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What has happened since then is far from clear.

That night, he set out to search for Xiaochu, and finally discovered a white river hidden underground. The river fog with the image of a little Chu pulled him into the center of the river. He could no longer remember clearly what happened after that, not even the encounter in the snow in the river. Did he cross the river in the end, or did he drown halfway?

No matter which one it was, the end result was that he survived.

Not only did he survive unscathed, he also managed to return to the city and was already in his rental house when he opened his eyes. Because I felt that I had no physical problems, I went directly to the bicycle shop the next day and continued working. There is indeed nothing wrong with my health, but I always feel some unreal doubts when I go to work. I couldn't get rid of the knot in my heart. This awkward feeling was probably because I couldn't find Xiao Chu in the end. Not only was he not found, he even lost his mobile phone, and even the messages he sent from Xiaochu could not be found. All traces of Xiaochu’s past life are like footprints on the beach, easily erased by the rising and falling waves.

Cai Ji also considered looking for that place again, but to be honest, the experience that night really frightened him. He was probably too frightened that he even forgot the specific address. At first, I knew the general direction, but I couldn't remember the exact street and house number. After a few days, I couldn't even remember the general area. After two weeks of classes, he was no longer sure whether Xiao Chu actually existed.

The past life was like a dream. I felt nothing was wrong in the hazy moment, but when I thought about it carefully, everything was blank. However, if you really want to investigate one by one, it means that you have to spend your own time and energy after work, and you will suddenly feel unmotivated. Life is obviously very good now. If I really have time, I might as well sleep more, watch movies online, or go to the basketball court of a nearby university to play a few football games. Although he was not a student at the school at all, and he looked like an idle member of society, the guard didn't care at all. He neither asked for a student ID nor charged a visit fee, which made Cai Ji a little confused - is this an open university? In any case, as long as there are no physical education classes, the university playground can be used casually, and even outsiders can go in and form a team to play ball. Unconsciously, he spent several weekends playing field football, and he no longer thought about the past at all.

There is no doubt that life is getting better. Not only is the job stable but boring, it seems that the city itself has become much duller than before. There are no more customers who are more cunning than expected. The boss is also a middle-aged man who can see the bottom at a glance. He wants nothing but to make money to support his family. The sense of foreignness that had so strongly surrounded him—that he was an outsider in the city—suddenly disappeared. He seemed to belong here, just like everyone else, or maybe everyone had become passers-by who didn't care about each other's origins. Although it can't be said to be friendly, at least it is indifferent to everyone. The city has become a kind of kingdom that is independent of the outside area and only cares about its own internal affairs.

This plain and boring life is just like a store NPC in a game. Although it cannot be said to be very satisfying, it is enough to make people lazy and undisciplined. Cai Ji occasionally thinks of his desire to open his own store, but he can't muster the energy to plan it. After searching for Xiao Chu, the previous desire and passion to prove oneself and get ahead gradually dried up. All efforts to develop oneself are no longer meaningful, and life in the city will only continue like this forever. Sometimes he feels that the work he is doing has been completed last week; or he thinks that a certain day has passed, but when he opens his eyes, he finds that it has just arrived in the morning; the road he has walked countless times when he gets off work is suddenly forgotten, and he feels that The street scenes and forks in the road were all very unfamiliar—all caused by the boring and repetitive nature of life. I'm afraid there's little hope of making a difference in a place like this. But anyway, the life was comfortable, and he couldn't think of leaving at all.

If there is any particularly dissatisfying shortcoming, it is that the climate conditions in this place are really bad. The weather is always gloomy and cold, and even in summer there are few days when you can see the blue sky and the bright sun. The rain drips like a broken faucet, and the city you look out is always gray, shrouded in a mist. This was very depressing for Cai Ji, who was used to seeing beautiful mountain scenery in his childhood. Fortunately, the temperature difference here is not big throughout the year, mosquitoes are also rare, and the continuous rain has not caused mold on the walls of the rental house.

On a cloudy afternoon after a rain, the boss went out to visit a friend who was hospitalized. Cai Ji sat alone at the front desk looking at the store, eating a box lunch and watching an old movie on the computer. Because the plot was about to reach its climax, even though he heard the sound of someone coming in at the door, he didn't bother to look up.

"is the boss around?"

Cai Ji finally raised his head reluctantly. The young boy standing in front of the store, wearing an ordinary pullover and sweatpants, looked like a nearby college student. He was holding an old bicycle in his right hand - since he had already brought a car, he was probably not planning to buy a new one. .

Sure enough, the other party said, "The chain was broken by someone's kick. Can you repair it?"

There are really all kinds of people. Cai Ji stretched his neck out in front of the counter and looked at the bicycle with a basket. Compared to the broken chain hanging on the car body, the first thing that caught the eye was the thick black metal beam in the middle of the car body, followed by the heavy wheels. With such iconic features, it is enough to show that this is an old-fashioned bicycle, also known as the "Erba Daban" - bicycles of this type are only marketed in Africa today, right? He thought to himself and concluded that this car could not have been sold in the store. In other words, there was no after-sales obligation.

