The spiral link formed by firefly-like light spots led Yu Zhesen and Shi Xin forward, and they soon arrived in front of the director's office in Workshop No. 4 of the energy factory.
The office door was ajar, and a faint aroma of coffee could be smelled coming from the room.
"The light belt will stop extending when it reaches here." Yu Zhesen touched the end of the light belt with his hand.
"It seems that the guidance has ended here. Is there anything we want here?" Shi Xin snapped his fingers, and the entire light belt immediately dissipated in the air like light particles decomposing.
Yu Zhesen looked at her in astonishment: "So you also made this guiding light belt just now?"
"It's the power of prediction by the law of cause and effect. Just take it as a guide to your destiny." Shi Xin shrugged.
"What should we do now? Do we want to go in?" Yu Zhesen looked at the half-opened office door in front of him with some hesitation.
Before he finished speaking, a man's humble pleading came from the office: "Director Xing, please, please let me continue working in the factory."
Yu Zhesen and Shi Xin looked at each other, and together they tiptoed a few steps closer so that they could eavesdrop on the conversation in the office more clearly.
The man who made a pleading voice continued: "I really need this job, Director Xing. I will work hard to do a good job. Please show mercy and don't drive me away."
A few seconds later, another man's deep voice sounded in the office: "Lao Qu, I understand you are having difficulties, but the factory has clear regulations that workers with abnormal genetic diseases cannot be hired. A few days ago, the city
We have just issued a document to strictly investigate the cases of working while sick in various factories. The superiors are keeping a close eye on them, and I can’t do anything about it if I am caught in the middle.”
"Director, I promise that my illness will not affect my work. Just be accommodating and let me work for a while, even for a month or two..."
"Oh, Lao Qu, why can't you understand? Your illness is not a matter of seriousness. The superiors have said that sick employees will not be allowed to continue working in the factory!"
"But……"
"What a but, there is no but. If I give you some accommodation, I won't be able to afford it if the superiors find out in the future! Why, you are the only one who needs to support your family, don't I have to support your family?" Director Xing's patience gradually ran out.
The tone of his speech became more and more serious.
The office suddenly fell silent, and neither of them spoke for a long time.
Yu Zhesen listened solemnly. He already knew that the person who was begging his superiors in the office to keep his job was Qu Beichen's father, Qu Wangjing. Although he had known for a long time that he was a poor man, he witnessed Qu Wangjing in his conscious world.
The despair of losing his job still made him feel uncomfortable.
Shi Xin seemed to feel Yu Zhesen's heavy state of mind, and took the initiative to hold his hand, comforting him softly in An He's tone: "It's all in the past, don't pay too much attention."
Yu Zhesen nodded and heard Director Xing's voice speaking again in the office.
After a period of silence, Director Xing seemed to have calmed down again, and he said to Qu Wangjing in a gentler tone: "Old Qu, it's not that I don't want to help you, I really have my own difficulties. These are my
Please accept a little bit of your personal savings."
"No, no, how can this be done..."
"Take it and go find a better expert doctor. If there is hope that your disease can be cured, I will keep your position in the factory for you."
"Director Xing, I have caused you trouble today..."
"Don't mention it, don't mention it, I can only help you with this."
Yu Zhesen couldn't bear to listen any more, and turned around to leave. But when he turned around, he was stunned because he found a young man standing behind him since he didn't know when.
There were two lines of tears on the young man's face, and his red eyes were staring at the office door.
After a while, the half-open door opened, and Qu Wangjing walked out of it very dejectedly, holding a bulging envelope in his hand.
"At that time, electronic bracelets and citizen Iron Dome point accounts were not yet popular, and paper currencies passed down from the old era were still in use." Shi Xin said, "These can now be regarded as collectible antiques."
"So the envelope contains money." Yu Zhesen answered, "It looks full. I don't know how much it can be."
"It may be a lot for ordinary people, but at that time, if you wanted to treat genetic diseases with superpowers, this amount of money could only be said to be a drop in the bucket."
