The darkness was as silent as the sea under the night sky. There was no sound, but it seemed like the undercurrent was surging. The silhouettes in the house were vague and vague, but there was no warmth.
Atsu was not in this house.
Lu Chen sat silently for a while, then slowly stood up.
Darkness surrounded him and rolled around him without a sound.
Lu Chen looked around and saw everything that should have been in the house, except for the black dog with a lame hind leg. He was silent, his eyes shining faintly in the darkness. After a while, he walked to the back of the house, squatted down, and saw that the small dog hole that had appeared because of the earthquake was still there.
Everything was the same as usual, but Atsu, who would come back to sleep every night, was gone.
Lu Chen stared at the dog hole for a moment, then suddenly stood up and strode to the door. With a squeak, the door was pulled open by him. In an instant, the darkness of the night outside the house rushed in like a flood. It was a deep night outside, a night where no light could be seen.
The silent, empty land was unusually desolate that night.
The cold wind swept past, blowing across his face. There was a trace of coldness that seemed to seep into his flesh.
The night was bleak.
…
At dawn the next day, when the first ray of morning light shone into the house through the gap in the window, Lu Chen, who was sitting by the bed, raised his eyes and looked at the ray of dawn.
There was a trace of coldness in the warmth of the morning light, as if the chill from last night had not completely dissipated. But after a while, when the sun rose, all the darkness and coldness would disappear.
He sat in the house all night, but Atsu still did not come back.
Lu Chen's face did not show much fatigue, but his eyes were a little cold.
When the sun rose, the Kunlun Party seemed to have just woken up from last night's sleep. Many people opened their doors and went out. Lu Chen was among them, beginning a new day.
He walked with a calm expression, without anxiety or panic, without exhaustion or impatience. Just like in the past, he quietly walked toward the spiritual field that belonged to him in the Flowing Fragrance Garden.
At the entrance of the Grass Garden, he met many Odd Job Disciples with the same status as him. Everyone was acquainted with each other and greeted him with smiles.
Lu Chen did the same. As if nothing had happened, he smiled and nodded at the people around him.
Just as he was about to enter the entrance of the grass garden, He Changsheng walked past him and turned his head to look at him. Lu Chen also turned to look at him. Their gazes met, and He Changsheng smiled. He said indifferently and with a hint of alienation, "Morning."
Lu Chen nodded and said, "Morning."
After exchanging greetings, the two of them parted ways and walked towards their respective spiritual fields. However, after walking a few feet, Lu Chen's footsteps paused. He turned around and looked at He Changsheng's back as he walked away. He stared deeply at him.
…
The day passed peacefully and peacefully. When dusk came, the Odd Job Disciples in the Flowing Fragrance Garden began to pack their things and prepare to go back.
Lu Chen left the spiritual field and walked outside. On the way home, intentionally or unintentionally, he took a longer detour and walked past the spiritual field that was newly assigned to He Changsheng.
The spiritual field was empty.
He Changsheng, who had always been diligent and willing to work, seemed to have left early on this day. Looking at the empty spiritual field, Lu Chen frowned and then left in silence.
On the way back from the Meadow Garden, he fell behind everyone. The afterglow of the setting sun cast a slanted shadow on the ground. When he could already see his house in the distance, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.
He stared at his shadow on the ground for a while, then turned around and walked in another direction.
Unlike the living quarters of the Odd Job Disciples on Rock Mountain, the treatment of the Odd Job Disciples in the Flowing Fragrance Garden was much better. It was probably because the Odd Job Disciples who were able to come here were much more useful than ordinary people. Therefore, most of the Odd Job Disciples had their own rooms, and they were not close to each other.
Lu Chen did not spend much effort to find He Changsheng's residence. When he walked around the house, he knew that there was no one in the house. He Changsheng had not returned yet.
He turned his head to look at the setting sun, then walked to the side and sat down under a big tree.
Not long after, when the sky gradually darkened, the shadow of the big tree moved over and covered his figure, making it look a little blurry.
He waited here for a long time.
It was not until the sky turned completely dark and the moon began to rise into the night sky that a figure walked quickly in the distance.
That person's pace was not fast, but it seemed very relaxed. He was even humming a little song that others could not understand from time to time, as if he was in a very good mood.
When he came close, with the help of the light, he could see that this person was He Changsheng.
He obviously didn't notice Lu Chen sitting in the shadow of a tree by the side of the road. He just walked on smugly, and just like that, he walked past. And Lu Chen did not open his mouth to stop him. He just silently hid in the dark shadows, looking at He Changsheng's back with a cold gaze.
