Blade and Swift

That night, Yan Xichen talked with Du Yachen until dawn.

It was strange to say that Du Yachen was just a stranger to him, why he aroused such a strong desire to talk, Yan Xichen couldn't explain.

Yan Xichen said that he was very sleepy, but he still waited for the dawn. The floor-to-ceiling windows of this house faced the sun, and he wanted to watch the sunrise in the other world.

When it was really bright, I didn't see the fiery red and brilliant sunrise that I was looking forward to.It was a cloudy day, with dark clouds covering the sky and covering the earth, as if a weeping downpour was about to fall.

Yan Xichen finally closed his eyes.Because of the expectation, I waited until now, but I didn't wait until now.

He was so sleepy.And not just sleepy, but physically and mentally tired.

Therefore, in a blur of consciousness, he felt that someone was hugging him, his body seemed to be dangling on a floating boat, and then his body was placed on a soft bed.He also felt that someone was stroking his hair, staring at his face, and there was scorching temperature rubbing against his face, and finally the temperature was on his lips.

Yan Xichen vaguely felt that someone was kissing him, but he couldn't open his eyes, he seemed to be in a deep whirlpool, and there was some force in the darkness of the dream pulling him down, down.

Not long after, the people around him left, and Yan Xichen fell into a bottomless dream.

Under the blood-red dusk, a huge rolling sunset crowded the horizon.

The weight that can bend a person's spine returned to him again, and the afterimage that looked like a god of death appeared again.

"You don't know anything about your crime." The scepter on his head gradually tightened, pressing his head down with an almost irreversible force, "Then now, I will give you a crime."

Yan Xichen's whole body was like a tight bow.Gritting his teeth, he couldn't say a word.

A powerful force forced its way through him.

"Your charges...forgotten."

In the dream, a black vortex exploded from somewhere, covering everything up and down, as if it wanted to swallow Yan Xichen whole.

Yan Xichen suddenly opened his eyes at the same moment and sat up from the bed.

He gasped for breath.

The feeling of fear is real, including the weight of the chains on the body, which has not disappeared until now.

Suddenly, he broke out in a cold sweat, and the hairs all over his body stood on end!

It was a dim room, with the heavy curtains drawn to barely let out a glimmer of light.

The cold, wet, death-cold fear climbed up his back, it was hard to describe the feeling, like a snake crawling up his body.

This is just his intuition.

Yan Xichen's heart beat faster, and he turned his head slowly. In the oppressive darkness of the room, he saw clearly the black afterimage standing beside the bed just by the glimmer of light from the curtains.

There was indeed someone standing by his bed!

The black afterimage was exactly the same as the judge in his dream who looked like a 'ghost of death'.

The room was very dark, and the afterimage was tightly wrapped in a black robe, but Yan Xichen knew that the god of death in the darkness was silently staring at him.

Yan Xichen was stunned, he couldn't move as if he was frozen.Beads of sweat flowed down from his forehead, and he watched the god of death move, hooking his neck with a sickle.

"You have nowhere to escape." After Shadow's voice was terrifying, it could arouse fear deep in the heart.

He saw the hand holding the scythe tighten slowly, and the cold blade on his neck separated his skin.

He still can't control his body!

The afterimage moved suddenly, and Yan Xichen tightly closed his eyes.

The expected pain did not come, but the sound of the switch sounded, the room was brightly lit, and the light of the chandelier instantly dispelled the haze of death that permeated the room just now.

Yan Xichen panted heavily, and finally found that his body could move.His whole body seemed to have been pulled out of the water, and the sheets were soaked in sweat.

Du Yachen stood at the door with his hand still on the door switch. After seeing Yan Xichen's reaction, he quickly walked to the bedside: "What happened? You were screaming just now."

scream?

Yan Xichen's eyes finally managed to focus on the person in front of him, his forehead was covered with sweaty hair, very uncomfortable.

Du Yachen bent down and wiped the sweat on his cheeks with the palm of his hand.

As the distance got closer, he could see the delicate sweat oozing from Yan Xichen's nose, his eyes were absent-minded, his eye sockets and ears were a little red, but his face was pale.

