Make man

It turns out that dolphins really rescue those who are about to drown. "Chen Ou thought, "But the previous blow was really not serious.In the future, I have to remember that dolphins are a kind of whale after all, and there is still a fierceness in their bones. "

Then he glanced at the reflection on the water, his face changed drastically.

"Get out of the way." The professor on the shore pointed a gun at the child, but Chen Ou was very close to the child, and it was too difficult not to accidentally injure him.

"Professor, don't! He's just playing with me!"

"He attacked you and nearly drowned you. I will not continue such dangerous research. Get out of the way."

"He's just a 5-year-old child!" Chen Ou said quickly, opening his arms to protect the child.After he took off the hood, the child stopped coming forward, and his eyes were very blank.Chen Ou paid attention to him through the corner of his eyes, and was on guard against him giving himself the same slap from behind.

"It's just a tranquilizer gun that'll just put him to sleep—"

"I know the dose of that bullet is enough to bring down an adult dolphin. No!"

"He's a human dolphin! You can't teach him how to be human again! What he did just now was murder! I don't want to see a child who was raised by one hand drowned in the water by a dolphin—"

"He just wants to—play with me! Dolphins are naturally sensitive to singing, and he thought I was singing just now to amuse him! He just—is just too lonely after leaving the group!"

Chen Ou and the professor, one in the water and the other on the shore, were stunned, realizing what he had just said.

"Really? I was raised by dolphins, so I have some of the physical characteristics of dolphins? It may be possible, after all, no one knows what major changes will occur after the genes are strongly stimulated by the outside world. Being brought up by dolphins must be regarded as strong external stimuli One, plus the pressure of survival strengthened this change..." the professor murmured.

Chen Ou said: "He is a very meaningful experiment now, leave it to me to deal with."

The professor lowered his gun and looked at the child with deep disgust: "I am old, and I don't want to see my child's body floating in my swimming pool one day. If this happens again, I will fill the gun Load real bullets."

Chen Ou watched the professor leave slowly and began to meditate.

"Like songs? When I think about it, I don't know much."

That night, the air-film swimming pool was still pitch black.There is a funny children's paradise where dolphins sit on a wooden platform, search their brains, and sing songs all night facing the faint starry sky outside the air membrane.

"I didn't sleep last night." The next day, the professor brought breakfast to Chen Ou and complained, "There are dozens of David Bowie CDs in the living room, but you want to sing Justin Bieber."

☆, memory

The professor brought not only sandwiches and coffee, but also ointments for heat rash.This is definitely a timely help.The night before, Chen Ou didn't take off his leather jacket and headgear in order to achieve better results. At this time, red rashes broke out on his chest, back, and neck, which were itchy and painful.

"I will never wear this outfit again." The naked Chen Ou applied a thick layer of ointment on the dense prickly heat and said firmly, "Any research is not worth such a big price."

The effect of not sleeping all night appeared, his mind was a little stiff, and his eyes kept weeping.Not to mention his own bedroom upstairs, even the simple old mattress at the door, it was a paradise for him at this moment.

But he still has work to do.Chen Ou yawned and poured a gallon of milk into the wide mouth basin on the platform.

From the next day, Chen Ou ordered fresh whole milk from the local ranch, one gallon per day, and specifically requested that it should not be the so-called "whole milk" that is supplied to the supermarket, and it must be the milk that has not skimmed the cream Layer of milk with yellow fat.Dolphins living underwater have a thick layer of fat around their bodies to maintain body temperature and provide buoyancy.Compared with land mammals, dolphin milk has a large amount of fat content.Although it is not certain whether the child survived by drinking dolphin milk, Chen Ou still decided to replicate the child's familiar living environment as much as possible.More importantly, whole milk is rich in nutrition, at least it will not make children stunted.

Boiled whole milk has a rich, natural aroma that is mouth-watering.Chen Ou leaned over the mouth of the basin and smelled it, then lowered his head to lick a few mouthfuls.This is the homework he must do every day to demonstrate eating to his children, and also to let them accept him psychologically and regard him as the same kind.The professor made an "evil" sound from his throat, as if he was about to gag.

