Puppeteer [Interstellar]

"Al, I'm here to see you." Lyle jumped out of Scar's arms, nestled on the side of Al's head, stroked the hair on Al's temples, and whispered to Al: "This is my This is the first time to see you and the last time, so this time, I am here to say goodbye to you."

Al lying there was very quiet, his eyes closed, and his expression was particularly soft.

"The Puppet Master Academy implements the sky burial system. The dead here cannot go home, and the family members cannot get the body of the deceased. There is no funeral, no prayer, and no farewell ceremony. Sent into outer space by catapult, they will drift in the endless starry sky, and before long, you will be one of them."

Lyle lay on Al's table, took a deep breath, and said, "Are you afraid? Drifting in the distant starry sky is really a romantic and scary thing."

"You can rest assured, Al, if I die one day, I will also choose this way of burial, and then we may meet at the end of the sky."

Lyle closed his eyes, he had to do his best to keep his tears from falling, so he no longer lay on Al's table, but stood up straight.Scar behind him felt something, and came over and hugged Lyle's shoulder.

"Thank you for walking through my life, Al." Lyle reached out to support Scar and hugged his arm, looked down at Al, "You are so important to me, I can't forget you, and I can't forget you." Let go of you. But...if there is an afterlife, please don't meet me."

"Don't be my brother again, don't have anything to do with me, never think of me again."

Lyle reached out and touched Al's icy cheek. He looked at him and was a little dazed. After a long time, Lyle continued: "You will have a happier and better afterlife, so...don't be like me. No one has anything to do with it."

"I said I would protect you, but I didn't do anything."

"I'm useless and incapable of bringing you the future you imagined."

"You always think that you are my burden and my burden... In fact, I always feel that I am your burden. It is because I am here that you have been unable to spread your wings and fly high."

Lyle sighed: "Forget it, don't talk about these boring topics, what do you think I brought you?"

As Lyle said, he took something out of his pocket, reached out and stuffed it into Al's palm. After looking carefully, it was a small candy with no special features.

"This is the candy for you. You used to prepare all kinds of snacks for me... Now that I think about it, it seems that I haven't prepared anything for you."

Lyle said: "I have nothing, Al... There are thousands of things in the world, but this candy is the only thing I can give you."

"I love you, Al..."

"So, farewell."

Lyle closed his eyes and stopped looking at Al's face. He still didn't cry in the end. He was extremely calm and turned away from Al's side calmly. Scar behind him quickly followed and grabbed Lyle by the waist. He picked him up and carried him out of the mortuary door.

Death always spreads in everyone's life like a shadow. Some people are shrouded in its darkness, leaving the lighted life path and walking into the distant and endless darkness. Their departure may make the road The companions on the road stopped for a while, but in the end, it was time to move on.

Time is always the best medicine to heal all wounds.

Lyle thought he would never cry, but when Scar carried him out of the mortuary door, he still wept on Scar's chest. His body exploded, he felt overwhelmed, he felt so small and terribly small that he couldn't do anything, nothing could be redeemed.So only tears kept pouring out, which was almost the only way he could vent his pain.

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The next day, Lyle got dressed and followed Clarence to see Ray who was unconscious in another ward.

Rain's ward was not empty. The principal of the college, Gaia, and his puppet were also here. When Gaia saw Clarence leading Lyle in, the two of them looked at each other. Gaia first He opened his mouth and said, "It seems... Should I leave for a while first?"

Clarence replied, "No, no, you can stay here and it will do us good to keep you informed."

After Clarence finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Lyle and said to him, "You can go and see him."

Lyle wasn't much interested: "I don't want to see him, Clarence, you can just say what you want to do... or what you want me to do."

"I'm giving you a chance, Lyle." Clarence's tone was full of seriousness and heaviness, "You go and see him, and then make a decision. Choose to kill him and let him sleep forever, or choose to wake him up , continue to be the general of the alliance, it's all up to your will... If you make a choice, you can do it now."

