Chapter 161 Happy Homecoming [End of text]

Shen An feels very strange recently, but very subtle strange.

For example, words like "haunted" and "monster" suddenly popped up in his two decades of smooth, materialistic life.

"Really, I'm not lying to you. They told me that the library was haunted, and someone saw it with their own eyes." Sitting next to Steven, his classmate and friend raised four fingers, "I swear to God ."

Almost subconsciously, Shen An broke off a finger for him, "I swear it's three fingers."

After blurting out these words, he suddenly felt that something was not right.

It was as if he had said this to someone before, and even this scene seemed familiar.

"Oh Sangen, you're right." Steven continued to describe to him the monster tentacles that appeared in the building late at night, "...like a snake, Cthulhu, you know."

"I don't know." Shen An told him fairly honestly, "I mean, I don't know much about those." The new station arrived, he checked the station immediately, and happened to see a beautiful girl with strange makeup She squeezed up with a bag on her back. She was wearing a baby blue cheongsam with mint eyeshadow and double ponytails. She had white hair on one side and black on the other, which was very eye-catching.

"You don't even know this, God, you're so out of date." Steven continued to talk, as if he was hosting some kind of late night horror radio, "... Tom saw that those tentacles opened the window and slid from the bookshelf. The gap is drilled out, as if looking for something..."

He found that Shen An's eyes were locked on the girl not far away, so he teased him, "No wonder you can't listen to the story I'm telling, it turned out to be looking at beautiful women!"

Shen An raised his finger to his lips and motioned for him to whisper, "No, I'm listening to you."

Steven knew him well, and naturally knew that he wasn't really looking at beauties, "Just kidding, but then again, Ann, you really don't have anyone you like, you shouldn't, you are so popular."

Shen An shook his head, "No."

But when he said this sentence, there was a strange feeling in his heart, as if he knew that he was lying.

It seems that he already has someone he likes in his heart, and he has liked it for a long, long time.

But he didn't know who the other party was at all, and he couldn't even draw a general outline.

"What are you doing?" Steven waved his hand in front of him.

"It's almost time for Steven." Shen An heard the announcement, regained his senses, patted his knee, grabbed the bag and got up immediately, "It seems that the experiment report is going to be handed in today."

"Oh yes, yes, I almost forgot if you didn't say it. Lend me yours later." Steven quickly forgot his urban weirdness and rushed back to school with Shen An.

When getting out of the car, Shen An was shoved and collided with the girl standing in front of the car door. Fortunately, she also got out of the car, and a group of young people squeezed out of the car like a burst can.

Approaching the classroom downstairs, Steven suddenly found a rose-red pendant hanging on Shen An's bag, so he patted his shoulder, "What is this?"

Shen An was also surprised, frowned, and suddenly thought of the girl just now, "It seems to be someone else's, I took it down."

Steven took off the pendant and found it was a smart mini-speaker covered with a plush cover. He tried to wake up with his voice, and the speaker also greeted him and announced his name and class, "If you find my speaker , yes, it is lost again, please contact me, I will give you a surprise! Thank you very much!"

"It's still a senior, as expected of a senior, so foresight." Steven put it back into Shen An's hands.

"Let's go to class first."

Two lengthy professional courses finally ended, Shen An was about to leave, but was stopped by a classmate and asked him to help fill out a questionnaire.

"You are the best, as long as you are willing to help me, I will trouble you!"

Shen An has always been a very talkative person and is willing to help others, so he was very happy to help him fill out the questionnaire and put forward some very constructive opinions, and then he took the good things and went to the speakers according to his major and class. 's owner.

"Prosthetic body manufacturing and maintenance..." Shen An found this major in the medical department, thinking that the girl didn't look like a prosthetic body at all.

After a while, he found the corresponding department, and after a little inquiries, he knew that they were going to take elective courses soon.

Shen An took the elevator to the air classroom of the elective course. In the elevator, two junior girls also asked for their contact information, saying that they wanted to invite him to be a model.

