Dream.

Groggy hazy dreams.

This is my vocational high school era.

When I was in high school, I was short, very short, thin, and had no talent, but I liked to read, and I always wanted to enrich my mind and make myself a strong person.

You know, once you go to vocational high school, then the study is basically not related to yourself, vocational high school has been able to get a preliminary glimpse of the model of this society, the weak can only be dominated by the strong ability, and the strong are embarrassed to dominate the weak, the weak try to report the group for warmth, but because of the weakness and courage to resist together, this can be oppressed by the strong, the strong bullied, so the management can never know these oppressive and weak things on campus.

In this environment, there is nothing happier than those who are in between, neither too close to the strong and thus used in the later stage, nor sympathetic to the weak, fighting for the weak, thus incurring the hostility of the strong, and finally being forced to be oppressed and finally ranked as the weak.

Who would have thought that in a place like the school campus, a rudimentary model of adult society would be born.

I was thin and weak, I was originally in this happy position, there was an intellectual disability in the class, and I was often used as a pastime tool by the strong people, and once I was even scared by them to pee my pants!

The classmates dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, but I couldn't bear it anymore, so I secretly complained to the head teacher. As you can imagine, the matter must have been revealed, so, haha, I also entered the ranks of being bullied. Every time they needed to go shopping, eat at noon, do homework, and do duty, I became the best candidate for them.

"Broken Urge!"

This is what the students call us who run errands for the strong, that is, the school bullies.

Humiliation and unwillingness fill my heart, and from humiliation breeds anger, anger at my own weakness and being dominated by others, others can naturally see our embarrassment, but this is just their joke and conversation, seeing the dignity of others being played with by the strong, these bystanders will naturally gloat, and in their hearts they will also label themselves as those strong, so I am also angry for these people, and I am also angry for those bastards who wantonly trample on the dignity of others. I'm not a good fighter, but these behaviors really make me feel sick and want to throw up.

Since there is no one to stand up for us and stand up for me, then I can only go out on my own.

Eventually, I came up with a way to put an end to this loss of dignity.

A vicious cycle goes on when students are bullied at school, and the bully can always make parents worry that students won't tell their parents what happened at school. Me too. But what bullies are most afraid of is the other party's parents, after all, they are also students, and they are also afraid that their parents will know their viciousness at school. So, I took advantage of this mentality, first told the teachers about the school bullying, and then notified the school bullies that my parents had known about these things and informed the school, and if these things happened again, they would definitely come to the school to ask for an explanation. In fact, I didn't tell my parents, they didn't have to know, they just needed the teachers to come forward and deter these school bullies, and they combined with the news I told them before, and then they would naturally become jealous of me.

Sure enough, in the days that followed, I never crossed paths with them again.

But I'm not satisfied with that, I want to take revenge on them for trampling on my dignity before. I wrote about my experience on the campus forum, and added fuel to the fire, fabricating the news that a student's parents were making a big fuss in a certain class and anonymously posted it to the campus forum. After a few days, the bullying became less and less incidental, and eventually disappeared. The weak also lived a normal student life from then on.

A silent battle in which the weak defeated the strong was thus completed in my plan.

"Hasn't he woken up yet?" Xi Fei vaguely heard the human voice, but thought it was the words of the person in his dream.

"Not yet, his information is now all available and has been uploaded to public documents. ”

"Okay, he's going to let me know as soon as he's awake, and if he has any questions about what happened, let him know and see if he's going to join us. ”

"Of course, I'll tell him naturally. ”

Forehead... What a headache!

It looks like I'm back in school again.

What time is it?

Oh, I'm working.

This scene is familiar.

When I first entered the society, I was still full of passion and hope for life, full of enthusiasm every day, always fantasizing that I could make a difference in my work, and I had a good relationship with my colleagues, and I would often have dinner together.

Each department of the company is composed of many project teams, and the people in our project team are very kind. I also had a girl I liked, but I didn't have the experience of pursuing others before, so I didn't take action.

I have a classmate who is in another project team, and after joining the project team, everything is normal at first, but as the work deepens, the situation of the classmate becomes more and more bad. Every day, his team leader will always carry out various duties on him, abuse, belittle, and be scolded for his bad work, but their team leader is in a bad mood, using him as a punching bag, making mistakes in his own work, using him as a punching bag, and using him as a punching bag if the project performance is not good. My classmates have literally become his personal negative emotional bins!

My classmates asked me out for a drink several times and vented my bitterness with me, but I could only comfort me without any pain. But in his heart, he was already angry at the cowardice of his classmates and the domineering of his team leader. What can be done? We are all people at the bottom of the society who have just entered society, and we can only get through this step by step.

