A small cafe on Peace Avenue.
At the innermost small table, Lu Ming and Candice sat together intimately, even tasting each other's coffee. To outsiders, they looked like a close couple.
"You can drink coffee in the room. The hotel also has a coffee shop. Why do you have to come to such a far place?" Lu Ming said helplessly.
Candice picked up the coffee cup: "Rommel also lives in the hotel. It's not good to meet him, but I don't care. Aren't you afraid?" She glanced at Lu Ming with a smile.
Lu Ming snorted, "We live together, he should know, right? What's there to be afraid of if we drink coffee together?"
"I explained to him that you and I are close friends. I pretended to live with you in order to get rid of some boring people. In fact, we slept separately!" Candice paused and said, "I didn't have to explain so much to him. It's all your fault!" She glared at Lu Ming and said, "I was afraid that if I didn't explain it clearly, he would do something bad to you."
Lu Ming smiled and said, "I'm not afraid of him."
Candice nodded: "I know that, but I don't want to cause you unnecessary trouble because of me. I would be so sorry for you as a friend." After pondering for a moment, she continued: "Now I think General Denitz won't mind the past anymore. You've spent a lot of time on him, right? He can speak for you like that. So, I should move out, too. Otherwise, it will affect your normal life."
Lu Ming thought about it and nodded, "That's fine, but you don't affect my life. I don't mind being misunderstood by others, but it affects you. Some young talents may think that your private life is too messy, or think that you have a boyfriend. It would be bad if you miss out on a good marriage."
Candice smiled and said, "You are not sincere. This is not the biggest reason why you want me to move out quickly!"
Lu Ming coughed. In fact, he felt that he had such a close relationship with her, and she was close to the core of power. If some sensitive information was leaked out in the future, even though he had obtained it from other channels, it would still be easy for him to be listed as an insider and a subject of investigation.
In terms of obtaining intelligence, one should try to stay away from the core circle and inquire secretly so as not to be easily exposed.
Candice smiled and said, "You should take it easy. Don't let alcohol and sex drain your body at such a young age."
Lu Ming smiled, looked at her again, and said seriously: "Thank you, you should not have told Rommel that he couldn't hear my voice."
Candice stared at him: "Is this a very important thing for you?"
Lu Ming was stunned. In fact, it seemed to be true. Normal people would not take this seriously. It was hard to say whether they believed it or not, not to mention that they would not think that if they could not hear my inner voice, they might suspect that I had a problem or something.
"You look a little suspicious?!" Candice said half jokingly and half seriously.
Lu Ming quickly collected his thoughts and said with a smile, "You are my auditor. If I have any problems, you can't escape responsibility."
"It seems that I really need to review you again!" Candice stared at Lu Ming with interest, "Don't make jokes casually. Do you know that if you are really our enemy, your words actually reveal a lot of information. In the review, you are actually guilty, so you mentioned it at the first time."
Lu Ming coughed. He really talked too much and made many mistakes. This was the case because he had no spy training. However, it was also because he was too familiar with Candice and regarded her as a very good friend. He might even feel deep down that even if she knew his identity, she would not report it, so he chatted like this.
Candice chuckled, "Okay, I won't tease you anymore!"
Lu Ming smiled, "I know why you have no friends. When friends are just chatting, you have to think about the other person's mental state when they say each sentence. This is not good. It is not the way to make friends."
Candice smiled: "I wouldn't chat with others like this. I know what they are thinking, why would I guess? It's because I don't know what you are thinking that I am curious and want to guess you!"
Lu Ming was helpless: "Okay, what you said makes sense, I don't have any reason to refute you."
Candice giggled for a while, then her smile gradually faded. She fiddled with the small spoon in the coffee cup and sighed softly, "I don't have any friends because humans are really terrible creatures. We have too many terrible negative emotions. For example, I may have made you angry just now, and you wanted to strangle me to death. In fact, it was just a thought, so how could you really do it? But in front of me, you may show a particularly hideous and terrible expression. I know clearly that you are just angry for a moment, but I can never forget that terrible expression. How can I be friends with you without any grudges?"
"Fortunately, now that I have you, you won't appear to want to kill me or rape me, or be jealous and want to do something to harm me..." Candice smiled at Lu Ming, "Do you know that your little lover, Jinzhi, looks so pure and cute, like a little white rabbit, but she has thought of killing me, probably because she hates us Sonya people very much. Only you, she is only grateful."
He shook his head. "So, who can I be friends with? In fact, even if I handed a knife to your little lover and tied me up and put me in front of her, she would definitely not dare to do it. But I can see that dark and terrifying expression on her face when she occasionally has the idea of hating me."
Lu Ming was silent. According to what Candice said, she was actually a very pitiful person. The ugliness and distortion hidden in the deepest part of human nature and the most negative messages might be tormenting her all the time.
Therefore, the normal human feelings that she could only experience when she was with him were a great luxury for her.
In fact, she couldn't have no other way to deal with Denitz's entanglement with her. Now it seems that he was just looking for an excuse to spend more time with her and experience life as a normal human being.
"Don't move away!" Lu Ming suddenly said.
Candice was startled and smiled, "Are you feeling sorry for me? Don't regret it. I'll give you another chance to take back what you said."
Lu Ming smiled and said, "I rarely take back what I said..." After thinking about it, it seemed that was not right. In court, one often had to take back what he had just said to the judge and the jury.
Candice nodded gently: "Okay, I'll think about it."
Lu Ming looked at her, thought for a moment and said, "It sounds like you are passively receiving information, so any negative emotions will affect you. Have you ever thought about how to train yourself to actively receive information? In other words, as long as you don't probe, you block the other person's thinking. Only when you are handling a case or need to probe other people's thoughts, you take the initiative to touch them?"
Candice smiled and said, "It would be nice if that were possible, but I don't know how to do it."
"Is this hereditary? Can you hear other people's thoughts?" Lu Ming asked curiously.
Candice hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded: "Our Roman family is a famous crazy family in the countryside. My grandfather went crazy and jumped into the river and died. I heard that there were many crazy people in our ancestors, but my father and uncles and aunts are not like this. Only I, maybe in the future, I will be like my grandfather!" There was a trace of sadness in her eyes.
Lu Ming nodded silently and thought to himself that he would ask Bizhu and Liuli in the evening to see if they knew anything about this kind of mind reading.
I think that thousands of years ago, this kind of supernatural power could be controlled by oneself rather than passively receiving information. Otherwise, being eroded by negative information over the years could easily lead to mental illness.
If it helps Candice exercise some self-control, that's great too.
But it’s not easy to say these things out loud, so I’ll go and ask first.
Moreover, the magic systems of the East and the West are completely different, and the hope that Biju and Liuli can help is probably very slim.