From the moment he entered the old building, Lu Xin felt a different kind of depression.
The entire corridor was quiet, without a sound. Only the light from outside the building came through the gaps between the concrete buildings, allowing him to distinguish the vague layout of the building. The empty rooms stood neatly in rows on both sides of the corridor, like silent guards or prisons. The closed doors and the corridors covered with cobwebs made the old building look lifeless.
Occasionally, you can see some wild cats or mice rushing out from the holes under the stairs or doors, chasing and fighting, or turning around to look at Lu Xin quietly, and then rushing into an unknown corner.
My sister followed Lu Xin, hanging upside down and crawling forward on the corridor.
She sang softly in her mouth, and seemed to be in a good mood:
"Little baby, woo woo woo, barefoot looking for mother,"
"Mom is hiding under the bed,"
"Let's not tell him!"
"..."
"Little baby, hungry, lying on the bed without talking,"
"Dad is cooking in the kitchen,"
"He is laughing secretly..."
"..."
Lu Xin couldn't help but stop and said, "Sister, don't sing."
The sister stood upside down, her black hair fell down, and she laughed, "Brother, don't you like it?"
"Yes."
Lu Xin nodded and said, "You are too out of tune..."
The sister was hanging upside down, shaking, not knowing how to answer.
... There was hardly a single piece of intact furniture in the whole house, and there were signs of damage everywhere.
In the middle of the room, my father was wearing an apron and sitting silently beside the dining table, on the only chair that seemed to be intact. At this time, he was silent. When he saw Lu Xin coming in, the bloodshot in his eyes became more obvious.
At this time, my mother was leaning against the wall, making a phone call while smiling: "Miss Chen, what are you worried about? It's okay. There are just a few robbers in the city. It has been resolved. My son works in the relevant department..."
"... Just believe me, don't worry, and have a good rest."
"..."
"Snap!"
My father suddenly raised his hand heavily and slapped it hard on the table. The half-cracked dining table collapsed at once.
The huge noise stimulated the nerves of everyone in the room.
"Waste, all of them are a bunch of waste, a bunch of waste who deserve to be used and killed..."
Father stood up angrily, his eyes were bloodshot, veins on his forehead emerged, and it seemed that several snakes were swimming under his skin.
As he shouted angrily, the knives hanging in a row in the kitchen trembled slightly.
The light bulbs hanging in the living room also trembled slightly.
The room also began to tremble.
In the end, Lu Xin felt that this old building seemed to be shaking slightly.
"Hiss..."
The sister who was lying behind Lu Xin poked her little face out from behind his head and growled at her father.
"Tell me, are you a waste?"
While shouting, the father walked towards Lu Xin, his finger almost poking Lu Xin's face.
He seemed to be very dissatisfied with Lu Xin, and shouted loudly: "You ran outside all night, but what did you do?"
"You let all those people run away!"
"You were deceived, and you ran your legs off, but you didn't get any good..."
"..."
Lu Xin looked at his father silently, standing still.
Even if his finger was about to touch his face, he didn't move, and didn't even blink.
"Okay, okay, you've been angry for a whole day, and you still don't calm down. Isn't the child back?"
Behind him, the mother hung up the phone, then walked over lightly, smiling: "Now the family is together."
"Should we have a family meeting?"
"..."
There were four people in the room, and the father's face was still angry. He turned his head fiercely and looked at the mother.
Mom just smiled and looked at him: "Haven't you had enough fighting?"
Father's breathing suddenly became much heavier, his teeth clenched, and his forehead seemed to have earthworms crawling around.
"Mom is right."
At this time, Lu Xin slowly opened his mouth, looked at them quietly and said: "It's time to have a good talk."
Father heard his words and immediately turned to look at him.
"That's right, what can't a family say to sit down and talk properly..."
Mom smiled and came to the sofa gracefully and sat down gently, while Lu Xin, after looking at his father, hugged his sister and sat at the other end of the sofa. They were all quiet, waiting for their father to sit over.
Father seemed to be a little irritated by their contemptuous attitude towards him, and he was even more angry.
"Hua La..."
He pulled the chair next to the dining table over with force, sat down heavily, and looked down at the person on the sofa.
The atmosphere in the room began to become stiff and dull.
An invisible force seemed to be accumulating, and it was unknown when it would reach the point of explosion.
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"I think I did the right thing."
After Lu Xin sat down, he was silent for a while before saying: "Since I am receiving this salary, I should help others solve some problems. Just like the old dean said before, everyone should do their job well, and this society can function normally... In addition, she helped me protect the people in the orphanage, so of course I have to protect the people in the satellite city for her first."
Listening to these words, his father's face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The vicious look almost burst out of his eyes: "At this point, you still have to say these words? You protected others, who will protect us? What job, what position, they are using you, all of them are excuses!"
"Do you think they will be grateful to you? They want you to die!"
"You have done so many things for them, but their first reaction is to be wary of you and follow you..."
"So, you should let them die..."
"Otherwise, everyone in this family will be killed by you..."
"..."
His words were like steel needles, piercing into his mind, stirring fiercely, giving Lu Xin a headache.