Is the boss fine today?

"I thought you were going to kill me."

Tan Yue stared at the gun in Situ's hand.He has self-tortured and attempted suicide several times, and the pistol is just a toy in his eyes. As long as he thinks about it like this, Situ can't scare him.

So Tan Yue was locked in his room, and it was another night of sharing the same bed with different dreams.

The next day Tan Yue woke up and struggled to open the door. Lao Xing and Situ were not there, only Zhao Zhao was playing Tai Chi with Yi Yun in the courtyard.

"Where did they go?" He looked around.

Yi Yun said, "I don't know."

The more they talked, the more they looked at Yi Yun.

Zhao Zhao may be taking drugs.What role does Yi Yun play in the inn?

As soon as he entered the kitchen, the phone at the counter rang hysterically, spreading throughout the inn, and Tan Yue had no choice but to come out to answer the phone.

"Lao Xing will take you to the station later."

——Situ's voice.

Tan Yue hung up the phone without saying a word.

After a while, a car whistled and stopped at the door of the inn, and Situ and Lao Xing came back together.

Tan Yue was eating behind the counter, holding a rice bowl.He raised his eyebrows and looked at the silent Situ.

The more we talked, the more we saw Lao Xing walking in with a big black backpack in his arms, and the sound was dull when he fell on the table.He thought for a second that it might be drugs or money.Tan Yue didn't show anything on his face, he buried his head in eating a few mouthfuls of rice, and then put down his chopsticks again.He was locked up all night and had calmed down a long time ago.

Situ sat on the stool beside him as usual, with a handsome and haggard face, God knows where he went in the morning.Tan Yue was about to speak, when Yi Yun and Zhao Zhao came out laughing, walked past them, and he said a few more words to them.

Zhao Zhao asked him: "You seem to be recovering from illness, are you going to climb the mountain tomorrow?"

"Not going." Tan Yue shook his head, "Go with them."

After watching Zhao Zhao and Yi Yun go upstairs again, he asked in a low voice, "You've been suspicious of me... because you suspect that I'm here as an undercover agent."

"Yes," Situ started fiddling with his Rubik's cube again, "Ordinary tourists don't come to this inn. I don't know how you came here by car. Go back and pack your luggage. There is a bus today. Now that you know these things, Don't stay here any longer."

"Why?" He asked word for word, "Are you afraid that I will die, or that I will ruin your business?"

"I'm afraid."

"Then you are not afraid that I will call the police?" Tan Yue said ignorantly and fearlessly.

"Go ahead. I won't be surprised if you do this, but you have to be careful yourself."

Situ smiled, and the morning light projected from the wooden window cast a hazy light on his cold outline.A gentle and well-mannered man.However, he is a drug dealer.

"Are you going to keep doing this?" Tan Yue was silent for a while, "You know what the consequences are."

"Don't ask, don't get involved. It's more complicated than you think."

Saying that, Lao Xing came out from the back door.Tan Yue looked at him, his face was cold and tall, he looked like a bodyguard, Situ's bodyguard.Lao Xing didn't even look at him, and walked straight out of Tan Yue's sight, as if the time had flowed back to the first day when he entered the inn.Lao Xing never welcomed him, now Tan Yue understands the reason, maybe everyone in the inn who has been involved in these things thinks Tan Yue's identity is suspicious.

The inn was very quiet during the day, Tan Yue suddenly glanced at the window.It was daytime, and there was only the bright sun and light in the sky. There were neither stars nor cicadas, unlike the night on the boat.After a long time, Tan Yue answered him: "I thought about staying here... You don't seem to be worth it."

His disappointment was a string of bubbles, gurgling out of his throat, and soon bursting and disappearing, leaving nothing in his heart.This feeling is very bad, and it makes Tan Yu more confused. He hasn't felt this kind of emotion for a long, long time, and he can't even remember when the last time was.

"What did you do to me?" The more he talked, he was at a loss.

Situ was silent for a long time, he couldn't answer this question.He said: "Let's eat, there will be a bus later. Have a safe journey."

Safe journey.

Tan Yue muttered these four words, but felt that he had nothing to say.After getting up to clean up the dishes, he went into the kitchen.Lao Xing was eating by the stove.Seeing him coming, I just glanced at him.Tan Yue threw the bowl and chopsticks into the sink with a plop.

"Is the ticket easy to buy?" He asked Lao Xing.

"Where are you going?"

"county seat."

"I mean, after arriving at the county seat, where are you going?"

"City A. Where else can I go?"

The world operates according to various laws. For example, if the journey stops abruptly, it is time for him to return to his original life.Find a new job and continue to hover between life and death.His body would grow heavier and scarred until—he was dragged into the dirt by death.

Lao Xing nodded, not sure if he was satisfied or not:

"I'll drive you to the county seat in the afternoon."

On the way back to the room, he passed the counter. Situ was motionless with his mobile phone, and he was in a daze.Tan Yue leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.He said: "Goodbye." The two looked at each other, and only talked and laughed more and more.

Situ's complicated eyes that hesitant to speak made him somewhat pleased.So Tan Yue added another sentence: "Don't be so unhappy."

