Fugue

"Xiao Yuji?" Ye Li howled on the other end of the phone: "Is there such a person? Or your cousin's boyfriend? Why didn't I find out... No, why didn't you say it earlier?"

"I just...remembered it." With this explanation, Gan Luan himself was embarrassed—because Gan Lan had read Xiao Yuji's letter before, he had doubts about the name, but because he couldn't remember the details, he let it go. ignored... ignored...

If he had thought of who this person was... Wait, why did Gan Lan read that letter so coincidentally?After Gan Lan arrived, this letter seemed to have appeared twice.But he ignored them all.

Although he wanted to stop, although he didn't want to continue to associate, but——

At this moment, Gan Lan was kneeling on the sofa, looking up at him on the phone, like an absent-minded believer, staring at the statue with empty eyes, expressionless, just reflecting the carved lines in his eyes.

His hand landed on Gan Lan's shoulder, green branches grew from Gan Lan's neck, where he couldn't see, wrapped around his wrist, and entangled with his fingers one by one, pulling hooks, twirling , twisting his slender body like a snake, embracing his arms, his shoulders, and his throat, stretching into his earholes, whispering an invitation softly.He saw the thread pulled by Gan Lan's back, the thread pierced into his body, bound the heart, and blood flowed every time it beat, did it hurt?No, how could a puppet be sentient.The puppet can only perform; or bring the invitation of the "palm" that controls him.

If this invitation comes from a thread that manipulates you, your director, your choreographer, how can I not be there?

Help you finish... your show.Even if you don't see the real, you don't have the predestined relationship with the virtual, in that "middle"... Ruo, that's your position.

I will have an appointment.

"I'm going to see Xiao Yuji." He said.

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"There is a loophole in my intelligence network... There is a loophole in my intelligence network..." Along the way, Ye Li was chanting sutras, holding his head, his eyes glazed over; this is also a devout believer.

Ye Jing said, "Underground romance?"

Gan Luan: "I forgot, he is too, too invisible."

Ye Jing: "Why are you shivering?"

Gan Lan: "To! Luan! You are! The outline of Shuangxue!"

Gan Luan: "Shut up and follow me."

Gan Lan closes her eyes, closes the window of the restricted soul, and revives the spirit of freedom!He begins to recite!It's like reciting the psalm of truth!

"You are the stream of ice and rain, you are the long wind of the high mountains, you are the sand and dust of the desert, and it is because of this that your unique and unrepeatable soul creates a beautiful city, the capital of reincarnation. Mou I don’t say I don’t say you should know what you should know This is the secret that grows in our hearts together From Xiao Yuji.”

Ye Li patted his chest: "Fuck, I almost couldn't catch my breath!"

Ye Jing heard the mystery, and got stuck excitedly: "This, so passionate?"

Only Gan Luan was mad: "Why do you know how to recite it!"

The only consolation is that Xiao Yuji handed over love letters first, and became Bian You's boyfriend later.But this person's sense of existence is too weak, besides, Gan Luan didn't read the letter at all, and Bian You only mentioned a name on the phone... In short, everything is still a mystery until he meets him.

Knowing the above, Ye Li: "Cut, it's boring."

Xiao Yuji felt like a furry black shadow, squatting in a corner, emitting a resentful green light.In the basketball team, it seems that he is not even considered as a substitute. For some reason, the team didn't kick him out.Maybe it's because he was a normal player a year ago, he was favored, and he hadn't been erased—otherwise it would be really hard to find.This person is easy to be ignored in normal times, but now I don’t know what has happened, and it has become like this. The whole pile of blackened straw is so dry that no matter how hard it is torn, it can only make a crunching sound, shaking the ground with black powder, Dirty and gloomy.Snuggling in the corner of club activities all day long, like the sundries that are accidentally embedded in the cracks when the wall is being painted, it is black and sunken in the fixed background of the basketball team.

"Xiao Yuji?"

Xiao Yuji looked up and saw four people wearing masks.He only knew one pair of eyes, but it was enough: "You are only here now."

Gan Luan stepped forward, "Do you know where Bian You is?"

"How could I know." Xiao Yuji's eyes were hidden in the black hair, occasionally revealing the whites of his eyes to make people feel rolling, otherwise he would not even be able to judge whether he opened his eyes or not.

This place is not suitable for talking, Ye Li said, come with me to the principal's office, Gan Luan said, don't make trouble, Ye Jing finally said, let's go, the club office is vacant, where is Gan Lan?

