NIP Chapter 74
Chapter 74
"For a zombie groom, a vampire, or Professor Pei who has a [-]/[-] chance of being alive—
This letter was written on a certain afternoon when you were 28 years old, under the flower stand on the balcony, facing several pots of winter strawberries that were about to bear fruit.It took more than a month to write the whole letter, so it is very long.
You never told Xiao Xun that you wrote this letter, you were afraid of leaving him false hope.
But you secretly wrote this letter to yourself, because even without vampires and zombie bridegrooms in this world, you still have a glimmer of hope.
Interesting, right?
You'll also believe in "little unlikely hopes."
I remember that when you were in school, you hated writing the most.All kinds of materials and official documents in one place have always been the only troublesome work routine for you.
But you still wrote yourself such a long story.
This is a fairy tale, which begins when the heartless Professor Pei meets a little green-skinned dinosaur. "
……
……
Outside the window, the dusk turns into a curtain of stars.
A few hours later, the stars disappeared again.
The sky turned pale again, and with the first ray of sunlight rising the next day, Pei Lin maintained the same movement without moving.
The letter went to Pei Lin to read it all night and one morning.
In the middle of the day, I also wanted to get up and have a cup of coffee to move my stiff back.But no, every character and every sentence in the letter seemed to have life drilled into his mind, occupying his nerves, restraining his hands and feet, making him unable to move.
This feeling has never been felt before.
Those scenes outlined in words can easily form pictures, plots, and stories in his mind, which has always been bad at imagining.Even though he couldn't remember anything portrayed in the letter, there was a definite sense of familiarity to everything.
Rationality made Pei Lin go to Alvin Yang immediately after reading the letter.
Although it was clearly stated in the letter, it was useless even to find Alvin Yang. Of course, Alvin Yang would not remember things that he did not remember.
The letter also predicts that he will check the sending address many times, re-check the mailbox key countless times, and have all kinds of doubts and guesses—"Professor Pei" will definitely feel that this thing is another trap set by Seth or ruse.
But at the same time, "Professor Pei" knew better than anyone else that this thing could not be fake.
Not only because of the familiar writing, but also because of some code words in the email that only he knows.
The biggest evidence is his heart.
A person who only has 28 years of alienated and indifferent life memories suddenly has a heart that is completely inconsistent with him, who believes in intuition, believes in fairy tales, and has a heart of all kinds of strange impulses.
Where did his present heart come from without a bizarre, unbelievable story?
……
A week later, Pei Lin got all the approval documents and went to the Third Prison to pick up Huo Xiuxun.
Amid Police Officer Jia's hesitant expression, Huo Xiuxun was stripped of his handcuffs and shackles, except for the electronic anklet.
Pei Lin brought him a new change of clothes, a "Paris New" jacket that his mother Tang Caiping sent him during the Chinese New Year last year. It was a weird bright green color, and it had been left unused in the deepest part of his closet before.
There are so many normal clothes, but he chose this one.
It turned out that Seth still fit very well in it, as if it was his clothes, Pei Lin's temples twitched silently.
The words "little green-skinned dinosaur" in the letter came alive.
The handover process was basically smooth.
Seth was obedient with his eyes downcast, neither noisy nor noisy.
Officer Jia continued to shake his head and sigh, and when he dutifully sent the two of them to the car, he looked at Pei Lin with sympathy that could not be expressed in words.
"Professor Pei, you have to take care."
Pei Lin: "..."
But in fact, he already knew about the selling contract.
As a man who has never been too lazy to bother, Chu Xun's so-called "must do ideological work for Professor Pei" is to directly throw the outrageous agreement reached with criminals on his desk.
"To sum up, Professor Pei will be the legal supervisor of seth from now on."
"When the criminal seth is serving his sentence, Professor Pei will be responsible for daily strict discipline, psychological counseling, and life care. The specific implementation rules are that the same apartment will be closely guarded 24 hours a day, and his three meals a day will be supervised..."
It's really off the charts.
Pei Lin looked at the red Zhangzi and was silent for a while.But it is such an outrageous document that is so magical that Chu Xun has the face to send it up, and it can really be stamped and approved! !
The small group of "Can I get off work on time today (4 people)" on the mobile phone has no sympathy, Zhuo Ziwei: "Professor Pei's current situation, what word should we use to describe it?"
Chu Xun: "Did your life for the country?"
Mr. Xiao Qi: "Feeding demons with your body?"
Zhuo Ziwei: "Sacrificing oneself for others?"
