Because there are guests coming, the Lu Xin family eats slowly today.
They sat quietly at the dining table. The father drank, obviously much slower than usual, and Mom picked up the vegetables very casually. Lu Xin ate the rice grains one by one. The younger sister's attention was obviously not on the TV today. She squatted on the chair, pounding the rice everywhere, and kept turning her head to pay attention to the movement outside the window.
Lu Xin gradually felt that the atmosphere was a little depressing, and sighed silently in his heart.
The guest was so rude and came late, and the family was a little impatient.
"Really going?"
Satellite City No. 4, on a busy street, there were several diners with different descriptions sitting at a street stall selling small wontons and grilled skewers.
Some of them are young girls, some are aunts in their fifties, some are unshaven workers with dust on their bodies, and some are students carrying schoolbags.
A bowl of wontons was placed in front of each person, and on the stainless steel plate were some burnt skewers.
"Why do you ask such a question?"
Listening to the aunt's question, several people in the stall looked at her.
The high school student carrying a schoolbag began to become a little excited. He suppressed the anger in his eyes and said to his aunt, "You are already one of us. We are the ones who have seen the truth of the world. Why do you still ask such questions?"
"Those people, those people are stupid..."
There was an abnormal look on his excited face, and he gestured vigorously with both hands in the air. "If you don't see these people, you don't know why they are so stupid... They just like this, like walking zombies, abiding by those hypocritical rules. They are willing to become a member enslaved by hypocrisy. Even if you tell them what to do, they still don't listen..."
"They are so stupid that you want to open their skulls and stuff them with something smart..."
"..."
The aunt was frightened by this excited high school student, and explained in a dull and panicky manner, "I'm just... just worried about you..."
"Why are you worried about me?"
The high school student's cold eyes were on her face, making people afraid to look directly at her.
"She's not worried, she's afraid."
At this time, the middle-aged man next to him who was silently drinking a bottle of beer spoke in a low voice with a sneer in his voice.
"Yes."
The person dressed as a high school student sneered and said, "She is afraid, but she doesn't dare to admit her fear. Instead, she pretends to be worried to persuade me... What is this? This is the most disgusting thing in the world. You don't even want to admit that you are afraid... Just like you always refused to admit that your daughter was forced to hang because of your greed..."
"I... I didn't..."
The auntie-looking person panicked, opened her mouth wide, and waved her hands feebly.
"That's the truth!"
The man who looked like a high school student interrupted her, looked at him straight in the eyes, and said, "Because you greedily asked your son-in-law for bride price again and again, that's why your son-in-law broke up with your daughter, and because you wanted to marry her to another person, she committed suicide..."
At this point, his voice changed slightly. "But what's wrong with that?"
His face seemed to show a calmness and confidence that had seen through everything, and even a calmness that was not suitable for his age. He smiled coldly and said, "Your husband has no conscience. He abandoned you and your daughter so early and ran away. You have raised your daughter to such a big age by yourself. Compared with those who abandon their children and abandon their daughters, you have done a good job. You are worthy of everyone..."
"So, our neighbor Zhang's family can ask for a gift of tens of thousands of yuan for marrying off a daughter, why can't you?"
"What's wrong with the son-in-law's family who wants to marry your daughter and gives you tens of thousands of yuan as a gift?"
"My daughter doesn't understand, because she has no conscience, and she simply wants to leave you alone. She can persuade her son-in-law to lend you money, and then the two of them will pay it back slowly... Anyway, she is still young and has enough time, why doesn't she do this?"
"She's just selfish. She didn't even think about caring about you. She turned her elbows outward, so..."
He gritted his teeth slightly. "She deserves to die!"
"When people laugh at you, it's because they haven't experienced your life. What right do they have to laugh at you?"
"And why do you punish yourself because of these people's hypocrisy?"
"..."
The middle-aged woman's face originally had an expression of panic and even fear, but at this time, she gradually calmed down.
She didn't speak, but she gritted her teeth slightly, with a creepy indifference on her face.
"The same goes for everyone else..."
