It was dark outside and it was raining heavily.In such weather, if your umbrella is unfortunately blown away by the wind, your whole body will be soaked before you pick it up.

So most drivers drive very slowly, and there are only a few days of the year when people drive much slower than the speed limit.It was wet, cold and dark outside, and not many people wanted to be outside even on a Friday.Most of the people have already gone home, while a few have just had dinner with their friends and colleagues, and they go home slowly with the satisfaction of drinking and eating.

Hong Rui held his breath in his heart.He continued to overtake, and he didn't let go of the accelerator until there was no vehicle ahead.He allowed the car to slow down and return to the slow lane.

The white rain fell on the front window of the car as if it was going to engulf the car body.The wipers reach their maximum working speed and struggle with the rain.He could only see the road clearly in the gaps.

It was a terrible day, cold and wet.He suddenly remembered that he had once carried Adam in such weather.At that time, Adam was sitting beside him cautiously, occasionally raising his eyes to look at him secretly, as if he wanted to say something, but held back.When he turned his head to look at Adam, Adam would turn away again.He could hear Adam's heavy breathing.He didn't have any strong curiosity about people, but in retrospect, he suddenly became interested in Adam's hesitancy.

And tonight, Adam was going to ride home in such weather.Thinking of this, Hong Rui wanted to kick himself hard again, blaming himself for not stopping to call Adam when he saw the rain.

At this point, he can only comfort himself that Adam is an adult, and he seems to be very experienced in motorcycles, so he has nothing to worry about.

Hong Rui adjusted the radio station so as to change the atmosphere in the car that was as thick as the night.A light comes on in the passing lane.From the rearview mirror, he saw a motorcycle emerging from the darkness, gradually approaching, and it was about to pass Hong Rui's body.

He thought he had driven the car very fast, but someone was faster than him.That knight must be in a hurry, or in a bad mood like Hong Rui, otherwise he wouldn't be driving hard in such bad weather.

The traffic light ahead suddenly turned yellow, and Hong Rui stepped on the brakes.When the motorcycle braked, the wheels creaked harshly on the ground, and the splashed water even flew onto Hong Rui's glass.He finally stopped beside Hong Rui.Hong Rui saw that the rider was wearing a full set of windproof clothing for motorcycles. There was a yellow color band extending from the upper left arm to the shoulder on the pure black jacket.He also wears a US Route 66 coat of arms on his left arm.Adam also has a Route 66 tattoo on his body.As he was massaging Adam, he saw a very finely delineated highway on Adam's right shoulder.Next to it is a shield: Route 66.Hong Rui has been to the United States several times, but that was the first time he paid attention to Route 66.That road must be beautiful.

The knight arched his body, held the handle with one hand, and stepped on the ground to support the car body.He wiped the rainwater off his helmet with his gloved hands, while looking sideways at Hong Rui's car.His face became clear for a very short moment, and Hong Rui only had time to see a silhouette, which looked very much like Adam.

Hong Rui hurriedly turned his head to look back, and he quickly realized that this was not his car, and the rider couldn't see him through the black glass.

The red light turned green, the motorcycle started its engine, and before Hong Rui started, it had already driven five or six meters, leaving Hong Rui far behind.The red tail lights went forward for a while, then turned into a gas station on the side of the road.

That must not be Adam.Hong Rui continued to move forward until he drove onto the Ring Expressway.

If there are no cars on the highway, there will naturally be no light.Both the front and the way were surrounded by endless darkness and heavy rain.It is easy to get tired while driving in such an environment.In such an isolated environment, listening to the sound of the rain, Hong Rui gradually relaxed, and the anger, frustration, guilt and other emotions in his blood tended to calm down.The atmosphere in the carriage was no longer sharp, and the sense of stillness after exhaustion gradually spread.Hong Rui adjusted the radio station, trying to find some strong music to concentrate on.

He endured his tiredness and drove for a while. He was already very close to the exit. He only needed to drive for another [-] minutes before he could collapse on his sofa and drink a cup of hot coffee.At this moment, he suddenly heard the roar of an engine.

It was soft at first, hidden in the noise of the rainstorm.Later, the roar gradually became clearer, from far to near.Within seconds he saw a yellow light coming up from the rear passing lane.As the rider passed him, the yellow band on his jacket cut through the darkness like a bolt of golden lightning.