There is only one air classroom, a large spherical public classroom. Shen An stood at the door and looked inside, trying to see if he could find it directly. After all, the other party was eye-catching. Notice.

"Handsome guy, who are you looking for?" a girl sitting in the first row against the wall asked him with a smile.

"Ah," Shen Anxin thought it was just right, so she took out the speaker from her schoolbag and asked him, "Excuse me, senior, do you know a senior named Zhong Yirou? Her..."

Before he could finish speaking, the girl waved her hand all of a sudden, and her eyes circled behind Shen An, "Hey Yirou, there is a beautiful brother looking for him!"

Shen An just turned around, and by coincidence, she met Zhong Yirou, who had just entered the classroom. The other party was a little stunned. She pointed at her face with an exaggerated manicure, "Me?"

"Yeah." The girl in the seat coaxed, "Look at your peach blossom luck!"

Zhong Yirou glanced at the speaker in Shen An's hand, touched the pink bag on her shoulder, and immediately responded, "Ah, mine, thank you."

Seeing that he was about to bow, Shen An immediately waved his hand and said no, and handed the speaker to her, "That senior... I'll go first."

"Thank you so much!" Zhong Yirou saw him off at the door, "You are an angel!"

Shen An was a little embarrassed, turned back and smiled at her, hearing that her classmates were still teasing, and Zhong Yirou replied with a slightly resentful tone, "I like girls, don't gossip."

For some reason, on the way back from the medical school, Shen An always had a lingering sense of familiarity, as if he had seen Zhong Yirou before.

But he recalled the people he had met in the past, and no matter how he searched, he couldn't find anything so unconventional.

On the way, he met Morris, a classmate from the same department, who greeted him warmly and shared a cupcake made by his mother.

"Thank you." Shen An liked sweets very much and ate half of them quickly.

"By the way, Ann, did you know?" Morris licked the cream on his finger, "I heard that Professor Lin has made a special trip to find a group of ghost exorcism experts, and now you have gone to the library, you don't often go to the library, today Do you want to go and see the fun?"

Shen An almost choked, "Exorcism? Is there an expert here?"

"Ah, I also heard that it seems to be an expert in mysticism from the East, like..." She suddenly thought of it and snapped her fingers, "Yes, an expert in Taoism, you know Taoism."

"I know." Shen An ate the other half of the cake and said vaguely, "But is there really a ghost? I don't really believe it..."

"Ah! Someone took it, and I've swiped it on social networks." Morris eagerly found the photo and showed it to Shen An, and zoomed in with two fingers, "Look, do you see it? This tentacle."

The so-called photo evidence is a dark corridor with a slender tail that appears to be a tentacle in the corner.

"Is this really not a gecko?" Shen An checked carefully.

"How can there be such a big gecko! Don't believe it, they also heard the aunt who cleaned the library say that there is a ghost wearing a mask, wandering in the library..."

While telling the horror story, Morris swiped twice, and suddenly saw a photo posted by another classmate, patted Shen An's arm and exclaimed, "Hey, the expert here is a handsome Chinese guy."

She showed the photo to Shen An, and Shen An looked at it casually. The man in the photo was tall and thin, wearing a gray-blue Taoist robe, with a ball-shaped head.

No, Shen An tilted his head.

Why is he a little familiar with it?

It's not unusual for such a feeling to appear occasionally, but Shen An appeared many times in a day.

Although he is a staunch materialist, after the people around him repeatedly talked about the "rumours of a haunted library", he couldn't help but have doubts in his heart. There was no class in the afternoon, so he simply went to the library for self-study, by the way. Write the essay arranged by the professor on the last day.

Shen An came to the elevator in the library. Fortunately, the elevator door just opened, and a few people came out, a little old man wearing a Taoist robe with a gray beard, followed by a thin and handsome young man.

That's not the man in Morris's picture.

The other party seemed to notice him too, turned his face and glanced at Shen An with a smile in his eyes.

Shen An didn't understand the other person's eyes, so he walked into the elevator and looked at the other side's back.

