Blade and Swift

That night, Du Yachen was extremely irritable, and he was hiding a little irritability, which hurt Yan Xichen a little bit.Even though Yan Xichen had always been gentle and forbearing, in the end he couldn't take it anymore and pushed him off his body.Du Yachen was covered in sweat, he was kicked down and then turned up again, pressing heavily on Yan Xichen like a lead stone.Yan Xichen pushed him several times, but he couldn't push him away.

"Speak up if you have something to say." Yan Xichen gasped, "You're almost crushing me to death!"

Du Yachen's face was pressed against his shoulder, and he touched Yan Xichen's waist: "I have to deal with things, I can't accompany you, I'm worried."

In Yan Xichen's eyes, this behavior almost looked like a coquettish act. He was funny and annoyed, and pressed the hand that was acting out of control on his body: "What are you worried about, tell me?"

"I'm worried that you'll get hurt, and I'm worried that you'll let it go."

After the Basilica Grand Theater, what made Du Yachen afraid was not the upright and authentic Fang Shuo in the outside world, but the "Cain" in the other world, which was a fusion of Yan Xichen's guilt and Fang Shuo's malice. ".

"I won't run away with him." Yan Xichen retorted unhappily, holding Du Yachen's hand and putting it on his chest, "I miss you, I just want to be with you."

Before Du Yachen could speak, he felt his chest beating violently.Du Yachen seemed to be very excited by his words, and resisted him again.

Yan Xichen pushed him, Du Yachen rolled over from him, and hugged him from the side: "Tomorrow I will go to S District, I promised Lao Jiang, at least we can't let the situation continue to be chaotic."

Yan Xichen gave a soft "um" and slid his fingers across Du Yachen's abdominal muscles: "Gao Rose, Duan Mingyi, I'm saying goodbye to them, and I want to go see... Duan Yun."

"Don't say it like something frustrating." Du Yachen kissed his forehead and let his hands run amok on his body.

"Don't be discouraged. After I go tomorrow, I will go to the Basilica Theater to find Cain. This way you are in Area S. If everything is really over..."

Du Yachen said in a deep voice: "We agreed that after everything is over, we will meet on Highway [-]."

Yan Xichen poked his hand down, and said with a smile: "I've seen people say before that every love affair should be treated as the last talk, and so is every love affair."

"I don't want to get up tomorrow." Du Yachen teased with a smile, but turned over and turned off the lamp on the bedside table.

Du Yachen went out early the next morning to meet Lao Jiang first. Yan Xichen woke up and saw no one, so he quickly packed up and went to see Rose.

Rose was taking care of Rosen by the bed, and she was sitting by the bed to drink porridge for Rosen. The atmosphere was so peaceful that Xichen Yan was a little embarrassed to disturb her.

"Come out and talk." Rose tucked up the quilt for Rosen, and entertained Xi Chen in the living room.

Yan Xichen came to thank you.At that time, if Rose hadn't said those words to him, maybe he wouldn't have come out so quickly, and it wasn't necessarily him who found Du Yachen in the watch world.

Rose heard this, and waved her hands smartly: "The boss is your best friend, but we also have a deep relationship with him."

The implication is that even if she has no friendship with Yan Xichen, she will do her best.Yan Xichen looked at her carefully, she was indeed different from before, she was a confident and unrestrained woman again, sometimes she seemed a bit mean, and when she was fighting, she seemed a bit charming.But what left the deepest impression on Yan Xichen was the way Rose smiled at him with loose hair and a long skirt.He remembered Rosen saying that before they met Rose was just a girl from an ordinary family.

"The previous conjecture...about the will of space..." Yan Xichen opened his mouth with difficulty, not knowing how to continue.

"Actually, I have a clue in my heart. Since the boss first looked for you, I have guessed that your meaning to this world must be more than that simple. Don't feel embarrassed, you have not deceived anyone, and you have been walking in the right direction. Rose smiled, walked to the table, took out a rose from the vase, and handed it to Yan Xichen, "He named me this name, which means giving roses to others, leaving fragrance in your hands. I believe the boss will do the same You say—let go and do what you have to do."

