Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms

The next morning, a shiny black Bentley drove towards the dusty building in the special office, and then the car stopped steadily, Zhou Hui got out with little Phoenix in his arms.

Boss Zhou has a motorcycle leather jacket, sunglasses, and long legs. Everywhere he stands, he comes with a Hollywood blockbuster Micron and BGM.What is different from usual is that today he is carrying a few shopping bags in one hand, and holding a child in the other, about five or six years old, wrapped in a Zhou Hui shirt, wearing a pair of adult sunglasses on his exposed little face , because the frame is too large and can only be hung obliquely on the face, as if there is a risk of falling off at any time.

Countless guesses flashed through the minds of the two guards at the gate, and gossip flashed in their eyes: "Boss Zhou, this kid is yours..."

Zhou Hui said solemnly, "Call the fourth team leader."

The guard almost stared out of the window, only to see the fourth team leader looking back blankly behind the sunglasses, tilting his head, and innocently said: "...well?"

Zhou Hui carried Little Phoenix all the way through the lobby of the unit and walked to his office.

Following his footsteps, countless gossips about joys and sorrows centered around him, flying from all directions to every corner of Unit 547 at a speed as fast as a 10TB per second fiber optic network signal.Before Zhou Hui stepped into the office, the two young men at his door put down their phones and looked at Little Phoenix with surprised eyes: "Boss Zhou, this is..."

Zhou Hui said, "Leader of the fourth team."

Zhou Hui walked into the office under the incredulous eyes of his subordinates, and closed the door with a bang.

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"Sit down obediently, don't move, let's change clothes...Little Phoenix!" Zhou Hui said with a headache, "Come back and sit down!"

As soon as Little Phoenix was put into the high armchair, he slid down with a slither and started running around wildly.The little bird of God at this age has fully demonstrated the potential of being lively, active and curious. Although Zhou Hui's big shirt dragged to the ground seriously affected the convenience of movement, but the figure of the little phoenix was almost flying, and he would be able to breathe with a breath. Flew from the office to the tea room, and from the pantry to the supporting lounge, when Zhou Hui rushed over, he saw that he was trying to climb up the closet, standing at the door just happened to see his little butt, followed The climbing motion was twist and twist.

"Little Phoenix!" Zhou Hui tried to hug him down: "Stop climbing, change clothes first!"

Little Phoenix loved high places almost instinctively, and immediately broke away from Zhou Hui and began to climb again.

Zhou Hui was so helpless that he stuffed the children's clothes into his pockets, and forcibly hugged Little Phoenix with both hands and pressed him on the big bed, his knees were weak to prevent him from breaking free. Take off the big shirt.

It was Zhou Hui's wrapping around him casually when he went out this morning. He went in and bought a few sets of children's clothes as soon as the mall opened early in the morning, and he had a chance to change it in the office.Unexpectedly, Little Phoenix was very dependent on the clothes that smelled of Zhou Hui. While pushing Zhou Hui's hand with all his strength, he cried loudly, unwilling to wear new clothes.

There was a lot of commotion here, and the door to the outside office was pushed open.Yu Jingzhong poked his head in and said, "Comrade Zhou, people outside are saying that you hooked up with Feng Sigou behind your back and brought an illegitimate child to work..."

The sound stopped abruptly, and Yu Jingzhong stared dumbfounded at Little Phoenix who was naked and crying on the big bed in the inner room, and Zhou Hui who was pressing down on him with clothes in his hands.

"This is not my illegitimate child! What are you doing here? Tell me I'm busy now!"

"..." Yu Jingzhong's entire three views were refreshed, and he tremblingly said after a while: "Zhou, Zhou Hui, you can't do this, it's against the law, it's too perverted..."

"What's the matter?" Zhang Shun stuck his head out behind Yu Jingzhong: "I said Zhou Hui would not do...Zhou Hui! What the hell are you doing?! You are not as good as a beast!!!"

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Ten minutes later, Zhou Hui covered his nose with a towel dipped in cold water, and let out a long breath while sitting on the sofa.

Xiao Fenghuang finally changed into children's clothes, and sat obediently in his arms, looking up at him eagerly.

