If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

"The person has been found. Well, he is with me now. Can his sister answer the phone? Yes, that's the new student."

In Chicago's Lakeside Park, Lin Nian stood on the edge of the lawn and looked down at the bright and dazzling sunlight in front of the toes of his shoes. There were ants crawling in the gaps between the spliced ​​stone slabs. Every person passing by on the stone road brought a slight excitement. During an earthquake, ants wander like a lost maze in a maze of ups and downs.

"Hey, hey, hey? Is the senior brother opposite here?"

An unusually energetic girl's voice came over the phone. Lin Nian closed his eyes slightly, as if his eyes were dazzled by the small mirror held by the girl having a picnic on the lawn in the distance, "This is Lin Nian."

"This is a new student, Xia Mi." The girl on the other end of the phone seemed to be calmed down by Lin Nian's executive-department-like tone, and answered in the same serious tone.

"Your brother is in my hand." Lin Nian lowered his head to avoid the direct sunlight, looking at the figure of a group of young people doing aerobics on the park lawn in the distance.

The whole world is so high-pitched, noisy, and blurry in the brilliant halo that can hang a rainbow with just a little water.

There was silence on the other end of the phone, and then there was the faint sound of conversation.

‘Then what, senior sister, do I need to prepare a ransom to find my brother? ’

'Um? what are you saying? What ransom? ’

Then there was another rush. Lin Nian didn't say anything. He looked at the figure in the distance who was clumsily following aerobics in the sun. His hands and feet were not very coordinated. He even stumbled with his left foot and fell to the ground with his right foot. Since it was grass, it probably didn't hurt from the fall, so I got up in a daze and continued dancing with the people in front of me, but I was still so clumsy.

"Did nothing happen?" Chu Zihang's voice sounded on the other end of the phone.

"No one died."

"That's okay." Chu Zihang skipped the topic after getting the answer, "We are already at the hotel, when will you arrive."

"It takes about half an hour on the subway."

"Can't you get a taxi?"

“Why take a taxi when there’s a subway?”

"Well, let's get two rooms to put our luggage first. I checked the suite you booked. There is only one double bed room that can only accommodate two people. It just so happens that you and Su Xiaoqiang can live together. There are two rooms left for me and Lu Mingfei will live together, and the new student will live with her family. Lu Mingfei and the others said they were a little tired after flying all day, so they were going to rest in the hotel room in the afternoon. You can come over anytime."

"I know." Lin Nian said.

Whether in the executive department or in peacetime, Chu Zihang is always the one who can arrange everything properly. The position of president of the Lion Heart Club has never been filled by a brainless force. He is second only to Kai in Kassel College. The person with Gattuso's leadership ability is Chu Zihang.

As for Lin Nian, he was never suitable for leading others. He was always an independent factor outside the cluster. Some people in the Lion Heart Club even joked that Lin Nian's Lion Heart Club number could be set to the root number 3.

There was silence on the phone for three seconds, but no one hung up.

"Is there anything else?" Chu Zihang asked proactively.

"Give the phone to the new student named Xia Mi."

Lin Nian took his mobile phone and left the shade of the tree and walked into the sunshine. There was chaos on the other side for a while, and then the familiar, slightly cheerful voice appeared again, "Senior brother, do you have anything else to do with me?"

Lin Nian wanted to say to that cheerful voice for a moment, it's nothing, it's just that your brother was almost beaten to death, why are you still so heartless?

But the last sentence remained unsaid. Lin Nian stepped across the lawn and stopped in an outdoor man-made pit under the dazzling sunshine. There were many young people playing skateboards swinging around, flipping and touching. The sound of the ground was endless, and a pair of blue eyes reflected all this, as if they were looking at some strange toy, full of curiosity.

If the boy squatting by the pit is 5 years old or younger, then all his curiosity and ignorance will be attributed to the cuteness of children, as well as his love and curiosity for the entire strange and magnificent world like a pile of gems, but if When this phenomenon appeared in a boy in his early 20s, things suddenly became intriguing.

"Your brother, is there something wrong with his head?"

Lin Nian never turns around when asking questions, perhaps because he inherited Chu Zihang's advantages.

"That's my elder brother, not my younger brother." The girl named Xia Mi corrected Lin Nian's mistake, "Since you can ask this question, it seems that you don't need to bother me, senior brother. Please take a photo to see if you can find the right person. Anyway, thank you for your help, senior brother." I found him."

