The Old Man and the Monster Chapter 2 Superpowers Don't Matter
More than a month has passed since he confided his heart to the rest of his life.
The rest of my life seemed to be quiet all at once, as if the rushing river finally merged into the lake, and there were only ripples wrinkled by the breeze.
During this time, he never mentioned his past again, and finally revealed a corner of his heart, he once again put on a mask that he considered mature, trying to pretend that the events of that day had never happened.
It's just that since then, when I've been around for the rest of my life, I've occasionally shown a little bit of discomfort.
In the days since I came back from Woods, I have dreamed of the scene almost every night for the rest of my life, and each scene in my dream is different, some are clear, some are blurry, some are coherent and some are intermittent.
In the dream, the rest of his life saw the battle between the wanderer and the near-god army, but unlike everything that really happened, the battle in the dream was even more absurd and tragic, sometimes the loiterer won, and sometimes the near-god army stood to the end.
The rest of his life saw the death of the wanderers in different endings of his dreams.
He saw the blacksmith being frozen into ice cubes by Xuan Ling and then shattered into countless pieces like in a TV show, Ding Qing, who had the power to create life, was shot and killed indiscriminately, flying in the sky and controlling almost everything left and right suddenly lost his strength and fell into pulp, the store manager was captured alive by a stun gun and tied to the operating room and disemboweled, and the chief surgeon tried to find out the difference between the body structure of the Yishen and ordinary people.
And the rest of my life.
More than once in the rest of his life, he dreamed that he was the one who fell to his death that day, and he also dreamed that the young soldier with his face covered in blood pressed his face against his chest with a hideous face, pushing him into the darkness, no matter how much he struggled for the rest of his life, it would be useless.
The rest of his life usually wakes up before dawn, and there is no light in front of him, so that he can't distinguish between dream and reality.
The rest of his life may indeed have some extraordinary ability, but deep down in his heart he is still the ordinary person who is drowned in the crowd, even if everything around him proves that he is no longer able to live an ordinary life, it still can't change the confusion and hesitation in his heart.
Just after noon on this day, there were few customers in the coffee shop, the hot people in recent days had panicked in their chests, there were few people who were willing to go out shopping, the women who liked to go shopping were afraid of tanning, and the men were too lazy to move at home. Under the sun in full swing, everything is better than snuggling up in the house and blowing the air conditioner.
Of course, the rest of his life is not exempt from vulgarity, but fortunately, the coffee shop is full of air conditioning, and he is even happier to be without customers, anyway, he already knows that wanderers do not rely on coffee shops to eat.
The store manager disappeared a few days ago, and the blacksmith hid back to the second floor after breakfast, and never came out, Ding Qing accompanied him for half a morning and returned to his house.
There are only about those who have nothing to do every day, and those who are more dedicated than going to work stay in the store every day.
At this moment, Yu Sheng was behind the bar, there were few customers in the store, and his mind had long been gone.
Yu Sheng looked at the left and right who was sitting by the window and absentmindedly stirring the coffee cup with a spoon, and thought back to the story he told that day. On the surface, the left and right are still the big child who seems to be forever carefree, and the afternoon sun shines through the blinds on the boy's face, leaving shadows one after another.
There was no one in the coffee shop, so Yu Sheng simply left the bar and slipped in front of him.
"What are you thinking?" asked Yu Sheng curiously, sitting down beside him on the left and right.
"It's boring. "One hand on the left and right, the other hand on the spoon, "no anomalies, no fighting, nothing." ”
Yu Sheng thought about it, "Maybe you won't be so bored with homework, and you will swim in the ocean of knowledge to the fullest." ”
Snorted left and right, ignoring him.
"But then again, where did the store manager go, he hasn't appeared for the past few days, and the store doesn't have to worry about it?" asked Yu Sheng.
He didn't raise his eyes left and right, and after a while, he said lazily: "It's not the first time that the store manager has been like this, he has too many unknown networks on the dark side of the empire, and almost all the relationships and information we need to operate secretly depend on him, he probably went to find information, after all, it is difficult to get on the news about the gods." ”
"No wonder," thought Yu Sheng, "there is no hierarchy among the wanderers, but everyone is headed by the store manager. ”
"What do you think?" who was willing to accompany the rest of his life and didn't need to go to school in the end, he couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard the words of the rest of his life.
"In terms of age, he is not as big as the blacksmith uncle, and in terms of ability, his destructive power is the worst......" Left and right suddenly stopped, and looked at the rest of his life for a moment before continuing to speak, "Oh, forgot, the penultimate ......"
The rest of his life was expressionless, as if he hadn't heard the last sentence of the left and right, anyway, he couldn't beat the other party.
"I thought it was because the shop was his. Yu Sheng said calmly.
"I'm the majority shareholder. He pointed left and right at his nose and emphasized loudly.
"Oh, got it, remember to sweep the floor after a while. Yu Sheng said calmly.
"Oh good. Left and right subconsciously agreed, and immediately came back to his senses.
"You see, it has nothing to do with the store," he said, "and I have no status at all." ”
Yu Sheng nodded, agreeing with the left and right, and had no sympathy for his situation.
"But then again, most people have experienced a catastrophe of life and death, and they will be greatly impacted, but I don't think you seem to have changed at all," left and right tilted their heads curiously and stared at the rest of their lives, "You don't have any life insights or anything?"
This sentence made Yu Sheng slightly stunned, he remembered his various dreams, if he had to say the insights he got for the rest of his life, I am afraid it was the idea of becoming stronger.
Yu Sheng thought about it, his life is undergoing unprecedented changes, this kind of change is almost impossible to find a template in the book life can be compared, he really needs to tell someone something in his heart, after all, his heart is far less powerful than those legendary great men, can face the sky collapse without panic.
