escape from the world

The mountains were covered with rain and mist, almost the next second Fang Chen was pushed out of the car, Nie Shi, who had been following behind, rushed over.

Xie Ying hurriedly stopped him: "Are you crazy? Those two people haven't gone far! We finally got here, and you're going to mess up everything again!" She pressed Nie Shi's right shoulder but didn't dare to look him in the eye.

Nie Shisheng broke off her hand, Xie Ying's face turned pale.Qiao Ran, who was standing in the distance watching the excitement, suddenly said, "Brother Fang Chen seems to have woken up."

The young man who had just rolled to the ground stood up staggeringly, looking for something aimlessly, and his movements revealed a daze.

Xie Ying's heart tightened, she was afraid to see Fang Chen like this, cowardly and pitiful - Fang Chen who was not like Fang Chen at all.

Nie Shi walked over quickly, and Qiao Ran followed behind with a chuckle.

The falling rain silently cut a path, and the black and white cat appeared in Xie Ying's field of vision again, looking up at her with its small head.

"Are you satisfied now?" Xie Ying's eyes fell on the cat. The rain curtain fogged everything in sight, and she didn't expect to get an answer. After she finished speaking, she turned and followed.The cat standing behind her tilted its head and "meowed" and walked slowly.

On the other side, Fang Chen stood up and swayed for two steps. The rain fell into his eyes and blurred his vision. He raised his hand to wipe it away. When he saw someone walking towards him, he calmly took out the dagger on his waist.

Xie Ying trotted two steps behind Nie Shi, keeping a close eye on Qiao Ran in case he did something out of the ordinary and was killed by Nie Shi again.

Nie Shi stopped three or four steps away from Fang Chen.Fang Chen rubbed the rhombus on the handle of the knife and touched its sharp corners. The rain hit his eardrums heavily and painfully, and the bones made a crackling sound—he was recovering, and the wound was healing little by little.

Fang's heavy expression in the mist reminded Xie Ying of fragile glass products. The astonishment had not yet faded from that face, and she couldn't bear to look at it and wanted to turn her head away.

The rain was falling heavily, and Fang Chen opened his mouth to say something, but his voice was too light to be covered by the sound of the rain.

Xie Ying only saw the mouth shape of the first word - "I".

Fang Chen spoke again, and this time his voice clearly entered everyone's ears.

"Qiao Ran."

The air freezes, the rain stops in mid-air, and the cold wind pierces the spine.

Xie Ying was taken aback, and subconsciously looked at Nie Shi.

Naturally, there would be no expression on Nie Shi's dead face, but the corners of his mouth were tightened even further.

"Huh?" Qiao Ran was also caught off guard, and before he could react, Fang Chen was already in front of him.

Xie Ying watched Qiao Ran being knocked down by Fang Chen right under her nose, and her head hit the stone heavily. She took a step back and quickly looked up at Nie Shi.

"Are you happy to scare me?" The rain fell in streams, and Fang Chen thrust the dagger heavily into the side of Qiao Ran's head, his eyelids drooping to block the emotion in his light-colored pupils.

Qiao Ran let out a strange cry, covering her face with her arms: "Brother Fang Chen?!"

Xie Ying took a step back, still not sure, her eyes swayed back and forth between Fang Chen and Nie Shi, until Fang Chen drew out the dagger, put his right foot on Qiao Ran's shoulder and straightened up, raised his head halfway and blinked at Nie Shi. Unloading the force, he pressed his forehead dumbfounded.

The last drop of rain fell to the ground, pattered, and split in two.

Fang Chen rubbed the figure carved on the dagger, from the first corner to the last corner - it was not a rhombus at all, but a square carved out by himself.

"I remember," he said.

……

"Fang Chen, you asked me so many questions, and I want to ask you some too."

"Why did you knock on the doors of Zhang Rui and Wang Huiwen? Qiao Ran gave you a hint, but you didn't tell anyone. The night Fan Yingying died, she dragged you out, but why did you go out with her? You You can obviously stop her..."

"Fang Chen, you discovered many things, and you also uncovered them."

