Ark, they don't revolve around you

Seeing her expression, Zhong Yue knew that he was right. His sister was actually hiding from the doctor from Rhodes Island.

Chongyue felt even more helpless.

Nian is the most outgoing person among the twelve fragments of the Sui Beast. In the popular terminology on the intercity network, she is a so-called social phobia - a social terrorist. Even if she owes others money, she will appear in front of the creditor with a smile on her face. Who would have thought that her face would change drastically when the doctor is mentioned.

Zhongyue lowered his voice: "What happened?"

"Nothing happened, everything is fine. It doesn't matter as long as I'm in the Shard. By the way, I'm planning to make a movie called The Shard recently. It tells the story of a girl named Nian creating the Shard. There must be exciting games, cool fights and touching love stories!"

"You know how you change the subject when you're nervous? And even if you wanted to take the photo, it's too late. Victoria next door has already taken it. They severely criticized Kazdel's shamelessness. You even went to see it in person a few days ago."

"Can't I borrow some ideas from others? We don't have to call it 'The Shard' anyway. The core component is the natural disaster control device. We can just call this movie 'National Humiliation'!" When Nian mentioned the movie, he talked about his enjoyment of it.

"I don't want to discuss the movie with you at all. I'm your brother, and I'm very concerned about your relationship problems." Zhongyue bluntly interrupted his sister's attempt to change the subject. "Do you remember when you first mentioned the name of the Doctor to me? You almost praised him to the sky."

"Well, that's..."

"You determined that Rhodes Island will play a role in the future. You believe in the doctor, right?" Zhongyue became more and more serious. When he became serious, the whole air became dull. This was his majesty as a master.

She felt even more at a loss, hesitant, bewildered, and uneasy... It was hard to imagine that there was a person whose face could change expressions so many times. Although she was a third-rate bad movie director, she had watched so many plays after all. Perhaps she would be an excellent actor on stage.

"The doctor came here half a year ago. He came here for the Shard. He was in charge of the handover of this project at the time. What did you talk about? After that, he ran to the hinterland alone. He wanted to see Xi, but Xi also rejected him."

"You know everything. I always thought you were busy with other things at that time..." Nian was speechless. She always thought that the incident half a year ago was a secret between them, but her eldest brother knew everything about it. He probably didn't make it public just for the sake of his younger sisters.

"How could I not know?" Zhongyue was silent for a few seconds, "Do you know about the attack on the doctor a month ago?"

"You mean the time with my second brother?"

"You really did know. You collected all the reports about this incident. At that time, you wanted to go to Longmen to see him in person. You even said that you wanted to kill the second brother you mentioned just now."

"That was because my second brother went too far!"

"He's always been so excessive, but why did you act so intensely that day?"

Nian was speechless.

Yes, why was it so excessive at that time? Wasn’t it because he attacked the Doctor?

Nian sighed quietly, but felt relieved in her heart. She thought that this secret might not be hidden, and she actually felt relieved: "It's a misunderstanding."

She organized her words: "Half a year ago, I was driven to Longmen by the Grand Tutor. That day, I finally repaired all the terracotta warriors in the Tianji Pavilion, and then I was told to study the Shard."

"But you still agreed."

"Because I heard that the person who handed over the intelligence about the Fragment was the Doctor, and I haven't seen the Doctor for a long time!" Nian turned her head away, and her voice became much lower when she mentioned the Doctor.

Zhongyue still remembers it clearly. Nian was indeed very excited that day: "You talked for a long time."

"Yeah... I said Yumen was too annoying, and he agreed with me. I asked him how he was doing recently, and he vaguely told me that he was fine, but a lot of people left Rhodes Island. He and I both drank a lot of wine."

"Then?"

"I told him I wanted to go back to Rhode Island, too."

"You've always told me that if I retire and want to live like an old man, I can go to Rhode Island."

