The dark red moon hung low over the city's high-rise buildings, almost filling up half the sky.
A dark-colored, rusty train passed through the city quickly under the gaze of the red moon. Inside the train, passengers in various clothes were reading newspapers or dozing off in the dim light.
"Ding, we've arrived at the Moon Platform!"
Lu Xin woke up from his doze, picked up his bag, and followed the surging crowd out of the car.
Carrying his bag, he walked over the dirty and dilapidated steps, the platform full of newspapers, and walked to the ground of the city. Looking up, the neon lights around him made the streets of the city and the people on the streets look weird and colorful. But no matter how rich the colors on the streets were, the red moon above the city still represented the background color of the world.
Since the Red Moon incident thirty years ago, the whole world has been like this.
Of course, Lu Xin didn't know what was different. He was born after the Red Moon incident, and the world had always been like this.
He carried his bag through the alley that had just rained, and climbed up to a dilapidated old building. The elevator was broken again, so he could only take the stairs and slowly came to Room 401 on the fourth floor. He took out the key and opened the heavy door.
The corridor was quiet and cold, but the room was warm and soft.
In the kitchen, Dad was stewing meat. The pressure cooker was bubbling with steam, emitting an enticing meaty aroma.
My sister was lying on the sofa, holding snacks and watching a very old cartoon, SpongeBob SquarePants.
My mother was elegant and decent, wearing a white wool cardigan, and was standing by the window talking on the phone with someone.
"Brother Jiu, you're back!"
Seeing Lu Xin come in and put down his quilt, my sister looked up and greeted him with a sweet smile.
"Xiao Shiqi, have you been good at home today? I bought you the little bear you wanted!"
Lu Xin touched her head and handed her a brown little bear.
"Ah, thank you, brother. I like it so much!"
The little sister jumped up happily and hugged the little bear in her arms.
"Are you back?"
Mom looked up at Lu Xin and nodded with a smile: "Sit down and rest for a while. Dinner will be served soon!"
Lu Xin nodded and sat at the dining table.
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Four sets of bowls and chopsticks were already on the table, as well as a few dishes of green side dishes. The rice was served in the bowl and was a little cold.
However, no one in the family wanted to sit down to eat.
Mom was still speaking gently on the phone: "Sister Zhang, I was wrong about what happened today. Don't be angry. Of course, my grey wool sweater is a little old, but how can you say it doesn't look good? ... Yes, I called you because of this matter ... Of course you didn't say it, but I know you think so in your heart..."
"No, no, don't misunderstand me ... I just want you to apologize ... You shouldn't curse, it's too uncivilized..."
The sound of Dad chopping bones became louder and louder, and his cursing voice could be heard faintly: "Scum, waste, breaking into someone else's house casually, damn it, damn it... Damn, it eats so much, I can't chop it all, and I can't cook it clean no matter how I cook it!"
At this time, my sister was sitting cross-legged on the sofa happily, tearing the brown bear apart bit by bit, pulling it with her two hands, biting it with her white and fine teeth, biting off the brown bear's ears, eyes, and arms, biting them off bit by bit, watching the arms separate from the bear's body carefully, showing an excited and satisfied expression.
"We have to wait a while before eating!"
Mom had put down the phone and said gently: "I have a misunderstanding with my neighbor Sister Zhang, I'm going to apologize to her!"
As she said that, she took out the scissors in the drawer, walked out gracefully, and closed the door.
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Lu Xin sat quietly beside the dining table and waited.
He felt that he was lucky. At the beginning of the Red Moon incident, the world had a long period of chaos. During that time, many people died, and many orphans like Lu Xin appeared. Among them, a large number of them disappeared after they became adults. Lu Xin was adopted by his parents and had a warm home. I don't know how many people envied him.
Of course, this family and these family members are sometimes a little strange.
But this family is still very complete in this dilapidated and dirty little satellite city.
Mom came back soon, with a relieved smile on her face, and said: "Sister Zhang has reconciled with me!"
Lu Xin found that there was an inconspicuous blood stain under the collar of the white wool sweater she was wearing, which was very fresh.
The family began to eat.
The sister was still holding her little bear, which she ripped open and sewed back.
It was just a crooked piece of body, full of rough needle corners, but my sister liked it more than before.
