Chapter 96: Paper Tigers and Ideals
The plasma living organism was a little surprised at Zhao Huasheng's request to "go to see Li Wei": "I have no objection to this, but I am a little curious. What did you do when you see Li Wei?"
Zhao Huasheng said calmly: "Just treat it... thank her for allowing me to see the true face of human civilization."
"Please feel free to you," said the plasma life form. Obviously, it is not interested in the things called emotional entanglements between human individuals. As a life form with only one gender, it is not interested in understanding too much of this kind.
"Before I go to see her... I will prepare a gift for her first." Zhao Huasheng said as he walked out of the courtyard, found the leaders of the soldiers who protected him from his safety, and then expressed his request.
Zhao Huasheng quickly got what he wanted. It was a small bottle of glue, some cardboard, some simple tools such as rulers and knives.
"What do you want to do?" asked the plasma life body with some confusion.
"Make a manual model and give it to Li Wei. What is it...you will know soon." Zhao Huasheng said with a smile.
Zhao Huasheng leaned on the table and started to work hard. Zhao Huasheng first drew a rough pattern and divided the patterns with lines. Then, according to the instructions of the patterns, he began to cut the white cardboard one by one. After the cutting, he used glue to paste the cardboard.
Zhao Huasheng was busy for an hour. After an hour, Zhao Huasheng got a paper tiger.
This is indeed the appearance of a tiger. It has thick and powerful limbs, a thick tail, and a figure that meets the proportions of a real tiger. But no matter from any perspective, this paper tiger looks a little simpler. Even, it doesn't look like a tiger, because people cannot detect the bloodthirsty and violent breath from it. Instead, it is somewhat similar to a kitten, which can make people feel cute and docile.
Zhao Huasheng was once very interested in origami art, so it is not too difficult to make such a handmade model.
"What is this?" asked the plasma life body. It watched the entire process of Zhao Huasheng making this model. During this process, it did not notice anything wrong. It could be confirmed 100%. This was just an ordinary model. But out of caution, it decided that if Zhao Huasheng could not make a reasonable explanation for this, it would still choose to destroy this thing and limit Zhao Huasheng's subsequent behavior.
"Oh, this is a tiger." Zhao Huasheng held the model in his hand and looked at it carefully, and murmured: "There is an ancient tradition among our ethnic groups. According to the different years of people's birth, each person will have a different surname... We call it the twelve zodiac signs. Li Wei is a tiger, so I plan to give her a model tiger as a gift."
Hearing this explanation, the plasma life body was relieved. It had survived on the earth for a long time. This time was enough to give it enough understanding of some cultures in human civilization. It knew that everything Zhao Huasheng said was true.
The plasma living organism accepted this explanation and remained silent and stopped talking. Zhao Huasheng casually put the tiger on the table, and then threw all the scraps left after making the model into the fire, turning them into ashes. Afterwards, Zhao Huasheng took the tiger out of the courtyard, found the soldiers guarding him, and conveyed to them his wish to meet Li Wei.
The soldier conveyed Zhao Huasheng's words to his superiors, and then received a response soon. So a car drove over and took Zhao Huasheng to a prison an hour later. In the interrogation room where Meng Zhuo and the Head of State had been to the middle, Zhao Huasheng met Li Wei.
This is the first time Zhao Huasheng has seen Li Wei after he started to implement his plan and separated from Li Wei.
When Zhao Huasheng first met Li Wei, he was lost for a moment because Zhao Huasheng almost couldn't recognize the person standing in front of him. To be honest, Zhao Huasheng had been separated from Li Wei for several months, and just a few months was far from enough to make a person change drastically. But this level of change appeared in Li Wei.
Zhao Huasheng still remembers Li Wei's appearance, the person who was quiet, calm, full of elegance and intellectual aura. Now, Li Wei has a haggard face, messy hair, and her eyes are dull. Although she is not wearing shackles or wearing a prison uniform, her whole body is constantly emitting a breath of despair and darkness.
Li Wei has changed a lot in prison these months. The source of all these changes comes from Zhao Huasheng and Zhao Huasheng's plan.
