Extraordinary North America: Where are the magical partners?

Chapter 178 Returning without Regrets

After arriving at this time and space, Rango planned to stay here for three days. After three days, regardless of whether he got the answer he wanted or not, he would leave directly.

But just after hearing about the so-called [IQ-reducing Halo] from Pete, he didn't want to stay there any longer and just wanted to escape from this damn place immediately.

It was late at night, but the garage was still brightly lit. The sound of parts colliding could be heard from the crack in the door, mixed with Dr. Brown's chanting-like whispers.

Rango leaned against the door frame, frowning, watching the doctor holding the blueprint in his hand, busying himself on McQueen, muttering to himself, completely immersed in his own scientific research world.

Dozens of hours have passed. Since renting this house, the doctor has hardly moved out, concentrating on the valuable data of this time-space travel. The outside world seems to have nothing to do with him.

"PhD."

Rango couldn't bear to watch it any longer and couldn't help but ask, "Can you at least give me an accurate time? When can we go back?"

Dr. Brown didn't even raise his head, his pen flying on the blueprint: "Don't worry, Rango, we won't stay here for too long, at most a month. Once I have sorted out all the experience data I have gained this time, we can take a car back to a few decades later."

"One month?!"

Rango immediately lost his composure after hearing that. They lived about ten meters across the street from the Pitt family, and the aura of reduced intelligence in front of Megan and Chris was no joke.

If you stay here for a month, won't you become a mentally retarded beast like the Four Horsemen when you return?

With this thought in mind, Rango no longer cared about the doctor's face and said bluntly: "I respect you, doctor, but I must tell you that we can't stay here any longer."

Then, he told the old man the news he had learned at Pete's house not long ago, after deleting most of it.

Out of concern for Louise, he avoided the sensitive topic of the descendants of the ancient gods, and instead emphasized that under the influence of the power of the ancient gods, Chris and Megan possessed a strange "halo of reduced intelligence" that covered a very wide range. Anyone who had contact with them for a long time might gradually lose their sanity and fall into a state of near dementia.

This trick is quite effective for a research fanatic like the doctor. At first, he thought Rango was joking, but when he saw Rango's serious face, the smile on his face froze instantly, and a hint of nervousness flashed in his eyes.

"Isn't everything you said true?!"

"I can't even make up such a ridiculous thing." Rango shook his head helplessly and said seriously, "So for the sake of your wise brain, let's leave as soon as possible."

"Shet."

Dr. Brown cursed under his breath and then quickened his pace. "Give me one day, just one day, and I promise to sort out all the data."

Seeing that Rango was still a little hesitant, the doctor hurriedly added: "With the experience of this time travel, as long as the hardware conditions can keep up, I can even mass-produce time shuttles when I return! And he..."

The doctor gently patted McQueen, who was sleeping soundly while hanging in the air, and said, "Think about it, Rango. McQueen will not be a simple sports car in the future. In my conception, he will be a device that can travel through time and space at will. As long as you sit on it, you can go to any era you want!"

"."

If Rango had heard this news before he got Yumi, he would have been ecstatic. But now, even though the timeline is different, we are still in the same world. It is far from being as buggy as the magic book under Yumi's feet that can freely travel to other worlds.

He sighed softly, and finally nodded in agreement to the doctor's request, deciding to stay for another day.

It was late at night, and except for the screams of multiple women coming from the Quigmar family, the entire community was immersed in tranquility.

Rango yawned and was about to go upstairs to rest. In the corridor, Yumi, who had been floating beside him, suddenly asked, "Master, have you ever thought that the reason why Teddy is so perverted and vulgar is that he has been in contact with Megan since he was a child and has been affected by the 'intelligence-reducing aura'?"

"Well, it's probably his nature."

"how about you?"

"Me? I was simply led astray by Teddy."

"."

Silent all night.

In the following time, because of the [IQ Halo], Rango deliberately kept his distance from Megan.