"Zhang Shun, you are too impulsive. You have to ask the situation before you start. In case Zhou Hui is not a child lover..." Deputy Yu suddenly thought that it is hard to say whether Zhou Hui is a child lover or not, so he rubbed his nose and coughed in embarrassment : "... In case he is not actually doing what you imagined... It is always bad to hurt someone rashly. Don't do it next time."

Zhang Shun occupied the entire sofa opposite, pointing to his black eye sockets and asked with grief and indignation: "Then what about me?!"

Yu Jingzhong comforted: "You were taught by your brother himself, what can you say?"

Little Phoenix immediately turned her head and bared her teeth at Zhang Shun, full of threats. If you dare to touch Zhou Hui with a finger, I will teach you why Hua'er is so red.

The human world is so cruel. In order to defend his brother's backyard, Zhang Ershao took action to teach Boss Zhou, who was suspected of being cheated on him, but he was immediately taught by his brother, and the Buddha's heart made of glass was shattered into pieces. .

"Hey, it doesn't hurt anymore, it really doesn't hurt anymore..." Zhou Hui hugged Little Phoenix and kissed and kissed, carefully straightening his messy temple hair, and said softly, "I'll discuss something with Deputy Yu, you Go play by yourself first, okay?"

Little Phoenix hugged Zhou Hui's neck and turned to look at Zhang Shun stealthily, meaning what if this person bullies you again?

Zhang Shun's shattered Buddha's heart tended to turn into dust, Zhou Hui quickly promised: "It's okay, he won't dare after being beaten by you, really dare not. If he dares to come, I will be rude to him." ,How about it?"

Zhang Shun's handsome face suddenly turned black, and he thought that this guy surnamed Zhou was really not a good guy, and he tricked my brother away so quickly, it is understandable for Sakyamuni to want to kill him...Damn it, Why didn't Shakya succeed?After working for so many years, I still haven't killed this monster. It's really not wrong to kill this weakling of the false Buddha!

However, Little Phoenix couldn't get the Buddha's mental activity at all. Zhou Hui coaxed him for a long time before he nodded aggrievedly. He was picked up and walked out of the office. Before going out, he gave Zhang Shun a wary look.

"My brother is staring at me! He is still staring at me!" Zhang Shun grabbed Yu Jingzhong and said in disbelief, "He has been completely deceived by Zhou Hui! He even stared at me for Zhou Hui!"

"He just beat you because of Zhou Hui, Buddha." Yu Jingzhong comforted: "Just stare, you will get used to it in the future..."

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Zhou Hui didn't want to carry little Fenghuang upstairs and cause more people to watch, so he carried him to Fengsi's former office.

The Office of the Fourth National Security Team Leader is a well-known restricted area, and there is an internal elevator to reach it directly.The reason why it is a restricted area is that when King Fenghuang came to the office occasionally, the old chiefs of the Military Commission tremblingly came over to offer incense, make wishes, and ask for a lottery. color.

Although it has not been used for a long time, Yu Jingzhong often asks someone to clean it, so the office is still very clean.The floor was covered with a gray carpet, a row of large sofas stood against the wall, and a few pots of half-dead plants stood on the window sill.There were scriptures and a few tortoise shells randomly thrown on the table—these were things that Phoenix Mingwang used to calculate karma to pass the time when he was bored.

Zhou Hui hugged Little Phoenix to the sofa, stuffed him with a children's picture book he had just bought from a children's clothing store, and said with a smile, "I'll come pick you up in half an hour, okay?"

Little Phoenix rubbed his fingers, twisted his soft little body, and nodded slightly for a while.

Zhou Hui stood up, took two steps back and suddenly stopped again.

"This is... your former office. We came to the human world after Maha's scourge, and began to help you repay your merits slowly. After joining the special department with Deputy Yu, your office was arranged here. We used to close here often door date..."

"Later, once you were planting ginseng here, Situ Yingzhi and Nine-tailed Fox sneaked in and ate it up. They turned around and buried carrots in the soil in an attempt to get away with it. After you found out, you chased and beat you for several miles... ..."

