Chapter 14: Stillness Before finding the next meaning of living...

The lights were flickering, the music was heard from far away, every drumbeat fell into Ji He's ears, and the whistling sound of the wind seemed to stop at this moment.

No one had ever been so close to him before. Even when Dean Ji was applying medicine to him, he would not be as close as he was now.

Ji He looked at the man blankly and heard him say to him, "Are you scared?"

The young man in front of me was about sixteen or seventeen years old, with eyes as bright as stars and a natural nobleness between his brows that was not extinguished but rather revived in the darkness.

"I……"

His throat was choked and he suddenly lost the ability to organize words. His heart had never been beating so fast before and he curled up in the boy's arms, trembling.

"How dare you climb so high when you are so timid?"

The young man looked composed, with a hint of playfulness in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows that was not offensive. His voice was slightly deeper than that of his peers, and was very pleasing to the ear.

Ji He's pupils shrank, and only the young man remained in his eyes. The fluttering corner of the other's clothes was like a butterfly, flying and flying, and accidentally drilled into his heart.

The colorful streamers tied to the trees fluttered before our eyes, redrawing the shape of the wind.

The young man held Ji He tightly, tapped his toes lightly, and the branches of the ancient tree bent slightly, and the two of them landed steadily on the stone platform under the tree.

The two lanterns hanging under the tree fluttered in the wind.

The light fell on the face of the godly boy, who was incredibly handsome.

"elder brother."

Alpha raised his eyebrows slightly. This title reminded him of Lingyue. His brows relaxed naturally and he became more patient with this mischievous child.

"Thank you, brother."

The boy let go of the child, not knowing that by doing so he had saved the child who was about to commit suicide.

If he knew that the child was determined to die, he might not have intervened.

It’s just that the twists and turns in this world are always interconnected.

Ji He couldn't stop shaking all over, but his hands were still tightly holding the stranger's waist.

"It's all right now."

The young man looked at the trembling child and reached out to touch his hair, which was very soft.

Ji He raised his head. It was a small, white face, not even as big as half the size of Alpha's palm.

A pair of big, round eyes that flashed a clear light, somewhat timid and somewhat stubborn.

Although the child's clothes were old, they were very clean and the places that were prone to friction were patched.

When Alpha hugged him just now, he smelled a faint fragrance, like the scent of some plant fruit.

"Where are your parents?"

Ji He shook his head, bit his lip and said nothing.

Alpha had a quarrel with his father and came to look for his uncle. He happened to meet his uncle who was out for inspection, so he followed him to the planet Tong.

His father, mother, and sister traveled to another planet together and simply didn't invite him.

He was an Alpha cadet and a federal military reservist, and he served as his uncle's bodyguard.

"Did you have a fight with your parents?"

The young man wanted to say something to reconcile the couple, but then he remembered that he had just had an argument with his father and he really didn't have the face to say such words, so he gave up.

Ji He still shook his head and reached out to touch the strange boy's hand.

Instead of avoiding him, he shook his hand back.

Ji He's hands were very small and were held tightly.

The two walked to the office of the new government. Ji He was a little scared and kept hiding behind the boy.

The man in uniform pushed the door and entered the conference room. When he saw the two, one big and one small, he was stunned for two seconds and turned to ask his nephew.

"Who is this child?"

"have no idea."

"He almost fell off the roof during the festival, and I caught him."

The man raised his eyes lazily, glanced at Ji He's clothes, and said nothing.

Ji He half-closed his eyes, leaned against the other person, drowsy, his little hands still grasping the corner of the other person's clothes.

Until the end of the festival, no one came to look for Ji He. The child clung to the boy, looking like he was afraid of being left behind.

It looks so pitiful.

"Yu Bai, I just spoke to your father. When are you going to bow your head?"

The man turned his back, smoked a cigarette, and slowly advised: "Don't be so willful."

Seeing the smoke swirling in front of him, the young man stretched out his hand to cover the face of the child leaning on his shoulder and whispered, "I don't want to join the federal military."

The man shook off the cigarette ash, coughed twice as if he was choked by the smoke, and looked sharply at his nephew who was in his rebellious period.

"The 13th Federal Committee will be re-elected soon, and the Huo family must occupy a seat. In the past, it was your father, and in the future, it will be you."

"Your father has spent so many years, and you are an S-class Alpha picked from thousands. You must not let them down."

Huo Yubai bit his lower lip. He knew what his uncle said, but no one had asked him what he really wanted to do.

"Uncle, don't I have any other way to go?"

"I also have things I want to do and my own life."

The man was silent for a while, then said, "When you become Huo Yubai, this is your only path."

"The life you have is something that others can't even dream of."

"Don't be so willful."

The man threw the half-burnt cigarette butt on the ground, crushed the sparks with his leather shoes, and walked out.

