Invade the World

   Chapter 349 "Thank you, Mom. Goodbye, Mom."

   In the middle of the night, Zhu Qingyue opened her eyes.

  The clock hanging on the wall shows that the current time is before twelve o'clock in the evening.

   She was not awakened by anyone, but the biological clock that she set for herself before going to bed was working.

  The girl sat up straight from the bed and stared at the large TV screen in front of her, which was covered by the shadows in the room. She was in a trance for a while.

   Familiar screen.

   is very similar to the TV at home.

   I’m afraid it will also receive the same signal and broadcast the same program…

   She just had such an idea, and she obviously didn't pick up the remote control at hand, but a familiar faint light flickered in the room - from the black and white screen, and the familiar program sound.

It was a singing and dancing party. The host and hostess were broadcasting the program with enthusiasm. The audience was applauding enthusiastically, and then there was the music on the background stage. …

  Yes, this is it.

Every time Zhu Qingyue came home, she could find her mother sitting on the sofa in her living room watching TV; and she seemed to be watching the same program every day, endlessly and repeatedly playing the same day and at the same time. programme-

   But how is this possible?

   Did you ignore something?

   The girl's beautiful eyebrows are now twisted together. She raised her palm and covered her forehead, the sticky touch of cold sweat coming from her palm.

With the rapid breathing resounding in her ears, Zhu Qingyue moved her palms from her forehead to her chest, feeling the intense beating of her heart under her chest, which made her feel that she was indeed living in the real world. , so the surrounding environment returned to normal.

  The room with only one person was silent, like a deep sea. Of course, the TV screen in front of him has never been turned on, and in the dull darkness, due to the reflection of the light source from the surroundings, a flash of bright silver occasionally glides, like a human eye.

   Forget it, in fact, these are not important anymore.

   It's been enough that she pretended not to see, but actually didn't want to see it.

   In that closed home…

   In the past that stood still.

  Zhu Qingyue put on his coat, got off the bed, put on his shoes, adjusted his instrument in front of the vanity mirror, and then pushed open the door.

  Empty corridors are lit with warm yellow lights. She walked to the next room and put her ear to the door, feeling as if she could hear her lover's breathing through the thick door panel, so she became calm and peaceful.

   She turned back and walked to another suite farther away, and did the same thing; then, Zhu Qingyue circled around a lot, came to the elevator, and pressed the button.

  *

  Just like that, Zhu Qingyue returned to her home.

   It's not that no one stopped her in the middle, but those who dare to do something to her will not end well. Zhu Qingyue was originally going there. If she encounters Long Po on the way and is stopped by the other party, she has no choice but to give up her plan to go out and return home... But for some reason, that person did not appear.

   Maybe something else? After all, it is an eventful time, and everyone is very busy. It is very likely that Long Po was silently paying attention to herself somewhere, thinking that it would be a good thing for them that she could leave Xingjie's side. The other party is not even worried that he will tip off.

  Although she didn't have this idea either. When she went home, it was nothing more than a premonition that a huge change was coming, and she did it.

   It was nearly midnight, and there were no buses or taxis on the road, so Zhu Qingyue returned home slowly all the way, and recklessly used her superpowers to help herself on the way.

The gardens, gate entrances, elevators, and corridors that are so familiar that they can no longer be familiar may be because of a different time point and a different perspective on things. Unseen strangers.

   "Tread, step, step."

   The elevator door clattered open, and the soles of the shoes collided with the tiled floor regularly, extending from one end to the other. When the sound stopped, Zhu Qingyue was already standing at the door of her house.

   She raised her hand, bent her fingers, and tapped politely.

   "Mom, are you at home?"

   No one answered.

  Zhu Qingyue sighed softly with a "sigh".

   "Sorry, I asked something stupid. Where can you go when you're not at home. You can't go out anyway, right?"

   Zhu Qingyue said as she was about to take out the key from her pocket to open the door, but she couldn't find it after searching for a long time.

   "I've been running around for the past two days, and I don't know where the key is."

  While she was distressed, the door in front of her made a creak, and Wufeng opened automatically.

  Zhu Qingyue was stunned for a moment.

