Mist System: Legend of Stars and Moon

After receiving the news, Zhao Hengtian rushed to Jiuwanhua. In fact, he didn't know how to investigate the news about Xun Diexin on this trip. He planned to go to the community park to find someone to ask. After all, such a big person disappeared from this world out of thin air, and people in the community would know something about it.

Jiuwanhua, as the name suggests, has a gate that is entwined with vines of various colors. In order to allow cars to pass through, it is built very high, like a giant gate in ancient Greece. There are hundreds of flowers blooming in the green belt, and once you enter it, it feels like entering a fantasy world.

It was just sunset. Zhao Hengtian was walking on the sidewalk, watching the endless stream of vehicles coming and going, but very few pedestrians. The road he was on was no longer illuminated by the sun, and he missed the sunshine on another sidewalk, so he chose to go up from the overpass to get under the sunshine.

Zhao Hengtian loved the sun from the bottom of his heart. He still remembered the first time he saw the sun through the hole on the eaves into his eyes when he was very young, waking him up from his sleep. He looked at the flying dust in the sun and thought it was the power given to him by the gods. He stretched out his hand to grasp it, hoping to get the magic in the light, but in the end his hand passed through the beam of light, the sun left, and he didn't get the magic. He thought if he couldn't get anything, at least he could catch a speck of dust in the light! But how could he catch dust?

He was not willing to give up. Every day he followed the pace of the sun, hoping to get something, or know something. However, after a long time, he gradually lost interest in this matter and there was no follow-up.

When he grew up, he realized that dust was all around him. The dust inside could only be seen under the Tyndall effect. We could not catch it, but it could attach itself to anyone at will. However, it had no feelings and could not make choices.

It took him a long time to walk to the real estate agency. Now he finally understood why so many people chose to travel by car. He regretted why he didn't scan a shared bicycle at the door.

He sighed and took a photo of the bird's-eye view of the community to avoid getting lost. There were many shared bicycles and electric vehicles next to the picture. Zhao Hengtian thought he had already come in. Looking at the map, the community garden he wanted to go to was not far away, so he gave up the idea of ​​scanning for shared bicycles.

Following the map, he arrived at a circular flower bed. It was at a three-way intersection and was mainly divided into three layers. The upper layer was a gorgeous artistic sculpture, and the middle layer was the flower bed. The flowers in the flower bed were mostly pink, with a small amount of yellow as embellishment. There were also blue flowers dotted among them. Green vines surrounded the flower bed. There was a dragon sculpture every few vines, and water spurted from their mouths, forming a perfect arc. The lower layer was a pool with countless carp in the pool, with two golden and yellow ones intertwined. In Zhao Hengtian's eyes, they were like a pair of unwilling partners. Even if they could not get along with the group of fish, they would still have each other in their hearts.

In fact, if Zhao Hengtian took the overpass, he wouldn't have to pass through this circular flower bed, but there is no medicine for regret in the world.

Walking further in, he found that all the buildings were apartments. The road he came to was no longer followed by sunlight. The sunlight was shining on the eaves of the apartments, bright and glorious.

This road is really roundabout. Zhao Hengtian looked at the map on his mobile phone, zoomed in and out for comparison, and found that he had taken the road farthest from the park.

It was no longer cost-effective to go back and take that shortcut, so he had no choice but to finish the journey. I squatted on the steps of someone else's apartment with my head down, feeling speechless. He now changed his "standing out from the crowd" outfit into casual clothes, no longer afraid of passers-by looking at him.

I kept thinking: I deserve to die, I deserve to die...

Suddenly, the phone rang.

Zhao Hengtian hurriedly answered the phone: "Hello... Hello, sister, what's wrong?"

Yan Lubai asked Zhao Hengtian: "Brother, are you here yet?"

Zhao Hengtian thought it was a good thing that he was the only one here, no one would know about his stupid behavior: "I'm here."

"Take a picture and show it to me."

Zhao Hengtian felt a little guilty, as it was a little dark where he was. "Sister, I'll send it to you later."

"Are you lost?"

