Chapter 2: The Vanishing Man
The gray sky obscured the evening sun, and thousands of silver filaments fell with the wind, and the light or loud aftersound lingered in every part of the city. Although the delightful National Day Golden Week was disrupted by a drizzling rain, many people are still enjoying the festive joy.
When the holiday atmosphere is everywhere, there is a figure walking alone on the uninhabited coast of Liao, accompanied by strong winds and drizzle. The brilliant lights of the bustling city in the distance could not illuminate this small gray area, like chocolate added to sweet milk, exuding a faint bitterness, slowly melting into the endless night, an ink painting by the pen of God.
The young man standing at the center of the scroll narrowed his eyes slightly, staring indifferently ahead. Without the shelter of an umbrella, his face was already glowing, a sight of the lights and rain in the distant city. What should have been a poetic scene is now particularly bleak because of the gray pupils of the teenager.
Maybe the rain had accumulated a little too much, or maybe the boy's face was too delicate and smooth, and a lot of rain had begun to drip down his cheeks. It's just that on this beach, these dripping raindrops can't make a splash, and they gradually lose their form in the darkness as if they have fallen into a bottomless abyss, and even the sound is so light that it is difficult to detect.
In this way, as a small embellishment, the boy walked on this picture scroll. He's slow and seems to stop at any moment. If anything, it might be very appropriate to call it the walking dead, after all, there was a dead air in his slightly narrowed eyes, and it was completely impossible to see where his destination was.
Today is a special day for Tong Xiaofeng, it is the eighteenth birthday of him and his sister. As a lucky person born on National Day, this was the capital he bragged to his playmates when he was a child. It's a pity that these are all in the past, since Tong Xiaoyu disappeared on this coast two years ago, he has long since lost the habit of celebrating his birthday.
I don't know how many times I've been here, whether it's the churning waves or the icy sea breeze, I've long been familiar with this regular. Many people may have heard the performance of the sea, roaring like a giant beast devouring everything, and when it is low, it is like a prayer from ancient times, but in his ears, the sound of rising and falling at that time has become the gentle words of the past, and it is the second speech of the girl of yesteryear.
"As the supreme god, I hereby declare that the future will be the world of the house, and you are God's assistant, work for me. ”
The girl was remembered pointing her finger at him, saying shameful words. It's really arrogant to be just a housegirl who doesn't know how to do housework, he thought so at the time. It's just that no matter what he thinks, the answer is always yes. Who made him an older brother, isn't it natural for a creature like an older brother to indulge his sister?
Maybe it's because he misses his sister, or he simply doesn't want to forget the past, but he feels the feeling of being put on his shoulders by the girl's hands again, and his back seems to be close together, which is a familiar and strange feeling.
"Brother, I'm tired, carry me home, hurry up, I still have anime to watch. The girl's voice seemed to ring in his ears, and his slightly cloudy eyes had a little color.
With a little doubt, a little surprise, he finally turned his head to look behind him. It was a familiar signature smile and an unaltered girl. It may be that the smile is too dazzling, even the world is rendered golden, and the sound of the wind and rain, as well as all the sounds of the waves, are resisted in the periphery of the golden world and cannot reach his ears.
"Xiaoyu, you're finally back?"
There was no answer, the girl still smiled, as if acquiescing to Tong Xiaofeng's question. He didn't know how long he had waited for this moment, and he didn't care about anything else, he just wanted to stretch out his hands and hold the girl in front of him tightly in his arms.
Probably knowing his thoughts, the girl in front of him smiled even more and pounced directly on him.
It is said that women are made of water, but the water can at least leave traces, but the girl in front of him turned into a little glow fire and slowly dissipated into the air when he was about to touch it, and the golden world also collapsed a little bit with the dissipation of the girl.
In those scattered golden halos, he saw the picture of the girl and his life, each piece is a memory, each piece is a story, although there is no touching plot to sing and cry, but these daily trivial things make him miss it immensely.
As if his heart had been tugged at, his hands, which should have hugged the girl, began to scratch at the remaining golden glow. Maybe it was luck, a little glow was held in the palm of his hand, and he was as happy as if he had grasped a life-saving straw. With a somewhat distorted smile on his face, he slowly spread his palms, but there was nothing but some rain.
