Chapter 57 1. Beckham

Simple houses with crude crosses hanging on the walls.The yellow electric light is dim but warm.In the middle of the room is a small round table, a family of three is eating around the table. The boy looked at his parents anxiously.His father was wearing a black coat, and he was serious even when eating; his mother was holding a soup bowl in her hand, looking at him with a smile.What a kind and respectable pair of parents, if I asked them that question, would they still love themselves as before? "Xiao Bei, why are you in a daze? Have you lost your appetite today?" Mother asked with concern.

The father touched the boy's forehead: "It's strange, I don't have a fever. Good boy, is there something bothering you?" The boy mustered up his courage and asked, "Dad, I think we are different from others." The two parents looked at each other, and the father asked, "Did something happen to you at school?" "Today the teacher sent out a form. There is a column on the form called 'religious belief', and the column for other students is blank, but my column says 'Christianity'. Dad, why are we different from others?" "We are no different from other people, except that we have faith in our hearts. People with faith live a more peaceful life than those without faith." The father stroked the child's hair with his hands, "Hey, don't think too much, wait You'll understand when you grow up."

"Also." The boy hung his head, not daring to lift it up. "A classmate told me today that he saw his parents 'making love'. Dad, what is 'making love'?" "Good God!" Father stood up.The mother screamed, and she saw the father lift the boy up. The father's hands were trembling, and his face turned purple. He carried the boy all the way to the attic. The boy was so frightened that he didn't even dare to breathe. This time, it's too bad, it really caused a catastrophe. "Kneel, kneel before the picture of God!" roared the father, kicking his son in the crook of the knee.

The boy let out a cry, and his father slapped him, which silenced the boy. "God, please forgive this ignorant child. He doesn't know how dirty the words he chanted are." The father took a bottle from the table and crossed himself on his forehead. "Xiao Bei, rinse your mouth with this holy water and wash your dirty mouth clean." "Dad, I didn't do anything wrong!" The child was almost terrified, but he insisted that he was right. His argument drew a beating.The father beat him until the child's cries grew louder, and the mother pounded on the door, yelling that if the child kept shouting, the neighbors would be called.

The father stopped breathlessly, and said to the boy word by word: "You have done something wrong and should be punished. You are not allowed to eat tonight, and you should repent in front of the portrait of God." Then he shook his hands and left, Before leaving, I did not forget to say: "You are not allowed to associate with those bad boys in the future." Before his father closed the door, Beckham whispered, "Dad, if I didn't say that word, then how did I get here?" Dad shuddered and said, "You are God's gift to Mom and Dad." Then he locked the door from the outside, and darkness engulfed the attic space completely.Before the room went completely dark, Beckham saw a sentence under the portrait of God: "Our God is consuming God."

That sentence was deeply engraved in his mind. two years later. Beckham ran home holding the basketball trophy.Today he fought very well on the court, grabbed seven rebounds in a row, and made two three-pointers.The coach of the school team patted him on the shoulder and praised: "Fortunately, you were kept on the basketball team back then. If you were asked to practice football, you would be ruined..." It's four o'clock in the afternoon, Dad should still be in the church, the door is closed, and Mom is preparing dinner in the kitchen.Let her see the trophy first, it is the pride of her son.

He took out his key and opened the door, tiptoeing silently in order to surprise his mother. At this time, he heard the man's panting, with the woman's moan in between. He was stunned, the moaning sound belonged to his mother, but the gasping sound... was very strange. He came to the door of his parents' bedroom. The door was ajar. He looked in through the crack of the door and saw two snow-white bodies entangled together. The one below is the mother's, and the other is an unknown man. There was a buzzing in his head, he was blinded, and stood like a clay sculpture for a long time.In a trance, he pushed the door and walked in. The clothes of those two people were all on the ground, almost tripping him.

The mother saw him first and let out a scream. He hit the man with the trophy hard, once, twice... The trophy shattered, and the golden fragments flew around like erupting lava. three months later. The father took Xiao Bei out of the court. It was snowing outside. The father took off his coat and wanted to put Xiao Bei on, but Xiao Bei shook his hand and refused.My father has lost too much weight now, and he seems to be a different person. From today, the father is a widower. From a distance, Xiaobei saw a car coming, the door opened, and a man wrapped in bandages stepped out of it, and took his mother in.Beckham had seen that man—on her mother's bed.

Mother looked at Xiaobei from a distance before leaving, as if she had something to say, but the window was slowly closed.The black car emits a choking exhaust, spreading the plague like a monster from ancient times.Xiaobei cursed something in a low voice, the noise of the car was too loud, and his father couldn't hear clearly. Beckham and his father went home side by side.For the first time in history, this rigid father became so weak. His feet were weak, and Beckham had to support him. Fortunately, as an athlete, his shoulders were strong enough. Eight years later. Wearing a white shirt, Xiao Bei walked excitedly towards the school's laboratory building, holding a stainless steel lunch box in his hand.In the lunch box is fried rice with tomato and eggs, which is his fiancée Xiaoyu's favorite.

On the way, he met the dean, who smiled and said, "Come to deliver food to my wife again?" "Ha, look at what you said, dean, we are not married yet." "Tch, raw rice has to be cooked early, and the whole courtyard is waiting to drink your wedding wine!" The dean suddenly sighed, "Your father is late, he left too early." The expression on Xiaobei's face darkened, and the dean knew that he had said something wrong, so he quickly said, "Look at me, my old fool, your wife is still in the laboratory, go quickly, don't starve your wife."

