Why is the NPC Frightened By Me Again [Infinite Stream]

The ramen shop is lit with warm orange lights, and on the table is a large bowl with a diameter of about 18 centimeters, one-third of the outer surface area is carved with flowers. The golden soup, snow-white noodles, and orange-red prawns are mixed together in a bowl. After eating the soft-hearted egg, Lin Huai picked up the noodles with chopsticks, but saw a green broccoli at the bottom of the bowl.

...why are there broccoli here! From the bottom of his heart, he uttered a cry comparable to "why are there cars here".

Lin Huai silently covered the noodles back, trying to cover up peace by burying them. The heat of the noodle soup made his pale side face a little hot, and under the illumination of the light, there was a red flush that was close to a warm color, like a picture of the world that was full of fireworks and became alive.

The warm noodles will enter the mouth, slide into the esophagus as they are chewed, and fall into the stomach. After being dissolved and stirred by gastric acid, they will finally be turned into a little sugar into the blood, and dissolved in every cell with the happy blood. Lin Huai didn't know whether his body was still faithfully implementing this set of mechanisms, but he thought that this might be the feeling of being alive.

... to live.

The events of the past year slid through his mind. It is a happy, warm and colorful picture.

But……

"...When I was still a ghost, no, when I thought I was a ghost." He thought, "I always wanted to be a human being. Apart from having fun, it was also because..."

I want to live.

I want to go to the world of flowers, to the hustle and bustle, to the sunshine where all the flowers are blooming and the abyss covered with clouds.

I can be a protagonist who turns clouds and rain, or I can be a cynical supporting role. I can make a move to stir up the situation, or I can stand on the sidelines. I dominate myself, I delight myself, I am crazy about myself, no matter what others think.

This is living.

Instead of being left alone, in a quiet well. Stay in a false past and a misty future.

He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, they were already extremely bright.

"Have you ever thought about what is the meaning of your life?" he said suddenly.

"So you're entering the topic of philosophy again? Philosophy doesn't look like you." Chu Tianshu said, "I'm still alive..."

"Ordinary and trivial daily things, three meals a day, nine to five, good morning kisses, lofty ideals, research topics that are advanced every day, and the starry sky that is far away and close at hand?" he said.

"No." Lin Huai shook his head.

He closed his eyes, put down his chopsticks, and looked at the young man opposite him with a serious look he had never seen before: "It's freedom."

"I thought I just wanted to live, until just now I found out..."

Not being manipulated, not being suppressed by others, not a false, free, unique life——

It's what he most wants to have.

Therefore, the problem that had troubled him the most and had caused him the most confusion and pain so far was solved.

— That is, his own existence.

"Actually, I haven't changed from the beginning to the end." Lin Huai finally smiled again, "As a human being, in order to be free from manipulation, I chose to enter the 'door' and make a bet with the 'god' ."

"As a Specter, for the freedom to play freely, I left Wenxian and entered this body."

"And now, as Lin Huai, for the sake of freedom, I have decided to uncover the world that has decorated peace and the false truth."

"If I hadn't discovered all of this, I might have been unimpeded in the game as 'Lin Huai', promoted to the advanced level, and enjoyed a carefree game time. In reality, I would cooperate with Chen Shu and Cheng Yu'an. When the rich second generation gets along well, gets a good job after graduation, often goes out scary, and enjoys a perfect life that is not out of the ordinary but also happy. But..." He grinned, "I would never Regret for breaking the 'false happiness' that I could have had."

"It will never stop the pursuit of the truth because of possible crises."

"Because I know the truth, live in the truth, and be able to follow my own rules at any time without restraint and laugh, that's the 'freedom' I want, even if it bleeds, even if I'm alone. In my dreams, there is a future that I will never accept."

... Therefore, even if you need to peel off all the veils of warmth, even if you want to understand your isolation and helplessness, even if you find that you are blood dripping in front and behind, there is no way out and no way out.

