If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

The whole world suddenly became quiet.

The rain washed away the windows of the Maybach parked on the elevated road. The roof of the car was knocked loudly, and the rain poured down on the windows on both sides. The visibility outside the window was appallingly poor. When you look outside, everything is completely white. , accompanied by occasional flashes of lightning.

The sound of the car horn, the noise, and the footsteps all disappeared. The Maybach was so quiet that it was unsettling. The crystal liquid, whether it was sweat or rain, slid from the temples all the way down the cheeks to the chin, and then dripped onto the gear shifter. Shattered into splashes.

The whole world was filled with the sound of rumbling water, like a waterfall hitting the roof of the car, and the water flowing down. The chaos and noise all over the world before on the highway were washed away by these wild currents, leaving only this Maybach in the heavy rain, and the father and son in the car.

Chu Zihang was sitting in the back seat, with his right hand on the door armrest. He looked straight at the rearview mirror in front of him. There was nothing in the rearview mirror. Chu Tianjiao, who was in the driver's seat, was holding the steering wheel with one hand, and the other hand was placed on the edge of the car door just like Chu Zihang, as if he was always ready to take out something.

Neither of them spoke, and the air was as oppressive as if an airtight urn might burst open at any time due to the high pressure.

"Stay in the car. I'll go down to see if the car has been hit. If it is rear-ended, he will be fully responsible. The 9 million car will pay him to death." After being silent for about a few minutes, Chu Tianjiao spoke, his voice A little dry with a slight tremor.

How long have you been talking about a 9 million car?

"I'll go out with you and take a look." Chu Zihang and Chu Tianjiao opened the car door together and took out the black umbrellas on the front and back seats at the same time.

Chu Tianjiao was about to turn around and tell Chu Zihang to sit still, but his voice was immediately drowned out by the violent sound of rain outside the door. It was really like being in a waterfall, even if you only used your eyes to see it You can feel how terrifying the force of the rainstorm slamming down on the ground outside the car is, and everything that ventures outside seems to be washed away.

Chu Zihang held the handle of his umbrella and pulled it out from the door frame. While opening the umbrella, he stepped onto the elevated road. A huge force came from the top of the umbrella, and the water flow was divided into four directions and flowed around him. Pass.

He stood in a vast expanse of white rain, with a blur of darkness in front and behind him. The Maybach's headlights shone straight into the distance but could not illuminate the end of the elevated road where they were. Looking back, he could no longer see the entrance from where they came. They appeared alone in the center of the elevated road, looking lonely and deserted.

There were no traces of collision on the rear of the Maybach, but there was a dark rut behind the car. It was as if Chu Tianjiao got mad and kicked the accelerator to send them to the elevated road, then stepped on the brakes and stopped diagonally. In the middle of the road. But both Chu Tianjiao and Chu Zihang knew that this was not what happened.

"Get in the car." Chu Tianjiao, who was walking out of the Maybach holding an umbrella, came to Chu Zihang's side when he saw this scene. He pressed his shoulder with his right hand and forced him back into the car. "You don't need to put the umbrella back, leave it in the car." inside."

The edge of the black umbrella blocked Chu Tianjiao's face, so Chu Zihang couldn't see the solemn and ugly expression on it, but he could tell from his voice that Chu Tianjiao's mood had changed.

Returning to the Maybach that was still on, the door was closed. Chu Tianjiao placed the wet umbrella beside him, held the steering wheel with both hands and said in a low voice, "Start."

A dim blue light ignited in front of the dashboard. Amidst the roar of the engine, the Maybach's speed instantly climbed from zero to 100 kilometers. The tires rotated at high speed, raising a large amount of water, and drew a clean arc on the elevated road. The rear end of the car started to surge forward.

It was already dark, and the Maybach was driving alone on the elevated road. Only the street lights guided their way forward. The streamlined front of the car knocked away the heavy rain curtain and drove forward faster with a constant roar.

"Son, don't think too much, just pretend that something strange happened just now. I will take you off the elevated highway immediately and send you to your mother. I have other things to deal with, so just pretend that nothing happened today. , just go back and eat and sleep, do you understand?" Chu Tianjiao, who was holding the steering wheel in the driver's seat, licked his lips and looked straight at the road without any road signs outside the windshield. The GPS had already shown that it was malfunctioning. Now I guess the only use is to play the stored gun cartoons.

