At night,The underground of the school park,Right in front of the metal birdcage。

Xia Mingwei sat on the ground, crossed his legs, and looked at the girl in the cage through the transparent curtain of the birdcage: "How are you doing today?" ”

"Well, there's something to eat." Rin Kiyotake wrote in his notebook, "What about Robert? ”

"I think it's okay."

"Are you having fun today?"

"Well, today is the school ceremony, and I ate a lot of delicious food."

Rin Kiyotake pressed a pencil to his chin, and after a moment he wrote in his notebook, "It's so good, I want to participate in the celebration too." ”

Xia Mingwei originally wanted to say, 'Actually, it's not fun', but he looked at Qingzhu's plain white face, and suddenly remembered that she had been hospitalized for poor health since she could remember, and she had never gone to school.

"Speaking of which, Robert, you seem to be a little short-sighted." Qingzhu Rin thought for a while, and then wrote, "You don't have a sharp eye, so far away, can you see the words on the book clearly?" ”

"No, I know what you wrote with my eyes closed." Xia Mingwei said, smiling and closing his eyelids, "The next sentence you wrote in your notebook was: 'Yes'." ”

When he opened his eyes and was about to confirm the answer, his pupils shrank slightly.

Qingzhu Rin slowly curled up with his head in his arms, his shoulders trembled slightly, and the notebook in his hand fell on the metal floor, making a crisp sound.

"What's wrong with her?" Xia Mingwei lowered his head and asked.

"It should be a side effect of the drug." Suad whispered, "It's normal, only occasional tinnitus and headaches, resisting the resurgence of the will of the myth is not a simple matter." ”

"Yes."

"You're pretty calm today."

Xia Mingwei asked softly, "Are you okay, Rin?" ”

Before his words fell, Qing Zhurin's thin body fell to the floor, Xia Mingwei looked at this scene in a daze, watching her fall slowly, and her right arm collided with the floor with a clear sound. Before he had time to express his face, the crimson in his pupils was about to explode like a demon coming out of his cage.

Suad frowned and said, "I will have someone check her physical condition, don't worry too much, it shouldn't be a big problem." ”

Xia Mingwei was silent for a moment, and slowly got up: "Let's go." ”

"What?"

"Let's go back."

That night, Xia Mingwei returned to the dormitory but didn't see Ji Lang, but Ji Lang sent him a text message, saying that he used an encrypted channel, and no one could monitor their conversation, and then if there was anything to say, just use this encrypted interface to chat directly.

He lay down on the bed, his consciousness slowly sank, and soon entered the fantasy theater.

The world was still dark, and looking back, there was still not the slightest movement in the cell, like a piece of hard ice standing there, not moving.

My neighbor totoro is sleeping in front of the cell, as if waiting for Monkey King to wake up; Leaning against the shadow of a corner of the theater, a whale can be faintly seen from the silhouette, its undulating breath seems to echo from the deep sea, leisurely, mysterious, and profound.

He sat down in the nearest chair and entered into a pipe dream.

Slightly open his eyelids, his pupils twitched slightly, and the familiar café was still in his eyes, at sunset, the afterglow of the setting sun spilled into the store, the owner was wrapped in a kitchen apron, leaning against the counter and smoking, he held his shoulder with one hand, and held a cigarette in the other, and the evening breeze rolled up the cigarette ash wrapped in cigarette ash.

"How's it going?" The boss asked.

"It's not good," Xia Mingwei lowered his eyes and looked at the report card in front of him, "It's a bad mess." ”

The report card is full of crosses with red pen and ink, which looks a little hideous, and there is a warning from the teacher written next to it: I am always distracted in class, think about what I should do, people always have to plan for their future, do you plan to mess around like this?

"As I said, you kid is fine with everything, but you can't figure out some things." The boss said.

"For example?" Xia Mingwei said, suddenly turning his head away.

Outside the café walked in a customer, a rough man in a military uniform with a beard, who looked like an American. He sat down across from Xia Mingwei and said almost word for word: "As a mythical carrier, you must devour your own kind in order to maintain your sanity, to gain power, and not to be wiped out by humans." That's how we survive. ”

"Poseidon, you don't instill strange values in this child." The boss sighed.

"Then I don't want to be a myth carrier?" Xia Mingwei asked in a low voice.

