Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 986: Handan Dream (Part )

After returning to the open air, he felt better. The joints of his hands and feet no longer hurt, but they felt light and weak as if they were stuffed with cotton. He had this experience when he took the medicine yesterday. But he didn't know if the medicine Zhou Yu gave him was special, his head was still uncomfortable. The dizziness was not painful or dizzy, but there was an unbearable noise. Something was disintegrating in his head, like a building in an earthquake, and countless pieces hit his nerves, messing up his originally complete and smooth thoughts. But this was completely different from the feeling when the head was hit, because this kind of vibration brought relief.

Something that had been weighing him down for a long time had been destroyed. Although it was difficult for him to adapt to the sudden disappearance of the burden, it did not cause him any actual torture. He just felt confused, and from time to time one or two completely unrelated ideas would pop up in the middle of normal thinking, or a number of seemingly plausible memory fragments, just like a person walking on the road and being constantly attacked by falling building debris. Sometimes he could even effortlessly continue thinking along the new ideas that emerged - he thought about why he had seen Zhou Yu standing somewhere sweeping the floor, was that also his own imagination? Was it confused with the story Cai Ji told him? Then a memory of visiting Zhou Yu in the hospital came to his mind, but it seemed to be out of town, and Zhou Yu also told him that he had found someone.

This memory seemed impossible to be true, because he was very sure that he had never visited Zhou Yu outside the city. There were several memories of him visiting Zhou Yu in Lihai City as evidence, but the details of these things were all vague and chaotic. The harder he tried to distinguish, the more confused he was about which was true and which was false. Before, after being influenced by Asabamu and Momolo, he just found that he had forgotten a lot of things, but now his memory was too rich. A person cannot have two contradictory memories at the same time, and some of them must be invalid.

He urgently needed to rest and find a quiet place to slowly wait for this confusion to subside. Then he would be able to free up his energy to sort out the truth and falsehood of these memories, just like a person who just woke up needs some time to distinguish between dreams and reality. During this time, he didn't want to see anyone, especially those who were related to this chaotic memory. So he walked along the lakeshore in a daze, almost forgetting how he left No. 206 Dongyun Road. After he sat under the shade of the tree for a long time, he remembered that he should leave as soon as possible. He had to take the card away and put it back in the box; and there were three wounded lying there, I don't know how they are doing now.

At this time, the sense of collapse in his mind was not as severe as when he talked with Zhou Yu, and he also found the trick to reduce the confusion - don't think about anything related for the time being, don't try to distinguish the things that popped up in your mind, and wait for these memories that are difficult to distinguish between true and false to emerge or fade away naturally. He began to think about what to do this afternoon. He didn't want to confront anyone this afternoon. He wanted to do some boring and trivial things. There was no crisis for him to deal with now. He wanted to let go of everything and enjoy life, and leave the matter of fighting against alien invaders to those two living gods on the land with foreign names. God knows what they are doing.

Looking back now, he had to admit that although Li Li was also an asshole, her suggestion was indeed for his own good. He would start to implement it this afternoon: now that the summer heat was coming to an end and the cool autumn was in sight, the weather was still warm, and there were still many celebrations. He could call Shi Qi later and invite her to Malta, Sicily, Santorini or Nice... Well, Shi Qi might not want to go that far at the moment. Her mother's life had just been saved from the hands of the devil by new medical technology, and she could probably survive for another two or three years. But if he really said that he really needed company, they could probably find a few caregivers to help first, and then go to the mountains and waters of the southwest to live for a week or two. He knew a few reliable caregivers, and Nan Mingguang had used them when he had liver surgery, so that Shi Qi's brother could also take a break. They might also take him with them, and of course Yu Xiaorong.

He passed the time thinking about these things on the way back to the secret workshop. He finally found the illegally obtained bicycle and walked back in a sporadic manner, stopping to rest whenever he felt a little uncomfortable. There was nothing to worry about now. Li Li must have cleaned up the mess. When he returned there, he would only be waiting for her new and moving words. To be honest, he was a little curious about what words she would use to deal with the current situation. After all, he was quite familiar with the routines Zhou Yu would play, and Xiao Xuan Wang would probably be able to come up with some new tricks - but forget it, he really didn't have the energy to compete with her today, and it just so happened that the card in his hand could make her behave for the time being.

