The first volume of the Cloud Palace Advent Chapter 9 Thank you
Huang Fei sat cross-legged in a golden-white palace.
The interior, with classical Chinese decoration and furniture, if it weren't for the bizarre lights and strangeness before, Huang Fei felt that he would even think that he had traveled into some ancient large-scale emotional palace fighting drama now.
The place where he sat cross-legged was a small open space in the room, with Zhan Chen in front of him, and the eight men and women with different faces around him. Behind Zhanchen is a set of quaint tables and chairs, and there are even teacups and teapots on the table.
It's hard to imagine that all this was formed out of thin air by the sunny and handsome man in front of him, gently raising his hand.
"Are you sure?" Zhan Chen's voice asked the man named Qiu Wen among the eight people beside him.
"Confirmed. "The voice of Qiu Qian," Huang Fei's divine soul was involved in the realm of time and space on the way to the extradition of the dark realm. ”
"But his current state is not a remnant of the time and space realm. The voice of the strange woman's consciousness.
Zhanchen looked at the five or six-year-old Xiao Huangfei in front of him, his sword eyebrows furrowed, his fingers clicked a few times, and then he touched his chin with a thoughtful look.
"Interesting. ”
"It's true that it's not a remnant of the time and space realm, it's that he himself is in a state of transgression. ”
"This technique is too much like myself, isn't it?"
As he spoke, Zhanchen laughed to himself.
"I see. ”
"The two-stage protection mechanism is really my style. ”
Huang Fei saw Zhanchen stretching out his hand in front of him, and he was a little more in the air.
"Remember what you should know by now, and go back to where you should be now. What is needed here now is not such a you. ”
This handsome man named Zhanchen seems to be able to see himself in a confused state through memory?
Kneel down for the big guy!
Then Huang Fei saw that the vision in front of him was pitch black.
Three words, numb.
And what is it this time?
The picture was still dark, but Huang Fei heard a voice ringing in his ears, and didn't say anything, just sighed.
?
Then there was Zhanchen's voice, but Huang Fei felt that there seemed to be a slight difference from the voice he had heard before.
His voice sounded a little nihilistic, as if floating above himself?
"In the end, do you still have to remove the two-stage protection mechanism? ”
As the voice fell, Huang Fei's vision began to recover.
He saw himself standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom at home, and the mirror reflected the face of an ordinary, middle-aged man. There was a little unshaved stubble on his chin, and he was moving back and forth in his mouth with a toothbrush, and his lips were dripping with foam.
This middle-aged man's face, which looks to be about forty years old, gradually coincides with his muddy and blurry face in Huang Fei's memory, and it is flawless.
It's just that the age seems to be a little older?
A middle-aged man in his forties who was brushing his teeth looked at himself in the mirror and was suddenly stunned.
Is this yourself?
Who are you?
Huang Fei?
In my memory, those originally blurry pictures became clear little by little.
The appearance of parents, the appearance of small hair, the appearance of first love, the appearance of friends and colleagues......
What does my wife look like......
Wait, wife?
"Lao Huang, are you alright?" a woman's voice came from outside the bathroom door.
Huang Fei violently spit out the mouthwash in his mouth, his eyes widening.
One hundred percent, the voice came in from outside the door, and he heard it.
It doesn't ring out of thin air in my head.
Suddenly, Huang Fei inexplicably felt the urge to cry.
He was really fed up with the headless and brainless voices in his head, and the voice of others sounding inexplicably.
Sure enough, is all that just a dream of your own?
But why do you brush your teeth so well that you dream in broad daylight?
Or is it such a long and realistic dream?
The figure of a woman appeared in the doorway, it was a well-maintained woman who looked radiant in her thirties. Seeing Huang Fei staring at the mirror in a daze, he was angry: "Why are you in a daze? Don't hurry up, we're all going to be late." ”
Huang Fei did not answer.
"I told you not to drink so much at night, but I didn't listen! Five minutes, if you don't come out again, I will send my son to school by myself." ”
The other party threw down these words and turned his head away.
Huang Fei: ......
After the woman walked away from the door, Huang Fei's gaze in the mirror returned to her.
So, I'm Huang Fei?
The memory seems to be slowly being filled in little by little, and gradually, Huang Fei remembered a lot of things.
