"Mm, that's right. I am Talulah."
Unlike the big-shot airs Croissant described, this very beautiful-looking girl just hesitated a moment before nodding very friendly to Li Lin.
"You must be that Prophet operator from Penguin Logistics, right? I heard about you from your colleagues and my companions. They all said you are a very unique person. When I came, I regretted not seeing you, didn't expect to meet so soon. It's really quite surprising."
"Your companion? That red-horned Sarkaz person?"
"Not just him."
Talulah smiled, clearly not wanting to dwell on this topic. Li Lin didn't ask further either, instead looking at Talulah who had come out for a walk and casually asked:
"If you can't sleep tonight, let's chat? That package slip should have been received? No problems, right? Those Originium seals looked densely packed and quite scary; if any problem comes out from inside, we certainly won't be responsible, right?"
"Mm, I understand. It's just that I've finished looking at the contents inside, there are some things I can't figure out, just wanted to come out and walk."
"…"
Finished looking already? If I remember correctly, weren't there over ten Originium sealing strips on it?
Or perhaps this young lady actually has some kind of X-ray vision Originium Arts? After all, there are so many strange Originium Arts these days, Li Lin actually already regarded these so-called Originium Arts manipulators as mages. After all, essentially they aren't particularly different.
Looking at the calm and detached Talulah, Li Lin instantly changed his mental positioning from some young lady incognito to a young lady incognito who is a highly skilled mage. After all, if the sealed item was shown directly to her, then she's either a legendary level mage, or a freaking awesome commander, or both. But no matter which direction, it would make Li Lin feel solemn respect for this girl before him who looked somewhat bewildered.
Though it didn't feel quite real. After all, intuitively Li Lin felt this girl before him seemed to need his help.
Li Lin thought for a moment, looked at the sky outside and casually asked:
"Are you wanting to ask something?"
"Mm, I heard from that ally of mine, your understanding and views on things have a very unique philosophy. So I want to ask, regarding Oripathy and Catastrophes, how exactly do you see them?"
"Ah…"
That bear old man? (Referring to Vladimir Gorbachev)
With Talulah's question, an old man's figure directly flashed in Li Lin's mind.
What was somewhat unexpected was, what kind of allied relationship could an Ursus man already entering his twilight years and a beautiful girl like this have? But Li Lin didn't have any messy thoughts about this. After all, if one is a truly powerful Originium Arts manipulator, then becoming allies would certainly be natural. But thinking about Oripathy and Catastrophes, death and such at this age, it doesn't fit her age.
Li Lin thought for a moment, then thought about the dream that Ursus man had told him, feeling this frowning girl before him very likely suffered from a very common affliction in his era: the Wenqing disease (pretentious/melancholy artistic youth syndrome).
"It doesn't matter to me."
"…Doesn't matter? The matter of Oripathy patients is something that doesn't matter to you?"
"Ah, can't quite say that. I don't understand the cause of Oripathy, I'm not an Oripathy patient, I also don't know what Oripathy brings, so I can only say I'm uncertain. From a certain perspective, I indeed don't care about these things. Survival, death, I feel thinking about these are meaningless things."
"What do you mean?"
"Because to put it bluntly, those who can make choices, conduct thinking, aren't they only the non-producers who have received higher education and have certain leisure time? Those truly poor people are too busy thinking just for their own food and clothing. Saturated poverty exploits manpower, and at the same time allows other high-level people the leisure to think about some random problems. So I feel I won't think about these things, I also don't have the qualification to think about these things. All this is the sum of social relations, unless one is a specialized scholar—" (Sentence cut off in original)
"Quite a vast perspective… Everyone makes their own choices, since time cannot flow backwards, then everything will be reckoned?"
"…?"
What kind of magical thought process is this again?
Looking at the thoughtful Talulah, Li Lin felt the conversation seemed to have encountered some subtle problems.
But he thought, in order to save a misguided 'Wenqing' girl, he still braced himself and continued spouting nonsense, striving to instill some rather confusing but reasonable sounding arguments.
"Once a God of War said, 'grievances end here, we will all grow'. But this context is rather complicated, let's not mention it for now. What I want to say is, all choices, whether made or not, and their results, depend on oneself. What's more, if this world falls into a sea of fire and is destroyed, isn't it also a very dazzling and magnificent thing from a certain perspective? Make a decision, bear the cause and effect. No one can make decisions for others, only oneself can make decisions. But sometimes, the one bearing the consequences isn't necessarily only oneself."
"Matter of perspective…"
"Why so serious? All this is just a game. Just do what you want to do. Where I'm from, there's often a saying like this: Our lives are just a big stage, everyone plays their own role. If you don't want to play anymore, then there will be another role waiting for you. So I don't know what you're thinking, but the only advice I can give is just be yourself. Love and hate, pain and happiness, death and new life, what do these have to do with me? People's feelings are different after all."
"People's emotions are not the same. Yes, people's emotions are indeed not entirely the same. So sometimes words are ineffective, so many times originally good things also turn into bad things. Those who should have gathered together are separated because of different emotions, but what to do… That's right, the answer is already there. Right in those papers…"
"It's good that you have some thoughts."
Regarding 'Wenqing disease', this is as much as I can help. Although I also don't know what nonsense I was just spouting, anyway, it's fine now.
Patting the thoughtful Talulah's shoulder, pity for the 'Wenqing' girls of his previous life flashed in Li Lin's heart. He shook his head and walked into the corridor. He had already seen Texas waving at him with a dark face. Just like that unlucky Forte police officer, he was also going to be persecuted today.
Although it was persecution by a beautiful girl.