If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 425 Corridor
In the long black corridor, huge pillars support the sky and the earth, one after another to the far end. The ice field outside the pillars seems to be the cracked and dry skin of a woman when she is getting old. Colored cracks cut out one canyon after another, and the occasional wind that blows brings ice particles down, and only after a long fall can they smash into the dark river flowing through the valley bottom.

In the corridor, Lin Nian stood beside the pillar, gently supporting the cold pillar with his left hand, looking at the boundless snow field, the cold wind blowing through his face brought a few strands of white flakes into his hair.

Three iron chains were tied to his left arm, right arm, and left leg in turn. The chains were as thick and heavy as a mountain, and the length extended to the invisible end of the corridor in the dark.

Lin Nian has been here before, the first time he came here he got 'Installation', and the second time he learned 'Floating Life', every time there will be a blond girl making trouble here, wearing that white dress Running around in the hospital gown as if not afraid of the cold, like a child who hasn't grown up.

——She has never grown up at all. According to her appearance, she is at most thirteen or fourteen years old. The immature water waves under the skin were locked one by one, and her freedom and life were also locked.

Lin Nian never regarded the blonde girl as fake or non-existent.

After all, she is so vivid, with her own personality, interests, and even a little naughty and surly, but it is precisely because of these ubiquitous details that she has created such a person, and Lin Nian has always regarded her as a person. Look, it's not something grotesque like ghosts and gods.

Although there are many mysteries about her, Lin Nian seems to have no answers now, and she has disappeared.

Walking in the empty corridor, every time Lin Nian raised his hand and took a step, he would drag the iron chain on his body to rattle. If it was the other side of the chain before, there would always be an unimaginable force that would crush him to the ground. Pulled back, like the white arm grasping Orpheus's wife's cheek, trying to drag him into the bottomless abyss behind him.

But today, Lin Nian felt very relaxed, surprisingly relaxed.There is no power to wrestle with him, and no fear arises from under the cerebral cortex. He walks in the corridor like a traveler looking at the Batron Temple. The whole world is just him and the porcelain eternity outside the temple. An immobile sky.

"Elena."

It's not the first time Lin Nian called the blonde girl's name. His voice traveled far in the corridor, but there was no echo, which meant that there was still a long way to go, and he could only drag the iron chain forward. After walking a certain distance, I yelled, hoping that someone would suddenly jump out and yell: What's the fuss?
But the corridor has always been so quiet, so quiet that from the sound of iron chains rubbing against the ground, it can be heard that the stone surface was scratched and cracked, and the wind and snow melted into water on the boy's hair, and then turned into ice crystals when blown by the wind.

This corridor seems to have no end, and the person Lin Nian is looking for seems to have never appeared in this world. There is no trace in this world that can prove that the blonde girl existed, except The memory of Lin Nian and a few people, but memory is always fragile. If one day even they forget this girl, then what is there to prove that she really existed, not some people's whim? What about realistic fantasies?
Lin Nian stopped in his tracks, because he found a door on the wall on the right side in front, it was iron blue, with the number 008 painted in red paint, and a heavy big lock hung on it. This kind of door he used to be I have seen it before, the blond girl opened it for him to see, and there is not another space behind it, but a memory.

Will the blonde girl hide in it?

Lin Nian dragged the chain and walked over, stood in front of the door and reached out to touch the lock lightly. Unexpectedly, the door lock opened immediately. After he pushed the door slightly, a flood came from the crack of the door. He heard the human voice, and after pushing the door completely open, a wide hall and crowd appeared in front of him.

He recognized this place at a glance, and behind the door was the orphanage he had been in.

This is the hall of an orphanage. A group of half-grown children gathered together in a circle, blushing with excitement, waving their arms, jumping up and down and shouting cheers. There seemed to be a louder noise among the crowd, Lin Nian walked to the edge of the crowd and took advantage of his height to look inside, only to find that there were actually two children fighting inside.

