The next day, late at night.

There were few signs of people in the silent streets, except for the light of cigarette smoke in the alleys and the flickering lights of the vending machines.

"After Huai Shi returned to the hotel yesterday, she slept all night and increased half of the day, and then used room service to order a ten-person bucket, squatting in the hotel and watching two movies and half a new movie.

After six o'clock in the evening, he searched the Internet for discount coupons for the latest FPS games, scolded others on a forum for the balance of a mobile game, and just asked on Zhihu if he wanted to wear a suit to a formal occasion, and when he wanted to buy it, he found that it was too late...... Most of the stores in Jinling are closed, and now he's searching for the phone number of the nearest suit rental store......

If you want me to say, this little brother of yours is really amazing, not at all as sad and sad as you said, depressed to the point that he can't swallow and can't sleep, and his psychological quality is much better than that of a bald cowherd. ”

Listening to the words of the gun and stick in the vending machine, Liu Dongli's expression twitched, and he couldn't help but sigh: "Can you hurt me a little less?"

"I think for some scumbags who use their ex-girlfriends as tools after a breakup, this kind of rhetoric is just a breeze, what's wrong, does he also know how to write the word shame?"

“......”

Liu Dongli's face became more and more helpless, and he endured the ridicule and cold violence from his ex-girlfriend through the vending machine, until the indifferent tone on the other end finally finished venting his anger, and then asked: "I know you have an opinion about me, but no matter what, I'm your customer now, right?"

"Oh, so you mean you don't need me to use my internal authority to help you get a discount?"

"Don't, big sister, I was wrong!"

Liu Dongli was bent by money: "You just treat me as a scumbag, scold me a few more words! If you scold happily, you have the motivation to work, if you don't feel happy, I can scold you for you, this surnamed Liu is really not a good thing......"

"Well, you know. ”

The vending machine shook, and a can of drink fell out of it: "This is what you want, what happened to the Yin family back then." ”

As soon as the empty can was opened, a heavy roll of paper slid out of it.

"It's tomorrow's news. Liu Dongli sighed: "It's just that it's still not very convenient to use this way all the time, so can't we find a place for us to talk face-to-face?"

The vending machine sneered: "Excuse me, I'm afraid I won't be able to help but cut a few slashes in your face when the time comes......"

In silence, Liu Dongli sighed, looked down at the information on the paper, and his face became more and more difficult to see.

"Really?"

"What do you think?"

The voice in the vending machine said indifferently, "If you want to talk about ugliness, I don't know how many things that happen in this down-and-out family are dozens of times more ugly than this one, in order to keep power, this is just a commonplace little thing, and there is no need to hide it at all." Anyway, only a nosy person like you would turn this kind of thing out of the pile of old papers. ”

"It's pitiful to have this kind of thing, that little girl......"

Liu Dongli smoked a cigarette and sighed lowly.

Flipping through the records in his hand, he could almost imagine what happened to the Yin family more than twenty years ago—the changes that completely pushed Ai Qing into the abyss of today.

At that time, the Yin family had entered a period of rapid rise after mastering the trade of import and export at several borders. It's a pity that the people are thin.

Compared with the large number of clansmen, there are very few people with sublimation qualifications, and in addition to the sublimations recruited from outside, there is only one sublimation person of that generation.

No matter how much effort and preparation has been made, sublimation is still an unattainable event for ordinary people.

Just like Ai Qing's father, who was full of nature and had the highest possibility of all his peers, he still lingered on the edge of that level for more than ten years, and after exhausting all hopes, he withdrew and was excluded from the core of the family.

A few years later, he married a well-known cellist, and the couple were on good terms. After losing his qualification to become a sublimator, he instead found his happiness in the world of ordinary people, and had a ****** after marriage.

He not only inherited the abundant essence from his father, but also inherited his mother's outstanding talent for the cello. At that time, Yin Qing lived a life away from the Yin family at the insistence of her mother. In order to protect her daughter's life, as a mother, she did not hesitate to resist the old lady's will, and finally moved out of the Yin family and went to Xinhai.

Just to let my daughter live a normal life.

As a mother, she has done everything she can.

Until one day, the only sublimator of the Yin clan at that time was deeply injured in the struggle and died shortly. Once he dies, all of the Yin Clan's shares in the border will lose their holders, and the long-coveted outsiders will flock to divide them.

Without sublimation, there is no qualification to enter the game.

Liu Dongli smoked a cigarette and squinted his eyes at the record on the paper: "So, there was a car accident?"

"Yes, there were no accidents and no problems. ”

An indifferent voice in the vending machine said: "A family of three went to the zoo to celebrate their daughter's victory in the competition, and spent a happy day, and on the way back, they collided with a broken down truck, and the scene was tragic.

