307 Homecoming Train (Eleven)
The rain has stopped
Lu Yuan dreamed of her mother for the first time in a long time.
It was a very long and deep corridor, much like one of the old houses of the Lu family, with old-fashioned decoration, most of the furniture was made of wood, and each room looked almost the same. In the dream, the corridor was so deep that it seemed as if there was no end in sight.
Lu Yuan walked barefoot on the thick carpet, and she moved forward as if she was guided by something.
Suddenly, she stopped and felt an inexplicable urge in her heart. This is it.
The double doors were ajar, and rustling sounds came from inside. Lu Yuan approached cautiously and looked inside. She could recognize the figure just by looking at the back. It was her mother, Liu Yu.
Liu Yu had her back to her, wearing a silver-gray satin nightgown, with her hair loose. It was unclear whether she had taken a shower and not dried it or had been caught in the rain, but her waist-length hair was dripping with water, leaving a puddle on the edge of the stool. Liu Yu was barefoot in the water.
This room is really wet. Liu Yu is clearly in the room, but Lu Yuan doesn't dare to move forward. In her impression, her mother is so weak and fragile, and this side of her is rarely seen.
In the dream, Liu Yu was like a water ghost. Lu Yuan knew that she shouldn't comment on her mother like that, but that was the fact.
Liu Yu did nothing. She just sat in front of the dressing table. She didn't know if she was possessed or sleepwalking. Lu Yuan had been here for a minute, but Liu Yu hadn't moved at all.
Normally, Lu Yuan would move forward quickly when she saw her mother. Even if it was a mother in a dream, it was rare for her. But she didn't know how to get along with her mother at her age.
Lu Yuan held her breath as low as she could and suddenly realized a problem. There was a mirror on the dressing table and Liu Yu was sitting facing it. There was no shadow of Liu Yu on the mirror, but her own shadow was reflected instead. She had been exposed long ago.
Liu Yu is her mother, Lu Yuan should not be afraid of her. At this moment, she was extremely frightened, and a voice in her heart urged her to leave quickly.
On the mottled mirror, past Liu Yu's back, Lu Yuan's face was reflected in a corner of the mirror. She was hiding behind the door, with only half of her face exposed. Lu Yuan just stared at herself in the mirror.
Lu Yuan in the mirror had delicate features, soft black hair loose, and was wearing a white pajamas, but her expression was extremely indifferent. Her dark and cold eyes moved and looked over coldly.
Lu Yuan was shocked and actually frightened by herself in the mirror. The strong feeling of being stared at seemed to say, I am staring at you, you have been marked by me.
Liu Yu didn't look back, or even move, like a corpse, because the focus was not on Liu Yu, but on her.
Lu Yuan intuitively felt that she was being watched by a pair of eyes. Her mother was not her umbrella of protection, but rather a trigger.
The damp and cold feeling was so real, as if it penetrated her pores and mixed with her own blood.
Lu Yuan tried to tear, to pull away those sticky and cold things. In her dream, she was completely stiff and unable to move, but in reality, she waved her arms vigorously.
call--
Lu Yuan woke up with a start. When she opened her eyes, a drop of water hit her eyeball. It was so cold that it made her shiver.
She had just escaped from a nightmare, and when she opened her eyes she saw such a strange scene. Tiny water droplets rose in the air and were distributed above her bed.
She had seen rain and fog, but never this kind of scene. The tiny water droplets were suspended in the air, free from the influence of gravity. To put it in an analogy, it was like pollution spores.
After the contaminated area was purified, blood-red spores spread out, just like now, except that the contaminated spores in her room were transparent.
But the water droplets did not last long. When Lu Yuan blinked, the water droplets suddenly fell from mid-air.
Lu Yuan did not dodge, so the fine water droplets splashed all over her face and covered the surface of her skin. The touch was somewhat similar to that in her dream, both cold and sticky.
But this should be just ordinary water, because it quickly becomes warm after coming into contact with the skin, and is almost the same temperature as the human body.
After being drenched, she woke up completely. She had been feeling that her body was becoming increasingly strange recently. Lu Yuan resonated with the water droplets, as if she could sense all the water vapor under the sun. She once remotely controlled a glass of water when she lost control.
