Lu Yun, who closed his eyes, quietly waited for death to come, the second time since the high fever when he was a child that he was so close to the end of his life.

Lu Yun remembers that at that time, when he was just starting to get sick, his father had not yet gone to the ruins, and he was lucky enough to enjoy a happy family that only a few suburbanites could have.

However, Lu Yun does not remember everything he experienced before he fell ill, and the first memory of his life is that his mother was busy with himself in front of his bed.

Later, in school, Lu Yun learned that children did not have a clear memory before they became self-conscious, so Lu Yun felt that his situation was quite normal, which was not a strange thing.

As for his father, Lu Yun had only seen him back a few times, and he always seemed to be busy, and every time he entered Lu Yun's room, he always carried a big bag of medicine.

He was not tall, and even a little thin, but in the eyes of Lu Yun at that time, his father was even more magnificent and dazzling than the Tower of Ether.

There is not much interaction between his father and Lu Yun, most of the time he takes care of his mother, Bai Wenlan, and his father has almost no contact with Lu Yun except for taking medicine to himself.

The mother said that her father ran around asking for medicine for the high medical expenses, and even did not hesitate to accept the entrustment of the rich people in the urban area to go to the southern district to carry out dangerous tasks, just to save the money to save Lu Yun.

Therefore, Lu Yun didn't understand why his father suddenly went to the ruins when he was almost healed, and never came back.

Lu Yun never thought about the possibility that his father had died, in his eyes, except for the years, no one could let his father, who was taller and more magnificent than the Tower of Ether, lose his life.

Whether it was reasonable or not, Lu Yun stubbornly decided that his father was either doing something unknown in the ruins, or he was wandering in the ruins because of the influence of a post-war anomaly that he didn't know.

If it was the former, Lu Yun would have to bring his father back from the ruins and let him know the consequences of abandoning his wife and children.

If it's the latter, Lu Yun has to do it even simpler-

Save him, just as he did to him back then.

However, despite Lu Yun's lofty ambitions for him, he still knows very little about his father, except for his back, there are probably only two things.

One thing is that once, Lu Yun's father sat next to Lu Yun with a high fever for the first time, and said things to him for a long time with his mouth open and closed.

It's just that Lu Yun was already in a fever at that time to the point of delirium, and he basically forgot what his father said, and he couldn't even remember his voice clearly.

Another thing is his father's name, Lu Yun asked Bai Wenlan for his father's name a few years after his father's disappearance.

At that time, Bai Wenlan's expression was very strange, as if she was surprised that Lu Yun didn't know her father's name, and as if she felt complicated because she heard the word Lu Yun's father.

But no matter what, Bai Wenlan still told Lu Yun his father's name, a name that impressed Lu Yun:

Lu Yuan.

……

"Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ "

Death did not come in the darkness of closed eyes, what came to Lu Yun's ears was a singing, which was not pleasant, nor unpleasant, decent, and normal people's singing.

Lu Yun opened his closed eyes in confusion, only to find that the world had changed, and the dark blue and scarlet had all faded, leaving only the eternal gray, white and black to replace them.

Everything around it was still, and the horned animal with countless entangled halos behind it stood in place, it resembled the face of an old man, and it still had that compassionate expression.

In the corner of his eye, Lu Yun saw that the cape with the scroll as his head was already holding a spine, and he didn't know when he rushed to his side.

It kept its forward motion, and it froze in mid-air.

As for Lu Yun, his body was still like building blocks, suspended in mid-air, not moving a single bit, all he could do was slightly deflect his head and eyes.

What is it this time?

Having accepted a doomed future, Lu Yun had no fear of this visitor who was obviously more eerie and powerful than the horned animals and the Beatles.

After all, if it doesn't come, he will still die, and now that it comes, Lu Yun can even live a little longer.

So, Lu Yun turned his gaze to the corner where the singing voice came from with difficulty.

Accompanied by the sound of the heels of leather shoes on the ground, the singing was getting closer.

Trample.

Trample.

Trample.

Suddenly, Lu Yun realized something, he had seen such a scene before!

The gray world, the time that stands still, and...

Only he can move his gaze to the world!

Lu Yun's heart, which had already calmed down, began to tremble violently, he knew, he knew what "something" caused the current situation.