Professor Pei: "..."
Professor Pei is not a vegetarian either, so Professor Pei directly invited Seth to join the group chat, "Can I get off work on time today (5 people)".
Professor Pei: "Let's welcome new colleagues in advance."
Chu Xun: "... welcome."
Mr. Xiao Qi: "...you can be considered an old acquaintance."
Zhuo Ziwei: "...The new colleague will settle the accounts clearly, and pay me three graphics cards first."
Of course, Professor Pei, who had just recovered from a serious illness, was given such a heavy workload when he resumed work. It is impossible for the unit not to give him a high degree of affirmation and appropriate compensation for his excellent work.In order to achieve "24-hour strict monitoring" of the prisoners, the work unit made an exception and allocated Pei Lin an apartment in a large courtyard.
This incident caused many young colleagues who were poor and did not know the truth to turn from strong sympathy to strong envy for Professor Pei: "Wow, although I have to get along with dangerous criminals day and night, but I can work in this place where every inch of land and every inch of land is very close to work. It’s not a loss if you earn a flat in the compound for nothing, right?”
"That's right, it's been a few years and this is a flat on the second ring road!"
"Hey, come on, you can't look down on Seth given the same opportunity, and you don't have the skills and skills of Professor Pei."
"That's right, it's not easy to prevent him from hacking your system, but also to prevent him from running away after hitting you. It is said that Seth was able to escape the siege when he was shot, and he saved people with live ammunition in North Africa. Professor Pei, who is both civil and military, can control him?"
……
The "new home" has two bedrooms and one living room, and the area is not too big.
But the location is very good, always sunny, and you can see a forest and a shining lake in the back.
5 minutes walk to work.
Huo Xiuxun's scope of activities during his sentence was limited to a compound, but he could use the cafeteria and gym like other staff when he was off duty.Professor Pei is also rather homely, and only occasionally goes to the door to buy some donuts.
Recently, a clingy big golden retriever has been added to the "family".
Doudou was originally Pei Lin's dog, but was snatched away by Huo Xiuxun. Recently, seth's UK property was seized.He doesn't want the house anymore, but he and Professor Pei's dog must be taken back.
A certain young colleague surnamed Liu participated in the whole process of seizure and inventory.
The innocent Xiao Liu never expected that in the criminal's house far away in the UK, he would find a room full of personal belongings of his colleague Professor Pei, a large number of photos and videos, and Professor Pei's dog.
This kind of thing is completely beyond the brain load of an upright young man: "It's terrible, it's terrible, isn't this just a perverted stalker who covets Professor Pei?!"
Xiao Liu sympathized with the "victim" Professor Pei so much that he couldn't bear to tell him the terrible thing, so he secretly sent a message to Minister Chu Xun.
Chu Xun: "It's okay, if you don't paste photos all over the wall, it's not a pervert."
Xiao Liu: "???"
Xiao Liu didn't understand, but Xiao Liu was greatly shocked.Minister Chu's reply made him fall into deep thought. Is the standard of perverts so high now?
Two weeks later, Xiao Liu returned from a business trip.
In Seth's hut in England, there are photos of Professor Pei everywhere, but no photos of himself, so that Xiao Liu, who doesn't know the truth, is full of stereotyped speculations about Seth's image as "a dark and shady poor thing".
On the first day Xiao Liu came back, his computer program unfortunately crashed.
It was fixed by a new colleague.
Just, the new colleague is really handsome, a handsome guy like a fairy.He was patient when helping to deal with bugs, and carefully explained the problem and solution ideas to him. It is still a subwoofer with a very magnetic and pleasant voice.
Technology is nothing to say.The slender white fingers touched the keyboard, and he couldn't see the speed of his hands at all. No wonder he was sitting next to Professor Pei and other monsters when he came in with a move!
Although the clothes seem to be a little...something wrong.
Cough, but it doesn't matter, his face can definitely withstand all kinds of weird clothes!
The new colleagues don't talk much, but they are not aloof.When Xiao Liu would make coffee for him and send it over, he would smile, his narrow amber eyes were curved and very pretty.
The young man likes the handsome new colleague, so he chats with him "Brother Huo" if he has nothing to do.
Canteen, gym, basketball court.
The all-round handsome guy can even play basketball so well, which is admirable.
During the intermission, Xiao Liu couldn't help gossiping while drinking tons of water: "By the way, does Brother Huo have a partner? Isn't he already married?"
Huo Xiuxun: "...Yes."