"Do you need to talk to him?"

"Ah, no, no, no, he doesn't like to talk very much. Senior brother, if he doesn't talk to you or answer you, don't be angry. He never communicates with strangers."

"Do you still dare to bring him out like this?" Lin Nian asked.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's my fault for not paying attention to him. There were too many people there before. As soon as I lost sight of him, he was gone. If he got lost, he wouldn't look for me. Instead, he would play like a child."

It seems that there is indeed something wrong with his head. Lin Nian's idea was also aimed at the brother and sister. "What disease does he have? Will there be any sudden symptoms?"

"Senior brother, have you ever heard of the disease 'dissociative disorder'?"

"No."

"A mental disorder caused by mental factors. People in the past also called it hysteria. My brother has had some congenital problems since he was a child. My family took him to many hospitals in big cities, but nothing could be done."

"When he first got sick, he would intermittently act like a child and didn't understand anything. His IQ and cognitive ability became very low, and he would also have memory impairment. But before, at least he was awake most of the time. But when the condition got serious later, it got much worse." When Xia Mi told these stories, his voice was no longer as high as before, it was very gentle, and you couldn't hear too many ups and downs of emotions.

"Can it be cured?" Lin Nian asked looking at his back.

"Maybe there will be a way in the future. Medicine is always making progress." Xia Mi's tone gradually became more positive. "Please, senior brother, please look after him and bring him to the hotel. Thank you, senior brother Lin Nian."

"I don't think you should bring him to Chicago. Enrollment is a very short matter, and Cassel College doesn't allow it." Lin Nian said half of the words, and then shut up.

He felt that if he continued to speak, there would be some suspicion of double standards. Even though Xia Mi on the opposite side would not notice it, he still did not continue.

"I actually don't agree with him coming with him, but he insisted on coming with me and I couldn't help it. My family was too accommodating to him. My original plan was that after coming to Chicago, I would stay here for one more day to play with him. My family will come up and take him away in a day, but now it seems that he can have enough fun." Xia Mi's words contained a hint of helplessness.

Lin Nian, who was on the other end of the phone, no longer wanted to hear this. He felt a little inexplicably irritated and hung up the phone before the person on the other end wanted to continue talking. At this time, he also walked behind the boy in the white T-shirt.

Xiawang? That's what it's called.

Lin Nian looked at him. The boy was much shorter than him. His short black hair was warmed by the sun. Below it was his exposed neck and back. The more exposed to the sun, the whiter he looked. The first section of his cervical vertebrae The slight bulge had a rugged and thin beauty. He felt that the child in front of him was more like the girl's 'sister' than the 'brother' in Xia Mi's mouth.

Yes, he was so slender, and the skin exposed in his T-shirt was as soft as new growth, but the bruises from the beatings looked so deep. The willow eyebrows on the top of the azure eyes make people feel like a slender ink pen has gently drawn a delicate feeling on the white cheeks.

He probably had everything a girl could dream of. If Lin Nian hadn't carefully observed the rise and fall of his chest and Adam's apple when changing him into new clothes in the clothing store, he would have thought she was a delicate girl.

Xiawang does indeed sound like a girl's name.

Lin Nian stood behind him. He didn't react or be wary at all. He just squatted there. He must have been tired from jumping around to the aerobics music on the lawn before. It was best to just hug his legs and curl up in the sun. In a certain place, the soft bangs of hair hang in front of a corner of the eye, swaying in the wind.

It reminds me of a cat basking in the afternoon sun. When she lies on the ground, she looks like she grew out of the ground. She will never move unless you push her. She quietly enjoys the most beautiful thing in the world, the blue color. Mao Tongli curiously looked at everything passing by.

"Xiawang." Lin Nian called his name, "He's gone."

The boy turned back and looked up at Lin Nian. Lin Nian and the sky were reflected in his blue eyes at the same time, like a mirror. He nodded obediently, then stood up and held Lin Nian's hand.

Lin Nian paused for a moment and looked down at his held wrist. It was cool, delicate and soft. It reminded him of when Su Xiaoqiang held him, so naturally. The only difference was that Su Xiaoqiang would talk a lot after holding him. This child talks very little, like a timid girl.

He was very obedient, but he doubted whether this boy had been so obedient before following the black people into the bridge. Fortunately, he was a boy. If he was really a girl, he would probably. Lin Nian interrupted his train of thought, probably It was the possibility of going down the path that made him sick of himself.

