under one roof

56

The clock in the room clicked and clicked tirelessly according to its own rhythm. Now no one in this society uses this kind of old-fashioned wall watch, but Zhili has one.They have a long life, and the long river of time is enough to drown most of their dispensable memories, but Zhili feels that day after day is nothing more than boring.

"Dong dong dong." A knock on the door disrupted the rhythm of the clock.

"Is it Xiao Cui?" Zhi Li said while lying on the bed comfortably, "Come in."

The door was pushed open a little to reveal Cui Jue's tall and straight figure, he came in lightly, even closing the door lightly.Knowing that it was him, Zhili didn't bother to get up, turned over and asked with his chin in one hand, "What's the matter?"

Cui Jue said, "It's nothing serious."

Zhili rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "You are not someone who likes to gossip and make troubles, I hope it's nothing serious." He was smiling, but his words meant something.Cui Jue walked to his bed and stood still, without sitting down, he just stood upright, bowed his head and said to Zhili: "I knew it, nothing can be hidden from you."

"Don't tell me." Zhili said, "That monkey grandson is very smart, he asked you to come if he didn't come. Did you sell it to him? Why are you turning your elbows out?"

"Because I think what he said makes sense."

As soon as Zhili stretched out his hand to Cui Jue, Cui Jue naturally reached over and sat on the side of the bed.Zhi Li put his pillow on Cui Jue's lap and said, "Everyone has reason, but I am self-willed."

Cui Jue looked down at Zhili, and gently combed his long hair with his fingers.Zhili's side face was facing him, and his long eyelashes fluttered.Cui Jue said: "I think you still have your own concerns that have not been resolved."

"I don't know." Zhili shook his head, his breath was slightly tired.He closed his eyes and said, "Hey, what's so good about being a god? Why do so many people want to be one? Isn't there so much trouble? It's okay to ask me to go to heaven, but what about after that? What will happen to this mess? Clean up? With the harsh virtue of the Emperor of Heaven who enforced the law impartially, so many people died for no reason, he probably wants to crucify me alive in the Lingxiao Palace." He suddenly smiled when he said this, "But it's okay, my soul is gone Yes, maybe it can be reincarnated as a human."

Cui Jue said: "Why do you have to think so much? The boat is only so big, just think of it as being able to cross one by one. Everything else is good fortune."

"Xiao Cui." Zhili raised his head, looking directly at Cui Jue.He has always been strong, and only occasionally restrains himself in front of Cui Jue.Cui Jue is cold and meticulous, and indeed indulges Zhili in every possible way.After a long time, Zhili is also like a cat, turning his belly over to Cui Jue and meowing twice.But Cui Jue knew that Zhili was always a ferocious tiger, and would never become a domestic cat.

"What's wrong?" Cui Jue asked.

Zhili stayed for a while, and then said: "Will you be with me forever? Will you always stand by my side?"

"Yes." Cui Jue said without thinking, "Forever."

"Okay." Zhili nodded, "Since you promised me, then I will promise you. It's just that I haven't been back for a long time, and I need to make some preparations. I will leave tomorrow morning."

Cui Jue said, "Do you want me to follow you?"

Zhili said: "No, you can't follow me either. The heavenly court mechanism is much stricter than our little underworld, you can't go there."

Cui Jue said: "None of us can tell clearly about the situation in the Heavenly Court. Now that the world is in such a mess, they don't see them assigning immortals to deal with it. It seems that there are more dangers than good fortune. You have to be careful."

"Well, I will." Zhili sighed, stretched his arms and hugged him along Cui Jue's neck, and said, "It would be great if gods also had reincarnation, and I could also drink a bowl of Mengpo soup and forget about all this mess , but at ease."

"Why do you always think about these things?" Cui Jue gently stroked Zhili's hair with his hand, "Do you have something on your mind?"

"No." Zhili shook his head in Cui Jue's arms, "It's just that I've been doing this job for thousands of years, and I'm tired and want to retire."

Cui Jue sighed lightly, smiled, and said nothing more.

Two figures suddenly appeared on the endless plateau wilderness, one stood upright, and the other fell to the ground before standing still, panting heavily with his hands on the ground.

"What's wrong?" Yang Jian asked.

"Fuck, lack of oxygen!" They were located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and Yu Chen had a little altitude sickness, "You...you wait for me to catch your breath."

