Chapter 77 Guests
The door closed, leaving the three children alone, two of them sitting on the plain white bed;
The other stood quietly at the entrance, his back against the closed door.
Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling put their heads together, raised their eyebrows, opened their eyes wide, and looked curiously at the boy's wolf ears and the tail that was so long that it circled the ground.
"He looks like a dog." Kong Youling wrote in the notebook.
Ji Minghuan nodded nonchalantly.
In fact, putting aside these inhuman parts, Firion's appearance looks more like a mixed-race child, with delicate and three-dimensional facial features, but his hair and eyes are black.
For a moment, the three people in the cell looked at each other. Whoever came later would definitely be embarrassed. Firion didn't know what to do and could only stand there stupidly.
"Ah, there's a big dog!" Ji Minghuan pointed at Firion's tail dragging on the ground and suddenly shouted.
The dead silence in the cell was broken by these inexplicable words.
Kong Youling was stunned for a second.
Firion was also stunned.
Under the hair that almost covered his eyes, his cold expression collapsed for a moment, revealing a hint of panic and evasion - it seemed that he had been locked up here for a long time and didn't know how to get along with kids of the same age, especially when they were pointing at him.
The next second, Ji Minghuan got off the bed barefoot, swaggered in front of Firion, and greeted him:
"Hello, can I touch your tail? I heard that in Africa, dogs use their tails instead of shaking hands."
"Stay...stay away from me." Firion said, with a hint of ferocity in his pupils.
Ji Minghuan frowned immediately: "Please...is it necessary to be so fierce?"
He turned his face away and pretended to be magnanimous: "Call me boss, I will protect you in this laboratory, no other kid dares to treat you badly..."
At this point, he suddenly lowered his voice and whispered: "I tell you, if I hang myself, even my mentor will kneel down and beg me not to die."
"Rejected. We won't give you the chance to hang yourself... but it's possible that you'll kneel down and beg me not to die."
The instructor's voice came from the radio and echoed throughout the prison cell.
His tone was gentle, as if a good-tempered professor suddenly interrupted a debate among college students and chatted and laughed with them.
Ji Minghuan curled his lips and thought to himself, we are just kids chatting, why are you, an adult, joining in the fun?
But the next second, his expression changed again, and he said smugly: "Did you hear that? The instructor said he would kneel down and beg me not to die. Do you know who is the most powerful person in this crappy place? Do you know, do you know?"
As he spoke, he raised his hand and patted Firion's shoulder.
He did this on purpose, wanting to see if the mentor would shock him with the collar after touching Firion's body, but obviously, this did not happen - now he understood why the people of the Salvation Society forbade them from contacting each other when he wanted to touch Kong Youling's hair:
Because at that time most of the people in the Salvation Society had not yet found a way to suppress psychic abilities, so they were worried that Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling would enter each other's spiritual world and communicate privately beyond their sight.
And now, they probably have mastered the corresponding means, so they allowed Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling to have physical contact under their noses.
Just as he was thinking about it, Ji Minghuan's hand on Firio's shoulder was slapped away with a "pop".
"Don't touch me!" Firio's tone became even colder.
Ji Minghuan drooped his eyelids and said nonchalantly, "I don't want to play with you anymore. You make me look like a bad guy."
Not far away, Kong Youling couldn't hear what the instructor said on the radio, but she could tell from the shape of their lips what Ji Minghuan and Firio were talking about.
Under the cold light, she blinked her red eyes and looked at Ji Minghuan's back.
Only Kong Youling knew why Ji Minghuan suddenly became so active, as if he had become a different person:
He used to be like this. In order to prevent the children from the orphanage from bothering her, he would always pretend to be a little kid in front of them and drive them all away.
When they were in the library before, Ji Minghuan said to her while reading:
"Children are the worst. They don't understand anything, so they can do anything and don't care about other people's feelings... not to mention the poorly educated children in the welfare home. So, don't take their malice as your own problem."
After many days, Ji Minghuan showed another familiar side of himself to Kong Youling: when he met a stranger, he pretended to be a naughty child, no matter who the other person was or what the consequences were, he would go up to them and throw a tantrum without saying a word.
He protected Kong Youling behind him and attracted everyone's attention.
As time goes by, everyone will forget that he was just a kid who liked to read quietly. Maybe... even he himself has forgotten what he was like originally?
At this moment, Ji Minghuan stared into Firio's eyes, obviously not very reassured about this uninvited guest.
But the instructor insisted that they make friends with Firion, and the reason was very simple:
Demons... they don't sound like easy creatures to educate. The mentor hopes that Firion has a friend of the same age so that he can be more emotionally stable.