"What were you planning to deal with today?" Chu Zihang asked in a low voice.

"For work, my boss asked me to deliver something. I originally planned to drive this car out of the city, but the typhoon delayed me for a while. I was originally planning to wait for the rain to subside before leaving, but I just received it. Your text message." Chu Tianjiao said, "It's my problem for getting you involved, but now there is still a chance to remedy the situation. Don't worry about anything, we just need to return the way we came."

"Where is the thing you want to send?" Chu Zihang asked, "Is it in the trunk?"

".Why do you ask this?" Chu Tianjiao glanced at the still familiar face in the rearview mirror.

"I'm just a little curious about what kind of work dad has been doing." Chu Zihang raised his head, "In my impression, dad, you have always been busy, whether it was before you divorced your mother or after the divorce, you were always busy , just like all the troubles in the world are piled on your shoulders, after dealing with one side, there is another side, and you always have no time to spend with us, so mommy chooses to divorce you, right? "

"Why are you talking about this all of a sudden? Let's talk about work."

In the rearview mirror, Chu Tianjiao's face, which was about to tighten up, suddenly collapsed, looking a little depressed. The horror movie was suddenly changed into a homely movie, although both were equally scary to him.

"Then tell me what is in the trunk that is so important that you need to send it out of the city in this weather?" Chu Zihang asked calmly.

"I'm not sure about this. The boss says it's confidential. It's probably just some artwork. Our boss always likes artwork." Chu Tianjiao hesitated.

"If the boss of the Black Prince Group trusts you so much, then why is your salary so low that even your mother wants to divorce you?" Hit the nail on the head.

After these words fell, Maybach was silent for a while. Chu Tianjiao's heartbroken voice seemed to be heard across the front and rear seats. After a long time, he let out a long sigh, scratched the back of his head, raised his head and said, "You kill me." Let’s chat, your mother and I are not divorcing because of salary. It’s just emotional incompatibility, not money.”

"Don't you love her anymore?" Chu Zihang asked softly, looking at the handsome face in the rearview mirror that had been covered by more vicissitudes of life.

"Don't talk nonsense, I have always loved her, just like I have always loved you two." Chu Tianjiao suddenly raised his head and said strangely, "You are still young and don't quite understand what love is. Sometimes love is like a hand that stretches out and then quietly retracts. Only when you dare to let go can you truly love deeply. Your stepfather's love for your mother cannot even be compared to my toes."

"Mom is never angry with you not because you are poor." Chu Zihang whispered, "but because she thinks you are unreliable."

"I'm not reliable. How can I be unreliable?" Chu Tianjiao was stunned.

"Do you remember the day of your mother's birthday?"

"Remember, I really have something to do that day, please listen to me."

"That day happened to be her menstrual period and she was in excruciating pain. The doctor told her to go to bed earlier and the pain would stop, but she still called you to ask when you would come home so that she could blow out the candles. That day, the birthday cake was all melted. You can't eat the candles. Grandma said that she has been afraid of pain since she was a child, but she just waited for you all night and didn't wait for you to come back that day. At noon the next day, you said that you suddenly had something to do at work and didn't come back. Mom said that day We’ve finished eating that piece of cake, there’s nothing left.” Chu Zihang interrupted Chu Tianjiao’s explanation and said calmly.

"Did you also eat the melted candle on top?" Chu Tianjiao asked hesitantly.

"I couldn't stop her. She ate secretly, crying and eating at the same time." Chu Zihang's voice was low but steady without too many waves. "She was never happy and would secretly sit in the corner to eat. She would not let others People know that she has always been awkward and will not change what she believes in."

".I asked why she went to the hospital to treat her stomach ache the next afternoon." Chu Tianjiao's cheek twitched slightly, as if it was the first time he knew about this, "But I really had something special that day. Important things, the kind of things that save people from fire and water, I have a few colleagues who work in high-risk jobs who are trapped. If I arrive a few minutes late, they will have to be sent to the crematorium."

"On the day of the entrance ceremony of Shilan Middle School, my mother and 'father' went to celebrate their wedding anniversary. I wanted to secretly invite you to attend, because I was the number one freshman in that class, and I wanted to make you proud."

