captive joint

Shao Jun woke up lying in Yao Yingyan's arms, but the place where he woke up was not the dim room before, but in front of a stone tablet beside a dry forest.

After yesterday's confrontation, Yao Yingyan took out his usual method and poured him a bottle of potion to make him lose consciousness. Shao Jun thought it would be a drama of imprisonment, but now it seems that Yao Yingyan changed his strategy.

I don't know if he has developed a certain resistance to that potion. Although he almost lost control of his body, his consciousness has not been completely lost.Shao Jun always remembered that he was in a hazy state, as if he was hugged by Yao Yingyan, walked down the staircase hidden behind the wooden door in the studio, opened an oil painting in a small room, and entered a The dark tunnel.

After that, he lost consciousness again in that tunnel, and when he woke up again, it was the scene before him.

On the barren snow field, there is a small black stone tablet standing abruptly outside a dry forest

"What is this?" Shao Jun asked.

"You're already awake." Yao Yingyan lowered his head, looking in surprise at Shao Jun, who was wrapped tightly in his arms like a pompom.

Shao Jun stared blankly at the white hot air exhaled from Yao Yingyan's mouth, and then replied: "Yes."

"Yao Yingyi's tombstone." Yao Yingyan replied, turning his gaze back to the stone tablet in front of him.

"He's still alive, isn't he?" Shao Jun twisted his waist and jumped out of Yao Yingyan's arms, but the moment he landed, he felt that something was involved between his feet, and his body suddenly lost his balance. Fall forward.

Fortunately, Yao Yingyan who was beside him grabbed him and saved him from the tragedy of facing the snow.

"Why isn't it a gold chain?" Shao Jun bent down to check his feet as soon as he stood firmly.Between the thick snow boots, a two-finger-thick silver metal chain protruded from the mouth of one boot and submerged into the other boot.The chain was no more than an arm's length, barely enough to keep his feet together, no wonder it knocked him off balance when he jumped off.

"You remember?" Yao Yingyan turned pale with shock.

"No, there are only some fragments." Shao Jun explained in a relaxed tone.

Yao Yingyan's expression was slightly relaxed, but the hands holding Shao Jun's shoulders were trembling uncontrollably.

Shao Jun softly called his brother, turned sideways and hugged Yao Yingyan, but at the same time he thought in his heart: What Yao Yingyan didn't know was that those fragments were enough for him to understand that he had deceived the feelings of the person in front of him.The one I loved in the past was not him, but Yao Yingyi.

"Jun Jun, I'm sorry. Brother..." Yao Yingyan hugged Shao Jun back tightly, trying to explain something incoherently.

Shao Jun understood that he wanted to talk about chains.

"Will you untie it? Brother"

Yao Yingyan was silent for a moment.

"It's okay, it's okay." Shao Jun let go of his embrace, and then patted Yao Yingyan's arm, signaling him to let go.

"Jun Jun..." Yao Yingyan looked at Shao Jun with a tangled expression, as if he wanted to say something else.

"It's okay, brother." Shao Jun waved his hand and turned to face the stele carefully, "If you don't know how to untie it, then you don't need to apologize. Tell me about this stele. He's not dead, is he?"

Yao Yingyan put his arms around Shao Jun's shoulders and said, "No, he died in the fire. Only his corpse is alive."

Shao Jun pushed away Yao Yingyan's arm and bent down halfway to look at the stone tablet carefully.

The stele was half buried in the snow, and the snow also left footprints on the top of the stele, but the engraved writings were still clearly visible on the black smooth surface.

It reads: The tomb of elder brother Yao Yingyi.Younger brother Shao Junli.

In the snow field in the afternoon, the surroundings were silent, only the whimpering of the wind occasionally, but the moment Shao Jun saw the tombstone clearly, he heard a voice in his mind crying and roaring in grief.He felt as if he had been cut in half, half staring indifferently at the tombstone in front of him, like an unrelated bystander, while the other half had been destroyed by grief, only knowing howling endlessly.

"He won't die in an ordinary fire." Shao Jun stroked the black word Yao Yingyi on the stone tablet and muttered to himself.

"How did the fire start?".

"It's...suicide."

Shao Jun raised his head in disbelief, looked at Yao Yingyan and shouted, "Why!"

"Jun Jun." Yao Yingyan shook his head without any explanation.

Shao Jun thought of the last illustration of that book, and the boy whose shadow was a ferocious and ugly monster.

"He didn't want to be like that, so he committed suicide?" Shao Jun held the stone tablet, his fingertips turned pale from the force, "But he still became like that, didn't he? My brother is so stupid."

Yeah, he's so stupid.Yao Yingyan couldn't help sighing.

As long as he pretended not to know anything, after Shao Jun sacrificed himself, he could continue to be with Shao Jun as a person.

Obviously, as long as you let yourself die, everyone can get a perfect ending.

"I hope Junjun is free, and I hope you can be free too."

But in reality, he left such a sentence, choosing to die by himself.

Yao Yingyan couldn't figure it out, and he didn't want to understand, he didn't want to give up Shao Jun, no matter how painful it was, he didn't want to let go either.He leaned over again and hugged him tightly in his arms, comforting him: "Junjun, I'm still here."

But Shao Jun didn't appreciate it at all. Instead, he pushed him away and said expressionlessly, "Can I stay alone for a while?"

"No!" Yao Yingyan immediately vetoed it, and then explained in a concealed manner, "Junjun, you don't know the way, and it has just snowed outside, so don't let brother worry, okay?"

"Brother, just wait for me at a place a little further away. I can't go anywhere like this now." Shao Jun bit his lip, his words choked up, "Can you?"

Yao Yingyan looked at Shao Jun's red eyes and tears rolling in his eyes, even though he knew he shouldn't be soft-hearted, he still said, "Okay. Brother will wait for you for 10 minutes."

"Thank you." Shao Jun said.

Yao Yingyan walked a few steps not far along a path next to the stone tablet. Seeing Shao Jun staring sideways at him, he walked a few steps forward before stopping and waving his hand to indicate his position.

Shao Jun also waved his hand in reply.Only when Yao Yingyan turned around and stopped looking at him did he turn his head, facing the empty withered forest, and whispered: "I know you are here, he has gone far away. I want to see you, brother .”

Rushing footsteps sounded, snow fell from the branches, and a figure appeared in Shao Jun's vision.