Chapter 15. Accidents happen
The summer rainstorm came quickly and violently, and the raindrops smashed down on the top of his head, Cheng Yubai was caught off guard and was drenched into a soup chicken, sneezing one after another, rubbing his nose, the recent weather forecast, there is no day on time, this weather, it's really hell.
Cheng Yubai carried a briefcase, hid under the eaves of a roadside shop, and looked depressedly at the torrential rain outside that he didn't plan to stop, and he was in a terrible mood.
The headlights illuminated the road, the horn came from behind, and the windows rolled down, revealing a familiar and unfamiliar face, "It's late, do you need me to give you a ride?" Can't wait for a car here. “
As if seeing Cheng Yubai's doubts, the man chuckled and patted his forehead, adding: "In recent years, H City has changed a lot, the road is changing almost every day, and Route 906 has been rerouted, you shouldn't know, right?" ”
"It's really not clear, I'm sorry for you, thank you." Cheng Yubai was not hypocritical, opened the back door and sat in.
In the summer, he glanced at Cheng Yubai, who was soaked and embarrassed, from the rearview mirror, and started the car: "I used to travel in luxury cars every day, but I was reduced to crowding the bus, Cheng Yubai, Cheng Boss, I didn't expect you to have today." “
"After all, I am not as good as I used to be, I have to support my family and save money by taking the bus."
The black car sped through the street, and the neon lights outside the window shone in, and the inside of the car flickered and dimmed for a moment.
"It's really unproductive."
Cheng Yubai smiled slightly: "It's not promising, it's enough to be content and happy, it's enough to have a clear conscience, I'm quite satisfied with my current life." “
"The company was acquired, my girlfriend split her legs, and now I have lost the job I found in my relationship, and I still feel satisfied, and my heart is big enough."
"You know that I just lost my job, it seems that you really pay attention to me, if I didn't know that you robbed Su Se and Yao Ran, I thought you liked me, after all, at that time, you stuck to me and Mo Wushi every day."
"Huh, like you? I don't have the wisdom to get it. I heard that you found him, and he has been lying in someone's house recently? “
"I found him, but I don't want to be at his house, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with you, don't get involved with him. I've always wanted to ask when you became like this, and I really can't figure out why you're targeting me? “
"Seeing that you are unhappy, is this reason enough?"
"Just this?"
In the summer, he didn't reply, stopped the car, and looked at the glass window, which had been washed away by the rain, and faintly showed the yellow street lamps and car lights outside the glass window. Cheng Yubai looked around, the dilapidated houses, and the dim street lamps made him feel startled, and found that this was a deserted road that he had never been to, but it was unexpectedly familiar, and he had seen it many times in his dreams.
"Isn't that reason enough?
You are luckier than me in everything, you have the love of your parents, you don't have to worry about eating and drinking, you are unrestrained, you can be forgiven, no matter how many wrong things you do. You have everything, but you never cherish it, and the little thing I have, trying to hold on, still disappears in the palm of your hand like quicksand. Do you know how envious I am, and how jealous I am of Cheng Yubai, who knows nothing and is stupid like a single-celled creature. “
Cheng Yubai didn't know what to say, he never knew what Xia Xia thought first, so he could only say sullenly: "I'm sorry."
"No need to apologize, it's me who should say I'm sorry, I robbed you of everything, I just want to see if you can still be so proud.
Actually, I don't have to apologize to you, because you also robbed me of the most important.
I know he doesn't have that affection for me, but I like him.
He and I were both orphans, he was withdrawn, he liked to be alone, he was dull and introverted, and he couldn't laugh, and the dean thought he had autism, so the child who was originally going to be adopted by the family became me.
He has a woolen autism, and he is more rational than anyone else, but because I said that I wanted to have a home, he gave me that opportunity.
But I still miss the days when I was in the orphanage, warming each other and comforting each other, so I still went to him every day as before, until one day I found out that he had a new friend, and you appeared.
As soon as you came, everything changed, he couldn't see me in his eyes, I became your shadow, follower......"
Summer lit a cigarette first, took a deep breath, calmed down, and asked casually, "Do you remember the alley ahead?"
"That's ......"
"Six Waters Lane. Looks like you've forgotten about it. Xia Xian's voice sounded a little lost, mixed with some indescribable resentment and emotion, "That should have been the place where you absconded in fear of crime, but I didn't expect to fall into him."
Didn't you think about why things were so coincidental after you fled covered in blood, and as soon as you left, he passed by there, inexplicably got into a physical altercation with someone, and finally killed someone by mistake, and the fatal wound was still the same place where you stabbed him?
Although the conflict between you and Li Long was actually arranged by me, it was you who stabbed the person to death, you said that he is such a smart person, how could he not guess the cause and effect, but he didn't say anything and went to turn himself in.
So, do you now know how much I hate you? I can't get used to the way you seem to have nothing to do with you, you have caused him to lose a hand, to lose his dreams, and even to ruin his life.
As soon as I think of this, I want to ruin you. “
Cheng Yubai shuddered a little when he heard the resentful words, frowned and asked, "What are you talking to me for?" ”
"Why? I just don't want you to live in peace.
Some words have been held in my heart for many years, and I feel uncomfortable, so I want to say that the night walk in brocade clothes is always unpleasant. You should have consulted, is it good to be treated as a psychiatric person?
It doesn't hurt to tell you, I gave you psychological hints when I stayed with you, but it wasn't me who drove you crazy, so now you can guess who. Don't worry, my life is worth more than yours, and I won't bury you, but I can't guess, you have to pay a little price. Summer first raised his hand and looked at his watch, "You have three minutes to ......." and pouted in front of him, motioning for him to look at the couple in front of him.