Little Phoenix stared blankly at Zhou Hui.

"Forget it." Zhou Hui laughed and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't remember it, it's better than anything else if you are happy."

He bent down and stroked Xiao Fenghuang's soft and smooth hair, and kissed the top of his head again: "I'll be back in half an hour, be good." Then he turned and walked out, closing the door.

·

With a click, Little Phoenix looked at the closed door with doubts in his eyes.

It took him a while to raise his head and look around blankly.

The offices of the team leaders of the Sixth Group of Guoan all have their own personal style. For example, Zhou Hui seems to have such an out-of-the-way personality, but the office is very rigid, with mahogany tables and chairs, screens and landscapes, and the Qiankun Formation is set up under his nose to guard him at any time. Don't go wrong at the critical moment.Although Wu Bei stayed in the Northeast all year round as a big brother of the underworld, but every time he went to Beijing, he would bring some weird and destructive mana weapons. Over time, the office became a showroom for guns and equipment, and even Deputy Yu sometimes sneaked in to steal some. Get out.

There are two closets in Situ Yingzhi's office, one is huge, it is full of all kinds of big-name clothes and European high-end, because it is too flamboyant, it has been ridiculed by Shenwan Tiansi all the year round; the other small closet is locked all the year round. The closet has never been opened in front of anyone, and it was once rumored that the closet was actually a large refrigerator, stuffed with human flesh and blood plasma that Ji San had hoarded for food.

Later, Zhou Hui went in to investigate, and came out to secretly tell Deputy Yu that the inside was actually imitation human skin—the skin of zombies would become unusable after a while, and the third secretary made a few sets of "copper skin and iron bones" to prepare the skin for himself in the future. Replace when aging.

Shenwan Tiansi's office is polarized. The outside is the exhibition hall for out-of-print animation and related figures, and the inside is constructed into a honeycomb-like small space, full of Buddhist scriptures, and stores many precious things in a special constant temperature environment with static electricity. Scriptures and calligraphy and painting.It is rumored that after Yang Jinpingcuo, the deputy leader of the fifth group, was executed, Shenwantiansi personally went to Tibet to confiscate his family property, and brought back a large number of Tibetan Buddhist treasures to the office.

As for the Nine-Tailed Fox, there is nothing to say, all kinds of shopping, shopping, eating, eating, clothing, skirts, jewelry, bags, no office area, in her words: "My existence is work!" In fact, her existence is sometimes true. Added a lot of work to others...

Chuhe's stay in Guoan was actually very short, and he rebelled twice halfway through, and the number of times he stayed in the office was even more rare.He seems to be the least concerned about the office, it is all normal environment, bookcase sofa tea room, a tall flower stand by the window, there is also a wardrobe in the lounge, but it is much smaller than Situ Yingzhi's, and there are only a few in it. A few shirts and two replacement blazers hung.

Little Phoenix climbed to the top of the flower stand and looked down at the whole office.

The sunlight came in from the window, like a thin layer of golden veil, flying in the silent room, even the slight dust floating in the air could be clearly seen.

The window ribs in the daylight cast vertical and horizontal light and shadows on the tabletop, which gradually move and elongate with the sun.The armchair next to the desk was randomly pulled halfway, and it was empty, as if someone had left and never returned.

An unspeakable strong emotion suddenly surged from the bottom of Little Phoenix's heart, like deep water, submerging him in an instant.

So heavy, so cold.

He even forgot to breathe for a moment.

Little Phoenix didn't know that this feeling was called loneliness. He didn't even know that it was his own soul. The emotion that stayed here before was so strong that after several years, it was faint and endless, and it traveled through time to come to him now. .

He stared blankly at the armchair, and gradually felt a phantom floating in the air, sitting at the desk with his back facing him.

——That is a very good-looking man, even if the face cannot be seen from behind, just a back view can give people such a clear feeling.

His sitting posture is tall and straight, a section of fair to almost transparent back of his neck is exposed behind the black hair, his shoulders are naturally slightly drooping, his figure is thin and thin wrapped in a white robe, and faint and complicated phoenix patterns are embroidered with dark white thread on his girdle.

