Lin Sen followed Chen Guang for more than 20 minutes, passing by bars, restaurants, bakeries, and shoe shops. Through the tranquility, he also felt the restlessness behind the tranquility.
Lin Sen kept in mind Cheng Guang's instructions not to talk to anyone or look at anyone.
His eyes hurriedly passed over the city and the crowd, and finally landed on a very dilapidated dark door.
It was a dilapidated house that was forgotten in the middle of a crossroads, and Lin Sen and his wife were standing in front of the door.
But such a shabby house dared to be built blatantly on the road leading to the palace, still in the middle of the road.
Lin Sen's doubts reached its peak as he looked at this dilapidated house that looked like it would fall down at any time, and the crowds that still paid tribute to it as they passed by.
Men take off their hats when passing by, and women bow slightly when passing by. No one is exception.
Curiosity tickled Lin Sen's heart annoyingly.
Where is this place? Lin Sen frowned.
Chen Guang stepped forward to knock on the door in a familiar manner, then took three steps back and signaled Lin Sen to step back as well.
Then, in Lin Sen's expectant eyes, the house just opened its mouth with a creaking sound.
After the door opened, a man walked out of the room. His whole body was covered by a black robe, only a pair of beautiful blue eyes were exposed, and even in a city where there seemed to be no night, he was still holding an exquisite lantern.
.
The flame in the lantern gave off a faint blue halo, which was very dazzling, but Lin Sen noticed something strange, that is, the light cast no shadow.
After seeing this man in black robe, Chen Guang clasped his hands and nodded slightly to show courtesy.
Lin Sen saw this, and when the man in black robe looked at him, he also learned to bow in the same way.
The man in black robe also nodded slightly and returned the greeting, then raised the lantern high.
When Lin Sen looked over in confusion, Chen Guang came closer, grabbed his hand and said softly: "Close your eyes, remember, no matter what you hear, don't open your eyes until I let go!"
Lin Sen closed his eyes in confusion.
Then, the noise of the crowd began to become denser, so dense that Lin Sen felt as if he was in a busy city.
And as the voice became more complex and expanded, quarrels and anger began to fill Lin Sen's mind, which felt very torturous.
However, Lin Sen forced himself to endure it.
Until, all the sounds seemed to suddenly disappear, and Lin Sen almost opened his eyes out of curiosity, but the pain on his wrist made him realize that it was not over yet.
He still had his eyes closed, but soon the silence in his ears was broken, and a familiar melody slowly broke in.
That is……
The sound of the piano? Lin Sen's heart trembled.
His fingers lifted and fell involuntarily following the notes, even though the familiar tune at the moment was not played by him. But out of his love for music, Lin Sen's dusty past showed signs of awakening.
"Lin Sen?"
sound?
Familiar voice? Lin Sen felt vaguely unable to distinguish it.
finished?
I tried to feel my wrist, but it was empty, as if Chen Guang had let go of his hand.
After a slight hesitation, Lin Sen decided to open his eyes.
But when he opened his eyes, he found himself sitting in front of a piano. There was no music score, only the surrounding lights and the atmosphere of the stage.
Of course, there were also countless pairs of breathless stares from the audience.
Lin Sen watched his fingers dancing between black and white, and his body was also expressing emotions along with the ups and downs of the music.
Some of the audience members closed their eyes in intoxication, while others stared at the boy on the stage with admiration.
In the audience, a little girl was lying quietly in front of the stage. She tilted her head and held her face in her hands, watching the boy's performance with fascination. Behind her, there were three people.
A girl was with a little boy and a little girl.
The little boy's eagerness to try is very interesting, while the little girl has her eyes closed and is immersed in the music with a serious expression. She is holding her violin and jumping with her fingers along with the notes.
The girl held her chin with her left hand and looked happily at the boy on the stage, her eyes full of endearment.
"Is this?" Lin Sen panicked and discovered that he was actually overlapped in his own memory. He could not control this memory and could only relive it clearly as a bystander.
The familiarity conveyed by the increasingly high-pitched music made Lin Sen even more confused.
What's going on? Is it because I accidentally opened my eyes?
Where is this?
Why do you want me to see it again!?
Lin Sen's panic turned into anger. He was not relieved to see his family and his younger self. Instead, he felt pain and disgust at the ending of this memory!
Because it was at the end of this performance that the bad news came and he lost his brother and mother forever.
Stop! Lin Sen tried his best to stop the playing. Returning to a painful memory is as torture for anyone as opening a scar. Lin Sen closed his eyes and tried hard to find his true self and get rid of the nightmare.
torture.
But no matter how hard he tried, the feeling only became clearer and more real.
Even in the end, he had even gradually forgotten a series of things such as following Chen Guang into the city-state of Dusk.
