Starting from the Red Moon

Because there were guests coming, Lu Xin's family ate slowly today.

They sat quietly at the dining table. Dad drank much slower than usual, and Mom picked up the dishes carelessly. Lu Xin ate rice grains one by one, and his sister's attention was obviously not on the TV today. She squatted on the chair, pounding the rice all over the place, and kept turning her head to pay attention to the movement outside the window.

Lu Xin gradually felt that the atmosphere was a bit depressing, and sighed silently in his heart.

The guests were too rude and came late, and the family was a little impatient.

...

...

"Are you really going?"

On a busy street in Satellite City No. 4, a street stall selling wontons and skewers sat a few diners with different descriptions.

Some of them were young girls, some were aunties in their fifties, some were workers with unshaven beards and covered in dust, and some were students carrying schoolbags.

A bowl of wontons was placed in front of each person, and a scorched skewers were placed on a stainless steel plate.

"Why do you ask such a question?"

Listening to the aunt's question, several people at the stall looked at her.

The high school student with the schoolbag on his back began to get a little excited. He suppressed the anger in his eyes and said to the aunt: "You are already one of us. We are the ones who have seen the truth of this world. Why do you still ask such questions?"

"Those people, those people are stupid..."

There was something abnormal on his excited face, and his two hands gestured vigorously in the air: "If you don't see these people, you don't know why they are so stupid... They like this, like zombies, obeying those hypocritical rules. They are willing to become a member of the hypocrisy slaves. Even if you tell them what to do, they still don't listen..."

"They are so stupid that you want to open his skull and stuff him with something smart..."

"..."

The aunt was frightened by this excited high school student, and explained woodenly and panickedly: "I just... just worry about you..."

"Why are you worried about me?"

The high school student looked at her face coldly, making people dare not look directly at her.

"She is not worried, she is afraid."

At this time, the middle-aged man who was drinking a bottle of beer silently beside him spoke in a low voice with a sneer in his voice.

"Yes."

The man dressed as a high school student sneered and said, "She is afraid, but she dare not admit her fear. Instead, she uses this disguised worry 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 didn't admit that your daughter was forced to hang herself because of your greed..."

"I... I didn't..."

The aunt-like person panicked, opened her mouth, and waved her hands weakly.

"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 a dowry again and again, your son-in-law broke up with your daughter, because you wanted to marry her to another person, so she committed suicide..."

Here, his voice changed slightly: "But what's wrong with that?"

His face seemed to show a calmness and confidence that he had seen through everything, and even a calmness that was not in line with his age. He smiled coldly and said: "Your husband has no conscience. He left you and your daughter so early. You have raised your daughter alone. Compared with those who abandon their sons and daughters, you have done a good job. You deserve everyone..."

"So, the neighbor Zhang family can ask for tens of thousands of dowry for marrying a daughter, why can't you?"

"What's wrong with your son-in-law's family giving you tens of thousands of dowry if they want to marry your daughter?"

"My daughter doesn't understand because she has no conscience. She just wants to abandon you. She can persuade her son-in-law to lend you money, and then the two of them will slowly pay it back... Anyway, she is still young and has enough time. Why doesn't she do this?"

"She is just selfish. She never thought about taking care of you. She is so selfish, so..."

He gritted his teeth slightly: "She deserves to die!"

"Others laugh at you because they have not experienced your life. What qualifications do they have to laugh at you?"

"And why do you punish yourself for the hypocrisy of these people?"

"..."

The middle-aged woman's face was originally a little flustered and even frightened, but at this time, she gradually calmed down.

She didn't speak, but gritted her teeth slightly, and her face showed a creepy indifference.

"The same goes for others..."

The high school student looked at the people around the small table and said to the girl, "Isn't your best friend very good to you? She usually shares snacks with you, eats and goes to the bathroom with you, often gives you gifts, even nice clothes, and even helped you pay for your father's hospitalization when he was seriously ill. So why did you push her downstairs at that time?"

The girl didn't say anything, but her expression was slightly tense.

The high school student continued, "She is so selfish because she relies on her wealth and beauty. She laughs at you for talking like you do in movies. She laughs at you for not being able to drink coffee. She knows you have a crush on the monitor but still flirts with him. She keeps saying that she treats you as a friend, but in fact, she only treats you as a follower and a servant..."

"What's wrong with you hating such a person?"

"..."

The girl bowed her head deeply, then slowly raised it up with a smile on her face.

"And you..."

The man dressed as a high school student looked at the middle-aged man who was drinking a bottle of beer: "Why did you poison your co-worker?"

The middle-aged man met his gaze, and suddenly grinned, saying: "I don't need you to tell me, I have never felt that I am wrong. That bastard is obviously not as good as me, but because he entered the city a few years earlier than me, he caught up with the good times. Not only did he save a lot of money, he even found a widow in the city. The widow is also very beautiful... Haha, I just can't stand him!"

"..."

"Very good..."

The man who looked like a high school student looked at him, and a few smiles gradually appeared on his face. Then he swept his eyes over everyone and said: "In the eyes of others, we are not good people. Sometimes, we even feel uncomfortable. Why is that?"

His voice lowered, and he laughed coldly, saying: "That's because others are hypocritical. Their hypocrisy even affects us. This hypocrisy makes us unable to be our true selves. Haha, when I set that fire, I was also panicked and uncomfortable for a long time, until I found that my discomfort came from these people..."

"They are obviously the same, but they have added a lot of disguises to themselves and use this disguise to laugh at us."

"We are all the same people. Everyone eats and shits, so why do they have to pretend to be noble?"

"Everyone is obviously selfish and is for themselves. Why do they have to pretend to be righteous?"

"..."

As he spoke, his voice lowered: "They are hypocritical, we are real, we have taken off the mask."

"In that case, why should we be afraid?"

"..."

Everyone at this small table looked up at him, not knowing whether it was excitement or awe.

"So, if you ask me if I'm afraid, I'll tell you..."

The high school student showed an expression of seeing through everything and controlling everything. Under the dim yellow light bulb of the wonton stall next to him, his face looked like a young 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 the hypocritical people pay the price!"

"..."

The people at the small table became excited.

"Let all hypocritical people pay the price..."

Even the auntie followed suit and whispered, "But what if the Security Bureau is attracted?"

"What's so scary about the Security Bureau?"

The man who looked like a high school student sneered and said, "I know someone may be investigating us now, but it doesn't matter. They are just people dominated by hypocrisy and are useless. Moreover, even if we die, we will only return to our hometown..."

He lowered his voice and his smile became deeper: "Return to that, the real hometown..."

"..."

Listening to his words, everyone beside the stall looked at each other silently.

After a while, they bowed their heads one by one and prayed silently: "Praise my hometown..."

"Praise my hometown..."

"Praise my real hometown..."

"..."

After praying, the high school student put down his hands in front of him, slowly picked up a skewer, and ate it slowly while imitating the posture in the comics. A cruel and excited light appeared in his eyes under the glasses...

"In order to let people in this world know the truth, let them see the real world..."

"..."

"Here we go..."

In the second satellite city, near the Moon Platform, in an old building alone.

My sister suddenly spoke, her voice trembling.

But she was not afraid, she was too excited...

On the dining table, my mother had already put down her chopsticks elegantly, and the smile on her face could not be concealed.

"Hehe..."

Father's laughter was hollow and dry. He drank the wine in the glass in one breath. The light above his head flickered slightly.

"Don't scare the guests."

Mom immediately looked at father with some reproach.

For the first time, father was not excited at all, and immediately controlled his emotions well.

Lu Xin looked at his family, felt relieved, then slowly stood up, went to the window and looked out.