Chapter 3014: Mercury Record (XI)

"Why are you looking at me?" Bruce rolled his eyes and said: "Stop letting your imagination run wild. You take the photos back, find 10 inferable details from the photos again, write them into a small thesis, and give it to me tomorrow morning. Write it in more detail."

Jenna finally came back to her senses, nodded hurriedly and said: "Oh, okay Professor, how many words should I write?"

"500 words is enough, pay attention to punctuation."

Jenna took the photos and nodded, leaving. Bruce turned his head and found that one photo was left on the table. It was the photo taken from above the oil drum looking down at the corpse.

The corpse was curled up in the oil drum, as peaceful as a sleeping baby.

Because of the extra class at night, Bruce felt a bit hungry. He went to the cafeteria to ask for a meal, only to find Wei En was also there.

"Good evening, Professor. Didn't you eat at night?"

Wei En shook his head and said: "I was busy revising a thesis at night."

"Whose thesis?"

"Barry's. He still has the last two sentences that he can't finalize. I had a two-hour video conference with him."

"I tutored Jenna tonight." Bruce paused and then continued: "She has talent, in every aspect."

"Do you want her to be Batgirl?"

"That's not it. I don't even have a Robin, but I think she and her brother indeed need more guidance. Both of them have good talent. Oliver is more interested in her brother, thinking he has leadership talent."

"They are still too young." Wei En said: "Just like you when you were young."

"I'm not old either." Bruce whispered.

"You should know that this phenomenon can be called regressive psychology, right?"

"But it's healthy. That's what the textbook says."

"Yes, a young mentality often comes from a happy and beautiful life. It can't be considered pathological, but if you continue to proclaim it like this, people will think you like to pretend to be young."

"I don't care what they say." Bruce hummed.

"Is your sleep okay recently?" Wei En took the plate from the robot's head and asked.

"It's okay." Bruce seemed to have remembered something and said: "I chat with Selina every day until very late. My phone often forgets to charge. I really, really, really miss her, but unfortunately, we are both too busy now."

Bruce supported his face, occasionally looking down at the things on the plate with drooping eyes, and said: "I rarely talked to her so much before. When chatting, it was always small talk. Sometimes I felt there was nothing to talk about with her, and it would stop after talking."

"But recently, we seem to have endless topics. She talks about her experiences on the West Coast, I talk about my observations in the Battleworld. Every time we chat until I am too sleepy to open my eyes, I will put down the phone. She says she is the same."

"And we rarely talk about children. I found that a year ago our topics always revolved around Aisha, and it was a bit polite. Most of the time she asked how Aisha was, and I replied not bad."

"But we have talked about ourselves recently, talking about the past, talking about the future. This makes me feel really good, but I don't know if we meet, will this situation be broken?"

"Why do you think there is such a change?" After Wei En finished asking, he seemed to have suddenly remembered something, shook his head and said: "Alright, you don't need to answer. It's because not only have you grown over these years, but she has too. Do you remember how long she has lived independently?"

"She wasn't... oh, you mean in a normal society, it's been a few years."

"Yes, she has grown. She has seen many things in the upper-class society. She has begun to gradually understand you, understand why you want to wear a suit and leather shoes, why you also want to put expensive dresses on her, why you can't discuss theft and shooting at banquets, why not every gem you see can be taken away by her."

"She must have received many lessons." Bruce's voice lowered, and he said: "She just crashed into Hollywood like that. I can't imagine how many difficulties she encountered to have today's status. Perhaps I shouldn't have agreed to her..."

"Then you would never be able to chat like today." Wei En looked into Bruce's eyes and said: "She knows she and you are people from two worlds. She didn't crash into Hollywood recklessly; she crashed into your world recklessly without hesitation."

Bruce turned his face away, his features wrinkled in pain. He took a deep breath and then said: "Because I didn't go to her place."

"You went. You went long ago."

Bruce was slightly startled. He thought of the days in the slums, which was almost the same time as when Selina left Cat Getan.

He thought yes, just when Selina chose to take a step towards him, he also chose to take that step towards Selina at the same time. They really had a tacit understanding.

"It's just that you are smarter than her." Wei En said: "You spent a few months understanding the slums, she needs a few years to understand Hollywood."

"No, it's not that I am smarter than her, it's just that the path she chose is harder than mine." Bruce squeezed the fork tightly until his fingertips turned white, and he said: "I understand what kind of world that is. A girl like her must have been covered in wounds."

"But that's how a cat is." Wei En smiled and said: "It won't rush into your arms to act like a spoiled child because of injury. It will only silently sit in the corner and lick its wounds, and roll its eyes at you when you go to care for it."

Bruce seemed to have remembered something, laughed, and quickly took out his phone to type, but soon stopped, showing a tangled expression, deleted the words he had typed, but started typing again after a while.

