Chapter 52: Feathering
That year, Lu Jie was a sophomore in high school, and at the wedding dinner of their colleague's daughter with his parents, Lu Jie noticed a man sitting at the same table. He didn't deliberately observe the man, but he was so bored that Lu Jie didn't have the heart to listen to the nonsense of the master of ceremonies on the stage, so he could only observe the banquet guests at the same table at random to pass the time.
And what really caught Lu Jie's attention was that when he was toasting with others, Lu Jie suddenly noticed that this person's pupils contracted suddenly, and his hands couldn't stop trembling.
Although the man covered it up well, and after a second, he drank the wine with a smile, but his performance just now still did not escape Lu Jie's eyes. When the toast was made, nothing unusual had changed around him. Judging from the micro-expressions on the other party's face, he was by no means frightened by the changes in the external environment or people and things.
"Lao Zhang, eat vegetables! Why do you have such a bad complexion, are you not feeling well? A colleague on the man's left asked. It's fine, just had some stomach upset. The man subconsciously raised his hand and touched his nose as he spoke, then put his hand into his trouser pocket against his thigh, absentmindedly echoing the people around him.
Lu Jie squinted, this was a typical performance of lying and nervousness, he took a sip of tea, noticed that the man left his seat in a hurry, and out of interest, Lu Jie also followed.
The man was very alert, found an open space with a wide field of vision, took out his mobile phone, and started making calls. Lu Jie stood far away, although this distance did not allow him to hear what the other party was saying, but Lu Jie could read lips.
"I've been tasked with tonight."
"Damn, when exactly are you going to leave this ghost space? The last time I just escaped, it was hard enough! I don't even have props, isn't it a dead end! ”
"Hu Yang, they are all dead, no one remembers them, now I am the only one left, what do you let me do?"
The man babbled a lot, and from his mouth, Lu Jie understood one thing: there is another dimension called "Dream Space" in this world.
In his sophomore year of high school, Lu Jie began to look for the Dream Breaker hidden among ordinary people and explore the existence of the Dream Space.
After a year of careful deployment, Lu Jie felt that the time was ripe.
During the summer vacation of his junior year of high school, Lu Jie told his parents that he planned to go to Taiwan with his classmates to play for a while.
That year, when he was eighteen years old, he founded the Luo religion.
After learning about the existence of space, he felt that life seemed to have new fun, and new things appeared that he wanted to find and explore.
Lu Jie thought of the legend of the corpse being dissected into an immortal.
If there are other unknown dimensions in this world, and there are powerful ghosts and resentful spirits, then some myths and legends should not be groundless.
Man is not only made up of the physical body, but there is also some immaterial part of the body. Without this part of the immaterial, it is no longer a person, but just some flesh and blood skeleton. But the human soul and the body are closely connected, the soul sends instructions to the body, directs the body, and at the same time the body feeds back information to the soul, so that the soul has a sense of the flesh.
Can the soul leave the body and go to a new world? Lu Jie was very curious and wanted to practice it himself.
Life is already so boring anyway, why not have some fun for yourself?
At the age of twenty, he entered the space as he wished and began his own project.
Unlike the others, Lu Jie was the only one who had long known about the existence of space, deliberately approached, and was willing to be pulled in.
Because there was no joy or sorrow, he felt no fear. Without feelings, it will not affect his thinking and judgment. Lu Jie became the captain of the fourth district and also became the strongest person in the space. He didn't care about any of that, the ghosts and even the space that others feared were like a mine of treasures in his eyes, and everything here was much more interesting to him than the real world.
His plan is still going on in an orderly manner, and it seems that he is getting closer and closer to achieving his goal.
Lu Jie patiently waited for that day to come, and at the same time began to look for someone special who could help him take the last step. Although there are few people with pure yin life, it doesn't mean that he can't find them. There are countless such people across the country, but what Lu Jie finally chose was a dream breaker.
His name is Lu Qing, and he is assigned to the third district.
Lu Jie observed him for two years, and felt more and more that this young man was so interesting, like an extra gift after entering the space.
People can be illuminated countless ugly sides in extreme environments, and Lu Jie has seen too much.
He watched Lu Qing being pulled into the space, an ordinary person, and suddenly came to an unheard of world, still so cruel and bloody. Being able to accept and calm down is the premise of survival.
In the eyes of others, Lu Qing is a newcomer with excellent quality. He has a smart mind and excellent psychological quality, and he quickly adapted to the rhythm of the task, leading the team to explore the way of life and solve the mystery again and again, and gradually became the backbone of the team.
However, only Lu Jie saw the fear in his heart.
Is he afraid? Of course.
But no one could see through the true thoughts hidden under his calm exterior, and he didn't want to be seen through. He tried to be calm and composed, so that no one else could notice his fears.
Obviously, there is no guarantee that he will survive to the end, but he is still bent on protecting his other companions; Obviously he was scared to death, but he pretended to be fearless and encouraged his teammates.
Lu Jie had never seen such a playful person, and in his eyes, that person was like a reckless child, trying to wrap himself in a layer of hard armor and disguise his powerful appearance. People who can pretend to be powerful are most typically characterized by fear. He looks sunny and cheerful on the outside, but on the inside he is actually nervous, afraid that his psychological disguise will be discovered.
When encountering setbacks and pressure, he often chooses to face them alone and bury his emotions in the bottom of his heart. His heart was on the verge of collapse, and he still looked like a man who was fine.
Lu Jie knows that hidden emotions will not disappear easily, but will easily lead to depression, distortion and other serious psychological problems in the long run.
He wanted to see how long Lu Qing could hold out.
As time passed, after countless setbacks and blows, the other party's clear eyes became more and more complicated. He began to become conflicted and stopped abusing his kindness to help others. But even so, in countless life-and-death situations, he still chose redemption.
He had thoughts of suicide countless times, but he gritted his teeth again and again and resisted. He both longed for death and struggled on the edge of life. He longed for the light, but he sank deeper and deeper into the darkness.
I don't know when, Lu Jie suddenly had an idea: he wanted to help Lu Qing.
Therefore, at the last moment, Lu Jie attached himself to Lu Qing's ear and whispered, "Do you want to leave this place with me?" ”
Lu Qing was slightly stunned, his reaction was completely expected by Lu Jie.
He rejected himself.
Lu Qing has always been concerned, he has love in his heart, he can't be like himself, he can let go of everything.
From love to worry, from love to fear, if separated from the lover, worry-free and fearless.
That pair of jade pendants was Lu Jie's last gift to Lu Qing.
"I hope that one day, you and I will meet again."
Ah, Lu Jie's extras end here, so far he is the most satisfying character I have created, and the book friend Hedu Hantanyue also wrote an in-depth character analysis for Lu Jie, I think the writing is particularly good! These contents will be posted in the comments, if you are interested, you can take a look and participate in the discussion!