"Let's go back."
"We'll leave here by bus with your Uncle Yutang."
The children stared at him blankly for a long time before one of the very young children timidly asked, "Brother, what happened to Uncle Yutang?"
“He’s asleep,” Cheng Luo replied naturally. “Spring drowsiness and autumn fatigue, he’s sleepy, so I let him sleep for a while.”
"You all must behave and not wake him, understand?"
The children looked at each other, then nodded and said, "Yes!"
The older children held the hands of the younger children, following behind Cheng Luo.
Watching the young man steadily holding the man as they walked forward step by step.
The autumn sun shone on the two of them, as if separating them into a separate space.
With only the two of them, no one could break in.
Some children heard Cheng Luo speaking, but not to them; he was speaking to the person in his arms.
Tangtang, look, I didn't cry.
I wasn't sad.
You don't need to worry about me.
My body and brain have been developed to their fullest potential. I will not age, it will be difficult for me to die, and I can control my emotions very well.
After you left, I was able to calm down quickly and complete all the dreams we once had.
I will listen to you and not do anything you don't want me to do.
I will abide by the moral standards you set for me.
Try to live as an ordinary person.
I will help many, many people and do many, many good deeds.
In time, you will accumulate a great deal of merit, so that when you are reincarnated, you can be reborn into a happy and fulfilling family where you have no worries about food and clothing.
In your next life, you will no longer be an orphan. You will have loving parents and helpful friends. You will no longer be dragged into a monster that is despised by bad guys because of some bullshit reason about physical compatibility.
They will no longer have chips implanted in their brains, and will no longer be subject to others or suffer pain.
You will live a peaceful and happy life, and eventually grow old and die a natural death.
You won't meet me again in the next life. You'll have your own life, an ordinary but wonderful one...
But in the next life, I want to find you, I want to start over with you.
You told me to find someone I like who also likes me, but I don't want to find anyone.
I can do anything for you.
But the one thing I can't do is not love you.
I can wait for you to live a peaceful life, and then let your next life, and the life after that, and all the lives to come belong to me.
By then, I will have become more mature and sensible, and I will no longer force you to do anything you don't like.
Even if you still can't fall in love with me, I want to stay by your side, forever.
You can't get rid of them even if you want to...
Chapter 39
The villain dies for the third time (39) The world ends
Cheng Luo and the children sat on the bus, still holding the deceased Yu Tang in her arms.
As he watched the man's body gradually lose its warmth, eventually becoming cold and stiff, his heart ached as if it were being cut by a knife.
It was an invisible pain, though no cuts or scars could be seen.
It was more painful and unbearable than when the bones and flesh were torn apart.
But the more it hurt, the more he forced himself to smile.
He and Yu Tang sat in the last row, he was hugging the man, his cheek pressed against the top of Yu Tang's head, trying to smile.
Yan Yan and Xiao Yu are old enough to understand, and they guessed what had happened.
The two children sat to the side in front of Cheng Luo, tears streaming down their faces.
Yan Yan had to cover her mouth to stop herself from sobbing. She held Xiao Yu's hand and whispered, "Brother, Uncle was so good, why...why did he die..."
"We promised to go out together..."
"Brother Cheng Luo is definitely going to be heartbroken..."
Xiaoyu wiped her tears with her sleeve, then wiped Yanyan's tears, choking back sobs as she said, "I don't know..."
"So many bad guys are still alive, I don't know why my uncle has to die..."
Wanting to comfort his sister, Xiaoyu broke down first, gritting his teeth and saying, "Those bad guys are the ones who deserve to die! They're the ones who ruined my brother and Uncle!"
But there are many injustices in this world.
Even good people sometimes meet a bad end.
Even bad people can leave a lasting legacy.
A kind person, even if suffering greatly, will not use that suffering as an excuse to persecute innocent people.
This is the lesson Yu Tang taught Cheng Luo.
Cheng Luo remembered it.
That's why he treats these children kindly and wants to uphold the basic principles of being a human being.
When Cheng Luo got off the bus, he seemed to have returned to normal.
He found Li Zekai and told him about his future plans.
She also put forward several conditions to Li Zekai, and the two reached an agreement to help each other, each get their own benefits, and try to avoid disputes.
After that, he arranged for the children to stay at the orphanage that Yu Tang had once told him about.
Then he asked Li Zekai to freeze Yu Tang's body.
Li Zekai advised him: "The dead cannot be brought back to life. I suggest you bury him as soon as possible."
Cheng Luo replied, "I don't need you to remind me."
“I know exactly what I’m doing.”
"Even if it is just a body without a soul, it is still him."
"Only by keeping him here and being able to see him can I stay clear-headed and know what to do next."
Li Zekai was alarmed.
However, he ultimately complied with Cheng Luo's wishes and reached an agreement with a hospital to have Yu Tang's body frozen.
It was placed in a transparent ice chamber and handed over to Cheng Luo along with a series of expensive instruments.
To express his gratitude, Cheng Luo helped Li Zekai solve no fewer than a dozen problems over the next ten years.
Ten years is enough time for Cheng Luo to put into action the dream he and Yu Tang made back then.
The actual results were more than ten times better than expected.
He has always been working for the country.
He carries countless layers of disguise.
He accomplished several remarkable feats.
But he never lets anyone reveal his name or identity.
To those around him, he was just an ordinary director of a shelter in S City.
She has a great personality, loves to laugh, and is very gentle with children.
I enjoy painting, reading, and photography. I have many hobbies and travel three to four times a year. When I'm at the institute, I either play games with the children, take photos, clean the yard, or water the flowers. I live a peaceful and carefree life.
He has been using the same camera model from ten years ago, and he wipes the lens and body clean every day to keep them looking brand new, taking great care of them.
Children have broken into his room and seen the photos covering the walls.
There is the same man in every single one of them.
At the age of twenty-eight or twenty-nine, dressed in a simple shirt and casual pants, she didn't look at the camera, but her expression was natural and warm.
The number of children in the shelters is constantly increasing.
The children who came from the base have gradually grown up and become more sensible. They consciously take on the responsibilities of older brothers and sisters and take good care of their younger brothers and sisters.
They will tell the children that the person in the photo is Yu Tang, and that he is someone the director deeply loves.
Without this uncle, there would be no shelter that provides them with the warmth of home.
They also told the children never to mention Uncle Yutang's name in front of the director.
Because it would upset the director.
The children all nodded obediently.
But while some are obedient, others are mischievous.
One night, a daring boy sneaked into Cheng Luo's room and found that Cheng Luo was not sleeping in bed.
He rolled his eyes and started rummaging through Cheng Luo's room. He accidentally discovered a mechanism on the bookshelf, which opened the door to the underground secret room.
As he went down the steps, he found that it was a place that resembled a laboratory.
In the very center is a huge ice chamber, surrounded by dozens of cables, with large instruments at the ends.
I felt a little uneasy and scared, but more than that, I felt nervous and excited about discovering someone else's secret.
He walked to the front of the ice chamber, stood on tiptoe to look inside, and then froze in place, unable to react at all.
Because he saw the man named Yu Tang, who was rumored to be dead, lying in this ice chamber.
What shocked him even more was that next to the man, in such a cold environment, there was another person lying there.