Blade and Swift

As Yan Xichen took his seat, the eyes of several watchmen also fell on him.

Yan Xichen could feel the heat of those gazes, and only one gaze was the most special.

He turned his head, Duan Yun.

Strictly speaking, Yan Xichen had not been away from Area C for a long time, but when he saw Duan Yun again, he realized that he hadn't seen the old man for such a long time.

Duan Yun's gaze was full of temptation, concern, and worry, all of which were good.His gaze alone made Yan Xichen relax a lot, enough to ignore other probing or stern gazes.

Du Yachen was still sitting beside him, without saying a word.But his eyes looked around cynically, and the rustling conversations stopped wherever his eyes passed.

The main watchman in District A is called Lao Jiang by everyone. Du Yachen mentioned it to him in the bar in District A.

This was the first time Yan Xichen met Lao Jiang.Lao Jiang's hair is neatly combed. He is about 40 years old, and his facial features and body shape can faintly show the sharpness of his youth.At this moment, he was kind and kind, and he was the first to speak: "We have heard your story, and we are looking for you today because we want to know more about you."

The four watchmen in Zone Z and Zone B were all sitting in the shadows. Duan Yun was sitting with a man who looked very honest. Yan Xichen thought of Duan Mingyi and the 'Mr. Yu' he mentioned, so he must be sitting next to Duan Yun It's him.

Yan Xichen took a deep breath: "Are you here to ask about Cain?"

The watchman in Zone Z nodded his head: "Smart people don't speak dark words, Aachen should have told you that we will conduct an investigation on the Basilica Theater in the near future, and there may be good news at that time. Before that, we hope to understand to learn more about Cain."

Aachen, Yan Xichen froze for a moment.This was Du Yachen's name when he was a mercenary in Blackwater, and he hadn't heard anyone call it for many years.The familiar pronunciation rolls on the tip of the tongue, and the past explodes in the back of the head like a thunderstorm.

Du Yachen was very perceptive, he squeezed Yan Xichen's hand and smiled.He didn't say anything, but Yan Xichen knew that he was telling himself: he knew, he felt.

"I understand." Yan Xichen nodded to the watchmen.

He was silent for half a minute, and all the watchmen remained silent during this half minute.Even Du Yachen didn't make a sound, leaving all the time for Yan Xichen.

After half a minute of silence, Yan Xichen began to speak eloquently.

Regarding Cain, Yan Xichen rearranged his thoughts today, so much so that he found a very scary conjecture.He hadn't had time to tell Du Yachen about this conjecture.But according to Du Yachen's shrewdness and intelligence, Yan Xichen believed that Du Yachen didn't have such conjectures in his heart.

Yan Xichen recounted the bloody scene he saw at the Cain bone blast site to the watchmen.Now he has been able to escape his inner fear and be less controlled by emotions.But even so, Du Yachen could feel that the palms he held were wet, and he was forcibly restraining and enduring.

Distressed?How can you say no.But Du Yachen knew that Yan Xichen had something to say, so he didn't interrupt.

To repay Du Yachen's respect, Yan Xichen coherently narrated the whole incident.After shutting up, the faces of the guards were all different, and they didn't dare to express their opinions easily. Yan Xichen added in silence: "I recovered a large part of my memory yesterday, about the memory after I became a mercenary in Hawkeye. I am very happy. I'm sure Cain was someone I knew, but whenever I try to think about him, it's like a black spot blocks the memory from seeing the truth."

He wasn't lying, and even every time he tried to recall this person, his consciousness slowly fell into chaos.This is very similar to some kind of body protection mechanism, just like those people with selective amnesia, because they want to deliberately avoid a certain memory, so the brain will avoid some of the things that happened, causing memory confusion.This also means that it is very likely that Cain told him that it was someone in the subconscious that was very similar to escape.

"The truth." Lao Jiang, the watchman in Area A, said, "Your missing memory is probably some kind of truth."