Clarence's words were astonishing, causing Lyle's heart to tremble. Then he raised his head slightly and looked at Rain who was lying on the hospital bed over there.

At the same time, Clarence's words surprised Gaia who was listening, but he rationally didn't speak, kept silent, and continued to watch what the two men were going to do.

After a short period of silence, Lyle finally started to act. He took a step and walked towards Rain.His steps were very slow, and for some reason, it gave everyone beside him the feeling that Lyle was walking on the apex of their hearts. The heaviness and sound of his steps stepped on their hearts every time.

Finally, Lyle walked up to Rein and looked down at the man named "Father".

Lei Yin usually looks so proud, tall, and indestructible on the outside, but when he was lying on this hospital bed, Lyle noticed a trace of whiteness appearing on the side of his temples, which proved that this man was actually old. Holding a sword, gun and blade, he has walked through the decades of the alliance, the battlefield full of human and insect corpses, and countless planets, galaxies and starry skies. The people and insects he has killed are daunting to ordinary people all their lives. merit.

He turned out to be the father.

Lyle sighed in his heart, feeling that fate is really ridiculous. Rain could be anyone's father, but it happened to be Lyle's father, but it happened to be Al's father.

"I always felt that the gods cared for him." Lyle stared at Rein, and then spoke slowly.

Clarence next to him heard Lyle's words and shifted his gaze to Lyle.

I don't know if Lyle was talking to Clarence, but Lyle continued to talk to himself: "While taking away some things from him, he gave him a greatness that no one else could even imagine, making him He became a hero."

"He's a hero, Clarence," Lyall said. "If I kill him here today, am I not the legendary evil villain?"

Clarence shook his head and said, "No, Lyle, you just replaced him and became the new hero."

"What if I can't replace him?"

Clarence seemed very sure, he said firmly, "You can."

"You can, Lyle, in this world, all the achievements of the ancestors are used to surpass."

Lyle's head was lowered, and his tone was even lower. He said: "Countless people want to kill him, but there are also countless people who can't kill him. I used to dream of killing the whole person, until today , he was already in front of me, like the fish on the knife, but I began to hesitate."

Clarence said nothing.

Lyle wasn't going to wait for his answer, so Lyle turned around and left Rain's side. He walked straight towards Gaia over there. He became nervous. He didn't know why he felt this way, but he was just a little nervous. This boy gave him such a sense of oppression for no reason.

"I heard that golems are equipped with a kind of cold weapon, and your golem should also have it. Can you lend me a use?" Lyle said to Gaia, his tone was very sincere, and at the same time, he glanced at Gaia's side Golem.

Gaia did not refuse, and ordered his puppet to give his weapon to Lyle. The cold weapon held by Gaia's puppet is a short knife, which is generally such a short knife, which is more convenient to use and carry. Some golems will choose a long knife or a blade.

"Thank you." After getting the blade, Lyle thanked him, then turned to Clarence and said, "Can you go out? I want to be alone for a while."

Clarence couldn't help frowning, and said: "Yes, but Lyle, you have to think carefully, all your decisions will affect the future. But no matter what decision you make, I will prepare everything for you."

After speaking, Clarence went out, followed by Gaia and his puppet.

So in Rein's ward, only Lyle and Rein were left, as well as Scar, who was actively standing in the corner.

Lyle pulled up a chair and sat on the edge of Rein's hospital bed. He put the dagger he got from the Gaia puppet on his lap, and then glanced at Rein. I have been holding on to one thing tightly, that old hairpin.

Lyle then closed his eyes and leaned against the back of the chair. He stimulated his mental pressure and released the mental power suppressed in Rein's head.

Lei Yin on the hospital bed trembled all over, like a person who was drowning and had just struggled out of the water, panting heavily, and then twitched for a long time before finally opening his eyes.Rein, who opened his eyes, seemed to be a little bit unconscious. He was in a daze for a long time, and finally realized that there was a person sitting beside him, so Rein turned his head and looked at Lyle.

Lyle had already reached out his hand at this time, took away the hairpin that Rein was holding tightly in his hand, and played with it in his palm.