Chapter 35 Don't Call Me Mother
There are not many people in the party member activity room now, and the person on duty also knows Ji Yu.
So the two of them came in smoothly.
I took Villar to the end of the bookshelf. In addition to the books with red and white covers, there was a cabinet with a bunch of boxes used to store some information. Normally, no one would open it.
The box left by my father has no lock and no place to open. It fits together so tightly that it looks like a whole. But it can definitely be opened, and it should be here.
If everything is really according to the biological father's plan, then opening the box should not be difficult.
The boxes on the file rack did not contain any important confidential documents, and there were even keys inserted in each box. Then I noticed that the key inserted in a box in the corner was a little different. There was a thin iron piece hanging on the keychain of this key.
…I took the metal piece in my hand and looked at it. I’m not sure if it’s actually an iron piece. The metal piece has a similar pattern engraved on it as the one on the box. I don’t know how long it’s been there…
Dad, are you really not afraid of losing it? If you clean the activity room one day, maybe it won’t be there.
Villar was flipping through the books on the bookshelf nearby. It was obvious that having grown up abroad, he had not received much education in patriotism.
Haha, even if you are an evil god, you should study socialism well.
Villar seemed very interested in the books, and then he was reading while I was figuring out how to open the box with the metal piece.
The box fits tightly together and there is no way to pry it open. There are no grooves on the surface. Is there some specific spell?
I asked Villar, and Villar shook his head. "Father didn't say anything."
But we can reverse it a bit -
Assuming that my biological father left this box to Villar and me because of his various abnormalities and thought that his other son, I, might also have something special, so he left it to me in the future so that Villar and I could be reunited, then it means that he believes that I can unlock the box.
What is the basis for his belief?
My brain, my abilities, or the differences between me and Villar?
What is the difference between me and Villar...
...seems like her biological mother.
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"Ms. Ji, there is good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear?"
Veraer and I returned to the apartment, and I called my biological mother directly. She seemed to be on vacation, and there were various voices of men and women around her.
...Remembering that the Investigator Association said they would send someone to protect her, I wonder if he will become her travel partner.
"Xiaoyu, you finally decided to call your mom? I thought you were so busy with school that you forgot about her... Haha, driver, drive slower, I'm talking to my son on the phone."
It doesn't sound like I forgot her, I feel like she forgot me.
"Let me tell Mom the good news first. I'm going surfing in H City soon."
"The good news is, your other good son, my brother, is by my side." I said expressionlessly, "Oh, he's also my classmate and roommate."
"...What?! Master, please stop the car for a moment. I want to get off..." I heard a flurry of activity over there, accompanied by all kinds of strange noises.
Then when it finally quieted down, the phone call ended, and then a video call came in.
Ms. Ji was wearing an island style outfit, with the beach and sea behind her, and a beach buggy parked in the middle of the road. Her makeup was very delicate, but her eyes were a little red.
Then he saw me and Villar next to me.
"...Son, tell me this isn't some special effect, right?"
"Mother." Veral looked at the woman in the video and gently called out a name he had never called out before.
"Hey...my good son, woo woo woo, your scumbag dad finally agreed to let you go back to your country. When mom comes back, I will take you two to eat and drink delicious food." She began to wipe away her tears as she spoke.
“Ms. Ji, okay, okay, your makeup is smudged, and you two big boys can’t run away. Have fun, and when we have a holiday, I will definitely pack him up and take him home with me.”
"You idiot son, you're telling me such a big thing now! I haven't been able to contact my ex-husband for over a year. You like to hide it from me, right?!"
...Wait, what???
Mom, were you still in contact with Dad a year ago? Didn't you tell me you'd never talk to each other again after the divorce?
What the hell is going on now???
"Were you still in touch a year ago?"
Mother: "...well, anyway, kids shouldn't ask so many questions."
I sneered.
"Oh, I haven't told you the bad news yet. Your ex-husband's brother may be gone." I wanted to say it more tactfully, but now I feel there is no need.
My mother obviously knows much more than I do.
I held up the box in my hand. "Your ex-husband's brother left this thing for your eldest son. Do you know how to open it?"
My mother's expression changed. It became a stern one, not like the expression of a naive rich girl.
"...I'll come over tomorrow. You guys wait for me at home."
Then the video was cut off.
…
Villar and I looked at each other.
"Speaking of which, did Dad ever tell us how he met Mom?"
Villar shook his head.
I have never thought about this matter in detail. My biological father is an investigator who has been undercover abroad...why did he know and fall in love with my biological mother?
My mother has no experience of studying abroad, so it’s unlikely that she would fall in love at first sight and get married quickly while traveling abroad.
So, does this secret start from here?
the next day,
There was a knock on the door of the apartment where Vera and I lived at ten in the morning.
The circle that was pretending to be deep in front of the sun was startled.
When I opened the door, Ji Jin was standing there with a suitcase in her hand. She greeted me, then went up and pulled Villar to look at her big son like a cat.
For a moment I felt like I was a bit redundant. Am I not her favorite son???
"This white hair doesn't look like it was dyed? Did something happen?" My mother sat down familiarly, and then we sat next to her, one on her left and one on her right.
