non-human reincarnation

That figure was a head taller than Gu Ran, making the small doorway even more cramped.

A month ago, the last time Chi Wu met him was at the same place.

Cheng Yan had seen them a long time ago and did not deliberately avoid them. He greeted Gu Ran who was already outside the door, and then turned his head to look at Chi Wu.

Chi Wu met his gaze.

This feeling is long gone.

He saw that Cheng Yan often needed to raise his chin, and his brows would also be raised slightly due to the angle of elevation.

Compared with a month ago, Cheng Yan hasn't changed much, except that he has changed into a coat that Chi Wu has never seen before.

About new clothes.

He stood at the door, making the air a little frozen.

Chi Wu thought he would turn around quickly, but Cheng Yan's lips were pursed into a straight line, his eyes were only on him, and he didn't speak.

Gu Ran felt that the atmosphere was a bit stiff, so he smiled and asked nonsense: "Did you just come back from outside?"

Cheng Yan didn't look sideways, looked at Chi Wu's clean and white face, raised his finger and said, "Hair."

Chi Wu followed the movement of his hand and touched his ear.

He touched it twice but failed to touch the right place. Cheng Yan moved his hand forward, but stopped in the air, quickly retracted it, and said, "Gu Ran, let's do it."

"Let me take a look." Gu Ran took a closer look, and touched a small piece of paper that was somehow embedded in the hair above Chi Wu's ear.

Cheng Yan withdrew his gaze, turned around and opened the door with the key.

"Wen Bo is coming over tonight, do you have time to come up for dinner?" Gu Ran said suddenly, and then followed up naturally, "We have something to ask you."

The finger turning the key stopped, and Cheng Yan turned around: "You can ask now."

"It's not clear, the foreshadowing is too long, it took me a while to tell Chi Wu just now, come over for dinner tonight, let's talk about it in detail." After finishing speaking, Gu Ran waved his hand, "I have to go to Wen Bo first, Bai Bai. "

He walked quickly, and his figure disappeared at the corner of the stairs together with the sound of his footsteps.

The whole flight of stairs was quiet, only Chi Wu and Cheng Yan were left.

Cheng Yan held the doorknob, Chi Wu also held the doorknob, and the two glanced at each other.

"See you tonight." Cheng Yan said.

Chi Wu blinked, acquiesced, and Cheng Yan nodded and opened the door to enter.

Chi Wu stayed at home for almost a month, and only went out once when there was really no food.

Sleeping day and night allowed him to maintain his basic metabolism by only eating one meal a day, so he was isolated for a while.

After saying that he was going to have dinner at night, he went into the bathroom to clean himself up. While drying his hair, Gu Ran yelled his name from the balcony, saying why the dishes hadn't been served yet.

He touched his hair and felt that it wasn't particularly wet, so he put on his coat and went upstairs.

When you open the door, you can smell the familiar aroma of vegetables.

Chi Wu took two steps forward and saw Cheng Yan wearing an apron in the kitchen. He skillfully turned the fish in the pot over and poured the soup with a spatula to taste.

Gu Ran held a beer bottle and saw Chi Wu: "Here?"

"Here we come." Chi Wu walked to the kitchen.

"Wash your hands and get ready to eat." Gu Ran took a glance and explained, "You know I make fish, so let Cheng Yan do it. Didn't you say that he made it delicious."

Chi Wu glanced at him, and couldn't remember how long ago he was, nor did he remember when he praised Cheng Yan for making fish.

He hummed, sat down at the dinner table, and looked at the beers with a headache: "Drinking at night?"

"Drink some, Wen Bozai." Gu Ran said, "Didn't you say now that you don't know how to drink?"

"No." Chi Wu still pushed away, "I don't want to drink."

Cheng Yan started the pot and brought out the fish. After putting it down, he took off the apron with one hand: "Where do you hang it?"

"I'll come, you sit." Gu Ran said to Chi Wu while walking, "Then I've made an agreement with you, I didn't see milk in the supermarket today, you don't drink, drink plain water at night."

Chi Wu: "There is such a good thing."

Cheng Yan sat down on the right side opposite Chi Wu. The square dining table was not too big, and there were many dishes on the table, so there was only one bowl for each person. Chi Wu dropped his elbow and met Cheng Yan. Yan's elbow.

He pressed his forearm down and avoided his elbow naturally.

"The hair sticks to the face." Cheng Yan said.

Chi Wu's hair wasn't completely dry when he went out, so he grabbed it and tied it casually, and ran up. A few hairs that couldn't be tied back slipped past the ears and gently stuck to his face.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Yan had such a hard time with his hair today, so Chi Wu wiped his face with the back of his hand, took off the rubber band and tied it again.

The meal was quite harmonious, Cheng Yan was not so introverted, and during the month when Chi Wu closed the door to thank guests, Cheng Yan and Gu Ran had more contacts, he went to hotels more often, and became acquainted with Wen Bo.

Chi Wu hasn't eaten delicious food for a long time, Gu Ran and Cheng Yan are both good at cooking, so he doesn't have much time to participate in the discussion.

He stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the vegetables, but the fish was too tender, he managed to pick up a piece, and it broke back into the plate. He didn't want to stand up, so he changed the dish.