He was leaning over the table writing something, after a while he finally put down the pen, sighed, and closed the book.

Little Fenghuang lay on the flower stand behind him, and tried hard to see that it was a very old and yellow thread-bound book. The cover was a kind of faded dark blue, and three words were written on it with a brush - hug the corpse, because Even the color of the ink has faded due to the age.

The man threw the bound book into the drawer, stood up, left the desk and walked towards the inner room.

The moment he turned around, Little Phoenix finally saw his face, and was in a daze for a moment.

It's not just because his face has a delicate and indescribable beauty, like a work of art that can shine in the dark; it's not because of the suffocating, forbearing And restrained sorrow.

It was because that face was very familiar to Xiao Fenghuang.

He knew it was his own face when he grew up.

The man walked to the inner room, stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror, stretched out his hand to stroke the smooth and cold mirror, and let out a long and thorough breath.

In the next second, his face suddenly changed as if he was wearing a mask, and became a completely different face!

Xiao Fenghuang opened his eyes wide in astonishment, and saw that after the change, his brows and eyes were pale, his complexion was pale, and his lips were slightly chapped like blood loss; his facial bones were slightly misaligned, making his side face look flat and cold Thin feeling.

The only thing that hasn't changed is his eyes. Although even the shape of the eyes has changed, his eyes are as sharp and clear as before, and there is a heaviness that is hard to detect in the depths.

The man unbuttoned his coat, and the white robe fell to the ground.

He just stood naked in front of the mirror, without a trace of expression, and took out the replacement clothes from the closet.It was an open black suit without a tie, and the white shirt had two buttons slightly undone, which is worn by a very common office worker; he took a cardholder from the bedside table and stuffed it into his trouser pocket. He did not wear shoes. Stand with your feet on the floor.

He looked like a different person, like a company executive who was about to leave for work, serious and dull.Even if the closest person comes, they may not be able to recognize his original face.

"Are you ready, His Highness Prince Ming?"

Little Fenghuang was taken aback, only to realize that there was another person in the inner room at some point!

——I saw that it was a tall man in a black robe, leaning on the door frame, obviously a big demon at the level of King Asura.If the magic breath of the whole body had any substance, it emitted a black flame-like shadow in the air, and the cold aura made the little phoenix, whose divinity had not fully recovered, very uncomfortable, and immediately shrank back on the flower stand.

His Royal Highness King Ming said indifferently: "Okay, let's go."

"Aren't you going to say goodbye to your friends? If you go, you won't be able to come back."

"No need."

King Phoenix Ming walked out of the room, brushing shoulders with Asura.

Asura turned his head and saw him walking to the door, bending over to change his shoes, without even turning his head.

"Aren't you tired of being so cold and cold all year round?" King Ashura rubbed his chin, and seemed to ask with great interest: "Or is it that you can't let it go after getting used to it, and don't even bother to follow the things that are destined to never come back?" Anyone else say hello?"

King Fenghuang Ming said: "What are you so interested in doing?"

"Because I find it strange. Is the Phoenix Ming King, who has always been aloof, really as indifferent and withdrawn as the rumors say, and he is too lazy to say goodbye when he bids farewell—or does he think it is unnecessary, because he still secretly keeps a way back?"

After changing his shoes, Fenghuang straightened up and didn't answer for a long while.

King Asura just stared at his back, as if not letting go of every breath change and muscle tension.

"...You're overthinking," Fenghuang finally said after a while.

"I just don't have any friends. Even if I die one day, no one will remember me."

He opened the office door and went out.Behind him, the King Asura showed a little surprise, suspicion, and finally turned into a subtle malicious expression; finally he shook his head with a sneer, turned around and followed him with strides, and walked out of the office.

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The door closed again with a click, waking up the little Phoenix from the trance like a dream.

He froze for a long time, thinking what is this?Is it me?

Is this my memory before Nirvana?

Little Phoenix blinked his eyes, his mind was at a loss.Countless lights and shadows filled with memories seem to have passed by from the depths of the soul, and when they just wanted to capture them, they shattered like flowers in a mirror and moon in water, and all the feelings disappeared in an instant.

