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The next day, Gu Qing woke up early.Leon had been sleeping on his chest, his short hair pricked through his T-shirt, like a hedgehog.Lu Qing took a few short breaths to relieve his back that had not moved for a long time as if it had been anesthetized.The child also woke up in a daze, and there were several red marks on the downward side of his face, which perfectly matched the folds on his T-shirt.Lu Qing wanted to laugh a little, but watched Leon smooth his T-shirt quietly with his hands, and put his face on it with another face, showing a brief but happy smile.

From the current angle, Lu Qing couldn't see his whole face clearly, but he could still see the very unreasonable lines on his originally round face.The child's face puffed up, those red marks became more obvious, Gu Qing held back his laughter, and couldn't hold back the cough caused by the choking of his saliva.

"Dad." Leon got up immediately.

"Morning." Gu Qingbie coughed a few times.

"What's wrong with you?" Leon asked worriedly, "Did I crush you?"

"No," Gu Qing shook his head.

"Are we going out?"

"Don't be in a hurry today," Gu Qing said to him, "After breakfast, I'll take you out to play."

"No way," Leon shook his head anxiously, "I still have to get an injection!"

"You may not have heard yesterday, I won't let you do this."

"I've made a deal with Willis."

"Before you turn 18, everything needs to be agreed with me first."

"Oh." Leon froze for a moment, then nodded obediently.

"Let's go find him now." Lu Qing opened the closet and randomly grabbed two pieces.

"I'm like an informer," Leon scratched his hair, "will be buried alive."

"What movie did he show you?!" Lu Qing tightened his grip on the lower edge of the T-shirt.

"Huh?" Leon seemed a little off the channel again.

"Go back to your room and change clothes. I'll find you later."

"Don't hit him, he treats me very well."

"I know, it's just a chat."

Gu Qing drove directly to Willis's house. The silver-haired fat man, who has been wearing pink all year round, was dressed very grandly today. He stood at the door of his house and watched Gu Qing drive closer. He looked extremely excited, his eyes were blood red, and he clearly hadn't slept all night. .Gu Qing was a little angry and could understand Willis' thoughts, but he couldn't forgive Willis for training Lyon as his next successor without his permission.He pushed open the passenger door directly from the driver's seat and called him to get in the car.

The three of them didn't speak on the road, and Gu Qing drove all the way to Willis's favorite brunch restaurant, opened a table and ordered a lot of things for Leon, then grabbed Willis and sat down at a table not far away.

"You know everything?" Willis unbuttoned his suit, showing a tired face.

"Willis, why did you do that?"

"You are 28 years old." After a long pause, he said quickly: "Juan has brought you back for several years when you were your age, but you haven't found your next one yet. If you decide to Isn't it good to adopt this child and make him your next successor? He is very suitable."

Gu Qing knew that Leon was a good fit.Imprisoned children already have patience that is hard to see in ordinary people at a young age, which is already the first step to success.But it is for this reason that he cannot make Lyon his next successor.During his long and short career, he may have thought of his captivity time and time again, and those misfortunes are quite forgettable as an ordinary person.

He couldn't talk about it with Willis, and he didn't plan to bring it up with Leon. He hoped that Leon could become a person standing in the galaxy, as his mother had been trying to do, instead of being swallowed up in this meaningless human relationship. In tragedy.

"say something."

"I don't need the next one," Gu Qing sat up straight, "I hope the 'Gaia Project' ends in my generation."

"Gu Qing, do you think you can complete this task? Have you really not noticed the gap in ability between you and Juan?"

"It doesn't matter anymore. Before I die, the plan that Juan started will definitely be completed. Now everything is on the right track, and the material problem is about to be solved. After I collect enough materials, I will build a theoretical model."

"Even so, you shouldn't end it so hastily. Who knows what kind of tribulations humans will have in the future?" Willis widened his eyes: "Is there anything wrong with leaving a double insurance for yourself?"

"Even so, that's my own business, and you don't need to do it."

"I am not the GAIA that you and Juan represent, but I am also a human being, and I do not agree with the end of 'Project Gaia' in this way."

"I see," Gu Qing nodded, "Gaia shouldn't have friends."

"This is your inference?!"

"Yes," Gu Qing said calmly, "From ancient times to the present, we are all alone, and we really shouldn't have friends."

"Should there be sons then?" Willis asked angrily, leaning forward.

"He is a child left behind by those who died for my work. And," Gu Qing pretended to lean over to get water, and approached him, "I am Gaia, and what I have always carried out is the wishes of me and the pioneers. "Lu Qing smiled at him, his words were cold, "Willis, I'm not your son either."

"I..." Willis squeezed the cup tightly, "Are my decades with you and Juan worthless?"

Naturally not worthless.If that was the case, Gu Qing would not hand over Leon to him with confidence, and it is impossible for him to try to explain to him now that his trust has been betrayed.

"You apologize to Leon." Gu Qing said, "You apologize to him, and you can see my successor tomorrow."

"Just anyone? Are you willing to do anything for this child?" Willis became more and more angry as he spoke.

"Willis, apologies."

"Gu Qing, you are doing things that are far away." Willis nodded the table: "I am a dying person who can understand things."

"Apologize."

With the help of the waiter, Leon kept eating meat and potatoes. From time to time, he sneaked a few glances at the adults who were talking not far away. Both of them had calm faces, but they looked very interesting. Willis bowed his waist Like an old bear, Lu Qing is a bit like a young cheetah with its back straightened, the two of them seem to be competing.Leon ate a few more mouthfuls, thanked the waiter, and walked over to Gu Qing.