Gan Lan was chatting happily with two girls, threw away her mask, and was eating snacks offered by her two sisters.Gan Luan walked over and whispered low pressure in his ear: Are you a dog eating indiscriminately?Picking up sisters...Looking at the two who are a head taller than Gan Lan, Gan Luan changed his mind and said, "I don't care if you pick up sisters or younger sisters. It doesn't matter if you have polygamy or year-end love, but don't give me a mess. Do you want to be poisoned to death. come over."

Gan Lan was led away backwards, her face glowing like oil, and she said goodbye to her beloved young ladies, one paw dangling in the air, in exchange for a burst of distant laughter.Then he turned around, with no skin or face, writhing around, and said, "Poisoned to death? Do you have persecution paranoia?"

"Do you have ADHD?" Gan Luan carried him instead, "Stop struggling, shorty, he won't grow tall."

"I think you discriminate against me."

"if not?"

"You are the long wind of the mountains..."

"I said." Ye Jing, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped: "You two give me the feeling now, as if you just spent a harmonious wedding night."

Ye Li booed constantly, and Gan Luan frowned, "How much do you want to get married? Every metaphor has to involve this aspect?" He still remembered the last time Ye Jing said that they were like years of underground lovers who finally got a certificate...

Ye Jing supported his head, "No matter what, we will meet Xiao Yuji first."

Ye Li entered the door first, Xiao Yuji had already got into a black chair to pretend to be a ghost, just as Ye Li entered, the chair creaked a few times, trembling and about to fall apart.Ye Li: "Fuck, when did you come?"

"Before you."

It's really... nonsense.

Hearing Gan Luan's question, Xiao Yuji smiled wryly: "So you didn't see that letter until now. Bian You already knew about it."

In Xiao Yuji's narration, Bian You's outline has completely changed, as if some warm edges were erased by an eraser, leaving a sharp and rugged boundary line, reconstituted into a shadow, and then, continuously elongated, towering into the clouds, Some of the past shrouded in darkness, clothed in the black of truth.

Xiao Yuji said: Ever since he knew that I liked you...he has come to seduce me. How can he not be able to do what he wants to do...I can only be hooked, and then I am willing to be abandoned and used by him.He will do this to everyone who likes you, and everyone who gets close to you will end up like me, a wandering spirit of resentment.We just stay in his shadow, envious of him and you, don’t know which one to envy, seeing you spend sunny days every day, seeing you dull, seeing his affectionate, seeing the despair we are sinking into, who likes you , is the beginning of destruction.

Gan Luan was in a daze for a long time, he didn't know how to face Xiao Yuji, so he cast his eyes on...Gan Lan, as if looking in a mirror, Gan Lan also appeared in a trance... He slowly asked: "In other words, you Not his boyfriend? And he...?"

Xiao Yuji sneered: "That's what you think. I heard that you bumped into him when he was getting close to your little uncle. Because of this, you alienated him. Compared with you, a fake is a What. So he immediately separated himself from Gan Xiao, and then used me. After a phone call, I became his boyfriend in his mouth, allowing him to get close to you again... I was just a pawn in case you doubted me. I know you don't care at all. Retribution. He used me, did you ever think I would be sad? Retribution. His kind of selfish person, now he can never come back, he should be like me, become a shadow, envious of you Obtuse maniac in the sun, you, Gan Luan...you are guilty, your ignorance is a sin..."

"Listen well." Xiao Yuji said gloomyly, in a voice that everyone present could hear clearly: "Bian You, the person he really likes is you, Gan Luan."

"What did you say?" Gan Lan stepped forward, "Say it again."

"I said that Bian You loves Gan Luan." Xiao Yuji stroked his bangs, and gave Gan Lan a weird, unfriendly smile.Xiao Yuji's left face had a line of letters slashed: "withoutu..." The scarlet color showed ferocity.

"What are you doing?!" Gan Luan pushed Xiao Yuji away, but Gan Lan stepped forward and held up that face, touching the line of letters: "Yes...you...I killed you." He was about to strangle Xiao Yuji to death. Yu Ji, that line of letters made him bewitched.Xiao Yuji couldn't struggle, fell down in horror, and fell to the ground with Gan Lan... Finally, Gan Luan didn't see how they separated, Ye Li hugged Gan Lan, Ye Jing stepped on Xiao Yuji, Xiao Yu Ji haha ​​laughed: "He is also a shadow! He is also a shadow!" Then he passed out, as if he was overexcited because of overdrawn strength——Ye Jing explained it this way.

Gan Luan took Gan Lan, pushed him onto the chair, and squatted down by himself, "What's wrong with you?"

Gan Lan lowered her eyes, as if she was asleep.When he looked up again, there was a long-lost calmness in his eyes.But alienated. "He shouldn't have told you. He made a mistake in telling you everything." He looked into Gan Luan's eyes, which were full of unwillingness and anger.

