Shen An feels very strange recently, but very subtly strange.
For example, words like "haunted" and "monster" suddenly popped up in his 20 years of stable and materialistic life.
"Really, I'm not kidding you. They told me that the library is haunted, and someone saw it with their own eyes." Sitting next to him, Steven, his classmate and friend raised four fingers, "I swear to God .”
Almost subconsciously, Shen An broke off a finger for him, "I swear it's three fingers."
After blurting out these words, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
It was as if he had said this sentence to someone before, and even this scene seemed familiar.
"Oh Sangen, you're right." Steven continued to describe to him the monster tentacles that appeared in the building late at night, "... like a snake, Cthulhu, you know."
"I don't know." Shen An told him quite honestly, "I mean, I don't know much about those." A new station arrived, and he checked the station immediately, and happened to see a beautiful girl with strange makeup Squeezing up with a bag on her back, she was wearing a baby blue cheongsam, her eye shadow was mint color, she was combing a pair of ponytails, with white hair on one side and black on the other, very eye-catching.
"You don't even know this, God, you're so outdated." Steven continued, as if he was hosting some late-night horror radio station, "... what Tom saw, those tentacles opened the window, from the gap in the bookshelf Drilled out, as if looking for something...”
He found that Shen An's eyes were fixed on the girl not far away, so he teased him, "No wonder you couldn't listen to the story I told, so you were looking at beautiful women!"
Shen An raised her finger to her lips, signaling him to whisper, "No, I'm listening to you."
Steven knew him well, and he naturally knew that he wasn't really looking at beautiful women, "I'm just kidding, but then again, Ann, you really don't have anyone you like, you shouldn't be, you are so popular."
Shen An shook his head, "No."
But when he said these words, some strange feelings appeared in his heart, as if he knew he was lying.
It seems that he already has someone he likes in his heart, and he has liked it for a long time.
But he didn't know who the other party was at all, and he couldn't even draw a rough outline.
"Why are you in a daze?" Steven waved his hand in front of his eyes.
"We're coming to Steven soon." Hearing the station announcement, Shen An came back to his senses, patted his knee, grabbed his bag and got up immediately, "I seem to be handing in the experiment report today."
"Oh yes, yes, I almost forgot if you didn't tell me. Lend me yours later." Steven quickly forgot about his urban ghost story and rushed back to school with Shen An.
When getting out of the car, Shen An was shoved and collided with the girl standing in front of the car door. Fortunately, she also got out of the car, and a group of young people squeezed out of the car like bursting cans.
When he was about to go downstairs to the teaching building, Steven suddenly found a pink pendant on Shen An's bag, so he patted him on the shoulder, "What is this?"
Shen An was also surprised, frowned, and suddenly thought of the girl just now, "It seems to be someone else's, and I brought it down."
Steven took off the pendant and found that it was a smart mini speaker covered by a plush cover. He tried to wake it up with voice, and the speaker also greeted him, and announced his name and class, "If you found my speaker , Yes, it is lost again, please contact me, I will give you a surprise! Thank you very much!"
"It's still a senior, as expected of a senior, so foresight." Steven put it back in Shen An's hands.
"Go to class first."
Two lengthy professional classes finally came to an end, Shen An was about to leave, but was stopped by a classmate, asking him to help fill out a questionnaire.
"You are the best, as long as you are willing to help me, I will trouble you!"
Shen An has always been a very talkative person who is also willing to help others, so he happily filled out the questionnaire for him, and put forward some very constructive suggestions, and then took the good things to find the speaker according to the major and class the owner.
"Prosthetic body manufacturing and maintenance..." Shen An found this major in the medical department, thinking that the girl didn't look like a prosthetic body at all.
After wasting a while, he found the corresponding department, and after a little inquiring, he realized that they were about to take elective courses.
Shen An took the elevator to the sky classroom for elective courses. In the elevator, two school girls asked for his contact information, saying they wanted to invite him to be a model. Shen An couldn't refuse, so he had to smile and say thank you.
