Pokémon: Shadow of the Dawn

Huoyan stood up suddenly and trotted straight to the restaurant door.

"Fire Goose? Fire Goose!"

"Dean Huoyan..."

"What's the emergency?"

The three people who stayed at the dining table didn't understand what was going on and shouted a few times but there was no response.

The three of them looked at each other, feeling helpless and powerless, and began to whisper again.

"Ah... Does this count as building a good relationship with the dean?"

"Anyway, I just wanted to make some impressions. If I remember you when I submit the paper, I'll be lucky."

"She shouldn't be the type to distribute credit based on closeness." Wei Li recalled the various situations she had experienced since she met Huo Yan. "According to Huo Yan's seriousness in her work, she will definitely select the people who have made the greatest contributions to add their names according to the standards."

After hearing these two sentences, the other two looked at each other and looked over with some confusion.

What puzzled them was not Willy's words, but her actions.

One of them asked, "Villi, if you really think so, why did you come here?"

The other person nodded affirmatively and puzzledly.

"What if I become the dean's assistant?" Willy turned her head and thought for a moment, "What did he say at that time..."

The other two looked puzzled.

"It's much easier than serving Professor Oak anyway." Willy stretched, "Don't you have a friend who doesn't talk much?"

...

"Is she too excited to make friends? Coming over at this hour..."

Entering the gate of the institute from the breeding garden, Symbol A looked at the slightly panting Fire Goose in front of him with a little dissatisfaction. Every time there was something delayed in the evening, it would delay its meal time.

Symbol A jumped from his shoulder to Wang Jin's ear, muttering maliciously:

"Perhaps, she has finally understood the simplest path to ascend?"

Wang Jin raised his hand and pressed Xiao A down from his shoulder, making him shut his mouth.

"What's the matter?" he asked.

"Uh-huh."

Huoyan lowered his head and hesitated for a while before suddenly raising it. His bright pair of lavender pupils looked at Wang Jin so directly for the first time.

She was stunned for a moment, her eyes wandered and she lowered her head:

"It's... Lava Team, the one from Lava Team..."

Hearing this, Wang Jin's originally calm eyes turned deep, and he immediately used his superpowers to ask Symbol A: "Little A, she seems to have remembered something."

"Don't worry." Symbol A said leisurely, "I have basically erased that part of my memory. At most, I can only remember some extremely profound fragments through reminders from the environment. It is impossible to change it back."

After listening to this, Wang Jin pondered and said, "So..."

Huoyan was very nervous and held the information tightly in his arms. He raised his head again and asked, "Was I a cadre of the Lava Team before?"

Wang Jin paused, remained silent for two breaths before nodding and saying, "That's right."

Huoyan suddenly understood a lot. Losing her memory, escaping trial, staying in the research institute... these few things connected together seemed to be related to Dr. Wang in front of her.

The two stood at the door in silence for a long time.

Until Wang Jin saw the tears dripping from Huoyan's chin and the faint sound of mosquitoes:

"Why did you save me?"

'Because you still have value.'

Wang Jin was about to blurt it out. Anyway, this was indeed his true thought and it would not have any impact on the result.

However, Symbol A immediately used his superpowers to stop him from speaking, angrily saying, "No, no! That's too cold... Just listening to it makes me feel uncomfortable!"

Little A always has brain cramps for no apparent reason, and Wang Jin has gotten used to it.

He respected Xiao A's choice, but he couldn't think of anything better to say, so he simply remained silent.

Symbol A jumped around anxiously: "No, no, no, I need to think of a perfect and nice sentence, something that is reasonable and appropriate at the same time..."

“It’s too much effort.”

Wang Jin gave a truthful evaluation, but remained silent when facing Huoyan.

"I should have been a death row prisoner..." Huoyan finally spoke again, looking at Wang Jin with red eyes, and her small face seemed to be stained, looking pitiful. However, her voice was particularly soft: "What's the point of this?"

"You don't have to be pessimistic... I don't have time to think so much." Wang Jin replied calmly: "Anyway, for me, the previous Huoyan is dead, and the one who remains here is Researcher Huoyan."

Having said that, he walked back to the institute, passing by several female researchers who had sneaked behind the door to peek.

Huoyan wiped away her tears hastily, and watched Wang Jin leave, feeling a little regretful. But her legs seemed to be restrained by something, and she couldn't try her best to catch up with the man.

When she walked through the door, several female researchers immediately surrounded her.

Weili stretched out her hands, held up Huoyan's blank little face and looked at it, feeling a little emotional: "You are too timid, Dean Huoyan. Why can't you try harder and be more hysterical? It's better to shout out your needs..."

"Uh?"

Huoyan was startled and quickly broke free from her hand, dodged to the other side and ran away.

The other three quickly followed.

...

three days later.

Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Main Laboratory.

Huoyan has finished writing the article about the transmission device. He is sitting in front of the computer checking it back and forth, with a smile involuntarily appearing on the corners of his mouth.

"Is it my illusion? Dean Huoyan seems to have changed a little?" a researcher wondered doubtfully.

"It seems so." Another one was not sure.

"Of course it has changed..."

Willy stood aside, with one hand on her waist and sighed softly.

Ever since watching the execution of the leader of the Magma Team, Huoyan seemed less resistant to communicating with people, as if he had unloaded some burden.

However, the scene that she secretly saw that day is still unclear. Wei Li thought that Dean Huoyan had a broken heart, but later she found that it didn't seem to be the case.

"Ugh......"

While Willy was thinking, she saw Huoyan stand up and leave the laboratory with the information in his arms.

She also hurriedly followed along with some relevant documents.

After the two of them left, several researchers began to discuss in low voices:

"Willie has become Dean Huoyan's personal assistant, right?"

"What else? Willy is determined to get this position..."

"Why bother with this? Being included in the list of signatures is more important."

"Think about your contribution to the teleportation project first."

"alright."

The laboratory soon calmed down again. Some researchers began to slack off for a rare occasion and started to wonder whether they could be honored to be listed as a signatory, even if it was just a small role at the end.

But more people still calm down and focus on the research at hand.