Invade the World

  Chapter 463 Goodbye, goodbye!

  On a certain floor of the Qingjiangyuan high-rise residence, the bright sunlight shines through the glass windows, illuminating the spacious bedroom more brightly.

  Time used to stagnate here; but now, the pointer on the dial is moving forward again, which means that the girl living here is ushering in a new life.

Zhu Qingyue squatted in front of the closet and rummaged through the closet, took out all the beautiful clothes she liked and just bought, and piled them on the bed, and then took them to the floor mirror one by one to try on, and stood in front of the mirror and covered herself with the clothes , sometimes walking in circles on catwalks, sometimes twisting her waist and swaying her hips, and posing in various exaggerated poses, but she always feels dissatisfied when she picks left and right.

  Finally, the girl simply stuffed all the tried clothes into the large suitcase next to her, including several sets of brand new underwear she just bought.

   "Hmph, I can't be left behind too far."

  Zhu Qingyue took a set of unopened pure white lace underwear and gestured on her body, as if imagining what she would look like when she put it on. The girl's cheeks were flushed, but her bright eyes were shining brightly.

   "Okay, in the next few days, let's work harder and be a sneaky cat, and take food from Xingjie!"

  The squad leader tidied up all the big and small bags, and moved down the stairs with some difficulty.

  Before leaving the house, she deliberately walked to the room that had been closed for nearly ten years, and knocked on it with her fingers.

   "Then, during the time I'm away, you can stay here obediently and take care of the house for me, 'Mom'~"

  The girl was very polite and did not open the door without authorization. Even if she didn't get a response, she still waited patiently at the door.

   After a long silence, a familiar hoarse voice came from the other side of the door.

   "...Aren't you going to make me disappear completely?"

   the woman asked.

   "I may make a comeback again. As long as there are loopholes in your mind, weaknesses to be exploited, and the possibility of losing control, the struggle between you and God... and 'I' will never end."

   "That kind of thing, just killing you can solve the problem?"

  Zhu Qingyue didn't take it seriously, her tone was quite brisk.

   "Ningshen has the instinct to invade reality. Even without you, it will continue to create your 'offspring'. After all, the 'Nest Mother' is not as obedient as the one at Xingjie's house."

   "Shusha, Shasha", the woman behind the door seemed to be scratching the door panel with her fingernails, her tone gradually became more intense.

   "But at least... you don't have to see my face anymore, don't you? Zhu Qingyue, don't you hate me? Don't you want me to disappear completely in this world?"

"Hate you, what do you hate? You are a new life born in an unnatural way, a tool created by the nest mother to manipulate me, my mother was killed, and my father was driven out of this city, neither Can you decide?" Zhu Qingyue said, "From my personal point of view, I think you are very pitiful. You are obviously a new life just born, but you are forced to hurt others and even sacrifice yourself. You don't feel sad Are you sad?"

"...A child who can decide whether to be born? In this world, this kind of natural unfreedom and unfairness is everywhere. Even if I have never stepped out of this room, I still feel the common sense of this human world. understandable."

  The woman's tone suddenly calmed down again, but there was still deep suspicion in her tone, and she asked almost cautiously:

   "...you don't think it's because I still have a part of your mother in me that-"

   "You are so boring."

  Zhu Qingyue smiled.

   "Didn't you notice? You have been with me for ten years, which is actually longer than a real mother."

   "You, what are you talking about..."

"It's not interesting." She interrupted the woman inside the door, "I'm just trying to persuade you, instead of continuing to follow your instincts, you might as well work for me. Work for a supernatural monster that has no human emotions and thinking at all. , Is it better to communicate with people?"

   No longer waiting for a reply, Zhu Qingyue waved her hand towards the closed door and said goodbye with a smile.

   "Goodbye, 'Mom.' My friends are waiting for me."

  …

  The people inside the door heard the sound of dancing footsteps moving away from them, and left the house lightly and gracefully.

   "...bye, Qingyue. Have a nice trip."

