Great writers and philosophers

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The dim afterglow of the setting sun reveals a kind of dying struggle, clinging to anything that can be picked up, making people's cheeks burn.

Seven nights firefly hugged her knees, looking at the direction where the North Star would appear in the late summer night.There are no stars in the sky yet, and the setting sun is like dried orange peels. If you sniff carefully, there is also the bitter smell of oranges in the air, one trace at a time.

The sun was only a little less than the crescent moon and was about to set, and the people who had promised to come after supper hadn't come yet.

"I've known you for six years."

Facing the air beside her, Qiye Ying smiled, with a somewhat mature sigh.

This is not the first time she has experienced her childhood with memories, so she has experience, and she is very careful not to show an adult posture in her childhood, for fear of being regarded as a monster.

However, in her previous life, she had been in poor health since she was a child. She was born in the French countryside. There was a lively and noisy younger brother who was completely opposite to her. In the end, she died of illness before seeing her younger brother graduated from elementary school.

To be precise, it was because her fragile body couldn't survive the activation of the substitute ability, so she died.

After making a deal with the dimensional witch Ichihara Yuko, the undead Italian Mafia Bruno Bucciarati, who had been sleeping in her substitute ability "Ziwei Palace", also woke up and regained all his power.

Bugarati told her that the ability of the substitute is related to abstract concepts such as the spirit and willpower of the substitute messenger. If the willpower of the substitute messenger reaches a certain level, the substitute will evolve.

Qiyeying finally knew the cause of her death in her previous life.

"If it weren't for your presence, maybe I would have gone crazy long ago. Crazy people think of the color of melancholy, the bitter taste of bile..."

Qiye Ying exposed her heart to people who did not exist around her. This is something she would never say to people who did exist. With the purest soul, who can conjure up all things shiny and beautiful, that's who you are."

"Did I tell you? There is a writer named Wang Xiaobo. During a certain suffering, he would move from one suffering place to another. He has love, romance and poetry in his heart, and he can find beauty. He said it was 'from one moon to another'. I couldn't resist the wit and romance of that."

"People always envy what they don't have. If I were to say it, I would probably only be able to say something as vulgar as 'going from one hell to another'."

"What about you? What would you say?"

The girl with silver hair and green eyes was full of energy, as if everyone in this world lacked a pair of eyes to discover the people around her.

"I'll definitely say 'transfer from here to there'. Sometimes I envy you for your controlling calmness and rationality, and I even think that it is because of the lack of that that I cannot live in this world safely. But Sometimes, that calmness and rationality also scares me. I would rather you be weak, I don't know when being strong can become a flaw."

"Someone actually thinks that it's inconsequential for an eight-year-old child to see his teacher and friends dying bloody in front of his eyes... Even you think so, and you scare me the most at that time."

"And you didn't tell me until five years after you met me. I saw the battlefield when I was four years old. I only saw war in books. The most famous Tolstoy's "War and Peace" was when I was a child I read the revised version, and I didn’t reread it when I grew up. I just remember that Natalie is like a little princess in a fairy tale..."

"Actually, what's the use of me telling you this? Can you give me a response? Even if it's just a vague metaphor, can you give me something? The whole world can't give me something."

"Actually, I'm not blind to that level. If you remember... you should remember. The memory is so good. When we first met, I didn't hang my book bag so often. I was afraid of you Also treat me as a lunatic, and the second is that I am worried that you will not talk to me if you talk too much... Timid and cowardly, withdrawn and perverse, inferior and arrogant... To be able to tolerate such unpleasant people is already gentle enough to save It’s like a world for one person.”

"I probably... can't say that I was saved by you in front of you. This sentence is too true, so true..."

"By the way, I just made a deal with the devil. Didn't expect that? Hahaha, what I'm talking about is not the existence of the devil, but the fact that I dare to make a deal with the devil. You must not have thought of it, right?"

"The stand-in ability that I have never been able to use, after getting to know you, my strength gradually recovered, and now I can use it normally."

"You who have always supported my weak and sick soul, mended my spirit that was on the verge of breaking, you who affirmed me, praised me, and believed in my dreams, you have not mentioned a word about your dreams in recent years."

"World Peace……"

"Actually, I thought you were playing it perfunctory at first, but after knowing that you were serious, I was shocked. I wondered in a trance whether I was going to witness the birth of a savior with my own eyes, or that I was close to the water because I wrote your exclusive biography And the infamous author who can't sell a single book of his own, a first-rate biographer? Hehe... Don't ask me what I'm thinking in my head, I'm still wondering if the moon in this world is so big. What about the old gods?"

"To be honest... I don't have any confidence at all, and even my courage has been exhausted. In short, I am not even as good as you when you were six years old. But... But, it is meaningless if you don't do it. Even if In the end nothing changed, at least I was going to do it."

