[Wei Yong] Looking for Lilia

From the moment he stepped into the only restaurant at the rest stop, Katsuki Yuuri was almost fascinated by its decoration: the ceiling is low, the brick-red walls are full of photos, and the restaurant is crowded with red and white checkered tablecloths The covered square dining table, the high chairs at the bar are covered with cushions of the same color as the tablecloth. In the northwest corner of the restaurant, there are two dilapidated billiard tables. Two beautiful girls are gesticulating there. At the sound of footsteps, both of them stopped playing, and one of the tall girls pointed at Victor and whispered in her dark-skinned friend's ear.

Not only them, Yuuri found that when they walked into the restaurant, almost all the diners stopped their hands and looked at them in whispers - especially Victor.

This is really a long-lost attention ceremony. In such a furniture showroom with a variety of flavors, Yuuri secretly thought, Victor walked in the front, swaggered and picked a table close to the pool table, he sat down, Start scrolling through the menu.

"Well," he said, his eyes moving rapidly as he read, "what can I have?"

Yuuri had to sit across from him.

"This restaurant—" he said, "what kind of style is this?"

"What style?" Victor said casually, glancing at the surroundings curtly from above the menu, "Country style, hey dear." A waitress wearing the same red and white plaid apron as the tablecloth came up, not very enthusiastic Saying hello, she looked Victor up and down.

"What's the matter with your face?" she asked, "Aren't you the wanted man who is going around killing people right now?"

Yuuri asked, "What?" But Victor replied, "Of course not! It was just a little accident." He said, showing a standard polite smile, and the waitress swayed from side to side and muttered something.

"Do I look like a murderer?" Victor said with a smile.

"That's not a good idea," said the waitress, "but we don't want you to go to jail for a little boy, do we? S So it's all good, just don't do anything here. C What do you want to eat?"

"Beef burger and fries," Victor said, "two lemon sodas."

The waitress made two random strokes in the notebook, "It's 12 yuan and [-] cents in total," she said, "Pay in advance."

Yuuri opens his mouth—he notices the other diners' tables with unpaid bills—but Victor starts digging into his wallet, first by pulling out a handful of chocolate jelly beans from the pocket of his tracksuit, Then there were a few parking slips, and then—he took out the pair of handcuffs, and casually threw them on the table. The kerala of the J iron drew the attention of the restaurant, "Wait a minute—" he said, "the pocket is too big." He finally found the wallet, and the waitress stared at the handcuffs, looking even more Suspicious, Victor opened his wallet and handed her a 20-yuan bill. She hesitated for five seconds before taking it from him.

"No need for change," Victor said, and the waitress walked away, looking back at them, her eyes twinkling, as if they were two would-be murderers.

"What's going on?" Yuuri asked, as Viktor packed the chocolate beans and the parking slip and stuffed them back into the pocket of his tracksuit, somehow only the handcuffs fell off, "She seems to think you're some kind of murderer? "He looked around and found that many people covered their mouths with coffee cups, staring at Victor evasively, "Wait a minute—they seem to think you're a murderer—"

"Victor stretched out his index finger and shook it left and right twice, he turned his head and said to a middle-aged man at the next table: "Excuse me, can you lend me the newspaper? "The other party seemed quite frightened, and the hand that handed the newspaper to Victor was trembling. This made Yuuri even more puzzled. Victor opened the newspaper and found the headline on the front page.

"To answer your question," he said, "please read." It was a local newspaper with a huge front page report of several murders and robberies along the highway. There were no pictures, but eyewitnesses described, The other party is a tall Slavic male, aged between 25 and 40 years old.

"Hmm." Yuuri looked up from the newspaper and glanced at the tall Slavic male sitting across from him, "Got it." He said, "Wait a minute, are you sure this isn't you? You can't be La Do you think I'm running away?"

"..." Victor's rare words fell short, he took the newspaper from Yuuri's hand, rolled it into a paper tube and hit Yuuri on the head, "What are you thinking-of course not!" He unfolded the newspaper and read Glancing, "But I can't deny that the coincidence is so dramatic that I was taken aback when I heard the news on the radio this morning."

Not right.Yuuri suddenly remembered the embarrassment when Victor caught the fleeing self. At that time, he only said lightly that he was worried that he would meet a robber——suddenly everything made sense, why did Victor rush into him so uncharacteristically and impulsively? Opening the toilet door, even hurting himself: he must have heard the news of a robbery along the highway while waiting outside, thinking that Yuuri's life was in danger in the toilet, completely oblivious to the more logical possibility: he Just run away.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt his cheeks burning hot, and he didn't even have the courage to look up at Victor—Victor's first thought was Yuuri's safety, but Yuuri was thinking about how to keep himself away from such concerns, and Is there anything more ungrateful than this?

