He came from the bell tonight

In the depths of Suling's dream, the abrupt fragments gradually became coherent.

"...There is no omniscient and omnipotent god in this world. But if you grasp all the variables, you can speculate on the infinite possibilities of the future."

In the center of the marble platform, a young and handsome young man is talking eloquently.When he spoke, he always looked indifferent and lazy, and his eyes that should have looked affectionate were alienated and arrogant.

Su Ling stared at the person in the holographic screen, and slowly wiped the wound on his hand.His movements are very light, and occasionally he can't help frowning when the strength is heavy.

He accepted the transfer of the special investigation team and just finished a mission in the southern galaxy.

It was a desolate asteroid that reproduced mimics, and the alliance called some humanoid weapons to help.Nowadays, mimics and restorers emerge in endlessly. In this critical moment, humanoid weapons are obliged to obey orders—at least this is stipulated in the latest law of the alliance.

He and Yun Qing are the bait at the front.

It didn't take much effort, but the local team leader mutinied on the spot, almost threatening the life of the chief.Both Suling and Yunqing were seriously injured in the rescue operation.

Similar cases have appeared several times.It was obviously a war within human beings, but it ended in the sacrifice of humanoid weapons.The restorers of the empire called them "the most convenient weapon of the alliance", and they must be eliminated as soon as possible.

Suling stayed in that simple hospital for two days, and returned to Syracuse when his injury was almost healed.

He remembered that Xiao Huaiyan was going home today.If he finds out that he is not at home, there will be very serious consequences.

The last time Su Ling was locked in the room for a whole week, he was not at all willing to experience those things again.

Xiao Huaiyan was not a person who had a lot of desires.But I don't know when, he always had a gloomy face, as if seeing Su Ling crying, he could feel better.

But except for the last time, Suling has never shed tears.He is always used to being patient.

With a beep, the door opened.

Before Su Ling had time to turn off the live broadcast, he saw the young man who was supposed to be in the camera throw the windbreaker jacket to Milk Tea, then strode over and pressed Su Ling for a kiss.

Su Ling satisfied him as much as possible, allowing him to plunder, and even responded with some flattering embarrassment.But Xiao Huaiyan was only confused for a while before he realized it.

"...What did you do?" Xiao Huaiyan pinched his wrist, and roughly tore off the sleeve, revealing the wound that was not healed yet.Dark marks showed where the skin had once been ripped apart.

When Su Ling looked down, he couldn't withdraw his hand.

"It's ready."

"Is that good?!" Xiao Huaiyan sneered, "Where else is injured?"

"No more." Su Ling pursed his lips.

Everything else is fine.

Xiao Huaiyan let go of him, his brows were covered with frost.

Su Ling watched him call out a few photos.They were all photographed unconsciously during the two days when he was injured.

There are many more in the terminal.The worst and most embarrassing ones are at the bottom.

Su Ling wasn't sure if he saw it.

"You just like going to the battlefield to kill insects so much?" Xiao Huaiyan pressed one knee on the sofa and locked Su Ling in place. "Last time, you promised me that I would be obedient."

Su Ling endured it and tried to explain: "The situation is urgent and they can't handle it. I'm just here to help."

Xiao Huaiyan's voice was low and sullen: "Do you know that those restorers want you to disappear? Go and help... Ha, if you want to be a good person, why don't you help me first?"

Su Ling was taken aback.

Xiao Huaiyan pinched his chin, his eyes darkened, and there was a moment of erratic: "What should I do with you."

Su Ling felt as if the tip of his heart had been pricked by a needle, and a lot of emotions rushed together at once.He just said, "It's not like that."

His voice was very light, just like the fingers touching the center of Xiao Huaiyan's eyebrows.

Su Ling hooked his neck, raised his head and rubbed the corner of his lips.He noticed that Xiao Huaiyan froze for a moment, then his body was empty, and he was carried upstairs by his strong arms, and put on the bed.

Su Ling had predicted this.Maybe if he took the initiative, Xiao Huaiyan would not be so fierce.

But after a deep kiss, Xiao Huaiyan just looked down at him.His fingers carefully traced Su Ling's eyebrows and eyes.

"I'm going to the north tomorrow. You go with me... No, you can't," Xiao Huaiyan denied his thoughts, "You can only stay here, and you are not allowed to go anywhere."

"Milk Tea will watch you downstairs. You know the consequences of disobedience."

After throwing down a threat, Xiao Huaiyan got up and left.

Su Ling watched his back disappear inexplicably.

After a long time, Su Ling walked lightly to the side of the stairs.Xiao Huaiyan was on the first floor, leaning against the floor-to-ceiling glass, thinking about something.

He looked miserable, otherwise he wouldn't have covered his face.

Subconsciously, Su Ling wanted to comfort him and rubbed his hair.But he knew that Xiao Huaiyan needed a little space.

Besides, his indiscriminate questioning today was really a little too much.

Su Ling stood in the shadows, quietly accompanying him.

He had long forgotten what the obligation of a humanoid weapon to its owner was, and Xiao Huaiyan never mentioned it.

In the evening of the next day, after Xiao Huaiyan left twelve standard hours, Su Ling found a coordinate left on the steps.

A stranger who came to the door claimed to be from the military department, and showed him his military rank, telling him that something might have happened to Xiao Huaiyan, and they were going to the front for support.

