Chapter 1 Lin Xian's Hesitation

"Mr. Lin Xian, you really know a lot about me, about the memories I've lost."

Zheng Xiangyue withdrew her gaze from the moon and looked at Lin Xian:

"Could you please tell me? What kind of life did I, the teenage girl I used to be, live?"

Lin Xian lowered his head.

He looked at the sand and gravel dancing in the night breeze beneath his feet, unsure whether he should tell Zheng Xiangyue the truth.

The current Zheng Xiangyue is happy enough.

She has both a son and a daughter, and enjoys all the happiness of family life on Mars.

All the doctors said she wouldn't live past 14, but she's now over a hundred years old and still going strong.

In her twilight years, she has returned to Earth and led the remaining people to rebuild their homeland, fulfilling her childhood dream. It's a fulfilling and valuable life.

In comparison,

Did Zheng Xiangyue, who spent more than ten years of her life on Earth, ever experience a moment of happiness?

When she was still in her swaddling clothes, her parents were beaten to death.

Her older brother was bitten on half of his face by a dog while protecting her from the village bully.

Her condition continued to deteriorate, and her brother also left her, leaving her alone in the world.

Is it really necessary to regain such terrible and cruel memories?

Lin Xian hesitated in his heart.

He really wasn't sure whether to tell the hundred-year-old Zheng Xiangyue these memories full of tragedy and negative energy.

Memories aren't always beautiful.

He has always believed that some terrible memories are best forgotten.

Like Zheng Xiangyue, and Xu Yiyi.

Isn't it a better choice to forget everything and start a new life?

For a time,

He was also caught in the paradox of the Ship of Theseus.

Do memories make a person?

Or,

Does the person determine the memory?

Just like the Ship of Theseus, a blank shell filled with completely new memories, is it still the same person?

Grandpa Wei Shengjin traveled all the way to the backward Earth.

He just wanted to see what was hidden in the safe, to see who he really was, to see if the current Wei Shengjin was still the same Wei Shengjin.

Was he Wei Shengjin himself?

Or,

Did he force himself to live as Wei Shengjin?

This very question of finding oneself困擾 Wei Shengjin, troubled Zheng Xiangyue, and perhaps CC as well.

Lin Xian turned his head.

He found CC had also come out of the stone house. She stood beside the three of them, looking at Lin Xian with the two elders.

It seemed everyone was waiting for his answer.

But at this moment, he didn't know the answer either.

"I'm not ready yet."

Lin Xian turned around, facing the white-haired Zheng Xiangyue:

"I admit to you that I do know your past, I know your life from hundreds of years ago, and I also know the story behind the three wishes you wrote down."

"But I believe I'm not the only one who knows about this. Jask should know as well. From his silence and his reaction when he heard my name... Although I don't know what method Jask used, it seems he didn't lose his memory because of hibernation."

"For some reason, Jask clearly knows your affairs and everything that happened to you. But he insists on not telling you the answer. So, please give me some time, okay? I'm afraid I also need some time to think clearly about many things."

Lin Xian decided to think more carefully.

Jask didn't even tell Zheng Xiangyue who bought this ticket. Even when Zheng Xiangyue asked his name point-blank, Jask remained silent.

Could it be that he also knew that once the dam of blocked memories was opened, it would inevitably face the risk of bursting?

Lin Xian agreed with Jask's approach.

If it were him, standing on the moon with Zheng Xiangyue, who had just woken up from hibernation, lost her memory, and buried her brother's ashes, he would definitely not tell Zheng Xiangyue the truth of the past.

What was the point?

She had just gained a healthy body, a beautiful environment, and a happy life. Why let those unchangeable painful memories become an unremovable thorn, forever hurting her heart?

Even if this dream world had less than an hour left before it ended and everything would be reset.

But the Zheng Xiangyue he knew had already experienced so much hardship and pain. Lin Xian really didn't want to see her sadness or any of her tears.

Zheng Xiangyue smiled kindly.

As if she had already guessed Lin Xian's answer and wasn't surprised:

"You really are a very kind person."

She said softly:

"I've lived for so many years, seen so many things, experienced births, deaths, and separations. I even sent off several of my children and grandchildren one by one. I know very well why none of you are willing to tell me the truth. In these hundred years, I have hesitated many times and told well-intentioned lies many times."

