The Man Disgusted by Death

Ji Heng squeezed the wine bottle in his hand, shook it for a while, and observed it again, making sure that it was just wine and there was no magic.However, that strange dream made him uneasy, he was a little scared and a little confused.

After hesitating for a moment, Ji Heng didn't continue to drink, he put away the bottle and left the shooting range.He went to the mecha maintenance warehouse, and to the corridor outside the accessory warehouse door. No one was crying in the dark, and there was no shadow of Lu Zhao.

It really is a dream, Ji Heng thought.

Lu Zhao, who was separated by a wall, was huddled among a pile of turnover boxes. He turned off the lights, locked the warehouse door, and pretended that there was no one inside. If Ji Heng came outside the door again, he would definitely not be able to find him.

He doesn't know why Ji Heng went crazy today, maybe it's because of drinking, or some other reason, he doesn't care about those, he just feels scared, and there is overwhelming guilt and sadness.

It was when Lu Zhao was eight years old that he knew that he had the ability to resurrect from the dead.

That year, my mother was seriously ill, and she stayed in bed for several months and did not recover.In early summer, Lu Zhao went to Aunt Zhu Li's orchard to pick cherries alone. He hoped that his mother would be happy to see those beautifully colored fruits.

In order to pick the reddest bunch of fruits on the tree, Lu Zhao climbed up the branches, then he fell down and hit his head on the stone under the tree.In an instant, Lu Zhao lost his hearing and sense of pain, leaving only the mottled tree shadow in front of him. He raised his hand, looked at the sticky blood on his palm, and slowly closed his eyes.

"Mom—" The world was soaked in darkness.

Then Lu Zhao realized that he had returned to the gate of the orchard, before he had passed through the fence.The sun is warm, the breeze is blowing, and the crisp birdsong is heard in the distance, everything is so vivid.

He walked into the orchard, came under the tree he had just died, saw the cherries he had picked were still hanging high on the branches, and saw the sharp stone in the grass that smashed his head.

Children's thinking is so strange, Lu Zhao knew that he was resurrected from the dead, it had nothing to do with dreams or hallucinations, he just knew it.He thought for a while, moved all the stones under the tree, and picked a basket full of cherries.

After returning home with the cherries, Lu Zhao told his mother about his adventure.

"It turns out that death does not necessarily mean that a person is really dead, and there is still a possibility of resurrection." Lu Zhao said, "Maybe I have better luck today."

Lu Wei lay weakly on the bed, beckoning to her son, "Come here, baby, let mommy kiss you."

Lu Zhao walked over obediently and leaned against the head of the bed so that his mother could hug him.

Lu Wei kissed Lu Zhao's cheek, "Xiao Zhao, I don't have time to verify what you said now."

"It's true, Mom, I didn't lie." Lu Zhao defended in a low voice.

"I believe in you." Lu Wei touched her son's head and hugged the little man even tighter, "You have to remember that no one will be lucky forever, so don't take yourself lightly just because of this miracle." put in a dangerous situation."

"I understand." Lu Zhao nodded.

"Also, you can't use this ability to do bad things."

Lu Zhao was dissatisfied, "I won't, Mom, I'm not a bad person."

"Well, my baby is the best child in the world." Lu Wei said.

After growing up, Lu Zhao has always kept his promise to his mother, and he never actively used his abilities.That morning on the Hanhai Plateau was the first time he tried to commit suicide. After his arm was bitten off by a mechanical hunting dog, he thought of going back in time through death, back to the time when the injury did not exist.

But he didn't succeed that day, who was the one who stopped him, Ji Heng?

Thinking of Ji Heng, Lu Zhao felt uncomfortable. He thought that he hated Ji Heng. Of course, he should hate such a person who humiliated him wantonly regardless of his own wishes.

However, Lu Zhao also remembered the blood on Ji Heng's hands and the painful begging before he shot himself.

Lu Zhao...don't hurt yourself...please...

Why, he could do such excessive things to himself, but after he shot him, he still remembered himself regardless of his life?

Lu Zhao bit his finger and curled himself into a ball, the pain was unbearable.

***

mom:

I'm so sad that I killed someone today.

Lu Zhao

***

Not long after Lu Zhao came back to life for the first time, his mother died.

Aunt Zhu Li entered Lu Wei's room that day and saw Lu Zhao snuggling up beside her mother, begging in a low voice, "Mom, can you wake up?"

And Lu Wei's pale face had already turned gray.

The aunt hugged Lu Zhao away from his mother's body with tears streaming down her face, "Xiao Zhao, your mother has already left."

"But, she can come back to life." Lu Zhao said, "Auntie, please let mom wake up, she listens to you the most."

"Xiao Zhao—" Auntie hugged Lu Zhao tightly in her arms, "Xiao Zhao, although your mother is gone, her soul will turn into a star in the sky and watch you all the time."

However, Lu Zhao doesn't believe in distant things like stars, he only believes that people can be resurrected after death, so he desperately prevents people from putting Lu Wei in the coffin, "Maybe, mother will come back to life."

