Rebel Demon King

Chapter 1389 The World Is Not Ending

(A short dialogue was added to the previous chapter, if you are interested, you can read it again)
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(BGM——"Split" Jay Chou)

"One year?"

"One year." Cheng Mo nodded and answered affirmatively.

Xie Minyun let go of her hands holding Cheng Mo's collar. She smoothed the somewhat deformed collar with her palms, and then carefully raised her hand to brush away the creamy snowflakes that fell on Cheng Mo's head. The crumbs followed. The cold air drifted away like colorful petals. She bit her lip with blood stains on it. Her thin lips seemed to tremble in the heavy snow, adding more chill to the already cold weather, making it even more desolate. In the cold wind, she raised her slender hand, stretched out her little finger to him, and said seriously: "Then one year."

Cheng Mo lowered his eyes and stared at Xie Minyun's jade-white and crisp little finger, as if he could glimpse the thread of fate entwined on it. He did not respond to Xie Minyun's agreement, but asked: "Don't you ask me what I want to do this year?" ?”

"Didn't you ask me what I wanted to do with you?"

"I know you won't do anything to me."

"I also know who you are doing all this for." Xie Minyun pursed her lips and stared at him intently. There was no unnecessary expression on her flawless face, only her utmost concentration. She just watched with rapt attention. Looking at him, as if pondering a fascinating painting, "Cheng Xiaomo, I am not as great as you think. If I were asked to make a choice between you and the end of the world, I would definitely choose you."

Xie Minyun's eyes landed on his heart. Time and space seemed to be twisted, and countless past events came to mind again.Cheng Mo shuddered a little. He looked back at Xie Minyun motionlessly. Her expression and words could not be said to be firm or gentle, but they were full of deep emotions that were difficult to express. It was a kind of single-minded concentration that made him moved. .

At this moment, he clearly felt Xie Minyun's love, a love that could not be erased regardless of time or distance.He thought again of the night he went to Christianfield, riding his bicycle, carrying her.The city lights illuminated the streets and cast their shadows on the road. He sang "Split" at the top of his lungs. She wrapped her arms around his waist and pressed her face against his back. The wind slid past her, and her long hair The long road seems to have no end in sight.That was the first time he discovered that the capital was so big, like the sea. They swam in the city like fish, heading for the other side of destiny.

At that time, he never thought that the story between them would be so tortuous, but maybe it was this kind of twists and turns that allowed them to touch the true meaning of love.

Cheng Mo closed his eyes and briefly cut off his sight from Xie Minyun. Then he took a deep breath, opened his eyes again, and slowly raised his fingers.

In the colorful snowflakes, he hooked the finger of the girl he had lost for many years.

Xie Minyun's warm fingers led his hand and shook it in the wind and snow. She said softly: "Pull the hook and hang yourself. You are not allowed to change for 100 years. Whoever changes is a little bad guy."

Cheng Mo stared at Xie Minyun's face, which was more crystal clear than snow, and had an illusion in his heart, wondering whether he was far away from the real world and whether he was still in the dream that Li Jiting had weaved for him.He forgot everything and stared blankly at Xie Minyun's beautiful appearance as if she were in first love. He raised his hand in the air, hooked her fingers, and felt the illusory warmth, just like the little match girl lighting a ball. matches.

He kept this posture, hooking Xie Minyun's finger, as if he was in a dream, until Xie Minyun said, "You want to say it too."

Cheng Mo came back to his senses. He had no idea how much time had passed. He twitched his fingers in embarrassment, but they didn't twitch.

"You have to say it too." Xie Minyun repeated it again.

"What did you say?" Cheng Mo asked confused.

Xie Minyun rolled his eyes at Cheng Mo, "Idiot, say: pull the hook, hang yourself, don't change for 100 years, whoever changes is the little villain!"

Cheng Mo couldn't help but laugh, "Become a little bad guy?"

"Don't laugh! Read quickly." Xie Minyun said seriously.

"Okay!" Cheng Mo helplessly shook Xie Minyun's beautiful jade hand, "Pull the hook and hang yourself. You are not allowed to change for 100 years. Whoever changes is the little villain."

The two hands swayed gently in the vast snow. This not-so-intimate touch seemed like a ritual, and the childish words were like a spell, re-establishing a connection between two people who were already far apart. It came from the destiny. God, divine, authoritative, divine answer.It is a contract that penetrates time and space.

After Cheng Mo finished reciting the magical promise, he still forgot to put down his hand. Maybe he did it on purpose, maybe he didn't know if he did it on purpose. In short, he just hooked her finger and waited silently for a while. The establishment or end of a contract.

Before the snow stops.

But Xie Minyun didn't seem to feel the chaotic nostalgia in his heart, holding back a smile and teasingly said: "How long are you going to hold on?"

"Oh~" Cheng Mo quickly let go of his hand, but was suddenly held by Xie Minyun's backhand.The surroundings fell into silence, leaving only the soft sound of snowflakes falling.He felt the cold snow melting in the palm of his hand, the hands he held were like the origin, time and space were collapsing, and the gravitational force between him and her was increasing until the distance returned to zero.

