Psychopathic Cup Noodle

Lu Cheng woke up in the dark.

For a moment, he couldn't remember what time it was, nor what he was doing before.

Supporting his body with his hands, he tried to stand up, but there was a "bang".His nose bumped against a hard object in the darkness, and his mouth was salty... Probably blood flowed out of his nostrils and then flowed in along the cracks of his lips.

Now that Lu Cheng learned his lesson, he stretched his hands and feet as far as possible, and tested his surroundings.

wall.All I can touch are the walls.He was locked in an extremely small space, and he couldn't even lie flat with his limbs spread out like in the movie "Buried Alive"; he could only lower his shoulders and shrink his neck, curl his knees up, and even move his arms and rub against the wall.

"Hello. Is anyone there?" Lu Cheng said, and then gradually raised her voice.

"Can you hear me, come here!" "Hey, what's going on!"

...and then his whining suddenly stopped.

rustle.

Lu Cheng held his breath.

rustling.

By the time he finally realized what that sound was, it was too late.

Water gushed in and quickly soaked Lu Cheng's feet, which were only wearing socks.

At the same time, if there was no place, a breath began to permeate the air; or maybe the smell had been there a long time ago, but he didn't notice it.

Very familiar, but slightly different taste every time.

Lu Cheng realized what it was reflexively, and he finally remembered what he was doing before and who he was with.

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24 hours ago.

"There is no reason, no, no."

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"It's no wonder no one wants to be with you all the time, and you can't work, and you can't support yourself until now. Liu Cai said that you are right at all!"

"...Are you finished? I'm going to hang up." Lu Cheng said.Liu was his stepfather, and it was his younger sister, Liu Cheng, who would call his stepfather by his first name.

"Brother Chong is so kind to you! What's wrong with asking someone to celebrate your birthday together! Do you have a conscience!" Liu Cheng knew that her brother would never hang up on her phone, so she persevered.

"...It doesn't matter if it's good or not, that person is not interested in things like birthdays at all."

But the girl let out a loud roar, which shook Lu Cheng's eyes until Venus trembled.

"Brother Chong is not what you said! Let me ask you, when is my birthday?"

"Huh?" Lu Cheng said, his mind was in a moment of confusion.

"Sure enough - I knew it! You didn't tell Brother Chong that you wanted to celebrate my birthday, did you? How could you not remember what you said so soon!" The girl's eyes were full of tears.

Three months ago, the teenage girl was sitting moping on the sports equipment in the school playground. The bell of ONEOKROCK's "The Beginning" rang suddenly, and the girl almost fell off the horizontal bar.

"Hello? You idiot!"

"Ah, it's Brother Chong... How is your recovery, Brother Chong? When will you be discharged from the hospital?" A little disappointed, but the girl's tone quickly turned into a brisk greeting.

"The call was made on behalf of your brother. Liu Cheng, I wish you a happy 17th birthday. I was about to be beaten to death by your brother. You kept saying that if you didn't take care of me, you could celebrate your sister's birthday. Please help me."

The girl laughed through tears.The voice on the other side of the phone was still hoarse after a little illness, as if the milk had been boiled for 3 minutes, just warm enough.

"He's just that stupid, don't pay attention to him."

"No, it's me who wants to say 'sorry' to you."

"Bah! You say I'm angry again! What kind of birthday? It's boring to celebrate every year. Brother Chong, the most important thing is to take good care of your injuries."

There was a weary laugh from the opposite side. "However, your brother said that when he celebrates his birthday, we will cook Malatang together at home. I promise you that the injury will be healed by then."

"Yeah! It's done! It's hard to lie to people!"

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"Promise you? Did he say that? Did he really say that?"

But the other side has hung up angrily.There was a beeping sound from the phone, just like Lu Cheng's mood at the moment, intermittent and infinitely melancholy.

The call was made on behalf of your brother.

I promise you that I will recover from my injuries by then.

--what happened?Didn't Bai Chong expect that he would reject his sister's request to "have a birthday together"?

No.

Lu Cheng, you are really inferior.he said to himself.

He knew in his heart that Bai Chong was not doing anything else on the phone call, but—"comforting"; that person "imitated" the behavior of ordinary people, comforting the girl with gentle words; When his mind was full of psychopathy, world outlook and values, Bai Chong took care of his sister for him.

