Volume 1 Crime and Punishment Chapter 8 Departure
Luo Mu was called by his mother early this morning, Luo Mu rubbed his eyes and walked out of the room, Ke Rui was still sleeping on the sofa in the living room, and there were still some tears on his face that could not be wiped clean.
According to the customs of Qinghe, it is generally buried the day after a person dies, and Cole drowned in the sea, according to the canons of the Astephenian Church, Cole can only be buried in the sea, and since the church outside Qinghe Town was built, their own children are in the church, and people's faith is undoubtedly further firm.
Astephenism is Corvo's state religion, from the empress of a country to the lowliest poor, 80% of Corvo people in the country believe in the teachings of Astephenianism, and the small town of Qinghe is no exception.
Yesterday Luo Mu helped work all day, until the early hours of the morning did not fall asleep, Ke Rui personally scattered his father's ashes into the vast sea, after the boat docked, Ke Er's sister wanted to take Ke Rui, but Ke Rui said that he would not go with her, but he did not want to return to the empty home, Ke Rui followed Luo Mu back to the town on the way to look at Luo Mu with sad eyes, and then slept on the sofa of Luo Mu's house until now.
Yesterday may have been the most memorable day of his life for Curry, but today is no different.
Today is the day of Luo Mu and Ke Rui Shenwen.
After breakfast, Chrissy took out two of the most decent clothes in the house from the cabinet, which are usually only worn by Luo Mu during the Chinese New Year, and are usually carefully placed in the cabinet by Chriss, which is a white collarless cardigan inlaid with gold stripes, a light brown diagonal shawl with triangular trims and subtle tassels, and a pair of dark linen bloomers, Luo Mu happily looked at himself in the mirror and arranged his hair, entering the city is definitely something worth showing off for the children of Qinghe, the tall building, the elegant ladies fluttering with the smell of perfume, and the novelty in the clean and bright shop window。
Ke Rui's figure is taller than Luo Mu, and he can't wear Luo Mu's clothes, Chrissy asked him to try on Rose's clothes when he was young, a set of ordinary suits with dark collars, although a little too big, but it is also decent.
Luo Mu looked at Ke Rui, who was a little nervous and tied with his shirt and bow tie, and couldn't straighten his waist with a smile, "Hahaha, Ke Rui, this is the clothes my dad wore when he married my mom, hahaha, you..."
Ke Rui was even more embarrassed, he didn't know where to put his two hands, he lowered his head and secretly glanced at Chriss, Chrissy slapped Luo Mu's head, glared at him and said, "It's useless to say, let's go quickly, Uncle Little will be in a hurry for a while"
Chrissy pulled Curry out of the house, Luo Mu covered his mouth and couldn't stop smiling and followed behind, a carriage was parked in front of Rose's house, and a big bag was placed on the carriage, that is, the tribute to be paid, Rose and Little were using ropes to make the final fixation of the bag, Claire was also lying on the carriage and sweeping the dust that fell on the seat when the carriage last transported things.
Rose wiped the sweat from his head, looked at Lit, who straightened up, and said, "Then I'll trouble you."
Litt is also a middle-aged uncle like Rose, Litt has a slightly fat figure, two very dark beards, a head of hair, and the most impressive thing is his conspicuous double chin, Litt smiled heartily, patted Rose's shoulder and said with a smile, "This little thing is polite to me"
Rose nodded, turned his head and looked at Luo Mu and Ke Rui who came out of the house, Rose raised his eyebrows, and laughed out loud, just like Luo Mu, "Hahaha, Xiao Ke, hahaha, hey, no..."
Curry looked at Rose with his hands in a daze, completely stupid, he had never seen Rose like this.
Chrissy frowned and looked at Rose, Rose saw that his daughter-in-law was unhappy and quickly stopped laughing, came to Curry, and pressed Curry's shoulders with both hands, Rose's figure almost completely blocked Curry, Curry raised his head, Rose still had a smile in his eyes, "No problem, don't be nervous, you will definitely be able to sink the line successfully in this dress"
After Ross finished speaking, he looked at Luo Mu on the side, patted Luo Mu's shoulder vigorously, and didn't say anything, today's weather is very good, the sun is very dazzling, Luo Mu raised his head and looked at his father beside him, and even could see the thin stubble on Rose's chin.
Rose raised his head, patted Luo Mu lightly on the shoulder, and said, "Go", after that, he walked to the carriage first, stretched out a hand to help Claire off the carriage, and helped Luo Mu and Curry who came over to push them into the carriage, Rose took two steps back, stood beside Chrissy and Claire, and said to Little, "Little, please"
Little didn't look back, and raised his horsewhip, "Drive!"
The carriage slowly drove forward, Luo Mu looked back at his father, mother and sister, Claire also waved his hand, Luo Mu suddenly remembered that when he was a child, his father went to sea, and Claire also waved his hand like this, but it was himself who stood between his mother and sister.
Claire is already so tall.
Without waiting for Luo Mu to think carefully, he was pulled back to reality by Ke Rui's sigh, Luo Mu looked at Ke Rui with a smile in his eyes, Ke Rui rolled his eyes when he saw this, and sighed louder, "Eh, Brother Mu, do you think I'm so funny in this dress?"
Luo Mu laughed and said, "It's not that you are funny in clothes, it's that this dress is funny."
