Lin Feifei saw that there were many candies on the table in front of her, including filled ones, chocolate ones, pine nut ones, and all kinds of weird toffee.
Her eyes were wide open, her mouth was watering, and she stared at so many candies without blinking.
This was the first time in her memory that she had seen so many colorful candies, and it was also in her own home.
Yes, when I looked up, my home was still located in Ivy Community in the old town of Yungu. My mother, Lin Wanru, was standing at the door of the bedroom, looking at me with a pursed smile.
"Take it if you want to eat it. It's all for you." Lin Wanru said softly, her eyes full of love.
Feifei didn't think about why her dead mother was here, as if it was a matter of course. She nodded quickly, grabbed a sandwich toffee, and peeled off the wrapper to reveal an oval candy.
Feifei stuffed it into her mouth, her tongue entangled with the candy, and her taste buds were fully relaxed, enjoying the sweetness from the candy itself with the fruit filling.
Her teeth lightly touched the surface of the toffee, and the soft and sticky feeling came over her. Feifei smiled and couldn't help but want to bite it, so that her teeth were completely surrounded by the soft and waxy toffee, and she was surrounded by the sweetness. world.
"So fragrant, so sweet, so delicious..."
While chewing, Feifei closed her eyes and held her right hand in front of her chest with her left hand, her face full of happiness.
"Is it tasty?"
"Yeah, it's delicious." Feifei nodded.
Then she was stunned and realized that the person asking the question did not seem to be her mother Lin Wanru. She immediately opened her eyes and found that Lin Wanru was no longer standing at the door of the bedroom.
Turning around, he saw that not far behind him, Lin Xuanqi, who was wearing a sky-blue school uniform, was standing there. His eyes were soft, but with a touch of weirdness, staring at him full of love and affection.
"Then you eat more." Lin Xuanqi murmured with a strange smile.
At the same moment, Feifei noticed something strange about the toffee she was chewing. She immediately spit the candy into the palm of her open hand and found that it was a severed finger.
There was no blood flowing out of the broken wound of the broken finger. It seemed to have been sucked clean by itself, and it even appeared to be in a shriveled state.
Seeing this scene, Feifei's stomach suddenly surged and she almost vomited it out.
When he looked up, he saw Lin Xuanqi still smiling strangely, holding a bunch of broken fingers in his hands, facing him.
"Eat, there's a lot more. Doesn't it taste sweet?"
"No! I won't eat! I won't eat..."
Feifei shook her head quickly and backed away.
She found that Lin Xuanqi had grabbed her hand and immediately began to struggle, while she kept shouting: "Don't eat, I won't eat..."
"Feifei!"
A familiar voice sounded in my ears.
Feifei opened her eyes, and there was darkness in her eyes, which was the faint light coming from the electric lamp on the bedside table.
It was Shen Xing who was sitting next to the bed and shaking himself.
When Shen Xing saw her waking up, he first made a gesture of silence, and then said softly: "Did you have a nightmare just now? Don't move yet, listen to me."
Feifei was surprised and nodded slightly.
Because the quilt was tightly covered, there was heating in the room, and she had nightmares, she felt a layer of sweat breaking out all over her body at this moment, but it was still dark outside at this point, and it was obviously not dawn.
"It's one o'clock in the morning. You can't sleep now because your classmate, Lin Xuanqi, is here." Shen Xing whispered.
Without waiting for Feifei to express surprise, he continued: "Do you still remember what I told you? If you are not afraid, you will be afraid of them."
Feifei looked horrified and nodded slightly.
"Now that Lin Xuanqi is here, I want to give you a chance to prove yourself." Shen Xing said calmly.
Feifei slowly sat up from the bed, hugged her knees with her hands, and stared at Shen Xing.
Although she had appeared relatively calm, Shen Xing could still feel her body shaking slightly, so he immediately put on a thicker home clothes for her.
"According to my speculation, although Lin Xuanqi is ruthless to others, he poses almost no threat to you, so this is an excellent opportunity to prove your ability." Shen Xing said: "Now it seems that he just wants to get close to you. This comes from you There has always been an attraction to anomalies, but if he wanted to hurt you, he would have had many opportunities to do it before, not now."
After a pause, he continued: "And I will always hide beside you to protect you. You can face him boldly and use your ability and your aura to shock this anomaly. It is best to be able to suppress it. "
"But... I don't know anything." Feifei said worriedly.
Her lips were turning white at the moment. This was not because of the cold weather, but purely because of the fear of the unknown she would face next.