There is only one classroom in the air, a large spherical public classroom. Shen An stood at the door and looked inside, wanting to see if he could find it directly. Notice.
"Handsome guy, who are you looking for?" A girl sitting in the first row against the wall asked him with a smile.
"Ah," Shen An thought it was just right, so he took out the speaker from his schoolbag and asked him, "Excuse me, senior, do you know a senior named Zhong Yirou? Her..."
Before she could finish speaking, the girl waved her hand and looked behind Shen An, "Hey Yirou, there is a beautiful brother looking for you!"
Only then did Shen An turn around, and coincidentally met Zhong Yirou who had just entered the classroom, the other party was a little confused, made exaggerated manicure and pointed to his face, "Me?"
"Yes." The girl on the seat booed, "Look at your luck!"
Zhong Yirou caught a glimpse of the speaker in Shen An's hand, touched the small pink bag on his shoulder, and immediately responded, "Ah, mine, thank you."
Seeing that he was about to bow, Shen An immediately waved his hand and said no, and handed the speaker to her, "Then senior sister... I will leave first."
"Thank you so much!" Zhong Yirou saw him off at the door, "You are an angel!"
Shen An was a little embarrassed, turned her head and smiled at her, and heard that her classmates were still teasing, but Zhong Yirou replied with a slightly reproachful tone, "I like girls, don't gossip."
I don't know why, on the way back from the medical school, Shen An always had a lingering sense of familiarity, as if he had seen Zhong Yirou before.
But he recalled the people he had met in the past, and no matter how hard he searched, he couldn't find such an unconventional one.
On the way, he met Morris, a classmate from the same department, who greeted him warmly and shared a cupcake made by his mother.
"Thank you." Shen An liked sweets very much, and quickly ate half of them.
"By the way, Ann, do you know?" Morris licked the cream on his fingers, "I heard that Professor Lin specially hired a group of ghost exorcising experts, and now they have gone to the library. You don't often go to the library. Today Do you want to go and see the excitement?"
Shen An almost choked, "Exorcism? Are there any experts here?"
"Ah, I also heard that it seems to be an expert in mysticism from the East, it seems to be..." She suddenly thought of it, snapped her fingers, "Yes, she is an expert in Taoism, you know about Taoism, right?"
"I know, I know." Shen An ate the other half of the cake, and said vaguely, "But are there really ghosts? I don't really believe it..."
"Ah! Someone took a picture of it. I saw it on social networks." Morris enthusiastically found out the picture to show Shen An, and zoomed in with two fingers, "Look, did you see it? This tentacle."
The so-called photographic evidence is a dark corridor with a long, thin tail that appears to be a tentacle in the corner.
"Is this really not a gecko?" Shen An checked carefully.
"How can there be such a big gecko! Don't believe it, they also heard the aunt who cleaned the library say that there is a ghost with a mask wandering in the library..."
While talking about the horror story, Morris swiped twice, and suddenly saw the photo posted by another classmate, patted Shen An's arm and exclaimed, "Hey, the expert here is a handsome Chinese guy."
She gave the photo to Shen An, and Shen An looked at it casually. The man in the photo was tall and thin, wearing a gray-blue Taoist robe, with a ball head, and looked kind and friendly, but it was unreliable no matter how he looked at it.
No, Shen An tilted his head.
Why is he a little familiar
It's not surprising that this kind of feeling appears occasionally, but it happened to Shen An many times a day.
Although he is a staunch materialist, after the people around him repeatedly talked about the "rumours that the library is haunted", he couldn't help but feel suspicious. There was no class in the afternoon, so he simply went to the library to study by himself. Finish writing the article assigned by the professor on the last day.
Shen An came to the elevator in the library. Fortunately, the elevator door just opened, and several people came out of it, a little old man with a gray beard in Taoist robes, followed by a thin and handsome young man.
This is not the person in Morris's photo.
The other party seemed to have noticed him, and turned to glance at Shen An, with a smile in his eyes.
Shen An didn't understand the other person's eyes, walked into the elevator and looked at the other person's back.
