Tokyo underground city

Chapter 198 The final rivalry scene

"Bang——!"

Lin Huai'en felt as if he had fallen into a deep, cold lake.

Even with my eyes closed, I could feel the water vapor diffusing in the dark lake.

The moisture rubbed against his body and continued to surge upwards.

Every time he touches his exposed skin, a small fragment of memory is implanted into his mind.

Some are sad, some are happy, some are passionate, and some are indifferent.

The fragments of memory were chaotic and disorderly, but dense and trivial, leaving him overwhelmed.

But there was always a vague but fuzzy "meaning" running through the countless bubbles, which allowed him to gradually find his direction.

"By the way... for Yuan Ximu, these are probably the memories she had after becoming a child star..."

Lin Huai'en was immersed in the bubble ocean of memory, paddling harder deeper under the water.

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"Bang——"

Lin Huaien suddenly knelt on the ground.

The water that fell from the bottom of the lake was still hanging on his body, but it quickly evaporated in the blink of an eye.

When the girl curled up on the dark pure white sheets, "Gasoline" played over and over again, still echoed in his ears.

And the painful and desperate girl has now grown into a graceful young girl, standing in the endless field of tuberose flowers, with her back to herself.

The golden tassel hairpin was dangling and flashing on the back of her head, while her left hand held the two short blades at her waist, and her right hand was slightly raised, as if she wanted to pluck the petals floating in the air.

"Hara Yumu?"

Lin Huaien shook his head, a little unsure.

However, the girl dressed in black just turned around quietly, as if her pale face was unruffled by a dead person, and her eyes looking at Lin Huai'en also seemed like a dead person.

"Have you read my memory..."

"Sorry." Lin Huaien gasped and took a step back, wanting to apologize.

But the girl just shook her head and said one step ahead: "Forget it, I also read your memory, now we are even."

……my memory?

Lin Huaien's heart tightened.

To be honest, there were too many things in his memory that he didn't want others to know. So he was instinctively a little repelled.

But he quickly realized that Yuan Ximu had similar thoughts.

However, unlike Lin Huai'en, Yuan Ximu knew that her memories would be seen by him, but still chose to let him enter her inner world.

Perhaps, for her, being able to face her own shadow is more important than escaping from the "Dark Forest"...

For some reason, he suddenly had such a clear understanding.

Yuan Ximu turned her back to Lin Huai'en and took a few steps forward——

"Captain Lin, do you still remember what kind of story "Sunflower Dream" is?"

"'Sunflower Dream'?" Lin Huai'en thought for a moment. For some reason, Yuan Ximu in this world was more powerful than she was in reality, which made him want to obey involuntarily.

"It should be a story about a terminally ill girl who gets on the motorcycle of a frustrated young man to find the sea, right?"

"Both of them are young people living in inland cities and have never seen the sea in their lives..."

When Lin Huai'en said this, he suddenly hesitated: "So they planned to see the sea before they died."

"Well, that's right."

Yuan Ximu nodded and turned around: "The reason why the girl wants to see the sea is because she has a terminal illness, and the reason why the young man wants to see the sea is because he wants to commit suicide."

"The young man lost everything - his job, his lover, even his friends and relatives. No one understood why he gave up everything in order to pursue his dream."

"The only things that accompanied him were a dilapidated motorcycle and a video camera bought from an Erdao dealer."

Lin Huai'en followed Yuan Ximu's words: "The young man and the girl met at the door of a second-hand camera store. The girl passing by took out a thousand yuan from the insole of her leather shoe and helped the young man out."

Yuan Yumu continued: "As a price for helping the young man, the girl spent her travel expenses to the seaside, so she asked the young man to take her to see the sea."

"Although the young man was very unhappy at first, he wanted to die and wanted to take a picture of his ex-girlfriend's favorite spot, the sea, before he died, so he drove his old motorcycle and set off together."

"But this is a lie." Yuan Ximu lowered her head and said softly: "Even if there is no money to help the young man buy a camera, the girl cannot leave the city and go to the beach."

"And if the young man really wanted to die, he wouldn't have been itching to buy it after seeing the Erdao dealer's camera."

"To put it bluntly, the young man is just a cowardly, incompetent man who uses his dreams as an excuse to escape reality."

"Such a man, no matter how talented he is, will be spurned by his friends and family who see his true nature, and even his girlfriend will abandon him."

"However, it is this kind of man who is saved during his journey with the girl."

Lin Huai'en nodded and continued: "During the journey to the sea, whenever a young man encounters difficulties and wants to give up, he will be encouraged and urged by the girl. Hearing the urging of the 'benefactor', in addition to the dream of 'photography' In addition, the young man who has never persisted in anything, mustered up the courage to push the tattered motorcycle and continue the journey with the girl."

