Pitch black, silent, like a tide silently surrounded Lin Yingkong, he stood quietly in the darkness for a while, before he poked out the shadow that he had melted into it, and then tore a hole in the black, a glimmer of light seeped in, and he stepped out of that opening without hesitation.

It's still a gray day, but there are more brand-new houses in the old streets, and the faces of people who come and go are a little less numb to their livelihoods. The clothes of men and women and other things are closer to the present world than the previous scene, the branches and leaves on the side of the road are pulling out buds, a thriving state, Lin Yingkong looked at the environment, and then casually found a newsstand, picked up a newspaper and looked at the time, and within a second, he could calculate that the puppet at this time was eighteen years old according to the virtual age, and when it came to the spring of the next year, he would go to participate in the selection test of the Spiritual Security Bureau, which would eat people at that time, and pay the price of abolishing one hand, in exchange for the later fame.

But before that, it was also in this year that he lost his mother and met Baili Mengyan - jumping from one calamity to another.

The earliest appearance Lin Yingkong saw Feng Rong was in the photo of him with Baili Mengyan and the other two teenagers, but at that time, Feng Rong's every move was deliberately imitating Baili Mengyan, Lin Yingkong thought about the appearance of the little boy he had seen before, and tried to connect him with the appearance of the dark puppet at this time, but as soon as Leng Buding looked up, he saw that the familiar figure was slowly walking towards him along the street, Lin Yingkong only glanced at it, and his heart flickered.

This is an eighteen-year-old puppet, his silhouette is already seven points similar to the later Minister of Spiritual Law Enforcement, except that he has half-length hair that looks messy and boring due to lack of care, wears old and ill-fitting clothes, bows his head, bends his waist, walks against the side of the road, and acts like an old man in the last years of the wind and candles, not a matter of speed or whether he raises his hands or not, but his back is full of vicissitudes and the smell of wind and frost- He was no different from a man who had been cornered by life, and no one would associate him with the strong and resolute Minister of Spiritual Law when they saw him.

The puppet who didn't want to look up didn't see Lin Yingkong, he just hurriedly passed by him with a shoulder bag, as if he was in a hurry to get somewhere, Lin Yingkong only hesitated for a second, and then decided not to stop him, but quietly followed behind him, wanting to see the puppet's current life from the perspective of a bystander.

- The puppet went to work.

When this thought came to Lin Yingkong's mind, he felt a little funny and absurd, he knew that his minister had already endured hardships before becoming a master, but as Feng Rong said, he had never seen his most embarrassing time, so Lin Yingkong would always put Feng Rong, who was already in a high position, in a sacred position, and turned taking care of him into a habit, as if Feng Rong was a person who did not eat fireworks in the world, but over time, not only him, everyone forgot - Feng Rong was not born to be a king.

That absurdity turned into a sharp sword when he saw the dark puppet being scolded loudly for spilling a glass of wine while he was a waiter, and suddenly Lin Yingkong's nose was sour, and he was afraid of "monsters" The small county town has been merged, the original slums have been rebuilt, and the puppet who is a naked spiritual power has not yet been developed, and it has also disappeared among everyone, even a middle-aged man full of fat and frustrated eyes can catch him and scold mercilessly, and this young man who will turn over his hands in the supernatural world in the future can only be like a frightened rabbit in the crowd watching the show without resistance, just for the disgust thrown on him after the work is over. Even a few thin banknotes scattered in greasy sewage.

The dark puppet was not unwilling to be angry at all, squatted down against the mocking eyes of other people who worked together, and picked up those few banknotes with a cherished place, wiped them clean, folded them, and put them in his personal pocket, for a moment Lin Yingkong wanted to rush over and pull him up, but the sudden sourness trapped his hands and feet, and he could only see the dark puppet in a daze, as if he was looking at the thin boy - the dark puppet who had grown up seemed to be still stuck in the past, and growing up did not bring him a trace of courage to fight against life.

Is this really the minister? Lin Yingkong was even a little skeptical.

Here are memories, Lin Yingkong knows that he can't change the established reality by doing anything, but while supporting the crumbling soul of the dark puppet with spiritual power in vain, he is also looking for a way to pull the dark puppet out of these memories - is it because of despair or unbearableness that he would rather sink in pain than leave here?

Lin Yingkong hid his figure, watched the dark puppet finish working as a waiter in the food stall, and then went to a construction site to carry bricks, and then went to the dock to help people carry containers...... He was like a busy spinning top, as long as he could get money, he would do whatever the work, and finally dragged his tired body back home with the stars and moons - it was still the original remote place, but the house that originally wanted to collapse I don't know if it really collapsed, and now standing here is a new red brick house, which seems to have been built little by little by a puppet with shoddy techniques, and there are traces of sewing and splicing everywhere, to be honest, it doesn't look much better than before.

The two-bedroom room was electrified, but there were still only candles, tremblingly illuminating the indoor space, and as soon as the puppet entered the door, he whispered to one of the rooms, "Mom, I'll give you a hot meal right away", glanced inside and didn't find any major problems, then put down his things and went straight to the kitchen.

The invisible Lin Yingkong followed, he first followed the puppet to the narrow kitchen - well, at least not the original firewood stove, but changed to honeycomb coal - after making sure that nothing would happen to him for the time being, he couldn't resist his curiosity, and went to the room with the breath of a living person, and then he saw the woman again.

But compared to the emaciated and thin puppet who seems to fall down as soon as the wind blows, this woman who crippled her feet a few years ago is obviously different, at this time she should be very conscious, although her feet have shrunk up because of the inability to move for many years, but she still combs her hair neatly, coils it up with a beautiful hairpin, and the dress on her body is not shabby, and even it is a more popular style in this era, she is just sitting on the edge of the bed with a clean and calm body, and she looks much younger than a few years ago。 She was elegantly embroidering the pillow towel in her hand by candlelight, bright red silk threads and small silver needles shuttling back and forth between her slender fingers, as if she did not notice that the puppet was greeting her. I don't know if the golden candle flame is too warm, and the woman's face is even glowing with a healthy red, if it weren't for the darkness that still lingers under her eyes, and the resentment that still lingers between her eyebrows, she would be almost no different from those noble ladies who have nothing to do!

And the layout of this room is also incompatible with this red brick house, the snow-white putty wall, the beautiful dresser, the comfortable and fluffy bed, and even the soothing incense in the air, but the hem and sleeves of the desolate young man are all oily and dusty, and when he stands here, he is like a wandering little beggar!

Seeing all this in front of him, Lin Yingkong almost messed up his breathing, and his heart was full of disbelief - he thought that the dark puppet was so short of money because he was treating his mother with crippled legs, he remembered that the minister said that his mother was seriously ill and died, but he didn't expect that this woman was not only living well at this time, but even living well...... No, she's doing too well, too good to be true!!

Isn't it incredible, Lin Yingkong knew that this woman hated the puppet, but he didn't expect that there would really be a mother who would enjoy the most luxurious and intimate everything her son could give so much peace of mind when her son was not well fed and clothed!

- What the hell did she think of the puppet?!