Page 7 of The Guest

Chapter 7

  He doesn't know he is an genius himself

  Fenyu was a middle-aged man, in his words to say, he was a mature stable reliable handsome and with a little taste of haggard vicissitudes, he was a peerless middle-aged uncle who was good enough to enchant all the living creatures especially the young girls.

  But this was not exaggerated at all, if he was willing to take more baths, shave a bit more often, mend his that full mouth of rotten teeth, wear a few suitable clothes, and then reduce a few years of age, perhaps he still would have that kind of charm.

  But this world had not so much hypothesis, so Fengyu was just still a simple, no son or daughter, just knew drinking and chatting middle-aged citizen, every Monday to Thursday he would just stay absent-minded in the electrical equipment repair shop on the forth block of the Vanilla Avenue, looked at those occasionally walked pass in front of the repair shop in uniform female police officers and had his drool to run out of his mouth.

  The business of this electrical equipment repair shop had been not bad, that's because Fengyu's skill was really not bad, no matter the latest scroll crystal screen, or the old LCD, no matter the over-clocking room temperature regulator, or the children electric skateboard, anything about the machine and the electrical, he always could repair them well.

  The business was not bad; of course the income was stable as well. So the three legal holidays of every week, Fengyu would always close the shop habitually, and then come in and go out every nursing home of the West River state, knew a lot of the girls of the nursing homes, and spent a lot of money as well. The neighborhoods had already known the lewd side of this middle-aged man, so they didn't feel how surprised it was.

  But just no one knew, the weekends of these two years, Fengyu didn't let off his own lust when he went out every time, but came to a remote mine very far away from the city. This mine had been abandoned for years, especially after that mine disaster ten years ago, the United Company went bankrupt, and no one came to this mine any more. So much so when the miner's lounge was transformed into a repair shop, there was no one found out neither.

  Sheilor gave a stare at that in the sofa middle-aged man, heaved a sigh, brought out the meals from the kitchen stove by his side, put them on the table and said, "It's time for the meal." After he said the words, he then went to get a hot towel to wipe the face of that middle-aged man.

  No matter how worried the mood Sheilor had right now, he this person was always softhearted and kind habitually, looking at that middle-aged uncle's decadent appearance, he always couldn't help wanting to take care of him.

  Fengyu sat on the table, “Pata Pata” began to chew up the somewhat tough meat, and he opened his mouth suddenly, "Why this wild buffalo meat is getting harder and harder?"

  "No matter what kind of meat, after been put in the freezer for half a year, will become somewhat hard to eat." Sheilor didn't have any expression on his face; he filled a bowl of rice for himself and sat by the table. The eating habit of two of them got some strange in these two years, if in the normal East Forest people's opinion, it's excessively luxury.

  "You didn't answer the question I just asked." Sheilor put down the fork suddenly and asked seriously, "I know you were the repair technician in the military in those years, because you had sinned against your superior, so you became the deserter, but that electric shock stick you taught me to make is too likeness, you see... It has been several days, Paul Long was really frightened by me incredibly, and he didn't even dare to ask Levi who the guy is."

  "I have already told you two years ago, I'm a person having stories." Uncle Fengyu obviously didn't care the emetic effect of his this sentence, he said slowly with the narcissism way, "With the information that I can access by the position and secret level in the military in those years, don't say just an electric shock stick, even the standard loaded canon, as long as you have the materials, I also can make it out for you."

  Sheilor had already listened to this kind of words too much, of course he didn't have any reaction to it, he just said helplessly, "Don't brag, the last time I had not so easy to pick up a piece of central control system of the mecha from the garbage dump, the result was that you checked it for five days and five nights, but you didn't dare to start the repair work."

  Fengyu had his face get into green, coughed a couple times, and then scolded seriously, "That's the antique of the fourth military in those years! Who the fuck have seen the things hundreds years ago, of course I would look at it with the appreciative eyes."

  "But what else you can make besides the electric shock stick?" Sheilor said with the tail between the legs, "It has been two years now, I only learn from you here how to repair the TV, the freezer, the toy, the car... And in two more years, the conscription examination of the Defense Department will sign up, I haven't seen any mecha and warship yet, how can I pass the examination?"

  Fengyu lowered his head chewing the meat, he scolded in a low voice, "You didn't even finish the twelve years obligation education, and you don't have the military technology institute background, you can pass the examination with what? The Defense Department also recruits the cannon fodder soldiers; do you want to go to have a try? Absolutely every marine corps will want you."

  Sheilor had a stare blankly, he said seriously, "After pass the conscription examination, then I will be the mechanic sergeant, the starting point will be a little bit higher."

  Fengyu raised his head, he looked at this youngster who he was very familiar with incredibly, he said with a sigh, "You still didn't give up your that disgraceful ideal?"

  "Why the ideal should be disgraceful?" Sheilor emerged a persistent light on his face, "The first ideal of my life is to be an auxiliary official of the battleship, the second ideal is to get into the big company's research and development department in the Capital Planet Circle, and to live the good life."

  "The West Forest Region there is still in the war with the empire." Fenyu's voice was getting a little calm suddenly, "Forget your first ideal, as for the second one, in fact it's not so difficult."

  The speed of their having meal was very quick, Sheilor had already began to clear away the bowls and the forks, he replied while he was cleaning up, "They have fought for sixty years, the people of the East Forest Region have never seen what the people of the Empire look like, except saw their diplomatic corps on the TV, what else should be afraid of?"

  His voice had a pause, he said with some frustrations, "I know that I'm not a what genius, I have learned for two years, but I just learned how to make the electric shock stick. But I always thought, I really like to deal with these machines, so I want to try the examination."

  Fenyu kept silent, didn't say a word, lied on the sofa and began to watch the TV, but his eyes fell over on the back of Sheilor's figure.

  After washed the bowls, Sheilor walked into the operating room habitually, began to operate those instrument tools which he had already been familiar with as his own fingers, with a steady to the extreme point speed, repaired those piled up on the side old appliances, put back to their original forms one by one.

  Those common damaged electrical equipments were not so hard to be repaired, but Sheilor still worked very seriously, as if he was facing the most sophisticated instruments in the whole Federation, maybe he had never noticed, every time when he committed himself into this kind of work, there was a kind of brilliance called seriousness would be emerged in his childish face.

  The having stories uncle Fengyu lit a cigarette, he narrowed his eyes to look at Sheilor's busy figure through the glass, he thought that it's time to lower one more degree of the dust level of the operating room. And then he thought of that sentence Sheilor said earlier, he couldn't help warping up the corners of his mouth and blew out a circle of smoke.

  The circle of the smoke drifted away slowly, floated into Fengyu that had already been getting grey hair and disappeared. Fengyu thought in his heart, all the people in this world said that he was the genius, but actually in some ways
, Sheilor this little guy was... More like a genius than himself.