The Monster I Was Redeemed

The sun has not yet risen, the sky is already bright, and the chirping of birds is one after another in the forest.

They shuttle back and forth between the branches, looking for the early worms to feast on.

A sparrow landed on a boulder with a green worm in its mouth, pecking at the hard-won breakfast like a sewing machine.

Suddenly, the boulder moved, and the sparrow was frightened by the movement. It quickly picked up the bug and flew to the side. As soon as it left, the boulder was overturned to the ground, and a white palm lifted the fallen leaves and placed it on the edge of the pit.

"That's what it feels like to be alive."

Ai Liang climbed up from the pit and breathed in the fresh air, her face full of intoxication.

Just looking at his current performance is difficult to associate with that cold-faced scholar. If others see him, they will probably think that he is Ai Liang's twin brother.

"Five years, the ghost knows how I spent these five years."

Ai Liang is like an old ghost who has just snatched a young body, or a muscular dystrophy patient who has been paralyzed for many years and recovers. He keeps flipping his palms, repeating the simple movements of clenching, releasing, and clenching his fists. .

Ai Liang felt everything around him with his body, the cool breeze blowing on his cheeks, the down-to-earth touch, the fragrance of wild flowers in the air, all of which were so nostalgic that he couldn't help but recall the past.

......

Ten years ago, Ai Liang just woke up not long ago, with a mind in his twenties and a five-year-old body, he embarked on the road of superheroes with great anticipation, but just a few months later, he tasted the abuse of super power belts. evil to come.

In the process of a police pursuit, the criminal gang got the news in advance and fled due to the leak of the news, and the police rounded up to no avail.

When everyone was helpless, Ai Liang, who was secretly observing the police's progress, planned to be a hero. He covered the entire Neihua City with his spiritual power, trying to find the criminals who escaped in this way.

There must be more troubles than happiness in this world, and tragedy far surpasses comedy.

At that time, Ai Liang read not only the voices of a few people who were arrested, but also the voices of nearly 10 million people in the entire city.

Hiring murderers to kill, organ smuggling, howling patients, bullying on campus, the darkness hidden in the corner of the city was clearly seen by Ai Liang.

The despair and fear before death, the torment of illness, the anger in the victim's heart, and the jealousy and greed of people on weekdays, all of which were received by Ai Liang.

In contrast, those positive emotions of happiness and optimism are not worth mentioning at all under the great malice.

Since then, Ai Liang has never provided the police with any information about criminals. The evaluation file in the police station has turned his evaluation 180 degrees, and the people in Chaoyang, who cherish justice, have turned to regard human life as a mustard. The executioner, the name also changed from Ai Liang's self-proclaimed 'hermit' at the beginning to the code name 'cut-throat demon' obtained by the police.

For the next five years, Ai Liang put on a windbreaker and a short knife to transform into Ai Tusheng.

Later, Shi Feng changed Ai Liang's code name to "Extrajudicial Sanctioner" under the banner that the title was too bloody. Although the old name was erased from the archives, the black area has been passed down.

Five years later, Ai Liang is ten years old, and the city of Neihua has steadily entered the top three in the perennial crime rate of the Asian League. The notorious capital of crime has become an excellent model city with good law and order.

It took Ai Liang five years to pull the crime rate of the entire Neihua City from the cloud to the ground by himself. As for the blood in the dark, I won't go into details.

At that time, there was a saying in the black zone: 'If you are caught by the police, you may still be saved, and if you are targeted by the cutthroat madman, you can either choose to end yourself or choose to surrender. The former can give himself a good time. If his schedule is full, how long you can live with the latter depends on how many years you have been sentenced. ’

At that time, Ai Liang was the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of all criminals.

As long as you cross a certain line, you will inevitably be attacked by him, without mediation, without communication, just like a Tindalosian hound hidden in the dark, secretly watching your every move, once you touch that line The blurred boundaries will be dragged into the darkness by him to tear his throat open.

Since Ai Liang knew everyone's secrets, he only needed to find the perpetrators according to the impressions in his memory. In the first two months, he cleaned up more than a dozen underground forces.

Therefore, he was once rumored to be a ghost of vengeance, and various versions of strange powers and chaos have appeared. One of the reasons for his retirement listed by Mu Si was adapted from this.

