Chapter 115 The Lucky Thing
Jin Yang's eyes were as frank, sincere and clean as always. Rong Yuan knew that as a friend , it would be best for him to be frank with him at this time, but he couldn't do that.
He lowered his eyes and his hand holding the cup tightened unconsciously. The water was very hot and the temperature of the cup wall was also very high. Rong Yuan seemed not to feel this. His eyes were fixed on the white mist coming out of the cup and his fingers ran along the edge of the cup.
"Why do you ask?" Rong Yuan avoided the question and asked back.
Jin Yang's eyes dimmed, a little disappointed, but he knew that sometimes it might not be that he didn't want to say it, but that he couldn't say it. The reason why a secret is called a secret is because it is only hidden in one person's heart. Once it enters the ears of another person, it can no longer be considered completely confidential.
After a moment of silence, Jin Yang said, "You've been... a little impatient lately." Jin Yang looked around and said, "You've spent almost all your money to build this lab, right? You sold your house, and you didn't go to class - although you may have felt that sitting in the classroom was a waste of time... but the Rong Yuan I know would not risk everything for an uncertain experiment."
"It's not like I'm risking everything..." Rong Yuan forced a smile. In fact, it was just a muscle pulling his skin and moving. He didn't have the usual confidence and ease at all. He said, "I'm very confident ."
"How sure are you? Even if there's a 90 percent chance of success, do you know there's still a 10 percent chance of putting your own life in some kind of situation? Xiaoyuan, do you really know what you're doing?" Jin Yang's voice became a little stern, but there was unmistakable concern in his sternness.
——There won't be that 10%, Rong Yuan knew. Because he had the finished fluffy marshmallow in his hand, it was like he was solving a problem for which he already knew the correct answer. Every step he took would bring him one step closer to the answer. No matter what the process was, even if he had to make do with it, he could still get the correct answer. It was just a matter of time.
He was used to having a blank expression, but Jin Yang, who knew him better than anyone, could tell even the slightest change in his expression. He took a breath and asked, "Are you... 100% sure that you can get what you want in this experiment?"
In this world, no scientist can be 100% sure that his experimental creation will be successful. Even for a small light bulb, the inventor experienced more than 1,600 failures.
Therefore, Rong Yuan was so sure that he could succeed because of only one possibility - the experiment he was doing had been successfully conducted by someone else before, and he was doing this project with the guide in hand.
The room fell silent for a moment, and the relaxed atmosphere was gone. The table was still piled with messy dishes and leftovers, just like their current mood.
——What kind of adventure did Rong Yuan encounter?
Jin Yang had been thinking about this question for a while. He originally thought that a mysterious organization had taken a fancy to him and was training him, but later he found that this conjecture was wrong. There was no one around Rong Yuan who had a great influence on him. Then he found that Rong Yuan's adventure was probably a bit surreal and not something that could be done in the world he knew. In order to solve his doubts, he looked up a lot of information and found that the imaginative Internet hours could solve his doubts better than history and myths and legends.
Alien technology, future systems, portable space, ancient heritage, Lord God games, time travel and rebirth... He read a lot of strange novels with gold finger settings, which corresponded to his understanding of Rong Yuan one by one, and he felt that they were all plausible. Later, when his parents talked to him about his recent addiction to online novels, Jin Yang was alert and put all those novels aside, but they had left a shadow in his heart.
He wanted to ask——
What price do you have to pay for everything you have now?
Do you need to play dangerous games for this? Do you want to risk your life for this? Are you in any danger?
Is there anyone or something that is coercing you? Will you be punished or wiped out one day for not completing a certain goal?
Will there be a day... when you become strong enough and fly high enough, you will find that this world is too small and too mediocre, and is no longer worthy of your nostalgia, and then you will run to a higher place and never look back?
However, looking at Rong Yuan's expression, Jin Yang couldn't ask a single question, because he didn't want to be deceived by his most important friend, and he didn't want to force him to lie.
Don't test people's hearts, don't test human nature. Giving others room to maneuver is giving yourself room to maneuver - Jin Bai told him this when he was very young.
But he couldn't pretend not to know anymore, because Rong Yuan recently made him feel more urgent than before. He seemed to be eager to do something, so eager that he didn't even have room to take a step back. This step was too big, and he would fall if he wasn't careful. He was watching from the side, and if he didn't give any advice or reminders, what kind of friend was he?
"You have been..." Jin Yang paused for a long time before he slowly said, "You have been doing this experiment at all costs. Have you encountered any trouble? If there is anything I can help with... I don't need you to explain the whole truth to me, just tell me what to do."
