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Although he experienced a suspended animation and was in a coma for one night plus half the morning, it seemed that he had suffered a lot. When Lu You was discharged from the hospital, there was no residual uncomfortable feeling in his body.Only a small red spot was left on the part of the wrist where the poisonous needle had been inserted, which was not painful or itchy, and a Band-Aid was pasted on the part of the back of the hand that was injured when the infusion needle came out.

But when he got home, he started to look a little listless, dizzy, and insisted on taking a bath.Qi Zhengyun didn't have to knock on the door every now and then to ask if there was anything wrong, he just hid beside him and stared, not caring whether it was bad or not.After Lu You finished washing, he sat on the sofa for a while. Qi Zhengyun saw that something was wrong with him, so he took out a thermometer and measured it for him: 38 degrees.

This is really a "low fever" diagnosed by the hospital.

Qi Zhengyun was in a state of being in danger, and couldn't help but wonder if it might be the influence of the breath of death.Although he didn't feel any monster's breath from Lu You, there was still an "accident".He found that he seemed to be reassured too early about this aspect before—not only the short-term "accidents" such as walking, wrestling and falling objects, but the results are immediate, and there are even more unpredictable...someone made a small cut on his hand and got stained. In the case of rabies or tetanus, someone catches a cold and tosses and tosses for a long time after declaring death, the disaster will come without notice, and the danger will erupt after lurking for a long time.

If you encounter such a situation, maybe you can only resign yourself to fate.Human life is too fragile, even if all the monsters in the whole world are devoured, there will still be situations where the power cannot be countered.Realizing this made Qi Zhengyun very uncomfortable. He thought of the "cleaner" in the hospital, and decided to pay more attention to monsters that can heal injuries and diseases. Can try different methods.

Unlike Qi Zhengyun who was nervous, thinking about such a long time all the way, and wanted to take him back to the hospital again, Lu You felt that he just needed to sleep.He didn't cough or sneeze, but he just had a headache, maybe it was the delayed onset of the mental stress of escaping death?In the hospital, I didn't want to show abnormality and insisted on it. When I returned to the familiar environment at home, I felt tired all of a sudden.

Qi Zhengyun couldn't resist him, and was also worried that he would encounter some danger if he went to the hospital, so he had to agree with him to stay at home and rest.Yesterday was a mess, and he didn't eat breakfast after waking up in the morning. Although Lu You still doesn't have an appetite, he is still going to cook some porridge and drink it before going to bed.Qi Zhengyun couldn't understand his alienated attitude of not wanting to bother others, so he forcefully invited him back to the room.

There were no fresh ingredients in the refrigerator in the kitchen, so Qi Zhengyun added some diced carrots to the porridge, and the color of the finished product was quite nice.He walked into the bedroom with the bowl in his hand, turned on the air conditioner, and Lu You had already curled up under the quilt and fell asleep.He was on his side, probably because he had been tossing and turning before falling asleep, and his hair was messed up on the pillow.Qi Zhengyun leaned over and touched his hot and flushed cheeks, wanting to kiss him and moisten his dry lips due to the heat.

He sat on the edge of the bed, waited for a while, felt the porridge bowl was not too hot, and pushed Lu You awake.Lu You woke up, drank half a bowl of porridge in a daze, and fell asleep again.Qi Zhengyun went to wash the bowl, and boiled hot water and poured it into the thermos.After returning to the room, he turned up the temperature of the air conditioner, moved the chair in front of the desk to the bed, and prepared to sit here with Lu You when he fell asleep.

Although he would rather go directly to the bed and sleep with Lu You in his arms... Although the prototype is a cold creature under the deep sea, his human body is still very warm.This kind of behavior he is doing now is obviously harassment, but judging from Lu You's reaction when he hugged him in the hospital, maybe we can look forward to the near future?

Hearing Lu Youlue's heavy breathing, Qi Zhengyun stretched out his hand lightly and tried the temperature on his forehead—it wasn't too hot, and he hoped it would get better soon.He has very bad memories of Lu You's "illness".The body used by the voters in the mission world is a copy produced by the system, and it will not get sick easily. The two times he was most impressed, one was when the soul was damaged, and the other was the way of death that Lu You chose to escape from the world.

