Chapter 147 Youthful Vigor
The dean was stunned for a moment.
The huge space fell silent, and no one spoke anymore.
Lu Zhi was sleeping soundly leaning against Shen Ranxin's legs.
He had put in a lot of effort to escape from the detention room last night. He originally thought that Lu Zhi would rush into the crowd and hurt innocent people, but he simply bypassed the surveillance of the Alien Management Center to find Shen Ranxin.
After finding him, he followed Shen Ranxin without complaint back to the place where he had been imprisoned for five years, and perhaps for the rest of his life.
He seemed to have some idea of what Lu Yeshan meant when he said, "Shen Ranxin values Lu Zhi more than they do."
He once thought that Shen Ranxin and Wei Huizhi were the same type of people. Although they were much tougher than ordinary omegas, they were still omegas in essence and needed the comfort of Alpha.
The fragility and kindness of omegas are engraved in their DNA.
But Shen Ranxin told him that it was not the case.
On the contrary, his spiritual core is extremely strong. Once he has determined something, no one can change it, not even himself.
He has suffered torture and pain, but he is also capable of shouldering responsibility.
He is cruel to everyone, including himself, but the little bit of tenderness that belongs to an omega is given to the people he loves.
It was Lu Zhi who needed him.
In fact, the dean once blamed Shen Ranxin for being cruel.
He was too strict and too cruel to Shen Qi.
No matter how big a mistake Shen Qi had made, he had been living in self-blame and regret for so many years.
If Shen Ranxin really had a little affection for Shen Qi back then.
If she had felt a little grateful for his company, she shouldn't have been so decisive towards Shen Qi.
If he could show one ten-thousandth of the tenderness he showed to Lu Zhi to Shen Qi, Xiao Qi probably wouldn't have gone to such an extreme to cooperate with Shen Ziqing and ended up ruining himself.
He even wanted to ask Shen Ranxin whether she had ever liked Shen Qi.
But when he looked into Shen Ranxin's eyes, he knew he was wrong.
Shen Ran's heart is purer than anyone else's. He cannot tolerate any grain of sand in his eyes. Even if he once loved someone, once he missed her, he missed her. Once he threw her away, he would never pick her up again.
No matter whether I have liked you or not, it is no longer meaningful at this moment, because his tenderness has already fallen somewhere else and will never look back.
Shen Ranxin tapped the USB drive on the computer on his knees and said, "I think you should know how to read the memory here, right?"
The dean took a long while to react, and nodded slowly: "The Alien Management Center has equipment that can help you read this memory... Shen Qi should have used it on you, but at that time you read your own memory."
Shen Ranxin thought of the equipment Shen Qi had given him, and leaned forward slightly: "So, can you move a set of equipment over to me? You see, I can't leave now."
The dean's eyes moved down and saw Lu Zhi pulling at the corner of Shen Ranxin's clothes.
He pursed his lips, and even in his sleep, he held Shen Ranxin's sleeve tightly and refused to let go.
"...I'll have someone bring it over in a bit."
After the dean finished speaking, he stood up and walked out.
Lu Zhi slowly opened his eyes.
Shen Ranxin patted his face and whispered, "Why aren't you asleep?"
The dean was here just now. Although the dean is a beta without pheromones, how could he sleep well when someone has stepped into the Alpha's territory?
But Shen Ranxin asked him to sleep just now, so he could only obey.
Lu Zhi stood up, bent down and picked up Shen Ranxin horizontally.
Shen Ranxin was caught off guard for a moment, and screamed in fear, then said helplessly: "What are you doing? Put me down!"
The male Alpha held the person who was moving around in his arms tighter and said stubbornly, "Let's sleep together."
Shen Ranxin sighed and let Lu Zhi carry him to the bed and tuck him into the quilt.
*
When the dean walked into the office, Lu Yeshan was sitting in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window.
"If your legs and feet are not good, don't hang out all the time." The dean muttered, took out a blanket from the hanger at the door, walked over and covered Lu Yeshan's legs: "You already knew what Shen Ran was going to do, otherwise you wouldn't let me give him the iris. You deliberately let him go to the restricted area, right?"
Lu Yeshan said calmly, "Otherwise, if I had nothing but water in my head like you, the Lu family would have fallen apart long ago."
"Just talk, don't make personal attacks!" The dean said indignantly, "I just came out of the detention room, and I can probably understand what you mean. Tell me, is Shen Ranxin's personality more like Wei Huizhi or Shen Ziqing... Tsk, I don't think he is like either. He is not as extreme as Shen Ziqing, nor as sentimental and weak as Huizhi. In any case, he is quite similar to you. Tell me the truth, is Shen Ranxin the child of you and Shen Ziqing?"
Lu Yeshan snorted and laughed: "Be more kind with your words, old man."
"I've been your doctor and run the Abnormality Management Center for you all my life. It's enough to do good deeds, but you have to be a little sharp-tongued. Otherwise, it will be bad if you do too much good deeds. When the time comes, we will go to heaven and you will go to hell. We live too far away." The dean stretched and said, "I still want to live closer to you, my good brother."
Lu Yeshan laughed and said nothing.
After a long while, the dean finally spoke: "Are you really willing to do this? You have trained that AI for half your life."
"I can't bear to do that." Lu Yeshan said softly, "So this is not to let Shen Ranxin help me destroy it? After years of dreaming, it's time to wake up. Tsk, if classmate Wei is still alive, he would have beaten up all my ancestors by now."
The dean stood beside Lu Yeshan, smiled, and gloated: "That's really hard to say, you'd better prepare yourself well. If you run into him in ten years, you'd better be careful. Xiao Wei's beatings are really painful."
The two old men were arguing while looking at the sunset. At dusk, the setting sun stretched their shadows very long.
There are no mottled white beard or gray temples in the shadow.
It’s like returning to their youthful days.