Chapter 40: Nightmares—Seeds of Hope

After drinking milk tea, Yin Xiyao's lunch break was almost over, she stood up to say goodbye and went back to the police station, while Mu Anan was going to make some preparations for the evening appointment.

Although Yin Xiyao had already explained to Mu An'an after the joke, since Yin Xiyao and her father dared to bring up the matter of meeting Mu An'an at night in front of the police, it meant that he would probably not be in any danger this time.

But Mu An'an, who had obviously made a laughing and smiling appearance with the other party before, disagreed, and he strongly asked Yin Xiyao to accompany him to confirm the safety of this trip.

As a friend, Yin Xiyao is of course very willing to accompany Mu Anan to the appointment, but as a people's policeman, she has to have her own judgment without any instructions from her superiors.

The captain kept a vague avoidance of the matter, and most likely he didn't want to be in it, and if the captain had other plans, he would undoubtedly be taking a surprise and sabotaging some secret plan that he didn't know.

But in the end, she really couldn't stand Mu An'an's soft grinding and hard bubbles, Yin Xiyao could only take a step back and chose to ask Captain Feng for instructions, but unexpectedly the captain did not disagree.

On the eve of the separation of the two, Mu Anan finally did not forget to ask Yin Xiyao about the shirt yesterday, after all, the shirt pocket contained all his savings in the past few months, and it was also all the guarantee of his life in the next few months.

Fortunately, the worst that Mu An'an thought did not happen, his shirt was not damaged or lost in any way, but it was dried and dried at home by Yin Xiyao normally, and after getting the news, he finally felt a lot more at ease.

After saying goodbye to Yin Xiyao, Mu An'an embarked on the journey home, although he usually didn't pay attention to what to wear, even when he went to the appointment.

But today, after a day of "life and death", he not only sweated all over his body, but also performed a stunt just now, that is, when he jumped out of the car, he wore a big hole in the knee of his pants.

It's just that there are a lot of people who wear ripped pants now, so no one will pay attention to him when he walks on the street.

It's nothing to wear on the street, but if you wear this to a high-end place like Xianwei Building, you don't have to think that you will definitely be banned from entering in the name of inappropriate clothing, so he has to go back and change into a decent outfit.

Mu Anan took a taxi and quickly returned to the Sunshine Community, and as soon as he got out of the car and walked to the gate of the community, Uncle Sun stopped him.

The expression on the uncle's face is not very good-looking.

"Why aren't you going to work today?"

In order to avoid Uncle Sun's worry, Mu Anan did not plan to tell Uncle Sun about the thrilling experience this morning.

"A little bit of something else delayed. Mu An'an scratched the back of his head and laughed.

Uncle Sun glanced at Mu Anan contemptuously.

"What can you do kid? And even if there is anything, can it be more important than work?" Uncle Sun instantly turned on the fragmented thought mode, "An An, it's not that the uncle said you, you look at how many jobs the uncle has found you for so long, every time you either didn't apply, or you were fired after a long time, it stands to reason that as long as you have a normal job, you should ask God to worship the Buddha, thank God." And you're good, it's hard to apply for a vacant position now, and it's not good to cherish it...... (500 words omitted below)"

Mu An'an kept smiling with Uncle Sun when he was rambling, and seemed to be listening attentively, but in fact, his mind had already drifted out of the clouds.

When Uncle Sun finally picked up the thermos cup and took a sip of tea and stopped talking, Mu Anan was already thinking about what dishes to order when he went to the appointment.

Uncle Sun put down the thermos cup and asked unhurriedly, "I said so much, do you understand?"

Mu An'an didn't listen to anything, of course he didn't understand anything, but he nodded blindly, which already made Uncle Sun very satisfied.

"It's good to understand. Uncle Sun pointed to Mu An'an's nose and said, "You kid! It's just too similar to your master, his lazy temperament, he has learned a lot." ”

Mu Anan scratched the back of his head and smiled innocently.

After Uncle Sun finished the lesson, he smiled and praised: "But fortunately, uncle, you have also learned a lot of my good character, at least one point, perseverance, I can also see it in your kid." ”

Mu An'an teased: "Uncle Sun, are you praising me, or are you praising yourself?"

Uncle Sun laughed and said: "Haha, you kid, this poor mouth is exactly the same as your master, and in this regard, it can even be said that he is better than the blue." ”

"My poor mouth is not caused by your old man's trouble. Mu Anan complained in a low voice.

Indeed, if it weren't for Uncle Sun's ten-year nagging, Mu An'an's vocabulary would not be so big when he played tricks, and his mouth would not be fluent.

"What did you just say? Uncle, I'm a little old and I can't hear clearly. Uncle Sun asked with a smile.

Mu Anan smiled and said: "It's nothing, it's nothing, if you don't have anything else to do, I'll go back first, I really have something to do at night." ”

Uncle Sun was tired after a long time, and he waved his hands casually as if he was impatiently driving away people.

"Let's go, let's go, but you must remember that you have to go to work tomorrow, I will call Uncle Zhu and ask, if he says you didn't go...... Hey...... You kid should know it in your heart. ”

Mu Anan oozed a cold sweat, fortunately, when he called Mo Zhenzhen and his father to choose the meeting time, he didn't choose tomorrow, otherwise he would have gone to the appointment and delayed the work of the park, and Uncle Sun would definitely let him not be able to eat and walk around.

