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  • I’ve come back after being reborn

    Chapter 4

    Fang Yuan tried to recall but couldn’t remember where he’d seen Jiang Heng before.  

    Jiang Heng’s memory was missing. Apart from Fang Yuan’s warmth, he really couldn’t remember.

    “Maybe I’ll be able to remember you in a few days.” He was very optimistic. Waiting for his memory to come back was like waiting to meet Fang Yuan in another dimension.

    There was suddenly another prospect.

    Fang Yuan shook his head without replying.

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    From that day on, Fang Yuan’s life became more exciting.

    Every morning, there was someone to make him breakfast. Jiang Heng would chatter on at the table about how he had a good sleep and his eye circles were diminishing. Then, he’d talk about what he recalled in his dream.

    In his opinion, Jiang Heng didn’t look like someone who’d experienced the apocalypse and was deeply affected by it. Rather, he was like a wandering swordsman who once slayed demons. Upon his return, he would tell others of his adventure.

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    Fang Yuan finally raised his head and took a serious look at the youth.

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    He felt strange for the first time. It shouldn’t be so, what went wrong?

    Prior to this, Fang Yuan had an inherently wishful thinking about the apocalypse life of ability users. He believed that people like Jiang Heng, who were strong, optimistic, and tenacious, would have friends. With teammates, there is no shortage of food and water, as long as you are alive, you will enjoy the fruits of victory in battle and move forward with hope.

    And he? He was just Fang Yuan, a humble ordinary person, even his name was rarely written correctly.

    For Fang Yuan, the apocalypse only consisted of endless fears and dangers. He had barely managed to survive.

    He originally thought that Jiang Heng was able to regain his memories with the same enthusiasm he used to talk at the dinner table every day. It must be because the life in his final days were very good, worthy of memories, and worthy of a smile from the heart.

    Yesterday Jiang Heng told him that he had conflicts with other people. He chalked it up to petty arguments but was told today that Jiang Heng almost lost his life because of it.

    He was surprised that such a powerful and capable person would encounter something like this.

    Even he would also encounter this kind of man-made disaster and almost die from wound inflammation because of it. Even if the wound was just a bruise, at that time, it is difficult for people with injuries to be accepted by a new team, and even if they are accepted, they will not be given food and water for 48 hours.

    “But, if you are dead, there will be one less space-ability user in the team, so what benefit can he get?”

    Fang Yuan finally couldn’t help but ask, “Is he not afraid of being discovered?”

    “What is there to fear?” Jiang Heng raised his eyebrows, as if it was common sense.

    “Even if they find out, what can you do? Will they bear to lose another ability user just for me? That will mean the team would lose two core strengths. Compared to this, fairness and justice are not worth mentioning. He knows this so he’s able to act so unscrupulous.”

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    So that kind of trick can be used against Jiang Heng?

       Because of a little conflict? Because Jiang Heng stole his limelight when fighting the zombies? Because Jiang Heng was more respected and had a higher reputation among the ordinary people?

       Is it not the zombies that need to be guarded against the most by the ability users, but their own comrades?

    Fang Yuan was stunned, then lowered his head, “Sorry.”

    Jiang Heng touched his chin and looked at him, “What do you have to apologize for?”

    Fang Yuan was a little embarrassed. His face that remained unchanged for ten thousand years, at this time, had a rare trace of shame.

    “I’m just an ordinary person. In the past, I always thought that ability users would live well in the apocalypse. Regardless of food, drink, housing, transportation, safety and health, there will enjoy the best protection and won’t be shortchanged.”

    What he didn’t say was that, for this reason, he also had a prejudice against ability users. He gradually forgot that after having greater power, ability users also faced greater risks.

    He forgot, they are all human beings, they are all living in the apocalypse. No one was more than the other, but they simply had a different way of suffering.

    In the first two days after he learned that Jiang Heng has supernatural abilities, he didn’t like Jiang Heng very much.

    He once almost believed that the sorrows and pains displayed by those with supernatural abilities were all hypocritical and artificial.

    Jiang Heng smiled and handed him a piece of candy, “Don’t think about it, it’s all over, be happy.”

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    As he recovers more memories, his smile gradually becomes more like a mask he wore on his face all the time.

    When they first met, Jiang Heng was not like this.

    At that time, when Jiang Heng would pretend to be an elegant gentleman, there was slyness in his eyes. When surprised, his eyes widened and his expressions were so rich that they could become memes at any time, and he can easily distinguish between laughing and snickering.

    Fang Yuan looked at him, and suddenly felt that he had really misunderstood a lot. Although he had his memories of all seven years, he thought about things too one-sidedly.

