not sad planet

Accompanied by slight bumps, the house slowly floated up, and the flight journey of one person and one dog began again.

Liang Shu told the little dog nestled on the sofa what he had experienced outside, and when Xiao Yuling left the grocery store, he stopped talking.

After squinting his eyes and waiting for a long time, before he could speak, Yu Ling opened his eyes, "And then?"

"There is no more. I was watching you walking back. Suddenly, a ray of light appeared in the east, which is where the sun rises. The sky seemed to be bright in a blink of an eye. I felt something was wrong. I ran back and saw that the house was turned on again. Flying back——" Liang Shu said exaggeratedly, dancing with hands and feet, "Isn't it incredible?"

"..." Yu Ling stared at the ceiling, speechless for a long time, "Yeah." In fact, he had almost fallen asleep listening to it.

"So this counts as completing the task?" Liang Shu excitedly said: "It's too simple, there is no difficulty!"

"Don't be too happy," Yu Ling said listlessly, "Did you trigger some hidden code?"

"I don't know," Liang Shu recalled carefully, "I remember... when you were about to leave, you said goodbye to me. Is it possible that the password is this?"

"You can try it next time," Yu Ling mused, "It's also possible that each level has a different password."

"Next time..." Liang Shu's expression darkened, and he murmured to himself, "Where will it fall next time?"

Both fell silent, and no one spoke.

"Then let me change the question." Liang Shu soon cheered up again. He felt that he had mastered a little bit of the rules of the game during the last customs clearance process. "Did you have fun here when you were young?"

"I can't talk about whether I was happy or not. I was too young at that time, so I didn't have much memory." Yu Ling said.

"Then this shouldn't be the happy planet we're going to. Well, the happy planet must be a place that can make you happy."

Yu Ling pondered for a moment, then said "Yes".

"Before you told me that you wanted to save money to buy paintbrushes," Liang Shu asked, "Did you save enough money afterward?"

"I don't remember." Yu Ling said a little confused.

"My memory is too bad!"

"Hey wait." Speaking of this, Liang Shu suddenly thought of something, walked into the room quickly, and took out the box of colored pencils from the drawer.

He walked to the window and suddenly thought: "If I throw this box of colored pencils down, can you receive it when you were a child?"

"You can't throw objects at high altitudes," Yu Ling said in a cold joke that couldn't be colder: "It will hit people."

"I don't think it matters. After all, everything that happens in this world cannot be explained by common sense."

Yu Ling didn't say anything against it, but just looked at the window, "Then you throw it away."

"Throw it away!" Liang Shu slammed the window glass, and the fragile glass didn't move at all, but he grinned in pain with the iron fist he swung just now, "Damn, it hurts me to death, this glass is made of titanium alloy Is it?"

"Are you a fool? Why are you hammering with your hands?" Yu Ling was stunned by his operation.

"Forget it," Liang Shu pretended not to hear, rubbing the back of his hand and said, "By the way, do you still remember that when you were young, you were drawing in English class, and the head teacher invited your parents, and then your mother took your picture?" The painting went in the trash."

"It seems to be the case."

"Think about it again, is there anything else that impressed you that happened at that time?" Liang Shu squatted down, and asked a series of questions like a cannonball: "For you, this incident is a special event in your life. Is it difficult to pass the hurdle, is there any special significance?"

The house must not have landed in that place for no reason, and something major must have happened at that time.

"No," the puppy let out a snort from his nose, as if he heard some joke, "There is no obstacle in my life that I can't get past."

"Stop pretending!" Liang Shu stared straight at him, trying to see through his heart.

"What am I pretending to be?" Yu Ling said lightly, "There is no hurdle that I can't overcome, at least this incident is not. If I really have some psychological shadow because of this incident, then do you think I can continue to paint later? Comics?"

This statement also seems to have some truth.

"But to be honest, your mother is indeed a bit fierce," Liang Shu said with lingering fear, "Did she ever hit you when you were young?"

"No."

"Then... has she ever hurt you?"

This time Yu Ling paused for a long time.

"How do you define harm, physical or mental?" He said coldly, "If it is unintentional harm, I think most parents have 'hurt' their children."

"I..." Liang Shu hesitated to speak.

"Liang Shu," Yu Ling took a deep look at him, and his voice softened: "I probably know what you mean, but she's also my mother anyway, and I won't hate her for this kind of thing."

"Oh," Liang Shu said blankly, "That's good."

The conversation stalled briefly.

Liang Shu felt that the atmosphere here was too dull, so he stood up and went around the rooms, but when he came back, he still found nothing.

Yu Ling in the form of a puppy is still lifeless, nestled on the sofa, too lazy to move.

"Yu Ling," he gently picked up a puppy's ear, and said solemnly, "Do you have any regrets?"

"Let me go!" Yu Ling kept fluttering in his hands, trying to save his ears, "Why ask this, it's as if you are going to confess your last words."

Liang Shu choked, let go of his ears, "Ask."

"No."

"I do not believe!"

"So what if you have, so what if you don't, do you think you can change the past?" Yu Ling obviously didn't have any expectations for this.

"Try it."