Suddenly, a very strange picture flashed in front of his eyes, the young man was lying in a pool of blood. This scene flashed by, but it was so real that even Shen An's heart panicked.
He subconsciously raised the back of his hand to check, but he didn't know what he was looking at.
These things are so weird.
Shen An looked at himself reflected on the metal inner wall of the elevator, and tilted his head in confusion. Suddenly, his hair was reflected much longer, his collarbone and side neck were covered with white floral patterns, and his body was covered with blood.
Just when Shen An was surprised, the elevator door opened.
Those fleeting and weird images are all gone, the library is extremely bright, and the students come and go, very quiet.
He thought about it, maybe it was because he had stayed up late recently to catch up on the report and didn't have enough rest, so he had hallucinations. He comforted himself, found a seat by the window and sat down, studying for an entire afternoon.
The bell tower of the school rang for the evening, and Shen An, who was immersed in his homework, suddenly remembered that he was going home for dinner today.
He glanced at the time, it was already six o'clock, and he would be narrated any later.
On the way out of the library, he met a few classmates, a group of people were laughing and playing, and joked with each other without hesitation. During the period, the clown among them walked backwards and fell directly into the flower bed. Everyone helped him He got up, laughing non-stop, only Shen An took out a band-aid from his bag, and wrapped it up for his bruise.
"An'an has everything!"
"Then you can't walk backwards." Shen An said with a smile.
The few of them took the same public aircraft together, and Shen An was lucky to have a seat. The little girl next to him was watching a hot-blooded animation. He glanced at it. It is very common for a group of selected people to save the doomsday world. story.
Outside the window, the wings brought out a line of plump and white clouds, the setting sun filled the entire sky, the edges of the clouds were dyed with orange light, and a few stars appeared at the very edge of the sky, shimmering.
Shen stared quietly, and suddenly realized the beauty of this ordinary life.
A few students went down one after another, Shen An waved to them, and when he turned his gaze from the window back to the compartment, he found a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy standing in front of him, with short hair, wearing a high school uniform, holding hands Holding the pull ring, the whole person leaned against the pillar, his head flicked, and he was so sleepy that he fell asleep standing up.
so sleepy
Shen An pulled his wrist, trying to wake him up and change places with him.
The boy woke up with a dazed expression, holding the pillar in a daze, staring at Shen An with straight eyes.
"Come here and sit down and sleep, I'll change it with you." Shen An waved to him.
The boy understood, shook his head immediately, and suppressed a yawn.
"It's okay." Shen An pulled him, and stood up first, "I'm almost there."
"...Thank you." The boy was a little embarrassed. When he changed seats, he didn't notice that the schoolbag was unraveled. As soon as he turned around, the books inside fell out, and Shen An picked it up.
Inadvertently, he caught a glimpse of the boy's name in the textbook—Wu You.
"Thank you." Wu You took the book with some embarrassment, put it back into the bag, held it in both hands, looked up at Shen An, and read it for a long time.
Shen An also found out, and asked him with a smile, "What's wrong?"
Wu You shook his head and didn't speak, looking a little embarrassed.
"How tall are you?" Shen An asked him.
Wu You stretched out his finger and made a comparison with him.
"Grade one..." Shen An thought in her heart, she was only sixteen years old.
That's right, only a sixteen-year-old child would fall asleep in the car without pulling his schoolbag.
"Be careful in the future, if you drop the book, you won't be able to find it." Shen An told him.
Sixteen-year-old children don't need to worry about too many big things. Even if the world is destroyed, it will not be the children who save it.
Of course, Shen An thought, it would not be an ordinary college student like him.
There must be more different people to do things like the savior.
When the station arrived, Shen An walked out from the station entrance and saw a familiar figure, which was his mother.
"Mom, didn't you say you don't need to pick me up?" Shen An said so, but subconsciously walked close to her mother.
"I just came out of the coffee shop with my colleagues. It's by the way." Mom handed him the muffin cake in her hand, then took him and touched his shoulder, "Are you tired at school today? I made soup, your dad Let’s cook pasta today, and we can eat it when we go back.”