Suddenly, a very strange picture flashed in front of his eyes, this young man fell in a pool of blood. This scene flashed by, but it was so real that even Shen An's heart panicked.

He subconsciously raised the back of his hand to check, but he didn't know what he was checking.

These things are so weird.

Shen An looked at himself reflected on the metal inner wall of the elevator, and tilted his head in confusion. Suddenly, his hair became much longer, his collarbone to the side neck was covered with white flower patterns, and his body was covered in blood.

Just when Shen An was surprised, the elevator door opened.

All those eerie images that were fleeting were gone, the library was extremely bright, and the students came and went, very quiet.

He thought about it, maybe it was because he stayed up late to report and didn't get enough rest, so he had hallucinations. He comforted himself and found a seat by the window to sit down. He studied for one afternoon.

The school clock tower rang the evening bell, and Shen Ancai, who was immersed in his homework, suddenly remembered that he was going home for dinner today.

He glanced at the time, it was already six o'clock, and if it was later, he would be narrated.

On the way out of the library, he met a few classmates, a group of people laughing and joking, joking with each other without any hesitation. During this period, the living treasure among them walked backwards, planted directly into the flower bed, and everyone helped him together. Getting up and laughing non-stop, only Shen An took out a Band-Aid from his bag and wrapped him up with the bump.

"An An has everything!"

"Then you can't walk backwards." Shen An said with a smile.

A few of them were on the same public aircraft. Shen An was lucky to have a seat. The little girl next to him was watching the bloody animation. He glanced at it. It was very common for a group of selected people to save the doomsday world. story.

Outside the window, the wings brought out lines of plump snow-white clouds. The setting sun filled the entire sky. The edges of the clouds were dyed by orange light, and a few stars appeared at the very edge of the sky, and the shimmering light flickered.

Staring quietly, suddenly realized the beauty of this plain life.

Several classmates went down one after another. Shen An waved to them, and when he turned his eyes from the window back into the carriage, he found a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old standing in front of him, with short hair, wearing a high school uniform, holding hands Holding the pull ring, the whole person leaned against the column, his head swayed, and he was so sleepy that he fell asleep directly standing.

Are you so sleepy?

Shen An pulled his wrist, trying to wake him up and change positions with him.

The boy was dazed and woke up, holding the column in confusion, staring straight at Shen An.

"Come over and sit and sleep, I'll change with you." Shen An beckoned to him.

The boy understood, and immediately shook his head, holding back a yawn.

"It's okay." Shen An pulled him, and stood up first, "I'm almost there."

"...Thank you." The boy was a little embarrassed. When he changed seats, he didn't realize that the schoolbag was unraveled. As soon as he turned around, the book inside fell out and was picked up by Shen An.

Inadvertently, he caught a glimpse of the boy's name in the textbook - Wu You.

"Thank you." Wu You took the book with some embarrassment, put it back in the schoolbag, held it in both hands, looked up at Shen An, and read it for a long time.

Shen An also found out, and asked him with a smile, "What's wrong?"

Wu You shook his head and didn't speak, looking a little embarrassed.

"How tall are you?" Shen An asked him.

Wu You stretched out his finger and compared him.

"The first year of high school..." Shen An thought to himself, it turned out that he was only sixteen years old.

That's right, only sixteen-year-olds fall asleep in the car and don't pull their schoolbags.

"Be careful in the future, if the book falls, you won't be able to find it." Shen An instructed him.

A sixteen-year-old child doesn't need to worry about too many major things. Even if the world is destroyed, it will not be a child to save it.

Of course, Shen An thought, it wouldn't be an ordinary college student like him.

Savior or something, there must be more different people to do it.

When the station arrived, Shen An walked out from the station entrance and saw a familiar figure, it was his mother.

"Mom, didn't you say you don't need to pick me up?" Shen An said so, but subconsciously walked next to her mother.

"I just came out of the cafe with my colleague, so it's also by the way." Mom handed him the muffin cake in her hand, and then took him and touched his shoulder, "Are you tired at school today? I made soup, your father I'm going to cook and make pasta today, and I can eat it when I go back."

