Blade and Swift

The unconscious Duan Yun was suspended in the air, and it took a lot of effort for Yan Xichen and Duan Mingyi to drag him up.

The two were pulling the rope with all their strength when suddenly there was some unusual movement behind them.

Duan Mingyi was very wary of the crow at this moment, he picked up his gun and turned around to aim it almost instantly.Yan Xichen also stopped his movements and looked back.

A person slowly crawled out of the sack that Duan Mingyi cut off as soon as he came up just now.He seemed just awake, a little dazed and overwhelmed.

He looked like a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old, with a delicate manner. After seeing Yan Xichen and Duan Mingyi who were holding guns in front of him, he looked at them as if they were enemies.

"What's the situation?" Duan Mingyi asked Yan Xichen in a low voice, "They forgot to take the props with their teammates?"

"I don't think I'm with the crow." Yan Xichen said helplessly, "Why don't you ask about the situation?"

The two shied away from each other for a long time, and finally decided to leave the boy alone and pull up Duan Yun who was hanging below.It's just that Duan Mingyi is very suspicious when he looks at Shanqu, and he always guards against the people behind him who want to stab him.

"Why is there someone down there?" When the boy slowly crawled over by himself, he was taken aback by the hanging Duan Yun.

Duan Mingyi stopped talking nonsense, the two of them and the thin-looking boy pulled the rope together, their palms were almost worn out, and they didn't even have gloves.Duan Mingyi occasionally poked his head and talked to Duan Yun who was hanging below. It seemed that Duan Yun had already woken up, but his consciousness had not yet fully recovered.When Duan Yun was completely pulled up, Duan Mingyi put his arms around the old man and whispered, almost terrified.

Yan Xichen also leaned over to care, but he soon discovered that Duan Yun was still a little unconscious.When the grandfather and grandson reunited, they were frightened and confided to each other. Yan Xichen wanted to interject several times to ask about Duan Yun's situation, but he didn't find a chance.Yan Xichen was happy for them, but also felt a little sour.

Du Yachen didn't come back, and now it seemed that his presence was superfluous.

He simply turned around and approached the sack boy: "My friend, what's the matter with you? Are you hurt?"

The young man looked timid at first, but after chatting with Yan Xichen for a few words, he let go of his guard and told him the ins and outs.

This young man was named Fang Shuo, and as Yan Xichen expected, he was put into a sack by Crow and others.But it's not a coincidence, it's Fang Shuo's fault.He happened to be on the top floor at this point, and met Wu Ya and the others who were tying up Duan Yun and preparing to deal with Yan Xichen, and without saying a word, he was fainted and hung there.

"Then what are you doing on the top floor?" Yan Xichen was curious again.

I don't know what happened, but when talking to this young man, Yan Xichen couldn't help but feel close.The intimacy was almost instinctive, there wasn't much on that face that attracted him, but Fang Shuo's occasional expressions in his gestures made Yan Xichen feel very familiar.

When asked by Yan Xichen the reason for going up to the top floor, Fang Shuo looked a little embarrassed, but under Yan Xichen's straightforward and curious eyes, he still spoke in a low voice.

"I was here to jump off a building..."

Yan Xichen choked and was speechless.

He looked at the teenager next to him again, his face was full of shame, like a child who had done something wrong and was waiting to be scolded by the teacher.

"Are you waiting for me to comfort you about how beautiful the world is, and to pour you chicken soup?" Yan Xichen bent one leg, put his arms on his knees, and cast his eyes into the distance.

On the top floor, you can have a panoramic view of the whole city.It was getting late, the sun was slanting westward, the iron tower was drawn into a long shadow, and a thin layer of clouds rolled among the distant mountains.

There's still a touch of poetic romance in this damn world.Yan Xichen thought to himself.

The young man beside him looked a little dazed, as if he wanted to speak, but hesitated.

Yan Xichen looked at the poetic scenery in front of him, and his eyelashes seemed to be drawn into a long shadow under the slanting sun: "Don't show such an expression, I won't make you safe. I just came to the inner world yesterday , I was hit hard, and now I feel that the world is terrible, and I don't want to say anything nice to you."