As soon as the words fell, another figure walked outside the door, it was Anlens in a school uniform, and he sat on the left side of Xia Mingwei: "All mythical carriers are our enemies. They are like walking nuclear bombs, how can humans make friends with nuclear bombs? ”

"Yes, nuclear bombs."

"We are serialists. Nuclear bombs should be destroyed, or innocent people will be harmed. Myth carriers should not exist, their very existence is a mistake. Aarence stared into Poseidon's eyes.

"On what basis do you say that our existence is a mistake?" Poseidon smiled and said, "Since we are alive, there is a reason for us." We are the ultimate beings, messengers who have come to help humanity evolve. Why stick to the frameworks and rules set by these weak people? We can dominate the whole world and destroy it when we're unhappy! ”

"If it can really be destroyed, how easy it would be." Shamingway muttered.

The owner didn't speak, just stood in front of the counter smoking a cigarette and watched them quietly. The bell tied to the door of the store suddenly swayed softly and shook like a ring.

Xia Mingwei turned his head and looked at the door, and was greeted by two dried corpses, which could be roughly seen from the faces of his parents.

His parents dragged their bloody bodies and walked towards him step by step: "It's all those monsters, ruining our home and ruining your life, aren't they?" ”

"yes." Xia Mingwei slowly raised his eyes and stared at the two broken faces, "So I want to be a sequencer and slaughter them all." As soon as the tired words fell, some heavy object fell from the sky and slammed into the ground in front of the store, it was a metal birdcage, and in the depths of the birdcage sat a bloodstained girl.

She tilted her head slightly, the back of her head against the metal wall, the blood on her body burning coldly in the sun, and the strands of hair wrapped around her earlobes resembled fluffy feathers.

"She has to be kept in a cage, and no one can save her." Suad didn't know when he appeared beside him, "This is the fate of the mythical carrier. ”

"You can only have one identity, otherwise you have nothing but pure aliens." "All people will become your enemies." ”

"You're right."

"So, don't you have a choice?" Suad asked.

"Avenge us!" The corpse of the parents said hoarsely.

"So many innocent people will die, including my sister, do you want to selfishly close your eyes?!" Anlens growled, "She needs to be controlled, and so do you!"

"No, we were born with tyranny to rule all!" Poseidon slammed the table.

The whole world trembled like a war drum, making a torrential sound that almost punctured a person's eardrums, except for the boss who stood silently in front of the counter, as if watching a mime.

"That's what all of you say." Shamingway's voice was tired.

"That's because you need a stand, or it's going to be too late." Suad whispered.

"Stand?" Xia Mingwei lowered his head slightly, his forehead hair hanging down to cover his eyes, "Everyone is constantly defining me and teaching me how to do it." His voice lowered, "But there is only one person, and she will stand by my side no matter what kind of person I am, no matter what identity I choose." She said...... What does it matter to the serializer, and what does it matter to the myth carrier. ”

"So it's just for her? Are you going to give up all positions? The people around him roared in unison, their faces as hideous as evil spirits.

"No, it's for myself." Xia Mingwei whispered, "I don't want to be a myth carrier or a serializer, I just want to put aside all positions, get freedom, and get the freedom to live as a person like Xia Mingwei." You can call me selfish, you can say I'm ungrateful, disgusting, stupid, but I just want to live like this, and I can only live like this, after all, I'm a hopeless fool. ”

"Even if ...... Is it against the whole world? ”

"Even against the whole world, I will take her away." Xia Mingwei said calmly, "If I am wrong, then we are accomplices, no matter how miserable the end, I will accept it all." ”

The last word fell, and everything around him gradually collapsed, and the roof trembled and fell gray sawdust.

"That's the answer," whispered the boss behind him, "you've grown up." ”

"Boss," Xia Mingwei didn't look back at him, "you've always wanted me to be an ordinary person, right?" ”

"There are no ordinary people who are not ordinary people, I just hope you can be yourself." The boss smiled, "It's good to go all the way, Mingwei." ”

In the collapsing world, his voice became more and more indistinct and faint.

Xia Mingwei slowly got up, walked to the exit of the café, stepped over the threshold in the sound of wind chimes, the birdcage in front of him shattered, and the girl in the birdcage fell into the abyss with the birdcage, and the whole world was swallowed up by an invisible torrent.

"Wait until I come to you." He whispered.

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