Blade and Swift

On the fifth day, the rain was over and the sky cleared. Yesterday's thunderstorm seemed to have never existed, and the sky was cloudless.Looking down from the window, only the ruins and asphalt road under my feet are wet, and the rough road surface reflects the skylight of the city.Even the wildly growing plants stretched out again after the heavy rain, looking greener than yesterday.

The sun shone into the room, baking the person on the bed, and showing heat on his face.

Yan Xichen knelt on the ground, lying on the edge of the bed, looking tired and fell asleep.The sunlight shifted to his eyelashes, and the corners of his eyes were still red.

Sitting on the bed, Du Yachen looked at his recovered wound and body, and at the wet towel folded beside the pillow, and the warm salt water on the bedside table—it should have been poured within an hour.

In the end, his eyes stopped on Yan Xichen's unconscious face, his sleeping appearance was more docile and harmless than usual.Du Yachen stretched out his hand, trying to rub the corners of his reddish eyes with his thumbs.I don't know if I cried last night.

The room was warm and bright with sunlight, illuminating the arcs in his dark brown eyes, but he turned his head away quickly, restraining the warmth.

Du Yachen got up carefully, and it took about 10 minutes to make no noise, successfully put on his clothes, and got off the bed.He was very good at this, even though his body was deteriorating, he didn't wake up Yan Xichen.He quickly washed and packed his things, changed his clothes within 10 minutes, and was ready to go out.

It was at this time that Yan Xichen woke up.In a daze, he realized that it was time to change Du Yachen's towel.When he opened his eyes, he woke up suddenly, and there was no one on the bed.

He fumbled a couple of times on the mattress exaggeratedly, got up quickly and rushed out the door - just bumped into Du Yachen who walked to the entrance to put on his shoes and was about to go out.

"Where are you going!" Yan Xichen was probably frightened by the disappearance of the person just after waking up, and completely forgot about their current relationship.

Du Yachen was stopped by his yelling, but he didn't say anything. He just looked at him silently, pulled the laces of his boots, and tied them neatly.

Yan Xichen looked at his profile and stopped in his tracks. He hadn't seen him for more than ten days, but it felt like he hadn't seen him for a long time.

There was a tide called missing in his chest, but his heart seemed to be tied to a heavy stone and fell into the deep seabed.

Du Yachen's silence made him uneasy.The calmer Du Yachen looked at him, the more uneasy he felt.

"I'm leaving." Du Yachen opened his mouth, but he only said that he was leaving without any other explanation.

Yan Xichen thought, did he feel that there was no need to explain this time?

It took several seconds before he lifted his heavy steps and approached Du Yachen cautiously: "You were seriously injured."

"I know." Du Yachen smiled at him. At this time, he became the Du Yachen who seemed to be indifferent and careless in Yan Xichen's previous impression. He said, "Thank you for taking care of me these few days. Thank you for your hard work. is you."

The unfamiliar and polite tone and content made Yan Xichen unsure how to proceed.

"You're still running a low-grade fever."

"It's all right, now I'm going out."

"Where are you going? You have suffered such a serious injury, you should rest well." Yan Xichen whispered.

Du Yachen finally put on his boots, he stood up, he did look a little weak, but he was by no means embarrassed.He ignored Yan Xichen, checked his gun belt, placed the weapons one by one, and finally stepped on the chair with his legs up, fastening his bootknife.

He looked neither in a hurry nor in embarrassment, which made Yan Xichen feel that he was neither sad nor angry with him, neither accused nor explained.

It's as if, this is what they really should be - he has no right to ask his affairs, and he doesn't expect anything from him.

Sensing this fact, Yan Xichen was suddenly at a loss.

Du Yachen lowered his legs and asked, "Why are you here?"

Yan Xichen couldn't help but took a step forward: "I'm waiting for you, I can't find you anywhere..."

"What do you want me for?" Du Yachen asked again.

His voice was very friendly, not indifferent, and there was no blame in it, as if he was really just curious about what Yan Xichen came to him for.

"I... came to apologize to you about what happened that day, at the Basilica Theater." Yan Xichen finally mustered up his courage.

He knew that one of them had to speak.

"You don't need to apologize." Du Yachen put his hand on the doorknob and turned to look at him, "If you like this place, stay here, this place is yours."

Without further words, he turned and went out.

"What about you? Where are you going now? I still have something to ask you about the other world." Yan Xichen asked eagerly.

