Chapter 20: Worth It
The black clouds in the sky were rolling over, and the faint light of the stars and moon could not penetrate it.
In the cavern full of skeletons, only the artificial ball of light emitted light, like the only fire in the vast expanse of the earth.
The cold aura made Pooh's body tremble, and she didn't care about the many bones at the moment, her body curled up in a more sheltered corner and shivered.
Hugo sat cross-legged not far from the illuminated ball and closed his eyes to recuperate, exuding an even more eerie aura than here.
Pooh suddenly spoke: "I haven't contacted him for a long time, and I don't have any other means, and if you detain me here now, I'm afraid he won't know if I'm dead." ”
Hugo had already closed his eyes and said: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter to me whether you are dead or alive, the important thing is that Xiaobai will always know that you are in my hands, and no matter what, he will come with a glimmer of hope." ”
Pooh smiled bitterly, "You seem to have everything in your mind, amazing." ”
Hugo said: "If I really had that ability, I wouldn't be where I am today." After a pause, Hugo said: "There are too many accidents that this world has given me, and my fate is also squeezing and drifting between one accident after another." With that, Hugo opened his eyes.
"I want to get out of this fate. ”
Pooh said: "If you look at my current situation, you should understand that many times fate is not in your own hands. ”
Hugo smiled: "I just realized that you talk so funny, I always thought you were a domineering and mean woman." ”
Pooh said, "I really can't think of any stupid woman like you based on the way you say it. Hugo and Pooh both laughed wryly, for they both knew such a silly woman.
Hugo didn't want to dwell on the subject, so he said, "I listened to your performance, and it was very good. ”
"Thanks for the compliment. ”
Hugo said, "How long have you been exposed to music?"
Pooh ran his fingers over the guitar and said, "It's been a long time." ”
"My parents both worked in music, so they paid special attention to nurturing me in music since I was a child. ”
"I am indeed very talented in music, although I can't compare with Mozart, but I am also the envy of many practitioners. ”
"When I was a child, my husband was the piano, and I thought that my mother thought that girls who played piano music would become elegant princesses, but you can't imagine the boredom of sitting in front of the piano for a long time and playing a piece of music. Still, I worked silently to make myself the one my parents and others loved. ”
"One day after school, I passed by a street corner where a teenager was sitting on the floor with a guitar in his hand. ”
"He looks about my age and plays music at a very average level, but I can see the calm and happiness in his eyes, which is an emotion that I have never experienced when playing music. ”
"I stopped, borrowed a guitar from him and started playing, and although I wasn't familiar with the technique of playing the guitar, I was able to play a coherent piece of music after getting used to it for a while. And so I sat on the street with the man and played the piano until late and night. ”
"When I got home my parents were furious at my late arrival, but I told them that from now on I just wanted to be myself and that the first thing to do was to give up music. ”
"Hehe, I still can't forget the expressions on my parents' faces at that time. ”
"The next day, I found the boy again on that street, and I told him that my name was Pooh and that I wanted to make friends with you. He told me that his name was Xiaobai, White White. ”
Hugo listened quietly to Pooh's story, and finally nodded and said, "It's a romantic story." ”
"Romantic? I think it's pretty bland, it just happens naturally, and everything is like my life. ”
"But my life did change a lot since I met Xiaobai, I left the piano and sat in the driver's seat of the locomotive, and since then I have made a lot of friends, which made me understand the meaning of like-mindedness for the first time. ”
Hugo smiled: "It was a very happy feeling. ”
Pooh also smiled: "That's right, very happy." ”
After a moment of silence, Pooh said, "I'm not saying this to make you change anything, I just want to say that Xiaobai he... Maybe it's not as bad as you think, and he may have a lot of secrets, but I believe that his heart has always had the warmest kindness to the world as he did when he first met me. ”
"Warm kindness?" repeated Hugo's muse.
"If I'm not mistaken, maybe I'm from the same city as Xiaobai. Hugo said slowly.
"I have the impression that it is prosperous and beautiful, and that there is always enthusiasm and happiness on people's faces, as if people never know what sorrow is. ”
"However, such a beautiful place was treated undeservedly, and it was destroyed overnight. What I couldn't face was that before and after the crisis, what I felt was the greatest malice that human beings in this world had, but I didn't believe it at that time. ”
"It wasn't until a few days ago, when my loved one collapsed behind me, that I felt the malice that filled the air, and it was almost suffocating. ”
"The murderer is not Xiaobai, but Xiaobai also clearly stands in the direction. There were so many people who wanted me to die that night, and I survived, but the price I had to pay was not necessarily better than death. ”
With that, Hugo's eyes looked at the guitar in Pooh's arms.
"Before I came to the 23rd arrondissement, a friend of mine told me that many things are not partly right and wrong, good and evil, and that people are pitted against each other only because of their position and the starting point for thinking about things. ”
"Besides, if I hadn't kidnapped you tonight, many people wouldn't know who I was, and my name might have been as dark as ever. ”
Hugo stopped and said, "What you see is only the bright side of him, and soon you will see the darkness under the light." ”
Hugo stood up, looked up at the mouth of the cave where the whistling sea breeze came, and said: "Even for you, he will turn into darkness, not to be forced to be helpless, but not worth it." ”
Pooh's face was sad, and her gaze followed Hugo's to the entrance of the cave.
There was a faint figure.
Tears slid down Pooh's face and began to sob.
Xiaobai proved with his actions that everything was worth it for her.