soul bondage

Five years is neither long nor short, but it is enough to change a person's life.Five years ago, a sudden catastrophe woke up many children like me who lived in peaceful times and did not know the cruelty of war from their dreams.

In that winter five years ago, an invasion by extraterrestrial creatures, highly intelligent life forms known as Lorgars, completely changed the original life of human beings.Within a few days, the Lorgars used electromagnetic pulses and airborne armed soldiers to launch crazy attacks on dozens of regions in more than a dozen countries on the earth. Countless cities that witnessed human history and civilization became ruins. Tens of millions of people Displaced, and in this disaster, about 700 million people left the world forever, 700 million families were also torn apart, and heaven and man were separated forever.

Some people say that time can make people forget the pain of the past, but five years have passed, and the pain of losing my parents is like a lingering nightmare, which has been tormenting my heart.

I still remember when I was a child, I heard the old man at home say that I would have some kind of telepathy when my loved ones left, but what was I doing when my parents were shot by those animals?Oh yes, I was running for my life in the dark like a stray dog.

I still remember that morning, when I had breakfast and was about to go out, my mother kept reminding me that it was cold and be careful not to catch a cold.My mother has always been like this, every morning when I am about to go out, she will tell me a few words, day after day, I am afraid that no one in this world will take such trouble to tell me every day.When I think of the past, I feel that the eye sockets are astringent, and the warm liquid moistens the eye sockets, but they are dried by the cold wind after a while.

Now, I have returned to my former home, but everything in front of me has changed.The place where I used to live was a quiet and pleasant street, but since it was bombed, the government has rebuilt it into a new business district, as if hoping to erase the pain of the past.

I looked around, and although it is deep winter, there is still a lot of people here, bustling crowds pass by me, students talking and laughing, children pestering their parents for toys, and falling in love Compared with my lover, I feel that I am out of place in this lively world.

After a while, snowflakes began to fall in the sky. I rubbed my frozen hands, found the nearest chair and sat down.Today is Saturday, so I think my uncle and aunt will not blame me even if I go back later.Although it has been four years since I came to this new home, I still can't integrate into the current family.My uncles and aunts have always been very kind to me, but I have never been able to get close to them.In the past few years, although the family has not been very close, they are still living in peace. In addition, my uncle and aunt have always been relatively loose in their discipline, so they don't care too much about going out alone on weekends like this.

Looking at the brightly lit streets, I didn't want to leave for the time being, so I turned on the news website on my phone and started reading.

I rummaged through the subheadings. As soon as I turned to social news, I found the current news I followed. I saw a few large characters written on this page: As of this week, the number of missing people has risen to 23. For teenagers aged 15 to 25.

Just as I was reading carefully, I suddenly felt the chair sinking. I looked up and found a man wearing a sports down jacket sitting beside me.For some reason, although it was just a stranger I met by chance, it gave me a feeling of deja vu.

I nodded politely at him, then looked at my watch and found that it was already five o'clock, so I brushed off the snow on my body, stood up and prepared to leave.

Just as I took a few steps, a voice stopped me.

"Nice to see you again, Chu Mingyu."

I turned around suddenly, and because the ground under my feet was too slippery, I staggered and almost fell.

"Who are you? I don't know you, how do you know my name?" I asked as I sat back on the chair again. From just now, I felt that the person in front of me looked familiar, but I still couldn't remember Met there.

I stared at the man in front of me. He looked like he was only in his early thirties, but he had a calmness and composure that didn't match his age. Even though his clothes were casual, his expression seemed dignified, or It's old-fashioned.

"We met five years ago, but it's been too long, you may have forgotten me, but it's okay, I can give you a hint." After speaking, the man stared at me.

In an instant, I saw a mass of golden light gradually spread out in his pupils, spreading from the pupils to the entire eye socket.At that moment, I had an illusion, as if a reptile was going to devour me, but in the next second, the man's eyes returned to their original shape, and I looked around worriedly, but the people around me seemed to have not noticed his change.

After the two children bounced past me, I finally mustered up the courage to say the words that had been in my heart for a long time.

"You're not human, are you?"

"Obviously." He answered me casually.

"It was you that night..." I asked anxiously.

"I still have something to do today. Find me at the fast food restaurant opposite at five o'clock tomorrow afternoon. I won't wait too long so don't be late. It's getting late today. Go home, kid." After speaking, the man left me left.

I looked at his gradually blurred back with doubts in my heart.

Who is "he"?