"I'm not tired, I cooked so many delicious things today."
"Your sister is on vacation from high school and is coming back today. Dad has already gone to pick her up."
Along the way, Shen An told his mother all the weird things that didn't feel right today, but she made her laugh.
"You're quite calm outside." An Congnan patted his head, "Why do you still look like a child in front of us?"
Shen An also laughed, "Then what should I do, I am your child too."
The two of them returned home talking and laughing under the gradually sinking sunset glow. As soon as the door was opened and a shoe was changed, the younger sister rushed over and hugged Shen An, "Brother!"
An Congnan deliberately blamed him from behind, "I only have my brother in my eyes, but I don't have a mother."
"Oh, my mother is talking nonsense again." Shen Nan smiled and hugged her obediently, "I only have my mother in my eyes."
Shen An changed her shoes and walked to the kitchen, "Dad, let me help you."
"No, no, it's all done, wash your hands and eat."
"Brother!" Shen Nan called him in the living room, "You go to hold a parent-teacher meeting for me next week!"
"Me?" Shen An wiped the water off his hands with kitchen paper, and took away the vegetable salad on the counter.
Father Shen served the spaghetti out, so serious that he even felt a little sad, "Why don't you ask me to go to the parent-teacher meeting? Dad, why don't you go?"
An Congnan turned on the projector and said with a smile, "It must have failed the exam."
Shen Nan coquettishly said, "No way, I am the fifth in the class. Dad is not very busy, besides, I even brag about my brother to them, saying that he is super handsome, but they don't believe it. I have to do it this time. Take it to show off and show off."
Shen An smiled helplessly, her own sister had no other choice, "What if others feel that the name is not worthy of the name?"
"Who said that?" Shen Nan was serious, "Seeing you can only be beyond imagination, okay?"
Father Shen's point was, "Isn't Dad handsome?"
Mom had no choice, "Handsome, are you all handsome, eat quickly!"
As soon as the projector was turned on, a TV interview was played automatically. The subject of the interview was a young man. Shen Nan pointed to the projector and said, "This brother is also quite handsome, with very special eye shapes, right, mom?"
"Well, like fox eyes."
Shen An looked over, and his basic information was written next to him. He was a tester from Chauvin's product maintenance department, and his name was Zhou Yijue.
"It's from Dad's company."
Father Shen took a closer look, "It seems to be, but Chauvin is too big, and I don't know everyone. The young man looks very refreshing."
Not long after, the interviewee changed to a young woman in a white coat with silver eyes. She was beautiful, but very smart.
His name is Yang Erci.
He frowned, feeling familiar again.
"Wow, this sister is a mixed-race elite sister." Shen Nan said bluntly, "I like it, sister, I can."
Shen An was a little helpless, "You really only look at people's faces."
An Congnan followed suit, "Yeah, a superficial little girl."
"Isn't mom superficial? You're not with my handsome dad, really." Shen Nan leaned on Father Shen's shoulder and acted like a spoiled child. Unexpectedly, Father Shen stared at the young girl in the projection.
"I know this. Isn't this the daughter of the old Yang family?" Father Shen said, "Recently, she is working on a biological firewall to prevent infection of prosthetic bodies. She is a very good girl, and she even won an award."
"Ah? Yang Ce's daughter." An Congnan nodded, "That's really amazing, having such a powerful daughter."
"Aren't I great?" Shen Nan raised his face.
Shen An smiled, "Awesome, you must be the best judge in the beauty contest."
As soon as the words came out, the parents also laughed, and the united front made a doting laugh at the youngest daughter in the family.
An Congnan also complained about her daughter's clothes, "You don't wear too much, look at my brother, he never had a single cold from childhood to Dalian, and never worried us. As for you, you get sick twice a day."
"Then he is already twenty years old, so he has to compare with me."
"There hasn't been anything wrong for twenty years, you think it's easy."
That is, in an instant.
One second, Shen An was still immersed in his happy and beautiful family atmosphere, and the next moment, he suddenly heard a voice from the bottom of his heart.
