Chapter 94: The Pearl Covered in Dust Does Not Obscure Its Brightness (46) Ended

The morning sun was warm, and the leaves of the sycamore trees rustled in the morning sun.

Jiang Yiwen arrived in Tong County a day in advance. He stood under the sycamore tree, waiting for the return of the person who had been away for a year.

He felt slightly uneasy in his heart. Sometimes he would blame his father unreasonably, blame Jiang Li for persuading Shen Minghuan to go to Mutian, and blame Jiang Li for not being able to see that Lu Wu had another mode despite being a top scientific researcher.

But more often he blamed himself, blamed him for knowing nothing and thinking that he had taken good care of Shen Minghuan, and blamed him for being too incompetent to set foot in Country M and bring that person back.

He knew that there was no reason for resentment or self-blame. He, Jiang Li, Gu Wenjing and others had not done anything wrong.

They were just too useless compared to Shen Minghuan, so they became a burden and a shackle on that person's wings.

Jiang Yiwen's uneasiness was mixed with secret expectations.

China has not received any news from M Country that it is willing to release people, nor has it detected any aircraft entering the country. He doesn't know how Shen Minghuan will come back.

But if it is that person, it seems that he can always create miracles.

Jiang Yiwen looked up at the clear sky and waited quietly.

The sun climbed to the sky, and then slowly slid to the west. Soon, only a piece of rosy clouds remained.

The clouds in the distance were like burning flames, and the sky was also dyed red in a corner. Although it was not dazzling, it was not possible to open your eyes for a long time.

Jiang Yiwen raised his head stubbornly, and the afterglow of the sunset was reflected in his pupils. After a while, he couldn't help blinking, and physiological tears oozed from the corners of his eyes.

He lowered his head, as if crying.

"Chi——"

There was a bird call in the distance, Jiang Yiwen was indifferent, but the flying bird was circling over his head for some reason, "Chi chi chi chi" kept calling.

Jiang Yiwen frowned and looked in the direction of the sound. He suddenly stood up straight, his eyes full of surprise.

It was a large wooden eagle.

Shen Minghuan's early inventions were all made of wood.

Shen Minghuan was the only one who could turn decay into magic.

Jiang Yiwen looked around, trying to find the boy with a gentle smile.

Maybe he was on a cloud, maybe he was coming from afar, maybe he was already nearby, maybe he...

The bird chirped and slowly fell down.

Jiang Yiwen reached out to catch it reflexively, but saw that the bird seemed to have life and tilted its head at him, then slowly moved to the right and took a half step away.

The bird fell apart in an instant when it was about to land, turning into a pile of wood, leaving only a small wooden box.

Jiang Yiwen felt that the wooden box was more dazzling than the sun, and he couldn't help but close his eyes, but he still couldn't stop crying.

There was a piece of paper on the wooden box with his familiar handwriting:

"I'm back, take me home."

There was no signature.

*

Yunfan and others were guarding outside the office.

Jiang Li, who looked exhausted, was surprised to see them when he came out, "Why are you here?"

Yun Fan looked at him, "We heard you quarreling, where is the teacher?"

This statement was a bit inconsistent, but both the speaker and the listener could understand.

Jiang Li paused and forced a kind smile, "Tong County has built an airport. You didn't go home for the New Year. Do you want to go back now?"

"No, we want to go back with the teacher."

The children who have lived in Kyoto for a year have lost their former restraint. They all looked at Jiang Li and asked him, "Today is the last day, where is the teacher?"

"Didn't you say you wanted to dismantle the captured fighter planes of the United States? Can I get one for you?" Jiang Li promised with pretended distress.

The children's eyes were clear and bright, and they shook their heads: "We want the teacher."

Jiang Li sighed and looked at them with a complicated look, "Yiwen will be back in two hours. If you are not tired, come in and wait together."

The children followed him into the room, without crying or making a fuss, nor were they happy.

Perhaps he also noticed that there was one person missing from the subject when Jiang Li said this.

Ji Wangchen and Gu Wenjing sat at the two ends of the long table, each holding a glass of water and drinking slowly. When they saw him come in, they just glanced at him.

Jiang Li had forgotten why they quarreled. It seemed like just a trivial matter that they used to vent their suppressed emotions.

It had been a year. If they didn't scream heartbreakingly, they might really go crazy.

Jiang Li looked at the two old men who lowered their eyes and drank water by themselves, and then looked at the group of children behind them who were wide-eyed and silent, and suddenly felt cold all over.

He realized sadly that if Shen Minghuan couldn't come back, this might be their normal state in the future.

None of them would let themselves go.

But what should these children do? They are still so young. How can they expect to heal the pain that they can't forget for a year in the rest of their lives?

The children found a corner to sit and quietly studied the necklace hanging around their necks. It was a gift from their teacher to them - a graduation gift.

This is the reason why they will not give up their studies no matter how hard it is this year. The teacher said that there is a gift inside.

They don't expect the gift, but they want to know.