   There were no lights on in the hallway, there was a faint light coming from the living room, and there was a slight noise from the TV broadcast.

as always.

  Zhu Qingyue stood there for a while. Then she took off her shoes and walked through the door.

   But she didn't go further, didn't turn on the light, just stood on tiptoe and looked inside, confirming that the slender figure was indeed sitting on the sofa.

   At that moment, the girl seemed to have lost her strength, knelt down softly, and leaned her head against the door panel beside her.

   "Thank you, Mom, for being with me all the time."

   Zhu Qingyue whispered.

"I'm a willful kid, I always knew that. It wasn't until I made friends that I realized how bad and hateful my character was. No matter how much I liked them and valued them, I couldn't help but want to take from them. Emotions that I shouldn't have, I'm afraid of being abandoned, so I try to tie myself to them, even if it hurts each other."

"So when I realized who I was, I kept thinking, I must be asking for something from someone before that. My longing for someone to love me is almost endless...and then I understood, that person is you, mother. Even if you die, I will not let you go, because I am so greedy."

   "Yes, my daughter, I exist for you."

  Zhu Qingyue lowered her head and heard her mother's hoarse voice ringing in her ears. The hoarse voice was accompanied by a rustling sound, not like a human being, but more like billions of flying insects flapping their wings, layer upon layer.

"I've always been with you. Because deep down in your heart, you feel that you can't live alone without me, that's why 'I' is here—" The mother's voice became closer , closer, and drilled into the auricle like a demon, "But now, do you want to abandon me?"

  Zhu Qingyue subconsciously bit her lip, blood dripped from her cherry-colored lips, and pain appeared on her snow-white cheeks.

  …

   All the while, she has made one thing wrong.

  I have taken care of my sick mother in bed since I was a child, and I also have to take into account my academic efforts to be a perfect top student in the eyes of teachers and students, shoulder the dual responsibilities of family and school, and work hard where others can’t see it. Sometimes it feels too hard and can't hold on, but even when she was a little girl, even when she hid in the bed and cried silently every night, she never really gave up, and she persisted until today.

  Although she doesn't say it, Zhu Qingyue is always proud of her life. She thinks she is an excellent daughter, a strong girl, who knows what it means to give, and also what love is.

   However, the real fact is that it is not a mother who needs her care, but she herself needs the existence of a "mother";

   Therefore, there is such a home: a closed room where time has never flown.

   "—If only I could have amnesia."

  Zhu Qingyue looked at the ground quietly, a pair of bright and clear eyes flowing with gorgeous eyes. She blinked hard to keep the tears from actually falling, and took a deep breath, her voice choked.

   "Like a character in a TV series or a novel who has a sad experience, because he was too sad, he forgot about the past, so he wouldn't be as sad as he is now..."

  Unfortunately, Zhu Qingyue remembered everything clearly.

   She just tried to force herself not to look at it until one day she got used to it and even believed it to herself.

   In other words, Zhu Qingyue pretended to be a person who had amnesia in childhood, forgetting that her mother was dead, and forgetting the scene at home was just an illusion; but she never really forgot. The memory has always tormented her will in the depths of her heart, and every minute of the past ten years has never stopped for a moment.

   Until this door was opened by an outsider, and the free wind flowed into it, she had no choice but to look at the truth again.

   "However, I thought you were my hallucination."

  Zhu Qingyue stretched out her hand, trying to touch the invisible face in the air.

   "It was only after I met the other side of the world that I realized that you are a 'thing' created by my ability? What should I call you, evil spirit, or..."

   She forced herself to smile.

   "It doesn't matter anymore."

   The mother who was standing in front of her replied softly.

   "Well, yeah, it's not important anymore..."

   "The important thing is, Qingyue, you have deceived yourself to the point where you are now, and then you point out that all of this is fake. What is it for?"

  Mother seemed to mock her condescendingly, but her hoarse tone revealed a different kind of gentleness.

"Where do you want to go? No matter who you're hiding from, you don't have to hide what you've created with your own hands, right? Because in a sense, 'I' is you, and there's no point in hiding it. So, Tell Mom, what exactly do you want?"

   "What I want is..."