That was the Adam-like rider he met at the traffic light.London is so big, what kind of coincidence would make them walk on the same road, and that road happened to be the only way Hong Rui had to go home.Previously, Hong Rui used the elevator door to get rid of Adam, and now he chased Hong Rui's house to ask for an explanation, which seemed to be something Adam would do.

The rider changed lanes and galloped in front of Hong Rui without slowing down.Downpours of rain poured from the sky, trying to fill the space between the two of them.He was going too fast, at least ten miles faster than the speed limit.On such a rainy night, when the visibility is severely reduced, as long as a slight mistake is made, it will cause irreparable consequences.

Hong Rui flashed his headlights towards the motorcycle a few times to remind him of his speed.If it was Adam, he hoped that Adam would notice his car, but he realized again that it was not his usual car, and Adam couldn't recognize it.The motorcycle is still moving forward at a constant speed.Hong Rui tried to speed up to catch up, but the acceleration performance of the car was not comparable to that of the motorcycle, and the taillights of the motorcycle were still getting farther and farther until they disappeared.

Hong Rui chased after him for a while, but finally gave up.

Without warning, a red warning light suddenly flashed in the darkness ahead.The red light flashed repeatedly, which was extremely shocking in the dark.

Hong Rui sat up straight suddenly, the hair on his arms stood up because of the accident.He braked carefully to slow down and changed lanes to the overtaking lane so as to avoid the accident vehicle.It was very close to the exit he was going to leave, and when he thought of the motorcycle, he suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.For the first time, he turned on his long-sighted lights on the highway, trying to see the road ahead more clearly.

There was someone standing on the side of the highway, in the slow lane he had been in before.And farther away, he saw a motorcycle falling to the ground, right on the passing lane!

"Fuck." Hong Rui's mind went blank, he stepped on the brakes with all his strength, and firmly controlled the steering wheel.He didn't care about whether the car would spin out of control in such weather.

"Stop, stop, stop!" It was as if someone was shouting in his ear.His vision kept shaking, and the motorcycle was like an old movie in slow motion, getting closer and closer in the slow motion frame by frame.He could finally see clearly that the motorcycle was lying on the ground, washed indiscriminately by the raging rain, and the motorcyclist was nowhere to be seen.

The tires screamed like scratching on the ground, and he stared at the motorcycle, tightly controlling the body.When he was very close, the car body veered suddenly and crashed into the isolation belt.After a loud bang, he saw only a piece of white snow.

"Are you okay?" He heard someone say in his ear, the voice was erratic, as if someone was shouting to him on a roller coaster.

Hong Rui opened his eyes, and a strange man with rain on his face was holding on to his passenger door, looked at him worriedly and asked again: "Are you okay? Are you injured?"

Hong Rui broke free from the airbag and wiped his face.There was a sharp pain in his forehead, as if he had been punched hard.He had experienced similar blows when punching, and he quickly adjusted from such a lethargic state.Hong Rui moved his body, and apart from numbness in his head and tingling in his wrists, he didn't feel particularly stiff or uncomfortable.He quickly replied, "I'm fine. What happened?"

"There was an accident and someone was on the highway and didn't see the motorcycle."

Only then did Hong Rui remember the motorcycle. "Oh my god, Adam." He pushed the door hard and found that his right car hit the median and the door was blocked.He turned on the warning lights, pulled on the handbrake, and climbed out from the co-pilot to look for the rider.

He soon saw a person in a black jacket lying a few meters in front of the motorcycle, unresponsive under the heavy rain.There was some dark viscous liquid around his body that was different from rainwater. Hong Rui didn't know if it was car oil or blood.

Hong Rui rushed over in the rain, "Don't be Adam." He thought.However, when he saw more and more clearly, the fear in his heart became more and more intense.The rider was on his back, wearing a black jacket with a yellow band on his shoulders, and his thighs were twisting in a very abnormal way.It was like a flat uppercut hitting Hong Rui's head, and he almost fell to the ground.