Driven by the movement, and amid the waves of excitement, Lin Sen's fingers felt the keys, his heartbeat began to accelerate, and his breathing began to become heavy.
Until the moment before the movement came to an end, a familiar pain finally came to my wrist.
Then, a sharp sting penetrated Lin Sen's mind, and the pain spread like drowning. Lin Sen coughed violently and fell to the ground.
After a while, Lin Sen finally recognized the urgent voice in his ears.
That was Chen Guang's noisy voice...
Lin Sen opened his eyes, but before he could see the world clearly, his ears were filled with noise.
"Bad boy! Wake up! Wake up! If you don't wake up, I'm going to give you artificial respiration!" Cheng Guang said, "Hey", and then, as if he had made a big sacrifice, he pouted and said to
Lin Sen kissed her.
Lin Sen was shocked and slapped him without hesitation.
With a crisp "pop".
Chen Guang straightened up with an ouch, feeling extremely aggrieved.
Lin Sen finally woke up from his nightmare. He held his forehead, sorted out the complicated world view, and then looked around.
As a result, when he saw another version of himself not far away, he was also looking over as if in a mirror.
Lin Sen hurriedly got up and looked in other directions. There was another version of himself in other directions.
In this mirror maze-like world, Lin Sen could hardly determine his position.
It wasn't until he saw the man in black robes, that mysterious place without a shadow under the blue light of the lantern, that he suddenly remembered something.
…
"How could there be a world created by light?" The little girl lay on the bed, her white little feet curled up cutely.
Lin Sen, who was at the bedside, pushed the book over to her to read.
"Look, it's written here. When Prometheus met Kui for the first time, Kui was very enthusiastic about his guests and invited him to his home. Prometheus narrowly thought that it was some kind of building.
But Kui brought him into a world created by light, where space was no longer a constraint and time stood still. The studious Prometheus learned all the history of mankind there and asked Kui for advice.
Civilization, until time comes again and he has no choice but to say goodbye and usher in a new era for mankind."
Lin Sen carefully read the entire record.
However, the little girl patted Lin Sen on the shoulder like an adult and said: "Brother, that's just a legend. The stories in this book are all made up. If you read this to your father, he will definitely ask for it again."
You will be punished for copying music scores!"
Lin Sen curled his lips: "Alia gave this to me. She said official history is all lies, and these legends are true."
"But Aria's words can't prevent you from being punished." The little girl raised her hand and closed the book.
…
Lin Sen, who had never had such a vivid memory experience, once again felt the tingling sensation in his mind.
Seeing this, Chen Guang came over and said, "Don't think too much. In Kui's house, time stands still. If you keep reminiscing, your personalities will overlap, and you will die."
After Lin Sen was reminded, he did not dare to indulge in his thoughts anymore.
And all the unscientific experiences I experienced before seem to have answers...
Another Kui?
Will there be 11 this time? Lin Sen's naughty thoughts made his mind sting again.
Don’t think too much! Don’t think too much!
Lin Sen muttered silently and followed Chen Guang behind the "Kui" in the black robe.
In this completely mirrored world, as Lin Sen's thoughts calmed down, he slowly disappeared in the mirror and was replaced by a vast blank.
This empty state gave Lin Sen not a feeling of emptiness, but a sense of accommodation.
Walking in this blank world, because there is no concept of time, Lin Sen has no idea how long he has been walking. He can only guess instinctively that it is probably a few minutes, maybe a few days, or even a few years.
However, all speculations slowly turned into blanks.
Until countless crosses appeared in the blank world.
These crosses are suspended about half a meter above the ground, and each one is very similar in size.
From the direct view, the crosses were empty, but when Lin Sen walked among these crosses, he turned around and almost vomited.
Because behind these crosses are bound countless broken human beings.
Some of this damage is the damage to the limbs, and some is the hollowness of the soul. The blood slides along the cross, but stops when it drips.
"These are human beings who failed to evolve. After being absorbed, Kui buried them here. When time comes to this world again, they will sublimate into a state of 'nothing' in an instant. This special funeral can
Much faster than other forms." Chen Guang was already used to all this.
He even had the guts to take a sip of wine while explaining it to Lin Sen.
Lin Sen felt an inexplicable eerie feeling. Why did Kui do this?
Burying the broken human body with a cross like this, in human perception, looks more like sin being judged after death?
After this question arose, Lin Sen suddenly understood.
Are sins judged by the body after death? This is a teaching inheritance that has been silent in ancient civilizations.
Is Kui copying?
Is he studying humans?! Lin Sen looked at Kui in front of him, and for the first time he felt a sense of crisis in his understanding of them.
"11 never equals 2" right... Lin Sen repeated this sentence silently, his expression turned cold.