Chapter 1009 Covenant

The empty basketball court was filled with white mist, and the crisp sound of basketball kept ringing in the depths, sometimes far and sometimes near.

The fog in coastal cities is always so heavy. The self-built houses covered with red bricks in the housing complex around the basketball court are hidden in the thick white clouds. If you look towards those buildings, you will see behind every dark window. There seemed to be figures floating around, as if there were many people standing silently behind the windows, watching the boy moving alone in the open space below.

He had a strong figure in the white mist with his basketball talent, looming, as if he was performing a solo dance, but no one cheered for him when the basketball entered the frame and made a crisp sound of wiping the net.

Lin Nian always plays ball alone, especially early in the morning.

At this time, the fog has not had time to dissipate. The sound of the sanitation worker's bamboo-tied broom rubbing against the cement road drifts from a distance. The whole world seems to be filled with a monotonous swishing sound. Occasionally, a car flashes past in the distance. , and then was covered by the sound of a basketball entering the frame.

Another ball was scored. Lin Nian kept shooting. Just as he lowered his hand, he heard someone applauding not far away.

On the edge of the basketball court, a girl with a single ponytail was sitting in the audience, wearing a No. 24 sleeveless yellow jersey, and applauded Lin Nian vigorously with two white lotus-like arms.

Lin Nian looked at her from a distance, then turned his head, picked up the basketball that rolled back, and dribbled repeatedly, pretending to break through and then shoot, all the same, like a robot, boring and monotonous, and the girl's applause was also The same, taking the trouble to applaud again and again for those boring and repetitive goals.

Occasionally, a girl with a single ponytail would stand up from the audience, take out mineral water from the package in her arms, and run to Lin Nian with cheerful steps to hand him the water. Lin Nian would not refuse, and would also Say thank you, and then go back to the monotony of dribbling and shooting.

It wasn't until a long time, no one knew how long, that the girl on the sidelines suddenly said, dragging her cheeks, it's getting late now, should we go?

Hearing these words, Lin Nian, who picked up the basketball that rolled back at his feet, stopped preparing to dribble and nodded in agreement with the girl.

The basketball dropped to the ground and made a resounding sound. There was no one on the basketball court, and the fog became thicker, gradually hiding the entire open space.

In the pale silence, two sets of footsteps came from far away, and the white mist gradually separated into a cement road in the early morning. Lin Nian and the girl wearing a jersey walked side by side on the road. The girl chirped a lot to Lin Nian. talk.

The girl's topic jumped around. The first time she was talking about school, she was complaining to him about how stupid and self-aware the boys in junior high school were, and how old-fashioned and unkind the teachers were. The next time he was talking about her. She has been learning ballet recently and has already danced well. If he wants to see her, she can dance for him.

The girl talked a lot, but Lin Nian didn't care much and just responded. He looked at the hazy road ahead, and familiar buildings appeared and disappeared one after another in the fog around him. Submerged, my mind is also calculating the route home that I have taken countless times. My thoughts are dull, mechanical, and without any violation.

When the girl saw Lin Nian ignoring him, she complained, "Do you hate me? I've told you so much and you haven't said a few words back to me?"

Lin Nian shook his head and said, I don't hate you.

But I don’t like you either, he just said these words silently in his mind.

This girl is really weird.

Lin Nian would think like this many times. It was a very strange feeling. The girl with a single ponytail, black hair, wearing a No. 24 jersey and shorts, her arms and legs were dizzyingly white, as if she was trapped in a stone. Just like something that jumped out of his head, he suddenly emerged from the crowd at the basketball court one day and said to him, I really like the way you play basketball. Can I learn to play basketball from you?

Lin Nian's answer for the first time was no. He said that he could only play basketball and could not teach others to play basketball.

He lied.

He can teach people basketball. His basketball skills were taught by his sister step by step in the welfare institution. He taught them very carefully. Even a fool can learn the three-step formulaic skills. He is not willing to do it again. The reason why I went to teach this girl was not because Lin Nian had such valuable basketball skills.

But deep down in his heart, he felt that this girl was different.

Deep down, Lin Nian seemed to have a unique cognitive skill for everyone around him. It was a strange feeling derived from intuition, as if he could feel the temperature of the people around him.

Some people can give him a warm feeling like a fire just by standing next to him. There are very few of these people, so whenever he meets them, he cherishes them like gold; some people make him feel cold and uncomfortable. , there are many such people, including countless classmates, landlords, and teachers; but often more people cannot give him any feeling, just like the shrubs and weeds on the roadside, they are just passing by when they meet, and they don't talk much about it.

This is a kind of innate intuition, and Lin Nian has always been a person willing to trust his intuition.

But the girl next to him gave him a strange feeling.

How to describe that feeling? She was like a shadow, always approaching him where he didn't notice, and then pestering him. Even if they were very close, he never felt the hot temperature or clammy discomfort from this girl. , there is just a confusing sense of restraint.

Bound, yes, Lin Nian felt that this word was correct.

From the moment she appeared next to him, it was like something was wrapped around him. He couldn't let go or get rid of it. Little by little, it climbed up from the soles of his feet to his waist. As the familiarity deepened, , must gather strength bit by bit, and choke him, suffocating him a little, which makes people feel resigned that they can't escape or call for help.