Negative emotions are contagious, like a fire meets hay.

One day, my classmate became a punching bag again, and the cause was just because of a trivial matter, and his team leader actually abused him for two hours, which was insulting, not his usual duty. This is already considered a humanitarian attack. Anger is contagious. My anger reached its peak at this moment, and I couldn't control it anymore, so I involuntarily ran to their project team and argued with their team leader.

What happens when two flames come together? A bigger flame is born.

As you can imagine, although there was no winner in the debate at that time, I actually lost because he was a managerial class, and it was natural that we low-level employees could not compete with them. The company began to hold a meeting on my behavior, and the subject of the meeting was a natural offense and disobedience. If you face no lower limit of personal insults all day long, it can be regarded as obedience arrangement. This meeting was also an opportunity for me, and I signaled to my classmates on the spot that he would use this meeting as an opportunity to respond to the higher-ups about what had happened in the past few months.

Disappointed, my classmate said: "The team leader often takes strict responsibility for my mistakes in work, but this is also for the sake of better work and faster growth, I have no complaints about this at all, and absolutely obey the company's arrangement." ”

I looked at him in disbelief.

This is the first time I was betrayed by the people I wanted to help, and it was also the first time that I realized the true face of this society.

A few days later, I voluntarily resigned, and on the day I left, my classmates did not come to see me off or explain what happened that day.

Since then, I have been full of distrust of the people I work with, and my communication at work is limited to work exchanges, and I never have deep friendships.

I also have close friends, but I don't say a lot of things in my heart to anyone, I just bury them deep in my heart and let them rot slowly.

Huh? What is it?

Why do I dream of a lock? I once read a book before, dreams are a reflection of the environment of human beings in the real world, and the scenes I see in my dreams are all seen in the real world, even if I just glance at them, but they have been engraved in my mind like a photo.

Is this lock something I've seen somewhere?

The air in front of him suddenly seemed to shatter, and it was pitch black in the hole, and there was nothing to be seen.

No, I can still feel something inside, something is coming out, I feel creepy.

Suddenly, a black hand reached out of the hollow, and he wanted to grab me!

The lock in front of me suddenly opened, and immediately after that, a gargoyle that I had seen in a foreign architecture magazine appeared, stood in front of me, grabbed the black hand, and dragged the owner of the black arm out.

Why is it that this gargoyle's face is even more terrifying than that of the owner of the black hand, but it gives me a feeling of great peace of mind?

The two monsters scuffle, and eventually the owner of the Black Hand is split in half by the gargoyle's tail.

The battle was over, and the gargoyle slowly walked towards me, and it stretched out one of its hands to me, and I didn't feel the slightest malice, and I couldn't help but reach one to its hand.

Our hands touched, and time froze. He wanted me to give him a title, a name.

Colossus.

These two words popped up in my mind.

He suddenly grabbed my palm, and then his body moved closer to me, and our bodies merged together.

Xi Fei slowly opened his eyes, and there was an unfamiliar scene in front of him.

"Where is this?" Judging from the layout of this place, it looked like a high-tech secret research institute, with the lights of various instruments flickering around it, and various displays showing unexplained codes and symbols that he could not understand.

There is also a conference round table with a diameter of about 3 meters. He himself was lying on a couch.

This room is quite large, and the door is closed.

"Hello, Mr. Xi Fei, welcome to the Action Castle. A human voice suddenly sounded behind Xi Fei, which scared Xi Fei.

"I'll go!" Xi Fei glanced at after flying, and a man was sitting on a bench not far away, smiling at Xi Fei. "Who are you?"

"Oh, by the way, I'm sorry, I haven't introduced myself yet. "That *** got up, about 1.9m tall, tall, strong, if Xi Fei, who was originally well-proportioned, stood next to him, it was estimated that it would be just up to his shoulder, and his body shape would inevitably look too thin compared to him, and Xi Fei was ashamed of himself. The man has a handsome face, a refreshing back, I don't know how much oil he has smeared to fix the head shape, he is wearing a leather jacket, casual jeans on the lower body, leather shoes, leather shoes are spotless, and the whole dress is matched with his figure, giving people a mature and capable temperament.

"My name is Ma Cheng. The answer was simple and competent.

“... , gone?"

"What more do you want to know?"

"You at least let me know where this is, why I'm here, what's going on, you just tell me the name?"

