Chapter 19 Illusion
"Bang bang bang."
"Ha - who is it? Why so early...Dad?" Mei looked at her father who was in tatters, with a face full of surprise, and quickly helped him into the house and sat down, "Dad, what did you do yesterday? I have been looking for you for a long time. , Ma Fei said you went to play cards with old friends, so there’s no need to look for you... What did you do last night?" She brought her father a glass of water.
Father Mei raised his head and drank all the water, and was silent for a while. "Bring me the cane outside the door."
"Oh." "Be careful, don't miss the mark on it. There are throwing knives in it."
"Ah?" Mei couldn't help but let go of her hand holding the cane. "Dad, you..."
"Some guys are targeting me. I cleaned them up last night. From now on... I'm going to go out and live." Mei's father wanted to smoke a cigarette, but suddenly remembered that all the cigarettes had been taken away by his daughter. "well-"
"No! This is absolutely not allowed! We finally reunited once, and you can't leave again? Do you know how long I have been waiting for this moment? I, I..."
Mei shook her head, walked forward, picked up his crutches, and patted his prosthetic limbs. "You will be killed by them."
"Then I'm not afraid. I'm no longer the child who only cried loudly many years ago! Father, don't abandon us this time. Okay?"
"The other party is a werewolf who doesn't show any mercy."
"I know, I killed one myself." Mei's right hand began to condense with green light. "I think they will be happy to drink the drink I prepared for them." "Wood God's Poison, daughter, you..."
Father and daughter stood side by side, looking at the rising sun in the distance. The gentle light painted their shadows, which was very similar to the photo that was hung on the wall again.
Lu Si pushed open the door of the principal's office. "Principal, are you looking for me?"
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Luo Ye looked at the four people walking away and shook his head. "Did the principal teach Lu Si some brainwashing? It's the first time I've seen them obey school rules like this. Alas, it doesn't seem to be considered school rules."
"So you are here..."
A gloved hand pinched Luo Ye's waist. At the moment of pain, Luo Ye called out the other person's name: "Lu Changyou! Stop grabbing my waist, you weirdo!" He turned around to see. When Lu Changyou was traveling, he was startled by the other party's dress. "Are you going on an adventure?"
Lu Changyou was wearing an antique Adventure Walker suit. The size difference forced her to make her sleeves very high. She put her hands on her hips and tried to look mature. "What do you know? This is called retro."
"Yes, you turned your jacket into a floor-length dress. Hey, it goes well with your big backpack." He put his palms across his chest. "He's a little bit shorter."
Lu Changyou blushed inexplicably. She stepped on Luo Ye with her foot, gave him a box of candies hidden in her pocket, and turned to leave.
"Why did you give me this? I don't eat sweets." "That's a lucky candy to bless you! Can't you see at night? You might be able to see after eating this." She continued walking. "Where are you going?"
"Didn't you say that people can only avoid being bullied if they become stronger? If I stay here all the time, greedy for temporary happiness, then I may never become strong, and I may always be in a position of being bullied, so this time , I choose to believe your words." She stopped, turned around and pointed to the sky in the distance. "Look! I want to choose to run away! Choose to travel far! Break through my current environment and jump out of the circle that surrounds me!"
"So, you are going to...travel? Not this, this, does it matter?"
"New environment, new world, new atmosphere, new people! My father may not have left me any wealth or power, but the courage and interest he left behind in me are my greatest treasures!"
"When are you leaving?" "In a few months, after all, I'm not ready yet."
The school bell forcibly pulled Luo Ye back to the classroom. He lay on the desk boredly, looking at the empty next table. "What are everyone doing..."
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Luo Ye, who fell on the table, couldn't help laughing. "Look at this Luo Ye, how can he be so inferior... We just drank a few glasses of juice and fell asleep..."
"That sounds like you are very brave."
"I'm telling you, if I'm not brave, you'll all be weaklings!" "Hey kid, do you dare to go home and make gestures later?" Yao Wu picked up the wooden cup. "Okay! One more drink!" Lu Si shouted loudly, and there was another sound of clinking glasses. After drinking all their drinks, everyone walked towards the door. "We had a great time today! See you tomorrow!"
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Lu Si and four people were walking on the dark street. The moon was like an extinguished light bulb, only its shape but not its light. They walked forward through fallen leaves and accumulated rain. "The weather has not been very good recently. It rained for an hour in the afternoon, and the rain has accumulated like this." "If you don't have anything to do, I will make you a cold-repelling tonic soup!"
"No, no, we're full!" The three of them shook their heads in unison.
Feng Liu stopped and said, "Something's wrong... there's a sound."
The other three people also stopped, and everyone's eyes fell on the dark alley. Yao Wu wanted to shine the flashlight inside, but was stopped by Lu Si. "Stop the grass and scare the snake."
"Could it be a werewolf?"
"I hope not, I hope it's the trafficker." Lu Si looked around. "The other side is hiding, we are hiding, we will act separately."