"..."

Xiao Fenghuang suddenly thought of something, took a breath, and felt a slight and rapid heartbeat in his chest.He immediately climbed off the flower stand lightly, ran to the desk, pulled out the chair and climbed up, and then opened the drawer——

Little Phoenix's pupils instantly constricted.

I saw an old book lying quietly in the drawer, it was "Holding the Corpse"!

Chapter 74 Please wait for me to go upstream from the long river of memory and return to you as an old man

office.Zhou Hui closed the door behind his back, and immediately stretched out his hand: "Quick, quick, give me a cigarette!"

Yu Jingzhong quickly touched a little panda and handed it over. Zhou Hui ignited it and took a deep breath: "Phew... I'm suffocating. Just look at me, just smoke this one."

From the egg to the baby bird, the little phoenix couldn't leave people halfway through the process, so Zhou Hui suppressed his addiction to smoking until now, and finally managed to keep the little phoenix out of sight for half an hour.Just because he was afraid that the smell of smoke would not dissipate after half an hour, he didn't dare to smoke too much, at most one can be the top.

Both Yu Jingzhong and Zhang Shun stared at him with speechless eyes. After a while, Zhang Shun suddenly gloated: "...I suddenly remembered that it may take thousands of years for my brother to grow from childhood to adulthood, so you alone Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk time

"Brother-in-law," Zhou Hui said in a haze, "I've killed a Buddha once, are you sure you want to flirt?"

Zhang Shun immediately turned his head and stopped talking.

Yu Jingzhong smoothed things over hahaha, introduced the current situation of the sixth group of Guoan and the two long-term absentees, discussed how everyone will be rotated and geographically distributed in the future, and focused on the introduction of the fifth group that is no longer there. The fourth group without even the leader.

Zhou Hui took it for granted, "Garlouluo. Garudaluo is just a brick, and you can move it wherever you need it. From now on, you can just entrust him with the task of recruiting and training people to work in the field. The salary should be raised a little bit, and another 500 per month will be raised." Yuan is fine..."

Yu Fu said, "I was just about to ask you, the higher-ups asked me the other day to ask how Garuda compares to King Fenghuang Ming?"

"What's the matter? My second boy is an idiot, what's the matter?"

"..." Deputy Yu's mouth twitched slightly, and he said, "It's about the degree of fulfillment of the wish... Isn't Phoenix the real king of Ming Dynasty, those big bosses have nothing to do to come to incense and make a wish, and ask the Development and Reform Commission whether the oil price should be raised , It’s quite effective several times. I just want to ask if the Dapeng Golden Bird also has a corresponding function, after all, there is no official title on the head, and the bosses have no idea.”

Zhou Hui said: "Oh, it doesn't work to find Garuda, you should go to Xiao Fenghuang. Put him in the baby car and tie him with a safety harness, otherwise he will run around. Set up a futon underneath for people to burn incense... …Remember that the tribute should be fresh milk, candy and honey, and I dare not let him eat too much chocolate, for fear that he will not sleep if he eats it at night.”

Yu Jingzhong nodded and wrote it down, while Zhang Shun suddenly quit: "Why can't you eat chocolate?"

"……what?"

"When I was young, my brother often bought me chocolates! Milk chocolate is obviously fine!" Zhang Shun said excitedly, "If you don't want to spend money, just say it, why don't you even give me chocolate?!"

"Can you take good care of my brother like this! My brother is too young to know that no matter how much money a man has, it doesn't matter! It's true to give him flowers!" Zhang Shun held a dark eye socket, and immediately grabbed it. Chance took his anger out on Zhou Hui: "He cheated my brother away even when he couldn't bear to buy chocolates. Such a stingy man should obviously be in the rhythm of his life!"

Something was wrong with Zhou Hui's whole body, and he stared at his brother-in-law who was filled with righteous indignation for a long time.

After a while, he turned to Yu Fu and said, "Tell them that they can bring chocolate when they come to offer incense...Try to bring Bai Qiao."

Yu Jingzhong: "..."