Zhao Hengtian was just afraid that Yan Lubai would misunderstand him. It was really embarrassing!

"No, sister, I'm on my way to the neighborhood park, still walking."

"Walk? Why don't you rent a bike? I looked it up online, and it's full of apartments. If you don't have a bike, are you going to walk?"

"Sister, I look at the map and it seems very close."

"From now on, if you have any questions about feelings, come and ask me and send me the map."

"Okay, sister." Zhao Hengtian had to obey his sister's orders because she was his sister. After sending the map, he continued on his way.

Yan Lubai looked through Zhao Hengtian's map and replied to him, "I think the park isn't far away. Did you go to someone else's apartment? Zhao Hengtian, brother."

"Sister, I was wrong, don't say it anymore."

"I looked around and saw shared bikes at the entrance to the community and where I bought my house. Why don't you just scan one?"

"Sister, I actually feel like it's pretty close inside."

"You didn't learn geography well. Look how many times other people's maps have been reduced in size."

“Super double.”

"Okay, walk slowly. Come on, it's getting late. If you can't walk, get in a golf cart if you see one, or take a taxi. If you're hungry, eat by yourself."

"Okay sister, thank you for your hard work."

"It's okay. I already laughed when I called you."

"Sister, keep it a secret, keep it a secret."

Yan Lubai had already hung up the phone. Zhao Hengtian held the phone weakly in his hand. The phone showed that it was 6:30 in the afternoon. After checking the time, he put the phone in his pocket and ran towards his target.

After turning a few corners, the outline of the park emerged.

Zhao Hengtian continued to walk in. There was an artificial lake in the center of the park. The LED lights on the lake were also on. From time to time, water jets spurted out from under the LED lights. The water jets stayed in the air for a long time and then slowly fell down. The color of the LED lights also changed continuously with the rise of the water jets.

It's not night yet, otherwise it would look even more beautiful.

The setting sun in the distance had not yet faded to Zhao Hengtian's left.

There is a tender green artificial lawn by the lake, and of course there are chairs for people to rest on the lawn. The setting sun shines on the chairs, casting the shadow of the chair on the ground. The shadow is twisted into a straight line, just like the pointer on a watch.

Zhao Hengtian went to sit on the chair. There was an old lady sitting on the other end of the chair with her cane resting on the armrest. She was looking at the small boat rowing on the lake.

Zhao Hengtian took the opportunity to say, "Grandma, what are you looking at?"

Grandma turned to look at Zhao Hengtian. Seeing that he was wearing casual clothes, she thought he must be a college student, so she replied, "I was looking at the boat parked on the shiny surface. Don't you think it's very wonderful?"

Grandma pointed it out to Zhao Hengtian, who also thought the scene was particularly wonderful, so he said with the feeling of discovering a treasure: "It's really beautiful. The color of the lake overlaps with the opposite bank, and the light changes intricately under the boat. It looks like the boat is parked above the light. Grandma is really an artist."

Grandma joked, "You've won so many awards, so many awards. Although I am indeed an artist, this beautiful scenery was not discovered by me, nor is it in this place."

Grandma's gaze returned to the boat on the light, and her memory brought her back to the past: "As you get older, you will miss some things or objects from the past more and more."

Zhao Hengtian said with a smile: "Grandma, don't talk about age, I miss you now."

"Really? Sometimes no matter what choice we make, we will all end up dead."

"Grandma, if you have anything that makes you unhappy, can you tell me, a stranger, about it?" Zhao Hengtian sat closer.

"Great, I can finally tell that story, young man." Grandma's calm tone was full of anticipation: "When I was very young, I had a childhood friend who was very good friends. There was a large reed field where we lived, and we rowed small boats in it! It was also at this time that I sat by the river bank and watched the sunset. The water and the sky were one color, very beautiful. He also sat next to me and asked me what I was looking at. I said I was watching the sunset. I thought he came with me to watch the sunset. I looked into the distance, and he looked at the boat. Suddenly he said, Lisheng, look, the boat is parked on the light. I looked over and it was indeed like that. I asked him if the boat would appear in the sky one day, because water is the mirror of the sky and can reflect the appearance of the boat sailing in the sky."