Lu Yuan always heard crazy mumblings, which became more and more complicated. She wanted to listen, but she couldn't understand the details at all. She could only understand some kind of thoughts. It seemed that the creatures outside the wall were calling her out.
Meanwhile, the Lu family's house was becoming increasingly humid. Last night, Lu Yao's personal assistant even murmured in confusion, "Why is the house so humid lately?"
She didn't know how long she could hide her abnormality, and what would happen if she was discovered.
Lu Yuan curled up her knees, trying to dispel the dream. The Liu Yu in the dream was too different from the mother in her memory. She didn't dare to admit that it was her mother. Lu Yuan opened and closed her eyes, but the dream was already etched in her mind and could not be erased.
Lu Yuan looked to the north and saw only the Lu family garden, not the high wall at all. Once, Liu Yu and her younger self had tried to break through the northern wall.
Lu Yuan buried her face in her knees. Zhu Ning went out of the north wall and contacted her once before going out, but there was no news from her since then. Did she see the place her mother longed for?
…
On the Homecoming.
After Pei Shu awakened his memory, his first reaction was that Liu Yu had been outside the wall and boarded the Homecoming Ship.
But Liu Yu is a natural person. Based on Pei Shu's experience, even if a professional team is hired to escort her, she will not survive long outside the wall.
Liu Yu got on the Homecoming and got off safely. From her light tone, it seemed that the Homecoming was not dangerous at all.
Either she herself or her team possesses extremely powerful mind control, or water-related abilities. However, Zhu Ning said that his water-related abilities are not very effective, so the person should be stronger than Zhu Ning. They should be the source of life, and all the water sources in the world will be under her control.
This configuration can only be achieved in theory. It is questionable whether there are such people in reality. People with special abilities are pollutants who maintain their rationality, and their abilities have an upper limit compared to real pollutants.
Besides, as the wife of a chaebol, why would Liu Yu cheat on her husband instead of enjoying her life?
Or, a more bizarre association, is it that Liu Yu got off the Homecoming?
Pei Shu looked at the water ghosts standing not far away, standing grimly. They were moving at the same speed as the water and continued to approach them. Just as Zhu Ning had judged, the closer to the rear of the car the more water there was. The water ghosts had only been standing in the water stains before, but now the water had submerged their ankles. Only thoughts could fight against the water ghosts, and the water ghosts probably fed on thoughts.
Is Liu Yu one of them?
No, maybe Liu Yu just heard it, it was just a piece of news. I guess a chaebol wife was interested in the outside world, and many people came forward to tell her stories, and then she told it to her children. We can't make such a direct inference.
But Pei Shu recalled Liu Yu's expression when she described what happened outside the wall. There was a gentle smile on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were bright as she looked towards the north, as if that was not a dangerous place and was safe and comfortable for her.
To be more precise, it's like... homesickness.
If that's the case, how did she get to the Kingdom of God? Does the Lu family head know?
Pei Shu did not know the real Liu Yu. He only knew that Liu Yu had been giving birth to children in the last few years before her death, and finally committed suicide because she could not bear the pain of childbirth.
If the Lu family also knew about this, was she reproducing voluntarily or was she forced to do so? Were they working together?
The child that the Lu family threw away was really a defective product, and Lu Yuan, who stayed behind, was the successful one?
Successful...what creature?
Zhu Ning once said that the eldest lady was contaminated, which was why Pei Shu was willing to cheat. But what if Lu Yuan was not contaminated, but it was hereditary?
Pei Shu stood up and his first reaction was to inform Zhu Ning. Zhu Ning was more familiar with Lu Yuan and might have new news. It would be best if they could go to the dining car to talk. If he couldn't speak, he could slowly type to tell her.
But he stopped again. What was the point? The biggest problem now was how to get off.
Liu Yu's description of the Homecoming Express only explained how to get on the train, but did not explain how to crack it, or perhaps the train was simply impossible to crack.
Pei Shu stood up and then slowly sat down again, trying to recall more details, but Liu Yu and he were not even an acquaintance.