Seeing this, everyone should think of Ai Liang as a super-powered teenager who was blackened by negative emotions and embarked on the road of hunting wicked people, but it is not the case.

Ai Liang was indeed influenced, and he was indeed hunting criminals, but in fact that was just the means he chose to vent his negative emotions.

After receiving the malice from the whole city, Ai Liang quickly used mental ability to transfer all these negative emotions, but it was inevitably affected to some extent.

Ai Liang was worried that one day he would break the bottom line and completely turn into a tyrannical demon. In order to vent the darkness in his heart, he took up the short knife and aimed at the criminals.

If he insisted, the ratio of punishing the wicked and venting was about 55%, and he could see clearly from this that he was actually not suitable to be a superhero.

If you want to divide camps, Ai Liang is likely to belong to the chaotic and kind type, and will only do what he thinks is right. On weekdays, he will abide by the rules and behave politely, but at some special times, he will treat the rules as nothing. .

For example, a friend who is not in a good relationship handed over a bottle of canned beer and asked Ai Liang to drink two glasses, then he would politely thank him first and then refuse, and then hand over the beer and throw the beer into the trash.

Or, while cleaning up the gang, he would accept commissions to make money, but he dismissed the gold banknotes in the safe in the villa and took nothing at all.

During the period between Ai Liang's ten and fifteen years old, the public security environment in Neihua City was very good, and there were hardly any major criminal cases. Therefore, Ai Liang retired and focused on his campus life, which was three years of junior high school.

Because he was deeply affected by negative emotions, and his five-year hunting career made him completely different from normal students in temperament.

Ai Liang had no choice but to choose a stupid method, that is, to withdraw his consciousness from his body, and the reactions of emotions, emotions, and sorrows are controlled by the brain and are passive. And those memories that belong to the soul consciousness are controllable, so you only need to ensure that the memories remaining in the body will not affect you.

Daily life is like playing a virtual reality game, manipulating his body to complete various actions, which causes Ai Liang to have little emotional fluctuations on his face, and almost never smiles.

As a result, he became a cold-faced weirdo in the eyes of his classmates, an arrogant genius, and no one wanted to be friends with him, but this result was better than making people cry at a glance.

Ai Liang has undergone psychotherapy three times in ten years: the first time was when he first received malicious intent, the second time was when he retired as a 'hermit' five years ago, and the third time was just now.

This time, he cleared more than 90% of the negative memory in his brain, which is explained by the words in the game that the level of confusion has dropped from 99% to 9%, which will no longer affect normal life.

......

Ai Liang pressed the power button, and the phone only vibrated for a while and then went silent.

"The phone is out of power... It seems that the sleep time should not be short this time."

Stuffing the phone into his pocket, Ai Liang turned and walked to the edge of the pit.

"It's better to bury these things here. It's not necessarily useless to bring them back anyway."

I saw Ai Liang's toes lightly tapped, and the surrounding dust poured into the pit, burying the motorcycle and tent, and after finishing the incident, he moved the big stone to the pit to compact it.

After doing all this, Ai Liang stretched, and it was not so troublesome to go back. I saw Ai Liang floating in the air and flying straight towards the direction of downtown Nevada.

He came out to ride a motorcycle to show the camera. After all, he couldn't hide the fact that he met Moose. The current Nevada is not the 'San Andreas' ten years ago. Nearly 70% of the underground forces or More or less, they have been manned by the police.

When you come back, you don’t need to care about the monitoring along the road. You don’t need to walk along the road when flying. Just lock the destination and just rush forward. The route chosen by Ai Liang is all mountain forest and wasteland. Find.

In order to avoid a sonic boom, Ai Liang flew at a speed of about 200 meters per second. I have to say that the power of the mind is really convenient.

Ai Liang stopped when approaching the city.

He stared at the city where he had lived for more than ten years, and the joy of regaining his five senses was also washed away by the memories of the past.

Ai Liang knew in his heart that if he continued to use his spiritual abilities such as reading minds, sooner or later he would fall into darkness again.

No one is perfect, and no one can guarantee that they have never done anything wrong.

There is no virtuous person under the fame, and there is no sage under the heart-reading.

Moreover, some abilities are not controlled at all, telepathy, perception of good and evil are passive skills, Ai Liang can clearly perceive the true feelings of others hidden under the smile mask.

