【Ruijin】Eye of the Storm

Chapter 12

"Tonight's dinner is—pancakes and stew."

Qiu placed the plate firmly on the table, pinched her earlobe with her red fingertips, and directed her younger brother, "Jin quickly go to the kitchen to get an extra set of bowls and chopsticks, and wash your hands by the way. Then sit down and eat."

The little boy named Jin stood motionless with his hands behind his back, staring at his shoe with a dissatisfied expression.Seeing that he didn't respond for a long time, Qiu could only walk over patiently and rub his hair: "What's the matter?"

"I don't want to..." Jin pouted and turned his face away, muttering something in a low voice.

"Don't want what?" Qiu Fu leaned closer to him and asked.

"—Don't eat with someone you don't know!" Jin yelled as if he couldn't bear it anymore, his blue eyes widened suddenly, and quickly filled with what can be called grievance.

Qiu froze for a moment, as if she didn't expect her younger brother to have such a big reaction.She sighed softly, grabbed Jin's left hand and half-forced him to the other end of the dining table.Sitting on a chair there was a boy about Jin's age. His silver hair was scattered above his shoulders, and a piece of gauze was stuck to his right cheek.The hands lying flat on the knees exposed a pair of extremely thin wrists from the simple shirt, and the slightly longer bangs blocked most of his expression. Jin could only look at the pale and thin body of this unexpected visitor from the side as if recovering from a serious illness. shape.

Qiu gently wrapped her other hand around the silver-haired boy's shoulders, and introduced to Jin in a gentle tone: "His name is Gray, and he will live here with us from now on." She paused, then turned back to Gray Said: "Gerry, this child is Jin, my younger brother, you can temporarily sleep in his room these few days."

In a short period of time, after being told that a new person will be added to his life in the future, and then being unilaterally announced by his sister that he must share his bedroom with this person, Jin's first impression of Grey immediately dropped below zero.Angrily, he turned his head and walked into the kitchen to take out a new pair of bowls and chopsticks, and deliberately made a loud noise when he put them on Gray's table.The silver-haired boy didn't respond, he just raised his head and glanced at him slightly.

—It turned out that his eyes were purple.

Jin was taken aback by what he was paying attention to, and sat back in his seat as if fleeing, buried himself in the dinner plate and began to eat rice.Throughout the dinner, Jin has been observing the opposite person from a distance of a table, but Gray seems to have no appetite, and he didn't even take the initiative to pick up any food, but just put the food that Qiu put in his bowl As soon as he finished eating, he didn't say a word during the whole process.

In the past, the dining table with only him and his sister was always very lively. Now that the number of people has increased, the atmosphere has become silent and dignified. Jin silently swallowed the last mouthful of stew, feeling that even the taste of the delicious food has become worse .

Jin was lying on the floor of the room playing with a world map jigsaw puzzle that he had just picked up while wandering outside a few days ago, when he suddenly felt a drop of water on the back of his neck that was exposed.He was startled, and jumped away with a strange cry, only to find that Gray, who had just taken a shower, was standing behind him expressionlessly, with water droplets falling on his silver hair that had not been dried. On the ground below, it quickly gathered into a pool.

"You, why don't you talk when you come in," Jin stammered and shouted at him, "it's too scary!"

Gray stared at him for a while, then slowly shifted his gaze to the unfinished jigsaw puzzle on the ground.He was wearing one of Jin's old T-shirts as pajamas, which seemed to fit.Jin watched him slowly leaning down, and took off a small piece of the jigsaw puzzle that he had put together just now, moved it a bit, and put it back together in the correct position.

"You spelled it wrong." He said slowly, his voice steady and soft.

Jin choked for a moment, ran over and confirmed it unwillingly, but finally had nothing to say.

"Let's talk about it first," Jin said unconvinced to Gray's back as he walked towards the bed, "Whether it's living in my house or sharing half of the bed for you, that's what my sister meant, and I didn't agree to it." .”

"Anyway, so far, I still hate you! Don't get me wrong!"

"Hey, did you hear that?"

The silver-haired boy didn't pay attention at all. After taking off his shoes, he climbed onto the bed by himself. After occupying half of the area peacefully, he wanted to lie down on his side.Jin on the other end watched his movements, and quickly shouted a few words "pillow pillow", ran over and pressed Gray's shoulder to prevent him from continuing to move.

The blond boy aggressively opened his small closet, and found a dry towel with the bear's head printed on it, stepped on the mattress, jumped to kneel beside him, and covered Gray's wet hair with the towel, carelessly rubbed it.

"We only have one pillow!" Jin said ferociously to the person in front of him, "If your hair gets wet, how can I sleep? Also, my sister said that if you sleep without drying your hair, You'll be sick the next day, don't you even know that?"