He is 43 years old, happily married, and has a son who is exactly 10 years old in elementary school.
It's not a single young man in his twenties in his dreams.
He remembered that when he was about thirty years old, he had a flash marriage with a young woman he met at a bar.
At the wedding, my father slapped his neat suit with tears in his eyes. The mother looked at her from the side, and in the wrinkles on her face, there was a bright smile that could not be dissolved: "Son, you have finally become a family." ”
The bridesmaids on the side pushed themselves vigorously, "Go out and pull, what are you doing here!"
He exited the door step by step, and the bridesmaids were menacing and slammed the door shut.
"Now you are not allowed to look at the bride!"
In the waiting preparation room, the master of ceremonies was still checking with him about the process of the wedding. After the master of ceremonies left, a few men who were also wearing crisp suits were handed him a cigarette.
"Nervous, isn't it?"
There is Fa Xiao, who grew up with him, and there is a good relationship with him, and at the same time he is a colleague and a partner of iron buddies.
Even he remembered that Fa Xiao couldn't be his best man because he got married several years earlier than him.
He took it and said with a smile: "It's the first time in my life, why aren't you nervous?"
He remembered that he walked into the auditorium, stood in the center of the auditorium, and saw a beautiful woman in a wedding dress walking towards him, accompanied by his father-in-law.
Under the light, the attention of the guests could not hide the ordinary, small happiness in the eyes of the woman opposite.
He remembered that he refused the kindness of the hotel staff at the wedding, insisted on using real wine, and after a round of walking, he staggered to the bathroom and threw up a big vomit with the support of the bride.
He remembered that his wife was six years younger than him, and when he got married, he was thirty and she was only twenty-four.
His wife is young and beautiful, and she doesn't have too much pampered temper, so everyone says that he picked up the treasure.
After marriage, it is natural to love each other, and for more than ten years, everything has gone smoothly in life.
It's not like respecting each other, and there are some small frictions in daily life, but they are harmless. At least the husband and wife are still honest with each other, and neither party has a record of cheating.
Such a marriage can be said to be a miracle, at least in the era when Huang Fei lived in an era full of temptation and a high divorce rate.
He remembers that on the day his wife gave birth, he asked for leave to look at the light on the door of the hospital operating room on the chair outside the door, anxiously waiting.
He remembers taking his grandson to visit his parents, and his parents hugged the corners of their grandson's grinning mouth.
He still remembers that in the past few years, his wife didn't know what to smoke like crazy, and she wanted another one, which made his head big.
Is it true that a woman is thirty like a wolf and forty like a tiger?
Counting the age, my wife is also a person who runs for four.
But I don't know if it's because of the physical reasons of my age, or if it's bad luck, I haven't been pregnant.
I also had the idea of doing IVF in the past, but in the end I never went to the hospital to do it.
The night before, he was out socializing, drank a little more, and his wife drove him home. When he got home, he fell asleep, and he didn't blame his wife for speaking in a somewhat rushed tone in the morning.
It's because of alcohol, so I brush my teeth in the mirror in broad daylight, and I am inexplicably out of the world?
Huang Fei shook his head, then looked at himself in the mirror, and suddenly slapped himself twice.
There was a burning pain in my cheeks.
Great, not a dream.
Within five minutes, he had brushed his teeth neatly, shaved his stubble clean, and then put on his shoes and went out.
My wife and son are already waiting downstairs.
"What's wrong with your face?" the wife said with concern when she saw that both sides of his face were a little swollen.
Huang Fei was a little embarrassed and didn't answer.
"I don't look like I've woken up yet. The wife put away her concern and gave him a roll of the eyes.
Sitting in the car, he was in the passenger seat and his son was in the back.
Along the way, looking at the familiar high-rise buildings and bustling streets outside the car window, Huang Fei remembered the huge crowd like a black wave shuttling in the starry sky.
Outside the window, people who are constantly passing by to catch the bus and subway, people riding shared bicycles, young people delivering food, and middle school students wearing school uniforms......
The faces of all kinds of people who are rushing to work and school seem to have the word hurry written on their faces.
is obviously an ordinary morning rush hour scene, but Huang Fei has a feeling of being in a different world.
"I'll go, Mom and Dad, bye-bye!"
