Scarlet Dawn [Apocalypse]

After receiving the drink, Brook unscrewed the bottle cap and downed it in one gulp. After drinking, he took a long breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead. The jumpsuit was full of palm prints from children, which was more embarrassing than killing zombies.

Bai Yi patted him on the shoulder sympathetically, and said, "Go and rest, I'll be back in two more hours."

Brooke nodded, didn't bother to speak, and shuffled towards the bench.

Under the night, the entire central square is shining brightly, and the sound of children playing is heard from afar. Bai Yi has experienced peaceful times, and the scene in front of him is both familiar and strange. The memory of 400 years ago flows through his mind. It's hard to avoid feeling a little alienated now.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Bai Yi began to tidy up the messy small gifts on the cart, most of which had already been sent out, and most of the rest were wrapping paper and empty boxes——

"Can you still divination, Mr. Clown?"

The voice sounded from behind, it sounded soft and soft, it was a boy.

"Of course." Bai Yi quickly picked up the divination card, turned around with a smile, and said, "Happy Creation Day!"

"Thank you, and I wish you happiness too." The man said lightly.

It is indeed a young man in front of him, a few centimeters shorter than him, about sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing an elegant velvet dress, standing elegantly, he can be seen to be very educated—probably the young master of a wealthy family, Bai Yi thought to himself , looking up to make contact with the other party, slightly surprised.

It was an indescribable feeling, surprising only by the grotesque moment of eye contact.

There was a kind of solidified silence in the silver-gray pupils, bleak and dull, it seemed that all the stars in the square could not be transmitted to his eyes.The young man's face was morbidly pale, with a deep tiredness between his brows, and two inconspicuous dark spots on his eyelids, like a patient suffering from a long illness.

He held a black cat in his arms, and he was stroking the little guy's head with his thin white fingers. The cat narrowed its eyes and purred comfortably, but looked at Bai Yi with a cunning corner.

The teenager yawned, looking not very interested, and said, "It's time to shuffle the cards, Mr. Clown."

Bai Yi suddenly came to his senses, the divination cards between his fingers were shuffled, and after a minute, the cards were fanned out with their backs facing up, "Choose one, and I will interpret it for you."

"Actually, I don't believe in fate," the young man stared at the divination cards indifferently, and after a while he reached out and turned out one. When he saw the face of the card, he smiled, held the card between his fingertips and showed it to Bai Yi, and said: "But fate has forced me to believe more than once, Mr. Clown, why do you say that is?"

The card depicts a person who is hung upside down with his hands tied behind his back, in a painful posture, but the holy light of an angel hangs vaguely above his head—it is the card of the Hanged Upside down.

Bai Yi took the card and quickly recalled the contents of the Quick Guide to Divination in his mind, but found that he hadn't remembered anything, so let's make it up now... He glanced at the sleepy boy, cleared his throat, and said: "This is……"

"The Hanged Man—symbolizes self-sacrifice, and the corresponding astrology is Neptune." The boy yawned and said, and sat lazily on the edge of the cart around Bai Yi, with his feet off the ground and his legs shaking back and forth like a child. Picking up a chocolate, he asked, "Do you mind if I—?"

"Eat whatever you want." This guy seemed to know a lot about divination, but it saved him trouble. Bai Yi took out some candies and handed them to him, and sat down beside him.

The boy thanked him, peeled off the candy wrapper, broke the chocolate into three pieces, handed one piece to Bai Yi, and said, "Here, let's eat together." Then he stuffed another piece into his mouth, and fed the last piece to the cat, "You Do you also feel that the Hanged Man is very pitiful?"

Bai Yi looked at the cards in his hand, and said frankly: "I don't know divination, and coming here is just a mission from the alliance, so...he was suspended because he made a mistake?"

"The hanging upside down symbolizes tribulation and suffering. Outsiders think he is in pain, but you can see his expression—very peaceful." The young man pointed to the card and said, "Because he knew that he sacrificed for the world, his body died, and his spirit lasted forever. An old friend of mine told me that this can be called the rebirth of the phoenix in an ancient country in Asia."

The word "old friend" was uttered from the mouth of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, with an indescribable sense of disobedience.Bai Yi was a little speechless, he had no interest in divination, so he could only echo: "He is great."

"It is indeed great, but you have to know that great people do not necessarily enjoy great fame, and greatness may not be understood by the world." The young man peeled off another piece of chocolate and put it in his mouth, saying vaguely: "For fate, they tolerate and accept it." , reflect, accumulate strength, and finally—" He paused, licking the chocolate sauce off his fingers, "Finally enjoy your own transformed world, it's wonderful!"

Bai Yi was a little puzzled, and asked: "What does the suffering of the Hanged Man have to do with the innovation of the world? Did his suffering come from the world? Even if it came from the world, the innovation would be...too serious, right?"

"The world here is not necessarily a macroscopic material world, and suffering is not necessarily suffering in the literal sense," the young man explained. "In short, when problems occur, order is disordered, and natural laws are broken, those who are the first to be hurt People will be the first to stand up."

"And once the dimension of discussion rises to the scope of the world, the consequences are often very serious. In this case, it is difficult to correct the problems that have formed, and the order and rules cannot be restored to the original state. Therefore, we can only introduce new ones and reformulate everything. It's like a revolution."

