Good Brothers
Lang Feng's face was covered with tears, and no one knew where he had been before he was arrested. His face was dark, which made his eyes, which had been washed with water, look particularly bright.
"Wait!" Li Zhu ran over.
When I looked closer, I realized it wasn't an illusion or a mistake.
Lang Feng's crying voice got stuck in his throat, and he stared blankly at the person in front of him.
The face was 50% similar to his brother's, and he was about the same height, but thinner and paler, with slightly longer and fluffy hair.
But he just had a familiar feeling.
Li Zhu didn't have time to explain too much and said to the staff, "I'm a quick-crossing bureau, and he's my good brother in the small world. Can I take him back?"
"Of course you can, but you need to undergo a mental evaluation first and wear a collar." The staff member did not blindly believe it and asked Li Zhu to show his ID to prove his identity.
Li Zhu opened the bracelet on his wrist and found his work ID.
After confirming everything was correct, the staff member continued, "The evaluation will take about two hours. You can go back and wait. Come back tomorrow."
Lang Feng was confused by what he heard. The only thing he was sure of was that the man in front of him, who looked a bit like his brother, said he was his friend.
"Brother, please save me, I'm really not crazy!"
Li Zhu looked at him speechlessly and said to the staff, "Can I wait at the shelter?"
"Sure." After the man answered, he winked at his colleague and dragged Lang Feng directly into the gate.
Lang Feng's eyes were filled with fear, as if he was about to enter not a shelter but a hell where people are eaten.
This makeshift shelter was a training facility that had been evacuated urgently. Bunk beds were placed in every classroom. Hearing the noise in the hallway, many people in the rooms came to the door and looked out through the small glass windows.
The mental hospital has a strong sense of confinement.
Lang Feng was reluctantly pushed into a room with a desk. The evaluator was wearing a white coat and looking at him with a scrutinizing gaze.
Half of the wall of this office facing outwards was made of glass. After standing in the corridor and watching for a while, Li Zhu understood why Lang Feng was forced to wear a straitjacket.
I don't know what the evaluator said, but he stood up suddenly, holding his head with his hands and turning around anxiously.
Then he fell to his knees and cried bitterly, shaking his head and shouting.
Several times the guards standing behind him wanted to take action.
Halfway through the conversation, the evaluator suddenly looked outside.
Li Zhu was stunned. Wasn't this the psychological counselor from the Administration? And he clearly recognized him.
No wonder Lang Feng was so excited. Coach Shu must have told him everything.
In addition to testing Lang Feng's mental and psychological state face-to-face, this assessment also helped him sort out his current situation. An hour and a half later, he was taken out of the office and sent to a room equipped with mental health monitoring equipment.
The appraiser walked over to Li Zhu and said, "The person who brought him in told me that you knew him. I guessed he was a friend you met in the small world, so I told him the truth."
Li Zhu did not blame him for acting on his own initiative and said thank you.
"I was just wondering how to explain it to him. This is good now. You can even help him with his counseling."
"He accepted it faster than I thought." Teacher Shu said, "I'll take him for a walk when we get out to help him adjust his mood."
"Okay." Li Zhu smiled at him.
His relationship with his colleagues has always been indifferent and lukewarm.
After get off work, he likes to lock himself at home, isolated from the outside world, and rarely participates in group activities.
There is a big difference in personality and small world.
Lang Feng got off the testing machine and was also put on a thin black collar. When he learned that it was used to monitor and control him, he frowned irritably and hung his head.
After listening to the popular science explanation from the instructor, he clearly realized that he was a weakling here and would be beaten if he resisted.
On the way back, both of them were silent.
When they were almost home, Lang Feng suddenly pulled Li Zhu and asked, "Where will he go after he dies?"
"Heaven." said Li Zhu.
“Is there really a heaven?”
"As long as you believe it, it will exist." Li Zhu looked serious, as if he was not joking.
Lang Feng lowered his head and said nothing.
After a while, he looked up and said, "It would be good if he could go to heaven. My brother has suffered enough. I hope he can live a happier life in heaven."
He grinned, but the smile didn't reach his eyes, revealing bitterness.
Li Zhu curled up the fingers hanging on both sides and raised his arms to hug his shoulders. "Then are you still willing to treat me as your brother? I will protect you like before."