Yang Jian looked around. They were in no-man's land. Others said that there was no one in sight except the two of them who could breathe.He touched Yu Chen who was lying on the ground with his foot, and said, "Don't you think it's very different here?"

"What's the difference?" Yu Chen said, "The weather is fine, the sky is blue and white clouds, but the air is thin... Also, am I a dog! Can you stop kicking me!"

Speaking of dogs, Yang Jian thought that his ability had recovered, but there was still no news of Xiao Tiangou, and he was always worried.He said to Yu Chen: "The weather here is strange. It's winter now, and the places we pass by are full of storms, rain and snow, and the order of the world has long been chaotic, but here it seems like nothing has happened. You Is it weird?"

"Maybe it's because the place is uncivilized?" Yu Chen said, "No matter how nature changes, it's just to let human society return to the original nature, but this place has been like this for thousands of years, how can it change?"

Yang Jian said: "There is some reason. However, it may also be because..."

"what?"

"It's different." Yang Jian said, "I can feel the fluctuating magnetic field."

"What what?" Yu Chen asked twice again.He calmed himself down, then sat on the ground, and turned on the computer in his backpack, "Uh...it does seem to be a little affected, but I can't feel it myself, the machine is still working. How do you feel?"

Yang Jian said: "How can I describe it for you to understand? It's... fluctuations."

"Then I probably understand it as signal interference." He turned on the computer for background calculation, and continued to run according to the program he had written before.He helped Yang Jian stand up and asked, "What should we do next? Let's walk in?"

"Yes, it's not very far." Yang Jian said, "The farther you go to the center of Nalingrad, the stronger the magnetic field interference will be. I can't use my unstable ability for the time being."

"How long will it take?"

Yang Jian looked up at the sky and said, "It's half a day."

"...Okay." Yu Chen took a deep breath, but the thin oxygen in the air seemed to never be able to fill his lungs. When he breathed the most, he vomited it all out forcefully, and said after a few rounds, " I think I can hold on, let's go!"

Because there was no fierce fighting and wear and tear, Yang Jian's armor faded off, leaving only a few key parts of the armor, and other places were dressed up.He was afraid that Yu Chen's physical strength would not be able to keep up, so he didn't walk too fast.Yu Chen looked down at his footsteps very seriously, and asked, "What does Lingele look like?"

"It's a canyon."

"It's a canyon again?" Yu Chen's tone was a bit troubled, but he immediately said, "Can the altitude be lower? Can we have more oxygen?"

Yang Jian let out a "huh" and said, "You think too much. This is Gaoyuan. The Nalingele Canyon belongs to the Kunlun Mountains. The altitude is between 4000 and [-] meters. You have to bear it."

"It's okay..." Yu Chen clenched his fist and shouted as if encouraging himself, "I can!"

His voice disappeared quickly above the endless wilderness, Yang Jian knocked on his head and said: "Don't bark so loudly, you will call the wolf again."

"Where are wolves here?" Yu Chen said, "Yang Aotian, have you never studied? Have you ever studied geography?"

"Okay, shut up." Yang Jian said.

He seemed to intend to take revenge on Yu Chen, and he didn't say anything to Yu Chen along the way.Yu Chen was actually very quiet when he was alone, but he couldn't stop his inner drama.He likes to think wildly, and sometimes his calm expression often conceals bloody plots.People with his thinking logic are not suitable for development, they are not meticulous, and they are easy to fall into self-plots.

Although he felt that he was very meticulous.

The scenery of the snow-covered plateau is different from that of the inland, with the sky high and the clouds low.Just looking at it twice, it seems that all troubles can be forgotten, and time seems to stop there.The sun shines through the clouds and casts mottled shadows on the ground, walking slowly with them.If there is no imminent task, Yu Chen thinks it is like a vacation.

It's just that this kind of scenery can only be seen for a while, after a long time, Yu Chen began to feel bored.He really belongs to the generation that is deeply bound by modern technology. You can't live without a mobile phone, you can't live without the Internet, oh—and cigarettes.

It doesn't matter if you don't want to, once you think about it, you will become addicted.

Yu Chen started to feel a little irritable, and touched his body with both hands.His clothes had just been changed when he left the house, and they were all clean.He called Yang Jian in front of him and said, "Let me ask you a question!"

