Two weeks have passed since Christmas, and the new year is coming again, but it also means that the axis of time is gradually stepping into eternal darkness one after another. In the boundless universe, time will be reborn without end, flowing in the still expanding prehistoric.

The Bible says, "He stretched out the heavens like a curtain, and spread out the heavens like a tent to live in." -Isaiah 40:22

At the beginning of January 2017, God's faithful and kind servants scattered on the earth started a new season of evangelism and missionary work in turn.

Far away in the western Pacific Ocean, on a long multi-island chain known as the "Festoon Islands", located in the middle of a country called Taiwan, these work preparations are also in full swing. For the world, they are secret and unknown；but for Christians, they are a whole series of great opportunities to proclaim the gospel.

Even though the body is tired during the day, the soul and body are completely restored at night in the rest with God.

For the short-term missions during the winter vacation this year, Erling Gospel Church is still the same as in the past. They are in charge of the remote primary school teacher who they know and work with as the main sister, and then join another church to hold an English character education camp.

Those who want to go will go, but those who don't want to go will still go together.

Looking at the card that the little sister with double ponytails drew for her last year, she was too embarrassed to tick the word "No" on the registration form. Although the herself in the card looks like a triangle, there is another circular sea of ​​flowers behind the triangle.

...Mmm, little sister still draws better than when she herself was a child.

Under the entanglement, she was still supported by her aunt, mother, grandma, and even her younger aunt who lived in Taoyuan - she maliciously guessed whether it was because if she go to work as a co-worker in the camp, than she would be called a teacher by the children - she finally wrote down her name, birthday and contact number.

Speaking of this younger aunt Yu Xiaohui, Yu Ruoling, who is still only 153 centimeters tall, suddenly thought that she hadn't seen the siblings in their family for so long, wondering if the brother and sister missed her. If they said they didn't miss her, she would have to pretend to cry to win sympathy, and steal their flustered comforting hugs by the way.

Yes, why is doing this kind of thing so fun？

It's really fun. Perfect.

In the corridor outside the bathroom filled with the scent of violet flowers, Yu was covered with a dry towel, and her long, soaked black hair was casually scattered behind her head.

She opened the inner door, and a gust of cold air rushed straight to her face, and she slightly stretched her stiff right shoulder.

"Ling, you finished？"Li Zhaoyi came over with a paper bag containing a change of clothes, "Then it's me！Remind Ron'en for me that she is next one."

"Ok~"She waved her hand faintly, and stepped into a small boundary surrounded by a semicircular arched wall.

This is the rest area for the female co-workers, and a small row of lockers beyond the arched wall is the site for the male co-workers.

"Shao Xu'an, why are you so fast？"

"I'm at the front of the line. "He leaned halfway against a table, and just tore off a pack of hot cocoa in his hand, "Would you like a drink？"

"…Ok, and don't pretend that is wine by the way."

“Then...go get it yourself."

Fuck, just knew there was nothing good about it. Yu Ruoling angrily rolled her eyes and walked back to her luggage to take out a pure white water bottle with a purple-gold rose in the center. English characters as “Messiah” were engraved on the back of the bottle in the same tone as the rose.

"Here you are, "Shao Xu'an said with a teasing and more teasing expression, but Yu Ruoling, who was naturally fond of good looks, surrendered abruptly because of his handsome face, and she had nothing to do with him.

"You think I'm pretty good, don't you？"Shao said.

She calmly distanced herself from him, neither wanting to be misunderstood by the consultants nor herself being misunderstood by others. Ever since Fifth grade - or sixth, she doesn't quite remember - was assaulted in the gate corridor of her elementary school life, she has more control over and demands on the physical boundary between men and women. Unless it is a junior or a relative, the distance that is too close will make her...very uncomfortable.

For example, just now, she could clearly smell what kind of perfume Shao was wearing, and this is totally terrified.

"Fifty fifty. But I'd rather punch you into the ground."She replied vaguely, not noticing the meaning of what Shao Xu'an didn't hide at all.

In the next second, the heavy touch on her head almost made her spray hot cocoa all over the floor from her mouth.

