Chu Zihang exhaled softly, got up and walked to the workbench.

It was an innumerable number of red lines, crisscrossing the air.

On the red line, they wear photographs, news clippings, or handwritten pieces of paper, each of which is an event, some of which are parallel to each other, and some of which are tangled and knotted.

He walked slowly along the red lines, going through the events one by one, and the more he read, the more terrified he became.

On June 30, 1908, the Tunguska explosion, a mushroom cloud rose from the center of the explosion, and the shock wave shattered the glass 650 kilometers away, and the night sky of the entire Eurasian continent was dark red, and people nearby mistakenly thought that the sun had risen in advance.

On August 30, 1900, the mourning of Summer, the mysterious ancient corpse awoke, the Kassel manor near Hamburg was destroyed, and the elite Lionheart of the secret party was wiped out, and the only survivor was Hilbert Jean Angers.

On the night of December 25, 1991, the night of the collapse of the Soviet Union, a violent explosion occurred in the frozen port north of Verkhoyansk in the tundra of the Arctic Circle. Officials have blocked the information and denied the existence of the matter.

On November 7, 2002, in the ice sea of Greenland, attracted by the mysterious heartbeat, the executive department of the Kassel Academy went to investigate, and encountered the enemy suspected of being the dragon king in the depths of the ice sea, and was close to the total annihilation, and only one and a half survived......

In the past two hundred years, all the major events related to the dragon clan have been suspended in the air, some of which Chu Zihang has heard, and some that Chu Zihang has never heard.

Related events are connected by red threads, sometimes two or three threads intersect to create new events, and some events seem to be completely unrelated to other events and are hung alone with a red thread.

The red threads form an intricate web, but eventually, all the red threads converge into a thick bundle tied to the concrete wall, with ancient names written in ink next to them.

“nidhogg”。

When the light of the flashlight illuminated the name, Chu Zihang felt that his heart was pinched by a cold claw.

It turned out that the man really cared not about the events mentioned above, but the flow of events composed of these events, and the flow of events was like thousands of rivers returning to the sea, converging towards the name—Nidhogg, the black dragon that symbolized despair and destruction.

It is both an enemy of humanity and an enemy of the dragon kings.

Some cryptic history says that the dragon kings joined forces with the half-bloods to slay the supreme being, but Nidhogg swore an oath that it would return before shedding blood.

The day it returns will be the end of the world.

There has been no credible record of Nidhogg since then, but no one dares to forget what it said, even to the dragon kings, Nidhogg is a god-like being, its words are oracles, and oracles are fate.

Those red threads are the embodiment of the mysterious "thread of fate", fate has begun to flow, and the Black King is about to awaken......

For countless nights, the man lay on this bed covered with sheepskins, looking up at the red line in the air, thinking about the flow of fate......

It turned out that he was a watchman, Chu Zihang thought, and he was not surprised, it seemed that he had vaguely guessed part of it in the letter left to him by the man before.

Watching over the fate of humanity, he is an outlier in this small southern city, and he has come for a special purpose.

He knows the best cigars and the best cigars, he loves to listen to Elvis Presley's fun photography, he must have been to many places and had a lot of experiences.

He was a beast by nature, he could disguise himself as a hippie in the United States, a prodigal in Europe, and a mafia in Italy, but he came to this ordinary Chinese city and disguised himself as a driver who loved to eat braised intestines and spicy chicken wings.

There is a good saying, the hero is sad to pass the beauty pass.

The most dazzling genius in a hundred years fell in love with a woman named Su Xiaoyan in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that woman danced very well.

It's not something that can't be understood, right, who wouldn't like such a woman who is not deeply involved in the world and dances beautifully?

I remember my mother's sisters, Aunt Anne, they said that my mother is the most popular woman in the dance troupe, and the first time everyone sees Su Xiaoyan is her legs, as if they were born to dance.

At that time, the backstage could always receive a large number of bouquets of roses, piled up on Su Xiaoyan's dressing table, which was spectacular.

