Chu Zihang exhaled softly, stood up and came to the workbench.
There were countless red lines crisscrossing the sky.
There are photos, news clippings or handwritten pieces of paper on the red threads. Each piece of paper is an event. Some red threads are parallel to each other, and some are entangled and knotted.
He walked slowly along those red lines, browsing those events one by one, and the more he read, the more frightened he became.
On June 30, 1908, the Tunguska explosion caused a mushroom cloud to rise from the center of the explosion. The shock wave shattered glass 650 kilometers away. The night sky across Eurasia turned dark red, and people nearby mistakenly thought that the sun had risen early.
On August 30, 1900, during the Summer of Mourning, the mysterious ancient corpse awakened, the Kassel Manor near Hamburg was destroyed, and the elite secret party Lionheart was wiped out. The only survivor was Hilbert Jean Angers. .
On the night of December 25, 1991, the night when the Soviet Union collapsed, a violent explosion occurred in the tundra of the Arctic Circle and the frozen port north of Verkhoyansk. A group of fighter jets heading for reconnaissance encountered an attack by mysterious creatures. Officials blocked the relevant information. information and denies the existence of this matter.
On November 7, 2002, in the Greenland Ice Sea, attracted by the mysterious heartbeat, the Kassel College Executive Department went to investigate and encountered an enemy suspected of being the Dragon King in the depths of the ice sea. The entire army was nearly wiped out, with only one and a half people surviving. …
In the past two hundred years, all major events related to the dragon clan have been hung in the air, some of which Chu Zihang has heard of, and some of which Chu Zihang has not heard of.
Related events are connected with red lines. Sometimes two or three clues intersect to create new events. There are also some events that seem completely unrelated to other events and are hung alone with a single red line.
The red threads formed an intricate web, but in the end, all the red threads merged into a thick bundle, tied to the concrete wall, with ancient names written in ink beside it.
"nidhogg".
When the flashlight illuminated that name, Chu Zihang felt his heart being pinched by a cold claw.
It turns out that what the man really cares about is not the above-mentioned events, but the stream of events composed of these events. The streams of events are like thousands of rivers returning to the sea, converging towards that name - Nidhogg, the stream that symbolizes despair and hope. The black dragon of destruction.
It is not only the enemy of human beings, but also the enemy of the dragon kings.
Some hidden histories say that the dragon kings joined forces with the hybrids to kill the supreme being, but before Nidhogg shed all his blood, he swore that it would return.
The day it returns will be the end of the world.
After that, there was no credible record about Nidhogg, but no one dared to forget what he said. Even to the dragon kings, Nidhogg was a god-like existence, and his words were oracles. That is fate.
Those red lines are the embodiment of the mysterious "fate line". Destiny has begun to flow, and the Black King is about to awaken...
For countless nights, the man lay on this bed covered with sheepskin, looking up at the red line in the sky, thinking about the flow of fate...
It turns out that he is a watcher, Chu Zihang thought, and he was not surprised. It seemed that he had vaguely guessed part of it in the letter the man left for him.
Watching the fate of mankind, he is an alien in this small southern town. He comes for a special purpose.
He knows the best cigars and the best whiskey, and loves to listen to Elvis Presley’s fun photography. He must have been to many places and had many experiences.
He is born a beast who is good at disguising. He can disguise himself as a hippie in the United States, a swinger in Europe, and a mafia in Italy. But when he came to this ordinary city in China, he disguised himself as a man who loves braised intestines and
The driver of spicy chicken wings.
There is a saying that goes like this: A hero has a hard time being a beauty.
The most dazzling genius in a hundred years fell in love with a woman named Su Xiaoyan at the wrong time and in the wrong place. That woman danced very well.
It's not something incomprehensible, right? Who wouldn't like such a woman who is inexperienced and dances beautifully?
I remember my mother's sisters, Auntie Anne, and others said that my mother was the most popular woman in the dance troupe. The first thing everyone saw when they saw Su Xiaoyan was her legs, as if she was born for dancing.
At that time, I would always receive a large number of rose bouquets backstage, which were piled on Su Xiaoyan's dressing table, making it a spectacular sight.