"You can do it." Shen Xing nodded firmly, "Have you forgotten? Who blew up the entire skin anomaly? Who tore that vicious short-haired cat called Daniu in half? Who blew it up? Can you deal with Mengyin meson on your own? You know, even ordinary special operators may be killed instantly when they encounter Mengyin meson."
After finishing speaking, Shen Xing pressed Feifei's shoulders, stared into her eyes, and said: "Believe me, believe in yourself, what you lack now is just the courage to face them alone, not your ability. Besides, I I will be around you, and once the danger exceeds the limit you can face, you will take action immediately. Not only me, but also your Cat Sister and Achai are also there."
Feifei bit her lower lip tightly, her little face turned pale for a while, and just when she was about to nod fiercely, Shen Xing turned her eyes back and lowered her voice: "He's here."
After a while.
Feifei walked out of the bedroom. She walked very carefully, step by step, for fear of stepping on ants on the ground.
She was wearing thick home clothes and a pair of furry bear shoes on her feet. These shoes were not slippers, but the kind that could completely wrap the heels to prevent them from slipping.
After arriving at the stairway on the second floor, she peeked into the living room on the first floor. There were no lights on downstairs, but it was not particularly dark because the curtains in the living room were not closed, and the city lights filtered into the room, showing a picture of Inexplicably strange and cold.
It was quiet downstairs, except that no one was seen, and there was no movement.
Feifei felt that Uncle Shen had made a mistake. She hesitated for a moment and resisted the urge to turn around to see if Shen Xing was following. After a moment of hesitation, she took her right foot out and stepped on the stairs leading to the first floor.
The wooden stair slabs creaked. This sound would not be noticeable at all when walking downstairs during the day, but now in this silent night, it seemed particularly pleasant.
Feifei felt her heart was raised to her throat following the sudden sound. She immediately stepped onto the next step again, pretending to be nonchalant, but in fact she was extremely nervous as she walked downstairs step by step.
As he went downstairs, he glanced around, but still didn't see anyone.
Not long after, when they reached the first floor, Feifei reached out and pressed the light switch at the stairway of the first floor. Unexpectedly, she touched the light switch and found that it was on. Then she pressed it up and down twice, but there was no response.
Her heart was beating so fast that she could even hear it. She pretended to be calm and walked to the living room, all the while thinking silently in her heart.
"I'm not afraid, it's them that I'm afraid of. I'm not afraid, it's them that I'm afraid of... I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, they will eventually become... slaves of fear..."
After a sudden pause, Feifei stood in the middle of the living room, motionless, her eyes fixed on a figure standing next to the TV cabinet.
This is the figure of a little boy, wearing a sky-blue school uniform, with his head lowered and his body as close as possible to the side of the TV. As a result, Feifei didn't notice him until he got here.
"Lin...Xuanqi?" Feifei stared blankly at the dark figure with his head lowered, and said directly.
She remembered what Shen Xing told her, don't be afraid, she couldn't be afraid, but suddenly when she thought that the classmate who had been accompanying her before turned out to be a lurking anomaly, she couldn't help but feel fearful.
He slowly raised his lowered head, and could vaguely see that familiar face.
At this time, the black shadow moved a step forward and left the scope of the shadow, revealing Lin Xuanqi, who had a somewhat twitchy expression on his face. He put his hands in front of him, holding them tightly, as if he didn't know where to put them. He stared straight at Lin Feifei, who was right in front of him and seemed to have been gone for a long time.
"Lin Feifei!" Lin Xuanqi's lips moved and he spoke softly.
"Why are you here?" Feifei asked calmly, her whole body shaking uncontrollably.
Lin Xuanqi smiled and answered hesitantly: "I, I, came here specially to see you. Why did you come to Heshan without saying a word?"
"I will definitely leave when I move to Heshan." Feifei replied.
"Why didn't you tell me in advance?" Lin Xuanqi asked.
"Can't I leave?" Feifei now found some of the same feelings she had when facing Lin Xuanqi. Her voice became louder unconsciously, and her body was no longer as trembling as before.
"Of course you... can leave." Lin Xuanqi chuckled twice and rubbed his hands in front of him, "But you have to tell me in advance and let me know where you are."
"Why should I tell you?" Feifei frowned.
This was not something she was pretending, but the disgust and even disgust that naturally arose when she heard Lin Xuanqi say this.
Lin Xuanqi's facial expression suddenly changed. Feifei could see it clearly with her sharp eyes, and found that his expression had changed at least four or five times in just three or four seconds, including hesitation, suspicion, surprise, sadness, and anger. etc.
