Come to the Foundation.
This organization made Cheng Yu'an see all hope in the despair of being abandoned by the family.
After learning about the contents of the foundation and the so-called "game", Cheng Yu'an felt extremely excited like never before. What excites him is not only the game itself, but also the world view behind it, as well as the truth of all ghosts.
Think about it, all the ghosts, the things that the Cheng family has been working hard for for many years, are all fake, and they can all be compiled by him, the second son of the Cheng family who was abandoned by the family.
How rebellious is this, how can he revenge his father and his family
Just thinking of this ending and possibility is enough to make Cheng Yu'an tremble with excitement. He joined the organization created by the former Gu Youruo, and after years of hard work, he became the Ace of Spades—in the organization named after playing cards, the Ace of Spades is the top executive.
In addition, he also brought his younger brother Cheng Yuxian into the organization.
Cheng Yuxian is different from him. The usually quiet younger brother had no expectations of a brighter life, or even a higher achievement. Maybe he joined this organization because he just wanted to help his brother.
That's all.
But Cheng Yu'an never thought that his decision would lead to great changes in Cheng Yuxian's life. He was not able to control the Advent Foundation and completely control the game as he imagined. Like Lin Huai, a player who appeared suddenly, the game is extremely uncontrollable.
As the ace of spades, he didn't share his concerns with the three other equally important leaders who ended in an ace. He still maintained his calm appearance.
Can.
For example, now, he can hardly see the direction he needs to go, or should go.
Cheng Yuxian sat on the sofa. Her fingers were white, holding a cup of hot tea. Cheng Yu'an sat on the other side, looking at his past younger brother and present younger sister, suddenly feeling a little dazed.
How long had it been since they sat together so quietly
"It's too late today, it's not safe to go back at this time, you can stay with me first." Cheng Yu'an said.
"Yes." Cheng Yuxian replied.
The room is still very quiet, only the aroma of tea curling up. In the fragrance, Cheng Yu'an finally spoke again: "I always feel that you have something to tell me."
"I witnessed a death. It was in the newspaper." Cheng Yuxian said softly.
Cheng Yu'an sat up straight: "What?"
"A child who should not be on the list appeared in an orphanage. He would pull the teachers to play games with him and lead them into the dark abyss." Cheng Yuxian said softly, "I saw it in the newspaper The news—the newspapers of the real world. Brother, we failed to bring the real world into the copies, but, the copies—they came out.”
"..."
"...like I came out, too."
Cheng Yu'an was silent for a long time, and he finally said: "Are you blaming me?"
Cheng Yuxian shook her head.
"...It just suddenly felt like a...joke. I became like this, and you became like this. I went to the former classmate reunion, and their memory was adjusted to say that I was a woman, but their emotions could not be changed. Resisting. In the end, all they brought me was isolation. I went to meet other people I knew, and the girls I didn’t know wished me a happy birthday, but the boys I knew asked me, ‘Who are you’?” Cheng Yuxian said softly, “ The system has changed my gender and changed other people's memories of me. But it can't create the emotions that I should have and those people should have for me from the void."
"I didn't come back from the game, brother, I became a stranger." Cheng Yuxian's tone sent a chill down Cheng Yu'an's spine, "Sometimes I think, are we too arrogant? We think we can edit everything, but In the end, the system told me that it is the one that can edit everything—it is the one that can change the real world. But even its changes are limited. My return is not luck, not your efforts, but the intentional conveyance of the system, Its warning to us…”
"Maybe even, those dungeons, those ghosts, those things that invaded the real world... I am also one of them."
"do not talk!!"
Cheng Yu'an suddenly shouted angrily. He looked at Cheng Yuxian, his fingers trembling like never before - trembling with uncertainty. He said: "You are tired, you think too much at night, go to sleep, I will find a way."
Cheng Yuxian didn't refuse, she stared at Cheng Yu'an quietly with those deep black eyes, Cheng Yu'an didn't look at her until the end.
Finally, she nodded.
"Okay, brother." She said softly.
She walked into the guest room step by step like this, as if she was completely disappointed and planned to walk into her night. After she left, Cheng Yu'an sat alone in the living room, scratching her hair.
He wanted to dig out some information from his phone, but saw a photo pop up in the memory function of the network disk.
Memories are the worst things, they come unexpectedly, they come into view, and at that moment they hurt more than any words.
In the photo, when Cheng Yuxian graduated from university, he attended his graduation ceremony as a parent. Cheng Yuxian was wearing a bachelor's uniform, and the two were standing under the tree next to the playground. The sunshine in June was just right, and both of them smiled brightly.
He remembered that day was when Cheng Yuxian rarely smiled so happily. Cheng Yuxian said: "Father didn't come, but brother, I'm very happy that you are here."
