Chapter 56: Memories of the Top and the Received (not recommended to skip
It took Jane a long time to come back to her senses, she left the lecture hall and walked into the campus.
His university is very big, with mountains and water, just like a small town.
The warm winter sun was shining, groups of students were walking on the sidewalk, the aroma of food wafted from the cafeteria not far away, and the hourly bell rang from the clock tower on the other side of the river, the sound was distant and deep.
Everything is very quiet.
Jane Busian was immersed in it, as if all those thrilling and exciting experiences in the infinite world were just a dream.
Suddenly, the phone in his pocket vibrated. He took out his phone and saw that the school’s official account had pushed a message to him.
——Tonight, the school’s student union will hold a camping meeting on the hilltop.
The Student Union will provide tents and barbecue props. Students and teachers who want to participate can sign up voluntarily.
The university where Jian Bumian studies has less academic pressure, a more open atmosphere, and various activities are held from time to time.
Somehow, Jian Bumian contacted the organizer of the event and gave his name.
He didn't have any particular reason to participate, mainly because he had also participated in this event in the past in the real world, causing him to be driven by memories in the present.
The organizer quickly responded to Jane Bumian.
[Okay, classmate. If you have any friends, you can invite them to play together. Students and teachers are both welcome.]
teacher?
Jane couldn't sleep and thought of Talos.
His impression of Talos only stayed in the infinite world, and he had no idea what Talos looked like in the real world.
Jane Bumian couldn't help but open her email app and sent Talos an invitation to the camping meeting.
Domestic students and teachers usually communicate via WeChat or Penguin. Talos, who comes from abroad, always communicates via email like foreigners.
But in Jian Bumian's eyes, it seemed to have a bit of old-fashioned style.
I don't know if Talos can see it. It doesn't matter if he can't see it.
Jian Bumian didn't take it to heart. He walked into the nearest cafeteria and prepared to have lunch.
As soon as he entered the dining hall, he could clearly recall his memories of the dining hall.
The milk tofu and sweet and sour pork with pineapple are the best here, while the braised eggplant and grilled fish with tomatoes are the worst. The auntie at window number three will give more rice.
After Jane Bumian had a simple lunch, she received a reply from Talos.
【good. 】
Talos actually agreed?
Is Talos in the real world so easy to talk to?
Jane Busian was a little confused.
But since Talos agreed, it just happened to suit his wishes.
After Jane Busian reported to her family that she would not be going home tonight, she waited for the night to come in the library.
****
The camping meeting was held on the largest hill on campus.
This hill is also the most famous scenic spot in the city. The scenery on the hill is beautiful, with lush trees and abundant grass. It seems that you can touch the clouds with your hands.
Jian Bumian received a tent, disposable sheets and barbecue utensils from the Student Union, and then found a place to camp.
Because Talos was coming, everything he got was double the amount.
Barbecue ingredients can be purchased directly from the canteen.
During the short time that Jane Busian was setting up the tent, he waited for Talos.
The appearance of Talos caused a lot of quiet discussion among students.
"Wow, what major is he studying? He's so handsome."
"Hush, I heard he's a professor..."
"Oh my god, the professor will also come to participate in such a small event?"
"Is he wearing contact lenses? Why are his eyes red?"
Jian Bumian felt a little embarrassed, so he secretly dragged Talos to his campsite.
The camping site he chose was a very quiet little corner, covered by big trees and grass. Not many people were walking around, and the only sound was the rustling of leaves.
Jian Busian looked at Talos, scratched his head, and whispered, "I'm sorry, teacher. I suddenly invited you to the camping activity, which may be a bit abrupt..."
In fact, from Jian Bumian's perspective, it was not abrupt, because Talos had been with him for a long time in the infinite world and was like an old friend.
The man said softly, "It's okay."
He was wearing a camel-colored coat, and his gold-rimmed glasses concealed the coldness in his red eyes. He looked like a really elegant and handsome university professor.
