A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

It is exactly the same as the first impression of ordinary people. The name "Xiao Fengdi" is taken from the necessary text "Guo Qin Lun" in high school.

When my mother was still alive, she talked and laughed about the origin of the name.

When she was just entering the industry at the age of 21, she used to live in the house of a relative who was also a spirit exorcist, and accumulated contacts while looking for related jobs.

At that time, she would occasionally teach a girl from a relative’s family to preview Chinese texts. That girl always remembered the sentence "Sailing Fengdi" as "Sailing Fengyun". The name of one of the exorcists is "Xiao Fengyun"; to the industry, this name can be regarded as thunderous.

That guy named Xiao Fengyun later became his father.

The last time I saw my mother was in the middle of the night when I was seven years old.

That night, my mother seemed to have answered an emergency call from the organization, and then hurriedly changed into her work clothes and went out.

For elementary school students, midnight is undoubtedly the time to sleep.

At that time, he was sleeping in a daze. His mother pushed open the bedroom door, glanced at him, saw that he was sleeping, and wanted to retreat quietly; disturbed by the sound, he barely opened his eyes. Only a vague shadow fell on it.

"Woke you up?" She seemed to smile, "It's okay, go to sleep."

"Are you going out?"

"Well, I'm in a hurry, and I'll be back in an hour or two."

This kind of thing is actually very common.At that time, the society was not as good as it is now, and the organization had only just been established, and its influence was extremely limited. The life of the spirit removers was much more difficult than it is now.

In order to help his family live a better life, his father spends most of his time in overseas activities with higher income; and his mother also often takes some urgent jobs through the organization's channels, and this kind of work will have extra pay.Going out overnight like this happens almost every month, and he is very used to it.

So after she left, he quickly fell asleep again.He thought his mother would be back soon, as usual, as always.

However, the next day, what he saw again was only a few mutilated corpses.

The body parts were covered with blood-stained white cloth and placed in the side hall of the Spirit Eliminator Organization.

He was brought there by several strange adults, and someone pushed his shoulder from behind: "Aren't you going to see your mother for the last time?"

He went.

He took off the white cloth with his hands.

The sight before them is enough to give any child of that age nightmares for years.Her face was completely unrecognizable, only one third of her body was left, and her internal organs were also exposed, a bloody mess.But the people around just looked at it indifferently, and didn't feel that there was anything about this kind of corpse that the children couldn't see.

Xiao Fengdi's mother didn't want him to continue being a spirit remover, so she had carefully avoided everything related to him before.

And at this moment, the cruel reality of this profession finally opened a corner in front of him.

Those who claimed to be her colleagues explained that the job this time was not difficult at first, it was just a few little monsters with relatively shallow skills.The suppression operation was also very successful, but she was negligent at the end and was caught by the monster.

By the time others came to the rescue, it was already too late.

——This kind of thing is also very common.There is always a time when people are careless, and carelessness in the work of removing spirits often means death.

For others, it's a common occurrence.They may feel a little sorry, but that's all. Compared with pity and sympathy, what they show is more of a kind of worry.

"...After her man comes back, he won't trouble us."

"It's hard to say, what if..."

They were whispering.

Xiao Fengyun is notoriously fond of his wife.Although no one else was responsible for this matter, after letting him know, he might get angry and find trouble with other people.

However, it turns out they were overthinking.

That man didn't have the energy to pursue other people's responsibilities. Just the "wife's death" was enough to drive him crazy.When he came back from abroad, he knelt down in front of the freezer containing the body parts and broke down crying. The 40-year-old adult man cried like a child, which alarmed the resident staff of the entire association.

No one dares to persuade, and no one can persuade.

Xiao Fengdi stood behind him and watched from afar.Someone pushed him again: "Son, go and comfort your father and tell him that at least you are still there. He is too sad, he can't go on like this forever."

This time he didn't go.

He knew right then that it was useless.

Xiao Fengyun is not good at dealing with children, even if they are his own.In other words, he is not good at dealing with "people" at all; that's all at work, but in life, except for his wife, no one can stand his cold temper.

In the months since, he has remained at home, mostly shutting himself in the bedroom that belongs to him and his wife, often without food or drink for days.

Xiao Fengdi lived under the same roof as him during this period, but he almost never thought of having a living son, let alone submitting it for negotiation and care.

A few months later, he fled the country again, probably because he wanted to leave this sad land.

Until the day they left, they finally had a conversation between father and son.

The haggard Xiao Fengyun looked at him at that time, frowned, finally sighed, and said in a hoarse voice: "You are not like her at all, but like me. It's a pity, you will have a hard time in the future."

