5 The Past of the Altar
"Mom! How do you pronounce this word? A little boy dressed plainly and cleanly ran excitedly down the street, looking at a hot pot restaurant with a word he didn't recognize, and curiously asked his mother behind him.
It was a woman about 30 years old, with simple clothes, gentle and quiet, and a graceful face, like a faint cloud in autumn, tranquil and gentle. Holding a bouquet of lilies in his hand, it exudes a light fragrance.
"Baby, that word reads 'kan'." The woman whispered softly, her face like a blooming white orchid, and a smile was written on her face. She crouched down, straightened the collar of the boy's disorganized collar, then brushed her hair, pulled it behind her ear, and kissed the boy on the forehead.
Then stand up and smile and greet passers-by.
"Huh? I still don't get it. Is it 'ka-ng'? β
"It's 'kan'."
The woman patiently corrected him over and over again.
"Oh, well! Mommy I want to eat egg custard, very, very 'neng' slippery kind! The little boy tilted his head, folded his fingers, and said seriously.
The woman smiled and rubbed his head: "Okay, go back and make it for you." It's 'tender' and smooth, baby. β
The little boy looked up, pouted, and reluctantly accepted the fact that he had misremembered the pronunciation again. He's just started elementary school!
Mommy is so bad!
"I also bought you the magic prop you wanted last time, you can go back and play slowly."
Mommy is the best!
"What do you think of this uncle today? It's the teacher, do you like him? The woman leaned down, took his little hand, and asked nervously.
"That's good!" The little boy replied innocently. "Better than Daddy! Because my father was always sick, he didn't play with me much. Later, I didn't see my dad anymore, and they said he was dead. The little boy was a little aggrieved, he raised his little face and looked up at the woman, "Mother, what is death?" β
"To be dead is to ...... I can't play with you anymore," the woman replied in a child's easy way to understand.
"But Dad didn't spend much time with me...... They all said that he was a member of the Li Consortium, very noble, how could he play with children. But I don't know why he's honorable. β
The woman didn't know how to answer the question, and she felt that she couldn't give a good answer for the time being. She also didn't think that there should be such a distinct class division between people, even now that she had married into the Li Consortium. So I changed the subject: "How many egg custards do you want to eat?" β
"Three!" The little boy was successfully diverted from the subject.
When she got home, she inserted the lilies into the vase and turned around and went into the kitchen. The little boy ran into his little room and opened the bag his mother had bought for him with magic props. Take out a brand-new magic hat and happily place it on your head.
I don't know why he likes magic so much...... The woman shook her head as she made the egg custard, smiling helplessly.
"Mommy, Mommy! I'll show you a magic trick! The little boy rushed over like a little beast.
"Okay!" The woman was churning the eggs, looking at him with a sideways smile on her face.
The little boy stretched out his hands, holding a coin in one hand and clenching his two hands into fists.
"Don't blink!"
With both hands open, the coin is gone.
"That's amazing!" The woman was a little surprised, and said happily, "Baby, awesome!" The little boy was also very happy.
"Mom, I'm going to be a magician in the future! Do you think I'm gifted? β
"Yes, then you need to learn more so that you can create more wonderful magic tricks! How about buying you a magician's outfit next time? Magicians should be elegant. β
"Okay!" The little boy was very much praised by his mother, and thought that he had won a reward for his performance, and remembered that he was a magician, and that he should be elegant!
"Mom, I think this coin is too impersonal, I want to make a coin myself and engrave you on it. So I can look at the coins when I miss you! β
"But why not use a photo?"
"Huh? Oh yes...... No! I'll just ask for coins, I'll do it myself, I won't bother you! The little boy said seriously, it seemed that this was a very important thing for him. Second only to eating egg custard.
"Okay, come on, come on, the egg custard is ready. Eat it. β
"Hmm!"
He devoured it all, completely forgetting what elegance was.
The sunlight outside the window shone in and reflected on the woman's face, and her beautiful face was even more beautiful in the sun. The movement of the hand threading the needle leads makes the light given by the sunlight shine on the needle. The lilies in the vase swayed gently in the wind.
There is a residual fragrance of egg custard in the house, and the fresh and elegant smell of lilies lingering in the house, which is the smell of mother. The little boy silently recorded the moment.
β¦β¦
"That's my mom! Let her go! The little boy yelled at a Lee consortium car from a long distance. His voice trembled, weak but strong.
