Undying Patient

Since Xu Yulan didn't come here with the determination to kill him and the boy, Huaizhou didn't hit her hard either.

But even though Huai Zhou had shown mercy, Xu Yulan still felt that she had been beaten badly. She was kicked so painfully without Chirp. If it was really a man who came to fight Huai Zhou, she would not have been caught by him. Cut off children and grandchildren?

So Xu Yulan lay on the ground for a long time before standing up from the ground in a distorted posture.

Su Jinzhi didn't have as good night vision as Huaizhou, so he couldn't tell where Huaizhou had hit Xu Yulan. After all, she had been lying curled up on the ground, until Xu Yulan stood up in a strange posture at this moment, and Su Jinzhi didn't know. She consciously understands what the "shady trick" she just mentioned refers to.

Looking at Xu Yulan's movements, he felt an inexplicable pain in his lower body, and he couldn't help but took a few steps towards Huaizhou, holding his sleeve tightly.

Huaizhou thought the boy was afraid, so he raised his arms to hug him, and looked at Xu Yulan coldly.

He didn't have to ask Xu Yulan why she came here, there were some things they both agreed with each other, for when a killer appeared, he didn't have to think about his purpose other than killing people.

It took Xu Yulan a long time before she could bear the pain that gradually became lighter. She looked up at the two people who were hugging each other tightly in front of her. Seeing the ambiguous traces on the young man's neck, she couldn't help but curl the corners of her lips and sneered. Said: "You are very leisurely."

There was some sarcasm in Xu Yulan's voice, Huaizhou knew that she was laughing at him for not shooting and sneaking into the castle instead of her, but Huaizhou didn't want to make any excuses for this matter, so he didn't say.

"The reward you can get for killing him has been tripled." Seeing Huai Zhou's recalcitrant appearance, Xu Yulan narrowed her eyes and deliberately said such words in front of the young man, "Now do it, you and I Four?"

"Get lost." Huaizhou's answer was only one word.

Xu Yulan didn't know that Su Jinzhi knew Huai Zhou's identity all along, and thought that Huai Zhou had secretly abducted him out of Bart's castle. She didn't believe that the young man could still hold the gray eyes so trustingly after knowing Huai Zhou's true identity. killer.

But after the young man heard her words, the distance between him and the man was still close and intimate. His small face was pressed against his chest, and he opened his eyes without saying a word. Seeing his eyes, Xu Yulan couldn't help but her heart softened. down.

No matter what country you are in, there are very few female killers, let alone professional killers, because they are always more gentle and compassionate than men. She would rather cooperate with Huai Zhou and give him half of the reward. Part of the reason why I can't do it myself.

She took care of the boy in the castle for a whole year, so she knew very well how well-behaved the boy was, and how pitiful he was. People wanted to kill him just because he was Bart's son, and he had an unusually smart head, but he was completely ignorant. Didn't consider that he was just a kid who didn't know anything.

For the past year, the boy has been getting close to her as a mother. Xu Yulan is over 30 years old. Because of her occupation, she has no relatives or children. During that year, she really regarded the boy as her own son. Therefore, her identity has never been revealed. Even after Huai Zhou and her failed the first assassination attempt, Bart never suspected her.

So she didn't come here today to kill the boy again.

"Just kidding, just kidding." Xu Yulan smiled. If the boy still trusts Huaizhou, then she doesn't need to destroy their relationship, but she still has to say something to Huaizhou, "Can you send your little angel to me?" Let go for a while? Tell you something serious."

Huai Zhou didn't move, still hugging the young man tightly, pointing her back to the side with the window, Xu Yulan knew that he was protecting the young man, so she added: "No one will follow, this house of yours today It should not be exposed at night, but not necessarily after dawn."

Only then did Huai Zhou speak, with a flat voice: "Let's just say it here, he knows."

However, Xu Yulan was not as calm as he was after hearing his words. She opened her eyes wide, looked at the boy in the man's arms and then at him, not daring to say: "He knows your identity?"

"He remembers me." Huaizhou said succinctly, "From the first time we met."

When they first met, the man pointed a gun at the young man's head, Xu Yulan was speechless, looked at the young man and emphasized: "He is a killer, he is here to kill you."

Huaizhou didn't deny it, and there was still no expression on his face, but the fingers on the young man's shoulders tightened slightly, but the young man's answer made the corners of his lips twitch tenderly: "Hui didn't kill you!" Me, I like Huai."

Xu Yulan said again: "Xiao Ge, you shouldn't like him."