Cheng Yubai's eyes suddenly tightened, that is, he saw - his parents.
Then he turned to Xia Xian, and in an instant he seemed to feel some kind of dangerous aura, and roared angrily: "What are you going to do!"
"This time, it's not an illusion. I found a master and detained their souls. Here, hurry up and say hello to them. If you guess wrong, or can't answer, I'll let them die in front of you again, and this time it's gone. It's fun, I haven't seen it, you still have two minutes and thirty seconds. “
Suddenly, Xia Xian's face changed suddenly, and he suddenly turned pale, "Forget it, the game can't be played, get out of the car, someone is coming to pick you up."
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"I've released people, what else are you going to do!" Summer first slammed his fist on the steering wheel and roared into the empty car.
"It's too late."
Summer first shivered violently, as if she had suddenly seen something terrible...... He remembered that Li Long was not dead, so who was walking towards him next to the man with a black umbrella and a lazy smile?!!
"Another lurker, the third time." As soon as the words fell without the slightest emotion, there was a sudden burst of strong bloody breath, which I don't know where it came from, filling the entire carriage......
The alleys were slippery, the water was running chaotically, and the rain was noisy.
"It's over, it's time for you to go."
"Master Xie." The ghost bowed deeply and vanished.
Mo Wushi held a black umbrella in one hand, hung his head slightly, and the expression on his side face was calm and indifferent.
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"Cheng Yubai!"
"Huh?"
"Do you know what the danger is! You almost got hit by a car, do you know what! Mo Wushi's face was full of anger, if he hadn't arrived in time and pulled him back, he would have really been able to meet the car and crash into it. In these years, porcelain has to have technical content, and he is stunned to find death.
"No, it's not, you didn't see that just now?" Cheng Yubai shrank instantly, he wanted to break free but found that he couldn't move, he nervously grabbed the corner of Mo Wushi's clothes, and said uncontrollably, "You saw it, right!! ”
Mo Wushi's face was slightly gloomy, his expression became solemn, and he asked solemnly, "What did you see?" ”
"My mom and dad, they're smiling at me and saying they miss me. They, they passed that street corner, right under that billboard, and waved to me......"
“....... No, I didn't see anything, only that you were being driven into the middle of the road like a dementor. Mo Wushi stood side by side with him in the messy heavy rain, propped up the black umbrella on his head, covering his entire body, but he was drenched with half of his body, "You calm down." “
He lied, and he actually saw it, but it wasn't a human being, but a dead soul who had been manipulated.
If you don't touch some scars, you'll be fine.
As soon as it was revealed, it was drenched in blood.
Li Mu, who was holding Mo Wushi's shell, looked at Cheng Yubai, who was stunned and emotionally collapsed, with complicated eyes, stood in place for a long time, and then hugged him silently, he understood that the protagonist who found the wrong two times before was actually him, but the time had not come, and he came back twice, for some reason, so that he had scattered memories.
"Come home with me." Mo Wushi was so tough that he couldn't refuse, and dragged the confused Cheng Yubai home.
Cheng Yubai came out of the bathroom and was directly wrapped in the quilt and thrown onto the bed.
"What are you doing!" Cheng Yubai finally woke up and struggled out of the quilt.
Mo Wushi sat on the rattan chair next to the bed and said lightly: "Sober, calm, have time to talk to me?" “
"I'm not sober, I'm not calm, I don't have time to talk to you......"
Mo Wushi felt a headache when he saw Cheng Yubai's refusal to cooperate, and he knew that Cheng Yubai was expressing his protest against him in his own way: "Okay, since you are not calm, then I will give you space to calm down." He put down the ginger tea he had brewed in his hand and prepared to leave.
Cheng Yubai suddenly raised his head and said, "Mo Wushi, how much did you hide from me, why did you want to be so good to me?"
"Good for you, wrong?" He just wants to brush up on the favorability of the protagonist, don't GG at the beginning, he doesn't have so much patience to do it again.
The most important thing is that the higher the favorability, the higher the hatred after learning the "truth".
"Mo Wushi, do you really wonder what I was looking for He Yujie for that time?"
Mo Wushi noticed Cheng Yubai's tangled expression, and turned his head to look at him seriously: "Since you don't want to say it, then I won't ask." I hope that one day you yourself will be willing to tell me. ”
"I think my brain is very confused, some of my memories have been lost inexplicably, and now there are some more messy things, while intellectually telling me that it was all my hallucination, and emotionally telling me that it is real, and now it is unreal...... You say, what should I believe? ”
Mo Wushi stopped, sat down again, and stared at him silently for a long time.
"What do you think?"
"I can't tell." Cheng Yubai sighed and said honestly.
Mo Wushi looked at him seriously, "Memory is not reliable. What is memory? It's just a series of images that we have experienced, and they form memories together, but we will always have some distortion of our memories, and the distortion will become more and more severe over time, because memories are limited by the environment at that time. For example, if you go to a yard when you are a child, you will think that many objects in that yard are tall, and when you go back to it when you are an adult, you will find that the objects in that yard are not as tall as you imagined, why? ”
Cheng Yubai thought about it and hesitated for a moment before saying, "Uh...... Because I've grown taller? ”
"That's right, if you don't go back to that courtyard, your memories won't be refreshed, and your memory will still have the impression that everything there is very tall, right? But once you go back, you will find that everything has changed, so memories are not reliable, and the present and the future are more important than distorted memories, aren't they? I want you to remember that you are still you, whether those memories exist or not, and that has never changed......"