"Huh?" The young man looked a little surprised, very surprised that Yan Xichen said such words.

"So before I figured out what the real world is like now, no matter how bad it is, I will hold on." Yan Xichen said.

Fang Shuo looked at his serious expression, did not speak, and sat quietly beside him.

"Are you from District K?" Yan Xichen said, blinking his long shadow with his eyelashes, "I heard that people who represent the power of the world have always wanted to protect this world, right? At least they have the consciousness to survive." Bar."

The young man obviously didn't expect Yan Xichen to use this set of rhetoric, he lowered his head: "Actually, it's not exactly what you think. I appeared in District K after waking up from the watch world, and lived here naturally. And I can't remember what happened before I came here..."

"Don't you have the right to choose your position yet? In fact, I am too." Yan Xichen said softly, and then he stretched out his hand generously, and looked at Fang Shuo seriously, "I'm leaving. See you later when you have a chance. If you arrive then If you haven't committed suicide yet."

Yan Xichen stood up from beside the boy.As soon as he took two steps and turned around, he met a pair of eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

Du Yachen leaned against the wall of the stairwell, his shadow was dragged long by the setting sun, and he didn't know how long he had been leaning against the corner of the wall listening.

Area K is not as peaceful as Area C.

While the suburb looks more modern than District C, it's also more chaotic.

Area K is their hostile force, but the two adjacent areas are both hostile Inner World areas.Probably because of this, Area C gives people the feeling of a chaotic area every night.Screaming, gunfire, crying, fighting, just listening to it makes people jump in fear.

In view of the fact that the sky was already dark after Duan Mingyi and his team rescued Duan Yun, for the sake of safety, Duan Mingyi suggested finding a safe hotel in Area C to stay overnight and then set off the next morning.

The return car was driven by Duan Mingyi. When they found the hotel, Duan Yun and Du Yachen got out of the car first. Yan Xichen saw Duan Yun pull Duan Yun aside and said something, because it was from the back, and he couldn't see Duan Yun's expression clearly .

Du Yachen was very close to Duan Yun when he spoke, and finally patted Duan Yun's shoulder, and turned his head to look at Xi Chen.

Yan Xichen was puzzled, turned his head and asked Nuan Duan Mingyi: "Your grandfather and Du Yachen knew each other?"

Duan Mingyi was also a little strange: "I've never seen him before."

It didn't take long for the two of them to park the car, and when they walked in, Du Yachen and Duan Yun had already finished the room.

There are only two rooms left in the hotel, which are big bed rooms, which are enough to sleep four people, but Duan Mingyi naturally wants to share a room with Duan Yun, which means that the remaining Yan Xichen needs to share a room with Du Yachen.

It's still a big bed room.

Yan Xichen started to daydream again, he felt a little flustered, and followed Du Yachen to the room.

This is not to say that he is too slutty, but Du Yachen is indeed a charming man, and he is very talkative to him, and the two of them are in a somewhat ambiguous state, so it is difficult for Yan Xichen to be in the same room.

But today, Du Yachen unexpectedly acted very upright, after putting away his things, he expressed his intention to go down to explore the road ahead of time, and his departure tomorrow will be smoother.

Hearing the sound of closing the door as Du Yachen left, Xichen Yan simply felt at ease, took off his clothes and took a shower, his whole body was softened by the steam, his exhaustion disappeared without a trace, and he wanted to go downstairs for a while.

It's not cold and the temperature is moderate. It's just right to go out with a sweater outside.

Yan Xichen was walking in the night, with the sound of guns and guns in the distance, his body smelled of saponin, walking in the moonlight, in the wind with the fragrance of plants, many strange feelings rose in his heart.

For some reason, he thought of that boy named Fang Shuo in the daytime again, and always felt that when he looked at him, the familiar light of Yan Xichen shone in his eyes.

