Xiao Fei...

This name made Dong Chengling slightly absent-minded. She walked to the balcony, opened the French window, and let the cool night breeze blow into the house.

"I thought you, Ren Suo, preferred to keep cats."

Dong Chengling turned around and looked at him, smiling, "You can't keep cats and birds together."

"Wrong, I don't like raising cats." Ren Suo shook his head. It was fine before he didn't have "Cat Evolution", but after he obtained "Cat Evolution" from "Spirit of the Devouring World", in addition to characteristics such as physical agility, optimized sleep, and easy to be patted on the head, the most important thing is that he will automatically be approached by cats and understand what cats are saying.

He used to think 'meow meow meow' was cute, but now he understands and knows that these meows mean: 'My balls are itchy', 'My balls are so dirty, I need to lick them clean', 'Hahaha, this idiot human is very happy when I scold him'.

All beauty comes from distance, just like no matter how beautiful a girl is, she cannot escape the cycle of life and death, unless she is a paper man.

Dong Chengling sat next to Ren Suo and asked, "Why do you suddenly want to talk to me about this?"

Because he had just gotten some information from the game and wanted to test it out. Of course, Ren Suo couldn't tell the truth, so he said, "I suddenly wanted to talk to you about this. There's no reason."

"That's great." Dong Chengling leaned sideways, propping up his chin with his palm, looking somewhat sad: "Maybe this is... telepathy?"

Telepathic? Ren Suo was slightly startled. What? You are also a bird?

"When I was in junior high school, I spent all my summer vacations in my hometown." Dong Chengling pressed her left hand on the glass coffee table, and her slender fingers tapped on the glass as she spoke, making pleasant sounds like playing a piano - the sounds were made with just the fingertips, and no one could beat her with such strength.

"I usually leave my hometown these two days and go back to the city to study. Every time at this time, my grandfather always makes a lot of things, fried, salt-baked, and dried, and stuffs them into my hands for me to take back... He always wants me to grow white and fat."

"I was also a left-behind child when I was young. My parents worked in the city and had no time to take care of me. It was my grandparents who took care of me. Later, my grandmother passed away. When my parents came back to pay their respects, they took me to the city to study."

"When my grandfather took me out when I was a child, he would definitely bring Xiaofei with him. Xiaofei was a bird he raised. I don't know what species it was, but I only remember that its calls were weak and it flew with great effort, as if it was very old. But my grandfather called it Xiaofei and said it used to fly as fast as an airplane - it seemed as if my grandfather had never left his hometown in his entire life and had never even taken a train."

"My grandfather and I were very close. Every year at this time, I would dream of returning to my hometown and seeing my grandfather lying on a bamboo chair at the doorway out of the sun, teasing Xiaofei as he used to do. Xiaofei would respond to him with weak chirps... But my grandfather passed away when I was in high school."

Ren Suo had anticipated this turn of events and asked, "What about Xiao Fei?"

"I don't know. It disappeared after grandpa died. But it's too old, and it's been raised by grandpa since it was a child. It has no ability to survive..." Dong Chengling stretched out his finger in the air, as if there was a bird there: "Maybe it went with grandpa."

Ren Suo was silent. He didn't know what to say now. As someone who had never experienced the separation of life and death, anything he said would be weak and empty. Finally, he blurted out: "Your grandfather must be happy for you now."

"Maybe." Dong Chengling looked at Ren Suo and smiled, "Ren Suo, you suddenly said that you wanted to raise a bird and name it Xiaofei. I was really surprised because I just happened to recall my grandfather and Xiaofei these two days..."

Ren Suo's heart trembled, and he said quickly: "This is telepathy!"

"Yes." Dong Chengling nodded: "I have never told anyone else, and you don't know my parents... It's great that you can listen to my thoughts."

The response of Dong Cheng Ling: "One heart".

Ren Suo blinked and looked at Dong Chengling. The two looked at each other and fell silent for a moment.

Just when Ren Suo was about to feel something, Dong Chengling said, "You know, Ren Suo, human ability has its limits..."