"Well," he murmured, "Victor—"

"Food!" Victor yelled, clutching a knife and fork like a child, and the waitress put the plate in front of them, and couldn't help but look at Victor more, "I'm starving—" He started to shout After eating so much, Yuuri looked at him and swallowed his words preoccupied.

He also started eating hamburgers.

"Don't worry about it," Victor said as he ate, "it's no big deal—by the way, don't you want to know how we're going to find Lilia?"

Even Yuuri, who is not good at dealing with people, can hear from his words that he is eager to change the subject. At the same time, Victor's eyes are shining like a morning star when night falls, full of words. "Quickly ask me! Quickly ask me!", Yuuri couldn't help but give up being immersed in emotion and guilt, and instead followed him and asked, "How can we find Lilia?"

But he never expected Victor to say, "I'll tell you after you finish eating." He also took a big sip of lemon soda and grinned sourly.

Yuuri had to resign himself to eating his lunch—or dinner, whichever it was, and it was three o'clock in the afternoon, at least six hours since he left the warmth of his apartment.

Definitely a very fulfilling six hours of his life.During this period, he did several things that he didn't dare to think about in the past: lost his temper with Victor, climbed out from the skylight of the toilet and escaped, and finally reached a deal with Victor - he accompanied Victor to find Lilia, satisfying her. Kefu's wish, and Victor has withdrawn from his life.Will he really keep his promise?Yuuri ate his hamburger, thinking to himself, of course, Victor never broke his promise, but this time was different, if he kept his promise, it would mean—he suddenly stopped After chewing, a great shock hit his atrium, making him suddenly realize what happened——Victor and him only had time to spend together on this last trip.

He swallowed the last bite of the hamburger without knowing what to say, and looked up at Victor, who smiled, picked up the napkin from the table and wiped the corner of Yuuri's mouth.

"There's ketchup," he said, and Yuuri didn't move away, which made his smile a bit more grounded, and when he was done, Victor had nothing else to delay, and he put down the napkin and pulled out cell phone.

"I'll explain it to you now," he said. "Now, before I do, I want you to know that this is all theory, okay?" He swiped open his phone's lock screen and found a Show Yuuri a screenshot, it is a screenshot of the ins interface, the left part of the picture is a half face of a person taking a selfie, behind him, a slender woman accidentally entered the camera, she looks surprisingly familiar, The caption for this image reads: "#OMG Is that Lilya Baranovskaya?"

"What do you think?" Viktor asked, Yuuri looked down at the photo, and didn't speak for a long time - ever since Lilia disappeared, there have always been dancing lovers all over the world who claimed to have seen her, but it turned out to be only a moment Sensational, false alarms like this have exploded since social networking took hold, and Yuuri looks up, feeling a little - inappropriately - disappointed.

"Uh, Victor?" he said, "I can find you a dozen of these."

It's over.He heard himself saying in his heart that it was just a false alarm—even he himself didn’t realize how lucky it sounds, the conditions of the transaction did not exist, and of course the rest of the terms could not be delivered, Victor——Victor will will stay in his life.He couldn't tell whether he was more pleased or more depressed.

I'm not going to lose Victor, he thought, sounding terribly selfish, but it was what he really thought.

Victor looked at him, as if he didn't understand why his expression was so stiff, he smiled. "It's not like that," Viktor said, sounding confident and confident, "this is her, and I can prove that we're going to be successful - look at her wrist, it was given to her by Yakov Anniversary gift." He said he found another photo from his phone to show Yuuri, it was a scanned copy of a paper photo, the original must have been old, the color spots were rough around the edges, in the photo, young The man and woman smiled at Yuuri, they looked surprisingly good-looking. Y Yuuri couldn't help but glance up at Victor.

"You look a bit like Yakov." He said, his eyes kept wandering on Victor's forehead, "Well—"

Victor saw through his thoughts and covered his hairline with lingering fear. "I know." He said in a trembling tone, "It scares me to death—but look carefully at her wrist, this one is the same as this one." He found the screenshot of Instagram again, "Is it exactly the same?"

