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Under the bridge hole piled up with construction waste, the stagnant water exudes a rotten smell.Even a homeless man would not want to live in this remote, low and damp place, but it is a bit strange that the mosquitoes that should have bred in large numbers in the sewage are also missing here.It was dark and quiet in the bridge hole, and a layer of slippery and thick moss grew on the wet masonry surface.

A figure quietly appeared outside the bridge hole.The weeds move automatically without wind, shaking and making a rustling sound.The surface of the sewage began to fluctuate, and many bubbles bubbled out.On the surface, the stagnant water was only a few centimeters deep at most, but at this time it seemed to be connected to a deep well, and something slowly floated out from the bottom: it was a woman's head, with a beautiful face, covered with thick black hair. long hair.The woman closed her eyes, water dripped down her pale face.

This was a very horrifying scene, but the man who stood outside the bridge hole and witnessed the whole process was indifferent.He didn't take the time to say hello, and went straight to the subject: "What's in the water?"

Hearing this, the woman's eyes opened.There were no pupils in those eyes, and what filled the eye sockets was a whole piece of bright red blood. "It turned out to be you." She said slowly, because her mouth was still hidden under the water surface, her lazy voice was accompanied by bursting noises of bubbles, "That guy who guards a human being all day... I I was still thinking that thanks to your diligent cleaning, my place has become much quieter, so you came to disturb me..."

The people outside the bridge hole ignored her nagging complaints and just repeated their own questions. "The water is polluted. Do you know where the source is?" He said, "You can come and go freely in the sewer system of this city. You shouldn't have discovered the anomaly later than me."

"What source do we need? Water itself is the source." The woman said quietly, "The water in the river, the water in the air, the water on the cloud... The water source outside the world will soon completely deteriorate. The blood in the biological body The water will slow down a little bit, but it won't last long. This is the decay that started from within the source of life, and the process of apoptosis has officially started, and you can't stop it this time."

She seemed to feel sleepy, and yawned——the whole beautiful woman's face was lifted from the chin to the temple line, revealing the dark throat with dense teeth, and she fell back lazily after a few seconds, "Bada "It snapped back into place with a snap, and the squeezed air formed an extraordinarily large bubble out of the water. "Let's take a look on the street or in the hospital." She said, "The part of humans with more active vitality will be assimilated faster, and some of them are about to complete the transformation. After that, there will be monsters with weak resistance, and finally No one can escape."

"Actually, I don't need to tell you about this, right? Because you have been fighting against it for several years, observing and guessing it for several years, and you are the one who is most familiar with this enemy..."

The person who was looking at her blood red eyes just listened quietly before saying nothing.Only then did he finally speak again. "Haven't you thought of resisting at all?" he asked in a low voice.

The woman was silent for a while. "Why bother with useless work?" she finally said lightly. "This world is a bad-tempered master who has set his sights on overturning everything it has created in this round. All the life and power that came down were taken back and used for destruction... Although something happened more than ten years ago, which made it speed up all of a sudden, but that was just a little bit ahead of the doomed ending. I just want to Get some sleep when it's over."

"Stop running around. Go back to your human and spend a little more time with him—time is running out." The woman's voice was very calm, with a sense of indifference.After saying this, she stopped talking, and the head closed its eyes and sank into the water.

The people standing outside watched silently as the piece of sewage swallowed up the last wisp of black hair, and the surface of the water returned to calm.There was no expression on his face, he raised his head and looked up at the pale pink sky above for a while, then slowly turned around and walked away after a while.

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Lu You went back to the cage and slept for more than two hours. When he was pushed awake by Qi Zhengyun, his head was still dizzy.Qi Zhengyun didn't allow him to be lazy and eat breakfast and lunch together. Lu You was held in front of the table and drank a small bowl of black rice porridge. It was only when he ate with boiled eggs dipped in soy sauce that his mind began to clear up.

Then he realized that Qi Zhengyun's mood was not quite right.He looked very happy in the morning, and he just fell asleep. This person seemed to have encountered something depressing and became listless.Qi Zhengyun stuck to him very tightly today. He sat next to him when he had breakfast, and followed him when he washed the dishes. Lu You stood in front of the sink, feeling like he was about to be crushed by Qi Zhengyun who was sticking up behind him. down.The man hugged his waist with both hands, and rubbed his chin against his shoulder. Lu You almost had the illusion that he was going to make some moaning noises in the next second, feeling both puzzled and funny.