One of the two children fighting was slightly older and the other was slightly younger. The older one was about 12 or 3 years old, while the younger one was only 7 or 8 years old. There was a huge difference in height and physique. The younger one was being crushed Then there was a fat beating, the older one was swearing and cursing while beating, and his emotions were so agitated that he couldn't get any more excited, every punch greeted the face of the child under him.

The first time Lin Nian saw the child being beaten, he remembered when this happened. When he was young in the orphanage, he was not as 'excellent' as he was later on. On the contrary, he was still an inferior group. Once, when the parents came to the orphanage to choose the right child to go home, he was the lowest among the three, six and nine ranks. He belonged to the kind of people who would not notice him and would not like him in the crowd. type.

There are also class differences among children in orphanages, and the division of classes is naturally determined by the external conditions of the children themselves. Beautiful, healthy, tall, slender, smart, and excellent children are only associated with outstanding children. Playing with children who are not good enough, they will look down on unremarkable children.

Although we are each other's abandoned orphans, who said that there are no lower batches of dregs among orphans? As long as there are dregs that are inferior to themselves, then they can always find some self-consolation in these people , Tell yourself that I am not the worst, and there are many people who are worse than me, so as to gain confidence and hope to face the next new day. Therefore, most of the children who come out of the orphanage are either extremely fierce, like wolf cubs, Either cowardice and cowardice are engraved in their bones, and they have a strong sense of self-protection.

Deformed and erroneous concepts, but they grow wantonly in an environment that is extremely easy to breed.

So why did I get beaten up this time?

Lin Nian looked at Xiao Linnian who had been punched and fattened, and recalled that he was not selected by a wealthy couple because of the beating. At noon, he happened to line up in front of him to get the last piece of butter bread. The other party was strong. He tried to order him to share half of the bread, but he ate it without a bite and was beaten.

It's hard to tell right from wrong when it comes to children.

Lin Nian looked at the weak version of himself who had received no less than five punches, and stretched out his hand to gently touch his lips. He was recalling how this matter was resolved in the end. What happened when he was seven or eight years old was too old, even if he I don't remember much either.After all, he doesn't remember everything clearly in his head. Some unnecessary junk files have washed up on the beach with the sea water to smooth out the traces. Naturally, he doesn't need to deliberately fight over a piece of bread. remember.

I can't recall it, but looking at himself being beaten, Lin Nian would probably feel a little frustrated and depressed. He looked at the little boy with a bruised nose and a swollen face, sighed softly and couldn't help but whisper, "Get up."

No one can hear him, because he is completely a spectator in this memory, and he can't change anything that has happened. Even if he insists on changing, the changed memory will only be an edited self A comforting little movie that serves no real purpose.

This contest with a disparity in victory and defeat soon came to an end. Even Lin Nian, who was watching, was about to turn around and leave, but at this moment, a golden shadow suddenly ran past him!

When Lin Nian caught a glimpse of the other party from the corner of his eye, he immediately reached out to grab her shoulder, but he missed it and passed through the shadow directly.He immediately stopped in his tracks and looked back, only to see that familiar blonde girl hastily squeezed through the crowd, rushing into the crowd with a "snap" and overturning the big boy on the young version of himself to the ground!
The big boy was pushed into a little dazed, fell heavily on the ground and fell to the ground. Before he could get up for a while, the blond girl beside him helped Xiao Linnian who was beaten on the ground without saying a word. Seeing the violence When the big boy stood up tremblingly, he used to kick the opponent's ass on the pier, causing him to stumble and fall to the ground again.

The onlookers suddenly burst into uproar and belly laughs, while Lin Nian watched blankly as he was helped up by the blonde girl, patted the dust off his body with concern, checked the injuries on his face, and gave the boy a hand when he passed by the boy on the ground. He patched his buttocks, and encouraged Xiao Linnian to do the same. Then the children onlookers laughed even harder, and the teachers of the orphanage shouted from a distance, and a group of talents turned into birds and dispersed. .

Lin Nian was forced to take a few steps back subconsciously by the scattered children, and stepped back to the threshold. After stepping back again, he walked out of this memory and returned to the huge empty corridor. The door in front of him also closed with a "boom".

