Neverland

In the office on the fifth floor of Neverland, a sharp prompt sounded suddenly on the transparent fluorescent blue screen.

Song Yan, who was making a mission report, stopped, frowned and looked in the direction of the screen, and asked as if facing a big enemy: "What's wrong?"

Compared to Song Yan's cautiousness, Zhong Lu seemed much calmer, she stretched out her hand to delete the new notification window without any surprise, her face was filled with the relief of seeing the world.

"It's okay." Zhong Lu said flatly: "A dog man in love is emotionally unstable and prone to arrhythmia."

Song Yan: "..."

There is only one office romance in the entire Neverland, and she knows it is about Yan Cen and his wife again without asking.

Sure enough, Zhong Lu sighed, and said melancholy: "Sooner or later, I will add Yan Cen to the detection and blocking list."

"Then he is so happy." Song Yan crossed her arms and stated the facts calmly: "I didn't see him working step by step when there was a detection mechanism. Without the detection mechanism, guess whether he will let his ideals fly."

Song Yan didn't need to tell Zhong Lu about this truth, she just complained, and she didn't intend to really ignore this pair of bastards.

Seeing the notification disappear on the screen, Zhong Lu turned her head and smiled at Song Yan.

"Don't be so anxious." Zhong Lu clicked on the file folder on the table and said, "You just came back from the last mission—are you short of points recently?"

"No." Song Yan said.

"Then rest for a few days." Zhong Lu held her chin and reminded her understandingly: "Cleaning up tasks, the task cycle is short, if there is no rest time in between, maybe there will be a sense of being separated from the world, if it causes psychological burden Not good."

"It's okay." Song Yan was very stubborn, and said: "Idle is idle, and it's good to have a new task to pass the time."

"Really?" Zhong Lu blinked her eyes, then slightly elongated her voice, and said, "Do you want to work, or are you afraid of meeting people you don't want to see?"

Song Yan's hand hanging by her side suddenly tightened.

It has been raining in Neverland for three days. From the initial drizzle to now, it has almost turned into a torrential downpour. Looking around, the windows are covered with layers of rain, and the scene outside is distorted and blurred. People can't see anything clearly.

When the weather is bad, people's mood is usually not easy to go. The dark clouds are overwhelming, the water vapor accumulates the nutrients in the air, and there is a wet smell in the breathing room.

Neverland will only have extreme weather under one circumstance - when Neverland is unstable.

When Yan Cen came to Yongwu Township, it rained heavily for nine days before and after Yongwu Township, and the huge waves on the sea were more than ten meters high, almost engulfing Yongwu Township, which was only a big house at that time.

That was the most turbulent time in Neverland, and I have never seen such a scene since then.

Zhong Lu rested her chin and looked out the window, her fingers unconsciously rubbed the rules for new employees in the drawer, wondering if the rain could last for seven days this time.

Song Yan took a deep breath, and the moist mist in the air flowed into her body along with the movement of her breathing. Song Yan was agitated by the cold mist, and was about to say something when she saw Zhong Lu had already bent down , pulled out a new folder from the drawer.

"But since you asked for it yourself, I won't be polite." Zhong Lu said as she handed the folder in her hand to Song Yan, and she smiled, as if she wasn't the one who poked someone's heart just now.

"There is a high probability that Yan Cen will ask for leave in the future. He hasn't taken his annual leave for many lifetimes. It's not good if I don't give it." Zhong Lu said in a broken voice: "That's just right, you should be busy now, I You can also give him a few more days—”

Zhong Lu blinked at Song Yan as she spoke, and said in a subtle tone: "After all, he is the immediate boss—"

The rhetoric that Song Yan used to fool her before was returned to Song Yan by Zhong Lu intact, but Song Yan no longer had the time to pay attention to such trivial matters, what she wanted to say just now was blocked by Zhong Lu's nonchalant attitude When she came back, the desire to talk that only appeared for a moment was stuck in her throat, choking her chest sorely.

The rain outside the window was getting heavier and heavier, Song Yan reached out her hand as if evading, took the folder in Zhong Lu's hand, turned around and left the office as if escaping.

Zhong Lu blinked at her back, shook her head again, reached out to find the notification just now, dragged it into the category that does not need to be dealt with, and clicked delete.

"One or two..." Zhong Lu reached out and tapped the blue screen, and said to herself, "It's really worrying."

And the one who is the most "uneasy" among them is still in a daze at this moment.

He was caught off guard by Xu Muzhou's two consecutive straight shots, he completely forgot what he wanted to say, his mind was empty, and for a while, only the person in front of him was left.

This task is still too urgent for Yan Cen, even if he gritted his teeth and said over and over again that he wanted to send Xu Muzhou back to the normal path, it didn't mean he was really willing.

