The Haunted

Nothing will change in eternity.

Chi Yan also gradually got used to this kind of life, and didn't even pay attention to the numbers on the timer for a long time.It's hard to decide whether this kind of life is good or bad, here he can get everything he wants except that one - close at hand, but can't ask for it.

Not not to give, but not to.

Chi Yan still maintains the habit of being an ordinary person, defining day and night for his own area according to the timer, and even distinguishing the changes of the four seasons throughout the year.

One day he passed the timer and suddenly found that the number below the unit representing "year" had changed to five digits.

He has been here, by Ye Yingzhi's side, for tens of thousands of years.If it is in the human world, it should have gone through a hundred generations of reincarnation.

"Ye Yingzhi." He gently called the name, calling him, "Where are you?"

"You should know." The voice returned to him, still calm, "In my domain, I am everywhere."

"I want to see you."

"You're seeing me right now."

"It's not like this..." Chi Yan stretched out his hand to touch the air in front of him, with a trace of sadness in his tone, "I want to touch you." I want to hug you, I want to kiss you, I want...to merge with you .

There is no air in Ye Yingzhi's domain, there is nothing there.Only in Chi Yan's area can there be these human-like things.

His black eyes were filled with things that Ye Yingzhi could not understand.But he somehow wanted to erase those things, he didn't want to see Chi Yan like this, he wanted to make him happy.

But he didn't know what to do.

Finally he said, "You come out, come outside."

Chi Yan didn't know what he meant, but he still obediently came out into the darkness.

The moment Fang stepped into the darkness, there was a light force that lifted him up.Chi Yan only felt like he was flying, being lifted up, breaking through layers of darkness, and finally reached a height that had never been reached before.

Leaning forward and downward from here, what appeared in front of his eyes was a majestic and twinkling "galaxy".

The bright galaxy is slowly "flowing" forward. If you look closely, you can find that it is actually the countless bright planetesimals on the band-shaped area moving forward in the same direction. Because there are too many planetesimals, a light band is formed. It even gives people the illusion that this is a river of light.

And these "stars" are not really twinkling, they just look like twinkling stars.Once they go out, they never come back on.But while the old stars are going out, there are always new ones shining in the band of light.

Every moment old stars go out, and every moment new stars light up.From his point of view, it is like an incomparably magnificent symphony of light.

Chi Yan had never seen such a magnificent scene before, and he froze in place for a moment.

Until Ye Yingzhi's voice sounded beside him: "This is the World River. Those that are lit are the existing world, and the world will be dimmed after it dies."

Every "star" is a world.

Every moment old worlds are destroyed, and every moment new ones are born.

They are calm and calm here, actually witnessing the birth and destruction of countless worlds.

Chi Yan froze completely.An incomparably intense sadness and hopelessness that had never been felt in ten thousand years suddenly hit his heart.

Sitting beside him, standing at his angle, he saw everything in his eyes for the first time.

Innumerable creatures, billions of worlds, in his eyes, are just like mayflies, dying in the blink of an eye.

Everything is like a passing cloud, only he is the eternal existence.

At this moment, Chi Yan suddenly felt disheartened and physically and mentally exhausted.

He has always firmly believed that human beings are the most tenacious and persistent creatures in all existence. Oceans can be leveled, mountains can be moved, as long as there is enough time, there is nothing that cannot be done.And what he lacks most is time.As long as he is always by his side, as long as he keeps waiting, one day he will wait, one day he will turn around.As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he is willing to do it no matter if it is ten or a hundred years, a thousand or ten thousand years, or a million or ten thousand years.Be here with him, waiting for him, guarding him.Sweet as sweet.

But he was wrong.

From the very beginning, what he fell in love with was an existence that would never respond, would never love.

an eternal existence.

"Don't you like it?" He heard Ye Yingzhi ask him in his usual flat tone.

"I like it." Chi Yan replied softly, slowly lowered his head and lowered his eyes.

Even though he said he liked it, Ye Yingzhi could feel that the human in front of him was getting more depressed - his black eyes looked very sad.He was more and more at a loss, not knowing what to do or say, he was afraid that like this time, he would end up self-defeating.So he didn't say anything.

Beside the twinkling World River, he heard Chi Yan whisper, "I like you."

"What?" he asked.

"Ye Yingzhi...I love you."

"……what is love?"

"It's that I want to be with you forever." It's that I want to have you.

The human smiled, lowered his head, and did not speak again.

Eternal evil saw something very bright in Chi Yan's eyes, something brighter than the bright world flashed by, and it dimmed in an instant.

