Chapter 121 The Affectionate “Snake”
The forum exploded again, and the news spread that Caesar was going to hold a ball at the Norton Pavilion, which became a hot topic of discussion.
Until Liberty Day next year, the Norton Pavilion will be owned by Lu Mingfei. Many people are speculating whether this is a sign of Lu Mingfei's cooperation with Caesar, but no one involved has come forward.
Lu Mingfei got up early in the morning and watched TV series. He curled up in a ball under the quilt and propped his head up with a soft pillow. He yawned and ate American potato chips, which were crunchy in his mouth.
He didn't sleep well last night, and the quality of his sleep was getting worse and worse. He missed his little fat brother's thunderous snoring, because it sounded reassuring.
This year, the little chubby boys have started their senior year of high school and are facing the pressure of going to higher schools. During the summer vacation, Shilan High School started to make up classes for them. The summer vacation of the second year of high school and the year of senior year is only half a month, and the rest of the time has to be spent in school. However, the little fat boy had to go to cram school during the holidays, so there was almost no free time at all.
Although her aunt didn't care that Lu Mingfei was surfing the Internet outside, if the little fat boy dared to sneak to the Internet cafe, he would definitely have a meal of fried pork with bamboo shoots.
At home, my aunt is the most feared person, and no one dares to challenge her.
There is a time difference between the United States and China. It is morning here at Lu Mingfei's place, but it is night at his cousin's place.
Calculating the time, it’s almost time to finish the self-study get out of class.
Lu Mingfei was in a daze looking at his cousin's cartoon sad male avatar. He pressed his fingers on the phone screen a few times, not knowing what to say. He deleted, deleted, and changed it, but in the end he didn't send a word.
He switched to the login interface, tapped on the numeric keyboard skillfully, and typed out a QQ number.
This is his trumpet, ID name is "The Grave of the Sunset".
As early as May, he applied to cancel this QQ account on the website, but Penguin is very user-friendly and has set a 180-day regret period for each canceled number. If you regret it and want to get your QQ back, As long as you log in to your account again within this half-year period, you can cancel the logout.
Only four months have passed since Lu Mingfei's logout operation, and there is still less than half of the time left. During this period, the "sunset" will not disappear, and the account will be temporarily retained until the deadline arrives.
However, Lu Mingfei did not delete "Snake"'s friends. You can almost imagine how many messages "Snake" sent to "Sunset".
"Want to go up and have a look?"
Lu Mingfei swallowed and looked at the phone screen blankly, as if the button in his hand was not a login button, but a Pandora's box of despair.
You can be invisible on QQ. As long as you don’t change the settings or send messages, others won’t know whether you are online or not.
A seductive voice asked Lu Mingfei to press the login button.
He took a deep breath, his fingers trembled a little, and then he calmed down.
"Logging in"
A rotating circle appeared on the screen, as if something had jammed it, and the screen suddenly stopped.
A few seconds later, a series of "ding-ding-ding-ding-ding" sounded.
Lu Mingfei covered the phone screen with his palm and moved it down little by little until he saw his cousin's gray profile picture.
Red 99+, that says it all.
Lu Mingfei looked around, and even stretched out his head to look at the upper bunk, as if he was a thief.
After confirming that he was the only one in the dormitory, he slowly clicked on the message record to see the message "Snake" sent to "Sunset".
"Sunset, are you there? It's been 115 days since you last sent me a message. I still miss you so much. I don't know whether you can see it or not. I'm already a senior in high school and my parents are arranging interviews for me to study abroad. You said you were going to study in the United States, and I am going to study in the United States too! When I get the admission notice, will you meet me?"
This is yesterday's message.
"Xuyang, I got the first place in the class in this mock test. I memorize words every night. I will definitely work harder to find you in the United States!"
This was from the day before yesterday.
"Sunset, do you still remember the first time we chatted? I looked through your space that day, and I did the same today. But I was laughing then, but I'm crying today."
Lu Mingfei didn't dare to watch anymore.
He quickly swiped the screen and pulled the chat history to the earliest day.
"Give up {" love 䱱ﹰァ Wǒ can't do it {ァmeeting 伱﹎o makes Wǒ feel confused and confused〉"
"'The one who got hurt in the end always stood up for himself"
Different from the inspirational quotes posted these days, those at that time were all sad sentences and non-mainstream quotes.