  *

   "Then, I'm going to say goodbye."

  Lin Xingjie got out of the car. With her backpack on her shoulders, she looked at the alley not far away and took a deep breath.

   "Go."

  Xu Xiangyang smiled and nodded towards her.

   "You're so nervous, it's just a farewell, not to elope with us."

  Zhu Qingyue, who was sitting in the car, smiled brightly, and there were still large and small bags of luggage piled up at her feet.

  Lin Xingjie glared at her, then walked towards her house.

  Standing in front of the door that has been with her for nearly ten years, the long-haired girl suddenly realized that she felt a little strange here.

  This kind of thought made Lin Xingjie laugh; the little inexplicable nervousness disappeared.

   After knocking on the door, the tired face of a middle-aged woman appeared in front of her. Seeing that it was her daughter, Lin Suya had a surprised expression on her face.

   "Xingjie, you came to see me..."

   "Well, I came to see you."

  Lin Xingjie spoke very calmly, and she handed the bag in her hand to the other party.

   "This is a gift from me."

   "Health supplements? I'm not at this age yet."

  Lin Suya took a look at the bag, she found that her daughter was standing on the steps, she didn't seem to want to come in, and realized that the other party was not a guest, the smile on her face became stiff.

   "Just something to eat."

   "You...won't you come in and sit for a while?" Lin Suya asked hesitantly.

   "No, I'll come and see you, and I'll leave right away. There are still people waiting for me in the car."

  Lin Xingjie shook his head.

"yes…"

   "Also, you have to listen carefully to the next words."

Lin Xingjie looked directly into her mother's eyes, and her tone was very serious because she wanted to talk about a serious topic; but under her pressure, Lin Suya could only listen quietly without saying a word, the mother-daughter relationship between the two seemed to be reversed coming.

   "You don't have to worry about your job and your future life. I have already taken care of it for you. This alley may be demolished in the next few years. You can move to another place first."

  She handed Lin Suya a piece of paper with a number on it.

   "There will be no messy people to bother you anymore. If you need anything or encounter any difficulties, just call this number, and someone will help you deal with it."

  Lin Xingjie paused for a moment before saying:

   "If... if you feel lonely living alone and want to find a partner, I will not object, but remember to tell me, I will ask someone to do a background check on the other party in advance."

  Lin Suya looked at her daughter with complicated eyes.

  Although she almost never really participated in the series of events that happened later, since seeing the corpse at home, people have talked to her more than once. Although the other party's words were very vague, obviously abiding by the principle of confidentiality, the woman could still vaguely feel from their mouths that her daughter seemed to have extraordinary abilities. Nowadays, Lin Xingjie is no longer an ordinary high school student. His identity and status are not the same as in the past, and he lives in a completely different world from himself.

   "Then goodbye, Mom."

Lin Suya still felt in a trance, always feeling that all the changes happened too fast and suddenly. It took less than a year. Before she could react, it just happened... Then, she heard her daughter Saying goodbye to myself.

   "You... you want to go? Where?"

"Well, it's a trip." The long-haired girl showed a smile, and Lin Suya could tell that it was different from the serious expression when she was talking to herself. It was a bright and happy smile without any impurities. "Before the college entrance examination, we We plan to travel abroad together."

   "With your friends?"

"Um."

   After a long silence, Lin Suya said with a smile.

   "...That's good. Compared with a useless mother like me, you are more suitable to be around friends."

  In the middle of speaking, she was already choked up, her dry lips trembling slightly, as if she had a thousand words to say; while Lin Xingjie just stood in front of her, quietly watching her with a pair of dark and pure pupils.

  Lin Suya knows that as long as she speaks out, her daughter will listen patiently, no matter how many words she has to say, she is willing to wait.

   But, it's just listening. She has already found her own life, and she doesn't need herself or any outsider to tell her how to go in the future.

  So, until Lin Suya regained her emotions, all she said was farewell.

   At the last moment before parting, as any mother would do, exhort and bless her child.

