After a busy day, as soon as Jiang Xilin led An An home, the little girl ran to the kitchen door and complained to Vera, who was reading a book and making soup in the kitchen:

"Mom, men are indeed big liars."

Vera was stunned by this sudden realization of life.

"What's wrong?"

"Brother Xilin, today is the first day of Xueyue. He let me go on the first day. Mom, tell me, is that unforgivable?"

"Let you go? What do you mean?"

A row of question marks appeared on Vera's forehead.

"It means breaking the promise. You are with Brother Xilin every day, and you don't even know this?"

Child An An looked at his mother in shock, then shook his head in disappointment.

"Forget it, I won't tell you anymore. We already have an insurmountable generation gap."

"Generation gap?"

Vera was once again confused by An An's incomprehensible vocabulary and sentence patterns.

What are you talking about?

An An shook her head, because she didn't know what she was talking about. She learned these from Jiangxi Lin on the steam bus this afternoon.

Vera casually picked up the spoon on the kitchen table, and when An An felt something was wrong, she rubbed oil on her soles and ran away.

"Where are you going?"

After taking off his coat and hanging up his handbag, Jiang Xilin looked at An An, who was running through the living room towards the stairs.

"Let's read some books first."

An An's childish voice came from the stairwell.

Jiang Xilin shook his head speechlessly. He would have dinner soon. What book should he run to read now?

At this time, Vera also came to the living room with a spoon.

When she saw Jiang Xilin, she put the spoon into her apron pocket, walked forward, and said confidently,

"An An just complained to me that you didn't have lunch with her today."

"Then you came to me to sue An An again."

Jiang Xilin couldn't help but reached out and gently pinched Vera's soft cheek.

Vera encouraged herself and flicked Jiang Xilin's hand away.

Is she the kind of petty person? She even sued her stupid daughter?

She expressed it indirectly: I am very concerned about your whereabouts at noon today.

Of course Jiang Xilin knew what she was thinking, so he took two steps forward and put his arm around her shoulders.

"I went to attend the product launch ceremony of another research institute with the president. After the launch, they just prepared a sumptuous free lunch."

"That's it!"

Vera nodded,

"I'm still making soup in the kitchen, so come over and help me pass the dishes and put them on the plate."

With that said, she pulled Jiang Xilin and walked to the kitchen together.

Jiang Xilin was naturally very happy, and he could go in and out of the narrow kitchen and eat Vera's "tofu" from time to time. Then looking at the coquettish expression on her face, Jiang Xilin found it particularly interesting.

"Okay, okay, stop making trouble and ask An An to come down for dinner."

Vera lightly slapped Jiang Xilin's troublesome hand and rolled her eyes at him coquettishly.

Jiangxi Lin laughed twice, picked up the glass soup bowl,

"I'm going to call An An."

"Yeah, let's go."

Vera smiled and waved to him.

…

After the dinner, which was neither sumptuous nor simple, Jiang Xilin took An An to meditate as usual and taught her the most basic arcane technique - Breeze Technique.

This technique is extremely simple and has no practical effect.

The only purpose of its existence is to familiarize beginners with the process of transforming arcane elements into other elements in nature.

An An's talent is pretty good and he can now put it to use.

After practicing with the little girl for a while, he sent her back to sleep, because next time it was Jiang Xilin's "working" time.

In the afternoon, he collected a lot of data and information from Andy's experiments, so he planned to analyze it overnight and formulate a preliminary experimental plan.

Not long after Jiang Xilin started working, Vera gently opened the door and entered.

She glanced at Jiang Xilin, who was immersed in thought, and did not disturb him. Instead, she picked a book on the bookshelf, then walked to the sofa by the window, covered herself with a blanket and started reading.

Time passes minute by minute.

Jiang Xilin, who was deep in thought, suddenly felt a soft squeezing sensation on his back and shoulders, accompanied by a faint voice ringing in his ears:

"Honey, it's very late."

…

…

The first day of the Snow Moon does not usher in snowfall as its name suggests.

Marvin stood motionless in the darkness, looking calmly at the dilapidated building not far away that was still lit with lights.

It's late at night, and in a slum with no entertainment options, the only option is to go to bed early.

After all, in dreams, everything is there.

But Marvin couldn't sleep because some things, if not resolved, would always be like a thorn in his throat.

Marvin raised two mechanical arms of different sizes, took off the hammer hanging from his waist, stolen from a blacksmith shop in the Frederick area not far away, and walked toward the dilapidated building with a little stagger.

Walk to the building.

…

Standing at the door of the dilapidated building was a drunkard wearing an old cotton-padded jacket.

The drunk man also held a bottle of bad wine in his hand.

He shouted drunkenly at the figure slowly approaching in the darkness:

"Wha, what, people? Hurry, get out of here, this is the territory of the Lunsi gang..."

However, what responded to him was a huge hammer whistling through the air.

Without giving the drunkard watching the door any time to react, the hammer hit him directly in the face.

The drunk man didn't even have time to scream, and flew out on the spot.

The approaching figure still walked with the same staggering steps.

He approached slowly and slowly, and finally appeared in the bright area of ​​the dilapidated building.

Look at that skinny face, isn't it none other than Marvin?

With the squeaking sound of the mechanical bearings rotating, Marvin walked to the body of the drunkard lying on the ground, his face dented by the hammer.

He reached out and grasped the handle of the hammer and pulled it out hard.

The hammer, carrying minced meat and blood, was taken out of the drunken man's broken and sunken head.

During the whole process, Marvin didn't even look at the corpse.

There is only one thought in his mind right now, which is to kill everyone in this building.

Whether it has been in his home before or it has never been in his home.

Today, everyone will die.

…

Marvin stepped up the stairs and walked into the building.

"Who?"

Two people who were sitting in a dilapidated living room lighting a charcoal barbecue saw a stranger suddenly come in. They immediately stood up alertly and asked loudly.

Marvin did not respond to them, but walked forward directly, raised the hammer, and smashed it down hard.

Bang--

The already tattered sofa was suddenly smashed into pieces. The two people warming themselves by the fire dodge quickly and avoided the blow.

But do you think that’s the end of it?

No.
Chapter completed!