Chapter 2 May, May

May is a rainy season.

The rain keeps falling, like a hazy curtain hanging from the sky to the ground. On this hazy stage, the entire city seems to have faded away and turned into a silent oil painting made of black, white and gray.

In the oil painting, everyone is walking in a hurry, passing by the door of the store in a hurry, passing by the subway exit in a hurry, walking in a hurry through the streets and alleys, passing by every place in a hurry A place that has nothing to do with you.

In front of the exit of the subway station, a long-haired girl holding a guitar sat quietly in the corner, strumming the strings and humming a melody that no one had heard before. There were no lyrics in the melody, but only bursts of sound. Wave-like, tones that the human voice can never produce.

One by one, hurried footsteps passed in front of the girl, and no one stopped to listen to this too slow and boring song. May stopped playing the guitar, raised his eyelids, and looked at the gray sky.

The rain seemed to be stagnant in her sight, and the whole world moved very slowly. In her field of vision, the entire black-and-white city instantly turned into a colorful still frame. In this still frame, Her eyes shone with a shimmer - everything became clear and distinct in the siren's infrared vision.

After a moment, Wuyue blinked, and the falling rain began to fall again, and the pedestrians began to move again. In front of the subway exit, which was gradually becoming deserted, she murmured in a low voice: "It's almost two months... I can leave this place." The city.”

Several pedestrians left the exit of the subway station. A pair of parents and a brother and sister walked in front of May. The little girl grabbed her mother's hand and shook it vigorously: "We agreed to go to the zoo today! We agreed to go to the zoo today - "

"Why go to the zoo when it's raining?" The mother held an umbrella and scolded her daughter, "Don't kick the water - your skirt is wet!"

The little girl seemed frustrated. Her father, who was walking next to her, bent down and pressed her hair: "Be good and be obedient - I will definitely take you there next week..."

They gradually walked away. Wuyue looked at the back of the family from a distance. After a moment of loneliness, he showed a faint smile: "It's so good..."

She stood up, put the guitar on her back, and flicked a small drop of water in the direction of the family: "Don't forget the promise you made with your child."

After doing this, she straightened the hem of her clothes, looked up at the raindrops that were still falling, and turned around to leave the place.

However, when she turned around, she saw an unknown little girl standing in front of her blankly.

"Huh?" May tilted her head in confusion, "What's wrong? Little guy?"

But the little girl just looked at her steadily. After a few seconds, she suddenly burst into tears without warning: "Wow - Mom..."

"Hey, don't cry! Don't..." Wuyue suddenly started to rush, clumsily and at a loss to comfort the little girl who suddenly cried, "I didn't bully you... I don't know you!"

As she spoke, she looked around in panic, trying to find the little girl's family, but there was no one nearby. She only heard the little girl still crying: "I'm looking for mom... mom..."

May was startled for a moment, then turned to look at the little girl's face: "Are you lost with your mother?"

But the little girl just cried and didn't answer her question at all.

Wuyue became troubled and frowned. After a few seconds of hesitation, she raised her hand. Some raindrops falling from the sky outside the awning immediately drifted in. The rainwater quickly gathered on her fingertips. In a moment, In a moment, it condensed into the appearance of a crystal clear little goldfish.

The little girl stopped crying in surprise and looked at the crystal goldfish that May handed to her.

"Stop crying," May patted the little girl's hair, "Sister, I'll do a magic trick for you."

The little girl took the goldfish in surprise and exclaimed happily: "Wow——"

"Be good, don't cry - are you lost with your mother?"

"Um."

"Then..." Wuyue looked up at the sky again, then lowered his head, "I will take you to your mother."

"Well...but mom said you can't go with strangers."

Wuyue was stunned for a moment, and then she looked like she couldn't laugh or cry: "...Mom is right...then let's wait for mom here together, okay?"

The little girl thought hard for a moment, and then seemed to find no problem, so she nodded slightly: "Okay!"

May pulled the child to the place where she had rested before, sat down again, and let the little girl lean against her. She took off the guitar and strummed the strings of the guitar at will.

I don't know how much time passed like this, but the originally gloomy sky outside had already darkened.

The little girl blinked and fiddled with the little goldfish in her hand. After playing with it for a while, she suddenly said out of curiosity: "Sister, you smell good."

"That smells good? What is it?"

"Like rain," the little girl said thoughtfully, then burst into giggles, "Sweet!"

"Raining?" Wuyue felt that she really couldn't understand the thoughts of a child. She stretched out her hand, and some raindrops that were supposed to fall outside the subway exit awning fell on her hand. "Rain is sweet." What?"

However, the little girl leaning on her suddenly said something seemingly meaningless: "But the birthday cake is very sweet!"

"Birthday cake?" May had no idea what the child was talking about, "Where did the birthday cake come from?"

"It's there for my birthday," the little girl said happily, "It's my birthday today! Mom went to buy me a cake..."

The little girl suddenly stopped.

She seemed to suddenly think of her mother again, and her eyes quickly turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye. However, Wuyue beside her was suddenly startled.

Celebrating a birthday...buying a cake...getting separated while buying a cake?