"The taste is really good, I suggest you try it tomorrow morning." Chen Ou straightened his waist and smiled, and immediately added after seeing the professor's face: "No! I mean, at breakfast, at our table! "

"I'm so glad that you still remember the crystallization of civilization and etiquette like the dining table." The professor said blankly: "Now I want to remind you of another product of human civilization-money. You haven't shown up at the institute for a week. —Let me remind you, you are still on probationary period—the project you participated in has been delayed due to your recent absence. Also,” he looked at the pool meaningfully, “I guess you have already spent all your savings Used to build this pool? You need regular work at the institute to pay off the loan."

Chen Ou felt guilty for a while.Although the actual controller of the institute is the professor himself, neither he nor the professor had ever thought of using this advantage to give him the green light to work in the institute.His doctoral dissertation is directly related to the project he participated in, so his role in the research group is far from that of an ordinary research assistant responsible for data collection and data processing.I am really sorry that I have affected the work progress of my colleagues because my interest has shifted to the side.

As for the money...he just started working.From the age of 15 to 21, it took him 6 years to obtain a doctorate, which was very difficult even for him with superior intelligence.He spends almost all his spare time in the laboratory and library, and has no experience of working to earn money from his peers.

Since he entered school, the professor gave him a sum of money every Christmas, claiming that it was a "special fund for reserve talents in genetic science research".Chen Ou eats and lives with the professor, and gets the first-class scholarship from the school all the year round. The money given by the professor has almost nowhere to go, and the total accumulated year after year is quite considerable.If it hadn't been for the incident of meeting the child, he originally planned to use the money to travel around the world with the professor to make up for the regret of only studying hard while studying.

Chen Ou frowned.If the professor is not the actual controller of the research institute, he can also apply to the research institute to set up a project on training children to enter human society and apply for a research grant.But the professor has clearly expressed his disdain for this research idea, and it will be difficult for him to persist.

"I repeat," said the professor, "from the point of view of genetic research, this child is of no value. Your work is indeed difficult. Maybe no one has ever succeeded, but in essence, it is just a problem of helping waifs. An orphanage might do a better job than you."

The professor left after throwing a bored glance at the child, expressing his displeasure at the reckless waste of time and research talents of his stubborn adopted son.

Now Chen Ou has to solve two problems: first, spare time and energy to continue educating children; second, find enough money to support one.The second is more urgent, because he realized that he only ordered sea water and milk for one month, and he will soon have to renew; the loan has been used up, and he does not know where the money he used to repay is.

The child was still swimming slowly in the pool, staring at him at the same time.Under the gaze of these washed eyes, Chen Ou felt that it was a sin to give up this child.

Don't worry, Chen Ou said in his heart, I have always had a way.

He lay on the waste mattress and prepared to plan, and fell asleep in less than a minute.

The child floated on the water, quietly watching Chen Ou who was sleeping soundly.

Chen Ou was awakened by the slight sound of splashing water.He sat up, stretched, and felt his body rejuvenate.Then he subconsciously glanced at the wide-mouthed food bowl on the platform.

It was clean inside, not a drop of milk left.

His first reaction was that the child had spilled the milk again.But the food bowl was well placed in place, and there were a few drops of milk on the ground next to it, which were obviously dripped rather than spilled.

A full gallon of milk.

Before that, the child only licked two mouthfuls every day when he was hungry.The height that the liquid level of milk drops in the food bowl is always very limited.

Has the kid finally let his guard down?Chen Ou thought.The breeze blows in from the door, and the air film trembles like waves.Goosebumps appeared on Chen Ou's skin.After applying the heat rash medicine in the morning, he remained naked.

