Chapter 46: The Road to Escape
Yuriko was a quiet girl who usually didn't like to talk. Her favorite places were the library and the lab.
She liked to dwell in quiet places for a whole day, oh no ... it was a whole day of work. Her head is running at high speed and she is in charge of the design research of cutting robots.
The library gives everyone a quiet place to study, with people coming and going in silence. There aren't a lot of paper books here {because there isn't a lot of wood}, most of them are e-books, and the new government prints a handful of paper books every day to make the smell of books a little stronger.
She sits here and just likes the quiet atmosphere.
The people in the library don't have too many distractions or messy thoughts, everyone is here to learn, or to work, and their minds are more pure.
This is one of her favorite things.
Although now she is not used to using mind reading, but still has an instinct to probably feel whether a person is probably good or bad, malicious or kind ...
"Mind reading", a form of parapsychology.
There are many people who are able to do partial mind reading. Some experienced psychologists are able to guess the psychology of their subjects by reading their words.
Some Zen masters who are proficient in Buddhism, because of their deep power and inner purity, they are also able to see the defilement in the hearts of the wicked.
There are also some gypsies who have similar, equivalent to calculated mind reading.
But Yuriko's ability is different, her "mind reading" is inherent, a personal gift.
For her psychic ability, part of the current scientific certification is that her brain structure is different from normal people, at certain times will enter a strange state, can feel the brain waves and micro-currents in space.
According to these brain waves and micro-currents, she is able to imitate the thinking condition of others with her own brain. Therefore, she did not say that she "read" other people's thinking, but through this imitation, guessed the thinking of others.
The moment she concentrates her mind, her brain operates far beyond human limits. In this short time of a few seconds, it is basically more than ten hours of calculation for an ordinary person. Thanks to this, she is able to make complex thinking guesses.
The success rate of such guesses is above 99%, basically without much error.
The energy consumption of "mind reading" is very high, so Yuriko will always be hungry, she is a standard food. This is also her most embarrassing point, she prefers to eat fries, chocolate and other high-calorie food ...
Thinking about it, she suddenly got a little hungry, lowered her head, pulled out a piece of chocolate, and carefully bit into it. This kind of food in the Noah is but a luxury, the price is high, so most of her salary is spent on buying food ... to buy a house for her is far away.
Inexplicably, she remembered something from the past, about ten years ago ...
In fact, this kind of "mind reading" is not too good, especially for a young girl.
The adult mind, confused and complex, even if many people do not physically act, the mind will be filled with all kinds of criminal thoughts.
When she was in Japan, she kept hearing strange things like this and that.
"What's the point of showing off, it's not just ..."
"Big bear girlfriend? Oh, still not green by me ..."
"Stole her underwear, no one knows, right?"
Everywhere is filled with strange content,****, crime, fraud,... well, some people who look very decent, but deep in their minds have filthy thoughts, looks very incredible.
The good thing is that Yuriko is smart, she learned to protect herself from a young age, and she subconsciously stays away from people who are too strange. Stay away from them and you should be fine, right?
She is not good at socializing probably because of this, because people's thinking is generally too scary ... she is afraid of contact with them.
However, there is one person she can't stay away from, and that is her father ...
Her father had severe macho tendencies and would beat up their mother and daughter at the drop of a hat. In his mind, the mother and daughter were his personal property to do with as he pleased.
This is the traditional Japanese idea of male superiority over women, and there are really a lot of people with this straight male mindset in the island nation of Japan, nurtured by traditional culture.
The point is, many women also take this kind of thinking for granted.
The young Yuriko could only control her words and actions with fear and trepidation, not giving her father any reason to be angry.
She hoped that her father's career would turn around, and then his temper might get better, too.
How I miss the time when I was four or five years old, when my parents were harmonious, my family was warm, and there were no such and such family conflicts. However, a few years ago, because of a career change, everything has become bad. Her father was furious at every turn, her mother was in tears all day, and she had a vague tendency to depression.
Yuriko could only pray to fate that things would get a little better for their family ...
But as the years passed, Lady Luck did not favor the family. Her father, who was constantly failing in his career, instead became addicted to alcohol and gambling.
After that night of madness, he finally walked into a dead end ...
"Yuriko!"
On this day after school, her mother inexplicably called out to her at the door. She had a very complicated look in her eyes, which she had never had before.
"You're home early today!" Mother said slightly hoarsely, she wanted to say something else, but still did not say it.
"Yuriko, it's a nice day, let's go out and celebrate!" Her father had also = dressed and said gently.
His face was a little haggard, his eyes red and covered with blood, but he tried to put on an amiable appearance.
This kind of gentleness, this kind of amiability, has not appeared on the face of the father for a long time ...
Yuriko nodded in confusion, that year, she was just 10 years old.
Although she didn't understand why the weather was nice to celebrate as well, her heart was still very happy and she didn't notice her mother's abnormality and took her father's outstretched palm.
In this moment, she suddenly felt an abyss of malice ... this malice ... never felt before, as the Arctic Ocean 10,000 years of unmelting ice and snow!
Yuriko froze, and suddenly did not move, all the goose bumps sprouted.
"What's wrong?" Her father asked.
Yuriko came back to her senses, and subconsciously, she unleashed her "mind-reading" technique on her father.
"Yuriko ... I really owe a lot of money! I have no choice! From now on, you belong to Lord Watanabe ... I really have no choice! Otherwise, I will die, I will die!"
His heart roared and struggled, with fear and guilt, but soon found an excuse for himself, and that was death!
He thought he had no choice, wanted to get rid of his responsibility, get rid of his guilt ...
Looking at his mother again, her heart was so full of gloom and sadness and intense guilt that she couldn't see anything more.
Yuriko lowered her head, with her own thoughts in mind.
Who is Watanabe ...? Momochi she did not know this guy, but from her mother's reaction, it was always not a good thing.
Her head was spinning fast, and she quickly guessed the cause and effect of the matter.
The father lost a lot of money gambling, to take her off the debt? Or else he would die? She is a ten-year-old girl, can have what role, can sell a few money?
That said, many people say she is beautiful and lovely ... that Watanabe, is it something ... demented?
A bad chill emerged from her heart, almost making her unsteady on her feet. Yuriko's heart was trembling, but she was very smart and did not show her face on the surface.
She knew that since her father had made up his mind, there was no use in panicking. She just secretly rummaged through her school bag and hid a pencil sharpener in her pocket.
What to do? What to do?
How to escape? How to escape?
She was only ten years old, her strength was no match for an adult, and she didn't have a penny in her pocket, and she had been pulled into the car by her father.
Jump out of the car? Suicide?
Yuriko really can not think of any good way, painfully closed her eyes, is her life can only be like this ...
"Mr. Yamada, my daughter has brought my IOU ..." came the cowardly voice of her father outside the car, who was always a pug in front of outsiders.
Her mother was cowering with her arms around her. Yuriko suddenly felt cold on her neck, it was her mother's tears, her mother couldn't protect her anymore.
"Even if I escape now, I'll get my mother involved, right ..." Yuriko thought so, seemingly determined of her fate.
"I'll hand her over to Mr. Watanabe when she arrives."
The man outside cursed disdainfully, he also despised this kind of beast who betrayed his daughter. He took out another IOU and threw it in his father's face, "Get out of here!"
The door opened and a large, rude hand jerked Yuriko through, a young man with dyed yellow hair.
He had a cigarette in his mouth and picked Yuriko up with one hand, a hint of pity in his eyes, and a cold smile.
Yuriko saw his heart: "Nice looking little girl, Lord Watanabe will like it ..."