Chapter 504 Lycaon

Listening to Delphinium and Chensha chatting, Russell sighed secretly and felt a little absent-minded for a moment.

——Because his relationship with Lycaon is actually quite good.

It's not Russell's usual "gentle to everyone" kind of friendliness disguised under a mask.

But the relationship is really good.

Only two people from their class were admitted to Sogo University. One is Russell and the other is Lycaon.

Although they are no longer in the same class, they are in the same major and the same college. They all belong to the School of Information Security and Intelligence Control, and one of Russell's double majors comes from the "Information Security and Protection" major.

Their knowledge and personal cultural level are ultimately on the same level. That is to say, it is very rare to "be able to catch up with one's friends."

It is actually very difficult to have such friends.

Russell has experienced life twice and has a deep understanding of this. No matter how good friends were before, if at some point they suddenly start to be unable to catch up with you, or if you can't catch up with them, there will be a huge rift in the friendship.

That is not "abandonment" based on snobbery, but "embarrassment" caused by the contradiction and conflict in the living environment.

In the past, when we were in school, everyone was exposed to the same things, and there were endless things to talk about. But after graduation, everyone has their own lives. And if the life differences between friends are too great, they will lose a common language when they meet again.

At that time, you can only start "missing your student days" endlessly, or you can just reluctantly find "things that everyone likes to play". After asking about several topics, you can barely find a common topic that allows most people to get together and chat for a few words. And even if you just talk a little about your current life, it can easily make the fragile and over-stressed students unbalanced, or make the students who are aloof and unconventional unable to understand or relate to it.

Those who like to work hard, those who don't; those who follow the rules, those who are rebellious; those who are optimist, those who are pessimistic... Friends who were similar before will eventually become different.

Even elementary school classmates will become estranged after they reach high school; friends from junior high school will find it difficult to keep in touch when they reach college. Not to mention moving from school to society, participating in different jobs, and traveling to different circles.

If former friends still want to remain friends, at least one party must choose to accommodate the other party - accommodate the other party, only talk about topics that the other party is interested in, or simply find ways to integrate into the other party's circle of interest.

But that can't be considered "the kind of friends we used to have". Friendship eventually changed... from two-way and mutually tolerant to one-way and accommodating.

Even if it is mutual accommodation - when two people work hard to communicate with each other with the goal of "maintaining this relationship", the relaxed friendship turns into the fatigue of socializing. It's like a wrong marriage that is extremely tired and pushed to the limit, but both parties are trying their best to maintain it.

However, marriage and children serve as a bond. This barely maintained friendship is really illusory. Just one small conflict will disappear completely and never be seen again.

Russell had quite a few friends like this when he was in college. After all, in Sogo Island, few people who can get into Sogo University are not talents - everyone starts out as a talent, mixed with sporadic geniuses and ghosts. But the one Russell knew the earliest was Lycaon, who he had followed since high school.

At that time, Russell had not yet awakened his past life memories. He was actually just a student with some unusual talents and inexplicable knowledge of some strange knowledge. He really cared about the friendship between classmates at that time.

So Russell valued Lycaon very much from the very beginning.

——Because Lycaon is the kind of person who can keep up with Russell.

He himself has "scientist" level talents and also has the classic "scholar's disease". In other words, one of the reasons why he was hated and alienated by his classmates was that he had many of the same problems that scientists had when they were young. He is unsociable precisely because he is too smart.

Russell once worried that Lycaon would be depressed because of this. So I wanted to enlighten him in the past.

As a result, Lycaon, a real high school student, said a long sentence that Russell did not expect: "I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them from the bottom of my heart.

"They are so afraid of their own incompetence and afraid of the future that they will be reduced to inferiors in society...The harm they do to me will only make me feel that their death is near. It's not that they are going to die, but that they are going to die." It's their future possibilities that are dying.

"Although I may not be able to go very far myself, and I may not be able to persist through several rounds of screening if I get into the SOGO Group. But I will definitely go further than them - and much further, at least within the SOGO Group. I think it's okay to persist until I'm in my forties. By then I will have accumulated enough money and strength, but they will live in confusion and lose all their light.

"I keep staring at them, not to remember their faces and seek revenge...but to try to use my eyes to make the other person hesitate and then start to think. This is my favor to them-if they can do it. If they realize something is wrong, realize their naivety and ignorance, and start to reflect on their behavior, they can still be saved. There may be a bright future in the future, and they will thank me then.

"And if they are still confused and unconscious, then I am watching them go to destruction. Since I know that they are already dead, why should I care about them?"

If we want to say how correct and mature what Lycaon said is, that is not necessarily the case. Strictly speaking, it's a bit of a middle grade.

But as a high school student, can I not just talk about it, but understand this truth from my heart - be able to look at the real "future", not just see the "college entrance examination", "university", "After graduation", it is very rare to be able to accurately judge how far you can go with your talents, instead of blindly having unlimited confidence in your future...

And later, after Russell and Lycaon actually went to Sogo University, he realized that Lycaon was still self-effacing.

——It turns out that the level of Sogo University is not as high as he thought, so that he can become the chief without using all his strength. And Lycaon's talent is about 70% of Russell's... He may not be able to get through after a few rounds of screening, and he may even have the opportunity to enter the Zanbei Society and become a Zanbei Doctor before he turns fifty.

Lycaon may have underestimated himself because the only person he could refer to at the time was Russell.

When Russell left Sogo Island, he didn't know that Lycaon had died at that time - because half a year before that, he had joined the Sogo Group as a graduate student and started climbing the ladder. At that time, Russell was worried about affecting Lycaon's exams and was also worried about his friends retaining him, so he just left a timed email and ran away.

After arriving at Happy Island and joining the Special Enforcement Department, Russell was still thinking that at least he could be promoted faster than Lycaon and wouldn't be too embarrassed.

When he came back this time, he also wanted to chat with his old friend.

The full name of Sogo Group is "Sogo Technology Group", and the core source of talent for Sogo Group is the Information Security and Intelligence Control Institute. Russell has always been the chief of their college and is studying double majors in "Prosthetic Assembly and Maintenance" and "Information Security and Protection" at the same time. In the information security major, Lycaon can also be ranked in the top five stable majors - the top five majors when the first place is stably occupied by Russell.

At his level, one year after graduating from graduate school... he has probably already established a firm foothold in the SOGO Group. Russell came back this time wearing the uniform of a senior executive in the executive department, also wanting to show off to his old friend.

For ordinary friends, this kind of behavior is somewhat offensive and a bit inflated, and it may really break up the relationship between the two. But to a true friend, the irritation caused by such display is only accompanied by the appearance of joy.

As the saying goes, one is afraid that one's brother will live a miserable life, and one is also afraid that one's brother will drive a Land Rover - but if a true brother comes back, even if he really drives a Land Rover, after the initial slight sourness and imbalance, what will hit his heart will be It must not be jealousy, but "pride". That is a pride that regards the achievements of brothers as one's own.

But now, Russell has really returned home in glory... The friend he most wanted to show off to has been killed.

And listening to Chensha's meaning, it seems that she is not sure whether she was harmed by someone. This means...if Lycaon was killed, the murderer was never found.

——This is on Sogo Island!

It is Sogo Island that can predict even school violence in advance and is completely controlled by the three sages!

However, a murder case could not be solved.

Or... the three sages have actually solved the mystery, but they think it would be better not to reveal the truth?

Russell had to check it out anyway.

This class reunion is the best opportunity... They must know more!