A light shone in through the curtains, Lu Mingfei slowly opened his eyes, he vaguely heard some spatulas colliding, as if they were stir-frying, and smelled some vague smell of oil smoke.

Slowly getting up and looking, he was now in a very ordinary, even somewhat cramped bedroom. A breeze blew in through the open window, blowing the somewhat childish curtain of a bear holding a strawberry figure. There were comics that had been turned over and scattered everywhere on the floor, and there were some red and green steel plas on the wooden computer desk on the side, in addition to the computer......

This looks like an otaku's room, and Lu Mingfei sat on the bed for a long time before he remembered that this was his own room. The fluttering curtains were installed several years ago, when he was still a model in elementary school, and he liked it a lot at that time. The cartoons littered on the ground were exchanged with classmates, the Gangpla on the table was bought without telling his parents, and the computer was eliminated by his father...... It wasn't at his aunt's house, it was his own.

"How long are you going to sleep! Don't you know after eating! There was a loud roar, and even the door shook a few times.

Lu Mingfei got out of bed quickly, and the combination of short sleeves, breeches, and sandals was very homely. When I opened the door and went out, the cramped living room outside the door was filled with some old but clean furniture. And put a small table in the corner of the living room, and it is a dining room.

Some middle-aged men who were tall and thin, who looked like high-level intellectuals, were putting dishes on the table, and when they saw Lu Mingfei coming out, they cast a look of self-begging.

This is Lu Lincheng, Lu Dad, and his appearance is similar to Lu Mingfei's memory, but he is a little older, and he is more like his uncle, but he can also see some of the handsome shadows of his youth.

"Your mother heard that Zhao Menghua in your class got the admission letter of Yan University, and now she is angry, you had better be careful when you can speak." After Dad Lu whispered to him, he sat down at the dining table, pulled the rice cooker on the side and began to serve rice.

At this moment, a beautiful woman came out of the kitchen with a bowl of soup. Her long hair is permed into fashionable curls, her height is taller than that of ordinary Chinese women, and her body shape is maintained well, so she can't see that she has entered middle age, and she is much stronger than ordinary little girls.

This is Giovanni, the road mother, the years don't seem to have left many traces on her, and her temperament and beautiful appearance are still the same as before.

She glanced at Lu Mingfei, sat down without saying a word and began to eat. After a while, Lu Mingfei was still standing and didn't sit down, so he didn't raise his head and said, "What are you still doing there?" When the door god? ”

Lu Mingfei glanced at them, sat down silently, took the bowl in front of him, and quickly started to eat. To be honest, this meal was not very good, the ping-pong table tennis that Lu Ma was busy in the kitchen just now was very quiet, and she looked like a big-name chef, but the things made were not too good, a little worse than Aunt Shang. Although the aunt is a little mean, but she can feed the family of four for nothing, and the reason why Lu Mingze is fat like that is not for no reason.

But in this way, Lu Mingfei still ate it all, and even drank the rest of the soup in one gulp. Lu's father and mother glanced at each other, as if they were frightened by him like this.

"You...... You eat slowly, but it's just past the second line? Are you like that? I'm not going to blame you anymore. Seeing him like this, Lu's mother decided not to meet him first.

"The second book is not bad, I have a few friends who teach in several well-known two colleges, and a few of them are still very good majors, I can ask them for help." Dad Lu hurriedly made a round.

"I'm fine, I'm just a little hungry." Lu Mingfei wiped his mouth, picked up the empty bowl and quickly entered the kitchen, and washed it three times and two by two.

Lu's father and mother gathered around the kitchen door, watching him unusually busy, and glanced at each other again, not daring to say anything.

After the meal, a family of three sat in the living room watching TV. The living room is a little small, but it is enough for three people. The furniture in the living room is a little old from the same style as the bedroom, after all, it is more than 20 years old.

