" Brother..." someone called out softly in the darkness.
How annoying! Whose child ran away?
"Big brother." The child shouted again.
So annoying, so annoying, so annoying! Brother? There wasn't any here!
" Brother…I'll be leaving then…" the child said in a low voice, his voice gradually fading away.
He suddenly felt a little sorry for her. The voice that was gradually fading away had a sense of loneliness. It reminded him of the child's back that was fading away, like an abandoned puppy.
"Alright, alright, alright! Which street, which number, and which gate do you live on? What's the name of that unreliable brother of yours? I'll send you home!" He turned over and sat up.
He sat on the ground under the sunlight. His white clothes were as bright as the moon. What he saw was a white camelia flower in a thick porcelain bottle. Separated by the flower, a child in white was holding an ink pen and writing on the table, stroke by stroke.
"Hey, you didn't leave? Are you kidding me?" He wanted to say it, but he didn't.
He did something very natural. There was a plate of green grapes on the table. He picked a small bunch from it and handed it to the child across the table.
The child raised his head, his eyes flashing with panic, like a vigilant cub." Brother, there are many people outside.”
Bullshit, right? It was so quiet. He thought.
But naturally, he said something else." Maybe he will die? But, Constantine, don't be afraid.”
"I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid when I'm with my brother…but why…don't you eat me? Eat me, big brother can break through any kind of cage.”the child said seriously.
Eat…you? Although you look very fair and tender, it doesn't mean that you're better than hamburgers. I just ate a hamburger at noon, so I'm not hungry at all. He thought.
"You're good food, but that would be too lonely. For thousands of years, only you and I were together.”Once again, he said something he did not mean.
" But death is really sad. It's like being sealed in a black box, forever, forever, pitch-black…It's like groping in the dark, but the outstretched hand can never touch anything…"
"The so-called fate of the abandoned race is to cross the Wilderness, raise the flag again, and return to their hometown. Death was not scary, it was just a long sleep. Before I can devour this world, rather than trekking alone, I might as well sleep peacefully. We will still wake up." She couldn't believe that such a flashy line would actually come out of his mouth.
"Big brother…when you raise the war flag and devour the world, will you eat me?”The child looked at him, his clear eyes flashing with…anticipation.
Damn it! Was this some kind of " we are a loving cannibal family " drama? But your family ethics are really strange!
"Yes, you will. Then you will be with me and rule the world!”However, he nodded lightly, and his voice was cold and dignified.
The child poured a glass of water from the kettle and handed it to him. He drank it in a daze.
"I'm leaving, brother. Goodbye.”The child stood up.
He wanted to say that he was not your brother, but he only said casually," Goodbye. Be careful. Humans can't be trusted.”
It was another strange line that came out of nowhere.
The child went out and closed the door behind him. He listened to the child's footsteps grow farther and farther away until they completely disappeared.
He suddenly felt a little scared. He thought that he had really lost his mind. What if he let such a small child walk on the streets and was kidnapped? He didn't know how far he would have to walk to find his brother. He became restless. When he finally couldn't hold it in anymore, he got up and ran to the door.
He pushed open the door, and the blazing light shone on his white clothes. It was not sunlight, but fire. In the blazing flames, the city was crying. Charred figures ran in the fire. Thousands of arrows fell from the sky. A huge plaque was burning and falling. On it were the words " White Emperor ". It was simply hell.
In the middle of the city, there was a tall pole. The child was hanging on the top of the pole with his eyes closed. The flames of the entire city were burning him.
It was like a grand sacrifice.
His heart hurt as if a knife was cutting it. What important person had he lost because of his mistake?
He suddenly remembered something. Indeed, he was the child's brother.
" Kance…Tanding." He shouted the name.
He suddenly sat up and opened his eyes in the afternoon sun. His breathing was rapid and his body was covered in cold sweat. Outside, there was the noise of the elevated train passing by.
He suddenly felt that this voice was so pleasant to the ear, reminding him that everything in his dream was fake. He was in an ordinary world.