"Little brat! Your mother is married to the Li Foundation, she was born a member of the Li family, and died a ghost of the Li family! She actually doesn't abide by women's morals and wants to remarry?! The people of the Li consortium yelled at a timid little boy. They were escorting a woman through the streets.
The woman was unconscious, her head swaying as the car swayed.
The boy's face was bloodless, and his legs were shaking. He couldn't believe that he had only come back a little late to see such a bleak image of his mother.
"She must have stolen someone!"
"It's not clean!"
The people around watched indifferently and discussed enthusiastically.
The little boy's legs were weak and his face was pale. He staggered into the crowd crying and shouting, "That's my mom, she's fine!" Very gentle! It's not what you say it is! Can you help me save her? Please! β
The people around him looked at him with disgust, and some people gloated even more: "This is the Li family's outcast?" Why wasn't he caught? β
"After all, there is the blood of the Li family, and it is too small, arresting him will make the Li family criticized for being inhumane."
"When he goes crazy, just send him to a mental hospital."
No one interceded for his mother.
In the midst of these heated discussions of indifferent bystanders. The sorrow and fear in his heart were infinitely magnified, and the little boy fainted, but the aggressive face was carved into the depths of his soul.
When he woke up again, he went crazy. His brain was messed up, in order to protect him.
Those Lee people were kind enough to put him in a mental hospital.
He roared, struggling in the rope binding.
He roared, rebelling in the tearing of his spirit.
In a dark corner, the sun doesn't shine. It was as if he had been abandoned by the whole world, and a great sense of loneliness surrounded him.
And so it was a year.
The smell of disinfectant mixed with medicine fills the entire psychiatric hospital, and there are many people coming and going inside, and I don't know why a psychiatric hospital has such a flow of people.
A little boy with full white hair was sluggishly rubbing a coin that he wanted to carve, but he didn't have the tools and couldn't do it so finely. He likes to be alone and keep his head down. The people around him are all mentally ill people like him.
Maybe some people are not mentally ill?
But what does it have to do with him?
He wanted to get out of here, fantasizing that someone would rush out with him like a god and say a word to him.
On this day, a man came and asked to see him by name. The man's temples were like frost, and he was a little decadent. When he saw this man, he felt a little familiar.
But so what? What else is important to him?
He sat in a chair in the interrogation room, gnawing on his fingers.
The man withdrew from the others and was silent for a while: "My name is nonsense. β
He didn't seem to hear it, and continued to gnaw on his fingers.
With a hint of exhaustion, a deep voice sounded:
"I know your mother."
"She's my daughter."
"I'm your grandfather."
Every word was like a thunderbolt, he suddenly raised his head, his pupils suddenly contracted, his hands trembled uncontrollably, his lips opened slightly, and he wanted to say something but closed tightly.
He screamed, jumped up from his chair in excitement, rushed to the crash wall of the interrogation room, and slapped it hard, his facial expression contorted, and his teeth bared out like a mad little beast.
Hu Shuo opened the door of the interrogation room and walked in calmly. He rushed at the nonsense and thumped hard at him.
Hu Shuo crouched down and hugged him, letting his fists fall on him again and again, patting him on the back.
On one side is the fist falling like raindrops, and on the other side is the gentle patting of a hand. There is a strong sense of contrast in this picture
When the little boy was tired, he wept and wept bitterly in his arms.
"It's my fault, I didn't protect her." Nonsense, lonely look, whispered. He is a member of the Lee Special Investigation Division. When her daughter was young, she was placed in foster care in someone else's home to prevent her work from putting her in danger.
But she still died, killed by the Li people.
"She just wants to remarry......" Hu Xiang muttered to himself as he hugged the crying little boy.
When the little boy stopped crying and turned to a little sobbing.
Hu Shuo let go of his hands, put his hands on his shoulders and looked at his face.
His eyes were no longer so hollow, he regained a little regain, and there was still a way...... Nonsense comforted himself. Just looked at him with silver hair, talking nonsense more and more self-reproaching.
The little boy also looked at the man who claimed to be his grandfather. I don't know why, he didn't suspect the man.
It's like grasping a straw in the boundless darkness, and you finally have a little bit of hope, at this time, no one can doubt it anymore.
"Do you want revenge?"
"Yes!"
"But you can't leave for a while."
"As long as you can get revenge, good!"