Yan Xichen sat on the steps in front of the hotel, listening to the occasional gunshots in the distance, quietly smoking a cigarette.However, he had only taken a puff of a cigarette when someone stood behind him and sat side by side with him after a while.

"I'm sorry for involving you in today's matter." Duan Mingyi said calmly.

Yan Xichen raised his eyebrows and handed Duan Mingyi the cigarette case without saying a word.

Duan Mingyi hesitated for a moment, then took out a cigarette: "Thank you."

"I thought you were just an ordinary person who woke up from the watch world. You shouldn't have been involved in these troubles so quickly, so I kept letting you go before to avoid this situation. But today, you His identity is really complicated." Duan Mingyi lit a cigarette with the match polished by Yan Xichen, "Anyway, you helped me, so I should show some sincerity. The person you saw today It’s the crow. The K area is mainly managed by the crow, and he has a few killers, as you saw today. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that he took so much effort to be interested in you.”

"So I'm not a hot potato, but a sweet potato." Yan Xichen joked.

Duan Mingyi didn't smile, his smoky gaze was somewhat complicated: "Do you really not remember anything outside of the watch world? There are many things that don't make sense on you, and your skills are not like ordinary people. Help me I really want to trust you emotionally, but I am really afraid of trusting the wrong person."

"Are you cryptically asking if you should believe me? I won't cry and beg you to believe me." Yan Xichen shook his hand in front of Duan Mingyi, jokingly said, "I have more doubts than you, and I want to know more about my secrets than you. I am willing to accept your trust, but I don't believe in myself. But anyway, you are the world to me. The first friend I met, at least like today, no matter how many times I repeat it, I will make the same choice.”

"I see." Duan Mingyi stared at the puff of smoke at his fingertips, his expression softened, "Today, I heard the conversation between you and that boy."

"Ok?"

"Actually, you think the same as him. Ever since you came to the other world, you haven't had a chance to make a choice. I haven't asked you about your position yet."

Although this passage was tangled, Yan Xichen understood Duan Mingyi's meaning.In fact, Duan Mingyi's question was the same as the question Du Yachen asked him in the bar before, it was nothing more than asking him what he planned to do in the future.

Is it going to break this space, or is it going to protect this space?

Duan Mingyi, however, started talking on his own: "My grandfather, in the real world he passed away very early."

Yan Xichen gradually became serious.

"Many memories have become blurred since I came to the other world, but I remember this incident clearly." Duan Mingyi was expressionless, but his eyes were bright. For a moment, Yan Xichen thought he saw something. The look of a child only, "My grandfather is a retired soldier. After retiring, he loves to play cards. My grandma left early, and my parents were busy with work. He took me with me when I was young. He has always been healthy and in good spirits. Very lonely a lot of times. He used to be a poor soldier. When he was young, he had little reunion with his relatives and parted a lot, but he was still so lonely when he was old. I can’t imagine what his life was like before I came, but I know that my company is very precious to my grandpa. Then one day, he suddenly fell asleep and never woke up again. My parents said that grandpa passed away, but I didn’t believe it. His actions were right to mine The blow was very big at one point."

Yan Xichen listened quietly, and unconsciously lit another cigarette.

The fleeting faint fire light illuminated the expression on Duan Mingyi's face, apart from the rare tenderness, he was also a little lonely.

"Then I was under a lot of pressure and emotionally unstable, but I'm sure I was still in the real world at that time. I don't know when and how I came to the other world. When I woke up, I just remember somehow going back to my childhood..."

"Then how did you find out that something was wrong, that you were actually in the watch world?"

"Once I celebrated my birthday, my grandfather gave me a set of Gunpla." Duan Mingyi had a dumbfounding look on his face, "Can you imagine? My grandfather gave me a set of Gunpla. Maybe it's because I really wanted to do it subconsciously." Ask him to give me a set, but actually he's the kind of old man who really doesn't understand the love that little boys have for Gundams."

Yan Xichen stretched out his hand to him, and the two confirmed each other tacitly with their eyes, and shook hands to express their sympathy.

