How to Feed an Abyss! - Chapter 128

One day Shi Yuan and Lu Tinghan went shopping and came to a strange place.

Many people set up stalls in this small square, and the things they sell are messy and cheap.

Lu Tinghan said, “This is a flea market that specializes in selling second-hand items.”

Shi Yuan asked, “Why is it called a flea market?”

“Second-hand items are often unclean, and used to always have fleas and lice, so it got its name.”

Shi Yuan said, “It sounds like small animals too, can I keep them?”

Lu Tinghan said, “No.”

“But I want to raise it.”

“Shi Yuan, there can only be one flea and I at home.”

Shi Yuan regretted: “Okay.”

The square was buzzing with people, Shi Yuan pulled Lu Tinghan in to have a look.

The stalls have everything from books, clothes and furniture, to vases, art and jewellery.

As Shi Yuan walked, he was attracted by various things.

He picked up the old vase and saw its unique hexagonal shape, with dark yellow water stains on the bottom that could not be wiped off; Put it on; then he saw cheap jewelry necklaces, tea sets, old tattered books, empty drink tins from the old days…

A boldly colored oil painting is placed on a wooden frame. A woman wearing a blue silk embraces a sunflower and looks at it with a smile. There is also a small robot toy that fades in color. When the switch is pressed, the eyes are red with “Dididi!” Light.

Shi Yuan picked up the glass marble and held it up to the light. The streets, tall buildings and the blue sky were all bent in it, close together and about to melt, so he saw the whole world.

Just stop and go like this, Shi Yuan has already bought a bunch of things before finishing half of the square.

Huoshaoyun spread vigorously across the sky, people closed their stalls, Shi Yuan could only leave regretfully.

After returning home, he and Lu Tinghan spread out these gadgets on the table.

The old dog was sleeping in the corner, and the kitten became sleepy after playing with marbles for a while, so he also slept next to it. While chatting, Shi Yuan and Lu Tinghan wiped everything clean, and arranged them in the house one by one.

In the end, there was only one deck of cards left on the table.

Shi Yuan hasn’t seen the cards for a long time, and he still remembers how he lost so badly over and over again. It just so happened that a new robot came to the house, so he spread out the cards on the table, ready to fight to the death with Lu Tinghan and the robot.

Then, he lost the whole night.

In the middle of the night, Shi Yuan was still unwilling to lie on the bed.

He said, “Lu Tinghan.”

Lu Tinghan was about to fall asleep, so he replied, “Huh?”

“How did you back the cards?”

Lu Tinghan said: “I will remember it naturally.”

Shi Yuan curled his tail in confusion, unable to understand this “naturalness”.

He played cards for a few more days, and came to the conclusion that he could not win, and the deck of cards went to the cabinet to eat ashes.

—As for how it was bitten to pieces by the kitten on the back, that is another story.

In order to encourage him, Lu Tinghan took the initiative to say: “Do you want to learn something else, such as go, chess and backgammon?”

“No.” Shi Yuan refused him.

Once again, he was very self-aware and understood that the Lu family’s spirit of never admitting defeat was broken by him.

The second time, when Shi Yuan came back from the theater, he passed by the flea market and bought a fish tank.

The fish tank is much larger than the one at home, so he found a moving robot, and spent

It took a while to move back. After changing the water and rearranging the rockery and grass, the wretched fish has more space to spit bubbles.

Shi Yuan told Lu Tinghan that there was more joy in their eyes.

Lu Tinghan looked at the dead fish eyes that were more than one blank, and fell into thought again – if someone told him that these were dead fish, he would probably believe them.

After that, Shi Yuan became obsessed with this feeling of Taobao.

He brought back an old vase, which broke itself within a few days. He bought several wooden models, and it turned out that the model had been damp for a long time, and the interior was empty, and soon the whole fell apart; he bought a planet model and put it in the living room, but the kitten knocked it over and broke it into pieces when playing. …

Seven or eight times out of ten, the things I bought are useless at all.

Until one time, Shi Yuan saw a movie disc.

He squatted in front of the booth, trying to identify the names of each movie.

The owner of the stall is an old lady with silver hair and extremely thin hands, with dark blue veins visible. She pushed the reading glasses and asked, “Want to watch movies? They are all old movies, only I have them here.”

Shi Yuan said, “I like movies, but why are you selling them?”

The old grandma smiled: “There are not many days – I don’t have a grandson, so it’s useless to keep things at home.” She encouraged Shi Yuan, “Look more, maybe you are interested in which one.”