Dad sat at the dining table, opened a bottle of liquor with a stained label, picked up a piece of green vegetables, and drank a cup in one breath. There was no meat on the table. Dad liked to chop bones and stew meat, but he never let people eat or get close to his iron pot. He was still wearing a plastic apron, which was splattered with blood, and there were a few flies flying around him.
There were sirens approaching outside, and noisy voices kept coming, and I didn't know what they were saying.
"Pah!"
Dad suddenly put down his glass and looked out the window with bloodshot eyes: "Noisy, noisy, noisy, noisy, no peace of mind, useless Metropolitan Police Department, can't find anything, useless neighbors, just spying on others every day!"
"Don't scare the child!"
Mom picked up a vegetable and ate it carefully. Her bright red lips were very dazzling in the dim light.
Lu Xin remembered that she didn't wear lipstick.
"Fuck the kid, damn it, damn it!"
Dad was even more angry, holding the bottle tightly with five fingers, veins popping out, and cursed: "Bitch, you deserve to die too!"
"Yes, in your eyes, everyone deserves to die, only you don't deserve to die!"
Mom smiled elegantly and calmly: "Because you will be the one to collect the bodies in the end, right? You like to collect the bodies of others!"
As she said, she put down the bowl and chopsticks, smiled gently, and looked at Dad: "Because when those people were alive, they lived better than you and were more capable than you, so you especially don't like to see them alive, you like to see them unable to speak anymore!"
"Shut up, shut up, you know?"
Dad was really angered by his mother, he smashed the bottle and rushed up to strangle his mother's neck.
"Hehe..."
Mom laughed happily, even though her face was purple from being pinched, her smile was still very elegant: "Waste... waste..."
"Pa!"
Dad finally couldn't help it and started to beat him up, causing the restaurant to shake.
"Wow... Daddy, don't hit Mommy..."
The younger sister was so scared that she burst into tears and hugged the little bear tightly. Suddenly, her face changed and she laughed wildly: "Fun, fun, really fun..."
While laughing, she suddenly turned over and jumped up, like a flexible spider, and climbed to the ceiling. Her two feet hooked the chandelier, and she didn't know how to fix her body. She twisted her head and looked at the fight below. She held the toy bear in her mouth, clapped her hands hard, and whimpered in her mouth, as if laughing, as if crying: "It's so fun..."
Dad was getting more and more angry, his body seemed to be constantly expanding, his muscles bursting through his shirt, revealing a blue back covered with stiff black hair, his facial features became distorted and huge, waving his fists, and punching Mom hard, one punch after another, and Mom had been beaten to pieces by him, but her voice was still so elegant: "It's great, this incompetent fury..."
Lu Xin carried the rice and sat beside the overturned dining table, slowly eating the rice in the bowl.
After the Red Moon incident, it is rare to have a warm family...
Although there are some minor problems in my family, and sometimes they quarrel and fight, it is still a home...
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Outside the window, a room facing the living room window of Lu Xin's house was arranged as a simple studio.
A short-haired woman in a casual suit was observing Lu Xin's room through a telescope.
Through the telescope lens, you can see that in the empty room, Lu Xin was sitting on a chair eating alone. Obviously, he was the only one sitting there, but the room seemed to have an earthquake. The tables and chairs were overturned, the chandelier kept shaking, and a group of white flower-shaped cracks appeared on the window glass from time to time, as if something hit it.
"The telekinesis of the 13th psychic observer has appeared!"
Two young men in exquisite work clothes beside her were calculating quickly, and one was recording.
"Does he have the potential to be recruited?"
"How big is the potential threat?"
"What are his specific abilities?"
The short-haired woman shook her head and said, "It's not clear yet. He is not like other psychics. He will show a strong mutation form in the early stage, such as being able to enter other people's dreams, or accidentally releasing mental plagues, etc. He looks normal. He can go to work and go home normally every day, and can even handle work well, but his mind occasionally becomes disordered!"
"It sounds very promising and easy to guide!"
Behind them, a man with a somewhat dignified face said, "Have you tried to let the dream maker enter his dream for evaluation?"
"Yes!"
The short-haired woman in the red suit nodded gently and said, "But after that dream maker entered his dream, he never came out again!"