"But I'm still grateful for your honesty, Mr. Lin Xian. At least you're not willing to deceive me with another well-intentioned lie. I'm willing to wait. I've waited for more than a hundred years, so of course I don't mind waiting a little longer."

Zheng Xiangyue looked at Lin Xian with a smile:

"You are the person I wrote in my only three life wishes, the person my teenage self told me to repay well. So, whether or not you tell me the truth of the past in the end, I won't mind. You are my benefactor, and you will always be the person I want to thank."

"I only hope that if there really comes a day when you plan to tell me everything, please be sure to tell me the truth. Don't worry, Mr. Lin Xian, I have grown up in kindness and love all my life. Everyone has been very good and taken care of me. No matter what the truth is, I can accept it."

"Just as you three are so obsessed with the safe, you are looking for your answers, and I also hope to obtain my true self, so that the little Xiangyue of my teenage years and the old grandmother Xiangyue of today can truly shake hands and become the same person."

Having said that, she turned her head and called out to a middle-aged man passing by:

"Isn't there still a bamboo house for storing tools on the east side of the village? Although it's drafty, it's more comfortable to sleep in since the weather is so hot now."

"Take a few young men and quickly tidy it up, clean it, and put two bamboo beds inside so that our two new guests can rest there."

"Yes, Grandma." The middle-aged man respectfully bowed to Zheng Xiangyue and then trotted off to work.

Indeed, as CC said, Zheng Xiangyue held a high position in this Rhein Village. Everyone, regardless of age or gender, called her Grandma.

Considering her age, this was not excessive. Even 70-year-old Grandpa Wei Shengjin wouldn't sound out of place calling Zheng Xiangyue Grandma.

Lin Xian roughly calculated that the current Zheng Xiangyue should be around 116 years old. She was really in good health.

"Oh, no need, no need. We can clean it up ourselves."

Grandpa Wei Shengjin felt a little embarrassed and followed along to tidy up the house.

Zheng Xiangyue was, after all, advanced in years. After making the arrangements, she returned to her house to rest.

Lin Xian looked at his watch.

It was now 23:57.

Close to midnight, in a village with no lights except moonlight, people wouldn't be out and about so late, except for the patrol guards, like the middle-aged man just now.

Nowadays,

The laughing and playing children had all gone to bed early. In the large village courtyard, only CC and Lin Xian remained.

"You should tell Village Chief Grandma," CC suddenly said.

"What?"

Lin Xian turned his head:

"Are you saying I should tell Zheng Xiangyue about the life she experienced as a teenage girl, the things that happened around her?"

CC nodded:

"That's right, you should tell her. I would feel very uncomfortable if someone hid things from me like that, knowing the truth but not saying it."

"Even if they are all tragic things?" Lin Xian asked.

"That's right."

CC's eyes were very firm:

"Even if they are terrible, heartbreaking things, memories are still memories. Only complete memories can make up a complete person. Are people's memories always happy and joyful? People experience joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, just as the moon has its waxing and waning phases. Does a half-moon not count as the moon?"

"You know quite a lot," Lin Xian said, smiling at CC.

"Where did you learn that ancient poem? It couldn't have been from this world, right?"

"From a certain memory fragment."

CC continued:

"I just want to say that painful memories also have their value. If we don't experience separation, how can people look forward to reunions? If we don't experience loss, who would know to cherish what they have now?"

"Like me, you know that I would even risk my life to open that safe. You said I was stupid and couldn't understand it."

"But I believe what the bearded man VV said. I believe that when I open the hafnium alloy safe, I will definitely not regret it."

Lin Xian crossed his arms, looking at CC in the bright moonlight:

"No matter what's inside?"

"No matter what's inside."

"Even if it's just a rice cooker?"

"Even if it's just a... What's a rice cooker?" CC tilted her head and asked:

"You always say things that are hard to understand."

Lin Xian sighed softly in his heart.

He was hiding something from Zheng Xiangyue.

Wasn't he also hiding something from CC?

The current him was completely different from the him in the first dream and the second dream.

The current him knew the safe's password, because he set it himself.

