Scene 0: Bai Di City

“Brother…” Someone was whispering in the dark.

It’s really annoying! Whose child got lost?

“Brother.” The child shouted again.

Annoying, annoying! Brother? Not here!

“Brother… Then I’ll go…” Said the child in a low voice, which faded away.

Suddenly, he could not bear it. The sound of the fading away sounded lonely, reminding him of the child’s retreating figure, like an abandoned beagle.

“Well, well, well! Which block, which street and which house do you live on? What’s the name of your unreliable brother? I’ll take you home!” He turned over and sat up.

He sat on the ground in the sun, dressed in white as bright as the moon. What he saw was a white camellia blooming in a thick porcelain vase. After the camellia, the child was lying on the desk, writing a calligraphy with his ink brush.

“Well, you didn’t go? Are you kidding me?” He wanted to speak, but he didn’t.

Naturally, he did something. There was a dish of green grapes on the table. He picked a small bunch from it and handed it to the boy across the table.

The child looked up, his eyes flashing with panic like an alert little beast. “Brother, there are many people outside.”

What the hell? It’s so quiet. He thought.

But, of course, he said something else: “Perhaps we might die? But don’t be afraid, Constantine.”

“Not afraid, with my brother I’ll not afraid… But why… Why don’t you eat me? Eat me, brother can break through all the cages.” The child said earnestly.

Eat…… you? Although you are white and tender, that doesn’t mean you are more delicious than a hamburger. I just ate a hamburger at noon, I’m not hungry. He thought.

“You’re good food, but that would be lonely. You and I have been alone for thousands of years.” Again, he didn’t mean what he said.

“But death is so sad, like being sealed in a black box, forever and forever, black and black… Like groping in the dark night and never touch things when reaching out hands… “

“The destiny of abandoned clan is to cross the wasteland, raise the battle flag again and return home. Death is not terrible, it’s just a long sleep. Before I can devour the world, sleep peacefully is better than lonely trek. We will wake up.” Can’t believe that such a cool sentence comes from his mouth.

“Brother… When you raise up the battle flag and swallow the world, will you eat me?” The child looked at him, his clear eyes were flashing… with expectation.

What the heck! Is this a drama about “we are a family of cannibals love each other”? But your family ethics are really strange!

“Yes, then you will come with me, ascension to the throne!” But he nodded softly, his voice was filled with cold authority.

The child poured a glass of water from the kettle and handed it to him. He drank it in a daze.

“I’m going, brother. Goodbye.” The child stood up.

He wanted to say I wasn’t your brother it’s just misidentified, but he just casually said, “Goodbye, be careful, human, can’t believe it.”

It’s another weird line, inexplicable.

The child went out and closed the door behind him. He listened as the child’s footsteps drew farther and farther away, and finally disappeared altogether.

He was suddenly a little afraid. He thought that he had lost his head. He wondered how far he has to walk to find his brother. What if someone abducts him? He became restless, and when he could not help it, he got up and ran to the door.

He opened the door, and the bright light fell on his white coat, not the sunlight, but the firelight. The city is crying in the flames that occupied sky, the charred black figure is running in the fire, thousands of arrows fall from the sky, the huge plaque is burning, tumbling down with two characters “Bai Di”. It’s like the hell.

In the middle of the city stood a tall pole, on which the child was suspended, with his eyes closed, and the flames of the whole city were burning him.

It was like a great sacrifice.

Heart is really painful like a knife is cutting it. Someone important is lost because he made a mistake.

It mentioned him that he was, indeed, the brother of that child.

“Constantine……” He called out the name.

He sat up suddenly. His eyes opened in the afternoon sun with dyspnea. His whole body was covered with cold sweat, but the outside was the noise of the light rail passing away.

It made him fells that the sound was so sweet as to remind him that everything in his dreams was false, that he is still in an ordinary world.