There are only six or seven old discs in total, and the artistic style of the cover is old. Shi Yuan finally bought them all, and the grandmother took a bag to help him pack them, and waved goodbye to him.

After Shi Yuan got home, he showed the disc to Lu Tinghan.

Those are very old movies, not to mention discs, which are even more rare. Lu Tinghan spent some effort, but couldn’t find an old-fashioned projector, so he could only read the discs one by one into the terminal, and then play them on the projection.

The first thing they watch is a horror movie.

That film is pure plasma film, mainly sensory stimulation, the plot is very mentally handicapped and cannot withstand scrutiny.

For Lu Tinghan, this is undoubtedly torture – he is the kind of person who pays attention to logic in everything he does, even if it is entertainment works, he cannot tolerate weak logic chains. What’s more, in this movie, in his words, “everyone does things completely randomly, as if any idea pops up in their mind, they will immediately follow it.”

Next, Lu Tinghan saw the protagonist group who came to travel swimming by the lake where the words “no entry into the water” were written, collecting firewood on the mountain full of animal traps, and always felt that he was wrong when he saw the suspicious figure. They insisted on living in the abandoned house: a brainless strong man paired with a weak bookworm, plus a delicate girl with “school violence” written all over her face, no matter what the young couple had to do, they had to talk in the wild where no one was around. Talk about love, never return on the way to death.

Seeing half of it, Lu Tinghan couldn’t take it anymore, and asked Shi Yuan: “Do you really think it looks good?”

Shi Yuan: “…”

Lu Tinghan: “Shi Yuan?” When he turned his head, Shi Yuan was sleeping soundly with his tail in his arms, and the light from the projector swept over him, his sleeping face was peaceful.

…The movie about love is so boring that even Shi Yuan can’t be scared, it becomes his lullaby instead.

Lu Tinghan was very sorry that he didn’t find out earlier, and he was tortured for dozens of minutes in vain. He quietly turned off the movie, and pressed the quilt for Shi Yuan.

Lights out and sleep.

He gave Shi Yuan a goodnight kiss in the dark.

After this sleep, Shi Yuan slept comfortably, and the next day he went to act energetically.

On the contrary, when Lu Tinghan went home and saw those discs, the group of mentally handicapped protagonists flooded up again with painful memories.

In the end, only Lu Tinghan was injured.

Other movies are lackluster, not good-looking

Not ugly, enough to pass the time.

When the last movie was left, Shi Yuan suddenly said, “By the way, Lu Tinghan, do you know what ‘Movie Night’ is?”

Lu Tinghan: “I have.”

“I heard from people in the troupe that sometimes the family will watch movies together and prepare snacks and pillows.” Shi Yuan said, “We have a lot of movie nights, but it doesn’t feel formal enough.”

Lu Tinghan asked: “How formal do you want to be?”

Shi Yuan thought for a while: “First, get some snacks.”

On the street next to the flea market, there are many stalls selling snacks.

The two went there specifically when they were walking the dog, and bought potato chips, green beans, biscuits, mint hard candy, and dried fruit, and took them home.

Cheng Yi also kindly sponsored several pork shops, and Shi Yuan put them together, and a small mountain of snacks was piled up on the coffee table.

The kitten sniffed it curiously, but soon lost interest and continued to play with the glass ball. The old dog slept in the corner as always, not bothering to lift his eyelids.

Shi Yuan counted the snacks, and he was hungry when he lit them.

He thought, I’ll just eat a little bit, just a little bit. Anyway, tomorrow is movie night, so it’s okay to eat in advance, Lu Tinghan won’t find out.

He unwrapped the potato chips.

He opened the Peppermints.

He tore open the dried fruit wrapping paper.

When Lu Tinghan came home that night, the snack mountain that was still full in the morning was obviously missing a corner. Shi Yuan slept happily lying on the table, with a little bit of biscuit crumbs at hand.

Lu Tinghan smiled, and walked slowly to Shi Yuan and sat down.

He pushed Shi Yuan: “Don’t sleep here, you’ll catch a cold.”

Shi Yuan answered vaguely.

Lu Tinghan said again: “Shi Yuan, look what I brought you?”

Shi Yuan woke up now, rubbed his eyes and looked over.

—Lu Tinghan brought back a brand new projector and super large curtain.

Shi Yuan was very pleasantly surprised. He circled the projector a few times and said, “It’s so beautiful!”