The porridge bowl was rinsed with clean water and cleaned after a little wiping. Lu You washed the bowl and then washed his hands. Without turning his head, he could feel Qi Zhengyun hesitated to speak while staring at him.He wiped off the water droplets on his hands, and patted Qi Zhengyun's hand on his waist to let him loosen, so that he could turn around.Qi Zhengyun let go obediently, and then put his hands on the edge of the pool instead, still trapped him in his arms and refused to let go.Lu You kissed the man's tightly pursed, somewhat stiff lips, and looked into his eyes inquiringly.

"What's the matter?" Lu You asked, he thought about it, and only thought that there was something wrong with the birthday plan discussed, "Does the company want you to go on a business trip tomorrow?"

Last night, he directly asked Qi Zhengyun if he planned to go out to play this time, and after getting a negative answer, he decided that tomorrow's celebration would be for the two of them to stay at home and play games, watch movies, and make dinner by themselves—although it felt different It's a little less different from normal life, which sounds pretty good.He also planned to finish the work as soon as possible today, so as to free up the whole day... If this plan is accidentally destroyed, it is no wonder that Qi Zhengyun put on an unhappy and apologetic expression towards him .

Qi Zhengyun paused before speaking, as if temporarily changing his original rhetoric. "There may be something... but I'm not sure yet." He said vaguely, "I will try to come back as soon as possible." After speaking, he and Lu You looked at each other for a few seconds, and suddenly sighed deeply, as if it was true. Very depressed.Lu You felt Qi Zhengyun's arms tightened on both sides of his body, and he held him tightly in his arms again.

The hem of his shirt was lifted up, and the man's warm palms pressed against the sensitive skin on the back of his waist, as if he was not satisfied with hugging through the clothes. "I'm so unwilling." Lu You heard Qi Zhengyun mutter such a sentence, his voice was muffled.He was about to be startled: he shouldn't be so depressed...

But in retrospect, from the date of dating, he was indeed the only one who would be late or leave early for appointments due to various emergencies, and sometimes change plans temporarily, and Qi Zhengyun had never broken an appointment with him.Qi Zhengyun seemed to be able to put an end to all accidents and not let any factors other than Lu You himself disturb their relationship.In some aspects like this, because Qi Zhengyun did so perfectly that Lu You didn't feel guilty about some of the shortcomings caused by him, which were originally human - so at other times, he instinctively wanted to Choose patience as compensation.

Will there be an exception this time?

Lu You thought he would breathe a sigh of relief. Qi Zhengyun's "perfect" performances had brought him a lot of pressure in the past. He even secretly hoped that someday there would be some mistakes in Qi Zhengyun, so that his mentality could be a little more balanced.But when such a thing really happened, he felt his heart shrink slightly, as if something in Qi Zhengyun's attitude stabbed him.

Lu You was wondering why his own emotions had also become weaker, but he gave up the rare opportunity to hurt Qi Zhengyun, and instead touched Qi Zhengyun's back comfortingly - he originally planned to touch his head, Who told Qi Zhengyun to act like a child, but Qi Zhengyun hugged him so tightly that he couldn't lift his arms at all, so he had to settle for the next best thing. "It's okay-it's not like I won't celebrate birthdays in the future." He joked, "Remember to come back and give me a gift."

He just said it casually, and it was indescribable to Qi Zhengyun's ears.A strong sourness welled up in Qi Zhengyun's heart, making the circles of his eyes burn, but he still tried his best to hold back his emotions so that Lu You could not find out.

Even if he had to experience thousands of heartbreaks on the way—before this reincarnation began, he had firmly made such an oath.But since he has been loved and turned into a mortal who can be easily hurt, it is impossible not to pray with luck that even one parting can be avoided.

Please... please.Don't let it end like this.Don't take that away from him again.After that he may be exhausted and need to sleep as long as death before he can gather enough courage to try again.

Is there enough time?The time he gave Lu You, tried his best to delay the arrival of the shattered ending, and the time he bought for Lu You was enough to heal his wounds, and let him carry the memory of this time in the white box like a freezer in the system space wake up?These times are not just a few years, but also the "happiness" they created together.Such a weighty thing should not burst easily like a hastily blown soap bubble!