Cheng Mo heard Xie Minyun's rapid and powerful heartbeat, and he also heard his own heartbeat. Other sounds were amplified in the heartbeat, and the world became noisy again. Snow fell on his hair, the cold wind blew the frozen flower branches, and the river water froze. Under the block, there were engines and sirens in the distance, as well as the sound of radios and air conditioners, all of which were like thumbtacks stuck to his heart.

He felt Xie Minyun put her pointed chin on his shoulder and whispered in his ear, like the spring breeze passing through the cold winter, so everything in the world melted and became warmer. "Last month, my mother sent me a text message saying that my grandpa passed away. She told me."

The chessboard with the endgame and Wang Shanhai's familiar and kind face flashed through Cheng Mo's mind. This unexpected news made him feel as if he had missed something, and he hugged Xie Minyun tightly with both hands.Only then did he remember that the person in his arms had lost as much as him. He wanted to comfort her, but he didn't know how to speak.He could only hold her and give her a little more warmth.

"When I was little, my parents were always busy. My grandpa and grandma spent the most time with me. He taught me how to walk, speak, write, fish, play basketball, and even go. I couldn't even attend the funeral. My mother didn't want me to go, and actually I didn't want to go that much. I really didn't want to see people close to me die anymore. And, to be honest, I was a little afraid of funerals. Even though I knew about death. This kind of thing is inevitable, and there is nothing to be afraid of. I know that everyone will die, and no one can avoid it. From a scientific world view, human beings are just a temporary aggregation of atoms, and all joys, sorrows, and joys are nothing more than the chemical reactions of neurons. The reaction of elements. But can you avoid tears by knowing all this? If human emotions are really just chemical reactions, then there must be drugs that can make us not care about all the love and hate, and not be sad, right?"

Cheng Mo sighed and said: "You should be happy that we can still feel joy, anger, sorrow and joy. You should be glad that there is no such drug. If there is such a drug, then nihilism will not be refuted. It is precisely tears, whether they are happy tears , or tears of sadness, all prove that our existence is meaningful, otherwise what is the difference between us and machines?"

Xie Minyun was silent for a few seconds and said softly: "No one has ever been so comforting."

"As you know, I'm not good at comforting people." Cheng Mo smiled, "After all, there are not many people in this world who are worse off than me."

Xie Minyun also pursed her lips and smiled. She leaned her face completely on Cheng Mo's shoulder, closed her eyes, and seemed to have fallen into a completely defenseless sleep. "I used to feel that my parents didn't like me. At that time, my father was not in the hospital, and my mother rested for two weeks, took weaning medicine, and then went to work. It wasn’t until I was six years old that my father hugged me intermittently a few times. He was rarely at home. I'm on a business trip, just in meetings. My mother is also very busy. Although she has tried her best to keep me with her, most of the time, my aunts are still taking care of me. The aunts are always cautious with me, but my mother is very cautious with me. Extremely strict. The two most common sentences I heard when I was a child were: You are a child of the Xie family, so you must know right from wrong and understand the truth. Later, when I grew up, I was good at both morals and learning, and I couldn’t fault anything. Something went wrong, and my mother said to me: You have no right to be arrogant and complacent. All your achievements are brought about by the resources you have. As the daughter of the Xie family, you have not done enough. My life has become incomparable. Conflict, the overwhelming praise from people around me, and the fact that no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to get the approval of my parents, it makes me feel that I must become a perfect person to be worthy of my name." She paused for a few breaths, " To be perfect – that is my unshirkable responsibility.”

"You are already perfect, Xie Xiaojin." Cheng Mo said sincerely, "I'm not trying to comfort you, but I think so from the bottom of my heart."

"Really? But such a perfect Xie Minyun, her uncle died, and she also saved those who killed her uncle. Her father died, and she seemed to easily forgive those who committed crimes. And she Her husband was seeking revenge and punishment, but she stopped her husband. Many people could not understand her, including her mother and father. They did not notify her to attend the funeral. They felt that she should not stop you, no. She should have saved those invaders, let alone become a Virgin who could not distinguish right from wrong. Some people felt that she was just trying to gain fame and fame, sacrificing her father and husband, winning an unparalleled reputation, and ascending to the throne of a saint. Xie Minyun burst into tears in Cheng Mo's arms as if she had collapsed, "My mother told me that the last words my father left for me were that he hoped I would remain anonymous and be a happy ordinary girl."

Xie Minyun's voice was sadder than the miserable wind and snow, and the tears soaked into Cheng Mo's shoulders as if he couldn't stop it. He felt the pain that he had not seen for a long time. He always thought that with his own strength, it would be impossible for him to have this kind of pain again. This feeling of pain, but the fact is that those who are in my heart are always in my heart. His softest place, the past memories and feelings cannot be written off.