Du Yachen wanted to keep him steady, so he pretended to inadvertently wipe the sweat off his face, helped the person move aside, pulled the sweaty sheets, and sat on the edge of the bed.

The two of them did it in silence for half a minute, Yan Xichen finally responded, raised his hand to wipe his forehead, and it was slippery again.

Now he met Du Yachen's eyes again, those eyes were filled with darkness, as if a storm was brewing.

Only then did Du Yachen ask him, "What happened?"

"Death...judgment." Yan Xichen's voice was hoarse when he opened his mouth.

"Judgment?"

"What's here..." Yan Xichen was puzzled, and he grabbed Du Yachen's clothes tightly with his hands, no matter how Du Yachen pulled it, he couldn't pull it out.

Du Yachen hesitated for a while, then simply took off his shoes and went to bed, and covered him with a quilt.Seeing Yan Xichen staring at him in the dark, those eyes were extremely beautiful, and everyone who hit him at this moment was full of surprise and uncertainty.

"It's okay." Du Yachen patted him, "Sleep for a while, I won't leave."

His voice was low and calming, Yan Xichen actually gradually calmed down after being coaxed by him for a few words.It's just that the scalp was tense and painful, as if being pricked by needles. Although Yan Xichen felt tired, the drowsiness did not come for a long time.

After lying in Du Yachen's arms like this for nearly 10 minutes, Yan Xichen finally couldn't help throwing off the quilt, sat up and rubbed his face: "No, I can't sleep."

"Would you mind telling me what's going on?" Du Yachen didn't get up, but lay on his side and looked at him.

Yan Xichen took a deep breath, recalling the nightmare in the watch world and the nightmare just now.

This nightmare has never happened since I came to the other world, until now.If the external world is not credible, then the most suspicious clue running through the external and internal world is his dream.

Yan Xichen remembers that after having this dream in the watch world, many things began to go wrong, and then he met that eight|nine-year-old boy.

It's just that the nightmare he had in the watch world before was always the nightmare of the cycle of trial.He still clearly remembers the feeling of the dream, the afterimage holding the scythe repeatedly judged him and asked him his crime... But today, today the dream has changed.That afterimage can be said to have condemned him.

And his crime is... forgetting?

Yan Xichen felt that he should calm down and think again. Now every pore in his body was emitting cold air.

Seeing this, Du Yachen got up and wanted to open the curtain for him.The daylight is good outside now, shining|into it and dispelling all fears.But at the moment when he just got up, Yan Xichen might have misunderstood that he was going to leave, turned around and threw him onto the mat with considerable force.

The two of them were stacked on top of each other, neither was silent.Yan Xichen was a little silly, but Du Yachen never expected his reaction to be so violent.

Du Yachen raised his hand and patted Yan Xichen's back: "Since I can't sleep anymore, I'll go and open the curtains."

"No, that's it, listen to me..."

Yan Xichen pressed Du Yachen, instinctively feeling that this man might know a lot.So he told Du Yachen carefully about the nightmare he had in the watch world before and the nightmare just now.

To his regret, Du Yachen didn't seem to be able to unravel the meaning of this nightmare.

"Perhaps it's some kind of hint. Could it be related to your forgotten memories?" Du Yachen nodded his forehead.

Yan Xichen jumped up from the bed, ran to the window and yanked open the curtains, seeing the still weird world outside, he sat curled up on the ground.

At this moment, he really wanted to go back to his little home.Even if his parents urge him to find someone every day, even if his sister fights with him every day, he really doesn't want to stay in this place anymore.

Du Yachen gave Yan Xichen enough time to calm down.When Yan Xichen calmed down and he came out, Du Yachen was no longer in the room.

After simply packing up his things, Yan Xichen groped his way downstairs.As expected, the jeep was still parked by the side of the road yesterday, and Du Yachen was leaning against the hood of the car to smoke.

Seeing Xichen Yan coming down, Du Yachen put out his cigarette and walked towards him: "Don't be afraid, I will watch over you."