"Then learn from me, I can't take you away, but I'll come often. It's not a mental hospital in the true sense of the word, and a normal mental hospital doesn't have an interrogation room. You have a unique talent that you don't have to go my way. β
"Your way?"
Hu Shuo instantly sacrificed a green jade small sword, and he controlled the movement of the small sword, like an arm like a finger. A cyan afterimage flickered through the room.
"You can be transcendent, with your own unique abilities. And I'm a practitioner. β
The little boy was obviously taken aback, is this magic? He was curious.
"How?"
"I'll teach you. My everything. Cheer yourself up. Didn't your mother have high hopes for you? Think about her education for you, okay? β
The little boy was silent, his starry eyes flowing, and he made his own decision.
"I will."
Another 12 years passed. More and more people are coming to psychiatric hospitals, and some people do not even have special manifestations and behaviors, and it is very likely that they are not mentally ill. With that came a lot of people in white coats. They spend their days doing research with people.
A white-haired boy with a faint smile was secretly carving a coin with a knife in a corner of the square, looking very serious. The knife is the size of a little finger and is extremely delicate.
He had carved countless coins, all from his grandfather. There's also a lot of magic to learn.
Since that meeting, they have met privately. Grandpa said he didn't want people to know that he had a relationship with him. Grandpa broke several surveillance cameras and deducted funds for repairs, making people think he was just greedy for money. Then they chose to meet in a blind spot.
"Xiao Liren, how did you learn what I taught you yesterday?" He smiled and asked a little girl beside him.
"Brother, what did you teach me yesterday?" The little girl asked blankly.
The boy's hand shook, and the coin in his hand almost fell......
"I taught you how to control your abilities." The boy said patiently.
"Yes!" The little girl nodded, stumbling over a handful of dirt from afar, and sprinkled it on the boy's head......
"What are you doing?" The boy asked helplessly.
"I'm a child! Brother, you'll forgive me! The little girl giggled.
"Hmm." As he spoke, the boy stopped carving, gathered the dirt, held it in his hand, and stuffed it into the little girl's clothes.
"What are you doing!" The little girl said angrily.
"I'm mentally ill. Now I forgive you. The boy replied faintly.
Can a mentally ill person do whatever he wants?
The little girl was not convinced, and regretted that she was not mentally ill.
"The Li clan has captured more and more people, and they should all be people who have the hope of becoming transcendent. How are they separated? Could it be blood? The boy muttered to himself in some confusion.
"Brother, what are you talking about?"
"Nothing. It doesn't matter, let's go and eat. β
"Good!"
It's so easy to be distracted...... The boy complained.
The little girl came in three years ago, and the teenager first observed her coldly and found that she was one of the people who came here despite her grandfather's claim that she was not a mentally ill person. So I knew that Lee's action began.
Children don't let go, it's really Lee's consistent style, the boy thought disdainfully, with a strong disgust for Lee.
At first, the little girl was crying, terrified of this place, frightened of this gloomy place. The boy watched her quietly from a distance.
She's pathetic...... He thought quietly, clenching his fists. People always have a unique feeling about people who are similar to themselves, maybe this is the so-called like-sex attraction.
Later, he helped the little girl a few times, and the little girl stuck to him, and followed him and called him brother.
Her name is Si Liren.
The boy folded the knife, and the blade was temporarily hidden, and put it away with the coin, and put Dong XZ into his shoe. He took a step, feeling that it would not affect his walking, so he calmly took a step and walked into a pale corridor. The lights in the hallway glowed a faint white light, and the whole world became monotonous.
"It's always been this oozing ......ornament," the boy shook his head, disgusted. In the corridors, small chambers passed them, each barricaded by a swarthy barrage that held off the mad psycho and Lee's test subjects.
Walking to the cafeteria, which was still white, all the mentally ill were neatly and quietly lining up to eatβthe non-quiet ones were locked up. The Administrator oversees everyone with disgust, maintaining normal order.
The two of them walked into the shadows with their plates, where their table was. Monotonous colors and unchanging food ...... The boy pondered. "It's almost over."
He couldn't help but look forward to that day coming soon.
"Brother, why don't you eat eggs?" Si Liren watched as the boy slipped the eggs into her bowl and took some of the dishes.
"I don't like it." The boy replied briefly, as if the egg reminded him of something.
"Hiccup~" Si Liren finished eating.
"Be elegant! Little Liren, you can't become a magician like this! "The boy hates iron but not steel. He straightened his back as he ate and ate slowly.
