Chapter 22: Brother
"When I was young, I lived in a rural village in China. At that time, my grades were good, but I guess I was at the top. I wrote very good essays, and my teachers often read them in class. ”
Chiki said softly, with a little nostalgia in his eyes, and with his words, Tetsuya's thoughts seemed to fly back to a long, long time ago.
"At that time, there was a big TV in the house and a stupid cousin in the house. Next door, there is a girl named Bingyun, she is a year younger than me, but in terms of seniority, I still call her aunt. ”
"In the summer, she would come to my house to play with me, and the yard was planted with pomegranate trees, persimmon trees, and grape vines. She likes the sour taste of grapes, and when they are still green, she prefers to pick them and eat them. In the yard, there was also a pumping well, which was the old one, with a pipe sleeve inserted into it, and then a five-cent coin inserted into the port, and the grandmother would be there when she was washing her clothes, and sometimes when the water was poured, a lot of earthworms would climb up. ”
"Next to it, there is a cement staircase on the bungalow, from which I fell when I was a child. It's just that I don't remember at the time... But my grandmother said that there were two big fat pigs in the pigsty I fell into, and if it hadn't been for my grandmother's quick arrival, I would have almost been bitten by the pigs. ”
Tetsuya smiled and nodded, he smiled, as if he saw his own past, his former boy, his former boy Jinshi.
"For as long as I can remember, I have lived with my grandmother, and in the countryside, it seems that I am called a left-behind child. When I was a child, I had a somewhat cowardly personality, and I was always bullied by the neighbor's fat tiger, but I didn't dare to speak out, and I had Bingyun to help me support me every time. ”
"I'm like this too..."Smiled and nodded, Tetsuya said softly: "Always patient, always compromise, even if there is a desire in my heart, but seeing the happiness of the adults, I have to smile and refuse." ”
"It's just that later... My fate changed. Chiki's gaze collided with Tetsuya, and said slowly:
"It was a rainy night and I met a man... What he gave me, that's power... It was only when I got to really get in touch with the truth of the world that I gradually understood. ”
"I don't remember exactly what he looked like, but I remember that night I had a high fever... Finally passed out. Later, my grandmother came back from playing cards at a nearby neighbor's house, and I walked down the muddy road with a high fever on my back, slowly wading through a small pond with high water, and braving the torrential rain to walk towards the only doctor in the village. ”
"I was dazed, but for some reason, I seemed to be able to clearly understand what was going on outside, I could hear my grandmother's wheezing, and I walked by the pond and she almost fell. ”
"So I said-Grandma, when I was young, you carried me, and when I grew up, I carried you..."
Taking a deep breath, Chiki adjusted his mood slightly, then pulled the topic back and continued:
"That man, he changed my fate... Gives me strength. But I can't always remember his face, but I vaguely remember calling him when I was unconscious..."
"Brother..."
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After a pause, Chiki looked at Tetsuya and asked softly, "I can call you... Do you call you brother?"
With a relieved smile, Tetsuya looked at the half-grown young man in front of him, ten years old, with a strange perseverance on his slightly immature face.
"Call... It's okay. Smiling slightly, Tetsuya nodded slightly.
At the beginning of the crossing, he was unemployed after graduating from college, and as a professional otaku, he was already in his early twenties. Slowly, in the process of constant fighting, continuous traversal, staying in each world, scattered calculations, it is enough to be twenty-six or seventeen years old.
This brother, naturally, there is no problem.
Chiki didn't confirm anything, he just told a story of his own.
Tetsu didn't admit anything, he just listened to a story of his own.
Two people who originally belonged to different parallel time and space had their own intersection in this way.
There was no hugging and crying, no exaggerated joy, everything was like flowing water, slowly flowing through the hearts of the two people.
Tetsuya is already a mature and stable man, and Chiki is also a young man with a resolute temperament, and some things are already unspoken.
"So... How did you get into this world? and... You're going to inherit the light of Nexus, aren't you?"
"Nexus?"
Chiki was stunned for a moment, then reacted and asked, "Is that the giant that my brother transformed?"
Tetsuya frowned, "You don't know Nexus?"
Chiki shook his head ignorantly and said, "All I know is that Ultraman Nexter fought THE-ONE in Shinjuku. ”
"So... What about the dream of ruins?"
"Is it that kind of mysterious dream?" said Chiki, "through a special energy that covers the whole world, it affects people's cerebral cortex, and then causes everyone to enter a dream that is the same and separate? I have dreamed of this..."
"No... No," Tetsuya frowned and shook his head in a low voice, "No... Something must be wrong. ”
Your final battle in the world of Nexus... That's right, in the last battle, there was a young man who gave himself strength.
Blue Power!
It was at that time that he fused the power of blue, and combined with the red power that he and Ji Yajun shared, that he was able to transform into Noah for a short time.
That young man, now confirmed, is the thousand trees in front of him.
So... It shouldn't be, the whole logical chain is broken somewhere!
"Chiki, you... Tell me what happened in the world of Nexus?"
Looking at Tetsuya's serious eyes, Chiki paused and said, "Nexus World? The experience is pretty simple. After the Battle of Shinjuku, with the help of visitors, humanity was able to slowly eliminate the Xenobiotic and solve the global crisis. ”
"No? those... Haven't any?" Tetsuya was stunned for a moment, and slowly came to his senses, he had already reacted.
"After the Battle of Shinjuku, there was no memory of it at all, no memory of Nexter and THE-ONE... Is it the help of visitors that people's memories are erased?"
"That's right... It's true..."Chiki nodded, and suddenly came to his senses: "Brother, you mean to say... The part of the memory of humanity around the world has been erased?"
"The rest... It's just a fictional peace?"
"Brother, you may not have dealt with visitors, I used to communicate with them as a contact, using amnestics that cover a large area around the world, in fact..."
"It's okay..."Tetsuya interrupted him, smiling and shaking his head, "That's it, you don't have to say it." ”
"As for what happened... I'll find out the truth myself. ”