The words of rejection were already on his lips. Probably seeing his intention, the car owner immediately added: "I have been here for repairs before, and I am an acquaintance of the shop owner. If he were here, he would definitely agree to the repairs."

"He went out to do errands."

"Ah. Then when will you be back? Or can you give me a call to confirm? It's easy to talk about the cost of repairing the car. If possible, I hope it can be repaired before tonight."

Cai Ji responded vaguely: "I'll be back in about an hour."

"Can I contact him?"

In fact, Cai Ji has the boss's phone number and chat account. But since the boss was visiting patients in the hospital, there was no need to disturb him for a young guest who claimed to be an acquaintance. What's more, Cai Ji has no experience in repairing bicycle chains at all. It's an old-fashioned bicycle, so it's hard to tell if anything goes wrong. After all, it is safest and easiest to let the boss handle it himself.

"You can come back in an hour."

Hearing his words, the other party didn't show any anger, and still said with a smile: "Then I can wait in the store, right?"

Because the other party didn't seem to be the type to cause trouble, Cai Ji acquiesced to this request. The boy dragged the car to the corner by himself, and then walked around the store with great interest, looking over and over at the new model cars. It is estimated that the other party will not have the intention to buy a car in the short term, so Cai Ji continued to watch movies. Leave the car repairs to the boss, who doesn't know how to repair the chain anyway.

——But if you don’t know how to repair chains, why do you come here to work?

This question popped into his mind. Cai Ji frowned and shook it away. He just worked for the boss. Since the person who paid the salary didn't say anything, there was no need to worry about his incompetence. Besides, it's not like he can't repair it at all. He's good at sheet metal and spray painting.

...Only the chain?

Unconsciously, he had forgotten the ongoing plot on the screen, and all his thoughts fell on the chain. Each link of the interlocking chain must be tightly connected by the chain pin to make the roulette wheel operate normally. A person's experience should also be like this. The past leads to the past, the past leads to the consequences, and there will never be unreasonable interruptions in the middle. but why……

"It's Xue Ji." said the boy standing behind him.

Cai Ji turned around suddenly. The boy who was watching the prototype car stood behind him and shared with him the movie playing on the screen without any acknowledgment: the heroine in a lilac kimono stood in front of the grave of her enemy, furious because she had lost the chance for revenge. , pulled out the dark sword from the handle of the paper umbrella in his hand, and struck hard on the tombstone.

The boy who saw this scene actually burst into laughter. Cai Ji, who was immersed in the situation, turned around angrily and looked around. The boy immediately raised his hands and took a step back as if surrendering. "Don't be angry, don't be angry. I also like this character very much. However, the look and demeanor just now feel a bit like someone I know. It's funny when I think about it."

I have no idea what's so funny about it. Cai Ji didn't bother to deal with such a person talking to himself. Fortunately, the other party remained quiet in the subsequent plot and never made any disappointing noise. The daughter of Shura, who was born for revenge, walked among the splattered blood. Her cold face and waving snow blade were exactly the image of a female killer that would be difficult for future generations to imitate. The actors' postures and expressions are as alienated and beautiful as ice and snow. Even if they are full of murderous rage, they are dazzling in the camera. It's not that he believes that such a person exists in reality, he just finds this image fascinating.

"Speaking of which," the boy behind him spoke up as the video entered a forced commercial, "I happened to be researching folk tales related to mermaids recently."

Because there were still fifty seconds to skip the commercial break, Cai Ji, who was impatient to wait, was finally willing to give the other party a look. He turned around and suddenly found that the other party had already moved the most comfortable armchair from the inner room and sat down on his own, holding a cup of hot tea poured from a thermos bottle in his hand. Become your own home. He thought that he should at least replace the boss's exclusive chair, but the other party said firmly: "No problem, I know the owner here very well."

At this point, it's not that easy to catch up with the other party. Cai Ji didn't want to expend that kind of effort, so he simply pretended not to see it.

"Don't you think Xue Ji in purple clothes looks a bit like a mermaid?"

"No."

"I mean in terms of temperament. Of course, considering the name and life experience, it is more likely that it refers to the legend of the Snow Girl, but only the purple one looks particularly like a mermaid."

"I didn't see it."

"Really? Maybe I'm over-associating. The sea monsters in the original legend are just inhuman monsters, and they are not essentially different from the banshees in the sky or mountains. Later, with the influence of religious and cultural factors, it became Poor creatures that don't even have souls - because only humans created by God have souls. Therefore, if the water elves want to obtain eternal souls and ascend to heaven after death like humans, they must obtain human souls. Love. It seems that the little mermaid died not so much for the prince, but for the pursuit of the eternal soul - but I still think it doesn't make sense! A mermaid who can live three hundred years cannot have an immortal soul. , the soul of human beings is still alive after death. If this is true, then when a person dies in old age, at what period of time is the soul fixed? If it is eternity in an old and comatose state, it is of no use. But when you are young, you lack experience and knowledge. Which stage best represents a person’s perfect quality? I think there should be some very interesting answers in medieval theological research! Alas, but there is no time to check. Today You have to use the afternoon to repair the car, otherwise you really won’t be able to catch up.”

