Chapter 1687: Staggered Meeting (42)

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Deeper and deeper darkness.

As the whirlpool pulsed, the darkness was empty, but it was as sticky as a swamp, with a suffocating weight that overwhelmed the boy.

It dragged it deeper into the abyss, where only sin lay in.

------ man is always swallowed up by the abyss of his own creation.

Again and again, indefinitely. The boy screamed silently under pressure, begging for help, but he could not always find salvation.

Then he sank and was flattened under the dark waters.

"Ahh

Dusk, quiet, the aroma of dinner wafts around.

It was only then that the boy came to his senses and found himself in his room.

Although the house is dilapidated, and the bed is hard and shaky, as if it will fall apart at any moment, it is all full of the atmosphere of home.

Everything seemed to be a nightmare, a nightmare that had lasted for a long, long time, and Daniel only then woke up to find that nothing had changed.

"Well, you don't need to call to know that you wake up to eat?" seemed to hear movement in the room, and a voice outside the room said.

Daniel was stunned for a moment, then tilted his head as if nothing had happened. The voice was all too familiar to him, because it was his mother's voice. Although he felt a little strange for a moment, but when he thought about it, wasn't it normal to hear his mother's voice in his own home?

The boy got out of bed, pushed the door open, and found that dinner was ready. It was all made from poor ingredients, but every meal was prepared by his mother's own hands, and the poor ingredients eventually turned into quite delicious meals. The slightly thin wild vegetable soup is still hot, and the white steam rises in the afterglow of the setting sun, which makes people feel appetizing.

Corn custard, unleavened bread, a small piece of boiled pork that is cut into thirds. Today's meal was extraordinarily rich, at least for the Daniel family. The young man was a little stunned, and asked casually, "What a rich meal, will Dad come back for dinner tonight?"

"Yes. He seemed to have been promoted, his salary had risen a little, and I decided to cook a good meal for him. Daniel's mother said as she poured the corn soup into three broken bowls. She seems to be in a particularly good mood today.

The boy did not speak, but sat down with joy. The aroma of the food makes him hungry, but Daniel is determined to wait for his father's return and eat together as a family.

"I'm back. The slightly middle-aged knight pushed open the dilapidated wooden door of the house and entered. As soon as he entered the room, he sniffed hard and deeply, "Wow, tonight's meal is very good! ＂

Then, the knight sat down beside his son, and his big hand rubbed his son's head hard: "Daniel, did you work hard in the cadet knight's school today?"

"Absolutely. The boy replied, "I will work hard, and I will definitely become a knight as great as you are." ＂

"Hahahaha, I'm looking forward to it. The knight laughed.

Dinner time flew by, and the family's meal time was spent in a mixture of fullness and laughter, and the boy's heart was filled with incomparable peace and happiness, as if he had not felt this happiness in several lifetimes. When he was talking and laughing with his parents, tears began to fall from the corners of his eyes for no reason.

"What's the matter, Daniel, is there anything wrong with your body?" His parents were a little stunned when they saw their son cry suddenly.

"Nope. Oh, what strange, what the hell is wrong with me?" the boy wiped his tears in embarrassment, and he didn't know why he was crying.

Isn't the happiness in front of him all inevitable? All this is his daily life, just the life that an ordinary ordinary teenager has been living and taking for granted, right?

But why did he suddenly feel that this life was a great happiness that was unattainable, and why did he suddenly feel so much?

The ordinary life in front of him, this ordinary [everyday], is obviously inevitable and natural. And who would be terrified of what is taken for granted, and who would suddenly be afraid that it could all fall apart?

"I'm sorry, I think I just made a stupid mistake all of a sudden. I went to the bathroom and washed my face. The boy stood up from the table.

"Daniel. The boy was about to leave the table, but his knightly father said, "Don't be afraid of anything, my son." Everything will be fine, everything will be. I've been promoted, I've been paid more and more, and the Order has put me in a safer place to do all the paperwork and never have to patrol outside. From now on we will no longer have to be poor, and everything will be fine. ＂

"Hmm. The young man replied in a voice and walked into the bathroom.

Yes, everything will be fine. There is no sadness here, no misfortune, there is just a small happiness that belongs to the youth, and the ordinary daily life. All this is a matter of course, there will be no deviation, and he can live forever in this small, ordinary happiness.

That's what he should do.