In the past that Tan Yue doesn't want to mention, part of it is the haze left behind by his biological parents, and the other part is his tendency to self-destruct. There may be a certain causal relationship between the two.The whole story is like this. After turning 20, Tan Yue found that sometimes he couldn't control himself. Except for drugs, no one could control him.When he jumped down from the fifth floor, he intended to get rid of such an uneasy body, and finally got a scar that was just a pity.Therefore, the adoptive parents were afraid, angry and wary of him.A few years later, he resigned and walked away.Meizhen is the place where his parents died and where he was born. Tan Yue plans to solve the problem from the source.

What made him stop suicide again and again was the accidents that followed.Situ was the first one, and when he saw him, a series of doubts popped up in Tan Yue's mind, followed by his roommate's ass, and a nonsensical poem written by his roommate. "Love / is also colorful / but / if you / believe in love / then you are / a big fool".

The traces of parents' existence belong to the second type of accident, rings, wishing locks, photos... and all of these are related to the mysterious Situ.

Wish lock.

two names.

Wish lock...

In the memory associated with it, the four-handed statue of Tula emerged, and his compassionate and gentle face suddenly overlapped with the photos of Tan Kesheng and Yan Ni.They had the same fixed faces, which had been mottled and faded in the decades of time, and were forgotten by others. Only a few people remembered them. He felt that this was the reason why Situ paid homage to Tula.Thinking of this, Tan Yue stopped in his tracks. He turned back the same way and entered the yard, looked at the place where Yaduo used to hang the kite, and climbed over the wall.

He escaped.

Because he went up the mountain on foot, the journey was very long. When he arrived at the Tula Temple, the sun had already set on the mountainside, which was lower than Tanyue's position.The woods were foggy, dyed by the setting sun, so it was a golden-orange fog.He walked too hastily, the door was knocked open by him, and the dust was thrown all over the floor.A beam of golden light enveloped the statue of Tula, and under its watchful eyes, the heart that fluctuated more and more violently during the conversation gradually calmed down.

He bent down to pick up the wish lock with his parents' names written on it, and the phone vibrated again, buzzing non-stop.He took out his phone, put the prayer lock in his pocket, and left the temple again.He walked towards the cliff of Mount Mengla.Tan Yue knew this place, where his parents died.

The setting sun was completely submerged, and the moonlight was not bright enough. Tan Yue stood on the edge of the cliff and turned on the flashlight, but the bottom of the cliff was so dark that he couldn't see anything clearly.

The wind was very strong, and the whistle of the wind drowned out the continuous vibration of the mobile phone.Tan Yue stared at the glaring screen of the phone—"111", the name he wrote for Situ.

After hesitating for a while, he still pressed the answer button.

"Where are you?"

"cliff."

"Don't do those things..." Situ almost begged, "Wait for me there."

"Ah."

Tan Yue agreed without hesitation, holding his mobile phone, he climbed up a big rock.He sat on a rock, and talked with Situ on the phone in the gurgling mountain wind.

"I'm driving, and I'll be there soon." Situ said, "Why don't you leave?"

Tan Yue said, "I'll go back tomorrow."

He hangs up.

The top of the mountain was extremely cold, and Tan Yu was shivering from the cold. When he jumped off the rock, he happened to see Situ's figure passing through the woods.

Situ might have come running here, his chest heaved and his temples were sweating profusely.Tan Yue looked at his gloomy and forbearing eyes, and then at the moon above his head.

He said: "The moonlight is so beautiful tonight."

"Really?" Situ looked up at the moon.In fact, the moon will not be round yet, it is more like a blurred yellow-white cake, which is not beautiful.

Tan Yue climbed up the rock, patted the place beside him, "Come up."

The two sat side by side on the cliff, with empty wind and boundless darkness under their feet.

"'I said the moonlight is so beautiful tonight and you say yes'," Tan Yue said, "Have you heard this song?"

"No."

"I don't understand the style, you can listen to it when you have time."

"Just sing it to me. Don't you have anything else to say?"

Situ lifted his coat, blocked the wind and lit a cigarette, and the spark between his fingers was rubbed by the wind at night, getting brighter and brighter.

"Go and surrender."

"It's not that simple. In this place, I would be killed accidentally before I even stepped into the police station."

"So rampant?"

"The last living god died in an ugly way. She overdoses in one breath and died before reaching the hospital. A woman, her child is still very young."

"child?"

"Her children are chosen as the next living god." Situ said, "Actually, they don't need to believe anymore. God's existence is meaningless."

"'them'?"

He actually used the word.Talk more and more.

"I'm different from them... Take this and leave here, go anywhere, don't choose W City and nearby cities, go to the police." He said, "I can't leave this city..."

His deep voice rose in the darkness, and was blown away by the wind at once.It took a while for Tan Yue to understand what Situ just said.

Situ spread his hands, and the silver metal glistened under the moonlight.A U disk.

"What's inside?" Tan Yue was taken aback, "Are you under house arrest?"

"Part of the evidence. There is a complete smuggling gang in Mei Town, producing and selling drugs... The night of sacrifice is their carnival."

The USB flash drive fell into Tan Yue's palm and bumped into his ring.Situ held his palm, fingers together.

On the cliff, Situ left a hopeless kiss on the back of his hand.

He said over and over, let's go.