Talos: "How can I help you?"
"ah……"
Jian Busian thought for a moment and said, "No, the tents and disposable sheets are ready. We just need to cook something to eat."
Jian Busian sat on a small folding stool, opened the barbecue grill, then put the fruit charcoal in one by one and lit it.
Milky white smoke gradually rose above the barbecue grill.
The foam boxes containing barbecue ingredients had already been delivered by the canteen staff.
There are all kinds of ingredients in the wooden box, with a little bit of each ingredient put in.
Jian Bumian wanted to take out two skewers of chicken wings and grill them for him and Talos.
It was he who invited Talos to the camping meeting. As the host, he should entertain him.
But Jian Bumian suddenly remembered something very embarrassing.
Judging from the fried rice he made for Talos last time, his cooking is actually very bad.
…including but not limited to barbecue.
Seeing that Jane was stunned, Talos said, "Let me bake it."
"Ah? Okay." Jian Bumian didn't react and subconsciously agreed to the other party, allowing Talos to take the chicken wings from his hand.
The process of Talos grilling chicken wings is unexpectedly clean and neat.
Use a knife to make a few small cuts on the surface of the chicken wings, apply peanut oil and barbecue sauce, and then place them on the red-hot barbecue grill.
Once the chicken wings turn from pink to yellow, sprinkle them with cumin and sesame seeds.
Talos: "Do you want chopped green onions?"
Jane Busian nodded.
Then, the fresh chopped green onion accompanies the browned roasted meat, adding a touch of fragrance to the strong meat flavor.
The chicken wings were almost done. Talos wrapped the end of the bamboo skewer with a paper towel and handed it to Jane Bumian.
"Wow, thank you."
Jane had been busy all afternoon and was very hungry. She took the chicken wing, blew on it, and took a careful bite.
The chicken is grilled over fruit wood charcoal. Beneath the crispy skin is the tender chicken meat, juicy with chopped green onions and sesame seeds.
Talos looked at the boy's satisfied expression, and a subtle sense of satisfaction welled up in his heart.
Barbecue, the most primitive food, is irresistible to any human being.
Of course, he was an evil god and had no interest in this kind of food.
But he has lived for a long time and has existed since the beginning of chaos.
He has been involved in human society since primitive times and has learned many products of human civilization.
Among them, making a delicious barbecue is a little skill he learned.
Unexpectedly, there would be a chance for it to come in handy.
Talos narrowed his eyes, staring at the boy's lips as he swallowed the tender white chicken, and his hands couldn't help but grill another piece of food for him.
***
After Jian Bumian finished eating the grilled chicken wings, Talos grilled a sausage for him.
The grilled sausage is very fragrant, flesh-red in color, and the meat inside makes the casing full.
The diameter of the sausage was a bit too big for his mouth, so he needed to take small bites to eat it completely.
As soon as Jane Bumian finished eating the sausage, Talos grilled other food for him.
After a while, Jian Bumian almost finished all the barbecue ingredients. Talos kept grilling food for him, but he didn't get to eat much at all.
Jian Bumian: “…………”
So embarrassing.
It was clearly he who invited Talos over, so how did it become Talos who entertained him?
Jian Busian looked at the piles of used bamboo sticks in the garbage bag and hurriedly clutched the corner of his clothes, feeling a little embarrassed.
Jian Bumian stood up and said to Talos, "Teacher, I'll go get you a drink."
Because the barbecue grill is constantly crackling, the temperature around it rises a lot, making it warm, but at the same time inevitably making people feel a little dry.
Jian Busian found the merchant selling food ingredients at the campsite and wanted to buy two bottles of juice to take back.
But the merchant laughed and said, "You are all adults? Why are you still drinking juice? I only have wine here."
Jian Bumian: “…………”
Merchant: "If you are not used to drinking alcohol, you can choose a cocktail with a lower alcohol content, which tastes similar to fruit juice."