"I'm late too?"

"That day, I was the only one who didn't have the position of a parent behind my back. Many classmates secretly said that I was a child born with a mother but not raised by a father." Chu Zihang continued.

"Who is so fucking rude? If it were me, I would definitely educate him!" Chu Tianjiao's face changed and he said angrily.

"He will be taught a lesson. The person who did it was a junior student and he will be sent to the hospital." Chu Zihang said, "But what will happen to you, Dad, on that day? Because from that day on, I Gradually I believe what my mother has always said before, that you are neither a good father nor a good husband."

".Has your mother ever said such a thing?"

"I have said it more than once. During the time when you were divorced, we talked the most. She hugged me while crying and said it. It was as if she was hypnotizing and brainwashing herself. Even she believed it after talking too much, so that she could completely remove you from the world. Her brain disk was cleared."

"Thank you so much for her hard work." Chu Tianjiao said, "I remembered that on the day of your entrance ceremony, I was actually about to arrive at Shilan Middle School, but it was a really, really coincidence that I met something I had to do. To deal with the matter, my boss said that he has a 'client' coming to our city, and if I am not there, the consequences will be particularly serious, so..."

"Then have you solved that 'customer'?" Chu Zihang asked suddenly.

"It must have been solved." Chu Tianjiao said subconsciously, then paused and glanced at Chu Zihang, only to find that the other party was also looking at him.

"You have always hidden things from your mother and me." Chu Zihang looked at Chu Tianjiao's profile, "Are those things more important than us in your eyes?"

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Chu Tianjiao looked a little sad, "Son, let me tell you, you are asking this question as if my girlfriend and my mother have fallen into the water. I have a hard time choosing who should go first. Sometimes you can't have the best of both worlds. Today you suddenly Ask me this question, has your mother talked about me again recently?"

There was some anticipation in his voice at the end, and he quietly looked into Chu Zihang's eyes in the rearview mirror.

"No, she has forgotten you. She gave you opportunities, but you missed them."

Is there anything more tragic than a down-and-out Chu Tianjiao mentioning the woman from his past, only to find that the other party has already forgotten about him?

"My mother has always been a heartless person. She is always a child in her heart. If you hurt her heart, the child in her heart will say to her: I feel so much pain. Let's go. Just like back then. Just like when I met you, I said happily: He is so cool and I like him so much." Chu Zihang whispered, "Do you think she really married you because of the private car you drove? She originally married you I have always liked you as a person, and that was also your truest self during that time, right? If you could always stay that way, how could you possibly get divorced?"

"Xiaoyan, does she like me in my truest form?" Chu Tianjiao was quiet for a long time, and finally just smiled.

"Take good care of your mother." He took a deep breath and said, "Your father and I have been working hard all our lives and have not been able to live a happy life. I still leave the good life to you and your mother. I am a little miserable, but At any rate, I can still survive. As long as you survive better than me for one day, I can still look forward to the next day."

"Why can't you take us with you? Even if life is harder." Chu Zihang raised his head slightly and asked softly.

"Son, there are some things for which awareness alone is not enough. At least your father is not good at home yet. He has so many troubles that he cannot protect himself. He is afraid that he will go bankrupt one day and brings you and your mother along with him. That's why he left. It's the best choice." Chu Tianjiao squeezed the steering wheel and listened to the faint roar of the engine outside the Maybach. "Sometimes if you don't choose, reality will force you to choose. Just like today, I did it. Wrong choice."

"You are not wrong, you have never been wrong." Chu Zihang said, "What is wrong is that we cannot understand you."

"Son, to be honest, I'm really happy to hear you say that." Chu Tianjiao was stunned for a long time, and his usually relaxed expression finally showed some flaws, and a trace of relief flashed in his eyes.

"Since mom can't understand you, someone has to remember you. If I'm not here today, who will remember that you were in this world in the future." Chu Zihang turned his head and looked out the car window.

"Why do you make it sound like I'm going to die?" Chu Tianjiao suddenly came back to his senses, "I feel like you're speaking strangely today, with a bit of a strained voice. Have you entered the period of voice change early?"

"Maybe." Chu Zihang said, "Dad, we still have a long way to go. Can you tell me about you? I want to know more about you."