Su Ling tried to contact the terminal, but found that the signal had been blocked, so he offered to go with them.

Not only because Xiao Huaiyan was there.

Rather, the coordinates are at Y-9528, which is already very close to the distant star sea.

He spent so much time in the human world that he almost forgot his mission.During those uninterrupted wars, he retrieved some fragments of the Star Sea.

He knew what he was going to do—

No human can be allowed to approach the distant star sea.

...but if Xiao Huaiyan is here—

Su Ling thought that he would probably take him away, return to the sea of ​​stars, and control him.

Such vague emotions gradually become clear in the interlaced segments, like a thorn clinging to the flesh and blood.It hurts every time I think about it.

At this moment, Su Ling was hugged by Xiao Huaiyan, his eyelashes trembled, and he woke up in the gentle light of the morning.

He covered his waist with his hands, and adjusted in confusion for a while.Because of those scenes that are too real, I have lingering fears.

...that's just a possibility for the future.

Su Ling said to himself in his heart.

It's not guaranteed to happen.

But why besides this, he couldn't see other endings.

... Is he still in the dream?

Su Ling bit the finger near his neck, it was slightly salty, but it didn't hurt.

strangeness.

Su Ling bit again.

At this time, the person behind him moved and stiffened together with his fingers.

Su Ling didn't know where behind him, it was like a rock.

Su Ling looked at his hands on his waist, and when he was about to turn around, he heard Xiao Huaiyan's confused and frightened voice: "...don't move."

Xiao Huaiyan with great difficulty withdrew his hand from Su Ling's body, the soft touch was unbelievably real.Then he saw Su Ling's open neckline and the deep and shallow marks around the porcelain-like collarbone.

Under the lifted quilt, Su Ling's thighs were flushed, and his thin waist was bruised and purple.Like a well-behaved kitten that has been bullied, it doesn't know how to take care of it at all.

There are still many balls of paper left on the floor, which is a mess.

The strange smell above condensed in the air all night.

It's hard not to explain what happened.

Su Ling sat up and found that Xiao Huaiyan was expressionless and hadn't moved for a long time.The handsome face was slightly flushed, the ears were so hot that they were about to steam, the lips trembled slightly, and the eyes were fixed on the floor.

"You have a fever?" Su Ling frowned slightly, and when he was about to approach, the quilt was thrown on him, covering his chest.

Xiao Huaiyan seemed to rack his brains, and said with difficulty: "Yesterday, did I drink...?"

"No." Su Ling didn't smell any alcohol.

Moreover, Xiao Huaiyan didn't even drink at all.

Xiao Huaiyan's voice was almost trembling, and he fell into deep doubt: "How could it be—"

……how so.

Was he the one who forced Suling?

How could he force Su Ling to do such a thing.

impossible.

Although he has not thought about it, there is still a huge gap between imagination and practice.

And he had no recollection of it.

If it weren't for the conclusive evidence, he would have suspected that all of this was fiction.

Just as Su Ling was about to say "Calm down", he saw Xiao Huaiyan's suddenly dull expression.His face was pale, and suddenly turned blue and purple, as if he had understood something.

"Isn't this the first time it happened?" The tone of disbelief was eager to ask Su Ling for confirmation.

Su Ling was silent for a moment, then said calmly: "No."

There was an expression more complicated than astonishment in those peach blossom eyes.

"……it's me?"

Su Ling looked straight at him.

At that moment, Xiao Huaiyan suddenly thought of what happened before. The red marks on the side of Su Ling's neck and the teeth marks corresponded to the position of the bite.

"...During the holographic simulation competition, that guy who was not as good as a beast... was also me." The murmured affirmation was mixed with anxiety, anger and fear.

Su Ling instinctively wanted to comfort him.

But such a move amounts to acquiescence.

Xiao Huaiyan avoided his touch.Anger and confusion were intertwined in those beautiful eyes.

Xiao Huaiyan felt like she was going crazy.

He got out of bed and distanced himself from Su Ling, not daring to look back.

"Don't come here! You...stay away from me," he said in a low voice after a pause when he heard the movement behind him, "I don't want to hurt you. But maybe, there is something wrong with me."

Su Ling watched Xiao Huaiyan leave in a hurry, and had no time to explain.He thought for a while, changed his clothes, and walked slowly to the door of the opposite room.

It's locked.Still locked from the outside.

The milk tea stands on the stairs, and the metal surface of the cuboid is very innocent.

Su Ling glanced at it.The robot consciously rolled into Suling's room to clean up.

...But as a robot, it was the first time that the milk tea machine was cleaned so thoroughly.

Indoor sound insulation is not very good.

Xiao Huaiyan is communicating with the terminal.

"...I'm not kidding you. I may have multiple personality disorder and need a comprehensive examination, the sooner the better....No, Suling can't go with me."

Gritting his teeth in a cool voice: "I'm not joking!"

Su Ling stood by the wall until he ended the call.But Xiao Huaiyan locked himself in the room and refused to come out for a long time.

Su Ling went downstairs to get some nutrient solution.He wanted to make some food, but there were no ingredients in the refrigerator.

After a while, milk tea filled with nutrient solution entered the home elevator.

On the clean coffee table was a pocket watch, the golden surface covered with cracks.

Su Ling opened it carefully for fear of breaking it.

But everything that shattered was glued back together.

He stroked the pointer, as if there was still warmth left.