Chapter 450 Poor boy!“I haven’t had time to check out the reward [Silent Deathstroke] yet. I’ll have to find an excuse to investigate around the castle later.”
After Ranran finished speaking, she immediately attracted the attention of Zhong Ning, who was also receiving the side quest reward.
"Will there be a blood-red arrow under your feet now, evil boy?"
Ran Ran shook her head, "No."
Zhong Ning had a sad face, "Why does Kongdong treat me like this... It's so scary..."
Hei Cha was speechless for a moment, and Minister Gao asked directly, "Xiao Ning, are the three words 'terrible' a habit of yours?"
"What is a verbal habit?" Zhong Ning looked confused. "It sounds like a disease."
Minister Gao held his forehead helplessly and waved his hands at Doctor Bai, "I've told the director before that we can't let children who are too young participate in the mission."
"I'm not going to talk about whether I can make it clear or not. The main thing is that there is a generation gap, you know, and it's hard to communicate."
Zhong Ning blinked in grievance, looking lost.
He could understand that Minister Gao was now disliking him.
When Minister Gao turned around and saw Zhong Ning's expression, he immediately felt that he deserved a slap on the mouth. Why did he make a child sad? He felt uncomfortable everywhere and could only say dryly: "I remember that the bureau strictly controls the use of genetic drugs for minors."
Doctor Bai immediately took over the conversation for the embarrassed Minister Gao, "Yes, Xiao Ning, we still don't know how you awakened."
Ran Ran recalled the situation, "Director Sun directly brought you here."
Zhong Ning said truthfully: "Minister Gao is right. I am indeed too old to be injected with medicine. I asked my uncle for it myself."
"All the test reports show that I can get the shot, but I'm not old enough."
Zhong Ning lowered his eyes, "Uncle won't agree to anything if you are not old enough."
Doctor Bai said gently, "Mr. Zhong, this is also for your own good."
Ran Ran became curious, "How did you convince your uncle in the end? From what I know, adults are very stubborn."
Zhong Ning stuck out his tongue in embarrassment, "I threatened my uncle."
"I didn't realize you had such courage! I'm afraid of Brother Zhong's temperament! How did you threaten me?" Minister Gao seemed to come back to life.
"I told him..." Zhong Ning looked a little stunned, "He didn't let me get the injection, so I ran to the horror cave alone while he was away."
"Everyone knows my family background. My father and uncle both work in the Bureau of Investigation. I know a lot about horror caves. I know how to get in..."
Minister Gao's face changed and he interrupted Zhong Ning, "You damn kid! Why are you..." His face was full of disappointment.
"How can you say that to your uncle! Don't you know that your father is..."
Minister Gao could not continue speaking, and the other two people who knew the inside story did not dare to speak either. The entire secret room fell silent.
Zhong Ning opened his lips slightly, and his expression suddenly became unlike that of a teenager of his age.
"That is, dying in a horror cave... That's what you want to say, right?"
Minister Gao couldn't understand it even more. "You know you still talk to your uncle like that. Aren't you deliberately trying to make him sad?"
"Uncle is not as fragile as everyone thinks!" Zhong Ning suddenly raised his voice, "He got over dad's death earlier than I did!"
Zhong Ning raised his head, tears welling up in his eyes, "Uncle is just like you, Minister Gao, a truly strong man."
"A strong man cannot be defeated by fear. You told me that."
Minister Gao was speechless for a moment.
"Uncle is not afraid of the Terror Cave just because Dad died in it. He is not afraid, and he is not afraid to let me face it."
"Indeed..." Zhong Ning said slowly: "When I first said it, my uncle reacted strongly. He didn't say a word. He walked to the balcony and locked the door. No matter how I called him or knocked on the door, he didn't open it."
"Until I calm down..." Tears slid down Zhong Ning's cheeks, which were very tender and therefore looked immature.
"I just realized that my uncle was crying." Everyone was stunned.
Zhong Ning seemed to be getting sadder and sadder as he thought about it. He started sobbing. "I have never seen my uncle cry in my life. He and my father grew up supporting each other. Before I was born, my father was his only relative."
"My uncle took care of my father's funeral without shedding a single tear, but when he heard me talking about going to the Cave of Terror...he started crying..."
"I saw him wiping away tears through the glass many times, as if he could never stop crying."
Zhong Ning cried out, "After uncle opened the door, he only asked me one question."
"Why go to the Terror Cave?"
"I said I could overcome my fear of the cave, just like him."
"Uncle patted my shoulder with red eyes and said..."
"'Good boy, go ahead.'"
Zhong Ning wiped away her tears and said proudly: "My uncle is a very good and powerful person. Don't underestimate him!"
The entire secret room was silent, and it took a while for everyone to recover.
Ran Ran blinked her eyes and said, "Team Leader Zhong is really a good person."
"When you asked him, Aning, he must have been under a lot of pressure."
Everyone was still immersed in the sad atmosphere. The more they listened to Ran Ran's words, the more they wanted to cry. But they didn't expect her next sentence to be...
"But Team Leader Zhong was under so much pressure that he cried on the balcony, and he didn't choose to smoke on the balcony."
Everyone stopped crying, but Minister Gao was still wiping his tears, frozen in place.
"Is this your understanding?!" Minister Gao almost roared.
Ran Ran said seriously: "Of course, from Team Leader Zhong we can see that men always smoke because they are under great pressure..."
“That’s totally wrong.”
"Stress is just an excuse for them to indulge themselves."
"Don't women have pressure? But it's rare to hear women say they smoke because they are under pressure. They all say 'because I like it'. This honest answer is great."
Doctor Bai didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Who taught you this?"
"No one taught me." Ran Ran said honestly, "But my second nephew told me about the phenomenon of men and women smoking."
It felt like she hadn't seen her nephew for a long time, and she actually missed him a little.
Minister Gao was at a loss. "I feel that only your nephew can keep up with your unique way of thinking, Evil Child."
"Why didn't you take him with you on this mission? I heard that you insisted on taking him with you on previous missions."
Ran Ran: "Of course it's because my second nephew has another important mission, so he has to go back to my hometown for me."
Minister Gao frowned and asked in confusion: "Aren't you and him related? Isn't your hometown the same?"
Ran Ran smiled sweetly, "Our relationship is not as simple as you think."
But when he saw everyone's strange expressions, Ran Ran realized something was wrong and changed his words, "It should be said that our relationship is more complicated."
"Not just a simple cousin and nephew."
After Ranran's interruption, everyone recovered from their emotions, and Zhong Ning finally understood what oral habit meant.
"It's just like a catchphrase." Doctor Bai explained to him seriously.
"I see. It seems that 'so scary' is really my habit. I like to say it so scary, so scary all the time." When Zhong Ning said this, there were still tears on his eyelashes.
Hei Cha stopped him with a dark face, "Stop talking." The one who was most moved was Minister Gao. He immediately howled when he heard the words, "Be nice to this poor boy!"
Ranran looked at them quietly and felt that his understanding of these people had deepened.
