Chapter 1: The Singularity

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On a makeshift platform, a priest in a red robe and holding a staff shouted:

"Blood sacrifice! Blood Sacrifice! ”

There was an uproar in the audience, and then silence......

The priest raised his head slightly, his sinister eyes swept over the people in the audience, he held his staff high, and at this time, the black clouds that gathered at some point made a "clang" sound, and the blue lightning that burst out of it continued to condense in the crystal ball on the top of the priest's staff. His empty left hand suddenly stretched out from his robe, and opened his palm to attack his eyes, the infinite chaos inside obscured his vision like a fog, and then he smelled a thick smell of blood rust.

"It's a feeling...... It's blood! ”

He stretched out his hands and looked down, and his hands were full of bright red.

The morning sun has entered the window, and Alain Bu, who was startled into a cold sweat, woke up from his dream, how long has it been since he had such a dream? Why is it still the same stimulation, I thought I was immune to such dreams for a long time. Alan Bu's state had not yet calmed down, and he got up and washed up quickly before walking straight to the door.

"Boo, are you up, your friend is looking for you." A woman's voice came from downstairs.

It's him again! At times like these.

"Got it, tell him to come back to me in the afternoon."

Needless to say, that friend was a kid named Kazi, who was three years his junior. I remember that when Alain Bu first came to Twilight Village, he had a good house in the village, and none of the children dared to play with him. Only Kazi, a bit of a dumb boy, didn't seem to have any friends, but he followed him all day long. Alain Bu didn't have a crush on him, but he was a little concerned about the black key that hung on his chest. I heard him say that the key was left to him by his parents, and it is a treasure that nothing can compare.

There was a large grassy clearing behind the village, and the sunlight shone through the clouds, hovering among the water droplets on the grass that had not yet dried, and it was a little dazzling.

Kazi and Arambu lay on their backs on the grass, enjoying the afternoon sun.

"Lange." After a long silence, Kazi spoke.

"Huh?"

"Is your family really rich?" Kazi looked up.

This Kazi is really annoying, and he has answered this stupid question more than ten times. He knew that he didn't belong here, that there were no memories of coming here, that even his current parents weren't biological, and that Alain Bu himself didn't want to expose them. But if they weren't his parents, then ......

"Stop asking stupid questions like that!"

Alain Bu got up from the grass, patted the dirt off his body, and turned to walk towards the woods behind him. He wanted to calm himself down, not to suppress the urge to hit someone, but to avoid thinking about these issues again, which would only make him feel annoyed. Even if they don't tell it and hide the secret in the deepest part, he will one day find out even if he digs three feet into the ground.

"By the way, Lange, let's see what we can catch in the trap we have set."

"Well, let's go." Alain Bu put aside his concerns.

Outside the simple stone brick house, a small front yard surrounded by bamboo poles sat an old man with white hair, and at this time the sun had set on the western mountain, and the afterglow was reflected on the old man's face, which looked red. The footsteps were getting closer, and he looked up at the door.

"Little bunny, where are you fooling around today?"

"Grandpa, I'm a serious person, and I can only do the right thing."

"Huh! Where did you get the rope? The old man's eyes widened.

"Snakes! It's a snake! Your presbyopia is serious again, quick, take it to make snake soup for grandma. ”

The old man took the half-tortured snake from the child's hand, turned and walked briskly into the house.

"Old woman, there is a snake to eat tonight!"

"Really? Bring it and let me give it a treat. "The speaker is like a deserter who hasn't eaten in days.

Kazi didn't know what he had fallen for today, he had only caught a baby squirrel in the trap he had set up before, and Kazi thought it was too cute and released it, but that was a long time ago. Today he suddenly caught a snake, and it was black, although Kazi had never believed in evil, but he felt that it was a little creepy today.

At night, Kazi didn't eat a single bite of the snake soup, not to mention grandma's cooking skills, just watching the two elders eat happily one bite at a time, and teasing him from time to time, Kazi lost his appetite at all. After dinner, after watching TV for a while, Kazi climbed to the roof of the second floor as lonely as usual. Half starry sky, half vast earth, Kazi is like a puppet sandwiched between the two, fragile soul crumbling. Kazi picked up the key on his chest and reached out to the starry sky, and the deep darkness gradually swallowed it......

The next day Kazi went out as usual, but instead of looking for someone else, he walked towards the woods behind the village, as if he was more uneasy than yesterday. The kazi trap is a concave pit, with brittle twigs on the surface, some leaves, and finally a sprinkle of sand. This is the most common trap, and even Kazi himself will not recognize it without a mark. In the past, there have been cases where Kazi has pit himself because he only likes larger animals. The reality was just as he expected, the trap was still intact, and no one had touched the chestnuts in the middle. Kazi also used to put raw meat and chestnuts together, because he knew that chestnuts could catch squirrels, and raw meat could attract carnivores, so much so that he was scolded by Alan Bu.

The early morning sunlight shines into the not-so-dense woods and falls to the ground through the cracks, forming large and small strange spots of light. The animals here are scared of life, so they must be careful somewhere to spy on this "intruder". Kazi sighed, carefully tucked the chestnuts into his trouser pockets, brushed away the sand and leaves from the surface, tossed the branches aside, and finally collected dirt nearby to fill the hole. When he had done all this work, Kazi clapped his hands and casually glanced at a nearby tree before leaving, and the net laid out on it had been cleanly collected.

A Dongfeng car stopped at the entrance of the village, the black sleek body sparkling in the sun, although this kind of car is not very expensive, but it rarely appears in the village, and every appearance seems to mean that something big has happened. The two men in suits and leather shoes who got out of the car ignored everyone's eyes and walked straight to an ordinary hut and talked to the old man who came out of it. And all this happened to be met by the returning Kazi, who hurriedly leaned on the brick wall in front of him, peeking at the situation over there, the other party lowered his voice, and only heard the words "research institute" and "assassination", and the old man's face became uneasy. The people in the village did not gossip either, and were not surprised by this situation, and Kazi eavesdropped for a while, and in order to avoid others from seeing, he also turned around and left silently.

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