But he still underestimated Li Li. When he walked into the workshop an hour later, the three unlucky guys who were knocked down by the electromagnetic bomb had disappeared. Except for the open box that was still there, there was only an old man sitting on a camp bed and playing with birds in the room. He should be over fifty years old. His hair is still black, but there are some bald spots on the top of his head. His nose and cheeks are as red as rouge. He is very short, and a slight beer belly is exposed under his white cotton open-necked sweater, but he is very neat and clean. Except for the two overly strong arms, old men with similar shapes can be seen everywhere in the park. As soon as Luo Binhan walked into the room, he immediately stood up from the camp bed with a smile on his face, and the parrot on his shoulder flapped its wings happily.

"I'm back!" he said to Luo Binhan enthusiastically, "I'm finally back. Sorry, I came in and sat down without permission. The sun outside is very hot, and it's not pleasant for someone of my age. Come, sit down, please."

Luo Binhan stopped at the door and looked at this stranger. The parrot, which was once in the care of Cai Ji, was standing on his shoulder. When it saw him, it just chirped happily twice and continued to peck at the peanuts in the old man's hand.

"It's very close to me." The old man said proudly, "This little thing was raised by Pajaniya, and it has been following me for less than three days. It's very cunning and knows that I am the most soft-hearted person in the whole base."

Luo Binhan pressed his temple hard and looked at the other person carefully. This time he noticed that the old man's palms were full of calluses and scars as he pinched the peanuts. He stood as straight as an iron pillar, and his eyes were kind but flexible as he observed his face and feet.

He controlled all his instinctive movements and smiled: "Who are you?"

"Alas, I cannot mention my real name," the old man said. "At my age, I still have to abide by such a whimsical work system... Don't laugh at me, just call me Radumos."

"Hello." Luo Binhan said. He calculated the time and knew that this matter had nothing to do with Zhou Yu. "Are you the one sent by Pajaniya to see me?"

"Oh, no, I'm here to see you on behalf of another director. You know what she thinks. She thinks you might be reluctant to talk to her, so she has appointed me to be here to convey the message."

Luo Binhan didn't want to beat around the bush any more. His mind was moving very slowly at the moment, and he just wanted to throw Li Li and Zhou Yu into the Gaoling Belt Tow Well together. "What did she want to tell me?" he asked directly. "Apologize? Forget it. Explain? Tell her to wait until tomorrow."

"Well, I'll just get to the point. She offers you a compensation."

"That's new. It's as if she owes me something."

The old man's smile remained unchanged. "I wrote down her exact words," he took out a piece of paper from the pocket of his cotton sweatpants and read with squinted eyes, "We will provide Ms. Zhuo Wenman, the mother of Ms. Shi Qi, with the highest level of medical assistance from all the charitable foundations under our organization, and transfer her to the European branch for specialized treatment. To facilitate her family to stay nearby, we will provide two corresponding long-term jobs and free scholarships."

Robin was silent for a while. "She is very generous," he said. "I really have to thank her for this."

"Oh, she said you needn't be polite to her. She should do her bit for the sake of your past friendship and your generosity."

"I didn't do anything to help her."

"I don't know about that." The old man asked with a smile, "What about friendship? There is always some friendship?"

"What does she want?"

"My client specifically asked me to emphasize to you that she had no intention of forcing you to do anything."

Luo Binhan didn't react. He now knew Li Li better than he did a month ago, at least he knew which stage she would focus on. Li Li never did anything unnecessary when she really took action.

He simply gave the other party a hint: "Just?"

The old man touched the parrot's wings a little embarrassedly. "However," he continued what Luo Binhan said, "if you think the time is right, you can also accompany the lady to rest for a few months. Your injury requires undisturbed rest for a period of time, and your spirit may also need some time to recover - this is her request to you out of friendship. Because you see, getting involved in the next work is completely harmful to your health, but she is worried that you will take extreme and risky actions because of a momentary anger."

"What a good friend," Robinson said. "Everyone has been very frank with me today. So let me ask you, if I just don't leave, what will she do?"

"Then she does nothing, sir."

"do nothing?"

"Yes, yes! She won't do anything, and won't threaten you or anyone around you in any way. Even if you don't want to accompany the lady who needs to take care of her seriously ill mother, and decide to let her go to a foreign country alone; or simply, you can refuse this compensation clause and let the lady's mother stay in the local treatment - I personally don't think the medical level here is that bad, sir. My client is as young and energetic as you are. I'm not polite to say that she is a little ignorant and always thinks that her own things are the best, and she doesn't respect the experience of the older generation at all! Her ideas must be the best, and the private medical institutions she controls must of course be the best. But this is not necessarily true. I fully support you to make your own judgment. But I have to be honest, the doctor who performed the operation on the patient last month was our friend, and the technology he used was also funded by us."

