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Short body burrowed out of the dense woods, Tong Siyuan stepped into the cool stream, and raised his chin at the two soldiers who were submerged in the water not far away.

"What's going on?" He walked straight forward without squinting, his expression unusually calm.

Several well-dressed corpses lay on top of each other on the rubble beach. Under the plain white limbs, the leaking blood is like a silk veil floating in the water. Tong Siyuan remembered that he had promised one of the children that he would definitely take him to this area to fish next time. As a result, in just a few days, the ingredients and diners switched places without warning.

Two six-fingered soldiers noticed him and immediately trained their backhand to touch their guns. Tong Siyuan looked at the other party's soaked hair and clothes, and suddenly squinted his eyes and laughed.

"It's hot." He didn't care if the other party could understand, he said to himself, "It's really hard for you to find this place all the way." ”

The soldier's muzzle of his gun suddenly slowed down, like a doll running out of clockwork. Tong Siyuan walked up to the two unhurriedly and gently scraped the dark skin on the other party's arm with his fingers.

Crystal clear ice slag.

The strange smile on Tong Siyuan's face had not completely subsided. With a flick of his finger, the tiny ice crystals instantly turned into droplets of water in the sunlight.

The two enemies in front of them emitted a faint amount of water vapor, like two refrigerators standing quietly. Tong Siyuan gently pushed with both hands, and the two of them fell into the water in response, sinking horizontally into the riverbed, which was not too deep.

"Does that count as polluting the water source?"

No one answered his words, but Tong Siyuan still calculated the renewal rate of the water body with a formula in his heart, and finally suddenly reacted that this water source should not be used for the time being.

He turned around, stepped through the water and slowly moved a few steps, then slowly crouched in front of the pile of young corpses.

Perhaps the "young" embellishment was completely superfluous for the deceased. Tong Siyuan thought. Once life has completed its final freeze, it is equivalent to returning to the nothingness that existed before it was born. All individual differences will lose their meaning, and all that will be left is the irreversible, absolutely fair label of "death".

He flipped through the top corpse, and what caught his eye was Chenning's pale face.

This is not surprising. Even under the premise of being raided empty-handed, she is the most tricky of the bunch, so she is qualified to die last.

Tong Siyuan remembered that when she first saw her a few years ago, she was still a little girl who was squirming and pinching, hiding behind Qi Jing for a long time and refusing to see anyone, only revealing a pair of big eyes and constantly looking at him, revealing full vigilance from her expression to her movements.

If he hadn't really helped this group of escaped children find a new place in the mountains, it is estimated that Chen Ning would have just turned his head and ran away, right? Unexpectedly, such a child later became one of the most loyal people among these children, and it is estimated that until the end, he still delusionally imagined that he would come down from the sky to save people like he did six years ago, right?

Tong Siyuan didn't feel particularly sad, but he wasn't completely untouched. After all, they have lived with this group of children intermittently for so many years, and when they are most relaxed and relaxed, they will even show off in front of his big brother every time they learn a new word. The children ran around him, laughing, making Tong Siyuan suddenly feel as if he was old.

It's a pity that he has always been very clear in his heart that he is by no means a good brother.

The girl's slender and cold fingers evoked Tong Siyuan's very bad memories. One night many years ago, his mother was lying motionless on the bed like this, her expression frozen in the most hideous moment of pain and unwillingness, enough for him to never get rid of the endless nightmare for the rest of his life.

No, there is a difference. Tong Siyuan stretched out his hand and gently closed his eyes for each corpse.

He remembered how, before she died, her mother was spasming and wrestling his hand with enough force to break a plank. Tong Siyuan knelt on the medicine shelf that she had knocked down and shattered, unable to tell whether it was more pain in her knees or wrists.

In the last few days of my mother's life, she struggled violently in the hospital bed again and again, and the movement was so loud that even the three male nurses could not hold it down, as if they wanted to say something to him very much, or else they would not blink their eyes, but unfortunately they were unable to speak because of the pain. It was only at this time that Tong Siyuan could see a little bit of vitality on her face.