[No fault. ]
He turned his head sideways, looking for the direction of the sound.
"What's wrong?" Shen Nan sensed something was wrong with his brother.
Shen An shook his head.
Not to blame.
Why did he turn his head subconsciously when he heard this name
Whose voice is it? Why so familiar
Just when he was wondering, that voice appeared again, very gentle, provocatively chanting a name that did not belong to him.
[No fault. ]
Just like that, that voice repeated many times, like some kind of mysterious spell, echoing in his mind.
The chopsticks fell to the ground.
As soon as Shen Nan raised her head, she found a crystal tear falling on Shen An's face. She couldn't believe it, she had never seen her brother shed a tear once she grew up.
"elder brother?"
She didn't answer.
Shen An grabbed the coat on the back of the chair and said quickly in a low voice, "I'll be back soon." Just like that, he left.
From his birth to now, to this moment, during the 7,400-plus days and 160,000 hours in between, every happy or sad moment, he has a feeling of incompleteness. It was like a huge jigsaw puzzle, he kept putting it together, and there was always one piece missing.
Until now, when he was about to get used to this sense of lack, the puzzle piece that he had thrown away seemed to be looking for him.
[no blame]
The voice repeated, calling him, making Shen An's eyes more sore, he didn't even know why he was crying, obviously he really believed in materialism, but now he was looking for an illusory voice.
Soaked in the cool night wind, he ran across a dark street, with traces of rain on the floor tiles, and neon lights flashing instead of stars.
The voice was getting closer and closer, as if it came from the bottom of his heart.
Where exactly
Shen An panted and turned around, the crowd pushed and shoved, everyone wore filter masks, the projections overlapped with real people, the virtual and the real intertwined, the grotesque city made people dizzy, standing in the center of the city, he was as small as a colorful A grain of sand in the ocean.
[No fault. ]
The sound was closer than ever!
Shen An turned around abruptly, and in the bustling crowd, he saw a tall man dressed in black, with a mechanical Guanyin mask on his face.
For some reason, he could tell at a glance that this was that person.
The other party came, stood in front of him, and tilted his head at him.
Shen An's heart seemed to be clenched tightly by an invisible hand, and he was speechless for a while.
Before he could speak first, the other party directly opened his arms.
"give me a hug."
This sense of familiarity directly broke through the shackles of memory, and many images appeared in front of his eyes, the game of life and death, the opponent on the duel stage, and the long knife in his hand.
But the other party hugged him, the embrace was warm and real.
He whispered his name softly in his ear.
"No blame, back home, are you happy?"
Through this embrace, their chests were tightly pressed together, and the two incomplete hearts pieced together, sending out overlapping echoes.
In his arms, he remembered everything that had happened.
The cruel times of fighting side by side, the challenges of life and death, the companions who died for him, the pain repeated again and again.
besides…
"Shen Ti, Shen Ti, Shen Ti..."
He kept repeating Shen Ti's name time and time again, as if he wanted to make up for what was missing in the past twenty years.
"Well, I'm back, no fault."
Shen Ti took off the mask, held it in his hand, stepped back a little, and pressed it against An Wujiu's forehead.
Through the memory he passed on, An Wujiu saw himself leaving in his arms at the end of the loop, and also saw that he had transferred half of his heart, using the ability of the Lord of Time to move the gears and move all Time is transferred back to the beginning, before everything happened.
The extinct Rasasm no longer intervenes in their timeline, no longer a threat, Shen Ti returns to that lonely universe, guarding his birth, growth, from the first time he went to school, to the first time he went out to volunteer From preparing for exams in the middle of the night to entering university and leaving his parents, Shen Ti watched every moment alone through the barrier of time.
Sometimes he would laugh and laugh with their family, and sometimes he would get angry because An Wujiu was wronged, but he knew that he couldn't intervene, losing his temper might trigger another universe's disaster, so he had to hide and survive. stuffy.
In order to prevent himself from being overwhelmed, Shen Ti deliberately folded An Wujiu's timeline. While waiting, he found a plant that looked like a peony, planted it patiently, observed it every day, and waited for it to bloom.
