Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 151: Thunder and the Watcher (61)

Dragon Raja 5

 “Oh.” Susie nodded quickly. The complicated forms really gave her a headache. Her English was not very good when she first came to the United States.

Comparing the form with the neat handwriting, she quickly completed her own registration form and carefully handed the boy’s form back. “Thank you.”

“You look nervous.” The boy looked into her eyes.

“We’re on a train full of monsters.” Susie didn’t dare to look him in the eye and forced herself to make a joke.

“Isn’t that good? We are monsters too. When monsters meet monsters, we become a family.” The boy responded with a light joke.

Or maybe he didn’t mean to tell a joke, and the tone of his words was purely stating the fact. After he finished speaking, he looked away and silently watched the flowing coniferous forest outside the window.

Susie also looked out the car window with him. It was the end of August that year, and midsummer had not yet ended. The forests of Illinois showed countless shades of green. Looking out from the car window, it looked like a flowing abstract painting. The boy and girl from China sat at the two ends of the painting, like strangers who met by chance in a museum and were attracted by the same painting.

However, this wonderful encounter came to an abrupt end. When getting off at the station, Susie was confused again. The college arranged different exits for different students. The descendants of mixed-blood families went this way, and those who had passed the 3E exam went that way. There were also professors greeting students they knew at different exits, and some people already had butlers waiting for them on the platform.

She was like a provincial girl arriving in Paris by train in 1900 and suddenly lost in the torrent of the metropolis.

“Don’t be afraid. I don’t know which way to go either,” the boy said. “Just stay here and don’t go away. I’ll go ask someone and come back to pick you up after I find out.”

He just left and never came back. Susie even forgot to ask his name. Susie waited on the platform, standing and sitting on the suitcase until the sun set.

Looking at the sky that was gradually getting darker, she felt so sad that she wanted to cry. She didn’t know what was wrong with the boy, whether he had forgotten her or had encountered some accident.

Finally, Lancelot and his butler picked up Susie. This freshman from France was obviously from a wealthy family, but he was also very kind. Seeing Susie alone on the platform, he took the initiative to come up and greet her, and took her to the hilltop campus in his car.

During her four years at university, Susie still ran into that boy from time to time. Sometimes it was during an elective class, when the person by the window would occasionally turn around and see the boy, but when Susie looked for him the next time, he was gone again. Sometimes it was during a rowing race, when a rowboat flashed by and Nono shouted “Come on!” Susie saw the boy turn around and glance at her from the boat. Sometimes it was just on the lawn, Susie eating her homemade lunch while the boy sat down across from her with a lunch box. They never discussed why the boy had left Susie that day. Every time they met, they were like familiar friends, sometimes exchanging glances, sometimes a few words, then saying goodbye when it was time for class or something else, as if they would see each other again tomorrow and there was no need to feel reluctant.

But often, once he left, she never knew when she would see him again. Her memories of him were always fragmented, like a movie that had been cut into pieces and then pieced together. Sometimes Susie even wondered if she had lost her mind. Was that boy a figment of her imagination? How could two people who knew each other so well not know each other’s names? When she tried hard to recall, every time she saw him, it felt like she was in an old movie, even his face blurred by the aging film.

But his existence is so real. It is he who has changed Susie imperceptibly. Susie changed her hairstyle because of his suggestion; her personality has also become much stronger than when she first entered school, although she was originally a stubborn girl; even the blood explosion is related to him.

One day, when Susie was browsing ancient books in the library, she suddenly realized that the boy sitting opposite her was the one. The boy didn’t look up and was writing and drawing on paper, so Susie didn’t want to say hello to him.

After finishing writing and drawing, the boy suddenly pushed the stack of papers towards her and said, “This is very important information. Read it yourself and don’t tell anyone else.” Then he stood up and left.

It was a photocopy of an old notebook. The boy had annotated the mysterious alchemical vocabulary. In this way, he told Susie the secret of the blood explosion, just like in the cartoon called “The Magic Book”, where the ape gave the magic book to Dan Sheng.

Lancelot was very good to Susie, and she never regretted accepting Lancelot’s engagement ring. However, she always had a small thought in her heart that if she could see the boy again, she would say thank you.

Thank you for our meeting. Although it may not be enough for us to like each other, I really waited for you to come back in the crowd.

One night not long ago, she had a nightmare. She dreamed that the boy came to say goodbye to her. There was no special reason. It was just that the classmates were saying goodbye to each other as they were about to graduate. When they said goodbye, Susie was smiling and the boy was smiling too.

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