Chapter 57: Lin Chaosheng’s parents, who were shattered into pieces, finally got what they wanted…

Zhou Bai and Seraphina's expressions also turned bad in an instant.

Seraphina: "Who did it?"

Lin Chaosheng: "To my family. I can't contact my parents. Please send a message to them to confirm. If you can still contact them, ask them to find a way to hide. Since you are not in the Sun Chaser Tower, it should be in time."

Zhou Bai thought quickly: "My family is fine. If they hear any noise, they will run to the forest area. Ordinary people will not be able to find them. At worst, they can just stay in seclusion for a while."

Seraphina: "My sister is also fast. She's an offensive psychic, so she'll be fine."

Lin Chaosheng nodded: "That's good. I'm leaving."

He was in a very bad state, with a haggard look on his face, but his tone was extremely calm, as if he didn't feel the burning pain on his face, and he calmly arranged these things.

Zhou Bai clenched his fists.

"Apply to leave school now. I'll go with you to find your parents... No, let's go to the Sun Chaser Club first and ask them clearly."

Lin Chaosheng shook his head, his voice becoming increasingly inaudible.

"That's all. I still have some unfinished analysis of the battle logs. I'll finish it up and send it to you."

Zhou Bai: "Stop. Where are your parents now?"

Lin Chaosheng was extremely tired and his voice was barely audible.

"have no idea."

Zhou Bai said impatiently, "So you don't care anymore? Let them die?"

Lin Chaosheng wiped the blood off his face and put on his glasses.

“…I can’t help it.”

Zhou Bai couldn't stand his half-dead appearance and yelled angrily:

"So what were you doing working three jobs a day? Acting? Having nothing else to do? Just throwing money away?"

Lin Chaosheng seemed very tired. He squatted on the ground, holding his forehead heavily, and had no strength to refute.

"Let's just take it as it is."

Zhou Bai: "Stand up."

Lin Chaosheng didn't move.

Zhou Bai angrily said, "I told you to stand up! Are you dead?"

He grabbed Lin Chaosheng's collar, lifted him up, and threw him heavily against the wall.

Zhou Bai roared: "Fight me!"

He would rather Lin Chaosheng vent his anger by fighting, and it would be best if he could punch back hard.

That would at least prove that Lin Chaosheng was still alive and was a person with normal emotions, who knew how to resist and how to be angry. It was far better than the half-dead look he had now.

Lin Chaosheng moved his eyes to the side and stared at the ground, neither looking at her nor speaking.

Zhou Bai: "What's that? If I had known you were like this, I shouldn't have teamed up with you from the beginning! I despise people who abandon their families the most. Are you just going to let them be taken away by the Chao family? You don't even dare to go and fight with the Chao family?"

Lin Chaosheng's voice was hoarse.

"Take good care of Xiaoyun. I won't wake him up anymore. Remember to ask him to change the door code."

Zhou Bai roared at him unwillingly, as if he had punched cotton, and his voice echoed in the corridor.

"You still have the nerve to mention Xiaoyun! How are you going to explain this to Xiaoyun? He even asked me what gift to buy for your parents! Go tell him yourself that you don't want to care anymore and let your parents do whatever they want!"

Lin Chaosheng suddenly moved. He raised his head, gritted his teeth, stared at Zhou Bai, and suddenly swung a punch at Zhou Bai.

His emotions seemed to return to normal all of a sudden, and his chest was heaving violently.

"I've been in charge for over ten years! I can't control it anymore!"

Zhou Bai also threw a punch: "What can't I do?! If you need money and you can't take care of it, just tell me! At worst, you can find your parents and ask them to move to my house. My house is big, and it can accommodate 20 more people!"

The two men wrestled with each other, not like former teammates, but rather like enemies who wanted to kill each other, and their attacks were even more brutal than on the battlefield.

Lin Chaosheng: "Can you use your brain? My parents, two people who can't leave the house without medicine, are going to cross several star systems to come to your house? What if they die on the way? What about the pass? And the Chao family has taken them away, where can I find them!"

Zhou Bai: "Go report it to the school now! Go out and look for them. I'll go with you. I don't believe two living people can just disappear!"

Lin Chaosheng punched him hard and almost roared:

"Why not? You think you can't? My own brother, nine years older than me, died in a joint military exercise! The school didn't even offer a single word of explanation! You can't imagine what those nobles would do!"

Zhou Bai's anger was completely extinguished.

The two of them panted and were silent for a while.