Curry's eyes widened, "Huh?"
Luo Mu said" My mother told me that my grandfather was a very serious person, when my mother came to this town for my father, my grandfather was very dissatisfied, but my mother was very stubborn, my father did not marry, my grandfather had no choice, so he agreed to this marriage, back then, my father wore this dress when he came to the door as a son-in-law for the first time, of course my grandfather did not give a good face, saying that my father was dressed like a man and so on, and he had to change into a shabby clothes that he usually wore before letting him enter the door, I saw that my father was wearing this dress at that time, just like you were embarrassed just now”
Curry let out a sigh of relief after hearing this, then sat up straight and straightened his collar, and said stinkily, "Then I'm still very handsome in this dress!"
Luo Mu rolled his eyes when he heard this, leaned back on the car board, looked at the scenery on the side of the road by himself, Ke Rui didn't say anything when he saw this, he lay on the board on the edge of the car and looked outside, there is a short distance from Qinghe to Maryland, Corvo has a vast territory, almost covering two-thirds of the territory of Asia Minor, and Qinghe Town, including the city Maryland that Luo Mu is about to arrive, is located in the Gusgaard Plain near the Koster Sea, the world is divided into five continents, Asia, Chuck, Pinghe, Weiyeyi, Terches, these five continents and the incomparably vast sea area constitute this"The World"
These are all the knowledge that Luo Mu listened to the teacher in the church's land administration class, but in fact, it is just some common sense, but Luo Mu always listens very carefully at this time.
Luo Mu just thought nonsense, and his thoughts drifted back to the words that Quinn had said last night, as always, sitting in his chair.
"How does it feel to contact someone else's soul for the first time" Quinn was as always, his voice did not have the slightest wave, as if he didn't care about asking Luo Mu.
Luo Mu sat on the bed, leaned back against the window, and said, "Actually, those undead, including you, are just memories that have fused with dark matter."
Quinn raised his head and looked at Luo Mu, and finally showed a slight expression, and said with a little surprise, "Yes, how do you know?"
Luo Mu lowered his eyes slightly, "Because... Because I have experienced Cole's death in its entirety, if it weren't for my own memory, then I'm just a bystander, but in that dream-like place, I'm Cole, and I've died completely."
Quinn nodded" This is the first lesson I want to teach you, that is, forgetting, your physique is extremely compatible with the dark matter, so you can contact the undead and see their memories, but the general undead will only have the memories before death after fusing the dark matter, because generally only this memory is the deepest, and the reason why they can't die is the same, the memory is assimilated by the dark matter and stays in the place where they died, and the most direct way for you to absorb the dark matter in nature is to contact the undead like you did yesterday and accept their memories"
Luo Mu raised his head and looked at Quinn, and said with some horror, "I only obtained such a small piece of dark matter yesterday, so wouldn't I have a lot of memories?"
Quinn nodded and said, "In other words, you're going to die many, many times."
Two lines of tears suddenly flowed from Luo Mu's eyes, Luo Mu wiped his eyes with his hands and suppressed his crying, his shoulders trembled violently, and soft sobs came from between his fingers, "I don't want to continue, it's too painful, that feeling of being swallowed by endless darkness I really don't want to experience it again"
Luo Mu is actually just a child less than ten years old.
Quinn looked at Luo Mu's appearance, but did not have the slightest worry, Quinn continued, "The dark matter should not be materialized, the reason why the dark matter was materialized and attached to you after you came into contact with the undead that day is because you don't absorb and use them, and if you don't burn that dark matter to let your friend see his father's soul, now I can teach you how to absorb and use the soul."
Luo Mu didn't look up, but a buzzing voice came out, "I'm sorry"
Quinn didn't pause, still said, "And forgetting, is a skill you must master, your soul itself has this ability to accept other souls, that is, memory, but if you can't forget the memory you have obtained as soon as possible, then once the memory obtained exceeds the sum of your own soul, then there will be a large area of backlash, and no one knows who you will become at that time."
Luo Mu still maintained that posture and asked, "Then how can I forget, I don't think I will ever forget everything Kele thought before he died."
Quinn stretched out his hand and held Luo Mu's arm, Luo Mu raised his head, there were still tears on his face, and suddenly, an unprecedented powerful heat flow burst out from Luo Mu's arm, along the arm, straight towards Luo Mu's mind, but before Luo Mu could react, the heat flow disappeared as if it had never appeared.
Quinn withdrew his hand and looked at Luo Mu, his face was still calm like a bottomless pool, "Can you still remember, what happened when Cole died?"
Luo Mu was stunned, he really couldn't remember, as if something had disappeared out of thin air in his mind, Luo Mu suddenly had an extremely uncomfortable feeling, as if he was in the air, there was no place in his limbs to focus on, and he couldn't grasp anything, that memory obviously existed in Luo Mu's mind, but Luo Mu just couldn't remember.
"I want to... Amazing"
Quinn nodded, didn't say anything more, and returned to Luo Mu's body.
Luo Mu didn't feel sleepy anymore, turned his head to look at the white moon outside the window, why is the undead actually just a memory?
Memory is the most important thing for people, maybe when a person dies, it is not really death, but only when everyone forgets him, it is his real death.
Luo Mu looked at his left hand, the place where the dark matter obtained from Cole's soul was burned.