Lu Cheng looked at the computer, he would be one year older in 4 minutes.Bai Chong won't come back tonight; tomorrow, as long as Lu Cheng doesn't mention it, Bai Chong, who has always been very knowledgeable, won't mention birthday either.

After turning off the power of the computer, the word "unconscionable" went out instantly; Lu Cheng threw herself on the bed and fell asleep before her head hit the pillow.

Unexpectedly, at noon the next day, the doorbell rang because Lu Cheng was in a bad mood yesterday and Bai Chong was "overworked" last night—in short, both of them were still sleeping.

jingle.

Jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle

jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle Bell pulled the two of them up from the bed.

"Damn, who..." Lu Chengchao cursed unlike himself, and slammed the door open——

His waking up breath disappeared without a trace in an instant, and he was so awake that he couldn't wake up again.

"Happy birthday, idiot!" The girl in hot pants and camisole was holding vegetables and meat in both hands, smiling like a beam of light.

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"Bai Chong!"

"Bai Chong, let me out!"

Lu Cheng struggled desperately with his head, shoulders, nails, and knees.

Yet there was no light.

Not moving.

Lu Cheng, who was struggling crazily and almost broke his joints, was not noticed by anyone.

Everything is like a plant cell in a slice, frozen in darkness.

Is it cemented here?Is it really sliced?

The taste of instant noodles!

The taste of instant noodles is getting stronger and stronger.

The sound of splashing water can be heard clearly.

Kacha's nails were broken; pierced and his clothes were torn - but Lu Cheng didn't pay attention at all, he was just kicking, beating and scratching.

"No, no, I beg you—"

But the voice outside remained unchanged and repeated monotonously, making one wonder that no one was there anymore.

Rustle, the sound of a fresh-keeping bag; rustle, the sound of water pouring in.

How long has it been?Seconds or minutes?

3 minutes, he only has 3 minutes...

"Listen to me this time, I don't care what you do after that - I'll leave this country, listen to me once, just once -" 3 minutes is it 3 minutes? ...too late..."Please, please." He beat the wall, tears streaming down his face.

"I can do whatever you want me to do, and I will listen to you, so—"

"Please let my sister go!"

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puff puff.

The switch of the induction cooker has been turned off, but the hot air lingering in the pot is still arching the lid of the pot.Puff puff.

A thin white hand stretched out and lifted the lid of the casserole with a "hey".The water vapor with the aroma of sauce "huh" rushed out, almost knocking people down.

Red, brown, soft orange and gold-toned surface food first appeared in a shimmering white steam, and the warm sesame sauce-colored soup base glistened.

"Ah, it looks delicious." The man sighed sincerely.

"What do you mean by 'look', my workmanship is of course good!"

"What kind of craftsmanship..." Lu Cheng sighed, "Isn't it just boiling the water and adding the seasoning bought in the supermarket to cook?"

"I choose the vegetables! I peeled the garlic too!" The girl kneeling on her knees suddenly straightened her upper body, with hot air coming out of her nostrils, and suddenly she was a head taller than Lu Cheng who was sitting on the floor.

"Okay, auntie, sit down." Lu Cheng hastily took the pot lid from the girl's hand, sighing deeply.He peeked at Bai Chong who was sitting on the right side from the corner of his eyes, and the other side fluttered his nose, looking very interested.

"Brother Chong, what do you like to eat?" The girl picked up a bowl.

"Hmm..." The man's eyes reflected the golden soup, his face showed hesitation and hesitation—"I don't know." He raised his head with a smirk—"It's the first time I've eaten."

"Pfft...hahahahahahaha, ("Hey, saliva, saliva is sprayed in!") This is the first time I've heard of someone who hasn't eaten Malatang since childhood, so—"

The girl slightly rolled up her cuffs.

"A bamboo shoot tip, a piece of kelp, a cluster of Flammulina velutipes, a piece of lotus root, a piece of potato, a mushroom, a quail egg... Ah, why did I forget—" She picked up a piece of limp, soaked in juice with the tip of her chopsticks Soy milk-colored cubes——"Roasted bran is the noble son of Malatang!"

"Oh," the man looked at the color and the bright bottom of the bowl, "it's amazing."

"Haha, right?"

What's so great...?

The young man with the empty bowl in front of him narrowed his eyes.