   "Ah, I know. I know the answer." The mother said grimly, "You want to leave me, you want to abandon your only family member, abandon your mother. Just like your father."

   The last sentence was like a heavy hammer, hitting her heart viciously, completely shattering the disguise on her face.

   "No, no!" Zhu Qingyue said loudly. "I won't leave you, even, even if you are—!"

   Even if she knew the truth from the beginning, she couldn't say "you are fake, you don't exist". Because the mother and daughter have lived with each other for ten years, she has been with her for ten years; she has spent thousands of days and nights with her "mother".

   "—then will you stay with me in this home? Forever?"

  “…”

   Silence.

   aimless, boundless silence.

"…I see."

   After wandering for thousands of days and nights, she gave the final answer.

  …

   After that, the mother and daughter, who had a harmonious relationship again, leaned against the door and chatted about their recent lives. Naturally, they talked most about their close friends.

   This time, Qingyue's mother no longer complained, no longer said "I don't like them", just smiled and said:

   "I know that such a day will come soon, but I still feel a little unwilling. My daughter has a man she likes, but in my eyes, you are still so young..."

   "You are too lenient. I am a high school student. This kind of thing is normal. Everyone talks about not falling in love early. In fact, when I meet someone I like, how can I hold back."

   "What about the love triangle? You fell in love with the same man as your best friend. You guys are in a TV show."

   "Oh, there's nothing I can do if I like this kind of thing, and I can't control it. Anyway, the matter is settled satisfactorily now, so you can leave it alone."

"I do want to control it. Unfortunately, under my name in various social files is 'Dead', and I don't even have an account for a long time, so I can't control it. Even if my daughter is deceived by a scumbag, or even deceived Going to get married and have children, I can only watch and worry."

   "Pfft."

   "You're still laughing! Is it that funny?"

   "I'm sorry, but it was really funny when you said that you had passed away..."

   At this moment, suddenly and without warning—a tremor crept up Zhu Qingyue's back, and her face changed immediately.

   Right behind her, in the middle of the city, something is erupting!

   Familiar taste. Is Xingjie's ability out of control again... but the severity is worse than before, and she even feels an inexplicable fear from it.

   That feeling, as if she was standing on the port trestle, behind the huge waves set off by the tsunami, about to engulf the entire coast;

   Or standing at the foot of the volcano to take pictures of the village scenery, unaware that behind you are the lava sprayed into the sky, the black mist lingering in the mountains, and the burning clouds that burn the entire sky.

  —The end is coming.

  Some kind of huge, monstrous object is rising into the sky, like a bomb buried deep in the sky, and like a fireworks blooming in the night sky, unparalleled but unstoppable.

  Reality is about to overturn, and people living in this world don’t yet know anything about it.

  Zhu Qingyue did not turn her head to look. She stared into her mother's worried eyes, and once again couldn't help laughing out loud.

   Her laughter grew louder and louder until the tears could no longer stop, and crystal tears overflowed from the corners of her eyes.

   "Mama, Mama!" she exclaimed, "Did you see, this is the end!"

The false veil of    was lifted, and the naked and extremely painful truth was gradually revealed in front of the girl, crying and laughing, tears streaming down her face.

"mother…"

   Confused, she closed her eyes and shouted softly.

   Then, the girl felt something sticking out of the invisible darkness.

   Like being embraced by a pair of warm arms, Zhu Qingyue felt relieved for a while. Deja Vu, like going back to the day when the ability was awakened; like going back to…

   Back to the day when my mother was still there.

  …

  I don't know how long it has been.

  Zhu Qingyue calmed down again. She looked up and saw that there was no one in front of her, and the door was closed.

   She supported her body to stand up from the ground, and pressed her forehead to the door. The girl's drooping eyes were filled with nostalgia, and she murmured in an inaudible voice:

   "Sorry, I have one last thing to do."

   "Will you come back again?"

   "Well, I will."

   "Goodbye then, Qingyue. I wish you all the best and hope you can save your friend. I wish you happiness."

   "Thank you, Mom. Goodbye, Mom."

   She turned and left, striding forward in the direction of destruction.

   (end of this chapter)