But now in that photo, the smiling face is no longer Cheng Yuxian's face in his memory. It was the face of a strange girl.
Cheng Yuxian.
"...Why do you smile at me like this." After a long time, he grabbed his hair fiercely and made a slight voice, "You are not mine at all..."
younger brother.
You are but a creature of the game's revenge.
He finally shed a tear, which fell on the face he hated and belonged to Cheng Yuxian.
…
"Did you ask anything from Cheng Yu'an?"
Chu Tianshu waited downstairs at Cheng Yu'an's until Lin Huai came down. He picked Lin Huai up and said this in the car on the way home.
"Nothing." Lin Huai said.
He looked at the row upon row of buildings and the warm lights outside the window, and thought of the cold Westwood District that was finally in the thick fog.
Many people live in this city. Chu Tianshu's older sister, a celestial master who only wants to debut, his roommate, Tan Xiruo, who wants to study for a Ph. Qin Jiang, who once asked him to run errands to find Chu Tianshu for a draft, has now become a famous reporter... Such a lively and prosperous place is the world they live in.
There is also the cafeteria aunt who will give him extra meals every time, the school professor who turns a blind eye to him who is late for class and likes to tell jokes, and the courier who reinforces the packaging for him for free every time at the courier station, After getting acquainted with the two of them, every time I will remember the master who didn't add broccoli to Lin Huai's bowl of ramen.
There is also Chu Tianshu who is sitting beside him and taking him home.
Such a lively and real world is the world he lives in now. Compared with Wenxian County, which is filled with blood and mist, and Ximu District, although interesting but icy ghosts are rampant...
He seems to be more used to the present world.
"... so I have already had so many connections with this world without knowing it." Lin Huai sat beside Chu Tianshu, and said softly, "It turns out that sometimes I also feel..."
Being able to eat ramen with the one you love is a greater happiness than killing people to satisfy your desires in the game world.
"What's wrong with you, Xiao Linzi." Chu Tianshu was obviously a little frightened by his nonsensical words, he immediately said meanly, "Don't commit suicide if you can't think about it, even if you commit suicide, you won't die."
Lin Huai: ...
"Hey," Lin Huai said suddenly, "If I were Mr. L, the source of infection for the ghosts in the whole world, what would you do?"
The car slowed down.
Chu Tianshu stopped the car before the red light.
He was thinking with his head down, and then he said, "What else can I do? Then I can only create an isolated sandbox for you to play in."
"What if Lu Jin and the others all die?"
"That's not the thing that concerns me the most. A person is mortal, and it may be lighter than a feather, or heavier than Mount Tai." Chu Tianshu's voice was rare and cold, "You are my Mount Tai."
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu stretched out his hand to grab his cold hand, and said, "Don't worry, I will always find a solution."
—The way to let you live a carefree and good life.
Lin Huai held his hand back and said "Yes".
…
In the remaining half month, Chu Tianshu took Lin Huai all over S city.
Rather than investigating the ghosts that have invaded the real world, he seems to be more enthusiastic about taking Lin Huai to visit and check in various Internet celebrity attractions suitable for couples. Seeing that he was going back to Chu's house on the weekend, on Friday, Chu Tianshu took Lin Huai, who had no class all day, to another place.
"Where do you want to take me to clock in today?" Lin Huai said speechlessly, "Could it be another blingbling corridor full of crystal glass balls?"
"Of course not, how could it be such a vulgar place."
Chu Tianshu finally brought Lin Huai to a middle school. At this time, it was the end of get out of class time, and the students after school filed out of the middle school. The setting sun fell on the way back from school, so Chu Tianshu held Lin Huai's hand and walked on the way.
At the first intersection, they met a newsstand and a cat.
At the second intersection, they met a sprinkler.
At the third intersection...
The alleys and dumpsters are so bleak and dramatic in the setting sun. Chu Tianshu asked Lin Huai to stand here. He ran into the alley, turned around and ran back, opened his arms to Lin Huai and said:
"Hello classmate, I want to rob." Under the setting sun, he grinned. Lin Huai froze for a moment. At that moment, he seemed to see himself as a primary school student running towards Chu Tianshu.
It turns out that when we first met, Chu Tianshu saw him like this.
It was very quiet all around, and there were no other middle school students passing by. Chu Tianshu took out some candies from his pocket and put them in Lin Huai's palm.
"I remembered to bring candy this time." He put the candy into the hands of the little robber, "If I had known that the dirty primary school student would become my wife later, I would have taken candy with me every day after class."
Lin Huai: ...
"No matter who you are, no matter what you become." Chu Tianshu suddenly said again, "As long as you show up, I will fall in love with you at first sight again and again."
"so… "
"Go your way with confidence and don't be afraid of any fate."