coexist in vain

No. 73, Xingfu Street

News of deaths from the organization continued to flow.The first time was Qi Guangzhen, followed by V, and within an hour, it was followed by HOPE.Ye Chenglin smiled and leaned on the railing on the second floor, looking down at the three people who had just received the notice.

Ji Chen stared blankly at the floor, eyes full of emptiness.Yu Wen leaned on Wu Kunyu's body, biting his lips tightly, without saying a word.Wu Kunyu sat cross-legged on the ground with his back straight and expressionless.A black and white mime that seems to be frozen on the stage.

"What's the matter?" Yin Xiangqian, who obviously just woke up, came out of the room and stood beside Ye Chenglin.

"V and HOPE disappeared. It has basically been confirmed as death." The corners of Ye Shenglin's eyes curled up, and the two deaths were also understated as light and simple.

Yin Xiangqian just nodded, and put his hands on the railing casually.

"Are you more sober?" Ye Chenglin looked at Yin Xiangqian who was staring blankly, but still felt that even the soulless Yin Xiangqian was a hundred times better than the previous Yin Xiangqian who had been sitting in the rain in a daze.

"I'd rather live in the dream all the time." Yin Xiangqian's tone was flat, and he couldn't discern any emotion from it.

"Are you going out for a drink today?"

"Pleasuring yourself and speeding up time, why not do it?" Yin Xiangqian's brows and eyes showed a little expression when he mentioned alcohol.

"When did you fall to the point where you were paralyzed by alcohol." Although Ye Chenglin was sarcastic, he turned around with a smile and went to the room to get two baseball caps, and put one on Yin Xiangqian's head.

"Xiang Qian, are you going out?" Yu Wen, who was sitting in the living room, couldn't help worrying.

Since Qi Guangzhen's accident, Yin Xiangqian went out every night and didn't come back very drunk until very late.At the beginning, everyone indulged him in drinking to relieve his sorrows, but as the number of times increased, no matter how strong the body was, alcohol would drag him down.

"It's not peaceful outside recently, so don't go." Ji Chen also slightly raised his eyelids, discouraging.

"It's okay, I'll be with him." Putting on a coat and changing shoes by Ye Chenglin's left arm, he said goodbye to the three people in the room with a smile, "I've put off the task for tonight, you guys have a good rest."

"Hypocritical." Wu Kunyu, who had always repulsed Ye Chenglin, snorted coldly in a low voice.

But Ye Chenglin pretended not to hear, looked at Wu Kunyu with an undiminished smile, and closed the door gently.

Yin Xiangqian resolutely refused to take a car when he went out to drink, but insisted on walking.I will never go to a bar, but sit casually at a roadside barbecue stall and drink the worst beer.Ye Chenglin, who was used to him like this, bent his eyes to conform to his little eccentricity.And not long ago, he only pieced together from the drunken Yin Xiangqian's drinking conversation why he chose such a vulgar way of drinking as a pastime.

All this is because Yin Xiangqian, who was drunk, was able to see Qi Guangzhen.

So even if you have to walk two whole streets to meet a food stall, even if you knelt on the side of the road every night and vomited until your eyes were red and your internal organs were painful, even if you almost died tragically under the guns of other groups several times, Yin Xiangqian also Still don't want to, can't stop.He had said long ago that Yin Xiangqian had been poisoned by a poison named Qi Guangzhen.But now, only the drunk Yin Xiangqian can once again feel the warmth and care from Qi Guangzhen, and relieve the drug addiction that has penetrated into the bone marrow with a short period of confusion.

Drink poison to quench thirst.But no matter how hard he struggled, he still couldn't quit completely.

I probably have drowned in the deep sea without knowing it.

Yin Xiangqian smiled self-deprecatingly, and opened a bottle of beer boldly.

The heat wave of the summer night was still transpiring, and Yin Xiangqian took a sip of the chilled wine, feeling the coldness going down the esophagus and invading his heart.The big tables with friends around were joyful and lively, and the atmosphere further accentuated the desertedness of only two people seated in the farthest corner at this time.

Ye Chenglin glanced at the wine bottle that had just opened and bottomed out in an instant, poured some into his glass, and took a sip.Between two people, there must be a moment of sobriety.Ye Chenglin looked at Yin Xiangqian who opened another bottle, and sighed deeply in his heart.It was impossible to count on him.He turned his eyes to look at the two newly seated people at the diagonally behind table, and slightly twisted the corners of his mouth.

"Tsk, drinking doesn't make people stop." Yin Xiangqian squinted his eyes after drinking another full glass, glanced contemptuously at the two dressed in black at the back table, and complained in a low voice.

