Chapter 8: The Rift Galaxy
Syllable!
The cup that Ranyue held in her hand suddenly shattered, and she covered her mouth and looked at Shigego in disbelief.
Anton ran over and shook his shoulder, "Hey, you're lying to me, Chonggo, you speak!"
Chonggo just pursed his lips and didn't say a word, and the tears kept coming, Xinghe looked very upset, he pulled Anton away from Chonggo, and shouted at Chonggo, "Enough, you're not a girl, have you cried enough, tell me what happened!"
"Ling's illness is 'original sin,' and Dr. Emilio says that there is no cure for that disease. ”
Chongwu's voice was still choked, and Xinghe was inevitably a little angry when he heard it, but he still listened patiently, "When did you know?"
Shigego lowered his head and tugged at the corners of his clothes, "I've known for a long time when you were locked up on Quicksand Island. ”
"How come?" Lan Yue left two lines of tears on her face.
"You know that too?" Xinghe looked at Lan Yue in disbelief.
She leaned against the wall in distraction, muttering, "I thought it would be fine, José said that Ling would come to the capital when she was better......"
Xinghe took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, and he asked Shigego, "Why didn't you tell us about this when we left?"
"Ling said that if I don't tell you, you can come to the capital with confidence. ”
"So you didn't say anything?" Xinghe laughed angrily, he was fed up with Shigego's character, he didn't say anything, he liked to decide everything for himself, and he made a mess of everything.
"What do you think of us!" Anton was more straightforward than Xinghe's mouth, "Say it or not, you really don't say it?You don't say such an important thing, in your opinion, we are all insignificant strangers!"
"No!" Shigego looked up at Anton and wanted to argue, "No...... , but ......" However, in the end, he couldn't say why, and he lowered his head.
Xinghe didn't want to say anything about him anymore, he rubbed his aching head, "Didn't you say that the operation was successful, then, how could it suddenly deteriorate in the end?" Xinghe rubbed his head and thought for a while and waved his hand, forget it, those details are not important, "Ling... When you go, is it painful?"
Shigego shook his head, and Xinghe breathed a sigh of relief, only to hear Shigego say, "I don't know. ”
"What you don't know, Ling the hell... How did he die?" Xinghe looked at Chonggo, who bowed his head and was silent, and he began to feel that there was something hidden in this matter, "Chonggo, tell me, what happened, and explain it to me one by one." ”
Jugo said everything, from Dr. Emilio's sudden appearance at Balbo's house, to Balbo's barn being set on fire, to they taking Balbo to the hospital, Emilio went to see Dr. Cook from the Elven River to eat a closed door, after which Rei had an abnormality, Cook sent people to surround them, and Rei committed suicide with Balbo in the encirclement, although it is not known how.
"I don't know what happened to Rei, but she looked really weird at the time, Cook said she was a survivor of 'original sin', he said Rei was the fourth level. ”
Xinghe listened to the fantastical story of the Arabian Nights told by Shigego, he listened very carefully, he and Shigego had known each other for two years, to be exact, they had been dependent on each other for two years, like everyone else, he didn't think that Shigego would lie to himself, but this thing, too, was too mysterious, believing him meant believing that Ling committed suicide after killing Balbo, and that was not the cowardly little girl he remembered.
"Ling didn't show anything unusual before that. Xinghe rubbed his temples, he didn't believe that that kind of thing could happen out of thin air, there must be some signs.
Shigego hesitated for a moment, "Rei told me one day that she remembered the past. ”
"What's the matter?" Xinghe stared at Shigego carefully, not daring to miss a word, Ling has never had a memory of before she met her, and what happened before that may be the reason for Ling's abnormality.
And then, Shigego shook his head, "I don't know, Ling didn't tell me." ”
"You!" Xinghe pointed at him, and he was almost certain that Shigego hadn't specifically asked.
Lan Yue's eyes were glazed, and she said dumbly, "If only I hadn't come to the capital." ”
Xinghe didn't want to see her like this, so he walked over and took her into his arms, patting her on the back soothingly, "It's not your fault, it's my fault, if I hadn't been locked up in Quicksand Island, you wouldn't have been taken away by Jose, you didn't know it would be like this." ”
"Jose said that Ling was confined to Jiangcheng and couldn't leave, and I asked him not to tell you. ”
Xinghe turned his head, looking at the pale face, and his voice was still a little trembling, he found that he was not surprised at all after hearing this from his mouth, Lan Yue, who was being held by him, broke free of his arm and pointed directly at Jugo, "How can you do this!"
She couldn't accept this, pushed open the door of the living room, Xiaorou and Xiaoxin, who were hiding behind the door and eavesdropping, waved to them awkwardly, Lan Yue looked at them stunned for a moment, and immediately ran out around them again, Xiaorou immediately chased after her, Xiaoxin looked at the three people in the room, bowed apologetically and chased after them.
Xinghe saw that they had already chased after him, he was a little relieved, and did not leave the meeting room immediately, he looked at Chonggo helplessly, why do you always make such stupid moves? Do you think that Lanyue and we will not feel guilty if you do this, this kind of thing, can you bear it alone?