"He promised me that he would. After a while, he said to me, if I do it, you have to promise me that we will have fun together for the rest of our lives. I promised him. We both knew in our hearts that it was a very simple thing. Whenever we sailed the boat to the wide river, we would be sailing in the sky. He lowered his head and was silent for a long time."

"The birds in the distance were chirping and rushing home. I took the opportunity to watch the birds and secretly saw his blushing face. I was actually very happy that he told me that we would play together for the rest of our lives because we were good friends. One day, he told me, Lisheng, I will take you to row a boat in the sky. I happily accepted his invitation. We rowed far away from the shore. We could not see the mountains or houses. White clouds fell from the blue sky. The river surface contained the blue sky and the clouds. I flicked the water lightly and ripples appeared in the blue sky. I said to him, Jianwei, we will play together for the rest of our lives. He kissed my forehead and said, Lisheng, I know you promised me at the beginning. Thank you for telling me in person. We stayed on that boat until sunset. He said to me, Lisheng, did you know? Our boat is riding on the light. I said of course I know because you told me. He said I want you to remember this moment forever, a moment that belongs only to us. I answered him, yes, it belongs only to us."

"Because we are friends."

Grandma's tone was still calm: "I really thought we would be together for the rest of our lives, but unfortunately things didn't go as planned. From then on, he disappeared from my life. It rained heavily that day. In fact, I don't have that kind of bad premonition on ordinary rainy days, but on that day, the bad premonition in my heart drove me to the river. He fell into the river for some reason. There was no adult around me, and I didn't know how to save him. The fear of death controlled me and made me have no courage to save him. I ran back home frantically to look for adults, but I didn't know where my parents had gone. I numbly searched for a long time before I found the adults, but it was too late, he was gone."

"For so many years I dreamed of jumping into the river and saving him, but when I woke up I realized it was all a dream. I also wondered if I would have saved him or died with him if I had jumped into the river. I thought about it for a long time."

"Until later I found a man who looked a lot like him and married him. However, they only looked alike. There were many differences between them. I let go of that regret and married him for half my life. He treated me very well, but every time I saw boats and water, I would think of my childhood friend. When I was with him, I actually didn't know what my feelings were for him. It was only after so many years that I realized that I seemed to love him. But we were both still young at the time. How could there be any feeling of love?"

Zhao Hengtian felt a little melancholy after hearing this story. He comforted her, "Grandma, the past cannot be retained, but..."

Zhao Hengtian really didn't know how to comfort her.

"I have a past, but no future. But you still have a future." Grandma continued, "I am very happy today. Someone else saw this boat floating on the light."

Zhao Hengtian said: "Grandma, if you can't forget him, then go see him with that longing! I believe that no matter where you are, as long as you still have a place for each other in your heart, you will meet each other in the end."

"Thank you, young man. I thought so too. I want to go see him with that longing. I really hope to see him again, but I feel sorry for the other person who accompanies me. I will apologize to him when the time comes, but I won't be able to ask for forgiveness! Oh! I really want to lose my memory, not have to think about anything, become a small animal, or an unconscious thing, and not have to choose anything."

Zhao Hengtian felt that the old lady was right, because he thought so too: "Grandma, I also want to become a thing without consciousness in my next life, but I have to solve the problems in this life."

The old lady asked, "So, what brings you here?"

Zhao Hengtian said: "I came to see a friend of mine. She hasn't contacted me for a long time. She only told me that her home is in Jiuwanhua, so I wanted to come and ask."

"what is her name?"

“Die Xin, Die as in butterfly, Xin as in fragrance.”

"I know, it's that child. I don't know if she has gone back to her hometown. I haven't seen her for a long time."

Zhao Hengtian was a little surprised: "Where is her hometown?"

"I'm not sure about that, but she always shared interesting stories from her hometown with me. She made a very good friend there, but she rarely contacted him when she was studying. When she missed her friend, she would come to talk to me. It seems that her friend came here to take the art exam."

"Arts exam?"

"Yes!"