When Yan Xichen walked out of the apartment, he felt that the shackles on his body seemed to be loosened.He twisted the rose stem in his hand, carefully avoiding the thorns, and smelled the faint fragrance.

Yan Xichen put this flower in front of Duan Yun's urn.

"Is it inappropriate for you to do this?" Duan Mingyi leaned against the door of the room with a worried expression.

Yan Xichen ignored it, he looked at the flower on the table—it might be a bit funny, but it was indeed his sincerity.

He backed away a few steps, kowtowed seriously, and opened the curtains to let the sunlight in. He sat by the bed by himself, and Duan Mingyi followed.

"Why did you think of coming here suddenly?" Duan Mingyi asked suddenly after being silent.

"Come say goodbye to grandpa, and you." Yan Xichen looked at him seriously, "Ming Yi, do you still remember what I said to you when we were in District K?"

Duan Mingyi turned his head: "You said a lot that night, which one did you ask?"

"I said, no matter how many times something like that happens, I will choose to help you. It's the same now, you will always be my brother, the first brother in the other world. People like me thought it was impossible to be with anyone else There was an emotional connection with each other, but you, and Grandpa, gave me the feeling of a second home."

As Yan Xichen was talking, he noticed that Duan Mingyi's eyes were a little red. He didn't avoid it this time, but looked into Yan Xichen's eyes, as if confirming the truth of his words: "You're telling the truth?"

Yan Xichen laughed and made an oath: "Every word I say is from the bottom of my heart."

Duan Mingyi stood there for two seconds, walked towards him, and sat down beside him: "I know you didn't feel well at that time...I'm sorry for saying that to you."

Yan Xichen laughed again.

"What are you laughing at?" Duan Mingyi immediately stared back.

"I didn't come here to clear up the past with you, Ming Yi, I never blamed you for anything in my heart. But I know that what I did at the Basilica Theater that day is a scar on your heart. I Today is really to say goodbye to you, and grandpa. I will go back to the Basilica Theater, this is the last answer I have to face. Maybe when I find the answer, it will be over, and then No matter what happens, I hope you can still remember me, and I hope that the me that stays in your heart is not a bad image."

"What are you talking about..." Duan Mingyi was confused at first, but soon he realized that he stood up almost immediately, "You want to go back to the Basilica Theater to find Cain? Isn't he already dead?"

"The one who left was Fang Shuo, but not Cain." Yan Xichen's eyes were cold, "Cain in the other world is Fang Shuo's evil thoughts and my nightmare."

Duan Mingyi stared blankly at Yan Xichen, his heart was shaken: "Your nightmare..."

"I'm going to end my nightmare, Ming Yi, and I wish you good luck too."

Duan Mingyi couldn't recover until Yan Xichen left.He sorted out many things about Xichen in his mind, starting from the Basilica Theater, the phantom Cain, the Cain who cursed the rose... to the watch world, the flames of war, memories, his past, In the end, Yan Xichen faintly cried from the hospital.When everything was connected together, the string in Duan Mingyi's mind became tense, and he finally understood what Yan Xichen said.

He lightly touched the solitary rose on the table, and sat alone in that sunny room for a long time in silence.

Du Yachen had already left. He left a short letter to Yan Xichen. Yan Xichen folded the letter in his arms and said goodbye to Rosen. Leaving the stable area in a ray of sunshine. It took Yan Xichen a few hours to tell whether the journey in District S was far or close.

Along the way, he saw people fleeing like refugees, living in no fixed place, life and death.

Most of them are ordinary people, with ordinary looks and fears that ordinary people would have.Their joys, sorrows, joys, and their fears, Yan Xichen could clearly see them from the car.If you watch too much, you will be in a trance, just like watching all living beings all the way.

When he arrived at the Basilica Theater, he smoked a cigarette, a very thin lady's cigarette, which was given to him by Rose before leaving.Yan Xichen didn't bring anything with him when he came to this world, and he should be the same when he wants to leave.