"No! No more meat!"

Halfway through the meal, the girl suddenly jumped up between the two of them, crossing her chest like an Ultraman.

"what happened again?"

"It's time to—" The girl inserted the chopsticks into the bottom of the pot in one breath, "Hey", she said.

When she pulled the chopsticks out of the soup, the golden and slightly curled noodles bounced under the red and black bamboo chopsticks.

"If you eat any more, you will be full. When you are not full, stuffing a whole chopsticks of noodles slightly soaked in soup into your mouth is the most————"

"Tsk, don't talk when your mouth is full of noodles!"——Lu Cheng was about to complain like this, when she heard the same sound from the right.

"Woooooo (really), woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo delicious)!"

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

...He had no choice but to put the noodles into his mouth with tears in his heart... Woo...!

good to eat.

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Lu Cheng didn't know what was going on.

He only remembered that after drinking and eating, Bai Chong asked the girl to go with him to get iced sour plum soup from the refrigerator because of inconvenient legs and feet.After that, the three of them sat at the table, took a sip and exhaled the refreshing air.

...Like the current situation where three people are lying in rows on the wooden floor, covered with air-conditioning quilts dragged from the bed... Lu Cheng doesn't remember how it started.

"Wow - so happy. Since I met Brother Chong, a lot of good things have happened - ah, no!" The girl suddenly realized that saying this was unfair to Bai Chong who had a car accident, so she quickly changed her words; but the man didn't mind Gently rubbing the top of her head, the girl no longer struggled:

"To be honest, it has always been my dream to eat Malatang with a big idiot in Jialan's air-conditioned room! Then there is the hot sun outside the house!"

What a cheap dream.

Lu Cheng couldn't help looking out the window—the sun was so hot that it hurt people's eyes.However, when he came back to his senses, he found that the topic had grown beyond his understanding.

"Brother Chong," the girl said, "It's hard work for someone like my brother—" Such a person?

"He's short down there?" Underneath...?

"Liu Cheng—!" Lu Cheng yelled and jumped up.

"Ah? You haven't seen it yet, have you? Ahhh."

"I'm sorry, I thought you were definitely together! Didn't you live together earlier? (Put out tongue)"

"..."

You, again, give, me, say, one, sentence...

But Lu Cheng failed to say this.

"Pfft." He heard such a voice.

"Pfft ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha."

Lu Cheng lowered his head.

In Jialan's air-conditioned room, on the wooden floor, Bai Chongzheng smiled.It wasn't a gentle, decent, neither humble nor overbearing smile, nor was it a calm, indifferent, logically motivated smile. Bai Chong stretched his arms wide and put his cane aside, smiling freely and recklessly.

His mouth was wide open, facing the ceiling, and the corners of his eyes were full of laugh lines—he didn't look handsome at all; but he smiled, "This is the first time I've seen Brother Chong laugh like this," the girl said.

"Is it really impossible with Brother Chong? Brother, you really like Brother Chong." Later, the girl knelt down on the floor in a serious or half-true manner, and asked, "Brother Chong, what do you think? "

"He...he's too 'cold-blooded'," Lu Cheng saw that Bai Chong opened his mouth and was really going to answer, so he rushed ahead of him and said, "So no, definitely not."

"Hmm...it feels a little bit like that," the girl nodded, "Brother Chong is so cool sometimes. But, does it just look cool? In fact, it's warm in your heart?"

"Hehe, you're overthinking. This kind of person can neither feel the happiness nor the pain of others, like a walking dead... Oh, by the way, love and chairs are indistinguishable words for him. "I couldn't help quoting the description in the original novel.

"Ah!" The girl looked at Bai Chong, "Really?"

Bai Chong nodded.

"Never cry?"

nod.

"Isn't it uncomfortable to see my brother being beaten?" As he spoke, he was really punched.

nod nod.

"Then, you don't feel it when someone gives you a deep hug~"

Bai Chong opened his eyes slightly, as if he thought this question was funny.

"Brother Chong, come here." The girl said, slowly getting up from the ground, and hugged Bai Chong, who was inconvenient to move and could not be easily avoided.

One, two, three, four, five.

"I don't feel it." Bai Chong said.

"Well, it must be because the partner is not my brother!" The girl quickly let go of Bai Chong, grabbed Lu Cheng's shoulders on both sides and pushed him forward: "Try it!"

