Chapter 1: Night Change
In the year 2017, in the Tianhe Galaxy, in the dark cosmic space, there is no light, no sound, no matter, nothingness, eternal silence, there is no concept of life and time here, just like a pure black painting.
Suddenly, the black painting moved, as if the black screen had been paused and clicked, and a steady stream of strange and hideous creatures appeared in the quiet dark space. The appearance of these creatures was like rain, and it was like a big basin of water sprinkled into the universe of the Tianhe Galaxy, which lasted for about a quarter of an hour, and the rain stopped and the water ran out.
In the void universe, the strange creatures scattered farther away with the inertia force when they appeared, but the concentrated group of monsters slowly stopped after drifting with the inertia for a certain distance, like a commanded and managed force, gradually gathered together, and waited quietly.
After a long time, they moved in one direction like an army, and extended infinitely in this direction, and there were many scattered monsters scattered in the universe, all the way out, and beyond the distant universe, there was a beautiful blue planet.
At the same time that these monsters suddenly appeared in the Tianhe Galaxy, above the eastern peninsula of the Xia Kingdom in the northern hemisphere of the Blue Star, in a hidden space, the star beast Mocking Wind, which was thousands of years old, woke up from its slumber.
........ A few years later
At 1 o'clock in the afternoon in June 2021, Xu Zhexin drove on the way back to the office, and in June in the island city, the weather began to become humid and muggy, and there were not as many cars on the road as there were during the morning and evening rush hours.
Although the temperature in the car is not comfortable, Xu Zhexin feels calm and leisurely, once sad mood made her miss the beautiful scenery of the whole spring, at this time the scenery of early summer is still pleasing to the eye, she enjoyed the scenery on both sides of the road, while listening happily to the music in the car, the mind is rare to relax.
Since the sudden death of her boyfriend who had been talking about marriage four months ago, Xu Zhexin has spent several months in a state of grief, hectic, and nervousness. Now, as time passes through my heart, the sadness gradually calms down and sinks into my heart, and life finally returns to normal.
Suddenly, on the uphill road, there was a little reflection that attracted Xu Zhexin's attention, she took a closer look, it seemed to be a nail, and quickly hit the steering wheel lightly with her hand, the car shifted a little, and then she felt dizzy.
Xu Zhexin thought that the car was shaking her a little hard, and she was thinking about what was reflective, as if it was a nail on the warning sign of a buried pipeline underground, which was a little protruding, and it should not have caused much damage to the tires, and she avoided it.
Therefore, the sentence "Ah, I missed the ,......." sounded in her ears or in her head, which made Xu Zhexin wonder if it was her delusion. However, she concentrated and carefully distinguished, and there was no sound, it seemed that it was indeed an illusion, Xu Zhexin continued to drive to work leisurely.
Xu Zhexin, female, born in the 90s, is now 29 years old, with medium and long hair, tall and thin, beautiful appearance, fair skin, soft and a little neutral temperament, giving people a bright and capable feeling.
I have taken out a loan to buy a house in the island city, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, and plan to use it as a wedding house. In the past few months, her parents have not been at ease, afraid that she will be too sad to think about it if she is alone, so they come to live with her.
Xu Zhexin is a manager in the construction industry, with an income of about 15,000 per month, and a year-end bonus in normal years, so he is a white-collar worker with a good income in the island city.
drove to the unit quickly, Xu Zhexin parked the car and went to the office on the third floor, came to the seat to pour water, turned on the lecture video, put on headphones and began to listen to the class.
Due to the impact of the global epidemic in the past two years, the company's foreign project management is difficult, and the leaders decided to suspend the development of foreign markets from the situation.
Xu Zhexin transferred from the overseas marketing department to the domestic marketing department, but the domestic real estate market is currently sluggish, and the busiest department in the company now has occasional free time. Although she is already a leader in the industry and has deep qualifications, she still decided to study more in her free time and add a high-value practicing certificate to her side.
Listening to the courseware, the teacher's voice made her tired for a while, and she vaguely heard a voice, "Hey, can you hear it, let's talk." ”
Hearing someone speak, Xu Zhexin perked up, took off her headphones and sat up straight, looked at her colleague, and said, "Well, what do you want to talk about?" ”
Several colleagues in the office looked at her in surprise, and Xiao Sun said, "What's wrong, Sister Xu?" ”
Xu Zhexin, who felt wrong, asked in wonder, "Didn't you talk to me just now?" ”
Colleagues all shook their heads, "We didn't speak?" ”
This is embarrassing, Xu Zhexin smiled and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, maybe I just got distracted." ”
Thinking that he might be too tired, Xu Zhexin, who had just fallen asleep and dreamed, took a sip of water, lifted his spirits, sat down and listened to the lecture. More than half an hour later, she couldn't resist the fatigue and wandered again, and her ears rang again, "Xu Zhexin, we have to talk?" ”
She shook her head and dreamed again?
It seems that she was too tired for a while, but now after relaxing, the fatigue is gradually revealed, she went out to the bathroom to wash her face, and returned to the office again, the time was already after two or three o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Zhexin did not fall asleep anymore.
Xu Zhexin, who had always thought it was her hallucination, never expected that she would be followed by a stealthy, depressed but reckless high-level spirit creature beside her, mocking the wind.
