Xingchuan

"Ling Yi—"

"Ling Yi!"

The staff of the hotel, those who could be hired on the island, and the five of them, all of them went out and searched every reef along the coastline, but still found nothing.

The missing time is not long enough to call the police, but Lu Xingzhou has some connections after all.He set up a line with the local search team, paid a high fee, and provided Ling Yi's identity information and height and appearance details to the other party, asking them to send more people to search everywhere on land and sea.

The sky is completely dark, and the sea, which was calm and peaceful during the day, is now choppy, and the sea is bottomless, like a huge endless vortex, which can swallow all the people or things you care about and cherish in an instant.

Knowing Li Xingchuan for so many years, Xie Siyun has never seen him like this.His face was gray and purple, his voice was hoarse and depressed, and he was clenching his fists in extreme fear, but he didn't say anything except Ling Yi's name.

Xie Siyun was scared, and ran over to beg Lu Xingzhou: "Boss Lu, when will the boat arrive?"

In fact, he didn't need to urge him, Lu Xingzhou had been calling to dispatch the search and rescue speedboat, but it was too late now, and those who drove the boat had to be caught from home temporarily, so they couldn't arrive right away.

Ten minutes later, everyone boarded the boat except Cheng Kaiji, and another ambulance was on standby on the shore.Lu Xingzhou and Chu Ran were in one, and Li Xingchuan and Xie Siyun were in the other. They set off from the trestle bridge and searched for it with a net all the way.

I don't know if it's the sudden drop in temperature or what, but the sea breeze at night is icy cold.Xie Siyun's hair was blown up, his body trembled slightly, and his face was frozen stiff.

He turned his head and saw that Li Xingchuan was supporting the side of the boat with one hand and holding a flashlight with the other, his eyes were fixed on the sea surface, two blue veins ran from his forehead to his neck, most of his body was completely protruding out of the boat, his clothes and pants had long been covered by sea water Drenched.

Not long after, I suddenly heard the guide wave his arms towards them in another boat: "Here! There is a discovery here!"

Li Xingchuan shuddered, and immediately let the boatman turn around.Chu Ran arrived one step ahead of them, several speedboats were together, and he had to shout: "What did you find?"

"There! There seems to be a piece of clothing floating there!"

Looking in the direction of the guide's finger, a dark piece of clothing was faintly floating on the black sea.This place has already surpassed the shark prevention area, and ordinary swimmers will never come here, let alone at night?

Everyone leaned over immediately, and the search and rescue team went into the water to pick up the clothes, looked at them with the flashlight, and Xie Siyun panicked, "This is..."

The wet blue coat was soaked in the sea water, and it was so cold that there was no temperature at all, and the fingertips were so cold that it hurt when touched.Xie Siyun raised his eyes from the gloomy sight, and saw Li Xingchuan's pale face and frightened expression, he couldn't say the sentence "This is what Ling Yi passed through during the day".

Clutching the clothes tightly in his hands, Li Xingchuan raised his head, looked at Chu Ran through the fog, and gritted his teeth, "This is his."

Chu Ran turned her head and gave orders on Lu Xingzhou's behalf: "Guide, let the search and rescue team members go down and look for it."

Everyone entered the water one after another and searched for more than 20 minutes.

These 10 minutes are absolutely like years for the people on the boat.Every time a figure appeared on the sea, Xie Siyun was worried that Ling Yi had found it, and also worried that he hadn't. He was extremely anxious, but he didn't dare to look at Li Xingchuan next to him.

10 minutes passed, but no one was found, and each of them came out of the water again, climbing to the side of the boat and waiting for orders.

The guide looked at Chu Ran: "Are you still looking for it?"

The cold wind turned Chu Ran's lips white.But he didn't change his face, and nodded: "Look for it."

They all dived down one by one, and pulled out a human net at the bottom of the water. Not even a crab or a coral was let go within a diameter of 200 meters.It was another half an hour, and still nothing was found.The physical fitness of the search and rescue team has also reached its limit, and they were all gasping for breath when they came out of the water again.

This time the guide asked again: "Are you still looking for it?"

Chu Ran paused, then whispered: "Keep looking."

The guide nodded and turned to give instructions to everyone.Everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and replied a few words in the local language, but no one moved.

Chu Ran held up the flashlight, and the light moved to the guide's face: "What did they say, translate it for us."

The voice was unusually cold.

