Liu Wang looked around, and the surroundings were bright. Miraculously, he didn't even get so dazzling light in his eyes. He could see his hands and feet clearly, they weren't drowned in the vast light.

Where is this?

He carefully moved his feet in the white world, and with each step he paused to look around. He was very vigilant as if he had a premonition that something bad was going to happen.

After walking like this for a long time, the surroundings are still a tingling white color. This kind of whiteness is not as good as the black that you can't see your fingers, which makes people feel at ease and happy.

When people are afraid, they can't help but close their eyes, so that they can't see anything, at least in exchange for a little psychological comfort.

Suddenly, the place under Liu Wang's feet suddenly lit up, making him unable to open his eyes for a moment.

After a while, the blinding light dimmed. When he opened his eyes again, something different appeared beneath the surface.

The surface of the ground used to be a dense white like wall powder, a bit like curdled milk, but now it is a little crystal clear, more like snowflakes piled together.

There seemed to be someone down there, and he crouched down to see clearly.

It was a boy of twelve or thirteen. He sat at his desk, his right hand holding the mouse, and his left hand tapping the keyboard like a piano maestro.

The screen at the top of the screen switched at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Liu Wang recognized that those were very popular online games back then, such as DNF, LOL, and Adventure Island.

The boy was very focused on his game, and his serious and obsessive expression was very familiar to Liu Wang. Almost everyone can see such an expression, as long as he has one thing that can bring all his passion to him.

It's just that in those years, Liu Wang, like most lonely children of the same age, gave all his enthusiasm to the screen that could give him a sense of achievement.

So much so that he doesn't have much interest in anything else, and he doesn't have much interest in anyone else.

To outsiders, they are nothing more than idle lazy people who keep themselves at home all day long. However, they are "heroes" and "adventurers" who are wandering in a different world.

The little boy's door was pushed open. Dad walked in with a plate of watermelons and talked with a hippie smile beside him. Liu Wang could only see his open mouth, but he couldn't hear any sound.

The boy ignored him, staring at the screen to himself, his hands busy. Looking at the shape of his mouth, it seems to say, "Don't bother me, I'm busy." Liu Wang was also surprised, why could he read lip language?

Dad's brow furrowed, but he didn't say anything more. Just stood there all the time, with a solemn expression.

Later, after a fierce battle, two big words appeared on the screen in front of the boy: defeat.

The boy suddenly turned around and knocked over the plate of watermelon in his father's hand with a wave of his hand. The watermelon and the plate cut a sad arc through the air and fell helplessly to the floor. The plate shattered into several petals, and the bright red melon pulp splattered all over the floor like blood.

Liu Wang's heart tightened, because he suddenly remembered that this boy was himself.

Dad raised his palms and opened his eyes with rage, and he was about to breathe into his face.

The boy didn't even blink his eyelids, as if he was waiting for him to finish his breath and quickly disappear from his eyes.

Dad didn't hit him in the end. He brought a bucket and a broom from the side, clumsily cleaned up the mess all over the floor, and squatted on the ground with a rag to wipe it, like a child.

And the boy has long since started a new game, put on headphones, and is isolated from the world.

The picture suddenly changed. Liu Wang saw the boy walking alone on the night path, and the dim light set off the loneliness in his heart even more.

As if he had lost his soul, he walked aimlessly on the path, his steps were big and small, and his speed was fast and slow. His breathing followed his unsteady steps, sometimes rapid and sometimes soothing.

It was late autumn, and the path was covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves, which rustled when stepped on. Sometimes a gust of wind blows, and the leaves that have finally gathered together are blown all over the sky again, and when they land again, they have already parted ways and landed in a strange place.

Step by step, the boy walked forward, the streetlights stretching his shadow, shortening, stretching, shortening. Whenever his shadow became the longest, the boy would stop and turn to look in the direction he had come, wanting to see how far he had come.

But in fact, every street lamp, every intersection, even every tree, every leaf, is exactly the same to him. Everything was so hazy and familiar, as if he thought he had gone a long way through great hardship, but he had been standing still all the time.

Where are you going?

On this road, it is bumpy and simple, but it is always the same scenery, and the loneliness of no one to accompany you.

Has the world abandoned him?

At the end of the path, the picture suddenly lit up again.

Liu Wang finally saw the scene he was familiar with. In the picture, he sits alone in the corner at the back of the classroom, with his head bowed and holding a glowing brick in his hand.

I don't know when it started, everyone in the QQ list, the status suddenly changed from "computer online" to "mobile phone online", and it is 24 hours a day.

Smartphones have spread all over the world seemingly overnight.

Although computers have always had a place in people's lives, and they are irreplaceable. But the advent of mobile phones has shaken its weight to a certain extent.

At least after Liu Wang went to high school, he rarely touched the computer again. The reason is simple, mobile phones carry conveniently. And his first decent smartphone was bought after he was in high school.

But why did you sit in that position?

On the screen, he is in the far corner of the classroom, looking focused, just like when he stared at the big screen.

That was the seat of the Ding Immortals.

Only he would hold his phone so seriously and frantically, and regard it as more important than his own life.

But it was he who sat there.

Liu Wang couldn't see the picture on the glowing brick clearly, but from the subtle changes in his expression in the picture, he knew what was happening. It's nothing more than losing the game, winning the game, seeing what interesting dynamics, seeing what outrageous remarks.

Why is he the only one in the classroom? Where did the others go?