"Liu Cheng, you're here again, aren't you..."

"Give it a try!" "The Beginning" suddenly sounded. "Sorry!" The girl took out her phone and ran to the corridor, "I must hug you later!"

"What are you doing..." Lu Cheng muttered, turning around in embarrassment, but froze.

Bai Chong was hugged by the girl while maintaining his face up position on the floor, but for some reason his expression remained the same... Now he has propped up his upper body with one crutch, and is leaning forward to reach the other crutch... His face is still the same The sub-signature is calm and indifferent, as if it was someone else who laughed just now, and he just stood by and watched.I rely on.Lu Cheng thought: Never mind him!Then he grabbed Bai Chong's wrist and pulled him up, while hugging him into his arms.

……

Plop, the sound of something falling to the ground.Lu Cheng came back to his senses, and quickly let go of Bai Chong.

"Liu Cheng, what's the matter?" He looked at the corridor where the strange noise came from, but he didn't get an answer.Ignoring the man behind him, Lu Cheng walked over there.

He didn't see the sound of falling to the ground in the corridor.

A few seconds later, he also fell to the ground under the effect of the alkaloid and lost consciousness.

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"Bang", a strong light pierced Lu Cheng's eyes, the door of the wash cabinet was opened, and he fell to the ground under the effect of inertia.

The floor was covered with water, as if it had soaked into the bone marrow in an instant.

in front of you.The men's bathroom.

Warm bone china sink and translucent shower curtain.There seemed to be someone standing behind, but Lu Cheng didn't look back.

With a sound of "咵啦", the young man opened the shower curtain.

He stood for a long time.

Then slowly, slowly get down on your knees.

Bai Chong couldn't see the young man's expression, and he didn't know which blood or tears flowed; he only felt that the trembling of his shoulders seemed uncontrollable, and even the surrounding air was spreading heat.

"I don't even spare my own sister, it's so cruel." He said after seeing enough.

"I kill you……"

When the police arrived a few minutes later and pulled the young man away from the man on crutches, this was what he kept yelling.

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A long time ago, before the discussion between Lu Cheng and Bai Chong about "what is conscience", the two had such a conversation.The conversation probably started with Lu Cheng wanting to ask Bai Chongxian to "pretend to have a conscience and try it out"...but it turned into a mutual mockery in the end.

is it not OK?At that time, Lu Cheng asked the other party this way: Is it not allowed to imitate conscientious behavior?It's just telling you not to hurt others, is it that difficult?

Bai Chong didn't answer directly, but just smiled slightly: I don't know what you mean by "conscience".

I don't want to have a discussion about that with you, though I do think it's okay to kill someone.

Then he grasped the arm crutch tightly and looked into the air: imagine such a world.Everyone around you is killing people.

what?

But Bai Chong just gave him a white look impatiently, motioning him to continue listening:

Society maintains balance under this specific elimination system and develops with extremely high efficiency.Killing is the norm, except you, everyone is hurting others as if nothing happened; only you, not mentioning obliterating others, even if you just make others bleed, you feel the same, the pain makes you tremble all over, and your heart is also suffering——Book Internet, public opinion, moral standards... The whole world around you says you are wrong, you are different; in order to survive, you have to pretend to be like normal people, once people find that your moral sense is beyond ordinary people, you will Get out of the "normal" society around you.

Ok, here's the problem.

Isn't it okay to imitate the behavior of normal people?It's just asking you to hurt others. Is it that difficult?

The author has something to say: the story is coming to an end, and it will end tomorrow.Says it's tomorrow, but you've already read the ending... Hint: Take a good look at the first chapter.

I know that I will be moved after I finish it... I have nothing to say to the people who moved the text. It is an objective fact that you let my novel be seen by more people.

But if you got this novel from those websites, since you have read it here, it means that you have a certain degree of recognition for it; if you think it is still OK, would you mind telling me?My Jinjiang and Weibo names are both for debate... I can't see your reply "The author's code word is not easy" in the forum below.Even just a word of "reading" can support me through the next long and powerless days.

You have no idea how much that means to me.

☆, end

There was a clang.The iron door opened, and the young man covered his face with his hands.

After a long time, he adapted to the sunlight and slowly lowered his arms.