At this time, the door was knocked twice, and then pushed open.Garuda came in and looked curiously at the black-eyed Buddha and Yu Fu, who was full of black lines, and asked, "Father? You took the key from mother's office?"

Garuda finally stopped wearing his old sports T-shirt—but Dapeng Jinniao is frugal and self-denying. He took his father's credit card and only went to the mall to buy a set of discounted shirts and jeans, and picked and steamed a pair at a restaurant. The cheapest snake just came back from eating and found that it was locked outside the office of the fourth team leader.

"Oh," Zhou Hui said casually, "Your mother is studying painting there, so don't bother him... Is the restaurant downstairs open? Get me a takeaway."

Garuda turned around and left, after two steps, he looked back suspiciously: "Mother is learning painting inside?"

"uh-huh."

"Mother transformed?!"

Before Zhou Hui could react, Jialuluo ran upstairs, Zhou Hui immediately jumped up and said angrily: "Your mother is mine! Don't keep looking for him if you have nothing to do! Hey, don't talk nonsense in front of your mother." !"

In Zhou Hui's eyes, the suit on Jialouluo was simply old Ji's t-shirt. Who knows if Little Phoenix would notice it and keep it in his heart, and when he suddenly regained his memory, he would strip Zhou Hui naked and drive him out. The family avenged their youngest son.Reluctantly, Jialouluo ran like his mother with the wind, and disappeared in an instant. Zhou Hui was about to chase after him, when suddenly there was a dull sound above his head—boom!

Yu Jingzhong got up abruptly: "What's wrong?"

boom!

The ceiling shook, and fine dust fell.

Zhang Shun suddenly changed his expression and said: "—upstairs!"

Several people rushed out of the office, went up the stairs, and almost immediately followed the vibration to lock the direction - it turned out to be the upstairs office of Chuhe, which was directly connected by the internal elevator.

Many people rushed out of the office, looking around in amazement.Zhou Hui pushed everyone away, rushed up the stairs in three steps in two steps, ran directly to the door, and shouted: "Little Phoenix!"

"Ask a few people to block the restricted area, and don't let everyone run up." Deputy Yu ordered someone casually, and then walked forward, only to hear a vibration when he landed—boom!

Yu Jingzhong's first reaction was that there was an earthquake, or the foundation was being laid in the house.Following the sound, Zhou Hui's face immediately turned livid, and he lifted his leg and kicked the door panel away viciously—boom!

The door panel slammed into the wall hard, but it didn't bounce back, and it was broken into several pieces on the spot. The scorching light and heat instantly made several people take a few steps back at the same time.Under the strong light, Yu Jingzhong's retina went blank for several seconds, and he gradually recovered his vision after a while, only to see that the movement in the room was not an earthquake, but a burning fire!

——Little Fenghuang knelt down on the ground in pain, tightly clutching an old dark blue thread-bound book, which was so wrinkled that it couldn't see its true colors.He was surrounded by raging golden-red flames, and rushed up to the roof like some ferocious ancient monster, and then let out an explosion-like roar.

Zhou Hui was about to rush over on the spot, but was stopped by Zhang Shun: "Wait!"

Yu Jingzhong shouted: "No! Why is there no temperature?!"

"The mortal body can't feel that kind of temperature!" Zhang Shun said loudly amidst the bang, "Wait a minute, it might be the fire of Nirvana that didn't burn out last time!"

I saw that the flames almost filled the entire room, turning it into a world of flames.The strange thing was that apart from the strong light that made people unable to open their eyes, the temperature of the air did not rise at all, and the raging air rushed along with the flames, pushing Zhou Hui who had broken free from Zhang Shun and wanted to rush in.

"Fenghuang! How are you, Fenghuang! Feng Si!" Zhou Hui threw Zhang Shun hard with his backhand and cursed: "Fuck! What's going on!"

At this moment, Xiao Fenghuang finally couldn't restrain himself and uttered a cry of pain, his fingers tightened with spasm, and he tore the threaded book forcibly!

——There was a crackling sound, so slight in the crackling flames, but so clear.

The next moment, a figure in white clothes with wide sleeves and long hair suddenly rose from the torn and burning paper, and appeared in front of Little Phoenix!