This is also not the plot he imagined for him to reunite with Xie Minyun again. None of the words he prepared were used to explain, explain the past, or remember the past.The current scene was almost too much for him to deal with.He thought for a while, then hugged her tighter and whispered: "I don't know about others, but I know that her father and husband must understand her. After all, killing will only create hatred, and hatred will in turn create hatred." Promoting killing, human beings cannot fall into such an endless cycle of hatred and killing. They all understand. She became the Virgin, certainly not for herself, but religion is indeed the best way to complete human reconciliation at the moment, and they all understand. She stopped her husband, and her husband understood it very well. However, her husband did not feel that what he was doing was wrong, so he embarked on the same path as her. Her husband did not want to do this, but had to I think she can understand this. And the same goes for her. She doesn’t want to become a saint, but she has to become one, and her husband also understands this."

Xie Minyun did not respond to Cheng Mo, and Cheng Mo stopped talking. He just hugged her, like migratory birds clinging to each other in the heavy snow.As the snow gradually subsided, Xie Minyun's crying gradually subsided, and her trembling body also became calm.But the world is still white and silent, and the ancient sense of desolation has not disappeared, but has intensified.

"Do you know? Cheng Xiaomo, I have never been jealous of anyone in my life. The only one I have been jealous of is Athena. How I wish that I could fight side by side with you when you are in danger. How I wish that when you are being hunted by the whole world, , I accompany you to the end of the world. In fact, I also want to experience the doomsday with you and be a miserable mandarin duck in the doomsday world. Over the years, I have fantasized thousands of times. If the world is destroyed, I will watch it with you. There is no end to the wilderness, there is no signal, there are no human traces, and the car keeps roaming, just like Finland, just like Denmark. We are like wolves on the ice sheet, running in the wilderness of ice and snow, the world seems to be frozen It was as if time had stopped, and only the two of us were running wildly in it. During the day, we looked for food, hunted, picked wild fruits, and searched stores as if searching for treasure. At night, we lit a bonfire, drank beer and looked up at the stars. , we covered ourselves with a quilt, hugged and kissed, not caring whether we would be alive tomorrow. This feeling of despair makes me so happy." Xie Minyun raised her head in Cheng Mo's arms and looked at Cheng Mo again, " Actually, I don’t want to hear about the one-year agreement at all. I just want you to say to me: Xie Xiaojin, I will take you to escape!"

Snowflakes danced under the illumination of the street lamp, dancing on her lake-like pupils. Between light and dark, the light was faintly projected on it, like a lighthouse in the heavy snow, flickering continuously.Her voice was like a needle jumping on a record, coming out from the ancient speakers, echoing in the cold air, and swirling in the falling snowflakes.

The dreams, desires and passions in Cheng Mo's head surged like a tide. His firm will was corroded, oppressed and destroyed in this irresistible frenzy.He suddenly realized that he had never been a scientific person, nor a rational person. Perhaps in the face of true love, science, rationality, and free will did not exist in the human body.

At this moment, his whole body was boiling, and he didn't know whether he was trying his best to restrain the desire to leave with Xie Minyun, or whether he was trying his best to indulge this desire and let himself take Xie Minyun away without the world noticing. Let her leave.

At this moment, countless imaginations arose in his mind, as if he was on the long road leading to the airport again.

"I"

Xie Minyun didn't give him a chance to speak, and imprisoned him with cold and soft lips.Both of them were trembling in the ice and snow, as if they were going on a desperate adventure. The boat was sailing slowly in the storm, resisting every storm that came, and they felt nothing but happiness and warmth while wandering along.Cheng Mo was addicted to it and lost all his senses. He felt comforted like never before, like a displaced lost person who had found his way home.

Even if the lips are parted, this warmth lingers in the heart and cannot be dissipated for a long time.

Xie Minyun wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned on his shoulder, "Time is so strange, it can reverse the positions of two people. Now I have become the bad guy who seduced you to escape."

"Well! Time is not only strange, but also cunning." Cheng Mo said, "I always thought that we would never go back to the past, but I didn't expect that time would indeed never go back to the original point, but it would become a new starting point."

"Didn't you just say that the ending of "[-] Centimeters Per Second" is like this? Waiting is the ending, but it is also the beginning?" Xie Minyun said in a doubtful tone, "Do you think it was all perfunctory for me?"

"Movies always leave people with some good thoughts, but the reality is often cruel."

"The cruelty is yet to come." Xie Minyun snorted angrily, "I see that you have so many women and even have children with Teacher Shen and Instructor Bai. How should you explain to me?"

"What about you?" Cheng Mo skillfully threw the question back to Xie Minyun and said with a pun, "How do you plan to judge me?"

"Have you forgotten?" Xie Minyun said lightly, "I told you many years ago that if you become a demon, I will transform into a Buddha and enlighten you. If you are at peace with this world, I will Your walls surround you and protect you. Let you know”

"This world is not worth your care, but I am."

(End of this chapter)