"It's rare for senior brother to ask me to take a walk at night. Did you eat too much at night? Oh...I'm not saying you're full because you're full. I'm just asking if it's because of digestion that you want to walk at night."
Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang walked side by side on the stone road, which was the path leading to the artificial lake. Every five meters on the stone road, a bronze pillar held a street lamp. The greening was too complete, which also caused the There are abundant nocturnal creatures, the cries of partridges and crickets in the grass are like a concert, moths gather on the street lamps, casting fog-like shadows, and two figures walking side by side pass by steadily.
"I didn't eat much in the evening. I had to drink a glass of milk after returning from a walk."
"What's for dinner?"
"The main meal is mashed potatoes and pasta, and the side dishes are eggs, bacon, Parmesan cheese, black pepper seasoning, and a plate of fruit prepared by Susie."
"The fruits Susie prepared are of the same flavor. I guess the milk you brought back was also prepared by her?" Lu Mingfei turned to look at Chu Zihang and said in a joking tone, "Why haven't you made an official announcement yet?"
Chu Zihang was silent for a moment and looked at Lu Mingfei, "You seem to know a lot of things."
"I only know what I should know." Lu Mingfei shook his head, "It's not as magical as you think. If you really think it's a little strange, then just think of my speaking spirit as a 'prophet' like those people. That will work. It’s better to accept it.”
"So your ability to predict does not come from the power of the 'Word Spirit'." Chu Zihang said.
Lu Mingfei nodded and admitted it. He had never thought of using this statement to hide the people around him. It was just an official rhetoric, used to deal with the public and the school board, and in some small circles within the college. , most people think that Lu Mingfei was secretly cultivated by Anger for a period of time in advance, and it was not until he was discovered by the school board that he could no longer hide it, and then he was slowly brought to the stage for display.
Everyone has their own conjectures, but they cannot affect the current situation, because no matter what the truth is, Lu Mingfei is already here, streaking across the night sky of the hybrid world like a meteor.
"What do you mean by the Norton Hall thing?" Chu Zihang said, "I received an email forwarded to me by Susie. You transferred the one-year use right of the 'Norton Hall' of Free One Day Betting to the Lion Heart Club. The appendix mentions that the use of Norton Hall can only be used for the daily activities of the Lionheart Club and cannot be transferred...I am very curious as to what prompted you to do this."
"A sense of belonging." Lu Mingfei said bluntly, "If I really had to choose a club to join between the Student Union and the Lions Heart Club, I would only choose the Lions Heart Club."
"May I know the reason?"
"Didn't I say sense of belonging?"
"How can you belong to the Lions Heart Club if you have never joined it? Or do you understand the history of the Lions Heart Club? From the history of the Lions Heart Club, you can see the same characteristics that you identify with, or the same characteristics of the environment you were in. , leading to what you call a sense of belonging.”
"Brother, just chat, don't use a scalpel to cut me open, okay?" Lu Mingfei sighed, "There are some things that I really can't understand, like when I said that I was actually reborn, do you believe me? ?”
"What is rebirth? Does it mean literally coming back to life? Have you died once?" Chu Zihang lowered his head to analyze the words spoken by Lu Mingfei.
"It's not that you died once, you just need to understand it as returning to a certain fragment of the past. Just like senior brother, you suddenly returned to Shilan High School when you were studying. What would you do and what would you think?" Lu Ming I just used an example that I wanted to make easy to understand.
Chu Zihang was stunned and kept walking, but his thinking was rarely sluggish. He had always been teased by Caesar as a "robot", and his brain that ran calculations based on fixed logic finally got stuck. He stopped. , looking at Lu Mingfei who had walked a step ahead and stopped, he seemed to want to say something, but couldn't.
"It seems you understand what I mean." Lu Mingfei showed a helpless smile, "Just like what you said before, I know a lot of things. Of course I talked about you when Lin Nian was chatting with me in the dormitory. , he told me about your past events, so I can be considered a half-informed person."
"Does anyone else know about this?" Chu Zihang asked, looking at Lu Mingfei's eyes as he turned around.