"However, such a beautiful journey is just an illusion after all."

At some point, Yuan Ximu and Lin Huai'en were facing each other and began to walk slowly. The tracks left by the two people in the flower field turned into a bright golden arc.

"The girl finished the painkillers she brought with her and started coughing up blood."

"The young man finally realized that the girl next to him was actually a terminally ill patient. He panicked and wanted to take the girl back to the city, but because he was penniless and his motorcycle was broken, he had to stay in the city. Camping on the roadside.”

"And on this cold rainy night, the young man listened to the girl's plea and decided to take her forward to see the sea that he had never seen in his life."

Yuan Ximu took a deep breath and suddenly laughed sadly: "But they failed."

"The girl failed to see the sea in the end, so she was taken back by her relatives and the police."

"The young man was also arrested by the police on suspicion of kidnapping a young girl."

"But...even though they didn't see the sea..."

Lin Huai'en was silent for a moment, and then told the ending that was very controversial on the Internet——

"But during the police chase, he accidentally broke into a large field of rapeseed flowers."

"And the young man was lying next to the stolen motorcycle, looking at the girl with blood on her forehead, spinning and dancing as if in a hallucination, and said-"

"'look'"

"'It's the sea'"

Lin Huai'en and Yuan Ximu said in unison.

Then Yuan Ximu shook her head: "'hallucination'?"

She raised her head sadly: "What I was thinking was clearly, 'Even if I don't see the sea, I am satisfied if I can see this sea of ​​flowers.'"

"'There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand spectators.' There is no problem with your idea."

Lin Huai'en shook his head. He was neither an 'illusionist' nor an 'acting school', so he had no opinion on this issue.

However, Yuan Ximu just shook her head slightly and looked at Lin Huai'en: "Lin, do you know?"

"This story is the true experience of the old man when he was young. He always wanted to understand the reason why the girl who was terminally ill at that time said, 'Look, it's the sea.'"

"Is it a 'hallucination'? Or is it just to comfort his 'acting skills'? Or is it really because he saw the rapeseed fields that he felt truly 'moved'?"

"Old man, I don't understand, so I want to recreate that memory through a movie."

"However, I can't give him this answer, and the audience can't give him the answer. The girl who can give him the answer died of a terminal illness decades ago."

Yuan Ximu shook her head and said sadly.

She raised her head, looked at Lin Huai'en who seemed to want to say something, and said lightly:

"Forest."

""Sunflower Dream" made me what I am."

“But it also shaped who I am now.”

"For me, Sunflower Dream has always given me an answer."

"That is, life is inherently imperfect. Each of us is chasing the sea, but there are only a handful of people who can actually reach the sea."

"The old man showed me their route map back then. The flower field they finally arrived at was still two-thirds away from the real sea."

"Given their state of exhaustion at the time, it would have been impossible for them to reach the sea even without the police arresting them."

"A girl's dream itself is a kind of illusion."

"But the girl knew it was false and still chose to pursue it——"

"That is, although she did not see the sea, she did see a golden flower field!"

Yuan Ximu squatted down suddenly, drew out her dagger, and rushed towards Lin Huai'en.

She inserted the knife into Lin Huaien's shoulder, then kicked him hard, then jumped up and landed in the field of tuberose flowers, splashing a large number of petals.

Lin Huai'en hummed and took a step back. Although he saw Yuan Ximu's movements, he was unable to fight back.

"In this world, I am Feng Feng. If you don't fight as the 'leader of the ninja group', there is no way you can defeat me!"

Yuan Ximu's voice turned into a blur in his mind.

He clutched his shoulder, but he realized that what flowed from his wound was not blood, but a black liquid as thick as ink!

"So, will you accept the version of yourself that 'compromises to reality'?"

Lin Huai'en gritted his teeth and reluctantly stood up. He knew that once the battle started, his words would not be able to enter Yuan Ximu's heart——

Because anything that goes against the 'performance' will be rejected and resisted by the girl's heart, just like he is now watching Yuan Ximu's attack and is unable to fight back!

When Yuan Ximu looked at Lin Huai'en's injured appearance, half of her face showed an expression of pain and regret, but the other half of her face was still as calm as ever:

"That's the answer "Sunflower Dream" gives us, isn't it?"

However, Lin Huaien took a deep breath and took a step forward.

He is now somewhat fortunate that in order to find out what kind of actor Xiyang Xixue is, he has watched all her movies including "Sunflower Dream" and read several film reviews.