Everyone said "ok" to each other, turned around, and disappeared into the dark streets in the blink of an eye.
A 1.8-meter-tall shadow moved slowly on the black wall. Two fierce lights scanned everything in the black shadow. Just when the black shadow was about to exit the alley, an angry shout came.
"stop!"
A beam of white light illuminated the black shadow and tore the other party's disguise to pieces. Xue Bubu rubbed his eyes. "What are you doing, little brats?"
"Brother Xue?" Yao Wu turned down the brightness of the flashlight and ran over quickly. "Brother Xue, what are you..."
"I'm drinking tonight because I'm afraid someone will check me out on the road, so I'll take a side road. What about you? Are you going to play the role of Black Cat Sheriff here at night?"
Yao Wu shook his head, feeling that something was wrong. "We heard something moving here, so we came to take a look. We didn't expect it to be like this. Brother Xue, I'm leaving first. Please pay attention to your safety."
Feng Liu on the other side was observing the people on the trail and recalling the shortcomings of this banquet.
"Next time, try to bring wine over. You can't use water or juice instead. Everyone won't have a great time drinking. Alas, I don't know if Sister Mei will allow me to bring wine..."
A cold voice interrupted him. "Feng Liu, you stepped on my paper airplane."
"Ah? Zhang San?" Feng Liu quickly lowered his head and looked at the stones on the ground. "No paper flying..."
Lu Si walked back and forth in the alley with a dim flashlight. "Where is everyone? You are all a little careless..." "Lu Si, I'm here." Feng Liu's voice came from the darkness, Lu Si took advantage of the situation, and Feng Liu stood there quietly, rubbing it with his hands. Rub his eyes.
"where have you been?"
"Go find two other idiots."
"Did you find it?" "No." Feng Liu walked towards him. "It seems like it's just you and me here."
Lu Si took out his newly acquired pistol and pointed it at Feng Liu. "Yes, it is true that there are only two of us here. Yes, it should be said that I am the only one."
"Feng Liu" did not stop in his tracks. "what are you talking about?"
"That's enough! Stop pretending! You can imitate his appearance, but you can't imitate his smell! Feng Liu used all the spices in the kitchen today! So there is no way he has your kind of blood. taste!"
"Feng Liu" smiled, and the werewolf's fur tore off his mask. "Have you heard my story?"
"Not only have I heard of it, it's just a childhood shadow! The mask among the Nine Werewolf Gods can not only deceive God Cha's divine power, but can also disguise himself as the person the other party trusts most!"
"You're right, but I'm not Master False Mask. I'm just his follower. I didn't want to deal with you, but since you took the initiative to cause trouble, I can't help it."
"What did you do to them!" Lu Si's eyes widened and his eyebrows stood up.
"No one can live to see my true appearance..."
"Asshole!"
A few gunshots...
In the early morning, vehicles from the Police and Security Bureau surrounded the alley. Xiang's face looked like the cold sky today, with no sunlight at all. "Have the test results come out?"
"Come out, Chief. We have investigated the identities of the three victims. They are students from No. 3 Junior High School, Yao Wu, Zhang San, and Feng Liu."
"Who?" Xiang suddenly turned her head to the report in the deputy's hand. The three people in the report photo were smiling brightly. However, she could no longer see them. They were clearly partying happily together last night.
"Yao Wu, Zhang San, Feng Liu, in addition, there are black marks on the ground. The relevant personnel are still studying its composition..." Xiang indicated that he could go do other things. "Huh...why can't I see anything?" Xiang stared at the black mark on the ground, recalling the previous times when she found the werewolf by seeing the sudden appearance of a red wolf shadow through the blood stains on the ground.
"Isn't this werewolf blood?"
She stood there thinking, and it wasn't until the heavy rain from the sky soaked her hair that she suddenly came back to her senses and thought of a possibility in her mind. "Looks like I'm going to ask witnesses."
Luo Ye still carried his schoolbag as usual and walked to school humming a tune. At the familiar intersection, he seemed to see the four friends waiting for him, but when a few bicycles passed by in front of him, there But it was empty, with nothing. "Where are they? They didn't go to bed too late last night and got up too late, right?" Luo Ye stood on a cracked stone brick, with his feet up as usual, leaning against the yellowed poster, waiting for a while After the song ended, only the cars on the roadside continued to flow... "Where are the people?"
By the time he ran to school alone, the school bell had rang for the last time. The gatekeeper hesitated and opened the door for him. "Go to bed early at night from now on."
"Got it!" Luo Ye ran towards the teaching building.
The Chinese teacher should still repeat the key words that had been written on the blackboard. When she saw the child who suddenly broke into the class and interrupted her lecture, she just shook her head and motioned for him to return to his seat.
Luo Ye noticed that there were four desks missing in the classroom, and his seat had been moved from the last row to the first three rows. The new classmates with serious faces were obviously not interested in him.
When the bell rang, Luo Ye appeared at the door of Class 3. "Classmate, please ask me, classmate Lu Changyou."