"Maybe it's just me, Lin Nian, who knows? Fingel fell asleep when we were talking about those things that night. I'm not sure if he heard that story."
"Do you believe...those things?" Chu Zihang asked.
He rarely told people about his past stories. The typhoon on the viaduct in that coastal city buried too many unwilling roars and tears. When he was looking for Kassel College, he emphasized that he and that man had been together countless times. The experiences we encountered together, whether it was the gods on the viaduct, Odin in charge of Kungunir, or the eight-legged horse, were regarded by senior professors and psychology teachers as memories after stress trauma. wrong.
They did not find the road numbered "000" on the viaduct, nor did they find the man's body or the Maybach. If Chu Zihang hadn't started his bloodline that night, they would have thought that the boy was just innocent. After losing his father on a rainy night, Di couldn't accept the fact and became mentally ill.
"Why don't you believe it? And whether I believe it or not, those things really happened, right? I don't think Lin Nian would lie to me, especially about this matter." Lu Mingfei said.
"Many people think I'm crazy, or I remember it wrong." Chu Zihang stared at Lu Mingfei, his everlasting golden eyes shining brightly under the butterfly black contact lenses, "You are the first to believe my people."
"The first person who believed in you was not me, but Lin Nian." Lu Mingfei turned his head and continued walking forward. Chu Zihang paused and followed him, listening to him say, "This is the first time I heard this. My reaction was no different from those people's when it happened. I also thought it was ridiculous, so senior brother, please don't impress the wrong person. If Lin Nian hadn't emphasized that what he said was true, I might have thought you were crazy. I believe it. Your person is Lin Nian, and it’s because of Lin Nian that I believed in you... At least that was the case at first, but after being in contact with you for a long time, I gradually began to believe the things you said, because if those things happened If it happened to other people, I would think they were bragging and trying to impress people, but if it happened to you... I would feel it was very real inexplicably. Who told you to have the face of a leading actor?"
"The Lin Nian you are talking about, many people think he does not exist and was invented by you." Chu Zihang suddenly said.
Lu Mingfei paused for a moment, then continued walking forward as usual, "Senior brother, what do you think? Do you also think Lin Nian is fictional?"
"From your description, it seems that Lin Nian and I have a very good relationship." Chu Zihang said.
He is actually very particular about his choice of words. Generally speaking, if he is willing to tell someone about the past on the viaduct without any purpose, it can only mean one thing, and that is that he is willing to entrust his life to that person. , that thing is the navigation beacon that supports him for the rest of his life. It is his unique obsession in life. If he wants to share it with others, it means that deep down in his heart, he hopes that after he dies, that person will take his place. At the end of that road, pull out the road sign that symbolizes the life of the boy "Chu Zihang".
"It should be considered a close friend." Lu Mingfei was also careful about his choice of words.
"How does his relationship with you compare with his relationship with me?" Chu Zihang asked again.
Lu Mingfei stopped immediately and turned to look at Chu Zihang, his face speechless and choked.
Chu Zihang also looked at him, not knowing what was wrong with the other party, but some of the "interpersonal interactions" he had cultivated in the past two years still made him realize that he seemed to have said the wrong thing, and then whispered, "If you think I said the wrong thing, If so, you can ignore me."
"It's not that I said something wrong... I just suddenly felt that the senior brother is still the same senior brother." Lu Mingfei touched his forehead and added in his mind: except that you are a little less good, the basic characteristics are the same.
"I can't answer this question, but if you look at it subjectively, maybe my relationship with Lin Nian is a little better than that between him and you." Lu Mingfei coughed twice and pinched his thumb and index finger seriously. There is a little distance between us, "After all, we have known each other since high school, and we have the three most important friendships in life."
"The three pillars of life?" Chu Zihang heard the new words.
"We skipped class together, surfed the Internet together, and secretly watched the girls' physical examination together." Lu Mingfei said seriously.
"In your opinion, don't you think Lin Nian and I have had these experiences?"
