If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 918 Seven Days of Flowers and Fruits
"I thought you might be interested in this."

A file folder with a yellow shell was pulled out from under the seat. Ange put the file folder on his left hand side, and with a light push, the file folder crossed most of the seats, flew across the short aisle in the middle and continued to slide. He stopped at Lin Nian's right hand side.

Lin Nian didn't look at it, and didn't answer it, "Don't tell me this is the secret party's backup of the document that was lost during the mission."

"Of course not. There is only one copy of that document, which was destroyed during your mission. In the face of enemies who are suspected of being the Four Great Sovereigns, it is normal for a document to be destroyed. All tasks must be completed before the Dragon King recovers." Make way, this is the hidden first iron law that the executive department has not written on the iron seal." Anger said of course.

Lin Nian didn't answer, and Ange's attitude was a little ambiguous, as if he didn't care about the "lost" document.

The records about Lin Xian in that document are not as clear as what Yelena said. They are just a few lost diaries, which describe an unclear story with a lot of omissions and ambiguities. Even Lu Mingfei After reading those files with Chu Zihang, they may not be able to restore the story that happened on the Siberian snowfield in 1991.

Even Lin Nian didn't fully believe the story Yelena told. After all, the blond girl had always been a little liar in his heart, but the vague records in the diary didn't worry that others would reveal too many secrets.

In the end, Lin Nian didn't pick up the topic of the document, but chose to look down at what Angers sent, which was a file folder.

The file folder is old-fashioned dark yellow, and there are some traces of time on the hard shell. Even though it has been wiped off all the dust, the precipitation of time is still on it. The sunflower sticker in the upper right corner of the shell, There are black stains all over the corners where the enclosure is stuck.

Lin Nian looked at the sunflower sticker, and the disgusting feeling floated up along the foam again, like passing by the pond of memories and being caught by a hand sticking out of the water. At any time, it makes people want to jump and run away to land, screaming and cursing.

That's not a very good memory is it.Although I think about it carefully, there are still many warm moments, but those who have already walked out of the snow-capped mountains will never think that keeping their body temperature in a group in a cave is worth nostalgic.

But Lin Nian still opened the folder, and what came into view were the cheeks of children, the older ones were 15 or 6 years old, and the younger ones were only 4 or 5 years old. Under each cheek was theirs. Name, date of admission and some basic personal information.

"Are you familiar?" Angers asked, "Sunflower House, I like the name of the orphanage in China, unlike other places that always have the names of churches and personal philanthropists."

"So this file is in your hands." Lin Nian slowly flipped through the yellow and brittle pages inside.

"Did you go back and try to find it?"

"It's hard not to look back after something like this happened."

"Are you familiar?" Anger asked again, "Can you still remember the past?"

Lin Nian didn't reply right away, he flipped through the pages silently, taking every picture and every name into his eyes, and Ange didn't rush, just quietly waiting for the answer.

"This person." Lin Nian said, and at the same time his right finger slightly flexed and tapped on the document.

"Is there anything wrong with him?" Anger looked sideways and saw the person in the photo clearly with his eyesight.

It was a photo of a 7-year-old boy. In the photo, the boy had a slightly fat face, thin lips, and a mole on his forehead, but due to his age, he still looked naive overall.

"I'm at odds with him."

"why?"

"The reason is that he put it under the pillow. The pocket money he earned as a handyman was lost. He suspected that I took it. He reported me to the teacher in the orphanage. Because there was no evidence, he let it go. After that, he kept insisting that I was The thief who took his pocket money pulled a group of boys into a small group to isolate me.

Lin Nian flipped through the files and pointed out the boys in the so-called small groups one by one, "He once spit into my water glass, and I found out."

"He poured water in my cubicle while I was on the toilet."

"He invited me to play basketball, and then, along with others, charged me with a flagrant foul."

"He threw my pillows at the incinerator behind the orphanage."

There are so many treasures, even though they are not very good memories, it is true that sometimes it is not a good thing to have a good memory.

"It seems that your living environment was not ideal when you were a child, but all the conflicts originated from a misunderstanding. Didn't you try to solve this misunderstanding?"

"There is no option to 'explain' bullying between children, especially when there is no adult who teaches them carefully. If everyone can sit down and reconcile when encountering conflicts, then they will not be children."

"Do you hate them?"

"It's not hate, it's just hate, and I hate it now." Lin Nian said, "In fact, bullying sometimes doesn't even need a specific reason. The target of bullying, even if she is kind to others, even if everyone has no malice or disgust towards her from the bottom of their hearts. But if someone starts, the subconscious herd phenomenon will make everyone subtly become a part of the bullying structure until the center is decentralized There is no perpetrator, just a hostile environment for bullying.”

