The sky is like a cover.
This year you are seventeen years old. A red sun suddenly descends and burns everyone to death.
The houses in the village were empty, with only piles of black and gray body parts silently piled up at the doorsteps.
You are shocked to find that you have no sadness.
It turns out you are a heartless person.
Even though he was the only survivor, he felt no regret.
——Then, you saw the girl again.
She stood quietly in the wheat field, like an eternal observer.
You said: "Xiaobai, you are here again."
Xiao Bai said: "There are only two-digit survivors left in this world, and you are one of them."
You said: "I am just an ordinary person who should have died under the red sun. It was you who protected me."
Xiao Bai said, "Yes. A man named 'Sique Olivers' led the advent of the Red Sun. He wants to reset the world. Most people have died. The world will be reset in a few months."
You don’t care why this person reset the world, you only care about yourself: “Will I still exist?”
Xiaobai nodded: "Yes. But after the reset, you will lose your memory like most people and be reborn as a baby."
She turned and left.
“Wait a minute.” You caught up with me: “I want to go with you, no matter where you go, please take me with you.
You don't want to die here, you want to follow her.
…
In the last few months of your life, you and Xiaobai traveled around the world together.
She calls it "observation," although you have no idea what she's observing.
That day, you came to a small villa with blue roses and lavender planted at the door and a windmill standing next to it.
When you enter the villa, the first thing that catches your eye is a piano, followed by a game cabinet, several comic books, a model of an aircraft carrier, a brown bear doll, a recipe book for skewering coriander, a travelogue of Mount Taihua... These very different elements are placed together, making you think that this is a family living together with several people.
But you only saw the owner of the villa.
It was a black-haired girl, she sat silently on the sofa, playing the video game slowly. She looked very young, yet seemed old. Her fingers could not keep up with the movements, and the little people on the screen died again and again.
You saw the record on the game console - the highest score was very high, achieved by her, but her condition had declined so much at this time that she couldn't even keep up with the end of the score.
...Is she sick?
You see her - playing the boring and monotonous game again and again. It should be a two-player game, but she plays it alone from beginning to end, which results in her never being able to complete it.
Seeing you and Xiaobai, the black-haired girl slowly raised her head, as slow as an elderly person.
At this moment, her eyes lit up slightly and she stared at Xiaobai, as if expecting something.
"...They haven't come yet. You can't wait any longer." Xiaobai said to her.
The girl was silent for a long time before she nodded.
"I understand." She said softly, "Thank you for telling me..."
Xiaobai pulled you away.
You still remember the last glance before leaving the villa - after getting the answer, the light in the girl's eyes dimmed, she took out a plate of chocolate, ate it slowly, and didn't know what she was thinking. Then, she stood in front of those comics, aircraft carrier models, brown bear dolls... and stroked them one by one.
"Yamada, Lu, Luna, Lin Yin..." She whispered the names of these friends and said goodbye to them one by one, as if they were distant calls.
Finally, her eyes fell on the piano.
"...Su Mingan."
She said this farewell so softly, like a soul floating lightly in the air.
Wow, wow.
It was as if the sound of a river flooded over her head. The girl's expression was as if she was drowning in the water. She fell completely into silence, and the light in her eyes also became silent.
She seemed to be gritting her teeth and trying not to cry out.
The moment you stepped out of the villa, you heard the sound of piano.
——Claude Debussy’s “Moonlight”
It was like a masterpiece by a master, the best piano sound you have ever heard. The girl seemed to have been playing the piano for thousands of years, and the music she played was breathtaking.
She must have practiced alone for a long, long time...
However, the music intentionally leaves some beats blank, as if waiting for someone else to play these notes.
You touched your face and found that you were crying. It turns out that music can really touch people. The sadness in this song just hit your heart.
Is this a farewell song? The girl looks so young, so it must not be her who is bidding farewell.
“Who can’t she wait for?” you asked.
"...a lot of people." Xiaobai said.
"How long did she wait?" you ask.
"A long time." Xiaobai said.
“Are they all her friends?” you asked.
"Yeah." Xiaobai said.
"--Why didn't they come earlier? Why did they make her wait so long?" You feel indignant. If it were you, you would definitely not let your friend wait in the house so lonely.
Besides, the girl collected so many of her friends' things, they must be lifelong friends. Why didn't those friends come?
Xiaobai shook his head silently and said nothing.
“Then why didn’t she continue to wait?” You said: “Although the world is about to reset, she can continue to wait next time.”
Xiaobai lowered his eyelids.
At this moment, you realize that she also has emotions, she is sad, even if this emotion is as thin as a thread.
Then she spoke:
“…But some things will come to an end sooner or later.”
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