If it were just him, he would definitely not be able to say these words...

It's a pity, who told him to live in the Internet age...

He looked at Yuan Ximu and spoke loudly——

"Sunset Xixue!"

Lin Huai'en saw Yuan Ximu's shoulders stiffen slightly, and he knew he had done the right thing.

He looked hard at Yuan Ximu - or, "Xiyang Xixue".

All along, he had followed Hara Yumu's thoughts and regarded her as an ordinary person, an ordinary high school student named "Hara Yumu".

However, he knew very well that Yuan Ximu was undoubtedly more worthy of the name "Xiyang Xixue" than anyone else.

She has been working hard for "Sunset Xixue", but she is worried that she is no longer worthy of the glory of the past.

However, no matter how he sees it, Yuan Ximu is "Xiyang Xixue", a "national girl" who can make everyone fall in love with her!

Lin Huai'en resisted the increasingly turbulent inner shadow and opened his eyes.

"Although I have watched "Sunflower Dream", I am not an acting or illusionist at all! To me, whether the girl in the play is real or director Shen's fiction, she is just a dead person! "

"Since she is a 'dead person'! Then no one knows what she is thinking! What we have to do is to embrace her death like the male protagonist in the play! Accept her death! And then carry her death on our shoulders. ! Keep moving forward with her!”

"Because of the encounter with the girl, the young man changed himself. He realized his weakness and powerlessness. He realized that this weakness and powerlessness was caused by his own escape!"

"So he gave up suicide, he gave up his 'dream', and he chose to be a down-to-earth man. He locked the camera deep in the closet, but secretly promised in his heart——"

"'One day, I will go see the real sea for you!'"

He stood up vigorously, pointed at Yuan Ximu and said: "This is the answer that "Sunflower Dream" gives to us 'living people', isn't it?!"

"If "Sunflower Dream" is really, as you say, Director Shen's personal experience, then it doesn't mean that the 'young man' in the movie did not choose to give up on his dream, but spent more than ten years, After decades of being down-to-earth, have he implemented his dream?!"

"Seeing Director Shen like this, can you still think to yourself, 'Even if you give up, even if you compromise, it doesn't matter'?!"

"I……"

Yuan Ximu hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said ferociously: "This has nothing to do with you!"

However, Lin Huaien just took a deep breath and lowered his body——

"Of course it has something to do with me!"

As he spoke, the thick black liquid flowing from his wound suddenly surged.

The black wave enveloped his body, shrouding his whole body in black shadow.

When the shadow dissipated, his figure and face had completely changed.

Lin Huaien closed his eyes tightly. He could feel that the ignited shadow in his body seemed to have found a release port, flowing out along his arms and turning into a long black straight knife.

This is the weapon of the "Hachimanbe", the leader of the ninja group, and it is also the only weapon in the hands of this sturdy old man who is 1.9 meters tall.

Unlike other members of the Ninja Regiment, Hachiman's fighting style is completely that of an orthodox samurai.

However, his ninjutsu is the power of thunder, which can summon dark clouds from the sky and guide thunder to crush his opponents.

Because it is the "Thunder of the Sky" directly guided from nature, it is more terrifying than Li Muen's "Nine Thunder Slash".

Feng Feng in the novel almost lost his soul after just one hit.

But now Hara Yumu...

Lin Huai'en looked at the ghost-like black-haired girl in front of him, and realized that if he couldn't satisfy Yuan Ximu, he wouldn't be able to split her into pieces with just the "Thunder of the Sky"!

Yuan Ximu... no, should it be called "Feng Feng" now?

Her hands stretched naturally like eagle wings, holding two first-class relics in her hands.

One is called "Mo Ru", which can cut off all attacks and even deflect spells. It is the "strongest shield" in Yuan Ximu's hands.

The other weapon is called "Minghui", which can reverse the facts of life and death and completely detonate the power of the soul in the body of the dying person. It is a secret weapon that can exceed the limits of the body at the cost of losing the soul.

In the novel, Feng Feng relied on these two "secret weapons" to be able to kill the leader of the ninja group while being seriously injured, thus eliminating the worries of the princess and the hero.

But with the terrifying look on Feng Feng in front of him, and the two weapons in her hands, Lin Huaien realized that it was different from what Li Muen had at that time.

No editing, no post-production.

If he couldn't suppress Yuan Ximu in this state, then it would be a failure for him!

No matter how much nonsense, no facts can explain the problem!

For Yuan Ximu, there is only one thing she wants to see——

Lin Huai'en took a deep breath and let out all the shadows that had been suppressed in his heart!

That is a terror that she absolutely cannot overcome!

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