"Have you ever wondered why?"

—You have led everything, and you have been leading them to death.

……

The first time Xie Ying saw Fang Chen was on a cold afternoon. She stepped into the "world" for the first time, and she never stepped out again.

The bell-wearing cat led her along, and whenever she stopped, it would just sit there and "meow" to call her.

The destination was an ordinary residential building. She stopped at the door, and the cat suddenly ran inside without waiting for her.When she tried to follow her again, the cat had disappeared.

The window on the first floor was opened for some reason, she was still in a daze, and a voice sounded above her head: "It's really rare, there are newcomers here at this time."

Xie Ying raised her head, and the cat was squatting on the window, snoring lazily with its limbs hidden under it, Fang Chenchu ​​propped his chin on the window sill and looked at her with a smile.His eyes are light-colored, reminiscent of beautiful amber, and the warm light refracted by the mirror, and he hides half of his pupils when he smiles.Xie Ying thought of chestnut cake inexplicably, and suddenly wanted to eat it, and then thought that she was dead, so she probably didn't need food.

"Hi, welcome to 'Human World', my name is Fang Chen, what's your name?"

——A person who doesn't fit in this cold place.

She thought so at the time.

"...Xie Ying." After she answered, the sky suddenly darkened and the sun quickly hid.

Xie Ying was startled and couldn't help but take two steps back.

"Don't be nervous." Fang Chen looked up at the sky, "Since you chose not to reincarnate and came back here, someone should tell you the rules here." He was turning his head, smiling like a smile, Xie Ying's heart sank Going down, I heard Fang Chen say, "Every time it gets dark, one person dies."

……

There are two types of people in the "human world", those who commit crimes during their lifetime and receive punishment after death, and those who voluntarily choose not to enter reincarnation and become "nightmare", ghosts after death, and dogs in cages.

They are different from those dead people, they come to the world voluntarily to be the "nightmare" who executes the punishment, they will never forget what happened before they were alive and they will never be able to get out of the world.

There is no freedom in life, nor in death.

Later, Xie Ying also met Nie Shi.Nie Shi was too silent, always appearing behind Fang Chen suddenly, Xie Ying was frightened many times by his silently following behind, but Fang Chen took it for granted, sometimes pretending not to notice, and letting Nie Shi follow Own.

Xie Ying was afraid of Nie Shi, as if she would tremble when facing evil thoughts for the first time.She was afraid of Nie Shi.

"Don't hide from Nie Shi." After returning from another mission, Fang Chen couldn't help reminding, "He's actually not difficult to get along with."

Ghosts believe.

Xie Ying didn't answer, she watched Nie Shi approaching in silence, separating the two of them, and then saw Fang Chen turn his head to the side and wink secretly at her.

It was clearly when he was pampering Nie.

She had nothing to say, and wanted to stay away from the two dead people immediately.

In Xie Ying's memory, Fang Chen seldom had any evil intentions to kill. He was better at disguising, mixing with a group of dead people, and calmly guiding them to their death.Xie Ying was taught by him, but she couldn't learn Fang Shen's ability to pretend to be innocent.

She thought that Fang Chen was not good at killing evil thoughts, and would never take the initiative to kill them, and would turn a blind eye to them in most cases unless necessary.

When she first came here, she was also frightened by those ugly monsters, so she was particularly puzzled how Nie Shi could be so strong, killing three or four evil thoughts in an instant without blinking an eye.Only when facing Fang Chen, Shi Nie would talk a lot, lower his head to talk to Fang Chen, and blink slowly, with a small shadow on his eyelashes, so obedient.

He only listens to Fang Chen's words, he can only kill evil thoughts, he can't deceive those suspicious dead people, and he doesn't bother to deceive, he is a precise killing machine, a "violent dog".

Xie Ying has never asked about the cause of death of Fang Chen and Nie Shi, and was once curious, but it is taboo in the world to inquire about the cause of death or life events of others, unless others take the initiative to tell, otherwise it is like a wall, standing tall and tight in sight.