The boy's answer is still firm: "There is no law that stipulates that I cannot fall in love with the person who killed me."

Xu Yulan was silent for a moment, and stopped persuading too much on this issue, looked up at Huaizhou and said, "Bart's search for someone is too much noise, the person who hired me before seems to have known about it, He tripled the reward for killing Xiaoge, and this time it is an undirected task, whoever kills Xiaoge will get that money."

Huaizhou's voice was still faint, but the eyes that looked at Xu Yulan were so cold that they could freeze: "So?"

"Send Xiaoge back." Xu Yulan went straight to meet Huai Zhou's gaze without fear, "Send it back to Bart."

Huai Zhou didn't pause for a second, and said directly: "Impossible."

"Huai, can you stop being so selfish?" Xu Yulan frowned, and yelled at Huaizhou impatiently, "You know that you can't protect him now, so send him back to Bart." , Bart might still be able to keep him alive."

"Go back?" Huai Zhou laughed coldly, with anxiety in his voice that he didn't even notice, "Is such a life considered living?"

"But before you brought him out, he didn't know anything!" Xu Yulan also gradually raised her voice.

Huai Zhou suddenly fell silent.

Yes, the boy's life in the castle was not a normal life at all in the eyes of onlookers, but before he took the boy out of the golden cage, he didn't understand anything.

Seeing that Huai Zhou stopped talking, Xu Yulan sighed, "Let him go back."

Huaizhou's arms hugging Su Jinzhi tightened again, he was a little anxious, he suddenly wanted to take out his gun and kill the boy regardless, so that before he was taken away by others, he still belonged to him.

But just as he couldn't let the boy leave and return to Bart's side, he couldn't kill the boy's life now either.Huai Zhou spoke, his voice mixed with struggling emotions: "I..."

"I don't want to go back, I want to be with Huai." Su Jinzhi interrupted him immediately before he finished speaking.Not to mention whether Huaizhou is willing to let him leave, Su Jinzhi himself does not want to return to Bart's side, because if he does that, his side mission will undoubtedly fail, and besides, he doesn't want to leave Huaizhou at all.

"You're going to die." Xu Yulan feared that the boy might not understand what they said, she looked at him and repeated, "Xiao Ge, many people are rushing towards the town of Fuqi right now, if you don't return to your father, you will die." will be killed by those people."

Su Jinzhi hugged Huai Zhou, pressed his cheek against his chest quietly and did not speak.

Xu Yulan saw that both of them refused to speak as if they had swallowed dumb medicine, so she could only turn to Huaizhou and shouted louder, "He will die! You didn't shoot that day, but in the end you still want him to die." Is it in your hand!"

"Father said that he has many sons, and I'm just one of them." The boy's voice was low, because he buried his head in the man's arms, so his voice seemed a little indistinct, "But Huai is the only one. "

"Huai said he would protect me. Even if I die, I'm willing to die for him."

Huaizhou closed his eyes, and the arms holding the boy suddenly loosened.

Xu Yulan was stunned, she was silent for a while, picked up the pistol that Huaizhou had just knocked down from the ground, and handed it to Huaizhou: "Bart should come over too, before dawn, if you can't take Xiaoge away from Fuqi, Or...you regret it, you can go to Bart."

Huaizhou took a deep breath, as if he had made a decision, instead of taking the gun that Xu Yulan handed over, he looked at her and said, "Can you do me a favor? I will pay you."

"Okay." This is the first time Huaizhou has given in to others, Xu Yulan was a little surprised, put the gun back into her gun pouch and said, "There is no need for the money, I'm helping you for Xiaoge's sake, you Do you think everyone is like you and needs money for everything?"

Huaizhou slightly hooked the corners of his lips, without refuting, then let go of the young man, turned around and went to pack his luggage for him.

The pajamas the boy was used to wearing, the pacifier and feeding bottle he used every day, and all the toys he bought for the boy during their trip were all carefully put away by Huai Zhou, while his own things were just put away hastily. Then two pieces, no more packing.

After packing his luggage, he took the boy's hand and said simply, "Let's go."

The small town of Fuqi is next to a river, which leads directly to another bustling metropolis. They originally planned to go to that city along this river after Fuqi had enough fun, but now, the itinerary has been advanced .

Because there was no one on the ferry at night, Huai Zhou found a cargo boat, searched inside for a while, and finally took out the cargo from one of the boxes, and asked Su Jinzhi to hide in with his luggage , and then set foot on the boat with Xu Yulan.

Before Huaizhou was about to close the box, Su Jinzhi grabbed his hand and asked him, "Huai, don't you hide in?"