It was as if Lin Xuanqi's face was like a fake face that could be made into different expressions at will in the next second.
When he looked at Feifei again, his eyes had become a little cold: "You must tell me, because... we are classmates."
"It's funny." Feifei showed a fake smile, but she didn't know whether her smile was real or not. "There are so many classmates, but I didn't tell anyone. You are not an exception."
"We have been studying together for so long and see each other every day. And our grades are equivalent. Can others compare?"
"There are many classmates with better grades than me. Why don't you be friends with them?"
"They can't compare with you, you are different, very different..."
"What's the difference? I want to know the reason." At this time, Feifei had recovered the feeling she had when facing Lin Xuanqi in the past. She held her hands in front of her chest and stared at Lin Xuanqi without blinking with fierce eyes.
"As long as I can be around you, it's enough." Lin Xuanqi didn't answer her question, and directly stated his purpose as if for Kuan Feifei's heart.
After finishing his words, before Feifei could continue to speak, he smiled and said, "Do you still remember when we were guessing riddles together?"
When he smiled, Feifei could clearly see that his brows quickly rose, forming a "*" shape, and the eyebrows and eyes also changed slightly at this moment, becoming...not like a person's normal facial features.
Feifei was startled suddenly and saw Lin Xuanqi's expression quickly recovered, as if what she just saw was just an illusion.
"Well, it's okay if I leave. Then let's play a guessing game. If you guess correctly, I'll leave. If you can't guess, you can't drive me away anymore." Lin Xuanqi suggested with a smile on his face.
Feifei didn't want to guess at first. In fact, she and Lin Xuanqi had played this kind of guessing many times. Except for the first time when they were not familiar with each other's routine and failed to guess correctly, they never failed again.
"Why should I be afraid of him?"
She originally wanted to refuse, but then a thought suddenly came to her mind. Without thinking about it, Feifei nodded: "It's a deal."
"Listen carefully." Lin Xuanqi rubbed his hands, obviously suppressing his excitement.
His actions were seen by Feifei, and she felt a hint of vigilance and uneasiness in her heart, just listening to Lin Xuanqi's unhurried words.
"It can devour everything, whether it is insects, fish, birds, animals, flowers, grass or trees. It can bite through pig iron, erode through gold steel, turn rocks into fly ash, kill humans, massacre towns, turn seas into mulberry fields, and mountains into plains. Its What is your identity?"
Feifei frowned slightly, put her index finger on her chin, and said nothing for a while.
Seeing her look, Lin Xuanqi felt a little proud: "If you can't answer, you can't drive me away anymore."
"If I answer it, are you sure you want to leave?" Feifei asked.
Lin Xuanqi was stunned and nodded.
"Its identity is - time, okay, you can go." Feifei directly issued an eviction order.
Lin Xuanqi's expression did not change, nor did he look like he should after a failure.
He suddenly became very interested, stared into Feifei's eyes, and said word by word: "Isn't time the best testimony of our being together? No matter in the past or now, I have been with you since you can remember it. You, shouldn’t the future be just like this? You say, right?”
As he spoke, his eyes became deep and dark, as if containing some strange attraction.
"You said after such a long time, is it the best reason for me to stay with you?"
Feifei's face slowly became stiff. She also stared into Lin Xuanqi's eyes, but she lacked the instinctive resistance just now.
Shen Xing, who was hiding against the wall in the stairwell on the second floor, suddenly felt something bad after seeing this.
Lin Xuanqi's suggestion to guess the riddle was obviously a trap. Regardless of whether Feifei guessed it correctly or not, the answer would be in his favor.
If she can't guess the answer and Feifei loses, then Lin Xuanqi will always stay by her side. If Feifei guesses correctly, she will be confused about the answer "time" itself, and then agree with Lin Xuanqi's request at this moment.
The living room fell into dead silence.
Lin Xuanqi's deep eyes stared straight into Feifei's eyes without blinking, while Feifei's stiff face gradually lost its color and no longer had any expression.
Time seemed to have passed a century. At this time, Shen Xing was gradually losing his patience and he was considering whether he should take action himself.
On Lin Xuanqi's side, his expression also changed. His originally confident expression began to lose control because he noticed something strange.
"There's still... a reason?" Feifei suddenly spoke, and her stiff expression disappeared instantly, "I guessed it right, aren't you leaving?"
"Ah, no!"
Lin Xuanqi looked at her in horror. The expression on his face was no longer what a child should have. He pointed at Feifei with a hint of disbelief in his tone.
"You, you broke the rules?!"