He also knew what was inside the safe, because he personally put the rice cooker, the space-time particle, and the small note inside.

Because he knew what was in the safe, it was hard for him to open his mouth to CC.

He was also afraid of disappointing CC.

However, CC's conviction made Lin Xian have a little more expectation for the contents of the safe.

Could that small note be not just for himself, but also for CC?

Considering that Chu Anqing and CC were both Thousand-Year Piles...

This idea wasn't impossible.

"You really trust that bearded man," Lin Xian said sincerely:

"Sometimes being so blindly and stubbornly trusted by others is also a kind of pride. But I actually have a question I've always wanted to ask. I always thought that the reason you trust that bearded man so much, and the reason you dare to risk your life to rob the safe for just one sentence from him, is that you two must have a lot of stories, a deep relationship, and have been through a lot together."

"But on the way here, you said that only the memory fragments with me are very long, and the other memory fragments are only a few seconds long, including the bearded man's safe declaration to you. This is a little hard for me to understand."

Lin Xian spread his hands:

"Just a few seconds of memory, is it really worth you risking your life for?"

CC chuckled.

She looked at Village Chief Grandma's closed door and the window with the extinguished lard lamp:

"Didn't Village Chief Grandma already tell you the answer to this question?"

"The reason why memories are different from movie clips is that memories themselves come with emotions."

"Just like you don't want to tell Village Chief Grandma about her childhood, when you recall that scene, is it just a picture? There must be sadness, regret, pain, and other emotions inside, right? That's the magic of memories."

"I only have two memory fragments about you in my mind, and they are still fragmented and disjointed. But why do I still trust you so much when I see you again today? The reason is that those memory fragments also have emotions inside. The emotion that sprouts from me when I recall those scenes is trust in you."

"I understand," Lin Xian said, looking at CC:

"Since you've said that, it means that in the memory fragment of the bearded man VV, although it's only a few seconds long, the emotion that sprouts from you must be very strong, so it can make you so desperate."

"Can you tell me what specific emotion is in your mind when you recall the bearded man VV? What kind of mood? What kind of strong emotion?"

"I don't want to talk about it."

CC refused as decisively as always.

The expression on her face was the same as when she answered herself in the second dream, full of resentment.

Lin Xian snorted softly.

It seemed he hadn't racked up enough goodwill yet.

He guessed that when the goodwill got higher, or when CC believed that he was the bearded man VV, she would be willing to tell him more detailed emotions.

But how to prove it?

Lin Xian now only had a 98.35% probability of believing that he was the bearded man, but if he really had to produce any conclusive evidence, he really couldn't.

So,

If CC didn't want to say it, then she didn't have to.

Anyway, from the expression on her face and the attitude of her words, it wasn't hard to guess that the story between CC and the bearded man VV must not be so pleasant, and was even full of resentment and regret.

"Your thoughts may not represent Zheng Xiangyue's thoughts," Lin Xian said, looking at CC:

"I will naturally tell her when I have figured out how to open my mouth and how to tell Zheng Xiangyue the story of the past."

"It's just that now, we don't have any clues about the safe with Lin Xian's name on it. What are you planning to do?"

CC turned her head, looking in the direction where Grandpa Wei Shengjin left:

"We can only continue to look for it. Didn't you say that you can repeat this day countless times? Then you can continue to look for it like this. Although it's like looking for a needle in a haystack, the metal detector that Teacher Wei carries can indeed increase the detection efficiency several times over."

"This is indeed a method," Lin Xian replied:

"But I think there are better methods to try."

His plan was like this.

First of all, it must be clear that it's too, too difficult to find the hafnium alloy safe in the fifth dream, and it's even a bit unrealistic.

It's very possible that they could search for several years or even decades without digging out a few safes. After all, Grandpa Wei Shengjin had been scanning and detecting here for two months, and it was only by luck today that they accidentally found one.

His current situation hadn't deteriorated to the point where he had to search for a needle in a haystack, so he could completely change his approach to finding the safe.

Change the dream again!

The reason why it was difficult to find the safe in the fifth dream was essentially because Donghai City had been destroyed, razed to the ground, and they couldn't find the address of Taimu Bank at all.

If they could change the dream again and bring Donghai City back, correct it...

