1.9 Farewell, Two Souls
I'm sorry, I love you, goodbye!
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The phone rang twice and was picked up, and Li Xingguo's voice came out, "Son, I'm in a meeting, I'll ...... you later"
"I'm not my mother's own, am I? Don't be perfunctory, I saw a picture of your study. Li Mu couldn't wait to interrupt Li Xingguo's words. His voice was hoarse and deep, and there seemed to be a hint of longing. He hoped to get a negative answer from his father, or to scold him for having a brain in water.
But Li Xingguo on the other side of the phone was silent for a moment before he spoke, "This is very complicated, you wait for me." I'll go home and we'll talk face-to-face. ”
"Sniff" Li Mu's throat made an inexplicable sound, as if he was stuck.
It was as if a whole bunch of questions suddenly popped up and had answers. Why is the atmosphere between parents always so strange? Why don't they have a loved one to contact?
The only thing I don't know is, what role does his dad play in it? Obviously, in the photo, the two mothers are friends, aren't they? Is his father a negative man who abandoned his wife, an immoral cheater, or does he have other grievances?
Most importantly, is this why mom committed suicide?
Just now, perhaps because of the excitement, Li Mu suddenly remembered a scene from his childhood.
He saw his mother's death with his own eyes.
It was a sunny day, and Li Jing, who had been in a bad mood for a long time, deliberately got up early to make Li Mu's favorite hand-rolled noodles. After helping him carry his schoolbag, Li Jing lightly imprinted a kiss on Li Mu's forehead.
This is Li Mu's long-lost early morning procedure. In the past, Li Jing always sent him to school with a smile on her face and gave him a kiss.
During this time, Li Jing has been very unhappy. When Li Mu went to school, Li Jing hadn't gotten up yet. Li Xingguo told Li Mu, "Mom has been unwell recently, let's not quarrel with her." Li Mu always obediently finished the breakfast his father bought, stood in front of Li Jing's bedroom door to say goodbye, and then went to school.
Li Mu was really happy, he felt that his mother must have been fine. After school, he used his pocket money to buy a flower and ran home early.
Li Jing was not at home. Li Mu wanted to surprise his mother, so he found a bottle, put flowers on it and took it to Li Jing's bedroom. Just as he was about to leave, he heard a knock at the door.
Li Mu hid in the closet and looked out from the gap, wanting to jump out after his mother saw the flowers.
Li Jing's bedroom is a south-facing master bedroom connected to an open balcony. At four or five o'clock, the sun was still very energetic, illuminating the whole room.
Li Jing didn't know what she was thinking, and turned a blind eye to the flowers on the dresser. She went straight to the balcony with a blank expression, walking back and forth, the high-heeled sandals under her feet tapping the ground, clicking.
After a long time, Li Mu felt a little depressed, so he gently pushed open the wardrobe door and planned to come out. At this time, he saw Li Jing stop.
Li Jing raised her feet and stepped onto the half-human-high outer wall and sat on it.
Then, she disappeared from Li Mu's sight.
By the time Li Xingguo returned home and found Li Mu in the closet, he was already unconscious. Maybe it was too much stimulation, Li Mu forgot about this matter for so many years, until today.
The lost memories poured into his mind, making Li Mu stunned. Then pessimistic, angry, surprised, all kinds of thoughts rushed in, squeezing his brain to explode.
Various voices echoed in my ears, and finally converged into a sentence, "I want to ask clearly!" ”
As soon as he turned around, he went downstairs like a gust of wind, and he didn't react to the fast movements.
When Man Man chased downstairs, he saw a car quickly drive out of the garage, leaving behind the roar of the engine and the screeching sound of tires hitting the ground.
Man Man still remembered Li Mu's special situation now, and it would be dangerous to leave the feng shui array at home, so he hurriedly chased after him a few steps to stop him. But the car turned around and disappeared from full sight.
Before he could catch up, he heard a loud "bang" in front of him, and he was full of "chuckles" in his heart, "Not good!" ”
Turning around the corner, I saw the car crashing into a tree on the side of the road, the hood cocked up, and it was smoking. An arm hangs out of the window next to the driver's seat.