Staring at those bloodshot eyes, Tong Siyuan thought silently, in fact, he knew what his mother wanted to say.

"Don't think about it." He sighed and forced his mother's twitching eyelids down with his hand, "He's not coming." He's forgotten about you. ”

Feeling that the two bulging eyeballs were turning wildly in the palms of his hands, Tong Siyuan's voice became even more muffled: "Say something you don't like to hear." Why, after all these years, you still don't understand how ridiculous and sad it is to pin all the happiness of your life on someone else...... Even shameful things. ”

He heard his mother gasp for breath sharply, and a muffled, shrill voice came out of her throat. Tong Siyuan knew that if she could still stand up at this time, she would definitely take the ring ruler and desperately pump it on his back again. Just like the only time he didn't get the first grade in his grade since he was a child, she rushed to the classroom and ran after him, scaring the whole class away.

Mother won't even listen to his explanations. It is not an excuse to be intercepted and beaten by thugs on the road, and to be late when he woke up from a coma. He had to be the best of his age, even if it wasn't good enough to call a man who had abandoned his wife to come back.

But when people live, they must always create a little hope for themselves. Even if that hope is simply unrealistic. How can a man who doesn't care at all about how you're doing, or even if you're still alive, change his mind about you just because the child you bore him is a little better? 's mother is obviously so smart academically, but she has planted her whole life in the hands of such a person, and even he feels that it is not worth it for her.

This wishful thinking turned the mother into a maniac with intermittent episodes of bipolar disorder. The gentleness and thoughtfulness shown to him occasionally made Tong Siyuan a little creepy.

"Siyuan, you are the biggest baby in my mother's life." She once put her arm around his shoulders and said.

It's better to say that I'm the only proof that someone has ever been around you.

Tong Siyuan silently recited his name in his heart, feeling that there was no way to laugh normally.

Life taught him a twisted truth too early. That is, it is not cost-effective to be good to others.

Unfortunately, my mother still refused to believe it.

Just like now, she is squeezing her last bit of vitality, and she is also torturing the nerves of every doctor and nurse on duty, and she has to get stuck on the edge of entering the ghost gate, and she refuses to swallow her breath peacefully.

"In your life, you have been ruined by him, and you have also been ruined by yourself." Tong Siyuan stepped his head into the quilt, rubbed the back of his mother's hand through the cotton wool that smelled of disinfectant, and said the most cruel sentence in a gentle tone, "In this life, all the happiness and pain are originally given by oneself. Therefore, even if you encounter misfortune, you can comfort and spur yourself on with 'self-reaping the consequences'. But once you give this power to control your emotions to someone else, you can only wait in place to be thrown down by the person who once held you to heaven. ”

The cool breeze of the night made him shiver. The mother on the hospital bed flicked one last time like a fish on a chopping board, and her breath finally became weaker and weaker. I don't know if I was angry with him, or if I finally figured it out before I died.

"Sleep." At this moment, Tong Siyuan also lowered his head and whispered in the ear of someone who would never answer, as he did back then, "Only after death can people truly escape from pain forever." If there's a next life—"

The sun shone directly on the sparkling water, and he shook his head heavily, and said to himself: "Forget it, there is no next life." ”

-

The intense soreness was still spreading in his muscles, and Tong Bi'an opened his eyes uncomfortably. As if the sound of a buzzing voice was floating in his ears, he turned his neck and looked out in the direction of the window, where only the small ant-like figure walked through the outline of the street.

He let go of his stiff fingers, and the pencil fell immediately. There was a little saliva on the spread out exercise book, and Tong Bi'an had to wipe it casually with his sleeve irritably, and then continued to lean back on the chair with his eyes closed.

He should be the only one in the family now. Even if his father, who never cares about him, is not there, the brother who came out of nowhere is probably there. Tong Bi'an thought about it, but still stood up and carefully pushed the door open a crack.

Tong Siyuan really sat motionless in front of the TV, occasionally raising his head to look at the news, but most of the time his attention was still on the book in his hand.

