Merit Book·Xinghai

After dinner, Mutel put a glass of light red native fruit juice in front of Rong Yuan, and the home robot came over to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

Mutel hummed softly, and went to take care of the two pots of vegetable seedlings he had just planted recently.The fingertip-sized green buds have just poked their heads out of the soil, and the fresh and transparent green makes people feel happy when they look at them.

Rong Yuan looked at her, hesitating to speak, thinking, let her present happiness last for a while longer.

Mutel is not even 50 years old this year.This age is not considered old at all in today's interstellar era. Many interstellar people of her age are as young as 30 to [-] years old, not only in appearance, but also in mentality. Some people at this age have not even considered marriage and having children thing.

But Mutel was gray-haired, wrinkled and aged as if he were 80 years old.Not only that, when Rong Yuan first met her, her body was worse than it appeared on the surface, and various chronic diseases accumulated in every part of her body, which made her even get up in excruciating pain.

But now, since moving to the thirteenth floor, the burden of life has been lifted from Mutel's shoulders. The environment has improved, and the diet has improved a lot. The most important thing is that Rong Yuan has been He secretly helped her heal her body while she was asleep, and re-stimulated the body's vitality from the cellular level. After a period of time, Mutel's body has undergone changes visible to the naked eye.

The root of the hair is gradually growing black hair, the wrinkles have become lighter and less, and the body seems to have become lighter. When I walk, I feel like I am about to jump up, including the scars on my face. up.So much so that recently, Mutel couldn't help taking pictures in front of the mirror every morning, and even secretly bought a lot of skin care products for himself.Because she was too embarrassed to use it in front of Rong Yuan, she always took advantage of Rong Yuan's time to go to work and secretly put a mask on herself for nursing or something.Sometimes, when she looked at her gradually white and soft hands, she would unconsciously show a nostalgic and sad smile on her face.

Mutel's superficial cover-ups naturally couldn't hide from Rong Yuan's eyes.Seeing that she regained her beauty-loving nature of a young woman, and her mentality became younger again, Rong Yuan was also happy for her.She was once driven to a low-level life, raised her son alone with difficulty, gave almost everything for the growth of her only son, and then her son, whom she placed all her hopes on, abandoned her and left, and never heard from her again. All this crushed Mutel , turning her into a puppet living in the past, constantly missing her son in vain.

Of course, such a mother looks great and selfless, which makes people sympathize, pity, and admire.However, people cannot live in the admiration of others.

In the past 20 years, how many days did Mutel feel happy?

Maybe Mu Zhe once brought her happiness and happiness, but more days must be painful and numb.And that little bit of happiness is like a drug, making her sink into pain willingly, and she is moved by her sacrifice and patience, thinking that all the sacrifices are worthwhile, and one day it will bring rewards in the future.

But this kind of sacrifice, Rong Yuan saw too much.And many women have waited for a lifetime, but they can't wait for the gratitude they expected, because the mother's contribution in a family is often taken for granted and always ignored.

In Rong Yuan's view, he believes that even if a woman is the mother of a child and the wife of a man, she should have hobbies that she likes to indulge in, a career that she is willing to fight for, and her own independence and freedom. She can rely on her husband and children, but she can also become a person dependent on her husband and children.Even if she sacrifices her career and hobbies for her family, it must be because doing so can make her feel real happiness, rather than society, family or traditional values ​​forcing her to do so.

Compared with ordinary people, the length of life is almost infinite. Rongyuan understands that life is actually very short, and there are too many unexpected events in life.Many people actually don't have that much time to look forward to the future.Therefore, the most important thing is to live well and live well in the present moment.

Now Mutel gradually no longer devotes all her mind to recalling the past, and no longer neglects herself because she wants to take care of Rong Yuan wholeheartedly. She begins to live out herself gradually. Although there are only some minor changes at present, Rong Yuan Yuan is still really happy for her.

However, a large part of Mutel's change is due to the stable and affluent living environment they now have, but now they have to change, and Rong Yuan feels very guilty about this.

After Mutel took care of his vegetables, he was about to tell Rong Yuan to wash and go to bed early, when he suddenly noticed Rong Yuan's expression, and realized that he had something to say, and it might be embarrassing.Mutel suddenly became nervous. She wiped her hands, and with a bit of worry in her eyes, she asked, "Ah... Ah Zhe, what's wrong? Is something wrong?"

Rong Yuan hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard that a large-scale carnival will be held on the eighth floor recently. It will be very lively and very interesting. Do you want to go and see it?"

"...Carnival?" Mutel repeated blankly, and blurted out, "Are you going?"

"I'm not going, I have to go to work." Rong Yuan comforted: "But don't worry, I will entrust a friend to take care of you. He is a very reliable person, you can trust him as me."