Qi Zhengyun stroked Lu You's soft hair, stepped back a little, and lowered his head to kiss him.Lu You's eyes were smiling at him, with a little undetectable worry hidden in them, and her gentle lips tasted as sweet as usual.How he wished that his figure could be sealed in the depths of these beautiful eyes, preserved forever like a worm wrapped in amber.

Please come to the end a little later, a little later...

This afternoon, Lu You stayed at home alone, and Qi Zhengyun rarely stayed by his side, but went out by himself.He seemed to want to postpone the "business trip" for a few days so as not to spoil Lu You's birthday plans tomorrow.Lu You tried to persuade him to relax, but failed, so he had to let him go.The feeling of "freedom" suddenly made Lu You feel a little uncomfortable. One afternoon, because he wanted Qi Zhengyun to help him get something, he called him a few times, and then he remembered that Qi Zhengyun was not at home, so he had to go get it by himself—if Qi Zhengyun's usual behavior It was some kind of domestication plan for him, and it didn't look like he would be successful before long.

Qi Zhengyun came back when Lu You was looking through the refrigerator to find ingredients for dinner, and brought back two large boxes of mineral water.He said that the filter system in the kitchen was broken. Lu You, who washed an apple in the afternoon, went to try it suspiciously. The water gushing out of the faucet was intermittent. One place was stuck by stones, and there was still a fishy smell in the water.

Lu You vaguely felt that this smell was a bit familiar, but Qi Zhengyun kicked him out of the kitchen when he heard that he hadn't finished his work, so he didn't have time to distinguish it carefully.

In the evening, the sunset glow covering the sky is extraordinarily gorgeous, bright and rich in red—the setting sun is like blood.Qi Zhengyun drew the curtains, turned on the white fluorescent lamp in the kitchen, and took out the mineral water bottle by bottle.In the sealed plastic bottle, the supposedly transparent and colorless water was slightly reddish. He held the bottle, and the force penetrated slowly through the wall of the bottle. The acid was dropped into the aggressive phenolphthalein test solution.

How long he can sustain such consumption, he is not sure.Because he himself was also being corroded, the monster reacted more sensitively and violently to this change, and the attack occurred later than ordinary humans, just because monsters often had stronger resistance.As for Lu You... Lu You, who has lived with him for such a long time, whether the affected reaction or resistance is deeper, and whether the pace of erosion on him will slow down or speed up, so far he can't judge.

At least, Lu You did not become one of those patients in the hospital who had been eroded to the brain and deprived of self-awareness.The time he fell asleep in the morning should have been purely because he was tired, but he didn't feel sleepy again afterwards, and his complexion and spirit were still normal.That effect, as might be expected, was on the good side.

--time.Even if it is one day, two days...

After Lu You fell asleep at night, Qi Zhengyun went outside and walked through the moonlit city.It was a very quiet night.Those monsters who used to be at peace with him, the professor went to another city after retiring last year, Huihui didn’t know when he left, and the mermaid who used to be her friend didn’t come to this city at all in this reincarnation —Maybe it was affected by what happened in the sea.The monster that explained the current situation to him during the day also ignored him, and seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep by itself in order to avoid pain.

Qi Zhengyun walked around the city, and on the way back, he encountered a monster that was trying to wrap its house with vines to make it airtight.This monster is a rare plant type, with a gentle and cautious personality, so Qi Zhengyun didn't even know her existence before.After learning that she did this because she felt that she could purify the air, and perhaps alleviate the pollution a little bit, although Qi Zhengyun judged from the unchanged surrounding environment that her efforts were probably wasted, she still treated a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Mentality is like exchanging a talisman on an island, exchanging a scale for a flower to her.

The monster that turned into a woman took the scales and entered the room for a while before coming out with a blooming flower.When handing the flowers to Qi Zhengyun, she bowed cautiously. "My husband is human and works in the same place as the person you guard." She said softly, "Thank you for what you have been doing..." She lowered her head and retreated into the house. The vines closed neatly.

Qi Zhengyun walked back with the flowers.The reddish moonlight streamed along the road, and the surroundings were completely silent.The bright red rose was beating slightly in his hand like a living heart with a slight warmth.

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