Chapter 881: Chapter 31: Black Hand Lurking in the Future Chapter 881: Chapter 31: Black Hand Lurking in the Future Bright moonlight twinkled through the dense jungle.
Lin Xian and CC had set out from Queenstown, walking for about an hour and a half to reach Rhein Village by the river.
All the oil lamps in the village were dimd, except for a pile of still-burning charcoal in the very center, which heated a pot of water steaming gently with a few night watchn whispering nearby.
Normally at this ti, the village chief, Zheng Xiangyue, would not be asleep; CC had said that Zheng Xiangyue usually spent quiet early morning hours organizing the next day’s teaching materials, grading children’s howork, and planning the future of the village…
a very competent and serious person.
Crossing the river, the two were about to look for Zheng Xiangyue when they unexpectedly found—
“Village chief grandma?”
CC saw the white, aged figure from afar at the entrance to the village.
It was indeed Zheng Xiangyue…but why was she outside so late?
...
Upon hearing CC’s voice,
Zheng Xiangyue turned her head.
She then smiled and breathed a sigh of relief:
“CC, you’re back.”
CC nodded and went over:
“Village chief grandma, why are you standing guard here?”
She suddenly realized:
“You aren’t…waiting for , are you?”
“Hehehe.”
Zheng Xiangyue, referred to as grandma, chuckled kindly:
“You’ve never co back this late before, I was a bit worried sothing might have happened to you outside, so I ca out to check.”
“It’s good that you’re alright; wild animals often roam these forests at night.
It’s better not to co back so late…
Isn’t there everything to do during the day, right?”
With that,
She looked toward the young man following CC:
“And who is this?”
CC stepped aside, introducing him:
“Village chief grandma, this is my friend, Lin Xian.”
Hearing this na,
Zheng Xiangyue couldn’t help but widen her eyes:
“You…you are…”
“Yes.”
Lin Xian stepped forward:
“I am Lin Xian, the one you wrote about on your wishing list.
I’m sorry to have kept you waiting so long…”
He looked at the centenarian, a slight smile on his face:
“Xiangyue, I’ve co to find you.”
…
By the stone well of Rhein Village.
Quiet yet heartwarming, as the bright round moon gradually climbed higher through the night sky, the chirping of cicadas from the distant forest also softened, bringing everything to a calm.
Lin Xian and Zheng Xiangyue sat on the stone steps nearby, holding Zheng Xiangyue’s century-old wishing list, which had persisted in this world for six hundred years:
“Things to definitely do after waking from cryogenic sleep!”
1.
Bury my brother on the Moon.
2.
Repay Lin Xian sincerely.
3.
Be a kind and loving person.
“This was written before you entered the hibernation pod.”
Lin Xian gazed at the plastic-wrapped sheet of paper, softly saying:
“Back then, you were quite young, just over fifteen, not yet sixteen.
But your ntal age was probably only around eight or nine years old, extrely naive and pure.”
“So at that ti, you didn’t quite grasp the concept of amnesia and didn’t think it was that serious; naturally…you didn’t prepare anything, didn’t leave behind as many notebooks and videos as others did.”
Zheng Xiangyue listened silently, closing her eyes:
“I see.”
“I’ve always wondered why other people waking from cryogenic sleep received lots of notebooks and video materials, while I only had this one piece of paper, leaving clueless about my past…
Now that you explain it, I understand it was for this reason.”
“I’ve often thought about why I didn’t leave any mory records before my cryogenic sleep.
No matter how you look at it, there’s probably only one reason…
My life before the cryogenic sleep must have been very miserable, so I wanted to forget my past and start anew, which is why I didn’t leave any mories.”
“Hehe…
It seems I was overthinking it.”
Lin Xian fell silent for a while.
He continued:
“Actually, it’s not all your fault.
You had many adults who cared about you, but just before your cryogenic sleep, almost everyone tacitly kept silent, deliberately not reminding you to keep a mory diary.”
“It’s hard to say whether this behavior was imposed kindness or unnecessary goodwill…but at that ti, I also thought the sa.
I knew very well that the wish list you wrote would not serve any real purpose…
Because the wishes were too simple, too vague; after you woke up, you wouldn’t be able to understand them.”
“But even though I knew this, I still held back from speaking.
The doctors and I thought the sa, that those sad and pitiful mories were better forgotten since you were practically starting from nothing then and would be in the sa state upon waking up, so why not start afresh?”
Zheng Xiangyue slowly opened her eyes, turned her head to look at Lin Xian:
“So…
Mr.
Lin, have your thoughts changed now?”
“Are you willing to tell about my past, my true life before?”
Lin Xian nodded:
“Today, I t a friend, also from Mars, who, like you, was searching for his mories and identity.”
“His na is strange, but what happened to him is quite remarkable.
He once hated his na, then forgot it, later doubted his na, and even doubted himself.
But ultimately…he grew to love his na.”
“[Because that na, which sounded laughable, rested in the heart of a girl who loved him from ignorance to a lifeti, for a full two hundred years…a na as great as Ultraman Tiga, as bright as the light that illuminates the world, as heroic as a true hero.]”
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