When Qi Zhengyun was about to take back his hand, Lu You seemed to feel his touch in his sleep, turned his face slightly, and pressed it against his palm, as if wanting to get more caresses.Qi Zhengyun's fingers moved slightly, and finally he couldn't hold back, and gently stroked the soft hair at his hand a few times.The original intention was just an act of pity, but it led to unexpected results-at this moment, he suddenly felt his throat tighten, and the blood in his body heated up uncontrollably, and then all poured down.

The desire to be allowed comes back menacingly as emotions are lifted.Qi Zhengyun exhausted all his strength to remove his hands from the side of Lu You's face, and clenched them tightly into fists, so as not to act on the images that were playing in his mind.Under him, Lu You fell asleep undefended, ignorant of what happened outside.Weak due to illness, especially soft due to weakness... Qi Zhengyun could feel the heat radiating from Lu You's body, the abnormal heat, which made him wonder if it would be softer and hotter if he went inside again——

It's a terrible thought.Like sanity failed.Qi Zhengyun propped his hands on the bed, his shoulders and back were as tense as a bowstring stretched to the extreme, he seemed to have maintained this position for a long time, and then finally pressed down slowly.

The shadow covering Lu You's body gradually expanded as he approached.Lu You moved, as if aware of the danger, but he still didn't wake up.His breathing sounded like a soft sigh.Qi Zhengyun's lips came close to Lu You's face, and after a pause, he kissed him with the slightest force.

Then he sat up straight again.

Qi Zhengyun stood up, ready to go under the air conditioner to blow some air.It seems that before he completely calmed down, in order to avoid accidentally doing something and ruining the trust he had so hard to maintain, he should not allow himself and Lu You to get too close.

He turned around, ready to leave the bed.At this moment, Lu You made a low voice behind him: "Don't..."

Qi Zhengyun turned around and found that Lu You didn't really want to keep him, but was just talking in sleep.It seemed that he saw something terrible in his dream, and he shrank into the quilt, his head was about to slide off the edge of the pillow.Qi Zhengyun turned back and touched Lu You's shrunken shoulder through the quilt. Lu You didn't respond to his touch, his brows were furrowed, his eyes moved uneasily under his eyelids, and his breathing began to become short of breath.But his body didn't struggle any more, instead, he froze as if he was trapped.

Have a nightmare?Could it be that his actions just now passed the invisible pressure into the dream?

Qi Zhengyun felt a little guilty about his untimely desire|desire. "Lu You?" He whispered, and at the same time gently pushed Lu You's shoulder, feeling the body under his hands trembling secretly, "Lu You? Wake up—"

Lu You stood in the middle of a dark corridor.

He knew he was dreaming.Because in reality, this corridor is not so dark and long, with him as the midpoint extending infinitely like two ends.The door of the meeting room in front disappeared, and there would be street lights coming in from behind, and the side door of the auditorium, which was better than nothing to dispel the darkness, also disappeared.His body couldn't move, the wind was blowing from the other side of the corridor, and there was a fishy smell inside, like a beast with a bloody mouth open.

On the ground in front of his toes, something was wriggling.The texture is soft and rotten, like a group of gray-white wet mud, pulling and gradually rising from the ground as if it had a life of its own, and turned into a crooked human shape.In the dimness, that light-colored face came close to him, with blurred features and a malicious expression.Lu You also knew what would happen next—the monster would reach out to him and grab his wrist.The ice-like long needle will penetrate along the blood vessels in his wrist, allowing the venom that can cause suspended animation to flow all over the body in an instant.

The monster held out its hand to him.Strangely, the touch felt on the wrist was not the same as the rubbery texture I remembered.It was colder, harder, and covered with smooth scales—shaped like ropes instead of fingers.His hands got tangled, and more of the same thing crawled up his body.He was pulled and fell backwards, and the ground turned into dark and cold water at some point...

"...Lu You!"

The voice from outside the dreamland finally came in, and Lu You suddenly opened his eyes.He was panting and broke out in a cold sweat. Qi Zhengyun pinched his shoulders and saw his pupils suddenly constricted under the dual effects of light and fright.

