implication [end times]

The mist under his feet had already cleared away, and the scorching sun was on his head. Ran Yu came back to his senses, and felt a tingling sensation in his head.He reached out and touched the top of his hair. The black hair absorbed heat and was already very hot.

"Have you had enough sun, are you going down the mountain?" Ran Yu turned his head and asked Ran Qiu.

Ran Qiu looked at him straight: "What did you do just now?"

For some reason, upon hearing Ran Qiu's question, Ran Yu suddenly felt that the current scene was a bit familiar, as if he had experienced it before.

"What can I do?" Ran Yu said, "Everything is under your control, isn't it?"

As soon as the words fell, a sharp pain swept through Ran Yu's brain.It's not that he hasn't experienced nervous headaches before, but the weight of all the headaches in the past 20 years can't be worth this moment.This feeling is a bit like an electric shock, or a burning fire, or a thousand steel needles writhing and piercing in the soft brain.

Ran Yu was sitting on the edge of the boulder. The pain made him tremble constantly, and he didn't have the strength to stand up at all.In order to prevent accidentally falling, he had no choice but to support himself with his arms and move back. After a few supports, he fell heavily on the ground, curled up and covered his head.

Ran Qiu also left the edge of the cliff at some point, and was sitting on a big rock by the tree, with his arms around his knees, looking down at him like he was looking at a disobedient pet.

The moment he was suffocated by the pain, Ran Yu felt that Ran Qiu really wanted to kill him now—if Ran Qiu could do it.

Cold sweat rushed out of the pores, and the eyes secreted natural tears unconsciously. In the haze, Ran Yu saw that Ran Qiu's arms holding his knees were tightening, and his shoulders trembled slightly. Eye.

Ran Yu was almost certain that Ran Qiu was definitely not feeling well right now.

For a few seconds, Ran Yu even felt that his heart had stopped beating.Immediately afterwards, this sense of near-death evokes a familiar memory.The pain is like a steel needle, piercing what was originally wrapped outside the memory.He thought of the days before the city entrance exam three months ago.

One day, he went to cut firewood on the mountain near his home as usual, and met a boy whose leg was caught in a trap halfway up the mountain.Occasionally, some hunting and predating people would randomly place this kind of traps on the mountain. This is not the first time that Ran Yu has seen passers-by who have been accidentally injured.The boy said that his name was Aqiu, and he came all the way here with his friends to look for food, but got separated. He asked Ran Yu who was passing by to help him pry open the clip.

Ran Yu's moral simulation paper was a mess again that morning. He recalled the answer analysis several times, and thought that a person with a sense of morality and high scores should lend a helping hand at this time.When he approached, he found that the trap was tightly stuck in the flesh, and it was not easy to cut directly with an axe, so he had to take out the dagger at his waist, and leaned over to carefully pry it open bit by bit.During the process of prying the clip, he always faced the boy, paying attention to the boy's actions.The young man sat very quietly, and the iron clip crushed the worn flesh a few times, but he didn't cry out for pain, at most he frowned and hummed softly a few times.

The moment before the trap fell from the boy's ankle was when Ran Yu's defenses were weakest, the boy saw the timing and reached out to gently touch his abdomen.Ran Yu suddenly felt a tingling pain.He immediately grabbed the boy's retracted hand, but found that the other's palm was clean, and he didn't hold a blade or needle.

Ran Yu had lived for 20 years, and he couldn't have more experience with injuries. He could tell right away that he had suffered a puncture wound on his abdomen. The wound may be very small. He wore thick clothes for sun protection and mosquitoes, and the blood had not yet soaked through the fabric.

"What did you do just now?" Ran Yu asked, staring straight at the boy's face.

The boy smiled, and then suddenly fell down limply, motionless, as if he had passed out.Ran Yu tentatively pushed it a few times, but nothing happened.He touched the artery in the boy's neck, opened his eyelids and looked, and found that the boy was not in a coma, but dead.

It was too strange, but Ran Yu couldn't think too much about it.His consciousness began to blur, his head was groggy, and he fell into a half-dream and half-awake state.He stumbled and ran home. Fortunately, the journey was not far away and there were no other dangers along the way.The first thing Ran Yu did when he got home was to go straight to the warehouse, find the medicine box and treat the wound.

The abdominal wound was very small, but the surrounding skin was red and swollen, showing signs of suppuration.The swollen bump felt a little crunchy to the touch, like fine and dense scales - Ran Yu often saw this kind of scales on mutated human-eating beasts, but he had never seen such scales on humans.The wound gradually expanded as if it was alive. When Ran Yu first checked it, it was only the size of a needle tip, but now it is half the size of a fist.The pain is strong, and the foreign body sensation is stronger.Something squirmed in the wound.

Ran Yu sterilized the fine tweezers and scissors with alcohol, took a deep breath, and stuffed a clean towel into his mouth in case he bit off his tongue later.He didn't know what strange things he encountered. Experience showed that pain can make his judgment more accurate, so he didn't use anesthesia.

