Rebirth 08: Equipment God

Chapter 105 The Last Passing
The storm was so violent that the day became as dark as night.

There were many passers-by at the dim intersection.

They held umbrellas of different sizes and colors, but they all maintained the same expression and did not move.

panic.

Just now, a person was run over by the wheels of a truck that was turning right. She had clearly followed the traffic lights when crossing the road, but her umbrella may have blocked her vision.

No one went to help, and it happened too quickly and there was no need to help.

In just a few seconds, a living person became twisted and broken. Even the most ignorant person would know that there was no reason for him to survive.

The twisted body trembled slightly, not calling for help.

Some turned their heads away in fear, while others stared at the truck driver who jumped out of the cab. After a moment's silence, they slapped their foreheads and made a phone call in annoyance.

The dim intersection became completely quiet, with only the howling wind and rain.

Lu Wei ran over from behind and saw this scene.

With just one glance, her brain seemed to have broken through some kind of threshold.

The intense and indescribable emotions were locked in the thin shell, which was a kind of protection mechanism.
In Lu Wei's world, time seemed to stand still and fade, and everything turned gray.

She couldn't even recognize her mother's condition; her brain had stopped functioning.

Even though the turbid rain fell into his pupils, he remained motionless and stood blankly among the crowd.

Move. Move!

I want to save my mother! I want to save my mother! Why didn't I move?
It's raining so hard, Mom must be very cold. The rain is pouring down on her.
Why can't I move? I want to hug her. I want to hug her.
That thriving sadness and heavy anger are about to break through the next threshold.

It's called madness.

Finally, Lu Wei's world where everything was still and faded was broken.

Someone moved, someone had color
A figure jumped out of the crowd, wearing the blue and white school uniform of "Wool Spinning Middle School" and holding a maroon umbrella.

"High school student Zhai Da" walked up to the mass of flesh and blood with reluctance, the shock in his eyes had not yet subsided.

When people become meat, they are really worthless.
He suppressed his fear and placed the umbrella above the mass of flesh and blood.

A person should not leave in such an undignified way, exposing his messy body to strangers.
But the wind was too strong and I couldn't hold the umbrella.

Finally, the boy simply threw the umbrella aside, took off his school uniform and covered the body with it.

The young man gritted his teeth and shivered a little, not sure whether it was because of the cold or fear.

The originally light school uniform had long been soaked by the rain and became heavy. The wide sleeves barely covered the deceased, retaining the last bit of dignity.

As the cruelty was obscured, the girl's mind seemed to be allowed to function again in the crowd of onlookers a few meters behind her, but she had lost all her strength and fell into the rain.

His face was expressionless like a puppet.

The boy stood there in just a single layer of clothing, with his back to the truck and the deceased, and his brain had actually stopped functioning.

Soon, a passing police car stopped. A few policemen guessed what was going on after just one look. They sighed, put on their police hats and said, "Don't watch, don't take pictures, we will handle it properly."

"Where is the driver? Who is the driver?"

Although it seemed unnecessary, one of the police officers still dialed 120.

"Young man? Young man?"

"High school student Zhai Da" shuddered and his whole body shuddered, as if he had just come back to his senses.

The police deliberately stood between him and the body, not wanting the child to see too much of this, even though it was covered with a school uniform:

"Are you a witness? Are the clothes yours?"

There were many people watching, but this child was wearing only one piece of clothing.
"High school student Zhai Da" nodded.

"You, you did the right thing. At least you looked more respectable. But I don't think you can keep this dress."

The boy said dully, "It's okay, uncle. My mother works in a woolen mill and we have a lot of spare school uniforms at home."

The police patted Zhai Da on the shoulder and said, "You are soaked. Don't catch a cold. How about this? Sit in the police car for a while to warm yourself up. Then you can go back to the police station with us and serve as a witness."

Perhaps knowing that children of this age are afraid of the police station, the police added: "Don't worry, I'm just asking a few questions and recording them as witnesses."

During the conversation, all the onlookers were sent away and ambulances arrived with lights flashing. It seemed that the call was repeated and two came at once.

Only one girl fell down in the rain, trembling all over, and refused to say anything no matter how they asked.

The police could only pretend that they were frightened. They just lifted up the school uniform and took a look. Indeed, such a scene would scare a person.

Even those who are police officers will feel strong physical discomfort.

"Come and send an ambulance. There's a little girl here who doesn't seem to be feeling well. Let's take her to the hospital."