"What kind of friend?" Mutel asked again, but he didn't pay much attention to the answer.She subconsciously resisted: "Well, what are you doing out to play? There are so many things at home! And the seedlings I raised have just sprouted, and I can't do without people..."

"Isn't everything at home cleaned up? Robots can do these daily tasks. I will take care of the vegetables for you, but don't worry. I promise, when you come back, they will definitely grow well " Rong Yuan persuaded: "You have been busy with family affairs, it seems that you have never gone out to play. Now that you have time, I hope you can enjoy life, okay?"

"This..." Mutel looked into his eyes, suddenly realized something, nodded slowly, and then smiled: "Okay then. I have heard of the carnival on the eighth floor, a long time ago I was just thinking about when I can go to participate once. But... when the event is over, you will come to pick me up, right?"

She looked at Rong Yuan, there was no expectation or excitement in her eyes, only tenderness and love.

"Of course, I will pick you up soon." Rong Yuan said with a smile.

"That's good." Mutel grabbed his hand and said in a willful tone, "I'll wait for you...I'll recognize you...If you don't come to pick me up, I won't go anywhere."

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"I think this is the reason why you feel abnormal, my lord."

A Qilila man with a fat face and finger-thick tentacles on his head touched the tentacles on his chin with his fat fingers, a hot drink in one hand, a pastry in the other, and a Tapped on the holographic screen, accurately positioned on a picture, and then enlarged one of the images until there was only one eye in the holographic image occupying the entire wall.

It was a triangular eye, and it usually looked sinister and evil.But zooming in on the screen at this time, ignoring that horrible face, ignoring the lines on his face, and ignoring all other external factors, he found that his pupils are very beautiful.

The outer side of the iris is a circle of pure black, and then countless blue-purple radial lines extend to the black pupil in the middle, and the undulating radial folds form a radiant beauty like a bursting star.

But for some reason, looking at this eye gave people an extremely uncomfortable feeling.

"Look at this eye." Qilila said, and conveniently pulled out more than a dozen photos of Todd in the previous video, and enlarged the images to focus on the eye, and then said: "Compare these eyes again. , even if ordinary people can't perceive the subtle differences, they should be able to feel significantly different."

Mapu, who was standing beside Qililaren, nodded, and even Mai behind could clearly feel the difference.

In the eyes of the past, people can feel the concentration and loyalty across the screen, like a loyal dog snuggling at the feet of its owner, or a son admiring his father.But the eye in the most recent picture makes people feel uneasy or even fearful.

"Anger, disgust, hatred."

Pointing at that eye through the air, Qi Lila said unhurriedly.He called up a few more photos and analyzed the emotions hidden in them one by one——

"fear."

"lie."

"resist."

"Murderous intent."

A series of more than a dozen photos were displayed on the screen, and the protagonist in each photo was Todd.At this time, "they" looked down at Ma Pu and the others standing in front of the screen, making everyone feel as if a blood-quenching blade was pointed at their necks.

"I'm sorry, my lord. I... I have analyzed this video before, more than once, but I found nothing." Mai said with some panic.

"No one should have found it. Except for our talented Qili puller, no one can pick out these facial expressions in a short period of time from a ten-minute video. The total time is less than one-tenth of a second." Qi Qi Lila said triumphantly: "I have to say, this man is the one who can control his emotions the most among the intelligent creatures I have ever seen. Don't miss his flaws."

"So..." Mapp concluded slowly, "Todd now...fears me, resents me, and even wants to kill me?"

"True. But not just 'want'."

The Qilila people zoomed in on one of the photos and said, "Look at this expression, the eyebrows are drawn down - of course, his eyebrows may not be easy to spot; the upper eyelids are raised, the eyes are tight, and the pupils are narrowed to normal This is the expression of preparing to carry out a bloody killing. I'm sure he has a dangerous plan that is about to be put into practice. When this image was recorded, he was probably thinking about his own killing plan .”

Mapp silently looked at Todd, who had killing intent in his eyes in the video, his eyes were cold and ruthless, and his expression began to slowly become dangerous.

The Qili puller next to him was still complimenting: "These expressions of his lasted less than [-] seconds each time, and ordinary people couldn't find it at all. But you saw it, although you didn't realize that you saw it, but you But that momentary feeling is left in your mind, your subconscious is warning that he's a threat to you, and that's why you feel weird. I have to say, you are really very perceptive. You know, even if we Qili pulls people, and most of them can't detect that short...change...change..."

Qi Lilaren, who suddenly felt severe pain, finished his sentence according to the inertia. He touched his neck blankly, then looked down.

His head gurgled and rolled off.

Mai retracted the arm that had turned into a long knife, and pinched the torn sleeves with her slender fingers, and asked Mapp, "Sir, do you need me to capture Director Todd?"

Mapp had already stepped back a few steps in advance to avoid blood splashing on himself.He looked at Todd on the screen and sneered, "No need."