Du Yachen stretched out his hand and rubbed his fingers lightly on the side of Yan Xichen's neck, and there was a tingling sensation there.Yan Xichen stretched out his hand to touch it, and found that there was a small wound on his neck at some point.

The sickle just now... is real!

Seeing that Yan Xichen's face suddenly turned pale, Du Yachen hooked his hand touching the side of his neck and pulled him into his arms.

For a moment, Yan Xichen felt that the man's eyes were serious, as if he had a deep feeling for him.

"Do you know something?" Yan Xichen's lips trembled.

After the short hug ended, Du Yachen rarely said seriously: "No, I don't know anything, but I really want to know what happened to you. Maybe you hide some secrets from the other world."

Yan Xichen finally got into the car door that Du Yachen opened. His fear of "nightmare come true" has not dissipated, and he just wants to go back and see Duan Yun.

But on the way, Du Yachen asked Yan Xichen again, suggesting not to tell the watchman about this matter, otherwise they might find someone to watch him 24 hours a day.That was definitely not what Yan Xichen wanted.

Yan Xichen seemed uninspired, and nodded to show that he understood.

Following Duan Mingyi's guidance, Du Yachen successfully arrived at Duanyun's bakery in section C.

It was a fine day, and although the bakery's business was slow on weekdays, there were more or less customers at the breakfast point.It looked a little strange today, there was no one in the store.

When Yan Xichen got closer, he saw that there was still a sign of CLOSE hanging outside the glass door, and he didn't turn it over.

Just as Yan Xichen was about to push the door open, he bumped into Duan Mingyi who was rushing out from inside.

Yan Xichen saw Duan Mingyi's expression as if something had happened, and was about to step forward to ask, but Duan Mingyi glanced at him coldly, his eyes were very cold.

"Where did you go last night?"

"I've had a drink...my new friend stayed overnight." Yan Xichen rubbed his nose, and looked in Du Yachen's direction with some guilt, "Is something wrong?"

"Staying at a friend's house you just met? You really have a big heart!" Duan Mingyi glanced at Du Yachen who was leaning against the car door, and handed him the note in his hand, with a very bad expression on his face: "Grandpa is gone!"

Duan Yun suddenly disappeared.

Duan Mingyi said that in the morning Duan Yun found that Yan Xichen was not in the room, so he said to go out to have a look.As a result, when I went out to pick up the mail, when I came back, I found that the old man had disappeared.

The bread baked in the morning is still in the oven, and everything in the store is as usual, but the old man's room is a little messy, and it looks like someone has been there.

Duan Mingyi found a note on the table in his grandfather's bedroom, reminding Duan Yun that he was in District K.

"It's Cain's man." Duan Mingyi concluded.

"Cain?" Yan Xichen was about to ask, when he suddenly felt a tingling pain in his brain, which was the same as when he was interrogated in his dream.

Du Yachen, who was standing by the car, saw that he was not in the right condition, so he came over to help him sit on the ground, and stretched out his hand to press a certain part of his head: "Is it better?"

Duan Mingyi was taken aback when he saw him like this: "What's wrong with you?"

Yan Xichen waved his hand.He couldn't explain a few words to Duan Mingyi clearly, and now he had a severe headache again.

The needle-like feeling lasted for five or six seconds, the pain gradually subsided, and Yan Xichen got better.It seemed that something was about to come out just now, but he just couldn't remember it.

Du Yachen brought Yan Xichen into the room and Duan Mingyi poured him a glass of water. The two observed Yan Xichen for more than ten minutes. After finding out that he was fine, Duan Mingyi quickly packed his things and planned to leave.

While tidying up, he gave instructions to Yan Xichen.

Yan Xichen was still a little confused, but after listening to it for a long time, he realized that Duan Mingyi wanted to go to the meeting alone to save his grandfather in District K, and wanted Yan Xichen to stay in the bakery and take good care of the place.He didn't have time to inform Mr. Yu, the main watchman in Area C. If Yan Xichen felt better, he hoped that Yan Xichen could go to the ward instead of him.

