"elder brother."
"Um?"
"elder brother……"
"Who is calling me brother at night?" Lu Mingfei rubbed his eyes and muttered, "You're not letting anyone sleep!"
The voice was very close. Lu Mingfei still remembered that he went back to his aunt's house and fell asleep because he was in a bad mood. When he thought about it, it seemed that only Lu Mingze could be the voice, but Lu Mingfei knew clearly that Lu Mingze was the voice. It was impossible to call him that. If he really did, the goosebumps all over Lu Mingfei's body would probably not go away for three days.
The voice sounded like a child... Thinking this, Lu Mingfei opened his eyes.
It was dawn at some point, and the room was so bright that it was even blinding. Lu Mingfei couldn't remember when the lighting in the room was so good.
Then he saw a boy.
It is indeed a boy, sitting on the chair in front of the computer. Based on the height from the desktop, it is estimated to be right at Lu Mingfei's chest. He is wearing small leather shoes on his dangling feet, a small black suit, and a White silk scarf.
What caught Lu Mingfei's attention was the little boy's eyes, which seemed to be filled with burning gold, which was breathtaking.
Only after that did he notice the boy's face, which was beautiful and well-behaved, with a childlike look on his round face that was somewhere between a boy and a girl.
"Who are you, kid?" Lu Mingfei sat up from the bed, the anger at being woken up seemed to disappear the moment he saw the little boy, "It's not good to wear contact lenses at such a young age."
"Brother, are you angry?" the boy asked.
"Angry? Why should I be angry?" Lu Mingfei scratched his head.
"But I feel your sadness. Sadness should bring anger, and then turn into anger to burn everything." The boy said softly.
"...Children, don't read those messy literary youth books, and remember not to play with fire. Isn't it good for him to play games?" Lu Mingfei shook his head, stood up, and habitually adjusted himself to the one he was not used to. Posture... may soon become a new habit.
"Brother, you have changed a lot." The boy looked at Lu Mingfei and said.
"It's indeed quite big... so... have I known you before? Little friend? How did you show up here?" Lu Mingfei was thinking about when his uncle and aunt's family had such elegant relatives. It seemed like before I've never heard of it, so it should be a bragging opportunity for them, while reaching out to the boy's hair.
"You need to be sad, so that you can be angry, brother, so that you can take back everything we have lost..." The boy said softly, and Lu Mingfei's hand fell empty for some reason.
"Is this...what...a drama performance? So who is the protagonist of the role I play? Going through hardships to change my destiny?" Lu Mingfei felt that he had encountered a problem. It was his instinct to talk bad things, but if the other party could ignore it, It wouldn't be nice if he said bad things that he didn't understand.
"Brother, you have changed." The boy's tone was determined.
"Kid, you're out of your mind." Lu Mingfei's tone was serious.
"Maybe." The boy smiled softly, hummed a song, and then pushed gently with his hands.
Only then did Lu Mingfei realize that the surroundings seemed to have turned into a cliff. He was standing on the edge, and under the boy's push, he could no longer maintain his stability and fell back.
"Ahhhh!!!" Lu Mingfei screamed loudly and opened his eyes.
Then he froze.
The breeze blew by, the leaves outside the window rustled, and the first ray of sunlight in the morning shone in and fell on the chair, but there was no one where the boy was before.
Its daybreak.
…
"So... this is poverty alleviation?" Mo Qiuran looked at the two big boxes that Chu Zihang was carrying, "Shouldn't poverty alleviation be carried out by carrying grain, oil, rice and noodles? When did you bring a PS2? Comrade, how do you do your poverty alleviation work? It’s not quite right!”
"It's a gift." Chu Zihang corrected.
"Okay, but have you overlooked a very serious problem?" Mo Qiuran pointed to the small living room. Although the items were neatly arranged, something seemed to be missing. "I don't have a TV! There is no screen. What should I do? I can’t plug it into my body and rely on my thoughts to play with it, right? There’s no matching socket!”
"So I brought a screen." Chu Zihang mentioned another big box.
"Hiss... please sit down." Mo Qiuran took a breath and quickly poured tea and water for Chu Zihang, "What service do you need, sir? I guarantee that we will have everything you need!"
Chu Zihang selectively ignored it. If he ignored Mo Qiuran at this time, Chu Zihang estimated that Mo Qiuran's next move would be to cross his arms and say yes. Sure enough, you just covet my body. Do you think I am such a frivolous person? That's right. I'm really like that.
"Why did you suddenly think of coming to me?" Seeing that Chu Zihang was not fooled, Mo Qiuran came down and asked seriously.
"I did lie to you yesterday." Chu Zihang said, "But there was a reason, and I can't say it."
Silence fell in the room.
"...No more?" Mo Qiuran asked after a moment of silence.
"No more." Chu Zihang said.
"...Brother, do you know that this kind of behavior is called appetizing?" After a moment of silence, Mo Qiuran looked at Chu Zihang and said, "For someone with a more grumpy temper, he might have done it!"
"I hope you won't check this school, whether online or through other means." Chu Zihang said.
"Why?" Mo Qiuran asked.
"I can't tell you." Chu Zihang said.
"So you came here just to satisfy my curiosity and stop me from exploring?" Mo Qiuran looked like he was about to vomit blood.
"...Yes." Chu Zihang replied after a slight silence, thinking that he also realized how... deserving of punishment his behavior was.
But he had to tell Mo Qiuran about this. Mo Qiuran was very smart, almost to the point of being a monster. Although he probably didn't know about those monsters with golden eyes, if he investigated them, he might actually be able to find them. To something.
Chu Zihang didn't dare to gamble. Those monsters have not been widely known to mankind so far. It is obviously because there is an extremely huge force covering up all of them. As an ordinary person, Mo Qiuran knew these things that he should not know. If so... what will be the consequences?
No matter what the consequences, Chu Zihang didn't want to see it, because it would mean that Mo Qiuran had entered the sight of those things and was connected with those things, but he was not qualified to save his life.
"...Okay." Mo Qiuran and Chu Zihang looked at each other for a long time, the atmosphere so heavy that it was almost frozen, and then they finally said softly.
Chu Zihang breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, because of Mo Qiuran's next words, his heart lifted again, higher than ever.
"At this point, I don't want to hide it from you anymore." Mo Qiuran said seriously.
I don’t pretend anymore, I show my cards!