"Ye Jing, are you going to destroy my brother?" Gan Lan's low voice was like a dull stone thrown into black water. The body was occupied by another soul, this vague thing suddenly became real, independent and complete, a real person, not a puppet... Facing Gan Lan with this appearance, Gan Luan was speechless .

Ye Jing said, "No." Gan Luan didn't expect this conversation to go on, what are they talking about?

"You tell him all this, you are ruining him..." Gan Lan stretched out her hand, stared at Gan Luan almost affectionately, and supported his side face, as if admiring a kind of beauty, leaving a distance of awe, but But the greedy desire to possess is crazy; it should be so, all beautiful things should be awe-inspiring, and it should stimulate the selfishness of human beings to try to occupy; it should be so, curiosity and devouring, this is the ultimate human treatment of beauty.

"What are you talking about?" Gan Luan couldn't get into their conversation at all.

Ye Jing only said, "This is the truth he must know."

"Just kill me."

"kill me."

"Brother, when will you be able to kill me..." His withered face was like a defeated rose.The dew is dripping like pearls and stars, and he asked him to kill him again.

Gan Luan opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound, his feet were planted in place, how to uproot them?How exactly is it uprooted?

He is like a corpse sealed in a glass ice coffin, no, it is a glass counter. Inside the counter, his heart is pulling a thread, looking at the world across the window without sadness or joy, waiting for the hand that lifts the thread to lead him Play a new role (Jué).

Who... who is that puppet?

The strong light made the closed eyelids twitch, and Gan Luan opened them involuntarily.Ye Jing stood in front of him, holding his shoulder.Ye Jing's face said: "What are you in a daze for? It's fine now, both of them have passed out."

Moving his eyes to the left, Gan Lan fell softly into Ye Li's arms with his eyes closed; moving his eyes to the right, Xiao Yuji lay on the ground in a puddle of dead black ink.He found himself moving.He cleared his throat, as usual.

"Ye Jing?"

His voice is low and languid, like a wounded man left behind on the battlefield, waking up in the afternoon of cicadas, covered with deep fatigue and pain.

"What, what's your problem?"

"I'm full of questions... who am I..."

"It's the first time I saw you like this: I asked who I was after I was in a daze," Ye Jing patted him on the back, "It's too unprofessional, at least you should faint first." Ye Jing stopped, seeing Gan Luan The expression was not quite right: "Gan Luan?"

Gan Luan supported his head to counteract some dizziness, he first asked: "Gan Lan, what's wrong with him?"

"I gave him an injection." Ye Jing shook his other hand, the silver light brushed the tip of the needle, and he threw the disposable needle away: "No one can hold him except you, and you have been in a daze, No matter how you call it, what's wrong with you?"

He couldn't answer Ye Jing.Then asked: "Is Xiao Yuji dead? Gan Lan strangled him?"

Ye Jing took a step back: "Uh, no, he just fainted from fright. The 'withoutu...' on his face, I saw, was painted with oil paint, as if he had been prepared long ago and was waiting for us to come." .”

Xiao Yuji, who are you waiting for?

He stood up - he didn't know when he sat down - the person sitting on the chair, wasn't Gan Lan?

Who is that in Yeli's arms?

"who I am?"

"Ye Li, throw away Gan Lan." He heard himself say so.

"what?"

"I don't want this chess piece anymore." Gan Luan said: "The game is over, he is an abandoned piece." His face without sadness or joy was like a touch of vastness in the wilderness sky, faintly glowing with light blue.

Ye Jing lost the smile on his face.This is rare, and what's even more rare is that it was the first time he asked Gan Luan for a reason: "Explain. I need to explain, Gan Luan. You brought up this matter, and it didn't meet my expectations at all." Yes, they have always had a tacit understanding.Gan Luan believed that he had never done anything that Ye Jing did not expect, and Ye Jing also felt the same way, so they were able to remain calm all the time.Ye Jing said, "At this point in time, you suddenly chose to take this step...it's completely unreasonable. My position makes me have to ask clearly."

Ye Jing, why are you so self-willed—so self-willed that it made him laugh: "I have to do everything that meets your expectations, am I considered me?"

"Supervision and coordination, that's what I do. So, your question should be reversed: Your position requires you to meet my expectations in everything, otherwise you can't sit down, and I can't either."

"Your surname is Ye, my surname is Gan—"

"No——" Ye Jing interrupted him, never shouting so excitedly: "Your surname is also Ye, stop dreaming!"

The strong light made the closed eyelids twitch, and Gan Luan opened them involuntarily.Ye Jing stood in front of him, holding his shoulder.Ye Jing's face said: "What are you in a daze for? It's fine now, both of them have passed out."

