Chapter 13 Chapter Eleven

Xiao Yuanyuan had already returned home, and when he saw his mother and sister, he immediately rushed forward with open arms. His chest and back had been repaired, or a new one had grown, which was repaired by the rapid genetic growth method.Xianyun squatted down and hugged his small body into his arms.Yuan Yuan asked with sparkling eyes: "Where's Brother Park?" Xianyun held back his tears and replied: "He has gone to a very, very far place and will not come back." Yuan Yuan's worries were confirmed, he asked in shock: "Is he dead?" Mom turned her face away and didn't dare to look at Yuan Yuan. Xianyun's teardrops dripped on the back of Yuan Yuan's hand. He raised his head and froze for a long time before saying painfully:

"Sister, I'm very sad, but I won't cry." This sentence suddenly opened Xianyun's emotional gate, she hugged Yuan Yuan into her arms, and burst into tears, and her mother also burst into tears.The old professor paused behind the three of them for a while, then turned back to his study. Dark clouds rolled in, and there were faint thunder and lightning flashes in the sky.There was no wind outside, and even the tops of the trees that rose to the sky were motionless.The air was oppressively humid and oppressive.It looks like a heavy rain is coming. During dinner, the atmosphere at the dinner table was very dull, and everyone didn't talk much, thinking about their own thoughts silently.Yuan Yuan's father returned to his cold expression, seemingly indifferent to his son-in-law's misfortune.If he ever had guilt and grief, he'd thrown it away long ago.Yuan Yuan also seemed to feel the abnormality, looking at this and then that.

Both Xianyun and her mother tried their best to maintain a superficial calm, occasionally saying a few words, trying their best to resolve the embarrassment at the dinner table, but it didn't work.There was already serious suspicion among the family members, and it was just tacit understanding.Dad Yuan Yuan was the first to finish his meal. He wiped his mouth with a napkin and announced indifferently: "There is something wrong with the computer network, don't use it recently." Xianyun smiled wryly in her heart, she knew it was just a clumsy excuse, just now she saw her father fiddling in front of the computer terminal, and... the father seemed not afraid of his daughter seeing him!

She hastily ate a few mouthfuls of food, and seemed to casually say to Yuan Yuan: "Yuanyuan, sleep in my sister's room at night, I'm too lonely by myself. In the future, don't leave my sister for a single step, she will love you even more, okay?" Yuan Yuan took the last mouthful of rice, looked at his father who had left the table, and nodded vigorously.Yuan Yuan's mother looked at her daughter in amazement, and heard the bones hidden in her calm tone.Father did not stop with a sullen face. At night, Xian Yunku sat in the dark, listening to the drizzle outside the window hitting the banana leaves.Yuan Yuan lay in her arms, and kept silent in a sensible manner, sometimes looking up at her sister's profile.Xianyun asked him:

"Does the wound still hurt?" "It doesn't hurt." "You should rest earlier." Yuan Yuan looked at her sister, hesitated for a long time, and said, "Sister, please do one thing, okay?" "What's up?" "Don't turn off my sleep switch at night, okay?" "Why? Don't you want to go to sleep?" Yuan Yuan said sadly: "No, this must be different from your sleep. Every time I turn off that switch, I feel like sinking, sinking, sinking into the deep darkness all of a sudden. It's the kind of sticky sleep. It's a blurry darkness, I'm afraid that one day I will be sucked into this darkness, and I won't be able to wake up again."

Xianyun said distressedly: "Okay, I won't turn it off, but you have to sleep on the bed honestly, don't move around, especially don't go out casually, and don't leave your sister, okay?" Yuan Yuan nodded.Xianyun looked at him fixedly, wondering if he understood his intention.She can't tell the ignorant Yuan Yuan: beware of her father!But after the big change, Yuan Yuan seemed to have matured all of a sudden, his eyes were calm, and he clearly understood what his sister said. Xianyun led Yuanyuan to the inner room, put him on a small bed, and turned off the light.When I walked out, my mother came, and she asked in a low voice, "Are you asleep?"

"Ok." "Yun'er, go to sleep too, relax your mind." "Mom, don't worry." Mom sighed and left. Xianyun walked to the window and looked at the hazy night sky miserably.Lightning cuts through the darkness from time to time, freezing everything in a bluish-white light, the kind of dead bluish-white.She was chanting in her heart, Chongzhe, did you leave in such a hurry?Like a drop of rain falling into the ocean?Zhong Zhe, thank you for your answer to the police. I can't track down the murderer for you, and I can't send another relative to the path of destruction, but I must use my life to protect Xiao Yuanyuan and your life's hard work.