Leaving the guard room quickly, Mu Anan walked downstairs to the unit where he lived, climbed the stairs after decades of baptism step by step, opened the creaking door, changed into the pair of slippers given by Uncle Sun on his birthday the year before last, took off the dirty clothes on his body at will, threw them into the washing machine drum that was not a few years younger than himself, and then walked into the bathroom, took a casual shower, put on a pair of boxer briefs and lay on the sofa.

Mu An'an tried to relax, he wanted to sink his whole body into the sofa, but the old-fashioned sofa was not too soft, and it was more comfortable to lie on than on the chair.

"Looks like we're going to have to change the couch. ”

Since the physical body is not enjoyed, Mu Anan wants to find spiritual entertainment, he picked up the remote control and turned on the "antique" TV, a large "snowflake" immediately came into view, in order to watch the show normally, he could only reluctantly get up and walk over and shoot the back of the TV twice.

With two bangs of "bang", the TV finally showed a normal picture after a few flashes.

Mu An'an lay back on the sofa, holding the remote control to change the channel at will, he tuned from channel one to the last channel, and then back to channel one, and after adjusting it several times, he finally found that there was really no program on TV that he was interested in.

He had no choice but to tune in to the news channel.

Now there are still a few hours left before the agreed eight o'clock, listening to the news and doing hypnosis, just in time to take the opportunity to rest for a while.

The amount of exercise in the morning chase was too strong for a contemporary vulgar young man like Mu An'an, who never took exercise seriously.

Taking out his mobile phone and setting an alarm clock at half past seven, listening to the international events and domestic news broadcast on the TV, Mu Anan quickly fell asleep.

......

I don't know how long later, in Mu An'an's dim consciousness, he sensed that he had woken up from his sleep.

Mu'an, who had just woken up, was in a state of confusion, he got out of bed, pushed open the door and walked out into the street. It was then that he realized that something was wrong with the outside world, and when he looked into the distance, the blue sky and the heavy earth had lost their color, the sun and moon no longer shining, and the mountains and rivers were no longer full of life.

He looked up and saw that the desert was now silent, the wind that should have been raging had stopped dancing, and the oases were shattered by the endless darkness.

His gaze swept across the sky, the earth, the rivers, the oceans, the plains, the highlands, the deserts, the oases, everything in this world, fell silent in his sight.

Only inadvertently swept through the depths of the dense forest, and the little light coming from it attracted his eyes.

The light in the depths of the dense forest was an insignificant firefly. It emitted an insignificant glow as much as itself, illuminating the trees around it when the whole world had lost its color.

Although its light was not as bright as a ray of sunlight, and even the stars in the night sky shone ten thousand times brighter than it, but when all things were in a morbid ruin, it remained its original form.

Mu An'an followed his consciousness to the middle of the dense forest, and he walked to the firefly that was different from the whole world.

The firefly shone with a faint light, as if it was about to be extinguished in the next second, but no matter how long it passed, there was no sign of its extinction.

Instinctively, Mu An'an stretched out his hands to protect the fireflies in the palms of his hands.

At the same time, an indescribable voice came into Mu An'an's ears from beyond the dense forest.

"Please live with the seeds of hope!" the voice said.

"Seeds of hope?" Mu An'an still maintained the posture of protecting the fireflies, "Are you talking about this?"

The voice sounded again: "Be sure to take ......"

For some reason, when Mu An'an followed the sound, the voice stopped abruptly, and he was puzzled, and when he turned around, he saw that the light of the firefly in his hand had dimmed for some time, and the firefly that had lost its color fell into his hand.

"No!"

The loss of the faint light of the fireflies means that the whole world has been plunged into endless darkness, and the world has become nothing unusual.

In the same way, the seeds of hope were shattered at this moment.

Mu An'an stared at the firefly in his hand with incredulous eyes, his eyes bloodshot in an instant.

"No, I killed it!" Mu An'an fell into deep self-reproach, and he bowed his head and said to himself, "I am the one who has caused the whole world to have no more color, and it is I who have snuffed out the dawn of hope." ”

Tears welled up in the corners of his eyes.

"I am a sinner!" he roared.

"Sinners of the whole world!" he roared hysterically.

Mu An'an roared, holding the firefly's corpse tightly in one hand, and pulling a dagger that glowed with cold light from the darkness with the other.

He closed his eyes and, without thinking, stabbed himself in the chest with a dagger.

"Big brother!"

At the moment before the dagger entered Mu An'an's heart, a small white and tender hand tightly grasped the sharp blade, and bright red blood slipped from the blade drop by drop.

"Big brother. The immature voice called softly again.

Mu An'an opened his closed eyes when he heard the sound, but the immature face he thought did not appear in front of him, and what stood there holding the blade was only a bright white dawn......

Everything that was unusual made Mu An'an shudder, and he suddenly woke up from his sleep, only to open his eyes to find that the room was dimly lit, and he didn't know when he had rolled off the sofa.

"Is it night?" Mu Anan scratched the back of his head, looked at the darkness outside the window, and stood up in confusion.

He picked up his phone and took a look, and it was almost seven o'clock now.

"That dream, it's really weird. Mu An'an recalled the dream just now and muttered, "That voice really looks like her." ”

Mu An'an sat up, he felt that his mind was messed up, and he would always involuntarily start to think cranky.

"She just said she was resting, where did she go?"

While thinking, Mu Anan habitually put his hand into his trouser pocket, and his fingertips felt cold to the touch.

He took out his trouser pocket and put it in front of his eyes to look at it carefully, and the beautiful face on the front of the steel hammer really became more and more familiar the more he looked at it.