He has witnessed the demise of countless worlds, but he has never felt sorry for them, nor will he feel pity in his heart.But when he looked at Chi Yan's dimmed eyes, he couldn't help but want them to light up again - looking at him brightly, intently, and full of expectation as before.

But Chi Yan never seemed happy after that.His eyes always seemed to be covered with a thin layer of mist, making it impossible for Ye Yingzhi to see what he was thinking.He doesn't understand human emotions.He didn't even understand why he wanted to understand human emotions.

All he could say was, "Of course you can stay with me forever. Just like now."

Chi Yan smiled and shook his head.

*****

One day, Chi Yan suddenly asked him to take him to the riverside of the world again.

Reflecting the shimmering light in the world river, Chi Yan turned his head and said softly: "Ye Yingzhi, can you send me back to the world of reincarnation?"

He can't see the master of this domain, but he can feel that the other party is beside him.

Maybe some of human's conceptions are really close to the true meaning of the world.Buddhism says that people have three reincarnations, the present life, the past life, and the future life.Everything experienced now is the present life, everything in the past is the past life, and the reincarnation that has not yet been experienced in the future is the future life.

What Chi Yan knew was similar to this.Infinite beings have a soul, which is immortal, and they have been reincarnating in this billions of worlds, until one day the soul is wiped out, and they are completely dying.

He was originally just one of the most ordinary creatures in this billions of worlds. He was born as a human being, his lifespan is only a hundred years, and his reincarnation is only ten lives. His soul exists in the world river for at most a thousand years, and eventually he will disappear like all creatures.The body is like a mayfly, and it lives and dies in the evening.

How lucky he was to be able to enter this absolute eternity and to meet Ye Yingzhi.

There was once a question asking, if Jack knew the final outcome in "Titanic", would he choose to win the ticket and board the giant ship.

Chi Yan didn't know.He only knew that he never regretted falling in love with Ye Yingzhi, even now he couldn't help but love Ye Yingzhi.

It's just that this love is so hopeless.

Forever and ever, in eternity, waiting for the lover I want most but can never get.

He was originally a human being in that reincarnation, so let him go back to where he came from.

"Yes." Ye Yingzhi replied without much hesitation, and then said after a moment of hesitation, "...Why are you leaving?"

"It's too lonely here." Chi Yan's mouth curled up slightly, "Ye Yingzhi, I'm so lonely." Waiting for you like this is too lonely.

"Can you take me away?" he asked again.

"Okay." Ye Yingzhi replied, still without hesitation.Chi Yan said that he was lonely, but he didn't know what loneliness was at all. He watched human beings sinking in his own domain, but he was helpless.All he can do is fulfill every human wish.

Hearing the calm but decisive answer, Chi Yan's eyes darkened, and then a wry smile appeared.What else could he hope for?Do you hope that Ye Yingzhi will keep you?

He smiled and raised his head: "Ye Yingzhi, before I leave, can I give you another hug?"

"why?"

"……because I love you."

Chi Yan saw a translucent human silhouette appearing in front of his eyes, the same as what he saw back then.He smiled again, walked up and hugged the other party's neck, and buried himself deeply in the other party's arms.

Last time.

I love you.

Even if my soul dies one day, I will love you to the end of eternity.

I love you forever.

Chi Yan let go of Ye Yingzhi, and took a step back in the direction of Shishihe.

The humanoid silhouette in front of him raised his hand towards him: "I will attach my breath to your soul to protect you. But every time I go through a reincarnation, my breath and your soul itself will be consumed, and in the end your soul will become become very weak until it disappears...before then, you have to remember to come back."

"it is good."

The human figure lay on its back and slowly fell towards the World River.Chi Yan could feel that the bright and resplendent light spots behind him were getting closer and closer to him, while the endless darkness was getting farther and farther away from him.He slowly fell towards the shining galaxy, and couldn't help stretching out his hand into the darkness—even at the end he was still hoping, hoping that the eternal existence would stretch out his hand, He pulls back.

Seeing Chi Yan falling towards Shishihe, Ye Yingzhi couldn't help stretching out an invisible hand to him - when he didn't even understand why he stretched out his hand.But he withdrew his hand just before he was about to touch a human.He only murmured in a low voice towards the direction where Chi Yan disappeared:

"You can enjoy the warmth of family, you can pursue career success, you can appreciate the preciousness of friendship...you can get everything you deserve. However, you can never fall in love with anyone, and your heart can only be opened for me .”

Because you said you loved me.

You said that love is to be with me forever.

What he said formally would become the rule in reincarnation.

What an overbearing, selfish, unreasonable rule; a rule made for only one person.At a time when he didn't even understand what love really was.

He doesn't know how to love, but he already knows how to possess.

However, the truth is often because of love, you want to have it.