Even though his cheeks were slightly flushed due to alcohol, it still couldn't stop Yin Xiangqian from being highly sensitive to the outside world as a killer.

Ye Chenglin opened wine for him with a smile, and said in relief, "It's okay, just treat it as a paparazzi."

"I also experience what it's like to be a star." After hearing Ye Chenglin's joke, Yin Xiangqian, who didn't take those two people seriously at all, was even more arrogant.It took a while to pour and drink by himself, and Yin Xiangqian who was so happy was almost paralyzed, but he still insisted on asking Ye Shenglin to open several more bottles, put them on the table one by one, grab the bottles and pour them down.

Yin Xiangqian can bear it if this goes on, but his stomach can't bear it either.Rao thought so, but Ye Chenglin still maintained his usual smile, conniving Yin Xiangqian could be regarded as self-torture.

"Yin Xiangqian? Xiangqian?" Another bottle was quickly wiped out, and Ye Chenglin gently pushed Yin Xiangqian who was lying on the table.

"Hmm...Guangzhen..." Yin Xiangqian's eyes were loose and his speech became slurred.

Ye Chenglin, who continued to bury his head after seeing him call Guangzhen, began to breathe a sigh of relief.Every time Yin Xiangqian called Qi Guangzhen, it meant he was really drunk.

"You sit here obediently, I'll go to pay the bill." Ye Chenglin calmed down in a rare coaxing tone, and when he walked over to pay the bill, he didn't forget to glance at the two men in black who also leaned to the back table and immediately made a gesture of leaving.

"Huh? Guangzhen, don't you want me?" Yin Xiangqian, who raised his face slightly, had a grievance in his eyes, and pouted his mouth in dissatisfaction, "Qi Guangzhen, how can you do this!"

Yin Xiangqian, who was probably angry, stood up muttering, and was about to step forward to chase after him, but he almost tripped over the wine bottles thrown on the floor in a mess.But he was completely drunk and couldn't care less about it.He seemed to feel that the baseball cap on his head was in the way again, so he tore it off with one hand and threw it on the ground, only holding on to the edge of the table, and staggered forward.The two people at the back table looked at each other and stood up one after another.

"What are you running around?" Seeing Yin Xiangqian's safety, Ye Chenglin, who was concerned about Yin Xiangqian's safety, hurried over before he even had time to ask for change, and held him back to prevent him from accidentally falling to the ground again.

"Guangzhen doesn't want me anymore."

At this moment, Yin Xiangqian, who seems to be able to tell the difference between people, looks like a child who has been robbed of his most beloved toy. It simply makes people feel distressed.

"He didn't want you." Ye Chenglin was still smiling, but God knows that the drunk Yin Xiangqian is surprisingly strong.It took him a lot of effort to fix Yin Xiangqian by his side in order to prevent him from slumping to the ground.

And Yin Xiangqian was still resisting his approach.The two walked in a dimly lit alley in an extremely weird posture.

"Really?" Yin Xiangqian suddenly paused, turned his head, the light in his eyes was shining brightly.

"...Yeah." Being stared at by such eyes, even the hard-hearted Ye Chenglin couldn't bear it, so he nodded lightly, and followed Yin Xiangqian's drinking madness slightly softly.That's all, if it's just a dream, then give him some relief, why be stingy.

Suddenly Yin Xiangqian held his breath, and took the initiative to pull Ye Chenglin to stand against the wall.The expression is serious and serious, as if he treated his teacher when he was a child.

"What's wrong?" Ye Chenglin was already able to talk and laugh calmly after seeing Yin Xiangqian's drunken madness.

"Shh." Yin Xiangqian, who was leaning against the wall, earnestly signaled Ye Chenglin to keep quiet. In his words, there was a little nostalgia, a little nostalgia, and a little pride emanating from the bottom of his heart.

"Listen, our Guangzhen's footsteps."

Looking around, he found that there were only him and himself in this alley, and Ye Chenglin, who had been following behind all the time, couldn't laugh or cry, "Should I remind you again, Qi Guangzhen died a long time ago."

"That's the sound of our Guangzhen's footsteps."

But Yin Xiangqian, who seemed to have entered a different space, had clear eyes, a solemn expression, and a sharp tongue.Apart from a slight flush on his cheeks, there was no sign that he had just drank a lot of wine.

Ye Shenglin, who no longer wanted to pull Yin Xiangqian back to reality, was forced to cling to the wall too.He looked at the other two people hiding not far away from the corner of his eyes, and found that the two were covering their mouths and laughing.Although he also felt that Yin Xiangqian's words were ridiculous, Ye Chenglin still calmed down and carefully and silently captured the so-called 'Qi Guangzhen's footsteps' that he said.

