eyes outside the box

It was not the first time Yang Bowen said this, but Duan Jiuze looked into Yang Bowen's serious eyes, but couldn't tell what information Yang Bowen wanted to bring him.

Looking up at the sky above his head, after a while, Duan Jiuze closed his eyes and pictured in his mind the blue sky and white clouds he saw just now.Everything that I had never paid attention to before, was so clearly presented in my mind at this moment.There is even an illusion that makes Duan Jiuze feel that this sky is the same as the day he came to this world, how blue the blue is, how white the clouds are, even the size and direction of the white clouds have not changed at all.

People around him came and went, and Duan Jiuze, who closed his eyes, could hear voices from all directions more clearly.

Clearly in a busy city, Duan Jiuze felt like he was the only one left in the world.

Suddenly feeling the force of pulling from the wrist, Duan Jiuze opened his eyes little by little, looked at Yang Bowen's tightened hand just now, and moved his eyes to look at Yang Bowen's eyes.

Yang Bowen looked extremely calm - if it weren't for those eyes, he would have revealed some emotions.He seemed very nervous about Duan Jiuze's mood swings, and kept holding Duan Jiuze's hand tightly, just like Duan Jiuze had been doing before getting on the plane.

The two finally fell silent, and returned to a small town in Rongcheng, where there was Duan Jiuze's grandmother in this world—the first person Duan Jiuze saw when he came to this world.

"Zeze is back?! This is?"

The old man looked at Duan Jiuze in surprise, then looked hesitantly at Yang Bowen and their clasped hands.

Duan Jiuze gave a soft "hmm" without any further answer.

It was Yang Bowen, who replied with a cute smile: "Hello grandma, I am Zeze's friend, and my name is Yang Bowen."

The old man let out a happy "Ai" and beckoned the two of them to come in and sit down.While greeting him, he also said polite words to Yang Bowen, such as don't dislike him.

Yang Bowen, who returned to the town with Duan Jiuze, found that Duan Jiuze had become silent.

Although Duan Jiuze has never been a talkative person, since returning to the small town, Duan Jiuze has hardly spoken more than three sentences.

The old man was very worried about Duan Jiuze's situation, and asked Yang Bowen privately, but he couldn't find out why.

Duan Jiuze sat in front of the desk by the window in the bedroom every day, day after day, with his eyes, as if looking at the small courtyard outside the window, but seemed to be looking at a farther place through the small courtyard.

Everything else is not important anymore, what is important, the current Duan Jiuze can't figure it out.

It seems to be trapped in a strange alley. From a distance, the alley has a road leading to the outside world, but when Duan Jiuze walked to the end of the alley, what he saw was a transparent glass.This transparent glass stopped Duan Jiuze from moving forward, and trapped him in place, unable to get out.

When the alley disappeared, Duan Jiuze tried to cross the transparent glass from somewhere nearby and walk to the road on the side of the glass.But beyond.Duan Jiuze felt himself struggling and shouting hoarsely, but the glass wall did not respond at all.

Duan Jiuze closed his eyes, trying to find a path leading to the other side of the wall.But soon, he realized that everything he had done was in vain.

The glass wall seemed to disappear, but instead, it was filled with infinite white mist.The white mist blurred the other side of the wall that could be seen originally, and even slowly surrounded Duan Jiuze.

Duan Jiuze was in the white mist, waiting for the white mist to take away his own air, close his breath, let himself out of this strange world, let himself die like this, never to be reborn, and to live a life that he didn't know if it was true or not. Life.

Duan Jiuze was ill.

Duan Jiuze knew that he was sick, because he couldn't get up with his own strength, and even his whole body was cold, as if his whole body was soaked in ice water.

Duan Jiuze hoped that he would continue to be ill and die because of it, but he was also afraid that such a death would only be the continuation of the next false world.

Duan Jiuze closed his eyes, only feeling that his whole body was floating and spinning, with nowhere to focus.

After fluttering around for a while, Duan Jiuze seemed to see that there was a place glowing in the dark space, which attracted his attention.

Duan Jiuze wanted to get close to where the light was, but he couldn't move to where he wanted to go.It can only float to the luminous place at an extremely slow speed.

Gradually, as it got closer, Duan Jiuze couldn't see what was beyond the light, but he heard someone arguing about something.He tried his best to listen to the content of the quarrel, wanting to know who was arguing and what was arguing about.

"I'm a minister! I want to marry Princess Qianqian!"

"I am the emperor! I declare that your minister is dead!"

This is...whose voice?Why does it feel so familiar?

"I want to live again! Then marry Qianqian."

Qianqian... is it Wenqian?Wen Qian, who exists in almost every world?

"No! To die is to die! A person can only live once! How can he live again! Don't play tricks!"

"Why only live once!?"

"Because you only live once!"

Duan Jiuze remembered that this was a picture he had seen in a certain world. These conversations were the quarrels between the children in those communities when they were playing games.But Duan Jiuze was not interested, so he didn't pay attention to what these children said.

"People only live once!"

Duan Jiuze heard, from the other side of the light, a childish but firm sentence came from a child.Duan Jiuze laughed at himself and said in his heart: People can only live once, is it because they can only live once as a human being, or is it because they can only live once that they are called human beings? ...

