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Chapter 129 A silver lining
Chapter 129 A silver lining
Probably because he slept too late, An Wu Jiu rarely slept very deeply, it was as if he had fallen into a large warm vortex, and the deeper he fell, he barely woke up until near noon.
The first time he opened his eyes, he saw Shen Ti's face close at hand, and his heart was filled with a huge sense of security, so he subconsciously leaned into his arms and hugged his waist.
"You seem to have slept well." Shen Ti stroked his hair, his voice soft.
An Wu Jiu heard this, but his first reaction was: "Did you wake up so early?"
Shen Ti hummed, "I didn't sleep too much, I feel a little excited."
An Wujiu thinks this is not normal, "Before you have always been very sleepy."
Indeed, Shen Ti thought about it. Before, he had to sleep for a long time, but recently he found that he started to sleep less and his mental state was also very excited.
"Maybe it's because people feel good at happy events." Shen Ti also hugged An Wu Jiu, like a child hugging his beloved and only puppet.
"You have learned a lot." After An Wujiu complained, he checked his information panel with some trepidation, and saw the information of Wu You and Yang Erci, but both of them said that they have not found it yet. A girl who looks like his sister.
"It doesn't matter, we still have a few that we haven't finished looking for." Shen Ti comforted, "We'll look for it now."
He said to An Wujiu, "I have a hunch that my sister is still alive."
An Wu Jiu has already put on his clothes and tied his hair, "Did you see it with your divine eyes?"
Shen Ti smiled, "It's strange, I rely on my heart." After speaking, he held his chest with his hands.
You have no heart at all, An Wujiu said.
But he was still willing to believe Shen Ti's hunch.
"I will miss this place." Shen Ti said before closing the door.
An Wu Jiu was amused by his serious look, he joked, "I like this place so much, then come back tomorrow?"
Shen Ti raised his eyebrows, "Okay, come back tomorrow. You are not allowed to go anywhere, just here."
Time is running out, they leave the hotel, and once again embark on the journey to find their sister. There are not many people left in the list, An Wu Jiu and Shen Ti started one by one according to the distance from near to far.
Like yesterday, they knocked on a door with hope, only to be disappointed.
In fact, it was the first time for An Wujiu to meet so many different girls, it seemed like a chance God gave him to see these strong girls.
Most of them live in the quagmire, but work hard, work hard.
Every girl on this list once had a reported missing person, like the penultimate girl they met today, she was optimistic, but she was an adult when she was found, and for a long time she was a minor. Displaced and suffering, when she was retrieved by her parents, sitting and eating with them felt like strangers, even though she and her mother were in tears.
An Wu Jiu listened, his heart seemed to be tugged by a thin and tough thread, unable to say a word.
He wondered if his sister would do the same.
But at that time, I had no choice, I didn't want to do anything to let her escape, and I would end up like him, maybe even more terrifying, and become a "failed" experiment.
The girl could read anxiety from An Wujiu's face, so after some struggle, she said to An Wujiu: "You can tell me about your sister, I know a lot of people, maybe I can help you a little bit. ."
Perhaps because of this empathy, An Wujiu told her, even though he guessed that the hope was very slim.
"I'll help you ask." The girl said to him, "Please don't give up, she must hope to be found by her brother."
An Wu Jiu nodded and left the girl's house.
Shen Ti grabbed his shoulders, gave him support silently, and joked, "I don't seem to have really seen your sister."
“Really?” An Wu Jiu smiled. When he summoned Shen Ti, it was late at night, and his sister was already asleep.
Seems like only once.
"No," Shen Ti also remembered, "I seem to have heard her voice, and I also saw a little bit of her through the door. The voice was sweet and cute, and she was holding a cotton and cloth rabbit in her hand. ."
An Wujiu was surprised that he could recall it so completely.
At that time, he summoned the "god" according to the incantation, and the whole person fell into an irresistible infatuation, as if his soul had been seized, but the cry of his sister outside the door suddenly woke him up.
In other words, it was Shen Ti who woke him up.
"She is very scared." An Wu Jiu's voice was very low, "She was still young at that time, she didn't understand why her father disappeared, she missed her very much, that day she was too scared to sleep, so she came to my room to find me and come with me asleep."
That night, my sister shed a lot of tears. She was so young, but she seemed to understand everything.
After An Wujiu told her that her father had gone far away, she would ask An Wujiu if her father would never come back.
He can only tell her that he will come back, and one day, we will meet him.
It was only later that even he was unable to meet his sister. An Wujiu can't imagine how she could survive in this sinister world alone, she is so small, so innocent and innocent.
An Wujiu can't think about it any longer, otherwise his last hope will also be destroyed.
There is only one last person on the list.
Shen Ti remembered that night, the little boy who was also afraid played the role of a reliable elder brother and comforted his younger sister.
He suddenly thought of the false memory that An Wujiu described to him before, in that memory, his sister ran away from home.
"Do you think... who would have written new memories for you?"
When he was about to arrive at the new address, An Wu Jiu hesitated for a moment in the elevator when he heard the question.
