Xingtetsu: Why is the captain on the train?

"He doesn't deserve it!"

"He will bring disgrace to Ruan Mei's name!"

"I'm going to tell everyone about it!"

Talking to himself, the little fellow who had just escaped from the folding space began to move quickly.

Its movement patterns are completely undetectable from the outside, but it moves counterintuitively very fast, as if it were gliding along the ground.

"Wait, don't leave in a hurry." The captain hurried forward and pressed down the shell of this strange creature.

"I'm very grateful that you saved me!" The black cat in the black shell slowly turned around and looked up at the captain, "But many of my friends have been deceived by that bad guy, I have to expose it!"

Chapter 143: Do you want to meet Ruan Mei?

"I'm very grateful that you saved me!" The black cat curled up in the mooncake-shaped shell turned around and looked up at the human who was holding his body with one hand. "But many of my friends were deceived by the bad guy who deceived me. I have to expose him!"

The captain instantly sorted out all kinds of information in his mind and made a judgment about the strange creature in front of him, "Are you Ruan Mei's creation?"

The eyes of the host cat visibly brightened, and it asked the captain in a shrill, childish voice, "Do you know Ruan Mei? Did she ask you to come here? Normally, no humans come here."

A little noisy, with the mentality of a child.

"We have obtained authorization from Ruan Mei to come to this section to find a rare item, the [Phase Spirit Fire]. Do you know it?" Latio comforted Adler, who seemed to be a little emotionally broken, and looked at the Mooncake Cat, whose shell was still being held down by the captain.

"Meow! It was Ruan Mei who asked you to come! But meow doesn't know about the phase fire." The little black cat Mooncake scratched his head with his tail sticking out of the shell, "But the bad guy who deceived us is a ball of fire!"

A ball of fire?

The captain raised an eyebrow and exchanged a glance with Latio.

"Can you tell me how the fire deceived you?" The captain looked down at Mooncake Cat. From what Mooncake Cat had just said, he had already realized how to order this little guy around. After asking the question, he added, "Ruan Mei authorized us to enter this compartment. She will come to the space station after passing through a few systems. She will probably come to see you... or you guys. I can't guarantee it."

"Meow!" Mooncake Cat was obviously excited, but soon he seemed a little discouraged, "That bad guy brought some people with him and tricked us into ambush in the cabin and played a prank on them."

"Prank?" The captain raised an eyebrow.

"When the human over there was being chased by the fire, I quietly tripped him and hid. The fire didn't notice me and folded him into pieces right in front of me..." Mooncake Cat turned to look at Adler, seeming to be a little scared and regretful, not daring to look at Adler with wide eyes, "Its joke is too much! We will be scolded by Ruan Mei. I don't want to upset Ruan Mei, so I jumped out to stop the fire."

"And then it attacked you?" The captain raised an eyebrow.

"I had a fight with it!" Mooncake Cat held his head high, but he was only a few seconds proud before he became weak. "But I couldn't beat it."

The captain looked at the mooncake cat on the ground with a black question mark on his face. This thing? It fought with the [Phase Spirit Fire] that was projected with the power of [Underworld Fire Grand Duke]?

"Remember what I said about Ruan Mei?" Latio noticed the captain's strange expression and asked calmly.

The captain was stunned for a moment, his brain automatically recalled what Latio had said less than half an hour ago, "She can easily create life with intelligence and power."

No way?

The captain raised an eyebrow and turned to look at Mooncake Cat.

This time he paid more attention to observe the imaginary energy, and then... he was almost blinded by the 'torch' that was so close to him.

This mooncake cat, which looks like a purely cute creature, is surrounded by a torrent of imaginary energy. To some extent, this energy is completely comparable to that of an ordinary [Destiny Walker].

He is not as good as Latio, and even less as good as himself, but he is much better than Adler, an ordinary scientific researcher.

Now the captain could fully understand where Latio's dislike for Ruan Mei came from. To obtain such a power, a destiny walker needs to pursue his inner self, embark on the destiny, and then leave traces.

No matter what kind of [destiny] the destiny walker is on, or which [star god]'s footsteps he is following, if he can do this, then he will definitely not be a...'child' like the mooncake cat in front of him.

Hand a child a pistol that can kill someone by pulling the trigger. When the gun fires and kills something, it goes without saying who the real criminal is.

In Latio's eyes, Ruan Mei is such a criminal.

Even though Ruan Mei's creations haven't caused any outrageous news to this day, their attitude is enough to make Latio treat Ruan Mei harshly, and even get angry in front of her.

Yes, when they were in the office, Latio was not saying bad things behind her back. Instead, he showed his true colors to her face when he noticed that Ruan Mei was on the phone.

However, the captain chose to put it down for the time being and did not intend to go deeper.