Jiang Yiwen specially dispatched a private plane for this trip. Two hours later, he appeared in the office on time with the box in his hand.

Gu Wenjing asked in surprise: "What happened to you?"

Jiang Yiwen's nose and face were swollen, especially the dark circles around his eyes, as if he had been beaten.

"I fell down accidentally." Jiang Yiwen said calmly.

Jiang Li glanced at him and said nothing.

Jiang Yiwen had Lu Wu, so he would be fine even if someone wanted to hit him, let alone fall down.

It was obvious that he did it himself.

Jiang Li remembered that he had done this kind of thing when he was very young.

When he was a child, Jiang Yiwen took Xiao Minghuan out and almost lost him. Fortunately, Minghuan was smart and found him back.

At that time, Jiang Yiwen had such a pig-headed face. He said that he fell down accidentally, but in fact he was just covering up the redness and swelling in his eyes caused by crying.

It was self-punishment and pretending to be strong.

Not wanting people to focus on him again, Jiang Yiwen put down the wooden box, "I haven't opened it yet."

He didn't even take off the paper sticking to it, and it was still hanging on it, which made Ji Wangchen and others jealous.

Jiang Li took it down quickly, but his movements were very delicate, and it was not damaged at all.

He carefully put it in his pocket, and then called the children in the corner: "Yunfan, Changfeng, come and see what your teacher left behind."

The children put away the necklace and quickly jumped off the chair.

Ji Wangchen frowned, but didn't say anything.

After all, he was Shen Minghuan's student, so he had to know the truth.

The box opened.

There was no magical light, no extraordinary vision, just like any ordinary wooden box in the world, it opened normally.

A palm-sized white sphere with pits and bumps on the surface, which looked like the moon they observed.

There were many tiny blue five-pointed stars at the bottom of the box, the size of a fingernail, sparsely spread around the "moon", about twenty or so.

It looked exquisite, but they thought Shen Minghuan would not leave behind only meaningless things.

Just like the birthday gift sent to Jiang Li, there would be a mystery in the subtle details.

Gu Wenjing and others frowned and looked at it carefully, not daring to act rashly.

Yunfan and the others didn't have so many thoughts. He looked at the wooden box and finally felt sad.

They were still very young and didn't know what death meant, but they knew that from now on, every year would be like this year, and they would never see their teacher again.

Yunfan wanted to be a strong and mature child, but he couldn't help it. His mouth and eyes were disobedient.

He burst into tears and took a "star" with tears, holding it tightly, like a drowning man grabbing a straw floating on the river.

The next second, his eyes went black, and then a blue beam of light slowly lit up.

He seemed to see the universe and the Milky Way in the book.

"Yunfan?"

"Wuwuwu class leader?"

Yunfan's crying stopped abruptly, his mouth was still open, and there were tears in the corners of his eyes. Suddenly, he was stunned and his eyes were blank.

Song Changfeng reacted immediately. He couldn't stop crying, and he choked while grabbing the stars in the box.

The next second, he also became a "sculpture".

Inspired, the children also rushed to get it. They were well taught. Although they were anxious, they still lined up obediently.

Jiang Yiwen watched for a moment, and after the children took it, he also reached out to take it. He glanced at the three people who were still frowning and thinking, "Ming Huan will not harm us."

After he finished speaking, he imitated the children's movements and held it.

Ji Wangchen felt that what Jiang Yiwen said made sense. He made up his mind and was about to step forward, but Jiang Li and Gu Wenjing next to him rushed directly to the box.

"Get out of the way, I'll take it first."

"Do you understand first come first served, old man Gu? You are not as good as a group of children."

Ji Wangchen laughed and joined in childishly, "I'm older, of course I'll go first."

A star streaked across the vast universe.

Everyone opened their eyes and found that they were standing on the vast nebula, and in front of them was a magnificent scenery they had never seen before.

Various stars floated around, and they felt insignificant from the bottom of their hearts and indulged in it.

That's it, just forget the sadness temporarily, escape from reality temporarily, and waste time here to see the scenery.

"You are so slow, I have been waiting for a long time."

A lazy complaint sounded, and the people present trembled as if they were electrocuted.

Ji Wangchen and others were afraid and expectant, they didn't even dare to turn around and look back.

Is it him? It must be him.

But what if it's not?

The children have already shouted happily, "Teacher!"

Shen Minghuan gave them a noble look, shook his head and sighed, "The necklace I gave you hasn't been opened yet? I didn't expect that after a year, you haven't made any progress at all."

"Minghuan." Jiang Yiwen called softly.

He endured for a long time, so as not to scream like those children.

Shen Minghuan looked at him in surprise: "Brother, who hit you?"

"No, I accidentally fell." Jiang Yiwen looked at his lively eyebrows and laughed softly, and he tried to cover the wound on his face embarrassedly.

His fingers touched his cheek, but he didn't feel any pain.

"Ming Huan?" He raised his eyes in panic, his eyes full of panic.