These words, Xinghe didn't say on his lips, he just looked at Chonggo, looked at the boy who was looking at him at a loss, sighed, and left the living room, behind his back, Anton glared at Chonggo, and left with him.
After Anton came out, he went to the courtyard and looked at the plane tree that was already bare in a daze, Xinghe went to look for Lan Yue, Fu Bo who was standing in the hall pointed him the direction of the upstairs, Xinghe nodded, and went upstairs with a look of concern, outside Lan Yue's room, he saw Xiaoxin and Xiaorou who were knocking on the door with a concerned face.
Seeing him coming, the two of them gave way to him, Xiaoxin apologized to him again, "I'm sorry, we didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation, but we heard you arguing, and we were a little worried......"
"I see, I'll do it here. Xinghe nodded to them, and after they all left, he knocked on the door, "Satsuki, it's me." ”
There was no answer in the room, but Xinghe heard the sound of sobbing, and it seemed that Arazuki was sitting with his back against the door, he squatted down and whispered to the opposite, "Satsuki, I know that Jugo did a bad thing this time, but he just doesn't want you to worry either." ”
"How could he do that?" Lan Yue choked and roared.
"Xiaoyue ......" Xinghe held on to the door, not knowing what to do when he arrived.
"Brother, I want to be alone. Lan Yue behind the door whispered.
"I see, I'm out there if you want to talk. Xinghe nodded and stood up, but found that Ye Zhiqiu was already standing beside him, he made a silent gesture towards Xinghe and led Xinghe to his study.
There were already two cups of steaming tea on the table in the study, and Ye Zhiqiu picked up one of them and handed it to Xinghe.
"No, I'm not thirsty. Xinghe waved his hand.
"It calms your nerves, you need to calm down. Ye Zhiqiu's eyes revealed concern.
Xinghe hesitated, took the teacup, took a sip, and warmed the tea, Xinghe felt something rising in his body, he looked at the ordinary looking tea in the teacup with a strange expression, but recalled in his mind that night in Jiangcheng, they used the corn stolen from Balbo's corn field to make soup, and messed around with each other, the girl who had always been very cowardly also behaved very lively that night, they had a good time, thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile, but soon, this smile faded.
The fragile flower-like girl is gone, the Mr. Balbo who once helped them is gone, and their death is so inexplicable.
"Can you tell me, Ling, what kind of girl is it?" Ye Zhiqiu held the teacup and prepared to listen.
"She is a very quiet girl, always looking timid, afraid to even speak loudly, always holding her little bear and sitting in the corner and looking at us without saying a word......" Chonggo looked at the tea leaves in the cup with the tea swirling, and the girl appeared in front of him again, he raised his head, stared at Ye Zhiqiu, and said very seriously, "So I don't believe that she would do something like that, Mr. Ye, what is 'original sin', can it really change a person?"
Ye Zhiqiu held his own tea, looked at the tea inside, the eyes hidden under the glasses didn't know what he was thinking, "No one knows what the 'original sin' is, because it comes from the king of crime and punishment, I don't know more about the 'original sin' than you, until yesterday I thought that the last infected person of the 'original sin' really died in the Danchester madhouse, the empire hides a lot of secrets, many of which I don't know." ”
"But if those people hadn't appeared in Jiangcheng, Ling might not have ended her life like that, why did they do that, who are they?" Xinghe stared at Ye Zhiqiu deadly, and his hands couldn't help but clench into fists.
"There's one thing I haven't told Xiaoxin and Xiaorou. Ye Zhiqiu put down the teacup, raised his head, and fell into reminiscence," This incident was about their mother, her death, not because of a difficult birth, her birth did not go well, there was a massive hemorrhage, for which the doctor used the usual first aid technique, gave her a blood transfusion, but that day due to the negligence of an employee of the blood bank, a packet of caveman blood was mislabeled, and then transfused to her, when it was discovered, it was too late, the caveman blood and human blood mixed and there was a violent reaction, and she passed away in this way, in an undignified way. ”
"Why did you tell me this?" Xinghe looked at Ye Zhiqiu puzzled.
Ye Zhiqiu lowered his head and looked at him, "Because you are similar to me at that time, because of the departure of your loved ones, your chest is full of anger and hatred. Xinghe, you are very talented in magic, and when I opened this door for you, I found out that one day, you will have incredible power in your hands, and you can use them to vent your anger and complete your revenge, but that will not satisfy you, it will only bring greater emptiness, and the tragedy will still happen again, and the world will not get better, and may even get worse. Ye Zhiqiu said and suddenly picked up the teacup in his hand, knocked it on the edge of the table, and the cracks immediately crawled all over the teacup, "Moreover, the survivors will also fall into pain, looking at this cup, Ling's departure has made the relationship between you crawl full of cracks, and do you think Ling will want to see you become like this?"
Xinghe was slightly cold, staring blankly at the cup, yes, the relationship between their children was like that cup, Ling's death made it crawl with cracks, Xinghe didn't want to see their relationship fall apart, however, the cup full of cracks can't be repaired, so is it possible to repair the rift in their hearts?