Qi Zhengyun was tall and broad-shouldered, and Lu You was crushed by his figure, as if the fear that had been strengthened in the dream had returned to reality, and he suddenly felt a little out of breath.Reflexively, he stretched out his hand to push Qi Zhengyun away, and when his fingers touched the other's solid arm, Qi Zhengyun also backed away without any objection, but Lu You changed his mind and grabbed him tightly instead.

"Wait a minute," he gasped, "don't go..."

"I'm here." Qi Zhengyun replied, and sat back on the bed again, "It's okay, it's just a nightmare." He stroked Lu You's shoulder repeatedly, through the thin fabric of summer pajamas, he could feel the thin outline of the bones underneath .Lu You was still in shock, his shoulders and back were tense, and he froze in a position where he was about to get up but couldn't sit up. After several seconds, he relaxed all of a sudden and fell back on the bed slumped.

Qi Zhengyun began to feel that something was wrong. "What's the matter?" He forgot that he wanted to keep a distance just a few seconds ago, and stroked back the hair soaked in cold sweat on Lu You's forehead.Now he could no longer feel the heat on his forehead, and it became cold.Qi Zhengyun was worried, and went to get the thermometer on the bedside table again, "Come on, take another temperature."

Lu You closed his eyes, let go of Qi Zhengyun's clothes, and raised them to cover his eyes.His heart was still beating wildly, but he said in his mouth: "It's nothing...it's all right." Because he lived alone, he had a good supply of commonly used medicines. The thermometer Qi Zhengyun handed over was wiped with alcohol, and there was a hint of pungent smell. Very cold.Lu You opened his lips to put the thermometer in his mouth, pressed it under his tongue, and fell silent logically.

Waited for 3 minutes and took it out to see, the body temperature dropped a bit, only a few points of heat.Qi Zhengyun brought the thermos over to let Lu You drink water, and insisted on following Lu You when he went to the bathroom, and twisted a hot towel for him to wipe himself, so that he could feel more comfortable.Lu You was served with a loveless expression on his face. After returning to the room, he lay back on the bed. Although he was more tired than before going to bed, his eyes were open and he was not sleepy.Qi Zhengyun whispered to him such boring topics as "what's for dinner", and then he slowly and reluctantly fell asleep again.

This time Lu You was not awakened by the nightmare again.He dreamed of something else.

The dark corridor disappeared.Lu You didn't know if there was really only darkness around him, or if his eyes couldn't see it.He didn't know the direction, staggered forward, and felt something watching him from the darkness.He "looked back" at the past, but the gaze that was originally on him turned away.Compared to being devoured by a monster hiding in the dark, this moment is the moment when panic really surges into my heart.

Why... why don't you look at me?

"Don't go," he murmured.But the lips didn't move, and he didn't even hear his own voice.His body seemed to disappear, leaving only his soul floating in the air.Something passed him and went away, leaving him with empty darkness.

According to Qi Zhengyun in the real world, this time Lu Youan slept quietly for several hours until the sky began to darken.When he woke up again, his fever had completely subsided, his energy seemed to be a little better, and his appetite had basically recovered.Qi Zhengyun obtained Lu You's mobile phone with his consent before he went to bed, and asked the nearby fresh supermarket to deliver the ingredients. He cooked a bowl of shredded pork noodles with green vegetables and put a fried egg that was browned on one side, and he ate it all.

Then he said that his back hurt from lying down and he wanted to get up and walk around.Qi Zhengyun was tidying up in the kitchen, and when he heard the sound of unpacking and moving things inside, he thought that there was something missing, so he speeded up and prepared to help him.As a result, Lu You had already sat at the desk, and the open cabinets behind him were not closed. The scene was a bit messy. There was a pen and paper in front of him, and he was thinking about something with his head down.

Qi Zhengyun saw that a box containing books was tilted and several books fell to the ground. "What are you writing about?" he asked casually, not realizing how annoying he was to be chasing after him.Lu You didn't bother him at all. He said "uh" and said, "I'm writing a suicide note."

Qi Zhengyun just squatted down, ready to pick up the books on the ground.After picking up two copies, he realized what he heard just now, paused, and raised his head. "Suicide note?" he repeated.

Lu You raised the pen in his hand, put the end of the pen against his lips, and rubbed it lightly. "To be honest..." He said in a daze, "When you popped up out of nowhere and told me that my life was in danger... Actually, I didn't get very nervous."