He's going to laugh out loud and run through the long night with all his madness and all his life.

Because a harlequin will never accept arrangements, hypocrisy and fate.

"Only the actor needs to refer to the script, and the clown just needs to happily tear down all the rules."

Although there was still a daze about the unknown in his heart, Lin Huai had never felt so relaxed and relieved.

He even began to thank himself for having discovered these truths. If not, he will live in an illusion all his life.

Living in the illusion of self-satisfaction, like a clown used by audiences to make fun of.

Chu Tianshu sat beside him, looked at his high-spirited appearance, and smiled.

It was like the look on his face when he was sitting in the office, watching Lin Huai smash every glass cover and rescue every potential criminal through the camera.

He seemed to have seen one of the most difficult puzzles to solve, and he seemed to have seen every little joy that appeared most commonly in life.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It's better to think about this semester's big homework and Chen Shu's haunted house... What 'freedom' is still a long way off."

Thinking of this, he sighed.

"Actually, these issues are not that complicated."

"what?"

"Look," Chu Tianshu said, and naturally he put the broccoli in Lin Huai's bowl into his own, "for example, now, you are free to let me take a piece of broccoli that you hate— "

Then, he took the marinated egg in his bowl: "And freely got a marinated egg you like."

"Maybe you won't meet someone who likes to eat broccoli and hates braised eggs. But you will always meet someone who likes you and is willing to do these things for you." Chu Tianshu said, "They are you now. A little 'freedom' that you have."

The marinated egg fell into the bowl, splashing a little oil.

"...Like?" Lin Huai looked at Chu Tianshu suspiciously.

"Love among friends." Chu Tianshu said with a straight face, "Don't get me wrong."

"Oh..." Lin Huai said, and took the braised egg back from the bowl, "Then let me give you some love among friends."

"what?"

"Stop pretending, I know you like to eat this." Lin Huai teased at the few noodles left in his bowl, and the live shrimp and barbecued pork, "You are the kind of person who likes to save what you like to eat until The last man."

"Speaking of which, people like this are generally cautious and good at thinking, but this..." Lin Huai raised his face and looked at him, his eyes narrowed, "I don't see it from you at all..."

"Maybe it's because the sand sculpture is also my freedom?" Chu Tianshu smiled jokingly.

They finished the two bowls of noodles before walking out of the ramen shop's orange lights just before closing time.

October nights are already a little cold. They were walking down the street with no one else around. All the way is a bleak dark gray street scene. Lin Huai's originally happy mood was blown by the cold wind and cooled down again.

"Ah..." He sighed lightly.

In addition to poetry and distance, there are countless stubbornness and lingering in life... He looked at the street and the iron-gray sky in front of him, and closed his eyes.

Then, he heard Chu Tianshu's voice: "Do you want to try more happiness and freedom?"

"what?"

He grabbed Lin Huai's arm and pulled him up: "Let's go."

"Go...where?"

Lin Huai looked puzzled, and then he heard the man say, "Go and be happy."

"What are you doing, I'm a college student..." Lin Huai held on to the telephone pole, "I wouldn't go with you to a place with a lot of champagne, brandy, pretty girls, pretty gays—"

This time, it was Chu Tian Shu Xu's turn to raise his eyes: "Hey, do I have this image in your heart?"

"...There are still two hours before access control." Lin Huai said, "I am a law-abiding college student... But speaking of which, what are you taking me for?"

He was expecting a clear answer, but only heard a few words from the man.

"of course--"

"Go run and live."

an hour.

Lin Huai was drowsy in the passenger seat, Chu Tianshu was driving the car, and in the trunk of the car, there were fireworks that Chu Tianshu bought temporarily.

It took them a long time to reach the uninhabited suburbs. On an abandoned road, Chu Tianshu moved out the fireworks and began to play drums with great interest. Lin Huai squatted beside him and looked at him, wondering, "It's not a festival, why are you setting off fireworks?"

