Chapter 37 003 [Are you in love with him?]...

In the corner of the coffee shop, Wu Cisheng absentmindedly used a white porcelain spoon to slowly stir the coffee in the cup.

"You've already thanked me many times for what happened yesterday. It was just a small favor for me. Even if I hadn't come, the Abnormal Control Committee would have sent a regular guide..."

The voice on the other end was unusually serious:

"How can it be the same..."

Wu Cisheng responded perfunctorily:

“Same.”

“…”

There was nothing in front of him, Wu Cisheng could not see anything. He could only face the direction of the sound and infer the current state and expression of the person opposite him through the tone of the sentry's voice, his mental state, his heart rate and pheromones.

Through previous conversations, Wu Cisheng knew that the sentry's name was Lucas, and he was a few years younger than him. He did not reveal his identity for the time being, but only admitted that he was indeed not a local and was a sentry.

According to him, the reason he was on the street was simply because he wanted to find someone, so he got rid of his bodyguards and thought he could get back before awakening. Unexpectedly, he arrived earlier and happened to meet Wu Cisheng.

"Oh...I see."

These news actually did not cause Wu Cisheng to react much until he heard the sentry say that the person he was looking for was him.

Wu Cisheng slowly sat up straight, his casual posture becoming more serious. He spoke carefully, "What do you want to talk to me about?"

The sentry told a story about how he had heard rumors about him in the tower on the other side of the ocean. He said that he had read popular science books written by Wu Cisheng, collected various versions, and had sent him letters.

He said that although he had never had any interaction with Wu Cisheng before, he felt that they were already very good friends.

When he returned to China this time, he wanted to meet Wu Cisheng, but when he arrived there he learned that Wu Cisheng had voluntarily dropped out of school four years ago.

He didn't believe it, and after searching through the archives for a long time, he finally found Wu Cisheng's application for withdrawal from school.

He said that the first time he saw the file, he realized that the handwriting was not his own, so he began to suspect that there was something else behind Wu Cisheng's expulsion from school.

He said he wanted to find him, but had no idea, until a few days ago when he accidentally got a vague clue.

"Then I followed the address and came here. I never thought we would be so destined to meet each other."

“…”

Wu Cisheng's expression shifted subtly. He repeated, "So, you assumed I didn't drop out of school voluntarily just because of an unsubstantiated application? And then you got a lead on me from an unknown number, and you didn't doubt the number or the content, yet you immediately rushed to Chunhui City to find me?"

"Yeah, that's it."

“………”

During Wu Cisheng's silence, the sentry continued to speak, with three main core ideas.

The first was to thank him for his previous help, the second was to ask about what happened that year, and the third was that he said he could help him, making one promise after another that was so generous that it was completely impossible to refuse.

"What happened four years ago? What happened to your eyes? Who wrote the letter of withdrawal..."

"Why did you get married so young?"

"Don't worry, I will help you find out the truth of what happened back then. I will also give you a comprehensive eye examination. As long as I can do it, I will help you..."

Wu Cisheng smiled and said, "Thank you so much."

The sentry continued to lament the coincidence in a dramatic tone, and revealed that the normal withdrawal process should have a long process, but his application was approved very quickly that year, which was too abnormal!

"Yesterday I wanted to ask for your contact information, but you left in a hurry. I thought I'd never see you again. I was even thinking about posting missing person notices all over the city... I didn't expect to run into you again today. Don't you think we're destined to meet?"

"Yes, it's fate."

Overall, the conversation was very pleasant. At least from beginning to end, the smile on Wu Cisheng's lips remained in an upward arc.

In the end, because it was almost time to go to work, this pleasant conversation had to be interrupted. Before parting, they left each other contact information.

Wu Cisheng stared at the nothingness before him and smiled as usual: "Let's contact each other next time."

He couldn't see the sentry's expression, but he heard the latter hum and stand up, and the chair legs under him rubbed against the floor, making noises as he moved.

Holding the blind stick in his hand, Wu Cisheng walked towards the door familiarly along the road he had walked countless times. On the way, he didn't know whether his blind stick touched the foot or leg of a passerby.

Before the other party could speak, he apologized fluently: "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

The chatter of discussion behind him gradually became blurred and distant. Wu Ci Sheng pushed open the glass door, and the midday sun shone on Wu Ci Sheng's head. Every step he took forward brought him further away from the rich pheromones behind him.

He counted his steps in his mind while sensing the pheromone trail behind him: the sentry did not leave, but was sitting there staring at his back.

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【It went pretty smoothly.】

Lucas ignored the electronic voice praising him in his mind, took a sip of coffee from the cup, his eyes shining slightly, and took another sip, with an expression of admiration on his face.

Before being drafted by the system, he had just experienced a melee and had to remain vigilant for several months. For convenience, he could only eat some nutritional paste to quickly replenish the substances needed by his body.

