Soling Internet Cafe

The faces that appeared in front of them were probably enough to give many people nightmares.

This person's skin was scorched and mottled, and pits and stitching lines could be seen everywhere on his face, like the marks left by skin grafting after disfigurement. His nose bridge was flat and his mouth was tilted to one side. No matter how scary he looked, the only shining thing was a pair of eyes. At this time, he was looking at Chu Lingya carefully.

"You are Chu Lingya?" Only when the voice heard on the walkie-talkie really sounded did Chu Lingya realize that the man in front of him, who looked a bit like Quasimodo the Clock Tower Freak, was the client he was about to serve, Guanxuan .

"Yes, it's me, hello, Teacher Guanxuan." Chu Lingya hurriedly said respectfully, stretched out his hand and presented the fruit cake in his hand, "I bought it on the way, please accept it."

Guan Xuan said, "Did I scare you?"

Chu Lingya was stunned for a moment, and immediately said: "No, no."

The man said indifferently: "Seven years ago, I was caught in a fire, my face was ruined, my legs were crippled, but I saved my life." He said this in a flat tone, as if he had already gotten used to the strange gazes of others, but Chu Ling let him Ya's heart tightened inexplicably.

"Yes, I'm sorry." Chu Lingya was extremely ashamed, he was not the kind of person who judges people by their appearance, but it was impossible to see such a face in the depths of an ancient house in the wilderness and say that it would not be shaken at all.

"You didn't do anything wrong, go and sit in the room." Guan Xuan said, turning the direction of the wheelchair.

Chu Lingya hurriedly followed and grabbed the opponent's wheelchair.The latter might have looked at him suspiciously, but because of lack of facial expressions, Chu Lingya was not too sure.

"Let me help you." Chu Lingya said cautiously, worried that her client would mind.Some people will become very sensitive after encountering a disaster and take the kindness of others as an insult, but Guanxuan doesn't seem to have this problem.He nodded at Chu Lingya: "Thank you then."

"You're welcome!" Hearing what the other party said, Chu Lingya was inexplicably relieved, and pushed the wheelchair into the house.

Once inside, there is a spacious hall with tables and chairs for guests and a very beautiful screen.The screen seems to depict the scene of the ancients entertaining guests for dinner, and you can also see rolling hills and a majestic mountain in the north. It looks like an expensive antique.Chu Lingya only had time to take a look, and then under Guanxuan's guidance, he pushed the other party into the study room on the right. There were bookshelves full of books, and the fragrance of books filled the room. There is a laptop and a desktop.

"Just get here." Guan Xuan said.

Chu Lingya stopped and watched the other party skillfully steer the wheelchair to the table to pour him a cup of tea: "Please."

Looking at the teacup in front of him, Chu Lingya somehow had that familiar feeling in his mind again, but this feeling quickly passed away. He remembered that it was when he went to a tea house with Meng Xinruan as a guest. The scene of pouring tea for him.

Meng Xinruan is very good-looking, even if she enters the entertainment industry, she will not be unknown, but the man in front of her is already disfigured and disabled. Logically, there is no similarity between the two, and Chu Lingya doesn't know how she would The two associate together.

Shaking his head, pushing inappropriate thoughts out of his mind, Chu Lingya took a sip of tea, took out his business card and said, "This is my contact information, Mr. Guanxuan, I'm honored to hear that you want me to be your editor !"

"Have you eaten yet?"

"Huh?" Chu Lingya was stunned for a moment, "Not yet."

"I live far away, I'm afraid it will delay you for a long time, so stay for a light meal."

Chu Lingya's phone suddenly jumped, and he hurriedly said, "I'm sorry."

Guan Xuan nodded, expressing his approval.

Chu Lingya took out her phone and glanced at it. It was a message from Meng Xinruan: "When will I get home, I will cook your favorite grilled fish with green peppercorns."

Chu Lingya hesitated for a moment, and finally replied: "I have to work overtime tonight, I won't come back for dinner, I will accompany you tomorrow." After thinking about it, he added a begging emoji at the end.

Meng Xinruan on the other end quickly replied: "I hate you." But the expression behind it was a smiling face, which showed that she was not really angry.What Chu Lingya likes most is Meng Xinruan's tolerance and consideration, it's easy to be with him.

"The family urged you to go back?"

Chu Lingya was taken aback, and looked up at her client.The man looked at him with an indescribable sadness in his eyes.Seeing these eyes, Chu Lingya felt sad for some reason.

"Well, it's my... lover."

The room suddenly became quiet, and after a while, the other side coughed lightly and said, "It's pretty good."

Chu Lingya felt that the atmosphere in the room was a bit strange, so she tried to change the subject and said, "Teacher Guanxuan, how about we talk about cooperation? To be honest, I have never had a teacher as powerful as you. I don't know what you usually have. Work habits and requirements, you tell me, I will try my best to do it!"

