Listening to Delphinium and Chensha chatting, Russell secretly sighed and felt a little lost for a moment.
——Because his relationship with Lycaon is actually quite good.
It's not the kind of friendliness that Rosso usually wears a mask and is "gentle to everyone".
But the relationship is really good.
Only two people in their class were admitted to Chongqing University. One was Russell and the other was Lycaon.
Although they are no longer in the same class, they are in the same major and the same college. They both belong to the "School of Information Security and Intelligence Control", and one of Russell's double majors comes from the "Information Security and Protection" major.
After all, their knowledge and personal cultural level are on the same level. That is to say, it is very rare to "be able to catch up with one's friends."
It is actually very difficult to have such friends.
Russell has experienced two lives and has a deep understanding of this. No matter how good friends were before, if at a certain moment they suddenly start to be unable to catch up with themselves, or they cannot catch up, the friendship will have huge cracks.
That is not "abandonment" based on snobbery, but "embarrassment" due to the contradiction and conflict of the living environment!
In the past, when we were in school, everyone was exposed to the same things, and there were endless things to talk about. But after graduation, everyone has their own life. And if the lives of friends are too different,
If we meet again, we will lose the common language.
At that time, you can only start endlessly "missing your school days", or you can just reluctantly find "things that everyone likes to play". After asking about several topics, you can barely find something that can make most people get together.
A common topic to chat about.
And even if you just talk a little bit about your current life, it can easily make the fragile and over-stressed students unbalanced, or make the students who are aloof and unconventional unable to understand or empathize.
Those who like to work hard, those who don't like hard work; those who follow the rules, those who are rebellious; those who are optimistic and pessimistic. Friends who were similar before will eventually become different.
Even elementary school classmates will become estranged after they reach high school; friends from junior high school will find it difficult to keep in touch when they reach college. Not to mention moving from school to society, participating in different jobs, and traveling to different circles.
If former friends want to remain friends, at least one party must choose to accommodate the other party - accommodate the other party, only talk about topics that the other party is interested in, or simply find ways to integrate into the other party's circle of interests.
But they can't be considered "the kind of friends they used to be". Friendship has finally changed. From two-way and mutually tolerant, it has become one-way and accommodating.
Even if it's accommodating each other - when two people try to communicate with each other with the goal of "maintaining this relationship", the relaxed friendship turns into the fatigue of socializing.
It's like a wrong marriage that is extremely tired and stretched to the limit, but both parties are trying their best to maintain it.
However, marriage and children serve as a bond. This kind of barely maintained friendship is really illusory. Just one small conflict will disappear completely and never be seen again.
Russell had quite a lot of friends like this when he was in college. After all, in Sogo Island, few people who can get into Sogo University are not talented people - everyone started out as a talented person, mixed with sporadic geniuses and ghosts.
But among them, the one Russell knew the earliest was Lycaon, whom he had followed since high school.
At that time, Russell had not yet awakened his past life memories. He was actually just a student with some unusual talents and inexplicably understood some strange knowledge.
He really cared about the friendship between classmates at that time.
So Russell valued Lycaon very much from the very beginning.
——Because Lycaon is the kind of person who can keep up with Russell.
He himself has "scientist" level talents, and also has the classic "scholar's disease"
In other words, it was one of the reasons why he was hated and alienated by his classmates.
It's just that he has many of the same problems that scientists have when they are young. His lack of popularity is precisely because he is too smart.
Russell once worried that Lycaon would
But he was depressed. So I tried to enlighten him in the past.
As a result, Lycaon, a real high school student, said a long sentence that Luo Xi didn't expect: "I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them from the bottom of my heart.
"They are so afraid of their own incompetence, and afraid that if they will become inferiors in society in the future, the harm they will do to me will only make me feel that their death is near. It is not that they are going to die, but that they are
The possibilities for the future are damning.
"Although I may not be able to go very far myself, and I may not be able to survive several rounds of division selection if I do join the SOGO Group. But I will definitely go further than them - and much further, at least in the SOGO Group.
I think there is no problem in persisting until I am in my forties. By then I will have accumulated enough money and strength, but they will live in confusion and lose all light.
"I kept staring at them, not to remember their faces and seek retribution. I was trying to use my eyes to make the other person hesitate and then start to reflect.
This is my favor to them - if they can realize what is wrong, realize their naivety and ignorance, and start to reflect on their behavior, they can still be saved. The future may be a little brighter.
In the future, they will thank me then.
"And if they are still confused and unconscious, then I am watching them go to destruction. Since I know that they are already dead, why should I care about them?"
If we want to say how correct and mature what Lycaon said is, that’s not necessarily the case. Strictly speaking, it’s still a bit of a hit-or-miss.
But as a high school student, can I not just talk about it, but understand this truth from my heart - be able to look at the real "future", not just the "college entrance examination" and "university",
"After graduation", it is very rare to be able to accurately judge how far you can go with your own talents instead of blindly having unlimited self-confidence about your future.
And later, after Russell and Lycaon actually went to Sogo University, he realized that Lycaon was still self-effacing.
——It turns out that the level of Sogo University is not as high as he thought, so that he can become the chief without using all his strength. And Lycaon's talent is about 70% of Russell's, so he may not be able to screen it in just a few rounds.
After that, he even had the opportunity to join the Zanbei Society and become a Zanbei doctor before he turned fifty. Perhaps Lycaon underestimated himself because the only person he could refer to at the time was Russell.
When Russell left Sogo Island, he didn't know that Lycaon had died at that time - because half a year before that, he had joined the Sogo Group as a graduate student and started climbing the ladder. At that time, Russell was worried about affecting Lycaon
When Weng was taking the exam, he was also worried about his friends retaining him, so he just left a scheduled email and ran away.
After arriving at Happy Island and joining the Special Execution Department, Russell was still thinking that at least he could be promoted faster than Lycaon, so he wouldn't be too embarrassed.
When he came back this time, he also wanted to chat with his old friend.
The full name of Sogo Group is "Sogo Technology Group", and the core talent source of Sogo Group is the School of Information Security and Intelligence Control. Russell has always been the chief of their college, and is also studying "Prosthetic Assembly and Maintenance" and
A double major in "Information Security and Protection". Lycaon can also be ranked among the top five stable majors in the information security major - the top five majors when the first place is stably occupied by Russell.
Based on his level, he is already a graduate student and has probably already established a firm foothold in the Sogo Group. Russell came back wearing the uniform of a senior executive in the executive department this time because he also wanted to show off to his old friend.
For ordinary friends, this kind of behavior is somewhat offensive and a bit inflated, and it may really break up the relationship between the two people. But for true friends, the irritation caused by this kind of showing off is not.
Merely accompanied by the appearance of joy.
As the saying goes, you are not only afraid of your brother's misery, but also afraid of your brother driving a Land Rover. But if you are a true brother, even if you really drive a Land Rover and come back, after the initial slight sourness and imbalance, nothing will come to your mind.
It won't be jealousy, but "pride". It means treating the achievements of brothers as if they were one's own.
pride.
But now, Russell has really returned home in glory. The friend he wanted to show off to has been killed.
From what Cinsha meant, it seemed that he was not sure whether he was murdered. This means that if Lycaon was killed, the murderer has not been found at all.
——This is on Sogo Island!
It is Sogo Island that can predict even school violence in advance and is completely controlled by the three sages!
However, a murder case could not be solved.
Or maybe the three sages have actually solved the mystery, but they think it would be better not to reveal the truth?
Russell had to check it out no matter what.
This class reunion is the best opportunity. They must know more!