Chapter 2 First Meeting
How did it end up here?
I lay in the wet and cold alleyway, staring blankly at the sky, letting the cold wind and drizzle hit this small body, and the familiar feeling lingered in my heart again, "Dream, repeated?" ”
It was a dirty, almost abandoned street, and I was an abandoned five-year-old, a poor toddler of an ignorant age - I guess so......
The cold wind was like a knife, and the drizzle was like a needle, but I still didn't react, my mind was blank, and I could only stare blankly at the gray sky.
Suddenly, the wind and rain around me were gone, the long-lost warmth was approaching, and the more familiar feeling made my heart throb inexplicably, and I turned my head to look ahead: a young woman in shabby clothes was coming to me with an umbrella, with a little concern and worry, leaning down to untie her coat and drape it over my body, and asked softly, "Are you okay?" "I miss the scene at that time, I think that although her appearance at that moment was not beautiful, it really touched my confused and weak heart.
I really miss it, but is there any beauty in this world that belongs to me? I gently stretched out my right hand, swept her surprisingly delicate cheek downward, rounded her chin in surprise with a look of astonishment, and—with a sharp force, crushed her throat, and watched faintly as she perished with confusion and terror.
This is retribution!
At that moment, everything stood still. I let out a soft breath, closed my eyes, opened them again, and returned to the quiet room, the soft and comfortable bed, the familiar room layout, and a quartz clock that took up almost half of the wall directly opposite. The sound of a snap tick echoed in the air, and when I looked up slightly—two o'clock, the word "morning" was prominently displayed near the center of the pointer, reminding me that it was early in the morning.
Is it two o'clock in the morning again?
After brushing his teeth and washing his face without hurrying, he looked at himself in the mirror, his stiff face was very pale, dull and lifeless, and even his eyes looked a little sluggish. Bow your head and take a deep breath, skillfully adjust your facial muscles, and look at it again - the perfect smile glows with an aura of affinity, which makes people can't help but feel good, and just like two people.
Name: Ling Yun, Gender: Male. This is my basic information, and the only information I believe in, with almost no hobbies, and to put it bluntly: there is almost nothing in this world that attracts me. As for how old...... About twelve, when I was awake in this bed for the first time after having amnesia, my parents told me I was eight years old, and it's been almost four years now. The first two years passed normally, but every night after that, I would have a dream, a different dream, the protagonist was me, but the identity was different at different ages, and the time experienced was also different, through everything in this world, and then I opened my eyes and saw that the hour hand pointed to the number two, and the minute and second hands moved to the number twelve at the same time. Every then, the two Chinese characters are unusually dazzling, and a "card rub" is particularly loud.
Every night, the dream never stopped, but the content of the dream was not repeated until yesterday.
I'm a weird person. This point has been deeply reflected in my mind not long after I woke up: small as "neutral face, temperament is yin", "long hair will not be short no matter how you cut it"; Then, "the dreams of the past two years are still as clear as they have been experienced", "the memory is excellent and unforgettable"; From "the computing power of the brain is comparable to that of a supercomputer", "it has extraordinary strength and reflexes", and my perception ......
As always, I lay on the roof and watched the sky, waiting for the sun to rise. My five senses are rather strange, and as far as vision is concerned, distance and size, and sensitivity to light can be varied but difficult for me to control, so that to this day my lighting is very bad, and there is no night, but a long dusk. In the eye, there are only three or two faint stars and the outline of the crescent moon, and the night at this time should be very beautiful, and the stars are shining.
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September 1, 2020, today's date, I'm going to report from the school like thousands of students. With my bag in one hand and a fixed smile on my face, I walked through the crowd and everyone ignored me - yes, even though I was a very strange person, no one would notice, and that was the strangest thing about me: my presence was low, and my presence could be even lower if I wanted to.
Crossing the school gate, I walked straight forward in the crowd of people, but no one around me could touch me, and everyone bypassed me intentionally or unintentionally, just because I silently said "don't touch me" in my heart. There is an insurmountable barrier between me and the world, invisible but truly deeply separating me.
The first time I entered high school, it was inevitable that I would learn about it without knowing anything, and I could only be weird rather than omnipotent, smirking at myself and wandering around as I looked around and jot down the environment. This kind of activity makes me feel comfortable unconsciously, watching the young boys and girls in front of me walking in groups, I just watch, I don't want to think about anything, I don't know what to think, just silently observe, there will always be a trace of yearning in my heart that shouldn't exist.
My school life was only two short years - one in elementary school, one in junior high school, and then I came to high school, and I had no human friends, and I shouldn't have human friends, people like me......