Although the whole family is watching TV, no one is actually thinking about TV. Mother Lu knocked on the melon seeds, and said absentmindedly: "Didn't that Su Xiaoqiao in your class hear that he was admitted to Fudan?" You often play with her, why don't you see your grades go up? ”

"When is there still such a statement?" Dad Lu made himself a glass of water and said, "Aren't the clubs he is in are also high-achieving students?" Didn't the girl named Chen Wenwen also go to Yan University, and the girl who played the piano very well, and Liu Miaomiao, who was also called Liu Miaomiao, also went to Fudan. ”

"So I said that I should enroll him in an interest class when he was young, whether it was playing the piano, playing the violin, or learning to draw." Lu's mother was angry when she said this, she gave Lu's father a blank look, "It's all your fault, don't squeeze him too much time when he was young, and leave him a little more personal time...... Something or something. Well, now it's like this. ”

Dad Lu whispered dissatisfiedly: "What do you mean by making it like this, my son is not bad, isn't the second book also very good......"

Lu Mingfei didn't say a word, silently biting the straw and blowing bubbles in the coke. He received a message just now, it was sent by Su Xiaoqiao, inviting him to come over to play, and his father chartered the lower floors of the Regent Hotel to celebrate her successful slap in the face Those guys who said that she had no real material, just good luck with a coal boss daddy.

There is a lot of similar information, Zhao Menghua, Chen Wenwen, Liu Miaomiao, Xu ...... Those who are familiar and unfamiliar, some of whom have not even said a word in three years, and can only barely call out their names, also sent message invitations. Most of the people who can study in Shilan Middle School are not from bad families, so they just want to show off if they avoid the possibility of holding a banquet and collecting money. And the object of showing off is a "poor student" like him, whose family background and grades are not very good.

didn't reply to these messages, he deleted all these contacts except for Su Xiaoqiao, and by the way, he also retired the QQ group of the class.

On the one hand, the dispute between Lu's parents and Lu's mother has not ended, and the quarrel has not ended for more than ten years, and there may not be an ending in the future.

Suddenly, he stood up and looked at his parents, who were looking at him, and he said, "I'm going out for a walk."

When he went out, he did not go downstairs, but went up the stairs, and after crossing the half-hidden iron door, he came to the roof of the community. Unlike other newly built neighborhoods, where the old-fashioned Khrushchev building had no guardrails on the roof, he sat directly on the edge of the roof, holding the half glass of Coke and looking at the familiar but unfamiliar suburbs of Primorsky City below.

Although my aunt often complained that the old town was too backward, whether it was transportation or anything else, it was very inconvenient. But it's much better than the suburbs on the edge of the city.

Night begins to fall, and the streets below begin to come alive. The cool evening breeze greeted him, blowing Lu Mingfei's hair and blowing away the remaining heat, but it also brought noise.

In front of him is the high-rise buildings of Binhai City, and the brightly lit CBD area can still be seen very clearly even from a distance. Behind him is the complete opposite, there is darkness, only sporadic lights to show that it is still a continuation of human civilization. With him as the dividing line, various opposing elements, such as light and darkness, bustle and loneliness, advanced and backward, are perfectly divided.

"You would choose to stay in such a dream, brother, you are still emotional." As the voice came, Lu Mingze appeared beside him.

He was still wearing loose pajamas, and his hair was messy compared to the previous Lu Mingfei. The edge of the restless roof of the building with small feet in flip-flops swayed, and people couldn't help but worry about the passers-by who happened to pass downstairs.

He lifted the bottle of Coke next to him, which was bigger than his face, and filled it to Lu Mingfei, and let him pour two sips. After a hiccup, he took his sleeve and said dryly, "Remember how you used to look over there from the rooftop?" In fact, every time you look over there, I look at you secretly in the corner. ”

also poured a sip of Coke, and also burped without any scruples, Lu Mingfei said, "I'm also looking over there now."

"It's different, brother." Lu Mingze shook his head, "The way you look over there now, you don't have any emotions anymore." ”

"What kind of emotions did I have before?" Lu Mingfei asked, not that he wanted to find fault on purpose, but that he really forgot.