The guide opened his mouth and was about to speak out, but was stopped by Lu Xingzhou.This night Lu Xingzhou didn't talk much, and Chu Ran was in charge of everything.At this moment, under the dim light, he raised his deep eyes slightly and looked at Li Xingchuan on the other boat.

"Xingchuan, what happened today is that I, the older brother, am sorry for you."

Lu Xingzhou didn't say anything formally to Li Xingchuan, but Lu Xingzhou regarded him as a younger brother in his heart.It was a good intention to come out to relax this time, and no one expected such an accident to happen.

He looked at Li Xingchuan: "You have to be mentally prepared."

Li Xingchuan also looked at him, his lips moved as if frozen: "Let him speak."

Lu Xingzhou nodded slightly to the guide.

The guide slipped his Adam's apple and was a little nervous: "They just said that there are only two possibilities if they can't find it, either the person drifted away, or was caught by the shark, was given by the shark... continue to spend here ,it's useless."

Li Xingchuan's right hand clutching his clothes became tighter and tighter, his knuckles turned white, and the water dripped down his fingers, looking like blood in the dark.

Xie Siyun's voice was dry and hoarse: "Don't you want to look for it?"

The captain of the search and rescue team got closer and raised his head to say a few more words.The guide translated sentence by sentence: "Their suggestion is to do this tonight first, and find a way to dispatch a helicopter after returning home, and come to the sea to search and rescue at dawn, and try to salvage it as soon as possible."

salvage.

As soon as these two words came out, Xie Siyun shivered in fear.

Chu Ran raised her eyes, looked at him for a while, and then slowly moved to another direction, "Li Xingchuan, do you understand what he means?"

There is something in this short sentence that can tear a person's heart apart.

The sea wind scrapes across the skin like a blade.

Li Xingchuan clutched his clothes tightly, lowered his head slightly, no one could see his expression clearly.

Chu Ran looked at him and said, "I don't want to make a conclusion, but I want you to understand that the person is probably gone."

"Chu Ran." Lu Xingzhou frowned, "Now is not the time to talk about that."

"Don't tell me when to say it now." Chu Ran's tone was solemn and stern, "If you don't say it, if I don't say it, Ling Yi will be able to come back from the dead? Will there be results if you continue to search?"

"Enough." Lu Xingzhou stopped in a low voice, "Xingchuan, let's go back tonight, and tomorrow morning I—"

Before the words fell, there was only a plop.

"Xingchuan!"

Xie Siyun screamed.

Before everyone could react, Li Xingchuan dropped his clothes and plunged into the icy sea water.

No one is willing to look for it, so he looks for it himself.

There is nothing in the sea, not even a piece of life-saving driftwood or a graspable aquatic plant. What is there is only bottomless darkness and boundless silence.The screaming behind him became farther and farther until it disappeared completely after diving into the water. Li Xingchuan felt that he had entered a huge vortex, and he could not hear anything except his violent heartbeat.

His lungs were severely squeezed, and at the same time, there was a feeling in his head that was tormenting him, making him almost breathless: Ling Yi was far away from him.

He swam forward.

This loss is painful.You see his clothes and you think he must be around here, but you just can't find him.You even feel that his breathing is getting weaker and his heartbeat is getting slower, but you can't do anything.

Li Xingchuan always suspected that Ling Yi was waiting for him somewhere, and always suspected that Ling Yi was shivering from the cold, curled up at the bottom of the water and shouted: Xingchuan, save me.

But just can't find him.

When desperately swimming deep, Li Xingchuan's muscles were shaking all over his body, his consciousness was already blurred, and all his movements were mechanically repeated in one breath.

"Xingchuan, Xingchuan, come back!" Xie Siyun lay on the side of the boat and shouted in pain, "It's too dangerous, swim back quickly!"

Even Chu Ran's eyes widened at that moment.He didn't expect Li Xingchuan to risk his life, knowing that there would be no result but still being crazy and impulsive.Probably even Li Xingchuan himself didn't understand why he went into the water at this moment and what he was looking for.Maybe it's just a primitive instinct, he can't just lose Ling Yi like this.

"Quick!" Seeing that figure getting farther and farther away, Lu Xingzhou yelled at the guide, "Hurry up and get him back!"

When the guide gave an order, several team members entered the water like arrows, and it took a lot of effort to drag them back to the boat.

Li Xingchuan, who was rescued, had pale lips, was panting heavily while lying in the boat, and his whole body was lifeless.