I don't want to transfer schools, the people around me have changed one by one, I have seen all kinds of classmates but there is no one who can make me have the idea of being friends, I don't know how to transfer, but in the last few days of the summer vacation, there will be a school admission letter put by my parents on my desk, and nothing will be said.
That's right, in the past two years, I have met them very few times, and there are only a handful of words to say, how can I waste my tongue because of such a trivial matter!
At this time, a noise behind me woke me up in deep thought, only to see a young man who seemed to be about my age walking towards me, without shifting, I could clearly feel that his gaze was very clearly locked on me, and what was particularly striking was that there was no one within nearly ten meters around him, but outside of this was a crowded scene, everyone's eyes were shining, and a look of wanting to see but not daring to look made me a little curious about what this person had done.
Suddenly, I felt a tingling pain in my right shoulder and the back of my neck, my brain froze, and the whole world seemed to change: my senses of sight and sound were involuntarily adjusted, and everything around me seemed to be suspended, and it was only then that I really saw what was going on—the man had come to me, reaching out to put his arm around me.
So fast! So far, I have encountered fewer than a handful of situations that have aroused my alertness and caused my senses to adjust automatically, and I never imagined that I would encounter them today. The brain was thinking, but the body didn't stop, reaching out to hold his wrist, reflexively, rushing forward, and pressing down, trying to catch him on the ground, but the other party was obviously not an ordinary person, following my movements to dissolve the momentum in an arc, and then jumped back to his original position and closed his eyes. Seeing him like this, I also resumed my movements, and then both of us calmed down very tacitly, and then, the originally paused screen, began to "play" normally, which is really interesting to say.
"I said dude, you were too ruthless just now." He walked up to him and put on a look of disbelief. But I knew he was pretending, because I clearly saw the whole process of his muscles squirming when the two expressions switched, maybe he was a little surprised, but he definitely deliberately magnified the amplitude of the expression.
Just as I was about to say something, my right shoulder tingled again, and then the world stood still again, and he tried to force his hand on my shoulder, and then I was already a little irritable, and I grabbed my wrist a second time, pulled back, and then hit his knee forward against his abdomen to teach him a lesson. This time, he blocked my attack with his elbow, but my impact was not so easy to defuse, and he still flew nearly five meters into the air before rolling over and landing.
I pulled out a piece of tissue paper from my pocket and wiped my hands carefully, I have a high degree of targeted cleanliness and am very unaccustomed to human contact - this is the case since I woke up, and it is worse after two years, so people like me ......
"Hey, you're wearing gloves! It's rude," he yelled again.
"I'm afraid you'll stain my gloves." I put away my facial expression and gave him a cold look. As far as I know about the world, people like him or the kind of people he plays have a strong underwhelming nature, and they shouldn't be given a good face.
After I dodged and threw the garbage back to where I was, he came back to me, and together we gathered our minds and let the whole world go back to normal again. I don't know how this almost fantasy ability came about, but whenever I see the natural smile around me that I envy is still, a rising sense of irritability always affects my thoughts, and at the same time, such a world becomes false in my eyes, and the barrier deepens.
Ling Yun ...... Classmates, right? Obviously, he was as familiar with the switch between static and normal as I was, but the pretended enthusiastic gesture made me very uncomfortable, and the different expressions of the group of people around me and what they called the "Five Heavenly Kings" gave me a vague bad premonition.
"Yes, may I ask you something?" My facial expressions switched from smiling to polite gestures of confusion, a series of expressions that I had developed myself, and I didn't expect to fool the person in front of me.
"That's right, I heard that another twelve-year-old genius will come to this school, so I came to see if you need anything, and help lead the way." From what I've observed, it's eighty percent true, and I'm curious where his good intentions come from, and how threatening the two false ones are, and I've sensed that something is wrong, as if I was being disturbed, and the people around me didn't completely ignore my presence because of my hints, which made me feel a little uncomfortable for being out of people's sight all the time.
"Really? I really didn't expect you to come in person, thank you so much. "Naturally, I was surprised and excited, because I noticed that everyone else was in disbelief, so there must be something wrong with this person, right? It can be seen that there is no one to call a cheesy name like "Five Heavenly Kings".
"It's nothing, after all, classmates have to help each other, and besides, you're about the same age as us, and the taste of your clothes is similar to that of one of my brothers, it's really rare." His very useful expression is simply divine! If it weren't for the fact that I had been evenly matched with him just now, I would have believed that his muscles were perfectly active this time, and the realism was even higher than before, and his pompous personality was almost come true.