Sure enough, it's a "role model" brother. Tong Bi'an pursed his mouth and was about to retract into his room, but the other party suddenly turned his head and smiled faintly at him with a look that he couldn't describe.

"Would you like something to eat?" Tong Siyuan asked, "When I came to call you for lunch before, you didn't open the door. ”

Didn't you just find out that he might have fallen asleep while reading a book again? What are you doing so vaguely?

Tong Bi'an wanted to pretend not to hear, but unconsciously glanced at the bruises on the other party's face that had not completely dissipated, and his heart couldn't help but soften.

"Okay, let's eat, let's eat." He still couldn't talk to this "brother" in a good voice, "I didn't put green onions in the soup this time, did I?" Otherwise, I'll have to pick them one by one again, and I'll be annoyed. ”

"Don't worry, I remember it all." Tong Siyuan put down the book and stood up, still not very angry, "I'll go and give you hot again." ”

"Speaking of which, you've been here for half a month, why do you still look like you're yellow and thin." Tong Bi'an forcibly gave him half a bowl of soup, and said angrily, "Others don't know, and they think I've been bullying you at home." Hmph, it's clear that Dad is always biased towards you......"

Tong Siyuan paused slightly as he held the bowl, but did not answer.

"Even if your mother's relatives have been abusing you with all kinds of heavy work in the past few years, can't you, an adult man, support yourself?" Tong Bi'an poked the rice in the bowl with chopsticks, and continued to vent his emotions unilaterally, "Who do you want to show yourself to when you make yourself this pitiful and diligent and studious look?" ”

Children at this age may have some kind of desire to monopolize their parents' attention. Tong Bi'an is no exception. Language that is too direct and inconsiderate of the feelings of others can sometimes evolve into a kind of natural viciousness. He noticed that Tong Siyuan had almost immediately put down his chopsticks and patted him lightly on the top of his head with his bony and scarred hand.

"I only became an adult this year." After Tong Siyuan said this, he turned around and walked towards the room he had just cleaned up, "Call me again when you wash the dishes." ”

Tong Bi'an blinked, vaguely feeling that most of the brothers who fell from the sky didn't like him very much.

This is not surprising, though. Or rather, this kind of distance is the most normal for the two of them. Even if a brother falls from the sky, not every child can accept it immediately. What's more, the two of them still have a resentful relationship with each other to some extent.

Eating dinner so-so, Tong Bi'an glanced at the wall clock on the wall, and suddenly rushed out of the house in a hurry.

A little later, he'd have missed out on his new friend's time to relax just once a day.

Half an hour later, the girl peeked out of the wall and waved at him in an exaggerated manner.

Just to her right, the sign next to the gate that says "Special Education School" is particularly eye-catching. Tong Bi'an watched her swing from one hand to both hands, and couldn't help but stand on tiptoe and scold: "Sister, can you look at the height of this wall?" You are a girl, you can actually show your head from a three-meter-high position, not to mention, you can still hold the wall without your hands, and you are not afraid that others will think you are a ghost! ”

"How can there be a ghost who is not afraid of the sun!" The girl pointed to the sky, "It's so late today, I thought you wouldn't come." ”

"Why, I said I was coming yesterday, and I will definitely come." Tong Bi'an knew that she was probably using that "floating" ability again, "Okay, okay, you've seen me, retract quickly." We still stand on both sides of the wall and talk, lest you be punished and confined by the teacher again! ”

The smile on the girl's face froze, and she didn't even say hello, and her head suddenly disappeared from the wall.

Speaking of which, the two of them met this way for the first time. Tong Bi'an passed by with a freshly baked loaf of bread in his mouth, only to be so frightened by the figure on the other side of the wall that he almost choked to death.

A young girl flew into the sky like a rocket, made eye contact in the air, and then fell without warning.

After all, he had also seen his father use his ability, Tong Bi'an hammered his chest, and he still reacted quickly.

"Are you also a 'gifted'?" He tried to ask questions through the wall.

"I don't know......" After a while, a crisp female voice replied, "The teacher said that we are all monsters." ”