Chapter 415 The Last Meeting (asking for monthly ticket)
It will take about four hours for the forces where Ji Minghuan's four machines are located to reach the Hofs Glacier.
It was exactly 0:00 in the morning of September 1, which was the time agreed upon by Black Pupa and various forces.
Before all this happened, Ji Minghuan decided to meet the children of the Salvation Society.
Because he knew in his heart that this might be the last time they would see each other.
"I want to go see them."
In the elevator on the F2 floor of the Salvation Society, Ji Minghuan leaned against the wall and said this.
"Go ahead, the doors are open," the instructor replied.
Ji Minghuan shrugged his shoulders, silently passed by his mentor, and walked out of the elevator.
The light curtain came down in front of him, and he had to squint his eyes, reach out to hold the wall, and walk forward along the edge of the wall.
He secretly decided that he would see whoever's cell he found first. So he walked aimlessly in the light curtain.
After a while, his right hand felt nothing.
Ji Minghuan thought that there should be an open door in front of him, so he opened his eyes slightly and took a vague look.
After confirming that it was indeed a prison cell, he walked into it.
Away from the dazzling light curtain in the corridor, he was finally able to lift his eyelids.
At this moment, what came into view was a girl with long fiery red hair.
There were freckles on her face, her facial features were not delicate, she had a little baby fat, and she was wearing a white hospital gown.
"Is this the first one I run into the Big Sister?" Ji Minghuan thought, "Should I ask her to be gentler when she hits Shark with the stick later?"
At this moment, Sun Changkong was lying on the bed, holding his cheeks with both hands, one eye open and one eye closed, reading a comic book with great difficulty.
The name of the comic is "Attack on Titan".
Sun Changkong didn't understand the comic, but she often heard other children talking about it, so she asked her teacher for a copy. As she read, she squinted her eyes impatiently, even yawning, her legs rising and falling, kicking the bed.
Ji Minghuan looked at her silently for a while, then walked towards her.
"who?"
At this moment, she heard footsteps, raised her eyebrows and turned around.
The next second, she saw that the person coming was Ji Minghuan. She showed her little fangs in surprise and stood there in a daze - Sun Changkong had been to Ji Minghuan's bedroom many times, but had never seen him come to her room to play.
Not even once.
So at this moment, her first reaction was curiosity, just like after studying abroad for a long time, she returned home and saw a foreign classmate in the living room of her home. Her second reaction was confusion and puzzlement.
After coming to his senses, Sun Changkong's face suddenly showed an expression of happiness and surprise.
"Ji Minghuan? Why are you here?!"
As she spoke, she slid down from the bed, sat on the somersault cloud on the ground, and flew towards Ji Minghuan like a gust of wind.
The strong wind blowing in his face blew Ji Minghuan's hair.
He looked at the girl's sparkling eyes so close to him and unconsciously looked away.
"I have nothing to do, so I came over to chat with you." Ji Minghuan said nonchalantly, "After all, there may not be another chance in the future."
As he spoke, he looked around. In Sun Changkong's room, there was a shelf with some snacks on it. On the floor was a game console, a CD player, and a few scattered cartoon CDs.
Ji Minghuan stared at the covers of the CDs. No matter what Sun Changkong played or watched, they were all games and cartoons that he, Kong Youling, Mario and others had talked about unintentionally.
Although she was a child from the countryside, she was really trying hard to fit in with them. Maybe she didn't want to be confused while they were chatting and feel like she was being excluded.
Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan's eyes darkened slightly.
"Why is your bedroom door not closed?" Ji Minghuan looked up at Sun Changkong and asked curiously.
"I don't know what happened today." Sun Changkong shook his head. "I saw the door was not closed, so I walked around outside for a long time."
"Then what?"
"Then..." Sun Changkong lowered his head and muttered, "I wanted to go find you to play, but I ran into my mentor on the way, and he asked me to come back."
"I see. It looks like the instructor is planning something big today."
"Big move?" Sun Changkong raised his head, his eyes lighting up. "Can we go out and play?"
Ji Minghuan was silent for a while and said self-deprecatingly.
"Yeah, we should be able to go out and play today." After saying that, he looked away and added in his heart: It's a pity that this time it's a kind of "game" where we kill each other.
Recalling the "Monkey King" he met in London that day, Ji Minghuan found it hard not to think that even if his body improved a lot during this period, he would still not be a match for Sun Changkong without breaking through the limitations of the inhibitors.
Thinking of this, he sighed, reached out his hand, and unconsciously touched the metal collar around his neck.
As long as he could find a way to remove this collar, he would be able to overthrow the entire Salvation Society. A defective item like the restricted-level 1003 would not be his match at all.