Chen Ou turned off the lights in the house and opened the dome roof.Now they are exposed to the quiet starry sky.Alpha Scorpius hangs down in the southern sky, glowing red alone.The constant temperature and humidity air system installed by the pool is still in operation, but the cool night breeze mixed with the aroma of rhododendrons and apple trees rushes down like a waterfall, driving away the artificial fresh wind domineeringly.The smell of ozone was too weak to be smelled, like the occasional sob of a wronged orphan.

He climbed slowly from the edge of the pool into the water.

The sound of splashing water stopped.

He didn't look in the direction of the sound, and swam relaxedly, freely, freely and unrestrained.He was naked, like a fish, like a dolphin, like a baby, with no shame.The pool is small and the artificial wave system hums.He spread his ten fingers, feeling the waves of water hitting the wall of the pool, and then turned his head to wash every inch of his skin.He buried his head in the water, dived, spit out a few bubbles slowly, then straightened his body, stepped on the water lightly with his legs, and raised his head out of the water.What an obvious mistake I made.Chen Ou thought, trapping a creature in such a small pond is like raising pigs and sheep, and it feels like the sea has been copied for it.

Then his fingertips touched something.

It is a child's small hand, very small and soft.Like the down of the grass in February, and the buds of the apple tree in May.One touch away.The child hides in the shadow of the swimming pool, curled up, his tiny feet stepping on the water.The running indicator light of the air system emits a faint blue light, reflecting the child's small face. The expression of gnashing teeth in the past is gone, and there is only concentration and a touch of curiosity.Human expressions.

This child has the same black eyes as Chen Ou's, but the eye sockets are too deep for a yellow race, and his skin is too fair.Obviously, the kid is of mixed race.

Then, Chen Ou realized that for the first time, he looked at children from the perspective of "human".

The child and Chen Ou looked at each other, a pool of rippling water and a sky full of stars reflected in the black pupils.Chen Ou's fingers were still stretched, and the child slowly swam out from the shadow of the swimming pool.He hesitated, looked at Chen Ou, uncertainly opened his small hand, which was not a quarter of the size of Chen Ou's palm, and lightly touched Chen Ou's finger with his fingertips.

Chen Ou looked up at the sky, feeling the soft touch of his fingertips.Suddenly he grasped the meaning of genetic science. In 1997, Dolly the sheep was born. In 1999, scientists discovered that about 300 genes can make up the simplest life.Man became God.This soft touch, or in other words, the joy of gaining companions, this genetic code deeply hidden in human genes, motivates them to pass on their DNA.Natural reproduction, artificial cloning, human beings do whatever it takes to obtain companions for themselves and their offspring, so as not to be alone.This is the truth revealed by Michelangelo in "The Creation of Adam" hundreds of years ago, and it is also the common sense practiced by human beings from generation to generation.

In the middle of the night, the stars shift and change, and the sky is full of stars.Alpha Scorpius is no longer the most prominent star in the southern sky.Its red light merged into the vast sea of ​​stars, and then slowly turned and grinded on the sky.Chen Ou gently held the child's fingertips, Ming Wu was greatly moved by this moment, and he would spend his whole life exploring the mysteries of life. The melody of "Celestial Music Waltz" slowly emerged from his mind, hovered, and rose, taking his soul to fly high into the sky, to the depths of the distant sea of ​​stars.

☆、Chapter 11

(Memories)

Nice toddler bedroom is a blue swimming pool.

Water is to him what land is to other humans.He often swam about in the pool carelessly, like a bird hopping from one branch to another at will.Sometimes he plunged into the bottom of the pool, curled up, looked up at the shimmering sky above him, and felt that this was the safest corner of the world.

Once, after staying at the bottom of the pool for a long time, he was lifted out of the water and spanked several times.

"You are not allowed to stay at the bottom of the pool for such a long time in the future, you know?"

Although he couldn't understand the man's words, he realized that the other party cared about him sincerely.He hugged the man's arm and buried his head in the man's neck.

This is another safe corner of the world.