Lu Mingfei (1)
Lu Mingfei helplessly typed "GG" on the screen ("GG" referred to "Good Game" in competitive games, praising the other party for playing well, which also meant admitting defeat) and then switched out of the game. The last scene displayed on the screen was of twelve human cruisers firing their gorgeous Yamato cannons, turning his mother nest into a pool of blood.
He had lost the sixth round of the day. The winning ratio was zero to six. This time, he lasted until 22 minutes and 23 seconds before he was taken down. However, he was still taken down in the end. The opponent's micro-control was very good, and they were using humans. The human Machine Gunner was a perverse type of soldier in this game. Their firing speed was zero. When they stood still, they would pull their guns and shoot. When they put their guns away, they would run. Lu Mingfei's puppies could not catch up, and they were blown up one by one on the way.
In the public chat channel, the opponent was speaking with confidence." Humans don't necessarily need tanks to fight Zergs. Experts don't usually use tanks anymore. They start off with a burst of minions. A sea of machine guns and nurses rush over, continuously eliminating and attacking. When the enemy's minions are suppressed before they can level up, they can only send troops to grind you down. If the hydralisks can't form a party, you win. The cruisers behind them will attack in a formation. That's overwhelming…" Lu Mingfei could imagine the guy's exultation.
Lu Mingfei didn't say anything. He switched to QQ and saw that the girl in the baseball cap was still gray and motionless. The other party did not come online, so he waited for nothing again. He scratched his head in disappointment. The other profile picture jumped up. It was a panda that looked very ugly.
"Brother, you're good at playing with the Zergs.”Panda was the guy who defeated him." You're just lacking in micro-control. Your tactical awareness is very good.”
"Alright," Lu Mingfei said.
The panda went offline smugly. Lu Mingfei stuck out his tongue at the screen. If the other party had seen Lu Mingfei's actions with their own eyes, they probably wouldn't have been so smug. They would have just cursed him as a " pervert " and turned around to leave. Lu Mingfei didn't take the mouse. He used the red dot on the old iPhone laptop to control it. Everyone knew how difficult it was to control a red dot in a competitive game. It was like picking your ears with a rolling pin. However, Lu Mingfei didn't bother to emphasize to his brother that he was just trying to challenge the high difficulty because he felt that it was boring too. He would use his left hand to play after he won against everyone in the channel. If he won with his left hand, he would throw away the mouse and use the red dot to play. If one day he used the red dot to play all over the channel, what method would he use to kill time?
Why? Why bother? He sometimes told himself that. She was always playing an old game and waiting, but she rarely went online.
"A box of discounted milk, half a catty of Cantonese sausages, and the new issue of 'Zui Xiao Su' that Ming Ze wants. Come back quickly after you're done buying and pick the celery on the table for me! Also, go to the reception room and see if there are any letters from the United States! Playing games? If you don't care about your own matters at all, if no one accepts you, will you be able to get into a first-tier university? What's the use of spending so much money on you?”His aunt's voice sounded like thunder in the room next door.
Lu Mingfei felt his head buzzing from the shock. He quickly agreed and jogged out of the door. It was quiet in the corridor. He leaned against the door and heard his aunt grumbling. The afternoon sun shone in through the window at the end of the corridor and shone warmly on him. The pure white bedsheets were hanging in the corridor, and the wind outside the window swayed the green leaves.
It was spring again. Lu Mingfei was eighteen this year.
He lived with his uncle and aunt. He had a cousin named Lu Mingze who was studying at the most famous private high school in the area. The tuition was expensive, and his teacher was strict. He had luxurious cars and beautiful women. There were three months and four days left before he had to take the college entrance examination. These days, it was as if the whole world was roaring in his ears, telling him that the end of the world was coming. He should be filled with fighting spirit and pounce on the model test paper like a murderous fighting rooster, showing his determination to stand out.
However, the greater the pressure, the lazier Lu Mingfei became. Other than playing the old game StarCraft, he would lie in bed and stare at the roof in a daze. He was completely uninterested in his future.
As a person with no sense of existence, his laziness was not difficult to understand.