After dinner, the family of three happily sat in front of the sofa and watched TV, and the fire light from the stove next to it was enough to light up the room even if the lights were not turned on. Everything was so peaceful, so natural, that the boy even felt as if time was forever frozen in this moment, and this moment was eternity.

I really want this kind of day to continue forever. The young man said silently in his heart. Again, tears welled up in the corners of his eyes. However, in this dark room, in the hilarious TV programs on the TV screen, his parents, who were only giggling, could not see the boy crying quietly.

The boy vaguely felt a gaze in the darkness outside the window.

(He's watching.) Secretly watching it all. ）

(At a time when we have a bland happiness called the everyday, he's envious.) ）

(And we, on the other hand, can't give him anything.) ）

The days went by day by day. The boy lived happily every day in the midst of ordinary days. Although they are poor, their family of three is not so poor that they can't open the pot. Although busy, the young father's father always finds some time to spend with his family. It may not be pretty, but it's not so difficult. The inexplicable sadness and loss that sprung up in the young man's heart at the beginning had been forgotten, and only a piece of tranquility remained.

However, from time to time he still felt a gaze, someone secretly observing his life in the dark, watching everything about him, his ordinary and happy daily life.

------ whose sight is that?

He felt as if he had forgotten something, something important. But if it was so important, how could he have forgotten it?

"Daniel, Daniel!" Seeing that the boy was lost in thought, the boy's father called his son back to reality with a little displeasure: "What are you doing in a daze? It's rare that I have asked the Knights for a day off, in order to spend a whole day with you?"

"I'm sorry. The boy came to his senses and reached out and clenched his fishing rod. That's right, he was accompanying his father on a fishing trip to the river. This is a sunny holiday, the sun is shining, the air is fresh and cheerful, just right for riverside fishing.

"I know what you're thinking, Daniel. The father looked at his son and whispered, "That sight is haunting you again, isn't it?"

"Hmm...... The teenager replied vaguely.

"Well, don't let it bother you. The father tried to dissuade the teenager: "I know, I always know." Although we still live in the slums, we are already better off than most people in the slums. In this case, there will always be people who look at you with envy. They are jealous of you, they want to see you fail, they want to see you become unhappy because of small things. If they see you fall from happiness to misfortune again, they will be psychologically balanced and they will be happy. So they will keep their eyes on you, just watching, but they won't dare to do anything.

But you know what?------ it's okay, let them see enough. With your parents here, you will never be unhappy again. One day, we will leave this slum and go to live a normal and simple life. Then we'll be able to get away from it all, from those pesky stares. ＂

"I don't know...... The boy muttered under his breath. His father's words sounded right on the surface. But the young man vaguely felt in his heart that there seemed to be something wrong with those words. Although he felt that something was wrong, he didn't know what was wrong, so he had to nod his head silently and admit it.

------ until that gaze became more and more concerning.

The boy continued to fish with his head down, hoping to catch a big fish and add food to today's birthday dinner.

------ until that gaze ceased to be just a gaze, but became a word.

[Don't ignore me.] ］

The boy felt the rod move.

[Look at me.] ］

It was a slight jitter, not from the bite of a fish, nor from the impact of the current. It fluttered out of thin air.

[Listen to me.] Listen well. ］

It was as if there was some inaudible voice around it, shaking the air and shaking the water.

[You don't belong here.] ］

The afternoon sun was warm on his back, but the boy gasped, as if he had thought of something.

[Help me.] Save yourself!]

"Like...... He hesitated, but finally spoke: "I think I heard someone crying for help?"

[Rescue...... This world!]

"Help?" the boy's father looked in the direction the boy was looking, puzzled.

The distant sky in the eastern sky was clear and cloudless, and there was neither the sound of war nor the smoke of gunpowder. It doesn't look like there's an emergency.

"But I didn't hear anything, are you sure you heard me right?" asked the boy's father.

"To be on the safe side, or ...... The boy got up from the stone by the river where he was sitting in a daze, and went over to see what was going on.

"Don't go. The boy's father said, "Just leave that kind of dispensable call for help." Maybe it's a false alarm, and it happens to be one of the patrol routes of the Knights, and the patrol passes through that area around this time of the day around the corner, and if someone asks for help, just leave it to them. ＂

"But ------"

The father calmly persuaded, "Daniel, this is your birthday, and I have a vacation that I finally get." Let's not mess up our plans for such a trivial matter, shall we?"

The boy frowned. Although his father's words were reasonable, at this moment, the boy finally sensed the problem.