"You traveled back to when I was a child, did anything change? No, I'm still the same person I am now."

This means that all the efforts Liang Shu made were in vain.

He was immediately irritated, "Then what do you want me to do! Do you think I want to run around like a headless chicken? It's fine if I can't get out if I ask you for a long time. Look at your face, why?"

"We broke up 800 years ago. Who can tell me why I was locked up in this shabby house and recalled my childhood with my ex-boyfriend? Do you think I would?"

Liang Shu knew what kind of person Yu Ling was. When they were still together, the filter of "like" was very strong. He respected Yu Ling's various behaviors and habits and even eccentricities, and never tried to make him change.

Perhaps it was Liang Shu's pampering that fueled his arrogance. Even after a long time after breaking up, Yu Ling still maintained his previous style and treated Liang Shu the same way when they met again.

Liang Shu's temper is actually not that good, he used to pretend, since they broke up a long time ago, there is no need to find anger for himself.

Every time he quarreled with Yu Ling, he had mentally rehearsed countless times in advance.

"Liang Shu, I didn't want to quarrel with you." Yu Ling's voice was low.

He said, "I'm sorry."

"Hmph, is it useful to say I'm sorry? Why don't you think about how to get out of here." Liang Shu's temper came and went quickly, and a soft word that didn't distract him could calm him down.

Yu Ling is also well aware of this.

"Whatever you say, I will listen to you."

This sentence really worked, Liang Shu's face immediately turned cloudy, and his smiling eyes were very vivid.

"First of all, we need to determine where the next stop of the house will be." He analyzed: "Just now I thought about it again. Happy Planet should be an abstract concept. In fact, there is no such place at all. At present, our task is to Get rid of the things that made you unhappy in the past, so wouldn't you be happy? Maybe you can leave here after all of them are resolved."

"Now you need to explain all the big things you have experienced before, especially the unhappy things." Liang Shu sat next to the puppy, stroking its soft and fluffy fur.

The puppy let him touch himself without any further struggle: "When will it be?"

Liang Shu:?

"I'm often unhappy."

"..." Liang Shu was speechless for a while, Yu Ling was a depressed person, he would often fall into a long period of self-isolation for inexplicable reasons, and he ignored everyone, being unhappy was a common occurrence for him.

He immediately changed his mind: "Then what stage was the happiest when you were young?"

The puppy in front of him rolled his eyes, as if he was thinking seriously, but finally spit out two words: "No."

"No, have you never had a happy time?"

"Rarely, every stage has every stage of unhappiness."

"Uh," Liang Shu hesitated, and asked, "What about when you were with me?"

Yu Ling rolled his eyes: "It's really annoying."

"You're annoying!" Liang Shu ruffled the dog fur in his hands as if venting his anger, and didn't want to talk to him anymore.

"Don't make trouble."

What used to be deterrent in the past has no effect at this moment. "Just make trouble!" Liang Shu rubbed the dog more violently, as if he wanted to round and flatten it.

The puppy rolled hastily, and escaped from Liang Shu's clutches.

It rolled itself into a ball and got under the coffee table.

It was dark inside, and there was a lot of dust and dirt.

"Come out!" Liang Shu bent down and reached under the coffee table to catch the dog. "I understand that the ultimate goal of this mission is not to save the world, but—to save Yu Ling!"

"I need you, idiot, to save me?" the puppy hid under the coffee table and uttered nonsense.

It's so easy to change the country and the nature is hard to change, Liang Shu cursed angrily: "Fuck, what kind of attitude is this! It seems that it has not been 2 minutes since your last apology!"

"Can you cooperate a little bit? This is not my business alone. I want to finish the task quickly and go home. Don't you want to change back into a human?"

"...I think," the puppy made a "whoop" sound and shrank its head, as if it had endured a lot of oppression, "OK, I will cooperate."

It poked its head slightly out from under the coffee table.

"You pretend again!"

The puppy immediately shrank back pitifully.

Seeing it like this, Liang Shu was so angry that he wanted to laugh: "Do you want to come out? I'll give you another chance. I'll ask you to answer, and I can't be perfunctory."

"go ahead."

"Did you experience any childhood shadows when you were a child?"

"for example?"

"For example... domestic violence," he raised his head and glanced at the coffee table, his voice became smaller and smaller, "...something like that."

"No," Yu Ling said blankly, "My parents have never hit me, and their relationship is pretty good, but they are separated by work. My life was very ordinary when I was a child, there was nothing tragic. experience."

"Really?" Liang Shu asked cautiously, "Is there something else? It doesn't matter if you tell me, everything is to solve the problem."

"No, I won't lie to you."

"……All right."

"Then at school, have you ever experienced... campus violence, or teachers treating you..."

"nothing."

The puppy tilted its head slightly, its ears moved, and a shaking shadow fell on the rough and old floor.

His life is no different from that of most ordinary people.

"Did you have it in junior high?"

"No."

"What about high school?" Yu Ling's university seems to be quite good. At that time, the pressure of study must have been great, Liang Shu guessed wildly.

Suddenly I heard Yu Ling say: "In high school, there is a girl... because I committed suicide, does it count?"