"My parents are still alive …" I sat on the sofa, my body trembling as tears gushed out of my eyes.
After a while, I finally calmed down. I took out my phone and looked at the time. It was already past ten o'clock.
I got up and walked to the bathroom. I looked at myself in the mirror. My eyes were slightly red, but apart from that, there was nothing unusual.
I washed my face with cold water, and my confused mind finally became clear.
Heart-glimpsing was to dig out the deepest fear in one's heart and restore it.
Unlike an illusion, the heart-glimpsing spell could not be broken. It was like a movie. If the time limit was 100 minutes, there would be no missing a second of the plot. The person who activated the heart-glimpsing rune would become a character in the movie. He would not be able to leave before the movie ended.
I knew that activating the heart-glimpsing rune was not a simple illusion. To be exact, it was a process of testing one's heart. Since I could not leave, I could only choose to blend in. However, I still had no idea what the heart-glimpsing rune was trying to test me. How would I pass the test? I could only let nature take its course and let the plot develop.
"Xiao Hei?" I called out softly, but there was no response.
"Xiao Hei!" I called out again. This time, I even tried to communicate with him through my consciousness. However, the message that I sent seemed to be stuck in a swamp. There was no response at all.
My reliable Goldfinger still did not respond. I panicked and tried to use my consciousness to look into my body. However, I realized that I could not do that either.
I tried to summon Bloody, Bai, and the rest, but there was no response.
"It can't be!" My heart skipped a beat. Something bad was about to happen.
I tried to activate my Life Power again, but I could not sense any Life Power in my body at all. There was no response from telekinesis, and I could not summon telekinetic daggers either. His Saber Intent, which had already broken through to the fifth level, could not be activated at all …
"Witchcraft …" I tried to summon the Book of Sorcerer Dao with my last hope. However, the result was the same. All the power in my body fell into a dead silence. I had completely turned into a powerless, ordinary person.
The feeling of losing power made me panic. I did not feel like this even when I encountered the Virtual God's arm and the giant king sea monster. Because at that time, I knew that some things were within my control, but now, everything is out of control.
"If the heart-glimpsing rune creates another gigantic sea king or Virtual God arm in such a situation, I'll definitely die." This was my biggest worry. I had no idea what the heart-glimpsing rune was going to do next.
"Forget it. Since we're already in this situation, we can only follow the plot." I sighed helplessly. Looking at myself in the mirror, I felt a little absent-minded. This face was already rather unfamiliar. After all, I had been using a different body for the past two years.
Perhaps it was because he had changed his body, but he didn't bring his original body with him.
After staring at myself for a while, I shook my head to get rid of the strange feeling. I tidied up my clothes and walked out of the bathroom.
After leaving the house, I took a taxi and went straight to my parents' place.
I couldn't wait to see the two elders that I hadn't seen for many years. In my memory, my parents were still young. Now, I was already a twenty-five-year-old young man. I wondered how they would look like now.
Half an hour later, the taxi stopped at the entrance of the old residential area. I had not returned to this residential area for many years.
I was even more nervous when I was close to home …
When I reached the entrance of the residential area, my strange feeling rose again. Tears welled up in my eyes, and the anxiety in my heart grew stronger.
I didn't know what to say when I saw them, but I couldn't reveal too many flaws. I took two deep breaths to calm myself down. Finally, I plucked up my courage and stepped into the residential area.
A few minutes later, I appeared at the entrance of the old residential area. The door was a new anti-theft door, but the couplet was the one from my memory.
"A treasured sword is sharpened through sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold."
The horizontal words were, "Winter goes, and spring comes."
I had written this couplet the year my grandmother had passed away. It was also a message I had written to myself. However, I could still recognize my own handwriting. The one in front of me wasn't the one I had written. It was the one I had bought.
The memories of the past became clearer in my mind.
I stood at the door and prepared my words. Then, I raised my hand and pressed the doorbell.
After a while, the door opened, and a figure slowly appeared in front of me.
My mind instantly went blank. I had forgotten all the words I had just thought of. All I could see was the middle-aged man in front of me.
My father's appearance hadn't changed much. He had just put on some weight, and his hair was a little white. I recognized him at first glance. I couldn't move my feet anymore. My lips moved a few times, but I couldn't make a sound. I could only feel a warm current in my eyes.
"Hold it in, hold it in!" I desperately told myself to suppress my emotions.
"You're back." My father looked at me with a smile. However, he quickly noticed my abnormality. "What's wrong?"
"Dad!" My consciousness was finally pulled back by the familiar voice. I forcefully held back my tears, but my body couldn't help but walk forward and hug my father. I couldn't help but blurt out, "Dad, I missed you."
"What's wrong, silly child?" My father was obviously stunned. Even though I was half a head taller than him, he still extended his hand and rubbed my head.
After I calmed down, I immediately let go of my father. "I'm fine. Where's my mom?"
"She's in the kitchen, cutting vegetables." My father looked at me in confusion.
I avoided his eyes and headed to the kitchen. My mother was wearing an apron and sitting on a small stool. She was bending over to pick vegetables. She broke the leaves and threw them into the plastic bucket.
Noticing the figure at the kitchen door, she lifted her head and looked at me.
"You're back?" My mother lifted her head and smiled at me.
My mother had gotten a little thinner, and there were wrinkles at the corners of her eyes. Although her face wasn't the same as the young one in my memory, it gradually overlapped with my memory.
"Mom." I calmed down and walked to my mother. I squatted down and helped her cut vegetables.
"Alright, go and talk to your grandma. I'll take care of this," my mother said quickly.
"Grandma?" I stopped what I was doing when I heard her call me that. "Where's grandma?"
"She's watching TV in her bedroom. Recently, she's been watching 'Choosing Heaven' or something. She's been watching TV every day," my mother said with a smile.
"I'll go and see her." I immediately stood up. I really didn't expect that my grandma was still alive in this world.
At the door of my grandma's bedroom, I saw the white-haired old woman. She sat on a wooden chair and stared at the TV. She didn't seem to notice my existence at all.
Although I only saw half of her face, my emotions started to fluctuate again. It was this old woman who had supported the family by herself after my father's death. She had raised me from the age of thirteen to eighteen. Unfortunately, she had passed away before I could start working. I didn't get to enjoy a single day of happiness.
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