Then, as if to confirm that Yin Xiangqian's feeling was correct, Ye Chenglin only felt that the swaying footsteps were getting closer.As the voice gradually approached, Yin Xiangqian covered his mouth more and more excitedly.

Ye Chenglin glanced amusedly at Yin Xiangqian, who was already so excited that tears filled his eyes, and silently swallowed the joke.Because in the blink of an eye, he really saw a ghostly man flashing in the corner.

The man was tall and wore a baseball cap pulled down extremely low.Not an easy guy to deal with.Ye Chenglin couldn't help but raise his vigilance.

Sure enough, within a few minutes, Ye Chenglin no longer saw the shadows of the two men in black around him.It is impossible for them to leave on their own initiative, Ye Chenglin analyzed, then there is only that ghostly man.Thinking of this, he involuntarily clenched Yin Xiangqian's wrist, skillfully protecting it behind him.

"Guangzhen... Guangzhen..." Yin Xiangqian, who seemed to have sensed something, suddenly increased his volume, with a clear crying voice. "Guangzhen, don't leave me..."

Cried?Ye Chenglin turned his head and looked at Yin Xiangqian who was leaning against the wall of the alley, his face covered with tears, and was speechless for a moment.He was used to seeing Yin Xiangqian who was drunk and spitting, but this was the first time he saw Yin Xiangqian choking until he was out of breath after he was drunk, and his crying was so painful that it made people feel distressed.

Tears welling up, tears sobbing, grief choked by suppressed wailing.

"Qi Guangzhen!" Suddenly Yin Xiangqian exclaimed.

Ye Chenglin, who was startled by Yin Xiangqian's abruptness, followed his gaze and noticed that the ghostly shadow refracted on the wall obviously paused.

is that you?Guangzhen.Yin Xiangqian seemed to be fascinated and infatuated, but he started to walk towards the corner where the ghost was in a daze.

And Ye Chenglin behind him only raised his hand symbolically, the meaning of trying to stop it was not clear.He had an intuition that that person would not hurt Yin Xiangqian, on the contrary, he was probably the mysterious person who had been secretly protecting Yin Xiangqian from the crisis a while ago.

Ye Chenglin narrowed his eyes slightly, watching Yin Xiangqian walk away slowly as if possessed by a demon, and did not follow him wisely.

Are you back Guangzhen?Yin Xiangqian's eyes were fixed on the black shadow, and his heartbeat almost stopped.Maybe it was because of drinking, his steps were slow and vain, but it didn't stop him from wanting to get close to him in the slightest.

Yin Xiangqian supported the wall with one hand, and barely managed to walk about ten meters away.It's like returning to the babbling childhood, carrying all the expectations, and carrying the most pious heart in the world.He walked step by step with his hand against the wall, his palms sweating profusely.His speed is extremely slow, but no one dislikes it.

Ye Chenglin even felt that that person, the person hiding in the corner, must have fixed the most beautiful eyes on Yin Xiangqian who worked so hard with the most pitiful expression.

Come back, Guangzhen.

I miss you so much.

The closer he got, the more difficult it was for Yin Xiangqian to walk.In the end, he was almost moving on the ground.

Guangzhen, why am I still walking towards you until now?

He turned his head and saw that his shadow finally began to overlap a little bit with him in the corner, and grinned happily.

But as long as I think it is you, I seem to become a magnet attracted, and I will involuntarily go to the direction that has you.

Yin Xiangqian opened his eyes and felt the familiar body temperature of that person, and his whole body was embraced in a pair of warm arms.Then there was a warm and soft touch on the lips, and then a lingering lingering death.

What a dream it was.So beautiful, lest a blink of an eye or a shallow sigh would wake me up.

After a long time, Yin Xiangqian carefully backhanded and made a gesture of hugging.But in the end, only his lonely shadow was reflected on the wall, embracing the air.With the most mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, he silently raised his face and looked at the sky as lacquered and the moon shadow as white as white.Suddenly, that person's voice appeared in his mind.

He said, Xiang Qian, what are you looking at?

Death, or moonlight.

I don't know, Guangzhen.

It was not until the next day, when night fell again, that Yin Xiangqian woke up from his sleep.It's rare that he and Ye Chenglin didn't go to drink and stood on the roof of the villa, looking at the bustling and dazzling city night scene not far away.The neon lights flickered, embellishing the eyes of the two of them with colorful colors.

The night wind was slightly cold.

Yin Xiangqian suddenly turned his head and asked Ye Chenglin, "Where is our Guangzhen?"

Ye Chenglin still smiled, "Dead."

"Oh." Yin Xiangqian raised his hand and touched his lips lightly, with a lost expression on his face.

No wonder I miss him so much.