Wouldn't they be able to find Taimu Bank smoothly and then find the safe easily and happily?

Moreover,

Once the dream changed, he and Liu Feng could observe the change in the space-time clock's value again, and then clarify the changing pattern of space-time curvature and deduce the value of the space-time coordinates.

As long as they had the value of the space-time coordinates, they would have taken another step forward in joining the Genius Club and could see the second exam question.

It could be said to be killing two birds with one stone.

But the problem was,

How could they make the dream world change again?

According to previous experience, in order to trigger a strong space-time butterfly effect, they must cause a strong real-world change.

The simplest and most direct way was to copy technology.

The hibernation capsule filling liquid manuscript and the cold fusion technology manuscript had already been verified twice.

The premature appearance of advanced technology would inevitably trigger a violent space-time butterfly effect, causing space-time changes and rewriting the future world.

The appearance of hafnium alloy did indeed trigger a certain butterfly effect, but it wasn't big enough, not enough to push the first dream to the second dream.

Therefore,

The advanced technology that could change the dream world must have enough influence.

Who had this ability?

Gao Wen!

Lin Xian instantly thought of this name.

Academician Gao Wen's research results had already rewritten the past once. Lin Xian believed that Academician Gao Wen might still have such a clever mind and the ability to change the world.

His research results might be able to appear earlier again and rewrite the future again!

So, no matter if the safe No. 424 in Face Village was Academician Gao Wen's, or just a simple homonymous oolong, and no matter if it contained research materials or some unimportant things, they should try their luck now.

After thinking it through,

Lin Xian asked CC again:

"You went to the neighboring Face Village today. I know this name. It must be a village where Big Face Cat is the village chief, right? I really didn't expect this guy to have the ability to command one side. You must have seen Gao Wen's safe there today. What's the status of that safe now? Has it been opened?"

"No," CC shook her head:

"But the people in Face Village obviously believe there are treasures stored in the safe. When I sneaked in to take a look, Erzhuzi and Sanpang were using the brute-force method to crack the safe."

I'm going.

Lin Xian couldn't help but sigh.

Sanpang, a person who only knew two lines of dialogue, had learned the brute-force method, which made him feel like the style was a bit off.

However, the brute-force method itself was a stupid method, but it was a very effective stupid method. For a safe whose password was unknown and couldn't be violently cracked, the brute-force method might indeed be the best solution.

"How much have they tried?"

Lin Xian was very curious:

"By the way, when did they dig out this safe? If they've had enough time, maybe they've almost brute-forced the password!"

CC recalled:

"Village Chief Grandma said that the safe in Face Village was dug out at least ten years ago. I didn't ask in detail. You can ask Village Chief Grandma carefully later."

"You're right! They seem to have tried a lot of passwords already. I didn't see it too clearly, but when I looked at the name on the safe, I still saw that Erzhuzi and Sanpang had turned the first few digits to 0 when they were brute-forcing the password."

"To think on the bright side, if they're brute-forcing the password, starting from 99999999 and trying one by one, then they're really close to trying out the correct password."

"But if they're brute-forcing the password from 00000000, then it's hopeless. One hundred million possible passwords. They won't be able to crack it without a few years."

Lin Xian thought with his chin in his hand.

It shouldn't be possible for them to have started trying from 00000000.

If Big Face Cat and the others had really gotten the safe for more than ten years, how could they have only understood the brute-force method during this time? They must have started on the road to cracking the password long ago.

"There's a chance. It's worth a try."

Lin Xian straightened up, looking at the bright full moon that had risen to the top of the sky.

That's great.

The moon had returned to its original appearance, and the Genius Club's emblem had disappeared.

It was hard to say what state the Genius Club was in now in 2624.

It was possible that it had perished in the super disaster of 2400.

It was also possible that it was still secretly manipulating the river of history on Mars.

Jask had also passed away several decades ago in this world. He had achieved his dream of immigrating to Mars, but was that all?

In the end, Lin Xian completely didn't understand the purpose of the Genius Club, or the thoughts of the Genius Club's various members.

So, he completely couldn't understand what they were doing.

"I hope I can join the Genius Club soon. I must also figure out the truth as soon as possible and formulate my own future plan as soon as possible."

