seemed to have walked from one cage into another.
Chen Jing would not indulge him, and the look in her eyes was as indifferent as that of the young man opposite her.
She said she came to see him, as if she really just wanted to take a look.
There was no good talk between the two, especially in recent years. The woman stood up and left without looking back.
Pepper watched her walk out of the café and outside, looking dazed and puzzled, not understanding what the purpose of her visit was.
And from what she said, it seemed that she knew the owner
Why would Lu Yao contact Chen Jing
Hu Jiao thought about the tutoring content in the morning and suddenly understood.
The location and situation of that man’s company would not be so realistic without an on-site investigation.
That was something that did not exist in his memory. Someone else might have dealt with it perfunctorily, but the owner would not.
Hu Jiao suddenly realized that, whether he was willing or not, he seemed to have begun to trust someone uncontrollably.
He raised his hand and scratched his chest. Often when one places trust in someone, one will unconsciously project expectations onto that person.
But in the future, there will always be disappointments.
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Childhood Tuition Center.
The two tutors have gradually adapted to time travel, and Lu Yao plans to assign them tutoring tasks. However, before that, the owner feels that a large tutoring room is not very convenient, especially since teachers will have to receive students separately in the future, and most tutors are not used to analyzing their predicaments for everyone to see, so he plans to upgrade the tutoring room.
Lu Yao walked around the large cram school room and said, "I plan to separate six small offices on the left and right sides as private offices for the teachers. The reference room is connected to the hall, but it needs to be separated by glass. I will recruit a reference manager later. The cram school monitoring room will also be set up inside the reference room, and another monitor will be hired at that time."
Bai Yi had thought that there should be a private office area for tutors, but he didn't expect the owner to have such an idea so quickly. He couldn't help but say, "Our classroom doesn't look very big. Wouldn't it be too crowded to open six offices with a data room and a monitoring room?"
Xie Molin also said: "For the time being, there are only four tutors, including Xiaoxiao, and four offices are enough. Even so, the decoration task is not easy, and I am afraid it will be delayed for about a week."
Their opinions were very practical. The space of the cram school classroom was not big enough, and building a data room and a monitoring room on the wall facing the door would take up a lot of space.
Lu Yao shook his head: "It doesn't matter, I have experience, there will definitely be enough space. There is no need to hire a decoration company, I will decorate the shop myself, you don't have to worry about it, the modification will be completed tomorrow."
Bai Yi and Xie Molin looked at each other and didn't say much.
The owner is a mystery, and his abilities are also a mystery.
But during this time since she started working here, everything she said "yes" to was done.
Like the owner said, she has experience.
Bai Yi felt this more clearly, after all, she knew that the shop owner owned an entire commercial street. And she heard that those shops, like the cram school, led to different worlds.
Bai Yi only learned a little bit from listening to colleagues chatting in the staff office in the shopping street, and had not been to other stores.
I heard that the movie theater next door is in an ancient world, but the owner has promoted holographic movies there. Every now and then, new movies are released, and the staff have the opportunity to go and watch them, which is a kind of employee welfare.
Bai Yi is looking forward to going to the movies with his colleagues next time so that he can broaden his horizons.
After Lu Yao finished drawing the drawings and put them away, he had actually handed them over to the system, and would start maintenance and upgrades when he closed the store at night.
Just after lunch, the guests who had made appointments for tutoring arrived.
The original appointment for this day was for an adult experimental subject, the one who came with Du Haoling and Xiaomei two days ago, but the experimental subject who came today was very young and looked less than twenty years old.
He took out the tutoring bracelet of the previous experimental subject and explained, "No. 365 just did a new experiment yesterday and is still recuperating in the nutrition cabin. He has no time to come. I am Experiment No. 52, and he gave me the tutoring spot."
Subject No. 52 has a gentle appearance and can easily be mistaken for a girl when he doesn't speak. However, once he speaks, his voice becomes gruff and even his expression becomes lively.
However, Lu Yao did not agree to receive him immediately. Instead, he asked him to wait for a while and called the Super Energy Research Institute to find out the situation before turning back to receive No. 52.
No. 52 walked past Lu Yao and looked at her with his head tilted. "Young boss, you are quite cautious. You probably don't know that you are famous in the institute? The experimental subjects heard that you can go back in time and change the future, so they all want to find a chance to come out and find you. And those white coats in the institute are also trying to trick you into being an experimental subject by making up excuses."
When he said this, No. 52 and Lu Yao had already walked into the cram school.
Xie Molin and Bai Yi looked up.
No. 52 saw that the owner's face remained unchanged and smiled meaningfully: "You don't believe it? Or are you confident in your abilities?"
Lu Yao recalled what happened when he first went to the research institute to pick up Huo Jiao. It was indeed not as simple as Xiao Mei explained at the time.
However, the people here could not imagine that she had no superpowers at all. The owner did not explain for the time being and planned to let this misunderstanding continue.
Lu Yao took out the childhood test form from under the table.
After filling out No. 52, she looked at the test form for a long while.
After a few minutes, Lu Yao said, "Sir, you can take the bones now."
