The dark red moon hangs low above the city's row upon row of high-rise buildings, almost filling half of the sky.
A dark-black, rusted train around the city swiftly passed through the city under the gaze of the red moon. Inside the train, passengers in various clothes were reading newspapers. , some dozing off in the dim light.
"Ding, the moon station is here!"
Lu Xin woke up from his drowsiness, picked up the bag, and flowed out of the carriage with the surging crowd.
With a bag on his back, he walked down the dirty and shabby steps, the platform full of newspapers, to the ground of the city, and looked up, the glow of the neon lights around made the streets of the city, and the crowds in the streets. , there is a kind of colorful weird feeling, but no matter how rich the color on the street, the red moon over the city still represents the background color of the world.
The world has been like this since the Red Moon event thirty years ago.
Of course, Lu Xin didn't know what was the difference, he was born after the red moon event, and the world has always been like this.
He carried a bag through the alley that had just rained, and boarded a dilapidated old building. The elevator was broken again, so he could only take the stairs and slowly came to Room 401 on the fourth floor. He took out the key and opened the heavy door.
The corridor was quiet and cold, but the room was warm and soft.
In the kitchen, Dad was stewing meat, and the pressure cooker was steaming hot, exuding a tempting meaty aroma.
My sister is lying on the sofa, holding snacks, watching a very old cartoon, SpongeBob SquarePants.
Mum, elegant and decent, in a white wool cardigan, was standing by the window talking on the phone.
"Brother Jiu, you're back!"
Seeing Lu Xin walk in and put down the quilt, her sister raised her head and greeted her with a sweet smile.
"Little Seventeen is good at home today, I bought the bear you wanted for you!"
Lu Xin touched her head and handed her a brown bear.
"Ah, thank you brother, I like it!"
The younger sister jumped up happily and hugged the little bear in her arms.
"I'm home?"
Mom looked up at Lu Xin and nodded with a smile: "Sit down and rest for a while, dinner will be served soon!"
Lu Xin nodded and sat beside the dining table.
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Four sets of tableware and chopsticks were already placed on the table, as well as a few plates of green side dishes. The rice was placed in the bowl, and it was already a little cold.
However, none of the family wanted to sit down to eat.
My mother is continuing to say softly on the phone: "Sister Zhang, in fact, what happened today is really wrong with me, don't be angry, of course, my gray sweater is indeed a bit old, but how do you say it? Doesn't it look good?... Yes, that's what I called you... Of course you didn't say it, but I know what you're thinking..."
"No, no, don't get me wrong... I just want to ask you to apologize... You are not good at swearing, you are too uncivilized... "
Dad's voice of chopping bones became louder and louder, and his scolding voice was faintly heard: "Scum, trash, just break into other people's houses, damn it, damn it... Damn eat so much, no matter how you chop it, you can't finish it, why? It can't be cooked clean!"
At this time, my sister was happily sitting cross-legged on the sofa, tearing apart the brown bear little by little, pulling with two, and biting with those snow-white fine teeth, biting off the brown bear's ears , the eyes were bitten off, and the two arms were pulled off bit by bit, looking at the process of separating the arms from the bear's body, showing an excited and satisfied expression.
"Wait a while to eat!"
Mom had put down the phone and said softly, "I have a little misunderstanding with my neighbor, Sister Zhang. I'll go and apologize to her!"
"First Evolution"
Saying that, he took out the scissors in the drawer, walked out gracefully, and closed the door.
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Lu Xin sat quietly at the dining table and waited.
He thinks he is lucky. At the beginning of the red moon incident, the world had a long period of chaos. During that time, many people died, and many orphans like Lu Xin appeared. They Among them, a large part disappeared after reaching adulthood, and Lu Xin was adopted by his parents and had a warm home that many people envied.
Of course, this family, these families, can be a little weird sometimes.
But this family, in this dilapidated and dirty little satellite city, is still very happy.
Mom came back soon, with a gratified smile on her face, and said, "Sister Zhang has made up with me!"
Lu Xin found that there was an inconspicuous bloodstain under the collar of the white sweater she was wearing, which was very fresh.
The family started to eat.
The younger sister was still holding her little bear, which she ripped apart and sewed back.
It's just that the body is crooked, full of rough needles, but my sister likes it even more than before.
