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As if half asleep and half awake, Lu You heard someone talking.

"—Are you not at all wary of him doing such a thing?"

The voice of the question was a little thin, like a little girl, and there was a feeling of deja vu in my ears.It's just that Lu You's thinking is still slow at the moment, it's hard to move, and he can't recall the source of this familiarity; his body is light and light, as if he was slightly drunk after drinking some wine, relaxed and comfortable, making people not want to open their eyes and think about it. To continue to sleep.

At this moment, a few small and cold fingers gently pressed onto his hand, and the cut place on his palm throbbed as if stimulated by the coolness.The drowsiness was disturbed, and the consciousness finally did not sink deeper into the dream, but began to wake up gradually.Lu You felt the light shining on his eyelids and the warmth of the long-lost sunshine.

Huihui stared at the person lying flat on the bed. The young man's eyes were closed tightly, his eyelashes were motionless, as if he was still asleep, his right hand cut by broken porcelain pieces was placed outside the quilt, and the palm was wrapped in a white bandage.The time when he was trapped in the room without seeing the sun made his soft black hair grow a little longer, and his face looked extraordinarily pale.Although she had just wet her lips with a cotton pad soaked in water a moment ago, the reddish and whitish color was still like a petal about to wither, showing signs of the passing of vitality.

She stood by the bed, and after asking that sentence, she touched Lu You's hand. She wanted to make sure that his injury was not serious, but she found that Lu You's fingers moved slightly when she touched him. move.She withdrew her hand calmly, turned her head and looked at the man standing by the other side of the bed. Qi Zhengyun was staring at a small spot of light on the bed sheet absent-mindedly, as if he didn't notice that the person sleeping on the bed had already passed away. I'm about to wake up.

The ghostly "cleaner" Huihui grabbed from the hospital huddled in the corner of the room, his surface undulating, as if shivering.Qi Zhengyun summoned her urgently because he overreacted when he noticed Lu You's self-injury behavior, and used anesthetic biotoxins to stop him—his prototype as a sea monster was not poisonous, but sometimes he ate it. Small poisonous creatures such as jellyfish store up the toxins to prevent the prey from struggling when they are killed-the "prey" here refers to the human beings who are sacrificed, and only in this case Completeness will be required.

Qi Zhengyun remembered that the toxin itself should not be fatal, but would only quickly deprive him of consciousness.But after chasing Lu You's whereabouts and leaving the original world, he almost never used this method, and never thought of deliberately renewing the remaining toxins.I don't know how long it has been saved, and it is hard to guarantee whether the effect has changed.So he asked Huihui to bring a "cleaner" who could suck out the venom, and just now he had filtered out all the toxins left in Lu You's blood.

The scene at that time looked familiar, and it reminded Qi Zhengyun of the time when Lu You was injured by the shapeshifter.But this time, it was he who caused the harm.

Qi Zhengyun's eyes moved slightly, and moved to Lu You's uninjured hand on the quilt.The fingers curled up slightly, there was no blood under the nails, and blue veins appeared on the back of the hand——Evidently, Lu You had been eating normally before, but Lu You kept losing weight, so thin that the outline of the wrist bones became clear.Even though he knew logically that the wound on Lu You's other hand was very shallow and only bled a little, seeing him lying silently like this, Qi Zhengyun couldn't help but have the illusion that He was badly wounded and could die at any moment.

Regarding the gray question, Qi Zhengyun was silent for a while, and then whispered: "I haven't thought about it."

At this moment, he was so close to the person sleeping peacefully in the middle of the bed, but there seemed to be an insurmountable gap between him, a transparent but indestructible wall, which made it impossible for him to reach out and touch it.

"He never intentionally hurt himself like this before." Qi Zhengyun said slowly, his voice was steady, but there was a hint of bewilderment in his expression, "Nor would he take the initiative to ask for death. What I need to prevent is accidents. It's all like this..."

Lu You was fully awake.He hoped that his heartbeat and breathing would not be too fast, and that he would not be aware of the fact that he had regained consciousness because of the uncontrollable eye rolls or the abnormal stiffness of the body.He heard these words very clearly, it was the voice he could not forget, it was the voice of the man who had only spoken to him on the first day of his captivity.

before?Lu You breathed slowly, remained motionless, pretending not to wake up yet, thinking about the meaning of the word in his mind.He had always suspected that the monster knew him—not only from the information revealed in the first few short conversations, but also from the familiarity with his preferences revealed in the utensils and diet.It's just that no matter how I screened in the memory, I couldn't find the corresponding person. In the end, I had to attribute it to the fact that he may have been followed for a long time, because the other party was not detected by human means.However... Listening to what the man said just now, it seems that similar things have happened "before".