"Didn't you try to resist?" Angers folded his hands and leaned on the front seat, looking at the hanging statues bathed in the colorful windows in the depths of the church.

"Not at first."

"Can't beat it?"

"I haven't resisted, I don't know."

Angers paused for a moment, and anyone who heard about Lin Nian's past would pause like him, because no one would imagine that Lin Nian, that Lin Nian, had a period of cowardice and cowardice in the past.

After all, in the eyes of many people, Lin Nian, this kind of creature, should be born strong. Even though he may be lonely, he is lonely and strong, instead of being the target of bullying in the so-called orphanage.

"Why don't you resist, it's not like your character?"

"I was afraid that I would be kicked out of the orphanage for fighting."

"Are they really going to do that? I mean, throw them into society because of conflicts among kids who don't know anything?" Angers looked a little surprised.

"No, they definitely wouldn't do that. No orphanage has ever done this—but the children don't know it. They only know that the teacher and the dean threatened them like this when they were in a mess." Lin Nian Look sideways to look elsewhere.

"If I were you, I would punch the mastermind hard in the face and warn him not to trouble me—in fact, the same thing happened to me when I was your age." Angers said Slowly said, "You have to fight back fiercely against this terrible situation. The psychological shadow in your youth will affect the entire trajectory of your life afterwards."

"I didn't resist at that time, maybe it was because there was no one who could encourage me to say, 'Daddy will support you when the sky is falling' by my side." Lin Qingnian said.

"But you resisted in the end. Children who succumbed to bullying at a young age will not grow up as boys like you." The principal said,

"What was that opportunity? I couldn't bear it? Or they crossed the line. When you were crushed and beaten, your blood forced you to no longer crawl on the ground like rats and ants, and exploded in adversity. This is a clear understanding of many mixed races. The only way to go through your own process.”

"When I was begging on the street under the family of my adoptive parents, I could always beat other bad kids with a crowbar who wanted to take my harvest. The trouble is that when I go home every night, the pity of passers-by is no better than the pity of my adoptive father, and the only thing I can rely on is myself."

Angers does not shy away from suffering when he was young, and is even proud of it. Old people who have lived too long can look down on everything, honor and shame.

"Sometimes people always seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. When they endure to the extreme, there will inevitably be an outbreak. If there is no such outbreak, it will inevitably lead to the end of death, and there will be no you today. In a way, you and I are the same kind of people, which is why you are my favorite student." The old guy said, "So tell me and you beat those brats."

Angers waited patiently, but did not receive the answer he wanted for a long time.

After looking through the file, Lin Nian closed the folder and put his head aside for a while, and then he answered him, "No, principal, I don't have one."

Angers was silent. When he was young, he said, "Have you been bullied and bullied until you left the orphanage?"

"No, they don't bully me anymore."

"what have you done."

"I did not do anything."

The boy said softly, "I really don't have a man who can hold me back from the sky falling and the ground falling to hold my father, but fortunately I have one who can beat up all the bad guys who bully me, pull my ears and pull my father." To the elder sister in the dean's office."

"She told me, don't be afraid, she will support me when the sky falls."

The old man suddenly paused, then raised his head silently, looking at the painted statue of the Virgin Mary on the wall, "But there has never been love without a reason in this world."

"No matter what the price of water in the desert is, it is always water, isn't it?" Lin Nian said, "I have read "The Queen of the Dead", and I know that there is a saying: All gifts have already been marked in the dark Good price but at least until today, I haven't paid any price for it."

"What can be awarded will always be repaid, it's just a matter of time." The principal said in a deep voice.

"Then pay it back, in my own way." Lin Nian's voice was low and flat, "At that time, she kicked the fat boy who was pressing on me and told me that she would protect me and make me a big boy who stood up to the sky, but now I grew up."

The boy said: "I will tell her, let her not be afraid, love does have a price, so now that the sky is falling, I will support her."

Quiet and silent.

There was a hint of understanding in Angers eyes, probably because he understood the reason why the individual 'Lin Nian' grew up to the present.

All the flowers of the past have created the fruit of the present.

"It doesn't seem to be a big problem, and I understand your attitude." Half a minute later, Ang Rou nodded and stood up, walked to Lin Nian and picked up the file, "Now it's your description Come to see, what we know is not very different from what you have experienced in the past."

"Has the academy sent someone to investigate? Have you found the people I had contacted before?" Lin Nian adjusted his mood and asked calmly.