Lu Mingfei hadn't seen his parents for more than six years. The good news was that they were still alive and would write to him every six months. The bad news was that every time he wrote, his mother would regretfully tell him that her plan to visit him in the country had to be postponed again because there were new developments. His parents were both archaeologists. It was said that they were busy with a big project. Once the results were announced, it would shock the world like Sven Hedin discovering the ancient city of Loulan. When he was in middle school, Lu Mingfei was very proud of his parents. He read a lot of books on archaeology and talked about it with his classmates on the way home from school. However, he soon realized that he should be proud of his brothers who were picked up by his parents after school. Every time after school, a group of students would casually walk side by side, occupying almost half the street. The car horn would sound behind them again and again, and then a brother in the team would immediately restrain his swaying and obediently get into his family's car and leave. The number of people decreased one by one, and in the end, only Lu Mingfei was left, continuing to sway forward.
The brothers looked out of the car window. Lu Mingfei's back was kicking rocks as he walked away freely. They were very envious of him. They envied him for being able to go anywhere he wanted. He wanted to shop at the mall, buy food, and even play billiards. Anyway, his family was not strict and never came to pick him up after school.
However, Lu Mingfei didn't go shopping or play pool when he was alone. After he got tired of sitting in the internet cafe, he went home. He entered the building but did not enter the house. He crawled through the iron fence that led to the roof and sat beside the buzzing air conditioner to look at the city until the sun set.
Lu Mingfei felt that his parents were like supermen and superwomen. Perhaps they would only appear in front of him one day when his plane crashed and they would carry the plane to land safely. If not for that, they would have been busy working for the world and not for Lu Mingfei. Of course, he could brag about his superhuman parents, but in reality, it was no different from non-existence. Lu Mingfei almost couldn't remember what his parents looked like. Only when he occasionally saw his parents taking photos with him in his living room when he was young could he barely remember the man and woman, as well as the old building that was covered in ivy outside his house.
His uncle and aunt were more interested in the money that Lu Mingfei's parents sent back from abroad than Lu Mingfei himself. Thanks to that sum of money, Lu Mingfei was able to attend that private high school. It was also thanks to that sum of money that his uncle and aunt could buy a BMW with a small engine. His uncle had the money to buy some branded goods that looked very similar. His aunt had the money to lose at the mahjong table. It was also thanks to that sum of money that his cousin, Lu Mingze, had the nickname " Prince Ze " in school. Lu Mingze attended the same high school as him. Not only were his grades better than his, but his clothes were also more exquisite than his. As long as there were girls eating with him, he would fight over the money. His uncle and aunt would even dress especially presentable to attend Lu Mingze's parent-teacher conference, making people feel that Lu Mingze was a child who had grown up in a honey pot, while he, Lu Mingfei, was " Lu Mingze's older brother."
Lu Mingfei didn't really mind. After all, he didn't have much of a presence.
Even his parents didn't care about him. How high could he expect from his uncle and aunt?
Lu Mingfei had his hands in his pockets and tilted his head to look at the ground. He went downstairs and bought some milk and Cantonese sausages from the convenience store. Then, he strolled to the bookstall and bought a new novel," The Most Short Story." Her aunt felt that Lu Mingze was smart, studious, and ambitious. He was also especially passionate about literature. When Lu Mingze read " The Most Short Story," her aunt would say," Our Mingze is studying." Every time there was a new issue of the magazine, her aunt knew better than Lu Mingze and would rush Lu Mingfei to buy it. This made the old man at the newsstand downstairs think that Lu Mingfei was a melancholic child. But in reality, Lu Mingfei was very vain. Every time he finished buying " The Most Fictional Story ", he would lean against the newsstand and finish reading the latest issue of " Home Computer and Games ". Then, he would throw it back to the stall and frankly comment that the game was getting worse and worse. He would then leave.