He has a cropped cut and looks down, appearing docile and forbearing.Although he was still wearing the same hoodie as before, and his dark complexion had hardly changed, short stubble had appeared on his once smooth cheeks, and his temperament was quite different.

"Is something right? Check it."

"Well," the young man took the plastic basket from the prison guard and said calmly, "No problem."

Since then, Lu Cheng has never seen that person again.

All the clues at the crime scene seemed to point to him. Lu Cheng was finally sentenced to life imprisonment for intentional homicide and was escorted back to China to serve his sentence; while the man was treated as an innocent bystander and acquitted.

After 13 years, Lu Cheng was allowed to reduce his sentence due to his good behavior and meritorious deeds, and was released after serving his sentence.

At the age of 33, in the eyes of others, he is still a vigorous young man at the peak of his youth, but he behaves like an old man, and he is infected with irreparable vicissitudes everywhere.

He vowed never to touch the scars from that year again, and never return to Jialan in this life.

In order to support himself, Lu Cheng returned to his old job to write and write, but the stains in his life doomed him to not be able to walk a smooth road.

After finally getting into a third-rate gourmet magazine, the editor-in-chief has been refusing to make him a regular, bullying him, insulting him, and trampling him down every day... The young man endured it.Lu Cheng has no complaints about the most humble salary, the dirtiest and most tiring work.

What food is the simplest yet the most complex; full of expectations but always underestimated?The darling of the times, the center of the vortex of the food industry; today, with more and more varieties and more and more layered tastes, it maintains a simple and single, unconventional and unique trend?

When seeing this rubbish preview, the young man immediately thought of the exaggerated topic of "instant noodles", but he didn't expect to get the order to go to Jialan for an interview.

Lu Cheng had no choice.

He came again under the blue sky.The scorching sun here has remained unchanged for 13 years, scorching his side face as usual.

For 13 years, Lu Cheng has been asking his friends to recharge his sister's mobile phone. Now he holds his sister's mobile phone in his left hand, and dials his sister's number with his right hand again.

"Hi, I'm Liu Cheng! The person who speaks after the 'beep' sound is a big idiot! Beep——" the crisp message reminder sounded, so noisy, but also so reassuring.Sweating dripping down, Lu Cheng held the suitcase in his hand and stood under the sun where the city where the person who recorded this message was buried was buried.

Here is his helplessness and innocence, his pain, his happiness - his current workplace, his former home, the land where he spent the first twenty years of his life.

Here is his starting point.Here is his end.

"Boss, please, can you check this person's address?" The young man wiped his sweat and looked at the uncle in the grocery store.

"Oh, Professor Bai, that's right, he lives here and often comes to take care of our family."

"Please, please help me calculate..."

"Look at you, you're too polite, just pointing the way, what else do you want to buy?" As he said this, the uncle began to scan the codes of the things that the young man brought to the table one by one.

The uncle never expected that it was the last time he spread gossip about Professor Bai.Not long after, he heard that Professor Bai had moved to an unknown location, and even quit his job at the university... He always felt empty in his heart, as if he had lost some delicious bait.

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two years later.In the prime location of Jialan, under a valuable private apartment, in an ordinary 711 supermarket.

"Oh, here we come!" The little girl on duty poked her head out eagerly, "Baixiangchu's instant noodles have a new taste!"

"New taste?" The man wearing the earphones was really interested.The little girl knows that as long as she recommends the new instant noodles to him, he will definitely pick up two cups and walk to the cashier and in front of her, and show her a grateful smile.

He was wearing jogging pants with fluorescent strips today. His short hair was sharp and sharp, and his slightly dark skin showed a healthy body line.

"Two servings of stewed black-bone chicken noodles with American ginseng, and two rolls of tape. Is there anything else you need?"

"Oh yes... another pack of alcohol swabs, do you have any alcohol swabs here?"

"There is but there is..."

"Ok?"

"Are you hurt?" she asked bravely.

"what?"

"Ah," the man waved his hands again and again: "It's not me."

That's good.The little girl blushed: "Seeing that you are so thin, you buy double servings of instant noodles every time. You have a good appetite, don't you?"

"Hmm..." The man lowered his head, unable to see the expression on his face.

"...Just take it as my appetite." When he raised his head again, he said, with an impeccable smile on his face.