【Ghost in Black and White】The Thief of Time

When it comes to exams, Hei Yu has always been a dead pig and is not afraid of boiling water. It doesn't matter whether he fails a subject or makes up a make-up exam, as long as he can graduate in the fourth year of study.However, this morning, even Yuebai, who was always facing an enemy, was absent-minded in the exam.

After handing in the test papers, both of them went to the cafeteria to have lunch, and chatted while eating, and finally realized that one was talking about the billiard club, and the other was talking about the Institute of Psychology.

"It's okay, you can eat, drink and sleep during this time, and you still got No. 1 in the exam. You must be recovering very well, so don't worry."

"Don't worry, why are you trembling when you speak?"

The hospital for reexamination in the afternoon is just across the road from the school. Brain slices and expert numbers are all booked in advance, so you can go directly to take the scans when you arrive.The efficiency of seeing a doctor in a modern hospital is very high, and you can see it directly on the computer upstairs after the film is completed, which is more exciting than getting the answer immediately after handing in the test paper.

In the consulting room, the old doctor was drinking tea while reading the film, and was silent for a while: "The young man is recovering well."

Hei Yu breathed a sigh of relief, thanked the doctor, and pinched Yue Bai's tense shoulders: "What did I say? Quickly think about how to reward my beloved supporter, just hugging is not enough."

Yuebai thought he was stabbing his waist indecently, so the doctor coughed hard: "Think that everything will be fine? There will be a long recovery period later."

After giving seven instructions and eight attentions, the doctor finished prescribing the medicine, and Heiyu took the medicine collection form and asked, "Then his amnesia will gradually recover, right?"

"Amnesia?" The doctor forgot about it, pushed the gold-rimmed glasses, flipped through the hospital summary, and then called up the film again.

The two looked at each other, Yuebai sat back on the opposite side of the consultation table, and Heiyu squeezed his shoulders tightly again.

"At that time, it was guessed that the recovery was due to brain edema and other conditions. It was more complicated, but if you look at this place, the edema has completely disappeared, and the surrounding area has grown back, which is very clear. If it has not recovered, it will be more difficult."

This statement was different from Hei Yu's expectations. He digested it and decided to be more optimistic: "It doesn't matter if it is difficult, you can do whatever you say."

The old doctor turned his eyes to them, crossed his fingers and repeated again: "It's difficult, it's difficult."

The sky outside the hospital is clear and bright, and the spring color is deep, and there are swallows passing by with their tails cut between the buildings.

Walking out the door in a daze, Kuroba suddenly stopped like a nocturnal animal afraid of light.The strong man behind looking down at his phone directly slapped him on his back: "Fuck, you're going to die if you stop suddenly?"

He turned his head numbly, and saw that this man was showing all his tendons in the spring, and some people who didn't understand why such a healthy person had to come to the hospital.

"Are you sick?"

Yuebai chased out from the next elevator, and when he squeezed into the crowd, Heiyu had already been pushed against the glass wall.After explaining to the strong man, Yuebai knelt in front of Heiyu, who was sliding down, feeling angry and distressed: "What's wrong with you? Do I have to give you a psychiatric examination too?"

Hei Yu lowered his head and did not speak, like a large and dejected dog, only one sentence echoed in his mind.

"This is damage to the memory area, which is irreversible and generally cannot be restored."

There is no way to recover.

Yuebai straightened his face: "Hei Yu, look at me, have a word with me? Do you still recognize who I am?"

Hei Yu looked at him with confused eyes: "Yuebai?"

"Yes, it's me." Yuebai pulled him up, "Don't block the way here, let's go back to school first."

But he failed to drag Hei Yu away, instead he was pulled back by Hei Yu.Hei Yu held his shoulder, almost pleadingly, and said with the last glimmer of hope: "Yuebai, call me brother?"

At the entrance of the hospital where people come and go, Yuebai was overwhelmed by Heiyu's request, and didn't know how to comfort him.

Seeing that he should not respond, Hei Yu gently hugged him to his chest: "It's okay...it's okay." He closed his eyes and stroked his long moon-white hair, pinched the back of his head, and said softly, "Then let's go home ? Yes, let's go back and move."

Hei Yu's spirit was obviously not stable, Yuebai had no choice but to take him back by taxi.Pushing open the door of the old house, countless dust flies in the beam of light at dusk.Hei Yu straightened the cardboard box that dropped last time, and opened the drawers and cabinet doors one by one: "Look, these are all things you used before, come, put them in the box."

