The night is flashy, the lights are as numerous as the sea,
There are neon high-rise buildings and brilliant avenues, the development of the fourth largest city in the United States is vast in the dark,
Compared with Calgary, which is basically dependent on the oil industry, it has developed towards diversification in the 1980s, with a high degree of medical care, aerospace, transportation, education, international trade and finance...
Houston nights are louder and busier.
And on the roof of a building not far from the city center, where you can just overlook this bustling scene,
There is nothing, only the darkness of night wind and bleakness,
A man stood here with blank eyes. He glanced at the bustling scene in the city center in the distance. No one knew what he was thinking at this moment.
Then,
Jumped off the roof.
Although it was only six or seven floors high, it was deadly enough. When his feet left the roof, the night wind howled suddenly, and the ground hit him with a very large speed!
It was pitch black at night, no one noticed this scene,
But at the moment when the man fell to the ground!
A red laced ring appeared out of thin air, and a jet of darkness rushed out of it, and then everything under the man's fall floated up!
In the blurred vision of falling, I only feel a blur in front of my eyes,
In the next second, the man realized that he was still standing on the top of the building, and the night wind was blowing coldly. The experience of jumping from the top of the building just a few seconds ago,
It makes people suspect that it is like a hallucination that appeared in a trance.
And that's exactly what he thought, the man just looked around blankly, then silently looked towards the bottom of the building, and fell forward again in a state of weakness.
boom-
The figure fell to the ground, this time the 'illusion' did not happen again,
But before he fell forward, an invisible force pulled his body back, and at the same time made him unconscious and fell asleep.
At this moment, Fangran walked out from the dark corner of the roof, looked at the man on the ground in front of him and sighed helplessly.
Suicide by jumping off a building is not an easy way to get rid of it. The feeling that the body loses its support and falls freely will make the fear infinitely magnified instantly.
The acceleration of gravity will be like a person firmly grasping your neck, the body is stiff in the difficulty of breathing, and at the same time, the eyes and ears are congested and the senses are blurred.
As long as the fear in the mind is very clear, emotions such as regret, collapse, and nostalgia will easily appear,
But from the moment you jump off, you can't turn back,
In the end, he could only meet his own death result in the torment of fear and regret.
After surviving such an experience, Fangran thought he would doubt whether he had hallucinations, and collapsed to the ground with lingering fear in his heart, realizing the fear of death and living well,
But he never expected that he would make the same choice without recovering from it at all.
In the car of Rolls-Royce, sensing the warning from Haiji and Mullin patrolling around, he directly used the wheel card, and before he had time to fine-tune the floating card, the floating card floated up.
Fangran finally saved the man in the nick of three or four seconds,
But now it seems that it is not so simple to really 'save' him.
A person who really wants to die, even if he is saved once, he will find another chance to commit suicide,
Knowing this very well, Fangran looked at the fallen man in front of him, and after some consideration, he decided to contact his family first.
Wanting to find contact information from him, he squatted down, but at the moment when he turned the opponent's body up,
Fangran froze for a moment.
He has a vicissitudes of face in his forties, with stubble on his thin face, and near the sunken eye sockets, there is an unconcealable tiredness and haggardness in the wrinkles.
At this moment, Fangran saw a somewhat familiar face.
Grasping this sense of familiarity and trying to recall it, it took a long time for Fangran to recall the energy agreement, scene, dance party, underground space, dark world and other major events in the past few days,
Find memories about him from passers-by who have some impressions along the way.
This is the uncle 'George' who kindly took him and Celica to the city on the night he left the black market,
Recalling that time, it seemed that the driving route was the same as tonight. It is unbelievable that this amazing coincidence,
Fangran looked at George who couldn't find anything on his body to contact his family in a coma.
After thinking for a while, he finally exhaled,
He called Mullin back to his shoulders.
It symbolizes 'memory', and the power derived from the night device can peek into other people's hearts, but it is not comfortable to experience other people's life experiences from a near-first-person perspective.
All along, Fangran avoided using this ability as much as possible.
Contact the police, let Il investigate slowly, or directly hand it over to Adeline. There is no other way to deal with this situation.
I was just thinking about his desire to die outside the building again just now, whether such procrastination would not be able to change his fate of jumping off the roof after he left, or whether it was just a kind of momentary kindness, which he could obviously try his best to avoid. Not responsible for the hypocrisy to the end,
Thinking of the gentle smile he gave him a ride that night, he felt that maybe this was the cause and effect of accepting help,
mana consumption, ability activation,
Although it is not in the state of night weapon release, it can only be roughly felt like a bystander, but it is enough to find the reason why he committed suicide by jumping off the building.
When Mu Lin turned into a ray of black light and melted into his black eyes, memories belonging to 'George' flooded towards Fangran!