However, Nice is often puzzled, and always feels that he should belong to another world, with the blue sky and the blue sea, and dozens of dolphins jumping up and down around him.There is no one in that world, and there is no need to speak, and the sound of waves and wind is filled between heaven and earth.

But that world is without the company of men.

The men didn't come to the pool during the day, and Nice never went ashore when the others came, and watched them leave their lunch by the pool and go away.At dusk, the man can always come back and finish dinner quietly with him in the sunset and sunset.The translucent air-membrane roof is gradually retracted, just like a seagull closing its soft wings, revealing its white belly.

The supper was brought to the swimming pool by another person. The white one was fish, the milky one was milk, the brown one was toast, the green one was vegetables, and the red one was fruit.He couldn't learn how to use a knife and fork, so the man held him in his arms, held his small hand with his big hand, and patiently taught him to cut food and put it in his mouth.

Cool water and warm hugs.Nice can't say where he feels more at ease, but they constitute his childhood world.

One night Nice was swimming in the water.A man sits by the pool and talks to himself.

"It took me almost a year to teach you to come out to eat. How do I convince you to get out of the pool and put on your clothes? You still have to get vaccinated, go to the streets, go to kindergarten, read... how can I introduce you to the world, and at the same time Doesn't scare you?"

Nice lifted a handful of water towards the man, and a yellow plastic duckling was pushed to the shore.

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Officer Jones began questioning the two women and the man on the video.At first, they were very uncooperative, but Officer Jones warned them that if they didn't cooperate well, they would spread the news to nightclubs and bars all over the city, saying that they were related to the murder.In this line of work, they are most afraid of offending officials, so they are all honest.

"I think that old man is a pervert." Mary said, picking her bright red nails. "He ordered me and Lily. I thought he was going to play double'fly, but he pushed Lily to the boy. The boy obviously It was the first time, and her face was flushed. Lily was so happy, she likes to tease little virgins, she touches boys..."

"Omit details." Officer Jones said deadpan, "Get to the point."

"The point is that that night, the old man didn't touch us at all, and the little virgin gave us a good time."

"I always thought that virgins don't last long. I was wrong." Lily said wearily. "I came back that day, and I was more tired than picking up four big guys at the same time. Every inch of my bone was crushed. If I knew it, I should have asked for more." some money."

"I see you're enjoying it," Officer Jones couldn't help saying.

"Yes, I was exhausted that night, but it was really enjoyable. The old man took out a lot of equipment and arranged things around the bed. At first I thought he was going to shoot a video, you know, a lot of rich people like this tune ...But then I thought no, I know what those scumbags look like when they shoot this kind of video, the old man is not... And he didn't look at our sisters at all, his eyes were fixed on the little boy."

"I saw the old man shoot us, but who cares? I suspect the child is on drugs, you know, nightclub drinks, there are always spices. I've never seen ordinary people so fierce, he made me look like I want to go to heaven." Charles giggled, "The old man probably has a little bit of fun with the little boy, he doesn't drink, doesn't play with him, and keeps staring at the boy...just like I stare at a large sum of money."

Two prostitutes and a cowherd proved that Wagendi videotaped the whole process that night, and even attached wireless detection chips to monitor physical signs on their bodies.They thought it was a new way of playing, and they didn't resist.But what is the point of Wagundi doing this?There's no way he'd spend a lot of money just to get Ness through his bar mitzvah.Sergeant Jones mused.

Then she straightened up suddenly.

Police did not find that video in Wagundi's belongings.There could only be two people who took away the video files, the murderer, or Chen Ou who arrived at the murder scene first.

Or are they actually the same person?

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Chen Ou spread out his palm, holding a memory card.He said calmly: "This is the complete record of that night between Wagundi and you. I wanted to destroy it, but then I thought it should be left to you to deal with."

The drastic change in Nice's face made Chen Ou want to hug him for a moment.He couldn't see the child he raised with one hand suffering in front of him.But he held back, Nice needs to pay the price for growth.He thought with a wry smile, and he would be punished for his blindness and indifference all the time.