"I've been in touch, all the children in these files are real, and you also have memories of interacting with them, which means that the years you lived in the orphanage in the past 'really happened'." After a pause, "But this can only mean that most of your memory is fine."

They finally said the true meaning of this archive document, they certainly didn't want to discuss 'bullying' and 'young time shadow' specifically, all the narrations about past events above are all metaphorical thinking about the two The really crucial question.

Which of Lin Nian's past memories went wrong, when did the problem occur, and what caused the problem? This is the first question.

"Most of the memories are fine, what about the rest?" Lin Nian said calmly.

"That's a big problem." Anger looked at the file folder in his hand, "This is the manual record of the orphanage 'Sunflower House' ten years before the day you left the orphanage. This file It is not the original file, but a copy, written by hand. The author is a 70-year-old orphanage worker. Because of his age, he is worried about losing important documents of the orphanage, so he has all the documents he has handled. Make a backup of all your files.”

Lin Nian looked into Ange's eyes, then nodded to show that he understood what he meant.

He saw many old friends in that file, those who had done evil, those who did good, and those who were strangers, but only, only two photos that should have appeared were not seen.

Photos of "Lin Nian" and "Lin Xian".

"Sometimes backups are often more reliable than official versions." Anger gently stroked the hard shell of the file with his right hand, "Those who intend to modify the past will only modify the things on the table, but ignore some irrelevant backups .”

"You and your older sister suddenly appeared in the orphanage, in that coastal city. No one knew where you came from, and there was no paper household registration to prove that you ever existed until you appeared in the orphanage. You have been in the hospital for decades before you officially have the 'traces' of existence." Anger said slowly, "You need to know that critical point in time, so that you can know which of all your past memories are real, Which ones are false."

"I think I really forgot a lot of things." Lin Nian closed his eyes, "The funny thing is, I've always been proud of never forgetting anything since I was a child."

"This kind of thing can't be rushed, take your time." Ange comforted calmly, "Lin Xian has turned a new page for the secret party now, she is a brand new one now, we don't Known individual. We can't even conclude that the amnesia and tampering problems you have experienced are really caused by her."

"Is this consolation?"

"You can take it as a consolation, after all, we have all been prepared."

I still remember that when they looked at the photo of the girl on the coffee table in the beam of light from the skylight and made an agreement, if there was a problem with the girl, then there would be a private conversation like now, independent of the secret party and the card Searle Academy, which belongs exclusively to Hilbert Jean Angers and Lin Nian, is a dialogue between students and teachers.

"I actually don't care what the secret party guesses, and I don't care what I think. I will find her and ask her the answer to the question I want to know face to face." Lin Nian looked at Angers.

"Then she might lie to you then." Ange looked back at the young boy, "Just like last time."

"No, she won't lie to me." Lin Nian said firmly, "She may lie to me that she doesn't work hard outside, or she may lie to me that I don't have to worry about the next month's rent in the rented house, but she will definitely not be in this kind of place. Lie to me about things."

"Why so sure."

"Because if she would lie to me, she wouldn't have escaped." Lin Nian sighed softly.

"I hope that the moment of face-to-face will not come too late." Ang Hot nodded, "Before then, I will help you withstand the pressure from the school board, whether it is the wanted and arrest of Lin Xian on the open or in the dark will be postponed indefinitely."

"I don't think those idiots under the school board can catch her," Lin Nian said.

In the case that she is indeed not an ordinary person.

"In any case, I will help you deal with the reaction from the school board. This is an 'agreement' between us." Anger looked at Lin Nian and said.

Lin Nian stared at Ange's eyes, and then nodded. As for the specific content of the agreement, neither of them opened up to elaborate at this moment, but it is clear that it was the last afternoon tea in the principal's office. They have struck something like a 'contract' with each other.

A contract between student and teacher.

"I'm more worried about the Solomon Temple organization than the school board," Angers said. "They're not going to let it go. The 'Utero' project means a lot to them."

"Don't worry about it." Lin Nian shook his head.

If the stories Yelena told were reliable, but one-third of those stories were true, then it was the people of Solomon's Temple that should be worried, and Lin Xian should never be a prey to be worried about.

"Okay." Anger didn't mean to ask the reason at all, and continued, "The school board of directors suddenly encountered something suspected of being the four monarchs on the way to a special mission, and now the entire secret party is paying attention to this matter, waiting for you After returning to the academy, they handed over the oral message and report in person, and at that time they chose to ask all the commissioners who participated in the mission individually to compare the information you reported."

"Separate interrogation? Is this a suspicion of an internal relationship between us?"