"Brother...Brother?!" Zhang Shunzheng was staggered a few steps by Zhou Hui, seeing the phantom, he immediately said in astonishment: "Brother?!"

Zhou Hui looked up and was stunned.

In the void, only the silhouette of an adult phoenix can be seen, with its head slightly lowered, thin and lonely.

Little Phoenix raised his head, the tears were still wet on his tender face, he stared blankly at his adult self, with a trance left by the severe pain in his eyes; while Phoenix King Ming bent down and looked at him motionless, after a long while He reached out his hand in the firelight, caressed the child's immature and soft cheek, and then showed a smile.

"..."

He murmured something, but it was so far away that the firelight drowned out all whispers.

Immediately afterwards, his phantom descended from the sky, and instantly disappeared into Little Phoenix's body!

Zhou Hui's pupils constricted like needles: "Phoenix!"

The fire was suddenly contained, and then quickly sucked away, completely submerged in the howling air within a few seconds, as if nothing had happened.

Zhou Hui finally rushed forward, grabbed Little Phoenix and wanted to hug him, but he staggered and fell to the ground!

"What's the matter? How are you? What's wrong?" Zhou Hui held Xiao Fenghuang's face, forcibly opened his eyelids with his hands, and at the same time pinched him and put him unconscious.However, Little Phoenix's whole body was in convulsions, and he broke free almost immediately in pain. His small body curled up into a tight ball in the trembling, and it took a while to grab Zhou Hui's sleeve tremblingly.

Zhou Hui held his cold fingers with his backhand, his heart pierced like a knife. From the corner of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of the half-burned thread-bound book on the ground, and saw three words written on it——

Hold the corpse.

That's Phoenix's diary!

"Zhou... Zhou... Zhou Hui..."

Little Fenghuang gasped for breath, cold sweat rolled down his pale cheeks, his voice was hoarse and weak: "You...you wait...you wait..."

He hadn't spoken since he was born, and the pronunciation of those words was very jerky and difficult. Zhou Hui leaned over his mouth, and barely heard what he said: "Wait...wait for me, don't go, I'm going to ..."

"I'll... soon..."

His violent and sharp panting disappeared, and then he fell limp.

Zhou Hui raised his head abruptly, and lost his voice, "Phoenix!"

However, Little Phoenix has lost consciousness.He was so unsteady in a coma that there was still pain and worry remaining on his soft face, and the hand that was holding Zhou Hui's sleeve before was still stubbornly not letting go, so desperate, as if all the strength in his body was spent on Here it is.

"Where are you going?" Zhou Hui trembled, grabbed the surviving corpse and flipped through a few pages: "What is this, what's going on?!"

"Don't flip over." Zhang Shun came over, squatted down, held him down and said, "You can't see anything."

Zhou Hui stared at the empty pages and said angrily, "What the hell did this do?!"

"Holding the corpse is not what you actually see. Only through the eyes of the phoenix can you see its true form and the things recorded in it. Maybe the phoenix has arranged some mechanism inside to prevent memory loss after Nirvana. Yes... the ancient gods and birds were formed earlier than Mount Sumeru, and there are some things that even the gods and Buddhas of heaven can't explain clearly."

Zhang Shun took the body-holding bag, flipped through a few pages, and said helplessly, "In my eyes, it is also blank. Maybe the things recorded in it have been absorbed now."

Zhou Hui turned to Little Phoenix in his arms, remembering the scene where Phoenix Ming Wang Xuying was completely involved in it just now.Although his face didn't change at that moment, his heart was beating wildly.

Was it sucked out of memory?

Although Fenghuang is not obvious on the surface, he is a cautious and careful person on the inside.Perhaps he had anticipated this a long time ago, hiding part of his memory in the diary...

Zhou Hui's back molars were slightly clenched, and there was a hint of hostility and anxiety hidden in his deep eyebrows.

However, he was very careful in his movements. He tried to separate Xiao Fenghuang's hand that was tightly clutching his cuff, but he gave up because he was afraid of hurting his fingers, which were still soft and tender, and hugged Xiao Fenghuang with one hand. stand up.