The boy slowly put down his hand and glanced at the child who was sleeping soundly, without noticing that the child's eyelids were trembling slightly.

Ji He was already awake. He was often teased in the middle of the night in the orphanage, so he would wake up at the slightest noise.

Only this time, what awaits Ji He is not snakes, insects, rats or ants, nor a basin of cool water, but a conversation between a man and a boy.

He didn't understand any of this at the time and only remembered his brother's name, which was three nice-sounding characters when put together - Huo Yubai.

Ji He closed his eyes, silently repeated these three words in his mind, and then really fell asleep.

When he woke up, he saw Dean Ji standing by his bed.

"How did you climb up to the roof last night? If someone hadn't happened to pass by, you would have fallen to your death. It's very dangerous, don't you know?"

Ji Mingtang was mumbling while copying scriptures under the light of day.

Ji He blinked and reached out to touch the woman's face.

It's not my own illusion.

"sorry."

Ji Mingtang nodded, sighed, and said, "I really don't know what's going on in your little head."

After Ji He woke up, he put on what he thought were the best clothes and wanted to look for the brother he had seen last night.

As soon as he walked out of the orphanage, he ran into the bad kids who had bullied him before.

"Hey, isn't this a little bitch?"

"I'm not." Ji He frowned and tried hard to look fierce.

The fat boy who was in the lead was pushed to the ground by Ji He a few days ago, so he called several friends and wanted to teach this fatherless and motherless bastard a lesson.

"Who says it's not? Your mother is a bitch, so you are a little bitch."

Ji He clenched his fist angrily and raised his hand to hit the guy. The fat boy couldn't dodge and was hit in the stomach.

"Come on, kill this little bastard!"

The little fat boy covered his stomach, and the feather earrings on his ears shook along with him.

Ji He's hands and feet were firmly restrained, and his body was twisting like a fish out of water.

The little fat boy sat down on his waist, lifted the hem of his shirt, and touched his fair skin.

It's so smooth, like jelly.

As expected, she is the same kind of person as her mother, a born slut.

"Let me go!"

Ji He yelled, he felt the fat boy taking off his pants.

Suddenly, some unbearable images flashed through my mind. It was the mother being pressed down by the patron and screaming miserably.

Ji He struggled violently, and when one of the men who had grabbed his feet wasn't paying attention, he bent his legs and used his knees to push away the fat guy who was sitting astride him.

The fat boy was caught off guard by this sudden attack and he randomly punched the opponent's stomach near the waist two or three times.

Time slowed down to a standstill.

The fat boy was having a great time fighting when his fat wrist was suddenly clamped tightly by a big hand.

The other person was a bit bigger, between a teenager and a young man, with a handsome but cold face.

"Get lost now."

When the bad boys saw the federal civil servant's uniform on him, they felt that it didn't match his age, but they still got scared and ran away.

"Are you okay?"

Ji He lay on his back on the narrow gravel road. The rough stones hurt his back and made his clothes gray, although they were not originally very bright in color.

He imitated other children and said softly: "Brother, it hurts..."

Ji He tried to cry, but found that he couldn't.

The boy pulled the child up and checked him. Apart from the redness and swelling on his waist, there was no major problem with other parts of his body.

He took the child to the infirmary, and the doctor on duty was not there. He picked up a bottle of wound spray and lifted the child's shirt, revealing his slender waist.

If I didn't spray the medicine, the swollen areas would definitely turn into purple-black bruises.

“It might hurt a little.”

Ji He gritted his teeth and nodded.

The boy pressed the spray bottle twice, but there didn't seem to be much left. The spray that should have appeared as an even mist looked more like a water column for some reason.

The slightly cool liquid sprayed on Ji He's waist, causing him to shiver unconsciously and almost cry out.

The boy opposite him had no expression on his face and asked calmly, "Why did they bully you?"

"I have no idea."

"Don't your parents care?"

"I don't have any parents."

The boy frowned slightly and whispered "sorry".

"I can teach you the grappling punch, but it can only be used to defend yourself."

Ji He heard the other party's words clearly, nodded, and asked: "Is my brother a soldier?"

The young man just shook his head. He was still just a student in the Federal Military Academy.

"But, in the future, it will be."

"I wish I were like you." Ji He grimaced in pain and almost bit his tongue as he spoke.

Although he didn't want to die that badly, he didn't want to live that badly either, so he wanted to ask himself an answer.

"Brother, why do people live?"

In the past, it was rare for people to live for a hundred years, but now people can live for two or three hundred years. For Ji He, this is actually an extended punishment.

I don’t know why I live, and I don’t know how I should live.

After a long silence, Ji Hedu did not hear the other party's answer and silently lowered his head.

Just when he thought the other party would not answer, a deep and pleasant voice sounded.

"Do you want to be like me?"

Ji He nodded.

"Then until you find the next meaning of life, consider me as your motivation to live."