"Even doubts are reasonable doubts. After all, this mission is a secret among secrets. No one who knows the inside story is more than a slap in the face, but in the end there is still a problem, and the school board always needs an explanation—just look at the school board at present. More than half of the voices in the meeting thought that Lin Xian had betrayed the secret party."

"They can indeed be so skeptical." Lin Nian was noncommittal, after all, Lin Xian had chosen to leave Kassel College at this time.

"So the entire secret party has deliberately put pressure on the orthodox side. No matter who leaked the information, it is suspected that the target of the leak is not only the dragon clan, but also the orthodox side, because according to your rough report, the scene Orthodox people appeared long before the Dragon Clan appeared, not to mention the orthodox 'Yue'."

"The chain of suspicion has been formed." Lin Nian said, "This is a good thing, it means that no one can give a conclusive result for the time being, and the actions taken after that are just constant testing."

"Orthodoxy and Secret Party are now in the honeymoon period of cooperation. The equipment department and the Dragon Biology Department are still in-depth research on the bronze and fire kings underwater in the Yangtze River. The connection between the two parties with this project is far from the point where they can't tear apart the skin. This time, the incident will only be played privately through political means to exchange interests for each other." The principal replied.

"The school board knows best how to do this kind of thing. I don't understand politics." Lin Nian shook his head.

"After all, the secret party will prevail in this matter. After all, the 'S' class and 'Yue' fought for the benefit of the first time on the battlefield, and in the end it was the 'S' class that gained the upper hand. It's just a pity that some people are in the end. Dragon King The meddling forced tit-for-tat into seamless cooperation, which made it impossible to deepen this matter as a talking point." Anger said with a low smile, "Let the orthodox have just the right excuse to take that 'Huoyue' back. Many members of the secret party feel unhappy."

"The appearance of the Dragon King is not all a bad thing. At least he temporarily suppressed many things. He is a huge flash point. As long as there is a storm that stirs up, it can swallow all influences." Lin Nian said, "Now The world of mixed races should be chaotic, right?"

Anger said: "No, the Dragon King's haunting has been blocked by the Orthodox and the Secret Party. Although there are still many bounty hunters and mixed-race forces haunting the coastal city, what they are looking for is just 'suspect'." It's just traces of pure-blooded dragons."

"Has the emergency team against the Dragon King finalized the list?"

"No, after all, the statement that the Four Great Monarchs have long since awakened but have been hiding in human society is too shocking. Although this theory has long been hypothesized, a large number of people are unwilling to admit this fact until now. They would rather believe This time you met a revived noble subspecies."

"Can't I tell whether it's the next generation or the first generation?" Lin Nian sneered.

"It's not enough for you to distinguish clearly, you should be aware of this." Anger said lightly, "You do have the record of killing the two twins of the King of Bronze and Fire, but many people think that your success and secret The help of the party is inseparable, so those people have certain doubts and contempt for the power you really have—for the 'S' mixed race, they have their own set of traditional perceptions."

"Understandable." Lin Nian nodded. Even he himself didn't think that after killing Norton and Constantine, he would have the qualifications to challenge the Four Great Monarchs. The title of Four Great Monarchs will always be heavier than when he said it Hundreds or even thousands of times, this is a fact that only those who have seen them can understand.

"There is a big gap between the emergency treatment methods for the second-generation species and the first-generation species, but now a special investigation team has been established and is conducting surveys and sampling in coastal cities. Since the pure-blooded dragon can hide so that it will not be discovered, then I want to do it again. Digging him out of human society is also a troublesome project, so we can't rush it."

Angers said,
"The trouble that will really fall on you right now is internal, that is, the inquiry you will receive after you return to the academy."

"Or an interrogation?" Lin Nian changed the principal's slightly euphemistic wording, "Is it still in the hands of the executive department? Or after the CC1000 express train arrives at the academy, the owl team will directly put the train on the 'SS' after getting off the train?" Hand over all participants of the high-level task to the interrogation department?"

"It's not that much." Anger shook his head lightly, "And this time there is a problem with the mission of the school board, and the executive department is not to blame. Minister Schneider will also accept a temporary suspension for investigation. A full year of work checks, plus a trip to Portofino for an interview with the school board."

"Sounds miserable."

"It's worse than it sounds. The executive department has always been a sharp blade for the outside world, but when there is a problem with this sharp blade, the swordsmith will never let go of the hammer that fell during the heavy forging." Anger said, "So ask your The People's Association is a special investigation team sent by the school board. This group is independent of the system of Kassel College and directly obeys the school board. This means that in the college, they can even turn a deaf ear to what I say, and in a certain situation Under certain circumstances, they can even override the principal's authority to investigate me."