Lu Mingfei was a little mischievous. For example, he didn't like Lu Mingze, but he always visited Lu Mingze's secret Qzone. Lu Mingze read " The Most Short Story " and gave himself a pen name," Lonely Gluttonous Snake." He copied many sad sentences and put them in his Qzone, along with a headshot he took with his phone. Occasionally, he would upload a few photos of himself smearing red ink on his wrist to pretend to cut his wrist. The poem he wrote probably meant that if you don't love, you will die. Lu Mingfei knew that his younger cousin was lustful. He hadn't found a girl he liked in school yet, so he wanted to meet some heavenly lightning on QQ. So he applied for a new QQ account called " Sunset's Mark " and posted a photo of a short-haired loli. He filled in his age as 16 years old, his gender as female, and his signature as " Let your smile and sadness be the mark of my life." While Lu Mingze was surfing the internet at home, he would sneak to the internet cafe to strike up a conversation with Lonely Gluttonous Snake. After a few rounds, Lu Mingze probably felt that he, the greedy snake, had finally found food. He was also willing to let his smile and sadness become the mark of a girl's life. Therefore, he happily hummed the Xin Band's " Song of Separation " every day and invited them to meet again and again, wanting to start a big time. Lu Mingfei would always make appointments when his aunt took Lu Mingze to piano lessons. Lu Mingze would never see the " marks of the setting sun," so when he sang " Song of Separation," he would sound a little sad. This was the happiest thing that had happened to Lu Mingfei recently.
Lu Mingfei was such a person. He wasn't a good person, and he didn't have the ability to do bad things. He had lived to eighteen years old, but he still didn't know what his future held.
"Mingfei, I heard that you're going to study abroad.”The old man at the newsstand suddenly thought of this when he was browsing through the free home games.
"No, I applied for it. Who wants me?”Lu Mingfei said casually.
"It's good to study abroad. After studying abroad, you'll be a turtle and earn a lot of money.”
"I don't want to make a lot of money. If I can't get into university, I'll come to your shop to help you look after the stall.”
"Useless. I can't earn money from the newsstand. I'm old.”
Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes and looked at the sunlight shining down from the shade above his head." It's pretty good. You can bask in the sun. When no one comes, you'll be in a daze. There are also beautiful women passing by.”
This topic made Lu Mingfei rather depressed. He did apply to an American university, but it was not because his grades were too good. Everyone had different ways of evaluating his results. The homeroom teacher looked at Lu Mingfei's report card from last semester and sighed." Lu Mingfei, do you know how much you've lowered our class 'average score?" Auntie was telling Uncle that Mingze's good results were due to his family's genes. It was just not good to look at your family's genes! Only Lu Mingze comforted him, but it was on QQ. Lu Mingze considerately said to him," Xiyang, what's there to be afraid of if your results aren't good? I walk my own path. This is what people like us should do! Anyway, you are a good girl in my eyes!”
Lu Mingfei (3)
However, his aunt Lingji was the one who made the decision to go abroad. She made Lu Mingfei fill out the application form and generously paid the application fee of dozens of dollars for each school. His aunt had her own set of logic. Among Lu Mingfei's subjects, only English was good. When he took the TOEFL with his classmate, the English maniac, he got lucky and scored well. With Lu Mingfei's grades, it was very difficult for him to get into a first-class university. It was very popular to give up on the exams and go abroad. If he applied and got lucky enough to get accepted into an American university, he would be able to answer to Lu Mingfei's parents and the money they sent him every month. This way, his aunt would be at ease. She had already laid the foundation beforehand. Studying abroad was a matter of " enduring hardships to become a better person." If Lu Mingfei really succeeded in studying abroad, he could not be too delicate. He had to come back to China during the winter and summer vacations, work part-time, and study English there. In any case, whatever he did was fine. He just had to stay on the other side of the ocean and not let his aunt see him. As for the tuition fees, it was a small matter. The wool came from the sheep. The money could be written to Lu Mingfei's parents to ask for it. Her aunt guessed that Lu Mingfei's parents must have been very rich after living abroad for so many years because she had checked the account that had sent them the money. It was a custody account in a bank. That account didn't need to be manually operated. As long as the bank agreed, the checks would be sent out automatically every month. This way, Lu Mingfei's parents would have to deposit a large sum of money into that account and spend it regularly every month.