And the result, just as you might expect. ”

When she woke up from the sudden stupor and pain, she couldn't feel her lower body anymore.

She cried bitterly and subconsciously called out to her mother, but her mother did not respond.

Then she saw the pale face that had lost her breath, the woman who had rushed in front of her in the last moments before the impact, shielding herself from the impact.

Crying and death came suddenly, an out-and-out human tragedy.

In this sudden despair, the father who crawled out of the broken car frame hugged his wife, who had lost his life, and cried heartbreakingly, tears of despair, and called her name.

No one responded.

But when his world fell apart and his heart was almost broken, the miracle he had been waiting for for a long time suddenly befell him.

He finally crossed the once unattainable threshold and ushered in sublimation.

So, Ai Qing, who was engulfed in fear, saw that the man who was holding his wife's corpse and weeping bitterly froze in place, his expression twitched, and then, extremely absurd and extremely ugly...... A smile of ecstasy was revealed.

An ugly grin like a ghoul.

“......”

After watching the surveillance video of the scene on the vending machine, Liu Dongli fell into silence, for a long, long time, before he lit the cigarette at the corner of his mouth and sighed hoarsely:

"From that day on, she has hated the Sublimators, right?"

Hate his father, hate the family that murdered his mother...... After losing everything, instinctively begin to hate it all. But what's even more disgusting is that because of this, she found out that she had the potential to sublimate.

If it weren't for this heartfelt resistance and disgust, I am afraid that she would have possessed a talent that is better than that of her father.

The world was like a joke to her.

The ridiculous is not worth mentioning.

Liu Dongli shook his head pityingly, "Just if you can hold on until now, I'm afraid you will use all your strength." ”

"But what does that have to do with you, the bald cowherd?"

The vending machine asked indifferently, "How far do you want to get involved before you give up?" Or are you going to tell me that Huai Shi is your long-lost brother?"

Liu Dongli was stunned for a long time, and couldn't help but shake his head: "Don't put gold on his face, where does he have such good-looking genes as me!"

"After all these years, your stinky appearance still makes people want to vomit, second only to when you want to hide something, like now. ”

The voice behind the vending machine became impatient: "If I were you, I should have rolled over to Shambhala to have surgery now, at least that would help you live a few more years, instead of walking down the street one day and inexplicably dying and causing trouble to passers-by." ”

"Don't do it, I'm just ......"

Liu Dongli wanted to speak again and again, and finally sighed helplessly: "I just want to try to be a good person." ”

"If you want to be a good person, why don't you die as soon as possible and donate your inheritance to the Border Children's Medical Fund? It's definitely more touching than this, and maybe after death, it will be lined up into a movie, how can an executioner of the former secret army care for the health of border children after retiring...... Instead of going to be a cowherd and wasting your precious life on the career of being a kindergarten aunt!"

The cold, snarky voice paused for a moment, and then the voice became indistinct.

"Liu Dongli, your time is running out. ”

"I know. ”

"There's no point in doing that. ”

"I know that too. ”

Liu Dongli smoked a cigarette, shrugged his shoulders, and laughed: "But you can't let that unlucky kid go alone, right?"

“......”

"I know you're caring about me, thank you, but no matter what, I'm going to do what I can. ”

Liu Dongli took off his cigarette and stepped on it: "I often think that Huai Shi is very similar to me back then, but in fact, Huai Shi is much stronger than before...... If I had the resilience and courage he had, I wouldn't have chosen to run away and fall to the level I have now. Every time I see him working so hard to live, I can't help but feel ashamed of myself and find it difficult to face myself.

But I think if I can help him even a little bit, then my last retirement can be meaningful, right?"

The vending machine didn't speak again.

There was a churning sound, something heavy falling from the machine, and the huge box fell behind the lid of the pick-up slot.

The box, which was more than half a body high, was pulled out by Liu Dongli with great difficulty, placed on the ground, and skillfully opened the zipper, and saw the cold iron light sleeping between the sponges.

He was stunned for a moment, then grinned.

"Thank you. ”

"Go waste your life, fool. The vending machine said goodbye coldly: "I wish you to die early in your dreams than to stay in this world and be tortured." ”

The light on the vending machine was cut off, and no sound was heard.

After a long silence, Liu Dongli smiled, smiled and pulled up the zipper, pulled up the strap, carried the slender box over his shoulder, and staggered towards the darkness at the end of the road.

Only faint singing could be heard.

"Oh, children lost in the night......" The hoarse hum faded away: "Oh, children lost in the night, wait for the light of day."

The night was long.