Shi Xin's words revealed the cruel reality. Qu Wangjing had no hope of curing his illness. Director Xing's so-called promise to let him take good care of his illness first and then return to work was nothing more than wishful thinking.
From the perspective of future generations, even at the time when Yu Zhesen lived, genetic diseases with abnormal powers were still a major and difficult disease that plagued the citizens of Iron Dome and affected their health.
He couldn't help but think of Yu Qingxue. Compared with the vast majority of healthy people with superpowers, Qingxue was unlucky. It could even be said that what happened to her was jealous of the talented people. But compared to the vast majority of people who were unfortunate enough to suffer from superpower genetic diseases
Compared with the low-level strugglers who are unable to receive treatment, Qingxue is lucky. Her talent was recognized by the administration, which gave her unconditional access to Flora stabilizers on a regular basis.
After reading Yu Zhesen's thoughts, Shi Xin said: "Miss Yu's greatest luck is that she met her sister and you one after another. The abnormal genetic disease tortured her body, but what she really needs to be saved is her emotions and soul."
"I don't think I have the ability to save anyone." Yu Zhesen laughed at himself, "It seems that I am the one who is being helped. Qingxue helped me cover up the issue of my supernatural powers, saving a lot of trouble. Except
In addition, I learned a lot of useful things from her.”
"You are all problem children, so you can help each other along the way." Shi Xin said with a sly look in his eyes, and joked with a bad smile: "Fortunately, I am not using my sister's simulated personality now, otherwise I would definitely be cruel
Jealous."
"Is An He jealous of this?" Yu Zhesen was a little unconvinced, "Then why did she always want to win over us before..."
"Sister is a jealous person. You will know about this if you have a chance to ask Miss Wu."
"What does Miss Wu... have to do with Xiaoming?" Yu Zhesen was confused because he didn't know about the interaction between An He and Wu Xiaoming on the Eden Paradise cruise ship.
Shi Xin deliberately put it off and did not explain the ins and outs of what she said to him, but continued: "She is now bringing you and Miss Yu together just because she feels that she can no longer form a relationship with you like a normal person.
The family has raised offspring.”
"But I don't care about this at all..." Yu Zhesen's tone was quite helpless, "We are a family to begin with, and starting a new family is just a formality. As for having children and so on... I haven't done that yet.
concept, take a step back and say that even if you adopt one in the future, it will be no problem."
Shi Xin followed his words and started thinking: "It makes sense, and in this era, I think the race of the children should not be too restrictive. Isn't it good to have an all-round genius artificial intelligence daughter like me? Even if the administration wants to
By erasing the existence of 'Father', I can pass on his great achievements in the field of research."
This kind of nonsense-sounding speech inspired Yu Zhesen, and he suddenly understood - yes, since he can accept An He who is attached to the android in the form of a light spirit body, then he and An He will make a bionic in the future.
Isn’t it good to have human children? Just like when they teamed up to develop a new bionic maid product for Xingtian Heavy Industries, wouldn’t working together to DIY a bionic child be inferior to real biological reproduction of offspring?
What's more, such a "child" will not have any genetic risk of superpowers, unlike the Qu family father and son in front of him...
Under Yu Zhesen's gaze, Qu Wangjing put his arms around his son's shoulders and leaned him against him. The father and son leaned on each other in silence for a long time, and then staggered towards the side door leaving the workshop together.
The workers on the assembly line in the workshop were as busy as machines. Almost no one noticed Qu Wangjing's departure. Even if someone occasionally looked up and noticed the depressed and desperate father and son, they only glanced at them indifferently.
Just as they were about to leave the workshop, Yu Zhesen saw young man Qu Beichen looking back at him.
He was shocked by the boy's eyes, because it was hard to imagine seeing such complex emotions in the eyes of a child not much older than Xiaoyan.
If listed individually, Yu Zhesen estimated that he could probably name a dozen words to describe the emotions in the young man's eyes, but summing them all up, it was resentment and dissatisfaction with the world.
This chapter has been completed!