Slowly raised his head and watched the last bit of firefly disappear into the air, leaving no trace. The darkness took over again, and the sea breeze began to laugh at his ancs, and the sirens of passing cars in the distance sounded a little harsh. Perhaps the rain was a little heavy, and two water marks were condensed on his face. Because it wasn't particularly cold at the beginning of October, these two water marks were a little warm, after all, he was very strong, and this couldn't be tears, these were just two rains coming out of his eyes.
"Why, do you already hate being hugged by your brother?"
A slightly choked question came out of his mouth. It's just that there is no one to answer his questions, and the sea breeze and waves and the raindrops that keep falling are busy playing their own music, and I don't think there will be time to pay attention to him.
After this farce, Tong Xiaofeng finally wavered a little, in fact, no one except him admitted Tong Xiaoyu's existence, and the doctor had already labeled him paranoid.
At the beginning of the mutation, he had panicked and asked everyone who had come into contact with Tong Xiaoyu, whether it was classmates or playmates, and even their mother did not remember having such a daughter.
The doubts from the whole world made him wonder many times if he really imagined a sister in his mind, but that memory was too real, and it can be said that if Tong Xiaoyu's existence was denied, then he would have almost no childhood. Because his mother went overseas to work as a single parent, there was only a nanny and a younger sister at home. As an outsider's nanny, there are also several changes.,Only the otaku sister has never left him.,No matter what you do, it's stuck together.,Until the night before it disappeared, it was still talking about game strategies in a bed.。
"Xiaoyu, where the hell are you. A beast-like roar came from his mouth, and despite all his strength, it still couldn't penetrate the clouds to reach the gods.
He has done this kind of thing countless times, but it can only be a one-sided vent of his emotions.
The cold body has begun to warn him, and the sticky feeling caused by the already soaked clothes on his body makes him a little uncomfortable, but today he doesn't want to leave, although he has no habit of celebrating his birthday, but he has bought a cake both last year and this year, and he must be fully prepared to welcome a girl back at any time, but unfortunately this expectation is almost impossible to get a response.
The sky grew darker and darker, and finally swallowed up with the sea, and the howling wind began to become rampant, but he sat on the spot and stared at the dark sea in a daze.
He didn't know exactly how his sister disappeared, why she disappeared, where she went, and that memory was the only blur for him. I only remember that it was also raining lightly that day like today, and Tong Xiaoyu, as an otaku girl, asked for the first time to celebrate his birthday with him outside.
"Brother, our date is at twelve o'clock tonight, let's go to the beach secretly without the nanny. ”
At that time, he didn't care about what his sister said about dating, it was already a customary matter, and both of them were in adolescence, so even if Tong Xiaoyu always said that he liked his brother and wanted to marry his brother, he just took it as a joke, and he didn't blush at every turn like the hero in the comics, but he just ignored it gorgeously and responded with a "hmm".
He didn't know why he agreed at the time, probably because of the twins, he had regarded her as a part of himself since he was a child, so he didn't refuse his sister's request much.
However, even that night, as now, no one was there, and even the cars on the road were extremely scarce, after all, this place was quite remote, and it was still raining lightly at twelve o'clock in the evening. At that time, they were holding umbrellas and fully enjoying the dark time when there were only two people. Tong Xiaofeng didn't know why her sister came here, after all, it was very cold at night, and she was quite offended, but she smiled happily, and that was enough.
The memory of Tong Xiaoyu threw away the umbrella in her hand after enjoying the worst night view with him, and Tong Xiaofeng, who was still worried that she would catch a cold, stopped moving forward under her stopping.
It's that signature smile again, so perfect, every time it appears, it means he can't refuse.
In this way, Tong Xiaoyu began to say something, but the memory did not preserve the sound, only the sound of the wind and rain and the sound of the waves intertwined with the final movement.
If he could, he would have liked to come closer and put his ear to his sister's mouth. Unfortunately, it is no longer possible, and the distance between it is called reality and illusion.
He has no way of knowing his memories after that, except that when he woke up again, he was lying on a hospital bed, and the first thing he saw was the worried eyes of the nanny. Since then, his sister has completely disappeared, very completely, whether it is a person or a memory, even a page is missing from the household registration book that belongs to her.
Whether his sister's existence is mixed with truth or falsehood, he doesn't know. He didn't know if memories that had been denied by the whole world were necessarily non-existent. But no matter what, he can't give up this family affection, his only sister.
Perhaps because he was stuck in memory, he didn't notice that a different figure had appeared in this black painting, a figure that was incompatible with this painting and was full of light.