"Listen carefully. ”
When they came to their senses, their son had already opened the car door and was waving at them.
The wife also waved at her son, and then watched him enter the school gate and drive around to the company.
Huang Fei looked at the advertising LED lights of the street shops in a daze, and said nothing.
The appearance of those golden-white palaces in the dream is still so clear. If you look at the high-rise buildings outside the window, the smallest one probably has to be the size of several buildings combined, right?
When he was distracted again, he felt his wife, who was driving next to him, reach out and hit him.
He looked back and saw that there was obvious dissatisfaction on his wife's face.
"Did you hear me?"
"Uh......" Huang Fei was embarrassed again.
Forget it, I don't want to, it's just a dream.
"Are you still dizzy?" the wife obviously thought he was uncomfortable, "Why don't you take half a day off in the morning?"
"No need. Huang Fei looked out the window.
"I just said that my parents haven't been in good health recently, and I just bought some supplements in the past two days, and tomorrow is the weekend, let's go see them, right?"
"Well, go ahead. Huang Fei himself noticed that there was something weak in his voice.
After getting out of the car at the door of the company, he stood still and suddenly looked up at the sky.
In the clear blue sky, white clouds floated, and a dazzling sun.
When his wife drove to the parking lot, he looked at the sky, and a colleague next to him greeted him: "Brother Huang, what are you looking at?"
Huang Fei glanced at it, it was Xiao Liu, who was new to their group, just graduated from college for a few months, this kid has a bright brain and is also sloppy in his work, so he is very popular. On weekdays, I don't take him less, so I have always called Brother Huang and Brother Huang to myself.
By the way, this kid is an astronomy enthusiast. Huang Fei remembers that the last time he went to his house, he had a professional astronomical telescope at home, which was very expensive and expensive, and it was impossible to buy it online. It is said that his father brought it back from abroad and gave him a gift for his twentieth birthday.
Xiao Liu followed his gaze and said, "Eh, I can see Venus today." ”
Venus?
These two words instantly touched Huang Fei's nerves.
His reaction made his colleague Xiao Liu misunderstood, and he stretched out his hand and pointed: "That's it." ”
Looking at the place where Xiao Liu pointed out, there was a small white bright spot between the clouds in the sky.
"It's really rare to see Venus during the day. Xiao Liu smiled, "Let's go buy lottery tickets after work today, right?"
Huang Fei pulled him angrily, "Let's go, go to work." ”
This kid has a rich dad and doesn't need to buy lottery tickets at all. But in addition to being an astronomy enthusiast, he is also a lottery enthusiast. When it's okay, in addition to thinking about him, those stars are just waiting for a good day to buy lottery tickets.
Before entering, he turned back alone and looked again at the tiny white bright spot in the sky.
Venus......
Is it?
I vaguely remembered the brown and blue planet in my dream.
The sound of the dragon's groan echoing in the sky.
He shook his head again.
It's good that it's just a dream.
In the past, the mechanical and tedious work became so cute and fulfilling in Huang Fei's eyes on this day.
After getting off work, I was dragged by Xiao Liu to buy a lottery ticket, and when I returned to the car, my wife in the passenger seat looked in a good mood.
Huang Fei glanced at her phone screen, she was shopping for Taobao.
As if remembering something, Huang Fei grabbed his mobile phone.
It was clearly written on the screen, Friday, November 8, 2019.
It's Double 11 in a few days.
"What do you think of this?" the wife shook her phone beside him.
In the screen of the phone is a men's clothing.
Huang Fei looked at the men's clothes on the screen and laughed: "You can do it if you like it." ”
......
When he went to bed at night, Huang Fei was lying on the bed, and the people around him were already asleep.
His beautiful wife is good at everything, and she doesn't snore when she sleeps, only occasionally drooling a little.
Black painted ceilings.
It is inexplicably similar to the dark starry sky.
Which is a dream?
Huang Fei fell asleep in a daze.
When he opened his eyes again, Huang Fei saw himself standing in a golden room, in front of a young man in a suit and full of energy, and several young girls in gauze skirts beside him.
Why do you think this scene is a little familiar?
But it seems that something is different?
Gradually, there is an indescribable feeling that the memory is slowly being filled.
"Dad, I'm a little nervous. The young man in front of him looked at himself and said with a wry smile.
