43. Longsheng(1/2)
Zhou Sheng said: "So in this way, he can guess the pain in his heart. Get up and let's go to the rooftop."
Zhou Sheng reached out to Yu Hao. He wore black finger-blind gloves and pulled Yu Hao up strongly. He walked up the hotel rooftop along the stairs on the third floor. From here, he could see most of the rainforest. Yu Hao saw clearly that in the center of the rainforest, under the dim sky, there was a huge waterfall.
On the other side of the waterfall is a surrounded area, which seems to be a stone city.
"That's a pyramid in South America." Zhou Sheng said suspiciously, "Maybe it is also a tourist attraction they have visited. I'm not familiar with these. What do you feel when you look at this world of consciousness?"
Yu Hao stood under the dark sky, and the clouds formed heavy pressure, and fires were caught from all directions. The sky frequently lowered the Heavenly Fire God's Punishment, and fires were caught in many forests, burning in lightning.
"It's collapsing." This is Yu Hao's first feeling, "Why are there so many lightning? I remember that Shi Ni's dream also appeared."
Zhou Sheng said: "Lightning represents the anger of the master. He is destroying his own world of consciousness. Those lightnings are the release of Kaikai's emotions."
Yu Hao said: "He is destroying his own world?"
Zhou Sheng said calmly: "Yes, this is the key."
Yu Hao suddenly turned his head and looked at Zhou Sheng. Zhou Sheng looked into the distance and said, "He has realized that he is about to lose control."
Yu Hao remembered the jaguar covered in asphalt, covering himself and murmured: "So he set these fires himself! He wanted to burn the monsters here to death! Where is he?"
Zhou Sheng said: "This place is too big. As long as he hides into the forest, no one can find him. He can only let him come out by himself. Are you sure that when you appear, you are really not in his safe haven?"
Yu Hao replied: "I'm very sure! It's impossible for someone to use that suspension bridge as a safe haven!"
"Where is nearby?" Zhou Sheng said.
Yu Hao narrowed his eyes and Zhou Sheng said: "Theoretically, safe havens can also be destroyed by themselves."
Yu Hao: "What?! You have never told me this!"
Zhou Sheng said calmly: "Suppose a person is determined not to seek shelter from now on and give up the only safe haven, then this place will temporarily disappear or be destroyed in the world of consciousness. Is this the truth?"
Yu Hao instantly remembered the ruins he saw when he ran across the suspension bridge.
"You have to find a way to help him build the safe haven again, and then call him to the safe haven and wait." Zhou Sheng said, "Otherwise, it will bring back his memories and let him return to this hotel. Only when he appears by himself can we find this guy... Yu Hao, he is about to wake up."
The surrounding scenery began to fade, and the distant mountains gradually distorted, disappearing in the air like fog. This was the first time Yu Hao saw the whole process of waking up from the boundary of the subconscious mind towards the center point, the whole world disappeared rapidly.
The time to enter the rainforest world was very short. Perhaps it was because Chen Yekai had insomnia for a long time and did not fall asleep until dawn. Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng also waited by the Golden Crow Wheel for a long time.
This caused them not to be long before they looked for the whereabouts of Chen Yekai who was left in their dreams.
"Are you okay?" Zhou Sheng raised his hand, and a golden light shone in his hand, saying, "I'm ready to get up for breakfast."
"What will happen if the master pops up?" Yu Hao asked.
"It won't be like that." Zhou Sheng said, "I'll have a headache when I wake up, and I feel like I'm suddenly awakened by a quarrel halfway through sleep."
No wonder Zhou Sheng always sleeps on the table. Yu Hao suddenly notices a noise in the rain forest and says, "What is that?"
Zhou Sheng turned his head and found something wrong.
In the hidden areas of the tropical rainforest, dull footsteps came, and trees collapsed along the way, as if they were cleared out a way.
"Come to us." Yu Hao said.