The questioning was still going on, and Du Yachen knew some questions better than him, so he answered them for him.Only then did Yan Xichen know that Du Yachen had told the watchman about their relationship long before today, so it's no wonder that several people didn't show strange expressions when they saw the two of them sitting together in such an intimate posture.They answered many questions about the past one after another. Some Yan Xichen couldn't remember clearly, but most of them related to Du Yachen could remember clearly.

"According to our previous calculations, it can only be calculated. The formation time of the inner world can be accurately between 1992 and 1993. The nuclear leak in Kiev is a world-class event."

The topic finally approached the truth that Yan Xichen had guessed, and he straightened his back.

"Gentlemen, I know you are very perceptive, I guess you already have some ideas." Du Yachen's eyes glowed with a cold brown light under the moonlight, "1993—the Kiev tragedy in Yan Xichen's memory—he The person who saw the tragic death of nuclear radiation——Cain.”

The temperature in the entire church seemed to drop several degrees.

It took Duan Yun a long time to speak in a low voice, and he asked Yan Xichen: "Son, is this what you want to say?"

"At that time, I desperately wanted to go back to Kiev to meet someone. I couldn't remember who he was, and I wanted to save him." Yan Xichen lowered his head, ink-like shadows leaked from his hair on his face, his voice Also hoarse, "I keep having the same nightmare over and over again, and the god of death in the nightmare judges me for the crime of forgetting."

Du Yachen looked at him quietly and encouraged him.

"No, that's not death, it's Cain's judgment on me. The person I desperately tried to save was Cain, but I couldn't save him, and I couldn't go back to Kiev! So at the explosion point of his bones Only then did I see that scene - he was the person lying in the rotten, smelly room. It was never a hallucination, it was my memory before his death!"

Yan Xichen trembled all over, and when he came back to his senses, tears were streaming down his face.

All the watchman was silent, his trembling voice echoed from the empty church and its dome.

"But in that nightmare, the charge I was repeating was not 'betrayal,' but 'forgetting.'"

The meeting finally ended with Lao Jiang slapping the case: "You have worked hard, go back first, and we will meet again later."

The watchman sitting next to Lao Jiang in Zone Z showed disapproval: "The proposal we said before..."

"No, not today." Lao Jiang looked at the people next to him, his somewhat aged face showed a determined look, "We still have time."

Yan Xichen had already calmed down, and naturally heard the conversation between the two watchmen.

He wanted to ask, but the guards left very quickly, it seemed that it was Lao Jiang's instruction, and it seemed that they were oppressed by Du Yachen's gaze.

Only one person was still sitting in place without moving.He took off his glasses and said to Du Yachen, "Can you give us some time alone?"

Du Yachen looked at Yan Xichen questioningly, raised his hand by the way, and touched his brow bone twice, as if to comfort him.Then he backed out slowly and closed the huge wooden door for the two of them.

In fact, only a few people left, but the scene of the chapel immediately seemed empty and lonely.

Duan Yun stood up, passed through the marble circular midfielder, and sat beside Yan Xichen: "How have you been recently?"

"Very good. Ming Yi is also very good. I often miss you. We separated not long after we went to the chaotic area. I often write to you. Have you received it?" Yan Xichen restrained himself, but he was still a little displeased. Sorry to see Duan Yun.He is a bit like the shyness of a child who secretly shed tears behind an adult's back, and was suddenly discovered by an adult, "Also, how is Fang Shuo recently?"

He didn't like to look at it, so Duan Yun didn't look at him, and looked up at the moonlight like a holy light leaking from the dome hole: "I received it, but you never wrote your address, and you have never been able to reply to your letter. As for Fang Shuo , He left in the first month after you left, and left me a note saying that he was going to find something to do in District A. I originally said hello to Lao Jiang, but Lao Jiang said that he had never seen him. This kid doesn't know where he went."

