Chapter 34: Caesar Odin (Part II)

The lights flickered rapidly, the picture changed rapidly, and Rivera's eyes were fixed on the boy's figure, and he didn't blink for a long time.

Until for a moment, the change of face suddenly stopped, and under the light, the boy stood up, with his back to the light, his messy hair, his scarred neck, shoulders, tattered shirt, and shorts were clear in the light, and what was even more remarkable was that under the boy's back, three black shadows shivering in the corner. As the camera turned, Rivera finally saw the appearance of the shadow, which was three teenagers with crying snot, who looked to be at least eight or nine years old.

So he understood that this was the boy who had grown up and could finally defeat the shadows who had bullied him before.

Then the transition slows down again, as if the story reaches a climax and then enters a period of relaxation.

The shadow of the girl who snatched the boy's orange was carried by the boy to the shadow of the adult, and in an instant, a little girl with a double ponytail and a middle-aged uncle with glasses appeared in the picture. The girl was taught a lesson by the adult, crying to death in the room, and the adult also apologized to the boy, and it could be seen that the adult was not a bad person, otherwise he would not have apologized to the child.

The tall shadow who snatched the fruit from the boy's plate was put to the ground by the boy with a hidden plank, and it could be seen that this guy should be about fifteen or sixteen years old, and he should be the child king of this welfare home, and then put it in the big boy's place and became the new child king. It can be seen that at the moment when the tall boy fell, the boy himself wore a crown and a red cloak behind him.

After this scene, the light shines on a character book, which looks like a roster, and on it is also written a string of letters, Caesar Odin.

The picture sped up again, and this time no one bullied the boy again, but there were some black shadows around him, which were very short and would run away in a panic when they saw the boy.

The boy in the light slowly grows up as the picture changes, until he is eight or nine years old, and then the light stops again.

In the picture, the boy is in a hallway, and in front of him are three shadows about the same height as the boy, and they are bullying a short shadow, just like the boy in the past. The big shadows apparently saw the boy, and they greeted the boy with a giggle, as if inviting him to join them, and the boy shook his head in disgust and stepped aside to leave. Of course, as they passed the shadows, the short shadow held out a hand to the boy and seemed to shout something, and then the boy stopped walking.

Suddenly, the short shadow turned into a five or six-year-old child, wearing a tattered red shirt and small pants, and the face of the beaten crying was messed up.

The boy sighed, and the three shadows became three boys the same age as the boy, dressed in the same shabby clothes, and the expressions on their faces were all vicious.

After a scuffle, there was an extra slug behind the scarred boy, a little guy who liked to hold the corner of the boy's clothes.

Then the picture accelerates again, there are more and more figures behind the boy, and the boy continues to grow up, and by the time the boy becomes a teenager, the shadows behind him have changed batch after batch, as long as the three little ones who followed him at the beginning followed him for the longest time.

Suddenly, the boy, who had grown to the age of twelve or thirteen, paused again in the light, and in front of him stood a short shadow, saying something to a figure behind the boy, and then the figure ran away from the boy. The boy looked at the departing figure at a loss, this was the first time he had encountered such a situation, he didn't know what to do.

The next screen turns again, and the boy appears in a world full of tall black shadows, constantly communicating with them. Finally, a dark shadow nodded and led the boy away.

The picture turns again, and the boy wipes the sweat from his face, excitedly holding a thin stack of things, and behind him, a flat turf, and a weeder. As the camera zooms in, Rivera sees what the boy is holding, which are five one-dollar bills.

It seems that this is the first time that the boy has realized the existence of money, and it is also the first time that he has earned money through his own efforts.

The picture changes, the boy comes to the bakery, the tall black figure takes all the boy's money, hands the boy a bag of bread held in oiled paper, Leviera counts the size and quantity of the bread, thinks about the prices of that era, and realizes that the bakery owner is also a good person, and there is no pit boy. The five-dollar bread weighed twenty pounds, composed of delicate white flour and sweet cream, steaming hot, and the boy couldn't help but pull a corner of a piece of bread off and stuff it into his mouth.

But this moment is like a polished match in the hand of a little girl on a cold night, coming and going in a hurry. The boy stared at the bread, then closed his eyes suddenly, swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, and then took the bread in his arms and ran quickly towards the small yellow building.