Jin wiped him for a while, then pulled down Gray's hands and placed them on his head through the towel, and pretended to order: "Wipe yourself! You can't lie down until it's all dry! I'll go Take a shower." After saying that, he jumped off the bed and ran to the bathroom outside.

When Jin returned to the bedroom after washing, Gray was already lying motionless on the bed, as if asleep.He snorted a few times, reluctantly climbed to the other side of the bed, and got into the bed that was already soaked in another person's body temperature.

Jin was awakened in the middle of the night by Gray's erratic breathing and short whimpers.He sat up in a daze, looked around subconsciously, and was immediately taken aback by Grey, whose face was flushed and was covered in sweat.The blond-haired boy leaned over at a loss and gently shook his shoulders, trying to treat Gerry the same way Qiu coaxed him to sleep when he was a child, but unexpectedly the silver-haired boy struggled so hard that he almost pushed Jin off the bed with a wave of his hand. down.Jin looked at him with his mouth slightly open but on the verge of suffocation through the faint moonlight outside the window, and was so frightened that his back broke out in cold sweat.He quickly jumped out of bed and stumbled towards Qiu's room, calling his sister over.

By the time Qiu was dragged to the bedside by Jin's arms, Grey's condition had become more and more serious.He seemed to be in a nightmare, murmuring broken sentences in a low voice.Qiu's eyes darkened, and she held his waving forearm with one hand, and gently approached Gerui, stroking his sweaty forehead and cheeks with warm palms over and over again.Jin watched the change of Grey's expression uneasily. Under Qiu's comfort, the silver-haired boy seemed to calm down a little, struggled less, and his frown that was originally tightly frowned slowly relaxed. At this moment, Jin saw clearly A big drop of tear slowly slid down from the corner of Gray's eye, rolled down all the way along the corner of his forehead whose lines were not yet clear, and finally melted into the fabric of the pillow, blurring a small water stain.

Hearing a soft title slowly spill out from Grey's closed lips, Jin subconsciously tilted his head, pressed his cheek tightly against Qiu's palm, and called out "Mom" slowly and fragilely.

Qiu's breath was suffocated, and he endured the tide in his eyes to get closer to him.Her long blond hair softly brushed over Gray's trembling eyelids, and with a feminine aura like a real mother, she responded as gently as she could.

Jin lay on the edge of the bed, silently witnessing everything.He watched Grey's breathing gradually calm down and fell into sleep again, and then he asked in a low voice, "Is he alright?"

Qiu straightened up again, and rubbed the blond hair on the back of his younger brother's head: "It's all right."

Jin didn't speak, and turned his face to look up at his sister with crystal-like blue eyes: "Grey's family, where did they go?"

Qiu didn't answer this question directly, but just grabbed Jin's soft and fair little hand, allowing him to lightly hold Grey's equally cold and immature hand on the outside of the quilt for the first time.

She put her big hand on the hands of the two children, exerted a little force, and said softly to her younger brother: "Gerui's family is no longer here, so from today, Jin..."

"—You are going to be his new family."

"Since we already know the murderer of the case, we must catch him at all costs."

"Let the tour guide with the dangerous formula walk outside the tower's control, and wait until the public opinion spreads, what is the prestige of the tower?"

"That kind of formula, in the final analysis, was not confirmed by the laboratory back then. Now it is used by a fish that slipped through the net. To what extent has he researched it?"

"In my opinion, the man should be captured alive. If he really made a formula that can artificially control the genetic level of the sentinel guide, it should also be used by the tower."

"—Master Daniel Tower, what's your opinion?"

"..."

"My lords," the man whose name was selected slowly stood up from his seat, and the silver-white bangs slightly covering the left side of his face swayed slightly as he stood up, "Please be at ease." Don't be impatient. Regarding the arrest of Ghost Fox Tianchong, all the departments of Yi Tower are in the process of orderly preparations, and I believe that they will be able to give you a satisfactory answer in the near future. However, after many years, the forbidden man suddenly appeared outside the tower. Regarding the matter of medicine, I think there should be hidden secrets, and further investigation may be needed."

"Lord Daniel," a voice came from the other end of the dimly lit meeting room, "Although you were appointed as Tower Chief back then, we have seen your ability for all of us..." As soon as the man finished speaking, There was a burst of high and low echoes. "...So, don't let us down."

Daniel nodded modestly, with a calm face: "...Yes."

"Master Daniel! Lord Daniel!"

Daniel, who had just changed out of his long white uniform jacket, stared slightly at the secretary guide who hurried into the tower chief's office, but still asked in a gentle voice, "What's the matter, don't worry, speak slowly."

"Yes, that's how it is," the young guide girl swallowed, with a troubled expression on her face, "There is a guide who wants to see you, and he is at the door of the living room."