"Are you full?" Gu Qing asked him after he got out of the fighting state.

"What are you two arguing about?" Leon nodded and asked.

The two adults avoided eye contact and looked at him seriously together.It was as if the bear and the leopard had formed an alliance, and they had to tear him apart here before stopping.

Leon was a little aggrieved, he thought for a while, and said in a trembling tone, "I'm sorry?"

"What's your 'sorry'?" Lu Qing frowned.

"I didn't mean to tell Dad, I just..."

"Willis!" Lu Qing took Leon to his side.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Willis said, "I should have apologized to you. I shouldn't have treated you that way."

"It's okay," Leon shook his head, and finished what he wanted to say, "I can continue training, I just want to talk to him."

"Look!" Willis looked back at Gu Qing.

"I don't agree." Gu Qing frowned.

"I listen to my father."

"Happy-looking and good-looking." Willis muttered in Chinese.

Leon looked at Gu Qing with questioning eyes, and Gu Qing pressed his head in his arms, and frowned at Willis.

"I'm going back. I remember what you said." Willis, who was in a bad mood, continued to attack in Chinese, "Father is kind and son is filial, please do your best. Goodbye."

"Goodbye." After understanding the last sentence, Leon waved at him suspiciously.

The few times before when I came to this restaurant for dinner, Gu Qing would take him to the amusement park in the shopping mall for a while, but this time he didn't. Gu Qing drank a cup of coffee in one breath, and took him home directly.He was as silent as when he went there. He took Leon through the first and second floors, and went directly to the studio on the third floor, and then leaned against the door panel alone as if thinking about something.

They only went there for a short period of time. It is now morning, and the simple layout of the third floor can be seen through the faint light leaked by the curtains. Leon secretly looked at the black chassis in the middle of the room. Buzzing, as if it was working all the time.

"When you want to see it, raise your head and look openly, this is your home." Lu Qing knelt down and smiled at him.

"This is where you work."

"Good boy." He rubbed his short hair, then walked over and pulled open the blackout curtains, the morning sun poured into the room, full of light and a sense of security.

Unlike the second floor where they lived, there was only one room on the third floor, and a narrow staircase leading to the attic.There are more books here than in Gu Qing's bedroom, they are neatly stacked, occupying one wall.Apart from books, there are many strange things, and the things he knows are not the same as in his concept, and there are some things that he can't name at all.

Gu Qing rolled the shirt over his arm, then moved the black machine four floor tiles to the left, closer to a gray table.He tapped the edge of the floor tiles, and said to Leon, "From here to the attic, it will be your place in the future. You can do what you like here, and you can bring toys up."

"As long as it doesn't pass this line?" Leon squatted down and reached out to rub the line that Lu Qing said.

Lu Qing squatted down with a piece of paper and wiped off the dust on his hands: "From now on, you will follow me to and from get off work, and we will never be separated again."

"Where's Willis?"

"I don't like him taking you to train," Gu Qing said, "so you won't meet alone, I will take you personally."

"I don't want you to fight," Leon said, trembling with tears in his eyes, "Willis is not a bad guy."

"Leon, good people do bad things sometimes."

"That's not a bad thing. I can accept injections and be patient. I hope you can know that I hope...I hope...you can love me. I don't want you two to quarrel." Leon bowed his head while talking.

"Leon, patience is an over-exaggerated character, and there is nothing to praise. You will not get love by relying on patience. I love you just because you are cute, not because you can endure, nor can you Help me." Gu Qing hugged him in his arms and said very softly: "I love you, I have loved you from the first moment I saw you. You are a child who deserves to be loved by others. You Always believe in that."

"really?"

"It's true." Gu Qing said to him, "I never asked you, did those training... hurt?"

"hurts a little."

"Does it hurt like an explosion?"

"No, it's just a little sore."

"I feel sorry for you."

"It hurts a little."

"Ah, it hurts even more."

Facing the child who couldn't act like a baby, Gu Qing said a lot of nasty things, and he finally calmed down when he was on the verge of emotional explosion, and even started to feel shy.Lu Qing patted him on the back lightly: "From now on, you can follow me to and from get off work and help me carry some things, is that okay?"

"It's fine."

"It's a pleasure to be with you."

"Dad," Leon covered his face, "me too."

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Gu Qing is a person who never speaks empty words.The next morning, when it was just dawn, Gu Qing stuffed Leon with a cup of milk and bread, stuffed him into the safety seat, and set off on the road.

"Where's Willis? Where will you pick me up?" Leon asked in a daze.

"In the future, you will never meet alone again. If you miss him, I will take you to have dinner with him when I have time." Lu Qing said to him: "Similar things can't happen again, I am your father , before you are underage, you must tell me everything."

This was the first time that Lu Qing called himself "Dad", Leon's heart skipped a few times, and then he said to him seriously: "Willis is a good friend, I want to have dinner with him."

"I'll tell him."

"dad."

"Ok?"

"I'll sleep a little longer."

"it is good."

Leon came to the place where Gu Qing worked again.Different from the last two situations where no one paid attention, this time everyone in a hurry stopped, they greeted Gu Qing respectfully, and then carefully asked Gu Qing who he was.

"Gu Liang, my son, lived with his mother before, and will follow me later." Gu Qing answered over and over again tirelessly.

Leon wrung his fingers, and he said "10" many times, each time Leon became a little happier.Those inexpressible doubts and sorrows disappeared, he was Gu Qing's son, and Gu Qing loved him sincerely.

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