"I don't want to be a magician." Xiao Liren is very puzzled.
"I thought you wanted to be, so what are you doing stealing the coins I hidden? Don't let anyone else find out! β
"Coins? Isn't it for buying things? β
"What did the mental hospital buy......," the young man looked at her speechlessly, "It's a pity that you don't become a mental patient, a good seedling." β
"I think so too!" Xiao Liren is very proud.
"I knew at first that you were forcibly arrested, but now it seems that at least you are a psycho and you are not wrong......," the young man sighed.
"Am I mentally ill? I just got the approval of the mentally ill? Xiao Liren said in surprise.
ββ¦β¦ Let's eat first, and when you're done, I'll take you to see grandpa. Action small dots. β
"The grandfather that my brother has been talking about?"
"Hmm." The young man rubbed his thighs and replied without being salty.
Somewhere in a psychiatric hospital, a gloomy psychiatric hospital is always so depressing. The nonsense has arrived, quietly waiting. He had gray hair, but he was very energetic. The figure of the boy gradually emerged.
When I saw my grandson, Hu said that he was very pleased: he was very smart, and he could teach most of the things once; He is also stubborn, even cold-blooded, but he is at least willing to help the little girl behind him. Because he thinks she's his own kind.
"Have you mastered your abilities?"
"Well, it's just a little bit. Grandpa, did you bring me the silver coins? When I'm done carving again, I feel like I'm ready to go out. β
Hu Shuo took out a silver coin and handed it to him, there was nothing on it. He seems to have a special obsession with carving coins, perfecting his spiritual will by carving coins and learning magic. He said that the last one, if it was a silver coin.
"One is enough?"
"Enough, you can only succeed, not make mistakes." He seems to be confident.
Hu Shuo looked at Xiao Liren and showed a kind smile: "Your ability is also very strong, practice hard, I am responsible for the Li family, they will not discover your ability for the time being." You'll be able to get out soon. β
Si Liren nodded, remembering the conversation just now, she suddenly asked, "Nonsense grandpa, do you think I'm a mental patient?" β
She's looking forward to it......
Nonsense: "??? β
"No, Xiao Liren is so cute, how can he be a mental patient...... And you just call me grandpa. Hu Shuo thought about it, and felt that his grandson had said something unpleasant to her to ask, and he couldn't hurt the child's heart.
Si Liren let out a "wow" and cried......
Nonsense: "??? β
"Grandpa, do you have anything to explain this time?" The teenager quickly interrupted the topic......
Obviously he is the real mentally ill......
"It's nothing, I mainly want to tell you that when you take revenge, don't let hatred consume you." Nonsense seriously.
"You know I can't do it, and I only kill the guilty." The young man said lightly, the silver filaments fluttering in the wind, "I learned so much from you just for revenge." Besides, isn't my ability called the Devil's Whisperer by them? Then I'll be a real demon again! β
Murderous leakage!
Hu Shuo sighed, when he saw his grandson at that time, it was already a step too late, and hatred was engraved in the depths of his heart. During that time, he forced himself to forget and became a mentally ill person. But with the development of his spiritual will, he also had to pick up those painful memories.
Hu Shuo looked at the stubborn teenager and was silent. He remembered what had happened to his daughter. In his opinion, his grandson's path can only be walked by himself, and he is just providing some help. So he can't persuade this only relative in the world.
"No matter what happens, I'm your grandfather, just look for me if you have anything." His deep voice rang out, and then he emphasized word by word: "Don't let hatred consume you, it will bring you regrets." β
"I will." The teenager's answer was the same as it had been 12 years ago.
Nonsense, no more. He walked up to the boy and hugged him: "I have already placed the things you want in the right place." You can take it when the time comes. β
"Okay."
Nonsense turned and left. Before jumping over the wall, he paused and suddenly said, "Wipe the dirt off your face when we meet next time!" β
"Hmm!" The boy smiled, "Definitely!" β
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A week later. The boy blew the last trace of silver dust off the silver coin under the watchful eye of the little detached. He raised his hand and pointed the coin to the moon, his fingers rubbing the pattern on the coin.
In the bright moonlight, the pattern on the silver coin is clearly visible.
On the front is a young woman with bright eyes and a smile, while on the back is a bouquet of lilies.
Lifelike.