"We're protecting you outside." Huai Zhou smiled while holding his hand, leaned over and kissed him on the lips, "Hide in the box, don't come out no matter what sounds you hear, you can sleep first Once I get to a safe place, I will open the box and wake you up."

Su Jinzhi stared at him: "You promise."

Huai Zhou smiled and said, "I promise."

Su Jinzhi hesitated for a while, then curled up in the small box with his luggage.

Huai Zhou's lips moved, and finally he asked the boy softly, "Xiao Ge, have you never been afraid of me?"

The boy replied without thinking, "I'm not afraid."

"Why? Are you not afraid of death?"

"I'm just not afraid of being killed by you." Su Jinzhi held Huai Zhou's hand and asked him, "Will you regret not killing me?"

"I don't regret it." Huaizhou tidied up the broken hair around his ears for him.

Su Jinzhi smiled, raised her head and kissed him on the lips: "Then I don't regret falling in love with you."

Huai Zhou kept looking at the boy and smiled gently, until the box was gently closed, and the smile on his face disappeared completely.

He found this box after searching for a while. The sound insulation effect is very good. If the boy stays inside, he won't be able to hear anything.

Sitting on a small stool on the boat, Huai Zhou subconsciously searched for a cigarette in his left pocket with his fingers. After touching for a long time, he couldn't find a single cigarette. Then he remembered that he had given up smoking under the doctor's advice—even though his body I still keep a cigarette at all times, and I will smoke one when I am irritable.

It's just that the boy doesn't like the smell of cigarettes, so he completely changed this habit.

Unable to touch the smoke, Huai Zhou leaned his body back and raised his head to look at the sky. The moon tonight is still extremely bright, pouring soft silver light to the world without hesitation. Touching her hands carefully, she asked Xu Yulan, "Do you think we can leave Fuqi before dawn?"

Xu Yulan's whole body was tense, and she couldn't help laughing angrily when she heard Huaizhou's words: "Just the two of us? Are you overestimating yourself or me? Wake up."

"Try it." Huaizhou didn't care about the sarcasm in her words, and after a sneer, he suddenly grabbed Xu Yulan's hair and cut it off from the base of the ears with a single stroke.

Xu Yulan's scalp hurt, and the next moment she saw her soft curly hair being cut off, her eyes widened, and just as she was about to curse, Huaizhou put the gun on her forehead and threw her a bag Clothes, the voice was weak and cold: "Put on."

Xu Yulan hugged her clothes and raised her head. Under the moonlight, the man's gray eyes were colder than the moonlight, and there was no emotion in them.

"What if I don't?" Xu Yulan asked him.

The man smiled again: "You can try."

Xu Yulan secretly hated herself for being on a pirate ship, but she couldn't do anything because she really couldn't beat Huai Zhou. While changing her clothes, she cursed viciously: "You are such a fucking monster..."

Huaizhou listened to her scolding all the time, without refuting, holding the gun firmly at her arm, without even shaking it.

Xu Yulan has fair skin and is taller than ordinary women. She put on a boy's clothes and a hat. At first glance, she really looks like a boy.

Huaizhou raised his other hand, threw the cut hair into the river, grabbed Xu Yulan, pulled her to his side, and said in a low voice, "I won't let you die. After Bart comes, I will Just let you go... take him back."

Xu Yulan knew that he wanted to use herself as a substitute for the young man. She thought that Huaizhou might push her to other killers in exchange for time for him and the young man to escape, but she didn't expect that what Huaizhou really wanted to do was to To send the boy back.

"I left half of my money for Xiaoge and the rest for you. Please take care of him for me. After Bart comes, you can talk to him and tell Bart not to lock him in that castle anymore If you have a chance, take him out for a trip, otherwise he will be unhappy..."

"What about you?" Xu Yulan couldn't help asking him when she saw that he had arranged all the escape routes without mentioning herself.

Huaizhou didn't answer this question, but smiled and said, "You can tell him that I don't want him anymore."

"Then why don't you say goodbye to him yourself?"

"Because he will cry. His tears are probably the sharpest weapon in the world. I don't want to see him cry."

Xu Yulan looked at him and smiled coldly, but the smile was uglier than crying: "Then why do you think I just want to see him cry?"

"I've given you all the money." Huaizhou's voice was very soft, with some helplessness, "Just bear with it."

Xu Yulan didn't speak, and after a while she said, "Maybe there are other ways. I'll cover you all. Why don't you take him away? I don't believe you can't take him away safely—— "

"I'm tired." Huaizhou interrupted her, "Let's separate today, at least he will survive, if he continues to be with me, I will kill him sooner or later."

