escape from the world

Rainy day, dilapidated lilies, blood like a narrow river winding past Fang Chen's eyes, forcing his heavy eyelids open, a person stood obliquely in front of him in a trance.With the cold moonlight and the silent blue of the night, he almost forgot where he was.

The woman's bright red nails flashed past his eyes, and he finally regained consciousness.It wasn't that Xie Ying was standing sideways, but that his vision was distorted for a moment.He slowly opened his eyes, the nearly amber pupils reflected a crystal light, which swayed with the movement of raising his eyes, and were about to overflow his eye sockets.

The corridor quickly pulled away, darkness shrouded his head, and the shadow of the window frame clearly shone on the mottled wall, dragging him back to reality.

"We used to be together." Fang Chen touched lips and teeth, speaking very softly, fearing that something might be broken or already broken, he said "once" emphatically.

Surprise flashed in Xie Ying's eyes, before she could speak with her mouth half open, the crisp bell sound interrupted her.

The black and white cat jumped to the window, licked its paws, gave a "meow", and looked at them with vertical pupils.

Xie Ying stopped her mouth vigilantly.

Fang Chen looked over.

The cat tilted its head, its "w" mouth looked like a smile, and gave Fang a deep "meow".

Fang Chen felt his soul being pulled in two, one half fell into a deep sleep and the other half tried to wake up.His throat seemed to be stuck with fine glass shards, and there was a rusty smell, but the more he gasped, the faster he panted, his eyes turned to the cat, and finally settled on Xie Ying who was standing opposite him.He pulled out the dagger from his waist—the dagger that Nie Shi gave him, with an ugly diamond-shaped dagger engraved on the hilt, and slowly took a step forward.

The cloud that half-covered the moonlight drifted away, and the moonlight slanted over his head.

……

The last conversation I remember was in spring, when everything came back to life and the lilies withered.

The weather should be fine, except that it is a bit cold, the windows are covered with a thin layer of frost, the early morning light comes in through the screens, and the floating dust is covered with a layer of gold.After eating in the morning, Fang Chen was sitting on a swivel chair with a bag of yogurt in his mouth, listening to the sound of washing dishes from the kitchen, and reminded him aloud, "Can you leave the cucumber in the fried rice?"

Nie Shi heard it but pretended not to hear it.

"I'll cook tomorrow." Fang Chen drank the last mouthful of yogurt and threw it into the trash can.

They chatted about family affairs, like every day, an ordinary day.

Nie Shi suddenly said, "I found a job."

Fang Chen no longer rotated the swivel chair.

It should be celebrated, it should be said congratulations, it should be raised with energy and say that's great.

Life is a bit bitter but not too bad.

Fang Chen knew he should do this, but he couldn't control himself, "Sometimes I still can't help thinking 'why'." Why did they have to go through this?Pain always falls from the sky.He raised his head slightly, and gave Nie Shi a blurry profile, "Now that I think about it, I probably have an unlucky physique, and I will bring you down if you are so good." Fang Chen couldn't continue, and lowered his head.He got up early and washed his hair, and Nie Shi held him down and dried it half-dried, it was still a little damp now.

There seemed to be water vapor floating in the air, and Fang Chen was about to drown in it, unable to breathe.

How inappropriate his words were, all the past was unfolding in front of him, and the memories were so mixed that he couldn't imagine what would happen to them in the future.

"You are fully capable of finding other better jobs, you don't have to be with me..." Fang Chen paused, "What do you think?"

Nie Shi came over, slowly approaching his cheek with his hand, and inserting it into the wet hair, "Are you going to leave me?" He is the best at showing weakness and pretending to be pitiful, knowing that Fang Chen will soften his heart and show his weakness to him , Contain him in the most despicable way.

Fang Chen said: "...I'm sorry." He thought, this time he even gave up on himself.

He couldn't break free from the cage of reality, and was willing to be buried until he stopped breathing and died.But he didn't want to drag Nie Shi any longer, it was enough, he had asked enough from Nie Shi.

He can't save himself.

……

No one has ever observed it carefully. Behind the bustling streets is a desert, and there are mountains standing in the distance.A city built of reinforced concrete suddenly exists in the middle, paving a road that will never end.

The cold and hard soil was mixed with small stones, and the wind cut the skin like a knife. The young man stood on this barren land, humming a strange tune, spinning the knife in one hand, and inserting the evil thought into the body with the other.With a smile on his face, the evil thoughts turned into ashes from his hands and were blown away in the wind.

A man walked out of a dark corner not covered by the moonlight, holding a gun in his left hand, dragging a stump with his right hand, dragging the withered blue and yellow hand (perhaps it is more appropriate to call it a claw) on the ground.

The evil thoughts that were not directly inserted into the heart would not dissipate so quickly. Nie Shi threw it forward at will, and the arm fell not far from Qiao Ran's feet.

"You are obviously worse than me." Qiao Ran stepped back unconsciously, clenched the knife in her hand, a little nervous, but said casually, "Brother Fang Chen knows this?" He tilted his head, a little playfully , All the words that Nie Shi didn't like to hear.