It was not until many years later that he understood what his father meant.Mother is the kind of person who is sunny and gentle, can make friends no matter where she goes, and always looks at life positively; while her father's character is completely opposite to her.

It's a pity that I am more like my father.

That man has no concept of family at all. To him, children are probably just an accessory to the love between himself and his wife. When his wife is gone, children lose their meaning.

After that, only Xiao Fengdi himself remained in the former home.In all fairness, he also wanted to leave like his father. This house is full of family memories, which is undoubtedly a kind of torture for those who lost their homes, but he has nowhere to go.

He was a child at the time and couldn't go anywhere.

At the very beginning, life alone was quite difficult; after all, he was still young at that time, and he was well taken care of by his mother before, so he didn't have much experience in housework.

But when you have to take care of yourself, there is nothing insurmountable about the original difficulties.

At that time, he never thought that he actually had the option of "giving up living".Although occasionally he felt that this kind of life was really meaningless, but at that time he was far less mobile than later, and he didn't know how to take his own life.

However, one night, facing the burning gas stove, he once accidentally put his hand into the fire.

The flames seared him, searing his skin black.But after a few seconds, the pain gradually faded away.He was shocked to find that the blue flame avoided his fingers, and became like a tangible object, bending and beating tamely in his hand.

This is a special gift.He didn't know why he felt so frightened that he stayed away from the stove for several days after that.

Half a month later, an old woman with white hair appeared at his door.Xiao Fengdi had a little impression of her. He seemed to have been a guest at home before, but his mother didn't let him have much contact with her.

The old man sat down in the living room and looked at him very carefully.

"Do you know who I am?"

He shook his head silently.

"I am Xiao Fengyun's master." She said.

"……Oh."

Even Xiao Fengdi at the time could realize that, in this way, the old lady had a lot of background.What my father learned was the most traditional and long-standing art of exorcising spirits, which has a deep relationship with Taoism.

He thought for a while and said, "My dad is not here."

"I know, I'm not here to look for him." The old woman didn't care much about this, she just stared at him, "I'm here to look for you. Child, do you want to be a spirit remover?"

At that time, this missionary-like sentence pattern had not been abused in literary and artistic works, and Xiao Fengdi did not understand it.He just felt that this old lady was a little naughty and weird.

"Your talent is very good, no less than your father. It just so happens that I need an excellent successor," she said, "It's not too late to start studying now. In less than 20 years, you will definitely become a better successor than him." spirit."

"But, I can't—" His mother didn't want him to be a spirit remover at all, and he didn't want to go against his mother's wishes, even if she was gone.

"If you want to learn the art of removing spirits from me, you can leave here with me." The old man asked, "Don't you want to leave here?"

"..."

Seeing that he refused to answer, the old man said again: "Besides, with your personality exactly like Xiao Fengyun, you have no future among ordinary people. Don't you feel uncomfortable with a group of ordinary people's brats?"

It's hard to say, but it's not without reason.

Even when his mother was alive, Xiao Fengdi was definitely not a normal child: he didn't have any friends at school, and he didn't have any conversations with his peers. The teacher once contacted his parents because he was too withdrawn.

This is of course due to personality, but on the other hand, children who grow up in families of spirit eliminators do unconsciously possess a temperament that makes their peers fear and stay away.

but……

"No." He replied anyway.He didn't think his situation would improve by leaving the "normal" life.

After a stalemate for a while, the old man stood up helplessly: "Forget it, twisted melons are not sweet. You will regret it one day, so please come and beg me."

After that, the old man would come once a year, and every time he got a negative answer, he was not angry.

Xiao Fengdi is still growing steadily, from a few years old to a teenager, from a primary school student to a junior high school student.He still can't make friends, but he receives love letters from time to time, and has been stopped by girls to talk to him.

It was at that time that he became aware of his sexual orientation.

Looking back now, he always felt that the reason why he rejected women was not only his natural orientation, but also because he was afraid of leaving offspring.He doesn't have the confidence to be a good father, after all, his father is an extremely bad example, and he is very similar to him.

Sometimes he felt that he probably hated his father.His mother passed away unfortunately, but generally speaking, a father and son may not be unable to depend on each other; but Xiao Fengyun chose to give up.He did not hesitate to abandon the home without a wife and his son.

This feeling is especially strong every time I see other people's family members getting along.

In general, mothers are the ones who take care of the children in the family, but there is no shortage of fathers; occasionally when it rains when school is over, there are not many fathers who pick up people at the school gate with rain gear.

Until about to enter the third year of junior high school, something happened.

A group of men and women with strange clothes and temperament came to Xiao Fengdi's school.