At this time, Mock Feng tried hard to communicate with Xu Zhexin, but he couldn't break through her mental defense, and finally waited until her spirit was occasionally relaxed and her mental defense was lowered, and a few words were passed over, but they were regarded as hallucinations.
Although it has the ability to forcibly break through Xu Zhexin's mental defense, it will hurt Xu Zhexin's spiritual sense, as its future master and partner, of course it does not dare and is reluctant to hurt her in the slightest.
There was no way, Mock Wind could only stay by Xu Zhexin's side and float boredly, and then communicate with her after she fell asleep at night. It felt that its new partner was very strong-willed, and it was afraid that it would be difficult to communicate, so it had to think of a way to make her believe in it in advance.
After getting off work at 5 p.m., Xu Zhexin drove home, just entered the community door, habitually looked up, and was not surprised to see that on the window on the fourth floor, Rarity was waving at her, the corners of her mouth unconsciously raised, and she waved her hand in response, and the pace of her feet couldn't help but speed up.
Entering the house, her father Xu Lianjun is waiting in the entrance with Rarity in her arms, Rarity stretches out her hands to hug her, Xu Zhexin touches her brother's head, stretches out her head to see that her mother Gao Yu is cooking.
She happily changes into her lounge clothes, washes her hands, takes Rarity into her arms, sits on the couch and plays, feeling relaxed both physically and mentally.
Rarity is an adopted child from her parents and a grandnephew of Xu Lianjun. Xu Lianjun's elder brother, Xu Zhexin's uncle died as a soldier that year, and the eldest aunt pulled Xu Zhexin's cousin to live alone.
Although there was the help of Xu Lianjun and other brothers and sisters, but at that time, life in the countryside was not easy, and after her cousin got married, her aunt, who had worked all her life, fell ill and died.
Her cousin didn't go to college, he went out to work after graduating from junior high school to earn money, and after getting married, her cousin gave birth to Rarity, but when Rarity was only a few months old, her cousin was in an accident on a construction site and left, and her cousin was still young and didn't want to raise children alone, so she decided to remarry.
Because the cousin-in-law was reluctant to carry an oil bottle, and Xu Lianjun and her little uncle Xu Lianzuo did not agree with their own blood flowing outside. After discussion, it is planned for Xu Lianjun, who has no sons and only two daughters, to adopt Rarity, but because of the difference in seniority, Xu Lianjun has not registered Rarity.
After dinner, Xu Lianjun goes out for a walk, Xu Zhexin takes Rarity and accompanies Gao Yu to the community square to play, Gao Yu goes to do health exercises, and she accompanies Rarity everywhere to explore the world.
After an hour of playing, back home, Xu Zhexin bathes Rarity, feeds him fruit, and plays with him in his room.
Xu Lianjun and Gao Yu are old, nearly sixty years old, coupled with the perennial labor in the countryside, they have some physical pain, and taking care of a small child for a few months has made them unable to keep up with their physical strength and energy.
They have been with Xu Zhexin for the past few months, and she has been taking care of Rarity's daily life except for work hours. Taking care of a lively child who is less than two years old is a great distraction from her energy, allowing her to get through the sad period, and also makes her develop a deep affection for Rarity, and the child's innocent eyes and full of dependence deeply touch her heart, so that her empty heart is full of a little man.
So she comes up with the idea that she doesn't want to get married anymore and wants to adopt Rarity in her name, but she hasn't had a good time and hasn't discussed it with her parents.
Gao Yu has high blood pressure and can't sleep well at night and feel uncomfortable during the day, so in order for her to rest well, Rarity sleeps with Xu Zhexin in a room with a large tatami mat at night, and Xu Lianjun and Gao Yu each rest in a room.
At 9:30 p.m., Rarity falls asleep after drinking the powdered milk, and Xu Zhexin goes to the bathroom to wash up, and finally can lie down comfortably on all fours. She turned on her phone and checked it, and there was no important information to process, so she opened the e-book, intending to read the novel for a while to fall asleep.
In fact, since she started taking care of Rarity, Xu Zhexin no longer knows what it means to be sad and insomnia because she has to wake up a lot, but she always can't sleep enough, and she can't read a few pages of books every day, which can be called a second sleep.
Today is no exception, even faster.
The dream ended with a sudden weightlessness falling into the water, "cough...... Cough...... cough .....", Xu Zhexin sat up suddenly, her tears flowed out of the choking water, and she finally calmed down her breathing, she looked up and saw that she was in a small pool hewn out of rock, the water under her body was not turbid and impermeable, white, the temperature was suitable, the light was dim and she couldn't see clearly, and it was vaguely visible that the surrounding walls were also blue-gray stone.
She was wearing loungewear before bedtime, her hands were on the edge of the pool, and the skin of her palms could feel the roughness of the stone, so real, wasn't it a dream? Xu Zhe twisted his thigh ruthlessly, "Ah..... It hurts."
Oh, my God! It's not a dream!
Xu Zhexin immediately panicked, what's going on?
Why is she here?
Didn't you just fall asleep?
Where are the family?
Thinking of his family, Xu Zhexin was even more anxious, and when he stood up, he planned to climb out of the pool to see where this was.