Qi Xueliu next to him looked at Pei Shu in confusion. He suddenly stood up excitedly. She thought he had come up with a good idea, but then she saw him sit down dejectedly, like a unlucky guy who had faced reality.
Qi Xueliu sighed, knowing that there was little hope for improvement, and typed on the deputy brain: Take turns to rest, and those on guard will watch the station.
This is not a solution. Several people are highly nervous and may be more easily contaminated. One person must be left on duty to watch how close the water ghost is approaching and at the same time keep an eye on the station and remind them when they arrive.
Originally, they boarded the Homecoming just to hitchhike. If it hadn't rained, they could have avoided the water ghosts and apple snails and might have actually reached their destination safely.
Their team was just unlucky. Not only did they encounter a heavy rainstorm, but they also encountered looters looking for things. Qi Xueliu didn't even see where the urn ended up.
It is normal to take twenty to thirty hours on a long-distance train. Duoluo Station is not that far away and it is a supply station. If you are lucky, you can get there before being killed by water ghosts.
Qi Xueliu handed the sub-brain to Pei Shu and Lin Xiaofeng. They both had no objection. Qi Xueliu went to sleep first. She was the only mind controller and needed to conserve her energy.
Qi Xueliu didn't refuse and fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes. It was Pei Shu's first round of guard duty. During his shift, he passed through six stations, none of which was Duoluo Station. The Homecoming Express was designed to pass through more stations, and it was more roundabout than the traditional route.
Pei Shu's mind was empty at the end of his thinking. He couldn't think at all, let alone recall. Even thinking stopped.
Later, Lin Xiaofeng came to take over the shift. When the handover took place, there were fewer and fewer dry places in their carriage, and more and more water ghosts. But it seemed that the increase stopped after reaching a certain number, and the water ghosts also stood more dispersed.
They moved once, but there were more dry areas in cars 4 and 5, so they couldn't crack the area and could only avoid the water ghosts.
Pei Shu was sleeping against the carriage, listening to the rumbling noise, but he was not actually asleep. In a daze, he felt someone pushing him.
He woke up suddenly, thinking that a water ghost was right in front of him. Qi Xueliu and Lin Xiaofeng both woke up and pointed outside the window.
Pei Shu squinted his eyes subconsciously, as if a blind man saw the light for the first time. It was already dawn outside the window. In the distance, there were mountains surrounding him, and golden light was shining on the mountainside, layer upon layer.
There are no mountains inside the wall, only man-made rockeries. In comparison, they cannot be called mountains, but can only be regarded as small earthen slopes. Not to mention watching the sunrise from the side of the mountain, which is a blessing only people in the old world can have.
The golden light grew brighter and brighter on the mountainside, so hot that people couldn't take their eyes off it.
When Lin Xiaofeng saw it for the first time, he forgot to breathe. The train rushed forward, leaving behind the dilapidated houses and the bridge, but it never left the sun and the mountains behind, as if the mountains had been silently watching them.
Suddenly, the edge of the mountain shook. Lin Xiaofeng blinked, thinking that he had a mental problem and was hallucinating.
But the shaking of the mountainside became more and more obvious. The lush trees were shaking, small rocks were rolling down the mountain, and the birds living on the mountain were flapping their wings and flying away.
The mountain actually moved.
It seemed like a living thing. When it moved, the sunrise was looming behind the mountain. The mountain did not move fast, but moved forward slowly, like a snail carrying its shell on its back.
The mountains are like giants, as if they are chasing the sun. But when you look closely, you feel that the mountains have nothing to do with the sunrise. It seems that the mountains are walking on their own and migrating towards somewhere.
Wild geese fly south, but do the mountains outside the wall also migrate?
They don't know where the mountain is going or what it is doing. In the face of nature, they are just observers.
The three of them forgot their situation and became like real travelers, witnessing a rare and spectacular scene of mountain and river migration. Their worries were pushed aside, and the breath that had been pent up in their hearts was temporarily relieved.
They were so engrossed in watching that Qi Xueliu was suddenly shocked. She lowered her head and typed on her secondary computer: The rain has stopped.
Before they knew it, the rainstorm stopped, the sky brightened, and they were still alive.
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