Hong Rui gritted his teeth and knelt beside the rider, trying his best to ignore the rapidly expanding fear of losing the boundary in his heart.He forced himself to be calm so he could unzip his jacket and feel for the pulse on the rider's neck, but found nothing.The man also came and knelt aside.He shouted to Hong Rui in the rain: "I have already called the emergency call." Hong Rui nodded and shouted back: "I am here to give first aid, I want to take off his helmet, you help me fix the spine."

The man nodded and supported the back of the rider's head according to Hong Rui's instructions.Hong Rui opened the mask and carefully removed the helmet.A pale and blue face was exposed under the helmet, and a head of half-length hair was soaked in rainwater, floating in the water like algae.His lips were pale and his eyes were closed, but thank goodness it wasn't Adam.

Hong Rui heaved a sigh of relief, but he quickly recalled that this rider was the same age as Adam, with a similar body shape, and it was very likely that Adam would also be involved in such an accident, but it was not in front of his eyes.

There wasn't any breathing, at least he didn't feel it.

This could be Adam.Whether Adam is also lying on a certain road is uncertain.Damn, he can't think like that.

Hong Rui unzipped all the rider's jackets to reveal the clothes underneath.Now he could see fresh blood on the clothes, showing a wound. "I'll do cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Check to see if there are any wounds. If there are any, find the source and press with your hands to stop the bleeding." The man nodded, expressing his understanding.

This was the most anxious and desperate 10 minutes that Hong Rui had experienced in his life. The man lifted the young man's clothes and searched for the wound.Hong Rui pressed his chest for CPR.After he completed a set of compressions, Hong Rui attached the young man's lips without hesitation, sending air into the rider's respiratory tract.

He didn't realize what he had done until after he did it.But he didn't have time to think about it, "One time..." He counted the number of times, checked whether his chest rose and fell, and calculated how many artificial respirations he needed before switching to the next set of CPR.

Hong Rui has not kissed anyone for many years.He didn't expect to touch another person's lips again through artificial respiration.The young man's lips were cold, and the rain splashed on his face, taking away his body heat.Such close contact made him feel more deeply the ominous fact that the other party's life was in danger.

And the fact that he is similar to Adam filled Hong Rui with indescribable fear when he came into contact with him.It was like Adam's lips under his lips, like Adam's lips were cooling down, like Adam's heart was not responding.He could see Adam lying motionless, lifeless on the rough road.He performed several sets of CPR, but the young man's heart still showed no signs of voluntary beating.

Regardless of the pain in his knees, he didn't even realize that there was glass shards in the palms he had been pressing, and he kept cursing, looking anxiously at the young man.He expected some response, but there was none, the young man was motionless and unresponsive.

That made him more and more desperate and anxious, and he even began to resent that he didn't have a suitable first aid tool at hand.He kept pressing until the first responders pulled him away, and they even used some force to force him to let go of the young man.Paramedics cut open the inside of the jacket to reveal the pale, blood-stained skin underneath and bandaged the wound to stop the bleeding.

There was no tattoo, Hong Rui stared at the young man's chest, it was clean and pale, and there was not even a trace of tattoo.

They put the young man on a stretcher and sent him to an ambulance. One of the first responders glanced at Hong Rui and said, "You're injured too." They pushed Hong Rui into the car again and let him sit in a corner.

After they dried off the water droplets on the young man, they pasted various circuits on his body and prepared to use electric shocks to defibrillate him.The machine made a mechanical and cold voice, "Clear." After the thin warning, the young man arched his chest upwards due to the electric shock, and then fell heavily back on the stretcher, like a dead person.A person can only receive three shocks for defibrillation, and the first shock is the most effective.His life and death seemed to hang on this electronic device.

The fear in Hong Rui's heart rose to the peak at this moment.He knew it wasn't Adam, but his heart was still screaming, "Please, give me some damn answer!" EKG ripple.

There was a flicker on the electrocardiogram that continued to be straight, so fast that people thought it was their own dizziness or a screen failure.Then the crest jumped out.The machine stopped beeping and finally made a regular ticking sound.

"Okay." Someone announced.Hong Rui also breathed a sigh of relief.He collapsed into the seat, dizzy and weak, and he was about to vomit.Only then did he realize that his injury might be more serious than he imagined.

