“Hehe, hahaha…”
While they were talking, a jumping man suddenly passed by them, stepped into the river with a splash, and splashed water all over Siberia.
Seeing this, a hint of shyness appeared on the man's face. He scratched his head, lingered there for a while, then turned and left.
Su Ming'an looked at Siber, whose hair was stuck with a struggling river fish, and thought she would be angry, but unexpectedly she calmly took the fish off and threw it back into the river.
"That guy's name is Changsheng." Siber combed her hair. "...He's a big, stupid guy who only cares about growing physically but not intellectually. He's a guy whose curse is on the verge of exploding. He's very dangerous."
"I don't think he is dangerous in any way." Su Mingan said.
"You don't know what kind of harm people like us can cause when the curse breaks out." Siber said, "You had a good life before. It was peaceful outside the Black Wall. There was no curse like ours."
At this moment, Su Mingan saw the man squatting down and picking up stones by the river. He licked them and put them in his pocket.
"What is he doing?" Su Mingan asked.
Siber laughed.
"…He is picking up 'candy'," she said.
"sugar?"
"That's his story." Siber bandaged the wound after cleaning it. "It's Changsheng's story. It's short and simple. Do you want to hear it?"
Su Mingan nodded. Listening to other people's stories like this would help him understand the background of the world.
"The earliest story about Changsheng... should be when he was not exiled from the tribe." Siber said, "At that time, a child in the tribe was accidentally lost. He found something wrong and went to find the child in the middle of the night in the black fog.
When he came back with the child who had fainted from hunger, the child's parents thought he had abducted the child, so they beat him with a cane. He was mentally handicapped and could not speak complete sentences, so he had to be beaten. Others thought he should be beaten, and not only that, he should be driven out, because the tribe did not need such a person who only had a body. In their eyes, his incomplete mind was a danger.
Later, the child woke up and the truth came out. But the parents who beat him were unwilling to apologize, because Changsheng couldn't speak and wouldn't blame them, so they covered the matter up with a blanket, as if nothing had happened..."
Siberia was surprisingly very knowledgeable about these little tribal matters, and when she spoke, she was clear and logical, not like a child who had not received a complete education.
She said that when she first met Changsheng, his mother gave him a candy. He used the candy as a pillow day and night, carried it with him when he ate, and held it in his hands while walking around. One day, a child played a prank and secretly replaced his candy with a stone. He couldn't recognize it, but he still held the stone in his hands and lived with the "candy" in his heart, and couldn't bear to eat it.
Then, one day, his 'candy' was lost and he was very sad. His crying made the nearby children laugh happily.
Another time, the neighbor A Luo asked Changsheng to help her pick sweet potatoes, and she would give him another candy if he picked them. He went immediately, but he didn't know that he was not picking sweet potatoes at all, but stealing from other tribes. After being caught, A Luo was young and escaped, but he was considered the main culprit and was severely beaten.
Having said that, Siber raised her eyelids and glanced at the man's back.
The skin on the back of his neck was exposed, with whip marks and burns that had not yet healed.
"...and then his legs were broken." She said, "After it was discovered that his curse was on the verge of erupting, he was driven out as worthless waste.
...But after being misunderstood and driven out by everyone, Changsheng finally got the endless 'sugar' he had always dreamed of."
"The stones by the river?" Su Mingan said.
"Yes." Siber said, "In Changsheng's eyes, what exactly 'sugar' is, whether it is sweet or not, whether it has taste or not, it is no longer important.
All he wanted was the "candy" in his heart that he had always believed in, the "candy" that he accidentally lost when he was a child, and the "candy" that was deceived by A Luo when he grew up.
As long as it is the 'candy' that he thinks of, no matter how others laugh at it and say it is a stone, now that he has a bag full of 'candy', he is happy. "
"Siber." Su Ming'an said, "What about you?"
Siber turned her head and glanced at him.
"My happiness is not important." She said, "'Becoming the God of this dome' is the sugar in my heart. I know it is difficult, but this is my wish..."
Silvery white hair fluttered around her ears, revealing an old burn on the back of her neck.
Su Mingan suddenly noticed that she had a bright red flower pinned in her hair near the back of her head.
She noticed his gaze and plucked the flower. The bright red flower lay in her palm like a quiet fire.
"This is a gift someone gave me when I was little." She said, "...Why are you staring at me like that? Do you want it so much? It's rare to see you like something. I thought you would just stare into the distance."
“…I was thinking.”
"Really? I don't see what you've come up with." She stuffed a flower seed into his palm. "Flowers in the dome are generally difficult to bloom because there is extremely serious pollution here. However, this flower is an exception. It is called 'Cursed Fire'. It is a very precious flower that has a certain fire resistance effect and can block flames.
Its flower language is "wait" and "hope". It does not need sunlight or rain, but only needs to stay with people and bloom after a certain number of years.
——If you like it, you can take it, but I remind you that it will take at least five years for it to bloom, and I don’t think you will be able to see it. ”
"I can see it." Su Mingan looked at the seeds in his hand: "I can see the flowers blooming... just like you can definitely see the sea."
Siber's eyes changed slightly.
She stared blankly at the flowing stream, as if thinking about something.
…
[NPC (Xixi), Favorability: 35+10]
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