Xue Yingsong's tone was quite lonely and pitiful, and she looked very helpless.
231. Gu Ran: Who did I marry? 4k
Gu Ran looked at Xue Yingsong again and said calmly, "So you want me to marry your daughter?"
Xue Yingsong coughed and said, "I can see that Xiao Ling likes you, and looking at the entire human alliance, you are the most suitable for Xiao Ling.
"And if you marry Xiao Ling, it will make many people at Lanxin University and Canglong City feel at ease. This will also be very beneficial for your succession.
"Of course, I'm not saying that you have to use these methods. I also know that you don't really care about power, but you chose to take over my job because you have already identified with Lanxin University and Canglong City.
"With your sense of responsibility, you definitely want to do a good job. If you marry Xiao Ling, it will reduce a lot of resistance.
"I am not doing this just for political reasons. It is more of a personal interest of mine as a father. If Xiao Ling hadn't been interested in you, I would never have proposed this."
Xue Yingsong turned his gaze to Gu Ran, his old eyes filled with sincerity and pleading.
"If you really hate Xiao Ling, I will never force you... Alas, it's pitiful for my old bones that I can no longer accompany Xiao Ling. It's really hard for her."
"My mother died when I was young. I finally fell in love with someone, but the person I liked hated her. I, her only relative, had to leave her immediately..."
Xue Yingsong sighed.
"Well, since you said it's up to me to choose, then I..."
"reject!"
"Haha, I knew you would agree... Eh? What did you just say? You refused?"
"Did I hear you correctly? You just said you refused?"
Xue Yingsong opened his eyes wide, full of disbelief, and his eyes seemed to be saying, how could you refuse such generous conditions
What on earth are you thinking
Gu Ran looked at Xue Yingsong, who suddenly became energetic as if by a medical miracle, and couldn't help but shook his head slightly:
"Yes, I refuse. If you act more realistically, I might relent and agree."
Xue Yingsong immediately realized that her acting had been exposed. She couldn't help but sit up from the hospital bed, feeling a little amused and helpless, and stopped pretending to be sick.
"You are really smart, kid. I think my acting is pretty good. How did you know that?"
Gu Ran said calmly, "This isn't some bloody TV show. How can a dying person really talk so much without even taking a breath? And what always seems strange to me is that although your vitality has been weakening, the speed has slowed down after it weakened to a certain extent.
"Besides, if you were really seriously ill and dying, wouldn't the most important thing be to gather all your confidants to entrust them with your final arrangements? Especially since you love your daughter so much, I don't believe you wouldn't be in a hurry to say goodbye to her. Even if you were afraid that she would see you and be too sad to bear it, you should have left her a last word first.
"And if there are no other witnesses, if you die first and the cause of death is so bizarre, it will cause great suspicion. There is no guarantee that someone with ulterior motives will spread rumors, and then my succession to your position may encounter setbacks. This is probably something you don't want to see.
"Combining all of the above, I have a rough idea in my mind."
"I see." Xue Yingsong suddenly realized, and then praised, "Careful observation, careful inference, really worthy of my choice of successor, I really have a good eye."
"Okay, if you have nothing to do, get up and take a walk." Gu Ran walked to the side, turned on the water boiler, then took out a cup and started brewing coffee.
"Oh, what a pity. I failed to trick you this time. I won't be able to trick you next time when you are on guard." Xue Yingsong got out of bed regretfully and stretched lazily with energy.
Gu Ran glanced at him and found that his vitality was indeed slowly recovering, so he turned his attention back to brewing coffee.
The two people were drinking coffee and chatting.
"I won't explore your secrets, but please don't do scary things like this anymore." Gu Ran said coldly, "Otherwise I will really refuse to take your job. It's fine to be an ordinary researcher."
"No, no, I won't do it again. I won't do it next time. Oh, no, no, there won't be a next time." Xue Yingsong looked like he was accepting the training obediently.
After a pause, Xue Yingsong sighed and said, "Actually, I'm not lying to you. I really have a glimpse of destiny, which is the future.
"In the future, you and Xiao Ling will become lovers, and work together to make Lanxin University and Canglong City grow stronger. Everything is changing for the better. This is why I keep bringing you together. I thought you should like Xiao Ling too, otherwise how could you be together in the future?"
Hearing Xue Yingsong's words, Gu Ran couldn't help but have questions in his mind.
Cheng Caimeng said the same thing before. She said that in the future, they would be a couple.
How come in the future, he and Xue Xiling will also be a couple
Could it be that my future self is actually a two-timing scumbag
Gu Ran couldn't help but fall into self-doubt for a moment.
Who did I marry
"And the most important point is..." Xue Yingsong's words suddenly became serious, "According to the prophecy of the first principal, only you and Xiao Ling can save Canglong City and Lanxin University from the crisis in the future."