Now Luo Binhan finally understood. He not only figured out why Li Li asked Shi Qi to call that night, but also realized why she chose such an ordinary old man as a lobbyist. He thought about the whole thing and asked, "When does she plan to respond?"

"There is no deadline," the old man said. "She also hopes that you will respond after a calm mind and full consideration. You know, she is offering compensation, not a threat, absolutely not."

This is clearly, Luo Binhan thought, this is not only a threat but also a delaying tactic. After Li Li goes back and talks with Zhou Yu, she will soon come up with a new trick. Suddenly he felt that the whole thing was ridiculous. Seriously, why did Li Li go to so much trouble to deal with him? He was not important before, let alone now. When he thought of this, he was almost laughed out of anger, and he wanted to agree on the spot and then pack up and leave immediately. But reason still held him back - apart from anything else, he was really in a bad state now, and any decision he made might make him regret it. He couldn't really be provoked by Li Li (if she really meant that), and he had to wait until he recovered before making a decision.

"Tomorrow," he said. "I'll contact her tomorrow. Now, do you mind if I take a break?"

"Of course, of course, no problem." The old man said in an almost humble manner, "But this is really not a place to rest well. It's neither comfortable nor safe. You should go back to the city to rest. That way we can deal with the broken things here."

“The city is a little too far from here…”

"I can drive you there. I also want to go back to buy some bird food. Our base cannot receive express delivery directly. Just imagine how we will live." Luo Binhan glanced at the parrot on his shoulder and said nothing. He didn't have time to care about this winged slave at the moment. "Your car..."

"It's parked one kilometer away." The old man said attentively, "I can run and drive it over. It will take less than five minutes. As long as the dangerous factors are removed first - I have to trouble you for this. Otherwise, the car can't enter the intersection, and I have to walk back to the city."

He picked up the box in the middle of the room and walked over eagerly. Luo Binhan watched his movements closely, walked forward slowly, pretended to put the card in, and then suddenly grabbed the whole box under his arm. The old man's hand in the air froze for a moment, and the smile on his face suddenly became a little pitiful. "Ah, this is..."

Luo Binhan gave him an equally attentive smile: "I'll take care of this. How can I ask my elders to help me get things?"

"Oh, that's fine. I just wanted to return the stuff to the research team. They're anxiously waiting for this."

"Let me take care of it." Luo Binhan said as he threw the card in and closed the box tightly. "Don't worry, I will return it to her in person tomorrow. We live very close to each other."

The old man blinked rapidly. For a moment his shoulders tensed, and his neatly moustached, hard-lined face revealed a resolute and fierce look. Then, the lines that had just been tightened relaxed deliberately, and his wrinkles were all squeezed into clusters by his smile. The rosacea caused by dermatitis expanded, and he looked like an old, mediocre, friendly and slightly funny middle-aged man who was going to say hello to the younger generation before going for a stroll in the park.

"Well, thank you for your help." He said and walked out. Luo Binhan secretly watched the man's steady steps from behind, wondering how difficult it would be if the other party really took action. In fact, he didn't feel that nervous. This man was definitely not as old as he pretended, but as long as his physical strength was still within the range of ordinary humans, it would not be so easy to deal with him. Of course, having weapons is another matter - but have Li Li and he already torn their faces to such an extent? Although the crisis has been resolved, there is no need for them to continue to work together, and there is no need to make a fuss to this extent.

This person's appearance is a bit strange. Luo Binhan thought a little depressed. Li Li made a big move this time, which was a bit hurtful. While thinking, he did not forget to calculate the time in his mind. Within five minutes, a dusty old black car drove over. The old man waved at him from the driver's seat, without any signs of blushing or panting.

He hurriedly packed up the remaining things in the room. His sunglasses had fallen to some unknown place. There was only a canvas bag in the room, which contained some of his sundries and the damaged mobile phone. There was a credit card in it, but he had to hope that it was not damaged, so that he could go to the city to buy something for emergency. After he made sure that nothing was left out, he got into the back seat of the car. The old man looked at him in the rearview mirror: "Where are you going?"

Luo Binhan reported the name of a street and asked the other party to take him to the street entrance. Of course, that place was not his own address, but a medium-sized department store, only two or three hundred meters away from the inpatient department where Shi Qi's mother was. He was very happy that the old man did not ask him about his motive for going there. No one of them spoke along the way. Only the parrot on the co-pilot seat once jumped to the top of the backrest and looked at him affectionately, as if it wanted to be warm with him. Luo Binhan turned his head and pretended not to see it. He always had a feeling that this old man he met for the first time was very wary of him and completely unreasonable. But he felt the same way about this old man. In Nan Mingguang's words, there was a smell of shady origins about this man.

