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Li Tao: "Are you asleep?"
Xianglian: “zZ ~”
Li Tao: "???"
Xiang Lian: "Asleep."
In the dark room, the woman had a quilt on her head, her little head poked out and her eyes stared straight at the phone.
Xiang Lian blushed and murmured, "Don't young people use zz as a code word for going to sleep?"
Xiang Lian still thought she was "pregnant". Although she hadn't seen Li Tao for the past two days, she was thinking about him all the time.
But if Li Tao thinks about it carefully, that person is her student. After all, although she does not teach Li Tao, she is his counselor.
Moreover, she is twelve years older than Li Tao and "pregnant with his child", so Xiang Lian feels that she should pay a little attention to him and it would be best if they could have some common language.
Of course, she stubbornly claimed that this self-deceiving behavior was because she wanted the baby in her belly to feel the warmth of family.
Because Li Tao hadn't contacted her for two days, Xiang Lian somehow studied the way young people speak.
Li Tao also realized what zZ meant, and he shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
Li Tao: "Can you still type while sleeping?"
Xiang Lian: “Yes.”
Li Tao: "Can I ask you something?"
Xiang Lian: "Da-me."
The corners of Li Tao's mouth twitched. Is this the way a 31-year-old woman should speak?
He couldn't communicate via text, so he switched to voice conversation.
Just when Xiang Lian was wondering if she was being too unkind, a pop-up popped up on the screen asking whether she should accept the video call.
"Want to video chat with me?"
Xiang Lian looked up at the clock. It was almost midnight. Li Tao suddenly wanted to video chat with her. What did he want to see about her?
I heard that young people now pay to chat with female anchors on video. Does Li Tao want to watch her show?
Xiang Lian was very conflicted. She decided to answer the call and show him that something was amiss. Li Tao was not only a student at her college, but also her sister Xiang Xue's boyfriend.
But if she didn't show it to him, she would feel that it was very unkind of her. After all, Li Tao had lent her his sperm in order to fulfill her wish to live up to his father's instructions.
Gritting her teeth, Xiang Lian jumped out of bed, turned on the light, and rummaged through the closet.
The veteran leftover woman didn't have any revealing clothes, so she searched for a long time before she saw a brown, hollowed-out, low-cut halter dress.
After changing it in a hurry, she connected the video.
It was only then that Li Tao noticed that he had actually sent a video request.
"Sorry, I wanted to make a voice call."
Under the moonlight, the boy's slightly embarrassed look made Xiang Lian, who had been widowed for thirty years, stare at him in a daze.
Seeing that the other party didn't speak, Li Tao thought she was still angry. After all, Li Tao stripped her naked and used her as a wine jar to quench his thirst.
"Uh... I have something I want to know from you, because maybe only people who have stayed on campus for a long time will understand..." Li Tao bit his lip, his eyes wandering among the flowers.
Xiang Lian pursed her lips. Damn, the moonlight seemed to have added a filter to Li Tao. Now she felt like she was in love with a grown boy.
"what's up?"
“It’s this sea of flowers. Do you know it?”
"Sea of flowers..." Xiang Lian murmured, and suddenly her old face turned red.
Is this Li Tao’s romantic confession?
Send her a sea of flowers through video?
"Yeah, it looks good, very beautiful." Xiang Lian said shyly.
It is not an easy matter for an old leftover woman to be attracted by love. Li Tao still doesn't know what kind of trouble he has gotten himself into.
"what?"
Li Tao didn't hear clearly so he had to ask again.
“Nothing… nothing…” Xiang Lian was too embarrassed to say anything more.
"I was taking a walk alone tonight and happened to walk in here. I saw the sign saying it was called the Sea of Time," Li Tao explained.
"Sea of Time...Sea of Time..."
Xianglian pondered over it, and involuntarily laid down on the bed sheets with her chin in her hands.
The front camera of the phone captured the two people falling on the bed sheet very cleverly...
Li Tao's eyelids twitched. Could he see such an erotic place without paying?
"Oh, I see. The Sea of Time, on the west coast, right?"
"Yes, on the West Coast."
Xiang Lian nodded, and after a moment's silence, she said, "The Sea of Time was built only a year or two ago when I was in school. It wasn't a sea of flowers at first, but they were planted later."
Li Tao thought to himself: I asked the right person this time.