"We'll talk about it when he wakes up." Zhou Hui got up and said, "I'll take him home first."

Zhang Shun nodded worriedly.

·

However, there was one thing that Zhou Hui didn't expect, that is, Little Phoenix didn't wake up after arriving home, and he still didn't wake up the next day.

After three full days passed, he still showed no sign of waking up.

Zhang Shun, Yu Jingzhong, Yan Lanyu, and all the team leaders of the special department came over to look at it in turn, but none of them could tell why.Little Phoenix's condition was not so much a coma as a deep sleep, and he didn't sleep soundly. He tossed and turned and had nightmares a few times, and even uttered drowsy and very painful sleep talking.

On the surface, Zhou Hui could hold on. When Situ Yingzhi and Wu Bei came over, he could still greet them with a smile.However, anyone with eyes could see the restlessness and violence hidden in his heart, which became more and more obvious as time passed, and it was almost unstoppable.

Zhang Shun comforted him: "Don't be so anxious, my brother will definitely remember something now, and the situation will definitely be better when he wakes up, so just wait patiently?"

However, Zhou Hui only gave him a cold look, and said hoarsely, "...Thanks for your words."

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The first change in things occurred seven days after Little Phoenix fell into a deep sleep.That night, Zhou Hui held him in his arms to sleep, and was suddenly awakened by a violent panting. When he looked up, he saw that little Phoenix seemed to be having a nightmare again, struggling extremely hard, and his pajamas were soaked in layers of cold sweat.

Zhou Hui immediately held him in his arms, patted and comforted him, and after a long while, he heard Little Phoenix muttering something vaguely, tossing and turning several times, and suddenly called out very clearly and urgently: "Zhou Hui!"

Zhou Hui thought he had finally woken up, so he got up and turned on the light, only to see Little Phoenix opening his eyes weakly and frightenedly. The moment he saw Zhou Hui clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief, "...you are still... "

"I won't leave, how are you? Come and drink some water to wake up—Little Phoenix!" Zhou Hui's voice suddenly turned sharp: "Don't sleep! You won't be able to wake up if you sleep!"

However, Xiao Fenghuang's eyelids seemed to be heavy, and he barely blinked, but couldn't lift them up.He repeatedly struggled and sank in dreams and reality, and stretched out his hand into the air, as if trying to grab something.

Zhou Hui grabbed his icy fingers and held them tightly in his palm. At this moment, Xiao Fenghuang uttered in despair and confusion: "You...why didn't you save Maha?"

Zhou Hui was taken aback suddenly.

The next moment he realized that the phoenix was talking in his sleep, just like many times before, he dreamed about the scene when Maha was punished by God on the snowy field in Tibet.

"..." Zhou Hui didn't know what to say at all, his throat seemed to be blocked by a sore lump, and he couldn't utter a single word.Fortunately, Xiao Fenghuang lost consciousness after asking that sentence. He fell into a deeper dream, his body trembled violently, cold sweat poured out from every pore of his body like water, his hair was soaked and stuck to his face, and the bed sheet It was soaked in a large area in an instant.

Zhou Hui immediately fed him water and kept him warm, and it took him a long time to feed him because of his clenched teeth. Then he kept looking for a dry cloth to wipe his body, and wrapped the little Phoenix in a new eiderdown quilt.It took several hours for the shivering and trembling to barely stop. At that time, the sky had already brightened, the bedroom was gray, and Little Phoenix's tired side cheeks revealed a kind of grayness in the dimness.

Zhou Hui carefully carried him back to the bed, changed the sweat-soaked quilt, and was suddenly taken aback.

——Little Phoenix's body has grown up.

He was originally rigid, but he was only a child of five or six years old, so tender that he could squeeze out water.Now, he grew up two or three years out of thin air overnight, his height increased, his eyebrows and eyes changed very slightly, and he looked like a teenager at a rough glance.

Zhou Hui was completely stunned there.

"—Don't go, please wait for me to come back."

Do you want to follow the light and shadow of the past and find yourself who disappeared in the fire?

I want me to wait for you to go upstream from the long river of memory, to be like an old friend