"Wow, the one who is worthy of brother Huo must be a beautiful woman, right? Do you have any photos? Do I have the honor to see my sister-in-law?"
The leader, Minister Chu, passed by the side of the court: "Seth, come to my office after the game."
Huo Xiuxun: "Okay."
Xiao Liu: "..."
Xiao Liu: "..."
Xiao Liu: "..."
Other colleagues didn't understand: "It's been half a month since you came back from England, and you still don't know that he is Seth?"
I do not know! ! !
No one ever said it, everyone didn't mention it!
Xiao Liu was miserable and his head exploded.Thinking of the past half a month, every time he happily went to the cafeteria with his plate to eat with Brother Huo, who must be sitting next to Brother Huo?
...Professor Pei.
Every time Brother Huo worked overtime, who else happened to be working overtime together?
Professor Pei!
And the last time after get off work, he directly saw Huo Ge and Professor Pei walking their dogs in the yard together, and he actually felt a little strange that time.Those two people and one dog, the whole atmosphere was inexplicably too family-like, but he continued to think about it, and after teasing his relative's big golden retriever for a while, he left. The dog kept licking him, and he still thought the dog was nice. Self-cooked.
Dogs are not familiar!
The dog is familiar with him, because a month ago, he personally sent the dog to the consignment plane in the UK!
Ah - help.So Brother Huo said that he has a partner, who is he referring to?
Could it be Professor Pei?
Xiao Liu seems to have a sudden inspiration at the end of a thriller to connect all the clues together, but it is too late to remind the protagonist sadly.I was horrified to think of all the creepy surroundings of Professor Pei in the suite in England, and Seth's "harmless" smile in the past half month.
"..."
"........."
A life was saved, and the perverted criminal got what he wanted!No horror movie can do that! ! !
……
The night in early summer is very quiet, with occasional chirping of insects.
The road from the office to home is only a few minutes away, with quiet street lights all the way, and a pond sparkling in the moonlight.Pei Lin used to work overtime like this, and then he dragged his somewhat sleepy body back to the dark apartment under the stars all over the sky.
It's only been a month, and Pei Lin is already used to having one more person by his side.
A person who doesn't talk much and walks with him every day.
He will go into the house with him and turn on the light in the entrance for him, making the whole house not so deserted.
Carefully clip the bookmarks for him, and put them back on the bookshelf according to the fixed index position.
Will help him clean the house, cook him supper.
Like a snail youth.Pei Lin had eaten at a canteen for so many years and never found it unpalatable.For so many years, he has been indifferent to many things, and his taste has never been so picky.
As a result, he easily fell into the trap of seth's fried dumplings for supper.
Followed by flower cakes, steamed buns, and hawthorn-flavored rice dumplings...
Professor Pei has been gossiping a lot in private recently.Today's little gossip is that a colleague actually bumped into Professor Pei going out to buy groceries!Damn, the unit obviously has a canteen, but he went out to buy groceries on purpose!Moreover, Professor Pei, who doesn't eat fireworks in the world, actually goes shopping for vegetables?It really didn't match his temperament at all.
Pei Lin: "..."
Of course he also felt confused.
Was he serious about compromising his stutter?If I have to say it, even if the criminal pleads guilty, even if he wears electronic shackles, it is very dangerous to give him the kitchen knife at home and chop it up at will.
But in the end, everyday criminals were there, and he conveniently tied an apron with a little orange fox with a big tail on it from behind.
Then, staring at someone else's waist and the little fox tail knotted behind the apron, he was in a daze.
"..."
The letter said, "Xiao Xun is very cute".
The letter also said, "You have to watch Xiao Xun eat well and not ruin his body. Then take him to your side as soon as possible."
"Be nice to him, be patient with him, and don't bully him."
and also--
"After you met him, you have been redeemed."
"It was you who was repaired bit by bit by a loving, fussy, and awkward little dinosaur back into a flesh-and-blood person."
Pei Lin lowered his eyes.
From the temperature of the fingertips that are occasionally touched, one can clearly feel the beating vitality.
……
The letter also said that you should take him out, let everyone see how cute he is, and let everyone accept him.
You need to hug him and kiss him more, he is very awkward so sometimes he will resist, just don't worry about holding him down.
Also, he should really like the proposal scene.
The world you are in has not been given to him.
"..." Of course, Pei Lin felt that he might not be able to do the contents of the letter for the time being.
But Seth didn't look like he was in a hurry.