Two nurses came over and waved in front of Lu Wei, but unfortunately the girl did not respond. The nurses could only lift her up and try to take her into the car.

The teenager was supported by the police and walked towards the police car in the opposite direction.

In the heavy rain, the two passed each other for the first time.

No. Not the first time, but the last time.
Next to the police car, the driver who was being reprimanded was arguing loudly: "It's so dark, how can I see!"

“Wouldn’t you stop first when visibility is low? You must stop before turning right. Didn’t you learn that when you took the A-level test?!” The girl who was being held raised her head and looked over there.

Anger and resentment surged, but they were no longer recognizable.
"It's not easy for me, officer! I have to make a living! How can I make money if I stop?"

"Handle your attitude. Don't you know you crushed a person to death? And you're still complaining?!"

The driver snorted and simply stopped performing: "Anyway, I have insurance. You can ask the insurance company. Someone from our fleet will come and handle it. It's nothing more than a few months of rest."

The policeman who was giving the lecture pointed at the driver and said, "How dare you talk like that!"

The driver lit a cigarette and said, "How can I say this? This isn't the first time that people like you bully us ordinary people."

"you!."

boom!
The boy, who had only gone to the police car to wipe off the rain and warm himself up, punched the driver in the face without any warning.

Some people were emotionally disturbed, but he wasn't.

The fear that had been suppressed for a long time by the blood finally broke out, and the youthful spirit was finally transformed into the most straightforward way, concentrated in the fist.

The boy yelled, "F**k! You son of a bitch! F**k!"

The driver was hit hard, and his lit cigarette flew into the rain.

"Hey! Hey~ Don't be impulsive, young man!"

"Let's go, let's go back to the station first."

"Don't step on me, uncle is angry!"

"You can't kick the crotch! You can't kick the crotch!"

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One and a half years later for the girl, seventeen years later for the boy
The sidewalks are scented with gardenias.

Zhai Da stared at the girl in front of him in a daze.
"That's... That's Auntie?"

He really didn't recognize at all that from beginning to end that day, Lu Wei was just like a puppet in the crowd, and "high school student Zhai Da" was not paying attention to the crowd at all.

Even though Lu Wei was right behind him at that time.

In the seventeen years of his rebirth, the memory of that time had long since been reduced to only one or two unforgettable scenes, and had turned into an instinctive fear of large trucks. From then on, whether he was riding a bicycle or driving a car, his palms would sweat when a truck came too close, and he would stay away from it.

But for Lu Wei, that happened just over a year ago.

"But why didn't you tell me?"

Lu Wei tilted her head: "If you don't remember, I won't ask anymore."

After all, it wasn't a good memory, for either of them.

It was meaningless except for causing a moment of comfort and embarrassment.

At least that's the case in Lu Wei's little head.

Zhai Da felt his hair tingling: "You, good fellow."

"Hey~"

Well, that's not a memory worth talking about.

The death of a loved one is the deepest wound.

After his mother passed away in his previous life, he never mentioned it to anyone. Some of his classmates and colleagues didn’t even know what happened in his family.

He just took some time to calm down and pretended everything was normal again. He didn't want anyone to know that he was an orphan.

Zhai Da stared at Lu Wei's pretty face for a long time.

It was as if I was getting to know her all over again.
He still felt that his familiarity with this face was due to the forgotten surprise on campus. He really didn't remember anyone that day.

Lu Wei raised her cool and pretty face, and stared at Zhai Da with deep and calm eyes.

She still felt that she had been wrong ten thousand times, but she should have been right once.

"You, you, if it's such an unpleasant memory, you can just never mention it to me, or wait until you've really let it go before telling me."

Anyway, the two of them have been inseparable, so it doesn't matter if they find out the truth a few years later.
Lu Wei shook her head and said calmly, "No. I'm fine now. It's been more than a year, really."

Having said that, he stretched out two white fingers again, wanting to give Zhai Da a manual "smile".

When I pushed the corner of my mouth with my fingertips, I felt warmth and moisture.
Lu Wei stopped in surprise and looked at the water marks on her fingertips.

when.
Am I not okay?
But I obviously don't feel sad anymore
Lu Wei fell into deep thought.

Until someone hugged her frail body tightly.

"You don't even know you're crying? You're so lucky, you chicken neck."

"sorry"

"Just cry and it's over."

In a person's life, there will be many times when we pass each other by each other. Perhaps a seemingly irrelevant figure may be your inseparable shadow in another time and space.

Or maybe, being inseparable at this moment is your destiny.
(End of this chapter)