Jane Bumian could only pick two glasses of blueberry-flavored cocktails, not knowing whether Talos could get used to it.
Before he left, the merchant reminded him: "There will be a meteor shower at nine o'clock tonight, don't get drunk."
"good."
Jane Busian glanced at her watch and it was already half past eight.
The other students who camped here all came for the meteor shower.
They gathered in groups of three or five, and white mist rose from the barbecue grill, disappearing into the vast, dark night sky.
The air was filled with the aroma of barbecue, the rich aroma of beer, and the sound of people's laughter.
Jian Busian heard someone playing the guitar. The sound of the plucked strings came in the cool evening breeze, crisp and pleasant, like a glass of delicious and refreshing plum wine.
He quickened his pace and returned to Talos with his cocktail.
"Teacher, there are no drinks for sale over there. I don't know if this cocktail suits your taste."
He kindly helped Talos unscrew the bottle cap and handed it to him.
Jian Bumian didn't know what to say, so he added, "I heard there will be a meteor shower at nine o'clock tonight."
But he changed his mind and felt that what he said was a bit boring.
Talos is an evil god who has lived for who knows how many years. It is impossible for him to be interested in meteor showers.
Talos said nothing, lowered his eyes, and covered his red eyes with silver-white eyelashes: "Yeah."
It was already nine o'clock when Jane Bumian finished cleaning up the garbage left over from the barbecue.
But the meteor shower did not come.
The students nearby couldn't help but talk about it.
"I can't be mistaken."
"I just wondered how I could have such good luck to encounter a meteor shower while I was studying..."
"Let's go back to the dormitory."
The news that there would be a small-scale meteor shower at nine o'clock came from the school's astronomy club.
However, most of the people in university clubs are enthusiasts and not professionals, so errors are inevitable in their astronomical observations.
We waited on the top of the mountain until ten o'clock, but still no meteor shower occurred.
They looked regretful and packed up their things and went back to the dormitory.
Jian Busian watched his classmates gradually leave, stunned and a little at a loss.
He is a day student and does not have a dormitory, so he may need to ask his counselor for permission before leaving school.
So, he had to spend the night in a tent.
He turned around and asked Talos: "Teacher, are you going back? I will stay tonight."
Talos said calmly: "Not going back."
Jane Busian sat next to the man and muttered quietly, "There is no meteor shower tonight, so everyone left."
Talos: “…”
Meteor shower?
He really felt a little strange that human beings would go to so much trouble to run around for a few stars.
Talos asked, "Do you want to see the meteor shower?"
He felt that this young human would definitely be unhappy because he didn't see the meteor shower.
“…”
Jian Busian thought for a moment and said, "Go ahead, I've never seen a meteor shower since I was a child."
The evil god listened to Jian Bumian's response thoughtfully.
He was silent for a moment: "In two minutes, there will be a meteor shower."
Jane Bumian: “?”
Two minutes later, he looked up and saw a faint blue light flickering in the originally dark sky.
These lights are countless times brighter than the silent stars, and they bloom in the night like the dreamy northern lights.
After a few seconds, these lights condensed into white light balls, falling one after another. The long meteor tails rubbed against the clouds and cut through the sky. Everything was illuminated as if it were daytime.
Jian Busian seemed to be able to hear the flames of meteors and the burning sound as they passed through the atmosphere.
His pupils were dilated, and his eyes were filled with this rare scene. His slightly glowing eyes seemed to have taken in countless bright shooting stars.
At this moment, the students had already moved away from the hilltop. Only he and Talos were left on the huge hilltop. The sounds of their breathing could be heard quietly.
Jian Busian grabbed Talos' sleeve with a little excitement: "Talos, look, it's a meteor!"
He forgot that this was a memory, and the Talos before him was from the past.
The evil god allowed the human boy to chirp excitedly like a little bird in front of him.
He couldn't help but chuckle.
