The Fourth Quadrant of Online Games

The fire was beeping, beeping, and there was silence for a while.

After a while, Xiang Hong said sullenly, "Don't tell what happened just now."

This was said too lightly, Pu Yiyang was adding firewood to the fire, but after a while he realized it, and looked at Hong with some doubts.

Xiang Hong's expression was not quite right.Even though Mr. Xiang himself is fair-skinned, there is no warm color in the light of the fire, so it is really too white.

Is it because of leg pain?

The injured leg is now stretched out flat, and it doesn't look unnatural. Judging from Xiang Hong's previous movements, it should only be a sprained tendon, not a bone injury.

Pu Yiyang thought of the situation in the woods, and thought it was a bit weird.It is reasonable to say that Xiang Hong was vigilant, and when he heard the sound and saw the fire, he regarded him as a malicious person, so that he went too far in self-defense.But just now it was clear that he had already reported himself, and Xiang Hong should have seen who he was by the light of the fire, but he still didn't stop in time. What's the reason?

If he really intended to kill him, the ax should have fallen long ago.

At this moment, Xiang Hong's forehead was still wet, and his hair was sticking to his cheeks. He was covered in sweat as if he was picked up from the water just now.And... is he still shaking?

A ridiculous thought floated up in Pu Yiyang's mind, and he asked without fear of death: "Uh, Mr. Xiang, are you afraid of the dark?"

Xiang Hong gouged him out fiercely.

Pu Yiyang became more determined, wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, coughed twice, and said, "It's all right, it's an instinct to be afraid of the dark, otherwise why would human beings invent fire, right?"

He said in his heart, Xiao Xiang, who is afraid of the dark and nervous, is much cuter than that arrogant and domineering bastard.

The corners of Xiang Hong's tense mouth relaxed a bit.The bonfire evaporated the sweat on his body, probably not so cold and so nervous, and he gradually stopped shaking so much.

"Laugh if you want." He put on a stiff face, and without looking at Pu Yiyang, he stared straight at the fire, as if greedily trying to lock up the light, "You must be satisfied? The scum is actually a pathetic coward."

The words were ugly, Pu Yiyang was searching for sentences and thinking about how to defend himself, when he looked up and saw Xiang Hong's appearance, he couldn't make up any more nonsense.

People who are extremely proud often carry a shell that is thicker than ordinary people. The shell looks golden and indestructible, but it is actually very brittle. Once it receives a fatal blow, it will immediately fall apart.

In the woods, Xiang Hong calmed down his anger in the end, and didn't threaten to deal with him anymore. Now he showed this expression, not because he tolerated his crossing the line, but because the defense line called self-esteem in his heart collapsed completely, and he was discouraged. Cold, so that he is not in the mood to speak evil to him.

It was only now that Pu Yiyang realized how much evil he had done with his restless claws just now.

"Mr. Xiang, I really don't think so." He said sincerely, not just to defend his own safety, "Everyone has things they don't want to face, even if you are really afraid of the dark, it doesn't mean you Just a coward."

Xiang Hong glanced at him: "You're talking lip service. Pu Yiyang, don't think I don't know what you think of me in your heart. It's just pretending, you've never been really afraid of me."

No matter how much he verbally attacks, threatens with force, even if he points a gun to his head, that guy still looks like this, unshakable and doing his own way.

Xiang Hong is not confused at all, in fact he can see through more than ordinary people.The cowardly man who cringed in front of him, showed all his ugliness, and dutifully flattered him in order to save his life was never what that kid really looked like.Ever since he lost to Pu Yiyang in the game that night in the bar, and drew his gun in a fit of anger, he saw a little something called nature that was usually well concealed from that person's reaction.

He has seen through since he was a child that there are many kinds of people in this world, and there are many people who ostentatiously walk through the market under the cover of hypocrisy and hypocrisy every day.But it is often these people, as long as they are frightened a little, they will immediately reveal their true colors, and all their arrogance and pride will be thrown into the sky, and they wish they could crawl to his feet like shit.

Only death is truly fair.Only when the shadow of death crawls to one's ankles, one can see the true story of how much a person weighs.The disparity in power made him seize the authority to decide the life and death of others early on, and it was precisely because of this that he quickly realized the hypocrisy of human nature.

He has lived for more than 20 years. He started touching guns at the age of four, and then pointed the gun at countless heads. There is only one person who can hold his gun, without retreating or evading, and there is no shadow of fear in his eyes. .