Lu Zhao cried heart-rendingly, "Wait a little longer, wait a little longer."

But Lu Wei did not wake up after all, and finally she was buried in the cemetery on the outskirts of Qingshi Town.

In the morning after the rainstorm, the black clouds had not dissipated, and the air was full of sadness. Lu Zhao hugged his mother's portrait and stared at the rolling hills under his feet.

Why can't my mother come back to life like myself?

He asked his aunt, who thought it was him trying to escape reality, "Xiao Zhao, you can't live in fantasy forever", Aunt Julie touched his head, "Although it is painful, from today on, you Gotta grow up."

When Lu Zhao grew up to be 12 years old, he had already come out of the grief of losing his mother, and he rarely thought of what happened in the cherry orchard until one day he was crushed to death by an out-of-control speeding car.

The resurrection from the dead happened to him again, and an hour later, Lu Zhao watched the speeding car that had killed him rush out of the road, smashing the railings on the side of the road to pieces.

It turned out that there really was a miracle.

Lu Zhao didn't know why the gods gave him such abilities, but he thought that if the gods were really kind, they should return his mother to him.

Lu Zhao told Aunt Julie about her doubts. It took the old lady a long time to believe what Lu Zhao said. She held Lu Zhao's shoulder tightly and warned solemnly: "This kind of thing must never be told. No one else, no one." She forced Lu Zhao to swear, and then told him to forget about it and just treat himself as an ordinary person.

Lu Zhao promised his aunt, but he didn't fully fulfill it. When he was 16 years old, he saw the recruitment notice of the Pioneering Group and quietly signed himself up.He felt that he could use this special ability to fulfill his mother's wish.

The work of the Pioneering Group is indeed dangerous. Lu Zhao died many times and saved many people.He tried his best to cover it up, but those peculiarities were still noticed by the teammates around him, but no one could have imagined the extent of the resurrection from the dead. At most, he thought that he had a dangerous premonition that he was not effective at all times.

Lu Zhao acquiesced to other people's guesses. After all, he still remembered Aunt Zhu Li's warning and did not expose it too thoroughly.

According to Lu Zhao's original plan, he would stay in the Pioneering Group for a few more years, and then go to Amber to find his biological father after saving enough money, but because of the accident on the Hanhai Plateau, he was able to arrive in Amber earlier.

Now Lu Zhao's original goal of going to Amber has been fulfilled, but he already has a new goal, he has the ambition to become a mech maker, and he wants to continue studying in Nebula.

To achieve this goal, Ji Heng is an inescapable existence, Lu Zhao thought with a headache while sorting out the inventory list in the parts warehouse.

"I'm going!" Carlos, who was sitting in front of Zhinao, suddenly yelled, "Ji Heng actually lost—he actually lost, and I bet him to win!"

Lu Zhao walked over and asked casually, "What's wrong?"

"Ji Heng lost in the mecha battle." Carlos was dumbfounded, "Obviously he has a [-]% win rate against Yang Song in normal training, why did he lose the chain when he came to the actual combat assessment? By the way, it seems that he participated in the assessment of the fighter system last year. , He also dropped a fighter plane."

***

base treatment center.

"So your actual combat assessment fortune is really memorized to the extreme." Zong Yuan sat in front of the hospital bed and shook his head.

"It has nothing to do with luck, it's because I mishandled it." Ji Heng said lying on the bed, just coming out of the treatment cabin, his body was still a little weak.

"Then why did you mishandle it? Yang Song is not your opponent at all, okay?" Zong Yuan still had an expression of disbelief.

Ji Heng put his hand on his forehead and said helplessly, "It's probably because of the bottle of bar you gave me yesterday."

"Ah, that bottle of Ruby?" Zong Yuan asked curiously, "Even if you drank, would it still affect you after the whole night has passed?" He only took a walk at that time, and he was completely sober.

"After you drank that wine, did you, uh, have any dreams?" Ji Heng asked.

"No, I slept very well last night." Zong Yuan suddenly understood, "Then you had a dream. What kind of dream has such a big impact?"

what dream?

Ji Heng covered his face with his hands, he really couldn't say anything, in the dream he kissed Lu Zhao forcefully, and then Lu Zhao died with him...

Perhaps it was because, subconsciously, he knew that Lu Zhao hated him.

I heard that Ji Heng withdrew from this year's actual combat assessment early due to an injury in the battle. Lu Zhao didn't get any easier, because Ji Heng was too scary that night, and he didn't know when he would go crazy next time, and he couldn't do it every time. They all use the method of death and death.

The command system is eight years. According to Carlos, Ji Heng may graduate two years ahead of schedule, so Lu Zhao still needs to be careful for one year.I hope this year can go through safely, he no longer has the courage to think about the possibility of staying on the same campus with Ji Heng for three full years.

After the actual combat assessment was over, Lu Zhao met an acquaintance on the way to assemble the interstellar spaceship.

"Hi—" Zong Yuan passed behind Lu Zhao and waved to him.

"Senior Zong Yuan." Just as the smile on the corner of Lu Zhao's mouth lifted, he saw another person beside Zong Yuan.