    “You…” Having stayed away from social interaction for too long, Fang Yuan almost forgot how to speak from his heart. When ordinary words are spoken, they feel inexplicably numb.

    “You don’t have to smile like this.”

    When speaking of bad experiences, or sad pasts, it is okay to frown, be angry or sad. This is how an ordinary person should be.

    “Hmm?” Jiang Heng remained unmoved, a smile still on his face, but he leaned forward slightly, “Are you caring for me?”

    With this question, Fang Yuan couldn’t say the rest of the words he wanted to.

    Care? Can this be called care?

       If it was in the past, before his rebirth, when the apocalypse was not over, Fang Yuan felt that he would definitely not talk so much. It was even more impossible for him to feel such strange concerns.

       He would be just like any ordinary person without abilities, like everyone who longed for, envied, and was jealous of ability users. But he could only barely survive—

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    When he saw some those like Jiang Heng reveal negative emotions, be controlled by extreme, irrational, and unreasonable anger, he ignorantly thought that they were simply hypocritical, greedy, and arrogant. He only wanted to tear them apart.

    They obviously already have everything, why do they – and what qualifications do they have – to complain?

    Fang Yuan closed his eyes and hid that ugly side back in his heart. He doesn’t think that way anymore, but for now, he still didn’t have the courage to look at Jiang Heng.

    He stood up and cleared the plates on the table. “I’m done eating.”

    “Don’t go.” Jiang Heng suddenly held his hand, blocking his movement.

       Fang Yuan raised his head unexpectedly, and for a second, forgot to avoid looking at him and saw Jiang Heng’s gaze on him.

       A pair of red and watery eyes, full of shame, self-blame and apology. They seemed to be filled with care…but also very beautiful.

       The emotions in Fang Yuan’s eyes were exactly the same. The only difference is that one person tried to hide it and suppress everything deep under, while the other stared directly, not afraid to be exposed.

    Just like when they met on the first day, he never minded letting him see everything.

    So he was the same.

    As this thought went through his mind, a strange feeling rose and swept everything gently.

       “Did I… remind you of something unhappy?” Jiang Heng looked a little nervous. He finally stopped smiling and his eyebrows were slightly furrowed, “If so, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to.”

       “No.” Fang Yuan’s heart suddenly felt lighter and he shook his head in amusement, “How can I blame you for this kind of thing?”

       “You’re not upset?”

    “No.”

    Sensing the gaze on him, Fang Yuan sat back with his drink after putting the plate aside.

       “It’s true. I was also schemed against in my last days, but I don’t feel uncomfortable when I think of it now. In that situation, no one can have a good time. You are right, it’s all in the past.”

       “Who? Who schemed against you?” Jiang Heng was filled with indignation, and he almost hit the table.

       “It’s just a few small fries, in fact, I can’t remember them.”

       Fang Yuan could not remember clearly. Not only how he was abandoned, but he had hardly any clear memories of the past few years in the apocalypse.

    He had deliberately forgotten some matters, just like how exhausted he had been. There weren’t any beautiful memories to speak of.

       Every day was only to try to survive.

    No…

    Not entirely.

    Fang Yuan finally tried to recall his past and later realized that his experience at that time was not as bad as he had remembered.

       He also once came across a cute creature on the road, and spent his days with the homeless stray dog. When he was hungry, he had to rely on the prey brought back by the dog for two or three days.

    At his lowest point, the dog somehow got a bottle of Coke from nowhere.

       That was Coke, and the air inside hadn’t escaped at all. If he brought it to a base, he could exchange it for a lot of buns, which was a luxury item.

       Jiang Heng heard him quietly speaking, and suddenly “hissed”.

       “Wait a minute, was it Pepsi? The outer circle of plastic label had been torn off in half, and the rest was glued together to form a triangle?

       Fang Yuan was taken aback, “How did you know?”

    “Because that was the coke I lost. Three days after I lost it, I saw it again at the trading area. The person in charge said that if I want to exchange for it, I needed to trade in three bottles of mineral water, two packets of dry biscuits and five steamed buns.”

       “Ah…that’s really…” Fang Yuan thought about the scene at that time, and suddenly laughed, “I’m sorry. In the end I only got three bottles of water and five buns.”

       “At that time, it would be nice if I knew you, so we didn’t have to let the middleman earn the difference.” Jiang Heng watched him motionlessly for a few seconds and finally couldn’t hold back anymore and smiled.

    They now had a freezer full of Coke. Things were no longer the same as before.

       The Coke in front of the two of them couldn’t even be finished. Fang Yuan added ice cubes to his cup and toasted him.

       Fang Yuan doesn’t feel sorry. The him during the apocalypse was a sorry and terrible figure.

       If they knew each other then, their relationship…would definitely not be as relaxed and happy as it is now.


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