"What do you want to ask her?"

"I want to know why she chose to leave Cat Getan back then."

"Influenced by some external force." Wei En said directly: "It should be that a friend of hers persuaded her."

"Persuaded her to go to Hollywood?"

"No, she might have just emphasized a fact to her, that you two are not people from the same world. You might just be playing around. If she gets trapped, she will be seriously injured."

Bruce showed a dissatisfied expression, but he didn't say anything, because under that situation at the time, this statement was correct, and it could even be said that this friend was sincerely thinking for Selina.

Otherwise, falling in love with a wealthy man is a case of one person attaining enlightenment, and the chickens and dogs ascending to heaven. Her friends would also benefit from it. If she were really selfish, she would only persuade Selina to use her beauty to trap him, so as to borrow his relationship to handle things, without caring about Selina's end at all.

"Actually, that should have just been one of her attempts." Wei En thought for a while and said: "But you gave her a surprise, because just when she tried to take that step towards you, you also took a step towards her."

"Yes, I remember that since then, Selina's temper has been much better. I thought it was my performance in the slums that made her think I was a fool..."

Bruce showed a dumbfounded expression, soon started pressing the phone again, and seemed to have received a reply from Selina. He looked at it and showed a sudden realization expression, and then said.

"Indeed so. Her friend Maggie persuaded her, and Selina is not the kind of person who will sit and wait for death. She decided to make one last attempt. Very fortunately, I didn't let her down."

"I only have one question, does your phone not have a camera?"

"No, no, video calls will destroy this sense of mystery." Bruce shook his head like a rattle, and said: "That will weaken the feeling of surprise when we really meet, so we only use text to chat."

Wei En shook his head, as if he couldn't understand young people nowadays.

Bruce was chatting while eating absent-mindedly there. Suddenly a call came in. Bruce answered it with some surprise.

"Oh, Jenna." Bruce raised his eyebrows and showed a proud expression to Wei En, as if saying, look, this little girl is also very willing to deal with me, so you can't blame me for wanting to adopt her, right?

But listening to Jenna chattering on the other side, Bruce showed a helpless expression, and said: "Yes, 10 details and 500 words, not 5 details and 10 hundred words. Alright, good night."

"10 hundred..." Bruce bared his teeth and said: "She is like Aisha who just learned to speak. She can count to 1000 hundred."

Wei En had almost finished eating. He stacked the plates and said: "You should pay more attention, don't waste her talent."

"I believe that only letting her take psychology classes is wasting her talent. Tomorrow Diana will teach them fighting. I believe she will also perform well in this aspect."

"Keep your confidence."

Soon Bruce also finished eating. He planned to hurry back to his dormitory, lie on the bed and chat with Selina. Of course, he could also make a voice call, which didn't destroy the sense of mystery that much.

After returning to the dormitory, Bruce took a shower, dried his hair, changed into pajamas, lay down beautifully, and the call to his girlfriend hadn't been dialed yet, when another call came in.

"... Can't find 10 details, what to do? Can't you try harder? A full 26 photos, you can't find 10 details???"

"No, don't talk to me in this tone. I am not your brother. Acting like a spoiled child is useless... I am strict? I am being responsible..."

"Alright, considering it's your first time writing a thesis, finding 5 details is okay, right? Yes, just 5 details plus the process of your inference. Hand it in on time tomorrow morning!"

Hanging up the phone, Bruce sighed long. When he talks to Selina later, he must talk about this matter well. He feels that even Selina could find 10 details.

After the two connected, they hadn't talked for two minutes when another call came in. Bruce had no choice but to say: "Wait a moment, baby, I'll take a call."

Bruce took the call and found it was Jenna again. After hearing what Jenna said, he widened his eyes and said: "Why write 250 words if you find 5 details? Because of mathematical laws??? What mathematical laws???"

"Reduction??? No, wait a moment. You mean, because the details to be found are halved, the number of words to be written should also be halved??? I bully you because you don't understand math???"

"No, no, no, Jenna, listen to me. I said how many words it is, it is how many words. Alright? If you can't write 500 words with 5 details, then write 10 details!"

"You can't write it? Then didn't I let you write 5?... No, you can't write 250 words!!!"

Because Bruce used another phone to answer Jenna's call and didn't hang up Selina's call, Selina heard Bruce's roar.

After a few minutes, Bruce picked up the phone talking to Selina again and said: "Sorry, baby, I just went to calm down. Let's continue."

He was just about to say something when the other phone rang again. Bruce picked up the phone and roared at the other side: "I said 500 words, hand it in tomorrow morning, no room for negotiation!!!"

"Oh, Clark, nothing, I wasn't angry, I just raised my voice a bit. Believe me, really not, I am very calm now, calm..." ===== CHAPTER 3015 =====