virtual and real boundaries

"I told them not to come to the hospital again. They were happy to hear that, and felt that there was a lot less trouble. I didn't dare to see you again. I stayed in the ward every day and refused to go out. Unexpectedly, on the eve of being discharged from the hospital, I actually received Wu Dachuan's wife I called. She asked me out to meet and said that she had something very important to tell me. After the meeting, she was very excited and a little scary. She took out a notebook and wrote more than a dozen pages on it, all She was the one who inquired about the legend about Wanling Town."

Li Qianhang looked at Zou Yi with sadness in his eyes, "She told me firmly that the stele is kind and allows people to change their lives for another to save their loved ones. Of course I didn't believe it, and I persuaded her, but It didn't work. She also asked me, 'Didn't your girlfriend die in the car accident too, don't you want to save her?'

Zou Yi interjected, "Li Qianhang, you..."

"At that time, I just thought that I was living like a walking dead, but if it was Zou Yi, even if she had to bear the pain of her friend's death, at least there would be family members who could comfort her. So I went with Wu Dachuan's wife secretly without telling my family. I left Wanling Town. Along the way, I thought about a lot of things. I even thought that what she said was all false. She just thought that it was us who killed Wu Dachuan, so she wanted to escape me by luck. I sent the murderer down to accompany him. Passing the section where the accident happened, I was full of anticipation, expecting that she would drive the car towards the lake and let me die as I wish."

But Wu Dachuan's wife really believed in the legend of Wanling Town.When they came to the stele, she stroked the stele almost frantically, knelt down on her knees too devoutly, and leaned her forehead against it.She didn't speak, but Li Qianhang could feel from her expression that she was reminiscing, from her acquaintance with Wu Dachuan, to the short and beautiful love together.Maybe there are those annoying disputes in the middle, and the apology and reconciliation after the dispute.

"Actually, he wasn't so diligent in taking orders before." The woman opened her eyes again, tears pouring out uncontrollably, "It's because I was diagnosed with a disease and started to take imported medicine, and the money at home is like a broken faucet. , not only spends quickly, but also only sees less, not more. You know, before I set off that morning, I joked to him that since I went to Wanling Town, please help me to be healthy and safe..."

Li Qianhang knelt down in front of the stele, looked at the bright red words on the stele, and in his head was the story that Zhao Shiyun once told her.In the information collected by Wu Dachuan's wife, there are similar incidents.But because the locals have a deep taboo, no one dares to use it to hype it, and naturally people outside know little about it. Although there is a certain market, it has never spread.

For a moment, he wanted to persuade the woman in front of him, if Wu Dachuan really loved her husband and wife as she said, how would he face the loss of his wife in this way after returning to Wu Dachuan? matter?

"The moment I thought about this, the greed in my heart began to stir. I don't care to exchange my life for Zou Yi, but after all this, Zou Yi and I are still separated forever. When I think of this, All of a sudden, I feel uneasy."

Su Yao heard Zou Yi sigh in disappointment.But Li Qianhang did not stop talking because of this episode.

After such a short moment of hesitation, Li Qianhang felt as if he was being haunted.He shook his head in pain, trying to get out of the dazed state, but the surrounding scenery became blurred, and there was a faint sound coming from his ear.

He heard Wu Dachuan talking with his wife.The man's wailing in disbelief corresponds to the woman's cry when her wish comes true.Wu Dachuan begged his wife over and over again not to do such a stupid thing.But the woman also kept repeating the pain of her illness, and the unbearable expenses behind the illness for this ordinary family.

The two argued for an unknown how long, until Li Qianhang wanted to run away in pain.At this time, the scenes that used to be his refuge appeared in front of his eyes, and they flowed before his eyes like a revolving lantern.The quiet study room, the late-night basketball game, the dormitory after lights out, the classroom surrounded by laughter... He thought that after graduation, all these things could continue in college, but now he has lost even the courage to recall.

"Li Qianhang, what are you doing? Didn't you come to replace me?" Zou Yi stood in front of the podium, wearing a powder blue sweater, holding a microphone decorated with pompoms. The noise of the cheap microphone could not affect the sweetness of her voice. But her expression was so resentful that it broke Li Qianhang's heart.

"Yes, I'm here for you to go back, Zou Yi, go back quickly, I'll stay here. I have nothing to miss over there." As soon as Li Qianhang moved forward, Zou Yi backed away. The distance of a few steps could not be reached, and Zou Yi looked at him with no trust in his eyes.

"There is nothing to miss? What about me? It turns out that I am not worthy of your nostalgia? You let me go back alone, remember that you died for me, and never forget you? I can still have my life. Can you do it all over again?" The microphone in Zou Yi's hand fell to the ground, but it didn't shatter, but splashed water.Li Qianhang lowered his head and saw the slowly rising lake water under Zou Yi's feet, which had submerged up to her calf in a blink of an eye.

