Ghostly Eyes [Tomb Raiders]

At a critical moment, his right foot suddenly touched a groove and kicked against a solid wall.Li Qiu panted, his heart finally fell to the ground, but he didn't dare to delay for too long, he gathered up a little bit of strength, and climbed up to the rooftop with all his strength.

The night wind howled, and under the gloomy night, there was no other person on the rooftop.

"Ajiu? Cough cough... Where are you, Jiu..."

Li Qiu stumbled around and looked around, but there was no sign of Ah Jiu either on the roof or downstairs.That person is like an erratic wandering soul, appearing here for a moment, and then disappearing with the wind.

Li Qiu no longer had any strength left, and slowly slipped and fell to the corner of the wall, coughing and panting, his mind and body were exhausted to the extreme.

At this point, no matter how stupid he is, he will understand that this is another one-sided and harsh temptation.The delivery in the middle of the night, the unmanned monitoring room, the pictures on the roof, and even the hidden utility room...all of them were tests for him.

He even had a strong intuition to believe that during the series of changes just now, Ah Jiu must have been watching him coldly not far away, watching him anxious, struggling, and worried, and then indifferently judge the authenticity of these emotions.

After all, Ah Jiu has always been like this, alienated and indifferent, mean and frivolous.

However, Li Qiu is not a stranger who has nothing to do with him, maybe he wasn't once, but now he is.

Li Qiu buried his head in his knees, his heart was throbbing with pain, he was so sore that he couldn't speak.Thinking of the very close jump just now, he narrowly escaped death, what if he really fell down by accident?Ah Jiu left the open window, and never thought about whether he would really accidentally fall from the building. If he stumbled and died like this, would he continue to watch with a blank expression?

Li Qiu's throat was sore due to grievances, he could only hug himself tightly to absorb the slightest warmth.

Right below the roof, which is the utility room on the thirteenth floor, Ah Jiu, whom Li Qiu was thinking about, was sitting here.

From this room, it happened to be able to see the brand-new groove on the edge of the roof. Ah Jiu blew on the iron awl in his hand, and there was still lime remaining on it when he carved the groove.

Throwing away the awl, Ah Jiu opened a box full of surveillance video tapes in front of him, picked them one by one, and finally pulled out a box of burning discs from it.A few words were scribbled on the box of the CD: 702 intensive care surveillance video.

This is something he accidentally dug out from the hospital archives. It is nothing special. It is piled up with the surveillance videos of other wards. It is routinely kept in files, and no one will notice it even after ten years.

Ah Jiu held the thin CD and looked at the rooftop under the night, with a touch of emotion and confusion floating in his eyes.

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The iron gate of the rooftop was locked, and Li Qiu didn't have the strength to go back the same way, so he stayed on the roof all night in a daze.It wasn't until dawn the next day that the logistics on duty found him on the rooftop, and they made a fuss thinking that he was a homeless man who ran in from somewhere.

Li Qiu rubbed his drowsy head, only felt that his body was cold and sore, and his hands and feet had no strength.His forehead was hot and hot, and he seemed to have a fever.

Li Qiu looked at the time, at this point, let alone going home, it was time to open the shop in the morning.Li Qiuqiang endured the discomfort and took a taxi back to the tea house. He left in a hurry in the middle of the night last night, and there were many things in the shop that were unprepared, so he had to come early in the morning to clean them up.

In the shaded corner of the alley, a van was watching.

There were several men in uniform sitting in the car, one of them was holding a stack of photocopied photos, pointing to Li Qiu outside.

"Brother Cheng, look, is it this kid?"

"No mistake, it is exactly the same as in the video, he is the owner of that Buddha jade."

"No one around, just now, let's do it."

As soon as Li Qiu walked into the alley, he heard a screeching sound of brakes behind him, followed by a whirlwind and fell heavily to the ground.

Several people quickly jumped out of the car, two touched into the Bishui tea house, one picked up a towel soaked in anesthetic, and covered Li Qiu's mouth and nose from behind.Li Qiu was already dizzy, and passed out without struggling, his head tilted to one side weakly.

But this person was worried, and he still covered his mouth and nose with a towel for a while, and only let go when he saw that the person was indeed not moving.

Brother Cheng stood at the entrance of the alley to let the wind out. There was no surveillance in this alley, and they would be able to handle everything in less than 5 minutes and escape unscathed.

At this moment, a figure brushed past him.

It should be a person, but because the speed is too fast, it seems to have turned into a shadow of the wind.

Brother Cheng blinked, and the next second suddenly came the screams of his accomplices.When he turned his head, he saw the three accomplices fell to the ground in unison, moaning tossing and turning. In the narrow alley, an extra person appeared out of thin air, and was checking on Li Qiu's situation with one knee.

Brother Cheng roared, grabbed the iron pipe beside him and swung at the man, but the man was unmoved. Before Brother Cheng could see how the other party was moving, he flipped and flew out.The iron pipe swung around in the air and hit his foot firmly, Brother Cheng's eyes were darkened and he almost fainted from the pain.

But that man didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue him, Brother Cheng was rolling on the ground, and when he looked up, he saw that man picked up Li Qiu who was unconscious, and left without looking back.

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Li Qiu woke up with a fit of coughing, his whole body was warm, as if he was bathed in a gurgling hot spring, smooth and comfortable.It took Li Qiu a long time to open his eyes, and the golden sunlight flooded his whole body through the window.

This is... the ward?

Li Qiu blinked, turned his head, and was stunned suddenly.