   "Goodbye, Xingjie. Remember to take care of your body. Winter is not long and the weather is still a bit cold. Remember to wear more clothes."

"I know."

   "When you go out, don't eat indiscriminately, and be careful of diarrhea."

"Ok, I know."

"Go ahead."

   "Then goodbye, Mom." Lin Xingjie held the backpack behind her shoulder with one hand, turned and walked down the steps in a graceful manner, "If there is a chance, I will bring Dad back and let you meet again."

  Lin Suya who was standing by the door was stunned for a moment, almost thinking that she had heard wrong.

   "You, you mean..."

   "Assuming he's not dead, of course. That's the last thing I want to do for you both."

  The long-haired girl turned her head and smiled at her with high spirits.

   "If you have anything to say, you can talk to him face to face at that time."

  …

  Lin Xingjie left.

  Lin Suya leaned against the door frame, watching her back go away, and finally disappeared at the end of the alley.

  Parents in this world, watching their children grow up and leave their backs, what kind of mood will they have? Is it as emotional as seeing a chick flutter away from the nest for the first time?

  Every farewell is like a farewell, and the time until the next goodbye will become longer.

  As the age grows, this uneasy premonition will always accompany both parents and children until the day when they will never see each other again—

  Lin Suya always felt that she was a useless adult, but now, she felt that she was the luckiest mother in the world.

  Because the back of the child in her eyes is not so much a chick leaving the nest as a gust of free wind.

  Finally, there is no longer any shackles that can restrain the wind, and the wind can blow to any place in this world, to a new world that she can't even imagine...

   "Goodbye, Xingjie."

  *

"Let's go."

  Lin Xingjie got into the car, huddled with Zhu Qingyue in the back row, and let out a heavy breath.

   "I said, don't you have too much luggage? I can hardly sit down."

  The back row was quite spacious at first, because the trunk couldn’t hold all the luggage, so now we can only let the two girls and big bags take up space.

   "Hehe, didn't you get fat?"

   "...Let's vote now, how about throwing this woman out of the car quickly? Hey, Xu Xiangyang, what do you think?"

"Ah ha ha…"

   "Where are you going?"

   Li Qinglian in the driver's seat knocked on the steering wheel and asked with a smile.

   "Anywhere else to visit?"

  Xu Xiangyang in the passenger seat turned around and looked at the lovers in the back row. The three young men looked at each other, and finally shook their heads in unison.

   "No more, Sister Lian, let's go to the airport now!"

"it is good!"

  Li Qinglian stepped on the accelerator, and the car was speeding on the city road. After driving for a while, she seemed to have a sudden feeling, and said to the young people in the car:

   "Say goodbye here, we may not be back for a while."

   "Goodbye... I think the first person to use "goodbye" instead of "farewell" must be a genius."

  Zhu Qingyue pressed her face against the window, watching the familiar street scenery on both sides of the road being constantly left behind, like the passage of time.

  Suddenly—she had the feeling that "she was saying goodbye to something more important, invisible and intangible".

   "Because saying goodbye may not necessarily meet again, in fact, maybe we will never see each other in a lifetime, but as long as we say 'goodbye', it seems that there is still hope in the unseen future, and everything is still too late."

   When she said these words, the answer came quietly:

  —I see, I am saying goodbye to my former self...

  From this day on, we are all adults.

  The legally stipulated adulthood is at the age of eighteen, but no one can be enlightened at the moment of reaching the age, and can immediately understand the so-called sense of responsibility of "becoming an adult".

   To really grow up, you need experience, you need to comprehend, and you need to say goodbye to your school days and ignorant youth.

  The time when this day comes is different for everyone. Some are greeted early, others later.

   Then, she heard the boy answer her like this:

   “It’s human-made. When we say ‘goodbye’, we shall see each other again.”

  …

Goodbye.

   Say goodbye to this city, say goodbye to the people and life in the past, and say goodbye to the youth train that never turns back. Until we actually see it again, at that time, it will drive in our direction.

  (end of this chapter)