If it were Rivera himself, then he would have a hundred ways to make this group of children eat as much bread as they want, and even turn the entire welfare home into a high-class clubhouse. But for a teenager, he is already doing very well, especially being able to hold back his desires, which is especially valuable.

In the light the boy distributed bread to the little figures behind him, and from the shadows of their mouths, it was clear that the little ones were eating happily. From this day on, the boy's life was full, and at that time, the term child labor was in vogue, and it was the age of paradise for real capitalists.

So under the light, the picture kept flashing, the boy kept working, and the figures behind him gradually grew up, and their faces were full of laughter. Leviera turned her head to look at Caesar, who closed her eyes and told her story, and slowly wrote a line of comments in her notebook, knowing responsibility as a teenager.

The frequency of the flickering of the picture increased again, and it was all the boy's various part-time jobs. At a certain point, the screen rests on an admission letter, which is a junior high school admission application, a gift from the tall shadow to the boy's eleventh birthday.

According to Leviera's understanding of that era, most of the children in the welfare home did not go to school, or their school was the welfare home, and when they grew up almost, if they didn't have an itchy hand, they would be kicked out of the welfare home and wander in society, and most of them became members of the street gangs, you can't expect this group of little guys who have been fighting hard in the welfare home since they grew up to be an honest worker, in their eyes there is no difference between good and bad, anyway, you can live with the robbery, why not? That's how they grew up anyway.

The screen pans again, and the boy sits in the dark classroom under the light. Leviera saw at a glance that this was a community school, the so-called community school, which was originally for the purpose of universal education, but in that era when the red giant collapsed and the lighthouse decayed, this thing was just a paste wallpaper at the bottom. Educational resources have long been monopolized by the giants of capital, and the ready-made elites serve the sons and daughters of the capitalists, and they will never be able to turn over, which is the so-called poor people's children are always the source of the poor, and the social class division is so caught off guard.

This era is an era of drunkenness, and the forgetful enjoyment of adults has led to their children's three views not being so serious, so what is it like for a boy in a welfare home with a strong sense of responsibility to throw it here. Just like the goddess of righteousness in the novel who fell into the evil path and demon cave, three beatings a day is rare, and the boy in the welfare home who refuses to admit defeat is basically injured every day.

Levila saw the boy limping and still didn't give up studying, you saw him watching his classmates suck big numb unmoved, and saw his classmates in the class snapping and calmly turning their heads and walking away, lightly not disturbing the pair of wild mandarin ducks. If you think that the junior high school in the United States is not in love, then you are too wrong, this thing is as popular as their big hemp, and their girls don't have anything to say about being clean, and it's over.

Under the light, the boy gradually grows up, and unlike in the welfare home, during the school day, not a single black shadow fades color, only the boy grows alone, and all the black shadows become his background board.

Under the lights, the sun rises and sets, and the boy stands on the playground, facing the sun, with the school building behind him. As the picture changes, the boy keeps growing, the school behind him keeps changing, and the sun and moon keep alternating.

Finally for a moment, the figure of the boy, no, the young man stopped, and at this time he was dressed in a suit, holding a briefcase in his hand, with a blank face, with his back to the sun, looking at the school behind him, and then turned to leave.

The picture then turns, and under the lights, the boy begins to work, a clerical job at the school. During the day, he is a dedicated teacher at the school. At night, he played with the coolest boy and played with a girl as big as his students. He is a frequent customer of various high-end restaurants, the best lover of the girls in the whole school at night, the salary that comes to him is never kept overnight, and the credit card has long been swiped to the next year.

Leviera's eyes narrowed as she looked at the laughing young man in the picture, and then she wrote and drew on the paper.

Under the light, the picture stops again. In the dark midnight, the storm was coming, the rain was blown by the wind crackling on the glass, and under the lightning, illuminating the sleeping face of the young man, and the black shadow that appeared on the wall beside him, what kind of shadow was that? It has long antlers, a serpentine body, eagle talons, and a crocodile's mouth. Such a monster cast his figure on the wall of the young man's bedroom.

The picture turned again, and the young man was already standing on a shining stage, laughing wantonly in front of countless flashing lights, and the young man became famous!