Lu Tinghan smiled and kissed him: “This is the only way to have a sense of ceremony.”

The next night, they set up the projector and prepared snacks and throw pillows.

As soon as the lights went out, the house was dark, only the lights of other people’s houses far away dimly filtered through the curtains.

Then, the projector’s light suddenly turned on.

This newly replaced projector is different. The old movies are so clear, the colors are true and beautiful, and it is equipped with a super-large curtain. The two snuggle up on the sofa, as if they are isolated from the world.

“Dangdangdang—” the opening music of the movie sounded.

Shi Yuan nestled in Lu Tinghan’s arms and said, “I hope this is a good movie.”

He ate a piece of honey-flavored potato chips and thought it was delicious, so he fed two pieces to Lu Tinghan.

I don’t know if the sense of ritual is enough, the atmosphere is here, this movie is really good to watch.

It’s about a slum thief boy.

When he was a child, he lived in a house full of holes, with wind leaking from all sides, cool in winter and warm in summer, and the quilt and pillow always had a strange smell. Under the wooden boards of the bed, there were all kinds of stolen goods he stole, from bread to gold and silver jewelry. There is everything.

“It’s a bit like a flea market.” Shi Yuan said.

Lu Tinghan: “Yes.”

He opened a pack of biscuits and began to feed Shi Yuan.

Winter came, and the boy was shivering in the broken house.

There was no hot water at home, and he felt that he was going to freeze to death, so he wrapped himself tightly in the quilt.

Another gust of cold wind blew, and he sneezed: “Ah-” Then he sniffled his nose, wanted to get out of bed, took out the last piece of bread and ate it.

He opened his eyes.

Through the hole in the roof, he saw the stars all over the sky.

The brilliance flowed brightly, and in his eyes, it was an incomparable beauty.

The boy’s hands and feet were shaking from the cold, his face was dirty, and the soles of his feet were still stained with plant ash, but at this moment, he was looking up at the starry sky amidst the mud and dust.

It was this majestic beauty, this little hope in the ashes that got him through the night.

Later, war came to the boy’s country. By accident, he got the qualification for enlistment and firmly wanted to become a pilot: in this way he could get closer to the blue sky and the starry sky.

He became a fighter pilot as he wished.

He took off again and again, and the sky and the earth were spinning. He bravely killed the enemy and defended his family and country.

He has been seriously injured and captured, and whenever he thinks he is going to die, he can happen to see the stars one night.

The brilliance shines, just like it did many years ago.

At the end of the war, he returned home with fame and spent a lot of money to help the people in the slums.

The hometown developed, and he never accepted people’s applause. On a starry night, he walked along the trail, looked at the newly-built buildings, left here, and disappeared into the mountains and fields in the distance.

The movie is over.

After the end of the film, the house returned to darkness. Shi Yuan was so fascinated by the sight that he even forgot to eat snacks, and finally said softly in Lu Tinghan’s arms, “It’s so beautiful—”

“Yeah.” Lu Tinghan rubbed his head, “It’s a very good movie.”

Movie night came to a successful conclusion.

It was a coincidence that the night sky was clear the next day after watching the movie.

Just after Shi Yuan finished reading the script, he accidentally glanced out the window and shouted, “Lu Tinghan! Come and see!”

Lu Tinghan walked to the window.

The sky is full of stars.

The dome of Dunton can project the real sky, which relieves the oppressiveness of the underground city. The boy looked up at the Milky Way from the ashes, and they witnessed the stars from the ground.

Shi Yuan remembered that Lu Tinghan said that when he was a child, he wondered if he could go to space.

Lu Tinghan probably likes space, that yearning for the unknown has never disappeared in the human blood.

Shi Yuan suddenly said, “When will the space center be rebuilt?”

Lu Tinghan was a little surprised, and replied: “The Alliance has this plan, but it will take a very long time.”

“Okay.” Shi Yuan said.

He put his hand on the window pane, as if to catch the star. And Lu Tinghan also stretched out his hand, and lightly covered the back of Shi Yuan’s hand, their hands overlapped.

Shi Yuan said: “It doesn’t matter, the space center can definitely be rebuilt, and then you can go to space!”

There are still people walking through the street at this late hour. The city is changing with each passing day, which makes people feel hopeful.

“Well.” Lu Tinghan said, “There will be such a day.” He kissed Shi Yuan’s black hair, “Maybe one day, I can also visit your hometown.”