"What's wrong?" Sun Changkong suddenly asked.
"Sun Changkong."
Ji Minghuan suddenly spoke. Sun Changkong was stunned. This was the first time Ji Minghuan called her by her name. He didn't know why he suddenly stopped calling her "Big Sister."
"Sun Changkong, no matter what happens next, I will be by your side." Ji Minghuan looked up at her eyes and said seriously, "Do you understand?"
"Popcorn, what's wrong with you all of a sudden?" Sun Changkong said this, his face slightly reddened. "I know, I know."
She paused for a moment, then turned her head and hugged Somersault Cloud. "I know you will be by my side."
Ji Minghuan looked at her quietly, his lips moving slightly.
He really wanted to say: Run as fast as you can, the farther the better, because something bad is going to happen soon.
But where can this girl run to? As long as the mentor's spiritual imprint is still there, Sun Changkong will become a puppet at any time.
If possible, Ji Minghuan wanted to go back a few years and find Sun Changkong, who was still a wild child in the mountains at that time, and tell her not to run around anymore. If she accidentally got into the mythical remains of Sun Wukong, her life would be ruined.
But even so, the girl with a gloomy face would probably just look at him strangely, thinking that he made up such a strange story just to play with her, and then she would show her shocked little fangs and reach out to him.
"That's good." Ji Minghuan said softly.
"Why are you acting weird again today?" Sun Changkong tilted his head. "Although I don't hate you."
"You have to live on. I'll celebrate your birthday with you again on September 5th."
"Really?" Sun Changkong was stunned. "But don't people say that birthdays can only be celebrated once a year? Didn't I already celebrate my birthday in advance?"
"In China, some people celebrate their birthdays according to the national calendar, while others celebrate their birthdays according to the lunar calendar," Ji Minghuan said calmly. "Some people even celebrate both their national and lunar birthdays."
"You're not kidding me, are you? Are you bullying me because I'm from the countryside and I'm ignorant?"
"Why would I tease you?"
"Then I'll celebrate your birthday twice too."
Ji Minghuan was stunned.
"Sure." He nodded. "As long as you survive, you can celebrate a hundred times. Rules are alive, but people are dead."
Sun Changkong's eyes lit up as he stared at him and nodded happily. Ji Minghuan suddenly reached out and touched her head, and her fiery red hair flowed through his fingers like water.
"Why are you touching my head?" she asked, looking up.
"Big sister, I don't recognize you as the big sister anymore." Ji Minghuan suddenly said.
"Why?"
Sun Changkong felt that he was very puzzled.
"Because...I'm sorry for you."
"How have you ever been sorry for me?" Sun Changkong said in surprise, "Not only did you treat me as a friend, you also celebrated my birthday and taught me how to play games."
She paused and said, "Ji Minghuan, you are the best to me."
"sorry."
"What on earth are you feeling sorry for?"
"It's nothing, just... I'm sorry." Ji Minghuan said softly, looking up at her eyes quietly.
"Ji Minghuan, are you sick?" Sun Changkong muttered, stretching out his hand and placing it on Ji Minghuan's forehead.
"Sun Changkong, I'm going to look for other people next. Since your instructor doesn't let you go out, then... are you going to stay here?" Ji Minghuan thought for a moment and asked with his eyes lowered.
"Well, I'm afraid if he gets angry, you won't be able to go out, right?"
"That's right."
"But I can let the Somersault Cloud take you there." Sun Changkong said, releasing the hand that was pressed against his forehead. "We're just wandering around, it's faster to take it."
"Okay, then let your Somersault Cloud accompany me once, just as if it were the last time."
Ji Minghuan said casually, then moved his body and sat on top of her somersault cloud.
Sun Changkong moved out of his seat, and she and Ji Minghuan sat on the somersault cloud in a daze.
"What's wrong?"
Sun Changkong said nothing, her falling red hair covering her eyes. She suddenly leaned over and, at a speed so fast that Ji Minghuan couldn't react, gently hugged him.
Ji Minghuan was stunned and gently hugged her back.
"Popcorn, if you say 'sorry' to me again, I will bite you." As he said that, Sun Changkong gently bit Ji Minghuan's ear, leaving a tooth mark.
She whispered, "I'm a wild child from the mountains. I'm very fierce, unlike you."
"I……"
Ji Minghuan felt the pain in his ear and hesitated to speak. After a while, he leaned his head on her shoulder, laughed lowly and self-deprecatingly, and whispered to her:
"Big sister, I'm really scared of you."
After a while, the somersault cloud flew out of the prison cell and floated carelessly inside the base of the Savior Society.
