The night in the other world was very dark and deep, totally unlike the night in the big city, which was reflected in a light red by dust and neon lights. The blackness made people feel cold, and the depth made people feel anxious and uneasy. At least, that was how Li Jia felt.
Li Jia is very familiar with the night sky. He was not a sociable person when he was a child. After finishing his homework, he liked to look up at the stars in the dark mountain village yard. Even without the moon, the starlight could outline a mysterious and desirable imaginary world for him. However, the stars here are fewer than those on Earth, and they are more dull and indifferent. They will not play the same game with Li Jia at all. There is no moon here, only the fire in the playground downstairs and the rescue site, which dimly illuminates his face.
"Are you looking for the moon?" Xiao Chen entered the dormitory at some point. "There's no moon today, but there may be one in a few days. There may even be more than one."
"The ancients said that looking at the stars can reveal everyone's destiny. I just stared at them, trying to figure it out. But I really don't have any talent for astrology. The more I look, the more confused I feel about the future." Li Jia said as she stood up from the recliner. "How is Luo Ling?"
"It's no big deal, I'm just tired. There's no damage to the teacher's dormitory building where she lives, so I sent her back to rest. It's very cold outside, so I'm going to change my clothes." The room was pitch black, and he opened the closet, trying to find a set of long-sleeved sportswear. "Old Chen and the others haven't retired to rest yet, so I'm going to help him recruit some people..." When Xiao Chen said this, he seemed to be stuck, and suddenly fell silent.
Seeing that Xiao Chen hadn't made any sound or movement for a long time, Li Jia used her mobile phone to shine a light into the room. She saw Xiao Chen standing in front of the cupboard door, staring into the cupboard in a trance, as if possessed by a ghost. The pale light of the mobile phone made Xiao Chen look like a zombie. Thinking that this was a magical world, Li Jia felt a little scared. Could there be something strange in this cupboard
Just when he didn't know whether to go forward or run away, Xiao Chen was like a frozen animation that was pressed to continue playing. He took out the clothes as if nothing had happened, smiled unnaturally at Li Jia, and explained: "I suddenly got distracted. You have a good rest, I'll go help." Then he ran out the door. Li Jia stood there for a long time, and finally mustered up the courage to get close to the door of the cupboard. He pointed his mobile phone at the door and pulled it hard!
There's nothing in it...
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Xiao Chen walked on the road, not as steady as usual, but stumbling a little. No one knew that at this moment, a storm was brewing in his heart. When he looked at the clothes in the closet just now, he didn't see anything strange. He was stunned because what he saw was too clear.
When he first opened the cupboard, he found it was pitch black inside and couldn't tell which piece of clothing was which. Just as he was secretly complaining about not being able to see clearly, the scene in his eyes slowly changed strangely, and everything became clearer and clearer, as if he was wearing a night vision goggles.
However, unlike night vision goggles, the things seen in those fields of vision were not monochrome, but colorful just like in the daytime, except that they were slightly dim, like a pencil drawing. Xiao Chen didn't know what was going on. This strange ability surprised and puzzled him. He instinctively didn't want to tell Li Jia, lest he make a fuss, so he walked out of the room in a panic and came to the dormitory corridor.
The whole world has changed.
All the darkness seemed to be dispelled. The corridor, which was obviously dark, seemed to have corridor lights on. The classmates, who were obviously just a group of dark shadows, became clear. Xiao Chen walked out while blinking hard, trying to figure out whether this was a momentary feeling or a lasting ability. However, until he walked outside the dormitory building and saw that the night sky had turned into a gem-like azure blue with silver stars hanging on it, this feeling did not disappear. He walked to a campfire. The campfire did not seem particularly bright. The world around him no longer needed it to illuminate. In Xiao Chen's eyes, its only function was to dye the surrounding soil and grass light red.
Xiao Chen felt like he was in a world painted by a color-blind painter. He didn't use the right color, but this masterpiece was beautiful and strange. He walked and looked, circling around to see everything around him, just like a blind man who had just gained sight, dancing for the new world...
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"Can you walk slower?" Ji Yijun held a simple spear made of steel bars and said weakly to Ye Zi, who was walking in front of him and looking around with a torch. He had just been rotated out of the rescue team and had just taken a nap when he was drafted by the other side and dragged into the night patrol team to protect the school.
Although he was tired and sleepy, the other party's words stimulated him: "Aren't you good at fighting? Now is the time to prove whether you can protect the school with your fists."
But after following Ye Zi around for a few times, Ji Yijun regretted it. Ye Zi was too energetic, jumping up and down, and looking at every place carefully, which was really tiring.
"Student Ji Yijun! Can you please have a little sense of responsibility? Such a large campus depends on our patrol teams to watch over it. If everyone is as passive and lazy as you are, what if the natives attack us?" Ye Zi pointed at Ji Yijun with a torch in a huff.