No. 52 had already found out everything from No. 365, so he walked over, sat down, stretched out his hand, and waited for the owner to take the bone.
Bai Yi and Xie Molin both came over.
Even though I have seen it several times, this scene that goes against medical common sense always arouses endless curiosity.
No. 52 does not want Bai Yi and Xie Molin to participate in his tutoring, and only allows Lu Yao to be his tutor.
After the soul key was made, Lu Yao took No. 52 back to his childhood.
No. 52’s request is to return to his childhood, find his parents, and not need tutoring.
The white light faded away, No. 52 opened his eyes and raised his eyebrows.
The black floor, white ceiling, and the empty room were filled with silver transparent nutrition capsules. It really was like returning to his childhood.
Lu Yao came out and put a piece of transparent paper on the back of No. 52, and she also put one on her own back.
This time the environment was indoors and had many similarities to some of the facilities she had seen before at the Super Energy Research Institute.
There must be surveillance facilities inside such a facility.
However, Lu Yao had already considered this situation. In the first minute that the time machine took them across the time and space line, they would not be captured by this time and space to ensure that the tutor and himself landed safely.
After affixing stickers with the invisibility magic emblem, the two of them were like air in the facility for two hours, invisible, odorless, and colorless, and would not be captured by thermal sensing equipment.
"Where is this?" Lu Yao asked.
No. 52 couldn't suppress the excitement in his eyes: "We really traveled through time! You are amazing!"
After going crazy, No. 52 took Lu Yao's hand and lowered his voice: "We must have been discovered. We must hurry before we are caught."
Lu Yao grabbed his hand and said, "Don't worry, I have already taken measures. Is this the research institute?"
No. 52 blinked and looked Lu Yao up and down again, "You are so capable. This makes me want to kidnap you."
Lu Yao narrowed his eyes: "???"
No. 52 confirmed many times that they had not been discovered, and immediately relaxed. Without letting go of Lu Yao, he pulled her around a row of nutrition cabins.
The cylindrical nutrition cabin is about two and a half meters high. It is filled with an unknown substance and has a breathing mask connected to three hoses on the top.
The nutrition chambers that Lu Yao saw were all empty. After walking a dozen steps, he saw someone being placed in a nutrition chamber, naked, with eyes closed and a breathing mask on his mouth.
Lu Yao couldn't help but stop. It was like a scene in a science fiction novel. The impact of watching it through the screen was completely different from seeing it with one's own eyes. At this moment, Lu Yao felt a kind of discomfort that was beyond the limit.
She frowned, "Is this how No. 365 stays in the nutrition cabin?"
No. 52 shook his head. “This is an old facility from more than a decade ago. The technology now is much better than before. But that’s about it.”
The door of the room suddenly opened slowly, and three or four people in white coats walked in and went straight to the nutrition cabin that Lu Yao and No. 52 had seen.
Before the door closed, No. 52 pulled him and ran out quickly.
"It looks like this was when I was three years old. At that time I thought they should still be in the research institute, but I couldn't find them anywhere." No. 52 ran all the way and turned back to say to Lu Yao.
Having just proved that they had not been discovered, No. 52 became particularly bold.
No. 52's parents were both experimental subjects. They met and got to know each other at the research institute, and later gave birth to No. 52 in the laboratory.
But No. 52 has never seen his parents since he became conscious. He has been looking for them, but can't find them anywhere.
Now thinking from an adult's perspective, it is incredible that his parents could have given birth to him under such circumstances.
Born by a pair of experimental subjects, he became an experimental subject again.
Life is full of irony.
What kind of mood were they in when they gave birth to him
No. 52 wants to find them and ask them in person.
The two searched the entire institute, from the first basement floor to the sixth floor, but found nothing.
Two hours passed quickly. Lu Yao pulled No. 52 and said, "The transparent magic will soon lose its effect. And the time limit is up. Let's go back first."
Lu Yao and No. 52 returned to the cram school. Bai Yi and Xie Molin were drinking coffee and having afternoon tea leisurely.
In fact, only three minutes passed from turning on the time machine to returning.
This trip was more tiring than expected, and the two of them really ran up and down the research institute many times.
No. 52 looks thin, but he is in good physical and mental condition.
On the contrary, Lu Yao was almost exhausted after this trip.
Bai Yi poured a cup of tea for the owner, "How is it?"
Lu Yao glanced at No. 52 and shook his head: "I didn't find it."
Lu Yao turned to look at No. 52 again: "Maybe they are not there at all. The only place we can go is your memory."
Although this trip did not achieve the goal, No. 52 was not disappointed. He looked at the owner with a surprisingly bright look: "I have understood the principle of your ability. As long as you have the bones of the corresponding person, you can see all the experiences of this person's life. I don't have them in my memory, but I know who has them. I want to make an appointment for the next tutoring, and then I will bring new clues."
Lu Yao frowned slightly: "You don't want to take someone's finger bone, do you? This operation is not done by me, so I can't do it. Don't try it casually."
Lu Yao's intuition has always been accurate, and the young man in front of her gave her an extremely dangerous feeling.