Bai Yi still couldn't agree, shook his head, and said, "Then how can we be sure that the direction of innovation is right?"

"There's no need to be sure," the boy raised his head, looking up at the star-studded night, "It's enough for us to know that the current situation is wrong."

Bai Yi fell silent for a moment——

The boy waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about this, it's rare to come to play once, this kind of topic is too boring."

"Hey, do you know what it was like before the end of the world?" he asked.

A new topic started, the boy seemed to be very talkative, he was almost the one talking when they were together.

After late at night, the crowd in the square gradually dispersed, and there were no new tourists, so Bai Yi simply chatted with him.Later, probably because his body couldn't hold it anymore, the young man tilted his head and leaned on Bai Yi's shoulder, as weak as a critically ill patient who would die at any time.

It is impossible for such a person to go out by himself. Bai Yi glanced at the young man worriedly, and asked, "Where is your family? Do you want to send you back?"

"I only have one younger sister. She is very cute and shy. She never walks out of the room, otherwise I really want to take her out for a walk." The young man's frail voice was like raving, but it was rare to be tinged with a smile, "My My old friend will pick me up later, don't worry."

"Why doesn't your sister leave the room?" Bai Yi asked.

The young man was silent, the cat in his arms seemed to sense the downfall of the owner, raised his head and meowed weakly, and after a long time he said softly: "She has been ill for many, many years, and she is not very obedient, so she can't be brought out, so... ..."

Before he finished speaking, there was silence again.

Bai Yi could feel the helplessness of the other party, but he didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only reach out and pat him on the back for fear.

Probably because he felt better, the young man took a deep breath and said lightly, "So I locked her in the room all the time, and then stayed with her outside..."

Bai Yi's hands froze in the air, and his words and deeds gave people a sick feeling, which was weird and inevitably felt a little sad.

The behavior of locking his sister in the room for many years... is really——Bai Yi couldn't help but frown.

"Ah~ he's here—"

"What?" Bai Yi didn't react for a while, the boy sat up straight and waved to the dark place in the distance.

"Sorry for delaying you for so long, dear Mr. Clown," the boy jumped off the cart, his pale cheeks were as cold and sleepy as ever, and said, "I'm leaving, can I finally do a fortune-telling for my cat?" He held Picking up the black cat's paw, he shook it at Bai Yi.

Cat: "Meow~"

"Of course." Bai Yi smiled and patted the black cat's furry head, took back the upside-down card, and began to shuffle the cards.The cat stared at the card intently, its yellow eyes were extremely bright.

"How do you smoke a cat?" Bai Yi asked.

"I smoke for it," said the boy, "it is my cat, so its fate is in my hands."

Bai Yi handed over the fan-shaped divination card and said, "I don't know how to interpret it."

"There is no need to interpret it," the young man took out a card and showed it, "Because fate is usually effective when you don't believe in it. Look—it really is the Wheel of Fortune card."

The card surface - the angel on the wheel of fortune, the devil on the bottom, surrounded by all kinds of good or bad encounters, you never know what you are about to face before the pointer stops.

The boy returned the card to Bai Yi, bowed and said, "Thank you, you are a very cute clown."

Bai Yi was confused by this weird guy, and asked doubtfully for a while, "Who are you? What's your name?"

"Yeah, I actually forgot to introduce myself. My memory is getting worse and worse." The young man yawned lazily, his tone like an old man's. "I'm Nicholas Monroe," he said, and pointed to The cat in my arms, "It's the world."

Bai Yi couldn't help laughing, giving the pet such a name, combined with what the other party said before, wouldn't that mean that the fate of the world is in the hands of Nicholas Monroe?

The corner of the boy's mouth curled up, showing his first smile since we met, and said: "So the forbearance, acceptance, reflection, and accumulation of strength of the hanged person are all for the purpose of making the wheel of fate follow his own wishes. This is innovation."

Bai Yi was stunned, as if realizing something for a moment, and was about to speak, but the boy had already turned around, waving his thin arm, "Chocolate is delicious, I'm glad to see you, artificial night doesn't seem so bad, Bye— — Dear Mr. Clown."

Bai Yi stared blankly at the back of the boy leaving. Brook came over and patted him on the shoulder, urging him, "Call it off, I really need to go back and take a shower, Bye, what are you looking at?"

He followed Bai Yi's gaze, "What happened to that tourist? I see you chatted for a long time."

"It's nothing..." Bai Yi took off his hat and threw it on the cart, wiped his sweat carelessly, "Let's go back."

The preoccupied captain Xiaobai returned to the temporary dormitory, took off the paint, took a shower, and then fell into bed until the next morning, when he woke up from the nightmare, took the communicator and found that there were more than 100 messages displayed on it. read the message -

It was only then that Bai Yi realized that he had forgotten to promise Silvison to go back to sleep.

The author has something to say: Both the Hanged Man and the Wheel of Fortune come from Tarot cards. Actually, I don’t understand this stuff, but I checked it out to make the word “Innovator” a bit mysterious. I refer to the description of the cards. Baidu Encyclopedia, the connection with the 'innovator' was made by myself, and I found out that it is a bit interesting~ I really am a person with no connotation_(:з」∠)_

So the clever little angel guessed that it was impossible for Hill to eat Xiaobai soon, and the reason why he couldn't eat it was that Xiaobai forgot~>.<(Please don't kill)