He stood in front of the door for a long time, looked at the number on it and thought about it for a long time. Finally, the corner of his mouth twitched, and he turned and walked deeper into the corridor.

Not long after, there was another iron door in front of it, bronze-colored, with the number 011 written in red paint on the door, and a heavy big lock hung on it.

Lin Nian stretched out his hand and slammed it lightly, the big lock fell to the ground and the door quietly opened.

The orphanage was still behind the door, but the time jumped to when Lin Nian was 11 or 2 years old. He sat alone on the corner of the lawn and watched a group of people playing basketball in the distance. The combination of basketball in hand and a group of children who have nowhere to vent their energy is the most carefree time in this orphanage. However, qualifications are required to join this wonderful time.

The solitary and ignorant childhood made him have no friends in the orphanage. Games like basketball that require multiple people to negotiate together, although he has always yearned for it, it can only be yearned for.That year they saw on TV that Yao Ming entered the Houston Rockets to play in the NBA, so every boy's dream was to become a basketball star, hoping that one day he would be discovered by scouts and brought out of this orphanage to have a new life.

Lin Nian was no exception. After gradually entering puberty, his development began to accelerate, and he was no longer as weak as before. Many children dared not pick him when they bullied others. Facts have proved that every time they provoke Lin Nian, they will throw their iron rice bowl away They put stuff in their mouths, and if they can't get it in with their hands, they step on it. They have to knock out a few teeth of those bullies.

But becoming stronger and better does not mean being popular. On the contrary, what awaits Lin Nian is isolation. No one wants to play with him. The more withdrawn, the more alienated. A vicious circle. He was always alone during that time Sitting in a corner of the lawn in a daze, imagining some unrealistic things in his head.

For example, he actually has parents, and his parents had to abandon him because of the mission of saving the world. One day when the time is right, there will be a woman, or a couple, driving a beautiful car. The car was parked outside the orphanage, and everyone watched as they stepped in.The dean, who has always been somewhat snobby, greeted them personally, and pulled out each child like a treasure show. At this moment, he was just ignored, sitting alone in the corner of the lawn and watching them coldly. .

After looking at all the children, the couple just smiled and said that he is not the child we are looking for, and then saw the boy in the corner of the lawn by chance, quietly walked up to him, knelt down and rubbed his hair and said, child, you Do you think we look alike?

And at that time, Lin Nian would not be surprised, just looked at them blankly, until they were crying with joy and going to hug him, saying that you are the child we are looking for, we have been looking for so long and finally found you and then in the whole Under the watchful eyes of the orphanage, it was clarified that he was not unwanted, but had temporarily left him due to reasons, and now they finally came back to pick up their children.

Then everyone in the orphanage dropped their jaws in shock and looked at him speechless in disbelief. The dean stammered and said, when are you going to pick up your child?The man and woman said: We are not in a hurry, let the child adapt calmly, accept the reality and are willing to leave with us before we take him away, and then we will visit him every day until he accepts us!

In this way, there will be a good car parked at the entrance of the orphanage every day, and the wealthy couple will stand at the door and look at him, so those children who have been isolated from him will start to please him, asking: Lin Nian, Do you want to play basketball?At this time, he reluctantly nodded and joined the basketball of the group of children, showing off his excellent skills in watching NBA games and practicing alone, everyone will start to admire him, saying that his basketball skills are really good, which he has never had before. It's such a pity to play with you
With a snap, the basketball went into the basket.

The boy in the corner of the lawn suddenly raised his head and saw that on the dilapidated basketball court, several boys surrounded the man who scored the goal and cheered for him. He was still alone on the lawn, and there were no good cars in front of the orphanage. In front of the gate, there were no male and female couples cuddling up to support him.

Standing on the steps, Lin Nian quietly looked at the boy in the corner, closed his eyes and smiled slightly. Because he knew what happened next.

There was still a snap, but instead of the basketball entering the frame, the basketball hit the dazed boy's head.