A trace of regret flashed across No. 52's eyes. He was silent for a while, then he consoled himself: "The stronger the ability, the more it will be constrained by strong rules. Your ability is so strong and stable, I can imagine how strict the constraints are. I will find a way to bring him or them here, and please make an appointment for me for the next tutoring time."
After Subject No. 52 left, there were no guests for a while.
Lu Yao, Bai Yi and Xie Molin sat together drinking tea and eating snacks.
Du Haoling will come over later.
Lu Yao had to replenish her energy in advance as she was going to take Bai Yi and Xie Molin for tutoring later.
Bai Yi received instructions from the shop owner and pretended to be a resident of Sanhua City like Xu Xiaoxiao and Xie Molin.
In order to avoid being exposed, she searched for a lot of information on the computer in the lounge in her spare time and explored the other world frantically.
Even though he only learned about it through videos and pictures on the Internet, Bai Yi found it very surprising and interesting.
If you take a closer look, you will find that although the world of Sanhua City looks similar to the shopping street, it actually has many differences.
There are some outrageous rules among them. For example, as long as the students in this world have an A+ superpower rating in middle school, they can enter the top university in the region.
Upon graduation from university, your superpower rating will reach S, and you will be directly employed in the region's top and most cutting-edge research centers and scientific research institutions.
These top researchers were all sixteen years old when they joined the company.
Sixteen years old, what does that mean
Have they understood the book? Has their self-awareness grown and developed? Has their personality been perfected
Bai Yi continued to search for information while complaining, and unexpectedly saw a photo and a report about Xie Molin on the official website of a top research institute.
The report was from a few months ago. Xie Molin has left the company now, but the news article has not been replaced.
Bai Yi looked up at Xie Molin from time to time, which made Xie Molin feel uneasy. "What's the matter?"
Lu Yao also looked over.
Bai Yi was suddenly caught and felt embarrassed, but he was really curious, so he took the opportunity to ask: "I saw a lot of news reports about you on the Internet. You are so powerful, why did you resign?"
And after leaving the job, I came to the Childhood Tutorial Center again.
Bai Yi didn't think the cram school was bad, but compared to the institution where Xie Molin used to work, which was well-known nationwide, the Childhood Cram School was indeed not as good.
In other words, the existence of childhood tutoring centers is only attractive to certain people, and industry giants like Xie Molin probably wouldn't be interested in it.
Xie Molin put down the cookie in his hand, lowered his head and thought, as if considering how to explain, "Simply put, because there is no hope."
The institution where Xie Molin originally worked was dedicated to individual psychology research, but whether it was because of the wrong research method or direction, he had never achieved satisfactory results.
One of the topics he studied was how to regulate and eliminate the purple sand tendency of the experimental subjects.
Many experimental subjects are prone to develop that tendency as they get older, and once they have this tendency, most of them will die within less than half a year.
Xie Molin's fingers gently stroked the lines on the glass teacup, his eyes full of confusion: "Some test subjects like to eat, we try our best to meet all his requirements and provide food according to his preferences every day. Some test subjects want friends, so we hold cocktail parties to provide them with social places and opportunities. Some test subjects say they don't want to be test subjects anymore, we arrange for them to leave the institute, but pay them a normal salary to ensure that they will have no worries in their lives. But before long, bad news will come. No matter what we try, we can't save those test subjects."
Xie Molin went from being unbearable in the beginning to getting used to it and becoming numb and indifferent. In the past six months, he found it unbearable again.
Suddenly one day, Xie Molin felt that the air in the laboratory was so oppressive that it was hard to breathe. It made him feel cold down his spine, as if if he didn't escape from that environment, he would be the next person to get into trouble.
Xie Molin wrote a letter of resignation on the first day he realized that something was wrong with his condition. After nearly a week of tug-of-war, he finally successfully resigned.
"After I quit my job, I went straight back to Sanhua City. I stayed at home and felt that my life was a fog. Even though I had left the institute, I often thought about my previous job. I couldn't understand why I couldn't find a way to save them." Xie Molin is still troubled by this problem. "The day my senior called me, I searched for information about the Childhood Tuition Center on the Internet. It turned out that there was indeed one. There was even a video of the owner successfully persuading someone to commit suicide."
Everyone knows what happened next. Xie Molin successfully joined the tutorial center.
Bai Yi tilted his head to look at Lu Yao, "What do you think is the reason, owner?"
Xie Molin raised his eyebrows. Did they know
Lu Yao frowned: "Everyone's situation is different. Without in-depth understanding, it is impossible to judge. But such a common phenomenon must have an obvious common cause. The reason why humans are human beings is different from ordinary animals because humans have consciousness and emotions. When the survival crisis is solved, people will naturally have higher needs."
Bai Yi nodded: "This need must have been precipitated over a long period of time and has a concrete image. Generally speaking, normal people will think about how to meet this need next. If they encounter obstacles, they will adjust their behavior and try again until they reach a state that they can accept."
Xie Molin fell silent, then said: "Isn't this what we do?"
A few people were still discussing this issue when Du Haoling walked in along the narrow corridor: "It's so lively."