He was not qualified to make any comments about Ruan Mei. After all... he was not like Latio, who had ever cleaned up Ruan Mei's ass.

"Can you take us to find the fire?" The captain squatted down and looked at Mooncake Cat. "Ruan Mei entrusted me to deal with the problem of the fire."

"Ah! The great Ruan Mei found you!" Mooncake Cat seemed to have no intention of questioning or thinking. He believed everything the captain said and was extremely excited. He immediately wanted to be the guide. "Then I will take you to find the fire!"

"Thank you then." The captain stood up and looked at Latio, "What are your plans?"

"I'll go with you." Latio said calmly, "After all, I don't have the ability to deal with secondary phases, and the ability of [Phase Spirit Fire] is very suitable for escape. If I go with you, maybe I can help you get some insurance."

"It's pretty much what I thought." The captain looked at Adler from the Strange Objects Department, "Esther has obtained Ruan Mei's authorization, and the [confinement compartment] has been connected to the main control system of the space station. You should be able to leave, right?"

"Don't worry about me, great gods. I'm fine." Adler nodded so much that an afterimage was left. He was afraid that the two great gods would drag him to find the damn [Phase Spirit Fire].

Although there will be no physical damage after being folded and gavied, the psychological trauma is not so easy to heal.

After all, he watched himself being disassembled and sealed into a black box with nearly ten systems, and then disassembled again and put back into place... The fact that he didn't go crazy is proof of a strong heart.

"Let's go, let's go!"

After seeing the captain finish his instructions and Adler crawling away, Mooncake Cat was already a little impatient.

"Don't worry." The captain paused, thought for a moment, glanced at Mooncake Cat, and then turned his gaze to Latio, "I have a plan."

"A plan." Latio shrugged calmly. "Tell me about it?"

"If we follow this little guy directly to find the [Phase Spirit Fire], we might get into trouble." The captain pointed at the Mooncake Cat on the ground with his lips, "The [Underworld Fire Duke] won't play around with a bunch of 'kids'."

Latio nodded.

"I don't know why he wanted to deceive the Mooncake Cats...but it suddenly occurred to me that we have a better way to turn them back." The captain raised the corners of his mouth and took out his cell phone.

Then, he turned his gaze to the Mooncake Cat who was lying on the ground with his head tilted, not understanding what the two humans in front of him were talking about, and shook his phone at him.

"Little guy, do you want to meet Ruan Mei?"

Chapter 144: Life should not be reduced to experiments

"This is the current situation, and I need your cooperation."

"Captain, this is not cooperation, this is deception." A soft and elegant voice came into the captain's ears from the receiver of the mobile phone. "My original plan did not include the plans you want me to talk about. If I cooperate with your words, it would be tantamount to lying."

The captain standing in the confinement compartment hall was silent for a while, and during the captain's silence, Ruan Mei also remained quiet, waiting for the captain to speak.

"Ms. Ruan Mei, I want to propose a hypothesis here." The captain sighed tiredly, "Is there a possibility? I mean possibility. I don't want you to lie, but I hope you can really come?"

"Why?" Ruan Mei was like a network troll, but she had no intention of arguing. She was simply asking, "You don't know me, and you've only known my creations for a short time. What made you make such a judgment?"

"Of course, I'm just curious, because there have been many people I know or am not so familiar with who have given similar advice..."

The captain raised his hand and pinched the corner of his eye vigorously. After releasing his inner fatigue through this action, he sighed, "Okay, okay, Ms. Ruan Mei, you may not understand the ways of the world, and your family values may be weak. I thought about it for a while and decided to answer you with a more offensive question. I hope you don't mind."

"Please speak." Ruan Mei said softly.

"After your mother gave birth to you, did she just let you fend for yourself and never took care of you?" The captain smacked his lips twice. "In light of what you just said, let me explain further. By taking care of you, I mean paying attention to you, having expectations for your future, asking you to do something or not to do something, and so on."

Ruan Mei was silent.

The captain also held his forehead helplessly.

He didn't mean to offend anyone. After all, the captain was a smart man. He knew very well that what he said to Ruan Mei was just like pointing fingers at others, but...

Let me put it this way, as the saying goes, a loud drum does not need a heavy hammer. After several contacts with Ruan Mei, the captain could feel that Ruan Mei was a stupid drum that needed a heavy hammer in this regard. Her way of thinking was too rational. To put it bluntly, as a person, she was even less humane than the intelligent machine ScrewGum.

However, the captain himself didn't know that he had accidentally used the sledgehammer and hit the spot where Ruan Mei was best able to hit.

Ruan Mei was not the name of this genius.

This name comes from one character from each of her parents' names.

She also had a lively past. Compared to her current cold and indifferent personality, she once had a childhood surrounded by love and a lively and passionate girlhood. However, since her parents passed away unexpectedly and her grandmother joined the [Boshi Society], she disappeared...