Xiaobei ran up the stairs, even up to four floors, without even panting. Years of exercise made his body very strong.When he came to the door of the laboratory, he suddenly heard a woman's laughter inside. This laughter was all too familiar, it was Xiaoyu.However, it was different from her usual voice. "Xiao Cao, if I get married, will I not be able to see you?" Xiao Cao?Xiaobei searched for the image of this person from his memory. It seemed that he was in the same grade as him, and they were just nodding acquaintances. Xiaoyu and him seemed to work under the same professor. The door of the laboratory was locked tightly and could not be opened.Newspapers were pasted on the glass of the door, so the scene inside could not be seen.Beckham bent down and looked in through the keyhole. A clean white cloth was spread on a table in the laboratory, like a bed with new sheets. Xiaoyu was on that "bed", with her head resting on a man's shoulder.The man wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a mustache is Xiao Cao. Xiao Cao kissed Xiao Yu: "Aren't you afraid that your man will come looking for you?" "What my man! I'm not married to him yet. That idiot only knows how to play basketball or go to church. My fiancée doesn't feel any care!" She put her wrist around his neck: "Where Hello, how can I thank you for staying with me so late the night before yesterday?" "Haha." The two teased for a while.The hearts of the people outside the door gradually became cold amidst the laughter. Xiao Cao asked, "No one knows about our relationship, right?" Xiaoyu said: "Someone will find out soon. I will break off the engagement with him, and then I will be with you." Xiao Cao said with a smile: "Don't be so hot-blooded, everyone will be suspicious and think it's me as a third party..." Xiaoyu said: "Tch, you are what you are, what's the matter, you get cheap and act like a good boy, do you want to be a whore and set up an archway? The child in my belly..." The child in the belly - these words hit Xiaobei's heart like a sledgehammer. Xiao Cao hurriedly coaxed Xiao Yu: "Oh, don't say that first, the college wants to evaluate advanced individuals, this title is very valuable. The professor secretly told me that I am among the candidates." "Then what do you want me to do?" Xiaoyu said coquettishly, "You want me to take care of you, that idiot?" Xiao Cao hurriedly said: "That's not what I mean. I think this is good. You create an opportunity, preferably in a crowded place, and you try to make him angry. It is best to let him beat you, and then you cry and pretend to be pitiful. On the one hand, it can win everyone's sympathy, and on the other hand, it can logically create conditions for the dissolution of the engagement..." Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Wow! I really have you!" The two laughed again. Their laughter pierced Xiaobei's heart like the tip of a knife, making him breathless. Xiaobei went to the stairwell in despair, and threw the lunch box into the trash can. He lit a cigarette, and his soul rose slowly along with the smoke. He felt that he was about to understand his father's mood back then. "Smoking is not allowed here!" A man in a white coat glared at him viciously, and a group of people went upstairs carrying a few large barrels with seals on them.While moving, he panted and scolded that the building was too high. The white coat rested for a while, and looked at Xiaobei: "You look very strong. If there is nothing wrong, can you help me? This is an oil sample shipped from Daqing Oilfield. Let our college analyze it." Xiao Bei nodded blankly. The white coat stuffed the bucket in his arms to him: "You go upstairs with them, there is still a bucket below, I'll go and carry it up." He went downstairs in a panic, and the others carried the bucket upstairs on their own. Xiao Bei stood there blankly, holding the bucket in his arms, his soul unsheathed. "Our God is consuming God." Somehow, such a sentence came out of his mouth. He came to the door of the laboratory with the barrel in his arms. The people inside were still whispering, and he didn't expect that everyone outside had heard them all. Xiaobei lifted the lid of the barrel, and there was a foul smell from the sticky black substance in the barrel. He carefully poured the oil on the floor, and the oil flowed in through the crack in the door.Xiaobei carefully dodged the thing so that it wouldn't get on his shoes. He took out the match, he used this cigarette just now, and now he wants to use this more interesting thing. “Our God is consuming God.” The match made a "chi" sound, and a group of yellow flames jumped out. Xiaobei threw it to the pool of oil, and then ran away briskly. When he came to the stairs, someone was coming up from below. He hesitated for a moment, ran to the side stairs and went downstairs from there. He made a big circle, ran from the side door to the playground, said hello to the juniors who were playing basketball, in order to create an alibi, and then swaggered towards the laboratory building. The fire alarm sounded suddenly, and the sound came from the laboratory building. Then, the disturbed crowd ran out from the gate of the laboratory building, and people from other buildings also ran out, looking up at the thick smoke from the fourth floor. Two people broke a window on the fourth floor and reached out from inside. Unfortunately, in order to prevent theft, from the first floor to the fourth floor, iron bars were installed on the outside of the windows. The two people could only stretch out their hands, and the flames still engulfed them from behind. Xiao Bei stared at all this leisurely, he felt that the two people who were swallowed by the flames were a bit like Xiao Cao and Xiao Yu, and the screams of those two people were so beautiful, just like Picasso's music.Even though he was dying of heart failure tens of minutes ago, he couldn't help but dance now.The taste of revenge is so cool. The fire ignited the bodies of those two people, and their screams resounded throughout the campus. Many people covered their faces and couldn't bear to watch any more. Xiao Bei kept watching, his heart pounding, and he felt his body swell. stand up. The fire burned down one-third of the floor of the laboratory building, killed two people, injured four, and damaged countless equipment.No one noticed the lunch box he left in the building, it had already been burned.The old dean couldn't get sick because of this, and died soon after.Beckham thought, well, he saw me in that building. The police never came looking for him, and the fire was eventually blamed on an unknown experiment performed by the chemistry department.Beckham secretly praised God in his heart. It was God who allowed him to escape the punishment of the law. He is the embodiment of justice, and he was sent by God to punish evil and promote good. The avatar of justice isn't going to hide on campus forever, he has bigger plans.He quit his job as a teaching assistant soon after, and has since disappeared.