"Absolutely not, because senior brother, you are a very rigid person, and Lin Nian is a boring person. Only I can match his radio waves. I'm afraid you can only answer questions and play basketball together!" Lu Mingfei said something a little bit. Be proud of yourself.
"Well..." Chu Zihang took another look at Lu Mingfei, and had a new assessment of the relationship between Lu Mingfei and the boy named Lin Nian, "But I have never known this person, no matter who he is. I was a classmate or on the basketball court, and I’m pretty sure I don’t know the person you call ‘Lin Nian’.”
Lu Mingfei was silent for a while, then turned and stepped forward, "He's gone."
"Gone?"
"Disappeared, no longer existed. It was like a bowl of beef noodles with vinegar was brought down. When it was brought back, the vinegar in the noodles was gone. Although the beef noodles were still the same bowl of beef noodles, without the vinegar, the bowl of noodles would not be the same. It's delicious." Lu Mingfei said slowly, "So I have to find him at all costs. This is my original intention of entering Kassel College, and it is also what I will always do in the future."
"For you, Lin Nian is that typhoon." Chu Zihang suddenly said softly.
Lu Mingfei paused and was speechless.
Chu Zihang finally knew where his inexplicable sense of identification and exploration for Lu Mingfei came from. Fundamentally speaking, he and Lu Mingfei were actually the same kind of people. Both of them were fighting for something that would not be ignored. People or things recognized by the whole world work hard to live and keep moving forward, intending to prove that it is the world that is crazy and not themselves. This is their only motivation to walk on this road, and it is also a mission that they cannot give up.
For some reason, he has never believed so much in the existence of "Lin Nian" mentioned by Lu Mingfei. Even now when he chews on this name in his heart again, he can even outline a vague outline in his mind, a person walking in front. Looking back at the image of the big boy reaching out to him...it felt like an unusual sense of security, a sense of security that he had never felt since the day of the typhoon.
He somewhat understood why Lu Mingfei was obsessed with finding that "Lin Nian", because if that sense of peace of mind was true, no one would reject him. After accidentally losing him, they would naturally try their best to find him. he.
That is an integral part of their lives.
"I have asked some friends I know to help you find the person named 'Lin Nian'. If possible, you can send more detailed information about him to the Lion Heart Club. With that information, it may be faster. I can help you locate some clues." Chu Zihang said.
"Thank you very much, senior brother." Lu Mingfei nodded.
The two of them fell into silence and walked for a while around the illuminated lakeside amid the chirping insects and shadows.
"By the way, senior brother, I have a question. Aren't the freshmen taking the 3E exam tomorrow? Have you participated in Fingel's bet on the forum, which was about whether I could pass the 3E exam?" Lu Ming Don't ask suddenly.
"No one makes a bet on whether you can pass the 3E exam, because in most people's eyes, it is certain that you pass the 3E exam. A certain thing cannot open the odds." Chu Zihang paused for a moment, " Someone is making another bet on you, betting on whether you will be classified as having a dangerous bloodline and be expelled from the academy due to the 3E exam. The ratio of the odds is said to be exaggerated."
"Senior brother, have you placed a bet?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"No." Chu Zihang looked up at his back, "Do you want me to place a bet?"
"Try to buy some?"
"Which side to buy?" Chu Zihang still asked in the familiar rigorous manner.
Lu Mingfei looked back at Chu Zihang's eyes, smiled, and said, "If you can, bet on me to win! I can't lose this time, so if I want to win, I must win. I will find Lin Nian , prove that I am not a madman, and then return to where I should go and continue to complete my mission. No matter how high the price is, no matter how long the journey is."
"What if you can't find him in the end?" Chu Zihang asked softly, as if he was asking Lu Mingfei as well as himself.
Lu Mingfei stood under the street lamp, looked at him across the stone steps, smiled indifferently and said, "I would rather throw away the whole bowl of beef noodles without vinegar than take a bite."
Chu Zihang looked back at the boy's eyes. The emotions hidden deep in those brown pupils were so complex, angry, stubborn and full of determination, like a solitary lion, lonely and fierce.