The dancers of other dance troupes who have a general relationship with Su Xiaoyan bit their ears and said that this woman is really charming, Su Xiaoyan doesn't know if she listens to it or not, Chu Zihang thinks that with her temperament, she shouldn't have listened too much, or she listened to it, but she didn't take it to heart.

After all, her life is always so good.

Then there was a man with a combed hair, a car that was neither good nor bad, and a well-dressed man who always ran to the concert hall, although this man looked like a master who listened to the two of them at best.

Later, Su Xiaoyan was with that man.

As for why that? Actually, it's not surprising.

Chu Zihang knew that it was too easy to chase a beautiful and stupid female dancer with the skills of that man's mouth, so they got married and gave birth to children, and everything looked happy.

But the man knows very well that he can't give his wife and children a peaceful life, he is the kind of person who licks blood with a knife, licks dragon blood, and it is difficult for his kind of person to die peacefully on a soft bed.

So the man signed a divorce agreement with Su Xiaoyan, watching her take Chu Zihang away and marry another man, when the family of three went to the amusement park to watch a movie and enjoy family life, Chu Tianjiao lay on the bed on the third floor of the basement, quietly looking at those red lines, thinking about the grand theme of human fate.

"Is this true loneliness?" Chu Zihang thought to himself.

As Alain Delon said in the movie called "The Lone Killer", "There is no lonelier person in the world than a samurai, except perhaps the Menghu in the jungle." ”

Chu Zihang really wanted to stay in this room for a while, as if he was talking to the man named Chu Tianjiao across time and space.

But no.

He knew Lu Mingfei's intention of bringing him here, and he also knew that his time was running out.

Chu Zihang walked slowly to the exit, passed by the pool used to wash photos, was stunned for a moment and then retreated back, next to the pool for washing photos was the man's workbench, in front of the workbench was a cork board, and the wooden board was full of photos with thumbtacks.

If you look closely, you will find that those photos were all stolen, in amusement parks, in shopping malls, in restaurants, through the grass, through the glass, through the rain......

The characters in the photo are all women and children without exception, and Su Xiaoyan when she was young was still a baby-faced self.

Su Xiaojiao in the photo shows many appearances, laughing, staring, and lonely, like a mother, a little girl, and a wife.

Chu Zihang still remembers that he told Lu Mingfei when he was chatting that his grandmother said that his mother was a hairy girl, what is a hairy girl? It's like a hairy boy who has no heart and liver, sleeps when he is full, sleeps when he is full, sleeps when he is full, wants to be beautiful, and has no heart.

But under that man's lens, Su Xiaoyan is so changeable, and every change is so beautiful.

That's really the man who loves Su Xiaoyan in the world, only if you love someone so much, can you pay attention to her every moment and take pictures of her beautifully.

What about the "daddy"? He occasionally accidentally enters the mirror, and when he washes his face, the man will wash the guy very much in an unknown way, purely a ball of light and shadow.

It turns out that even such a carefree man is not completely unmindful, and he also hopes that the man opposite his wife and children is himself, right? It would make him uncomfortable for another person to take his place in a photo he took, so he did it.

The corners of the photos are marked with red pens on the date, month and day of the theft, and there are words like this.

"It's your first year away from me, and you look good."

"It's the second year, please don't be so haggard."

"In the third year, you're fat."

"In the fourth year, I have less time to think of you."

"In the fifth year, it continues to get less."

"Sixth year, but still miss you."

……

Chu Zihang couldn't help but start thinking about the man smoking a cigar in his mouth, fishing out one photo after another from the pool with tweezers, fixing them to the wooden board with thumbtacks, and then sitting at the workbench and smoking, watching them slowly dry through.

It was his wife and children, who had once belonged to him, but now they could only be presented in his frame, and he was so drunk that he took out his red pen and wrote on the edge of the photograph, as if he were talking to the woman in the frame......

It's also a kind of love, and it always has been.

I had read it in the letter a long time ago, but I never really did it.

What is the reason?

The reason for the escape, Chu Zihang thought, and slowly lay down on the bed and clothes that belonged to that man, and the surroundings were filled with the breath of that man...... The leather has a hint of cigar.