"Don't be tired, I made so much delicious food today."

"Your sister is on vacation from high school. She's coming back today. Dad has gone to pick her up."

Along the way, Shen An told her mother all the strange things that felt wrong today, but she made her laugh.

"You are quite calm outside." An Congnan touched his head, "Why are you still like a child in front of us."

Shen An also smiled, "What should I do, I was your child too."

Dressed in the gradually sinking sunset glow, the two returned home talking and laughing. As soon as the door was opened and a shoe was changed, my sister rushed over and hugged Shen An, "Brother!"

An Congnan deliberately complained from behind, "I only have my brother in my eyes, and I don't have a mother."

"Oh, mother is talking nonsense again." Shen Nan smiled and hugged her obediently, "I only have mother in my eyes."

Shen An changed her shoes and walked to the kitchen, "Dad, let me help you."

"No, no, it's all set, you wash your hands and eat."

"Brother!" Shen Nan called him in the living room, "Go and hold a parent-teacher conference for me next week!"

"Me?" Shen An wiped the water off his hands with kitchen paper and took away the vegetable salad on the countertop.

Father Shen poured out the spaghetti, so serious that he was even a little sad, "Why didn't you ask me to go to the parent-teacher meeting? Is it bad for Dad to go?"

An Congnan turned on the projection and said with a smile, "I must have failed the test."

Shen Nan said coquettishly, "Why, I'm fifth in my class. Isn't my father very busy? Besides, I told them that my brother was super handsome, but they didn't believe me. I had to do it this time. Bring it to show off."

Shen An smiled helplessly, her sister had no other choice, "What if others think it's not worthy of the name?"

"Who said that?" Shen Nan was serious, "It can only be beyond imagination to see you, okay?"

Father Shen's point was, "Isn't Dad handsome?"

Mom had no choice, "handsome, are you all handsome, let's eat!"

As soon as the projector was turned on, a TV interview was automatically played. The interviewee was a young man. Shen Nan pointed to the projector and said, "This brother is also quite handsome, with a very special eye shape, right Mom?"

"Well, like fox eyes."

Shen An looked over, and there was his basic information written next to him. He was a tester in the product maintenance department of Chauvin, and his name was Zhou Yijue.

"It's from Dad's company."

Father Shen took a closer look, "It seems to be, but Chauvin is too big, and I don't know everyone. The young man looks very refreshing."

Not long after, the interviewee changed to another, a young woman in a white lab coat with silver eyes, beautiful, but very smart.

His name is Yang Erci.

He frowned, and the familiarity came over him again.

"Wow this elder sister, the mixed-race elite royal elder sister." Shen Nan said, "I like it, elder sister I can."

Shen An was a little helpless, "You really only look at faces when you look at people."

An Congnan also complained, "Yeah, a superficial little girl."

"Isn't mom superficial? She's not with my handsome dad, really." Shen Nan leaned on Father Shen's shoulder and acted like a spoiled child, but Father Shen stared at the young girl in the projection.

"I know this, isn't this the daughter of the old Yang family?" Father Shen said, "I've been working on a biological firewall recently to prevent prosthetic infection. She's a very powerful little girl, and she even won an award."

"Ah? Yang Ce's daughter." An Congnan nodded, "That's really amazing. She gave birth to such an amazing daughter."

"Am I not good?" Shen Nan raised a face.

Shen An smiled, "Awesome, you must be the best judge of beauty contests."

As soon as these words came out, the parents also laughed, and the united front mocked the little daughter at home.

An Congnan also complained about her daughter's clothes, "You are wearing too little, look at my brother, he has never had a cold since he was a child in Dalian, and he has never worried us. What about you, you are sick every three days."

"Then he's twenty years old, so he has to compare with me."

"It hasn't gone wrong in twenty years, you think it's easy."

That is a momentary thing.

One second, Shen An was still immersed in his happy and beautiful family atmosphere, but the next moment, he suddenly heard a voice from the bottom of his heart.

[No blame. ]

He turned his head to the side, looking for the direction of the sound.