"There were, I saw more deaths that day than I had in the first half of my life combined, and if I had to ask what I thought after that incident," Yu Sheng said, "it was probably that battle that really made me realize how fragile human life is." ”
Left and right were slightly stunned, to be honest, he never thought that the rest of his life would utter such a literary youth-like sigh about life and death.
A few years earlier, at the age when he had established his concept of life, he had become a god, and soon after, he had joined the Wanderer, becoming one of the most powerful forces in the Empire's underground resistance.
Every battle he participated in, every conflict, all he saw and heard was death and fighting, although he still looked like a high school student, but in fact, the corpses of people who died directly or indirectly in his hands in the past few years could probably fill this small coffee shop.
For boys, death and bloodshed are the norm of life, and it is natural for the enemy to die or to die on his own, and there is no such thing as habit or not, let alone emotion.
The phrase for the rest of his life is like a child asking his parents where he came from, which is obviously a natural behavior for tens of thousands of years, but he can't speak directly.
Left and right felt that he was in this situation, and after listening to the words of the rest of his life, his mind was obviously full of explanations, and he didn't know how to continue for a while.
Yu Sheng scratched his head, and seemed to feel that his words were a little inexplicable, "What I want to say is not about life philosophy or anything like that, I just want to know how I can ensure that I am alive in those battles in the future......"
I snorted left and right, and almost laughed out loud.
"I've been thinking about this these days, I was on the roof of the building that day, and I was almost killed by that sniper, if it weren't for luck and Ding Qing's presence, I might not have been able to ask you. Yu Sheng's expression was true, and he obviously didn't mean to joke with the left and right.
Touching the beard that didn't exist on his chin left and right, he thought about it seriously for a long time, and finally said: "If you want to increase your survival rate in battle, you need to increase your combat effectiveness, maybe there are really two ways." ”
"Oh?" Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow, it seemed that the little guy was still reliable, "I would like to hear it." ”
"Since you've seen Yushiro's fight with that guy on the train, do you know what he's capable of?" asked left and right.
Yu Sheng frowned, recalling for a long time, he had indeed seen an extraordinary battle between the two people, but at that time, Yu Sheng did not have the concept of a god, and the two fought quickly and briefly, and there was no time to react.
In retrospect, Yushiro may have had similar physical enhancement abilities to Tang Tang.
Yu Sheng put forward his own conjecture, but it caused laughter left and right.
"Wrong. ”
Left and right firmly denied it, he looked at the rest of his life, with a mysterious smile on his face, as if to tell a surprising enough secret, "Actually, he doesn't have any superpowers." ”
The rest of his life looked up at him.
"Not capable?"
"If you talk about superpowers, Yushiro doesn't have them, but he still has special abilities," he said, "Ancient martial arts, combined with his powerful reaction speed, allow him to compete with some of the gods to a certain extent." ”
For the rest of his life, of course, he knew that there had been various ancient martial arts circulating in the empire, and these martial arts had been passed down for thousands of years, and they were the strongest force on the battlefield before the appearance of firearms.
Now with the passage of time and the limitations of practice, ancient martial arts have become more and more rare. But there will inevitably be similar masters in the imperial army, such as the rumored General Shenluo is the first martial arts master in the empire.
Yushiro, as the commander of the Near God Army who is also a god, is a martial artist, so it is naturally not surprising.
Yu Sheng nodded, and then questioned, "But it's not that Gu Wu practice requires talent, do I have it?"
"Of course not," left and right decisively denied, "where did you get your talent, not to mention that you are going to be thirty years old, even if you start practicing today, it will be too late." ”
The rest of his life was annoyed and angry, and almost his hair stood on end, "Then what are you talking about this, what about the second method?"
"With a gun. Left and right didn't care about the rest of his life's annoyance, and replied.
"Guns?" Yu Sheng frowned, this was a more reliable way, but ......
"Guns are illegal...... And do you need to practice shooting?" Yu Sheng frowned and asked, "Can we get a black gun?"
"Yes," coughed lightly, "but because of the Rebels back then, the Empire is extremely sensitive to this kind of thing. There are only a few ways to get this kind of thing in the entire empire, which is nothing more than the court or the three chaotic markets, which are easy to find out and easier to be betrayed by sellers. ”
"It won't work?" Yu Sheng put his hand on his forehead, feeling something crack in his head, "So what's the use of saying this?"
"FYI," said left and right, "since you want to survive the battle, it doesn't mean anything to you." ”
"Why?" puzzled for the rest of his life.
"Because you haven't seen yourself as a real warrior yet. "You have joined the most dangerous rebel group in the Empire, but you are still the same guy who commutes to work every day. If you want to survive in battle, you not only rely on strong strength, but more importantly, combat experience and on-the-spot reactions, even if you give me or the strength of Uncle Blacksmith, you can't defeat the same opponent. Because you didn't think about fighting in the first place. ”
Yu Sheng listened to the words left and right, and began to react differently in his heart.
"It's true that your power is not aggressive, but your power is still unmatched. Left and right said seriously, "Your vision is everywhere, and in front of you, no one can hide." So for you, the battlefield is always in your hands, and there's so much you can do. ”
Yu Sheng sighed in his heart, and had to admit that although he was far younger than him, he was already an experienced warrior tempered by various battles.
The problem with the rest of his life can be seen at a glance, indeed, for the rest of his life, the most important thing at this time is not the improvement of combat effectiveness, but the recognition of the transformation of his identity.
Left and right poured comments, like a tireless teacher, rare opportunity to show him, left and right almost handed over the inventory of combat cognition and ability use experience in the bottom of his heart to the rest of his life.
By the window of the coffee shop, two men, one big and one small, chatted more and more enthusiastically, and the rest of his life did not notice that his estrangement from the identity of the wanderer was being broken little by little.