Although he was certain that this girl was the sister who would take care of him in the future instead of his parents, the misalignment of his memory made it difficult for him to overlap the girl in front of him with the image in his memory, so he simply pretended not to know her, and even if he met her, it was only for communication.

The same was true for Megan. When she went to school, she stood in front of Rango's house for a long time, but then she seemed to think of the embarrassing scene when she asked for a kiss but was rejected, and she ran away crying.

In contrast, the rest of the Quagmires were very enthusiastic. At their invitation, Rango experienced a series of colorful activities:
The few of them first went outside the town to watch a football game, then held a barbecue party in the backyard of Old Joe's house, and in the evening went to the suburbs to watch a freak show. Finally, the Four Horsemen had their unshakable entertainment and went to the Round Clam Bar to get drunk.

However, after spending a day together, Rango's doubts about them deepened.

He really didn't understand whether these people were pretending to be crazy or were really crazy. Many times they were very serious in the last second, but in the next second, they would suddenly go crazy and do incomprehensible things.

Rango saw with his own eyes that Quigma used his sense of smell to find the newly opened erotic massage parlor in town, and while watching a freak show, he secretly went backstage and stole an Indian dwarf girl who was only a few dozen centimeters tall.

This guy Pete also showed me a few talking Mexican rats he kept in the basement. The fat man even threatened the female rats with rent to sleep with him.
The only normal ones were Old Joe and Cleveland, but throughout the day, Rango also witnessed many shocking behaviors from them.

Old Joe is like a manic-depressive patient. Whenever he encounters danger, he is always the first to rush forward, attempting to sacrifice heroically. However, due to his powerful fighting ability, he cannot die even if he wants to.

As for Cleveland, well, this black guy is almost always the one who suffers the defeat. He is plagued by bad luck and is the unlucky one whenever something bad happens to him.

What puzzled Rango the most was that, except for Pete, the other three seemed to have also noticed the so-called "halo of intelligence reduction", but they did not regard it as a scourge like Rango did. Instead, they accepted the changes it brought with an attitude of almost enjoyment, and even enjoyed it.
In this regard, Rango could only secretly sigh that these four people would be able to become the leaders of the supernatural defense organization in the future. They indeed had extraordinary adaptability and endurance.

Time flies, and soon a day has passed.

During this day, Rango fought side by side with the Four Knights and experienced many unprecedented novel experiences together. Finally, after declining the invitation of Quigmar to the chant party, Rango returned to the garage.

Here, the doctor has completely remodeled McQueen, and the radio-like instrument in the car has also recorded the frequency coordinates of this space-time. As long as he wants, he can come back anytime in the future.

Looking at the big guy who was ready to go, Rango couldn't help rubbing his face hard. After spending a day with the Four Horsemen, he now felt that he seemed to have become a little more beastly than before.

"Let's go, man."

Teddy sat on the center console as usual, urging him on. Rango nodded gently, and the doctor and the two little guys had already gotten into the car, ready to set off. He walked to the driver's seat and was about to open the door when McQueen suddenly shook the rear of the car and said embarrassedly, "Boss, before you get in the car, can you help me scratch it? My chassis feels like it has herpes, it's uncomfortable."

Rango rolled his eyes speechlessly. He had never heard of a machine getting herpes.

He picked up a crowbar nearby, squatted down, and tapped the chassis of the McQueen like a pet. However, as soon as he started, he noticed something was wrong.
He lowered his head and looked down, and was immediately shocked: "Meghan?! What are you doing here?"

Megan was seen holding onto the metal support pillars under the McQueen chassis with her hands and feet, her eyes full of fear and determination.

"I want to leave with you."

She pouted, her eyes determined, "I don't want to stay in this place anymore. I want to go see the outside world with you guys."

"Do you know where we are going?" Rango asked with a frown.

Megan shook her head. "I saw Teddy buying some wine at the supermarket, and I heard him say that you guys were leaving tonight. I don't know where you were going, but as long as you left Clam Town, it would be fine."