The boy who got excited when talking about it kept talking to himself, completely forgetting the existence of the audience. Cai Ji just ignored it and couldn't wait to skip the commercials halfway through, and continued to watch this movie that he knew by heart: he defeated the thugs and chased them to the end of the secret room only to find that the target had already committed suicide; when he decided to go into seclusion, his original enemy came back from the dead; He succeeded in revenge but lost his lover who helped him. Although every plot is no longer new nowadays, he still never gets tired of this movie, probably because he really likes the image of the heroine. It seems a bit superficial to say that the revenge killer has a cool identity or is very beautiful, and that's not entirely true - it's not the kind of love she desires from the opposite sex. To say that it is a self-representation of the hero, it would also feel a bit unmatched. After all, he did not ignore that the actor is a beauty. After thinking about it, it can be said that it is the kind of love for artistic images. Isn't it possible? Even if he hasn't read much, it's not like he can't appreciate good things.

When the ending came, the seriously injured heroine staggered forward alone in the snow. The enemy's daughter, who had been beheaded in the first half of the story, suddenly rushed out from the corner and delivered the final fatal blow into Xue Ji's abdomen. Xue Ji looked at her without any reaction until she left in a hurry and then slowly fell to the ground and died. Until the end of the film, the two people watching off the screen did not speak again.

"How pitiful." The boy said.

Cai Ji looked at the other party disapprovingly. He felt that it would be too unappreciative to use "pitiful" to describe the breathtaking ending. It turns out that people who study in college are only at this level.

"I'm not talking about the heroine, but the daughter of the gambler. If I remember correctly, her biological father has been gambling with the money she earned from selling her body. No matter what kind of upbringing he had in the past, he has repaid enough. . Is such a father worth sacrificing her life? Rather, it is when her gambler father dies that she can truly live a normal life. Even so, she still wants to avenge her father who committed the crime. What exactly is this if we look into it carefully? What about psychology? Is there really unconditional love in the world, or is it because you have given too much over a long period of time that you are even more unable to accept the truth? However, in the final analysis, I think this is intentional on the part of the creator - you have to take the trouble to arrange it A story in which a character sacrifices himself for a blood relative who was born and raised will become boring if you read too many stories like this. The same goes for Xue Ji. She was just a tool prepared by her mother to avenge her dead husband. Her ruthless Personality, obsession with avenging his unrelated 'father', he can still clearly remember the situation when he was born. These unreasonable settings are like being possessed by the ghost of his biological mother. In this way, She is not like a child in the secular sense at all, but a summoned object created through fertility rituals. What do you think? Is there really a mother who would impose such a requirement on her children for the sake of her dead husband?"

Being confused by the other party's eloquent and jumping words, Cai Ji didn't even understand what the last question was asking him for. Just because he heard words like "parents" over and over again, he suddenly thought of Xiaochu.

"...Do you think parents take their children seriously?"

"That's not the case." The boy replied briskly, "Without training and thinking, people are born to only think about problems from their own perspective. To be honest, I am also a child who is not taken seriously. Since I am There is nothing you can do about being born like this.”

Cai Ji looked at the other person with some suspicion, not seeing many traces of family misfortune in this person's image. Whether he is cowardly, angry, or uneasy, the other person is completely relaxed and content, and has no resemblance to Xiao Chu. Just as he was about to question the other party, the shop owner came back.

"Finally back!" The boy said, jumping down from the chair and facing the smiling shop owner. Cai Ji turned off the web page on the screen, followed the shop owner's instructions and went to the warehouse to get the cutting tools and chains, and then followed him to learn how to repair them. Because I also had to do rust removal and touch-up painting along the way, it took almost two hours one after another. During this period, the shopkeeper, who was busy at work, chatted happily with the boys, talking about topics such as school exams and software operations. Cai Ji listened attentively, vaguely knowing that this college student might be teaching his boss how to use certain computer software. It might be something like designing business cards or promotional pictures. He wasn't interested either. He was just thinking about the plot of the movie and Xiao Chu's disappearance.

"It's finally done, so I'll withdraw first. I have to meet with others later."

After chatting happily for two hours, the boy finally prepared to leave with his brand-new bicycle in hand. Cai Ji was sitting by the door, thinking that this order would definitely be a loss-making business, but the other party stopped, took out a can of coffee from the basket and placed it at his feet.

"If you buy too much, I'll give it to you as a thank you gift. Anyway, one person shouldn't have more than three cans a day."

Cai Ji raised his head and looked at him blankly. At this time, the dark clouds that have surrounded the city all year round were pressing on each other's shoulders. The boy was also looking up at the bleak sky.

"Xue Ji was born in the snow and died in the snow." The boy said, "So from an artistic point of view, what kind of death would it be for a person who was born on a rainy day and named 'Yu'? Which method is most suitable?"

"what?"

"Falling from the clouds to the bottom of the sea - what do you think?"