"So there is a problem." Du Yachen smiled wearily, turned to look at him, "If you have any questions, you can go to Lao Jiang, I have already told him, the watchman will not be too difficult for you."

"I want to ask you about the will of this space..."

"I don't want to talk about Cain for now." Du Yachen said lightly.

Yan Xichen stood where he was, this time he was really at a loss.

"Then first?" Du Yachen asked, he opened the door again, and waved goodbye to Yan Xichen, "I'm going out to do some errands now, you should have a good rest. Is there anything Lao Jiang can't answer your question, I'll talk to you next time you say."

His farewell was like any ordinary farewell between old friends.The response to Yan Xichen was not indifferent, but it was not more.

This was unacceptable to Yan Xichen, he didn't even have hatred or blame.

Yan Xichen suddenly realized that Du Yachen was really kind to him before, but he didn't treat everyone that way.He is willing to guide and participate in the dialogue with Yan Xichen.He digs out Yan Xichen, and at the same time guides Yan Xichen to like him.But once Du Yachen withdraws from this relationship and no longer actively responds, Yan Xichen has nothing to do with him.

Du Yachen took back this gift, and he became an ordinary person around him.Unable to "communicate" with him, at most it is "talkable".

After the door closed with a heavy bang, the room returned to silence.Yan Xichen felt his body lose strength, he leaned against the door, and slowly sat down on the ground.

Inopportunely, he thought of Rose's words again.

——He is only sad for you, and will not give up.

"Liar." Yan Xichen muttered while sitting on the ground, he raised his hand and slammed on the door vigorously, "Liar!"

He seemed to have found an outlet suddenly: "Liar! Liar! Liar!"

What he didn't expect was that just when his emotions were close to collapse, the closed door suddenly opened.

Du Yachen stood outside the door well, quietly looking down at him.I don't know whether to go and return, or never leave.

Yan Xichen's brain froze in an instant, and the tears gushing out of his eyes unexpectedly and his already pale and tired eyes made him look extremely embarrassed.

Du Yachen just stood there looking at him for a moment, then squatted down halfway, and looked at him.

"Why cry? Why do you say a liar?"

Yan Xichen stretched out his hand towards him, as if he wanted to grab something, but when he saw Du Yachen's eyes that did not change, his fingers curled up again, and stopped awkwardly in mid-air.

Du Yachen took out the paper from his pocket and wiped away his tears and sweat for Yan Xichen. He took Yan Xichen's hand, lowered his head and kissed the back of his hand reverently.

With just one kiss, the glacier melted, and the bones in the chest that had been slowly ground into dross just now miraculously healed.

Yan Xichen looked at Du Yachen who was going back and forth, and almost rushed forward to ask for a hug.

But what Du Yachen said next interrupted him.

"I didn't give you the right to choose at the beginning, I'm sorry." He squeezed Yan Xichen's palm, as if he was very reluctant to part with him.He lost his composure and looked very sad.

Yan Xichen shook his head desperately, and he held Du Yachen's hand tightly.

He knew that the current appearance was a little funny, even embarrassing.His pure white skin was covered with filthy tear stains, the tip of his nose and the corners of his eyes were all red from crying, and his eyes were swollen. He must no longer have any moving expressions.

He is still a beautiful man, but he is more like a beautiful skin.

A thick mist of sadness suddenly appeared on Du Yachen's face.

"I love you, that's all I wanted in my youth." Du Yachen's low voice was pleasant to the ears.

Yan Xichen held his breath and let himself be hit hard.

"I didn't know until after the Basilica that even if I spent my whole life trying to make up for the damage I caused, it would not be undone. The most terrifying thing is that after that, I kept thinking, if I did it all over again, would I do it differently?" The choice? The answer is no, even if you do it a thousand times, ten thousand times, I still choose to let you survive."

"Don't blame me, I was just a guy who didn't know how to love. I was a monster who grew up with death, betrayal, conspiracy and gunfire. I didn't know how to love until I met you."

Yan Xichen had never heard such sincere words from Du Yachen in his life, which made him a little panicked.

"No, you're not some monster!" Yan Xichen cried again, he hated himself for looking like this.

Du Yachen was right, he was an impulsive and emotional guy.

"You are very good to me, even though I used to be so bad. It makes me feel that the world has become a little bit better." Du Yachen's eyes softened, and the fog in his charming and emotional eyes still hasn't faded, "You made me I know love is good and not always stupid and useless."

He was silent for a while again: "I can't look after you anymore, I'm sorry."

Yan Xichen stared at him blankly, feeling his hand was rubbed heavily and hot, and then let go.