"You'll know in a moment."

In the wilderness, there are no people, abandoned roads, and dark clouds. This should have been a great time to explore, kill, visit road ghosts, and cars. Two adult men are squatting here and making fireworks... Lin Huai didn't bother him when he saw Chu Tianshu's cheerful appearance. He stood aside with his arms folded, and saw a few ghosts who had been hit badly floating by the roadside, so he gave each of them a red eye to scare them away.

... From this point of view, there are indeed many benefits to becoming a Specter. He thought so, but heard Chu Tianshu's voice: "Okay."

"what……"

Chu Tianshu pulled him to the other side of the abandoned road and covered his ears with both hands. At the moment when the warm temperature belonging to human enveloped the skin, the fireworks in the middle of the road also began to shoot a white light towards the sky.

One after another, white light shot into the sky like rockets, and bloomed one by one in the lead-grey night sky. Some of them are green and shaped like dahlias, some are golden and look like stars, and some are pink like blooming peonies. Densely packed, covering the sky.

At this moment, Lin Huai stared at the sky, his originally dark eyes were illuminated by fireworks.

"Lin Huai!" Chu Tianshu said loudly in his ear, "Happy birthday!"

"It is now 0:00 am on October 21, 2019. From this moment on, you are already a brand new person!"

In this dazzling firework, two people stand on an abandoned road with a lead-ash sky as the background.

Like a grand new life and escape.

The night wind was a bit cold, and while sitting in the car, Lin Huai opened the window.

They galloped through the night of early autumn, like two gangsters in a carnival at the end.

"Actually, I still have a question..." Lin Huai said, looking at his profile.

"What?" Chu Tianshu held the steering wheel and glanced at the time, "It's already one o'clock in the morning, and the dormitory has access control, so..."

Lin Huai: "So I went to your house to sleep?"

Chu Tianshu: "So you can only climb back to the dormitory along the water pipe, hahahaha, hahahahahahahaha!"

Lin Huai: "..."

Chu Tianshu smiled gloatingly. After laughing, he turned to him again: "Don't worry, you won't die anyway. If you can't climb up once, just climb a few more times. Hahahaha."

Lin Huai: "..."

He swallowed the sentence "Why are you so nice to me" back in his stomach. After a while, Chu Tianshu finally asked, "What did you want to ask? Did you want to ask me why I am so nice?"

"No." Lin Huaixu raised his eyes, "My question is, how did you find me on the stairs of the library?"

"Actually, in this era, it's not very difficult to find someone. When a person wants to be alone and be far away from others, but he doesn't want to go very far, his range of activities is basically determined. ." Chu Tianshu said, "From a certain point of view, I did not conduct too many searches, but conducted a simple investigation and judgment..."

Lin Huai: "..."

"However," said Chu Tianshu, "in fact, there is a simpler answer to this question."

"what?"

"Because I was looking for you. And..."

Lin Huai opened his eyes slightly.

He looked at the wind blowing his hair, and the hair of Chu Tianshu who was sitting beside him.

In the dark of night, Chu Tianshu's profile was straight and deep.

"Also, the stairs are facing the parking lot." Chu Tianshu said, "So I saw you sitting on the steps as soon as I got out of the car."

"..."

"And since you were a child, you liked to sit on the high stairs alone."

He casually threw a word, but it caused a storm in Lin Huai's heart.

"Have we met when we were young?"

"Not only have I seen it, but I am very familiar with it." Chu Tianshu said, "otherwise, why do you think I oppose you entering Chenxing?"

"Because... worried about my safety?"

"No." Chu Tianshu said solemnly, "It's because he understands your unrestrained nature and loves freedom, and prevents you from doing things in secret. Who knows that God's will tricks people..."

Lin Huai: It seems that I have really forgotten the past. In childhood, also in teenage years...