"About me? Is there anything else I can talk about? Just like that, drive, get off work, have some late night snacks, then go to bed and get up the next day to continue driving. The boss told me that I must be there, handle everything before going back, and go back Lying like a dead dog." Chu Tianjiao muttered softly.

"Shouldn't fathers be more upright in front of their sons? Even if you work as a driver for the group boss, you will brag that you are like the group boss himself." Chu Zihang said, "But in front of me, you have never treated yourself You say he is an insignificant little person, but you have forgotten one thing. Every child hopes that his father is an indomitable hero. For them, father is the sky, a mountain, immovable, and indestructible. He is Ultraman, who can drive Fight the little monsters in life. Even if your father goes out and rides a rickshaw hard every day, in the eyes of his children, what he does is the most amazing thing in the world. If you blindly abuse yourself, you will only make them feel worse. I’m so disappointed. You can only be an omnipotent superman in front of them.”

"But I am a nobody." Chu Tianjiao began to speak awkwardly. From time to time he looked at the silent Chu Zihang in the rearview mirror. He seemed to have a premonition of something and was beginning to feel uneasy.

"Shall we listen to something?" Chu Tianjiao hurriedly reached out and turned on the music. The song "Daily Growing" by the Irish band that was engraved in Chu Zihang's memory rang out, but Chu Zihang stretched out his hand and changed the song. The next song played was "Heartbreaker Hotel" by Elvis Presley.

"Then have you ever thought about taking me to drive together in the future?" Chu Zihang took back his hand and asked again.

"What kind of car are you driving?" Chu Tianjiao was stunned for a moment.

“Do the job you’ve been doing.”

"Are you kidding? You are my son, Chu Tianjiao, one of the best students in the city. How can you just be a driver in the future?" Chu Tianjiao groaned, "You should go to college in the future and take the most popular major in finance. Then ask your stepfather to find a relationship for you."

"Tell my stepfather to find a relationship for me?"

"That's not what I mean, I mean..." Chu Tianjiao was anxious, "You can insist on me finding a relationship for you. Although I only drive, I have met some people over the years."

"Dad, no matter what you are doing, you are the same in my eyes." Chu Zihang whispered, "Mom can't understand you, but I can. You have protected me so well since I was a child. In fact, you can try to trust me a little bit."

"I believe you. You are only 14 years old and not yet an adult. Why should I believe you? And isn't protecting you what I should do?" Chu Tianjiao whispered.

"You know what I'm talking about, Dad."

"Then tell me what you are talking about?"

Chu Tianjiao suddenly raised his head and looked at Chu Zihang in the rearview mirror. His expression was very struggling. He had never struggled like this before, as if he was begging the boy in the back seat to give him relief. Give him a free hand. Reason for speaking.

"Mom can't understand you, but I can understand you." Chu Zihang said, "If you leave, I will always miss you, sometimes more, sometimes less, but I will not stop."

After hearing these words, Chu Tianjiao's expression finally froze, and some relief slowly passed through his eyes. It was like a secret that had been hidden for a lifetime was finally revealed, and even his tense shoulders stepped down, and he slumped in the seat with unprecedented ease.

"Son, tell me the truth, have you already..."

"They are coming." Chu Zihang said suddenly, his dark eyes staring out the window at the rainy night.

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A low laugh came from the stereo, and before Chu Tianjiao finished speaking, all the sound was stuck in his throat, because the laughter was so erratic, hidden in the bass range of Elvis Presley's song, grand and solemn It feels like an ancient bronze bell is roaring, giving people an indescribable sense of awe.

The car door was lightly clicked.

He subconsciously turned his head to look, only to see a flash of black shadow outside the window. At this moment, his face that had always been slack tightened, and his clothes swelled slightly outwards.

The Maybach's dashboard pointed at 130, and there was someone knocking on the door outside the car at a speed of 130 kilometers per hour?

The laughter got louder and louder, the bell really rang, and with it came the mercury-silver light of a cathedral. Several black figures appeared outside the window of the Maybach like accompanying saints. Hidden in the rain curtain, they went hand in hand with the car. The wind and rain cheered and sang hymns for them.

Light shone in from all directions, it was a ball of lit torches. They surrounded the Maybach and looked down at the bait inside. Expressions of admiration, anger, sadness, etc. surged on their pale faces. They stood silently like the God of Death surrounding them. The dying man's bed whispers.