"Like a big thing," said Zhou Sheng, "the speed is getting faster and faster, but you don't have to worry about it now."
The path of the behemoth hidden in the rainforest was very clear, heading straight towards the small hotel where the two of them were. Zhou Sheng said: "Next time you come in, be ready for battle, and it will depend on you in reality!"
At the same time, the dream world that was constantly disappearing spread to the place where the two stood. Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng disappeared at the same time with a "buzz" sound. The sky, the earth, the rainforest, and the Iguazu Falls all evaporated, harvesting into a small dot like the collapse of the universe.
——Chen Yekai woke up from his dream.
He sighed, surrounded by messy sealed cardboard boxes and dust. He lay quietly, looked at the ceiling blankly, turned over, and curled up on the sofa. For some reason, countless pasts flashed in dreams like a lantern in the night.
The dirty and messy hotel, the naked body, the young man's fair skin, the tangled body, and the heavy breathing. What impressed Chen Yekai that afternoon was the most impressive thing about Long Sheng's rosy lips and white teeth, as well as the warm and stimulating feeling of his body.
Their sweat was almost wet the sheets, and outside the window, the sunlight flowing in from behind the dense leaves and dark curtains shone on his naked back, as dazzling as a dream.
They had loved each other so much that Chen Yekai lost the whole world outside in a trance. That year, he was twenty-one and he tried to make love with a 19-year-old boy for the first time. This was also the first time in his life. When Long Sheng looked at him, he was like watching a sun that belonged only to him.
Chen Yekai also controlled himself and suppressed himself, trying to build an embankment to block the unreasonable feelings, but it finally collapsed. The moment of collapse was like the Iguazu Falls, whistling down from all directions, releasing all his emotions. Chen Yekai fucked him frantically, just like the moment when it burst into Longsheng's body. He didn't even believe that his heart could accommodate such intense and vast love. Until now, the surging feelings were still within reach.
"What do you like me?" Chen Yekai also asked Long Sheng.
Long Sheng thought for a long time, and finally answered him seriously in a sentence of Spanish. Later, Chen Yekai asked several people, and everyone's reaction was the same, and they laughed so hard that they refused to answer.
Later, a Chinese student replied to him with a smile. The slang has several meanings in Spanish, but he was sure that Longsheng's meaning was translated into Chinese, which was: "There is a great skill." Chen Yekai's face suddenly turned red.
After thinking about the past four years after losing Longsheng, it was like it happened yesterday. Every detail, every sentence, even the feeling of the sunlight behind the curtain shining on his naked back, mixed with sweat kisses, was still extremely real.
The doorbell rang twice.
"Here you come." Chen Yekai whispered.
The doorbell rings again.
"Here you come!"
Chen Yekai replied exhaustedly, picked up the water cup beside the sofa, drank the remaining water, and went to open the door. Several couriers waited at the door, took his cardboard box downstairs, handed the order, and asked him to sign.
Chen Yekai stood in front of the door for a while.
Just as the door was about to close, he supported the door frame with one hand, and then slowly pushed open the door, showing Yu Hao's pale and uneasy face.
"Good morning." Yu Hao said.
"Good morning." Chen Yekai whispered. From Yu Hao's expression, he realized that his condition was a bit bad today. He hurriedly wiped his face with his hands and turned to wash.
Yu Hao came uninvited and went to the side to open the curtains. With a "slam", the dazzling sunlight shone into the empty dormitory.
Yu Hao pulled all the curtains, and the sunlight burned Chen Yekai's soul. He resisted it with his hands and gradually adapted to the warm sun in late spring. After lowering his head to wash, Chen Yekai unscrewed the hot water, bowed to wash his hair in front of the sink. The hot water flowed through his ears and into his eyes. He reached out and grabbed it a few times, and Yu Hao handed him a towel.
"Thank you." Chen Yekai put his passport into his backpack.
Yu Hao pulled open the chair and sat down at the dining table.