However, before asking other questions, another question suddenly flashed in his mind.

A question that made him extremely panic, even more than his own existence and the false world.

"I'm sorry, I need to ask another question." Lin Huai said cautiously, "This can be said to be a question that will affect my life."

Chu Tianshu: "?"

"The old me, the 'raven'." He felt that he had never been so frightened, and even beads of sweat appeared on the back of his head, "Is it a man?"

Chu Tianshu: Pfft—!

Chu Tianshu: "Hahahahahahahahahahahaha."

"Okay, I'm the one who was stupid." Lin Huai twitched the corners of his eyes, "Then the second question..."

"How did we meet each other?"

"Didn't you say that talking about the past is meaningless?" Chu Tianshu asked him back.

"Uh..." Lin Huai was a little embarrassed, "Just suddenly curious..."

"Although I would like to say that the first time I saw you was under the ginkgo tree, you wore a straw hat with flowers and looked like a cute little girl, which left a beautiful impression on you and never married. The beginning of this romance..."

"Hey..." Lin Huaixu raised his eyes, "Do you think you are Dr. Li?"

"Or, at the age of seven, I was the number one killer in the world when I went on a mission and was injured, and you, the young master of the second richest family in the world, picked me up and brought me back to this legendary beginning... ps, my The family must be the richest man in the world."

"...is the beginning of this dream really possible in this novel..."

"However, our encounter is neither romantic nor legendary, it sounds a little too ordinary." Chu Tianshu drove his bicycle into a community next to the university, "It was also a rainy autumn afternoon, just rising up As a freshman in high school, I walked out of the school with my schoolbag on my back. A month ago, I accidentally ignited a magnesium block in the community garden and was chased by the security guard to the garbage dump. Therefore, I was fined and confiscated all my pockets. Money. Considering the need for further chemistry experiments, I decided to save money on the bus ride home and walk home."

"It takes about three stops from school to get home, which adds up to forty minutes of walking. At the tenth minute, I ran into two fighting cats, so I squatted down and watched for five minutes, and lost the first one intact. The trouser legs. At the 20th minute, I opened a newest magazine of Kantianxia at the newsstand by the road, and after reading the joke column, I quickly ran away before the boss chased. At the thirtieth minute , a sprinkler car playing 'Orchid Grass' passed by every day, despite the timely dodging, I still lost another intact trouser leg, but this is already the result of the calculation of profit maximization..."

"So why do you remember these details so clearly..." Lin Huai complained, "What a boring and ordinary high school boy's daily life..."

"At the thirty-fifth minute, I arrived near a public high school. Just when I thought that my miserable appearance when I came home would arouse my sister's sympathy and that I could borrow a certain amount of experimental funds from her, I found that I was going the wrong way." Chu Tianshu said, "I was facing a low wall, and I only thought about it for 0.01 seconds before I decided to turn around and realized that I still had time. Get home in ten minutes."

"..."

"Then I saw the setting sun, and a filthy sixth-grader-like child running towards me at the entrance of the alley," he said. "He ran towards me, his eyes fixed on me, It's as if I'm something very precious living such an ordinary and boring life as a boy's high school student."

Lin Huai's heart skipped a beat.

"I was shocked by this unusual picture, and I only thought of the action choice of standing. I don't think I knew him, and he didn't appear in my return trip plan, why did he appear at this moment? What? What's the point of his presence? Why does he look so thin and his eyes are so bright? I'm sure I've never seen him, but he's like an unobservable double-slit experiment, so abruptly— Unpredictable here. And I have no way, no way to speculate on his motives."

"...And then what?" Lin Huai said.

"Then, he ran in front of me, and I found out that he was more than a head shorter than me. Maybe because he thought he was too short, he lifted his feet, got close to my ear, and said eight Words." Chu Tianshu parked the car in a community.

"Which eight characters?"

He turned around and looked at Lin Huai.

"Hello, classmate, I want to rob."