Pisces

A few days after Song Ru's experiment was successful, Qi Xi heard the news of Huang Renshou's death.

Whether it was a melancholy end or an end of life is unclear. The old man walked peacefully, but the Dongshouyi organization became dark and turbulent.

In addition, before the Chinese New Year, there was another event that caused heated discussions across the country.

A male mermaid who was out of control broke into the shopping mall under the instigation of the anti-fish organization. With his hallucination ability, he interfered with the spirit of several truck drivers. The truck lost control and crashed into the crowd, causing a lot of casualties.

Not only that, a series of car accidents also occurred in several subsequent cars, and the scene was in a mess, even if the mosaic was played, people would be shocked through the screen.

This kind of bad news happened at a critical moment when the members of the group were desperately needed, and the netizens were furious, and their dissatisfaction with the mermaid once again rose to a certain level.

They said—why do mermaids receive the highest treatment in the whole society, but they are so outrageous?What contributions did they make that we should value so much.

The shocking misfortunes of the previous generation were suppressed, and the subsequent human government entrusted the mermaid to erase the public memory, which stabilized the precarious spiritual threshold of all human beings.

That is to say, except for a small number of insiders, the general public does not remember what the mermaid did, nor does it remember the disaster with heavy casualties.

The new generation grew up, and seeing the racial injustice in their lives made them even more angry. They hated the society's deformed worship of mermaids, and they didn't want the so-called mermaids to take away their opportunities.

So they criticized the mermaids online, and many people even joined the anti-fish organization in a very "bloody" way.

During that time, Qi Xi was very busy, trying to stabilize the mermaid's emotions while trying to improve the public image of the mermaid.

Fortunately, the current media control is relatively strict. As soon as the government reacted, all the media tightened their tone. There were no bad elements to follow the rhythm, and the matter was quickly suppressed.

New Year's Eve is approaching, and the whole country is enjoying themselves.

The atmosphere of the Spring Festival took away a hustle and bustle.

This year's snow is extremely heavy, and the snow has spread a thick layer on the road. Snow plows are shoveling the snow around the clock, pedestrians help each other forward, and the vehicles are moving extremely slowly. The city seems to be adjusted to 0.5 times speed, warm and harmonious.

Just when everyone was happily looking forward to the Spring Festival, a sudden disaster broke the tranquility—some criminals secretly sent the third-level control spot into the factory, and then made it into LED materials and sent them to the city throughout.

The last time the third-level speckle control appeared was at Qi Xi's alma mater. The moment the mottled red light came on, even the people in Siyuyuan were worried.Fortunately, the school happened to be a closed environment, the number of infected people was not many, and the response was timely.not to cause too much disturbance.

But during the Spring Festival, there is a huge demand for LED materials. This kind of thing is the mainstay of creating a festive atmosphere. Many people will take their family and friends out to enjoy it at night.

On the night when the festive atmosphere group announced the start of the lantern show, the citizens braved the heavy snow to come out to celebrate the festival. As a result, the moment the lights came on, many people found that they had burnt scars on their bodies.

The crisis showed its fangs in the dark, and everyone panicked at the same time. Those with low mental thresholds were the first to collapse, and the problem that was deliberately ignored by everyone finally broke out.

Qi Qiao was called away at two o'clock in the middle of the night.

The people above urgently called Siyuyuan for a meeting, and Qi Qiao quietly opened the door and left without disturbing the others.

The moment the door lock snapped lightly, Qi Xi opened her eyes in the dark, and she couldn't fall asleep without Qi Qiao.

"Are you sure it's the third level of spot control and not mold?" Qi Xi stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows with an air-conditioning blanket on, and the sweeping robot behind him rustled across the carpet. Qi Xi glanced back at the robot, and then said to the other end of the phone , "Compared with spot control, the spread of mold is wider, the cycle of complete cure is long and difficult, and it will even lead to many complications. Our technology is not mature enough. If there is a large-scale outbreak of mold, I am afraid A little trickier.

It would be much easier if it was the third level of spot control. It seems that the other party has not yet had the conditions to mass-produce the mildew reagent. It should be just some small anti-social groups organizing this cholera. We don’t have to intervene in their affairs. Never mind, the people from Siyuyuan will take care of it..."

Qi Xi suddenly paused for a moment while talking - she remembered the document left by Wei Xin, which mentioned that if such a large-scale cholera occurs and the mental threshold of human beings collapses, what can the mermaid do.