Lin Xian raised his wrist and looked at the time on his watch:

00:39

In two minutes, the familiar white light was about to arrive again.

The dream time today was as long as 12 hours, but most of the time was wasted on traveling and understanding the worldview, and he didn't actually do anything meaningful.

However, tomorrow would be different.

He could start the speedrun road.

He put down his wrist, looked at CC, and waved his hand:

"Then I'll see you tomorrow."

CC lowered her crossed arms, snorted softly, and looked at Lin Xian:

"This feeling is quite subtle, like every tomorrow you can meet again. I remember you told me before that every time you cycle, you have memories, but we don't."

"So this time, can you still find me?"

Lin Xian listened to these familiar words.

Looking at the identical face in front of him.

Chu Anqing had said similar words to him in the Xidan Shopping Center.

At that time, he was going to the toilet to talk to VV, so he asked Chu Anqing to wait for him at the milk tea shop and not run around.

Chu Anqing sat by the window seat in the milk tea shop, her eyes smiling into two shallow crescent moons:

"Okay, Senior, don't get lost! What if you can't find your way back and can't find me later!"

At that time, Lin Xian was directly amused and replied:

"Don't worry, I will definitely find you."

But he didn't expect that he would eventually break his promise.

Even until now,

He hadn't been able to find where Chu Anqing was.

Even though CC and Chu Anqing looked exactly alike, it didn't make sense, because they were completely different people.

Lin Xian had promised Chu Shanhe to find his daughter, who was Chu Anqing, not CC.

"I will find you," Lin Xian said, looking at CC softly:

"Tell me, where will you be around one o'clock in the afternoon?"

CC looked up, thought for a while:

"I'll be in the forest around one o'clock. I'll probably leave Rhein Village for Face Village at 12 o'clock. If it's around one o'clock, I'll definitely be running around in the forest. It's hard for me to describe where I am in that kind of forest with no reference points."

"If you want to find me tomorrow, you might as well wait in the same place where we met today. After we meet, we can discuss follow-up matters, and I can take you back to Rhein Village again. As long as you remember a few more special landmarks, you will be very familiar with this area of the forest in the future and can find me at any time."

"Okay," Lin Xian nodded.

Each dream exploration required a gradual process.

This time in the fifth dream, he had learned so much information and intelligence on the first night, which was quite successful. He could consider the specific battle plan after entering the dream tomorrow.

"Lin Xian, come to sleep!"

On the other side of the village, Grandpa Wei Shengjin came over, fanning a straw hat and smiling:

"Let's go, Lin Xian. I and those young men have cleaned up the small bamboo house. It's cool to sleep inside. It's not early, let's go back to rest together."

Lin Xian and CC looked at each other and smiled tacitly.

"I'm not going to sleep, Teacher Wei, you go back to sleep," Lin Xian said.

"Hey, you're tired after a day, how can you not sleep!"

Wei Shengjin said with a chuckle, persuading Lin Xian:

"Seeing you two looking at the sky with a worried look just now, like you're worrying about things that haven't happened. Don't worry, that kind of super disaster in 2400 can't happen again."

"Look, the moon girl Zheng Xiangyue has been on Earth for twenty or thirty years, and no disasters have happened. It's very stable."

"It can't be so coincidental that the Earth will explode on the first night that Lin Xian and I stay in the village, right? Hahahaha."

Grandpa Wei Shengjin laughed optimistically and heartily, looking down at his watch:

"Go to rest soon, it's already 00:4"

Boom!!!

Boom!!!

Boom!!!

The scorching white light evaporated Wei Shengjin's watch, evaporated his smiling face, and evaporated his optimism and cheerfulness.

In a corner of the bedroom,

Lin Xian opened his eyes.

"You're awake?"

More than ten hours ago, in a high-end villa in the Donghai Dazhi River Natural Scenic Area,

The little girl opened her eyes from the soft bed and found two kind old people smiling at her.

"Oh, little girl, you're finally awake. You've made us worry so much," Yan Mei said, quickly handing over the water glass next to her as the little girl sat up from the bed:

"Drink some water first. You've been sleeping for so long, your throat must be dry, right? Moisten your throat before you talk."

Zhao Ruihai also stood behind Yan Mei, looking at the little girl who was sitting up leaning against the head of the bed.

