Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

Tao Rusu sat up, startled awake again. She touched her cheek and walked to the floor-length mirror to confirm that she was still herself.

She suddenly smiled: "It's just a dream."

She was about to leave when the mirror suddenly shattered. A hand stretched out from it, grabbed her palm, and dragged half of its body with it with great effort.

The wound on the palm of her hand revealed the white bones. Tao Rusu suddenly became clear-headed because of the severe pain. She stared at the young man who walked out of the mirror and didn't know what to say for a moment.

The moment the boy saw her, he showed a happy smile that was dripping with blood: "Sorry to have kept you waiting."

"You are..." Tao Rusu subconsciously wanted to call out the name.

"Hold my hand and I'll take you out!" he said.

Just as the boy finished saying this.

The door was pushed open.

It was as if the projector was knocked over, and the young man disappeared instantly. The broken mirror and the wound on his palm completely disappeared, but the pain remained faintly.

However, everything that just happened seemed like an illusion.

"Sister!" Her younger sister rushed in and hugged her: "Are you okay? Did you have a nightmare again?"

Tao Rusu looked at the disappearing scene in confusion. Her head began to hurt violently and she took a few steps back.

Her sister carefully helped her to the bed and whispered, "If you feel uncomfortable, just have a good rest. I'll sleep with you tonight, okay?"

"By the way," she poured a glass of water, opened the medicine box and took out two blue pills: "Take some medicine and you won't have nightmares anymore."

Tao Rusu looked at the blue pill and suddenly felt an inexplicable resistance in her heart.

"What's wrong, don't you want to eat?"

"It's bitter..." Tao Rusu found an excuse.

"Afraid of suffering? You're already so old, and you're still afraid of suffering." The younger sister said helplessly and lovingly, "I'll pour you some honey water."

After saying that, he ran downstairs in his pajamas.

Tao Rusu sat on the edge of the bed, sweating profusely without knowing when.

Everything that just happened didn't seem like an illusion at all.

So true.

She covered her head, trying to remember who the boy was.

No, I can’t remember.

She slapped her forehead, hating her unclear memory.

At this moment, something slipped from her clenched right hand and fell right in front of her sight.

It was a red pill.

Chapter 391 Red Pill

Red pill.

Not the same as the blue pill.

Its color is gorgeous, as if it is a bright red condensed from a thousand roses, and perhaps blood is flowing in it.

She picked up the red pill and raised it little by little.

boom!

The water cup was knocked over at the door, and a figure rushed in, pressing Tao Rusu onto the bed, and the red pill in her hand fell onto the carpet.

"What are you doing!" The younger sister's eyes were extremely terrifying. She stared at Tao Rusu and said, "Sister, what are you planning to do?"

Tao Rusu avoided her gaze and said, "I'm taking medicine."

"That's not medicine!" My sister picked up the blue medicine box and said, "This is it!"

"..."

"Eat it."

"..."

"I'll let you take medicine!"

Tao Rusu silently picked up the red pill and looked up at her sister: "What are you hiding from me?"

My sister held the medicine box tightly, squeezing it so hard that it deformed. She was silent for a long time: "You are sick, I just want you to be well."

Tao Rusu said bitterly, "I can't remember anything. I just spend my days in a daze. Is that considered...good?"

"You don't have to think so complicated. Just stay at home, do what you want to do every day, go out and meet friends, and live a relaxed life. Isn't that good?"

My sister stood in front of the bed, the moonlight illuminating half of her face, sincere and serious.

"We are family. I just want you to live well and not feel those painful things."

Tao Rusu continued to ask: "Tell me everything, and then I will make the judgment myself!"

She held the red pill in her hand: "If you don't tell me, you're not giving me the right to choose!"

The younger sister stared at her stubborn older sister, biting her lip, then sighed softly and slowly sat down on the edge of the bed.

"Why are you always so stubborn?"

"Stubborn, yet a coward."

"You're clearly afraid of getting hurt, yet you still want to pursue the truth—you should have known long ago that you don't have the capacity for it!"

"Your way of life should be to stay away from danger carefully and live cautiously. A hamster can never become a dragon no matter how much it bluffs!"

Tao Rusu frowned as she listened: "Don't take this opportunity to scold me secretly."

"Secretly? I am scolding you in person, my dear sister! You really don't know what's good for you!" The younger sister sneered.

Tao Rusu listened but was not angry at all.

She couldn't understand it now.

Because I can’t remember a lot of things.

My sister said calmly, "You want to know everything, but I don't need to tell you everything. If I tell you, you will wake up. I worked so hard to build this beautiful place so that you can live a good life."

"It's like keeping fish in a bathtub or putting a hamster in a cage." Tao Rusu said in a low voice.