“Right, that’s a good place?” Nian was silent for a moment, and a forced smile appeared on his face. “Anyway, when I said I wanted to go back to the island, his first reaction was to be stunned, then he nodded, then shook his head, and finally nodded again.”

"At that time, his mental state was not right?"

“It’s definitely not right, but I didn’t notice it. I was drunk and I was very upset by his attitude.” Nian was a good speaker, and although her words were simple, her tone was excellent, as if people could naturally recreate that scene.

Chongyue closed his eyes, thinking that there should be two bright moons that day. In a private room of a restaurant, a girl was complaining to a man. The man was very tired but still listening to the woman's mumbling.

"I got angry and asked him where the people from Rhode Island were. He lowered his head and said that they had all left. He smiled and said that everyone had gone home, so I should go home too."

Zhongyue guessed that this was the root of the problem: "Are you more angry?"

"Yes, I got even angrier. I was really drunk, and it's not like your sister can drink that much. Seeing his attitude, I told him that it must be you, the doctor, who did something wrong. The doctor was stunned for a few seconds and suddenly burst into tears." Nian gritted his teeth and said in a deeper voice, "But I didn't care about that at the time. I just felt annoyed. Seeing him cry also annoyed me. The doctor I know is definitely not that fragile."

"He's not that fragile. Maybe he thought it was you that's why he was crying." Zhongyue saw through the problem at a glance.

Nian was distraught: "But I still played tricks on him. I wanted him to cheer up, but I felt sad as I was talking. Maybe soon I will disappear from everyone's memory."

There was a trace of regret in his expression: "I told him, after those people left, you won't have any contact with them, they will gradually forget about you, because the connection between you is not close at all, just like me, if I disappear one day, no one will remember me, and the doctor will forget about me too."

At this time, she finally exposed her weakness. The birth of Sui Pian came from the death of Sui Beast, but one day that monster would wake up, and by then both Nian and Chongyue would disappear completely.

"The doctor shook his head and said I should still remember it. I would write it down, but I became even angrier. The source of my anger was confusion. I found that I was blaming the doctor at that time. Yes, his friend is gone, so what? His friends will remember her, but no one will remember me!"

"I was very angry at the time. I looked at him coldly, gulped down the wine, and then laughed coldly. I said that the doctor was also a very heartless person."

There was no further conversation at this point. It was indeed a misunderstanding, but it was not entirely a misunderstanding. Two people who had not seen each other for a long time should have been happy to see each other, but each of them had a lot on their minds, so the tragedy happened.

"The doctor was stunned and repeated my words. He suddenly laughed, a crazy laugh. He stood up while laughing. When I saw him like that, I realized something was wrong with him. I sobered up immediately."

Nian's hands were entangled together. "He poured wine into his mouth and walked outside. I realized that I had said something wrong and told him that what I said just now was a joke. He ignored me and walked outside alone. He stood in an open space. It was Mid-Autumn Festival that day and the moon was very big. He laughed and cried. He said it was a good walk, and it was a good walk!"

Nian lowered his eyes, "It was then that I realized that I seemed to have set off something. I tried to hold the doctor's hand, but the doctor shook it off. At that moment, someone was singing "The Conjuring" in the restaurant next door."

She also hummed the poem, "Soul, come back! Leave your constant dryness.

Why the four directions? Leave your happy place and stay away from that ominous place! "

Soul, come back to your hometown. Why leave your body? Why wander around and abandon your safe place?

The images in Chongyue's mind became richer, with mournful singing echoing, lights dimming, two overlapping figures, a person laughing out loud looking distraught, and a person filled with regrets not knowing how to comfort him.

It really was like fate... Zhongyue murmured, "And then, you didn't meet again."

"The next day, I went to Rhodes Island to apologize to him. I thought the doctor should be sober now, but when I got to Rhodes Island, I found that many people were gone. The place became empty. I finally realized why he was so distraught yesterday." Nian took a deep breath, "I became even more anxious, but the doctor was nowhere to be found. Kal'tsit told me that he had applied for an external assignment and was going to another place in a spacecraft... He is avoiding me, brother!"