"Ye Jing." He asked in a low voice, "What's my last name?"

Throwing away the syringe in hand, Ye Jing let him go, "Don't go crazy with these two cerebral palsies." Ye Jing paused, seeing that Gan Luan's expression was not right: "Gan Luan?"

"My name is Gan, isn't it?"

"Otherwise?" Ye Li who was not far away sneered, "surnamed Ye?"

Ye Jing's face was serious, but he didn't answer.

Gan Luan stood up—why did he sit on the chair again?Isn't it Gan Lan?Obviously Gan Lan——

"噗——" the switchblade came out—after that night, after the night Gan Xiao died, he always carried this knife—he pushed Ye Li away, and then, the unconscious, delicate and beautiful like a doll The boy fell limply to the ground—doesn't he hurt?No, the puppet is unconscious—then cut off the head and take possession of it all—he wants to die, he wants to die anyway!

The point of his knife is directed at the boy——

"You want to kill Gan Lan? Are you sure?" Ye Jing grabbed his knife handle: "Are you sure?"

He heard his own voice, hoarse and embarrassed, as if crushing gravel: "I suspect he is a spy. The person who manipulated him, the third person, he surrendered to that third person! He doesn't belong to me!"

"Only he can't be a spy. You can't kill him."

"Why is it impossible only for him? It should be said that only he is possible."

This Gan Lan was the one who stepped over all the ruins and corpses and came towards him!Wherever he went, corpses were strewn all over the fields, not a single blade of grass grew... His appearance almost buried the whole life of "Gan Luan"... He made him completely unrecognizable.

If this Gan Lan is not my enemy!Who else is!

The puppet in his palm opened his eyes, showing his face like a rose, his face was as pale as frost and snow, and his eyes were as bright as the moon.The pale lips trembled slightly, his anger was like a thread, but every word was stern: "Kill me."

He tasted the sweetness of blood, and he said, "As you... wish..."

At this moment, they turned around, Gan Luan was pressed on the ground, above him, Gan Lan's hand was stroking his face, Gan Lan stared at the left side of his face, and said in a low voice: "Withoutu... .Who painted you..."

"cedar."

Ye Jing's voice was like a bell that came down, and the world was spinning for a while, his head was buzzing, as if he was bearing an oracle from ancient times.All the hurricane-like emotions were frozen, hanging in the air, looking down at the surroundings.Gan Luan felt himself floating up, looking down at the whole room from above.Ye Jing raised his head, as if he was under the tree, he quickly found Gan Luan's gaze, he met his gaze, and repeated: "Fir tree...is this a fir tree?"

cedar.

The wind is blowing, the distant clouds are drifting, the nearby trees are swaying, and the scattered dead leaves are bending and appearing suddenly.Gold covered the entire sky. At the end of the horizon, the roof of the building was blurred. Under the eyes, it was a withered balcony.

His soul landed on the withered balcony, he felt himself bowing his head, and then, he saw the tool in his hand, and his palm was slightly wet with sweat.Walking forward, walking forward uncontrollably, unlocking the chain locks, his heart was beating wildly, he was about to uncover the dusty coffin, and let the dry bones of history see the light of day again.

This is an uncontrollable dream, like a memory, which cannot be rewritten.He saw his hands irretrievably opened the locked old door, and his limbs moved automatically like brand marks: unlocking, pushing the door, gently leaning back to avoid the dust——

This door was facing a huge floor-to-ceiling window. When he opened the door, dazzling light and dust came rushing towards his face.He also smelled a musty smell, and the old smell climbed to the tip of his nose with this peculiar smell.The room was dark, as if there was only one window, and the golden light at noon occupied the whole field of vision, giving him the illusion of grandeur, which made him squint slightly.Then, he saw a silhouette in the mist of smoke and dust, trimmed with gold, with long sleeves dragging, like that kind of shabby ghost with only a layer of cloth covering his head, he was there forever, his pale face seemed to be engraved in the golden light Among them, his figure flickered.

He saw him, he saw Gan Luan... The figure floating in the golden light suddenly revealed his face, like a traveler who has found his long-awaited vision.The figure is no longer floating, and gradually materializes, with dark black hair, pale face, black and white eyes, like pearls and stars, his pupils overflow with the smell of the sea, and there are red marks at the end of his eyes.He is like a wandering monster.

The pale lips opened and closed, making his most familiar voice, clear and playful.It was that cunning monster.

"Are you here? As agreed."

This time, Gan Luan did hear this sentence.

This sentence……

At first it was Gan Lan who told him.

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