After a long while, Zhou Bai finally spoke in a state of collapse:

"Why didn't you tell us anything...? You even decided to quit the team on your own, without even giving us a chance to help you!"

Nine years ago, Lin Chaosheng was ten years old. His older brother was nineteen years old and had received a scholarship to attend the First Military Academy.

In the same year, pollution broke out in my hometown and my whole family was displaced and left home.

In the same year, Lin Chaosheng's parents and nine-year-old Lin Chaosheng waited for a long time in a makeshift refugee shelter, and in the end they only received the death notice of their brother and the deceased's belongings sent in a box.

A very big box.

But there was nothing inside, just a few pieces of clothes, empty and carrying the life of a nineteen-year-old.

After his rage, Lin Chaosheng suddenly lost his temper and fell to the ground powerlessly.

The blood from the corner of his eyes blurred the ceiling.

After a long time, Lin Chaosheng murmured:

"...Is it really necessary to continue to care? How much better is living like this than being dead?"

Lin Chaosheng promised Yun Fuyu that he would take him home to visit.

But that was not something Lin Chaosheng brought up on his own initiative.

Yun Fuyu has lost his memory, and Zhou Bai occasionally tells him stories about the forest area. Yun Fuyu's eyes sparkle when he listens.

Lin Chaosheng was busy with his work while listening...but when he looked up, he found that Zhou Bai had finished speaking.

Yun Fuyu was looking at him with shining eyes, as if urging Captain Lin to talk about his childhood.

Lin Chaosheng couldn't bear to reject this look, so he selectively told him some things that happened before he was nine years old.

The disaster had not yet happened, my brother was still alive, my mother would plant flowers on the balcony, and my father would pick him up and carry him on his shoulders.

The whole family went for a walk on the beach, laughing and talking happily.

However, Lin Chaosheng did not expect that Yun Fuyu would also want to visit the place where he grew up.

Lin Chaosheng didn't know what to take him to see, and was even a little anxious about it.

The real hometown he described to Yun Fuyu had long been buried in lifeless pollution. It was a dead city by the sea, deserted and uninhabited.

The story of old friends, after a disaster, all stopped at a certain point in the past, and those who stayed behind did not move forward.

From a probabilistic point of view, he and his parents were indeed lucky, having drawn the best lottery to survive.

But survivors are not necessarily happy.

When all the children went home holding their parents' hands to celebrate the festival, Lin Chaosheng returned to a cold and lonely home.

My father has been bedridden since the disaster, spending most of his time in an unconscious coma, only waking up occasionally.

My mother was seriously ill and could not go out, so she could only take on some tailoring work, which was better than nothing.

The livelihood falls entirely on Lin Chaosheng's shoulders.

The mother always cried when looking at her brother's photo, but forced herself to smile when she saw Lin Chaosheng coming home.

Once, when Lin Chaosheng was not at home, she tried to cut her own blood vessels with a tailor's knife.

But Lin Chaosheng came back in time, and rushed her to the hospital in fear, saving her life.

She never tried again. Perhaps it was because Lin Chaosheng's voice, crying and begging her not to abandon him, was too helpless.

She didn't say it explicitly, but Lin Chaosheng felt many times that she had lived enough.

I stayed only because I had a child in the world.

So, Lin Chaosheng returned home, cleaned the house, opened the windows for ventilation, changed the light bulbs to warm yellow, and hung up new colorful holiday decorations, praying that the joyful atmosphere from the outside world could flow in a little.

But the noise was blocked out by the window, and the light in the house was dim and cold, making people feel uneasy.

Everyone in this room is trapped in the contaminated area of ​​the past.

What’s the difference between that and being dead?

Lin Chaosheng wanted to move forward, but was dragged down by the heavy weight and could not move forward.

In other words, they are actually dragging each other down.

Like people stuck in the mud, in order to reduce some pain, no one moves and just lies quietly in the mud so that they won't sink to the bottom immediately.

The shore was too far away, and no one could save themselves, let alone pull others ashore.

So all I can do is lie there lifelessly, waiting for death to come at some point.

But Lin Chaosheng didn't want to wait for death, he wanted to struggle.

He gave up the path of scientific research and chose to go to the First Military Academy, which had the fastest class advancement but was also the most dangerous.

In the past few months, he had earned enough to cover his parents' medication expenses, and even had some surplus.

This made him really think...that he had made the right choice.

But now it seems that Lin Chaosheng has completely messed things up.