Just as the boy was about to get angry, he turned his head and saw a blond girl wearing a basketball uniform and looking at him, "What are you doing just looking? Can you score a layup just by looking?"

Lin Nian on the stairs tilted his head and looked at the blonde girl who was slightly different from his memory in this scene. A faint helpless wry smile hung on the corner of his mouth, and the boy in the corner was naturally pulled by the blonde girl. He grabbed his arm and dragged him to the basketball court.

The group of boys on the basketball court showed hesitation when they saw the two of them and heard their request, but after the blonde girl put her hands on her hips and showed a displeased indifferent expression, the group of boys were afraid again. They actually all secretly liked it. This girl, so she could only follow her heart and play with the boy behind her.

When Lin Nian saw this, he turned around and left. The sound of goals, cheers, and laughter from girls and maybe boys came from the basketball court behind him, but it was too faint to hear clearly.

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He returned to the huge corridor, and continued to walk along the giant pillars and the deep road. He encountered those bronze and iron doors one after another, each door was hung with a big lock, with red The paint brushes are numbered.

He opened them one by one, and each one contained the memories of the past, one scene after another, like a glass ball on a display shelf, inside which was as beautiful as white smoke.

He made a mistake in the fight, the blonde girl rushed in front of him, stopped the dean and the teacher to explain, you can't punish him physically, he is still young, and the main fault is not his. If you want to punish, punish me, blame me for not controlling him !The dean said who are you?Why should you be punished?She said, I am his sister, I admit it!But also sister!He called me sister and I recognized him as my younger brother for the rest of my life. If my younger brother did something wrong, of course I should ask my older sister to take responsibility!
The dean said with a dark face, then you will be punished together, all of you are not allowed to eat dinner, go to the hall and stand for punishment, and then they will stand for the whole night, she told the story to the boy all night, talking and laughing Yes, it was so noisy that the dean poked his head out and scolded them, telling them to go back to sleep and stop having a story meeting there!

Everyone else forgot and didn't care about his birthday, but the blond girl didn't forget. She didn't show up that day, but at night she suddenly came back from the orphanage with a big smile in her hand. I don't know where I got a 12-inch birthday cake.All the children in the orphanage came over excitedly to share the cake. They didn’t really care whose birthday it was, they only cared about having cake to eat, so under her instruction, they sang a song Happy Birthday to Lin Nian, to Lin Nian first birthday.

Afterwards, the dean found out about it and thought she had stolen something, so he scolded her. After taking her out to investigate, he found out that she was a girl who secretly moved to the construction site for a day. The dean wanted to report it in anger. The foreman at the unscrupulous construction site, but she stopped her because if she did this, no one would be willing to hire her as a temporary worker, and she would not be able to sneak out to work and buy cakes for my brother's next birthday. I was so angry that I scolded you, would there be another time?The blond girl just stared at him and said nothing, and finally the matter was left alone
Too many, too many memories have been opened behind the door.

Lin Nian looked at the door after door, the corridor seemed to have no end, and he could always find a new door when he walked forward. The protagonists inside were always himself and the blonde girl, and the stories were all the trivial things in life. Some of the clips are slightly sad, but there is a sense of warmth under the ice, like a flower emerging from the cold and snow. Those bright colors are called warmth.

Finally, Lin Nian stopped in front of an iron door. This door was different from other red paint numbers, but a smiling face was painted on it. There may be something special inside, so it was marked like this .

Lin Nian stretched out his hand and opened the door, and when he looked inside, he suddenly froze.

Inside was a hut, and in the dining room of the hut, a boy sat there blankly, looking at the gate in the distance.

He recalled the memory of this scene, but walked in lightly.After re-experiencing the past in his memory, he retreated from the iron gate.

He stood alone in the empty corridor for a long time, as if he was thinking about something.

So instead of going forward, he walked back.

He voluntarily walked towards the dark depths where the chains on his body were connected. The monster, can't wait to pull him to the deepest part, skin cramps and drink every drop of blood.

