The sky was half covered by large clouds, and there was a hint of sultry heat in the breeze. Facing the obscured rising sun, Alex rode his mail delivery tricycle, humming a little tune, and started his day's work.

"Hey, Alex, here you come to deliver the mail again! Look at your strong body, you work so efficiently!" The shop owners along the street who were preparing to open their shops greeted him with a smile.

"Of course, I, Alex, am the most capable person in this town!" Alex held his head high and said loudly.

"Alex, you are so capable. I know a pretty girl. Can I introduce her to you?" an old lady passing by said enthusiastically.

Alex proudly flexed his muscles and said, "Auntie, don't worry about it. I, Alex, will never have trouble finding a girl!"

As he spoke, Alex turned into the alley, ringing the bell with one hand.

The car braked and stopped in front of a low house. Alex turned over and the letter in the basket fell into his hands.

Hurrying, he walked to the door and shouted loudly.

After a while, just when Alex was getting impatient, the old wooden door slowly opened, and an old woman with gray hair and a hunched back appeared at the door.

Her eyes were narrowed, her face wrinkled, and she looked at Alex suspiciously.

"Grandma, your daughter wrote to you!" Alex raised his voice.

"What? It's Alex?" The old woman's hearing was not very good, so she moved closer to Alex and put her dry hands to her ears.

Alex repeated loudly again: "Grandma, a letter from your daughter!"

The old woman finally understood, and a smile of surprise suddenly appeared on her face, muttering: "Oh, my daughter, there is finally a letter."

Alex opened the letter and relayed its contents to the old woman word for word.

The old woman listened attentively, nodding from time to time, smiling with satisfaction, and kept saying, "Okay, okay, as long as my daughter is doing well."

After Alex finished reading the letter, the old woman held his hand tightly and said gratefully, "Thank you, son. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know what my daughter said."

"Grandma, this is what I should do." Alex said with a smile.

The old woman trembled and went back to the house. She took out some cakes she had made and stuffed them into Alex's hand. "Child, take them. This is a little gift from grandma."

Alex couldn't refuse, so he had to accept it. Then he said goodbye to the old woman and rode his tricycle to continue delivering letters.

On the edge of the town, a middle-aged woman walked out of a large courtyard.

"Evelyn, are you feeling well? You should rest at your age. And your grandfather George has a bad temper and is stuck in his room. Ask him to come over and play cards." There was no sense of intimacy in their words.

"I'll pass it on." Alex handed over the letter.

"Alex, you are a really good kid. Your features are just like your mother Clara's." The woman took the letter and continued to nag while looking at Alex's face.

Hearing the name that was treasured deep in his memory, the smile on Alex's face suddenly froze, his nose felt sore, and he ignored the politeness of the person opposite him, lowered his head, turned around, and rode away on his bike.

Just then, dark clouds gradually gathered in the sky, and soon, big raindrops began to fall. The rain got heavier and heavier, hitting Alex.

He hurriedly rode his tricycle to find a place to shelter from the rain, and finally, he stopped in an abandoned shed.

One person and one car, behind the continuous curtain of water.

The air was filled with water vapor, and the whole world was gray and colorless.

Looking at the pouring rain, Alex thought of his mother, how she held an umbrella for him in the rain when he was a child, and how she worked hard.

This big guy who usually looks silly and arrogant, had all the sorrow buried deep in his heart surge up.

His wish to give his mother a better life was strangled by that violent, alcoholic, arrogant and selfish demon before he could realize it.

His mother was gentle and kind, but fate treated her so unfairly and left him early.

Thinking of this, Alex's eyes became red, and tears mixed with rain water flowed down his cheeks continuously.

I am a coward.

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On the other side, the gloomy sky finally sprinkled heavy rain. Sean was looking forward to it on the farm, thinking to himself: "I hope Emily still remembers our agreement."

Thinking of this, he quickly put on his rain gear and hurried out of the farm.

He was in a hurry and saw a figure standing at the end of the path from afar. It was Emily standing there silently.

Sean was delighted, and their eyes met as if they had telepathic connection.

She was wearing a raincoat, with raindrops constantly sliding down her fair cheeks. She stood still, looking at Sean.

"The sky and the earth are filled with the breath of the sea." Emily raised her head slightly, took a deep breath, and said slowly, "Let's go. I can see that you are full of questions."

Emily now seems detached and ethereal, totally different from her usual friendly, little-girl-next-door vibe.

Upon hearing this, Sean quickened his pace and followed her.

Emily walked quietly in front, like a cold ghost. Her steps were light, and the mud on the ground seemed to avoid her and could not touch her soles at all.

Such a magical scene made Sean marvel. Although he had the ability to do this, he could not imitate this charm.

In this way, the two of them walked slowly forward, one in front and one behind, in the wilderness where the rain was pouring down.

"Sean, you have special abilities too, right?" Suddenly, Emily's voice came from the wind and rain ahead.

"Also? It seems that you have it too, Emily." Sean pondered in his mind, "Yeah, yes." He nodded in response.

"Let me make it short." Emily's voice pierced through the rain like a thread, "I have been able to see spirits that others cannot see since I was a child."

"Spiritual bodies?" Sean wondered, "Are these spiritual bodies related to the spiritual bodies classified by the sacred tree?"

"Because of this, my classmates treated me as an alien when I was young, isolated me, and laughed at me. No matter which school I transferred to, it was always like this. I was very sad and painful. For my mental health, my parents separated me and my sister Haley and sent me to the countryside of Pelican Town, where there are no strange looks and ridicule."

The beautiful environment and simple townspeople of the Pelican Town countryside healed her soul. Although Haley said one thing and did another, she was honest. In the past years, she would go to Pelican Town every summer vacation to accompany her sister Emily.

When Sean heard this, he couldn't help but feel pity in his heart, and for a moment he didn't know how to comfort her.

However, before Sean could speak, Emily spoke first: "To be honest, I'm very happy to meet someone who has special abilities like me. This makes me feel that I am no longer an outlier."

"I'm glad that you can share the secret of your special abilities with me so unreservedly." Sean looked at her sincerely, thinking that he would explain to her his plan to popularize super powers after this mystery was over.

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