"You say that, but you don't really believe it, do you?" Xu Huo said. "Otherwise, you wouldn't still have kept all this information, and you wouldn't remember Xia Xi Duolai Ti so clearly."
"Ordinary people and extraordinary people aren't all that different. Whether their lives are tumultuous or peaceful, neither is better than the other. Both are part of the world, moving forward in the tide of time. Perhaps there's nothing wrong with forgetting. Remembering is no different."
Old Mr. Yue gazed absentmindedly at the flowers in front of him. After a moment, he said, "That's right. The choices we make now may not matter much to the world or to others, but they're sure to matter to us."
"If Xia Xi Duolai Ti was the Enbel Maiden, then Master Suolan may have remembered her for the rest of her life." Xu Huo handed the U disk back.
"Keep it," Old Mr. Yue said, making no move to take it. "If you get the chance, bring it back to me. If not... well, never mind."
"I'll come back." Xu Huo closed his hand around the U disk again.
After leaving the nursing home, he contacted the crew cut woman and the big man.
The two had been chased out of the city by robots and were now hiding in a small town, looking utterly bedraggled. When Xu Huo got in touch, they were too embarrassed to tell him how little progress they'd made.
They'd originally gone to investigate key people at Tiantianle Group, but those people weren't easy to approach. Getting information on them meant resorting to unconventional methods. Searching the Jixin Terminal was nothing. They'd also tried bribing private detectives and tabloid reporters, or directly paying off media companies for inside information... But that had gotten the robots on