"Uh-huh, your questions are really a bit much, I'll answer them one by one. Do you remember what happened last night?" Ma Cheng patted the dust off his pants that wasn't there, and sat down again.

Only then did Xi Fei vaguely remember what else happened last night, he had just woken up, his mind was still a little confused, and he couldn't figure it out for a while.

"You make me think, make me think. Hmm..."Xi Fei sobered up for a moment, and suddenly his hair stood upside down, and cold sweat instantly soaked his whole body.

"I, I was attacked yesterday by a monster! a pitch-black humanoid monster!"

"Also, you're thinking about it. Ma Cheng calmly took out a box of cigars from his pocket and lit them, and handed another one to Xi Fei, who took the cigar tremblingly, and couldn't smoke it after lighting it, choking and coughing.

"Don't worry, don't worry, think slowly, you're safe now. Ma Cheng patted Xi Fei's back very intimately and handed him a glass of water. Xi Fei poured a whole glass of water.

"I remember, I remember it slowly coming towards me, I thought about it a lot, and at the end I was angry, very angry, and then I don't remember the rest of the story. What the hell is going on? Did you save me?" Since Xi Fei had lost his mind at that time, he naturally couldn't remember what happened next.

"No, you saved yourself. Hey, it looks like you really don't remember. Ma Cheng sighed in disappointment.

"Myself? How could I be, I was already scared stupid, and I was powerless, how could I possibly beat that monster. Xi Fei looked at his weak hands, completely unconvinced that he might be able to save himself under the circumstances.

"Come over here and take a look at this. Ma Cheng walked to the front of the instruments in the house, pointed to the display screen in front of him and said to Xi Fei.

"Huh?" Xi Fei walked over suspiciously.

On the display screen in front of him, the fierce and short battle scene of last night was playing, and after Xi Fei just passed out, two more people appeared in the picture and took Xi Fei away. Xi Fei looked at everything in the picture dumbfounded, unable to believe it.

"What's going on? Why is there another monster?" Xi Fei was shocked.

"Take a good look at the monster that appeared behind you, don't you really know it?"

"Huh?" Xi Fei thought for a while, "I, I just seemed to have dreamed of that monster, he has been protecting me, in the dream, I feel that this monster has no ill will towards me, and I also feel very relieved about this monster." Colossus!" Xi Fei remembered the situation in his dream.

"Colossus, that's what you call your heartlocks, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes. By the way, I also saw a strangely shaped lock in my dream, what is it? Is that the heart lock you are talking about?"

"That's right, Heartlock. Ma Cheng nodded.

"What's a heart lock?"

"The heart lock, as the name suggests, is the lock of the heart, the inner strength of everything that has thoughts. There are many unsolved mysteries in the world, and even human beings themselves have not yet fully understood their own bodies, and many of the forces in the human body have not yet been fully manifested.

"In our world, in history, there are some incredible strange things, you should have seen the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Zilong killed seven in and seven out in the Cao army camp, and finally hugged Adou back, after Zhang Fei broke off, he shouted and broke the Dangyang Bridge. Although this plot is from a novel, who can guarantee that it is not based on real events?

"For example, you must have heard of the news of an old man lifting a car with his bare hands to save his grandson. Is this possible under normal circumstances? Not to mention that this old man can lift the car with his bare hands, it is unlikely that he can do it even in the prime of life.

These are the best examples of the power that humanity has yet to show. If these forces want to be released, then there must be a triggering condition, it may be an event, it may be a personal reason, in short, if you want to release this power, you must need a switch, just like opening the gate and releasing water, you have to open the valve first.

"And you unleashed that power yesterday. I guess the most fundamental cause of this power of yours is anger, extreme anger. Intense emotional changes can cause people to burst out of extraordinary power, which in turn becomes a switch that triggers power, triggering untapped abilities in the human body.

"It may be because of the protective mechanism of the human body, in order to prevent the release of power anytime and anywhere, thus causing harm to the releaser itself, the liberation of power needs a medium, and this medium is the heart lock. Of course, this is just our metaphor, and this door may not exist at all, just because we think that power must be stored somewhere, so we make up this thing called 'heart gate'. If you want to open the door to release the power inside the 'door', then you must open the 'lock' on the 'door', this lock is a real thing, you should have seen it in the video just now, this is why we must have a 'door' exists, since there is a lock, then it must be locking something, so let's temporarily call the place where the power is stored 'door'.

"To open the lock, we need a key, and we are the key, so those of us who have awakened and have the lock of the heart are called the key.