It might be an illusion, but it was terrifyingly real. Lin Nian wanted to stay away from her, but she followed him like a shadow, acting so close to nature that Lin Nian couldn't push her away maliciously.

His classmates said that he was having a heated relationship with this girl, and that he was suspected of having a secret love affair, but Lin Nian knew that this was not the same thing. He did not like this girl, even though she was so beautiful that a group of boys could break her head around her. He also knew that this girl wouldn't like him. Every time that girl looked at him and smiled, he felt that her smile was devoid of warmth, and he could not be found in the pair of deep black pupils looking at him. It's as if he is peering through his body and soul to see what lies behind.

Lin Nian didn't know how many times he looked behind him when the girl looked at him. The girl walking beside him curiously asked him what he was looking at, but he said it was nothing.

It seems that he can't escape from this girl's entanglement. I don't know when, this idea appeared in Lin Nian's mind, and he was troubled by it for a long time, until his sister discovered his troubles.

One day at dinner, his sister asked him many questions about this matter. After he told her everything without hiding anything, her sister thoughtfully told him: If you think this girl bothers you, But you can't refuse to push her away, so just take her home and let me talk to her.

After passing through the vast fog, at some point, Lin Nian, who had forgotten to count his steps, looked up and found that he was already standing downstairs. His home was upstairs, and the road behind him was covered in white mist. Like a land that had never existed, the white ocean floated silently and endlessly.

The girl next to him looked up at this seven-story self-built house, which was not too high, and praised Lin Nian for choosing a good place to settle down. There is Malatang downstairs, and you can go downstairs for a late-night snack when you are hungry at night!

Lin Nian thought to himself that when he was hungry, he would always turn on the stove to scramble eggs, fried rice or make dumplings. Who would be so extravagant as to eat dozens of yuan worth of Malatang for a late night snack? But he just thought about it in his mind and did not say these words out loud. He silently led the girl through the alley and entered the building through the iron gate at the back.

Lin Nian heard footsteps tapping in the spiral staircase. There were no lights and no fog. Only occasionally when a corner was turned, a ray of light came in from the small window high up to illuminate the figures of the two of them.

The girl next to me skipped ahead with her hands behind her back. She turned around and asked Lin Nian, what kind of person is your sister? Lin Nian replied that he was a very good person.

The girl asked Lin Nian again why your sister wanted to see me. Have you mentioned me to your sister? Lin Nian replied that he had said so.

The girl said that I have wanted to meet your sister for a long time, and now I finally have this opportunity, but I am still a little worried. Did you say bad things about me to your sister? Will she scold me when I come into your house for a while? Lin Nian said no, my sister never curses people, she only talks to people.

The girl then asked what if she couldn't reason. Lin Nian said that my sister has never been reasonable and lost.

The girl jumping up and down the stairs like a rabbit continued to ask what she would do if she met an unreasonable person? Lin Nian said that he would probably curse or hit others.

The girl unexpectedly said, "Don't your sister never curse?" Why are you still cursing and hitting people? Lin Nian said that she did not curse or hit anyone, so I was the one who took care of it.

The girl stopped and stood on the high corner steps and laughed. She looked down at Lin Nian like she was looking at those cool and coaxing children in junior high schools who have not grown up.

Lin Nian didn't notice the interesting look in the girl's eyes. He just climbed the stairs and counted how many steps there were.

Lin Nian and the girl stood in front of the rusty security door with the word "Fu" on it.

Lin Nian knocked on the door. The girl next to him turned to look at Lin Nian for the last time and said:

"I said, what should you siblings do if you meet someone who is unreasonable and can't be beaten or scolded?"

Lin Nian looked at the security door and wondered why the girl would ask such a question. The footsteps of slippers behind the door got closer and closer. He suddenly felt something hot around him, like a fire burning, making his skin, The blood, bones, and even nerves felt the burning pain.

He stopped knocking on the door and turned to look at the girl next to him in surprise, but suddenly found that the girl's pupils had turned into a terrifying golden red at some point, and the earth suddenly melted in her eyes, and the flowing light The halo is filled with burning lava! She looked at herself and smiled, smiling so contemptuously, as if she was thanking the ignorant him for being the guide who brought her to the end.

The tight feeling became more obvious. Lin Nian's mind was buzzing and he felt unable to move. The tight feeling slowly climbed up his throat, making him feel suffocated. Temperature, he finally felt the temperature on this girl's body, not cold, but fiery, but it was definitely not the fiery heat that could bring warmth to a person, it was the high temperature that would burn him into embers!

The footsteps behind the security door were getting closer and closer. Lin Nian turned around and yelled at the person behind the door not to open the door. But when the door creaked open, he looked at the person behind the door and was stunned.

It was also at this time that the string in his head broke and he lost consciousness.

"Wow!"

The boy beside him fell in love, but the girl in front of the door didn't take it seriously. She just looked at the person behind the door intently and sighed in a low voice, "It's really rare to see him, Your Excellency."

The woman behind the door calmly looked at the pair of molten red eyes and said with a smile, "Yes, it's really rare to see. Jörmungandr! Let me guess..."

"You came to me to talk about the covenant, right?"