"I have thought about many possibilities, even you." An Wujiu said to him, "I was thinking for a while, maybe it was you who did it, but you also forgot."
Shen Ti understood what he meant, "You are the person who thinks that he can write a good memory for you, thinking of being good for you, right?"
“Yeah, but I thought about it later, it shouldn’t be you,” An Wujiu said, “The first time I met you was in the copy of Red and Black, you didn’t have the opportunity to do it.”
Shen Ti did not remember that he manipulated An Wujiu's memory, he was just curious about this manipulator.
"Maybe it's just a controlled experiment."
Before the elevator door, An Wu Jiu straightened his clothes against the mirrored inner wall, he did this every time, wanting to see her in a better image and condition.
Only this time, like every previous one, ended in failure.
"I hope you can find your sister." The girl this time, like every previous one, gave An Wu Jiu blessing without hesitation.
"Thank you."
But An Wu Jiu was completely disheartened.
He knew that it was a fantasy that he wanted to find his sister through such an unexpected list in the vast crowd, and he had never had such luck.
After coming out of the last person's house, An Wujiu called the other two squads, he tried his best to sound normal, and reported to them all the situation of this part of the list.
Like what he got, the miracle didn't happen, and neither did every one they looked for.
An Wu Jiu hung up the phone and stood quietly on the side of the road. On this day, there was a surprisingly big sun, drying up all the rain that had ever been there.
He saw that when he was a child, he secretly hid candy for his sister to eat. She had a toothache and cried in his arms. They picked small tomatoes together in his father's glass greenhouse and watered the flowers that had never bloomed.
I don't know if she has ever seen a real peony flower later. If not, can she see herself?
In the hustle and bustle of the crowd, there are people who are busy with money and life, people who are enjoying themselves, people who are fanatical heretics who destroy everything with impunity, and people who are indifferent passers-by.
Only An Wugui is free from everything.
Now think about it, why didn't he grow up in a glass room, but it was not a greenhouse, it was an abyss, a hell.
Shen Ti hugged An Wujiu under the sun and gave him the last comfort silently.
An Wujiu thought that maybe he made a big mistake in his last life, so God pressed a button and confiscated all the happiness he had ever had.
The only thing he has now is that which cannot be controlled by God.
An Wu Jiu quietly looked at the people who came and went.
"I really want to see how she grows up."
"Maybe it's just that this list is incomplete, maybe she's not in country A anymore." Shen Ti's hand gently stroked An Wujiao's spine, "My intuition will not be a problem, you trust me."
The younger sister who could not be found is like the return date not given by the altar, they are all guillotine swords hanging brightly above their heads, An Wu Jiu does not know when it will fall.
It was almost dusk when they returned to Yang Erci's apartment. Everyone was there, each of them was very positive and happy, they were cooking when An Wujiu came in, the kitchen was very lively, even the kitchen killer Zhong Yirou was allowed by Wu You to stay there to squeeze juice.
"No blame! Come back? We have a lot of delicious food today!" Zhong Yirou was very enthusiastic, too enthusiastic.
An Wu Jiu smiled at her, "What's there to eat? Do you need my help?"
Instead, Zhong Yirou was stunned.
He was acting too normal, which made it uncomfortable.
"Ah...they..." Zhong Yirou looked back at Yang Erci, and then at An Wujiu, "Why don't you squeeze juice with me."
An Wujiu nodded.
"Then I'll go see Noah." Shen Ti said to him, walked to the master bedroom by himself, and before he went in, he suddenly felt strange.
I can't tell what's wrong, but this feeling lasted only a second or two, and soon dissipated.
Shen Ti opened the door and saw the child on the bed covered with a quilt.
He called Noah and walked towards the bed, "Are you okay?"
Noah did not answer him.
Shen Ti walked over and lifted half of the quilt.
Under the quilt was not Noah, but a pillow.
He frowned and turned his head to see Noah standing behind the door.
The moment they looked at each other, Noah laughed.
"I lied to you!"
Shen Ti is not An Wu Jiu, his empathy towards human beings is diminishing with An Wu Jiu as the center, An Wu Jiu is the most important in his heart, no one can compete with it, and the second is An Wu Jiu's attention people.
For the little girl in front of him, from the first time he saw her, Shen Ti had a natural and subtle rejection, but he was afraid that An Wujiu would find him strange and hate him, so he didn't show anything.
Noah put his hands behind his back and tilted his head to look at Shen Ti, "You don't seem too happy because you were tricked by me? But you also like to lie."
"Yeah." Shen Ti walked towards her step by step, put his hand on the handle behind the door, bowed his head, those green eyes filled with a rare sense of deterrence and oppression, "You can lie to me, but not You can lie to him."
After speaking, Shen Ti smiled softly again, like a real big brother, "After all, he treats you so well, right?"
Noah nodded, "Of course, brother Wu blame is the best."
Shen Ti's suspicion was not just due to pure intuition, many details made him feel strange.
No matter how smart Noah is, the altar is not entirely a brain game. With so many game copies that require high-intensity physical strength, it is a miracle that she can survive.
What's more, many times, Noah seemed to disappear from their sight.