Dad sat at the dining table, opened a bottle of white wine whose label had been defaced and could not read, took a chopstick of greens, and drank a glass in one go. There was no meat on the table, and Dad liked to chop bones and stew meat, but never let anyone eat it or get near his wok. He was still wearing a plastic enclosure, splattered with blood, and a few flies swirling around him.
There were sirens approaching outside, and the noisy voices kept coming, and I didn't know what they were saying.
"Snapped!"
Dad suddenly put down the wine glass with force, and looked out the window with blood-red eyes: "Noisy, you know it's noisy, you won't let anyone eat even a safe meal, the police department can't find anything, the rubbish neighborhood, Every day I know to spy on others!"
"Don't scare the child!"
Mom picked up a green vegetable and ate it carefully, her bright red lips were very dazzling in the dim light.
Lu Xin remembered that she didn't put on lipstick.
"Fuck the kids, damn it, damn it!"
Dad was even more angry. He held the bottle tightly with his five fingers, and his veins burst out. He cursed, "Bitch, you should be damned!"
"Yes, in your eyes, everyone deserves to die, only you don't deserve to die!"
Mom smiled gracefully and calmly: "Because you want to keep the corpse in the end, right? You like people to collect corpses!"
She said, put down the table and chopsticks, smiled gently, and looked at her father: "Because when those people were alive, they lived better than you and were more capable than you, so you don't particularly like to see them alive, you Love watching them never talk again!"
"Shut up, shut up, you know what?"
Dad was really provoked by his mother. He smashed the bottle so violently, he rushed up and grabbed his mother's neck.
"Cuckoo..."
My mother smiled very happily, even though her face was purple after being pinched, her smile was still very elegant: "Waste... waste..."
"Snapped!"
Dad finally couldn't bear it anymore, and started to punch and kick, causing the restaurant to keep shaking.
"Wow... Dad don't hit Mom... "
The younger sister cried out in fright, hugged the little bear tightly, and suddenly her face changed again, giggling wildly: "It's fun, it's fun, it's really fun..."
While laughing, she suddenly turned over and jumped up, like a flexible spider, climbed to the ceiling, hooked the chandelier with both feet, and somehow fixed her body, twisted and turned her head, watching the fight below He looked like he was holding the toy bear in his mouth, slapped hard with both hands, and kept whimpering in his mouth, like laughing, like crying: "It's so fun..."
Dad is getting more and more angry, his body seems to be constantly expanding, his muscles burst through his shirt, revealing a cyan back covered with sturdy black hair, his facial features become twisted and huge, waving his fists, and forcefully towards him. Mom punched, punch after punch, and Mom had been beaten to pieces, but her voice was still as elegant: "It's good, this incompetent rage..."
Holding the rice, Lu Xin sat beside the overturned dining table and slowly ate the rice grains in the bowl.
After the Red Moon Incident, it is rare to have a warm family...
Although my family and my family also have some minor problems, and sometimes quarrel and fight, it is still home...
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Outside the window, a room facing the living room window of Lu Xin's house was arranged as a simple studio.
There was a short-haired woman in a casual suit who was observing Lu Xin's room through a telescope.
Through the lens of the telescope, you can see that in the empty room, Lu Xin is sitting alone on a chair to eat. He is the only one sitting there, but the room seems to have an earthquake. The table and chairs It was overturned, the chandelier kept shaking, and a white flower-like crack appeared from time to time on the window glass, as if something had hit it.
"The psychic power of the thirteenth mental mutation observer has appeared!"
Two young men in exquisite work clothes beside her, one was calculating quickly and the other was recording.
"Does he have the potential to be recruited?"
"How big is the potential threat?"
"What is the specific ability?"
The short-haired woman shook her head and said: "It's unclear now, he is not like other mental mutants, he will show a strong mutant form in the early stage, such as being able to enter other people's dreams, or unintentionally release a mental plague Wait, he looks normal, he can go to get off work and go to work normally every day, and he can even handle his work well, but occasionally his spirit will be disordered!"
"Sounds like a lot of potential and a good guide!"
Behind them, a man with a somewhat dignified face said, "Have you tried letting the dream maker enter his dreamland for an evaluation?"
"Have!"
The short-haired woman in the red suit nodded lightly and said, "But after the dream maker entered his dream, he never came out!"