At this time, he was about to raise his arm, and I immediately stared at him with an extremely strong gaze, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and then changed to the position of putting his hands behind his back, and walked in the front.
Immediately after taking dozens of steps, I pulled down my face and lowered my pitch to express my anger: "Who are you?" And why bother me? "It's not loud, but I'm sure he'll hear it very clearly.
"Huh~ Don't you even know who I am?" He turned around and pretended to be surprised and sad, but thankfully he wasn't interfering now, and the two of us were just moving forward in the eyes of the others.
"Why should I know? What are the Five Heavenly Kings? Is it famous? "This is something that I was very confused about from the beginning.
"Uh, ahaha," he paused for a moment, then laughed dryly, "Your old man really doesn't hear anything outside the window, and the Linhai Five Heavenly Kings who have terrified the whole country in Linhai Province have never even heard of it." Forget it, it seems that you don't care much about the world, so introduce yourself - the demon king of the world? Zhang Ye, tomorrow will be twelve years old. ”
The Demon King of the Mixed World? This name also has a strong ironic color, and if it is really famous all over the country, I can already imagine how many evil things have accumulated behind his murderous name.
"Hey, what's your reaction?" This was the second time that my thinking had been interrupted because of him, and I glared at him coldly: "What reaction?" "It's common sense that I can't give a good face to someone like him, and besides, I don't even know the real motive for his approach, too much reaction will only increase my flaws, and I won't trust anyone, because no one can give me that feeling, even though I'm alone.
Seeing that I didn't say much, Zhang Ye didn't ask much, people like us can only understand some superficial things when they meet for the first time, even if I have only seen him so far as to be a person similar to the same kind, but the vigilance in my heart is still far greater than joy. In this way, the two of us walked to a school building at a very fast speed under everyone's noses, and stopped in front of the leftmost classroom on the first floor.
There was something strange about the building, or maybe the class in front of me was a bit weird: the whole building was noisy overall, but the closer you got to the bottom left corner, the less noisy it became, and it had reached the point of silence, not at all as a freshman class. But I'm surprised, I'm very happy with this situation, and I don't like people chattering around me.
"Hahaha," just as I was thinking this, there was a burst of arrogant laughter from inside, and I immediately concluded that this person must belong to the Five Heavenly Kings. "I didn't think there were people in our class who were similar to us, it's rare." The voice is elegant, but it still can't hide the pompousness.
I stepped through the door and saw a young man wearing a pure white trench coat, and then leaning against the snow-white wall, to use the worldly words I could think of—Saobao.
"Ling, look, it's right to say that his clothing taste is similar to yours?" Zhang Ye had already come to the man's side at this time, and then approached me at an inopportune time.
I squinted, and a fire unconsciously rose in my heart, and it was only then that I realized that my clothes and gloves were white, but the clothes were never my responsibility, and it seemed that everything in the wardrobe was the same, and there was no choice at all.
For a while, the situation was deadlocked, and the two living treasures also discovered that something was wrong. Fortunately, there were no accidents at this time, and no ordinary person present would notice our interaction, and with my usual style, the "flattered" that I could show in the first five seconds was already the limit.
At this time, a boy with eyes stepped forward from the rear, and his temperament was a little old, "Hello, my two unsuccessful brothers have embarrassed you, I am very sorry, and I will introduce: I am a civilized hooligan?" Zhou Bin, his name is Playboy? Ouyang Chengfeng," he pointed to the boy who was sassy, and then introduced me to the last two, a man who seemed relatively silent and the only woman, "This is the gold medal fighter?" Nangong Hui's, and our witch? Shangguan Yue'er. "They were all fine, nodding politely to me, looking a little more reliable, which also made my senses slightly higher for the characters played by the five of them, even though the nicknames were still too cheesy.
At this time, I also had a general understanding of the composition of this class: there were twenty-six people in total, and in a large class that could accommodate fifty people, the first twenty people were shrunk in the front half, which was full, and you can imagine how the "prestige" of this group of people was. There were only six empty boss tables and chairs in the back, and five people gathered around an empty seat, which was obviously reserved for me. What a conspicuous seat, completely contrary to my intentions, but this is the only one.
Looking at the smiles on their faces, I was really puzzled. Although I was not satisfied, I had no choice but to sit down as they wished. By this time, I was clearly no longer optimistic about my high school life.
However, somehow, although I don't like them a little, I won't refuse, because it's the same kind? I leaned back in my leather chair and put my hands together, thinking blankly.