Xiao Liren looked at the silver coin and exclaimed: "Brother is so powerful!" β
The boy smiled helplessly and said, "Don't you often watch me practice on coins?" β
"How can a coin look better than a silver coin!" Little Liren giggled.
"It's tonight, little departure, and I'm finally in full control of my abilities. We're finally getting out of here! β
"Hmmm! But my brother, another person has recently come in, and I don't think he's mentally ill. It seems to be called ...... Zhang Baogen? β
"Well, I know. He's a nice guy, I'll let him stay in a safe place later. β
"Huh? How do you know? β
"I've hypnotized everyone in this mental hospital, I've asked them about their hearts, and only two of them are transcendent. And only these two people are good people. The two of them will be okay when they wait. The boy gracefully walked forward, and suddenly added, "I have hypnotized everyone in this mental hospital, but without you. I know you're a lovely and kind little girl. I haven't hypnotized you, and I won't hypnotize you. β
"Not now, not in the future."
"Hey, hey! Brother is so nice! Xiao Liren jumped up and down behind him, thinking for a while, "But you seem to have told me a story yesterday about "Seven Gourd Babies vs. Godzilla Rescued Snow White", so you didn't sleep well last night, so you won't be okay later, right?" β
"No, since I've been mentally ill, I've been mentally exhausted!" The boy teased himself, and didn't you notice the strange name of the story I was telling? He complained silently.
Xiao Liren nodded to show that he understood, and at the same time, he was more determined to become a mentally ill person!
"Don't move around here, I'll go get some things." He hypnotized the administrators who supervised the mentally ill in advance, making them ignore himself and the little detached. So even though it's time to go to bed in the evening, no one knows that they are not in their respective rooms at all.
Xiao Liren felt that he was taking advantage of himself, but she had no proof.
After a while, a white-haired boy dressed in a gorgeous black magician's tuxedo and wearing a delicate magic hat on his head stepped out of the shadows, a silver coin spinning on the tip of his left finger and a magic stick tapping the ground in his right hand.
The magician is here!
"Let's go, the magic show is about to begin." The teenager smiled.
"But what about the audience?"
"Let's go find them." Walking in the hallway, he asked Xiao Liren to open the doors of the two rooms.
The two men woke up in a daze......
He snapped his fingers, and the two fell again......
"What are you doing here?" A little detached from people.
"Check that they're sleeping well, and that they won't wake up no matter what happens." The young man said flutteringly, and then frowned: "There shouldn't be an earthquake or anything like that today......"
The figures, one large and one small, faded away in the hallway.
One of the two people who was hypnotized exhaled a large bubble flew out of the window. The other person drooled and said indistinctly, "I am the Monkey King...... Where is my master......"
The teenager did things in a high-profile manner and sounded the alarm in the entire psychiatric hospital. Everyone flocked out, except for the two men...... They ran to the square and looked around in confusion, not knowing what was happening.
Suddenly, a white-haired magician appeared, and he calmly and gracefully walked up to the high platform, with his hands outstretched and smiling.
Most of the mentally ill are still in a state of confusion. The administrators in the audience instantly broke out in a cold sweat, and the memories that had been erased by hypnosis were suddenly restored.
That night, they once again remembered the fear of being dominated by demonic whisperers.
They ran frantically to the high platform, trying to stop the magician who was bowing to the audience.
I saw the magician smiling, and when he smiled, he still had the fragrance of Lingmei, and said softly, "Slow." The show begins. β
Then a silver coin was thrown into the sky, and the woman on the front of the coin was so beautiful in the reflection of the moonlight, but with a hint of sadness.
"Remember this name, Demon Whisperer, it was you who cursed me." Less young laughs.
In the sky are silver coins that are constantly flipping.
On the ground was a crowd of people running frantically.
"Or remember the name,"
With a "ding" sound, the flipped silver coin fell into his hand, engraved with a woman's image facing upwards.
The people below stopped making noise, turned around in unison, looked sluggish, and quietly looked at the magician on the high platform. It seems that the only thing left in the whole world is his gorgeous performance.
"Li Shentan!"
PS: What, I know that Si Liren's name for Li Shentan is Brother Shentan, but I just want to write my name at the last minute.
Because I think the B grid will be higher in this way......
I wrote for 2 days, so tired. I don't know if it's going to be updated tomorrow, I could have posted this chapter in three days, but I'm not that kind of person! So don't blame me if you don't post it tomorrow. (funny)