Chapter 31: Deranged

As I walked, I thought about it, and my mind flashed back to the brave and agile Mars in the world of PlanetSide, and then, in a flash, the image was replaced by the man who had just picked me up from the train station, making the cavernous body in my brain wat again.

Then I suddenly realized in despair and sadness that an unreal, dream-like and beautiful colored world that originally belonged to me was drifting away in the opposite direction to me, like a piece of water turf with some beautiful little wildflowers that had broken away from the shore, drifting with the waves on the river, gradually drifting farther and farther, and I could only helplessly watch it pass away and finally disappear on the shore land.

"Mars Interstellar" followed me closely, and it was only when he spoke that I felt a hint of familiarity.

The train station is not far from my accommodation, a 10 minute or 20 minute walk. Halfway through the road, over the highway bridge over the river that flows through the city, and into the sidewalk shaded by the streetlights, "Mars Interstellar" reached into the crook of my arm and approached me.

I felt awkward, so I walked out of the shade and into the bright street lamps, and excused, "Don't do this, you'll run into an acquaintance." ”

He withdrew his hand playfully.

But I felt a little guilty, so I said, "Would you like to carry your bag for a while?" ”

He replied to me with a wilt: "No, just a few clothes, not heavy." ”

I quickened my pace, wanting to get home as soon as possible, and I was really afraid of meeting acquaintances, although in the empty streets of this late at twelve o'clock in the evening, people were already rare.

"Mars Interstellar", which was carrying a large travel bag, had to catch up with me in stride.

"Why are you walking so fast?"

The discontent behind the side is clearly escalating.

"I want to get home soon, it's so late. You should be hungry, I'll give you a hot meal. ”

While I was saying this excuse, my mind was wandering, and it was as if I had returned to the scene of meeting with Mars and hanging up to eat together every day, so a warm current suddenly welled up in my heart.

I turned my head sideways, glanced at the "Mars Interstellar" next to me, and smiled at himβ€”it was my first smile since we met.

But from the moment "Mars Interstellar" saw me, until this moment, his sadness has not been unfolded. And at this moment, he followed my smile, and smiled slightly bitterly at me, as if he understood my thoughts.

"Am I not what you think? You're disappointed, right. ”

Again, he asked me knowingly.

At this moment, the smooth light of the bright street lamp once again made matters worse, destroying my imaginary fairy tale love.

His eyes were large and pale, with too much area of white eyeballs, small black balls, and heavy under-eye bags.

What shocked me the most was that he had a very scary facial movement, which was to blink his right eye irregularly. When he speaks, his facial expression looks like he is teasing or mocking.

So when I looked him in the eye, everything that came out of his mouth seemed to have lost its trustworthiness. Because I have always believed that the eyes are the windows to the soul, I feel that he fits well with the villain in the movie.

I couldn't help but ask, "Why do you keep blinking, are you getting into the sand or are you inflamed?" ”

"I didn't blink." His instinctive denial.

"Blink! See! When you said this, you blinked several times. "I don't give up.

"I don't know, I don't feel it." He quibbled, and then added an explanation,

"Maybe it's the reason for the injection, I said don't fight, it's almost better, but my sister insisted that I continue to fight. I noticed that every time I finished that pin, I would blink unconsciously. But I don't know myself, it's all told to me. ”

Looking at the aggrieved and pitiful face of "Mars Interstellar", but at the same time, accompanied by the feeling of a bad guy who unconsciously blinked an eyelid from time to time, my emotions fell into a dilemma again, and I had to turn my head and body speechlessly, and continue to walk in the direction of home, but it was already faltering.