On the second floor of the restaurant, there is a balcony planted with dahlias, pale pink and crimson, hanging down in the drizzle, water droplets fall from the petals into the soil, and then moisten to glow the fresh color of the earth.

Lin Nian pushed open the glass door of the balcony, the cold air on a rainy day rushed to his face, and the warmth and dullness in the restaurant behind him were dispersed into a splash of water and flowed into the waterway under his feet, he looked up at the hazy sky and took a deep breath hard, closing his eyes to hide the pale gold oozing from his pupils.

"I said there would be side effects."

In front of the balcony, the girl who bent down and smelled the fragrance of flowers stroked the blonde hair in her ears and did not look back at Lin Nian, who broke in.

"I know." Lin Nian sat on a wicker chair on the balcony in the rain, trying to stabilize his breath as much as possible, and the drenching in the light rain made him feel like he was back in the endless rainy night, but the cars that passed by from time to time on the street under the balcony always reminded him that he was still in reality.

"It's uncomfortable, isn't it? But there is no way, after all, I said, miracles and magic are not free. The blonde girl carefully selected the flowers on the balcony, and finally plucked a white dahlia and pinned it to her ear.

"How does it feel to be back in the same place?" She turned and sat on the balcony, opened her hands and closed her eyes, bathing in the cold drizzle, it was summer, but she exhaled white air as if it was winter. In rainy days, she is always white magnetic, her clothes are white, her skin is white, her teeth are white, and even the sight that touches people is white, hard, cold, snow-white, and ruthless.

"The pun wasn't funny, the feeling of overlapping memories was terrible, and in that situation I felt like my brain was paralyzed, and I couldn't tell what was in the past and what was happening in the present." Lin Nian opened his eyes slightly, and because of the excessive mood fluctuations, his eyes shimmered in the rain.

"It's normal that you can't control the goodness of the first 'backtracking', but fortunately, I was the one who used it at the time, if you were asked to use the spirit of 'floating life', you would probably be lost in the cracks by now." The blonde girl walked up to Lin Nian and squatted down gently, lying at his feet, her legs intertwined and somewhat transparent white and sitting on the waterlogged tiles, and the rain flowed through the evenly rested flesh and bones. "What you're going through now is just the effect of the cracks on you, not much of a problem, as long as you don't treat the enemy as your sister when you're fighting."

"I was distracted in the box just now... No, it was the hallucination that made me almost think that I was having the last conversation with my sister a week ago. Lin said in a young voice, "I still remember some details at that time, it was a sunny day, on Thursday, Lin Xian and I had coffee in the office of Teacher Masashi Toyama, the temperature in the office was about 24 degrees, and there was soothing music in the TV series, because the coffee was freshly ground and there was no added sugar, so I felt bitter to drink it... I even had a real bitter taste on the tip of my tongue just now, which was frighteningly real. ”

"Because it's true, you can understand that the moment you hallucinate happens, your state is exactly the same as that day at the Kassel Academy in the afternoon, the humidity of your skin, your body temperature, and even your heart rate and 'soul' coincide with that moment." The blonde girl said, "The most terrifying thing about the spirit of 'floating life' is that you can 'retrace' everything about you, but memory will not, what happens to you now is only the sequelae, so you can't even 'retrace' your memories together, and then you can't distinguish between 'retrospection' and reality." ”

"So when 'backtracking' happened, I simply didn't have any way to wake up from that state." Lin Nian exhaled, and the cold rain on his face made him feel real... But the coffee he drank in his mouth at that time also brought him a sense of warmth and bitterness, and the truth was almost the same as the reality he felt now... After all, they are all realities.

"On the periodic table of the spirit of speech, the order of the spirit of the word spirit 109 is a top-secret spirit of the nature of the word, and so far the introduction of its effect by the secret party is unknown, because no hybrid under the control of the secret party has ever possessed this spirit of words... Even if he had, he would not be able to be controlled by the secret party. Lin Nian stretched out his right arm, and every inch of skin under the sleeve was intact, but who knew that in the early hours of the morning, this arm had been pierced by a bloody wound by the divine spear of the gods?

At the moment when the floating life was activated, the five lethal blood holes had already been washed away by the rain into the torrent of time.

"If activated in time, the user can even use 'backtracking' to escape death." The blonde girl was lying on the balcony, the rain wet her clothes against her skin, outlining a figure that was not mature but beginning to take shape, but Lin Nian on the rattan chair was not in the mood to look down at the beautiful scene, just quietly looked at his palms, and finally quietly closed and pinched tightly.

"This kind of speech... Is it really my power? He asked softly.

"Of course it's yours, is it mine?" The girl looked sideways at him and grimaced.

"Who knows."

He sat alone on a wicker chair on the empty balcony drenched in the rain, and in the stagnant water on the ground lay a broken white dahlia, and the petals were washed to the edge by the current, and slid down the canal into the darkness.