Wait a minute...... Father?
Huang Fei was stunned.
Coming out of the golden room in a daze, I saw the girls in gauze skirts pushing the young man in the suit out the door.
"Go out and pull, you are not allowed to see the bride now!"
It's so familiar, it's a familiar tone.
After Huang Fei came out, he was stunned again.
In front of you is a corridor, and at the end of the corridor is a splendid hotel lobby with a whole row of large floor-to-ceiling windows on the side.
Outside the window, in the mid-air near the high-rise buildings, there are various holograms suspended, there are advertisements, live news, and even TV dramas.
The live news of the hologram is a red sky and earth, with a few low, white buildings on the ground, and scattered people in spacesuits haunting the buildings.
Huang Fei couldn't hear the sound of the live news, but there were rolling subtitles next to it.
"The Mars ecological environment transformation project has been officially launched, and the plan is jointly cooperated by China, China, Russia, and other countries, and it is expected to take ...... time."
"The pre-selection channel for Mars immigration has now been opened......"
At the top of the scrolling caption bar for the live news, it reads, Thursday, June 6, 2041.
In 2041?
From time to time, there is a sci-fi shape in the air, probably something from a car flying by.
Because the side of those things has some of the structure of the tires, it should be used for driving on land.
This technology has developed so fast that even flying cars have become popular?
Just like in the 80s, he couldn't imagine smartphones, and in 19, Huang Fei couldn't imagine that in 2041, humans would have landed on Mars and popularized flying cars on a large scale.
Do those airlines have to cry and faint in the toilet?
Or did they just abandon airplanes and plunge into the field of flying cars?
Then he began to think about a lot of things again.
My son was admitted to university and graduated and worked.
Not long ago, he saw a flying car all blue land in front of the door, and his son, who was in his twenties, got out of the car with a young girl.
After they had gone a certain distance, the flying car stayed where it was, and the ground opened downward, revealing a hole just large enough to accommodate the body. The car did not fall all at once, but slowly floated into the cavity below, and then the open ground closed again.
The son led the young girl through the door to meet him and his wife.
Obviously, his wife, who was quite beautiful before he slept that night, couldn't stop wrinkles from forming shallow furrows at the corners of her eyes at this time.
He remembered that his daughter-in-law showed them her cooking skills that day.
I don't know why, at this time, Huang Fei remembered an old movie he had watched, and there was a remote control in the movie that could fast forward life.
Is this, like the plot of the movie, life fast forward?
Huang Fei didn't know how she got to the mirror in the bathroom. In the mirror, it is a half-aged man in his fifties, no crown, no beer belly, but a slight hunchback.
Huang Fei didn't know how she came out of the bathroom, and when she saw her daughter-in-law, who was also half-old, she looked in a hurry and took her hand: "Old Huang, go, it's almost us." ”
He followed into the auditorium, filled with balloons and smiling guests.
What a familiar sight.
He remembered that today was his son's wedding day.
But why.
Why are these memories constantly instilled in his mind like files on a computer, with a sense of illusion that he has not experienced in person, and at the same time a sense of reality that he is experiencing in person at the moment?
Roughly where did it start?
From the beginning of his own marriage, to the time when his son has grown up and started a family?
No......
Huang Fei remembered that this feeling of interlacing of illusion and reality probably started when he saw the strange woman on the sofa at home in his twenties.
Wait a minute......
Did the woman really exist?
Why is that image so clearly present in my memory?
Why could he only remember the picture when he saw the woman, but then it was blank, there was nothing, and the strange woman never appeared again.
It's like she's never been there.
After insisting on the wedding, his wife looked at him a little worriedly: "What's wrong with you? ”
"Maybe I'm a little tired. Huang Fei said that when he walked out of the hotel door, he saw a flying car waiting, and the doors on both sides opened high above.
Sitting in the car, the doors on both sides automatically closed and closed, and the structure of the car Huang Fei had seen in his weird memory, and there was not even such a thing as a steering wheel.
The car flew into the sky on its own.
At the same time, there is also an electronically synthesized sound softly sounding in the car.
"Huaxia Traffic Intelligence [Safety First] will escort you throughout the process. ”
As the flying car shuttled between the high-rise buildings, Huang Fei saw that some buildings even had a small blank window in the middle, and there were more or less people standing in them.