Almost exhausted, Yan Xichen threw away the cigarette, put the gun forward, held it weakly, and pushed open the door of the Basilica Theater.

The inside was empty, with a wide stage and curtain, and densely packed auditorium seats.Everything looked so orderly, as if no blood had been shed here.Yan Xichen grabbed the gun, and the further he walked, the more numb his scalp became.

Walking along the only passage to the stage, he turned around with his gun in his arms: "Brother."

As soon as the sound was heard, the door of the Basilica Theater was closed.The only remaining white light suddenly went out, and the theater was briefly plunged into darkness, then the spotlight was turned on and focused on Yan Xichen.

He stood in the center of the stage, squinting because of the blinding white light, and raised his hand to cover it.After the eyes adjusted, the scene behind the white light appeared, and there was a person sitting in the empty auditorium.

At the age of 30, Cain still retains the image he had in Yan Xichen's heart when he died.

"Brother." He called again, and the audience laughed.

Yan Xichen remained motionless, staring at the audience.

Too familiar, too real, if he hadn't come from the watch world, if Du Yachen hadn't strengthened his belief, Yan Xichen would have believed that he was Fang Shuo himself.His hair was still cut by him, the beard on his face hadn't been completely shaved, and the armed uniform on his body was the same one that he often went to the battlefield.

The more real and memorable the details, the more Yan Xichen could hardly believe that this was a person born of his delusions and Fang Shuo's evil thoughts.

"You have finally come to me, and this time I have been waiting for a long time." Cain said from the audience.

"No, I'm not here to look for you this time." Yan Xichen held the gun in his hand and lowered his head, "I'm here to kill you."

"Kill me?" Cain tilted his head with interest, "Use the gun in your hand, or the knife in your hand?"

Standing in the spotlight, Yan Xichen saw Cain sizing him up from the audience, like sizing up a clown.

"It doesn't matter, you and I, only one person can get out of here today."

As soon as Yan Xichen finished speaking, Cain disappeared from the audience like a ghost.He suddenly appeared behind Yan Xichen, strangling Yan Xichen by the throat.Yan Xichen's reaction was already considered fast. He swung his arms back violently and lowered his head, but he was still a second slower, and Cain lifted him up with a chokehold.

His breathing was instantly blocked, and his throat hurt so badly that he was about to cough up blood.His brain was congested, and Yan Xichen raised his gun with red eyes.

Cain pinched his neck and lifted it up, looked at him from bottom to top, and said with a smile: "Why, you really want to try to fight me? Can you do it? Do you remember when I was 12 years old, I just wanted to fight You fought, and left a scar behind the base of your ear. I have been fighting for you since then, and whoever dares to bully you, I will make him regret it. I will cover you for the rest of my life, and now you want to use a knife and a gun with me. You think you have won Did you kill me?"

"You... are not him at all." Yan Xichen grabbed Cain's hand that was strangling his neck with both hands, and forcefully pulled out the blood marks on his skin.

Under Cain's astonished gaze, he choked out his voice from his throat: "You're not Fang Shuo...not him, no! Let me go!"

The hand that restrained him suddenly loosened!

Yan Xichen fell to the ground, coughing violently, the congestion and lack of oxygen made his eyes black for a while.Still holding the gun tightly in his hand, he raised his head.

Cain stared blankly at his uncontrolled hand just now, he stood there, and slowly moved his eyes to Yan Xichen on the ground: "Ah, so that's what happened, you already know who is in this space Willer. But it doesn’t matter, even if you find out, you won’t be able to escape.”

The shadow in front of him poured down, and Cain kicked away the gun in Yan Xichen's hand, and knelt down in front of him: "Because I exist to punish you. This world belongs to you, and it's also mine. Will and your will, after so many years, do you think you can still tell the difference? The rules of this world predate anyone’s existence, including you. Don’t forget, it was you who handed over the power of life and death to me in the first place superior!"