Hong Rui did not expect to meet Lu Di. (*Note [-])

He was sent to the emergency room with the young man, and the young man was quickly sent behind the curtain, while Hong Rui sat in the consulting room next door.Hong Rui got wet from the rain.He was wrapping himself in a thick blanket.The consulting room was not cold, but he was shaking all over.

His head was still wrapped in gauze - he appeared to have cut himself and was briefly cleaned by paramedics.Rudy saw him as he passed.Lu Di had never seen him in such a state of embarrassment, so he called his name uncertainly: "Hong Rui?"

Hong Rui raised his head in response.Lu Di ran in immediately, squatted down in front of Hong Rui anxiously, frowned and looked at Hong Rui: "Hong Rui, what's wrong with you?"

The nurse behind Lu Di was stunned, and ran over and whispered, "Dr. Layton, we need to take the patient to the operating room immediately. The situation is critical."

"I'm fine, Lu Di." Hong Rui tried to smile, expressing that he was fine, but he saw more worry in Lu Di's eyes.Hong Rui took a deep breath.After experiencing such a crisis and panic, suddenly seeing a familiar person caused a burst of complicated emotions to surge in his heart.He was like a sick child, desperately longing for someone to hug him instead of this blanket, so that he would know that everything was over, that he was warm and safe now, and that he could rest assured that everything would be fine.

While talking, Hong Rui heard the screaming of the machine again - he had heard such a sound in the ambulance, which meant that someone's heart had stopped beating. "He's gone." Someone yelled.

Someone quickly gave a series of rescue instructions, and Hong Rui heard the sound of rollers sliding on the ground and hurried footsteps.The source of the noise was exactly where the young man was.

"Go to Dr. Layton!"

"He needs surgery urgently!" The voices of several people reached Hong Rui's ears at the same time.

Without warning, panic seized him suddenly.The chill seeped into his bones, making his muscles tense. .He seemed to be back at the scene of the accident, kneeling in the rain doing CPR on the young man desperately.He originally thought that arriving at the hospital meant that the young man was safe, but he didn't expect that the other party was still hovering between life and death, and the young man might still die.Hong Rui suddenly held Lu Di's hand, and said eagerly: "Lu Di, I came with that young man, he is in very bad condition, my God, you must save him."

Lu Di stood up, nodded to Hong Rui and ran over quickly.After a while, the curtain was pulled open with a bang, and Lu Di and several nurses pushed the stretcher bed away quickly, and someone was kneeling on the young man's body to give him cardiopulmonary resuscitation.Lu Di looked very calm, and Hong Rui couldn't tell from his expression whether the situation was really as critical as he saw.

The rollers of the stretcher bed left fresh bloodstains on the ground, spreading to places that Hong Rui couldn't see.

The place where they rescued the young man before was wide open, the ground was covered with medical waste, and there were messy red footprints everywhere, like a battlefield.

The motorcycle jacket had been completely cut open and was abandoned on the floor like a dismembered body. (*Note [-])

If that was Adam, he wouldn't have had time to tell Adam what Maxine had done.No, it didn't matter, he hadn't told Adam how much he missed him.He still hasn't told Adam that he's been wanting to reply to his texts and doesn't know what to say.He misses Adam's smile, he misses the warm smell of Adam's hair, he even misses the pie that Adam made him—and while it annoyed him at first, he felt a secret pleasure in the aftertaste.The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there were so few memories between him and Adam.He wants to take Adam to his favorite second-hand bookstore, and he wants to share the old and stable atmosphere in the bookstore with Adam.He wants to take Adam to Marseilles, to taste the dishes at his favorite bistro.Adam has cooked for Hongrui several times, and he also wants to cook a meal for Adam—not the kind for guests, but the dishes his mother taught him.

If it was Adam, it might have been too late, all because of his hesitation and fear.

That's not Adam, but that could be Adam.Hong Rui stared at the dress for a long time, then covered his face with his palms, feeling the wetness on his face.And he didn't know if it was rain or tears.

*Note [-]: Ludi's last name is Layton.It was mentioned in the breakfast before, and no one probably remembers it.His name is written Rudy Lighten.

*Note [-]: Motorcycles are very dangerous, so please drive carefully.

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