Looking at the picture in front of him, although it was so ugly, Rango felt a complex emotion in his heart. He sighed softly and said gently but firmly: "Sorry Megan, we can't take you with us."

".oh."

Megan was silent for a moment, then slowly released her grip on the metal bar and crawled out from under the McQueen chassis.

As if she had long been accustomed to the feeling of being rejected, her face did not show too much disappointment. She just gently brushed off the dust on her body and said to herself: "Actually, I'm just giving it a try. I know you won't agree to me. Just like everyone else in this town, everyone only despises and hates me when they see me, even my parents. No one likes me."

After Megan finished her murmur, she sincerely apologized to Rango and the others, then turned around and was about to leave.

Rango looked at her lonely back, with an indescribable emotion in his heart. After a moment of silence, he slowly said, "Meghan, do you remember what we said last night?"

She turned around, a hint of confusion in her eyes: "What?"

Rango approached, squatted down, and gently placed his hands on her shoulders. There was no disdain or disgust in his eyes, only full of sincerity: "Don't care about what others think. In the future, there will be someone who will never disdain you and will always love you."

"My husband?"

"No, it's your brother."

"."

Rango smiled helplessly. Girls of this age seemed to be thinking only about love matters.

He patted Megan's little red hat and said mysteriously, "I'll tell you in secret that I am indeed from the future. In your future you will have a very handsome and reliable husband and a super cute daughter."

He wasn't just trying to coax her. Emma's delicate and beautiful looks clearly showed that she inherited her father's genes.

Megan's eyes lit up instantly when she heard this. She did not question Rango's words, but asked expectantly, "What is his job?"

"Looks like a building contractor."

"Has he ever cheated on me since we got married?"

"Uh I guess not."

"Does he love our children?"

"Of course, he's even willing to die for your daughter."

"That's great." Megan's face was filled with a happy smile, and the previous haze was swept away. She continued to ask Rango about the future with great anticipation.

Finally, she looked at Rango curiously and asked puzzledly: "Even if you are from the future, how can you know me so well?"

She suddenly took a few steps back and shouted in surprise: "Could it be... that my future husband is you?!"

"."

Rango shook his head unhappily. He had hinted at her so many times, but this girl still acted like a fool.

He patted Megan's shoulder gently and asked, "What do you think, who am I?"

After saying that, before Megan could react, he turned and walked towards McQueen. The car door slammed shut and the windows were locked. McQueen was ready to go.

Dr. Brown looked gently at Megan, who was bewildered beside the car, and turned to Rango and whispered, "You really have no regrets leaving like this?"

Rango didn't answer, his mind quickly flashing through the bits and pieces of the past two days in Clam Town: the innocent time with Megan, the warm and weird conversations with his parents late at night, and the crazy and unforgettable day with the Four Horsemen.

Especially at the end, Megan's figure under the car, determined to follow him, all of this made him feel mixed emotions.

The corner of his mouth curled up into a faint smile, and he shook his head gently: "It doesn't matter, in order not to leave any regrets, I decided to leave here with regrets."

"OK, let's go." Dr. Brown's finger lightly touched the start button and asked everyone, "Ready?"

Rango looked at Megan who was staring at him from a distance, raised his fist to her, made a cheering gesture, and nodded firmly: "Ready!"

In an instant, McQueen's body seemed to be wrapped by an invisible force, with arc-shaped lightning jumping on its surface. Then, it rushed out of the garage like an arrow, so fast that only a blurry shadow and two hot tire marks on the road were left in front of Megan's eyes, and then it disappeared without a trace.

Megan stood there with a dull look in her eyes until a woman's sharp cry came from the Quigmar house next door, which brought her back to reality from her trance.

Recalling Rango's words, a rare smile gradually emerged on the corners of her mouth, and her heart was filled with unprecedented joy and anticipation.

She skipped towards home, already knowing the answer in her mind.

Rango is her future child!
(End of this chapter)