In the air, a bloated bus-type flying car approached, hovering outside the window, and the body of the car on the side of the building rose upwards in its entirety. After that, the people in the building walked into the car in an orderly manner, and the side car body fell and closed again, and flew away.
It's a bus, no, a bus speed, right?
There were no traffic lights, no car crashes, not even scrapes, everything was in order.
The flying car landed in front of the house, waited for them to leave, and then landed in a hollow in the ground on its own.
......
Before going to bed, Huang Fei looked at the ceiling and once again remembered a vast sea of clouds that was lilac in the near distance and white in the distance.
When there was a picture in front of him again, he saw himself and his wife sitting in a flying car.
The years are merciless, and there are already obvious wrinkles on my wife's face.
Well, is life fast forward again?
The flying car didn't have a rearview mirror, but as the memory file was filled in, Huang Fei remembered that there was such a thing as a mirror in the car.
After all, no matter what era or how advanced technology is, women may need a mirror to touch up makeup or something at any time.
He looked at himself in the car, in the palm of the small robotic arm in front of him.
His appearance doesn't seem to be any different from when he was in his fifties, but on closer inspection, he seems to have more wrinkles than his wife, and he should actually be sixty or seventy years old?
He couldn't say it himself.
Checking my memory again, my concept of my age is already a little vague, but thanks to the more and more developed medicine, I don't look so old.
The flying car landed in a park-like place, and through the car window, Huang Fei saw that the park was densely packed with many brand-like things.
Cemetery.
He and his wife walked out, and the car sank into the ground.
When the wife got out of the car, she took out two bouquets of flowers from the car and handed Huang Fei a plastic bag.
He took it, and in his pocket were some incense, candles, and firecrackers.
Then they walked into the cemetery in front of them together, and at a glance, it was full of tombstones.
He and his wife stopped in front of two tombstones, which were engraved with the names and birthdays of the second elders, and gray-and-white photos.
The wife next to him put the flowers on the side of the tombstone of the second elder, reached out and swept the dust on the photo, and said softly:
"Dad, Mom. We've come to see you. ”
Huang Fei was stunned, looking at the two gray-white photos, and suddenly the pocket he was carrying fell to the ground, knelt down on his knees, shed two lines of tears, and was silent.
His wife didn't say anything when she saw him like this.
Huang Fei cried and cried, and suddenly laughed, it was the kind of happy laughter.
In the memory that was filled, I gradually remembered that I was by the bedside, holding my mother's hand, and watching her close her eyes peacefully.
I remembered that I was in the ward, also by the bedside, and also holding my father's hand.
The father looked at him, his eyes were a little cloudy, and he said to him tremblingly: "Your mother, you left earlier than me, and it hurt you, child...... I'm gone, and in the future, I'll be buried with your mother. ”
I can only nod my head.
The father had long since lost his hearing, and closed his eyes peacefully under his gaze.
It turned out that I had said goodbye to them properly.
In the field of vision wet with tears, Huang Fei smiled and saw the smoke from the firecrackers rise and drift into the air, revealing the gently swaying incense behind him.
......
Before going to bed, he didn't think of those strange dreams that had haunted him almost all his life, but only remembered his own marquee-like life.
When he opened his eyes, Huang Fei saw that he was still standing in front of the tombstone of the cemetery, and in the photos on the tombstone, his wife was still the most beautiful when she was young.
This time, Huang Fei felt that his memory was filled with frantically like never before, and the huge amount of information increased his mind a little dizzy and painful, but fortunately, he could barely bear it.
Then, decades later, he heard a voice ringing directly in his head. It's not Zhanchen in a dream, but a woman's voice, which is a little flat.
"Are you ready?"
In a trance, Huang Fei remembered the scene when he saw the strange woman on the sofa at home that day.
The strange woman walked up to him and held out her hand to volley into the air.
His body spontaneously trembled uncontrollably with the other party's air, and then Huang Fei remembered that he said clearly to the strange woman:
"Qinyin, I want to live this life. ”
The woman didn't hesitate, and immediately nodded in agreement, "Okay." ”
As she spoke, she used her finger to volley in front of him again, and Huang Fei saw a golden-white aura appear in front of him, floating over and submerging into his body, but there was no discomfort or comfort.