He was the only person struggling in the mud, relying on countless tiny struggles to move towards the shore little by little.

The solid ground seemed within reach.

However, just one accident can bring him back to his original form.

The threat from the Chao family was like a huge rock pressing on Lin Chaosheng's back, forcing him to press his back, which was struggling to breathe, deep into the mud.

Even fate was mocking him. Lin Chaosheng was almost unable to struggle.

Anyway, from the beginning to the end, Lin Chaosheng was the only one who was unwilling to accept his fate and kept delaying and refusing to accept his fate.

So be it. Sooner or later, the mud will swallow up the whole family.

Two lifeless patients, three ghosts wandering in the world.

Yun Fuyu won't like his home.

Who would want to spend their precious vacation time in such an environment?

He hadn't thought of any reason to refuse Yun Fuyu, so he tried every possible way to persuade Yun Fuyu to go to Zhou Bai's house first without leaving any trace.

Zhou Bai's family didn't have much money, but with five members, some had quick tempers and some had slow tempers. Their lives were ordinary but lively, and they were a very warm family.

certainly.

Lin Chaosheng has quit the team, and Yun Fuyu probably never wants to see him again.

From now on, Lin Chaosheng no longer has to worry about where to take Yun Fuyu to spend the holidays.

......

Lin Chaosheng lay on the ground for a long time as if he were dead, and then he spoke slowly.

"I don't know why the Chao family wants me to quit the team. But I feel that it might be Chao Zhao's intention. Last time, he sneaked into Xiaoyun's dormitory in the middle of the night and I caught him. He acted very hostile towards me."

"Zhao Zhao is very likely a man. You must keep an eye on Xiao Yun and don't let Zhao Zhao get close to him again."

Both of their faces were covered in bruises, looking comically purple.

But the atmosphere was gloomy and no one could laugh.

There was no energy left to react to this shocking news.

After a long silence, Zhou Bai's voice trembled slightly.

"What do you mean? You're not going to participate in the joint military exercise? You're not going to live anymore? The team has finally gotten to where it is now, and you, the captain, are leaving like this. You clearly know that Chao Zhao has bad intentions—"

He punched the wall next to him, and his angry voice became weak again.

"What do you want Xiaoyun to do?"

Lin Chaosheng seemed to have been drained of all his strength. After a long time, he spoke, his voice so hoarse that it was barely audible.

"I'm sorry for him."

"Just say sorry and that's it?!"

Zhou Bai became angry again.

"That's enough."

A familiar voice trembled slightly.

Yun Fuyu stood at the stairs without knowing when.

There was a moment of silence.

Lin Chaosheng's gaze was like an electric shock, and it disappeared in an instant.

Zhou Bai and Seraphina also looked away, not daring to look at him.

Yun Fuyu's eyes were red and swollen, and he looked very tired. He held on to the wall, and his whole body was shaky.

"I'm sorry for getting you involved. I'd better quit the team."

Lin Chaosheng's tone suddenly became urgent: "No, you can't quit the team."

Yun Fuyu walked forward with his eyes downcast.

"This matter was caused by me, and I will solve it properly."

Seraphina had had enough of this depressing atmosphere.

"It hasn't come to that yet, don't even think about quitting the team yet!"

Zhou Bai's face was completely covered in bruises. At this moment, he was like a large dog who knew he was too violent. He hung his head and tried to grab Yun Fuyu's hand.

"Don't quit the team."

Lin Chaosheng opened his mouth, "Xiaoyun, I..."

Yun Fuyu looked up at Lin Chaosheng.

His usually elegant and handsome face was so swollen that I couldn't even see his features. It was really...

But Yun Fuyu couldn't smile. She struggled to raise the corners of her mouth into an arc, her brows were furrowed, and her eyes looked like she was about to cry.

Lin Chaosheng sat on the ground in a mess.

Yun Fuyu walked forward, squatted in front of him, let Lin Chaosheng's head rest on her arms, and slowly hugged him.

She moved very carefully, not wanting to hurt the scars on his face.

"It's okay, it's not your fault."

Lin Chaosheng: “…”

He grabbed Yun Fuyu's sleeve without saying a word.

It was as if he was drawing a little strength and support from Yun Fu Yu's body temperature.

Yun Fuyu: "I have already sought Lancelot's help on this matter. I will definitely resolve it. This is not your fault."

After a long time, Lin Chaosheng spoke with determination.

"No. I was wrong."

Yun Fuyu touched his head, her voice was unstable, and she felt like crying.