She blinked her clear and clever eyes, scanned the surrounding environment, and seemed to be not fully awake, with a look of confusion and a slight frown.

This frown

Made Zhao Ruihai's brows furrow involuntarily.

Too.

Too similar!

His headache-inducing daughter, Zhao Yingjun, had liked to frown since she was a child, as if the whole world owed her something. She rarely smiled, and was either in contemplation or pondering things.

Originally, Zhao Ruihai thought that the little girl they picked up on the road was just similar to Zhao Yingjun's appearance when she was a child.

But he didn't expect it!

Now the demeanor and expression were exactly the same!

This

This was too magical!

It wasn't just Zhao Ruihai who was shocked.

At this moment, Yan Mei, who was handing the water glass to the little girl, was also stunned in place, looking at the bewildered girl in front of her in disbelief.

Before, she and Zhao Ruihai had observed the little girl's appearance statically.

Because she had been sleeping, it was like admiring a painting.

But now that the little girl woke up, her eyebrows, eyes, expressions, and corners of her mouth all became vivid, allowing the old couple to see the dynamic details.

It really gave them the feeling of returning to the past more than ten years ago and raising their daughter all over again.

The old couple looked at each other and exchanged the surprise in their eyes.

Then Zhao Ruihai cleared his throat and said in a gentle tone like coaxing a child:

"Little girl, don't be afraid. Last night, we saw you faint in the pool on the road, so we carried you into the car and brought you home to rest."

"Now that you're awake, we'll send you home to find your parents. Do you know where your home is? Do you know your parents' phone number?"

The little girl raised her head blankly, looking at Zhao Ruihai.

Their eyes met.

Except for confusion, there was only bewilderment.

Yan Mei put down the water glass and also asked:

"Little girl, what's your name? Do you know where your home is, or the general location?"

The little girl blinked her eyes.

She shifted her gaze to Yan Mei again, her eyes a little wary, and her facial expression tightened.

At this moment, Yan Mei seemed to really see Zhao Yingjun when she was a child!

Making her feel unconfident herself,

She turned her head and looked at Zhao Ruihai:

"We don't have any relatives in Donghai, right?"

"No," Zhao Ruihai also shook his head uncertainly:

"I've been wondering for a long time. None of my brothers and sisters are in Donghai, or even in the south. Your family only has you and your younger brother, and you're both in the capital."

"I know you suspect that this little girl is our relative, but we really don't have any relatives in Donghai. And we're very familiar with our relatives. If anyone's child looked so much like Yingjun, we would have known it long ago, and wouldn't have had to wait until we picked her up on the road yesterday?"

Yan Mei stood up.

She pulled Zhao Ruihai to the side and said in a low voice:

"I think this little girl seems unable to speak. Is she deaf-mute, or does she have some kind of intellectual problem?"

Zhao Ruihai pondered for a few seconds:

"Deaf-mutes just can't speak and communicate, but they can also make sounds, and even use sign language. But I see this little girl is dazed, it seems she does have some kind of intellectual problem."

"Let's do this. We definitely can't ask her name and identity from her. If she really has intellectual problems, she probably doesn't know where her home is or her parents' phone number. You play with her for a while, and I'll take a few photos and send them to the Donghai City Public Security Bureau so they can compare them in the system."

Having said that,

Yan Mei went to take care of the little girl, and also instructed the housekeeper to bring over the warmed porridge and food.

Zhao Ruihai used his mobile phone to take a few clear facial photos of the little girl, and then sent them to his old subordinates in the Donghai City Public Security Bureau, and explained his intentions.

The subordinate received the old leader's information and immediately replied:

"Leave it to me, I'll start the facial comparison system and the Skynet monitoring system. Don't worry, Donghai City's facial comparison system is connected to the national network. As long as there is any registered information about this little girl anywhere, it can be directly compared."

"Even if we can't find it, it doesn't matter, there's still the Skynet system! This little girl can't have popped out of a rock, right? As long as she has been photographed by a surveillance camera, we can definitely find the path in the Skynet system."

"We'll have the results in less than half an hour, just wait for my call."

Having said that, the old subordinate immediately went to work.