...It turns out that President Wei planned so far, and not just for the mermaid itself.

"Hold on."

Another incoming call came in.

Qi Xi answered the phone. This time it was a petition from the elders of the inner courtyard, as well as requests from other mermaid organizations. The mermaids of the Mermaid Committee took the lead and expressed their willingness to stand up and help humans tide over the difficulties.

They said——we are willing to call on all mermaids to perform tributes and help human beings.

"Thank you for your help..."

The doorbell rang, Qi Xi thought it was Qi Qiao who forgot to bring something back, she opened it casually, and saw Lu Yan entering the door braving the cold.

Qi Xi was stunned: "Xiaolu? It's very chaotic outside now, don't run around. Do you need me urgently?"

"Sister Qi Xi, good evening, I'm not looking for you." Lu Yan rubbed his hands in the cold, and he pointed to the door, "He's looking for you... Hey, why is the door closed?"

Just now Lu Yan rushed in the door recklessly, Qi Xi thought he was the only one, opened the door to let someone in and then closed it again.

How fresh, it turns out that there is still a person locked outside.

As soon as she opened the door, Qi Xi found that the person standing outside the door was actually a well-known person——Tan Shuhuai.

Qin Shuhuai: "..."

Qi Xi: "..."

No wonder Chairman Wei said that Lu Yan was lucky to walk, after all, if it was someone else, he would have been beaten to death countless times.

"Hello, President Qi." Tan Shuhuai nodded politely to Qi Xi, then gritted his teeth and turned to Lu Yan with a murderous look, "I'm really sorry for visiting late at night, I was worried about disturbing you, and I was about to avoid it for a while, but was directly caught by this The kid slammed the door."

Qi Xi supported her forehead.

I can't save him, so I'd better beat him to death and throw him away.

Tan Shuhuai cultivated himself, and his work and rest were similar to those of the ancients thousands of years ago. It might be something important to make him go out in the middle of the night... But it turned out that he was so angry that Lu Yan lost his ability to organize words.

After a while, Lu Yan's brain thawed along with his body. He leaned forward meaningfully, and said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, are you angry?"

Qi Xi helped her forehead again in just a few minutes.

Tan Shuhuai swallowed with difficulty: "...No, yes."

Seeing that Mr. Tan was about to die of anger, Qi Xi hurriedly carried Lu Yan to the corner: "Don't pay attention to him, do you want some hot tea? It's cold outside."

After receiving the hot tea, Qin Shuhuai, who was not in good health, finally recovered. He was dressed in white today, and he was traveling in the middle of the night. At this moment, he looked like a silk man.

Qi Xi sat across from him and observed him. She had heard that Mr. Tan had a bad temper, but after getting along with him for a while, she found that he was not that awkward in his dealings with others. The double standard was a bit of a double standard, and occasionally he was duplicity, but never. Deliberately doing something lacking in great virtue...Of course, the possibility that he is very good at cutting grass and roots cannot be ruled out.

Qi Xi suddenly had a thought, maybe this person has changed in the past few years, and he was indeed notorious before. After Dong Shouyi changed his status, he gradually became like a normal person.

Then the question arises, why did this normal person appear in his home with Lu Yan.

What Qi Xi cares about is... Did the two of them set off separately and meet up together, or did they set off together from the beginning?

There are a lot of sayings in the middle, Qi Xi looked at Tan Shuhuai suspiciously, but she didn't see anything in the other party's mood.

Tan Shuhuai was sipping tea calmly, his long hair like a black waterfall was tied up by a wooden hairpin, like an ancient Sanxian cultivating Taoism... It's a pity that the Sanxian stall was on Lu Yan, and if he stumbled once, he might be in trouble in the future. I have to spend it in the wild.

Sanxian himself spoke slowly: "Brother bought a batch of toxin inactivator privately just in case, that inactivator is different from those parallel imports in special hospitals, it was used by the previous generation to suppress The potion for mildew can not only suppress the current third-level plaque control, but also prevent mold. I think it’s still left on the shelf. I don’t know if the Tan family can use it in the future, so I just bring it to you. If President Qi needs it, I’ll ask my brother to bring it.”

It was the medicine of the previous generation!Still in large quantities!

Qi Xi was about to agree when she suddenly remembered something.

Young Master Tan was a well-known professional householder in the early years, so he couldn't... He hasn't obtained the consent of the head of the Qin family, right?

Qi Xi hinted as much as possible: "This matter has to be considered again, after dawn, you and your brother have a good talk..."

