Chapter 48: Searching for Helena
The whole morning passed quietly. Luo Wei looked out the window and saw a rare sunny day in Saint Karen.
Evelyn was still sitting on the ground, not saying a word and ignoring him. It felt like she had fallen into a state of autism.
Seeing this, Luo Wei didn't want to continue to provoke her.
He was about to go out to look for Helena, but the little girl had disappeared since he fainted. She could not be seen around the old house, and no one knew where she had hidden.
It was still a bit cold outside in early spring. Luo Wei came to the gate, put on a thick woolen coat and a baseball cap.
Before opening the door, he looked back at Yves.
"I'm leaving for a while, teacher. Please wait for me at home."
Although she looked completely unmoved and didn't say anything.
But after hearing that she was leaving, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and this small movement revealed her thoughts.
Luo Wei laughed secretly in his heart.
As expected... He knew that Teacher Yves was not the kind of woman who would give up easily.
She was just waiting for her opportunity.
Luo Wei looked at her with a smile and said, "Without my permission, you cannot leave this house. I believe you have tried it this morning."
"But I still advise you not to think of any other tricks. Otherwise, you won't be locked up in the house, but..."
Yves suddenly looked up at Luo Wei.
Luo Wei suppressed his smile and warned her seriously.
"Instead, you are locked up in Room 101, which belongs only to you. It's like being in prison."
"My dear teacher, you don't want to lose your freedom completely, do you?"
"At least you still have such a large range of activities now."
Yves sneered.
Luo Wei stopped looking at her, opened the door, turned around and left.
The door closed, and Yves clenched her fists slightly as she watched his disappearing figure.
…
After leaving the old house, Luo Wei first took a telescope and went to a high place to observe.
This area was originally a relatively wealthy neighborhood in Saint Karen, but after this steam capital gradually prospered, the city core moved from the west district here to the east district where he went to school, and this place gradually became depressed.
Although the area gradually became less and less popular and one had to walk several kilometers to buy vegetables, it was fortunately quiet. Such a big incident happened last night, with two alien species fighting for three hundred rounds without attracting the attention of the police. It was indeed a very suitable place to be a "shelter".
But what made him feel a little strange was that his old house seemed particularly "lonely", with no neighbors within a mile radius.
When I was playing the game before, I seemed to have mentioned that the surrounding land was bought by a rich businessman who wanted to build a large factory.
But when he returned to the game again, four years had passed and the rich businessman "accidentally" went bankrupt, which made the old house still maintain such a quiet atmosphere.
Luo Wei certainly doesn't want to be surrounded by a circle of factories full of noise and pollution, and it would also make it easy for him to be exposed. But this matter is so in line with his wishes, isn't it a bit too coincidental?
Was it Helena? Did she do something?
Luo Wei thought about it and felt that it shouldn't be the case. If it was Helena, the news should be about the rich businessman's sudden death, not his bankruptcy.
How could Helena understand those economics knowledge...
So, is there someone helping me secretly?
Luo Wei thought distressedly, who could it be...
…
While he was thinking about it, he noticed something strange through the telescope.
In the direction of the bridge, the tall trees swayed slightly, which was very strange.
It's Helena!
He immediately packed up his things and ran quickly in that direction.
Coming to the bottom of the bridge and pushing aside the dense bushes, Luo Wei finally saw the black figure.
Helena's body was much smaller than last night, and you could vaguely see the appearance of a human upper body. Probably to resist the cold, she wrapped herself up layer by layer with her tentacles and curled up quietly under the bridge.
She seemed to treat this place as a small home that could shelter her from the wind and rain. Next to the river bank, there were several dried animal carcasses. Those things should be her three meals a day.
Although it was better under the bridge than outside, it was still drafty. Every time a cool breeze blew past, the little tentacles on her body would tremble slightly, as if expressing her fear of the cold.
This scene made Luo Wei feel sad.
He walked over quietly, trying to get closer to the curled up figure.