"My name is Xie Rujian." The man said flatly.

"Ok?"

"my name."

"Oh," Chu Lingya suddenly realized, and hurriedly said, "My name is Chu Lingya." As soon as the words came out, his face turned red, because he suddenly realized that he had spoken nonsense.

Xie Rujian seemed to smile, but his face was so utterly ruined, Chu Lingya could only see the corner of his mouth being pulled slightly, the demarcation line between the scorched skin and the skin graft was all because of this action It looks even scarier.

"Then let's get to the point. I have a creative inspiration recently, and I want to ask you to help guide me before I write."

Most small authors will report their creation plans and outlines to their editors. The purpose is to let the editors give some guidance. After all, creation is a very labor-intensive task, and not everyone can be inspired. If there are experienced editors in the Giving certain guidance at the beginning of creation will help authors avoid many thankless efforts.But this is only for small authors. At Xie Rujian's level, editors are more responsible for assistants and managers, and they don't have much right to interfere with how to create.So when Xie Rujian said this, Chu Lingya was flattered.

Chu Lingya hurriedly said: "I dare not talk about guidance, but if you want to hear feedback from the reader's point of view, I should be able to provide some suggestions."

Xie Rujian said: "What I want to write is a story about infinite reincarnation."

"Infinite reincarnation? Is it an adventure story like infinite flow?" Chu Lingya's other author is currently creating a comic of infinite flow. The protagonist is terminally ill and is pulled into an infinite flow world in despair. , the system gave him a question, as long as he can live to the end, one of his wishes will be fulfilled, including restoring his health.So, the story unfolds under this premise.The biggest feature of this kind of story is that it can shuttle in multiple types of worlds, sometimes it is ancient, sometimes it is modern, and it may be the future. It is equivalent to mixing multiple types in traditional stories, which can bring readers a sense of freshness. So this genre has attracted many loyal readers since its appearance.

"You can say that, but it's a bit different." Xie Rujian said, "My protagonist has been reincarnating in the same world."

Chu Lingya was stunned for a moment, infinite reincarnation in the same world?Why does it sound so hopeless?

Xie Rujian said: "I set the protagonist as a criminal. This person always encounters unfortunate things, so he embarks on the path of self-destruction. After experiencing it several times, he realizes that he is It seems that he has been walking on a path of misfortune repeatedly, and the misfortune itself may not be all caused by himself. So he began to investigate and gradually realized that there seemed to be a higher will in his life. At first he just doubted, and then Slowly finding evidence from some trivial details, he began to truly believe that the life he thought he was in control of was actually being manipulated by others. There was an invisible hand manipulating his life, which made him no matter how he started, no matter how he started No matter how hard he struggled in the middle, he would end up in complete defeat, so he began to try to fight back. However, the road to fight back was not so easy, and what he was fighting with was an extremely powerful force, so he had to fight back in the process of defeating again and again. He summed up his experience and looked for partners, trying to organize a team against this force. Unfortunately, no one believed him. Occasionally, one or two people who believed in him died quickly in various accidents, and finally He was the only one left. So he finally decided to self-destruct. In the end, when he opened his eyes and started all over again, he realized that even his own resistance might be a part of being at the mercy of that will, and He also found that this was the 999th time he had failed to resist."

"It's too dark!" Chu Lingya couldn't help blurting out, and then covered her mouth.

Oops, it's a big taboo to refute the teacher at the first meeting!

Xie Rujian looked at him: "Really, if it were you, what would you write?"

Chu Lingya was a little at a loss, hesitated for a while and said, "At least it shouldn't have such a dark ending."

"for example?"

"The protagonist organizes the rebel army to successfully defeat the supreme will, and everyone's destiny is liberated, and then they live a happy life." Chu Lingya said, "Teacher, in fact, most of the readers now don't eat BE, probably because of the modern Due to excessive social pressure, everyone wants to take a breather in the virtual world, so it’s best to have as much fun as you can. Of course, sir, your works have always been very thoughtful, and they are indeed different from ordinary fast food consumer works , but if the ending is destined to be a tragedy, everyone will look very disappointed.”

"Is it a tragedy to start over?" Xie Rujian asked.

"Of course, this is not a restart, it's the 1000th failure!" Chu Lingya sighed, "When readers read comics, they will substitute themselves. Instead, I failed 999 times and found that even I resisted. If this matter is part of someone else's arrangement, I will be desperate!"