But he was eager to verify something, so he no longer had any worries and went forward without hesitation.

Indeed, nothing happened today, no roaring, no terror, the wind and snow kept blowing outside the column, and the dark river flowed in the rift.

Lin Nian didn't know how long he walked, and finally came to the end, the end of the dark abyss.

He stood still, and the chains on his body stretched upwards. In front of him was a huge bronze pillar that was as tall as the pillar, but several times thicker. The traces of the pillars left mottled marks on the cylinder, which reminds people of the ancient and wild land. Perhaps at that time, there was such a giant pillar that reached the sky standing on the earth, supporting the sky and the earth.

The end of the chain on his body was connected to the top of the huge bronze pillar.

Lin Nian looked up and saw the slender and beautiful figure bound by chains on the giant pillar.

The three chains connected her and his arms, legs and feet, intertwining each other like an inextricable karma.

But today, she fell asleep on the copper pillar, and no longer had the strength to roar to the world. She lowered her head quietly, letting her bright blond hair fall down under the pull of gravity, and her eyes behind the hair were gently closed, like It's a sweet dream.

Some questions have finally been answered now.

In the long corridor behind him, every room is a locked treasure, but the dragon guarding the treasure fell asleep, so he had the opportunity to spy on the things inside.

Every memory is real but false, they did happen in this world.

But in the real world, it was always another person who appeared in front of Lin Nian. That person had black hair instead of blond hair, and his name was Lin Xian instead of Yelena.

The girl on the bronze giant pillar also knew this, so she quietly locked up those memories, not wanting others to see the beautiful dreams she had tampered with, at least in those dreams, Lin Nian was always by her side She cleared everything for that boy, and the one who cared for him was the one she could really embrace and give him love, and it was her. It was all her, not another person whose hair color was different from hers.

But in fact she couldn't do it, she could only watch these stories happen helplessly, like an unrelated bystander.

The only thing she can do is to replace the heroines in her memory with herself in her own world, and then lock them up, perhaps watching over and over again when no one is around, imagining what if all this can become real.

"If you're playing the bad guy, why would you want to be the one who loves me the most?" He looked at her and asked softly.

In the empty and dark corridor, no one answered him. The flowers on the ice field were swaying in the wind, and they lowered their waists to kiss the snow on the cheek.

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In the ward, Lin Nian opened his eyes and turned his head to look at Kassel College outside the window. The moon hung high on the spire of the castle like a round of white sun in the dark sky, and the bright light fell from the eaves on the window sill. Cool light reflected from above.

The black-haired girl on the chair beside him was quietly dozing off, with her arms folded, her head lowered and her eyes closed, taking a nap.

He looked up at the clock in the dark ward. It was already five o'clock in the morning, the sky outside the window was still dark, and the intensive care hospital was so quiet that he could hear the crisp sound of water dripping from the boiling water room deep in the corridor to the ground.

It may be that Lin Nian sat up too loudly, or it may be that the winter wind was blowing too harshly on the window, Lin Xian who was sitting on the chair suddenly woke up, his whole body trembled slightly, and then immediately slowed down his movements , cautiously tilted his head to look at the bed. Then he realized that the boy who was afraid of waking up was already sitting by the head of the bed and staring at her sideways.

"Are you awake?" Lin Xian heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the boy, and reached out to rub his hair.

"Well, I had a dream."

"Nightmare? Doesn't the mixed race have nightmares and kill monsters and goblins?" Lin Xian smiled and said in a low voice.

"It's not a nightmare, it's just a dream about something from the past."

"What happened in the past? Are you talking about what happened in China?"

"Earlier, when I was in the orphanage."

"At that time." Lin Xian leaned lightly on the chair, stretched out his hand to caress the soft quilt of the bed, "It was not easy to get over it."

"Remember when I was beaten?"

"Pfft. I thought you wouldn't mention those things in the future. Who would have known that the 'S' class handsome guy who was so famous in school would be pushed to the ground by those bastards in the orphanage?" Lin Xian Ninja shook his head involuntarily, staring at the circle pattern on the ceiling of the dark ward.