"You want to go alone?" Yan Xichen stood up disapprovingly, "Give me 10 minutes, I'll pack my things and go with you."

Duan Mingyi naturally refused, and his complexion did not improve after hearing Yan Xichen's offer to help.He looked extremely irritable and didn't want to involve Yan Xichen in this matter.

"If I remember correctly, Area K is not a stable area, it seems to represent the forces of the world." Du Yachen, who had been leaning by the side and quietly listening to the tug-of-war between the two, suddenly spoke.

Duan Mingyi looked at this man twice more, and always felt that this man gave him a very oppressive feeling, which made him a little resistant.The man's appearance is very eye-catching, so he didn't ignore the playfulness in the man's eyes.Having lived in the other world for a long time, Duan Mingyi knows how to read people.And most of the thoughts in this man's eyes were beyond his comprehension, which made him more or less defensive.

"What do you mean?" Yan Xichen blocked Duan Mingyi, and successfully drew Duan Mingyi's attention back to himself.

Duan Mingyi ignored Du Yachen, and didn't intend to greet him at all, but Du Yachen didn't think so.

He looked past Yan Xichen, and looked at Duan Mingyi behind him: "Didn't you explain clearly to the newcomer?"

Duan Mingyi frowned even tighter, he was very dissatisfied with Du Yachen's tone and way of speaking.

"I think there are two kinds of forces in the other world, as you know. Those who want to break this space, and those who want to protect this space, are always fighting." Du Yachen approached Duan Mingyi at a leisurely pace, but what he saw was It's Yan Xichen, "The 26 districts of the inner world are divided into the districts of two forces. Those who want to break this false world—that is, we are called the forces of the inner world, and they want to protect this world wholeheartedly." The world, and those who return to the external world, we call it external world forces. And K area is one of the areas belonging to the external world forces, and it is the jurisdiction of the enemy forces."

Yan Xichen looked at Duan Mingyi beside him, and made a deduction in his mind.

"Understood." Yan Xichen nodded and turned to Duan Mingyi, "In other words, the K area you are going to now is very dangerous."

Duan Mingyi immediately guessed what Yan Xichen was going to say: "Don't even think about it, you can't follow me. You just arrived in the other world, so there's no need to get involved in my affairs. If you go, you'll just die."

"I don't seem to be that fragile, do I?" Yan Xichen kicked lightly on the other side of the door, and his slender legs were immediately horizontal in midair, blocking Duan Mingyi's way, "Besides, how can I say that I got involved with you?" From the day you and grandpa picked me up, we've been involved in each other's affairs for a long time, haven't we?"

Duan Mingyi looked back and forth between Du Yachen and Yan Xichen, one was from an unknown source, and the other looked innocent.

"The two of you sang and stopped me. We discussed it in advance, right?" Duan Mingyi raised his arms, with a bad expression on his face.

With a smile on the corner of Du Yachen's mouth, he spread his hands, expressing that there was nothing wrong with him.

"Don't be under psychological pressure. If you leave me alone at home, I will be under a lot of psychological pressure." Yan Xichen completely ignored Duan Mingyi's extremely bad complexion, wrapped his arms around Duan Mingyi's shoulders, and pushed him outside.

Yan Xichen stopped and looked at Du Yachen thoughtfully.How he should go with Duan Mingyi is still a question.Duan Mingyi knew the way, but Yan Xichen didn't.If Duan Mingyi wanted to get rid of Yan Xichen on the way, with his familiarity with the geography of Area C, it could be said to be an easy task.

"Why don't I borrow your car?" Yan Xichen tightened Duan Mingyi's hand a little more, and tentatively asked Du Yachen how sincere and sincere his expression should be.

Du Yachen smiled, walked around to the back of the car, and opened the trunk lid.Firearms, magazines, cold weapons, and even flash bombs are available, and a mess of ordnance is scattered in the trunk.

Yan Xichen heard that even Duan Mingyi gasped.

"It's all for you, take me one."

The author says:

Duan's nickname may be "Mr. Unhappy"