"Because of that money?" Xu Yulan didn't understand him, "You already have a lot of money." Huai Zhou frantically took on tasks in the organization for a while, and he did almost everything for money, but no one knew that he would use these What money does.

"I originally planned to use the money for medical treatment," Huaizhou said.

Xu Yulan was stunned for a moment.

He added: "But so much money may not be able to keep me alive."

"Then can you save him?"

"Impossible." Huaizhou looked through her, and landed on the small box where the boy was hidden, his gray eyes were full of tenderness, "But at least it can make me die willingly."

After a long silence, Xu Yulan finally spoke: "The boss has always said that we women are not suitable to be killers, but I think you are the most unsuitable person to be a killer. Which killer has as many rules as you, if you shot that day -"

Huaizhou didn't want to listen to her anymore, so he pulled her hair again, put the gun on her spine and pushed, "You talk a lot of nonsense, let's go, it's almost dawn."

Huai Zhou took Xu Yulan to the ferry, but he didn't cut off the boat's cable, because he was worried about the young man drifting alone on the river, so let him stay here and wait for his father to take him back.

At the moment when the box was closed, Huaizhou actually wanted to tell the young man, please don't forget him, but he suddenly remembered that the young man has no right to forget at all, he remembers all those good and painful memories, he has no brain The most tender protection.If the boy will not forget him and he has a healthy body, they still cannot be together forever, because the Alzheimer's disease he inherited will make him forget the boy sooner or later.

So Huaizhou suddenly felt that it was better for him to forget.

Because flowers like roses can grow better if they are planted in a beautiful castle. After all, his little rose has no thorns, and no one can protect him after he leaves.

The outside world is too dangerous, and he wants to spend his whole life protecting his little Rose.

It's just that his life is too short, and his little rose has a long flowering period.

Huaizhou took a last look at the small box, and left the ferry without looking back.

The always quiet town of Forge was not awakened by the sound of birdsong this morning, but ushered in the dawn amid interlaced gunshots.The killers could only leave angrily after discovering that the target was locked incorrectly, and Bart had already arrived in the small town of Forge.

Under Huai Zhou's protection, Xu Yulan had no wounds on her body other than losing her curly hair, while the gray-eyed man could only lean against a dilapidated brick wall to breathe hard.

Xu Yulan knelt beside him, wanting to give him some simple first aid, but didn't know how to do it.

The man's eyes revealed exhaustion, and even his breathing was with reluctance.

And the blood on his body was directly telling everyone the truth: he was going to die.

Xu Yulan is just a killer, she only knows how to kill people, she doesn't know how to save people.

"Where are your cigarettes? Give me one." Xu Yulan asked irritably.

"I quit." Huai Zhou smiled, although his voice was still steady, it was so soft that it was almost inaudible. "You have taken care of him, and you know how to make him live well... You are right, that kind of life is not considered alive. So if you have a chance, you must take him out to play..."

The gray-eyed man spoke softly, and took out a map from his pocket with bloody hands, and the map was also stained with mottled blood: "These are the places he wants to go, I can't accompany him Go, help me take him there..."

Xu Yulan took the map.

The man on the ground didn't say anything more, just stared blankly at the dawning sky, the black pupil in the center of his gray eyes gradually enlarged.

In a blur, he seemed to hear the young man lying on his side again, his little rose whispering in his ear at this moment, the voice was soft and warm, full of sweet love - "Huai will protect me, even if I am dead, and I am willing to die for him."

His lips trembled, and he wanted to raise his hand to touch the boy's fair cheek, but he didn't have much strength, so he could only smile and sigh softly, "Don't die for me... ...I would die for you..."

Su Jinzhi, who hid in the small iron box and floated gently on the river with the boat, burst into tears after seeing the "100/100" progress value of Huai Zhou in the progress bar, even though he knew they were in the next world. We will meet again, but he still can't help but hug his knee, put his face on his leg and cry softly.

The progress value of the side mission is also full, but he is not happy at all, and even wants to scold Huaizhou like Xu Yulan, but he has no chance.

After all the tasks were completed, No. [-] heard the news: "Host."

After Su Jinzhi heard No. [-]'s voice, he burst into tears as if he had found someone to confide in: "Bastard, he lied to me..."

No. [-] can't comfort people at all, so he could only listen to Su Jinzhi cry for a while, and then picked up something that might make him happy and said, "Host, you have completed your mission and survived, so you can enjoy yourself in this world." up."