"It's true that I didn't make an agreement with him in advance, but I know him well enough. He wants to board President Qi's big boat more than anyone else at the moment. To be honest, you may be able to go straight to the top five in the future, Qin family. If you don't show your favor now, you may not even have a chance in the future." Tan Shuhuai stood up, "I'll borrow the balcony and I'll tell him."

Qi Xi: "..." Sure enough.

After Tan Shuhuai left, Lu Yan sat on the carpet and ate a bunch of Qi Xi's grapes: "Sister Qi Xi, you have to trust him, he's not that unreliable."

"It will hurt your stomach if you eat it at night." Qi Xi confiscated the grapes from Lu Yan, "It sounds like you have a lot of confidence in him."

"It's not for nothing that the brothers of the Tan family can occupy a place in Dongshouyi. The patriarch of the Qin family, that is, his elder brother, is a loyal person and only makes friends. He looks like he's not doing his job properly, but in fact he does a lot of things in secret. If he has no strength, he The bad temper has been assassinated a long time ago." Lu Yan ran out of grapes and went to sneak attack on the nut platter, "It is said that he used to be an elder with real power in the inner courtyard, but later he retired to be a trader behind the scenes for fishing, and when you come to power, He just turned to the front of the stage again. So at this juncture, he cuts first and then plays, firstly to stand up for the Tan family, secondly to show his sincerity."

Qi Xi squinted her eyes and smiled: "Ah, Xiao Lu, you are very good at pretending to be stupid. Aren't you fishing? He fishes, and what you fish is..."

Lu Yan hurriedly covered Qi Xi's mouth: "Help, sister Qi Xi stop talking!"

Qi Xi gently kicked him away: "You can also deceive others."

After a while, Tan Shuhuai came back: "It's agreed, it will be delivered around four o'clock in the morning."

By the time Qi Qiao finished the meeting and went home to change clothes, Qi Xi had already helped prepare everything that might be needed.

In the wind and snow, Qi Xi was wrapped in a down jacket and waited for her little leader to go home, behind them were the people who supported them.

Qi Qiao finally exhaled the suffocation that was pent up in her heart.

This time, without the help of the predecessors, the newly appointed young people still quickly resolved Hao Dang.

It's just that everyone's efforts this time have not been buried with the heavy snow, and what should be praised and exposed has been spread through reasonable channels. All people in distress have witnessed the process of turning the crisis into safety.

Rumors, uneasiness, and suspicion were completely wiped out by actual actions.

Song Ru's exclusive chapter (can be skipped, does not affect the plot)

Standing under the street lamp was an old man with a hunched back. It is estimated that he had suffered too much when he was young, and bending over others has become a habitual action of the old man.

His hair has fallen to a few strands, and he is still wearing the cheapest worker's clothes in the cold winter months. His cuffs are worn out and he is reluctant to throw them away. The old man is scolded by the girl in front of him in embarrassment, and he is so cold that he wants to curl up in the thin collar .

The snow was so heavy that he didn't even have an umbrella.

"I've told you, don't take things lightly, why are you always not paying attention?" Song Ru was holding a small floral umbrella, stomping her feet angrily in the white snow, "I heard People said that you left for a while? Where did you go when it was so important? Do you know that the people from Siyuyuan are on full alert to arrest us, if we are caught..."

Song Ru's words suddenly choked in her throat, because she found that the old man was trembling with his hands in his pockets, not knowing what he was looking for.

"What are you looking for?"

Song Ru took the things out of his pocket first...it turned out to be just a box of stickers.

Song Ru laughed angrily, she raised the sticker in her hand: "I told you to watch out for those lunatics, don't let them be caught alive... Don't tell me, you just went to buy this when you didn't see me halfway? "

"Ruru..." The old man was so cold that he couldn't even speak, "You loved to watch this cartoon when you were young, and you happened to be passing by at that time... I just bought a box of these stickers. When I come back, I want to buy you something rare...don’t think grandpa is old, old.”

Song Ru unwrapped the package and waved the stickers, and the bright yellow paper scattered all over the floor.

The old man squatted tremblingly and picked them up one by one, only then did Song Ru notice that snowflakes had already fallen on his shoulders.

She brushed the snow off his shoulders helplessly, and hastily opened an umbrella for him: "Grandpa, why are you wearing such thin clothes? Why don't you tell me when you're cold? Were they all dead during my absence? No one gave you a clothes?"