Actually, Lu Mingfei knew that his aunt had another plan. Although Lu Mingze's results were slightly better than Lu Mingfei's, they were not top-notch either. He could not get into Tsinghua University or Peking University, the famous schools that his aunt had been talking about. It was not a bad idea to give up the exams and go abroad. It would seem like he was very trendy. However, going to university was a lifelong matter. Her aunt could not bear to see Lu Mingze take the risk. After thinking about it, the aunt probably remembered a famous saying," All difficult roads should be paved by the brave with hard soles." She also felt that Lu Mingfei was very brave, so she asked him to try using hard soles to pave a path for Lu Mingze. It didn't matter if he failed. It meant that the path was blocked, and Lu Mingfei could take the college entrance examination with his cousin a year later.
However, the difficult road was obviously not something that could be paved with courage alone. One had to have some ability. Lu Mingfei's abilities were probably limited to playing StarCraft. Unfortunately, there was no competitive gaming specialization in the United States. Lu Mingfei had already received more than a dozen replies. The opening was similar.
"Dear applicants:
Thank you for your interest in the academy, but unfortunately…"
Her aunt felt sorry for the application fees. She had spent hundreds of dollars in application fees, but in exchange, these Americans had thanked her again and again. This kind person made her very unhappy. However, Lu Mingfei was neither anxious nor impatient. He was unusually calm. It was just that he did not want his aunt to be too depressed, so he squeezed out a bitter expression every time he received a rejection letter.
He counted the schools that had filled in the application form. Only one school had not replied to him, and this was the University of Chicago, which was ranked at the top of the list.
"Is there a letter for me?" Lu Mingfei stuck his head in from the entrance of the reception room and said in English," Mingfei Lu.”
"Yes, it's from America." The guard threw out a letter.
Lu Mingfei touched the envelope. There was only a thin piece of paper inside. It was basically a rejection letter. It was said that if it was an admission letter, there would be a lot of forms and introductory materials, a thick stack. Last year, a boy from their school had successfully applied. He threw the pile of documents on the table with a disdainful look and said impatiently under the admiring gazes of the girls,"There are so many documents. How can I fill them all up?" Let my dad get me a typing machine!
Lu Mingfei tore open the envelope. The letter was written in Chinese.
"Dear Mr. Lu Mingfei:
Thank you for your interest in the University of Chicago, but unfortunately, you did not meet the admission requirements of the University of California.
However, we always say that there is always another choice.
Cassel College is a private university located in Chicago suburbs of the United States, and it is a bond school with the University of California. Every year, we jointly organize equestrian, rowing, hot air balloon, swimming, and other inter-school competitions at Lake Michelle. In addition, there are more extensive academic exchanges.
We are very honored to have received your application materials from the University of Chicago. After a detailed evaluation of your resume and academic records, we believe that you have met the admission requirements of Kassel College and are hereby inviting you. In addition, your excellent biology results have attracted the attention of Professor Guderian of our college. He hopes to allocate $36,000.00 from his research fund to you every year as a scholarship for your admission to our school. This scholarship is enough to cover all your tuition fees and living expenses for four years of university.
Please contact Professor Guderian as soon as you receive this letter. He is currently on an academic visit to China and is very interested in meeting you.
If you decide to accept our invitation, please contact me via email regarding the itinerary and accommodation. We will arrange it for you. I'm Norma Lawns, the secretary of Kassel Academy. It's my honor to serve you.
Sincerely,
Norma!"
Lu Mingfei put down the letter and looked up at the roof in a daze. He remembered that he had seen the exchange rate of US dollars to RMB when he went online. It was 6.83. Then, 36000 USD a year was 245880 RMB. It was enough for him to buy 61470 pirated PlayStation 2 discs, 8196 Warcraft cards, or 64 of the NokiaN96 cell phones that he had been looking at for a long time. More than half of the students in their class had cell phones, and Lu Mingze had one as well. His aunt said that it was to reward Lu Mingze for placing third in the class in last year's final exam, so she didn't buy it for Lu Mingfei.