Then unexpectedly,
He didn't 'see' any serious tragedies such as the separation of his wife and children, the destruction of his family, and any major emergencies such as desperate gambling debts.
George only remembers...
A wave of hesitation.
He is the driver of a recycling station. His daily job is to sit in the car and drive the recycled things in the urban area to the waste factory in the suburbs.
There is no holiday, so back and forth.
His job doesn’t need to communicate with people, and he doesn’t have any friends here. Every morning when he wakes up and goes out, he gets in the car and sits in a seat with only gas pedal, brake, steering wheel and so on.
Start a monotonous job that can take up to ten hours a day.
He would spend eight dollars at noon to buy four hamburgers from a passing fast food restaurant, eat them in the car, then rest in the car, and then continue to work in the afternoon,
until after get off work.
His young colleagues who can't work for a long time don't get along with him very much, and he doesn't have the capital to follow them to cheap bars where men and women hang out,
Without any social entertainment, he went straight home after get off work,
Leaving the car that sat all day and returning to the house where he lives every day.
His teenage son is a rebellious campus mess who doesn't care about his studies,
His wife is a fat, out-of-shape woman who waits dishes in a restaurant and is always complaining,
'Can't you try harder! We can only afford the rent this month, and the tuition fees after Wood, when can I move out from here? '
His family from the past to the present has been struggling at the bottom of society below the poverty line. He has not received a good education, and he does not know how to change the situation, nor how to change his next generation.
Working in the car while sitting still for a long time made his shoulders and back hurt more and more frequently.
It takes a long time for him to fall asleep every night,
Then wake up and start the same day again.
Wake up and go out, get in the car, sit in the driver's seat, the same scenery, the same route,
Buy four burgers at noon, eat them in the car, rest in the car,
Started work in the afternoon, endured the pain in my shoulder until I got off work, and then went straight home.
'Wood is fighting with his classmates. I have to go to school tomorrow. If your salary can be raised, I don't have to worry about the little money I won't earn tomorrow! '
After listening to his wife's non-stop complaints, he dragged his body tired and went to bed.
And wake up and start another day,
Going out, getting in the car, the same position,
Buy a hamburger at noon, eat it, rest,
Shoulder hurts, get off work, go home.
'My friend's husband made a few hundred extra dollars this month, anytime you can...'
complain, sleep,
And then another day...
go out, get in the car...
... ..
Not a day or two, but a life like this day after day, year after year,
No social interaction, no friends, no one cares about yourself, no one cares about your own life, no direction to live,
There is no joy or hope in life, no light in sight,
Every day in a cage-like place, repeating monotonous and tiring work, I can only grit my teeth and endure the pain and persevere. If I don’t do this, I won’t be able to live.
Every day is painstakingly gritted my teeth to get through it, thinking that I will live this kind of life again tomorrow,
A feeling of being out of breath.
From George's memory, Fangran only 'saw' such repressed things, without such drastic changes as family ruin or desperation,
From his repeated life every day, sold out hamburgers, broken radios, wife's complaints, sore shoulders...
Fangran only saw such a small amount of despair piled up together.
enough! enough! I can't stand it anymore! I really can't stand it anymore! I don't want to live this life anymore!
I've had enough of the pain and torment before bed every night!
Let it be over! Let me go!
Sensing the inner cries of pain and struggle from his memory, Fangran suddenly thought of the night in the black market, he looked at the gentle smile that George squeezed out for himself, and felt a little familiar,
He's seen it in Kerim's face.
It's just that compared with young super geniuses, George is a middle-aged man in his forties who lives at the bottom of Houston.
He wandered in this world, living in a boundless state.
The collapse of adults is often in an instant,
At this moment, I suddenly remembered this sentence, and suddenly understood the reason why he wanted to commit suicide.
Fangran sighed, looking for the 'moment' that exploded all his accumulated despair and made him want to jump off the roof,
Then Fangran found it in George's memory.
It was a few nights ago, he picked up an unforgettable beauty and a very energetic foreign boy on his way to work,
Listening to the young man thanking himself loudly in broken English, he felt a sense of accomplishment in helping others, which made him excited in his repetitive, depressing and hopeless life,
But on that night, the police blocked a block for special reasons,
He failed to go home smoothly.
After the mood rises, I will experience a small drop of despair, and because of this incident, other small despairs will be triggered like a butterfly effect in the next few days,
The last straw finally broke George's already dilapidated psychological defense.
And at this moment, after confirming the 'fuse' that detonated all his desperate accumulations, he learned the reason for the block blockade from his memory,
The moment I saw that dark Bugatti,
Fangran's black eyes suddenly widened, and the originally light and satisfied mood after returning from the dark world and solving the crisis in the energy field,
It collapsed in an instant as if the pillar had been removed.