Chu Lingya said: "Mr. Guanxuan, do you have to set that supreme will to be so strong? Is it really invulnerable, without any weakness? Even if it gradually exposes its weaknesses in the process of restarting again and again. Ah, some readers may be able to withstand the setbacks and failures in the middle, but they are just accumulating strength and looking forward to a complete counterattack. The forces of good and evil have to see each other, and a one-sided failure will make everyone very frustrated." Chu Lingya breathed out After talking a lot, he lost his courage in the end. He looked at Xie Rujian cautiously and said, "Of course, this is just my personal opinion. In the end, it depends on your decision, teacher."

Xie Rujian nodded: "You make sense."

"Does the teacher feel the same way?" Chu Lingya became happy, "Then do you want to adjust it?"

"But the real world doesn't always end in comedy. On the contrary, there are countless tragedies. Geniuses die young, lovers become strangers, kind people are not rewarded, but treacherous people rise all the way. This is how we live survive in society.”

"But creation is the compensation of reality, Yu Xidujia is because reality occasionally makes people desperate, so people need a spiritual paradise, and that's why we creative practitioners are called dreamers. "

Xie Rujian was silent for a while, then nodded: "I have received your opinion, thank you."

"Teacher Guanxuan, I..."

Xie Rujian said: "It's getting late, you should go back to the city early."

Chu Lingya knew that he might have said something wrong, but that was indeed his truest thought.He stood up: "Teacher Guanxuan, can I still come to see you tomorrow?"

Xie Rujian smiled at him: "Yes."

Chu Lingya breathed a sigh of relief: "Then see you tomorrow."

Xie Rujian did not answer, and he took the electric wheelchair to Chu Lingya all the way to the door. Chu Lingya turned his head and saw the thin man in the slowly closing door staring at him.The moonlight fell on his hair, and the dysentery cat ran to his feet at some point, one person and one cat looked at him through the gate, Xie Rujian's eyes were soft and full of sadness.

The door was closed.

Feeling lost, Chu Lingya drove back.

The closer he was to the urban area, the more people and cars around him, the louder the worldly voices, and the commotion of the world of mortals rushed towards him, but for some reason, his mind was always on the man in that remote mansion.

The traffic light jumped to a red light, Chu Lingya stopped and waited for the passage.People shuttle on the crosswalk, from here to there, or from there to here, in a cycle.

cycle back and forth...

The 1000th attempt... The red light in front of him turned into a green light, but Chu Lingya didn't start the car, and the horn behind him blared. Just when the green light was about to turn yellow, he suddenly figured out something. Stepping on the accelerator, he quickly turned around at the intersection and drove back to Xie Rujian's residence.

No, no, no, replaying the conversation with Xie Rujian just now, Chu Lingya suddenly realized that he had made a directional error.He believes that in the same world of repeated reincarnation and continuous failure under the control of the supreme will, then this story is a complete tragedy, but this may not be the case.Every step of infinite reincarnation brings the protagonist closer to the truth, from the beginning when he didn't realize that he was being manipulated, to discovering the existence of the supreme will, to resisting, to resisting failure, and then realizing that he had resisted 999 times , So began the 1000th resistance, this is not despair, but hope.

What Xie Rujian said was "restart" instead of another failure. No one can conclude that the 1000th time is also a failure!The heart in Chu Lingya's chest was beating rapidly. This knowledge made him feel like he had been ignoring something, but now he realized it.The phone rang, and Chu Lingya glanced at it. Meng Xinruan's name jumped on the screen. He hesitated for a moment, and stretched out his finger to the call button, but he didn't move it for a long time.

The ringing stopped, Chu Lingya heaved a sigh of relief, and then the phone rang more violently and earth-shatteringly, Meng Xinruan's name kept beating on the screen, like a hysterical person screaming for Chu Lingya to go ignore him!Chu Lingya frowned, reached out and pressed the off button.There was silence in the car, and Chu Lingya drove to Xie Rujian's house wholeheartedly.

He wanted to see that person again, but he always felt that the person still had something to say to him!

When he arrived at the outskirts of the city, Chu Lingya saw a raging fire, and at the same time, the hum of the fire truck filled his ears.Chu Lingya felt a sense of uncertainty, he threw the car at the foot of the mountain and ran towards Xie Rujian's house, before he got close, he felt a wave of heat, the soaring flames almost illuminated half of the sky, The center of the raging fire was Xie Rujian's house.

how come……

Chu Lingya looked at the scene in front of her in shock, and it was only then that she remembered that Xie Rujian didn't seem to say "goodbye" to him when they parted not long ago.A butterfly flew over, it was a dark blue butterfly, its wings shone with dots of light, it looked very dreamy.It flew out of the fire scene, stayed on Chu Lingya's hand, flapped its wings, and turned into a little silver light.

Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly, how do you know whether you dreamed of a butterfly or the butterfly dreamed of you?

"Fake..." Chu Lingya muttered to himself, and rushed into the flames like crazy.When the flames devoured him like a monster, a bright light flashed in front of Chu Lingya's eyes!