Liu Wang looked in the picture, all the desks were empty, and the tables and chairs were neatly arranged, as if no one had ever come, and it was not like their class at all.

Later, the classroom began to crumble little by little. The snow-white walls and marble floors cracked into hideous cracks, and stones and dust continued to fall from the roof.

In the picture, he still sits there with an unchanged face, staring intently at the glowing brick, oblivious to everything that is happening around him.

More and more stones and debris piled up around him, and he was unmoved. It's as if nothing else has anything to do with him except the colorful world on the screen.

It turned out that it was he who abandoned this world.

Just as he was about to be buried by the rocks, a hand suddenly poked out of the light and grabbed his hand holding the phone.

As if he had just woken up from a great dream, he raised his head and followed the girl who had taken him by the hand, and threw himself into a sea of light. And the glowing brick was thrown into a pile of rubble, like a concubine who had fallen out of favor, abandoned in the desolation after prosperity.

As soon as the picture turned, a warm sun shone on the ground.

Liu Wang saw a girl with a fluffy ponytail pulling a boy and running happily on the colorful campus path.

Their hands were held tightly together, as if they were holding each other's true hearts in their hands.

Every now and then, the girl looked back at the boy behind her, the corners of her mouth rising in a nice arc, and her cheeks revealing a pair of small shallow dimples. Liu Wang will never forget her smile, like a cinnabar mole engraved in his heart, no matter how time flies and the years change, it will not fade.

The two of them ran, running from the uninhabited path to the playground, from the plastic track of the playground to the ladder that spanned several buildings, and then to the school building, back to the classroom.

The boy and girl sat back to back, at a table, their hands still not apart.

The corners of their mouths were filled with smiles, and Liu Wang couldn't read other emotions except for simple reassurance.

In the same classroom, there is no one else, and in this scene, even the sunlight is brighter, and the sky is exceptionally blue.

The girl turned her head slightly shyly, her white cheeks gently rubbing the boy's collar. The boy turned his face sideways, too, rubbing against her soft cheeks like a kitten.

They looked at each other, and the clear spring in their eyes finally intertwined at a certain moment. The boy walked past the girl's slender waist, held the back of her petite head, and slowly pressed his cheek up.

The girl closed her eyes, and a happy smile remained between her eyebrows. She cautiously stretched out her hands and hugged the boy's arms.

Time slowed down at that moment, and the air smelled like a pink strawberry.

Liu Wang's eyes were unconsciously filled with tears, like a dam about to collapse.

That day, he and Chen Yixin made an appointment, and the two came to the school in advance, and there was no one around, so they recklessly talked about me everywhere on campus.

Perhaps every corner of the school has witnessed the two of them. Every scenery is dyed with a layer of pink ambiguity because of them.

However, the picture suddenly changed again.

The pink color is still there, but it's mixed with a blinding red.

The silent asphalt road, a gray car, a cup of milk tea spilled on the ground, a mobile phone that was crushed into powder, and a teenager lying unconscious in the middle of the road.

Chen Yixin suddenly appeared in the center of the picture, looked directly at Liu Wang, and was so frightened that he stood up from the ground.

Lines of tears slipped down her cheeks, like fleeting meteors, dripping to the ground without borders.

In the picture, Chen Yixin's face is magnified. Her eyes, which were large and watery, now looked very hollow.

He saw that in her pupils, which were several times magnified, through the tears that had not yet had time to overflow, a figure was trembling.

It was him huddled in the boundless darkness, speechless and lonely.

Liu Wang's heart ached, and he couldn't breathe in pain.

He lay on the ground and clutched his chest.

He wanted to scream, but he couldn't.

Suddenly, his hands and feet seemed to be bound, and he couldn't move. He lay on the ground, suffering from the sharp pain in his chest, but could do nothing.

He saw that this bright world was also crumbling little by little, like broken glass, falling off piece by piece. Every broken place has lost its original light and turned into deep darkness.

Finally, he was consumed by darkness in agony, without the slightest strength to struggle.

Liu Wang opened his eyes.

He saw the snow-white ceiling and smelled the smell of various disinfectant water intertwined.

A doctor was fiddling with him.

He seemed to have lost any sensation other than a sharp pain in his chest.

Lin Ruoxue walked around anxiously, and when she saw him open her eyes, she immediately came over.

"You bear with me, the doctor is dealing with it, and it will be fine soon. ”

Liu Wang's lips were pale, his mouth was extremely dry, and he couldn't say anything or make a sound.

After a while, the doctor finally began to pack the medicine box, took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat.

"It's a good thing it's timely, otherwise it would have been troublesome. The doctor breathed a sigh of relief and said to Lin Ruoxue.

"Thank you, doctor. Lin Ruoxue bowed.

Liu Wang's chest was still sharp, but slowly, the pain was replaced by exhaustion, and he yawned.

Since he couldn't cover his mouth with his palm, the way he opened his mouth wide was all seen by Lin Ruoxue.

He smiled awkwardly.

"The way I look now, isn't it?"

Lin Ruoxue walked up to him, picked up the water cup on the bedside table, and handed it to his mouth.

"No, you've always been handsome. ”

Liu Wang did not refuse this time, because he was so thirsty that he would take water and pour it into his mouth even if it was a few nights.

"You seem to have had a nightmare just now, and you moved so much that you broke the wound. Lin Ruoxue said softly, her voice like a crisp bell.

Nightmare?

Perhaps.

Why not end with good?

Where will the ending of himself and Chen Yixin go?

"Have you been here all along?"