"But we are just a game, we can live indefinitely."

When he heard this, Duan Jiuze seemed to have been hit hard by someone.

It's just a game, so even if you die, you can be resurrected.Even if you die and come back to life, you still remember the characters in the previous game, and remember the roles played by everyone.

It turned out that as early as that early, the answer was already there.

The answer is already there.

Hahahaha...

Duan Jiuze seemed to be crying, standing near the light source, and laughed out loud.

"Zez!—Zez!—"

The voice inside seems to be continuing.

Duan Jiuze vaguely remembered that Yang Bowen was still a soft kid at that time, and every time he ran towards him, he would call his name just like that.Even if I never responded, the other party happily talked about everything I discovered, or interesting things I heard.

"I'm in the first year of middle school attached to No. [-] Middle School. I'm thirteen this year. I'm a local. I like playing basketball, but I don't like Chinese and English very much. You like reading, right?"

This voice...is not a soft, beeping child's voice, it should be the young Yang Bowen.

I'm young...

"Only love and death can change everything."

Upon hearing this sentence, Duan Jiuze subconsciously took two steps back.It's just that his whole body is in a floating state, and such a retreat seems meaningless.

"Aze."

Hearing the deep male voice, Duan Jiuze was stunned for a moment, and unconsciously took two steps forward.

"How did you become like this?"

Become... how?

Duan Jiuze was confused for a while, and heard voices continuing to come from the other side of the light.

"Aze, the sun is shining today. Whose article should I read to you? How is Gibran?... If you don't object, then I will start. It is impossible for people to reach the dawn unless they go through the road of darkness. You My favorite sentence, and my favorite sentence: Only love and death can change everything. Ah Ze, I suddenly don’t want to read it.”

As soon as these words came out, Duan Jiuze remembered that when he was reborn for the first time, the jumping life that seemed to be amnesiac.At the beginning, Duan Jiuze never knew who the man who took care of him in a vegetable state was, but now it seems that it is undoubtedly Yang Bowen.

"Aze, you haven't woken up yet, but I'm already old."

That seems to be the world Duan Jiuze has lived in the longest—even though he is in the form of a vegetable, his perception of the outside world is also intermittent.

"Aze, I'm getting old, but you haven't woken up yet."

After this sentence, it seems that life is over.

"Duan Jiuze, I told you that Wen Qian likes me, so stop liking her."

These words... Duan Jiuze could tell that they were said by Yang Bowen in his youth, but... which world's Yang Bowen is this?

"Duan Jiuze, I can sleep with whoever I like, you don't care. Wen Qian likes me and wants to be fucked by me, why? It has nothing to do with you."

Duan Jiuze had never heard of Yang Bowen with this kind of tone, but Duan Jiuze felt that there were some pictures in his mind, and following these words, they were connected and formed little by little.

"Duan Xiaoze, you are really a good brother!"

???

The image of the rebellious boy just now seemed to collapse in an instant, and Yang Bowen in Duan Jiuze's mind automatically transformed into another appearance, as if... as if he had heard this somewhere.

"Duan Xiaoze, remember to lend me your homework. My mother told me to ask you to do my homework tomorrow, it's so annoying."

"Old Duan, I fell in love with a woman..."

"Xiao Zeze, you don't love me anymore! I want to break justice with you!..."

"Duan Jiuze, it's time for us to take the stage, hurry up..."

"Team Leader Duan, why are you so dazed during the meeting time?..."

……

All of a sudden, conversations came into Duan Jiuze's ears continuously, only a small part of which Duan Jiuze had an impression of, and the rest, after the sound entered the ear, slowly, automatically formed a picture in Duan Jiuze's brain, although Maybe not as fast as speaking, but Duan Jiuze seemed to understand something slowly.

"Zeze, when will you wake up?"

Duan Jiuze heard a very clear sentence. The moment the words came to his ears, all other sounds disappeared, the white light disappeared, and the alley was no longer there. Only the boundless darkness enveloped Duan Jiuze.

Duan Jiuze wanted to speak, but opened his mouth, but found that his throat was very dry.

But soon, someone fed warm white water to moisten his thirsty throat.

"Zeze, you're awake, aren't you?"

Duan Jiuze frowned vigorously. He thought that maybe he was about to wrinkle his face into a bun full of wrinkles, but in fact, he made so much effort, but he only slightly moved his brows.

The eyelids seemed to be heavy, Duan Jiuze rolled his eyes, trying to open the heavy eyelids.

"Zeze, if you are too tired, go to sleep again, I will call you at dawn."

I don't know if this sentence played a role, or because Duan Jiuze had been half asleep and half awake before, and was too tired. In short, Duan Jiuze fell asleep quickly, and it was rare that he didn't even dream.

When he woke up in the morning, Duan Jiuze finally opened his eyes.

He first looked at the familiar ceiling wearily, and then turned his head to look at the bedside - he thought someone would be guarding the bedside, but there was no one there.

"Zeze, are you awake?"

Hearing the voice in his ear, Duan Jiuze finally turned his head to the other side belatedly, and saw Yang Bowen's tired face.