"Why are you doing this again--" Gu Ran raised his head and looked at Xue Yingsong, then paused.
Then, he looked at Xue Yingsong, frowned and said, "Are you serious? Weren't you kidding me just now?"
"I'm not kidding. Do you think I would be so radical in pushing for reforms in Canglong City?" Xue Yingsong put down the coffee cup. "How can we run Canglong City well if the power is controlled by those insects? How can we deal with the upcoming crisis?!
"Before, I was not sure when the crisis would come. I only knew that it would most likely happen within the next two to three years. Then, I noticed the ambitions of those old guys in the ruling center towards Lyceum University... I thought this was the crisis.
"And then there was the appearance of the demon army, which further deepened my judgment. When these two things were resolved, I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the crisis of Lanxin University and Canglong City was finally over.
"But this thought only lasted until just now, before I used the secret method to spy on fate again."
There was no trace of joking on Xue Yingsong's face, he looked at Gu Ran seriously.
"During this time of spying on fate, I still sensed the danger of the destruction of Lanxin University and Canglong City, and even—"
After dragging out the tone, Xue Yingsong continued:
"The sense of crisis this time is more serious than before. If before it was only Canglong City that was in danger of being destroyed and Lanxin University was in danger of being destroyed, then this time it is the entire human alliance and even the entire human civilization that may be destroyed because of this crisis."
Gu Ran raised his eyebrows and didn't say much.
"If I hadn't been able to see into fate, I wouldn't have believed the first principal's so-called predictions. But the fact is, I really saw into fate, and the first principal really succeeded in predicting it—so far, he hasn't made a mistake. All these reasons combined make me believe it all."
After Xue Yingsong finished speaking, Gu Ran still looked unmoved.
"Then, can you let me see the diary of the first principal?" Gu Ran just said.
"Okay." Xue Yingsong glanced at Gu Ran, "In fact, I will show it to you sooner or later. Since you want to see it today, I will find it for you."
Putting down the coffee cup in his hand, Xue Yingsong opened his "underground treasure room", walked in, and soon took out a booklet.
"Actually, it's not quite accurate to call it a prophecy. At least the first principal never said in his diary that it was his prophecy. It's just that we have successfully 'predicted' it many times based on the first principal's diary, and gradually we call it a prophecy."
Xue Yingsong handed the booklet wrapped in an extremely precious book cover to Gu Ran and gave him some sincere instructions.
"Although the contents of the diary have been recorded and backed up, you'd better be careful when reading it. Not to mention the practical value of this diary, even its historical value is extremely important."
"Okay, I'll be careful." Gu Ran took the booklet carefully.
He would not refuse Xue Yingsong for such a small matter.
I opened the cover of the booklet and saw that the paper inside had turned a little yellow.
But what's strange is that these yellowed papers don't look damaged at all.
Gu Ran rubbed his fingers on it lightly and found out the reason.
I don’t know whether the material of this booklet is inherently special, or whether a later principal found special abilities or methods to “enchant” it, but this booklet is actually tougher than ordinary steel.
However, even though it is tougher than steel, in the hands of a top expert like Gu Ran, it is no different from real paper.
They can be completely destroyed with just a slight effort.
The first president of Lyceum University, and the true prototype of the "Tyrant Shadow" he encountered in the ruins.
Gu Ran was actually still very curious about him.
Although he had experienced a "simulation" comparable to virtual reality in the ruins last time, his understanding of this character was only a drop in the ocean.
Now that we can read his diary, we should be able to better understand this legendary figure.
Open the first page.
[Insects, they are all insects! How can we run Lanxin University well and Canglong City well with such a group of insects? ]
Gu Ran finally understood the source of Xue Yingsong's scolding of insects to the ruling center just now.
Gu Ran continued reading.
Apparently, this was written after the first president of Lyceum University founded it.
He remembered that Lanxin University was founded by the "tyrant" who was the ruler of Canglong City at that time, so this diary was also written after he became the ruler of Canglong City.
That being said, there should be some records of administration or experience in administration.
Gu Ran roughly guessed what would happen next and continued reading.
[Haha, you actually told me that universities are useless and that if you need talents, you can just tell their sects. Do you think I'm a fool? Anyone with a little bit of brains can figure out that I promoted the martial arts hall and founded the Lyceum University just to suppress you bugs.]
[Don't these idiots know that I've put a knife on their necks? Oh, they know, but they can't do anything to me, hahahaha. Who told me that I'm stronger than all of them? ]
[But my real enemy is not this group of insects, so there is no need to waste time with them. I still have to build up the Lyceum University as soon as possible and train a group of talents. Talents, talents, no matter where or when, talents are the most in short supply.]
[1.23 Today I feel OK]
The last "1.23" should be the date, because Gu Ran took a look and saw that the time afterwards was also handwritten in the same way.
There is no year.
I don’t know if it was intentional or if it was just the habit of the first principal.