There was indeed no shooting star tonight, but the evil god was omnipotent. He wanted the boy to see the shooting star, so he ordered the stars to fall for him.
The evil god touched Jian Busian's soft hair and whispered, "Okay, it's good to know that it's a meteor."
"..." Only then did Jian Busian realize that he was not facing the familiar Talos.
He lowered his head a little embarrassedly, and the tips of his ears turned red.
Jane Busian's small movements were carefully counted in Talos's red eyes.
Talos thought this pure white soul was kind of cute.
As an evil god, he has an immortal soul and is absolutely indestructible. He existed before humans were born.
After the birth of mankind, Talos mixed into human society.
He was once the strongest warrior in the tribe, then he served as the king of a vast territory, and after humans developed navigation technology, he became a wealthy businessman who sailed to the East.
After humans entered civilized society, he served as the chief official of a ruling party and a world-renowned doctor.
Until now, he has become a scientist.
The evil god has accumulated countless wealth and knowledge, and has witnessed many splendors and glories in human civilization.
But he always felt very lonely.
Talos looked at the young man in front of him and couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.
But now it is different. In his gray and white world, there are a few more bright colors, like small flowers sprouting in the wasteland, flourishing and lovely.
******
After watching the meteor shower, Jian Bumian felt a little sleepy.
After he finished his cocktail, he went into the tent to sleep.
Jane couldn't remember if Talos slept with him.
Anyway, when he woke up, he had arrived at another memory node.
All the memories before this recollection node quickly emerged in Jane Bumian's mind.
After that camp meeting, he and Talos became good friends.
Talos had given him a lot of academic guidance, and he often went to accompany him.
It wasn't until the year he graduated from college that they established a romantic relationship.
The relationship between him and Talos was not so earth-shattering. It was like a calm and peaceful stream, flowing naturally and smoothly, with a faint smell of water vapor after the rain.
Talos did not return to the West, but instead became a Chinese citizen and transferred all his scientific research work to China.
Jian Bumian inherited his father's group in due course.
He is handsome and has a mild temper. He runs the group very well without any airs of a president. All employees like him very much and often call him "Little President Jian".
All the employees in the group also know that Xiao Jian always has a boyfriend, and the kind who is about to get married.
Although they have never seen what Ms. Jian’s boyfriend looks like.
The memory point that Jian Busian traveled to was the day when they were going to get their marriage certificate.
Jane Busian woke up in bed, and what came into her sight was a bedroom that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
The bedroom is warmly decorated with wooden floors, snow-white walls, and a double bed. On the bedside there is a cup of boiled water with wolfberries and a few books with slightly curled corners.
Everything seems full of life.
Jane Busian remembered that this was the house where he and Talos lived together.
He got up, washed up briefly, and left the bedroom.
Beyond the bedroom is the dining room.
Jane Bumian saw Talos making breakfast in the kitchen.
The man was wearing simple long-sleeved trousers and a blue apron tied around his waist. He was holding a spatula in his hand and frying a fragrant poached egg.
Jian Bumian: "..."
...This matches the evil god's handsome and cold appearance, and there is no sense of incongruity at all.
Talos prepared Jane's sleepless breakfast, put it on a plate and brought it out.
He chuckled and said, "Are you awake? Come and have breakfast."
The breakfast was delicious, a bowl of lean meat porridge, a golden poached egg, a plate of crystal shrimp dumplings, and the chopsticks and spoons still had the residual heat from being sterilized at high temperature in the sterilizer.
So skilled that it makes people feel a little distressed.
Jian Bumian finally accepted the fact that he was a terrible cook while Talos was a very good cook.
Otherwise, Talos wouldn't have kept feeding him.
Jian Bumian sat down and ate breakfast obediently, and asked casually: "Talos, don't you want to eat breakfast?"
"I have eaten." Talos said reluctantly.
In fact, the evil god doesn’t need to eat at all.
...He never told his lover his true identity.