"You're not wrong. If I say you're not wrong, then you're not wrong."

Lin Chaosheng's breathing was trembling. After a long time, he spoke slowly with a dejected tone.

"Do you know what my first reaction was when I learned about this?"

"I was thinking, my parents finally got what they wanted. They no longer have to drag their lives around in this world because of me."

But you can sleep peacefully and soundly.

That's why Lin Chaosheng didn't dare to face Yun Fuyu.

After learning that his parents were kidnapped by the Chao family, Lin Chaosheng was filled with great panic.

Then—he realized that beneath the panic, there was an abnormal emotion.

Fortunately.

Fortunately, this unexpected incident gave my parents a push, allowing them to leave without any guilt or burden.

Yes, after all, they were forced and threatened, not that they abandoned Lin Chaosheng on their own initiative.

Isn’t it?

Anyway, they didn't want to live anymore, but were forced and threatened by Lin Chaosheng to continue their lives.

Lin Chaosheng finally no longer had to live in fear all day long. He would occasionally wake up from nightmares, in which he dreamed of being trapped on this isolated island. One day when he returned home on vacation, there were only two portraits waiting for him.

Lin Chaosheng made a judgment on himself. He wanted to make his voice calmer and more reliable, to sound more like the usual Lin Chaosheng, but he couldn't do it.

"I'm selfish and cold-hearted. I didn't care about my parents' lives just to make life easier for myself. I'm not a good person. I'm not worthy of being your teammate. I lied to you. The hometown I mentioned has long been a polluted area. I can't take you there to play. I—"

Yun Fuyu interrupted him with sobs.

"Stop talking... Stop talking. It's not your fault. It's not your fault."

Yun Fuyu hugged Lin Chaosheng tightly, repeatedly forgiving Lin Chaosheng's self-accusations, emphasizing it over and over again, as if this could change his mind and forgive the imposed sins.

Lin Chaosheng slowly raised his hand and gently hugged Yun Fuyu's waist.

It has been many years... No one has comforted him like this.

"......sorry."

The tears were wet and cool, soaking through Yun Fuyu's clothes on her chest.

Last time, they fell on the face of the unconscious Yun Fuyu.

Now it was Yun Fuyu who was holding him.

Yun Fuyu opened his mouth several times but failed to make a sound.

After calming down for a long time, he promised Lin Chaosheng with a trembling but firm voice,

"It's okay. Even if we quit the team, we're still good friends. If someone treats you badly, just tell me, I—"

Yun Fuyu's voice was choked in her throat. She wanted to continue speaking, but was blocked by tears.

I can only silently finish the unspoken words in my heart.

I will protect you as you promised to protect me.

If someone bullies you, I will beat them up.

*

The four members of the team didn't know how long they stood in the corridor in silence.

Other students passed by, looked at the four embarrassed people in confusion, and then walked away without stopping.

Yun Fuyu whispered to Lin Chaosheng,

"Lancelot said that the Chao family's behavior of threatening classmates is a serious violation of school rules. He has reported it to the school and sent someone to protect your parents. They will definitely not let anything happen to them. Don't train today. Go back to the dormitory and rest up. I will keep you updated if there is any new information."

Lin Chaosheng: "But don't the Chao family and the Fenrir family have an engagement?"

Yun Fuyu nodded: "That's right, but Lancelot said that even if we have an engagement, it won't work. He will warn Zhao Zhao not to do anything rash."

Of course, this is not what Lancelot said originally. This is the version modified by Yun Fuyu.

On the first day of school, Adrian and his friends taught Curtis a lesson for his malicious behavior and warned him not to break the rules.

Zhou Bai and Lin Chaosheng were also there at the time and saw it all.

Only by coming up with this reason will the two of them have a chance of believing it.

Yun Fuyu pushed Lin Chaosheng into the dormitory, supervised him to wash his wounds and lie on the bed, and then left.

But Zhou Bai did not leave.

Zhou Bai followed Yun Fuyu closely throughout the entire day, and only left for a while in the evening.

Before Yun Fuyu had time to change clothes and go out, Zhou Bai knocked on the door again:

"Lin Chaosheng quit the team, and I was scared, so I came to stay with you."

This lie couldn't be more crude.

He said he was afraid, but it was obvious that he was afraid that Yun Fuyu would take advantage of his inattention and run to Chao's house in the middle of the night to negotiate with Chao's family.

With Yun Fu Yu's personality, he is definitely capable of doing such a thing.