Man Man hurriedly ran over, and before he could get closer, he smelled a pungent smell of gasoline, "The fuel tank is leaking." ”
It seems that Li Mu's bad luck is still with him all the time. The airbag popped out, and the violent impact caused Li Mu to faint directly. Fortunately, he still remembered to fasten his seatbelt, otherwise the collision might have caused him to fly out of the front window.
Full of quick movements leaned in to open the door, unbuckled his seat belt, and wanted to take Li Mu away from the car. According to the usual urine nature of recent events, this car must have exploded. Of course, this seat belt will definitely not be unfastened at a critical moment.
Luckily, Man Man has always carried sharp weapons with him. She lifted her skirt, removed the knife from the outside of her thigh, and neatly cut the seat belt.
Manman dragged Li Mu's arm with difficulty, bent on getting away from this time bomb-like car.
At this time, a small flame in the car also burst out.
No matter how good her skills are, she is just a little girl of 1.6 meters, and it is very laborious to drag up Li Mu, who is 1.8 meters tall. There is a saying called "dead and sinking", which is used to describe Li Mu, who is now in a coma.
Before they could get far, an explosion was heard from behind, and a wave of air blasted towards them. Man Man only had time to pounce on Li Mu, and used his spiritual power to protect his back.
Instead of meeting the expected impact, Man Man felt a soft spiritual power firmly protect them underneath.
Manman followed this breath, and when he looked sideways, a soul was standing not far behind them, a woman in a white dress.
She said something with an anxious expression, but she couldn't hear it because of the brief deafness caused by the explosion just now. But Man Man saw it very clearly, she was Li Jing. Obviously, it was Li Jing who protected them just now.
Li Jing's body twisted from time to time, supporting her beautiful figure to a complete deformation. It was as if something was trapped in her body, slamming left and right, desperately trying to break free.
"I can't hear what you're saying!" There was a roar in his ears, so he had to shout at each other loudly.
Li Jing looked even more anxious, she pointed at herself and pointed at Man Man and Li Mu with a gesture, but it made Man Man even more incomprehensible. Suddenly, her face was in a trance for a few moments, and it exploded from it. Li Jing's body also exploded violently, turning into a puff of black smoke.
The black smoke quickly re-accumulated, turning into a soul body that was completely pitch black, unable to see its face or body. As soon as this soul body appeared, Man Man immediately felt a powerful resentment rushing over his face, like a needle piercing bones, and the chill was pressing. The full hairs stood on end in an instant, and the whole body was warned: "Danger!" ”
Full of subconscious, he threw out an evil charm. The soul let out a piercing scream, and then exploded into a cloud of black smoke and dispersed. The black smoke recondensed, and he tried to transform into a human form, but it was in vain. It maintained the shape of a cloud of black smoke, and unwillingly rushed towards Man Man and Li Mu.
The successive misses, as well as several days of quarantine, made it very angry. It forgot that it was noon and threw itself into the sun. It shrank abruptly from the scorching, and retreated helplessly into the shadows.
Manman took the opportunity to play another evil talisman and scattered it again. This time the black smoke did not cohesive, but dissipated into the shadows, never to be seen again.
Of course, Man Man knew that such a powerful soul body with resentment could only temporarily repel it, but it could not completely eliminate it. But she came out in a hurry, and she only had these two evil charms at hand.
She didn't have the heart to ponder the strangeness of Li Jing's soul body anymore, and the more Li Mu stayed outside for a second, the more his life would be in danger.
He slapped Li Mu in the face a few times in a hurry.
Under the full violent beating, Li Mu woke up leisurely. After what happened just now, Li Mu's mood had calmed down.
Li Mu moved his body, and unexpectedly there was no serious injury. His right ankle was swollen, there were some minor abrasions on his body, and there was a dull pain in his chest from being hit by an airbag that had been deployed. Li Mu didn't shout to go out anymore, but limped home with full support.
Man was on guard all the way, but the way back was unexpectedly smooth. When the two of them collapsed on the sofa in the living room, sweating profusely, Man Man let out a long breath.