Jian Bumian finished his porridge and wiped his mouth: "Talos, are we going to get the marriage certificate today?"
Talos: “Yes.”
Jian Busian scratched his head, frowned, and thought: "Since today will be our wedding anniversary in the future, we should do something special."
Talos' throat trembled slightly.
The boy had just woken up and was wearing loose pajamas. His white neck and collarbone were clearly visible, and even his cherry-colored breasts could be seen.
The boy sat in front of the evil god without any guard, eating his breakfast in a daze, like a soft little animal cub that could be bullied at will.
The evil god couldn't help but think wildly.
Could it be that his lover wanted to do that kind of thing with him?
Talos's temples throbbed and his brows furrowed.
...Although, after he and Jian Bumian started dating, he began to have some emotions.
But he felt that he should not do that kind of thing with the other party.
The main reason was that Jian Bumian was a fragile human being who could not bear the union with the gods. Fainting was definitely just a small matter, and he would be unable to get out of bed for at least seven days.
What's more, Jian Bumian was so much younger than him, and to him, she was just a child.
The evil god's dirty thoughts drifted to the bed, but were broken by Jane's sleepless voice.
Jian Busian bit his chopsticks and muttered, "Talos, how about I buy you a bouquet of flowers?"
Talos: “…………”
Well, he was overthinking it.
Talos's expression returned to normal.
In fact, if he needed flowers, he could simply use the purest evil thoughts to weave the most beautiful flowers in the world, which would never wither and would always bloom.
But he still wanted Jane Bumian to buy flowers for him personally.
He wanted to see what kind of flowers Jane Busian would buy for him, and what Jane Busian's expression would be like when she gave him the flowers. Maybe the boy's soft white earlobes would turn red again.
Want someone to take a bite.
Talos agreed to Jane Bumian's proposal: "Okay."
"Then I have to change my clothes..." Jian Bumian stood up and walked into the bedroom.
After a while, he changed his clothes and prepared to go out.
He said to Talos, "The flower shop is a little far from here. I will be back later."
Just as Jane Busian was about to open the door, she saw Talos blocking the door.
Jane Bumian: "What's wrong?"
The tall and handsome man leaned forward slightly and said in a deep voice: "Kiss me before you leave."
Jian Bumian: "..."
It turns out that the omnipotent evil god would also make such a small request?
Jian Bumian agreed, but there was a big height difference between him and Talos, so he could only stand on tiptoe, put his hands on the other's shoulders, and then gently touch the other's lips.
"The kiss is over!"
Jane Bumian's ears turned red, and she quickly left the room like a rabbit that had been caught.
The place where he and Talos lived together was in a super high-end residential area.
The community is surrounded by greenery, it is very quiet and the air is fresh. After walking through the lush woods, there is a road with traffic lights.
The moment Jian Busian saw this road, he recalled all the memories related to it.
He always passed this road on his way home from get off work; when Talos walked with him across this road, Talos always held his hand; they once kissed on a deserted winter night, on a green light street covered with snow.
The 120-second red light finally passed, and the green light only lasted 60 seconds.
Jian Bumian wanted to buy the flowers and go home quickly, so he quickened his pace and crossed the road.
——But just as he walked to the center of the road, he suddenly heard the loud sound of wheels rolling over the ground at high speed.
He turned his head, his pupils constricted, and saw the reflection of a truck speeding towards him.
A truck full of bricks and out of control.
Before Jian Bumian could react at all, he could clearly feel the heavy and hard front of the truck hitting him.
Bricks flew everywhere.
All of Jian Busian's bones were instantly shattered. A mouthful of blood with a strong fishy smell rushed into his throat, and his internal organs were instantly pierced by the broken bones.
He could only see a large cloud of blood mist, and then he could see nothing.
He heard panicked voices, screams, footsteps kicking bricks, and the sound of an ambulance coming from all around him.
Click.
He felt two cold tears falling on his face.
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The memories will end tomorrow, and there will be no more torture.
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