After saying goodbye to Sun Changkong, the first place he found was Firio's dormitory. Like Sun Changkong, his dormitory door was also open, allowing his somersault cloud to pass through unimpeded.
Ji Minghuan sat on the somersault cloud and looked around curiously. There was a computer, a slide, and a high-tech treadmill in the big dog's dormitory.
At this moment, Firion was sitting on the edge of the bed, with his head drooping, cleaning his wolf ears with a cotton swab.
Ji Minghuanxin said that other animals have their owners help clean their ears, but you can clean your ears by yourself, you are indeed a good dog.
Firion suddenly sniffed his nose, smelling his scent. He immediately put down the cotton swab, pricked up his ears, and turned his head. "Ji Minghuan? Why are you with Somersault Cloud?"
"I'm here to play with you, big dog." Ji Minghuan said with no expression on his face.
"Your bedroom door isn't closed either?"
"Well, why else would I come to see you?" Ji Minghuan said, flying over on his Somersault Cloud. He reached out and grabbed his tail, shaking it up and down. "Big dog... if I said you could see your dad, what would you think?"
"Have you seen my father?" Firio's expression suddenly changed, becoming tangled and melancholy.
"Um."
"Will he...will he really forgive me?" Firion asked.
"Yes, he will worry about you to death."
"You won't blame me for what happened to your mother?" Firion asked hesitantly.
"Of course, but he will forgive you soon. Then everything will be the same as before, and you can still live together." Ji Minghuan said without hesitation.
"I want to see him."
"That's right, but the prerequisite is that you have to survive." Ji Minghuan said softly, "At the critical moment, you must remember who you are... You've already regretted your mother's matter once, you shouldn't want to regret it a second time, right?"
"I don't want to regret it."
"Well, I'll go first. I still have to meet other people." As he said that, Ji Minghuan let go of Firion's tail and flew out on the somersault cloud.
Soon, he found Shang Xiaochi's prison cell.
This middle school girl's cell has a couple of potted flowers and a couple of cacti. On the bookshelf are many Shonen Jump comics, most of which have Naruto covers.
Just as Ji Minghuan guessed, she particularly liked Uchiha Sasuke, so there were many pencil outlines she drew on the bookshelf, which were stuck together with tape, like a bound book.
At this moment, Shang Xiaochi was lying on the bed, one hand supporting her chin, the other hand drawing on the paper with a paintbrush. Her eyes were drooping, and a small teardrop mole at the corner of her eye made her look very focused.
"I'm coming in." Ji Minghuan spoke, attracting her attention.
Shang Xiaochi immediately raised his head and turned to stare at him.
She was stunned for a long time, "Traitor, what are you doing here?"
"I came to chat with you." Ji Minghuan said with a smile.
Shang Xiaochi was silent for a moment, then muttered, "Traitor, don't think you're not a traitor just because you're trying to get close to me... Hehe, at this point, I no longer need things like bonds."
"You're still so... energetic." Ji Minghuan smiled slightly. "Can I borrow your comic book?"
"Can't."
"Then can I see the painting you drew?" Ji Minghuan asked casually.
Shang Xiaochi's face turned red instantly. She turned her head abruptly, frowned, and was about to lose her temper when she saw Ji Minghuan had already picked up her sketchbook from the bookshelf.
"So you can draw, and your drawings are even better than our Penguin Monster."
Ji Minghuan exclaimed in admiration as she flipped through her sketchbook.
"Really?" Shang Xiaochi asked blankly.
"Well, Penguin Monster can only doodle, and your drawings are much more detailed than hers."
Shang Xiaochi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly curled up the corner of her mouth slightly. She lowered her head to look at the drawing paper spread on the bed, and secretly glanced at Ji Minghuan out of the corner of her eye.
"Do you like cactus?" Shang Xiaochi suddenly asked after a moment of silence.
Ji Minghuan was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at the cactus in the corner. For some reason, he seemed to be able to imagine Shang Xiaochi squatting there with his knees hugged every day, staring at the cactus in a daze.
She must have often imagined herself to be a plant, like a cactus.
But she is a big tree. Once she closes her eyes, the thorns and branches on her body will grow outwards, and one day they will cover all her limbs, making it difficult for her to breathe.
Every holder of a mythical curiosity will be cursed. This is not a power that humans can control, not to mention that Shang Xiaochi is still a child. Every day when she closes her eyes and faces the "World Tree" with wildly growing branches and as magnificent as the sky, she will only feel fear and uneasiness, and then further realize how insignificant she is.
So, she would stare at the cactus for a long time, imagining herself as a small plant, standing there quietly without having to think.
"I feel that cactus is very similar to you." Ji Minghuan suddenly said.