"When you're ready, unravel it, you know the way. Moreover, someone is waiting for you. ”
When the sound ended, the woman named Qin Yin disappeared into thin air.
Standing in front of his wife's tombstone, Huang Fei only felt that the pain in his mind began to intensify until he was on the verge of collapse, almost forcing him to lose consciousness and fall into syncope.
He heard the sound of the piano continue to sound:
"Come to think of it, Huang Fei. ”
"Your soul is not so fragile. ”
"Unraveling the procedure. ”
With this voice, the sharp pain in his mind began to gradually lessen again, and Huang Fei saw that his consciousness was separated from his old body and floated and stopped in the air above his body.
It's like an out-of-body soul in a dream.
The form of the consciousness body is also the same as the size of a five- or six-year-old child without clothes in a dream.
He felt that there were countless fragments in his mind, and countless memories kept resurfacing and being reactivated.
He saw himself reach out and smash into the air against the old body.
"Solution. ”
It was as if he could see a golden-white ring lit up inside the old body, and as his words turned into shattered points of light, they dissipated into the earthly world.
The pain in my head was completely gone.
Huang Fei's consciousness returned to his old body.
He looked to his side and saw his son, daughter-in-law, and grandson, who looked like a child of a few years old, and his granddaughter standing beside him.
After they left to worship, Huang Fei was still standing in front of the tombstone.
In the distance, his grandson's voice was heard: "Grandpa, let's go!"
The daughter-in-law's voice came again: "Let grandpa stay there by himself, good, let's go." ”
He glanced at their backs as they walked out of the cemetery, where their son and daughter-in-law were holding their grandchildren's hands.
"Mom, what are we going to eat later?"
"What do you want to eat?"
"Dad, I want to eat hot pot!"
"I'm going to eat hot pot too!"
Even if they were far away, Huang Fei could still clearly hear the sound of their conversation, and he was in a happy scene, not affected by going to his grandmother's grave in the slightest.
That's nice.
Outside the cemetery, flying cars slowly rise from the ground.
Huang Fei didn't say anything to them, withdrew his gaze, bent down, and gently stroked his fingers over the gray-white photo on the tombstone.
"Thank you. He whispered.
Thank you for being with me through this life.
Thank you for leaving before me.
So that I can never worry about it from now on.
May your next life be like this, peaceful and happy.
Now, I'm going back to my world and taking my share of responsibility.
If I can come back, I will definitely go to see you.
After a long silence in front of the tombstone, Huang Fei's consciousness left the old body again. This time, the old body fell in front of the tombstone, and in front of it, there was still swaying incense.
He floated in the air, looking at the fallen body at his feet, as if he was burying the owner of the tomb.
He saw the same people who had come to the grave passing by, and soon after a flying car came and went, and his son rushed all the way over, holding the old body and weeping into tears.
Soon after, he saw another flying car coming with flashing lights, and people in white coats lifted the body that had not completely ceased its physiological function, but was actually a dead body, onto the ambulance car and sent to the hospital.
Huang Fei followed all the way, watching the doctor take off his mask and show a helpless expression to his son.
He watched as his son and daughter-in-law buried him beside his wife, just like his own father and mother.
He looked at the gray-and-white photograph of his tombstone, accompanied by flowers, and the smoke in front of him swaying with bright incense.
......
......
Huang Fei suddenly felt a sense in his heart and looked to his side.
In the air beside him, four figures dressed in black appeared, three men and one woman.
Thunder Blade, Qin Yin, Suen, and, Zhan Chen.
Zhanchen smiled at him: "Is it over? It's very hard to wait for you, Xiao Huangfei." ”
Huang Fei nodded and looked at the sky.
Five figures soared into the sky and broke through the Earth's atmosphere in the blink of an eye.
You can't feel the wind, you can't feel the friction, the drag, the burning that should be when you sweep through the atmosphere at high speed.
In front of him was a universe of familiar and unfamiliar, pitch black with only sporadic light.
There was a black mist pouring out of the vacuum around him, enveloping Huang Fei, revealing only his head.
I don't feel cold, I don't feel hot.
"From now on, I am Huang Fei. ”
"It's no longer Huang Fei. ”