"To join us to release this power, we must unlock the lock, that is, the 'lock' you saw in the video just now, which is what we call the 'heart lock', after unlocking, the release of power needs to pass through a certain medium, this medium is another monster you see on the video, by the way, you call it 'Colossus', right, that monster is what we call the medium, it is the 'concrete body' projected into the real world by your inner power, and all the abilities of the 'heart lock' must pass through' Concrete body' can be released.

"The ability of each 'key' to lock the mind is varied, not the same, and the image of the 'figurative' is also different. Specifically, when awakening the 'heart lock', it is not something that you can control, and you can only explore what ability you have in the future. But from yesterday's battle, we probably know what your heart lock is capable of. Ma Cheng gave a detailed answer to what happened to Xi Fei.

"Stop, stop, uh, you're talking a little too much, I haven't understood it all for a while, can you just put it simply. Xi Fei was just like a middle school student who was in junior high school and was suddenly forced to indoctrinate university knowledge by his teacher, listening to a lot of things he didn't understand at all with a confused face, and his thinking was temporarily down.

"That is to say, you encountered danger yesterday and awakened your superpower, the superpower is called the heart lock, and the colossus is called the embodiment body, these are your own powers, you were saved by your own power yesterday, but how to use the awakened power, what abilities you need to explore by yourself. Ma Chengde's answer was concise and to the point.

"Oh, I understand a lot when you say that. Xi Fei suddenly realized. "Hmm, how did you find me? That place is so remote, almost no one will find out, watching the video, I just passed out in a coma, and your people came and picked me up, do you mean that you have been watching at that time?"

"Yes, we've been watching from a short distance since you first awakened your heart lock. Ma Cheng replied lightly, as if he was discussing what to eat for lunch after work at noon.

Xi Fei stood up abruptly and slowly walked towards Ma Cheng: "In other words, when I was being attacked, you just watched quietly from the sidelines, and you didn't mean to help?

"It's not like that..."

"Since you know so much about what you are talking about, which means that you have the means and ability to deal with this kind of thing, but you are just a bystander and do nothing, since you have the ability, you should do what you can, at least you should rescue the last poor victim, but you don't do anything, just watch from the sidelines?"

"Hey. Ma Cheng sighed, picked up the file bag from the table in front of the bench, pulled out a stack of materials from it and looked at it, and said to himself: "It really fits your heart lock very well, so irritable, uh-huh, vocational high education, I once single-handedly improved the environment of the school at that time, so that the school has never had a school bullying incident since you left." You are not good at socializing, and you rarely have too much contact with colleagues at work, and your colleagues reflect that you are a very obedient and gentle person, and you can even say that you are a little cowardly, with few friends, but your real friends are like a different person, lively, cheerful, and talkative. From the above aspects, it does not show that you are an irritable person, once on the way to work because of the grievances of your classmates, but in the end you were betrayed by the one you stood up for him, so you were fired, I think, you should be very angry, well, from this I can see that you are still angry about some injustices. Ma Cheng picked up the water cup from the table and took a sip of water without hurrying.

Xi Fei stretched out the information in Ma Cheng's hand, quickly flipped through it, the expression on his face changed from doubt to shock, and from shock to anger, and threw the information to Ma Cheng's chest with a "snap": "You still investigate me? Where did you get these things?!"

"It's going to be cumbersome to explain, so I'm not going to tell you. ”

"What the hell are you trying to do? Who the hell are you?"

"Who are we? Who are we? We are a secret organization, a special organization that deals with the Keys. Ma Cheng took a leisurely puff of his cigar, picked up the materials that had fallen on his chest, sorted them out and put them on the table, and then sat up and looked at Xi Fei.

How did Xi Fei look at the person in front of him how unhappy, and was about to attack again, he suddenly realized that he was a little too irritable today, and then he also sat opposite him like Ma Cheng, and very unceremoniously picked up the cigar he had just smoked from the table and took a sharp puff.

"Hahahaha!" Ma Cheng couldn't help laughing when he looked at Xi Fei's funny appearance now, and then quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ”

Xi Fei was a little annoyed with shame, put the cigar back into the ashtray, and said to Ma Cheng: "It's funny, isn't it?

Ma Cheng suddenly stood up at this time and reached out to grab Xi Fei's arm: "I'm sorry, please wait a minute, you can't leave yet, I still have something to tell you." ”

"What's the matter? When I ask you, you answer me ambiguously, and I don't even know what kind of organization you are, maybe that black monster was released by you. Xi Fei shook off the hand that was grabbed by Ma Cheng, and found that his slender arm couldn't break free from Ma Cheng's strong hand force at all, "Let go of me." ”

"Can you wait a minute? I said I had something to tell you. ”

"I'm sorry, I don't want to hear it. Xi Fei's tone was non-negotiable.