Even if you don't use mental power to spy on other people's brains, Ai Liang will be disturbed by the junk information floating in the air, just like the neighbors use electric drills to decorate the next door every night when they sleep, so noisy that you can't wait to pierce your eardrums.

At first, Ai Liang was interested in observing other people's emotions, but it didn't take long for her to get bored. Do you care about the mood of passersby? This ability is still passive observation. Others are in a good mood. If you encounter a guy in a bad mood, it will feel like a perverted and wretched man who insists on showing you the women's underwear that he is wearing today.

Every five years, Ai Liang's ability will undergo a qualitative change, and a bunch of messy knowledge will suddenly pop up in his brain. The ability to seal is the method he just learned these days.

Ai Liangyao looked at the tall buildings in the distance and closed his eyes silently to seal off all his abilities, leaving only his mind power. Anyway, he had had enough for so many years.

The concealment of psychic power is extremely high, so there is no need to worry about being discovered, and it will be very uncomfortable to accompany him to disappear suddenly in life for many years. It is not too late to unblock other abilities when necessary.

......

Returning home from the balcony, Ai Liang opened the bedroom door, and the light in the room was still on, proving that no one had been here these days.

Ai Liang looked at the electronic calendar, four days had passed since the day he left, and it was no wonder that the phone would automatically turn off.

After turning off the desk lamp, Ai Liang connected the phone to the data cable. Although there is wireless charging, the cable is faster.

Five minutes later, Ai Liang turned on the phone and immediately popped up several missed calls.

It was all calls from Yue Qihua, Ma Yu and others, and there was no name that Ai Liang expected.

Ai Liang chuckled lightly.

‘Sure enough, I am a dispensable existence to them. They don’t even know that their son has been missing for several days, or they know it but don’t care. ’

Ai Liang discovered her situation in this home a long time ago, just like the vending machine placed in front of the beverage store. They are all a family, but they are redundant.

From childhood to adulthood, except for the New Year, Ai Liang had almost no contact with the two of them. In the parent-teacher meeting in the elementary school, a nanny was even invited to participate. Even New Year's Eve took turns between the parents every year.

When she was ten years old, Ai Liang never celebrated New Year's Eve with her family, and she read books alone in a deserted room.

But that's fine. After the sixteen-year-old adult, you can justifiably draw a line with them and live alone without any psychological burden. This is a decision that is beneficial to both parties.

After thinking about it, Ai Liang called back Yue Qihua's number.

"Uh... Who is it, early in the morning..." Yue Qihua's voice was a little hoarse, and she murmured in a low voice with an accent that was still awake.

"Ai Liang."

"Ai Liang... Where have you been these past few days, and you don't answer the phone."

"The phone suddenly won't charge, just fixed it."

"...I thought you blocked us all."

Yue Qihua and the others called Ai Liang for several days and no one answered, so this suspicion arose.

"Then are you at home in the afternoon? I'll go get the schoolbag."

It's not a problem that the schoolbag is always in other people's homes. Anyway, it will be taken back sooner or later, so it is better to go today.

As for why it is afternoon, the reason is also very simple. Yue Qihua once said when chatting at school that the nanny hired at home usually comes over in the morning to clean the room and make lunch, and then leave in the afternoon.

Ai Liang chose to meet in the afternoon to avoid meeting their nanny.

But Yue Qihua was strangely silent for a while after hearing this.

"What's wrong?"

Ai Liang asked with some doubts. He was keenly aware that Yue Qihua was a little different from usual today, and seemed to be in a dull mood.

"...There is no one in that apartment now. Xingyue and I have moved back to grandpa's house."

Back then, Yue Qihua and Yang Xingyue rented a nearby house just for the convenience of going to school.

Graduating soon and not having to go to school any time soon, it's normal to move back in.

I just didn't expect it to be so sudden.

"Then go out to the library or bookstore to gather, it's the same old place."

Ai Liang took off his windbreaker and stuffed it back into the lockbox while talking on the phone.

"Actually, Xingyue and I can't go out recently... Why don't you come to my house."

Yue Qihua's voice sounded a little tired. Unlike her usual cheerful attitude, she hesitated in every word she said.

"address?"

"Autumn Water Manor, No. 6 Ginkgo Road."

Ai Liang heard a familiar place name.