Chapter 16: A Long-Lost Dream
Scarly seemed to be a resolute man, and in William's mind, Scarly's business might have a higher priority than his own. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info So, after just a few words, William said apologetically to Brunei that he might not be able to attend his class again today in order to find a way to make him a mage, and then politely asked Brunei to leave.
Walking down the street, Brunei gradually calmed down, only feeling that all the events that had happened before were unreal, and even ridiculous. If he had heard such a plot in a certain story, he would probably have lashed out at the insult to his intellect. However, no matter how you recall, this is exactly what happened.
Previously, Brunei thought that William was an example, but now it seems that the seemingly calm Scarly also has similar traits to William, impetuous, simple, and fanatical. Thinking about it and taking action immediately was a new understanding for Brunei, and he gradually began to think, "Ah, there are such people in this world."
But now that he has calmed down, Brunei gradually realizes that he was gradually being influenced by William and is getting closer to people like him. Because everything is so easy, the problem of going to school, which I thought might never have a chance again, was solved so easily, and the problem of eating, which I used to worry about every day, seemed to be out of the scope of consideration at all.
This feeling of unreality affected Brunei's thinking and led him almost astray.
Now, it turns out that Brunei does not have the ability to control everything, because in reality he has too little insight and too little information and intelligence at his disposal. Maybe William and Scarly couldn't make Brunei a mage as easily as they said, but they didn't expect that they would take a mage so seriously, which was already a mistake on the part of Brunei himself.
Brunei finally laughed: "Still, the system, as you say. The results that far exceeded expectations are still good results. I should have been happier. ”
Brunei returned to his dormitory, the same house where hundreds of people were on the floor. It was five or six o'clock in the afternoon, it was not yet dark, and there was still the sun outside, which was a little warmer outside than in a room with little thermal equipment. So, as expected, the room seemed surprisingly empty at the moment.
Except for Brunei himself, who had just entered the door, there were only two people inside.
"Yo, crooked-mouthed brother, I'm back so early today!" Brunei's co-worker, who obviously grew up in a place like College City where federal mages are the mainstream, but is in his thirties but still has no magic emblem, and the unlucky guy who sinks in pain and drunken dreams every day beckons to Brunei Si with great interest, "Can't you be absent from work like this again? I'll forget it, Aunt Susan does half of the work every day for no reason, and she is so tired that her waist is about to be wasted, you really can't bear it." ”
Brunei closed the door, took off his mask, took a deep breath of cold air, and smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry, Jamie." Suddenly, I found a good job, because the matter was urgent, and the end of the hand here was not dealt with properly. I'm sorry for your trouble. If things settle down by then, I'll invite you to eat out for a while. ”
The hapless Jamie whistled, "Oh, crooked boy, are you suddenly so generous?" That's right, let's go to the restaurant where this kid works." This kid told me for a long time, and I was so hungry that I couldn't eat it. ”
Jamie said and patted the young man next to him on the shoulder. The boy was dressed in pure white, so much so that it took Brunei five seconds to see that the boy was wearing what was probably the so-called chef's suit, and it took him another five seconds to recognize that the boy was the strange guy he had picked up earlier.
"Don?" Brunei nodded at him, "haven't seen you in a while?
The pure white boy smiled calmly, his demeanor was as old as he looked, not at all like he looked like he was only a teenager, and he also nodded to Brunei: "Indeed, I haven't seen you for a long time." I got a temporary job at a restaurant on West Street. I've only been working for three months, and my time card is very accurate, so I won't cause you trouble. ”
"Yes. This time it's like this. Brunei shrugged his shoulders and walked over to his own bunk, lay down, shrugged his shoulders and put his hands under his head, "It would be best if you could feed yourself." Just don't get me in trouble. ”
Tang suddenly laughed brightly: "It's still so cold." ”
Brunei rolled his eyes: "What do you say 'still'...... I really don't know. If you don't like it, how about getting out?"
Tang smiled brighter: "No, I don't like it." It's just that if you're so cold, why don't you throw me down when I'm unconscious? You should have tried, right? In that case, if I was asked to leave, I would have obeyed. ”
"Huh?" Brunei's eyebrows raised, and he lay sideways with disgust on his face, "What a stupid thing." You two be quiet, I feel a little tired. Sleep will. ”
"Crooked mouth, don't forget to treat yourself. Jamie said casually, shrugged, and walked out the door, "Be careful not to freeze to death." ”
Tang on the side sat upright on the straw mat next to him, looking at Brunei lying there, smiling, not knowing what he was thinking. After a while, as if he suddenly remembered, he covered Brunei with the thick quilt he had sold his clothes for. Then, he saw Brunei's face, and the smile on his face suddenly disappeared, and he sat back in his place.