"The Organization Safety Committee of the Secret Party." Lin Nian's expression was subtle.

"If you have to say it, it is no different from the KGB (KGB, the full name is "Soviet National Security Council"). The school board has long been upset with me, so this time it will probably find a reason to 'beat' me." Old guy Shrugging his shoulders, he didn't seem to care about the heavy hammer that was about to fall on his head.

"But we still have time to prepare." Lin Nian said thoughtfully as if he understood something.

"One week." Anger looked at Lin Nian and said with joy, "Thanks to the strike parade in Chicago, we had to stay in this city for a whole week."

Lin Nian looked at the beaming look of the old guy, and probably understood what kind of role the other party played after this incident.

This one-week buffer time is used to give their counterparts who have returned from the coastal city. Perhaps the principal also needs this time to prepare for some voice issues within the Kassel College, so as to better counteract the imminent meeting of the school board. The falling hammer.

But just like what Lin Nian said before, every gift has its price written down, there is no love without a reason in this world.

There is a secret contract between Hilbert Jean Angers and Lin Nian that only they know about each other, and it is precisely because of the existence of this contract that they can exchange. Intelligence called 'betrayal',

As long as the contract is still being fulfilled, and Lin Nian and Anger's goals and original aspirations have not changed, they will always be teachers with dignity and students with dignity.

"Is one week too long? I'm worried that something will happen in the college during this time." Lin Nian asked.

"How long has it been since you had a good rest?" Angers asked suddenly.

Lin Nian didn't answer, because this question didn't mean much to him. There were enough bad things during this period, and there was no time to talk about rest.

"You need to rest." Anger looked at Lin Nian and said, "These seven days are not only a buffer for you, but more importantly, let you slow down."

"I have more pressing things to do."

"The most important thing now is to rest and be obedient." Ange put his hand on his student's shoulder, "What should really worry now is the investigation team in the college, not us. These seven days should be the last of the summer vacation For seven days, the city of Chicago is very nice, and the cruise ships and gardens on the shores of Lake Michigan are also very beautiful, you can take your little girlfriends to go shopping and relax.”

Lin Nian froze for a moment, but said nothing.

"Pay more attention to the people around you who haven't left yet." Ange squeezed his shoulder lightly, "Chasing the shadows of people who have left will only make you find that you are walking away by accident in the future. Far, until both the front and the back are the past, compared to losing the past, losing the present is truly terrible."

"I see." Lin Nian replied with his head bowed.

"The suites at the 'Hyatt Regency Chicago' hotel are nice, but it's a bit difficult to book during the peak season." Anger retracted his hand and brought up what he mentioned at the beginning, but this time he even took it out of his pocket. A black room card was handed over to Lin Nian, "Fortunately, I have already booked the best room for you one day in advance. The top floor of the hotel building overlooks half of the Chicago River. In the evening, you can go to his restaurant on the ground floor. Well, there are a variety of wines, and I personally recommend Margaux dry red in 09, which should be very good for young people.”

"19 years old should not be the legal drinking age in the United States, right?"

"It's up to you. You need something to drink with a girl on a good night. You can't drink cola and sparkling water." Angers turned around and left after finishing speaking, and walked back from the aisle of the church. The sound of sole leather shoes is getting farther and farther away.

"What about the principal? You're staying in Chicago for the past seven days. What do you need to do, principal?" Lin Nian asked without looking back.

"Young people do young things, and old guys like me naturally have some old friends who need to meet and discuss some boring issues that only appear at old people's parties." Angers voice drifted further and further away, "If there are no accidents, I will wait for you in the academy in seven days, and I hope to see a young man with a new mental outlook."

After the words drifted away, the footsteps also disappeared. Lin Nian turned his head to look, and Ange's figure had already disappeared, but the 2000-pound bronze gate showed no sign of being pushed at all.

"Seven days. What?" Lin Nian leaned lightly on the back of the seat. Just at this time, the twelve o'clock bell struck the dome of the church. It was grand and long, echoing continuously in the empty church filled with colorful lights.

On the street by Lake Michigan outside the church, the bustling crowd of people did not stop because of the sound of the grand bell, but a mayfly stopped suddenly amidst the black crowd.

It was a boy, he looked up blankly at the church in the distance, the huge black clock swinging under the steeple of the gothic deep blue sky, he seemed to be lost in the sound of the bell, his pair of bewildered golden The white dove on the church in the pupil flutters its wings and flies high.

(End of this chapter)