He cooks silently, cleans the house, is very obedient, very quiet, doesn't make any demands, and doesn't approach rashly.Instead, he moved lightly and cautiously, as if holding his breath and waiting to catch a precious butterfly.
Pei Lin, on the other hand, was calm.
For an essentially rational person like him, since he has read the long letter, and since he has chosen to believe the "story written to himself", it means that he has basically accepted the inevitable fate of throwing himself into the net at the same time. ending.
Now that the ending is already there, he doesn't necessarily expect the process to be reasonable and gradual.
They had kissed and hugged before, though he didn't remember it.
He had loved this person before, even if he didn't remember.
So he hadn't actually locked the door to his room for weeks.
When I go to the vegetable market, I often not only buy vegetables, but also buy a few small plants at home.Soon the green plants on the balcony lined up, and the "home" became more and more like a home.
He would go to the bookstore to buy books that Seth was interested in and take them home, and sometimes he would secretly poke and buy some new clothes for Seth.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter. Although he still dresses more formally than ordinary people at home, he occasionally feels lazy when he doesn't have a buttoned white shirt to match, and he steps barefoot on sandals to expose his ankles.
When he passed Seth's eyes, he could see his flustered and averted gaze.
The letter always said "the little dinosaur is actually very good".In fact, Seth was really well-behaved, although he seemed to have a very thirsty throat that day and drank a lot of water.
But at night when they were watching the football game together on the sofa, Pei Lin wore shorts for the first time, and he didn't even dare to get any closer to him.
——"Then if he looks lonely and refuses to come near you, you must take the initiative to hug him."
The letter said so, and Pei Lin almost did the same.
If it wasn't for one more thing, he still secretly has doubts.
He believed in the story of the virtual world written in the email for so many years, and he also believed in his heart that was warmed by that story.
However, as a rational person, he still couldn't believe that "love" would be the panacea for everything.
Yes, good love can heal people and make people redeemed.But at the same time, if he is a real "heartless robot", he will not travel thousands of miles to listen to the sound of green wheat seedlings falling in the rice fields, or feed pigeons in a daze in a square where people come and go.
He can be mended because he wasn't essentially a "dead man" in the first place.
Although he was very unhappy.
But no matter how unhappy, how indifferent or insensitive, he never involved any innocent people, stabbing himself inward with a knife was the only choice.
But Seth's hands were indeed stained with other people's blood.
Although he couldn't be accused and convicted, he had heard Pei Lin's verification of his selfish desire to stir up the mafia, and the rumors were likely to be true.
Then, a person who despises other people's lives and retaliates against society, this kind of person will really be successfully repaired and healed just because he has received someone's love and trust, and has changed from a hopeless criminal back to restrained and gentle , Harmless existence of humans and animals?
Even if he saw it with his own eyes, Pei Lin would still think it was a fairy tale.
……
He really wanted to know if the self who fell in love with Seth in the world of Philae Temple had thought about this issue.
Must have thought about it.
But why?
After careful consideration, still choose to love such a person, just because "little dinosaurs are cute"?Just because baby dinosaurs are warm?
It is true that everyone likes to be cute and warm, everyone is eager to be redeemed, everyone is eager to be treated uniquely, and everyone is eager to be unconditionally chosen firmly. He is also grateful that even in the face of the numb and boring self back then, Seth can still hold on A little flower wants to give him.
——But the unrepaired self in Chuchu is really so sad that in order to be loved, he voluntarily jumped with his eyes blindfolded?
Pei Lin felt that he was not that kind of person.
But on the letter, there is no mention of this period of mental journey.
……
Then maybe, the side effect of human beings having a heart is to become a love brain.
Pei Lin was really only a little bit close to believing this truth, believing that he had become a hopeless love brain, and that feeling fermented when he found out that Seth would secretly sleep by his door with a quilt in his arms in the middle of the night. Especially obvious.
It shouldn't have been discovered.
Because he always sleeps well, he usually doesn't wake up at night.But that night, it may be that he had a slight sore throat after exercising and sweating after get off work, and he got up in the middle of the night to find some water to drink.
Instead, he saw Seth curled up by the door.
These days, Huo Xiuxun has always been cautious.I never dared to be coquettish, dared not take the initiative to get close to him, tried my best not to show any uneasiness, grievance, or longing, but calm and quiet, really well-behaved.
But he would secretly sleep at the door in the middle of the night, just to get a little closer to him quietly.At that moment, Pei Lin's emotion and reason were completely separated.
He bowed and picked him up.