Zhong Lu's understatement suddenly shortened the invisible future into just a few days in front of him. It is the first time that Yan Cen has felt the preciousness of "time" for so many years.

The second hand ticks every minute and every second - for Yan Cen now, every day is precious.

But he himself is a very clever pretender. He has played countless people, and his handling of "character" can be called precise.It stands to reason that as long as he doesn't want Xu Muzhou to know, Xu Muzhou can't see his negative emotions.

But in the short few hours since Xu Muzhou woke up to now, Yan Cen has felt "powerless" countless times. For the first time in his life, he couldn't restrain his emotions and needed various remedies to cover them up. Some details and loopholes - he didn't even want to do this task, he just wanted to take Xu Muzhou to stay in this world for a little longer, a little longer.

——I don't want to let go, Yan Cen thought.

In such a short moment, Yan Cen was somewhat jealous of Song Yan.

If Xu Muzhou is also the "guide object" in the world line, then Yan Cen only needs to change his life path a little bit, or even do nothing, as long as the "resurrection" is achieved, then a hundred years later, when Xu Muzhou Even though Muzhou is dying, he will still come to Neverland.

Neverland will keep the most glorious moment in his life, so when Xu Muzhou comes back, he will most likely still look like this.

It seems that nothing will change. It is exciting to think about the reunion of old people after a long absence.

But this kind of thought only appeared for such a very short moment, it flashed in Yan Cen's mind, and he was firmly suppressed by him.

This idea is too despicable - trying to meddle in the fate of others for one's own selfishness, it is extremely despicable to think about it.

It is true that Yan Cen doesn't care about many things, and he always has his own set of standards when dealing with people, which is often criticized by others.But on this issue of principle, he has a bottom line in his heart, and he will not cross the line no matter what.

—Forget it, Yan Cen thought.

Xu Muzhou didn't know what Yan Cen thought of in just a short moment. The emotion in his heart didn't get the same level of feedback, and he was quite unwilling. Seeing that Yan Cen didn't speak, he lightly kicked Yan Cen with his toe .

Yan Cen raised his upper body, held his face in his hands, and kissed him reverently on the lips.

"I like you too." Yan Cen followed his tone, coaxing him and said, "I like you the most."

Xu Muzhou was satisfied now, he pursed his lips and smiled for a while, then pretended to be serious and raised his face on the floor, trying to show a good working attitude of "do not touch fish during working hours".

"What did you say just now?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"Forgot." Yan Cen said matter-of-factly.

Xu Muzhou couldn't bear it any longer, looked at Yan Cen and laughed out loud at the same time.

Yan Cen smiled and pinched his earlobe, then rubbed the back of Xu Muzhou's neck, thinking plainly, this seems to be pretty good.

Xu Muzhou was happy, and he was also happy watching. As for the future, we will talk about it later, until the time of real separation, any sadness is just to find fault for himself.

Yan Cen has "lived" for so many years, even when he was young, he can be regarded as decisive and resolute.As a result, the more I live, the more I go back, and I have some evasion mentality for no reason, but I am not ashamed but proud, and I feel quite calm.

Xu Muzhou laughed enough, thought about it seriously, and recalled: "It seems to be about sailors."

"Well, yes." Yan Cen said: "If the seaman has really lived here for a long time, he should be the person Toya has been in contact with for the longest time. I suspect that his obsession should have something to do with that person."

"The question is, where did that person go?" Xu Muzhou said, "Did he leave, or—"

Xu Muzhou didn't finish, but Yan Cen understood what he meant.

In this era and environment, lack of food and clothing, and insufficient supplies of medicines, if the sailors were really washed up here from a shipwreck, the situation may not be as good as that of Yan Cen and the others.

In the final analysis, Yan Cen and Xu Muzhou are protected by Neverland because they have to perform missions, but ordinary people don't.

There are hidden reefs in the sea area outside the castle. If there is no ship coming over, it is too easy to have accidents on the sea alone.

A lung infection from drowning, or a high fever from a wound, can be fatal.

"If it's really the latter, it might be a little troublesome." Xu Muzhou said, "In case there is another Ji Yun...an ordinary architect is easy to fool, and a metaphysics boy is not so easy to deal with."

"Not really." Yan Cen changed the subject and asked, "What do you think of Toya?"

"This person?" Xu Muzhou pondered for a moment, and said honestly, "I think he's a little unreal."

"Huh?" Yan Cen asked.

"Of course, I'm not saying he's a hypocrite." Xu Muzhou said: "I just habitually feel that people with only one side are not real."

Where there is black and white in this world, there must be a dark side when there is justice in people, it's just a matter of proportion.

Perhaps due to the process of growing up, Xu Muzhou does not believe that there is pure "goodness" in this world.For him, "good" is not without purpose, just like "evil".

"People without negative emotions are not enough to win my trust." Xu Muzhou said: "I think Toya's character may be true, but I don't believe him."