Lu Mingze glanced at him, then looked at the high-rise buildings and said, "It's a desire, you are very eager to go there." I longed for the high-rise buildings that were as bright as mirrors, the people who were beautifully dressed there, and the soles of my feet that would not get dirty. ”

"Desire? Probably......" Lu Mingfei glanced down at the building he was in on the edge of the city, and it seemed not surprising that children growing up in such a place would crave the traffic of the CBD area.

"But now it's different, you just have to wave your hand and there are hundreds of people earning to serve you. There are also private transfers for casual travel, and even the occasional trip to a place like Siberia will have a luxury car for you and arrange the best chef for you. Lu Mingze looked at him again and said.

Then he looked down: "But even so, you still don't have any emotions, and you don't react at all." You'd rather stay in such old memories than that. ”

“…… That's good. Lu Mingfei said silently, if there is no dragon blood, no half-blood, no magic, no heroic spirit...... That's probably his life. It would be nothing to talk about, ordinary, ordinary family of three.

"The point is that it's impossible, brother." Lu Mingze suddenly laughed, "Maybe everyone else has the possibility of being able to spend their lives as ordinary people, but it's impossible for you to only have an elder brother, and it's impossible to even dream." ”

"No matter how much you pretend to be, and no matter what great god Odin does not interfere with your fate, you can't be a human being......" he continued to laugh, like a devil who laughed at demons, and his voice grew louder and louder, "...... Never, ever, impossible. ”

Lu Mingze smiled and gradually disappeared, at this time there was movement behind him, Lu Mingfei looked back and found that it was Lu's father and Lu's mother who walked up hand in hand. After the three pairs of eyes looked at each other, Lu Mingfei remembered that in a small talk when he was a child, they had said that before he was born, this was the small world of the two of them.

Lu's father and Lu's mother came up with a small mat, and they beckoned Lu Mingfei to go over. Lie on the mat and watch the stars emerge from the sky. Listening to Lu's parents talking about the past, Lu Mingfei slowly closed his eyes. At this moment, whether it was his grades or other trivial matters at home, it was no longer worth mentioning.

“…… That's pretty good. ”

……

There was light shining through the curtains, and Lu Mingfei slowly opened his eyes. Even though the sound insulation of the carriage is very good, the sound of the train running is still inevitably penetrating. After opening his eyes and looking at the gorgeous and exquisite decoration on the top of the room, he was stunned for a moment, and Lu Mingfei slowly got up.

For him, who has received compensation from the great god Odin, and his spirit has been mutated, such things as dreams are really uncommon. As for the one a few days ago, it was more of a memory than a dream, and it was a memory that he had dug out from a corner of his memory in order to meet the occasion.

And this is not a dream made up of memories...... Maybe it's like a prophetic dream, hinting at something. To be honest, he didn't know how to deal with his "parents", but at least in that dream, he really wished it was like that.

In the next second, the train shook slightly. Lu Mingfei gently opened the curtains and found that the bright snow outside was gradually fading away. Carriage...... Or rather, the whole train flies.

As soon as he went out, he saw Christina lying on the window looking outside, and the investigator was looking out with her mouth open and her face incredulous. Some dazzling light shone in through the car window, and Lu Mingfei realized that the Siberian Plain was still at night, and the light that was even more dazzling than the sun was the searchlight of the heavy helicopter suspended above the train at the moment.

"In order to prevent the tracking of some people with intentions, we have to use such means as a last resort." Bunin walked up from the side of the carriage and explained to them, "As you may already know, there are many other forces besides the FSB who want to find my lair. But they could only find one empty car each time. So in the outside world, there are also rumors that this is actually a ghost train, which will drive on the plains of Siberia and disappear. ”

"It's a bit of a hassle to use, but it's a good way to do it." Looking at the other empty train in the distance below, Lu Mingfei nodded, his gaze beyond the snowflakes blown up by the propeller of the helicopter and into the distance.

In the midst of the darkness, there is a small platform. And in the dense pine forest around the platform, there is this hidden city, a snowy city that stands like a pearl in this untouchable ice and snow desperate situation.