"We have already started doing business with them, so there is nothing to worry about."
"Even if there are no natives, what if a monkey climbs over the wall? What if a wild boar rushes out of the bushes?"
"But I'm really tired, can we just walk slower?"
"Tired? You're not tired when you flirt with your female classmates, right?"
"Hehe, someone greets me, how can I ignore him?" Ji Yijun smiled in a mean way.
Ye Zi snorted coldly and ignored him.
"It's just that there are a lot of people who like me. Hey, you're not jealous, are you? Oh my God!" Ji Yijun was mumbling halfway when he saw a creature in the darkness, not sure whether it was a bird or a bat. It was startled by the torch waving by Ye Zi, and it fluttered out from a bush and flew just over his head. He was so scared that he almost dropped his steel spear.
Ye Zi chuckled twice, gave Ji Yijun a look, shook her short braid, and continued walking forward.
Ji Yijun was a little embarrassed, so he said, "You are so stupid that you can still laugh."
Ye Zi turned around and asked curiously, "You still don't allow me to laugh?"
"Have you ever thought seriously about our current situation?" Ji Yijun stopped laughing. "We have been thrown into this hellhole, and we are all lonely ghosts that no one wants!"
Ye Zi frowned, "Aren't you here well? How come you have become a wandering ghost?"
"It turns out that there is no group of us in that world. It's as if we were dead. We can't find our father and can't see our mother. And here? We have no relatives, nothing, and nothing."
"Irresponsible!" Ye Zi seemed not to want to debate with him, so he said and turned away.
"How can I be irresponsible? I spent an entire afternoon digging for people and rescued several classmates myself. Now I'm patrolling here with you. Who can say that to me?" Ji Yijun said angrily, "But we are so miserable now, and our future is so bleak. We don't even know how to survive!"
Ye Zi said loudly, "People who are responsible must first have a heart that dares to take responsibility. Instead of worrying about this and that, it is better to think about how to do well what you are responsible for."
"Asshole, I've tried my best!" Ji Yijun yelled.
“Who’s making noise? Are you…” A burly man ran down from a watchtower that was converted from a gatehouse in front.
The figure was getting closer and closer. Ji Yijun looked at the direction the man was coming from with a look of shock. He snatched Ye Zi's torch and ran towards the man.
The torch illuminated a face that looked a little old, but extremely friendly.
"dad!"
"Xiaojun?"
"Dad, why are you here?"
"Finally I found you! I stewed a chicken and sent it to your school. On the way, I encountered this strange thing here."
"I, I was just thinking, never again... It's okay, it's okay. But, why are you standing guard here? Where's mom? Is she with you?"
"I'm a veteran. I asked to come here. I also thought it would be easier to find you up high! But your mother, your mother is at home... Sigh."
"Mom... Mom..." Ji Yijun hugged his father tightly, like a man falling off a cliff hugging a pine tree. The tall and strong guy sobbed like a child. His father seemed a little at a loss. It had been many years since his son stopped hugging him, and now he didn't even know where to put his hands. But the next second, he hugged his son tightly and patted his shoulders hard.
However, neither of them noticed that Ye Zi, who was not far away, was staring at the reunion of father and son, with tears on his face...
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"That's what happened." Luo Ling took a sip of tea, as if she wanted to remember the taste of Longjing tea, and swallowed it after a long while. The color on her face had not yet returned, and she had a new bandage on her head. She sat lazily on the sofa. Xiao Chen certainly could not have imagined that Luo Ling, who was sent back to the dormitory by him and could not even walk steadily, would appear in Principal Guo's office in the middle of the night.
Principal Guo, who was standing opposite her, looked at her with some pity in the darkness. He sighed and said, "It's not easy. Today is a difficult day for everyone. You two have had it especially hard. It's like you've been through a movie. After a day of getting along, what do you think of Xiao Chen?"
The faint starlight illuminated Luo Ling's every move clearly. She gently closed her eyes, stroked her brows with her hand and thought, and said after a while, "What kind of person he is is a secondary issue. Now that he has appeared at this point in time and stepped onto the stage himself, he should make full use of this role."
"That's right. The school needs a cover, and we need an identity. Nothing is more suitable than this 'magician' who got it by mistake." Guo Qian picked up a dagger from the desk in front of him, but no matter how he fiddled with it, the sword didn't emit a single spark. "However, in my opinion, character is still crucial. There are hundreds of us in this strange world, and one mistake can lead to the annihilation of the entire army. So, I want you to tell me how you feel about him."
"Trust. I dare not say that I can get to know a person clearly by just spending one day with him. But, in every danger, every difficulty, every challenge, he has lived up to my trust. So, I am willing to give him the greatest trust." Luo Ling answered calmly.