Li Tao was five years old when he saw the painting. Now he is eighteen years old. That is, thirteen years ago, this sea of flowers appeared.
Xiang Lian, who is 31 years old, happens to be between 12 and 13 years older than Li Tao (the exact year is unknown).
"So this land was originally a wasteland?"
"No, if I remember correctly, there should be an abandoned laboratory down there."
"Laboratory? What's that laboratory for?"
Seeing Li Tao so curious, Xiang Lian also wanted to make him happy, but after racking her brains for a long time, she still had no impression: "I don't know, because that laboratory is directly under the doctoral department. After I finished my graduate studies, I took the exam for a counselor in our school. I only know a lot about the undergraduate department."
“Doctoral student…”
Li Tao's eyes gradually became empty. His mind recalled the first time he and Aunt Liu were in a room in the school hospital, and he found traces of his mother having stayed there.
Aunt Liu investigated the photo and found that the clothes her mother was wearing seemed to be that of a doctoral supervisor...
"By the way, I do know about this sea of time. I can tell you about what's going on in this area."
Li Tao suddenly felt so depressed that Xiang Lian felt uncomfortable for no reason. She took the initiative to tell stories to attract his attention, just like a mother coaxing her child.
Chapter 187 The Annoying Xiang Sisters
"When I entered the school, I heard different teachers express their feelings about the same person many times in different classes."
"She was an old professor at the medical school. She was very high-ranking and well-respected. And she died just before I entered the school."
Xiang Lian glanced at Li Tao in the video and found that he was listening to her very seriously. His focused and serious look made Xiang Lian involuntarily become serious.
"And the research institute that this professor is in charge of is located right under the land that you are standing on."
"I'm not sure about the cause of death. It seems to be a scientific research accident? Anyway, I heard that she didn't die of old age, but after her death, this research institute was abandoned."
Xiang Lian couldn't help but sigh when she said this: "When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. After the professor died, everyone in the institute went their separate ways. I heard that this professor regarded a project as his lifelong dream, and it was just one step away from completion, but it still ended in vain."
Li Tao pursed his lips in thought, and after a moment he asked, "Does this flower grow wild?"
"No, although everyone in this institute has dispersed, there are still people who still remember the old professor. I heard it was her female assistant. I don't know what special seeds she got, but she spread them all over this land."
"By the way, you've seen the tombstone, right? It was built by the female assistant for her teacher more than ten years ago."
Li Tao seemed to have grasped something vaguely, but he had no exact clue.
"What kind of flower is this?"
"I don't know. If I remember correctly, this should be a brand new plant designed by humans. Perhaps it is a product of this research institute. After all, it should have some commemorative significance."
"Can we still go into the research institute down here?"
"No, it's blocked."
Xiang Lian gave an affirmative answer, which made Li Tao even more curious about the secret buried underneath.
"Counselor, actually..."
"Don't call me counselor...it sounds a bit unorthodox and immoral..." Xiang Lian stammered.
"That……"
"Call me Sister Lian'er."
Xiang Lian still looked calm on the surface, but her hands behind her back had almost dug a big hole in the pillowcase.
"Uh...Sister Lian'er..."
"Hmm~"
"Actually, there is a reason why I entered Luma University..."
"Why?"
"my parents……"
Li Tao sat on the ground, looking at the tombstone, and began to tell Xiang Lian absentmindedly about his parents' disappearance for ten years. He finally discovered the triangular relationship between his mother, Luma University and the mysterious organization through various clues.
……
"So, do you think your mother is not the assistant of that female professor?"
Since it concerns the mother of the "child's father", Xiang Lian couldn't help but start to take it seriously.
Xiang Lian then added: "There are not many research institutes on campus, and only a few are qualified to manage and open them, so this professor has a very high status, and it is not surprising that her assistant is a doctoral supervisor."
Li Tao began to ponder after hearing this. He had the same idea, but it was all just imagination and he couldn't produce any evidence.
But at least, the painting proved that my mother had a connection with Luma University, and even with this abandoned research institute.
"I want to go to this research institute and take a look..." Li Tao was silent for a long time, but finally expressed a somewhat tricky wish.
Xiang Lian bit her lip and leaned lightly against the head of the bed. She couldn't tell what she was feeling in her heart. Anyway, Li Tao took the initiative to bring it up, and she actually had the urge to satisfy him at all costs.
In fact, the situation of this research institute is more serious than Li Tao imagined.