Fang Chen was so cheerful, so sunny, Xie Ying couldn't think of why he didn't enter reincarnation.He should belong to the real world, to the thriving world, but now he is buried underground, walking through countless nights.

Until Qiao Ran arrived.

The eccentric teenager, the unruly boy who was always bloodied himself.

How old was Qiao Ran when he first came to the world?eighteen?nineteen?or smaller.His time stopped with his death.

Xie Ying suspected that his IQ was the same.

Because this restless person made many mistakes during the execution of the mission, he didn't bother to listen to Fang Chen's words, and was also afraid of Nie Shi, so he avoided these two people.

Until one time he induced a group of evil thoughts to gather on the edge of the city, frightening the gang of dead people.Xie Ying still remembered the shrill meowing of cats and the screams of people breaking down that night. The two sounds intertwined and tore people's scalps.

That was the first time she had seen Fang Chen so angry, he managed to hold the group of people steady, exhausted their dormancy time, angrily killed him, and solved seven or eight evil thoughts with just a dagger.It wasn't until that moment that Xie Ying realized that Fang Chen was fully capable of killing evil thoughts and was not afraid of them, but he seldom did so.

When the sun was about to rise, Nie Shi tore away the last evil thought in front of his eyes, and then turned sideways.A hand reached out and grabbed Qiao Ran's skirt and pressed him to the ground. Fang Chen's eyes, which were always smiling, were frozen and piercing. Kill you once."

Qiao Ran was also taken aback for a while, he didn't expect Fang Chen, who was always talkative, to look like this, but soon he laughed, tilted his head and looked away - as expected, the black and white cat wagged its tail and squatted beside them. far away.

Qiao Ran said, "I just wanted to see what punishment would be given for violating the rules."

"You don't want to know." Fang Chen said with a sullen face, "You should understand, right? You can't die again." From the moment they chose not to reincarnate, they had no way out.The soul has no place to return, and taking a step back will be completely smashed to pieces.

Qiao Ran was silent for a while, clearly understood what Fang Chen meant but wanted to provoke Fang Chen on purpose, turned his head and winked at the cat, "Look, it's watching, will you be punished if you beat up your companion?"

Fang Chen punched him in the face, proving with actions that he would not.The cat meowed happily.

—It is the Watcher.

"If you don't enter reincarnation, it's original sin." Xie Ying saw Fang Chen pressing her finger into the hollow of her throat, a brand new and strange Fang Chen with a mocking smile, "So we have to watch these sinful people here with our own eyes. people die."

This is the price of not entering reincarnation, and they have to experience the guilt thousands of times.

But even so, some people still choose to stay here.

"Qiao Ran, don't mess around, you're already being punished." He said as he loosened Qiao Ran's skirt, turned and walked away.

Nie Shiyun glanced at Xie Ying, stepped on Qiao Ran's hand, and rarely took the initiative to speak: "It's almost dawn."

Fang Chen and Xie Ying passed by.Xie Ying saw Fang Chen's drooping eyelashes and cold eyes. Those eyes were too familiar. She had seen them many times——in the eyes of another person.Her brain didn't have time to think that her body had already turned in the direction he left, and she wondered if she had never really understood Fang Chen.

She no longer remembers how long she has been in the world, the time here is chaotic, and the day and night change only in an instant.So what about Fang Chen and Nie Shi?The first companion she met when she came to the world was Fang Chen.How long have they been here?Years or decades?It just exists here endlessly...

Fang Chen knows the rules here very well, and often reminds her not to break the rules. The monitors are always by their side, and they will be punished if they make mistakes.

So what exactly is the punishment?

She looked at Qiao Ran who sat up half up, and suddenly felt that his curiosity was not unreasonable.

Stepping on the cold and hard sand, hard gravel kicked her feet, but Xie Ying felt that she was stepping on the ground, and she was about to fall and was dragged awkwardly.

The author has something to say: Yes!That dagger belonged to Fang Chen himself!

And since Qiao Ran's appearance, he has always called Fang Chen "Brother Fang Chen". When his identity was discovered, he said, "Do you remember me?"

They already knew each other.