At that moment, Xiang Hong was not willing to admit that he was a little panicked.

It was as if he dropped his proudest weapon, and he was pulled from a high position to be on an equal footing with that guy in one fell swoop. He gradually found that if shooting didn't work, he had nothing to do with this guy.

He spent a lot of time playing that house-playing game that he wasn't very interested in at first, going to that person, observing, and challenging, just to find opportunities to prove himself, even if he lost the aura of reality, he could still relax. crush this guy.

The result was not as simple as he thought.

Until this night, he was forced to the edge of a cliff and had to face a truth, a truth that he was most afraid to admit in his life.

In this world, there are many existences, such as this man, such as the night that comes every day, who can easily defeat him, make him helpless, and panic... It's as if he hasn't made any progress for so many years. It's the kid who can't do anything.

Cowardly, weak, shameful.

"Yes, I'm not afraid of you." The man really admitted, "But whether you believe me or not, I really don't look down on you."

Xiang Hong raised his eyes and looked over, trying to distinguish whether the man was prevaricating again, and found that either Pu Yiyang's acting skills were too good, or it was too dark, and he couldn't find any reason from that sincere and honest face.

He "hummed" and chose another word: "hypocrisy."

Pu Yiyang poked the fire aside, and said with some embarrassment: "Oh, I'm not afraid of you laughing when I say it, I just... I just think you're not that bad when I see you, so I'm not afraid of you."

Xiang Hong's face was unpredictable: "How could it be worse? Did you shoot your head off?"

It's not someone else who calls him scum one by one after drinking too much.

"That's not it, you didn't really shoot. If you really hate me, Mr. Xiang, it's not enough for God to reward me with ten lives." Pu Yiyang said as if he was going all out, "Really, You are just a bit domineering, no matter how others feel, how fierce or ruthless, you are actually..."

Pretty cute.

He was about to say it, but when he saw Xianghong's expression, he quickly bit his tongue.

"Yeah, I'm domineering, fierce, self-centered, and scum." Xiang Hong grinds his teeth every time he says a word, and pounces on Pu Yiyang when he follows him, "You still think I'm not that good?" Bad. Pu Yiyang, listen, have your professors taught you what logic is?"

Pu Yiyang said suddenly: "But you saved me."

Xiang Hong frowned.

"In the afternoon, did you really think that the gun would be fired?" Pu Yiyang said, "That's not an excuse. You stand in that position, you don't know where the gun will go, and you make a decision right away." You chose to protect me. This is the most authentic reaction, I can see that you never really wanted my life. "

Xiang Hong gritted his teeth and said, "You think too much."

Pu Yiyang: "Oh? And just now in the woods, Mr. Xiang, you were obviously relieved when you saw it was mine, weren't you? This shows that not only do I believe in you, but you also believe in me."

Xiang Hong became angry from embarrassment: "Okay, shut up."

Pu Yiyang pursed his lips, gestured with his hand, as if zipping it up, and then whimpered for a long time.

Xiang Hong was even more upset: "What are you humming about?"

Pu Yiyang pointed to his mouth and hummed even harder.

Xiang Hong: "...Speak human words."

Pu Yiyang unzipped the zipper again, deliberately breathing heavily.

"I said Mr. Xiang, if you are afraid of the dark, there must be a reason, right?"

Xiang Hong: "Why should I tell you?"

Pu Yiyang was thoughtful: "Sure enough, there is a reason. I guess, did you close the cupboard when you were a child? Did you fall into a trap when you went out? Did you fall in the dark?"

The more guessing the more outrageous, Xiang Hong couldn't bear it: "How can you be so mentally retarded."

"What's going on?" Pu Yiyang seems to have developed the momentum of nonsense, "Just tell me. You see, you asked me to keep it a secret, and you didn't tell me why. It's the same as saying something halfway. , How uncomfortable is it? Look at me, I'm almost suffocated."

Xiang Hong said coldly: "Then die."

Pu Yiyang pinched his own neck, let out an "uh", and made a gesture to fall towards Xiang Hong.

Xiang Hong put a finger on his shoulder, not letting him approach, and looked at him coldly.

"My dear Mr. Xiang, I'm really going to die. Who will accompany you in this long night?" Pu Yiyang kept rolling his eyes, and whispered in Xiang Hong's ear, "You don't want me, I don't Rest assured."

