Seventeen-year-old Silence died in that winter.
Not real death - it was the suffocation when he was pushed into the toilet stall every day, the nicknames carved with a knife on the desk, the forty-seven ceiling cracks he counted while the class laughed. He counted for three years and remembered every piece.
Until he "lived" over.
In the abandoned teaching building, the group of people call themselves "travelers". They have seen interstellar annihilation, experienced the overthrow of dynasties, crawled out of the corpses of countless worlds, but stopped on this most ordinary earth. They said, "You have something on you that we have been looking for for a hundred years."
Silence didn't ask what it was. He only asked: "Can you give me strength?"
They gave him "return to zero" - to let the flames go out, to let the wounds heal, to let everything extraordinary return to dust. He was also given a secret: three years later, the alien fleet will arrive just like in the previous life, harvesting all the awakened powers on this planet.
In a previous life, the earth was a hunting ground. In this life, he wants to be a hunter.
He stepped on mountains of corpses and seas of blood to climb up to the throne, used supernatural powers to disintegrate star battleships, and used the forbidden knowledge of time-travelers to rewrite the outcome of civilization. When the earth finally raised its head from the ashes, he stood in front of those who had looked down on him——
There is no killing.
He just raised his hand gently, eliminating the arrogance and cruelty in their bones and blood. From then on, they will see a stranger in the mirror for the rest of their lives and be awakened by their own guilt in the middle of the night.
Then he turned and left.
The alien fleet turned into stardust, and the travelers disappeared into the rift in time and space. Silence walked into an ordinary classroom, sat in the last row, and listened to the cicadas chirping outside the window.
He reset his powers to zero.
Become the ordinary person who feels pain, is afraid, and sweats in the summer.
Only this time, no one dared to press his head into the water again.
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> "I have seen the end of the universe,
most wanted,
But I can feel at ease,
In a canteen with many people,
Finished a bowl of hot noodle soup. "
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Intention: "I have seen the end of the universe. What I want most is to be able to eat a bowl of hot noodle soup in a canteen with many people in peace."