"Have you had breakfast?" Chen Yekai said.
Yu Hao didn't answer, but just looked at Chen Yekai quietly.
Chen Yekai replied, "What to drink?" He realized immediately and said, "The coffee machine has been sent away."
Yu Hao looked at the empty dormitory. He and Chen Yekai sat on both sides of the dining table. In the empty world, there was only sunshine. Chen Yekai never looked at Yu Hao, but only stared at the table.
"Do you have nothing to say?" Yu Hao said suddenly.
Chen Yekai replied: "The plane at twelve to fifty, I thought of finding you again at 9:30 and saying goodbye to you, it's because you've come too early."
Yu Hao: "What if I have a class?"
Chen Yekai: "You didn't have classes all day today."
Yu Hao: "What if I go out?"
Chen Yekai: "You won't leave school. You will pay attention to your phone and wait for my news all day today."
After a simple conversation, the two of them calmed down again. Chen Yekai smiled sadly and said, "Thank you really that night."
Yu Hao couldn't help but joke: "You're welcome, this tablecloth is pretty good." After all, when the two met today, they just stared at the tablecloth in a daze.
Chen Yekai knew Yu Hao's meaning, and laughed when he heard this. He had handsome eyebrows, a contagious smile, and a very shallow dimples. Even if Yu Hao didn't feel moved by him, he felt that it was very happy to see a handsome guy like this. If he had such an older brother, it should be very proud of him.
The two looked at the tablecloth on the dining table together, and Chen Yekai said: "A person with great skills is like a magician. He grabbed the tablecloth and pulled it cleanly. Everything on the table is still there, but the tablecloth is gone."
"Does it mean to be in love?" Yu Hao said.
"A life, a memory, is it all." Chen Yekai finally looked at Yu Hao and said, "Yu Hao."
"The world is far wider than you think. After leaving campus and entering society, I believe you will meet people who like you and you also like. This road is difficult, but it is not as difficult as you imagine. The important thing is not to torture yourself."
Yu Hao's heart was pounding. He knew that Chen Yekai must have seen that he liked Zhou Sheng.
"Teacher Chen." Yu Hao looked at Chen Yekai, "Can I ask a question? Why did you resign? Can you tell me the truth?"
After a brief silence, Chen Yekai replied: "Because there are too many things in this life that I cannot change. It makes me gradually realize that it is not just a change of environment, everything can start from scratch."
"For example?" Yu Hao said, and tried his best to suppress the truth about the Liang Jinmin incident that Zhou Sheng asked him to ask.
Chen Yekai said: "For example, Nakagawa Ryusheng, have you heard of this name?"
Yu Hao: "!!!"
Yu Hao didn't expect that Chen Yekai would actually raise this question on his own initiative, and immediately became nervous. Chen Yekai smiled and said, "It's okay, I can't hide it. Did you search me online?"
Yu Hao looked confused and said, "No."
It was Chen Yekai's turn now and it was a little surprised.
What Yu Hao was most worried about was not entirely Long Sheng, but Chen Yekai's excessive behavior of holding the scalpel that night, but Chen Yekai obviously didn't want to mention it anymore, and it was quite dangerous to fall into such a mental state.
"No?"
Yu Hao recalled the past and said, "Yes, I remembered it, I searched it, but I only found your English name is Nikcy, which used to be... the Chinese school grass of Columbia University."
"It's been several years ago." Chen Yekai replied, "That was when I was still in my undergraduate degree."
"There is really nothing else." Yu Hao took out his cell phone and searched for Chen Yekai to see. Chen Yekai smiled and waved his hand, saying, "I believe in you."
"Who is Longsheng?" Yu Hao said.
After the words came, the doorbell suddenly rang. Yu Hao got up and opened the door. Zhou Sheng came in with McDonald's breakfast. Chen Yekai seemed to have guessed it a long time ago and smiled: "Why didn't you come? It turned out that you went to buy breakfast."
To be continued...