After a long time, he let out a long sigh: "...... Why him?"
“...... ......He tilted his head, no longer looking in the direction of Bruneith, and the low empty ceiling suddenly reflected the dim red light below, and an imperceptible soft snort came from Brunei's mouth, sounding more like a unconscious voice in his sleep. However, he seemed to understand something, and laughed self-deprecatingly.
"You're right. Idiot...... I really asked a stupid question. ”
............
The last time I had this dream was a long time ago. At that time, he was still trekking through the endless mountains with the bald head. He seemed to have a very heavy fever - I can't remember it now, it's only been less than a year, but it looks like something from another world.
It's still strange plants, strange monsters, and rocks and barren mountains everywhere, and it's hard to see a little popularity.
However, the large wasteland in the center is incredibly lively. Groups - hundreds, thousands, or, thousands of monkeys jubilantly and screaming in a dizzying confusion. Pale yellow, brown, red, black...... Monkeys of many colors gathered together, waving straightened branches and slightly shaped stones, and screaming like crazy.
And in the center of them, there are fifty-six more special monkeys. They formed three circles inside and out, their faces facing all directions, their bodies draped in simple blades of grass, and in their hands they held long wooden sticks topped with shiny stones or the skulls of some kind of animal, which were rather ridiculous to Brunei, but they exuded an awe-inspiring momentum.
And in the center of this group of monkeys, there is a tall and delicate stone chair, the height of the base is about the height of two standing monkeys stacked on top of each other, and the backrest is the height of a standing monkey. It was decorated with the skulls of three monsters the size of half monkeys, and withered branches and garlands, and even three holes were poked out of the backrest as decoration.
A particularly tall monkey sits cross-legged on a stone chair with a large circle of leaves strung with rope wrapped around its lower body, and there is no other decoration on its body. His fur was all white and generally long, draped down and enveloped his whole body, making it look more like a snowman - if it weren't for the sun shining like this at the moment.
And on its side, a special monkey stood - more precisely, a human.
"His" hair was messy, oily and slippery, apparently untidy for a long time, and the last time he cut his hair, the technique was probably very rough, and correspondingly, the fluffy and long beard on his face was very commensurate with the hairstyle at the moment.
"He" seemed to be almost completely blended in with the monkeys around him, and there was no sign of anything unusual at all, the only difference from the other monkeys was that his waist was still straight.
It took a long time for Brunei to see the root of such a boiling circle of monkeys on the periphery.
From time to time, huge strange birds will fall in the sky, Brunei thought it was a normal situation before, but after watching it for a long time, Brunei saw that those strange birds were obviously attacked, and the moment they were attacked was also related to some actions of the monkeys in the central circle.
At the edge of the ocean, there are also giant beasts that attack, prey, ambush, or just pass by, but the moment they get close to a certain distance, they fall for various reasons - lightning strikes, fire, flooding...... Wait a minute.
Every time a giant bird falls, every giant beast falls to the ground, and the monkeys become more and more jubilant.
Gradually, the cries of the monkeys ceased to be so chaotic and slowly became a unified sound.
I don't know how long it took for the boiling noise to finally become the same syllable. Brunei couldn't understand the meaning, but he understood that it must mean something.
"He" suddenly moved.
At the height of the shout, "he" walked from the side to the front of the old monkey, and slowly, raised his right hand.
The old monkey did not resist, did not move indiscriminately, and tilted his head up as if haughtily, and his mouth was cracked, revealing the white and untidy teeth inside. He put his right hand on the old monkey's forehead and opened his mouth to let out not a monkey-like howl, but a language. However, it is not a language that Brunei is familiar with, but it is not entirely unfamiliar.
Brunei somehow understood the meaning.
"Trust me. I will be the light. ”
Something on the old monkey's body shattered, and Brunei couldn't see anything unusual, but he felt it clearly.
"He" closed his eyes solemnly, silently said a few words, and then, raising his hand sharply, he threw the old monkey's body aside, causing a slight commotion among the surrounding monkeys. "He" stepped on the stone seat nonchalantly, spread his hands, and looked out in all directions.
The monkeys' cries were cluttered again. At this moment, however, "he" raised his right hand.
In the endless light, the monkeys, who could not see anything, seemed to have lost the ability to make sounds. Apart from the monkeys, there is no living creature on the earth. On the dead earth, only "his" voice echoed.
"Burn yourselves and give it to me. I am your light. I am, the Sun King!"