There are so many questions that I don't know where to start.
"How did mother find this place?" Verard spoke first.
"Calling me Mommy, calling me Mother, makes me look like I'm going to be buried soon," she slapped Verard on the back of the head, "I thought you should have guessed it." She took out two business cards from her obviously new crocodile leather bag and handed them to us.
I looked down.
"Special Advisor to the Tianxing Association, Ji Jin."
"Tianxing Association?"
Villar was confused.
Ji Jin: "... Dabao, although I heard from my ex-husband that your brain is not as sharp as your brother's, it's not like it's been so long since you realized that the group of investigators who contacted you are all from the Tianxing Association, right?"
Villar and I were both stunned.
Emmm, to be honest, I didn’t expect that the Investigators Association has a unified name. Maybe too many things have happened recently and I didn’t pay attention to such trivial matters.
but--
"So, you know what happened recently, why were you so surprised to see Villar yesterday?"
Then I got slapped on the back of my head.
"I'm on vacation recently. Who knew you would cause such a big fuss? I've never seen you cause such a big fuss in the past 18 years!!"
"I called you last night and found out you two almost died. You flew back overnight. Do you know how sad your mother must be? You didn't think of your mother at all when you rushed forward, did you?!"
Ms. Ji rarely gets angry, but every time she does, it's terrifying.
And she was right to scold me. I lowered my head a little, but Villar had a confused expression on his face.
After Ms. Ji finally recovered, she finally got to the point. She looked at me with a heavy face and said, "Son, I always thought you were an ordinary person. Why can't our family produce a pure rich man or woman to enjoy the good life? Why do you have to get involved in these messes?"
"That's right. I should have accepted your fate since you were a kid, always eager to learn everything and full of curiosity."
She sighed and took a sip of water.
"Since my ex-husband may be gone, let me tell you about our family."
With one hand, she picked up the cow cat that had rubbed against her at some point and put it on her lap, then covered its ears with her hands.
Through my blindfolded right eye, I clearly saw a flash of golden dark patterns on her hand.
The cow cat's expression looked even more confused.
"About twenty years ago, Mommy was still a pure rich girl. At that time, she was in her early twenties, young and beautiful."
"Then I went to Country F for a trip and shopping, and got caught up in an incident called the 'Hundred Days of Annecy.' If you'd like to see the details, you can apply to the association. I won't go into detail, but it seems that due to the influence of some entity, our time has been frozen, and we're constantly repeating the events of the same 24 hours."
"I was trapped there for three months, experiencing the same 24-hour period for almost a hundred days. My ex-husband was also in there at the time."
Ji Jin's expression was filled with nostalgia. "There were seven people who knew they were trapped, but in the end, only my ex-husband and I came out alive."
"Where are the others?" asked Villar.
"Suicide. Not everyone can endure living the same life every day for so long."
"That was also when I learned about the Evil God, investigators, and the Unspeakable. Then, naturally, I started to depend on my ex-husband and fell in love."
"But at that time I didn't know my ex-husband was an undercover agent. I thought the religion he believed in was weird, and as a decent person, I had to find a way to get him back on the right path."
Ms. Ji may not have noticed that she was smiling, "and then he broke the cycle and saved me."
"Then the bastard disappeared. I felt I had been betrayed, so I decided to go home and find my dad to find the bastard."
"But I didn't expect that I would be taken away by the Tianxing Association as soon as I returned to China. Then I found out that my father was one of the investors of the Tianxing Association. Since I knew those things, I joined the Tianxing Association and became a special consultant."
She waved her business card. "Although my main job at the time was to be a messenger between the association and my dad, using my financial resources."
"What happened next? Mom, you should be able to do something." I looked meaningfully at the cat on her lap.
"Stinky boy, why do you say you're so smart?" She rolled her eyes and continued, "Actually, when we were looping around in Annecy, my ex-husband carved a mark on me without me knowing it. He stuffed all the spells and fighting techniques he knew that were suitable for me into my brain."
I know this, it's like his father forcibly engraved the runes he created into Verar's brain in order to make him remember them.
...My dad is really patient, but not much.
"Later, when I saw him again, he told me and activated the mark."
"It was mainly because we were escaping and he couldn't defeat us on his own, so he had to activate the mark. That bastard betrayed the cult, and I had to flee with him. I've never suffered that kind of hardship in my life, for a whole six months!"
My mother probably didn't realize that she was still smiling even though she was complaining. At that time, she probably really loved my father.
"Later, when we returned to China, I found out he was an undercover agent. Then we got married, had you two, and then divorced. He took Dabao abroad."
She looked at Villar. "I didn't know about Dabao's situation at the time. I didn't get in touch with him again until he was ten years old. Or rather, he contacted the association."
"We've been in touch on and off for the past eight years, exchanging information about Dabao and Erbao, but I know he's still hiding a lot from me."
She picked up the box on the table and the piece of metal I had secretly brought back. "Before he lost contact with me, he told me a place name."
"The Mandala, also known as Shambhala, is a legendary place, and that's where he's going."
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