As if answering his words, the wind suddenly picked up, and the fire in front of the two of them swayed and swayed.

Xiang Hong was obviously more nervous, he didn't even pay attention to the obvious teasing in another person's words, and the hand on Pu Yiyang's shoulder was also clenched into a fist.

In the face of greater threats, it is easy for people to let go of other people or things.

"It's because of that woman." He lowered his eyes and finally spoke, "When I was nine years old, she took me into the forest and said she would take me camping. Then I played with myself for a while, and when I looked back, She's gone."

Nonsense is nonsense, Pu Yiyang didn't expect Xiang Hongzhen to talk to him, and it took him a while to organize the meaning of his words: "You mean...your mother? You separated?"

Xiang Hong looked at him like he was an idiot, and Pu Yiyang's familiar mocking smile appeared on the corner of his mouth again: "You are really naive. It's impossible for you not to know, right? My family has that kind of background."

More than knowing, this is not experiencing all the time.

Pu Yiyang slandered in his heart, nodded obediently on his face and said: "Yes... I have heard about it."

Xiang Hong: "That organization belonged to my grandfather, and it was later passed on to that woman. She is notoriously bold and reckless, and now she likes to climb snow-capped mountains alone, will she accidentally get separated from me? Haha, don't tell me, my I was so stupid at the time, I really thought she was careless."

The smile on his face became colder and colder.

Pu Yiyang somewhat guessed what was going on, and his heart sank.

Xiang Hong continued to stare at the fire, and his eyes gradually became empty: "It will be dark soon. I have nothing on me, and I am sitting under the tree. I dare not open my eyes, let alone close them. I keep hearing that there are many people around me. There was a strange sound, and I thought it was a leopard or a bear, so I couldn't help curling up, wishing I could shrink into the ground, thinking that I would definitely be eaten. But then I thought, what's the use of hiding? One night, two nights, I will starve to death sooner or later, and I will be buried in a pile of fallen leaves on the ground. After a long time, when someone comes over, maybe they will step on a bone that is not very high under that tree, and they don't even know it. know who I am."

Pu Yiyang saw Xianghong's face in the darkness before his eyes.He can now recognize that emotion. When Xiang Hong grabbed him, he didn't want to kill him, but because the man was so desperate, so desperate that he was about to drown in the darkness, that's why he was so desperate to grab him and take him with him. Here comes this little fire.

From the face in front of him, he could imagine the little child back then, with a powder-carved jade-like face, covered with tears, huddled in a small ball under the tree.When he found Xiang Hong under the tree just now, did the other party have the same posture?

The same forest, the same darkness, everything reappeared like yesterday. At that time, he must have turned back to the desperate child waiting to die.

For many people, the shadow of childhood will follow them for the rest of their lives. It is not surprising that Xiang Hong's reaction was so intense after staying in the darkness for at least an hour.

He asked, "What happened after that?"

Xiang Hong closed his eyes: "Later, I didn't want to wait to die. I forced myself to get out of the forest. I forgot how long I had been walking. I only knew that when I was about to die, someone found me."

Pu Yiyang: "Is that your mother?"

"How could it be her? It's... hmph, let's not talk about it," Xiang Hong pinched the bridge of his nose, but didn't say the name of the person who saved him. Very satisfied, she said that when her father threw her into the forest, she was two years younger than me at that time, she could do it, but I couldn't do it, she said I was born soft and couldn't do hers heir."

Pu Yiyang suddenly realized that leaving the future heir alone in the forest was some kind of test.

"This is too inhumane." He sighed, "It's so old, why use this old method in martial arts novels to practice your courage?"

Xiang Hong said gloomyly: "That's how they look, they live like that, they die like that, they think they're amazing. Each of them, and the whole set of rules, should have rotted 800 years ago."

Pu Yiyang was shocked: "Your mother..."

Xiang Hongting raised his lips coldly: "She is not dead. That woman always said that I was worthless, which prevented her from retiring, and now she still manages the Tianlong Gang. Cut, as for her precious thing, I don't want to die." Rare. I... I don't need it, let alone want it."

Pu Yiyang could only comfort indiscriminately: "Maybe she still cares about you."

"Caring about me? Hehe." Xiang Hongbai glanced at him, "What kind of person would throw a child under ten years old into the forest alone and force him to come out by himself? Later, I only... , I will go hiking in different forests again and again, I want to prove that I can do what she said, I am not a weak bone. But I, I can't help it. As soon as it gets dark, I will..."