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It was not on that ridiculous night that Nice kissed the opposite sex for the first time.He has a first love girlfriend, a secret that only he knows.

It was a very quiet Eastern European girl with deep black eyes. She often sat in front of Nice in class, and sometimes he could smell the milk and orange blossom fragrance from her body.Milk is from lunch, while orange blossom is the scent of body wash.

The school offers swimming lessons.Because the boys move a lot and often fight, the teacher always divides boys and girls into two classes, with boys in one pool and girls in another pool.There is a wide walkway between the two swimming pools, with a few white lounge chairs.

The white deck chairs are often occupied by little girls in bikinis, laughing, whistling unscrupulously at the boys in boxers in the pool, and posing in various poses that they think are seductive.No grown-up would go and spoil the scenery and tell them it shouldn't be.In the eyes of the teachers, the foolishness of adolescence almost accompanies puberty and cannot be separated, just like disturbing catkins in a bright April day.

Cora never hangs out with girls in bikinis.Yes, by this time Ness knew her name was Cora, though he couldn't name anyone else in the class.He didn't know how he knew it, just like spring came, the starry sky lit up, and the sea tide rose, so he knew her name was Ke Na.

Cora is not good at swimming.Once Nice walked to the bank and stared at her in the pool.As a result, she choked on her saliva, sank into the water, and soon came up in a panic, swaying her body like a frightened little fish, and swam away.

Nice liked Kona. At that time, he hadn't had the first wet dream in his life. He was still rolling in Chen Ou's bedroom at night, and he reluctantly crawled to take a bath after being yelled at by Chen Ou repeatedly.He didn't know it was called liking.He just wanted to talk to Cora, and the urge grew stronger every day.

One day after school, he followed Kera silently.Cora blushed, but she said nothing, panting in fits and starts.If they were in the water at this time, then Cora must be choking again.

They walked until they could see Ke Na's father's car, and Ke Na turned her head.So Nice knew that he should stop.He looked at the leaving car reluctantly until Chen Ou found him and asked him strangely why he didn't wait for him to pick him up at the appointed place.

The next day, Cora started talking to Nice.

"Your name is strange, from the Loch Ness monster? But you swim really well." She said with a slight smile.

Nice thinks that "Kona" is the most touching name in the world, and he doesn't mind being ridiculed for his name, so he smiles with her and tells her about his dreams.The sea, the dolphins, and myself riding a dolphin.

Their first kiss happened by the swimming pool. At that time, they didn't intend to kiss, but just wanted to smell each other's breath, thinking that they could get closer to each other in this way.

Their lips touched, and their eyes widened at the same time, thinking of what was about to happen in the virtual TV series.Cora escapes, while Ness nearly drowns in the pool in a trance.

A month later, Cora invited him to her home for her birthday party.Nice told Chen Ou that Chen Ou was very happy, prepared decent guest clothes for him, and drove him to Kona's house in person.

Only Ness and Cora's two neighbor friends attended the banquet.Cora's house is very big, with glittering decorations everywhere, crystal chandeliers, porcelain vases, and silver plates, which dazzled Nice.Chen Ou never puts extra decorations at home, for fear of affecting the activities in Nice.

"Nice, I heard from Cora that you often told her stories about the sea and dolphins?" Cora's mother was a kind and beautiful woman, wearing a green silk dress and a sparkling diamond necklace.

Nice didn't think that Cora would tell his parents what he said.He thought it was his secret.Just because he told Cora, didn't mean he was willing to share it with Cora's parents.Chen Ou would never tell the professor or Martin what he said.He pursed his lips and did not speak.

Cora gave him a reproachful look, and said for him, "Nice grew up by the sea."

"We all grew up by the sea. This is a seaside city." A young guest said first.The guests all laughed, thinking it was a clever statement.

"No, I grew up in the sea." Niss said, he had to speak for himself in order to maintain his unique position in Kona's heart.