"Why?" Shang Xiaochi was puzzled.
"You have a prickly personality and are incredibly awkward. You'll never find friends this way."
Shang Xiaochi was stunned for a moment, then stammered, "Sure enough, a traitor is a traitor. He can't understand me."
"But that's just how you are, that's why you're special," Ji Minghuan said. "Even among cacti, you're the most special one. Those thorns look scary on the outside, but if you reach out and touch them, you'll find they're actually soft."
He paused and said, "You don't want to hurt others, nor do you want to be hurt yourself, so you pretend to be a cactus."
After saying that, he turned to look at Shang Xiaochi and smiled gently at her.
Shang Xiaochi looked into his eyes and stood there with her face red unconsciously.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Shang Xiaochi hugged his body, turned his head and snorted coldly, "Don't think I'll be fooled."
"I'm leaving now."
"where are you going?"
"Go meet the others."
"Will you come back and chat with me?"
"Maybe."
After saying that, Ji Minghuan put the picture book back on the bookshelf, waved goodbye to Shang Xiaochi, and then left the prison room on the somersault cloud.
Ji Minghuan went to meet Kong Youling and Mario.
It would be better to say that he didn't find the prison cell where Kong Youling, Mario and Wu Qingjie were held until the very end - he rode his somersault cloud around the F2 floor of the Salvation Society, but he couldn't find the open prison cell.
"Where have you all been?"
Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan returned to the dormitory alone, and the metal door slowly closed.
He was a little tired and lay down on the bed. He was going to use all four machines to fight, but a bad premonition kept lingering in his mind.
Ji Minghuan raised his head, staring quietly at the penguin-shaped broadcasting device above his head, and then asked:
"Kong Youling, Mario, Wu Qingjie...where did they go?"
As he expected, the mentor did not respond.
In the dead silence, Ji Minghuan took a deep breath and raised his arm to shield his forehead. In his mentor's eyes, he had already lost the right to negotiate.
At the same moment, in another corner of the world.
Somewhere in the deep mountains of Iceland, late at night, a convertible was driving on the snow, its headlights cutting through the night sky and illuminating the way ahead.
At this moment, a man wearing a mechanical box on his head was sitting in the driver's seat, holding the steering wheel.
Behind him, four figures were sitting in the open-top cabin of the convertible. They were An Luns, the hacker, Ayase Origami, and Rukawa Chiba.
Above the convertible, a flock of crows was circling in the night sky. It was Qi Yuanyuan blazing the trail for them.
"We'll be meeting that traitor soon." The hacker looked at the map on his phone. "According to the itinerary, we'll reach Hofs Glacier in two hours."
Ayase Origami didn't react much.
The hacker glanced at her out of the corner of his eye and changed his words, "You'll be able to see Xia Pingzhou soon."
The girl in kimono slowly raised her head.
"What did you plan to do when you saw Xia Pingzhou?" the hacker asked. "The captain might kill him, but of course, we have to first figure out why he led us to Iceland."
He paused and said, "Miss, you don't want to tie him back, do you?"
Ayase Origami lowered her eyes again.
Rukawa Chiba smiled slightly: "It's not bad to tie him back. I can help you study what he is thinking."
"Come on, doctor, everyone knows that your ability is useless against the Kitten Lover." said the hacker.
"There's nothing I can do. It's because I can't see his emotions." Rukawa Chiba shook his head.
"So, you don't know what to do when you see him?" The hacker asked the young lady again, as if he was being humiliated. "Don't let the little cat lover sneak up on you."
"Don't provoke the young lady, little brat." An Luns said, reaching out to rub the hacker's head. "Can't you be quiet for a while? Otherwise, play a couple of rounds of poker with me and the doctor?"
"Come on, everyone knows you're the biggest gambler." The hacker tucked his hands into the collar of his cotton-padded jacket. "You can fool the newbies, but forget about fooling me. I won't fall for it."
"Thank you for the compliment. The number one gambler is flying in the sky." As he said that, An Luns raised his finger and pointed at the black crow flying above his head.
"Be quiet. Listening to you guys talking is simply a mental pollution for me as a driver."
"he……"
At this moment, Ayase Origami suddenly spoke in a low voice.
The hacker was stunned and turned to look at her.
"Is he all right?" she asked.
The hacker was silent for a moment and sighed heavily: "Who knows? You'll know when we meet later." As he said that, he turned his head and looked at the snow-capped mountains shrouded in the night.
The snow-capped mountains were completely silent. The dark pine forest lay motionless, the wind rustling the snow. The cyan aurora overhead was breathtakingly beautiful.
Anyone would think that this was a night that couldn't be more ordinary.
(End of this chapter)
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