The door to the balcony was pushed open.

Chu Zihang stood on the edge of the balcony and didn't walk in, the rain fell on the ground and splashed on the upper of his shoes... He didn't bring an umbrella and didn't wear a raincoat, so it was naturally difficult to walk into the light rain, but the boy who was wet on the balcony didn't care about these at all, and his whole body was wet from the rain and looked a little depressed.

After pausing for a moment, Chu Zihang still walked into the balcony in the rain, stopped and bent down to pick up the dahlia on the ground after taking two steps, and put the flower branch on the glass table next to the rattan chair.

"I'm fine." Lin Nian spoke in advance, and waved his hand to signal Chu Zihang not to ask more, "You will make me sick." ”

"Onset?" Although Lin Nian said that it was okay, Chu Zihang couldn't help but repeat this not-so-beautiful word softly.

"Sequelae." Lin Nian nodded and looked up at him, the gold in his eyes was like a flowing golden spring in the rain, and Chu Zihang, who was looking at him, was uncontrollably stagnant, and waited until the other party took the initiative to shift his gaze before taking half a step back to breathe smoothly.

"You..."

"Golden pupils, it's a normal phenomenon, you should notice that you yourself will have this phenomenon when you are emotional and nervous, just like the knee jump reaction can't be deliberately contained." Lin Nian sat on the rattan chair and tapped his temples lightly and said, "Our bloodline is different from ordinary people. ”

"Bloodline? Are you referring to the Germanic descent that is born noble? Chu Zihang asked.

"No, I'm not the supremacist of blood, and I don't think bloodline can distinguish between high and low people, bloodline only determines strength, and strength is never the benchmark for measuring right and wrong." Lin Nian shook his head and picked up the dahlia chrysanthemum that was picked up by Chu Zihang on the table, and threw it lightly, and the flower branches were like darts and pierced into the soil of the balcony flower pot.

"We can decide what is right or wrong, but we can't decide our ancestry, which is usually a gift from your parents."

A flash of light suddenly rose in Chu Zihang's dark brown eyes, and after Lin Nian caught that brilliance, he bowed his head lightly and said, "Father, or mother?" ”

“... My dad. ”

"Sit down." From Chu Zihang's eyes, Lin Nian understood some emotions, and he was no stranger to this kind of emotion, because every night when he looked in the mirror, he could find such a boy like Chu Zihang in his eyes.

"There is no one else, just say a few words, and talk about some of the things that interest you the most and want to know the most." Lin Nian closed his eyes and listened to the sound of the rain falling on the tiles, "About the half-bloods." ”

Chu Zihang also sat quietly on a rattan chair, and the two boys sat on the balcony with a light rain, the rain drops fell on their heads and gathered on their foreheads, and then fell down and wet their knees, and the water with flower petals gurgled at their feet.

"What is a half-blood?" He asked softly.

"We're half-bloods, and you and I are the same."

"Monsters?"

"I don't agree with you, but it's true that I've been called that a lot lately by people from the Enforcement Department." Lin Nian chuckled twice.

Chu Zihang didn't say anything, his expression didn't change, because for the sake of the truth, he didn't recommend becoming a monster in other people's mouths,

"Your stepfather we have investigated, Lu Tianming, a well-known local entrepreneur, the company is rushing to go public, a very ambitious person... But alas, he's not a half-breed like us. Lin Nian said, "As for your mother... I heard that she is beautiful. ”

Chu Zihang didn't know how to answer this question, and when he looked at Lin Hou, he found that there was no banter and frivolity in the other party's eyes, and he could only see a plain picture like mirror water from inside.

"Mixed-race breeds generally look good, and the better the bloodline, the more it can stimulate the courtship in the genes, and the survival of the fittest leads to the appearance of mixed-race breeds will be much better than the average person. But alas, even though your mom is beautiful enough, we ruled out the possibility that she is a half-breed... Oh, if only she was like that then. Inexplicably, Lin Nian laughed softly as if he was self-deprecating, and muttered something to himself that no one could understand.

"The problem can only be with your father who is really related to you, I haven't met your father, and I don't know his name, I asked Norma to check it, but the answer I got was that there was no such person, not even a name, he deleted himself from the Internet, like a ghost, wandering in this coastal city, he should have disappeared like a ghost, but for some reason he left you." Lin Nian looked at Chu Zihang, "If it weren't for you sitting here, I would even suspect that there is no such hybrid as him in the world." ”

Chu Zihang glanced up at Lin Nian inexplicably, wanting to say something, but he held back and fell into silence.

"Can I know his name? And where is he now? Lin Nian asked.

“... Chu Tianjiao. The boy sitting on the rattan chair looked sideways at the balcony outside the light rain in the green dissolving, as if to melt into the city in the green silk rain, and the gray elevated road between the high-rise buildings stood in the distance of the city, "But I can't find him..."