The other professional dancers in the dance troupe who had an average relationship with Su Xiaoyan bit their ears and said that this woman was really charming. Su Xiaoyan didn't know whether she heard it or not. Chu Zihang felt that given her temperament, she probably didn't take it too seriously.
In other words, I heard it but didn’t take it to heart.
After all, her life is always so good.
Later, there was a well-dressed man with oily hair, driving a car that was neither good nor bad, and always running to the concert hall. Although this man looked like a two-person listener at most.
Later, Su Xiaoyan was with that man.
As for why that is? It’s actually not surprising.
Chu Zihang knew that it would be too easy to chase a beautiful but stupid female dancer with that man's talking skills, so they got married and gave birth to a child, and everything seemed happy.
But the man knows very well that he cannot give his wife and children a peaceful life. He is the kind of person who licks blood with the tip of a knife, and what he is licking is dragon's blood. It is difficult for a person like him to die peacefully on a soft bed.
So the man signed a divorce agreement with Su Xiaoyan and watched her take Chu Zihang away to marry another man. When the family of three went to the amusement park to watch a movie and enjoy family life, Chu Tianjiao was lying on the bed on the third floor underground.
, looking at those red lines quietly, thinking about the grand theme of human destiny.
"Is this true loneliness?" Chu Zihang thought to himself.
As said in the movie "The Lone Killer" starring Alain Delon, "There is no lonelier person in the world than a samurai, except maybe the tiger in the jungle."
Chu Zihang wanted to stay in this room for a while, as if talking to the man named Chu Tianjiao across time and space.
But no.
He knew Lu Mingfei's intention of bringing him here, and he also knew that he didn't have much time.
Chu Zihang walked slowly towards the exit and passed the sink used for washing photos. He was stunned for a moment and stepped back. Next to the sink for washing photos was the man's workbench. In front of the workbench was a cork board with thumbtacks on it.
Pinned with photos.
If you look carefully, you will find that all those photos were taken secretly, in amusement parks, shopping malls, restaurants, through grass, through glass, through rain curtains...
The people in the photos are all women and children, including Su Xiaoyan when she was young and herself with a baby face.
In the photo, Su Xiaojiao appears in many different ways, laughing, staring, lonely, like a mother, a little girl, and a wife.
Chu Zihang still remembered that he told Lu Mingfei when chatting that his grandmother said that his mother was a hairy girl. What is a hairy girl? She is as heartless as a hairy boy. She eats enough to sleep and drinks enough.
Even if you have no time to sleep, you should be beautiful and have no worries.
But under that man's lens, Su Xiaoyan was so changeable, and every change was so beautiful.
He is truly the man who loves Su Xiaoyan the most in the world. Only if you love someone so much can you pay attention to every moment of her and photograph her in all kinds of beautiful ways.
What about that "dad"? Occasionally, he would accidentally get caught in the photo. During the photo wash, the man would use some unknown technique to wash the guy out of shape. He was just a ball of light and shadow.
It turns out that even such a free and easy man doesn't mind it at all. He also hopes that the man opposite his wife and children is himself, right? It would make him very uncomfortable if another person takes his place in the photos he took.
, so he did this.
The year, month and day of the stolen photo were marked with red pen in the corner of the photo, as well as words like this.
"This is the first year since you left me. You look good."
"This is the second year, please don't be so haggard."
"In the third year, you gained weight."
"In the fourth year, I have less time to think of you."
"In the fifth year, it will continue to decrease."
"It's the sixth year, but I still miss you."
…
Chu Zihang couldn't help but start thinking about the man holding a cigar in his mouth, using tweezers to fish out one photo after another from the pool, fixing them on the wooden board with thumbtacks, and then sitting in front of the workbench smoking, watching them slowly
Dry slowly.
Those were his wife and children who once belonged to him, but now they could only appear in his viewfinder. Being drunk, he took out a red pen and wrote on the edge of the photo, as if he was talking to the woman in the viewfinder...
This is also a kind of love, and it always has been.
I had already read it in the letter, but I had never actually done it.
What is the reason?
The reason for escaping, Chu Zihang thought, slowly lying down undressed on the bed that belonged to that man, the surroundings were filled with that man's breath...the leather had a faint smell of cigars.