"Xingchuan, Xingchuan?" Xie Siyun hugged him tightly, unable to feel any warmth from him.Chu Ran let the speedboat approach, stepped over regardless of the danger, and immediately squatted down to check, "Li Xingchuan, Li Xingchuan! Open your eyes."

In the endless darkness, Li Xingchuan's forehead was tangled with veins, and he managed to open his eyes, but was stabbed by the strong light of the flashlight and slowly closed them.He coughed heavily, coughing up mouthfuls of cold sea water from his lungs, his lips moved slightly.

Xie Siyun hugged him tightly and lowered his head, he heard his low voice: "I can't find it..."

He couldn't find Ling Yi, and his whole body collapsed.

These three words were like a dagger, piercing through the eardrums of everyone present, and piercing straight into the bottom of their hearts.

"Li Xingchuan, Li Xingchuan," Chu Ran squatted beside him, her brows and eyes were silent for a moment, and said in a low voice, "Cheer up, I'll take you to see him."

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The night wind is cool.

When Ling Yi went back, the huge hotel was empty.

He didn't find the original shells in the end, but he picked up some more, which seemed even more special than last night's.

Tonight, through Chu Ran's connection, he took a car to the home of a reclusive British painter on the island to open his eyes.The phone was borrowed by Chu Ran.Chu Ran said that his own was broken, and he borrowed it temporarily for one night, and returned it to him when he came back in the evening.

The British painter has lived on the island for seven years, and his home is full of the creations of these seven years, and he also admires David Hockney.Although the language is not very good, there is an interpreter from the Chu Ran school with him, and Ling Yi can chat with him very well, watching and talking about paintings until late at night.

At about one o'clock, the painter was still talking, but Ling Yi was too embarrassed to interrupt.He got up to say goodbye, and after getting in the car, the driver said that Chu Ran had ordered him to go to the all-night import supermarket to buy something to take back, and it took a detour.Of course Ling Yi agrees.

He had no idea what was happening outside.

It was not until two o'clock that he finally returned to his room.It was quiet all around, the lights in other rooms were all dark, and there was no one there.

The door is closed.

He took a shower, changed into a simple short-sleeve and plain cotton pajama pants, sat on the bed, and started to write again.

The drawing last night was really bad.

There was a rustling sound as the sharpened pencil scratched across the paper. Because it was a sketch, he even used a ruled notebook. Five minutes later, Li Xingchuan's silhouette appeared on the paper, more charming than last night's.

Although my hand still shakes occasionally when I hold a pen, my heart is much calmer, probably due to the chat tonight.

After drawing for a while, there was suddenly the sound of hurried footsteps outside.Someone rushed upstairs at the fastest speed, pushed open the door, and then the moment their eyes met, they were shocked.

Ling Yi raised her eyes, met Li Xingchuan's eyes, and was stunned.

"you--"

Why are you covered in water.

Before he could say these words, Li Xingchuan rushed over and hugged him tightly.

The force was so great that Ling Yi's paper and pen were knocked down on the bed.He felt that he was hugged tightly by a person made of ice, strangled from the neck to the body, and his breathing was a little difficult for a while.

Li Xingchuan was breathing heavily, his whole body was shaking violently, and every inch of his exposed skin was dripping with water.

Ling Yi was forced to wrap her arms around him, and smelled the smell of sea water all over him, and felt his heart beating so hard that his chest was shaking.He buried his head in Ling Yi's neck, his teeth trembling slightly.

Ling Yi was stunned: "Xingchuan?"

What's going on here?

"What happened, where did you get all this water?"

However, Li Xingchuan couldn't say a word, but his two arms were tightened, hugging him tighter and tighter, and finally both of them couldn't hold on and fell into the soft bed.

For a long time, there was no movement in the room except for the extremely suppressed and released panting.The clock is ticking, the night outside the window is silent, the door is open but no one comes.

Ling Yi felt Li Xingchuan's chapped lips kissing his neck, once and for all, the scorching breath rolled on his neck, which was completely different from the feeling before.Li Xingchuan's trembling did not calm down for a long time, Ling Yi could only stroke his hair slowly, anxious and confused but afraid of saying the wrong thing.

Breathing close together, Li Xingchuan hugged him in his arms, a small ball, heartbeat against heartbeat.

Ling Yi opened his eyes, but the light was blocked, so he couldn't see Li Xingchuan's expression clearly, only his Adam's apple was moving very slowly.