Chu Tianjiao's face turned pale when illuminated by the light. Things finally came to this point. The reunion of the family did not help to make tonight warmer. Their plan to return the same way failed. The elevated road that the Maybach was galloping on never returned here. In this way, as long as they move forward, they will only move forward, and then move forward, until the final destination!

Reincarnation does not stop, this is the iron law of Nibelungen.

Chu Tianjiao knew this, but he was unwilling to accept that they had come to this country of the dead.

The hand of one of the shadows was pressed against the glass. It was as pale as a dead branch and had slender fingers without any lines. It reminded people of the purity of death.

The Maybach slammed on the brakes.

In an instant, this steel monster lost control on the road! It spun wildly, and the rear and front of the car were like pendulums, knocking away the surrounding black figures, and the sound of bone cracking resounded in my ears!

The huge centrifugal force made Chu Tianjiao's face as hard as iron. He hit the steering wheel and stared at the rainy night outside the wipers that were swinging wildly. The black shadows were knocked away like bowling balls, twisted into weird shapes in the air and scattered into the heavy rain. middle. After the Maybach slid for a certain distance, he stepped on the accelerator again and drew a weird arc before driving in the opposite direction!

The weird laughter followed them from far to near, but it would take at least some time to catch up.

"Son, stay away from the door and come to me!" He yelled as he held the steering wheel and stepped on the accelerator.

He didn't receive a response from Chu Zihang, thinking that Chu Zihang was stunned, so he slowed down and said quickly, "Don't be afraid, son, sit here! Sit on the co-pilot's side, I can't take care of you with you in the back!"

He stretched out his hand to pull Chu Zihang to the co-pilot, but it was in vain. He was stunned for a moment and looked back hastily, and found that Chu Zihang had put the black umbrella across his knees and closed it. My eyes seemed to be listening to those fluttering sounds, so serious and solemn.

Chu Tianjiao's face turned pale. He had always hoped that this day would come later. Chu Zihang would face this moment sooner or later, but definitely not in this form.

"Don't listen to their voices, you will have spiritual vision, your bloodline."

Chu Zihang opened his eyes and looked at Chu Tianjiao. Their eyes met. Chu Tianjiao couldn't say the next words. He knew that it was too late to say anything or that he didn't need to say anything at all. He was in the back seat. The boy above already knew everything.

A pair of bright golden eyes swayed like fire, inside was the silence and loneliness of seeing each other again after a long separation.

Chu Tianjiao watched Chu Zihang gently pull out the imperial sword Murasame from the umbrella with his right hand. The blade of the sword that fell out smoothly was illuminated by the light outside the car window like water flowing on the mirror - he clearly had not told Chu Zihang these secrets. But the other party was as familiar as a regular user of this alchemical sword.

"I often think that if I could turn back time and go back to that rainy night when I was 14 years old, I wouldn't drive away in a car." Chu Zihang looked down at Murasame in his hand, his hot blood reflected on the blade. Golden eyes.

"Instead of dying alone, it is better to drive that Maybach and crash into the throne of God. This time I will stand behind you until we bleed the last drop of blood together." He said softly.

"What are you talking about? I don't understand." Chu Tianjiao's voice was bitter.

Chu Zihang didn't say anything more. He did something that Chu Tianjiao never dreamed of - he lowered the car window and pulled out the Maybach with a speed of nearly 180 kilometers per hour while the laughter followed him. When Tianjiao almost reached out and roared, the Murasame blade pierced the car roof and slid down against his cheek, abruptly interrupting the man's roar!

On a dark stormy night, on the roof of a Maybach that was running wildly on the elevated road, Chu Zihang squatted and crept on the roof of the car in the thunder, his blouse was fluttering wildly, and a pair of golden eyes reflected the black man running like a ghost after the rainy night. Movies!

Branch-shaped thunder and lightning fell from the dense dark clouds and fell on Maybach's path. Under the white light, the green-black sword and shield plush gradually covered his neck and cheeks, and the dragon's blood awakened for the first time in his veins. Under that forbidden power, it surges like a flood into the sea!

In the future, dark clouds are pressing down on the city, threatening to destroy it, and a light of armor is shining towards Rilonglin.