Yuebai followed behind him, closing the doors one by one, stepped on the debris and grabbed his wrist: "I'll move later, Heiyu, sit down, I want to talk to you for a while."

Hei Yu turned a deaf ear, and sat by the cardboard box and opened a photo album: "Do you remember? We didn't have a chance to take pictures when we were young. The first photo was a group photo when we entered elementary school. Look, you cut us out and pasted them together. We are so small, and we look alike, we can't even tell who is who."

Turning back a few more pages, stuffing them into Yuebai's arms, Hei Yu picked up another book.

"There are also high school textbooks. I threw them away after the exam, but I remembered your notes in them and picked them up from the trash can. I have been like your non-staff students in Ping An High School for the whole three years. You see, Is it your word?"

The juvenile's font is round even the strokes, in addition to the knowledge points, there are also a few lyrics about the ambiguity and pain of adolescence.Yuebai couldn't bear him like this, closed the textbook and put it on the table: "Heiyu..."

They sat on the floor facing the cardboard box, and Hei Yu didn't stop until it got dark, the small room was filled with memories so full that it was about to explode, Yue Bai was suffocated by his out-of-control emotions.

"It's late Kuroba, I'll take you to dinner and then go back to school, okay?"

Hei Yu hooked a basketball from under the bed, twirled it on his fingertips, and said with bright eyes: "You sneaked to work in a bar for a month during the semester of high school, and when I was about to settle accounts with the boss, you suddenly sent I bought this basketball from me, saying it was a birthday present. You know what? At that time, I really wanted to plant a stick of incense to confess the two of you together, and I was not willing to play even once."

The ball slipped from the fingertips, and Kuroba asked, "Want to play on the rooftop?"

He pulled Yuebai up, like a reckless little leopard.In the night wind, Yuebai wrapped her clothes tightly: "Can I fight another day? I want to go back."

"Dong Dong" sounded, and Hei Yu stood three steps away and bounced the ball towards him: "Come on, let's pass a few first."

Yuebai barely finished the ball with him, and Heiyu ran around him, happily asking him to grab the ball with her: "Brother let you, I use my left hand."

Yuebai stood still, and only when Heiyu ran towards the edge of the roof did he follow, blocking in front of him with his body.Heiyu thought that Yuebai was aroused, so he kept dribbling the ball along the edge, and made several difficult moves from time to time.

The sensor light dimmed every minute, and was illuminated by the sound of dribbling, and the lights of the tall buildings opposite also shone, and Kuroba seemed to be walking a tightrope on the blue sky.

It's too dangerous, Yuebai finally couldn't bear it anymore, wrapped his arms around Heiyu's waist and dragged him to the rooftop: "Enough! Don't play like this again!"

The cement floor was in disrepair for a long time, and a pothole caused Yuebai and Heiyu to fall backwards together. At this time, Heiyu reacted very quickly again, turned around and grabbed him, twisted it, and put herself under it.

"Are you okay, did you hit your head?" Yuebai got up from his chest, but was pushed back by Heiyu, his rapid heartbeat was just under his ear.

"Shh...don't talk."

The basketball hit the iron gate, making a slight crash.There was silence on the rooftop, the lights went out and never came on again.

Hei Yu put one hand on the back of Yue Bai's waist, and stroked his hair with the other, the ups and downs of his chest gradually calmed down.Slowly closing his eyes, all movements stopped: "Listen, there is the sound of a train."

Yuebai's face was burning hot, and when she turned her head sideways, she could only see a corner of the dark blue sky.He pricked up his ears, but he couldn't hear anything except the sound of cooking and TV coming from downstairs: "Hei Yu..."

Heiyu tightened his arms, and a bright silver track appeared in front of his eyes under the night sky: "Did you see it? There are also Tangli trees, all in bloom, small white flowers, very fragrant. The train passed by, and the sky was full of Tangli flowers raining , the petals fall on the track and fall on you."

He took a deep breath, and the wind blew past him, making his voice tremble.

"I'll hold you, you said, let me go home with you."

On the way back to school, Yuebai was in a daze, white petals were always flying in front of his eyes, and when he woke up, he was already sitting at the desk in the dormitory.

Yaohu hung up the phone and mopped the chair over: "I just told Gouzi that we are going to celebrate the end of the exam tomorrow. How are you? Is there any problem with the re-examination?"

Yuebai nodded and said "yes", and took a cowhide book from the bookshelf.

Yaohu talked to him: "What is this?"

He flipped through the pages, not knowing if he was looking at them: "Probably... something I can never get back."