About a month after "Sunset" lost contact, my cousin's style began to change a little bit, from a young star of a love-buried family to a good student who strives for excellence.
That time seemed to be the time when Lu Mingfei's relationship with his cousin got better and they ate supper and watched anime together.
To untie the bell, one must tie the bell.
Lu Mingfei felt a little emotional. It would be a good thing if his cousin could study hard.
He could only comfort himself in this way.
“Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!”
Suddenly, the beep sounded again.
"Snake." In the new message sent, the avatar also lit up and was displayed online.
"Sunset, today is the 116th day that I miss you. Can anyone like someone for so long? I don't know, but I still miss you so much. I got the first place in the mock test, and my mother said that I can be rewarded, but I I stared at my phone blankly, but I didn’t know what I wanted. It rained heavily today. My cousin went to the United States for more than half a month, and I stayed in China. After all, the rain in the Eastern Hemisphere couldn’t hit my cousin in the Northern Hemisphere. I took it. I can't find the other one in the first place. Raindrops are hitting the window. I'm the only one in the room. I'm probably sick and can't sleep anyway. I open the chat history and see that I'm upset for no reason. Every one of them says I miss you."
Lu Mingfei shook his head and sighed repeatedly.
Asking what love is in the world can teach you how to make love between life and death.
Some people appear in your life for only half a year, making all past experiences dim. You thought that you two would become wonderful from now on, but she left you quietly.
What can Lu Mingfei do?
He is not a "sunset", he can't do anything.
Maybe you can consider spending money to find another girl to pretend to be "Sunset", but that is fake, not real. The girl did not chat with "Snake" about the origin of the universe late at night, and did not talk to "Snake" about the origin of the universe. Snake" played Idiom Solitaire together.
Only "Sunset" and "Snake" know those things, others have never experienced them.
In fact, we all like the same kind of people, but it is the past experiences we have experienced together that make one of those countless people unique.
So there will never be a second "sunset".
Lu Mingfei silently quit QQ, thinking that he would definitely treat his cousin to a good meal when he went back for the New Year, and go to a high-end restaurant for a meal.
Every family has sutras that are difficult to recite. You are not the only one with a deep past, but if others don’t tell them, you will never know.
Lu Mingfei patted his face and crawled out of the comfortable and warm bed.
My 160-pound cousin got first place in the exam, how could he waste his time here!
No matter what the grade is at the end of the semester, at least try your best!
Turning the salted fish over is still salted fish, but after turning it over, at least both sides can be fried until golden and crispy!
The world is uncertain, you and I are both dark horses!
At noon, Lu Mingfei came to Professor Guderian's office carrying two packing boxes.
It's still the same mess, with open books and materials everywhere. This is Professor Guderian's unique style.
There are cleaning staff in the college. If you don't want to sort out the trash, they will help. However, Professor Guderian never allowed the cleaners to enter his office because the last time someone threw away his precious drafts as trash, As a result, he had to dig through the garbage pile waiting for disposal for a long time before finding it.
Except for himself, no one could tell what was written on the messy piece of paper. It was like a doctor's special writing, as if only people in their profession could understand it.
"Oh, Lu Mingfei, what do you want from me?" Professor Guderian sat up from his office chair with his eyebrows twitching. He was wearing a gray coat and his white hair was a little messy and a little oily. "Here you are. Are you adding classes? You finally realize how good you are! It’s not too late now, you can go through the procedures for adding classes in the academic administration system in the first three weeks of school!”
It seems that he has not given up on his unique four-degree plan.
"Come on, professor." Lu Mingfei put the plastic bag on the table and took out a packing box, "Have you had lunch?"
It contained the dumplings and dipping water that Susie gave him. He asked the chef in the cafeteria to help cook them. There were 15 dumplings in one box and the other would be sent to Professor Mance later.
"Not yet! Are you here to care about me? I'm so touched!" Professor Guderian's eyes shone, the aroma of dumplings wafted to his nose, and his stomach growled.
As a faculty member, he has a discount for eating in the cafeteria, but he has too much work to deal with recently, and he can't spare time to eat. For several days, he just eats bread.
"These are handmade dumplings. Professor, you can take them and eat them. They are specially prepared for you." Looking at Professor Guderian's appearance, Lu Mingfei wondered if fifteen would be too few.