Lang Feng's body trembled and he felt a little helpless.
After a pause, he turned his face away and said, "You are talking nonsense, what else can I treat you as if I don't treat you as my brother?"
Li Zhu's clenched heart relaxed, he let go of Lang Feng, and put his hands on Lang Feng's shoulders, "Come on, I'll take you to see your new home."
The real world is technologically advanced, and residents are born with different levels of mental power, but apart from travel, the living environment is not much different from the small world with a modern background.
If you really want to look into it, it’s probably just that there are a few more smart homes.
When they were in the orphanage, Lang Feng and Xu Xiaozhe lived in a room with eight other children.
If someone wets the bed at night and there are not enough quilts to share, they may even have to sleep in a crowded space.
Later, he left the orphanage and went to the big city to make a living. A shared room with two people was already very good for him.
He never thought that one day he would have his own room.
Li Zhu's apartment is a rented dormitory of his company. After renting it for ten years, he can buy it at a very low price.
Although it is a two-bedroom, one-living room apartment, each space is quite large.
The living room is furnished with soft, light-colored sofas, the floor is covered with thick carpet, and on the opposite wall is a slim black screen.
Li Zhu took him to the side bedroom. There was no furniture inside, and the corner was cluttered with miscellaneous items.
"Let's pack up our things later, and I'll book a bed for you first."
After learning that his brother had actually died a long time ago, Lang Feng had mixed feelings towards Li Zhu and said stiffly, "No need to buy something too good."
Li Zhu opened his mouth, feeling a little lost.
If he was the real "Xu Xiaozhe", Lang Feng would not say this.
He tried to force a smile, "It's okay, I'm your brother and I have money, let's buy the best."
Less than an hour after placing the online order, the bed was delivered, along with a matching desk and bedside table. Li Zhu also bought Lang Feng a hover motorcycle.
Once he is completely familiar with the environment, the two brothers can go out racing.
Watching the robots bring things in and place them one by one, Lang Feng felt heavy in his heart. It's not that he didn't notice Li Zhu's emotions, but he just couldn't come to terms with it for a while.
If you think about it carefully, Li Zhu has always been very good to him after his brother died.
One night he woke up in a daze and found that the other person was covering him with a blanket.
I really treat him as my younger brother.
As he thought about it, Lang Feng's eyes became a little hot. He told himself that he must not make the people who care about him sad.
Having made the decision, he did not hesitate and hugged Li Zhu and buried his face in the other's neck.
"I didn't mean to alienate you, I just haven't fully accepted that he's dead."
In this world, Li Zhu is two years older than him.
He gently stroked the back of Lang Feng's head as if he were touching a child, and whispered, "I understand. Let's take it slow."
The original owner accompanied him in his growth for 20 years, which is something no one can replace.
Li Zhu never thought about replacing anyone, he just wanted to continue to be good friends with Lang Feng if he really couldn't go back.
Perhaps it was because Li Zhu's emotions were too stable and his tone was too gentle.
Lang Feng was infected and his guilty mood eased a little. He raised his head and rubbed his red eyes, feeling a little embarrassed.
Just as I was about to speak, I suddenly felt a little cold.
An indescribable chill swept through him. If he hadn't felt any pain, he would have thought someone had slapped him.
Li Zhu felt the same way and issued a verbal command to have the home system turn up the temperature.
Lang Feng exclaimed in amazement: "It's really advanced."
When the system adjusts the temperature, a display screen will be dropped into the air, showing data such as indoor temperature, humidity, and dust cleanliness.
Li Zhu walked under the TV cabinet and took out a small recorder.
Lang Feng's voice and fingerprints were all recorded.
Li Zhu: "After that, you can enter and leave the house freely and use the home system."
Lang Feng was attracted by the novelty and his previous emotions were completely gone. He tried to issue instructions to the cleaning robot in the corner.
Li Zhu smiled helplessly and shook his head, then went into the room to change his clothes. When he lowered his head to take off his T-shirt, he paused suddenly.
He was so busy going out that morning that he didn't notice any strange marks on his body. Only now did he see the red marks of varying sizes running from his chest to his abdomen.
There are also a few marks on the side of the waist, similar to those made by pinching with fingers.
What’s going on?!