He thought that after he had experienced that rainy night, there would be no "escape" in the dictionary, but in fact, he was running away from the whole time, running away from that man, running away from his mother, running away from "Dad", running away from his classmates in Shilan Middle School, and running away from everything around him.

That's why he came to the Kassel Academy, because it was only here that he could feel a little bit of home.

What now? He runs away from Natsumi's love.

From the first lesson at the entrance to school, Professor Schneider told him that dragons are our enemies and that it is the responsibility and obligation of every Kassel student to kill all dragons they see by all means.

But...... The girl's story took root in his mind.

When he was sitting in the café flipping through magazines, Natsumi was looking at him with his hands on his cheeks and smiling at the opposite position......

While he was sitting in the aquarium watching the beluga whale, Natsumi would lie on the aquarium and grimace at the beluga whale......

On the basketball court, Natsumi cheered for him in a short skirt and high-heeled boots, her eyes were so bright that the reflection of sequins was drowned out......

The man on the screen was holding the guitar and tearing his heart, and the light and shadow hit Xia Mi's lip gloss, I don't know if she fell asleep so quietly......

It's been impossible to separate for a long time, so why would I let her down?

"It's stupid." Chu Zihang knocked his forehead and muttered to himself.

I think she also wished she could hug her tightly, just like before.

Ignoring her golden child, ignoring her dragonized body, everything is the same as before.

It turns out that she has always been the one who is afraid of passivity, and the choice has always been in her own hands.

Chu Zihang reached out and fumbled, picked up a man's cigar, and lit it.

I just took a puff and choked.

I really don't know how Fingal, Headmaster Angers, and those guys got into this thing.

He got up from the bed, took another breath with the choking pungency, and staggered out of the exit.

Lu Mingfei and Fingal were on their own, leaning against the wall next to the gate with their hands folded.

"Yo, I'm back, brother, how do you feel?" Lu Mingfei shrugged.

"A lot." Chu Zihang said.

"Is that going to find your girl now? Don't forget that Senior Brother, you took the initiative to abandon the scabbard of the sword in the lake, but you haven't really completed the path of becoming a god, your body is on the verge of collapse, and there is not much time left for you. ”

"Hmm." Chu Zihang looked down at his chest, he knew his physical condition better than anyone else, "Can you send me to her?" ”

"I want to talk to her."

"Ah......" Lu Ming was embarrassed, "To be honest, I don't know where she will be, and I don't have a letter to what extent my senior sister has enlightened her......

"Then please help me send it to BJ." Chu Zihang said to Fingal in a surging voice, "I'll go find her myself." ”

Fingal didn't speak, staring at the cigar on Chu Zihang's fingertips and drooling.

Chu Zihang thought about it and stuffed the cigar directly to him.

"Oh, Senior Brother Chu, how can this work...... Fingal said so, but his hand took the cigar very honestly.

"Tsk, Lao Chu's high-end goods...... Comfortable......" He took a beautiful sip, jumped into the business car, and patted the window, "What are you waiting for?" It's time to find your love! ”

……

……

"Unsolvable knot...... Nuo Nuo sighed, "You always give Chu Zihang the choice, it's strange that this knot has a solution." ”

"It's just because I'm afraid of ......" Xia Mi's small mouth was buried in her knees, "I'm afraid that the person who took the initiative and lost nothing, it was me." ”

"But love is a two-way thing after all."

"I used to think about how to let Chu Zihang take the initiative, but now I am thinking about how to let you take the initiative, it's really ...... for the two of you to fall in love It makes the hearts of those of us who know the heart go up and down. ”

Nuo Nuo raised his hand, pressed it on Xia Mi's head, rubbed it again, and rubbed her long soft chestnut hair, "Listen to your sister Nuo Nuo, okay, I'm from here, although you have lived a long time, your love experience is not half as rich as mine." ”

"Get a good night's sleep, go out for a walk, and don't think about it so much."

"Maybe Chu Zihang will appear in front of you sometime?"

"Is that really the case?" Natsumi felt the warmth coming from the top of her head, and the two strands of dull hair fluttered on her forehead.

Nono thought for a moment, "Well, I think it will." ”

"Because people who love each other can't miss it."