Young man！She does likes to be touched on the head, but it doesn't mean that any human being can touch the stupid hair on her head！！（？）

"What？"She asked, barely not moved.

"No, I'm just happy.”

Yu Ruoling glared at him who stood up to wash the cup and didn't forget to throw a biscuit into her hand. After thinking for a full ten minutes, she still couldn't understand what "I'm just happy" was about.

...

The water poured out, washing away the sweet and greasy smell, and the rich aroma of chocolate that permeated the entire kitchen was instantly replaced by a strange smell of chemical lotion.

The dishwashing liquid with the addition of lemon verbena stands quietly in the corner of the sink, and a thin shadow at the door completely blocks the lights of the public area.

"You were chatting with Ruoling just now？"

"That's right. "Shao turned his head and answered Yuan Junfan's words. Since the kitchen is not far from the public area, they all lowered their voices in a tacit understanding, "What's the matter, Junfan？"

"No. "Yuan gently leaned against the cabinet, with a rare serious expression. Or in other words, when he faced the things he should face, he was always very different from the usual himself who laughed and played and looked never completely serious, "I just..., I think Ruoling, she's been acting weird lately."

Shao Xu'an frowned, and signaled the person in front of him to continue talking.

"I'm not sure, I feel it myself. "Yuan looked straight into his friend's eyes, and said words by words, "Don't you feel that Ruoling looks like she's about to die？"

*

Waking up again from the nightmare of death and injury, apart from the feeling of suffocation that weighed heavily on her chest like a boulder, the moment Yu Ruoling opened her eyes, her first thought was "So I'm still alive, huh".

Like these kind of messages.

She was woken up by the sound Huang Yinke accidentally made when turning over. Fortunately, although she thought it was reality in the dream, and thought it was a dream in reality, as long as there is a little noise recently, she can quickly break free.

Then stay in the dark of the room to assuage the fear, then maybe sleep again, maybe dare not close her eyes again.

Yu took a deep breath of the cold air, buried herself in the warm sleeping bag again, and tried to suppress the murderous intent in her heart with the power of sleepiness.

This time the nightmare was an adult man who held in his hands detailed information on her family background and all the shame she had experienced in the past. He threatened her that if she didn't obey his instructions, she would never want to be a normal man in this world from now on.

The handle was too big and the dream was too real, so she killed that man.

Hands up and then drag knife down the throat...

She clearly felt the warm blood splashing on her face and hands, her nose was filled with a fishy, ​​sweet and unpleasant smell, bit by bit dripping on the ground was like the blood of a phoenix that had been burnt and nirvana.

But only nirvana, there is no reborn.

The inexplicable irritability rose, Yu Ruoling curled up in the sleeping bag and tossed and turned, only feeling a violent energy in her chest constantly colliding back and forth between the body and the brain, almost couldn't help the urge to scream wantonly in this small room of the co-worker's dormitory as a crazy. Soon, more weird and treacherous desperation almost knocked her down.

The bloody red scenes in the nightmare and the constant pressure of fear and disguise in the past day by day are like a slideshow. A page was projected in her brain as if it had come to life.

'Stop... STOP...'

Cold sweat slid down her neck, and the rising body temperature with her physiological state forced her to unzip the zipper, kneeling and pressing on the sleeping bag, trying to regain control of her consciousness.

The bedroom was still silent, only darkness shrouded it. No one was awake except her.

Only then did Yu Ruoling realize that everything was beyond her control. She tried hard not to think, not to look, to hypnotize herself, to ignore it all, but the damn things just wouldn't follow directions.

She couldn't smoothly communicate her will into her brain, and her mind and consciousness were completely separated. All, all of, emotional molecules are expanding.

The tense body didn't finally go limp until Fong Xuan noticed that the items in the mind world were broken without warning, and the links suddenly vibrated violently, so “she” had to force the "exchange" again.

A few seconds passed, "she" rubbed the center of “her” brows and sat up, took the upper layer of the sleeping bag spread out and lay down on ground, “her” eyes were full of sadness and helplessness.

Yu Ruoling - “her” target of protection -

- Actually cried.