In front of the hospital bed, a tall man was reclining on the chair with his arms folded, gnawing on a big red apple with an unhappy expression. Who was it?It's just that Ah Jiu's tall and straight figure, against the unhappy expression of "==" on his face, could not help but produce a childish sense of joy.

Li Qiu stared at the person close at hand in a daze, and murmured "Ah Jiu".

Ah Jiu turned her head, spat out a thick piece of apple peel, and raised the corners of her mouth lazily: "Finally woke up? You have slept for a long time."

Li Qiu saw the 702 sign on the head of the bed, and came back to his senses in a daze: "I...why am I here..."

"You passed out at the door of the store, and I just bumped into you, so I sent you here. The doctor said you had a cold and a fever, so you went through the hospitalization procedures and got an IV here." Ah Jiu answered the question evasively, and gnawed again. He took a bite of the apple, chewed it for a long time, and swallowed it dissatisfied.

"Really...you sent me here, thank you, Jiu."

Ah Jiu put down the apple and looked at Shang Li Qiu's weak and grateful eyes, as if trying to pick out a trace of hypocrisy or strangeness from that sincere expression.

Now that the matter has come to this point, no matter how stupid the person in front of him is, he should know that all the troubles he has encountered these days are all caused by Ah Jiu.Being swindled out of money, put on pigeons, cheated, and even almost put his life in danger, but no matter how much malice Ah Jiu brought him, he accepted it without saying a word. From the beginning to the end, he never complained. I feel extremely cherished and grateful for Ah Jiu's little kindness that he gave casually.

Either an overly kind Madonna, or a crazy madman, or...

"You like me that much?"

Li Qiu was dumbfounded.

Ah Jiu gnawed at the apple lazily, "If I didn't like it, I really couldn't find a more suitable reason to explain your attitude. No matter how good a person's temper is, it is difficult to do this step regardless of gains and losses."

"sorry."

"Ha, so you like to add guilt?"

"I shouldn't...leave you when you lose your memory, and leave you here alone, no matter what."

"Because I used to be very bad, so you can't avoid it?"

"No," Li Qiu squeezed out two words uncomfortably, and silently tightened the bed sheet: "I feel guilty for you, because you were injured and lost your memory because I was dragged down. After the accident, I sent you to Taihe Hospital, the doctor told me that you might lose your memory after waking up. At that time, I thought... I thought... If things could happen again, you must regret meeting me, so I left when you woke up, Leave without saying goodbye."

"In that case, why did you come to me in the end?"

Li Qiu's lips were tense, struggling unceasingly, Ah Jiu looked over strangely, Li Qiu had no choice but to confess in a low voice: "...Because I saw you were hungry."

"Pfft!" Ah Jiu couldn't hold back, and laughed outright, but the more she laughed, the more exaggerated she became, and she fell back and forth, almost crying.

"Ah Jiu..." Li Qiu was embarrassed.

"Hahahaha... I believe it, I believe it, you are indeed my favorite type."

Hearing such confessional jokes, Li Qiu blushed uncomfortably, and only hoped that no one would pass by in the corridor and witness this embarrassing scene.

After finally stopping laughing, the atmosphere relaxed completely, and the whole ward was filled with a warm temperature.

Ah Jiu put a thin blanket on Li Qiu, continued his unfinished Apple business, and accompanied him.Li Qiu sat up hesitantly, only feeling that his thin skin was scorching hot from the sun outside, making him uncomfortable in any way.

Ah Jiu got a bunch of apples from nowhere, they were purple and purple, with thick skin and white flesh, and they tasted terrible.Li Qiu stared blankly for a while, then tried to stretch out his pale palm: "I'll help you."

Ah Jiu raised his eyebrows, and put the gnawed crooked apple in Li Qiu's palm, and Li Qiu found a fruit knife, and peeled off the incomplete flesh bit by bit.

Li Qiu's hands are beautiful, with well-defined and flexible joints. Because of his illness, they are dyed with a layer of whiteness. When holding a silver-tin fruit knife, it is pleasing to the eye.

With the light of the knife slowly advancing, the dark red thick peel was peeled off bit by bit, and the long strip was neat and beautiful.

Li Qiu was coughing like this, sitting on the hospital bed and carefully peeling the apples. After peeling off the fruit, he cut the apples into two and then into four with the palm of his hand. The size of the entrance was just right.

"Try it, it tastes so much better."

Ah Jiu took a bite silently, and removed the dry, thick and tasteless fruit coating. It really was the sweet and delicious taste that I usually eat.Seeing that he liked it, Li Qiu brought another apple and continued to peel it for him.

Ah Jiu looked at the people on the hospital bed in a daze, and couldn't help thinking of the CD hidden in his pocket—in the 24-hour surveillance video of the intensive care unit, there was a person sitting by his bed day and night like this, for He scrubbed his body, peeled and washed fruit for him, and cared for him.Then, on the eve of his recovery, he suddenly disappeared.

There is no doubt that that person is his lover.

And that person is Li Qiu in front of him.

Ah Jiu suddenly had an unspeakable throbbing in his heart, and opened his arms to the person on the hospital bed: "Come here, let me hug you."

Although Li Qiu was surprised, he still put down the apple obediently, and let the other party wrap around his gradually relaxing body, completing a stiff but complete hug.

"No, I still can't, I still don't have any memory of your body. But it doesn't matter..." Ah Jiu sniffed deeply with her nose, and there was that faint but delicate fragrance of tea again.

"If I have no memory, I will create it again. This time, I will never forget it again."

Li Qiu hesitated for a moment, tried to put his hand on Ah Jiu's back, and nodded slightly.

"Ah."