Chapter 55 Section five

There is a smoking area deep in the corridor of the underground research facility. Wang Tian and Rika Hayama sit side by side on a simple bench, and there is a vending machine next to it, but the power has been cut off, and the leaves of a potted plant in the corner are completely withered and yellow. It seems to be telling people about their miserable life of lack of water.But it doesn't matter, as long as there is an ashtray, Wang Tian brings the aluminum ashtray on the table closer, and finally he can relieve his addiction. "This place seems to have been unused for a long time. Have you stopped making prophets? Or... in a new place?" Wang Tian breathed out the smoke, "However, it would be a waste to leave such a large space unused. Well, I want to live in it."

"Really?" Rika Hayama, who was sitting beside her, asked, the blood stains on her dress were surprisingly gorgeous. "Just kidding." "That's good." Rika Hayama's expression—needless to say, still remained unchanged, but her eyes were not fixed as before, but she met Wang Tian's eyes, watching him speak. "What's wrong?" He couldn't help asking. "What's wrong?" "It's okay—" He took a puff on his cigarette to shift the focus: "Uh, can I ask you a question?" "what?" "Why did Mieko Gu Chuan attack you just now?" Wang Tian recalled that scene, when Mieko Gu Chuan heard about bringing her daughter back to life, her reaction was obviously different. "What were you going to say before you were attacked by her?"

"you do not need to know." "Understood." Wang Tian replied straightforwardly, anyway, he was not sensitive to ridiculous topics like prophecies. "I don't want to get involved in this matter anymore, but..." "Ok?" "Forget it—" Wang Tian squeezed his cigarette and forced a smile: "You don't need to know." "It seems that we are all secretists." Rika Hayama smiled slightly, which surprised Wang Tian. "You're not quite right, what's wrong?" However, Rika Hayama did not answer Wang Tian's question, but leaned her elbow on the table and said, "So you are not a detective."

"That's what you want to misunderstand, right?" Wang Tian took another puff of smoke: "I never said that my profession is a detective." But Rika Hayama didn't react as he expected, just stood up calmly and looked at him. "Mr. Wang Tian." It was the first time she called his name. "Thank you very much these days." After finishing speaking, he nodded silently. "Huh? Ah——" The smoke in his mouth was almost frightened when the incident happened suddenly, but he just used his adult strength to pretend to be calm and cover it up: "No, you are too polite, I will—"

However, Rika Hayama didn't even finish listening to Wang Tian's words, and disappeared at the end of the corridor.Women...why can they say goodbye so simply and ruthlessly?Wang Tian extinguished the cigarette, unable to figure out why, he could only smile helplessly—there was no answer.The cigarette smoke drifted away, and Hayama Rika also went with the wind.