"Ha ha……"

"why are you laughing?"

"I laugh at your hypocrisy. There are always people like that. They think releasing animals is right, that it can accumulate merit or something... They open the cage and let the canary fly free into the blue sky, but where can it go in this concrete jungle? It'll either fall to its death on the road and become food for wild cats, or starve to death somewhere because it can't find food." My sister smiled sweetly, but her voice was filled with contempt. "I can let go, but do you think you have the ability to deal with what's out there? You can't do it alone."

Tao Rusu said, "You look down on me."

"Well, of course I look down on you. You have talent but no heart. You appear brave but are actually foolish. You're a coward at heart. You have power but don't know how to use it. You're just guarding treasures in vain." The younger sister continued to list her elder sister's shortcomings, her words becoming more violent. "If it were me, I would definitely do better than you."

The cold and blunt tone made Tao Rusu feel cold in her heart. She felt that her sister would pounce on her and strangle her throat at any time, so she subconsciously took half a step back.

Immediately she saw her sister laughing mockingly at her.

"See, you're even afraid of me..."

My sister lowered her crossed legs and slowly stood up. Her back looked very long in the moonlight.

"You're afraid of me, you're a coward, that's why you refuse to accept me, that's why... you're so incompetent!"

The closer she got, the more panic Tao Rusu felt inside, and she subconsciously backed away until her back hit the wall.

A hand pressed down.

A face exactly like hers was almost pressed against each other, chest to chest, with their peaks meeting and being pushed against the wall.

"But you are my sister. No matter how stupid, cowardly, or incompetent you are, I still love you."

"You and I are of one mind. I know everything you have gone through, and I also understand the pain and torture in your heart."

"That's why I want to give you peace."

Her voice became kind and gentle.

"Out there, sister, you can't get what you want."

"Whether it's a beautiful and warm family or the person you like... you can't get it."

"You have already lost the former, and you cannot possess the latter."

"But here, you can find peace, you can find family love, you can heal your heart, and you don't have to endure all the pain anymore."

"I feel safe at home. You can do anything and I will fully support and tolerate you."

Those gentle words were like a net, binding her tightly.

Tao Rusu opened her mouth and said, "But this is just..."

"Self-deception?" My sister whispered, "It's different. Here, you will have another life. This is not deception, but redemption. What the outside world can't give you, you can get here. If that's the case, why do you have to endure all that pain?"

"My dear sister, I don't want you to get hurt."

"I'll take care of what's happening outside for you... No one will disturb you or our family's peaceful life."

"Just take the medicine and have a good sleep, and pretend nothing happened, okay?"

There was a hint of pleading in the younger sister's voice. She wanted to get her elder sister's approval so that she could be sure that what she was doing was right.

She didn't lie either.

What's so good about the outside world?

There is only the painful meeting of those we hate, separation from those we love, and failure to obtain what we desire.

She is alone, carrying a deep blood feud, and longing for unattainable love.

Everything is too heavy.

In that case, what's wrong with escaping?

If you can't find happiness in reality, at least you can get a long and peaceful sleep here.

My sister's hug is warm, just like the bed at home.

Tao Rusu felt nostalgic for the embrace of her loved ones.

She shed tears and gently hugged her sister, as if she was hugging herself.

"Sister..." The younger sister shouted happily because her sister opened her heart to her and she accepted the proposal.

But the next moment, there was a crisp sound.

The red pill was thrown into the mouth.

Tao Rusu's teeth clashed, crushing the red pill. The crystal shattered and turned into a hot stream in her mouth and flowed into her throat.

The warm and beautiful room changed drastically in an instant.

The room fell apart, like glass covered with countless cracks. The glass fragments peeled off, revealing the blood-red color behind it, like crazy eyes full of bloodshot eyes. Countless resentments and obsessions surged out.

My sister stumbled back a few steps, stamping on the floor.

There was a hollow scar on Tao Rusu's right hand, with blood flowing out. She was also bleeding. The endless pain was about to overwhelm her.

"Why, why are you—" the younger sister questioned with a ferocious and angry expression. She roared, "What's wrong with staying here?"

"You're just a coward, why do you have to force yourself to act brave?"

"If you go, what can you achieve? What can you gain? You will only be hurt, abandoned, and..."

Tao Rusu endured tremendous pain, and her obsession and resentment turned into blades that pierced her to pieces.

But she still smiled lightly with a pale face: "Don't you still have me?"

My sister's angry expression froze.

Tao Rusu reached out her hand and stroked the cheek that looked exactly like her own: "Now, I'm not afraid of you anymore."

"I will accept everything about you."

My sister was stunned. She clenched her fists and her shoulders trembled slightly.

"You are my family, you are my other half..." Tao Rusu said softly, "Let's go out together, okay?"