"At that time, you were often scolded by the dean for helping me out." Lin Nian said, "You have always helped me like that before."

"You are my younger brother, who will I help if I don't help you? Wait for others to help you?" Lin Xian looked at him tiltedly, "If I don't help you, no one will help you. You will be Bullied to death."

"But why?" Lin Nian said, "Why did you favor me so much at that time?"

"Favouritism?" Lin Xian sat on the chair, knocked his legs and hugged his knees, looking up, recalling the past, "In my impression, you have always been much more sensible than those children, although you are bored point, but you have always been in a good mood, and I liked you so much at that time. It turns out that I was right. You were very sensible before, and you have always been sensible since then. When others say bad things about me, you still beat them up for me. Before Didn’t there be a bastard in the orphanage who liked me and insisted on holding my hand and asking me to be his girlfriend? I refused, and he was going to grab my hand. You almost broke that guy’s teeth when you rushed forward I almost stuffed my shoe up his throat.”

"." Lin Nian smiled lowly, as if remembering this incident, "Don't you think that one day you will suddenly not like my younger brother so much?"

"Don't mention it, there really are." Lin Xian raised his eyebrows.

"Oh? When? The time you helped me lose money after I broke something else?"

"Why did you think of that all of a sudden? It's not like that, it's just a piece of fish tank glass." Lin Xian smiled and shook his head, looking at the night outside the window for a long time before saying, "Do you still remember that time?" I always come back late from working outside, right?"

"Well, get home around eleven o'clock in the evening."

"I came back a little later that time. There was a lack of manpower for overtime work in the store. Some people asked for leave. I could only help with the night shift, so I got home at three o'clock in the morning." Lin Xian rested his chin on his right hand, "It was already very cold when I came back It was dark, there was no one on the road, and the road back to our house was dark. I was actually a little scared, but there was nothing I could do. Would I not go home if I was afraid? I still had to go back. I was trembling all the way, and I couldn’t bear it. Keep muttering, hey, if there isn't a school-going brat at home, I won't have to work so late!"

Lin Nian smiled faintly and did not speak, Lin Xian continued, "But when I went home and walked downstairs, I found that the lights in the room were still on, and I became even angrier, thinking that if I don't go home, you will Stayed up all night, right? So I wanted to leave you alone even more, so I went upstairs angrily and prepared to scold you. Then, ah, then I opened the door and found that you didn't do anything, didn't read idle books, and Instead of watching TV, the light in the kitchen was turned on in the house, and you sat alone at the table in the dining room waiting for me with a glass of milk in front of you."

"At the time I asked what you were doing and you said you were waiting for me. I didn't have a mobile phone at that time, so you couldn't find me. I didn't allow you to go out at night, so you could only stay at home and wait for me to come back. Twelve The milk I ordered was already cold at three o'clock, and the surface was covered with a layer of film, and it was still ready to be warmed for me to drink, so my anger disappeared at that time."

"Then, ah, I was about to drink that glass of milk and go back to sleep. At this time, you suddenly said to me: Sister, if you feel really tired from your life, you can make me a glass too." Milk, you can quietly add something to it, I will definitely drink it." Lin Xian said with a low chuckle.

Lin Nian grinned at the corner of his mouth, and didn't say anything. He looked at Lin Xian who was sitting on the chair and shook his head while smiling, "What else can I say? You've already said that. What else can I do? You lost it? So it makes sense for me to take care of you, the little brat, if I don’t take care of you anymore, who else in this world will take care of you?”

The ward was silent for a long time, until the end, Lin Xian couldn't help laughing out loud, shook his head to try to get rid of the atmosphere, and changed the subject, "Let's not talk about the past. What did you dream about last in your dream? "

"I dreamed about some very good things." Lin Nian slowly raised his head and looked at Yuehui outside the window, "I dreamed that there are many people in this world who love me so much that they love me, but I never realized it. .”

　ps: Pretend to be three in one
　　
　
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