After a moment of loss of consciousness, Zhao Huasheng returned to peace. The moment Li Wei saw Zhao Huasheng, there was a moment of change. The two of them had a moment of crossing, and then there was a terrifying silence that was almost suffocating.
After a while, Li Wei's words broke the calm: "What are you doing to me? Let's see how miserable I am now and how depressed I am, so that I can vent the resentment in your heart?"
Li Wei's words were full of irony. At this moment, Li Wei was like a mad woman with unconsciousness, and her voice became sharp because she was too excited: "I hate so much, I hate that I didn't avenge my brother, I hated that I didn't ruin you."
Li Wei made a very good start for this conversation. Li Wei knew very clearly that Zhao Huasheng must have something very important to come to find him. This matter may even be related to the fate of human civilization. But at the same time, because of the plasma life form that was always monitoring Zhao Huasheng, Zhao Huasheng could not tell his demands through ordinary ways, but could only express it through hints and metaphors. So Li Wei continued to continue her previous identity and image. Next, it was Zhao Huasheng who should talk about it.
Zhao Huasheng lowered his head and was speechless. After a while, Zhao Huasheng said, "Li Wei, I hate everyone in the world, but I don't hate you. Although the knife you stabbed behind me almost made me fall into the abyss and never turn over, I still don't hate you."
Li Wei didn't know what Zhao Huasheng said, so Li Wei did not respond, but just smiled sarcastically.
"I'm here to say goodbye to you this time." Zhao Huasheng said silently, "The Head of State has agreed to make a deal with me. Human civilization will be responsible for building a lunar base for me. After the lunar base is built, I will spend the rest of my life on the moon. So, this will be our last meeting. After this meeting, I will completely let you go, no longer love you, and no longer hate you. From then on, you are just a meaningless symbol to me. Your name and your appearance will not cause any ripples in my heart."
"This is my gift to you." Zhao Huasheng whispered, putting the tiger model in his hand onto the table on Li Wei's side through the iron fence. "You are a tiger... This tiger represents you to me. It was made by me. Now, I will return it to you, and I will return everything that belongs to you. With me, you will not leave anything left."
Li Wei sat in the iron chair silently without moving. Now, Li Wei probably understood that the purpose of Zhao Huasheng's trip was to give this paper tiger to himself, and there must be a huge secret hidden above this paper tiger. It is very likely that the way to deal with the revenge of the sun civilization against human civilization is on this paper tiger.
But precisely because it is too important, in order to avoid accidents and to avoid suspicion of plasma living organisms, Li Wei must be more natural.
"I didn't leave anything with you," Li Wei said indifferently, "So, you don't have to give this tiger to me. It doesn't make sense."
"Please accept it." Zhao Huasheng shook his head and sighed: "Just treat it as satisfying one of my wishes. This is a ceremony for me, a ceremony to say goodbye to you completely. It does not mean to you, but it does meaning to me. In exchange, I can restore you to your freedom from now on and let you return to the place you like to start your work and life."
"Okay." Li Wei said directly, "The deal is completed."
"So, goodbye. No, never see you again." Zhao Huasheng said with a smile, his eyes kept looking at Li Wei: "Go, still live according to your trajectory, and still study the things you are interested in about optical instruments... You once told me that your ideal is to create the most powerful, most cohesive and most luminous laser emitter in the human world... Then, here, I wish you to realize your ideal in advance."
Li Wei originally worked in the High Energy Laser Research Office of the Institute of Optics under the Central Academy of Sciences. This is Li Wei's profession. What Zhao Huasheng said about "Li Wei's ideal" also sounds very logical and conforms to Li Wei's work and knowledge. But both Li Wei and Zhao Huasheng remember very clearly that Li Wei never told Zhao Huasheng that his ideal was these things, and he never mentioned them.
But Li Wei still agreed to this matter. Li Wei nodded lightly and said, "Thank you."
After receiving this response, Zhao Huasheng turned around, without hesitation at all, nor looked back at Li Wei. Zhao Huasheng left the prison like this, and then came to the convoy and said, "Send me back." (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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