Su Jinzhi froze for a few seconds before remembering what No. [-] said.

The reason why he accepted this "loving life system" in the first place was because of this benefit, but after so many worlds, he either failed the mission or died when he succeeded. This is the only world he survived.

But he was no longer in the mood to enjoy it anymore. Su Jinzhi opened his eyes, tears streaming down his face, and yelled at No. [-]: "These people love the life system, I just want to die now!"

No. [-] is helpless: "You can go on a trip."

"I do not."

"You can still eat your favorite strawberry cake every day without worrying about dying."

"I do not."

"you still can--"

"I don't want anything right now!" Su Jinzhi interrupted No. [-], "I just want to go to the next world quickly and meet him soon."

No. [-] sighed: "Unless you die, you can't forcibly interrupt the world. I have a cup of good poison like this..."

"I don't drink, I have this." Su Jinzhi sniffed, and took out the gun that Huai Zhou could only use for self-defense from his coat pocket.

"Aren't you most afraid of being shot to death?" No. [-] asked him in surprise.

Su Jinzhi caressed the revolver. The gun of this gun was deep gray, just like the eyes of that person. He didn't answer No. [-]'s question. Thinking of the place Huai Zhou said he would take him to but didn't go to in the end, Xiang One asked, "Does Ulberry really exist?"

"Ulberry?" One seemed surprised that he knew the place, "You already remember?"

Su Jinzhi said: "No, Huaizhou told me about this place."

"It's impossible." Number One said immediately, "He's different from you, he can't remember this place."

"But he told me about this place, and he said he would take me there." Thinking of this, Su Jinzhi's eyes turned red again, and his expression was very depressed, "But he is dead now..."

"Impossible, is your memory confused again?" No. [-] still didn't believe his words, "Wait a minute, I'll ask No. [-] to check—"

The voice of number one stopped abruptly.

Su Jinzhi asked it: "Does it exist in this world?"

No. [-] was silent for a few seconds before he let out a "huh".

Su Jinzhi asked again: "If I continue to live in this world, can I see it?"

"Yes, I will give you a map to go there. You can find it along the map, but you can only see a part of it in miniature."

"I heard from Huai that the winter there is beautiful."

"Well, it's quite beautiful."

"Have you seen it?"

Number One said, "I lived there with Number Zero and your partner for several years."

"You and No. [-] have both been there, and I haven't been there yet..." Su Jinzhi was a little jealous, "What's all about it?"

"It's a planet."

Su Jinzhi didn't expect the answer to be this, so he couldn't help asking: "Is that his hometown?"

"No." No. [-] paused, "That's a small planet he bought for you. A planet whose ecological environment completely simulates the earth, but is more beautiful than the earth."

Su Jinzhi clenched the gun in his hand tightly, and the tears that stopped for a while seemed to flow out again. He muttered to himself: "Because my body is not suitable for living in a place other than the earth..."

Number One continued: "He said he wanted to take you there, but before he could speak, you... broke up with him."

Su Jinzhi didn't believe it: "How could I break up with him?"

"That's exactly what he said. He was very stubborn about the details. He never told me and Number Zero."

"Then ask him after I remember everything." Su Jinzhi pressed the gun to his temple, took out the blue pacifier that Huai Zhou had been carrying with him, and put it in his mouth Li, with a vague voice, "If he asks me again, I will definitely not refuse him this time..."

When Xu Yulan rushed to the ferry, she just heard a muffled and small gunshot from the boat where the young man was hiding, but the sound was too low, she wasn't sure if she heard it wrong.

"Xiaoge...Xiaoge?" Xu Yulan paused for a while, then staggered towards the ship and opened the box with trembling hands.

The boy was lying in the box with his eyes closed tightly. His slender eyelashes closed the beautiful amber-like eyes. He still had a pacifier in his mouth. She was so docile and well-behaved when she fell asleep after singing good night.

It's just the blood on his forehead, foretelling the world that he, like the one he loves, will never open his eyes again.

Xu Yulan gently hugged him out of the box, raised her head in a daze, just in time to see the first ray of sunlight in the morning break through the clouds.

What the gray-eyed man asked her before dawn echoed clearly in her ears: "Do you think we can leave Foch before dawn?"

Xu Yulan relaxed her whole body, sat on the ground and watched the sunrise, and smiled softly: "That's right, how will you know if you can leave if you don't try?"

At dawn, they all left the small town of Fuqi and continued their unfinished journey.

Volume [-] Mandarin Duck Color