This is so weird.It doesn't sound like a lie either.If it wasn't for the insane nonsense... Could it be that his memory was tampered with?

This idea was ridiculous when it first surfaced, but the more I thought about it, the more suspicious it became.But Lu You couldn't immerse himself in his thoughts for long, because the female voice from before started talking again.He hastened to concentrate and listen carefully, this time just after listening to half a sentence, the sense of familiarity suddenly became clear, and a pair of light gray eyes like a fortune-teller appeared in front of Lu You's eyes.

is her……?

"Do you think so? Then you may have underestimated the fragility of the human spirit." Huihui said, inadvertently letting a little sarcasm in her tone, and then adjusted with a light cough, "However, this time The reason why he did this is not to ask for death—let me guess, is it to threaten you?"

She was called by Qi Zhengyun to run errands. She knew nothing about the specific antecedents, but she keenly guessed the truth at once.Pausing for a while, seeing that Qi Zhengyun was just silent, which might be regarded as acquiescing, she glanced at the slightly trembling eyelashes of Lu You lying on the bed, and said nonchalantly, "What are you doing to let him catch you?" I said you——pretending to be so fierce, as if it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t die, and it doesn’t matter if he gets hurt or has a mental breakdown, but he still cares? I really don’t know what you are awkward about. In such a confrontational situation, refusing to get along well—"

Get along with.The words that he had said to Lu You made Qi Zhengyun's heart twitch faintly, as if it had touched an old wound that hadn't healed for a long time. "...'care'?" He whispered in an ironic tone, subconsciously avoiding the last question, "Now you're saying that again—"

This attitude was close to becoming angry from embarrassment, and Qi Zhengyun himself noticed it.Thinking that the monster girl in front of him didn't have the memory of the conversation in the hospital corridor before several reincarnations, he stopped and didn't continue talking.Huihui turned her head to look at the man's expression, as if guessing something, she sneered slightly. "Then let me talk too much." She said nonchalantly, "However, I still want to remind you again, don't lock people in such a room all the time—he won't take the initiative to seek death when he is in a normal mind, what? Time is crazy, but I can't tell."

Hui Hui smiled, revealing two small white canine teeth. "And, now that he's confirmed that you 'care' about him—" she drawled, adding the accent on the word on purpose, as if it were a provocative gesture, "people who become self-assured, for the sake of freedom will I am also looking forward to what kind of struggle we will make."

After the voice fell this time, no one spoke again.Lu You lay on the bed in a fixed position until his back was stiff. First, he heard a small and slight sound of footsteps leaving the side of the bed, walking around the end of the bed towards the direction that should be the door, and then another one was softer and for some reason But I felt more steady footsteps, followed by walking outside.The two footsteps moved away one after the other. After the slight movement of opening and closing the door, Lu You felt as if all the sounds around him had been sucked away.

Lu You carefully opened his eyes.

The sun shining on my body is not an illusion—this is a strange room.Still empty and lack of furniture, filled with a quiet smell.But there are windows in the walls, the curtains are drawn, and there is dust rising and falling in the sunlight coming in from the windows.The light was a warm gold, stinging to the eyes too accustomed to dark and white lights for so long.

Even though he was so stimulated that tears came to his eyes, Lu You still stared at the window without blinking, his thinking seemed to have stalled at this moment, and then he felt an urge to cry.But he still hadn't forgotten his current situation, and quickly came back to his senses, broke free from the shackles of the thin quilt and got up, and he didn't even feel pain when he pressed his bandaged palm on the edge of the bed.

He was indeed the only one in the room, and there was no sound outside the door, as if the two had already left.Lu You's heart was pounding, thinking about the conversations he had overheard before, but at this moment, he was overwhelmed by the hope of getting away.He could hardly breathe, and slipped down the edge of the bed lightly, stepping on the cold floor with his bare feet, walking unsteadily, but still trying not to make any noise as he walked towards the window.

A strange building is reflected outside the window——

This seems to be a newly built residential area. The buildings are of a style that Lu You has never seen before. The reflection of the sun makes it difficult for him to see the scene behind the glass windows on the opposite side. However, judging from most of the empty balconies, they have already moved in. There are not many households.Lu You pressed the glass with his hand, and he leaned against the window to look down. Unexpectedly, the location of this room is not too far from the ground, about three or four floors high.