Huo Xiuxun actually woke up once in the middle, but he didn't fully wake up. Xiao Xun, who was half asleep and half awake, was very honest, leaning her head comfortably on his chest, and the corners of her lips raised a little. smile.
This seemed to be the first time Pei Lin saw him smile from the bottom of his heart after living together.
He was stunned, thinking about the story in the letter, a little dinosaur longing for warmth finally got happiness, but was forgotten, how wronged it was.Who can stand such a huge grievance?But he bore it without saying a word.
"If a person is nice to everyone, you can be with him at ease, because even if one day he doesn't love you anymore, he will still treat you kindly."
"And if a person has bad deeds but only gave you unique love, you will feel very lucky. But if one day he doesn't love you anymore, think about how he will treat you then?"
Reason, ordinarily is such a reason.
But the heartache is also really heartache, maybe the essence of human beings is double standards, so the truth is so easily left behind by Professor Pei, who has always been reasonable.Pei Lin himself thought he was ridiculous.
It was so illogical that, in desperation, he began to find even more absurd reasons to excuse himself—no matter how small probability events in the Arabian Nights, but in the real world, isn’t Seth just obediently committing crimes and doing meritorious deeds in order to commute his sentence?Isn't it the transformation from a criminal to a restrained and well-behaved ordinary young man?
Therefore, even if he became a love brain in the world of Philae Temple, he won the gamble this time.
Isn't that all right?Sometimes things can be justified.
Take a thousand steps back.
Although most people think that Professor Pei is serious, noble and upright, Chu Xun, a recognized heresy, has repeatedly said in private that Professor Pei, we are essentially the same kind of people.
To sum up, that is to say, he may not be normal.
It may not be normal for him to fall in love with the not necessarily normal Seth in the virtual world, which is actually normal.
……
Pei Lin originally thought that this was the end of the matter.
It can barely justify itself.
Until the first day after half a year.During a business trip, he was ordered to technically support a summit meeting of an international organization, and a terrorist attack occurred at the venue.
When Pei Lin woke up, he was chained around his neck and was in a strange white room.
His head hurts, and he has a lot of chaotic memories. He began to feel that the scene in front of him seemed familiar, as if he had experienced it somewhere before.But before he could think about it, a cold gun was pointed at his head, and his captors were talking in Italian, which they thought he couldn't understand.
But Pei Lin actually understood.
He heard them talking about seth, talking about revenge, saying that seth drove them into a desperate situation for this person.
……
Many years ago, Pei Lin boarded a ship bound for the Mediterranean to rescue the little brother of the armed police stationed in the non-peacekeeping force.
During those days, the situation in Panama was complicated and chaotic. They were able to successfully rescue them despite the hail of bullets and escape unscathed. Apart from the mediation of the country behind them and an accurate information and intelligence network, Pei Lin felt that it was mainly because he was lucky at the time.
They should have been conspired and attacked by various forces, trying to use their corpses to frame each other, which can be described as a near-death situation.However, the forces confronting them at that time all happened to receive fatally misleading information, and thus made wrong judgments one after another, which allowed them to escape successfully.
Afterwards, serious family strife broke out in Sicily, and in the end there were heavy casualties, and there was no time to take care of the situation in North Africa.
It was as if Lady Luck was on his side.
...But what if, at that time, it wasn't Lady Luck who protected him at all?
People are different.
No matter how unfair the fate is, for some people, revenge against society is never an option in his life.It's just that Pei Lin has always believed in those written evidences all these years, so much so that he never thought that taking revenge on society was never an option for Seth!
Back then, Huo Xiuxun was indeed wandering on the edge of gray, earning money by selling illegal technology.
But what really got him involved in the bloody storm and his eternal doom was that he was involved in disputes in an emergency that year, and he fabricated and spread false information to protect the safety of Professor Pei.Those operations succeeded in saving Pei Lin, but they indirectly killed many people from other forces at that time, and inflicted more and more violent revenge on him.
In order to protect himself, Huo Xiuxun could only frantically search for backers, collect money and gather people, strengthen his strength, and plan to fight back, gradually becoming the powerful and cunning seth he later became.
However, in the meantime, there were countless violent storms.When I looked back, I was already deep in the mud, and I couldn't go back.
Pei Lin never knew about these things.
The long letter only said Professor Pei, Xiao Xun should have something else to hide from you, but unfortunately you didn't ask until the end.
You just know that little dinosaurs sometimes make a fuss out of nowhere.
You will be particularly wronged, as if you owe him something from birth.