The high school student's eyes swept over the people at the small table and said to a girl, "Isn't your best friend very kind to you? She usually shares snacks with you, eats and goes to the bathroom with you, often gives you gifts, and even gives you nice clothes. She even helped you pay for the hospitalization when your father was seriously ill. So, why did you push her downstairs?"
The girl didn't speak, but the expression on her face was slightly tense.
The high school student continued, "It's because she is rich and beautiful that she is so selfish. She laughs at you for imitating the way you talk in movies. She laughs in public that you can't even drink coffee. She knows you have a crush on the monitor, but she still flirts with him. She keeps saying that she treats you as a friend, but in fact, she just treats you as a follower and a servant..."
"If you hate such a person, what's wrong with her?"
"..."
The girl lowered her head deeply, then slowly raised it again, with a smile on her face.
"And you..."
The man dressed as a high school student looked at the middle-aged man drinking a bottle of beer. "Why did you poison your coworker?"
The middle-aged man met his gaze, suddenly grinned, and said, "I don't need you to tell me, I have never felt that I was wrong. That bastard is obviously not as good as me, just because he entered the city a few years before me and caught up with the good times. Not only did he save a lot of money, he even found a widow in the city, and the widow was very beautiful... Haha, I just can't stand him!"
"..."
"Very good..."
The high school student looked at him, and a smile gradually appeared on his face. Then he glanced at everyone and said, "In the eyes of others, we are not good people. Sometimes, we even feel uncomfortable ourselves. Why is this?"
His voice lowered, and he laughed coldly, and said, "That's because others are hypocritical, and their hypocrisy even affects us. This hypocrisy prevents us from being our true selves. Haha, when I set off the fire, I was very panicked and felt uncomfortable for a long time. Until I discovered that my discomfort came from these people..."
"They are obviously the same, but they have added a lot of disguises to themselves, and they still use this disguise to laugh at us."
"We are all the same people. We all know how to eat and poop, so why do they have to pretend to be noble?"
"Everyone is obviously selfish, and they are all doing it for themselves, so why should they pretend to be righteous?"
"..."
As he spoke, his voice lowered. "They are hypocritical, we are the real ones, we take off the mask."
"In that case, why should we be afraid?"
"..."
Everyone at the small table looked up at him, not sure if they were excited or in awe.
"So, if you ask me if I'm afraid, I'll tell you..."
The high school student's face showed an expression of seeing through everything and mastering everything. Under the dim yellow light of the wonton stand next to him, his face looked like a childish devil. "I'm not afraid, we don't have to be afraid of anything. Because we know the truth of this world, we can also let others reveal the truth and see the truth, so when we really start to control this city..."
"Then let all hypocritical people pay the price!"
"..."
The expressions of the people on the small table became excited.
"Let all hypocritical people pay the price..."
Even the aunt recited a sentence, and then whispered, "But what if Guard Department is attracted?"
"What's so scary about the Guard Department?"
The man who looked like a high school student sneered and said, "I know there may be people checking us now, but that doesn't matter. They are just people dominated by hypocrisy. They are of no use. Moreover, even if we die, we will only return to our hometown..."
His voice lowered and his smile became deeper, "Back to that, real hometown..."
"..."
After listening to his words, everyone next to the stall looked at each other silently.
After a while, they lowered their heads one by one, and then prayed silently. "Praise my hometown..."
"Praise to hometown..."
"Praise the true hometown..."
"..."
After praying, the high school student put down his hands in front of him and slowly picked up a skewer. While imitating the posture in the cartoon, he ate slowly while his eyes under his glasses revealed a cruel and excited light...
"In order to let people in this world know the truth, let them see the real world..."
"..."
"Coming..."
Near Satellite City No. 2, Moon Platform, in a lonely old building.
My sister suddenly spoke, her voice trembling.
But she's not afraid, she's just too excited...
At the dining table, Mom had put down his chopsticks gracefully, and the smile on his face could not be concealed.
"Hehe..."
My father's laughter was hollow and dry. He drank the wine in the glass in one breath, and the light above his head flickered slightly.
"Don't scare the guests."
Mom immediately looked at his father reproachfully.
For the first time, my father was not agitated at all, and he immediately controlled his emotions very well.
Lu Xin took a look at his family, felt relieved, then slowly stood up, went to the window and looked out.