Chapter 39: Turning Water into Milk
But the scene in front of me can't be a hallucination. For Aru was so preoccupied with Mary that he stepped into the mud on the bank of the river without paying attention, and when he came out of his feet in shock, his shoes, stockings, and trousers were covered with mud. Aru's movements alarmed Mary, who was staring intently at the surface of the water, and she turned her head to see Aru in embarrassment, laughing like a silver bell, and then slithering like a water strider in the middle of the water. Aru was trying to wipe the sludge off his shoes on the grass on the shore.
"Brother!" After jumping on the shore, Mary is familiar with herself, and she and Eru have only met for the first time (maybe a few times in superpowers), as if they are close brothers and sisters who have lived together for the first half of their lives, and they will meet after a period of separation, not to mention anything else, but to be busy spoiling first.
Aru also noticed a strange thing, in terms of age, Aru is also in his thirties, according to the time when his parents left him, his sister's age should also be thirty, but Mary is as delicate as a teenage girl, but there is no pretentious twisting. On the contrary, her coquettishness is natural, and people can't help but suspect that her appearance in her thirties is just a layer of camouflaged skin, and when you peel off this skin, an innocent little girl who is arguing with you for candy will immediately pop up.
"You're a sister?"
"Yes! Elder brother! β
Aru had a feeling of the world spinning for a while, he didn't dare to dream about it before, but now he couldn't dream that it was such a gentle and weird scene when he met his own sister at first acquaintance.
"Can you walk on water?"
"I've been there since I was a kid!"
"Why are you walking on water?" Aru may have been confused, and blurted out this question without even thinking about it.
"I'm looking at the fish!" Mary said with a flushed face.
"Fish?"
"Yes! It's only available in a little deeper water over there. It is only as long as a finger, and it looks black and not good-looking, and the people in the village call it a cold-water fish. But I found it very funny, and as soon as I walked in the middle of the water, they would swim hundreds and thousands of them at my feet, as if they had come to worship me. β
"Worship you?" Aru was getting more and more confused, and finally saw his dearest person, but he was busy asking endless words.
"That's right!" Mary was still naΓ―ve. "They all raised their heads, their mouths sticking out of the water, and they closed one by one like this." Mary said as she imitated the small fish opening its mouth and spitting bubbles. Seeing her cute appearance, Aru couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"What are you laughing at, don't they look like they're shouting hooray, hooray?"
"Like! Resemble! Aru found that not only was she struggling with the crowd, but even her childlike quirky sister couldn't handle it. He crouched down and pretended to be trying to clean the mud from his trouser cuffs and shoes, while asking nonchalantly,
"What else would you do in particular besides being able to walk on water?"
"You mean special abilities?" Mary asked.
Aru looked up and nodded. Mary tilted her head.
"Let me think about it, once my aunt said that the milk was gone at home, and I turned a vat of water into milk." Mary's tone seemed to be ordinary, not a big deal.
"Turned into milk?" Eru sat down on the ground and said weakly.
"That's right, but the milk became too much, and we couldn't finish it, so it went bad. My uncle got up at night and secretly drove him to the river and dumped it. β
"Dumped?" Like a nerd, Aru would only repeat the last words of Mary's words.
"Uncle said that if someone finds out, they will hold me high first, and then find an excuse to kill me."
These words came out of the mouth of the innocent Mary, and they sounded particularly chilling.
"My aunt also told me that there was a man like me who turned a jar of water into wine, and fed several villages with five loaves and two fish, and then several people from several villages took him and nailed him to a log, and he died."
"He is not dead, but resurrected." Even though Aru said this, his heart was so weak that it was hard to believe such nonsense.
"That's not what Aunt said," Mary affirmed. "When people die, they live in another world, but ordinary people can't see my brother, tell you, I can see it."
"What do you see?"
"You can see the dead! They can see me, too. Yes! Mary suddenly covered her mouth and said no more.
"How?" Aru asked.
"My aunt won't let me say it."
"They're here to protect you."
"You speak in the tone of your aunt."
Aru laughed.
"Sister, tell me brother, what else can you do with your special ability?"
"I'll heal," said Mary's face, and for a moment Aru suspected that it was his own delusion, and he felt that when his sister was down, even God seemed to be darkened.
"What's wrong?"
"When my uncle was very sick, I was not allowed to treat him. He said that even someone as powerful as me could not violate the mandate of heaven. He said, "His time has come, and although I am reluctant to let him go, I want to" Mary's eyes glistened with tears, and she was speechless for a moment; It was as if I had suddenly forgotten what my uncle had said, and I was trying hard to remember it. Aru couldn't bear it when he saw it, so he helped her take the words.
"If you don't want him to go, you have to let go." A few words made Airu's nose sour.
"Yes, he said, I am not a god, and even if I am a god, I cannot bring the dead back to life." Mary said with a serious face, and Eru was speechless, only sighed heavily.
"But I can't do a lot of things."
"Oh?" Aru also learned from Mary tilting her head, which made Mary laugh. She crouched down and said to Aru very seriously.
"I was talking just now, and I wanted to use my special ability to help you clean the mud off your feet, but it didn't seem to work."
Before Mary could finish her sentence, she had already made Aru laugh, and Mary laughed when she saw her brother's amusement. Aru couldn't remember how long it had been since he had laughed like this, maybe in his whole life. Perhaps out of delusion, Eru felt that when he and Mary laughed, even the heavens were infected, and the sky was greener than before. However, against the background of the blue sky and white clouds, a small black dot appeared in the distance, which was rapidly approaching this direction. Aru knew what was coming almost as soon as he noticed it, and his face changed, and he stood up.
"What's wrong? Elder brother! What's coming? β
Aru didn't have time to explain, "Do you believe brother?" β
Mary nodded firmly.
"Then come with me."
"No way!"
Aru looked back in disbelief, "Why?" β
"What should I do when I'm gone, Auntie?"
Aru wanted to say something, but it was too late, and a car sprang out of the village at high speed, which was the high-horsepower vehicle that Matvey and Sergey had requisitioned from the unit in the port city.