He heard that Europeans and Americans have big appetites, so he originally planned to bring it to the two professors as an after-dinner snack.
He was thinking about ordering another takeout for the professor, but then he thought again. Everyone else was a professor. If he wanted to eat, wouldn't he order it for himself?
Sitting on the bench, Lu Mingfei handed over the packing box.
In fact, he didn't come here just to deliver food. He still had some questions he wanted to ask.
"Professor, I heard that your research direction is philology, right?" Lu Mingfei looked at Professor Guderian who was devouring his food.
"What's wrong, are you also interested in ancient documents?" Professor Guderian swallowed a dumpling hard.
"How much do you know about "The Fragment of the Sea of Ice"?" Lu Mingfei asked, "I checked the interpretation in the college's database. It mentioned the four kings, but there was only very little content. I want to ask Ask, are there any clues about the Dragon King in the uninterpreted documents? For example, Norton’s past or something?”
"Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire," Professor Guderian suddenly put down his chopsticks.
As an American, he is very proficient in using chopsticks, but he doesn't know how.
"I really didn't expect that young man to be the unawakened Dragon King." Professor Guderian shook his head slowly and took a sip of water. "This is my first time coming into contact with the Dragon King. To be honest, I didn't expect it to be in this form."
"Don't be too entangled in the past, Mingfei, people have to look forward after all." Professor Guderian's eyes became a little deeper, "The damage to "Ice Sea Fragments" is very serious. As a member of the translation team, We can only wait for the restoration team to restore the original to a certain extent before we can start the translation work, and there are several teams working on the translation at the same time, and finally proofread and discuss any doubts."
"Regarding the King of Bronze and Fire, some of his deeds are indeed mentioned in some texts that are being translated, but this part has not been made public." Professor Gudry said: "Considering that you are S-class, I can put this part The content tells you, but this is not necessarily the final version uploaded to the database, there may still be errors and ambiguities somewhere.”
"It can only be used as a reference, I understand." Lu Mingfei nodded.
"Yes, just for reference." Professor Guderian took another dumpling, "First of all, it is about Norton's bronze palace in Northern Europe. The specific appearance is described in the literature, 'covered with white snow, surrounded by clouds and mist', covered with white snow , surrounded by clouds and mist, it can be roughly inferred that the location of the Bronze Palace should be somewhere in the snow-capped mountains. The word "pilgrimage" is also mentioned. Whenever the clouds and mist in the sky dissipate, it can be seen within a hundred miles. See the radiant bronze palace.”
"However, we have conducted detailed and comprehensive inspections using satellite cameras in Northern Europe, and sent field survey teams to several mountain ranges with suspicious descriptions. We have not found anything suspicious. It has not yet been confirmed whether this is a translation error or not. The records of ancient people were wrong.”
"In the final analysis, there is a controversy in the bronze palace itself. The king of bronze and fire controls the power of flames, but he does not build the palace near a volcano, but on a snow mountain. You know, the content of fire elements in such a place is also extremely thin. , Fire-type speaking spirits will consume more physical strength, and their power will be greatly limited due to the influence of the environment. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why he migrated to China."
"Besides, is there no record about Norton himself?" Lu Mingfei asked again.
"Very few, most of them describe Norton's power. According to the literature, Norton's dragon body is a hundred meters long and its wings can reach 200 meters wide. This is unimaginable. So far, the largest dragon clan we have ever seen is also It’s only 15 to 25 meters, and the wingspan can reach 30 meters, which is the limit, and only one has been discovered, and it was only discovered recently.”
Professor Guderian put the dumpling in his mouth and chewed it, and said vaguely: "Both physics and biology cannot construct such a dragon body in the computer model, but the dragon race itself cannot be explained by human science. Dragon King, there are too many unsolved mysteries. We have never seen the Dragon King return to his true form, so we cannot absolutely deny it. If you are interested in the interpretation of "Ice Sea Fragments", as your advisor, I can Apply to add you to my graduate student team.”
"The interpretation of "The Fragments of the Sea of Ice" is not a secret work. There are people and organizations from all over the world participating in it. Kassel Academy is just the preservation place of the original. If you are willing to join, you need to do some simple tasks every month. At work, we have a dedicated website, and you can log in and enjoy the latest information interpreted by various institutions and individuals."
Thanks to "Lonely and Rebellious" for the 285 points.