"What's wrong?" Shen Nan sensed that something was wrong with his brother.

Shen An shook his head.

No blame.

Why did he turn back subconsciously when he heard this name?

whose voice is it? Why so familiar?

Just when he was wondering, the voice appeared again, very gentle, reciting a name that did not belong to him.

[No blame. ]

Just like that, the voice repeated many times, like some kind of mysterious spell, echoing in his mind.

The chopsticks fell to the ground.

As soon as Shen Nan looked up, she found that a crystal tear fell on Shen An's face. She was a little unbelievable. She had never seen her brother shed a tear when she was so big.

"elder brother?"

did not answer her.

Shen An grabbed the jacket on the back of the chair and said quickly in a low voice, "I'll be back soon." So he left.

From the time he was born to this moment, in the more than 7,400 days and 160,000 hours, every happy or sad moment, he has a feeling of incompleteness. It was like a huge jigsaw puzzle, and he kept putting it together one piece at a time, and there was always one piece missing.

Until now, when he was about to get used to this sense of lack, the piece of the puzzle that he lost seemed to be looking for him.

[no blame]

The voice repeated, calling him, making Shen An's eyes even more sour, he didn't even know why he was crying, obviously he really believed in materialism, but now he was looking for an ethereal voice.

Soaked in the cool night wind, he ran through a whole dark street, with traces of rain on the floor tiles, and neon lights flickering instead of stars.

The voice was getting closer and closer, as if it came from the bottom of his heart.

Where is it?

Shen An panted and turned around, the crowd pushed and shoved, everyone wore filtering masks on their faces, the projections overlapped with real people, the virtual and real interlaced, the bizarre city was dizzying, he stood in the center of the city, as small as color A gravel in the ocean.

[No blame. ]

The sound is closer than ever!

Shen An turned around abruptly, and in the bustling crowd, he saw a tall man, dressed in black, with a mechanical Guanyin mask on his face.

For some reason, he could feel at a glance that this was the man.

The other party came, stood still in front of him, and tilted his head at him.

Shen An's heart seemed to be clenched by an invisible hand, and she was speechless for a while.

Before he could speak first, the other party opened his arms directly.

"give me a hug."

This kind of familiarity directly broke through the shackles of memory, and many pictures appeared in front of him, the game of life and death, the opponent on the duel stage, and the long knife in his hand.

But the other party hugged him, his arms warm and true.

With his real voice, he whispered his name beside his ear.

"No blame, go home, are you happy?"

Through this embrace, their chests were pressed against each other, and the two mutilated hearts were stitched together, giving off overlapping echoes.

In his arms, he remembered everything that had happened.

Those cruel times fighting side by side, the challenges of life and death, the companions who died for him, the pain repeated again and again.

and also……

"Shen Ti, Shen Ti, Shen Ti..."

He kept repeating Shen Ti's name, again and again, as if to make up for everything that had been missing in the past twenty years.

"Well, I'm back, blameless."

Shen Ti took off the mask, held it in his hand, backed it away, and touched An Wujiu's forehead.

Through the memories he passed over, An Wu Jiu saw that he was at the end of the cycle, leaving in his arms, and he also saw that he had transferred half of his heart, using the ability of the Lord of Time, turning the gears, and turning all the Time back to the beginning, before everything happened.

The dead Lathasm no longer interferes in their timeline, there is no threat, Shen Ti returns to that lonely universe, guarding his birth and growth, from the first time he went to school to the first time he went out to volunteer. The person, from preparing for the exam late at night, to entering the university and leaving his parents, every moment, Shen Ti watched alone through the time barrier.

Sometimes he would laugh, laughing with their family, and sometimes he would get angry because An Wujiu was wronged, but he knew that he could not intervene, losing his temper might lead to disasters in another universe, so he could only hide and live. sullen.

In order to prevent himself from being unbearable, Shen Ti deliberately folded An Wu Jiao's timeline. While waiting, he found a plant that looked like a peony, planted it patiently, observed it every day, and waited for it to bloom.