Someone called him to the principal's office. The room was full of people. The principal stood behind him and gave the sofa to a few middle-aged men.

He stood at the door and didn't go in. Among those people, he recognized a few faces he had seen before.

—they are the spirit removers.

"You are Xiao Fengdi, right?" The man on the sofa looked at him with some compassion, "There is such a thing, we think it's better to tell you, after all, you are the only relative...Look."

He handed over a piece of paper.

At the top are two large black characters: Obituary.

At that moment, Xiao Fengdi felt that the blood in his whole body rushed to the top of his head, but his body was extremely cold.The man was still talking: "Unfortunately, he didn't survive this mission. Maybe you also understand that what he went to perform this year is the most important mission of the organization—"

Before he could react, he had already punched the man in the face.

The surrounding crowd roared and pulled him away in a tumultuous manner. At that time, he had not received professional training and was no match for these people.But he resisted like crazy, and several spirit removers couldn't hold back, and they were all beaten instead.

He didn't know what he was doing, his father had long since left his life, and whether Xiao Fengyun was alive or dead had no effect on him at all.However, he still felt that there was an extremely dull, extremely stagnant air in his chest, making him want to scream, want to vent, and even want to kill——

Why must it be Xiao Fengyun?He wanted to question these people, why did they have to choose his father?The Spirit Eliminator's organization is so big, why must he kill his father after taking away his mother?

Even if Xiao Fengyun didn't care about him, he was the only person in this world who was connected with him by blood.

He may hate his father, but he also has longings and hopes for that person, always thinking that one day, maybe... But from this day on, he no longer has any relatives.

The man on the sofa wiped his mouth that was bleeding from the beating, but he was not angry. He just looked at him and said, "Please forgive me. I sympathize with you, but your father voluntarily went on this mission. He wanted to and this mission might have been given to him, but he failed miserably, that's all; it's not the organization's responsibility."

He has... something he wants?

What could Xiao Fengyun want?Xiao Fengdi slowly became quiet.

He knew how paranoid his father was, and even decades might not be able to get over the pain of losing his wife, but what would such a father want?

what exactly is it?

His heart beat violently.Will it have something to do with the mother?Could it be... the resurrection of the dead?

"Do you want to know?" The man on the sofa seemed to smile, "Sorry, I can't tell you. This is an internal secret belonging to the spirit removers. Do you want to join us?"

Xiao Fengdi broke away from the others and stood up.

"I'll be the Exorcist," he finally replied.

The old man was visibly surprised to learn that he had changed his mind.In her opinion, an unqualified father like Xiao Fengyun is not worthy of his son changing his mind because of his death.

Xiao Fengdi himself didn't quite understand his own thoughts.He values ​​his father more than he thought, and misses his mother more than he thinks. It is not impossible for him to survive after losing his family, but his desire for home and family is strong enough to change everything.

He felt he had to figure out what his father was up to.If..., maybe he has a chance to regain his family——

After that, Xiao Fengdi almost never appeared in "ordinary" schools again.

He has been learning techniques for eliminating spirits and exercising his physique in the deep mountains and old forests. Most of the time he is alone, and only occasionally meets the so-called master and fellow disciples.It's too late to start studying in your teens, and you have to work really hard to get ahead of others. Fortunately, talent can make up for these shortcomings.

When his peers entered the university, he was finally able to take over the job of removing spirits. At first, he was almost killed several times because of his lack of proficiency, but with the accumulation of experience and the improvement of his strength, this situation became more and more serious. come less and less.

So he also became a member of the organization.The man he once punched turned out to be the second-in-command of the Spirit Eliminator organization. From this mouth, he learned the mystery about a certain "game".

Father died in this game.Did he take the initiative to participate in the game for his mother?Can this game bring the dead back to life?All these mysteries can only be explored by himself.

When they proposed to participate in a new round of "games", even several responsible persons were a little bit sorry.

"If you are also here, then your whole family will die for the organization." The second-in-command said directly, "You are too young, and there are many possibilities in life, why don't you think about it? "

"It's okay," he said.

By this time, he had lost his mother for more than 15 years and his father for ten years.Time is enough to heal all pain, the other party is right, he is still very young, and as an adult, he should also see a wider world beyond family and relatives.

Unfortunately, he just couldn't do it.No matter how beautiful the outside world is, what does it have to do with him?All entertainment is just a momentary sensory stimulation, and I can't establish any deep friendship with others.He is alone in this world, without relatives, friends, lover, or anything he can hold in his hands.

But now, he can only follow the bubble of more than ten years ago.

The house I used to live in has been demolished and flattened, but perhaps to this day, my soul is still trapped in that former home.

"—Anyway, I have nothing to miss," he said.