The slight sound of stepping on the weeds made Helena tremble all over, like a frightened little animal, and she vigilantly spread out all her tentacles.
And as if by reflex, he lunged towards the direction of the sound.
Luo Wei stopped and the tentacles stopped half a meter in front of him.
"elder brother?"
An incredulous voice came from under the bridge.
“It’s my brother!!”
The voice was full of excitement and surprise. Helena turned around and stared at Luo Wei who suddenly appeared with her deep blue eyes without blinking.
Luo Wei smiled and waved at her, "Come home with your brother, it's so cold here."
But I didn't expect it.
After hearing this, her originally excited expression suddenly changed.
"No... don't go home..."
She panicked and used her tentacles to shield herself, as if she didn't want Luo Wei to see her current appearance.
The tentacles below her body surrounded her and she was about to escape to the other side of the bridge.
"Wait! Helena!"
Luo Wei anxiously wanted to call out to her, "Don't go yet, brother has something to tell you!!"
The black tentacles trembled immediately.
But she still pretended not to hear it, and the black shadow fled farther and farther away.
Luo Wei smiled bitterly in his heart and could only run towards her.
But Helena had too many "legs", and Luo Wei was out of breath in the end and could only watch Helena's figure getting farther and farther away.
He could only cup his hands and cry out loudly.
"If you don't want to go home with your brother, then don't go home! Stop first!"
With this shout, Helena finally stopped.
Then she was surprised to see—
Luo Wei kicked the dried animal corpses into the river.
"Don't eat those things normally, and don't worry about getting a stomachache..."
"And these..."
Luo Wei searched Helena's temporary home for a while and found two wild dogs that had been skinned and deboned. He picked up the bodies and threw them into the river.
"It took me so much effort to finally... finally..."
Helena looked at her brother helplessly, watching him clean up her "stored food".
He took out some more things from his backpack.
It was a thermos of water, bread wrapped in oiled newspaper , and a grilled steak with sauce on top...
Helena's sense of smell, which was far superior to that of an ordinary person, allowed her to smell the tempting smell of the food immediately, and her throat moved unconsciously.
I really want to eat...
Luo Wei even placed clean napkins in the bridge arch and waved to Helena in the distance with a smile.
"Don't you want to come together?"
Helena looked at her brother with a gentle smile on his face. Although she was very reluctant to be seen like this by him, but...
It smells so good...
I really want to eat it...
Ultimately, she followed her biological instincts.
Luo Wei saw the black shadow rushing towards him in a few seconds, and then several tentacles grabbed the food and fell into Helena's mouth in an instant.
After eating.
She sat on the river bank with Luo Wei, holding her hands on what should be her stomach with a satisfied look on her face.
The dangling tentacles and tentacles must be expressing a very happy emotion.
Luo Wei stroked her dangling tentacles with amusement, "Is it delicious?"
Helena nodded, "Delicious!"
"Everything my brother cooks is delicious!"
"That's good..." Luo Wei looked at her and asked again:
"Still don't want to go home? You can eat these every day when you go home."
Perhaps because she had eaten something delicious, Helena's defenses were finally opened up a little.
She looked at her brother sadly and shook her head, "I want to... go home, but now... I can't go home..."
"Why?" Luo Wei looked at her in confusion.
But she didn't say anything, just lowered her head and silently looked at her reflection in the river.
Luo Wei frowned slightly. Was he afraid that this appearance would cause trouble for himself?
With this in mind, he fumbled in his backpack for a while.
When she took out a few [Inhibition Potions], Helena nervously retracted her tentacles.
"Brother...you?"
"Don't worry, it's not used to attack you this time..." Luo Wei silently recalled what happened in the basement that day.
He gently placed the [Suppression Potion] on the ground.
"Helena, if you want to return to your original appearance, you will probably need the help of these medicines."
"Of course, you can come back anytime, even now."
Luo Wei stood up with a smile and slowly left.
"My brother's door is always open for you."
Looking at her brother's back as he walked away, Helena suddenly felt that the early spring in Saint Karen was not so cold after all.