"What do you mean?"

Du Yachen stood up and turned around.Yan Xichen had never realized that his footsteps were so fast, just as he couldn't catch up back then.

He was just in a daze, Du Yachen had already walked a long way.

Yan Xichen almost scrambled and chased down from the building, and fell in the stairwell in embarrassment. He staggered after two steps, but found that the distance between the two was getting farther and farther.

"Don't you want me?" He heard his crying voice echoing in the stairwell.

Du Yachen's back seemed to pause for a moment, and then Yan Xichen heard him say firmly: "Yes, this time, I don't want you."

What collapses, something rebuilds from the ruins.

The incident at the Basilica Theater did not change much the normal stable zone of the inner and outer worlds, but the people in the stable zone.Everyone received a huge shock.The people of the powers outside the world were panicked, and the people of the powers in the inner world began to investigate the reasons behind this responsibility.

Except for a few people involved who knew the complexity of the matter, many people did not know the complicated joints between Cain, Yan Xichen and Du Yachen.

Du Yachen's disappearance aroused some people's dissatisfaction, among them was Mr. Yu who was particularly anxious because of the death of his old friend Duan Yun.He thinks that Du Yachen should stand up and take charge of the overall situation at this time. Although he usually doesn't seem to like to cooperate with the group and does everything alone, Mr. Yu thinks that Du Yachen has more things that people don't know. The news resources, leaving only a note like "I will deal with Cain", and then disappearing from the world, undoubtedly added to the impetuousness of the people's hearts on the cusp of this storm.

Otherwise, Lao Jiang is more calm and patient than Mr. Yu, and he has more opportunities to get in touch with Du Yachen. He knows that Du Yachen's solitary personality is difficult to change.

He had heard about his past, and knew that these were caused by Du Yachen's mercenary's growth environment and experience, and it would be difficult to change the day after tomorrow.But it was useless for him alone to understand. Too many people lost their lives in this scuffle at the Basilica Theater, and many innocent people were involved.

People are eager to hate, eager to see results, and eager to break the current deadlock.

It is well known that Yan Xichen's state is not stable. The reason why the watchman has not troubled Yan Xichen until now is because Lao Jiang for Du Yachen's face, forcibly suppressed other people.Now that Du Yachen's disappearance makes him unable to control the situation, it seems that it is really necessary to invite Yan Xichen over...

Thinking of this, Lao Jiang felt that the newly elected watchman in District C seemed more calm than Mr. Yu.

His eyes drifted calmly to the other side of the table, Duan Mingyi was silently recording something in his notebook, his face didn't seem to have much expression.

The veteran thought to himself, although this young man looks young, he can bear his temper, which is a very good quality.What's more, he also heard that he is Duan Yun's grandson, and he is still a good brother with Yan Xichen.

Lao Jiang was talking to several other watchmen about going to Yan Xichen, and they were about to quarrel, and they had different opinions.

Duan Mingyi raised his hand to interrupt a few people at this time, his face was still calm, this was the first time he spoke in the meeting room today: "I think we still have a day or two to wait, there is no need to find a banquet Xichen, he will find us soon."

"How do you say that?" The watchman in Zone Z looked worried.

"I was with him a few days ago, and then he left without saying goodbye. I think he probably went to find the boss. But since the boss doesn't want others to find out, Yan Xichen will not find him easily. Although he said He has contacts with both Rose and Rosen, but I believe he will come to us after he can't find an answer there." Duan Mingyi closed his pen cap and shrugged.He said this in a very objective tone, making it difficult to see from his expression whether the current relationship between him and Yan Xichen is still as good as before.

"Even if the relationship between him and Cain described in his letter cannot be fully believed until we meet him in person, how can you believe that he will come to meet us and even assist us just because of Du Yachen's disappearance? What about it?" A watchman spread his hands and said to the crowd, he remained skeptical, "Maybe Du Yachen is not that important to him at all."

Duan Mingyi gently put down his pen, his expression calm: "They admire each other, before they entered the inner world."

The words are an understatement, but the content clearly caused an uproar.In particular, the old-fashioned watchmen couldn't react for a long time, and it took several seconds to accept the fact that "he is a man, and the boss is also a man, and they are dating".

Lao Jiang patted the table just right, interrupting everyone's discussion.

"Since that's the case, let's wait for another two days and see. The world is already in chaos. If Yan Xichen can sincerely take the initiative to come, it's better than us looking for him."

The author says:

no more knives, really