"What did humans cause?"
"When the world collapses?"
"What does it mean?!"
Hoang Tuan stared at the refreshed content on his control panel, feeling a rising unease within.
The sky of Tran Hung Dao High School.
Dark clouds had begun to spread...
Though not fast, the speed reached Hoang Tuan's location in no time.
"The other group failed, right?"
"No, that's not it."
Hoang Tuan's eyes were fixed on the text on the board, stating that there couldn't be two super quantity rules, and he couldn't help but feel a headache.
It could nurture a bizarre creature to grow to be on par with the rules of his mother.
Exactly, what did they nurture?
In the city at this moment...
Those who were once homogenized now recalled all their memories, inheriting the original memories of the real world.
Then, what the two worlds went through gradually merged...
On the fourth floor of the adjacent Apartment 3, there was a couple who had lived together for a long time.
Now, the couple was sitting on the sofa, staring at each other.
All of them had their previous memories.
They remembered.
In their own worlds, they all had their own families and children.
When the two memories merged.
They also knew the person sitting across from them.
Having lived most of their lives with themselves in this false world...
Advancing was not allowed.
Retreating was not an option...
In the end, there was only the stiffness of the air.
"Em... Hoa, we..."
The man hesitated, as if he didn't know what to say at this moment.
"We are not a couple."
The woman replied with a complicated and bitter expression.
Looking at the familiar face of the man in front of her, she could hardly imagine that he had been with her for so many years.
"I have my own family; I am not the one here..."
The woman muttered under her breath.
She suddenly remembered something, couldn't help but bury her head in her hands, shivering, unable to control her tears.
The light through the window reflected on her head, a few strands of disheveled hair, both illusory and real...
...
"Hoang Tuan, you..."
Dinh Phuc had also been awakened from the homogenization state.
At first, he didn't know why he fell asleep, so he sat by the fireplace table in confusion.
When those warm and surging memories were integrated into his mind.
Only then did he realize that he had been living in this world for so long...
Being the father of two kids for so long.
He didn't even feel that there was anything wrong during this time, as if he should have done so.
Just thinking back, there was something strange in his heart.
"Don't talk nonsense anymore; it's good to think about it now."
Hoang Tuan said.
Now, he turned around and glanced at his mother sitting on the sofa watching TV.
The person behind seemed not to notice anything...
Still eagerly anticipating the next episode.
If he guessed right.
When the dark clouds reach where his mother is, she will wake up in this world.
Waking up from her imaginary world.
Waking up...
"Mom, I'm going downstairs for a walk."
Hoang Tuan found a random reason.
"Sure, go ahead."
Mom was peeling vegetables.
She casually replied.
Hoang Tuan got the approval, paused for a while, and finally said nothing more.
He returned to his room, the room where he had slept for who knows how many days and nights, carrying a large backpack on the bed.
He picked up the school uniform hanging by the window.
Neatly folded and put it in the wardrobe.
The school logo, "Tran Hung Dao High School," was on the right shoulder of the uniform, a brightly colored combination of blue and white.
He breathed a bit heavily.
Then he would go back and plan to leave this place...
Before leaving.
He also noticed that the table next to the bed seemed to be not completely closed.
A naive and silly love letter lay quietly in the drawer.
Because he read it last time.
So the envelope of the love letter had a few wrinkles.
Thinking about it.
He decided to leave it there...
"Darling, I'm going for a walk too!"
Seeing Hoang Tuan preparing to leave, Dinh Phuc followed.
He didn't know that the world was starting to collapse.
Just because he woke up from homogenization.
He didn't know what to do at the moment.
He just went out and discussed with Hoang Tuan...
Hoang Tuan stepped over the old threshold with a bit of dust, listening to the dialogues of those characters on TV.
There were still a few unbaked rolls on the stove.
Due to prolonged baking.
Now it had become slightly dry...
"Take your time."
When Hoang Tuan was about to leave.
Mom behind him called him.
"Is there a problem, Mom?"
He turned back to his body and asked.
Mom didn't say anything.
She just quietly stood up and went to her bedroom, after fumbling for a while, she picked up a scarf she had knitted not long ago and walked in front of Hoang Tuan.
"Put this on; it's very cold outside. Don't catch a cold, or else you'll have to go to the hospital for an injection..."
Mom nagged at Hoang Tuan.
Hoang Tuan didn't move.
He just stood there at the door.
Letting his mom, who was shorter than him by a head, carefully put the scarf on him.
Feeling the warmth from his neck.
He glanced at Dinh Phuc standing alone beside him...
After putting on the scarf for him, Mom complained, "Um. Don't be like your father with mental issues. He never likes these scarf things. When he's cold to death, then he regrets it..."
Wrap the scarf around, button up.
Two very simple actions.
For some reason, Hoang Tuan felt like a century had passed.
"That's right."
After putting on the scarf for Hoang Tuan, Mom took out her wallet from her bag, counted some money, and handed it to him, adding a sentence.
"Today is Hoang Lan's birthday, both of you go downstairs and buy a birthday cake for her."
"What? Does she have a birthday?!"
Hoang Lan, who was lying in front of the stove doing homework, suddenly raised her head and asked in surprise.
Mom never paid attention to birthdays.
Now, she said she would prepare a birthday cake for her...
"Look... You always say you want to eat cake. Today is your eighteenth birthday, and Mom will let you eat it once." Mom pretended to be serious, looking angrily at Hoang Lan.
"Yes, Mom!"
Hoang Lan clapped her hands enthusiastically.
A very cute little face.
"Alright, go then."
"Come back a little earlier. Mom will go to the market later; Dad will go on a business trip in two days. Today, Mom will cook some delicious dishes..."
Hoang Tuan held the money in his hand.
There were some emotions in his heart that couldn't be explained.
He glanced at Hoang Lan, who was now very cheerful.
Finally nodded.
"Yes, Mom."
Then.
He turned around and walked out of the house with Dinh Phuc...
In fact, Hoang Tuan knew that once he stepped out of this threshold, there would be no chance to come back.
Wait until the dark clouds reach here.
This warm family will also be shattered because of it.
His mother's world.
In the end, it didn't belong to him...
"Click!"
Waiting for the door to close.
Behind Hoang Tuan, there was a faintly expected voice from Hoang Lan.
"Big brother, you must come back early. . ."
Hoang Tuan looked up at the rusty house number on the door.
A feeling of parting flooded from the bottom of his heart.
Go back?
Perhaps.
If possible...