After leaving the matter of Rose Flower Castle to Mr. Dong, Xu Huo went up to the third floor alone.
Tan Qi was waiting for him outside the study.
"Is something wrong?" Xu Huo opened the door.
Tan Qi followed him and stood at the door after entering: "Don't you ask me about Dr. Zhang?"
Xu Huo sat down behind the desk and asked while sorting out the notes on the desk, "What do you want to say?"
He lowered his head so that he could not see his expression, so Tan Qi tilted his head and looked at him for a while. After returning in vain, he also followed his example and lowered his head to speak, "Isn't it because of Dr. Zhang that you brought me out? You can ask me ."
"Part of the reason." Xu Huo raised his head and glanced at him, "You can live an ordinary life like Xiao Yuan, go to school in District 011, and choose what you want to do in the future."
"I can help you." Tan Qi said: "Do you want to deal with Dr. Zhang? Give me a few more years, and I can help you."
Xu Huo smiled and said, "I have read your experimental records. You were very sensitive to Dr. Zhang and the drugs during the experiment. Are you pretending?"
"To protect myself." Tan Qi said: "If they knew everything about Dr. Zhang, I might die."
After a pause, he added, "I am not a successful experiment."
"Did the doctor in the laboratory tell you?" Xu Huo asked.
"No." Tan Qi walked to the opposite side of the desk, met his eyes and said, "That's what Dr. Zhang said."
"Before he gave me and other children the medication, he told us we were failures."
"But he also said that he wanted to cultivate a finished product from the failed sample."
"Doctor Zhang didn't take anyone away, so we are all failures."
Xu Huo was silent for a moment and said, "Are you sick?"
Many children in District 002 were born with congenital diseases and many died young, but Tan Qi looked healthy.
"Doctor Zhang cured our disease." Tan Qi's eyes glowed a little.
"In that case, Dr. Zhang is a good person to you, how can I trust you to stand by me?" Xu Huo stopped what he was doing.
Tan Qi did not make up other lies, but said bluntly: "You are no match for Dr. Zhang."
"I understand." Xu Huo nodded, "What you mean is that I am not strong enough to do anything to Dr. Zhang, so your position is insignificant."
This was not Tan Qi's focus, but instead of correcting him, he acquiesced in Xu Huo's deliberately distorted statement.
However, Xu Huo raised his eyebrows and said, "You can accept that you are irrelevant, but what position do you have to have this conversation with me now?"
"As you said, you are a failure. Dr. Zhang will definitely not reveal any more information in front of you, and his training methods for failures are not informative and are useless information to me."
"It's not useless information." Tan Qi emphasized, "You can't even meet Dr. Zhang, you can only get to know him through me. Otherwise, why did you bother to bring me here?"
"You want to prove your worth." Xu Huo nodded slightly, "Don't you want to be an ordinary person?"
"I want to be a player." Tan Qi looked directly at him.
His mentality is actually easy to understand. If everyone lives in hardship, then the hardship is tolerable.
But if they knew that there was another better way to live in this world, no one would be willing to continue suffering.
Doctor Zhang opened the door for him, and he wanted to walk out on his own.
"As I said just now, you are free to choose whether you want to be a player or an ordinary person." Xu Huo said calmly: "You don't have to sacrifice anything in exchange. I will only support you for a few years, and you can return the money in the future.
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Tan Qi firmly believed that there was no such thing as a free lunch and stood still.
"Well," Xu Huo added, "You can take care of Xiao Yuan."
"How to take care of her?" Tan Qi didn't understand what he meant. "I can give her my own food and candies donated by others in the orphanage, but there is no shortage of food here."
"It's not about basic living supplies, just like an ordinary child, give her some homework help." Xu Huo explained, and at the same time warned, "But you can't write for her."
Tan Qi looked at him with an expression that said, "Although I have never been to school, I still suspect that you are insulting my IQ."
"Go." Xu Huo was already immersed in his own affairs.
"Don't you need to take care of the man outside?" Tan Qi asked again and suggested, "I can bring him in."
Xu Huo didn't even raise his head, "If you have nothing to do, go to bed early. Children won't grow up if they stay up late."
Tan Qi returned home defeated.
He went out for a while, and Xiao Yuan knocked on the door with milk and snacks, "Uncle Dong asked me to deliver them."
Xu Huo motioned for her to put it down. Xiao Yuan put down the tray and hesitated for a moment before asking, "Is Tan Qi a good person?"
"Currently." Xu Huo replied.
Xiao Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, "Then do I want to go to school with him?"
"He hasn't been to school before. If you study for a while before him, you can help each other with him." Xu Huo didn't hide anything because she was a child, "But you have to be careful, you can't trust him completely."
"You don't have to hide this in front of him."
Children don't get along for a long time, so it's better to be honest.
"But my words may not be correct, you can make your own judgment."
Xiao Yuan nodded solemnly and exited the study obediently.
It was already three o'clock in the morning when Xu Huo finished watching the last part of the video material he brought back from the laboratory. After moving his body, he turned off the light and returned to the bedroom.
Nothing happened that night.
After waiting outside the castle for a while, the hat player went to find a place to stay in the ancient city area. In the morning, he came to visit the castle with a basket of fruits.
Xu Huo asked Mr. Dong to let him in and said straight to the point: "Do you still remember the divination on the train?"
The hat player smiled and said: "Remember, is that why I came to find you?"
Xu Huo asked him to sit down.
"I think we are quite destined. You see, you accidentally saved my life in the car. We happened to get off at the same station, and we happened to come out in the same direction... It was God's will.
It’s not an exaggeration!” the hat player said with a smile.
Indeed, he is not in the dungeon now. If he encounters danger, he can use the ticket to leave, so he is safe.
Xu Huo didn't know that he was following him to the castle, so he said, "Let's get down to business. What do you want from me?"
"I know a dungeon with very generous rewards, and I want to invite you to go with me." The hat player immediately said: "Don't refuse in a hurry, because in this dungeon you may end up with a powerful item that is worth a living person.
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"You know, most props have no autonomy and it depends on how the player uses them. But if this one is released, it can even actively cooperate with the player to fight!"