Ji Minghuan knew very well that he was the most important person here. If this little werewolf really went crazy and bit someone, the instructor would definitely drag him out immediately.
So, he put on a childish attitude of "school is my home" and waved his hand, saying, "Sit down, big dog... You are late, the VIP big bed has been taken, but there are chairs over there for you to sit on."
After saying that, he sat back next to Kong Youling.
"who is he?"
Kong Youling wrote something on the notebook and showed it to Ji Minghuan.
"His name is Firion, he is the child of a human and a demon."
"demon?"
Kong Youling obviously had never heard anything about exorcists from his mentor.
"Well... just think of him as the child of Pleasant Goat mother and Big Bad Wolf father, and then he turned wolfish and ate Pleasant Goat mother, and then Big Bad Wolf father got so angry that he drove him out of the Green Grassland and banished him from the Wolf family forever."
Ji Minghuan made up a bunch of nonsense and lowered his voice so that Firion couldn't hear him.
Under the gaze of the two, Firio silently found a corner against the wall and sat down, hugging his knees with his hands.
He dropped his head, staring at the floor, his eyes becoming as empty as before.
It looked pitiful, like an abandoned puppy.
Kong Youling pinched the corner of Ji Minghuan's clothes.
Ji Minghuan ignored her.
She pinched the corner of Ji Minghuan's clothes again.
"Okay, okay, I got it."
Ji Minghuan said impatiently, silently getting up from the bed and sitting by the wall with Firion;
Kong Youling also came over and sat on Ji Minghuan's right, holding the sketchbook and not saying a word.
"Can I ask you a question?" Ji Minghuan turned his head and looked at Firio.
Firion was silent for a long time, as if he remembered his mentor's instructions to him, so he slowly spoke:
"you say."
"How did you get to my bedroom? I don't even know what it looks like outside."
The reason why Ji Minghuan didn't ask Kong Youling was because he was worried that she would be punished - it didn't matter about Firio. On the one hand, he was not familiar with him and there was no need to worry about him. On the other hand, he was a demon child after all, with thick skin and tough flesh.
Firion thought for a moment and said, "When you walk out of your bedroom, the lights in the hallway are so bright that you can't open your eyes. Following the instructions on the radio, I walked for a long time and slowly walked to your bedroom. I couldn't see anything else."
Hearing this, Ji Minghuan turned around and glanced at Kong Youling.
She nodded her head slightly. It seemed that both she and Firion had come here from their "bedroom" in this way - Kong Youling's eyes were afraid of light, and it was impossible for her to see the way here clearly in the overexposure to light.
However, he did not expect to learn the structure of the laboratory from the two of them.
At least I knew that there was a long, winding corridor outside the detention room, and that this corridor was connected to the bedrooms of the children who were kept there.
When the day comes to attack the Salvation Society, Ji Minghuan will free the children here one by one, open the inhibitors on them, and let the "gentle" adults taste the feeling of reaping the fruits of their own actions.
After thinking for a while, Ji Minghuan asked again: "Can you transform, like the Saiyans transform into gorillas?"
"As long as I take the medicine regularly, I won't transform." Firion said. Although his tone was cold, one could hear a hint of timidity in it.
"That's great." Ji Minghuan nodded with satisfaction. "My mentor told me that you were sent here when you were very young. Is that true?"
Firion remained silent and nodded slightly.
"Don't you miss your family?" Ji Minghuan deliberately avoided the "mother" he had eaten.
"Didn't you hear from your mentor?" Firion lowered his head even more.
"What did you hear?"
"I ate my mother... My father must be very angry. I'm afraid that he will find me and I will be eaten by him." Firion whispered, "It's good to hide here. I don't have to contact others. If it weren't for the teacher's insistence, I wouldn't see you, so... You'd better not get close to me. I'm afraid I will eat you."
Even though your father is angry, he is still looking for you all over the world, silly child, although he is still committing crimes of burning, killing and looting... Ji Minghuan shrugged, teasing in his heart.
"Then don't you miss him?" Ji Minghuan asked.
"I am a monster, and monsters only deserve to stay here..." Firion said, "Only the mentor is willing to accept me, only he is willing to treat me as a human being, everyone else hates me."
He paused, buried his head in his arms around his knees, and whispered:
"To me...the mentor is my father."
Ji Minghuan was stunned for a moment, then slowly lowered his head, with the corners of his mouth twitching slightly, as if he was trying to hold back a laugh.
After a moment, he raised his head and sighed deeply towards the ceiling, thinking: Devil Taijun, please come and save me, your son has already recognized the thief as his father! If you don't come, this family will really fall apart!
(End of this chapter)
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