"Later, my grandfather was very angry when he saw me in the other world. He beat me up and ignored me for a while. After so many years passed, I only found out later that my grandfather blamed himself very much for these years. He felt that In a sense, it was because we both missed each other too much that I was drawn into this world."

A long piece of soot fell from Duan Mingyi's cigarette.

"Anything like that?"

"There is also a saying that when someone in the other world is forgotten by everyone in the real world, he will never go back."

Duan Mingyi's words made Yan Xichen suddenly feel sad.

He had heard that in Greek mythology, after Prometheus, the fire thief, offended Zeus, Zeus told him that he would give him the most severe punishment.

Not burning, lightning, or any other torture, but oblivion.

Yan Xichen was a little lost in thought, and he thought of his nightmare again.In the nightmare of his trial, he was also told that his crime was "forgetting".

So what has he forgotten?

It always feels very important.

Duan Mingyi was immersed in his own memories, and did not notice Yan Xichen's strange expression: "Although grandpa is very important to me, for me in the real world, there are still many things that I haven't had in my life yet. Definitely coming. I don't want to miss them."

"That sounds old-fashioned, and I don't like it. You stole your grandfather's words, didn't you?"

"Okay." Duan Mingyi curled his lips, "Now that I know that my grandfather is not dying, rather than staying in the other world with the old man, I should return to the real world with him. This is really fair to me and him."

"It's much more convincing now." Yan Xichen nodded, "So you want to know, do I want to return to the real world, or choose the beautiful watch world?"

"That's what it means." Duan Mingyi looked away.

Yan Xichen probed over: "Ming Yi?"

"Don't call me that, nasty!"

"Actually, you care about my position, right? I know you are against those who defend the watch world, but I can actually understand them." Yan Xichen smiled.

Duan Mingyi's body stiffened slightly, and he didn't speak.

Yan Xichen threw away the cigarette, wrapped his arms around Duan Mingyi's shoulders and shook gently: "If I have no memory of the real world, but my relatives, friends, and lover are all here, then for me who knows nothing about the real world , isn’t it more memorable here?”

"It's false!" Duan Mingyi turned his head, and hurriedly replied, "Don't you feel it's a pity to live in this kind of falsehood all your life? Don't you want to see the real world?"

"I know, I know. I haven't finished yet." Yan Xichen patted Duan Mingyi's shoulder, "However, people are always bound and shaped by past experiences and visions of the future. So 'I am The who' question is very important to me. The way a person tries to face reality depends largely on his beliefs. If I don't even know my own beliefs, I can't find out what is true for me. Important things. And the answer may only be found in the real world that I have never been to."

Duan Mingyi didn't move, he was a little dazed, quietly looking at the asphalt road under the steps.

"For me, this is the absolute truth." Yan Xichen sighed, tightened his shoulders and shook, "Besides, I want to leave this ghost place just like you! What nonsense, of course I Want to leave?"

The silent wind and the gradually brightening moon are particularly pleasant in this chaotic night of gunfire.

Although Duan Mingyi didn't speak, Yan Xichen could feel his relaxation.For the first time, Yan Xichen felt that sitting side by side with this guy with a stinky face and always saying things wrong, it felt pretty good.

Just when the two of them were enjoying the sudden brotherhood, silently hugging their shoulders, Yan Xichen suddenly noticed Du Yachen who was strolling towards the road on the right, carrying a gun.

Duan Mingyi immediately regained his dead face, and pulled Yan Xichen's hand off his shoulder in disgust.

Yan Xichen thought that Du Yachen would come and have a chat with the two of them when he came back from exploring the road.

But in fact Du Yachen just slipped past them silently and whistled by the way.

Du Yachen didn't say anything, but raised the sense of presence to the highest level, and the atmosphere was disturbed by him very strangely.

Duan Mingyi, the straight man of steel, was restless in this weird atmosphere, so he got up and left.

"Gay is gay in Gay, what do you look like!" Before leaving, he still glared at him.

Yan Xichen was stared in bewilderment with question marks all over his face.

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