And that thing could never have become a containment object for the company in such a short period of time!

Trample.

Trample.

Trample.

"Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ "

The humming sound was getting closer and closer, and Lu Yun's eyes focused on its source, and at the same time, he actually had a slight sense of familiarity with this song.

Trample.

The footsteps stopped, the humming faded, and a black and white figure appeared from around the corner.

His face is completely obscured by a black mask, making it impossible to tell his age at all.

He wore a neat white gown with a huge, exaggerated white top hat on his head.

He held a slender cane in his hand, using it to support his body slightly.

Compared with the elegant and strange clothes, "he", who is standing with his feet crossed indecently, is really hardly a gentleman.

Lu Yun remembered him, when he was at the top of the high-rise building in the P(16) area, and Lu Yun was in the sea of people on the highway.

At that time, he was like a king who looked down on the world, and Lu Yun was a sentient being who looked up to the gods.

Lu Yun originally wanted to ask someone for information about this black and white person as soon as he entered the company, but until he saw him again, this matter was naturally forgotten by Lu Yun.

The black and white man seemed to know what was going on here, and slowly walked in the direction of Lu Yun, and the long staff in his hand gently touched the ground with each step, making a sound.

He walked leisurely, as if this was not the top-secret underground of the Aether Corporation, but the courtyard of his own bird-song.

Then, after an instant, or a long time, in this world where I don't know if time is still meaningful, the black and white people crossed the distance and came to Lu Yun's side.

He leaned over to look at Lu Yun, who had been shattered, and the ink-colored mask met Lu Yun's gaze.

Although Lu Yun couldn't see his face, he felt an obvious and sarcastic emotion from his body.

Then, with a high-profile raise of his arm, he drew a semicircle in the air, lifted the swallowtail behind the gown, and brought up a black, wriggling ball.

The ball floated in mid-air, and the man in black and white raised his staff and pierced it fiercely.

The black ball exploded like fireworks, but instead of scattering, it seeped into the black and white man's cane, making its blackness even deeper.

The black and white man brushed the cape with a cane fused with the black ball, like the wind across the traveler's face.

Then, gone.

Lu Yun repeatedly confirmed that his eyes were not wrong, they had indeed disappeared, and the place where the cloaked man had been brushed disappeared, like an eraser had erased his handwriting, and even felt even more.

It's as if it never existed.

"Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ "

The black and white man began to hum again, the melody Lu Yun was very familiar, but he couldn't sound it, and the feeling of scratching his boots made him extremely uncomfortable.

The black-and-white man sang as he quickly brushed his cane across the body of the Shawl, and the latter vanished completely.

After that, the black and white man shifted his gaze to the huge horned animal, which was extremely powerful in Lu Yun's eyes, and it was even incomprehensible, in the eyes of the black and white man, it was like confetti that could be seen everywhere.

He looked at it for a moment, then nodded, and the man in black and white stabbed his staff like a spear into the immobile horned animal.

Unlike the Shawls, the horned animals did not disappear after being pierced, but instead began to disintegrate, and their entire bodies became giant towers of dust made of powder.

The man in black and white pulled something out of the powder, like a human head the size of a fist.

He held it in his hand, and then under Lu Yun's gaze, he pushed harder and harder, harder and harder...

Boom!

The human head exploded, turning into flesh and soot, and melted into the body of the black and white man.

Then, a black, distorted aura appeared behind him, much like the horned animal's, very similar.

After solving the two post-war anomalies, the black and white man walked in front of Lu Yun and returned to the standing position he had when he first arrived.

He pressed the brim of his hat slightly and saluted Lu Yun, and after that, he raised the staff in his hand and swung it vigorously in Lu Yun's direction!

After a sharp pain, Lu Yun fainted.

And the man in black and white spoke at this moment, and he spoke the standard human language:

"As you wish."

After the black and white man finished speaking, he turned to leave, the pitch-black aura behind him shone, and Lu Yun, who had been shattered, quickly recovered in the stillness of time.

The humming began again, the regular music became farther and farther away from here, and the world that had lost its color began to return to its original state from this moment, and with each point of the cane, the infinite gray shed a point.

Trample.

Trample.

Trample.

"Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ Hum ~ "