Finally, he became busy and his disguised open-mindedness disappeared: "How can I go to see him? He was so depressed at the time and wanted to comfort me, but I turned around and called him cold...Okay, my EQ is not that low, and I won't make trouble unreasonably, but, but I really drank too much, I'm really scared, really..."

She spoke incoherently, her tone full of fear: "I don't dare to go to him, and I shouldn't go to him. Brother, just tell him that I'm sick."

She was really scared. Unlike other behemoth agents, Nian had almost managed to integrate into society. While her brothers and sisters were still proudly maintaining their personas, this girl had already tried new things without any worries. So she understood so-called people better than her brothers and sisters - at least that's what she thought.

Although she looks shameless, and in fact she is really shameless, she is essentially a girl who cares a lot about what others think, so she works hard to make bad movies. This girl has lived for thousands of years and has been in contact with humans for thousands of years. She desperately wants the world to remember her, and wants someone to remember her. No wonder the second brother thinks she is cowardly. When does the giant beast need to be paid attention to?

She also didn't expect that she would have such feelings for a human being. In these thousand years, she had seen all kinds of people, emperors, ministers, and ordinary people, but she would actually care about such a person!

In the end, she crushed that possibility herself. She was indeed a very cowardly and useless dragon.

"You want to use illness as an excuse?" She heard her brother's cold words, "You are the agent of the giant beast. With the doctor's knowledge of the giant beast, how could he not see that you are avoiding him?"

"But what can I do? What if I accidentally lose my composure again? We need to calm down. Give me a few more years. If we haven't disappeared by then, I will go to him to apologize!" Nian gritted her teeth and spit out the words. She was serious. It won't be long before the Sui beast is revived. By then, it will either disappear into thin air or regain its vitality. If it is the latter, she will hug Zhuang Ning without hesitation and confess her regrets.

Zhongyue looked at him dimly: "I never asked you why you care so much about a human being?"

This was his hidden doubt, and I'm afraid the man has been confused for a long time.

"what?"

"I mean, what have you been through?" Zhongyue frowned. "We measure life differently from humans. Their lives are just a tiny fragment in our eyes. Nian, you know better than me."

Nian thought quietly for a while, his eyelids turned red: "Yes, that's what I thought."

“But actually we can’t control ourselves, just like your feelings towards those people, brother. In fact, you know that although they call you the Grandmaster, they may also be afraid of you. We are beasts, monsters, different from those mortals. After knowing our true faces, they will always be afraid of you and me.” Nian pressed the corners of his eyes with his hands, and he found that they were wet. He couldn’t believe himself. For thousands of years, he had only gained experience but not wisdom. He was actually crying. “But suddenly someone showed enthusiasm for you, and you made that person so sad. Even I would look down on myself…”

Zhongyue sighed again, with a strange look on his face: "So, what if he doesn't mind?"

"What?" Nian was stunned.

"What if he doesn't mind your rude remarks?" Zhong Yue repeated.

"I'm not deaf. I mean, how is it possible? Big brother, do you think everyone is as indifferent as you and your sister?" Nian Pa for a moment, then shook his head violently, "It's not like your sister doesn't care about anything. I haven't seen her in my dreams for almost half a year. I heard that she's been sleeping all the time."

They didn't quite know what happened exactly, maybe it was a nightmare, but it was hard to imagine that the woman who was so open-minded about drinking would be unable to get drunk for a long time.

Zhongyue didn't know, but he was a little relieved. He was the elder brother, and even though a thousand years had passed, when he looked at his younger brothers and sisters, he still felt that they were all children. His sense of responsibility prevented him from turning a blind eye to his family.

But Chongyue really doesn't know how to comfort people, just like when he went to comfort Xi, his youngest sister, and ended up sitting in Xi's painting for a whole day, then tore the painting and left. Xi's face turned red, thinking that her brother was provoking her!