Yaohu wanted to ask something more, but only heard a "呵啦", and the cowhide book in his hand was suddenly torn in half.

The door was blown shut by the wind, and the key was inserted into the keyhole inside the door, so Heiyu could only squat in the kitchen and lose his mind.

The faucet that couldn't be turned off was ticking, and he took an aluminum basin and put it in the sink to continue.

On the morning of ten years ago, he also stood here and watched his mother dragging the suitcase out of the corridor, stepping on high heels, without looking back.

Dad left the next night, and the taxi drove away in dust.

That day was a relief for everyone.

After entering high school, the number of men who came to Sanwei gradually decreased.But after a few years, Sanwei also left, and he watched her being carried out of the small door behind him.

After they all left, he came back.

What about Yuebai?Is it still possible to come back with him?

Yuebai tore the book to shreds like an evil spirit, the front cover and the back cover were completely separated, and was thrown on the ground: "Why can't I remember it! I read it carefully, but I still don't have any impression..."

Yaohu was scared to death by him again: "It's okay, it's okay, it doesn't matter if you can't remember! Your brother loves you no matter what! I love you too! Gouzi also... Damn Gouzi loves me, but he also cares You!" He rescued the few remaining pages and threw them on his bed, wondering what the hell happened.Seeing Yuebai's red eyes, he said "I'm sorry" and quickly hugged Hulumao again, "Don't cry, don't cry! My god, my god! What the hell am I going to do...Where did that bastard Heiyu go..."

"Don't look for him!" Yuebai insisted not to let Yaohu touch him, and put his hands on his forehead, "Did you know that the day Sanwei left, he leaned on my shoulder and cried, but I couldn't feel the slightest bit of sadness. I can't even cry with him."

"He said 'you belong to me', I don't understand, he said 'you kissed me first', I also don't understand, sometimes even I doubt myself, am I really the person he is looking for ?”

"But don't talk about him, even I myself don't know who I am..."

Venting her long suppressed thoughts, Yuebai gradually calmed down, stopped her tears and went to pick up the scraps of paper on the ground.Just now he was dazzled by the resentment towards himself, but now he calmed down, he felt that the torn pieces were all his own heart.

"Yaohu, I will never remember it, he will only be sad when he sees me, and I...don't want to see him again."

He held the shredded paper in his hand, this is not a thousand and one short stories, this is clearly a thousand and one steel needles pierced in the hearts of him and Hei Yu.

In the canteen at the entrance of the alley, the boss sat in front of the TV and waved his hands intently: "Take it, take it, count it together after drawing, don't interfere with my watching the game."

Hei Yu opened the package and knocked out a cigarette, and said "Success" with a smile.His eyes fell on the game screen, but his mind recalled the scene of Yuebai sitting opposite him in a bar late at night and drinking down the wine in one gulp. "Hei Yu, let me chase you, okay?"

It was two o'clock in the morning when the game ended. He took an extra bag and left. He leaned against the electric pole at the entrance of the alley facing the wall and made a phone call.

As soon as there was a vibration in his chest, Yuebai answered it, and ran to the balcony without shoes on: "Heiyu?"

Hei Yu responded lightly, holding his mobile phone to look at his own shadow.

Even if he can't remember anymore, so what, within a few hours of separation, he already misses Yuebai, even hearing the voice makes his heart ache.

Controlling her emotions, Yuebai asked, "Are you still at home? Is it cold at night?" Thinking of the back in the hospital corridor, she hurriedly said, "Are you smoking again?"

Kuroba smiled bitterly, and put out the cigarette butt on the opposite wall: "No."

No fart, these two words were squeezed out of the torn vocal cords.But Yuebai's throat was also choked up, and he could only quietly listen to the sound of breathing from the phone, it was very light and urgent, as if it was on his heart, itching him so hard that he grabbed the hem of his shirt.

After a long silence, Kuroba called his name in a hoarse voice.Yuebai hurriedly responded to show that he was listening, his feet were too cold to stand on the tiles, and he couldn't care less.

Then, the communication was silent for another half a minute, before Hei Yu said something again, the whole thing turned into a sound of breath, and the ending sound fell away, but Yuebai still understood.

Hei Yu begged him in the same way in the hospital, but he didn't understand at that time, so he made a mistake.

What he said was, "Yuebai, call me".

Yuebai covered the microphone, hesitating in her heart, but her lips trembled and made a sound.

"elder brother."

There was a roar in Heiyu's ears, the corners of his lips curled awkwardly, he hung up the phone, and slowly squatted down by the wall while pressing his temples.