The snow on the shoulders had melted a little, and after Song Ru brushed off a layer, she could see the imprints of Xue Yu's wet clothes again.

She squatted on the ground and began to cry. The distorted psychology of this period made her go crazy, powerlessness, frustration, resentment, loss, anger, all kinds of emotions mixed together...

A piece of stickers on the ground was facing her. Song Ru picked it up and saw the villain on it clearly—it was indeed her favorite cartoon when she was a child. It seemed to be some kind of adventure. A quirky little girl, she joked that it resembled them.

This grandfather was married to her grandma's family, and has no blood relationship with her at all, which is why she dared to indulge herself and use him.

Although the memory is a little blurry, she knows this cartoon. When she was a child, she would live at her grandma's house every holiday. That was the happiest time for her.

By the way, she remembers this!

Grandpa would eat fried eggs with an iron spoon for her, would carry her on his neck to buy candied haws, would secretly show her cartoons, and would go to a canteen far away to buy stickers.

Even if the stickers had piled up into a hill, he would still buy them for her to play with.

This part of memory belongs to her!It doesn't belong to that Song Ru!This is the grandfather who loves her.

Song Ru choked up to help the old man, and at the same time took off her down jacket and put it on for grandpa: "I'm sorry, I'm a lunatic, grandpa, hit me, I don't know what's wrong, I'm so sad..."

Before she finished speaking, a gust of wind suddenly blew past without warning, and the handle of the umbrella in her hand slipped, as if someone had pulled it with a little force.

The feeling of deja vu came to my heart again, Song Ru looked at the sky in confusion, and when she lowered her head again, the feeling disappeared.

A hand stretched out in front of him was the candy from grandpa's pocket.

"This is candy for change...don't cry."

Song Ru's tears were dry on her face. She looked at the hunched figure of the old man, and suddenly regretted dragging him into the anti-fish organization. How could she have the heart to let her grandpa do things for her? There are so many people in the world, are you crazy? ?

When I was here, even a guy like Yin Ren dared to bully him... I should have thought of it, why...

Now, she is relative to live a new life, but the first thing she takes over is a stupid thing that harms society. When will this day end?

Song Ru covered her head in pain, and at the same time grabbed the old man's hand: "Grandpa, I was wrong, let's run, don't let the people above know, I don't want to live such a life, I want to live a good life."

If someone went to test Song Ru's mental threshold at this time, they would find that her mental threshold after the experiment had already dropped to a terrifying red line value. A little bit of stimulation or negative iso-sonic interference would definitely lead to doom.

Song Ru's grandfather said: "I'm not afraid of being silenced, as long as you want to escape, we can hide anywhere for a few days."

"Yes." The capillaries in Song Ru's eyes were slightly ruptured, which made her look like her eyes were red from crying.

The old and the young walked into the distance in the snow, and inevitably lost.

The negative energy state on the street is very high, and within half an hour, she will collapse because her mental threshold is too low.

Countdown to half an hour...

10 minutes……

The last minute...

Song Ru's eyes suddenly blurred, and her temples felt like needles pricking her. This feeling was a little familiar... The last time she encountered negative-level sound wave interference in the hotel, she felt like she was on the verge of death.

"Ruru, today is New Year's Eve."

Song Ru knelt down in the snow all of a sudden, she threw the floral umbrella aside, and twirled alone.

"Happy New Year!"

"New Year's Eve!"

"Happy New Year everyone!"

On this New Year's Eve, the light show was banned due to the misuse of the third-level control spot, but the joy of the New Year's Eve still spread from the windows of every household.

There is no light on this road, and the bell tower that is more than a hundred years old emits a heavy bell.

咚

咚

咚

People's emotions were high, and the celebration of the festival overwhelmed the usually depressed atmosphere. They were waiting for the Sonic Sending Tower to be fully opened at this moment, sending a wave of assistance through the upsurge of public sentiment.

The remaining negative sound waves on the street disappeared at this moment. Song Ru coughed and curled up in the snow, hearing the cheers of all beings in a trance.

There seemed to be another voice in her mind, a woman she would never forget said softly:

"happy New Year."

who are you?

Song Ru almost wept blood: "Who are you?"

The voice in her mind was calm and gentle, just like she said to her when she comforted her countless times: "Huang Ying."

Song Ru wept with joy, insane like a patient.

Huang Ying said: "I let her go first, you seem to be a bit misbehaving, maybe you need me to stay and take care of you... I'm gone, what do you do, look at you now, how can I rest assured."

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