But when its flower bloomed, it was far from the peony on An Wujiu's body, Shen Ti was very disappointed.

The more disappointed, the more miss him.

Missing him, Shen Ti could only open a little bit of the ongoing timeline and quietly observe.

He couldn't bear to destroy An Wu Jiu's beautiful family, he worked so hard for so long, didn't he just want to give him a chance to go home?

In this way, Shen Ti, who could not bear to leave An Wu Jiu, also learned to be patient, learned to let go of his childishness and selfishness, and became a mature and reliable patron saint.

"Thank you." An Wu Jiu hugged him, "I have lived very well in the past 20 years, I haven't even caught a cold."

"Of course." Shen Ti put his arms around him and pointed to the sky, "I'm watching you carefully."

He held up An Wujiu's face, examined it carefully, kissed his lips, and cherished his forehead, between his eyebrows, the tip of his nose, his cheeks, and the tip of his chin. Like marking territory.

"Twenty years is too hard, An Wujiu." Shen Ti let out a long sigh and lowered his eyes, "I'm going crazy."

An Wu Jiu laughed, "Why are you still like a child." He raised his hand, brushed the hair on Shen Ti's forehead, and accidentally looked at him.

In Shen Ti's green pupils, the sky is full of neon lights and stars, as well as his face.

"I love you." An Wu Jiu said softly.

Shen Ti stared at An Wujiu's lips, thinking of the peony flower that he planted carefully, the pink petals that quiver slightly.

He wanted to have a long and sweet kiss with An Wujiu, to brush his whole body and embrace each other to sleep, listening to him talk about all the interesting things that happened in the past 20 years, even if he had already seen them and knew them well.

"I love you too, I love you very much."

There is no doomsday, no disaster and turmoil, they are like the most ordinary lovers embracing on the street, surrounded by the coldness and romance of the city.

"Oh yes, there is another gift." Shen Ti remembered and raised his eyebrows at An Wujiu, "Before I came here, I have already gone to all other places."

An Wu Jiu didn't understand, "Everywhere? Where?"

Shen Ti shrugged, turned around, spread out one arm, and showed him.

An Wu Jiu narrowed his eyes slightly, among the crowd, he first saw Zhong Yirou who waved at him, then Wu You in school uniform, Nan Shan who was still carrying a peach sword, Yang Erci and Zhou Yijue in work clothes, and even Gabriel Er, Todo Sakura and Matsuura Mori.

A large group of people, Wu Yangyang came towards him.

An Wu Jiu laughed at first, then lowered his head, holding back the sourness in his eyes.

Zhong Yirou took him by the arm, and the words fell out of her head, like a good friend she hadn't seen for a long time, "Wu blame, you even gave me a speaker today, you said it was a coincidence, if Shen Ti hadn't found me, I don't even remember you. Ah, by the way, I heard that your mother's cooking is delicious! Can I go to your house for a meal?"

"I want to eat curry." Wu You suddenly suggested.

"I want to eat sushi! Any sushi is fine!" Todo Sakura raised her hand.

Gabriel said in disgust, "What's good about sushi, isn't it just rice and fish? Why don't you eat burritos..."

Nan Shan clasped her hands against each other and said with a smile, "Actually, I have very low requirements. Yangchun noodles are fine, just put a little more sesame oil."

Zhou Yijue snorted coldly and complained, "Did someone say to invite you to dinner?"

"Yeah," Matsuura Mori also nodded, "This is too much trouble for Auntie."

"No trouble, Auntie must like us!"

Everyone was boisterous and noisy, each saying his own way, and no one would let the other. Shen Ti was disgusted by the noise, so he took An Wu Jiu's shoulders, tilted his head and whispered to him, "Ignore them, let's go."

"Hey, wait for us!" Zhong Yirou was the first to find out.

"No." Shen Ti waved his back to them, "We're going to open a room."

"Who will open a room with you?" An Wu Jiu took his arm and abducted him.

Shen Ti frowned, and behind him came the banter imitated by the gang of bad friends.

"Who opened a room with you? Hahahahaha!"