It’s convenient, but it tastes so bad!

Although the technology in this small, shabby place was very backward, the food tasted quite good. Lucas called the waiter and ordered a few other dishes.

The system was still chirping in his mind:

This mission has two main focuses. The first is to help the target escape from their predicament, return to the tower, and change the original outcome. The second is to discover the true cause of his death...

"Let me explain one last time. I didn't force you to stay. When you were jumping through the wormhole and encountered a near-space collapse, you should have died. I used my energy to revive you, but I don't have much energy left. If you don't complete the mission, I can't send you back. Therefore, our relationship is a partnership."

[You just made a big mistake. When discussing unknown numbers, Wu Cisheng didn't reveal the content, but you...]

【knew. 】

Before arriving in this world, Lucas had already read the data cards of this world's core story and mission objectives many times:

An inferior supporting character B falls in love with another excellent supporting character A. Fearing that the other party doesn't like him, he deliberately plans an accident to blind A. After A is injured, B deliberately approaches A, and finally the two successfully get together and get married.

A gave birth to a child in the fifth year of their marriage. The child perfectly inherited A's appearance and talents. However, in the third or second year after the child was born, A seemed to realize the truth of the past. She wanted to leave but was reluctant to leave the child, so she stayed. In the end, the cause of her death is unknown.

Wu Cisheng is the supporting character A. He is not the protagonist of the core story. The protagonist of the story is his son. The whole story revolves around him. The stories about supporting characters AB do not take up much space and exist almost only in the protagonist's memory and in the mouths of other people.

In the protagonist's memory, he had two parents. One wore a mask all year round, was kind to him, and always responded to his requests. The other parent died when he was young and was said to have lived alone in a castle before his death.

The protagonist doesn't have a deep memory of his deceased parent. He thinks he must have visited the castle when he was a child, perhaps to see him. He can't quite remember.

This is the first time that supporting character A is mentioned indirectly in the article.

The second time supporting character A was mentioned was when the protagonist accidentally broke into a locked room. He had always heard that he looked very much like another father, but he didn't feel it until this time he saw many, many photos of the other parent when he was young.

In one of the photos, the supporting character A's eyes are still intact, and he looks very young, with a hint of immaturity on his green face. However, he looks so energetic and dazzling when he stands on the stage giving a speech that people can't take their eyes off him.

Most of the photos taken later were taken at home, and there are many photos taken from candid angles, some of them wearing sunglasses, some of them sleeping, and some of them working.

The protagonist was deeply attracted by the painting through the canvas, felt a sense of closeness, and became more and more curious about this father he had never met.

Most of the information about supporting character A is scattered, like pieces of a puzzle, scattered here and there in the memories of different people.

Through these "puzzles", the protagonist gradually learned that his father, whom he had never met, was called Wu Cisheng, and that he used to be a very good guide. He also learned that he was one of the first students in the Capital Tower and the first president of the student union.

He even participated in the writing of the initial version of the basic textbook they used at the time, and they also knew that his spirit form was a very cute little ferret.

Whenever the alumni I met mentioned Wu Cisheng, none of them said he was not good. Almost all of them praised him highly, saying that he was handsome, humble, knowledgeable, and had a unique and elegant temperament. They said he was a very good person.

From the clues in a few words, some people have speculated that Wu Cisheng's level may not be B.

This is not surprising. After all, the era in which the protagonist's father lived was still in the early stages of feeling one's way across the river. Everything was rough, and even the tools for determining grades were only semi-finished products.

It is said that someone later took Wu Cisheng's relics for a second test. Even though the remaining aura on them was pitifully small, the system still showed an A+.

Interspersed among these fragmented pieces of information are a large number of plots such as the protagonist's career line, the love-hate entanglement between the protagonist and his lover, sadomasochism, and so on.

Later, the protagonist accidentally discovered the truth about his other father's blindness. When he asked his surviving parent why he was treated like this, supporting character B said, "He was the first person to smile at me. I love him so much and can't bear to let him go..."

The supporting character B took off his mask in front of the protagonist for the first time. The burned half of his face looked like a devil, which scared the protagonist. But he just stared at the protagonist who looked a bit like supporting character B, with a nostalgic expression.

"That's great. You're like him, not me." He told the protagonist again, "I did something wrong before, so he ignored me and didn't even want to see me for the last time before he died..."

Supporting actor B also said: "But I don't regret it. If I hadn't done this, how could someone like me be with him? I could only look up to him all the time, which was too painful..."

The protagonist frowned, indicating that he couldn't understand.

Supporting character B, however, gazed at the protagonist with a nostalgic look and said, "You and your father have similar eyebrows and eyes, even when you frown. But when he was your age, his temper was much worse than yours... He was that kind of person, a godlike good man..."