This is the conclusion Shen Ti came to in the last round of the game. As an inconspicuous civilian, he can only judge his identity through his words and deeds, so as to pave the way for his future layout. So at that time he deliberately observed them, and the strangest of them was Noah.
Many times she was not with them, and she could not find her whereabouts, but not once did Shen Ti break her deal with other people, except for the occasional walk with Zhou Yijue.
Zhou Yijue was clearly still her enemy in the casino.
None of these doubts allowed Shen Ti to characterize Noah as a good person, at most a neutral person.
After dinner, the sun had completely set, they drank some wine, and Zhong Yirou talked about many things that happened in the past.
"I was actually very happy when I was young. At that time, the family was not short of money at all." Zhong Yirou's cheeks were a little red, and her long hair was casually tucked behind her head with a chopstick, and she felt a little drunk. .
"What does your father do?" Wu You asked casually.
"He..." Zhong Yirou thought for a while, "It's similar to me, and he also does these things. When I was a child, I watched him sit in front of the table doing prosthetics, all kinds of things."
She was incoherent. "He said it was a very hard and difficult job. To earn a little more money, I won't have to do this in the future."
"But I still did it later." Zhong Yirou smiled.
Yang Erci frowned, as if thinking of something, "Where's your father?"
Zhong Yirou's head was dizzy, and she took another sip, almost unable to hold the cup in her hands, "He was burned to death."
After speaking, she lifted up her long skirt, revealing the skin that had been replaced and re-grafted, and pointed it out to everyone, "Here, do you see it? The fire was so big, I was the only one in my family who escaped, and it was my mother who protected me. I, let me escape, I don't know why it caught fire."
The room suddenly fell silent, and a few alarms suddenly sounded outside, which seemed particularly harsh.
But sirens are the norm here, and no one cares. Instead, Zhong Yirou pointed out the window, "Listen, the police don't know."
"Then you're alone?" Nan Shan asked softly.
"Well," Zhong Yirou said, "I was in my teens at the time, which was better than Wu Jiu, but making money is really hard and difficult. They forced me to do things I didn't want to do, so I kept running away. Trying to teach myself...but I don't have a license and can only be a black doctor."
Zhong Yirou raised her head and took a breath, "But I have also worked very hard to treat everyone. My patients like me very much."
"Of course." Shen Ti smiled and clinked glasses with her, "Who wouldn't like you."
Zhong Yirou laughed and touched Yang Erci's with her own cup. The whole person did not stabilize, she leaned into her arms, and said "ouch".
Yang Erci supported her, her face was ugly, she looked at An Wu Jiu across a table of dishes.
With just this look, An Wujiu understood.
I'm afraid her parents are the same as theirs. The fire was not an accident, but a plan.
How many families are still broken because of the so-called evil god who is about to return, An Wujiu doesn't know.
It is already fortunate that they can gather here, and it is the luck that many, many heartbreaks are piled up.
There seems to be a huge, terrifying magnetic field that gathers them all who have lost everything together to taste their brokenness.
The meal ended with Zhong Yirou completely drunk.
Yang Erci helped her go back to sleep, Wu You, Nan Shan and Noah cleaned up the dishes, An Wu Jiu and Shen Ti cleaned up the kitchen.
Just after putting all the garbage together, An Wu Jiu suddenly received a phone call.
"Hello, do you remember me? You came to see me today."
An Wu Jiu suddenly thought of the girl who promised to help him, his back froze, "Remember, do you have any news?"
"Yes," the girl paused and seemed to be hesitating, but with the encouragement of the people around her, she still said, "Actually... I was sold to a place where there are many women like me. Son, I stayed there for about half a year and knew a sister who had a lot of connections."
"I asked her about it today, and she happened to tell me that there was indeed a girl at that time. She traveled to many cities and was finally sent to them. The reason why the sister remembered it was because the girl used to be crazy. Tell them repeatedly that she is looking for her brother."
"She said it soberly most of the time, that sister was very sure that the girl had not been brainwashed at that time," she emphasized first and continued, "but because she said that her brother was in Chauvin, everyone took it seriously. She thinks she's a lunatic. You know, it's impossible for people like us to have relatives who work in such a big company, which is unthinkable."
Shen Ti didn't hear his call, but he felt a sharp heartache, as if through a silk thread, reaching his chest.
He stretched out his hand and held An Wu Jiu's cold hand.
"Are you still there?" the girl asked softly, and after getting a positive answer, she continued, "I sent you the address that sister gave me, this is the last time she can find out, she may not still be there. "
An Wujiu said with difficulty, "Thank you."
"You're welcome, I'm not sure she must be, I'm afraid it will make you happy, but I still want to tell you." The girl paused, "...Your sister is also looking for you very hard, I really hope you can meet tomorrow. ."
"Me too." An Wu Jiu thought, he wanted to see her tonight.
After hanging up, he received a message with an address sent.
An Wu Jiu zoomed in on the virtual map, zoomed in again, and then froze in place.
"this place……"
Shen Ti frowned, "Isn't that the nightclub in Gabriel?"