Cora's parents shook their heads and stopped smiling, although they still kept a kind look on their faces.Nice thought, they don't believe me.

That night, after Chen Ou took Nice home, he had a long talk with the professor in the living room.Chen Ou said: "They told me unceremoniously that Nice is bragging and lying. We have to tell Nice about his background."

"Then they will think Ness is a wild boy and despise him even more." The professor said disdainfully, "That couple is very stupid. They are distant relatives of Mrs. Wagundy, that is to say, they have something to do with the Lewis Group. Forget it, People like this are full of ego and can only believe what they see under their noses. There's no need to do anything about them."

Both Chen Ou and the professor thought that Kona was just an ordinary kid in Nice.Nice stood in the shadow cast by the door and thought for a long time.

The next day, when Ke Na found Nice, her face was flushed with anger.

"Why were you rude to my parents yesterday?" she said loudly. "Do you know how many nice things you said to my parents in order to invite you to my birthday party? A family like mine invited you and your father! "She raised her face proudly.

Nice's affection for her vanishes faster than ice in the hot sun.He didn't say anything, just turned around and left.

Cora stopped him.A little girl at this age still doesn't know what words should never be said, when she shouldn't make sex act like a baby.If Cora apologized at this time, then Nice would also apologize for her rudeness.The relationship between the two will become more harmonious because of this turmoil.As for Ke Na's parents, Chen Ou has to try to deal with it.

Too bad Cora was spoiled by Nice's constant attention.Unbeknownst to Nice, he had been the subject of whispers and the center of attention of the girls at school long before, perhaps since puberty.He has a young and handsome father, he is excellent in his studies, he is always a champion in swimming competitions, and he has a handsome face of a mixed race, which makes his silent misfits greatly forgiven, and adds a kind of mystery to it charm.

The girls all want to get Nice's attention, but unfortunately he only has Ke Na in his eyes.While Ke Na felt happy, her female complacency grew rapidly.

"Apologize!" Cora said loudly, like a proud princess, "otherwise I will never forgive you!"

Nice stopped, he couldn't push Ke Na who stood in front of him, Chen Ou gave him the education that "never touch a woman".

He heard the surrounding students whispering, the girls giggling, and the boys snorting jealously.

"If you apologize to me for what you just said first, I will go to your parents and apologize for yesterday's rudeness." He said clearly.

The onlookers laughed loudly.Ke Na's face turned even redder, this time out of embarrassment.

"You actually..." At this time, she saw Nice's indifferent eyes, so she was enlightened, knowing that the emotional tacit understanding between the two has been unilaterally terminated by Nice.They broke.

"You are just a wild child picked up from the sea!" After a long time, she choked out a sentence, and ran away crying.

That night, Chen Ou had to explain his origin to Nice.

"You are not a wild child, you are the greatest miracle I have discovered in this life." Chen Ou stared at his eyes seriously and emphasized.

Nice felt his heart being torn in two, one big and one small.The smaller piece gradually shattered, and each shattering caused him a heartache.As the small piece turned to dust, he felt a part of himself disappear, no longer whole.The strange thing is that the big one keeps growing, even though it still can't make up the original part seamlessly, but its growth crosses the old boundary, making him feel fuller, fuller and more powerful.

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(back to reality)

Unrestrained sex makes one empty, unconditional love makes one grow.Only by touching the two separately can we clearly distinguish the difference.Nice could have followed the path drawn by Chen Ou, cautiously passed through the dangerous period of adolescence, learned everything that adolescence should know through various channels, and at the same time did not have to pay too much tuition, just like a fish that eats bait wisely and dies. Not caught.

Not like now.

Nice took a few breaths before finally making a sound: "I'm sorry."

Chen Ou shook his head, and tightly held Nice's shoulders with both hands, not only to convey the message of forgiveness, but also to inspire courage for himself to say the next words.

"It doesn't matter, no matter how big a mistake I make, I will love you. But..." He hesitated for a while, and finally said it cruelly.

"You can't stay at home anymore."