"Say." Yang Jian answered briefly.

"Since your ability has recovered, will you be able to change spells?"

"how?"

Yu Chen quickly ran two steps to follow, took Yang Jian's hand and waved it, flattering Yang Jian like a puppy, and said, "Can you change a box of cigarettes for me?"

Yang Jian was inexplicable: "Don't you have one yourself?"

Yu Chen shook his head like a rattle: "No."

"Then bear with it."

"You're too cruel, bro!"

Yang Jian raised his eyebrows: "Not convinced?"

"No, no, no!" Yu Chen hesitated for a second.

"I have always felt that this is not a habit you should have." Yang Jian said, "It feels like a child who steals an adult's suit and goes against the law."

"...I'm not young anymore." Yu Chen said, "You can't dampen the enthusiasm of the masses, right? I'm just such a hobby. And I'm too tired from work, so smoking a cigarette can give me a reason to go out and relax. And staying up late, How else can I stand it? I am also a person who can't help myself in the Jianghu!"

"Okay, I know you talk a lot." Yang Jian said, "Tired?"

"Not tired, let's go."

Yang Jian glanced at Yu Chen and said, "I think you like to pretend."

Yu Chen said, "What am I pretending to be?"

Yang Jian said: "Sometimes you chatter, but what you say is irrelevant. What you really need, you don't say it yourself, and you don't ask others for it. Roughly speaking, we have to walk for nearly two hours. Do you really need it?" Are you not tired? Or are you afraid that saying you are tired will delay things?"

"No, I'm not tired." Yu Chen said, "Girls can go shopping for an afternoon, I think I can accept this distance."

Yang Jian smiled.

During the time spent together, he vaguely grasped Yu Chen's character.Yu Chen doesn't seem to be living in chaos, but there seems to be a tight string in his body all the time. He only supports himself in a safe and controllable range where he won't be hated by others, but the really terrible things never happen. Dare to be willful.No matter how difficult Yu Chen is, no matter how unwilling he is, as long as any one of them speaks up, Yu Chen will do his best.

Even if he broke down and ran away occasionally, he would force himself to walk back afterwards very calmly and restrainedly.Yang Jian is used to seeing Yu Chen muttering to himself, "It's okay, I can do it".He did force Yu Chen to do a lot of things, part of the reason why Yu Chen didn't dare to lose the chain was on his own side.But for a person who is not very willful, it is most likely due to growth.

Yu Chen is an orphan, he lacks the care that many of his peers should have.He has never been doted on by his parents, maybe he can only see those pictures in novels and movies.He has never been loved either—maybe he has, but the established thinking pattern makes him not have the courage to face Rong Pu's duplicity and rejection, and after a long time, he still dare not expect Rong Pu to have a little bit of difference to him. emotion.

Afraid of causing trouble to others, afraid of causing trouble for others, afraid of being rejected, afraid of being disgusted-in the final analysis, it is still afraid of losing the ability to integrate into human emotions, afraid of being rejected by social life.

So Yu Chen will choose a job that does not have to deal with people at all, because only in such a virtual world can he truly relax himself, do what he likes to do, and find the value and meaning of his existence.

Yang Jian saw that Yu Chen was still seriously lowering his head and staring at his own progress, step by step, probably because he was afraid of being distracted by looking at others and revealing his exhausted state.Yang Jian sighed silently, pointed to the front and said: "Going forward, we will enter the canyon. The situation will be very dangerous. Let's take a rest here, lest you will not be able to run and drag me down."

"Ah? Is that so?" Yu Chen looked in the direction of Yang Jian's finger. Although he didn't see anything, he still followed Yang Jian's words and said, "Okay then." He sat down where he was, and took the After getting out a bottle of water, he first handed it to Yang Jian and asked, "Do you drink water?"

"Need not."

"Then I'll drink it." Yu Chen raised his head and pointed the mouth of the bottle at his mouth. Just as he opened it, there was a violent vibration from the ground, and someone splashed it all on Yu Chen's face and choked it into his nose.He stood up in a panic and said, "An earthquake?"

"No." Yang Jian looked ahead vigilantly and said, "However, I'm afraid you won't be able to rest."

The originally sunny weather was suddenly covered by dark clouds, and the sky gradually darkened.