He thought that after he experienced that rainy night, "escape" no longer existed in the dictionary, but in fact, he had been escaping from beginning to end, escaping from that man, from his mother, from his "dad", from his classmates at Shilan Middle School, and from everyone around him.
everything.
That's why he came to Kassel College, because only here could he get a sense of belonging.
What now? He is running away from Xia Mi's love.
From the first lesson when he enrolled, Professor Schneider told him: dragons are our enemies, and we must use all means to kill all dragons we see. This is the responsibility and obligation of every Kassel student.
But... everything about that girl took root in his mind.
When he was sitting in the cafe, flipping through a magazine, Xia Mi, who was sitting opposite him, held his chin in his hands and looked at him with a smile...
When he was sitting in the aquarium watching the white whale, Xia Mi would lie on the aquarium and make faces at the white whale...
On the basketball court, Xia Mi wore a short skirt and high-heeled boots to cheer for him. Her eyes were so bright that they drowned out the reflection of the sequins...
The man on the screen is holding a guitar and tearing his heart out. The light and shadow play on Xia Mi’s lip gloss. I wonder if she is asleep because she is so quiet...
We can no longer separate her, so why would I let her down?
"How stupid." Chu Zihang knocked on his forehead and muttered to himself.
Thinking about it, she also hoped that she could hug her tightly, just like before.
Ignoring her golden boy, ignoring her dragon-shaped body, everything remains the same as before.
It turns out that she has always been a fearful and passive person, and it turns out that the choice has always been in her own hands.
Chu Zihang stretched out his hand to fumble, picked up one of the man's cigars, and lit it.
I choked as soon as I took a sip.
I really don’t know how Fingel, Principal Angers and the others got into this thing.
He got up from the bed, endured the pungent smell, took another breath, and staggered out of the exit.
Lu Mingfei and Fingel were on one side, leaning against the wall next to the door with their hands folded.
"Hey, I'm back, senior brother, how do you feel about it?" Lu Mingfei shrugged.
"A lot." Chu Zihang said.
"Then are you going to find your girl now? Don't forget, senior brother, you took the initiative to abandon the scabbard of the Sword in the Lake, but you have not truly completed the road to becoming a god. Your body is on the verge of collapse, leaving you
Time is running out.”
"Well." Chu Zihang looked down at his chest. He knew his physical condition better than anyone else, "Can you send me to her?"
"I want to talk to her about what's on my mind."
"Ah..." Lu Mingfei was embarrassed, "To be honest, I don't know where she is now. I don't have any confidence in the extent of my senior sister's guidance..."
"Then please help me, senior brother, to send her to the bj." Chu Zihang said to Fingel nonchalantly, "I'll go find her myself."
Fingel said nothing, staring at the cigar on Chu Zihang's fingertips and drooling.
Chu Zihang thought for a moment and stuffed the cigar directly into him.
"Oh, Junior Brother Chu, how can this be done..." Fingel said this, but his hand took the cigar very honestly.
"Tsk, tsk, Lao Chu's high-end goods... are comfortable..." He took a nice breath, jumped into the commercial vehicle, and patted the window, "Junior brother, what are you waiting for? It's time to find your love!"
…
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"The unsolvable knot..." Nono sighed, "You always leave the choice to Chu Zihang. It's strange that this knot can't be solved."
"It's just because I'm afraid..." Xia Mi muttered with her little mouth buried in her knees, "I'm afraid that I am the one who takes the initiative and loses everything."
"But love is a two-way thing after all."
"I used to wonder how to get Chu Zihang to take the initiative, but now I'm wondering how to get you to take the initiative. The relationship between the two of you really... makes those of us who are in the know feel our hearts go up and down."
Nuonuo raised her hand, put it on Xia Mi's head, rubbed it again, and messed up her long, smooth chestnut hair, "Listen to your sister Nuonuo, okay, I've been here, even though you can survive
It’s been a long time, and my love experience is not half as rich as mine.”
"Have a good sleep, go out for a walk, and don't think too much."
"Maybe Chu Zihang will appear in front of you at some point?"
"Is this really going to happen?" Xia Mi felt the warmth coming from the top of his head, and the two strands of dull hair on his forehead were fluttering.
Nono thought about it seriously and said, "Well, I think it will definitely happen."