Lancelot's assistance was just Yun Fuyu's unilateral statement. Zhou Bai didn't dare to feel at ease before getting evidence.

Yun Fuyu: "...I want to be alone."

Zhou Bai: "Okay."

He turned and walked out, closing the door behind him.

Then Yun Fuyu heard Zhou Bai leaning against the door panel, his clothes rubbing against the door panel, as if he was leaning against the door panel and then sat down at the door.

Yun Fuyu: “…”

Yun Fuyu opened the door: "Zhou Bai."

Zhou Bai turned around, his face covered in bruises, but he smiled at him with his teeth bared.

The heavy stone pressing on his chest had not yet been lifted, Yun Fuyu could not laugh, and slowly squatted beside Zhou Bai.

As if anticipating what Yun Fuyu was about to say, Zhou Bai blocked his words in advance:

"Don't leave suddenly in the middle of the night. It's dangerous at night."

Yun Fuyu hugged her knees dejectedly.

"Um......"

Zhou Bai reached out and pinched Yun Fuyu's exposed slender white calves.

"Why is it so cold? You're wearing too little. Go back to bed."

But he had no intention of leaving and still stood guarding the door.

Yun Fuyu: "You go back and rest, I won't run around."

Zhou Bai: "Well, okay, you go to sleep first, I'll leave when you fall asleep."

There was no way Yun Fuyu could invite him in to squeeze in.

Because Yun Fuyu really planned to sneak into the Zhuri Society in the middle of the night to negotiate terms with Chao Zhao.

Yun Fuyu closed the door and climbed onto the bed.

He was not sleepy at all and waited quietly for half an hour without hearing any movement at the door.

Yun Fuyu tiptoed out of bed and walked to the window, being careful not to make any noise.

He lifted a corner of the curtain and cautiously peeked in.

I saw Lin Chaosheng standing under the window.

...The guarding is too strict.

Lin Chaosheng had taken a nap during the day and was not feeling sleepy now.

He had his back to the window, as if looking at the stars, and didn't notice Yun Fuyu peeking in.

Yun Fuyu quickly shrank back.

Lin Chaosheng is not so easy to fool.

If he found out that I was pretending to be asleep, the security would definitely be increased.

Yun Fuyu carefully crouched down again, walked back to the bed, and huddled back in bed.

He took out his communicator and sent a message to Chao Zhao.

"Yun Fuyu: Can you give me some more time? I can't leave for the time being."

As a result, Chao Zhao replied immediately.

"Zhao Zhao: Okay. Can baby find an opportunity tomorrow?"

Yun Fuyu: ...

Didn’t you promise to give more time? Where has the time gone?

"Yun Fuyu: I'm not sure."

"Zhao Zhao: I want to take you to do something^^ It's not a bad thing, baby, you can come without worry."

If he really believed Chao Zhao's lies, he would be the stupidest person in the world.

It doesn't look like he has good intentions.

"Yun Fuyu: You said before that you didn't want me to ask Lancelot for help, but what if Lancelot took the initiative to send me a message? If I don't reply, he will get suspicious."

Yun Fuyu was testing whether Chao Zhao had a way to monitor his communicator.

We must find out who is holding Lin Chaosheng's parents.

If they had been protected by Lancelot, Yun Fuyu would definitely, immediately, and decisively block Chao Zhao on the spot.

"Chao Zhao: Lancelot also went looking for someone, but they weren't as quick as me, and the people they found might not be Lin Chaosheng's parents^^ So I'm still more reliable."

"Yun Fuyu: What do you mean they may not be Lin Chao's biological parents?"

After a while, Chao Zhao sent a message.

This is a video shot from a first-person perspective.

The cameraman first held up the camera and greeted Lin Chaosheng's parents who were lying on the hospital bed.

Lin Chaosheng's father is still in a coma.

The mother's spirits improved a lot. She was tidying up her clothes nervously when she realized that the video had already been filmed. She waved hurriedly at the camera.

The camera moves smoothly in a circle around the room.

It is a very clean and comfortable ward. There are dense shades of trees outside the window and sunlight shines into the room, which makes people feel happy at first sight.

After showing the house, the cameraman's voice came quietly from behind the camera.

"Aren't you going to say hello to your son?"

The woman stared at the camera blankly.

"Don't be nervous, anything's fine. Lin is an excellent student at the First Military Academy, and he's applied for medical assistance from the Sun Chaser Foundation for you two. We filmed the video just to let him know he's safe."