Li Zhu called the system: "What's going on? Who did this?"
365 was even more confused than him. The host's health had always been under its monitoring, and there had never been any mistakes.
Why was it completely unaware of how badly it was injured this time?
365 quickly searched the system logs and concluded: "Someone must have entered the room after I turned off the computer last night."
One person, one system, and the records of the home system were retrieved.
No one came to the house except Li Zhu all night last night.
Li Zhu sat cross-legged on the floor with a serious expression.
Lang Feng leaned against the door frame and looked inside. He moved his mouth and finally called out, "Brother."
Li Zhu suddenly raised his eyes, was stunned for a long time, and exclaimed excitedly, "Oh."
You two looked at each other and burst out laughing.
The barrier between them since they met was broken, and Lang Feng's attitude became much more natural. Before he even opened his mouth, his stomach had already finished what he was saying.
Hearing the funny "gurgling" sound, Li Zhu smiled and got up from the ground, "Are you hungry? Brother will cook for you."
Lang Feng followed him to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. He saw colorful nutritional supplements of various flavors neatly arranged.
Li Zhu scratched the back of his head awkwardly, "How about we go out to eat?"
Lang Feng looked at his brother hesitantly, muttering, "You really don't know how to take care of yourself."
It's true.
The work of the administration requires a lot of mental energy. When he is not working, Li Zhu wishes he could rot at home and do nothing.
Cooking requires buying vegetables, washing vegetables, cooking, and then washing the pots and cleaning the kitchen.
The workload is huge, it is not as convenient as drinking the nutrient solution directly.
Li Zhu liked this caring complaint and said happily, "From now on, we will live together and you will supervise me in buying groceries and cooking every day."
"I'll take over," Lang Feng said. "I'm an illegal resident now, so I can't work. From now on, you'll take care of the outside affairs, and I'll take care of the inside affairs."
Just as he finished speaking, a crisp sound came from the master bedroom.
The flowerpot on the balcony was broken into two halves for no apparent reason.
The root system of the small ball is extremely developed, with densely packed white roots intertwined with each other in the black soil.
"I guess there are too many roots and they broke the flowerpot." Li Zhu squatted down to clean up, with a hundred thousand questions running through his mind.
Less than 24 hours after being planted, the roots have grown to this extent. Is this really an ordinary plant?
Could it be...
An idea suddenly flashed in Li Zhu's mind, his eyes rolled, and he suddenly lifted up his clothes without a word, revealing his belly covered with scars.
Lang Feng took a half step back, "What are you doing?"
Li Zhu didn't answer, but just said to the unknown plant lying on the ground: "Gao Cong'ai, did you do this?"
Thinking back to what the fat brother said when he gave him the seeds, Li Zhu became more and more certain that he had been fooled!
nan peng you guo, aren’t the first three words “boyfriend”!
"Gao Cong'ai! Come out!"
Lang Feng trembled when he yelled at him.
Is it possible that the one with mental illness is not him, but his new brother?
Immediately afterwards, an even more terrifying scene appeared.
The white roots intertwined in the soil actually moved!
Lang Feng got goosebumps all over his body. This world is too magical!
I saw a slender white root emerging from the soil, trembling and tentatively reaching towards the young man's ankle.
"It's you!" Li Zhu was so angry that the other party found him but acted like a ghost, and the beautiful atmosphere of the reunion was broken. He stood up with a sneer, stepped hard on the roots, and turned and left.
Lang Feng couldn't associate the small, strange-looking flower with his brother Gao. He bravely and cautiously reached out to touch the tender sprouts sticking out of the soil.
Just as my fingertips were about to touch the leaves of the tender bud, transparent thorns suddenly stood up on them.
In an instant, drops of blood appeared.
"Fuck! Monster! I have a monster!" Lang Feng ran away and grabbed Li Zhu who had already walked to the door.
Sensing something attacking them from behind, they both turned their heads. The plant roots that should have been lying quietly on the ground were now floating in the air with their fangs and claws bared.
There were so many of them that they almost filled half the room.
Li Zhu swallowed, and before he could react, his body was wrapped by the roots.
Lang Feng was thrown out of the room and watched the door close.
The cold plant roots were actually very soft to the touch, gently binding the young man's hands and feet to prevent him from getting hurt or escaping.
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