She gradually became obsessed with her research in life sciences, and embarked on an experiment that was destined to be regarded as "crossing the moral boundary."

She attempted to 'resurrect' or, in other words, to 'recreate' her parents.

The girl who had not yet given herself the name [Ruan Mei] almost destroyed the original law of species evolution on the entire planet, but she paid no attention to the outside world. Until [Bo Shi Zun] cast his eyes on this calm and crazy girl, she disappeared from her hometown.

No one knows whether she succeeded or failed.

Only Ruan Mei herself knew the result of that crazy experiment that almost exhausted the girl's everything.

From then on, the girl disappeared, and the elegant and plain Ruan Mei came on the stage, and was given the title of [Member #81 of the Genius Club].

If there is anything in the outside world that can pry open her calm and peaceful heart, it is only the meaning behind her current name.

Her strict mother and kind father had long since become frail in her memory.

And the captain, with a heavy hammer, hit her heart.

"I... don't understand." In the guest room of the shuttle, Ruan Mei held up her cell phone, her lips slightly parted, she raised her hand and gently pressed it against her heart.

Feeling the sudden violent throbbing sensation.

She has countless sets of flawless logical reasoning and scientific theories about how the heart beats and what kind of electrical signals trigger such "abnormalities".

but.......

"Don't understand? Which aspect?"

"Why did you mention my mother?" Ruan Mei frowned, her tone filled with confusion.

"Because you are also a mother." In the confinement cabin, the captain looked down at Mooncake Cat, who was tugging at his trouser legs, looking up with eager anticipation in his eyes. "They are not the lives you conceived in the biological sense, but they were born because of you, so you are their mother."

"I don't know if you have ever thought about it this way, but since you have created a life, you should guide it as much as possible."

"Giving birth but not raising it... is not what a qualified 'mother' does." The captain sighed, "Even if I can't do my best for everyone..."

"But they are just the product of my experiment." Ruan Mei seemed to calm down again, and she refuted the captain's words calmly.

The captain frowned. To be honest, he found it a bit difficult.

After all, the previous communication had already gone far beyond the scope of superficial communication. If he wanted to continue, he really couldn't open his mouth...

"If you insist on your opinion, then I choose to back down." The captain exhaled softly. He lowered his head and looked at the Mooncake Cat who had loosened his trouser legs at his feet, lowered his head, and curled up with his tail in his arms. However, he felt a sense of depression in his heart that he had to let it out.

In the guest room of the shuttle that was about to arrive at the space station [Black Tower], Ruan Mei breathed a sigh of relief. Although there were some ripples in her heart, she finally calmed them down and chose to forget.

"I have two final words." The captain's words came from the receiver.

"Please go ahead." Ruan Mei's originally relaxed mood suddenly tensed up. She felt a little panicked and expectant, and even unconsciously used a respectful title for the captain.

"I have read the messages left by members of the Genius Club in the database, including your message, and you said, 'Life is more than just breathing.'"

"I really want to add a few words. I can't help but say it."

“The first sentence is, [Life is more than an experiment].”

Ruan Mei was calm inside. Many people had advised her in this way. The expressions were different, but the meanings were almost the same.

“The second sentence is, [Life should not be relegated to experiments].”

"That's all I have to say." The captain hung up the phone.

Ruan Mei held up her cell phone and never put it down. The slightly harsh busy tone echoed in her ears, but she repeated the captain's last words with confusion on her face.

"Shouldn't life be relegated to experiments...?"

No one has ever said this to me.

Chapter 145: He is really brave

"The negotiations with Ruan Mei failed."

The captain lowered his head, looked at Mooncake Cat, and sighed softly, "I'm sorry, I can't help you."

"It's okay, meow." Mooncake Cat rubbed his tail for a few times, and seemed to sigh softly when he let go of his tail, but the next sentence, the little guy's mood got rid of the depression, "Anyway, you and the great Ruan Mei know each other!"

"Well, are you willing to help me?" The captain squatted down and touched Mooncake Cat's head. "Although I failed to convince Ruan Mei to come with you, you two will meet."

"It's okay, I'm willing to help you!" Mooncake Cat nodded vigorously.

However, Mooncake Cat, who readily agreed, raised his head and stared at the captain, "But you haven't told me yet, how can I help you."

The captain raised his lips and smiled softly, "Well, it's very simple. I'll tell you my plan..."

Latio, who was standing aside, folded his arms and listened to the captain slowly telling him his plan. On the one hand, he felt that the plan was laughable, but on the other hand, he could also feel that the captain's plan, which seemed a bit chaotic, was actually quite feasible.

After all, it is hard to say how much defense the Underworld Guild will put up against these Mooncake Cats who obviously have the mentality of children.