Chapter 65: Meeting (6)
The way of Usu's hypnosis is simply human.
At first, Roach only noticed that his elegant demeanor was becoming more and more soothing, and several different smells wafted from nowhere. It starts with grass, creamy vanilla, citrus and ends with lemongrass. He slowly decided that he liked the lemongrass taste best, and the taste around him never changed.
He took a deep breath of lemongrass and let himself sink into his seat, they had passed the hub twice and were now driving into the road between the red mountains. He looked out the window of his car at the flashing wilderness, the roads were new, but the villages were nowhere to be seen, and the humans had built the roads into the unknown.
"Do you like mountains?" Usu asked him.
"Nope." Roach said, glancing wearily at the mountains around him, "I love the sea." It's too red and too dry here, like it's on Mars. β
"Well, the sea." Usu repeated softly in a voice that drew his attention, "What color sea?" β
"It's turquoise, like a pot of mung bean soup." Roach closed his eyes.
"Are there any seagulls?" Usu asked.
"I didn't pay attention." Rocky said uncooperatively.
"Is there a coconut on a coconut tree? Wusu asked in a different way.
"Yes." Roach licked his parched lips.
"The sun was good today and the sea was turquoise. The sun falls on the transparent water, and I can always see the fine sand on the bottom of the sea, and the fine sand softly touches the soles of my feet, and the sea water is warm, as high as body temperature. Usu continued slowly, and at some point, Roach's thoughts slowed.
He could see the turquoise waters, a tree blooming on the beach, a deck chair with a soft bath towel, and the transparent sunlight warmed his feet. He's going to get some sleep now, and when he wakes up he's going to drink a glass of mango juice.
He slept deeply, and the dream gradually dissipated, and he fell into dreamless comfort for a while, but after a while, he woke up shallowly. He thought he was still a teenager, a little boy, sitting on a high wall, stupidly looking at the blue-purple sky on the horizon. It's time for him to go home for dinner, but he doesn't want to go back, and his mother may be a little unwell today, and he can only tiptoe to walk when he comes home. His dad has to work overtime again today, and no one talks to him when he comes home. He always wanted to take care of his mother, and that would be useful to show himself, but his mother would tell him that all she needed was sleep, to make him sensible, and sensible meant to be quiet.
Then he should not go home, so that the house will be the quietest.
He bent down to support his elbows on his lap, his chin resting on his hands, and turned the whole person together like a little monkey. He wanted people to play with him. However, the mage's children are not easy to see, and his family lives in the middle of now, even more so than ordinary lonely mages. He also couldn't attend the general social meetings held at school, and he knew why, because the school had given him up, thinking that sooner or later he would have to go to the school of humanity. He himself was not popular with others, as he was familiar with the encyclopedia of humans, and the last time he said that humans were monkeys like mages, the head of their class lost his temper and burned his book.
They are all illiterate and not as cute as human children. It's just a pity that human children are watched by their parents, either in cram school or in school, and even play has to be spent in some physical fitness class under the supervision of their parents. He has a few children, but he has fewer opportunities to meet than the Cowherd and Weaver Girl. Humans love their children too much, and every child is a treasure of heart and liver, and they are reluctant to let go of their hands.
He also mixed with human extracurricular classes, went to a taekwondo class, and he asked his mother to sign him up, and his parents would always meet his requirements. But he didn't control his strength well, and the first time he kicked a child in class, his nostrils were bloody, and the child's parents rushed over like crazy, and if it weren't for the human teacher, he would have been beaten by the adults. That's really not to blame him, he didn't know that there was such a big difference in physical fitness between mage humans and ordinary humans at that time. Maybe his parents told him, but he didn't understand it.
Roach pondered for a moment why he was sitting on the wall in a daze, and then remembered that it was probably because he had been riding on the wall. He knew the wizarding world and the human world, but neither world was really open to him, he didn't belong anywhere. His name should be, Roach Demidwinter Wall.
He grinned heartlessly, and suddenly his heart was shocked, no, he was asked for it. He turned his head suddenly, and sure enough, he saw Du Zheng lazily leaning against the wall, smoking. He was overjoyed, and slid down the wall, his body seemed to have grown suddenly, and when he landed, he had already left his childhood.