"I said, stay away from him." Nie Shi looked at him without any emotion, his pupils couldn't reflect anyone's reflection, it was cold and dead.

"It's far enough." Qiao Ran pointed to the high-rise buildings in the distance, "It's so far away." He gestured and giggled to himself, "You're avoiding my question."

Nie Shi didn't even bother to give him his eyes, and just passed him by.

"I've been pretending to be innocent in front of Brother Fang Chen." Qiao Ran had the guts to touch the ground with one foot, licking her teeth, and said, "What should I do if I'm found out?"

"I also said don't let me see you, you'd better get out of the way." Nie Shi turned his head and looked gloomy.

Qiao Ran took a step back in silence until Nie Shi walked a little further away. He dropped his smile and relaxed his shoulders. He let out a breath and murmured, "Who is the scariest one?" Then he laughed again. , "It's not me anyway."

The young man hummed a weird little tune again, walked forward slowly, stopped in two steps, turned to the center of the city where the moonlight was brightest, poked his cheek with his index finger, and raised the corner of his mouth, "I don't know how it's going over there? ?”

At this moment in the dilapidated hotel, Fang Chen drew out his dagger and took a step forward.

Before Xie Ying could react, Fang Chen stretched out his hand and stroked down his arm, the blood was squeezed out like syrup, and rushed to the ground, wrapped around Fang Chen's arm, and dripped down along his fingertips.

"Fang Chen?!" Xie Ying opened her eyes wide and blurted out.

The cat seemed to be startled by the sound, and let out a shrill meow.

Fang Chen took another step forward, "There is always a problem that has not been solved." The moonlight moved with him, and all the shadows were left behind by him, "Where is this?"

"Qiao Ran said this place is called 'Human World'." He asked himself and answered, the blood was spilled, and the air was filled with a rotten smell, "What will happen if we are killed by evil thoughts, just like my neighbors are eaten by evil thoughts... What will happen?" Fang Chen's pupils have no focal length, like a walking dead.

Xie Ying wanted to approach him slowly, stretched out a hand in mid-air, slowly shaking her head: "Fang Chen..."

"You protect us from being killed by evil thoughts, not only because we are going to die for our sins, right?" Fang Chen looked straight into Xie Ying's eyes, and Xie Ying was startled.

"What are you hiding?" He suddenly took a big step and was very close to Xie Ying. Xie Ying was trembling, and the "person" who should be the least afraid was trembling, "I seem to have guessed it." He said again to himself A severe cut was made on the wrist, his face was pale, his lips were very red, he looked more like a ghost than Xie Ying, and he had just crawled out of purgatory.

The bloody dagger fell to the ground.Xie Ying looked at Fang Chen in disbelief, Fang Chen's mouth was bleeding, he knelt down slowly, and coughed heart-piercingly, warm blood spilled on his hand and flowed out along the cracks of his fingers.

The cat kept meowing harshly.

While shocked, Xie Ying turned her head and shouted at the cat: "Shut up... I said shut up!"

The barking stopped abruptly, and the cat stared at her. The "w" mouth shape and copper yellow eyes seemed to understand what she said, and everything seemed weird.

Many broken pictures flashed before Fang Chen's eyes, the pictures he had dreamed countless times, broken windows, rain, rust... lilies flooded his mouth and nose, he smelled death, so close, choking, fragrant and delicious terror.

Time passed little by little, and although the pain was unbearable, the consciousness was still there. Fang Chen scratched the floor with his fingers, leaving bloodstains, and his nails turned up.

More blood came out of his mouth, but he was still able to speak: "From the beginning... We opened our eyes and appeared here, everyone here, and we were gathered together for punishment." He felt his throat full. Glass shards, even heard the "click" sound of them rubbing against each other, pain, salty wetness...

"Everything here is prepared for us." Fang Chen's voice changed from hoarse to clear, "It's all false... the memory is not trustworthy."

They always wanted to escape, and fled to city B.

But is there really a city B?

Daylight and darkness, man-eating monsters and a never-ending road, the concept of time is a little fuzzy.

Fang Chen raised his head, and in front of him were black high heels. Xie Ying was wearing a red dress, bright and beautiful, which matched her temperament, but her body was slowly rotting away.

Fang Chen's pain was no longer so painful, the wound was slowly healing, and he watched himself heal, just like before, the wound gradually melted away.

"We're already dead."

He saw himself in a pool of blood, the slightly cold air, the smell of green grass after the soil was wet, and glass shards scattered around him...

He couldn't save himself.

He is dead.

Xie Ying calmed down, or... gave up, and slowly dropped her hand.

Fang Chen laughed, exhausted: "It seems... I guessed right."

The reason why Xie Ying and the others wanted to protect this group of people was to prevent them from discovering this—the fact that they had died.

The moonlight was coated with red little by little, the color of blood, and the cat meowed obediently again, its copper-yellow vertical pupils faintly glowing.

Welcome to the afterlife—the human world.

The author has something to say: the title of the chapter has been changed

Finally wrote here! !In fact, someone guessed it a long time ago, but the more you go, the less people guess it...

yeah!It's almost over, within ten chapters? ?Roughly the same! !