Lin Nian tilted his head slightly and lowered his eyes. What on earth are you thinking? The other person is just sick.

But will the so-called 'dissociative disorder' disease called Xia Mi affect physical development? How tall is this boy? Lin Nian felt that the freshman named Xia Mi must have lied about his height. This boy's height was estimated to be around 1.63 meters tall. Even Su Xiaoqiang was half a head taller than him. Being held by Lin Nian, he really looked like his younger brother. , just like when Lin Xian held him before he reached the growth stage.

He led the child named Xiawang...let's call him a child, and walked forward. From the corner of his eye, he could notice that the child was still looking back at the young skateboarders in the pit, galloping back and forth on the arced track. The same, turning back three times every step of the way, without taking his eyes off him.

Lin Nian walked forward for a certain distance, then stopped, and looked back at him. The other person turned back and just stared at him. He probably didn't need to say anything.

What's so fun about skateboarding? Lin Nian didn't quite understand.

But in fact, just like Lin Xian didn't understand what was good about basketball, he thought this kind of game was boring and childish.

He said calmly, "I'm in a hurry."

Xia Wang turned around and glanced at Lin Nian, then lowered his head and walked away without looking back at the man-made pit.

Just like Xia Mi said, he is indeed very silent. It is true that he doesn't like talking to strangers. Apart from asking his name under the bridge, he and Lin Nian have not had any effective communication, whether it was from walking out of the bridge or from Go to a clothing store to change clothes, or make a phone call in the park.

Lin Nian looked at Xia Wang who looked like this and wanted to say something, but he couldn't. Suddenly his eyes noticed something eye-catching, and he slowly glanced into the artificial pit.

Under the direct sunlight, there was the sound of a skateboard accelerating in the man-made pit. It was a blonde girl wearing a baseball cap and a strapless T-shirt who was speeding towards the ramp on a blue skateboard as if there was no one else around. When she was rushing to the top of the ramp, Performing a difficult flip, the side board stopped, and he burst into happy laughter. Everyone around him cheered and applauded his gorgeous and perfect movements.

What are you mixing in? Lin Nian wanted to say this.

Several passing black figures crossed Lin Nian's line of sight. The blond girl beside the pit disappeared out of thin air in the blink of an eye. Only the blue skateboard was left, sliding down the slope, sitting and wandering in the artificial pit. .

No one was surprised by it, as if she had never existed, but the skateboard was still making friction sounds while sliding.

Lin Nian turned around and walked forward. After a few steps, he stopped. Xiawang, who was being held by him, also stopped.

Lin Nian raised his head for a few seconds, then lowered his head, turned around and led him to the man-made pit, picked up the blue skateboard, and asked, "Do you want to try it?"

Xia Wang nodded, and Lin Nian had the illusion that he nodded and shook the beautiful little head off his fragile neck. A sense of joy that is palpable. Just like a child who goes shopping with his parents and agrees to buy toys.

But he was just a stranger, so why did he listen to him so much? In fact, Lin Nian was prepared that he would ignore her and run around playing around. He seemed very docile from the moment he was picked up from the bridge, which made Lin Nian feel like he had picked up a runaway cat from the trash can. Looking at those blue eyes, if there was a breed, it would definitely be a Braddore. Cat.

"Ten minutes." It wasn't like he was defeated by those blue eyes. Lin Nian simply felt that it didn't matter if he delayed for a while. He wasn't in a hurry anyway. He let go of Xia Wang, then turned around and took out his cell phone, edited a text message, probably sent it to Su Xiaoqiang, and the content was to tell the other party that they might arrive later.

But before he finished editing the text message, he heard a "boom" behind him.

Turning around to look, I saw the child lying on the ground with his back stretched out. The blue skateboard flew out not far away, and then slid back down the ramp. Just when it was about to cause the second "fatal blow" , Lin Nian stopped the skateboard with one kick.

I've only been out of sight for a few seconds, what are you doing?

The boy stared at Lin Nian, and Lin Nian looked down at the boy.

"It hurts," the boy said.

Does it hurt if the back of your head hits the stone floor hard?

Lin Nian looked in silence at the boy lying on the ground, staring blankly at the sky and his own face, feeling a little aggrieved. For the first time, he felt that the sun burning his hair was a little scorching.