But at such a height, jumping directly is enough to fall to death.The balcony is more than one meter away from the window sill, and the white water pipes are close to the wall. Right below is the tile floor of the small garden of the residents on the ground floor.Lu You has seen many scenes of flying over eaves and walls in movies, but at this moment he couldn't find a safe place to stay. He gritted his teeth and started to break the latch on the window, thinking that no matter what, open the window first— —

I pressed it down with all my strength, but the lock didn't budge.Lu You looked carefully, only to find that the gaps were filled with silver metal and had been welded to death.He refused to give up, he tried his best to pull and tug, and pushed the window frame hard, but it didn't do anything, it only made the scratched pain on his palm intensify, and a little dark color blew out from under the bandage.

Lu You panted, clenched his fist and wanted to smash it against the glass, his raised hand froze in mid-air for a while, but he finally let it go knowing that it was useless.He turned around sharply, looking around the room, trying to find a tool that could be used to break the glass, his eyes flicked over the bed covered with white sheets, the empty floor, the corner of the wall——

He paused, then slowly turned back after a few seconds, and stopped on the thing that looked like a ball of transparent jelly by the corner.The surface of the thing couldn't stop trembling, as if it had sensed his gaze, it slowly floated up and floated towards the window.Lu You froze for a while, then backed away, watching the mass pass by where he got out of the way, spread out into a flat piece, and stuck to the window glass with a "slap".

The center of the glass wriggled, and a hole appeared.Like an ice layer melting under heat, the edge of the cavity, which was initially only the size of a bubble, expanded rapidly.

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Huihui walked in front, and the sight cast from behind made her feel like a light on her back.At first she unconsciously walked faster and faster, then slowed down as if to hide her guilt, and heard another person's footsteps gradually approaching from behind.The girl-like monster turned her head slightly, her light gray eyes had a transparent texture in the light.

"Why did you come out with me?" Huihui looked at the man approaching her, and asked in a tone of pretended surprise, "Aren't you afraid that your little pet will wake up and run away?"

She stopped first, and then Qi Zhengyun.The man's eyes were dark, as if there was no boundary between the pupil and the iris, and the light would be swallowed up when it entered.His expression was very calm, and he didn't seem to have any signs of vicious things like murder and silence, and he just had something to say when he came over.Hui Hui just relaxed a little, but he heard him ask in a flat tone: "You want him to escape?"

He was silent for a while, and originally wanted to perfunctory, but when he met Qi Zhengyun's eyes, he knew that he had already noticed that Lu You was awake.Now she had nothing to hide, and a smile appeared on her lips again, and she didn't look too scared. "Why do you ask knowingly after you've found out?" She said softly, "I don't care if he runs away or not—I just can't stand you making troubles."

"Let him have nothing to fear..." Qi Zhengyun repeated what she had said in a soft voice. He looked at Hui Hui and had to lower his head, which naturally carried a dangerous sense of oppression. "Tell him that hurting yourself can indeed threaten I—will it do any good?"

Gray shrugged. "I don't know," she said, "to make him sure that you mean no harm, perhaps?"

"And then?" Qi Zhengyun asked quietly.

"Go and communicate with him!" Huihui frowned, she felt as if she was communicating with that kind of low-level monster with no brains, "Like a human being! Isn't this a terrible thing? Torturing him like that, As if he has no heart, what good is it to you?"

Qi Zhengyun shook his head slightly.Hui Hui didn't know what he was negating—and he didn't know what he was thinking at this moment, so that he would show such a timid expression.This fleeting expression seemed to open a gap in some kind of thick camouflage, allowing her to see the ruins riddled with holes underneath; Pus and blood flowed out of the inside that had begun to rot during healing.

But he immediately restrained his expression, and returned to the almost numb calmness before - as if he had trekked in the snowstorm for too long, he had lost all consciousness, he didn't know whether his hands and feet were dead, he didn't even know if he was still alive, he only knew that he had to Keep moving forward—keep moving forward on this dead-end road that you have stepped on until the end.

Then the man turned his head, as if he saw something happening in another place through the wall around him.Huihui didn't have time to say anything else, she just felt a sudden blackness in front of her eyes, as if the overwhelming darkness enveloped the sky, she recovered to her original form in a scream that blurted out, and was about to flee away at the fastest speed; but suddenly the light returned, and she saw the surrounding The arrangement, as well as herself, were intact, only the man standing in front of her disappeared.

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