It's impossible for such a small child to run very far... Is there a cake shop nearby?

She suddenly raised her head and looked in a certain direction across the street.

She raised her finger and pointed at the hazy rain curtain outside - the fluttering raindrops immediately twisted slightly, and the next second, an almost transparent water element with an outline vaguely similar to May appeared in the air. In the air filled with moist mist and drizzle.

This ball of water element bowed slightly towards May, and then turned towards the street. Its body melted down like wax and quickly merged with the water on the ground. Then a ripple that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye followed along The accumulated water on the ground, the rain and fog in mid-air, and the water on the wall quickly drifted into the distance.

This ripple passed through the streets, through alleys, through shop fronts, and finally stopped in front of a shopping street.

The ripples stay in the puddles on the shopping street, and an almost transparent face emerges on its surface, staring at the nearest store:

Drizzle cake.

The ripples disintegrated in the puddle and turned into countless layers of water waves, centered on the cake shop and spreading everywhere there was water.

Wherever there is water, Kraken is everywhere.

…

A young woman walked anxiously down the street, asking about the whereabouts of her daughter from store to store. Her clothes were soaked and her hair was scattered, but she didn't care at all.

No one ever saw a little girl walking past their door.

The young woman finally stopped at the street corner. She looked blankly at the hazy city in front of her, with no focus in her eyes.

The ripples in the water stopped at her feet.

A nearly transparent female figure emerged from the rain curtain behind the young woman. It approached the lost mother and made a hallucinatory sound like a wave of waves: "Go to the exit of Line 2 of the subway station... She is in there……"

…

Under the awning at the subway exit, the little girl, who had cried again, finally saw her mother running towards her.

"Mother!!"

The little girl happily jumped into the young woman's arms, then turned her head without waiting for her mother to speak, pointed at May, and shouted happily: "Sister can do magic! Sister can turn into a goldfish!"

Wuyue stood up and looked at the young woman who looked embarrassed and frightened with a smile. She found that the other woman looked nothing like her - but maybe she was a little bit closer from behind: "Next time, don't be too far away from your child." Far."

"Thank you, thank you..." The young woman thanked her repeatedly, and then invited her in a panic, "Come and sit at my house, our house..."

"No, it's time for me to go home," May declined the other party's thanks and kindness. She had already put her guitar back on her back and walked towards the city where it was raining outside. Before walking into the rain curtain, she turned her head and said to that The little girl smiled brightly and said, "Happy birthday!"

In the breeze and drizzle, a calendar page floated from nowhere and landed in front of May.

May lowered her head and saw the clear date on the calendar: May 15th.

"Let's stay a little longer..."

…

In the living room of Hao Ren's house, a group of people were sitting around the big dining table. Nangong Wuyue was sitting on the side of the table, wagging the tip of his tail and wagging his fingers: "Then I decided to stay a little longer - and then I was arranged by our goddess in a daze, and then I got here...that's it."

"Wow -" Hao Ren sighed, "so many things happened before you came here."

"And what a coincidence," Vivian also sighed, "That day is also May 15th? Today is also May 15th."

"Who asked me to call you May?" May laughed, the tip of her tail wagging back and forth in the air, "I am destined to be May."

"After all, May 15th -" Yzaks chuckled, "In my hometown, some human countries believe in a saying that everyone's destiny is tied to the day they are born. Your birthday is the day when your destiny chooses a fork in the road.”

"So..." After Y'zaks finished speaking, Hao Ren and Vivian said with smiles at the same time, "May, birthday k..."

Before they had time to say anything, May was already wagging her tail with a weird look on her face: "But that day is not my birthday - eh? What did you want to say just now?"

"Huh?!" Hao Ren stared at May in shock. At the same time, he quickly and quietly stuffed the ribbon tube he had taken out from his back into his pocket, "You are not May..."

"I celebrate my birthday according to the lunar calendar," May's tail curled. "When I was born, the Gregorian calendar was not popular in this country - I have always followed the lunar calendar since I was a child. But my brother doesn't like it. It’s so shameful—he goes through the Gregorian and lunar calendars and defrauds me of gifts twice a year. By the way, what on earth did you want to say just now?”

"No...nothing..." Vivian smiled awkwardly, and behind her, two little bats were hurriedly throwing gift boxes into Hao Ren's personal space.

Yzaks also looked embarrassed - but his face was too dark to tell: "Ahem, I didn't say anything."

Behind him, the gift box that had been prepared was also thrown into the opening of Hao Ren's personal space.

Nangong Wuyue blinked and muttered in confusion: "Why are they all so weird..."

Hao Ren and others quickly waved their hands: "It's not strange, it's not strange..."

However, at this moment, the main door of the house was suddenly pushed open.

Under the horrified gazes of Hao Ren and others, Lily happily ran in from the outside. She ran all the way to May May and pulled the ribbon tube: "Happy birthday May!!!"

In addition to being awkward, the scene was still awkward.

"It's my birthday -" Lily yelled again, and then she finally noticed something was wrong in the atmosphere. She looked confused, "What's wrong?"

Hao Ren covered his face: "In May, she..."

Vivian took over the second half of the sentence: "It's a lunar birthday..."