"Zou Yi, don't be afraid, I'll save you..." Li Qianhang wanted to move forward, but he felt a sharp pain in his left leg. He fell to the ground and was almost snatched by the water. His leg was broken in a car accident.

Zou Yi sank into the water, leaving behind a cry of pain, Li Qianhang struggled forward to catch her, but only touched the cold floor. "Zou Yi! Zou Yi! Come back, come back!"

"Don't be afraid, Li Qianhang, Zou Yi will come back, there is another way, have you forgotten?"

Li Qianhang raised his head and saw Pei Yinxiao squatting beside him, with a half-smile on his face.He grabbed Pei Yinxiao's sleeve like grabbing straws to survive, "Old Pei, save her, you save her. Tell me, what is the solution? What else can you do?"

"There's also Su Yao." Pei Yinxiao laughed loudly, bewitching Li Qianhang like a demon, "You trade Su Yao for Zou Yi. This way you and Zou Yi don't have to be separated, and Su Yao and I can be together forever .”

Li Qianhang let go of Pei Yinxiao, as quickly as if he had been electrocuted.He shook his head like a rattle, "What are you talking about, Su Yao is still alive, he is still alive, how can I exchange a living person for Zou Yi?"

"Why not, aren't you a living person? Aren't you going to exchange Zou Yi yourself?" Pei Yinxiao raised his finger in another direction, "You killed me, so that the two of us will never see each other again We've met. Ask Su Yao if he hates you, and ask again if he still wants to live?"

"Old Li." Su Yao's voice reached Li Qianhang's ears. Li Qianhang looked around and found that he had returned to Su Yao's ward. Behind him was no longer the blackboard behind the classroom, but the one that he never dared to approach again. hospital bed.

"Old Li, where's Pei Yinxiao? Where did Pei Yinxiao go?" Su Yao sat up while still on the ventilator, with a haggard face and a haggard appearance.He felt that the intubation was in the way, so he stretched out his hand to pull it out. While pulling out the tube, Su Yao began to vomit water with mud and weeds.

Li Qianhang was so irritated by the smell that he vomited, "No... er..., Lao Pei is gone..."

Su Yao raised his head and was greatly stimulated, even the smelly lake water began to flow out of his ears and nose, "He's gone! You killed him! It's all your fault! Zou Yi was also killed by you." They're all dead, why am I still alive? I'm going to find him, I'm going to find him..."

"Yes, come quickly." Li Qianhang turned his head again and saw Liang Yiheng, Zhao Shiyun and Wang Yinxia standing side by side, waving at Su Yao who was on the hospital bed, repeating "Come on", "Come on".

Su Yao got out of bed, without looking at Li Qianhang on the ground, and walked over there.Li Qianhang stretched out his hand to pull Su Yao's arm, Su Yao shook off him, and kicked him viciously, "Don't touch me! You murderer! You killed so many people, and you still stop me from looking for him. How about you?" what kind of heart?"

Li Qianhang clung to the end of the bed, changed to a kneeling position, put his hands on the ground, sweat and tears were mixed together, even he himself didn't know when he started to cry. "I'm not a murderer, I didn't kill anyone... It was an accident, that was an accident... It was my fault, it was all my fault... I pay for my life, I kill for my life..."

"Ask yourself, do you want Su Yao to die and Zou Yi to come back to life? Otherwise, why are you still struggling, why haven't you died yet?" Someone whispered in Li Qianhang's ear, trying to break his heart The last line of defense in the depths, it was an unfamiliar voice, thick and divided, scattered and concentrated, it was not the voice of one person, it was the voice of thousands of people speaking at the same time.

"Ask yourself, do you really regard him as your best friend? You have always been afraid that he will look down on you, and you have always felt that he can make other friends at any time. It is not that he likes to be with you, but that you have been pestering him. Li Qianhang raised his head, trying to focus his sight on the stele, but the words on the stele were obviously only the size of a palm, but he couldn't find the edge of the stele.It seems that that stone tablet is the whole world, and there is only one stone tablet left in the whole world.

"Ask yourself, are you envious of him, or jealous? If you were born into such a good family, you will become such a good person. Confident, optimistic, likable, you don't need to be behind him Being protected by him, you can also protect others. When he dies, you can become him, you can replace him, and you can do better than him.”

The bright red handwriting on the stone tablet seemed to have life, twisted like human facial features, and it smiled.Li Qianhang's eyes were red, and he stretched out his hand to touch the stele lost in himself, "I can do better. Su Yao, help me..."