Ling Yi curled up in his arms, feeling that she was completely protected.

After her heart throbbed for a while, Ling Yi whispered, "Xingchuan, I'm a little out of breath."

Li Xingchuan's chest relaxed a little, and when he spoke, his voice was hoarse as if it had been polished by sandpaper, "Where did you go?"

"I went to Professor Matisse's house. Well...he is an English painter who has been painting on the island for the past few years. I think, I think he paints really well."

His voice was soft and soft, and because he was hugged in his arms, it sounded a little fuzzy.After saying a few words, he didn't hear Xingchuan respond, so his voice lowered, "I just said it for myself, you are not interested."

"Interested." Li Xingchuan's voice was hoarse, "Tell me."

"Hmm..." Ling Yi felt that everything was abnormal tonight, but he didn't want to get to the bottom of it. He just hoped that this moment would last as long as possible, preferably until both of them were gray-haired and hunchbacked.

He moved in Xingchuan's arms and found a more comfortable position, in fact he was curled up like a baby.

Obviously Xingchuan's whole body was covered with water, but he felt unusually warm.He said: "Xingchuan, my English is really bad. I can't understand the professor's words at all. It's embarrassing."

He heard Li Xingchuan take a deep breath, "I'll teach you."

"You teach me?" He raised his chin slightly, and saw Xingchuan's black eyes and stubble from his head through the gap, "Will you teach me?"

Li Xingchuan said, "I will do whatever you ask me to do."

Ling Yi fell silent.

There were footsteps downstairs, as well as in the next room. It was obvious that Chu Ran and the others had returned.He had a feeling of returning from a dream to real life, as if Xingchuan was about to wake up in the next second.

"Don't say such things." He became a little depressed, "I will take it seriously if you say so."

Li Xingchuan was silent for a moment.But this moment of silence didn't seem like hesitation, it was more like reflection.At this moment, Ling Yi was a little nervous. She thought a lot about the words, but before she could organize her words, she heard Li Xingchuan whisper, "I'm serious."

Ling Yi was slightly taken aback.

"I'm serious, Ling Yi." Li Xingchuan raised his back a distance, looked into his eyes very solemnly and focused, "Whatever you want, what you want to do, I will do my best."

His expression was so serious that no one would doubt the truth of what he said.Ling Yi was stunned for a moment, and saw himself in his eyes.

He is an ordinary person, Ling Yi has always known this.But under Li Xingchuan's pupils, he seemed to be dyed with a thin layer of light, making him no longer so ordinary.It was this light that gave Ling Yi the courage to say to Li Xingchuan: "I want you to tell me the answer, I know you have already thought about it."

Both good and bad are fine.

Li Xingchuan held him stiffly for a while, and then said: "The answer is in my room."

Getting up from the bed, both of them were actually very nervous, but they both pretended to be normal.When he arrived at Li Xingchuan's room, he said, "It's on my desk. I planned to give it to you tomorrow."

The words were endless, and after finishing speaking, he continued, "I'm going to take a bath."

Ling Yi bit her lip and nodded, waited for the bathroom door to be closed tightly before mustering up the courage to walk slowly to the table.

With Li Xingchuan's character, if he had thought about what he wanted to give tomorrow, he would definitely not advance it, but today is a special case.

On the table is a half-empty glass of water, a pen, and a stack of papers.There is also a wastebasket next to the table, which is full of waste paper balls.

Ling Yi picked up the top page and saw a passage.Written by Li Xingchuan, the handwriting is neat and the ink is deep:

I used to have someone

He taught me love, he defined courage

He's the finishing touch to my boring life

I was addicted for a year until he suddenly left

I tried to escape and forget

I thought he loved me more than I loved him, I thought I would be able to forget him, but all I thought was I thought

Every minute and every second of that year is engraved in my mind, like a tattoo, which has not been washed off after taking off a layer of skin

My feet walk the borderlands

My eyes have seen countless people and scenes

But five years later, I still remember him, I still treasure his paintings, his smile, the tone of his voice when he called my name

I can't imagine life without him

I start to fear losing

My arms don't exist to protect him

But if he is in any danger, I will never turn back. His safety is more important than my life.

After struggling for so many years, I finally decided to be honest with myself

Ling Yi, would you like to be with me again?

The author says:

I have read "The Unknown Story", and I also like the letter Yang Zhao wrote to Chen. The letter at the end is influenced by it, but it is far behind T Da than me, and it is not enough to pay tribute grid.