He stared at his hands.Those hands are white, long and beautiful, like the hands of an artist, but now they are trembling slightly.

With such a pair of hands, when the gun is raised, it will probably be very fast and stable.But these hands can also do many other things, many things that are far away from gunpowder smoke and blood.

Pu Yiyang's heart moved, and he stretched his hand to the side involuntarily, saying, "It's not your fault."

Xiang Hong suddenly raised his hand and grabbed his collar, and said viciously: "You boy, don't sympathize with me! I didn't say this to make you sympathize. If you dare to talk about something, I will... I I'll kill you. I'll do what I say."

Pu Yiyang let him carry it without any resistance, but his own hand slowly let it go.

"Mr. Xiang, I can forget what happened this night." He paused for a moment, then looked at Xianghong again, "But, if you allow me to talk about my thoughts, I will tell you that you don't have to So hard on yourself. Really, there's no need for that. You could have done better than your mother wanted."

Xiang Hong let go of him.

"It's easy to say." The man sneered at himself, with a hint of indignation in his dark eyes, "Why should I do this to you? Children from a good family like you, with a clean family background, are born to live in the sun, and your life will be smooth Just like Ding Miaomiao, you are too far away from me, we are not from the same world at all. You will not understand me, Pu Yiyang, people like you will never understand."

After listening to these words quietly, Pu Yiyang picked up the firewood and said, "How do you know that I don't understand?"

Xiang Hong seemed a little surprised, so surprised that he didn't jump up to refute him for a while.

Pu Yiyang turned up the fire again, looked at the sky, and said, "It's going to rain soon, and the fire will go out later. You'd better go to bed quickly."

Maybe when I fell asleep, I wouldn't be so scared.

As soon as Xiang Hong heard that the fire was about to go out, his face turned ugly, and he didn't even care that the bird's nest built by Pu Yiyang was too dirty, so he obediently lay down on the ashes on the ground.

Pu Yiyang was still sitting outside, watching the fire, waiting for the rain to fall.

After a few minutes, there was no movement from the people inside. He thought that Xiang Hong had fallen asleep, so he looked back and heard the person behind his back say, "Come in."

When Pu Yiyang built the shack, it was for two people, but the time and materials were limited, so the place was definitely not spacious.He is not as tall as Xiang Hong, but he is not too short either. If he really wants to lie down together, it will inevitably be a little crowded.

He knew that Xiang Hong was obsessed with cleanliness, and it was aggrieved to ask someone to sleep in the bird's nest, and he wanted to share this tiny place with others. He was really afraid that if he fell asleep, he would strangle Xiang Hong to death .

Seeing his hesitation, Xiang Hong turned his head and said with a sneer, "Why, are you still afraid that I won't be able to do something to you? Don't worry, I'm not interested in someone with no breasts or legs."

Pu Yiyang stroked his messy hair, said "Okay then", and wanted to get in and lie down next to Xiang Hong.

Xiang Hong stretched out an arm to prevent him from approaching, and said with disgust, "Your clothes are too dirty."

Pu Yiyang looked down at his plaster-stained T-shirt, then at Mr. Xiang, who was actually not much better, and said helplessly, "Mr. Xiang, this is all I have. Take it off, this one has no breasts and no legs, I'm afraid it will block your eyes."

Xiang Hong: "..."

He turned over heavily, simply out of sight and out of sight, no longer paying attention to Pu Yiyang.

Pu Yiyang lay down next to Xiang Hong, carefully leaving a distance of half a finger between them, and continued to look outside.

After a while, there was a crackling sound from the top of the bird's nest, and the rainwater that had been accumulated for a long time was still falling.

There are tall fir trees covering the top of the head, and the rain is not as heavy as it sounds. He has tried his best to lay the roof carefully, so it is not too serious to see the leaking of the unreliable bird nests. It can barely be regarded as a shelter from the wind and rain. Effect.

It was the fire outside, after struggling for a while, it finally went out.

Pu Yiyang listened to the gentle breathing of the person beside him, thinking that maybe Xiang Hong had already fallen asleep, and would no longer have seizures because of the fear of the dark, and he let go of his heart little by little, and soon became blurred due to the exhaustion of his body consciousness.

Then he had a dream.