This sentence instantly pulled Ren Suo out of the ambiguous atmosphere: "Huh?"

"The only thing I have learned in my short life is... the harder you work, the more you will find that human ability has its limits... unless you surpass humans."

“No matter how powerful you are, or how beautiful you are, you cannot defeat the laws of nature, birth, aging, sickness and death, and the passage of time.

If a person is burned to ashes, the composition is similar to apatite. After millions of years, won't it enter the cycle of nature early and leave no trace? Is there really any meaning to a short life?"

Ren Suo was stunned for a moment: "Is there?"

"Of course." Dong Chengling smiled and said, "Why do we worship our ancestors and remember them?

Why do we hold a hundred-day banquet for a newborn and celebrate birthdays every year?

Why do humans need to exchange body fluids to reproduce, invite friends and family to witness the ceremony, and go to the government to register and get a certificate?

Because of life and death, time, separation and reunion, and inheritance, humans have endowed them with sufficient meaning little by little over thousands of years. Although these things are invisible and intangible, and of little use in normal times, a person's short life is different from a pile of apatite or a tombstone because of these "meanings".

But the meaningful apatite can still be blown away by the wind; and the tombstone with words on it is still a piece of stone. "

Dong Chengling looked at Ren Suo and said seriously, "You know what? What makes me happiest tonight is that you have been promoted to the second level. Because this means that you have caught up."

I have already determined my own path, and for this, I am willing to give up many "meanings" in life. Because those "meanings" are gifts prepared by human beings for their short lives of no more than a hundred years, and I believe that when I can reach the end of the road, there will be a more "meaningful" future waiting for me. "

But I would also be happy if there were like-minded people walking side by side with me. Although I don’t know whether I will succeed in surpassing humans or become a pile of apatite when I reach the end of the road, even if I fail, I can blame the world for my failure without being angry at myself. ”

A like-minded person, right?

Of course, even though Ren Suo was busy with lotteries, playing games, studying for papers, and using rewards to improve his qualifications, he knew that he was a good and hardworking monk.

Most importantly, he heard Dong Chengling’s response: “Fellow traveler.”

"I will follow you and catch up with you soon." Ren Suo said confidently and without thinking twice.

"That's a deal."

Dong Chengling leaned on Ren Suo's shoulder and whispered, "I just finished practicing... Let me lean on you for a while."

"Can."

Dong Chengling’s response: “Feeling relaxed and reliable.”

Ren Suo guessed that Dong Chengling probably had never told anyone the reason why she practiced hard. Now that she had told Ren Suo the secret in her heart, she naturally felt relaxed and it was normal for her to want to find someone to lean on.

After a moment, Ren Suo heard a voice in his heart:

"Found the key."

"Key is asleep, start getting it."

She fell asleep, Ren Suo thought for a moment, picked up Dong Chengling - she was surprisingly light - and carried her into her room. Then, according to Ren Suo's habit, he turned on the air conditioner in the room and covered Dong Chengling with a quilt. She would definitely have a good sleep now.

Ren Suo gently placed his hand on Dong Chengling's arm, waited for a few minutes, and then quietly left.

When Ren Suo left and closed the door, Dong Chengling slowly opened his eyes, curled up in the quilt like a little bear, turned sideways to look at the stool where Ren Suo had just sat, with a smile on his face, his dimples showing, and he made a meaningless "hum" sound.

Ren Suo was stunned when he walked downstairs:

"Negative emotions from Dong Chengling, +10"

All the bonded people who were related to Ren Suo, their negative emotions were notified to Ren Suo, so that he could immediately know whether his actions just now had any adverse effects - otherwise why would Ren Suo dare to be so arrogant to Kuang Tu? It was because the latter was easy to bully!

But he just left without doing anything, so why would Dong Chengling still be a little dissatisfied?

Because he was too shocked, Ren Suo didn't notice the black bell approaching secretly. By the time he noticed a dark shadow appearing in the corner of his eye, it was too late -

"Fuck you, you dead cat—"

"Boss, Boss, I was wrong—"

"Negative emotions from Ren Suo, +233"