Before getting off the bus, he casually asked about the time. The old man told him it was almost one in the afternoon. The day was only halfway through, and it had not even been 24 hours since Zhou Wenxing's death. He walked into the mall in a state of embarrassment, handed out his credit card under the strange and even sympathetic gazes of the store clerks, and bought some decent clothes, including a loose coat and sunglasses, as well as a cell phone and a mechanical watch - to ensure that he could tell the time himself the next time he lost his cell phone.

He took these things to the hotel next door and booked a room. He took care of himself as much as possible so that Shi Qi would not think that he had escaped from the scene of a car accident. After finishing all this, he studied the pills and capsules given by Zhou Yu, took two of them according to the dosage requirements, and did not feel anything wrong. The dizziness in his head gradually eased. As long as he did not think, he left the hotel two hours later and walked towards the entrance of the hospital.

In fact, he was not sure whether Shi Qi was in the hospital today. She and her brother both had work, so they had to take turns to take leave to take care of him. But he didn't want to turn on his phone and be monitored at the moment, so he couldn't send a message to ask. He had to hang around in front of the elevator leading to the inpatient department, wondering if he should go out to buy something and say that he was here to visit a patient. That felt a bit abrupt, because he still didn't run into Shi Qi's mother last time.

Just then, a man came from the walkway outside the building, carrying two bottles of water and a lunch box, and wearing a stone blue beret on his head. Luo Binhan was already familiar with that hat, so he quickly turned sideways and hid in the shadow of the corridor, waiting for Shi Qi to pass by and gently patted her on the back. Shi Qi jumped up and jumped two meters away before looking back.

"What's the situation?" Luo Binhan asked. At the same time, Shi Qi also opened his eyes wide and asked, "Why are you here?"

Luo Binhan looked at her complexion, which was much better than the last time they met, and she was probably recovering well from the operation. Shi Qi also came over and looked at him, his expression changed from surprise to suspicion.

"Why are you wearing sunglasses?"

"I bumped into it accidentally," Luo Binhan said. "My eye got a little hurt."

Shi Qi insisted on seeing it more clearly, so Luo Binhan had to take off his sunglasses and let her confirm that he could see with his left eye. "You have scratches on your face, too." She said warily, "Why are your clothes and shoes all new? What happened to you?"

Luo Binhan was silent for a moment. He habitually wanted to make up some more lies to get by, but now he was a little overdrawn. Besides, what was the point of lying to Shi Qi now? What great and solemn mission did he have to hide from her? He would have to come clean sooner or later before discussing the trip to Europe with Shi Qi. Besides, he had just exposed a few big lies today, and it really didn't feel good to be deceived.

"I haven't had a good time these past two days." He organized the appropriate words, "I just got rid of a big trouble... and then I had a quarrel with a friend. It was quite intense, and we parted on bad terms."

After hearing what he said, Shi Qi lowered his head and thought for a while, then asked, "Did you have a fight with Zhou Yu?"

"What are you talking about!" Robin Han said, "Is this my only friend?"

"Does a quarrel between friends usually end up like this?" Shi Qi pointed at his face, "Did you guys fight?"

"That's a different matter. My injury has nothing to do with this."

"So it's not Zhou Yu? It's a friend from work? Or a classmate from college?"

"Neither." Luo Binhan said, "It's still Zhou Yu."

Shi Qi nodded silently, holding his chin and looking at him for a while. "Do you want to sit down and talk in detail? I have time this afternoon."

"Okay. I have something to ask you, too."

"Wait for me for a moment." Shi Qi said as she hurried into the elevator. In less than a quarter of an hour she came back with a shoulder bag in her hand. "Where are we going?"

"Anywhere is fine, as long as there's no internet-connected device, preferably no electrical appliances."

Shi Qi looked at him in astonishment. Luo Binhan said sullenly, "It's fine if you have to have it. It's better if you don't have it."

"You don't look well, you should go see a doctor."

"I checked it out. It's nothing serious. I just need to take some time to rest."

Shi Qi nodded and thought for a while. Luo Binhan wanted to tell her that he had booked a room in a nearby hotel, but it would be awkward for the two of them to go in. Before he could figure out what to say, Shi Qi raised his head and asked, "Is your home close to here?"

(End of this chapter)