"Brother." Rocky exclaimed with joy, "What are you doing? β
Du Zhengyi ignored him and turned a deaf ear to his nonsense. He didn't care, he felt Du Zhengyi's response, the gentle aura of "I'm here".
He remembered something again, "Brother, do you know Du Tingxiu?" The people of your Du family should be similar, right? β
"Surely a family is like? Then why are you so much shorter than your dad? Du Zhengyi said with a cigarette in his mouth.
"Damn." Roach muttered in his mind.
Du Zheng glanced at him, turned and walked away. He didn't know where Du Zhengyi was going, so he hurriedly followed. Du Zhengyi walked unhurriedly, he followed and walked for a long time, muddy, the surrounding scenery changed rapidly, some absurd shapes flashed, and occasionally there was a little attractive light and shadow, his curiosity was as always, but because of Du Zhengyi's non-stop, he also kept following without stopping.
Gradually, he encountered a small river in front of him, Luo Qi raised his head and saw the stone arch bridge erected on the river, behind the bridge was the whitewashed wall of the pillow river people, and he couldn't help but shudder when he remembered what place this was.
"Let's go, I'm here." Du Zhengyi said to him.
"It's ...... here" Luo Qi remembered the night when the aliens were raging in his memory, but Du Zheng crossed the small bridge with a brisk step, and disappeared into a narrow alley in a blink of an eye.
"Heyβ" Luo Qi shouted, and hurriedly crossed the small bridge and ran straight to the alley where Du Zhengyi had disappeared.
The daylight in the alley dragged on for a long time, like an extremely warm spring day, and Rocky felt a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, and the melting spring made his shoulders warm. He was very happy in his heart, and he thought that this dream was too delicate and was no longer a dream.
Whose memory is he standing in, and whose door is he standing in?
Rocky's heart lifted, and he hurried through the courtyard gate. The courtyard was silent, and the door of the house facing it was tightly closed, like a deep well of memory.
He was sure that wells come in all sorts of forms.
Sweat dripped, and he stretched out his sweaty hand and gently pushed against the tall, narrow carved wooden door. The two doors in the middle slid open quietly, and the sunlight fell in, and the dust that had sealed the room flew and rose in the sunlight of the well. Roach blinked, trying to adjust to the dim light in the room, and he couldn't tell if it was a real memory or a blurred memory.
In fact, the room is not dim, but I walked in from the sun, and I couldn't see clearly for a while. A figure approached from the depths of the room, his eyes narrowed, and the man's shadow became clearer and clearer.
"Du Zhengyi?" He called.
He couldn't see the man's face clearly, but his intuition was Du Zhengyi. Looking at it this way, it is clearly the same tall and long figure, and there is naturally a lean and capable figure in the action. However, no, every step he took forward revealed some details that Rocky was not familiar with. Until his honest and soft eyes fell on Luo Qi's face, until Luo Qi clearly saw that he was smiling in a completely different way from Du Zhengyi, more warm, more subtle, and more stable...... Trance is also stronger.
Roach looked at him in amazement, and suddenly understood that this strength had come from his age. His hair was already a little gray, and he had spent many years peacefully, much longer than Du Zhengyi, and he looked more calm and content, and the tip of Roach's tongue was bitter. He suddenly smiled at Luo Qi, there were slight wrinkles in the corners of his eyes, and in a trance, it seemed that Du Zhengyi saw his old friend many years later, Luo Qi's back seemed to be pricked by a needle, and he almost jumped up like a sour-faced cat.
At that moment, the man reached out to him, his arm through his body.
Luo Qi turned around in astonishment, and saw Mr. Shi and Pei Shu standing behind him at a glance. He really jumped up this time, and then he saw that the man shook Mr. Shi's hand and shook her, which was really an old-fashioned way of greeting. Then he stepped forward and hugged Pei Shu.
Hey, Roach remembered, he had seen him once in his memory, and it must have been him. Luo Qi understood, this was the memory that Mr. Shi gave him, he found it, he found Du Tingxiu.