Rong Yuan looked up in astonishment. He had been waiting for a long time with a clenched heart, but he didn't expect to hear such a sentence in the end. In an instant, his whole heart was warmed up. For a moment, for a moment, he really wanted to tell all the secrets, but he swallowed the words back when they came to his lips.
Rong Yuan raised the corner of his mouth, pretending to be casual and said: "Don't worry, if there is a need, I will definitely not be polite to you!"
Jin Yang stared at him for a while, then suddenly stood up by holding the table, leaned forward and stretched out a hand. Rong Yuan thought for a moment that he was going to slap him, so he shrank back and closed his eyes, and then a hand fell on his head.
Jin Yang rubbed his hair and said with a smile: "Well, that's good."
Those light brown eyes are as gentle as the sea and as tolerant as the sky.
Rong Yuan, who used to fight back quickly every time he ruffled his hair like a child, was stunned and forgot to react for a moment.
Jin Yang pulled out a chair, picked up the car keys that were placed aside and said, "I have to go now. I still have a lot of homework to do today. You can clean up the dishes on the table yourself. Remember to eat on time!"
Rong Yuan said reflexively: "Hey, hey, really? I hate washing dishes the most."
"Practice your self-care skills, young master!" Jin Yang was about to slap him on the head, but Rong Yuan reacted in time and opened his hand. Jin Yang shook his hand and said, "You can just leave them there if you can stand it."
——This is of course impossible. Jin Yang is well aware of Rong Yuan’s obsession with cleanliness.
Rong Yuan saw him off. Before getting in the car, Jin Yang remembered something and said, "You've been wearing this and this lately." He pointed to his chest and ears and asked, "...Does it have any special meaning?"
Rong Yuan was stunned and subconsciously took off the Bluetooth headset on his left ear. Jin Yang didn't wait for his answer, waved goodbye, started the car and left.
…
Rong Yuan closed the door, went back into the house and sat down, looking at the table full of messy cups and plates, but he had no mood to clean it up.
He pulled off the control button hanging around his neck, took a look, and threw it into the schoolbag hanging on the shelf. This control button uses genetic recognition technology, so even if someone else takes it, it is difficult to find out that it is special from the outside. But if you always wear it on your body, it will inevitably be noticed.
The pea turned back into its original form and sat on the table. After thinking for a while, he asked, "How about I turn into a watch in the future?" - No matter who you are or what the occasion is, wearing a watch will not look strange.
Rong Yuan was absent-minded, and after a while he responded, "Yeah."
Wandou recalled the conversation just now, guessed Rongyuan's thoughts, and advised: "It is stipulated in the Merit Book that you cannot tell others. It is not your fault. Don't think too much about it."
Rong Yuan shook his head and said nothing.
He can deceive others, but he cannot deceive himself. Ask yourself, even if there is no prohibition in the "Book of Merits", will he tell Jin Yang the truth?
--Won't.
Rong Yuan was very sure of this.
In fact, he doesn't trust Jin Yang as much as Jin Yang trusts him.
You can call him cold, suspicious, or timid. But for him, the current Jin Yang is not the same as the Jin Yang in ten or twenty years; they are close friends now, but it does not mean that when Jin Yang has a lover and children, they can still be like brothers. He is worried that if Jin Yang knows the truth, one day, they will not even be friends anymore.
He always holds back even from his only friend.
If I put myself in Jin Yang's shoes, and if the person who was so secretive was Jin Yang, would I be so understanding and tolerant?
He didn't know, but he didn't think highly of himself.
Rong Yuan turned around and looked at Wandou who was waiting beside him and said, "How could I be so lucky to have such a friend... Meeting him is probably the luckiest thing in my life."
He sat for a while and then stood up to wash the dishes. Pea, who was sitting on the side, looked at his back and said softly, "My luckiest thing is meeting you."
…
After making the small room clean and tidy again, Rong Yuan put on his white coat and returned to the test bench. He saw that he had extracted half a bottle of solution and turned off the alcohol lamp, but did not start the next experiment immediately.
He was thinking about what Jin Yang had just said.
To be honest, since he had the "Book of Merits", Rong Yuan had less and less concept of money. He was sure that he would not starve to death even if he was penniless, and he also had the ability to become rich enough to rival a country in the blink of an eye. Money was just a tool for him. But when he squandered all his money on experiments at once, even Jin Yang was worried about him. It was because he had been weighed down by something in his heart during this period, and this thing made him want to gain more powerful abilities as soon as possible.
He wanted to open the page for exchanging positive merits, to find out to what extent it could make him stronger.
The cause of this feeling was the shock he felt from what he saw and heard when he set foot on the moon for the second time two days ago.
