Chapter 75 seventy four

Vincent goes to Las Vegas (8) "Ah, Lisa! How can a man like you grow old? I know the mystery of why you're always young—there's a nightingale singing in your heart. I don't have a nightingale in my heart, so I can't get into those basements, Are you right? Your parrot is right, I am a shameless loan shark." Lisa is relieved.It seemed that Vincent did not intend to pursue her at all, and he had enough flexibility.He was so flexible that Lisa still struggled with not being able to predict his next move.She had jokingly called him "Quicksilver" long ago.Indeed, that enigmatic impulse in his heart was like quicksilver to her, and one day she would die from this irresistible poison.

"Vincent?" "Lisa, where are the people in the carriage?" "There was no one in the car, and this car is specially here to pick us up. You see, the pigeons have all disappeared, and it's really dark outside. Vincent, you are cold all over." "I feel dizzy." Vincent held Lisa's hand tightly in his dizziness, but what he held was only one hand. The owner of the hand was gradually moving away from him, and the hand was gradually getting colder.Dimly, she felt that someone had entered this carriage, and the person said to Lisa: "It's snowing outside, the weather is really abnormal." Lisa laughed harshly, obviously smirking, and then she went with the person out.Someone whispered to him in his ear: "Sir, where are you going?" "'Guli' clothing company." He struggled to say the only place he could think of, his voice was as thin as a mosquito. "Ah, so you are a usurer!" He laughed harshly like Lisa.Then this person sits next to him.It took a long time for Vincent's eyes to recover. He looked to the right and saw that there was no one there except a cap on the seat. Maybe he went to the bathroom?

He got up to find Lisa, and as he walked from car to car, he felt that his train was moving through the darkness toward dawn.The passing cars are all empty, where is Lisa hiding?Finally, he made it to the back of the car, and there was Lisa, curled up sleeping in the back row of seats.When Vincent walked in front of her, she opened her tired eyes under the dim light.How beautiful her eyes were, thought Vincent!She gestured for Vincent to approach her, and Vincent crouched down. "I took this bus from Las Vegas that year. It was the third day after my mother died. She owed too much gambling debt, so she died of fear."

"Isn't the old lady in that big house your mother?" "Of course. Even myself, I have died many times." "I do not understand." "You'll get used to this kind of thing. Did you hear that it's really snowing outside, which covers all the places we passed, just like back then." Vincent could only hear the sound of the wheels, and he thought, what kind of hearing does Lisa have?She closed her eyes and seemed to fall asleep again, having almost exhausted her energy in the basement of her hometown.Now he is with her on this train, which connects past and future.What does the future look like?Did the dwarf who came to their house in the middle of the night know the answer to that question?He remembered getting drunk in the kitchen with the dwarf and climbing up from the attic to the roof together.As they sat on the roof, swarms of bats flew past their cheeks.It was at that time that the dwarf talked to him about the casino surrounded by rolling stone mountains and the rose-red sky.He said to Vincent: "It's such a peaceful scene, no one would think of going out of that place. The stone mountain is just a landscape, no one will really go over it. And the opening to traffic is a later thing, the train goes through It takes a long tunnel to get into the city. The dark and deep tunnel is like the passage of death."

Originally, he wanted to ask Lisa why she ran away from her hometown, but he remembered Lisa's previous explanation of this matter, so he didn't ask.She wasn't the only one who went away, were there dwarfs?The people in the casino probably left for a common reason. At dawn the conductor finally appeared, a fat man who yawned a lot. "I dreamed that there was so much snow. It's ridiculous. How could there be snow at this time?" He seemed to be asking for the couple's opinion.Vincent smelled alcohol on him. "Living in such a lonely country, how can we not rely on alcohol to get by?" He said again, as if he was embarrassed, and seemed to want to express his heart to the two of them.He invited them to sit in his conductor's office, because the train was coming into the station in half an hour, and he didn't want his guests to have no impression of his train.

When he opened the door of his "office", both Vincent and Lisa were taken aback.This small room is only one square meter, with a small desk and an iron chair covered together. It would be uncomfortable for a person to sit on it for a long time, not to mention that the train conductor is so fat, it may be difficult to squeeze into the seat. .Both of them were puzzled, this is a very spacious train, why the conductor's office was designed like this. The train conductor seemed to have guessed the thoughts of the two of them. He raised his legs, squeezed into the desk, and sat down in an extremely uncomfortable position, with his stomach firmly pressed against the drawer of the desk.He asked Vincent to pass him the bottle.The bottle was on the shelf with a half bottle of brandy in it.He greedily finished the bottle, threw the bottle away, and fell asleep on the table.

Lisa said to Vincent: "A place like a train is really a lonely place, but why does he have to let us see how he dreams? What a weirdo." "Probably this is his way of life. We just happened to be part of his world."