…
The night passed peacefully.
Lu Chen lay on his bed, quietly watching the darkness in the house until the sky brightened again.
That night, Atsu still did not return.
Early in the morning, Lu Chen, like the other Odd Job Disciples, got up, washed up, and went out. His cold expression disappeared the moment he opened the door, and then he warmly greeted the people around him, joked, and walked together to the Flowing Fragrance Garden.
At the entrance of the garden, he saw a few people walking in front of him. One of them slowed down, turned around, and greeted Lu Chen and the others with a smile.
That was He Changsheng.
When the sunlight shone on his face, he saw Lu Chen with a smile, and then a concerned smile appeared on his face. He said to Lu Chen with a smile, "Good morning … Hey, why do you look a little haggard, did you not sleep well last night?"
Lu Chen was surprised, turned his head to look at the people around him, and said, "It can't be, do I not look awake?"
The people around him laughed and shook their heads, and said, "Not at all, you look very energetic."
Lu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and said to He Changsheng with a smile, "You scared me, actually I slept well last night."
The smile on He Changsheng's face seemed to freeze for a moment, then he nodded, and said, "That's a good thing." With that, he turned around and walked into the garden.
Lu Chen joked with his friends next to him, but his gaze followed He Changsheng's back, and in the depths of his eyes, there was a faint flash of a dark flame.
It was another normal and peaceful day. At noon, Lu Chen left his own spirit field, and walked around the garden. When he passed by He Changsheng's spirit field, he found that there was no one there.
The spirit herbs in the spirit field looked a little listless, and the weeds at the side were growing a little too vigorously, as if they hadn't been taken care of for a long time. Lu Chen looked at this scene indifferently, and after standing beside the spirit field for a moment, he turned around and left.
Everything seemed to be a repeat of yesterday. At dusk, Lu Chen once again came to He Changsheng's room, and after confirming that there was no one in the room, he sat down in the same position as yesterday, and began to wait patiently.
Night fell, and there were no stars and no moon. This night seemed to be darker than usual.
A cold wind blew in the mountains, and it seemed to be a bit chilly.
The branches and leaves on the large trees shook, and the dark shadows swayed continuously. He sat in the darkness, as if he had already become one with the shadows.
This night, he waited a little longer than the night before, and even when it was almost the midnight of the curfew, he saw He Changsheng's figure return from the road in the distance.
But today, he seemed to be different from yesterday. He didn't have that kind of light footsteps and happy mood. As He Changsheng walked over, he let out a few angry curses from time to time. It was unknown what he was cursing, but he even looked a little flustered and exasperated.
When he walked closer, Lu Chen could even see that there were a few more tears on He Changsheng's clothes, and there were also some vague dark marks, which looked like … blood stains.
"Bastard … bastard … motherf * cker … are all … bastards …" He kept on cursing, and the expression on his face was the same as he gnashed his teeth, as if he wanted to cut someone into a thousand pieces with a deep hatred.
Then, cursing and swearing, he walked back to his room.
The night wind blew coldly.
The leaves rustled.
Lu Chen's gaze seemed to ignite a flame in the shadows, a dark, silent flame! He stared coldly at He Changsheng's back, but until he walked back to his room, he still didn't move.
After a while, he stood up, turned around, and walked into the deeper darkness, disappearing.
… …
This night, the wind was strong, and the night was cold.
Lu Chen lay on his bed in his room, surrounded by darkness. Even though it was late at night, he did not feel sleepy at all. He opened his eyes and stared at the seemingly endless darkness around him. Beside his hand, the darkness seemed to be particularly thick, as though it were nurturing something strange. It twisted and turned silently, and occasionally, a flash of light would flash by, before disappearing in the blink of an eye.
In the silence of the night, it was as though there was only loneliness left in the world.
At this moment, Lu Chen felt as though he could hear his own heartbeat.
It was eerily quiet.
Until … a soft voice suddenly floated over from somewhere in the dark night.
It came with the wind.
It was soft and soft, almost like a gasp, almost like a soft hum. Little by little, it approached, and struggled.
In the darkness, Lu Chen suddenly sat up. His eyes shone brightly, and he turned to look at the door.
The night wind blew coldly.
Somewhere in the darkness outside the door, there was suddenly a soft sound. It sounded like a sigh, and yet it also sounded like a call. It sounded like a strange Yin spirit, emitting a hair-raising low cry in the middle of the night.
Lu Chen got off the bed, strode to the door, and yanked it open.
The darkness surged over like a tidal wave, and it completely swallowed his entire body with the force to topple mountains and overturn seas.
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