"How can I receive so much favor from you without paying back? Now, Uchiha-kun, I've said it hundreds of times, don't raise your moral standards on your own. Look at me, this man who believes in 'artists don't have to be A morally admirable person' has been subtly influenced into what kind of guy! Hey... I didn't say this sentence, it was Coetzee who said it, "Youth."

"... I don't need to mention the author and the title of the book, after all, they are not people in this world. But I have always done this, and you have never asked me. Why never ask me? Although I am very Thank you for doing this, but isn't it unreasonable?"

"I'm really selfish. I didn't say this to tell you, but just to let myself not forget..."

"Oh, the sun has set, are you going to go? Oh, ok, sleep well, I hope you will have beautiful scenery in your dreams, and there will be laughter from far away. Let's talk next time ~"

There is one more sentence, one more sentence, even if she dared not say it to the air, or said something she was embarrassed to say.

——In my eyes, we are the same soul in different bodies, so I have to do my best to climb to the height of your soul.

The late summer wind keeps blowing, blowing many things to distant places, far away from my hometown.

In the sky, the Big Dipper is shining brightly, and they point to the Polaris, that clear, bright and beautiful star.

"I'm very sorry, I'm late because of something unexpected...have you been waiting for me?"

"Nonsense, am I counting the stars without waiting for you? Well, I am indeed counting the stars..."

"...I'm really sorry, are you bored?"

"Alas... boredom is the desire for desire, my loneliness is the loneliness of knowing you "1", Uchiha-kun. "

"..."

"By the way, guess how many stars I just counted~"

"Uh...is there a range?"

"Zero to 1000 billion!"

"Ah...can you narrow down the scope a little?"

"Okay, who can refuse your request? Then one to ninety-nine ninety-nine million ninety-nine ninety-nine..."

"Qiye Mulberry, I guess it's a thousand."

"You guessed wrong!"

"Is it more or less?"

"too much!"

"..."

"Quick guess, quick guess~"

"Five hundred?"

"too much!"

"??? Then, the two hundred?"

"It's too much, hahaha, it hurts..."

Uchiha Itachi, who rushed over without even taking off the armor, watched helplessly as the silver-haired girl leaned on his arm familiarly, and then hit the iron armor.

Nanaya Hotaru, who was clutching her forehead, was teary-eyed in pain, and stared at Itachi Uchiha, "Well, I only counted 73, it's too much, why hit me!"

The young man couldn't tell whether to laugh or cry, but saw that the girl had put down her hand and pulled his sleeve to ask him to look up, "Look, don't the stars look particularly beautiful today."

"Yes, it's beautiful."

"I'll just say it! I thought of you just now when I saw such a beautiful starry sky. Uchiha-kun is the beautiful starry sky!"

"It's too exaggerated, Qiye-san...it doesn't look like it no matter how you look at it."

"Oh, naive!"

Qiye Ying stood up imposingly, and embraced the sky with open arms.

"Moon, ivory, musical instruments, roses/lamps and Dürer's lines/nine numbers and shifting zeros/I should pretend to believe that they existed/I should pretend to believe that there used to be, Persepolis and Rome /The battlements destroyed by the Iron Age/A fine grain of sand sealed their fate/I should pretend to believe in epic weapons and bonfires/And heavy seas that erode the pillars of land.”

Qiye Ying looked back with a smile, the starlight was in her eyes.

"I'm supposed to believe there are others. Actually none of them. Only you are real."

"You are my misfortune and my great fortune, innocent and endless." "2"

"........."

Hotaru Nanaya took a step back, squatted down, hugged her knees, stared at Itachi Uchiha, and said without giving any background: "I'm leaving Konoha."

"Okay, okay... what?!"

"You've become more and more busy since you became a Chunin. If you're not here, it doesn't make sense for me to stay here."

"... Qiye-san, I am really sorry, I will never be late in the future, so..."

"Ah, ah, that's not it!" Nanaya Hotaru waved her hands dumbfounded. Seeing that Uchiha Itachi seemed to think so seriously, she couldn't help but reflect on whether she had been bullying him too much all this time.

The sad girl who had no parting at all covered her face with a smile, and her voice came out from between her fingers, "Really, I wanted to save myself some face, that is, when I was young, I could speak it outrightly, but when I grow up, of course would feel ashamed!"

"I'm going to realize my dream! Although it's not the original dream, but it's only a little bit off, at least the end result is that I will be famous ~ famous, so it doesn't make much difference, it's all I want to do It's a lifelong struggle!"

"..."

Hotaru Nana, who was covering her face, couldn't see Uchiha Itachi's expression, nor heard his voice. After more than a few tens of seconds, she felt that she couldn't let go of her hand naturally, and could only rack her brains to figure out how to get rid of this situation. awkward atmosphere.

She thought about it quickly.

"Oh right, right, I forgot to add, just now..."

"I know, that's not your original poem, I know."