I really didn't expect that my sisters would be moved. Chongyue relaxed and a woman's face appeared in his mind. That woman never said the words love or like until the end. She left quietly later, but Chongyue still recalled the time he spent with that woman.

It's time for a change... He sighed softly and clapped his hands vigorously.

A man walked out from the shadows, with an awkward yet polite smile on his face: "Long time no see, Miss Nian."

"PhD?"

Nian was shocked and realized that it was no wonder that there was no one on the street. It turned out that this was a trap from the beginning. The man had been hiding in the corner and listening to her whispers!

Nian was terrified and almost wanted to run away, but Zhongyue held her shoulders tightly. He was really a caring brother. Since it was a misunderstanding, it had to be cleared up. Although this misunderstanding was as sharp as a knife, it would always be better to spit it out, right? !

The man in the sunshine stretched out his hand towards Nian. Completely different from the predicament he was in half a year ago, he seemed cheerful and generous, just like the first time they met. At that time, Nian came to Rhodes Island out of curiosity, but what he wanted was free snacks, employee benefits, and a place like home.

Zhuang Ning said in a helpless tone: "Miss Nian, don't be willful. I need your help. Let's talk."

ps: As expected, this kind of long chapter is more coherent. If nothing unexpected happens, I should write such long chapters of several thousand words in the future, which can ensure that my train of thought will not be interrupted.

Chapter 9 I will forge him the best sword (5k)

After all, Zhuang Ning still has a special feeling for Yan Shang.

Although this is a feudal bureaucratic country, at least it has some cultural similarities. Even if it is a crooked feudal remnant, it is still better than other countries, right?

Moreover, half a year before he concentrated on developing a special medicine for mineral inhibition in seclusion, Yan was also Zhuang Ning's last stop. He went to this country on behalf of Theresa and finally decided to build the Fragment Building in Yumen. After that, he wandered around the territory of Yan for another month before starting nearly half a year of seclusion and enlightenment.

But she met Nian much earlier. It was unknown which headhunting company's website she saw Rhodes Island's information on, and she barged in openly. Zhuang Ning still remembered this girl who was like a raging fire. Although her attitude was arrogant and domineering, she had a complete process for entering, and her resume was quite impressive.

She claimed that she was quite famous in the Dayan Film Festival, and if Rhodes Island wanted to make a movie, she would be willing to lend a hand. She also expressed her interest in foreign countries. Zhuang Ning guessed that this was one of the main reasons why she joined Rhodes Island. After all, even if Rhodes Island was in decline, it was still a multinational company.

And below that resume, there was a very inconspicuous specialty - casting and smelting. Later, Zhuang Ning checked it out. Wow, she was indeed a director, and her movies were also criticized, but others would complain more about her wasting props, because all the props were made by this dragon girl herself.

This girl is an expert at blacksmithing and is also registered in the Yan State's Military Equipment Bureau. She is a key dangerous person.

Fortunately, she is relatively well-behaved most of the time. Apart from pestering me and saying she is bored, her daily routine consists of watching movies and eating hotpot, and she loves nothing but spicy food.

At that time, Zhuang Ning was not so decadent, he also liked the hustle and bustle, and he had a special liking for hot pot.

He was slightly stunned when he thought of this. So the reason why he started chatting with her was hot pot... Zhuang Ning raised his eyebrows. The food system on Rhodes Island was too complicated. If you wanted high-end food, there was Gallic and Syracuse cuisine, if you wanted fish and chips, there was Victorian cuisine, and if you wanted fast food fried chicken, there was Colombian cuisine. But Zhuang Ning still preferred hot pot. He chatted with these people enthusiastically, as if he could see all kinds of illusory reflections of home in the mist.

Sometimes he would look back to the past and couldn't help but mock his past self. A mafia boss named Diablo once said that all fears come from the past, and so-called maturity is to kill the immature self. Zhuang Ning unconsciously agreed.