"Okay," Yuuri had to admit, "they do look [-]-[-]% alike." It's actually just a bracelet in the shape of a wreath, and it's likely that there were a decent amount of the same batch, affected by this Older women's pursuit may also be, but he didn't say these words out of his mouth.

"This is the bracelet," Victor said confidently, "This is her, I promise I'm not mistaken."

Yuuri could only say, "...Okay." To hide his stiffness, he picked up his glass and took another sip of lemon soda, "But I don't see any signs on the picture to show where they are." He said, Victor looked He looked very confident, which inspired Yuuri's unwillingness to lag behind. He involuntarily took Victor's cell phone, carefully looked at the selfie photo several times, and searched for what he had missed, but was caught by Victor. Attention to detail.He saw a huge tower behind Lilia, and beside her was a bush and a street lamp with some kind of... colored lights?

"This lamp..." he muttered, "it's a bit like the kind that Hasezu would hang out at the carnival every year." After he finished speaking, he looked up, unwilling to admit that even at this moment he still longed for Victor's approval, and His heart beat a few beats faster when Victor nodded at him with approval in his eyes.

"I know a little more background than you," Victor said, and he clicked on the most striking half of the selfie's face in the photo, "This guy? His ins is a living "What to do when we don't want to be fleshed" Do a complete collection of counterexamples." He grinned, "He posts almost everything, which makes it extremely easy to figure out who he is. Now, what we know is that he is a third-rate A tap dancer, since May this year, he has been following this Cirquedusoleil, a circus-like performance group, touring along this road, and the ins of this clue was released in mid-May."

"Now, we know that he posted an ins on May [-]st, and the subject was a B&B's special breakfast. I searched on booking and found this B&B without much effort, so we know their The starting point is the east end of the road, which is the opposite of us, they go from east to west, and we go from west to east, right?" Victor spread out the map and gestured to Yuuri, revealing what he could only see in class With a radiant look, Yuuri looked down at the badly smeared map, the road they were standing on was traced by Viktor with a purple highlighter.

"Understood," Yuuri said, "this is the road—what are these little circles?" he asked, pointing to some blue and red circles along the road.

"Speaking of it now," Viktor said, pulling his lips into a smile as Yuuri looked up at him, and when he looked at Yuuri, there seemed to be something rich in his eyes, joy, relief, excitement, which made Yuuri cringe He lowered his head again, and when he raised his head again to confirm it, Victor lowered his eyes again, blocking the spinning galaxy-like pupils. "So, if assuming this is the starting point," he said, pointing to the easternmost end of the road, "or close to the starting point, the direction of their movement is like this," his fingers meandering along the road from right to left, "then in This town where he ran into Lilia during his tour must be online too, right?"

"Yes," Yuuri could only nod his head, "and then?"

"I tried to search for the official twitter or website of this circus, but unfortunately, they seem to be very random and go wherever they go." Victor said, and Yuuri showed a disappointed look, which made him smile, "So look Then it all comes back to this picture."

He pointed to the phone screen, and Yuuri had to lower his head again to carefully observe this photo that he had seen countless times. "This tower..." He racked his brains and didn't know what was so special about the tower, so he had to admit defeat. "I can't see anything."

"It's understandable," Victor said tolerantly, "This tower is really nothing special."

"..."

"It is worth noting this shrub," Victor said, "look at its extraordinarily lush crown and out-of-season red fruits. This is a hybrid decorative shrub imported from Australia-a new variety in 2011, and there are only fourteen in the country. A city government has the courage to introduce this new type of shrub for decoration, because although it is beautiful and hardy, whether it has an ecological impact has been discussed." He once again brought Yuuri's gaze back to the map, and for us , very unfortunately, there is a [-]/[-] chance of appearing along the same road. He clicked on the places marked by red circles, "It is a very coincidence that these three towns have dance schools with a long history in the local area, and the local children are working hard to become famous dancers. These schools It is also continuously sending fresh blood to the national dance industry, so I asked myself, is it possible for a former chief who had to withdraw from people's sight due to personal reasons, she still has not left Is it possible that she is still devoting her heart and soul to this industry that has cost her most of her life, but she has just switched from the front stage to the backstage? "

"So, how?" Victor said, "Does my argument convince you, Yuuri?"

He raised his head, with a mature and confident smile on the corner of his mouth, but a childlike smug light in his eyes, he looked at Yuuri without any hesitation, looking at him as if longing for something, which made Yuuri forget for a moment After all the disputes and unhappiness between them, there was only one thought left in their minds.

——Why is he so handsome?