The guy who claimed to be the tenth richest man in the class calculated the value of everything Luo Ye was wearing from head to toe and shook his head. "She transferred schools."
"Then where did she go?"
"Who knows?" The classmate closed the classroom door with a "snap".
"Am I alone here again..."
Luo Ye was shaking in the corridor as if he had lost his soul. The school bell woke him up from his trance. He looked up at the empty corridor and recalled the confused look on his face when he first came here a month ago. He... He stopped and took a deep breath. The surroundings were frighteningly quiet.
"I will never hear the weird crying again..."
"Luo Ye, you are late again. If you do this again next time, I will report it to your class teacher."
"Oh." Luo Ye responded curtly, returned to his seat, dug out his grandfather's diary from the table drawer filled with small paper balls, and opened it to read.
"God of Business (God of Merchant), hiss...forget it, I don't want to remember that little cutie. She runs around every day and can't see anyone for twenty-nine days in a month. She came back not to share her travel experiences with you, but to talk to you. It’s a debt! You need to think more about why you didn’t ask her the price when you used her power... Alas, never regard a businessman as a philanthropist unless the other party has made enough money (of course this is impossible)."
"Ability...don't ask! If you ask, you will borrow it from her! If you borrow it, you have to pay it back! You can't pay it back!"
"Shirakami (Xingshen), please don't believe anything he says. Also, try not to have any verbal exchanges with this guy. To be honest, you can't speak to this great clever guy..."
"The guy who is invincible during the day and sleeps well at night."
Why, how come two more gods are awakened? The Cha god is Xiang, and the witch god is Sister Mei. What is the situation with this gun god and these two people who suddenly appeared? Do I know them?
The bell ended Luo Ye's random thoughts. He looked up at the empty classroom and left with a sigh, "Maybe, they are waiting for me there..."
He stood under the lone tree in the park. On the empty dry grassland in front of him, a young man had been training crazily on it. The four people would lean under the big tree, humming a little song, cheering the young man on. Finally spend the last sunset happily with him.
He stroked the dry tree trunk, and countless memories flashed with the fire of time from his fingertips.
He doesn't want to be here anymore to grieve...
"Luo Ye."
Luo Ye reacted suddenly, "Lu Si?" He looked around. The drizzle moistened his eyes. "Lu Si! Lu Si, where are you? Lu Si!"
"Things that are visible are also invisible, so why care about those false and useless appearances? Luo Ye, please close your eyes. I hope to communicate with you in my heart."
Although Luo Ye was confused, he still did what he said. "Is that so?"
"Take a deep breath, calm your mind, and get rid of all useless things in your heart. There is nothing in your heart."
"Is this okay?"
"Luo Ye, you are our friend and even our brother. From the first moment I saw you, I saw an unshakable obsession in your heart. You hate yourself for being weak and want to be greedy. You are not like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child, you are more like... an incompetent and furious madman..."
"I have seen with my own eyes how crazy people who are obsessed with it can do in order to fulfill their nearly impossible ideas. I don't want to see anyone else...have the obsession of a lunatic..."
"So, the month I spent with you was actually to make me forget my obsession?"
"Well, we are all children abandoned by God, so we can still understand some of your feelings, your need for love, your desire for happiness..."
“If people don’t talk about their dreams, why should they live?”
"We are all children, but today's children have forgotten what dreams are and what happiness is. They are forced into the prison of money by their parents... We want to change. We want the children of this era to have happiness again, but... We tried hard, but now we failed."
"You want me to let go of my obsession and support happiness, but unfortunately, this is not realistic."
"What is reality? What is virtuality? What is true? What is false? Efforts fail and companions leave. This is true. The world is happy and harmonious coexistence. This is false. In this case, why should people choose true instead of false? What about choosing falsehood? If one is better, then the other is true, right?"
Luo Ye couldn't understand what he said. "Reality is always cruel..."
"Then why do people still choose reality?"
"The most courageous thing about human beings is that they choose to embrace reality with a smile even though they know the reality is cruel!" Luo Ye suddenly opened his eyes and stared at Lu Si standing in front of him. "Reality is cruel and imperfect. It is precisely because of this that human beings have room to move forward. If people are blindly immersed in the illusion of happiness, they will lose the direction and motivation to move forward, and their lives will also be lost. It’s so colorful that if everyone were to immerse themselves in it, humanity would be finished long ago.”
Lu Si was stunned for a moment, and then laughed. "Sure enough, you are the same kind of people as us, but you are not in the same world as us, hahaha... Then go on the road for your obsession... Forget about us, after all, I am going to find that new world soon!" He pushed Luo Ye hard, laughed and left.
"Lu Si!——" Luo Ye stood up from the muddy puddle, but the other party had long disappeared. He stood in the heavy rain and called the other party's name again and again.
The rain is getting heavier…
In troubled times, there is always a group of people who choose to immerse themselves in fantasy, and there is always another group of people who choose to bear the pain and move forward. The former provides us with rare wisdom, but the latter promotes the development of the entire history...