Now, he hadn't eaten with his operators for a long time. Someone would bring food to his table, and he would have to continue working after eating quickly. Before he traveled through time, he was just exploited by his boss at work, but in Rhodes Island, the pressure he faced was hundreds of times greater than before.

Nian was one of the few people who could make him happy at that time. During rest time, this passionate girl could always help him relieve all his worries.

During the New Year, he had also wanted to plan to shoot a blockbuster with Nian. While curled up in the lounge watching the screen flashing, Zhuang Ning looked up and asked Director Nian what he thought. Nian slumped on the sofa, biting potato chips and shouting that he would postpone it for a while.

In fact, he and most of the operators did not have any life-and-death separations. Zhuang Ning, who thought he could get into other people's hearts just by listening, was undoubtedly a ridiculous guy, but he needed his former self.

So on this sunny afternoon, Zhuang Ning reached out his hand to Nian again. His smile was genuine, as if he was helpless and amused: "Are you still struggling? It's been so long, Director Nian."

Yes, it's been so long, and we have forgotten what we said. Zhuang Ning is in a better state than ever before. He smiles slightly, and this is not even a disguise. The evil spirit that was underestimated before now has a little more humanity. There are many reasons. In the ten years of simulation, he achieved his goal. After being eroded by the evil fragments, the fear in his heart dissipated like smoke. The most important thing is that he remembered that there are people in this world who care about him, and Precious is still waiting for him... Various factors intertwined and constructed this man.

His obsession with returning home has not wavered in the slightest, but his view of the world is not gray after all. He does not mind sharing this glory with other operators - after all, they are his best helpers and best friends in returning home.

Nian's hands trembled slightly: "Are you... not angry?"

She thought, how can this person not be angry? Words can sometimes be compared to swords, the only difference is that swords cut the body, while words stimulate the heart.

"Are you angry... No, you are right. In fact, they are not that close to me." Zhuang Ning lowered his eyes, but his mind sketched out one face after another, and his heart was calm.

He repeated what the girl said at that time: "One day, they will leave me and forget my appearance. They may only remember that there was someone who was their boss. But what does a former boss mean to them? It's good enough for them to live happily, isn't it? Why should they remember me?"

He was full of emotion. The world is big. The Yan people say that it is hard to find a confidant. Apart from relatives, how many so-called close friends can there be?

As time goes by, the former operators in their home country will gradually be forgotten. This is a natural law. Sometimes, you don’t need many people to understand. Except for the person who is truly waiting for you, why bother?

"Doctor, what do you mean?" Nian Geng thought something was wrong.

"What does 'can' mean?" Zhuang Ning frowned. Her statement was straightforward enough. "Forgetting is inevitable. You have experienced a lot of forgetting, so you want the world to remember you. But I don't think it's necessary. Forgetting is a good start. If you remember too many things, you will only be distressed."

As he spoke, he took out a glass of juice. Recently, Zhuang Ning finally made up his mind to do what he should do and enjoy what he should enjoy. He was also thoughtful and bought a glass for Chongyue and Nian.

Zhongyue took it, but Nian hesitated because she always felt that Zhuang Ning in front of her was a little... strange.

It’s not unfamiliar either.

It's like entering a Buddhist monastery, seeing through all true feelings, and feeling at ease in every move, but the feeling we had when we first met is missing.

"You really...don't mind?"

"We are not children." Zhuang Ning avoided the topic and said, "This time I have something to ask of you."

"Oh."

"Oh what? You don't want to ask me why I want you to do that?" Zhuang Ning smiled gently, "I want a weapon, preferably one that is concealed and sharp enough."

"Weapons? Doctor, you..."

Nian was very considerate and didn't say anything further. The doctor's body was weak and his weapon had to be used by others. Even if he had a knife, any big man with a thick hoof could knock him away.