Later, the parent died quietly one day, and the protagonist found many treasures from his belongings, almost every one of which was related to supporting character A.

After experiencing all this, the protagonist finally understood how to get along with his lover correctly, and a story of abusive love finally ended with happiness.

Overall, the existence of this supporting character seems to be just a reminder for the protagonist to try and make mistakes, or even a driving tool.

In the early stage, when the protagonist entered the Capital Tower to study, many of the classmates of the supporting character A had done very well after years of settling in.

After seeing the protagonist, those people were almost in a trance for several seconds, saying that he looked like an old friend. After knowing that the protagonist was really an old friend, they naturally treated him with extra care and kindness.

After watching it for the first time, Lucas thought he had seen it wrong, but he watched it a second time and was finally convinced that the role of the rescue target was indeed too small.

I'm listening, please continue...

Lucas, who hadn't used primitive communication tools for a long time, finally figured out all the functions of the phone after tinkering with it for three or five minutes, and even ordered a lot of Coke and fried chicken.

Since the store was nearby, it took less than twenty-five minutes from placing the order to the delivery man delivering it.

[I'm very curious about a question. Initially, you were uncooperative. However, when you first saw the impact of the mission's target, your heartbeat experienced noticeable abnormal fluctuations, with the rate rising sharply. Then, you changed your tune and said you were willing to complete the mission...]

"Really? I forgot."

"You hadn't entered the world at that time, and you didn't have a spirit body yet. I'm really curious about why such an abnormality occurred, so in order to collect receipts for reference, I want to ask you why?"

【What? 】

Lucas opened the classic orange packaging and chewed the Sentinel Special Edition burger, which was more expensive than the normal version, in big mouthfuls. He thought to himself, although this place may not have good technology, the food tastes really good.

He was so focused on eating that he didn't hear clearly what the system was mumbling.

【Are you in love with him? 】

[Perhaps in the human lexicon, this should be called love at first sight. Is my guess correct? I've been learning...]

Lucas suddenly started coughing violently, and in his mind he objected: [How is that possible?! How long have I known him?! Are you crazy?!]

Noticing the gazes of the people around him, Lucas just glanced around indifferently, and those probing glances were immediately retracted as if they had been electrocuted.

Coffee House is located in a prime location in the city center, and around 2 pm is the peak time for afternoon tea, so the seats in the store are almost full.

There was only one table that had no one around it, as if there was an invisible isolation zone around it.

The reason was simple, it was because the young man sitting in the corner looked so ferocious.

He was tall, with tan skin and broad shoulders. He sat there like a moving mountain, his messy red hair flying wildly, and a pair of cruel blue eyes could be vaguely seen...

"Who's that over there?"

“Not like a local…”

"Isn't it some kind of □□?"

"Anyway, it doesn't look like they're doing a legitimate business..."

"Hey, keep your voice down and look here..."

The customers were whispering to each other, and even the waiters who passed by from time to time had to look at the customer twice, for fear that he would suddenly cause trouble. They even kept the dial-up page in their pockets open, waiting for a call to be made.

But Lucas, who was so guarded, knew nothing about these changes, or rather, he didn't care.

He argued to the system in his mind: [What do you, a broken robot, know!?]

Unlike his hurried tone, the system's electronic voice was noticeably calmer:

Please be patient...

[Of course, I have a basis for this judgment.]

[Given that when you spoke to him, your voice unconsciously lowered, became softer, your tone rose and became lighter, and your speech slowed down considerably. These obvious changes are completely consistent with how humans behave in front of someone they admire...]

Stop, stop, stop!

[I did that to complete the mission!!]

The electronic voice had no ups and downs, and asked in a calm tone: [Is that so?]

Lucas injured his throat in an accident when he was a child. Since then, his voice has been hoarse and rough, to the extent that it can scrape rough cracks in the air. It once became the iconic credential of the Star Pirates.

He really didn't care about this before, but now he is on a rescue mission, so he thinks that changing his rough voice a little to make his image more approachable will also help complete the mission.

[Do you understand?]

The system paused for a few seconds, as if accepting this explanation: [Okay, I see.]

The voice within Lucas's consciousness continued to insist, "There's nothing wrong with my sexual orientation. It's all for the mission. Everything is my plan. Do you understand the plan?!"

【Okay, I misunderstood you.】

After eating ten burgers of different flavors, six pieces of spicy chicken wings, three cups of Coke, and varying amounts of fries and ice cream, Lucas called the waiter to pay the bill and strode out of the store, facing the gazes of many people.

He was thinking about the future process in his mind:

Well, we have contacted the target of the mission. The next step is to snatch him away from the murderer, oh no, rescue him!

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The author has something to say: His attributes are very obvious [sunglasses]