Not long after his parents died unexpectedly, when Ran Yu was looking for food, he encountered a group of passers-by who were fighting for food, cars and diesel oil. It's a delicious snack.Although he was careful to hide in the bushes far away, he was hit in the calf by a stray bullet.When Ran Yu took out the bullet for himself for the first time, his hands were shaking unbearably, his eyes were covered with tears, and he couldn't wipe them clean.What was more terrifying than the pain was the sense of despair. He was curled up in the corner of the warehouse alone, and he might not wake up after passing out.No one cares about him, no one will find out when he dies here, he has no connection with this world... No, someone is still waiting for his reply, waiting for him to enter the city.So he chose to stand up again and again.Maybe it has nothing to do with how important that person is, just the thought itself is enough to support him.

Later, he used the knife on his body more times, and fear and despair could not dominate him to interfere with him. He skillfully inserted the tweezers into the bloody wound, trying to clamp the wriggling foreign object, but failed several times.Numerous nerve endings honestly and continuously transmitted the piercing pain. Ran Yu's whole body was soon covered with sweat, and almost every muscle was trembling slightly due to the severe pain. Blue veins.The foreign body seemed to be broken off by the tweezers, but drilled deeper.Ran Yu was in so much pain that he was unconscious. After cleaning and bandaging the wound, he shivered and swallowed a handful of antibiotics.Then, suddenly and uncontrollably, his right hand threw the antibiotic bottle out.He felt that some monster was controlling his body.

Ran Yu was startled, he struggled to pick up the bottle, pressed his right hand with his leg, and ate all the antibiotics in one go.The dose was too high, and he suspected that he would eat himself to death, but he really only had one thought at the time, that is, not to be influenced by the monster in his body, and to die together.Immediately afterwards, he fell into a coma.

He had been in a coma for a long time, and thinking about it now, it should have been two or three days, and the puncture wound on his abdomen at that time may have come from the mouthparts protruding from the palm of the boy.After waking up, there was a young man with a bad face in Ran Yu's yard, who claimed to be his younger brother, named Ran Qiu.Ran Yu's memory is also full of mistakes and omissions to show that it is indeed the case.So he and his brother lived in peace for three months.

The headache disappeared suddenly, and Ran Yu recovered from the suffocation, panting heavily.The sun on the top of the mountain was scorching, the sweat on Ran Yu's body was dried, and tiny grains of salt were deposited on his clothes.

"You are that Aqiu. At that time, you tried to parasitize me, but failed." Ran Yu sat up with difficulty and asked, "Then why do you still stay here and not eat me?"

"It's not a complete failure," Ran Qiu said, resting his chin on his hands.

Ran Qiu didn't say the whole thing, but Ran Yu connected with his thoughts, stimulated the other party to retrieve relevant memories by asking questions, and immediately knew the whole story.Ran Qiu's parasitic process was stopped, whether it was pinched off by tweezers, interfered by antibiotics, or Ran Yu's physique and other reasons, he had no choice but to withdraw and return to the original A Qiu's body.However, only half of them went back, and the other half stayed in Ran Yu's body, sucking nutrients from his body, parasitic as usual, but unable to control this body.

Ran Qiu had no choice but to come to Ran Yu's side and wait until his other half matured.About two or three months later, Ran Qiu gave Ran Yu a large amount of anesthetics and sleeping pills one night, and then watched Ran Yu's abdomen being torn out from the inside.Ran Qiu regained his complete self, but because the other half has been parasitic in Ran Yu's body for too long, unpredictable changes have already occurred.For Ran Qiu, when the other half was taken out, there was an invisible thread still attached to Ran Yu.In human terms, it is like cutting the constant spiritual umbilical cord.

Therefore, Ran Qiu had to maintain a strange connection with a human being.

"Don't worry, I won't let you die." Ran Qiu said, "But don't use your brain anymore, you can't kill me. When you first reached the top of the mountain, did you want to push me down for a moment?"

Ran Yu remained silent.

Ran Qiu smiled: "Now you know. I have many, many spare bodies, this one is not bad."

Ran Yu looked at the layered silhouette of the distant mountains and said, "But no living thing is immortal. You may not die from falling, and you may be able to parasitize on the other party when they attack you, but what if it is a long-distance bombing? In an instant, use Fire or laser, burn out all biological tissue, can you survive?"

Ran Qiu rolled his eyes: "Oh, I don't want to discuss how to kill me with you, it's too boring."

The fine fluff on Ran Yu's face is clearly visible in the sunlight, and the curve of his sitting body coincides with the mountains in the distance.Ran Qiu tilted his head and looked at it for a while, feeling the feeling of seeing pearls for the first time a long time ago flooding his heart, which was a feeling more satisfying than a full stomach.

Ran Qiu thought for a while, took out a thin red string from his trouser pocket, and said to Ran Yu, "Here, put it on."

The red string was brought out by Ran Yu's mother from the city. It was originally a necklace string, but the ring hanging on it was accidentally lost, and the string was thrown into a drawer.I don't know where Ran Qiu found it.A shiny pearl was strung on the rope, and Ran Yu recognized that it was the one that Ran Qiu brought up from the bottom of the sea.

Ran Yu didn't answer, Ran Qiu snorted, and roughly put the rope around his neck.After finishing, Ran Qiu nodded as if looking at his own collection.

"Beautiful things should be put together." Ran Qiu raised his head, squinted his eyes and said, "It's nice here, but there is no such warm sun under the sea. It's dark and cold there, and I don't want to go back again."