He was a little confused. He had read a letter that had a very good beginning, a standard rejection letter. Why did it suddenly jump from hell to heaven after the sentence " But, we always say that there is always another choice "? This sentence was miserable before, but after this sentence, flowers bloomed brilliantly. Horsemanship, rowing, hot air balloons, swimming, a private aristocratic college, and generous scholarship. The college secretary's tone was as friendly and gentle as a female salesperson in an international brand store. Lu Mingfei didn't know what he was capable of. He didn't even contribute to the application fee for Kassel Academy. Perhaps Lu Mingze was playing a joke on him? This couldn't be ruled out. Perhaps Lu Mingze had discovered the true identity of Sunset's Mark, and Lu Mingze was thinking of ways to take revenge. However, the postmark on the envelope didn't look fake. Lu Mingfei could recognize the postmark from the State of Illinois-USA.
He turned the envelope upside down. There was nothing else in it except for the exquisite printed paper. He was sure that this was a scam. The letter also told him to contact Professor Guderian as soon as possible, but he didn't even give him a contact number. He felt a little more relaxed when he thought about it this way.
"Sign here." The guard threw another list over.
"Do I have to sign for the letter?" Lu Mingfei didn't understand.
"There's a package that came with the letter.”
Lu Mingfei signed the papers in a daze and received a large envelope from FEDEX. There was something hard inside. He tore open the envelope and found a black N96 phone inside. He began to feel that he needed to calm down. It was as if there were countless bees flying in his head. He turned on his phone, and the battery was still half full. In the name card holder, there was only one contact," Professor Guderian."
Dreams (Part 1)
"It must be a liar! And it was someone he knew in the neighborhood! Only those familiar with us know that our family is rich, and Mingfei applied to study abroad. He's playing tricks on us!”His aunt slapped the letter and said firmly.
"But who would send a cell phone over just to tease us? The N96 was now sold for more than 4,000 yuan for parallel goods and more than 5,000 yuan for mainstream goods.”His uncle kept imprinting his fingerprints on the pure black N96, like an old woman stroking an ancestral jade bracelet.
His uncle was a very particular person. He would always tell Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze at the dinner table that a three-piece set of a phone, watch, and lighter was a man's identity and taste. It was not easy to tell whether the socks were cheap goods that cost ten yuan for four pairs or high-end wool goods that cost fifty yuan for a pair, but this three-piece set was meant to be placed on the table for people to see. Lu Mingfei was lucky enough to go out to dinner with his uncle. He did indeed see his uncle smack his phone on the table with his right hand and a lighter in his left hand. He also inadvertently rolled up his sleeves to reveal a high-quality imitation of a Mont Blanc watch bought in Guangzhou, winning everyone's unanimous praise for his taste. Recently, his uncle had been very dissatisfied with his worn out Samsung phone. He had been searching for reviews and prices of new phones on some mobile phone websites. He had mentioned to Lu Mingze more than once that the new N96 was very " high-end ", but in order to pay Lu Mingfei the application fee, his aunt, who controlled the family's finances, would not agree to let him change his phone no matter what.
"What university? Are you bragging? A scholarship of $36,000 a year? Impossible! Last year, Chu Zihang, who was the top student in our school, didn't get a scholarship when he went abroad. Chu Zihang's whole family is in the United States and they all got green cards. One of his cousins is a university professor. Chu Zihang said that undergraduate students didn't have any scholarship. The better the major, the fewer the scholarship. The scholarship was for majors that Americans were unwilling to take, so they had to spend money to find Chinese people to take it.”It was rare for Lu Mingze to be so concerned about his brother's future.
Lu Mingfei knew that Chu Zihang was Lu Mingze's idol. When most of the people in middle school were still buying clothes from Nikes and Adidas, Chu Zihang had already started using brands like " Burberry." Chu Zihang was one of the school's spiritual idols. He was far away in the United States, but no one knew what Chu Zihang was doing there. Perhaps Chu Zihang was working part-time at the restaurant and washing the dishes like crazy. Lu Mingfei would think when he saw the eyes of those people when they mentioned Chu Zihang.
Lu Mingfei was such a person. When others were thinking in the direction of improvement, he would inexplicably think in the opposite direction.
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