Niss raised his head suddenly, and Chen Ou wanted to take back his words immediately with a look of panic.He almost gritted his teeth and continued word by word.

"Your intelligence and physical ability are far beyond those of children of your age, and secondary education is a waste of time for you. In fact, your academic performance and performance have met the requirements for entry to university two years ago, but at the time we felt that your Interpersonal skills are still lacking, and no good university will accept a 14-year-old boy who is in adolescence and is extremely unstable. Now that you are 16 years old, several foreign universities have written letters and are willing to accept you as a student.”

This is true, but not all.If Wagendi's incident hadn't happened, Chen Ou would try his best to get Nice into his alma mater, a local university where the professor worked, and engage in genetic science research.Nice's intellectual level is sufficient for research work in this field, and his unique personal experience will provide relevant evidence for his research.For researchers, this is unparalleled intellectual wealth, and even Chen Ou dare not say that he will not be jealous of Nice.But now, none of the foreign universities that are willing to accept Nice has made any achievements in genetic research.Chen Ou will not let his adopted son waste his talent and time under the guidance of a second-rate tutor.

He asked for the qualification to choose his life independently, so he had to bear the price of independent growth, leaving home, leaving everything he was familiar with, and leaving Chen Ou's protection.

Nice's lips trembled, he couldn't say anything, and then lowered his head again.Chen Ou tried his best to sound like a kind father: "How about Oluke University? It is a seaside city with a pleasant climate. The school has a long coastline and you can swim every day. Sandberg College is also good, surrounded by forests. Although there is no sea, But the school has the best swimming venue in the country, the swimming club is second to none, and has won many championships in the National College Swimming Competition..."

He couldn't go on, sighed silently, and patted Nice's head.

In the past, he worked in the study, and Martin didn't allow Nice to disturb him, so Nice sat quietly at the door of the study and waited for him.But as soon as he was working, he would forget the time, and every time he stepped out of the study, he would see Nice sleeping soundly on the carpet.At this time, he always stroked Nice's little black-haired head and carried him back to the room.The short hair on the bottom of the hand was thick and tied, and it was still the same as before, but Nice was no longer the silent little tail.

The silence in the room was suffocating.Just when Chen Ou felt the need to say something more, Niss spoke and said, "I'm leaving."

His voice was strangely calm.Chen Ou turned Nice's head, trying to see the other's expression clearly, and was shocked by the grief in the child's eyes.

Like a puppy that was beaten by its owner and abandoned.

Chen Ou quickly recalled whether what he said just now would cause any misunderstanding, and said: "No! This is not a punishment! You just left home to go to a university in another city! Because you have superior intelligence, there is no need to be influenced by a group of students with excess hormones in middle school! You need to move on to a higher stage of life in time! But this will always be your home, ready for you to come back!" He thought, God, the kid thought I didn't want him, how could that be possible!I'm the silly father who put all his affection on his children, reluctantly preparing to accept the fate of an empty nest.

Nice's mood didn't improve at all. He moved his lips and said in a barely audible voice, "This is your home and the professor's home, so it's no longer my home."

Chen Ou stared at him, his gentle expression gradually faded away, leaving only exhaustion and helplessness.

Both recalled their quarrel the night before Wagundi's murder:

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"Nice, what are these presents?"

"Don't worry about it, go and choose the music for tomorrow's breakfast for the professor. I am very good, and Wagundi is enough."

"I warned you that you are not allowed to associate with him again..."

"He taught me the difference between a man and a boy, and it is said that this is what a good father should teach!"

"What? You just came of age!"

"Didn't the professor arrange for you back then? I guess there must be no, otherwise how could he control you emotionally..."

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The argument ended with a heavy slap in the face, Nis rushed out of the house, and Chen Ou broke into Wagendi's laboratory and found him murdered.

Chen Ou's research is genetic science, not animal sociology, otherwise he will understand that animals' competition for food and human beings' competition for love are both natural and cannot be hindered by humans.