He smiled, "It's like how many people die on the road every day. More people know this, and they will still drive and walk as usual. Any action may lead to accidental death, but before they actually meet , Normal people don’t even think about it... just live as usual. Even if the existence of monsters is proved, I still—"

He paused and lowered his head.Qi Zhengyunmin slowly stood up on the spot, stood for a while, and then walked towards the table.Lu You's hair is a little long, and the soft tail falls on the back of his neck. His neck is slender, his skin is fair, and his shoulders look a little thin.After a while, he seemed to smile wryly, and continued: "The ones you blocked in the past... and this time, the feeling is really different."

Qi Zhengyun only killed a monster once in front of his eyes.It was the time when transparent water droplets gushed out of the faucet.In addition to being scary when it appeared, the monster didn't bleed when it was injured, and it didn't leave a body after death.Before this time, Qi Zhengyun really protected him very well. He didn't let him see that kind of bloody mutilated body, didn't let him be beaten in front of him, and didn't even hurt him—even if Just a small injury like a scratch.

Lu You is sure that Qi Zhengyun eliminated many dangers brought by monsters without him noticing.

Therefore, the "monster" suddenly appeared in his life, just like the clown who popped out when he opened the scare box. At that moment, his heart might stop beating, but after that, the clown just swayed on the spring... times After more, even the sense of terror at the first moment began to get used to it and gradually weakened.

Maybe...it was so well protected that he lost his fear of "danger".

—until he experiences real death.

Qi Zhengyun stood behind Lu You's chair, looking at what he wrote on the paper.The piece of paper was almost blank, and only a few lines were used to divide the area. In the corner of the area, the follow-up processing methods such as "gift", "donate", and "destroy" were marked.Qi Zhengyun saw that Lu You wrote "Book" in the "Donation" column.He should have just started this work, and only listed a few items.

"...I want to take care of what I have first, and decide how to deal with it." Lu You said, his tone sounded calm, "Although I looked around just now, it seems that there is nothing worth leaving for others... "

A vague idea emerged in Qi Zhengyun's mind.That's right, he thought, Lu You hasn't become a voter yet, and he doesn't have a system by his side.For him, death is the complete, irreversible, and eternal end.Therefore, compared with Lu You when he met him later, he should be more afraid of danger, more afraid of monsters, and more... afraid of death.

It was such an obvious thing, but he didn't seem to think about it at all before.When Qi Zhengyun spoke, he felt that his voice became a little difficult, "Are you afraid?" He asked in a low voice.

"Are you afraid of death?" Lu You couldn't help laughing, and turned his head to meet his gaze, "People... no, most living things are afraid of death, right? If there are people who are not afraid of death, it is probably because There are things worse than death."

Qi Zhengyun looked at him.Lu You's eyes didn't dodge, nor did he see any hint of deceit.Although he just smiled, he looked a little sad, which can also be explained as the sadness caused by "sudden awareness of his own dangerous situation".But... no.Qi Zhengyun suddenly realized

wrong.

Lu You was too calm.It's the same at this moment, and it's also when I let him hug him in the hospital, and in turn comfort him not to care.It wasn't until last night that he realized how close "death" was to him. This sentence may be true, at least he never thought about writing a suicide note in advance. "Who wouldn't be afraid of death?" - This rhetorical question should also be true.But Lu You asked him back, and then skipped the answer to what he was afraid of.

——If you are not afraid of death, it is probably because there are things you are more afraid of than death.

Is it really just the reason "almost died yesterday" that made Lu You want to avoid him and wake him up from the nightmare?

Qi Zhengyun's heart sank.The anticipation that it feels like everything is going to be okay doesn't even hold up to the end of the day.He felt that something was happening outside of his control, but he didn't even know what it was, let alone stop it.Lu You seemed unaware of the change in his expression, turned back to pick up the pen again, and clicked in the "gift" column.

"It's troublesome to decide what to leave to whom." He said to himself, "School? Friends? I have very few friends. Parents..."

Qi Zhengyun felt like a parrot who could only learn the tongue, so he knew how to repeat what Lu You said. "...parents?" he asked bluntly.At the same time, the feeling of losing control suddenly became stronger, and an extraordinarily cold feeling permeated his chest.

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