Growing up under the influence of biologists since she was a child, Xianyun believes that she has long been able to look at life and death philosophically. She knows that life is just an orderly combination of material particles, which is "in the process of the irreversible entropy increase of the universe, through the enzymatic A process that temporarily and locally reduces entropy within a microsystem".Death is the termination of this temporary process and the return to eternity.How happy is life, how sad is death—however, when the death of a loved one hits her heart, she realizes that her philosophy is nothing but a tower built of sand.

Even Xiao Yuanyuan began to have awe of death.Xianyun recalled Chong Zhe's words 20 years ago: An intelligent person without the desire to live cannot be counted as life.Although she did not major in biology, she felt the weight of this sentence at that time.It seems that Zhong Zhe has indeed succeeded, he has breathed the soul of life into this artificially assembled Yuan Yuan. Xianyun's heart was full of waves, and many past events flashed before his eyes.She remembered that when she was 8 years old, the old cat "Bai Xue" raised by the family gave birth to another litter of kittens.In the early morning, as soon as Xianyun got out of bed, he ran to Yuanyuan's room and shouted:

"Get up quickly, the old cat has given birth to four kittens!" Yuan Yuan didn't move at all, Xianyun muttered: "I forgot to switch it." She pressed the switch, Yuan Yuan opened his eyes, a flash of spiritual light swirled around his face, and immediately jumped out of bed vigorously.Xianyun dragged Yuan Yuan to the storage room. In the cat nest, three kittens were whining and chirping for teats, and the old cat was calmly licking its mouth. In the corner, there was a chubby cat. head!The cat's head was clean and neat, and its eyes were closed in pain.Xianyun was stunned, crying and retching blocked his throat at the same time.At that time, Yuan Yuan was not in awe of death, he flipped the lonely cat's head curiously.Xianyun cried out:

"Dad, Mom, the old cat ate the kitten!" Dad came over—at that time, Dad was cheerful and kind, not the weird one now—looked at the cat's head carefully, and said calmly: "It's not surprising, cats have a habit of killing their cubs. Male lions sometimes kill their cubs so that a lioness who is no longer breastfeeding can quickly become pregnant. When an old cat is unable to nurse four cats, it will kill a cub. The weakest one can reduce a mouth and increase a little milk. Other animals have similar habits, such as female hyenas will let the newborn hyenas bite each other, so that only the strongest offspring can survive. " Xianyun cried and said: "This is too cruel, how can it eat its own child?" Dad sighed slightly: "No, this is actually another form of maternal love. Although it is cruel, it is more far-sighted." That night, 8-year-old Xianyun suffered from insomnia for the first time.It was also a thunderstorm night, the thunder was rumbling, and blue-white lightning flashed from time to time. She tossed and turned on the bed, staring into the darkness.For the first time, she was truly aware of death, clearly aware that her parents would die, and she would die too.After death, she will turn into dust and fall into boundless darkness and boundless chaos.The world still exists after death, with green trees and red flowers, clear water and purple mountains, white clouds and red sun... There will also be thousands of children playing and laughing, but all these have nothing to do with her forever. What saddened her most was the realization that this death was inescapable, absolutely, utterly inescapable.No matter how much her parents love her, no matter how much she wants to live, no matter what efforts she makes.This made her feel a gnawing despair. Maybe only Yuan Yuan can escape death? ... She was lying on the bed, tears streaming down her face.The rumbling thunder was getting closer and closer, until a thunderbolt shook the sky, she couldn't sleep anymore, and jumped out of bed barefoot to find her parents. She heard the faint sound of the piano in the piano room, where her father was concentrating on playing the piano - the cat's head also made him lose sleep.The sound of the piano is thin and thin, endless.Influenced by her mother since she was a child, she is very familiar with various world famous songs.But she had never heard the song her father played.She just felt that this piece of music has a special power that can resonate in every cell of her... Dad found Xiao Xianyun with tears hanging from the corner of her eyes, came over and asked her softly what was wrong and why she was still awake.Xianyun shyly talked about his sudden fear.Dad pondered and said: "There is nothing to be shy about. Awareness of death and reverence for it is a necessary stage for teenagers to wake up. In essence, it is a way of expressing the desire to survive and a reflection of the birth process of life. Distant memories. The earth was a chaos in the early days of its birth. After billions of years of evolution, the light of life and wisdom burst out of this chaos. Human beings have faithfully recorded this process in their unconscious. You know, Human embryonic development reproduces the evolution of single-celled organisms, fish, and reptiles, and so does human psychological growth." Xianyun seemed to understand but half understood.Before leaving, she asked her father what piece of music he was playing, and her father seemed to hesitate for a long time before telling her: "It is the song of life. One of the most powerful mantras in the universe." Xianyun never heard him play again. She didn't know when she fell asleep, but she felt that the thunder was endless, as if it had been ringing from ancient times to the present, from reality to dreams.She slept so poorly that a slight sound woke her up.She listened attentively, and heard the sound of bare feet walking in Xiao Yuanyuan's house.The nerves in her whole body immediately tensed up, she gently rolled over and got out of bed, and walked barefoot to Yuanyuan's door. With a flash of lightning, she saw her father standing beside Yuan Yuan's bed, clearly holding a pistol in his hand.The lightning was fleeting, but this scene was deeply etched in her mind.She was overwhelmed by anger, what on earth is dad going to do?Is he really completely perverted? She was about to break in, hiding Yuan Yuan behind her like a hen with flaming feathers...Suddenly Xiao Yuanyuan sat up and shouted in a crisp voice: "elder sister!" Dad didn't make a sound, he certainly didn't expect that Xiao Yuanyuan didn't turn off the sleep switch.Yuan Yuan said naively: "Oh, it's not my sister, I recognized it as my father. What's in your hand? Is it a toy you bought for me? Give it to me!" Xianyun stared at them nervously, and it took a long time for his father to say: "Sleep, I'll give it to you tomorrow." Xianyun stepped aside, watching his father walk out slowly.It seemed that he couldn't bear to shoot his son after all.Xianyun rushed into the house and impulsively hugged Yuanyuan tightly in his arms.Suddenly she felt Yuan Yuan trembling clearly, she pushed Yuan Yuan away, and stared carefully into his eyes: "Have you already guessed why Dad is here?" Yuan Yuan nodded painfully. In this way, Yuan Yuan used innocence as a weapon to protect his life.He is no longer a 5-year-old ignorant child.Xianyun didn't know how this happened. Perhaps her husband had endowed him with adult wisdom while "breathing" life and soul into him?She hugged Yuan Yuan tightly again: "Yuan Yuan, poor brother. You will follow me from now on and never leave, remember?" Yuan Yuan nodded in agreement, his eyes shining brightly in the darkness.That was definitely not the gaze of a 5-year-old. early morning.The air after the rain is very fresh, and it seems that the smell of ozone can still be smelled under the shade of the pine trees.A few old ladies were doing aerobics in the open space, and Yuan Yuan's mother deliberately avoided them while walking today.The neighbors all knew about his family's misfortune, and they would definitely ask questions, but Yuan Yuan's mother didn't want to talk about it. For decades, the atmosphere at home has been rather depressing, and she can't get rid of a strange thought, as if there is some misfortune lurking somewhere, and it is only a matter of time before it comes.Chong Chul's misfortune fulfilled this premonition, the question is...is this the beginning or the end of the disaster? She saw her daughter walking over in a hurry. She didn't seem to have slept well, and her eye circles were slightly darkened.She said pitifully: "I didn't disturb you, I want you to sleep a little longer." "I woke up early." Xianyun succinctly said what happened last night.Xianyun's mother's eyes widened. Her husband's distorted personality has long been known, but she never imagined that he would become so... bloodthirsty! She trusted Xianyun very much, but she still couldn't help asking: "Did you see clearly? He is carrying a pistol?" "Absolutely!" Yuan Yuan's mother shouted angrily: "This old thing is really crazy! Don't worry, with me here, let's see who can move Yuan Yuan!" Xianyun said calmly: "Mom, I'm here to discuss this matter. I'm going to take Yuan Yuan away and stay away from Dad. But these days before we leave, we have to closely monitor each other in shifts, and we must never let Yuan Yuan go. Yuan out of our sight." Yuan Yuan's mother said firmly: "Okay. Don't worry." Xianyun looked at her mother's white hair in pain, and she dared not tell her mother her suspicion about the cause of her husband's death.The two returned to the room immediately. On the way, they discussed the precautionary measures carefully.