"I'm sorry, I can't let you go yet. Ma Cheng replied firmly.

Xi Fei felt an inexplicable pressure. Since he woke up, he was inexplicably instilled with some strange things, and now he has to be restrained if he wants to go, which has made Xi Fei very unhappy, especially for the elegant guy in front of him who seems to have everything under his control, he doesn't have a good feeling, all of this makes Xi Fei's heart slowly rise a nameless fire, he just wants to punch the self-righteous person in front of him in the face now, but now he is restrained by this guy, which reminds him of the scene last night.

A lock slowly emerged from Xi Fei's forehead.

"Click!" the lock opened.

The gargoyle that Xi Fei saw on the video also appeared, punching Ma Cheng's face, and the lock kept shaking in front of Xi Fei's forehead with the shaking of Xi Fei's head.

Ma Cheng's expression became a little serious at this moment, and the hand holding Xi Fei also let go, Ma Cheng quickly stepped back towards the bench, and then the scene around the room instantly changed into another room, much like a private cell in a medieval castle, with iron cables hanging on the walls.

Ma Cheng was on the outside of the cell at the moment, while Xi Fei was on the inside of the cell, separated by the fence of the cell. Just now, he was less than four steps away from Xi Fei, but at this moment, the distance between the two was about 10 meters.

Due to Ma Cheng's explanation just now, Xi Fei knew that the gargoyle-like monster in front of him named "Colossus" belonged to his own power, that is to say, the Colossus was under his own control, so Xi Fei immediately opened his heart lock after being controlled by Ma Cheng and prepared to teach Ma Cheng a lesson. But when he thought that he could conjure a monster out of thin air, it was only natural that Ma Cheng could change the scene.

"Now it seems that you are also the key, right?" said Xi Fei, pretending that he was not surprised.

"That's right, I'm also the key, and all this in front of you is the embodiment of my heart lock, as I just said, welcome to the Castle of Action, that's what I call my heart lock. Ma Cheng replied unhurriedly.

"Do you mean to detain me now? You deliberately conjure up a cell, do you think you can lock me up!" Xi Fei manipulated the colossus to swing his fist and hit the fence with all his might.

"Wow!" The chains on the walls of the cell were now wrapped around Xi Fei and the Colossus like living snakes, tightly binding one person and one monster.

"Let go of me, are you a kidnapper, why lock me up" Xi Fei struggled a few times after being restrained, and found that he couldn't break free from the chain at all, and began to scold.

"You calm down first, listen to me, I don't want to lock you up, I want to..." Ma Cheng didn't finish his words, and suddenly found that the chains that bound the Colossus were slowly being slowly broken by the powerful power of the Colossus, and the chains shattered with a "boom", and the Colossus immediately tore off the chains that bound Xi Fei.

After tearing off Xi Fei's chains, the colossus instantly rushed towards Ma Cheng outside the cell, but this attempt was unsuccessful because there was still a narrow fence in the middle. This action still made Ma Cheng subconsciously take two steps back.

The Colossus's hands snatched in vain through the gap between the fences towards Ma Cheng. After several vain attempts, the Colossus began to grasp a fence with one hand and pull it on either side. Ma Cheng watched every movement of the Colossus quietly outside the fence, and sweat began to slowly ooze from his forehead.

"Click, click, click!" I don't know what material this fence is made of, but the strong colossus pulls it with all its might, and it only bends the fence slightly.

Xi Fei was also sweating profusely in the back at the moment, and the actions of the colossus were slowly draining Xi Fei's mental power.

"Roar !!" The colossus suddenly roared, deafening, and shook Ma Cheng outside the cell, Ma Cheng subconsciously squatted down and covered his ears, his expression was very painful.

With the roar of the colossus, the fence of the cell was also torn off by the colossus, and one person and one monster walked out of the cell and stood in front of Ma Cheng who was squatting on the ground, and Xi Fei also began to gasp for breath at this moment. The seemingly simple but extremely difficult action just now really consumed a lot of Xi Fei's mental power.

"Now, don't try to trap me anymore, when I get out, I'll call the police and arrest you all, you kidnappers!" Looking at Ma Cheng's embarrassment at the moment, Xi Fei could be regarded as having a bad breath in his heart at this moment, and his mouth began to be fast.

"Then you don't have to, I'm a police officer. "There were only two people in the room just now, and a third voice suddenly sounded at this moment.