Listening to Duan Yun's words, Yan Xichen seemed to feel Duan Mingyi's dependence on his grandfather.Duan Yun does have a sense of affinity that is more like a family member than a watchman.Even though he is a very old man, an old man who used to be in the army, when he looked at Yan Xichen, he was very sincere, that was the way he looked at him as a family member.

Duan Yun took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket: "I'll smoke one, shh, don't tell those old guys."

Yan Xichen turned his head, slid down, leaned on Duan Yun's shoulder, and smiled.

"I like the moon." He stared blankly at the moon with Duan Yun, his head was empty and he didn't think about anything.

Duan Yun took a deep breath of the cigarette, and the misty smoke and moonlight were entangled immediately: "Yes, human beings are obsessed with the moon."

The two were silent for a moment, and Duan Yun patted Xichen Xichen's head: "Let's not talk about that, Grandpa still needs to apologize to you about Du Yachen's matter."

Yan Xichen's heart moved, he knew that Duan Yun was talking about concealing his identity as Du Yachen.When Duan Yun met Du Yachen at first, he felt that the two had met before.Duan Yun's attitude towards Du Yachen was even more strange.But since Duan Yun didn't say anything about Du Yachen from the beginning to the end, Yan Xichen didn't have unnecessary doubts.

"He told you to hide his identity from me?"

"To everyone." Duan Yun corrected, "To be precise, except for Rose Rosen and us watchmen, few people know that he is the 'boss'."

"why?"

"Because it will save a lot of trouble." Duan Yun smiled, "But I'm surprised that you two have known each other before. At first I was worried that he had some bad intentions for you. After all, the day you first came, Rose Assassinated you twice."

Yan Xichen also laughed: "I have already taught him a lesson."

Looking at Duan Yun's old face under the dim moonlight, Yan Xichen's heart was filled with warmth.

Duan Yun patted Yan Xichen's hand on his shoulder: "Anyway, this world already belongs to you young people. You have to work hard in the future."

Duan Yun was talking like this, and Yan Xichen suddenly felt that he was very lonely.

Yan Xichen remembered that when they left Area K that day, Duan Mingyi sat on the stone steps and talked about his impression of Duan Yun in the real world.He seemed to be able to see the old man sitting in front of the coffee table reading the newspaper in the early morning mist, and the breakfast on the table was still steaming. He just sat like that, waiting for a phone call or someone to knock on the door.

But no one came, and no phone rang.

In the evening, he might sit on the edge of the bed and look at pictures of himself when he was young and with his lost partner.Or maybe in the early hours of the morning, in the dim twilight, I played chess with myself alone, knocking on the chess pieces to drop the lights.

But in the end he couldn't wait for anyone.

That old figure who was in a state of embarrassment lived alone day after day like this.

Until one day, Duan Mingyi came into this world...

Yan Xichen bent down and hugged the old man sitting with his back facing him from behind.

"Grandpa, after this attack is over, Duan Mingyi and I will come back to find you. The cheesecake you baked is really delicious."

When he came out of the house, Yan Xichen turned his head once.

Duan Yun was still sitting there with his back to him.

Even though he couldn't see Duan Yun's expression, he could read many emotions from the solitary figure.

Yan Xichen suddenly understood the scenes Duan Mingyi described to him, and seemed to see how Duan Yun left himself alone in the past.

Yan Xichen waved his hand at the figure of the old man, turned and left.

At the end of the corridor, Du Yachen was leaning against the door and playing with a pocket knife, as if he had been waiting there for a long time.

When Yan Xichen walked in front of him, Du Yachen looked down at him: "I wanted to eavesdrop, but I thought you would be angry."

He walked side by side with him: "Then why do you think I'm angry?"

"Stole your inner secret for me?" Du Yachen said.

Yan Xichen stopped in his tracks. He turned his body and looked at Du Yachen carefully for a long time: "You have all my secrets, and from now on, I will also have yours."