But when it bloomed, it was far from the peony on An Wujiu's body, Shen Ti was very disappointed.
The more disappointed, the more I miss him.
Missing him, Shen Ti could only open a little bit of the timeline in progress and observe quietly.
He couldn't bear to destroy An Wujiu's beautiful family, he worked hard for so long, didn't he just want to give him a chance to go home
In this way, Shen Ti, who couldn't bear to leave An Wujiu, also learned to be patient, learn to let go of childishness and selfishness, and become a mature and reliable patron saint.
"Thank you." An Wujiu hugged him, "I have lived a good life in the past twenty years, and I haven't even had a cold."
"Of course." Shen Ti put his arms around him and pointed to the sky, "I'm watching you carefully."
He held up An Wujiu's face, inspected it carefully, kissed his lips, and kissed his forehead, eyebrows, nose tip, cheeks, and his chin with great care, to confirm, and again Like marking territory.
"Twenty years is too hard, An Wujiu." Shen Ti let out a long sigh, lowered his eyes, "I'm going crazy."
An Wujiu laughed, "Why are you still like a child." He raised his hand, brushed the hair on Shen Ti's forehead, and accidentally met his gaze.
In Shen Ti's green pupils, the sky full of neon lights and starlight, as well as his face, are reflected.
"I love you." An Wujiu said softly.
Shen Ti stared at An Wujiu's lips, thinking of the pink petals of the peony that he planted with great care.
He wanted to have a long and sweet kiss with An Wujiu, to kiss An Wujiu all over his body, hug him to sleep, and listen to him talk about all the interesting things that happened in the past twenty years, even if he had already seen them and knew them by heart.
"I love you too, very much."
There is no doomsday, no disaster and turmoil, they hug each other on the street like the most ordinary lovers, surrounded by the cruelty and romance of the city.
"Oh, by the way, there is another gift." Shen Ti remembered and raised his eyebrows at An Wujiu, "Before coming here, I have already gone to all other places."
An Wujiu didn't understand, "Everywhere? Where?"
Shen Ti shrugged, turned around, and stretched out one arm to show him.
An Wujiu narrowed his eyes slightly. Among the crowd, he first saw Zhong Yirou who was waving at him, then Wu You in school uniform, Nan Shan with a mahogany sword on his back, Yang Erci and Zhou Yijue in overalls, and even Gabriel Er, Fujido Sakura and Matsuura Mori.
A large group of people came towards him.
An Wujiu first laughed, then lowered his head, holding back the soreness in his eyes.
Zhong Yirou grabbed his arm, and the words flowed out, like a good friend I hadn't seen for a long time, "Wugui, you gave me a speaker today, what a coincidence, if Shen Ti hadn't found me, I don't even remember you. Ah, by the way, I heard that the food your mother cooks is delicious! Can I go to your house for a meal?"
"I want to eat curry." Wu You proposed abruptly.
"I want to eat sushi! Any sushi is fine!" Fujido Sakura raised her hand.
Gabriel said with disgust, "What's delicious about sushi, isn't it just rice and fish? It's better to eat burritos..."
Nan Shan put her hands on the cage, said with a smile: "Actually, my requirements are very low, Yangchun noodles are enough, just put a little more sesame oil."
Zhou Yijue snorted coldly, and complained, "Did someone tell you to invite you to dinner?"
"Yeah," Matsuura Mori also nodded, "This is too much trouble for Auntie."
"No trouble, Auntie must like us!"
Everyone was noisy and noisy, everyone said their own things, and no one would let anyone else. Shen Ti thought it was noisy, so he hugged An Wujiu's shoulders, tilted his head and whispered to him, "Ignore them, let's go."
"Hey, wait for us!" Zhong Yirou was the first to find out.
"No." Shen Ti waved his back to them, "We're going to open the room."
"Who will open a room with you?" An Wujiu took him by the arm.
Shen Ti frowned, and behind him came the group of bad friends imitating the banter.
"Who will open a room with you? Hahahahaha!"