After driving the sheep to the grassland by the lake, Lennon, who was only 16 years old but had a full head of white hair, sat down on the thick grass carpet and chanted a prayer to the God of the Internet with an expectant look on his face.
As the virtual screen lit up, his eyes suddenly flashed with joy.
The next three or four hours will be the most comfortable and happiest time of his day.
He skillfully opened the Internet and clicked into Internet social networking.
Among the few contacts, I accurately found the avatar of a girl with a masked face, clicked on it, and posted: "Are you there?"
Not long after, a video call came from the other side.
Lennon hung up the video call and made a voice call instead.
"Oh, let me see you?" The girl's clear and slightly coquettish voice came from the virtual screen. Although this was a voice translated by the Internet, it still made Lennon feel elated for a moment.
"No, it will scare you." Lennon said. He didn't want to lose the friends of the same age he had finally made in the genetic disease forum.
"No, I'm afraid of scaring you!" the girl said firmly.
scaring me
Lennon smiled bitterly.
Lennon is a demon.
To be precise, he is the devil in the eyes of the villagers.
Because when he was born, his whole body was white, including his hair, fine hair, and even eyelashes.
The villagers were frightened and thought it was a demon.
In fact, Lennon did act like a demon.
He is photophobic, likes dark places, cannot open his eyes in the sun, and always likes to talk with his eyes closed.
Prolonged exposure to the sun will also cause his body to be covered in disgusting red spots.
The adults didn't want to see him, and the children who were affected even rejected him and bullied him.
They will even play the role of the great hero in the travelogue, wielding wooden swords and hunting down this demon.
Finally, after his younger brother was born, he was completely abandoned by his parents and left in the care of his grandfather. He lived on the edge of the snow-capped mountains by Jacob Lake and made a living by herding sheep.
The time spent with his grandfather was the happiest and loneliest time for Lennon.
Apart from migratory birds, there are only blue sheep on the shores of Lake Jacob.
The climate here is cold. For more than half of the year, it is covered with ice and snow in winter. Materials are extremely scarce. Those who can move have already moved.
Only my grandfather was attached to his homeland and stayed under the snow-capped mountains.
Here, Lennon finally avoided the fate of being bullied by children, but being with his grandfather all day long also made him increasingly lonely.
Fortunately, at this moment, the Internet appeared, which alleviated his loneliness.
I especially remember how much he looked forward to the arrival of winter when he first came into contact with the Internet.
Because only then will he have a lot of free time to browse the Internet.
"Ding dong!"
A beep interrupted Lennon's inferiority complex.
He subconsciously looked at the virtual screen and froze, dumbfounded.
I saw the girl sent a video.
On the cover of the still video, the girl is grinning, her hair, which is slightly yellow and dry due to malnutrition, cannot hide her youthful atmosphere at all.
The only regret is that the girl has a cleft nasolabial fold, which looks a bit abrupt.
But in Lennon's eyes, the split nasolabial fold was like a snowshoe rabbit on the lakeside, cute and beautiful.
Lennon clicked on the video blankly.
"Hello, I was afraid that you would say that I used Internet photos to lie to you, so I recorded the video. Did it scare you?"
The girl's name is Nian. The video she sent was very short and she didn't seem to know what to say.
When the video ended, Lennon's heart began to beat wildly. It was a pounding heartbeat, but also nervousness and worry!
He didn't expect the girl to be so bold! He was confused for a moment, wondering what he would do if the girl asked him for a video
He felt that his appearance would definitely frighten others.
"I'm sorry if I scared you." The girl texted.
"No, no, I think you are beautiful."
"Really? You're lying to me again!"
"No!"
"Really? Then do you dare to start the video?"
Before Lennon could hesitate, the girl sent another video call.
Lennon looked at the flashing page, his face tightened with nervousness, and his heart was beating fast.
Childhood experiences, frightened eyes, vicious curses, ridiculing and teasing, children's chasing, and scenes of failed social scenes flashed through his mind.
He subconsciously reached for the red button, but when his fingertips were about to touch it, somehow, he gritted his teeth and clicked on the green virtual button. -He is more afraid of loneliness than failure.
In an instant, his image and even the girl's appearance appeared on the virtual screen. Before Lennon could take a closer look, his mind went blank.
Ni'an seems to be in an attic, with a small round window behind her.
She looked at Lennon blankly, her mouth slightly open, and she was so cute.
If what Lennon saw was a snow hare by the lake, then what she saw was a snow mountain elf.
The pure white skin and pure white hair are wrapped under the fur. Reflected by the pure white snow-capped mountains in the distance, they look like a dream. This is not a snow-capped mountain elf. What is this
A long silence spread between the two of them.
After an unknown amount of time, the girl smiled shyly: "Are you...really Lunnon? A boy?"
Lennon was startled: "Huh?"
This afternoon is destined to be an extraordinary day for two of the most ordinary yet extraordinary human beings.
Hang up the video call.
Lennon, who was driving the sheep back into the circle, was as happy as a lamb, but inadvertently, a trace of sadness would appear on his face.
Ni'an didn't dislike his appearance, but he still felt deeply inferior.
If possible, he still wanted to cure this genetic disease and become a normal human being. He was fed up with this appearance.
When I got home, grandpa had already prepared dinner, which was still the same cheese and potatoes.
Probably because of living alone all year round, Grandpa is very silent, and Lunnon is also very silent.
After dinner, Lennon returned to the bedroom and began a day of magic practice.
The reason why he does not practice while herding sheep is partly because he is afraid of wild beasts, and partly because magic practice requires continuous investment of energy.
It was difficult for him to stay focused while juggling his flock in the wild.
Now that he could finally breathe a sigh of relief and have time that was completely his own, he habitually opened the Internet class, found Magister Brad's open class, and started learning magic.
His talent is very poor and he cannot understand many magic classes at all.
That is to say, Magister Brad's open class, he could barely understand some of it, but he still had to cooperate in consulting the Book of Omniscience.
Often a lesson needs to be read over and over several times.
Fortunately, the snow-capped mountains were so lonely that he had plenty of time to ponder magic.
Today, he just opened the homepage of Brad Magister, and suddenly found that the tutor had added a rare episode.
He quickly opened it and read hard.
Although maybe he won't understand it at all for a while.
But as long as you have seen it, you can leave a memory, and you can think about it while working and herding sheep. This is much better than having your brain empty while working.
An episode of open class was only one hour long, and soon Lennon was at the end.
However, there is something different about today's open class, that is, at the end, Magister Brad suddenly announced something, which immediately surprised Lennon.
It turns out that Magister Brad suddenly talked about his favorite disciple, Caesar, and then talked about Caesar's life experience. He encouraged everyone to learn from the disabled Caesar and also called on everyone to forward Caesar's petition video. !
What surprised Lennon was not that Magister Brad mixed up personal matters in the public class, but that he knew Caesar.
It turns out that Nishizawa is very active in the genetic disease forum newly established after the emergence of Internet medical care, and has become a close uncle in the minds of many people.
Yes, at least in Lennon's vision, Caesar is the image of a loyal uncle.
He never thought that Caesar was actually a student of Magister Brad, let alone that his situation was even worse than him!