He wanted to ask where this place was, he wanted to ask what happened to them, and what he wanted to ask most was... are you still alive?

Shen Ming Huan was in high spirits and proudly introduced: "This is a holographic world, and I am the core. I can do anything here. So do you have any wishes? I can make them come true."

"Holographic." Gu Wenjing and Jiang Li looked at each other, their expressions suddenly solemn.

They have heard about holographic technology, but currently people all over the world regard this as an unattainable myth.

But the two of them couldn't be happy when they saw the myth become reality. They only felt that Shen Minghuan said that she was the core of the world.

"Ming Huan, you..." Jiang Li tried carefully, but didn't know how to speak.

Shen Minghuan was very calm: "I am indeed an artificial intelligence."

He was floating in the universe and landed in front of them, "Don't be sad, I have all the memories and habits of the original body. You can think of me as him."

"...Ah, that's it."

Gu Wenjing was stunned for a moment, then blinked slowly and smiled, "That's right."

"Just wait."

Shen Minghuan was very lively. After he gave instructions to the adults present, he floated in front of the children, jabbered a bunch of questions, and then angrily "created" a classroom and drove them in to study.

The children walked into the classroom and sat down in disgrace.

They are not yet able to distinguish the symbols behind artificial intelligence and real people, so their thoughts are far less heavy.

Shen Minghuan floated back again, "Okay, we can reminisce about the past."

"You...your personality has changed a lot..." Ji Wangchen struggled to smile.

"Impossible, the real person is based on the character template he set for me." Shen Minghuan nodded confidently: "It must be that you haven't seen me for a long time and you remember it wrong."

Ji Wangchen wanted to cry again, "...Really? So this is your character."

It turns out that the real Shen Minghuan is so relaxed and at ease, a little arrogant and domineering.

It turned out that even after Shen Minghuan came back from Mutian Village, he thought they knew the truth and were sharing the burden together, but in fact this man was still struggling to support himself alone.

From beginning to end, Shen Minghuan was alone.

From beginning to end, they had never seen such an almost wanton smile.

"Aren't you surprised when you see the hologram?" Shen Minghuan raised his eyebrows, "I remember you said before that you didn't have the materials to do experiments, but you can have them here."

He pointed at himself: "You can do whatever you want. Here you can have the cost of countless trials and errors, and you can also ask me if you don't know how awesome it is?"

"Well, it's very powerful." Jiang Li suddenly reacted, "What about energy? How should we recharge your... holographic world?"

Even if it's just artificial intelligence, they can't lose Shen Minghuan.

"You have a lot to worry about."

Shen Minghuan sighed, "You can't charge it unless you can artificially create a black hole. That's still early. I don't think it's possible in two hundred years."

"But don't worry, the main body left me enough energy for twenty years."

Jiang Yiwen couldn't accept it, "What will happen in twenty years?"

"People will die all the time." Shen Minghuan looked at him in confusion, "Don't treat me like an artificial intelligence, but treat me like a normal person. Wouldn't it make you feel better?"

Jiang Yiwen opened his mouth, then closed it bitterly.

I just treat you as a normal person...

Twenty years later, you are only in your forties, and you are still so young...

Shen Minghuan thought their expressions were really strange. He couldn't understand why a group of humans could not accept their own demise before he could, and why they started to grieve so early when there were still twenty years left?

He put aside this question for the time being and looked at them curiously, "I used to, oh I mean the body, what was the body like before?"

Ji Wangchen recovered from his sadness. He managed to calm down and said gently: "Don't you have all his memories?"

"That's right." Shen Minghuan looked distressed, "But I always feel that there is something missing. For example, my performance was very poor when I was in school, but I suddenly became better after going to Mutian Village. This is very strange, do you know why? "

The four of them were stunned, and Gu Wenjing asked in a tearful voice, "Didn't he tell you?"

"Of course not, otherwise how could I not know? It's strange, why didn't he tell me? Is this a secret that cannot be told?" Shen Minghuan became even more curious.

"because……"

Jiang Li closed his eyes and held back tears as he talked about the past.

Shen Minghuan didn't want to publicize his suffering and perseverance during those long nights, but everyone should know.

Shen Minghuan nodded after listening, "It seems to be something I can do. No wonder the main body didn't tell me. He must be afraid that you will be sad if you find out, but he doesn't know that you already know."

Shen Minghuan laughed softly, "There are actually things that the main body doesn't know about."

"……Um."

The four of them felt their sadness dissipate in waves, and the heart-wrenching words written in the book may not be more than that.

Shen Ming raised his hand after laughing, "It's not suitable to be in the hologram for the first time for too long. Let's see you today. You have to come and accompany me tomorrow. It's boring to be alone."

When everyone came back to their senses, it seemed like a big dream.

They stared blankly at the blue stars in their hands, and suddenly they bent over and burst into tears.

The joyful children were shocked by the crying for a moment, and for some reason they suddenly began to cry too.

They just said goodbye to Shen Minghuan.

But Shen Minghuan has long been gone in the world.