Genius Club

Chapter 1275: Chapter 1 Blue and Black (Thanks to big brother bbfly for the alliance leader reward!)_3

CC nodded.

“Is this name very important to you?” Lin Xian continued to ask.

CC remained silent for a moment:

“It’s not particularly important, it’s just… it’s been many years since anyone called me by that name, I do… miss it a bit.”

“Can you tell me about it?”

Lin Xian inquired:

“Everything I said earlier is true. I do know a girl named CC, but she really isn’t you. I also want to know what relationship she has with you.”

“So… if you don’t mind, could you specifically tell me about your story, your identity, the origin of your name? Perhaps I can really find some clues from it to answer your questions.”

CC blinked, looking at Lin Xian:

“Can you really tell me… about my background?”

“I can only say it’s possible.”

Lin Xian replied cautiously:

“Although the possibility is indeed quite small, I definitely won’t deceive you.”

“I also hope you can understand, although I did steal a paper from the little black boy, it was a last resort, it doesn’t mean I’m a bad person.”

“I also know, in this era, losing a newspaper means that little black boy would inevitably get a beating when he goes back to report, so rest assured… the money I owe for the newspaper, I will definitely pay him back before tonight, I promise, I will be responsible for it.”

…

At present, Lin Xian saw it too.

This girl also named CC similarly possessed the kindness of Chu Anqing and CC.

Her previous revelation of her crime of stealing a newspaper was surely to prevent the little black boy from getting a beating when he went back.

This is an act of kindness and justice, Lin Xian had no objection to it at all, nor any prejudice, he never thought his actions were right.

After all, this was the reality of 1952, not an endlessly looping dream.

Therefore.

Many things have to be considered for their consequences.

At first, he really just wanted to see the address and date, since “Brooklyn’s rule” was “No returns on opened newspapers”, then so be it, keep a tab, get money during the day to settle with the little black boy.

CC looked at Lin Xian.

Her expression also relaxed.

Indeed.

It was her words just now that had taken effect, temporarily dispelling the negative image of “despicable thief”.

“I was adopted by a kind-hearted grandma since I was a child.”

CC said softly:

“She was a very kind and single grandma, a very good person with a good heart. The ruthless World War I took away her family, leaving her husband and children all dead on the battlefield.”

“After the war ended, she received a lot of compensation, and the state awarded her many medals. Deprived of her family, she decided to use this money to do some good deeds… so she established a welfare home specially for orphan adoption.”

“I don’t know who my parents are, I was wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes and left at the door of grandma’s welfare home shortly after I was born. My biological parents only left a note with my name on it, and hoped that the kind-hearted grandma would take me in.”

Lin Xian listened silently.

Nodded.

So that’s how it was…

He initially thought the grandma CC mentioned was her real grandma, her father’s mother, someone with blood relations.

Unexpectedly, it was the director of the welfare home, a poor person who lost her family in the war.

World War I started in 1914, ended in 1918; Mi Country participated when the war was already in its final stages, and although they went to profit from the war…they still sacrificed some soldiers.

Naturally, this included the kind grandma’s husband and children.

The first Millennium Stakes girl dissipated in 1952, meaning she should have been born in 1932, by that time the welfare home should have already taken in and raised many children.

“There are many children in the welfare home, over thirty of them.”

CC continued:

“Therefore… grandma often uses simple nicknames to address the children. She found my name too long, both first and last names too long, so she cleverly just used the first letters, simply calling me CC.”

“That’s the simplicity of the name’s origin, there is no deep story there. The reason why I was touched when you called me by this name… is primarily because I miss that period, I enjoyed living in the welfare home, with grandma, and with other children, those times are gone forever.”

?

Lin Xian caught a blind spot:

“Could it be…that grandma…”

“Yes.”

CC nodded:

“Grandma passed away a few years ago, and the welfare home couldn’t sustain for various reasons, us children were either adopted or ended up on the streets.”

“Children of my age were unwanted for adoption, too old, so everyone just dispersed, and now I don’t know how the others are doing. At least in Brooklyn, I haven’t seen any of my old friends, they’re probably not here anymore, or… already dead.”

“Since then, no one has called me CC, even when they call my name, they would use my long surname. So… I am quite curious because you can call out the two letters ‘CC’ today.”

Lin Xian let out an “oh”:

“So that’s it, you helped me escape just now and came to my rescue because hearing me call out the name CC triggered your previous memories.”

“That’s not it.”

CC shook her head:

“I didn’t save you because of that. Of course, it was definitely wrong for you to steal a newspaper without paying, but as long as you pay the little black kid back today, it can count as making amends.”

“The reason I saved you… is actually because of your appearance.”

Hmm?

Lin Xian was stunned:

“Appearance?”

Being handsome can actually fill your stomach?

CC chuckled:

“My grandmother always told me that even though my name is American, looking at my appearance, I should be a pure Dragon Country person.”

“She said it’s a distant nation, always at war, but with a long history, a great and legendary country. She judged that my parents, or my ancestors, probably crossed the ocean to escape the war.”

“So, grandmother taught me that compatriots should help each other, especially when encountering fellow countrymen in a foreign land, you should lend a hand in difficult times.”

Lin Xian suddenly understood:

“I see.”

But then, a bit puzzled, pointing to his own face:

“But, there’s something quite odd, how did you determine I’m from Dragon Country just based on my looks?”

He pointed to his own eyes again:

“Logically speaking, how could Dragon Country people have these eyes? Shouldn’t you first suspect that I’m a mixed race?”

CC tilted her head and blinked her eyes:

“It’s so obvious, what’s there to doubt? Although I can’t speak or understand Chinese, when I saw your shocked expression after looking at the newspaper, I immediately knew it was Dragon Country’s language.”

“Moreover… you’re mixed race? Mixed with what? With your black hair, black pupils, yellow skin… you clearly look like a pure Dragon Country person.”

???

Lin Xian widened his eyes:

“What did you say? Black pupils?”

“What else would they be?”

CC looked at Lin Xian as if he were a fool:

“You can’t be colorblind, can you? Even if you were colorblind, you shouldn’t see black as another color.”

Lin Xian wasn’t paying attention to CC at all.

He looked around and found a scrapped motorcycle in the corner with a perfectly intact rearview mirror on the handlebar.

He hurried over.

Turned the rearview mirror towards himself—

He saw.

A familiar face full of perplexed surprise slowly moved from the left to the center of the rearview mirror.

Unchanged.

Not changed at all!

His appearance had not undergone any space-time exclusion, exactly the same as the face he saw every day in the mirror before the time travel! Not a single bit different!

He widened his eyes.

Looking at his dull, deep pupils in the mirror…

Black.

They were actually black!

No trace of blue at all!

“What on earth is going on?”

He suddenly turned around, scanning his surroundings.

He had clearly traveled through time,

clearly arrived in the year 1952,

clearly become a space-time traveler,

But.

Where’s the space-time exclusion?

Where are the blue eyes?

Lin Xian felt a chill down his spine and took a deep breath:

“Did I really… successfully time travel?”