Zhao Ruihai also re-entered the bedroom, looking at the little girl eating bite by bite:

"Did she speak?"

Zhao Ruihai asked, looking at Yan Mei:

"Did you communicate?"

Yan Mei shook her head:

"No, she still doesn't say anything. But I feel that she doesn't not want to say it, it seems she doesn't know how to speak."

"And this little girl is really good! She's quiet and cute, and she can roughly understand what I say, look! She uses the spoon and chopsticks so well!"

Zhao Ruihai looked at the little girl sitting by the bed, eating quietly, truly loving everything about her, the more he looked, the more he liked her.

He had actually always liked children very much, and also liked taking care of children.

It was just that the family planning policy didn't give him the opportunity before, and now his only daughter, Zhao Yingjun, didn't give him the opportunity. Thinking about it, he sighed:

"Hey, when will we have such a beautiful granddaughter? Looking at Yingjun like this, it's completely a distant prospect. Not to mention when we can raise our granddaughter so big, whether we can see our granddaughter is a problem!"

"Most of my colleagues and friends have grandchildren now. Sometimes, even if we have a meal together, we can't get everyone together. When we ask, they say they're taking care of the children and don't have time to come. They complain, but they're all bragging."

"When will I be able to endure being chased by little kids calling me Grandpa, Grandpa..."

The little girl by the bed put down her bowl and chopsticks, attracted by Zhao Ruihai's voice.

She turned her head:

"Grandpa..."

Huh??

Zhao Ruihai and Yan Mei instantly widened their eyes.

Zhao Ruihai went directly to the side of the bed, squatted down, and looked at Yan Mei:

"She can speak!"

"Yes!" Yan Mei also smiled happily:

"She can speak! It's probably because we were talking too fast before, so she couldn't hear clearly, so she didn't know what to say. When you said Grandpa, Grandpa just now, you said it a little slower, and she understood, right?"

Yan Mei was also interested, took the little girl's hand, and taught her softly and slowly:

"Grandma, Grandma, say Grandma and see?"

The little girl looked at Yan Mei and opened her mouth a few times:

"Grandma?"

"Oh! Old Zhao, look! She really can speak!"

Yan Mei, who had been a teacher all her life, had never been so happy. This moment of accomplishment was even greater than when she was selected as a special lecturer in the Thousand Talents Program.

Perhaps

The old couple's expectations for the little girl were too low just now, thinking that she was deaf-mute and mentally handicapped.

So,

Now they found that she could actually understand words and learn to speak, to the point that the two elders had unconsciously ignored that this was already a teenage girl, wasn't it normal for her to be able to speak?

Yan Mei was very happy and asked the little girl all kinds of questions.

Although the little girl couldn't answer them for the time being, she could say more and more words, and the words she said were getting longer and longer.

Giving the feeling that there was nothing wrong with her intelligence, it was just that she had slept too deeply and her mind hadn't fully reacted yet.

The old couple played with the little girl in the living room for more than an hour.

The little girl could roughly communicate, but her memory seemed to be blank, she couldn't remember anything, and she couldn't understand complex things.

Zhao Ruihai picked up his mobile phone.

What was wrong with this old subordinate?

He said he would give the results in half an hour, but it had been an hour and he hadn't heard from him.

Weren't the parents anxious after losing their child for so long?

Why wasn't he hurrying to find her?

He directly called the old subordinate:

"Little Wang, have you found the little girl's information? Who are her parents?"

On the other end of the phone,

The old subordinate's tone was like he had seen a ghost:

"It's...it's really not that we're not looking, everyone in our information section has been comparing the facial recognition system, but none of them match!"

"The same is true on the Skynet system. In the past, such clear facial data could be entered and the whereabouts could be found instantly, but it has been searching for a long time, and the Skynet system can't find any clues either."

"Although it's a bit irresponsible to say this, we've really never encountered this kind of situation in so many years. It gives us the feeling that this little girl really popped out of a rock!"

"Nonsense!" Zhao Ruihai immediately scolded:

"Even if she popped out of a rock, she's grown so big, how can there be no information at all? Have the reporting units received any reports of parents losing this kind of child?"

"N-no, we've checked them all, there haven't been any missing children cases in Donghai City these days."

The voice on the