Li Mu was still a little foggy at this time, and at the moment of the crash, he even flashed his short life quickly. While looking back, his mind was still spinning with such a thought: It turns out that it is true that people will have flash thoughts when they are about to die, so I am going to die.
No matter how strange his thoughts were at that moment, they all broke off when he hit the tree. And the joy of the rest of his life after the catastrophe has been completely wiped out by Qian Manman's heavy slaps.
How strong Qian Man's force is, Li Mu now deeply understands it with his face. He doesn't have to look in the mirror now, he knows that he must be like a pig's head. Because after the hot pain at the beginning passed, now I only feel that half of my face is wooden.
Man Man turned his head and saw Li Mu's swollen shiny face, and felt guilty in his heart. At that time, he only wanted to wake up Li Mu and get out of danger as soon as possible, but only now did he realize that he had hit so hard.
Man Man hurriedly took out the ice cubes from the refrigerator, wrapped a towel, and asked Li Mu to apply the swollen area, before slowly coming back to his senses and thinking about what happened just now.
In the past, when Man Man was protecting Li Mu, he always felt that the fluctuation of spiritual power was particularly strange, but when it exploded just now, Man Man discovered a problem.
That's because there are three soul bodies around Li Mu. The two mothers came to protect Li Mu, while the other unknown one was very malicious to him. Li Jing didn't know why she fused with the resentful spirit. Therefore, at that time, in addition to feeling that the spiritual power fluctuations were very messy, he also felt very special.
Now it seems that Li Mu has been suffering from major illnesses and small disasters to such a big one, which should be related to this. It's just that it's not clear, what happened to make the two soul bodies that were able to balance the confrontation before, now have such a big gap in strength? Therefore, until recently, Li Mu's life was in danger.
No matter what, the top priority is to get rid of that malicious soul body, otherwise Li Mu still can't get rid of the danger. The hateful thing is that this soul body is so cunning that there is no trace of it at all.
Manman was trying hard to clear his mind here, and Li Mu sat beside him in a daze, not knowing what to think.
It didn't take long for a rush of footsteps to come from the gate, but it was Li's father Li Xingguo who rushed back. He heard Li Mu's emotions on the phone so excited, so he hurriedly put down what he was doing and rushed back. When I got to the corner of the house, I saw that the property was dealing with a crashed car, which was the one parked in the garage.
The security guard next to him hurriedly came over to explain that after the car accident, Li Mu and a little girl went home and seemed to be fine. But Li Xingguo's face was still pale with fright.
After confirming that his son was only slightly injured, Li Xingguo breathed a sigh of relief. Hearing what happened to his son, he couldn't help but thank Manman repeatedly.
Looking at the usually gentle and elegant Li Xingguo, who was now in shock, he also felt his deep affection for his son. However, an elder thanked him like this, and he felt very embarrassed in his heart.
It took several times to humble back and forth before everyone calmed down. Li Xingguo remembered the cause of the incident, looked at it a little vaguely, and stopped talking.
Man Man knew that Li Xingguo was going to give Li Mu a good talk about his life experience, so he got up with interest, "I'll go out and buy some disinfectant potions and gauze for Li Mu." ”
Man Man ducked out, leaving space for their father and son.
This will definitely not be done for a while. Although it was an excuse, Man Man still found a pharmacy to buy medicine. Seeing that it was still early, she simply found a café and sat down.
In the study, Li Mu's father and son sat solemnly opposite each other. Li Xingguo got up and opened a drawer, turned out a bottle of wine and two wine glasses, poured some for both of them, didn't seem to know how to speak, and fell silent again.
Li Xingguo took a sip of wine gently, raised his eyes and glanced at his son carefully, before speaking. "Originally, I wanted to wait until you were older to tell you, but I always felt that you were still young, so I told myself, wait, wait. I didn't expect it to be discovered by you. ”
"In the blink of an eye, you're taller than Dad. You can have a drink with your father, and I always treat you like a child. Li Xingguo held the wine glass, but did not drink it again. His eyes gradually emptied, his thoughts were immersed in the old days, and his voice was lowered.
A dusty past slowly unfolded with Li Xingguo's voice.
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