Above all spirits

Chapter 1 I will cross the world to find you

"Do you think any living beings in this world have souls?"

"I don't think so. Don't be superstitious. We should be staunch supporters of materialism."

On a starless night, a young man in a black trench coat slowly pushed his wheelchair out onto the balcony.

Sitting in the wheelchair was a young girl dressed in a hospital gown, but her face showed no signs of illness. Perhaps it was the composure of a final burst of energy, or perhaps it was the remaining faith that made her smile. A smile always lingered on her clean face.

But both of them knew that her time was running out.

The cause of her illness was unknown; it wasn't cancer or leukemia. However, her sleep periods kept getting longer and longer. It started with two days, then a week, then a month, and this time she had been asleep for a full five months. Her bodily functions had deteriorated to the extreme, and she might never wake up again.

The girl seemed to sense the sadness emanating from the boy. Looking up at the only light source in the sky, she smiled. "Alright, it's time to free yourself. Go out and explore. Don't give up a whole forest just because of this one withering tree. You've already done enough for me; I have no regrets. And let me tell you, this dream was even more breathtaking than before. You know, when I woke up this time, I found myself by a glowing lake. The mushrooms there glowed, the trees glowed, even the water glowed! Perhaps that's where I should be. After all, I am—"

"Yes, you are a fairy, an elf from another heaven, a princess admired by all in another world..."

"It's good that you know, so please don't..."

“You are my only family in this world, the only person I love more than myself, and my white-clad bride.”

The girl's body trembled, and she pursed her lips.

"That was all stuff we talked about when we were kids. I don't like you anymore. I declare that the agreement is null and void, so you..."

The boy interrupted the girl again.

He disliked her forced smiles.

I will find you, I promise, no matter where you are.

"If you are in the sky, I will go to the sky to find you; if you are on the moon, I will go to the moon to find you; if you are at the end of the universe, I will go to the end of the universe to find you."

The girl seemed to recall some memory, and a taut string quietly snapped. She forcefully held back her tears, refusing to let them flow.

"Then, what if I'm no longer in this world? What if you can't find me anywhere?"

The boy was silent for a moment, then looked down at the girl in front of him, sitting in a wheelchair.

“I’m very superstitious, it comes from my own personality. In fact, I’ve told you more than once that I’m not from this world, but you’ve always just laughed it off and said I’m just having a fit of chuunibyou.”

"However, I am not lying to you. I woke up in this world when I was fourteen years old. The country, geography, and even various theories and technologies of this world are the same as the world I came from before, so much so that for a while I did not doubt that I was in a different place."

"But there was a fatal flaw that shattered my belief: the entertainment culture of this world is different from my original world. Many outstanding films, novels, and plays don't exist here. So I thought my life this time was a script of a plagiarist who transmigrated to a parallel world and made a comeback, until I met someone..."

"A creature that calls itself a demon."

"The constant whispers and devilish chatter in my ear every day gradually made me believe that the world is not what I thought it was."

"He told me that all living beings in this world have souls, and that the dimension of the soul cannot be observed in our world."

"If you are not in this world, then you must exist in some other world, whether it is hell or heaven."

"I will cross the world to find you."

"No matter if it's a mountain of knives or a sea of ​​fire."

The girl could no longer suppress the most primal and fundamental human impulses; in fact, she had always believed the boy's words.

Since meeting the boy when I was 8 years old, my life has been filled with color because of him.

He always says things that are hard to understand.

He always manages to create all sorts of strange and unusual words.

He could always come up with more moving stories than anyone else in the world to tell her.

He always manages to come up with all sorts of unexpected things to make her laugh.

He seemed out of place in this silent world.

Like visitors from outer space.

So she knew that he had never lied to her.

I wouldn't lie to her.

If he says it exists, then it exists.

She just didn't want to admit it, didn't want him to one day return to that world and leave her.

But it seems so.

This time, she's going first.

She also knew that he would never give up on her.

During the eighteen years she was abandoned by her parents in the orphanage, she never cried. She was always so optimistic, or rather, she believed in her own support.

She fell, but she didn't cry.

She didn't cry when her snacks were taken away.

She got lost in the crowd, but she didn't cry.

She didn't cry when she was bullied by customers while secretly working outside.

……

Because she knew that the boy behind her would help her up, would help her get it back, would find her, and would help her vent her anger.

But now we have to part ways, and we may never see each other again.

For the past ten years, he and she have been inseparable.

She had no way to stop the tears from flowing, just like a newborn child.

She cried.

"Brother Gu, sob sob... I want to... I want to stay in this world, sob sob... I want to stay by your side forever, I want to be... I want to be your... bride."

"Okay, don't worry. Even if He takes you away temporarily, don't worry. No matter which world you are in, I will find you, take you back, and then return to this world to hold our wedding. You will be the most beautiful bride in this world. Wait for me."

"Yes, I believe you, sob sob sob... You have never... never lied to me, so... sob sob sob... so I believe in souls, I just... went to another world, this time, you have to... find me too, I will stand here and wait for you."

"Yes, I will." The boy turned to look at the dark ward. The moonlight seemed to fear it, hesitant and afraid to enter. The boy narrowed his eyes as if he had made up his mind.

"We will definitely find you."

..........

"Brother Gu".

"Ok?"

"Xun'er is about to go to sleep."

The boy was taken aback, then remembered a story he had once told her.

A slight upturn at the corners of his mouth.

He needs to show, and must show, an optimistic side.

"Yes, your brother Xiao Huo will find you and take you back in a bit."

"But brother, you don't have a powerful old man to help you, nor do you have that system you keep shouting to start."

"It's alright. There's a demon by my side. I'll exchange power with the demon."

"If your hands don't work, then your eyes; if your eyes don't work, then your heart; if your heart doesn't work, then your soul. I will definitely gain the strength to take you back, and then we'll go home together."

"Ah."

"You must find me, Brother Yun."

The last tear rolled down the girl's cheek, and she gradually drifted into sleep.

The boy gently wiped it away and then turned and left the ward.

Ignoring the glaring straight line on the electrocardiogram machine and the nurses rushing over.

……

The boy's name was Gu Yun. When he first met the girl (when she was a child), she said her name was Yunyin. He didn't know why she had that name. She told him that she would occasionally have a dream in which she seemed to be her baby self. There was a jade pendant with "Yun" written on the front and "Yin" on the back, so she was called Yunyin.

The boy initially thought it was a dream replaying the girl's childhood memories.

After all, human memory is sometimes just that amazing.

For this reason, he was obsessed with finding out if there were any wealthy families with the surnames Yun and Yin. After all, that's how it is in novels; children with strange things attached to them always have a very important background.

When you ask why he needs to check the surname, he will only cover his seemingly injured eyes and smile at you.

Anyway, since she said that's her name, then he'll be called Gu Yunyin, because he said he would take care of her for the rest of his life, so he chose the name Gu Yunyin for himself.

However, he got angry when the girl asked about it later, saying that boys shouldn't have names like those for little girls, and in the end he gave in.

Therefore, his name is Gu Yun.