"Which guide?"

"Yes... it's Golden Guide."

When Daniel heard the name, a flash of surprise appeared on Daniel's face. He pondered for a moment, finally nodded, and asked the secretary to let the person in.

The door of the office closed and opened, and when Daniel looked up again, Jin, who was wearing a hospital gown, had already stood in front of his desk.Daniel glanced at the other's bare feet, and frowned without leaving a trace.He pointed to the sofa on the other side of the office, and Jin was not polite, and went straight over and sat down.

"What's the matter, Kim?"

"Daniel... Chief Tower," he paused for a moment, then continued, "I want to ask you something."

"About what?" Daniel stood up silently, walked to the water dispenser and poured himself a cup of hot water, already had a little guess.

"About my sister," Kim said bluntly.

Daniel sighed secretly, thinking that it was so.He turned to Jin and replied gently: "I have answered you many times, Jin. If you want to know about Qiu, you can directly take your ID card and go to the database. Swipe open is what I can tell you."

"You know that's not what I want to ask." Jin's voice contained a hint of anger, "When we were still living in that ghost place of Dengalu, you were the one who regularly sent life supplements to my sister, right? ?”

Daniel's fingers holding the water glass tightened slightly, and after a moment he nodded and admitted: "It's me."

"What about Grey, why, Grey's sister suddenly brought Dengru to live with us? Grey's parents were also the sentinel guides in the tower? Then the elder sister—"

"——Jin!" Daniel scolded in a deep voice.There was an inexplicable sense of oppression in this sound, which made Jin forget what he was going to say next for a moment.

"I don't care what you are guessing, but there is one thing that you should never doubt," the silver-haired young tower chief walked up to him with a serious aura that Jin had never seen before, and said slowly, " Your elder sister is a kind person. Everything she does is for the two younger brothers she has raised and taken care of, so that they can live in peace."

Jin was stunned by these words and couldn't react. He opened his mouth in vain, but couldn't say a word of rebuttal.At this moment, the door of the tower chief's office was suddenly pushed open again from the outside. The two looked up at the same time, but it was Gray's figure that caught their eyes.

The silver-haired sentry hadn't tied up his hair, and his bandaged upper body was simply covered with a coat of indoor uniform, but he looked calm and unscathed.Jin froze in place, he could only watch Gray walk towards him step by step, and pulled him up from the sofa.

"You're here." Daniel seemed to have expected it, and was not at all surprised by Gray's sudden appearance.The silver-haired sentinel nodded to him, and when Jin was caught off guard, he quickly bent down and wrapped his arms around the guide's shoulders and knees, and easily hugged him horizontally.

"I took him away." Gray said to Daniel cautiously.The tower chief naturally agreed, and after thinking about it, he stopped them before they left the door: "Recently, there should be some movements in the tower. I will help take care of everything that concerns you. But, you have to be careful yourself."

Gray nodded with his back to him, and walked out of the office with Jin in his arms.

Kim felt like he was in a dream.From seeing Lige Rui's difficult appearance on the monitor, to running to the office and confronting Chief Daniel Tower after making a fuss, and now being carried back to the ward by his own sentinel, he has no idea what is real What is fake, my heart is complicated for a moment.However, it was so safe to smell the sentry's breath while leaning against Gray's chest, which made him completely relax.

Gray carefully laid the person flat on the hospital bed.Kim stared intently at his face, as if to make sure with his own eyes that the man was safe and sound.Gray clicked his tongue softly, and was about to reach out his hand to fasten the buttons of the hospital gown that fell apart at some time, but Jin grabbed his hand first.

"What the hell is going on?!" King yelled, "Wait, wait, you, Gray, are you really okay...?"

Gray sat on the edge of his bed and nodded: "It's okay."

"Then, the surveillance screen I saw...?"

"It's just a deliberate illusion. Some people have to see that to relax their vigilance."

"...Yes, Master Daniel asked them to do this?"

"Ah."

"...It's over..." Jin groaned in pain, buried his head in his hands and murmured between his bent knees, "I completely misunderstood... I have to apologize to Lord Daniel next time... Ah Ahh..."

Seeing his reaction, Gray felt a little helpless, so he could only rub his soft and fluffy blond hair: "There is one more thing I want to tell you."

"What's the matter?" King lifted his face from between his knees and watched his sentinel.Gray's purple eyes looked back at him, and he said unhurriedly: "I found a way that might restore your abilities."

This is indeed great news, and Jin's heart jumped with joy in an instant.He held Gray tightly and couldn't wait to ask: "Really?! What is the way?"

Gray looked at him, sighed softly, slowly held Jin's cheeks with both hands, and said with a serious expression, "-join me again."

TBC