That day, Lu Shu had a long high fever.
He was lying in a room in a "small space" that replicated the villa in the main god's world, and was burned to the point of being unconscious.
This high fever completely took away Lu Shu's last vitality. He was not a high-dimensional being, and his soul had a limited lifespan. Even if he lived for a long time, it was still limited after all - his hair began to dry, his face began to age, and he could no longer stand up.
It was like an irreversible collapse. At the moment when his soul's lifespan was on the verge of exhaustion, he was so weak that he could no longer maintain his youthful appearance. He went from a young man to an old man overnight.
“I… like… snow.” Lying in bed, Lu Shu looked at the heavy snow outside the window—the gods’ peace could no longer sustain even in autumn, and now there was only the cold winter with everything withering.
Lu Shu stretched out his skinny hand, which was an old man’s hand covered with spots, and touched the flying snow outside the window: "Very beautiful..."
Shenming An stood silently in front of the bed, trying his best to hide his expression.
...How could Lu Shu like snow? He used to be most afraid of freezing under the bridge. Snow was fatal to him. It was something that broke his pride. How could he like it?
However, he never learned to be greedy, and rarely considered his true feelings. He only considered whether the god An would be sad because of this. He wanted very few things, so he learned to like things he didn't like.
"Do you regret it?" Shenming An said.
Regret...staying with a guy like me until the end. Regret spending your life in this empty cage?
If you return to your small world, how many people will regard you as the savior? How many people will worship and follow you?
"I used to... always watch you from afar..." Lu Shu held Shen Ming'an's hand. The old hand and the still young and fair hand seemed to be separated by something that could not be crossed. He held it tightly, his eyes reddened:
"In a very far place... You were in the sky, and I was watching from the ground. You fell from a tall building, and I was watching from the top of the building. You broke through the glass, and I was watching from the window... You, Nuoer, Su Lin, and the others... were like kites, flying very high, and I was chasing the string on the ground, but I couldn't hold the string..."
"I... I ran and ran. No matter how hard I ran, no matter how many windows I broke or how much blood I blew from my head, I couldn't catch up with you..."
"But now... it's so good..." He gently rested his head on the back of his hand, his tears dyed wet and hot, and his palms clenched tightly:
"I finally...held it...ah."
"Finally we're close..."
His hair was still white, but it looked dry and withered. Shenming An remembered that it was beautiful white hair before, but now it looked like an old man's hair, lifeless, like swaying reeds.
He has forgotten many emotions and many things, but Lu Shu is always here, making him unable to forget. His eyes can clearly see how much life Lu Shu has left... in these few days.
He began to come to this room frequently, bringing all kinds of new things, including toys that Lu Shu had never seen before, and music scores that Lu Shu was interested in... Although they had discussed these things for a long time before, now, He knew that this was the time when Lu Shu needed company the most.
...Yes, this is the last chance.
In his perception, the man on the bed was getting weaker day by day, and what was drying up was not only his body, but also his soul.
Every time they met, Lu Shu would deliberately talk about the happy things in the past, especially mentioning Lin Yin and Yamada, the happy guys.
"...I've said this so many times before." Shen Ming'an thought. He had said this so many times that he could almost remember what Lu Shu would say next. He was just like a nagging old man...
"Cough, cough, cough, cough..."
The coughs became more frequent, the voice became more hoarse, and the wrinkled face was definitely that of the old man...
Ten days.
He could almost count Lu Shu's last days.
Nine days.
Lu Shu mentioned the past more and more frequently.
Eight days.
For the one hundred and ninety-seventh time, Lu Shu recounted the story of the fight he and Lin Yin had in the bamboo forest when they were children.
Seven days.
"…There is a dog in the bamboo forest named Xiao Hui. Xiao Hui is very kind to me but is mean to Lin Yin."
Six days.
"...Every time I come to practice swordplay, Xiao Hui would bark at Lin Yin who was watching, causing her to bring all kinds of dog snacks every time. However, Xiao Hui still doesn't like her."
Five days
"So, I wanted to tie up Xiao Hui. She's so fierce, what if she bites someone? But Lin Yin shrugged and said, this is her territory, at worst she won't come."
Four days.
"...Later, we found out that it was because before Lin Yin came, she would pass by a place with many dogs and pick up the smell of other dogs, which made Xiao Hui so fierce. It didn't hate her, but was protecting its master and was afraid that I would be hurt by other enemies..."
Three days.
"... and I taught it a lesson for this kind of thing... well, it's a very boring thing. I know you are not interested, but this is one of the few experiences I can still talk about... By the way, later on, in order to compensate Xiao Hui, I took him to the hillside I often go to."
Two days.
"...Xiao Bi told me that Taihua Mountain was not a mountain a long time ago, but a lake under the starry sky. It was filled up by collisions and became a mountain. After I walked up, I fell asleep on the hillside with Xiao Hui. I dreamed that I was floating in the lake and scooped up a handful of stars. It was really beautiful... Because I didn't watch much TV, that was the most beautiful scene I had ever seen when I was a child... But when I woke up, I found that, haha, what I touched was not a handful of stars, but Xiao Hui's hair... As for the lake with the starry sky floating in it, it was actually it... cough, cough cough cough!"
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