A piece of fish dipped in soup was placed on his plate.

Cheng Yan withdrew his chopsticks, his expression unchanged, and continued to hear what Bo said about the situation in the southeast corner of the hotel complex.

The speed of Chi Wu's bite slowed down, the chopsticks poked into the plate, put the fish on the rice, and lowered his head to take two mouthfuls of rice.

"You haven't eaten in several lifetimes." Gu Ran changed the positions of vegetables and fish for him.

"I haven't eaten today." Chi Wu scratched the back of his head, "I'll listen to what you say."

Wen Bo looked at Chi Wu: "Your hair is too long, do you have to get a haircut?"

"It should be." Chi Wu said, "I haven't cut my hair for almost half a year."

"Speaking of haircuts, the person you often go to, he didn't come out of the ladder either." Wen Bo said, "It was reported at the hotel."

Chi Wu was silent for a while, and said, "It's a pity, he cuts his hair very well, and it's cheap."

"Isn't that how it is in the third world." Gu Ran said, "People are still there in one second, and they will leave in the next second. It's not surprising."

When he said this, he looked at Wen Bo with his hands on his chin, implying something: "Treasure the people in front of you."

Wen Bo picked up a chopstick dish for him: "Eat."

Gu Ran is used to Wen Bo's stinky temper, so he doesn't say anything, and eats vegetables happily.

After the meal, they didn't finish their business, and sat in the living room to continue.

"If you must give me an opinion, then postpone entering the ladder." Cheng Yan said.

Gu Ran: "That's what Wuwu meant just now." He put his hand on Chiwu's shoulder, "I just don't know if delaying is useful, even if we have found that something is wrong with the ladder, there is no way to study and change it. It makes no difference."

"The ladder is partly self-aware, and the judges have some ability to communicate with the ladder." Chi Wu was full, and the chatterbox opened up, "When I first entered the ladder, it happened that the judges of the ladder were alternating. Players of the eighth ladder have said that Lu Jingyuan's first three judges were all dismissed for violating the rules of the ladder."

Apart from Chi Wu, no one else knows this kind of secret in the ladder, and the three of them are all interested, waiting for him to explain it in detail.

"The former judge of Lu Jingyuan served in the third world for less than a day. According to Lu Jingyuan, he was directly removed from the position by the ladder." Chi Wu said, "The next one should be punished for being forced to enter the ladder."

"Forcibly enter the ladder?" Gu Ran asked, "Isn't the judge not allowed to enter the ladder?"

"If you want to go to the world mirror, you can only go through the ladder." Chi Wu said, "In order to maintain the purity of the judge, the ladder will automatically erase the judge's memory after the judge is selected. Maybe he wants to see own memory."

He sighed somewhat in his tone: "It's just that I don't know what method the judge used at that time to enter the ladder, and he was discovered by the ladder when he finally cleared the ninth step."

They couldn't help being surprised, and Wen Bo's eyes became even weirder.

"What is the punishment of the ladder?" Gu Ran asked.

Chi Wu shook his head: "I don't know, I'm afraid I can only ask the judge at that time."

"Do judges have no memory?" Wen Bo asked suddenly.

Gu Ran: "Yes, I have heard of this."

"I want to ask—" Wen Bo raised his chin toward the pool, "Why do you have no memory?"

They had discussed this question before, and Chi Wu's answer was very simple, that is, he didn't know.

But now that these two things are connected, they unconsciously looked at Chi Wu.

"You wouldn't be..."

"Which one do you think I am." Chi Wu asked, "The one who got out before his butt was hot, or the one who climbed to the ninth step without doing his job properly?"

Gu Ran thought for a while: "It sounds like the second one is a bit awesome, assuming you are the second."

"If the ladder has motherly care for me, then my punishment as a judge will be to return to the third world and have the ability to be immune to the first ladder." Chi Wu said, "and can read minds by the way."

"What Wuwu said also makes sense. It is already a big crime for the judge to leave his post without authorization and go to the ladder without permission," Gu Ran said. Let Wuwu stay in the third world so comfortably."

Wen Bo: "It is said that the judge is the most suitable person selected by the ladder, and he really reached the ninth step in one go."

They drank a few more sips of tea and changed the subject. Gu Ran said, "Otherwise, you two should hurry up and pass the fourth ladder, and then we will go up the fifth ladder together."

"It's not impossible." Wen Bo planned carefully, "Although the difficulty will increase, it's better than bringing some pig teammates."

Chi Wu put down the teacup: "I won't go to the ladder for the time being."

"not going?"

Gu Ran took a look between him and Cheng Yan, put away what he didn't ask, and joked with a smile: "If you sleep like this, you'll be like a pig, you're so lazy, maybe I won't be able to wake you up when the ladder comes .”

Chi Wu touched his nose: "If you go, tell me in advance." He got up, "I'm going downstairs first."

"Okay, that's all for today." Gu Ran said, "I'll take you down."

"No need to send it off," Chi Wu said, "You and Wen Bo stay up there."

After he finished speaking, he quickly closed the door, and Wen Bo, who was about to leave together, was left behind.

Gu Ran smiled slyly at Wen Bo: "Then you can only live in my house today."

"Why did you deliberately ask Cheng Yan to come over for dinner?" Wen Bo cleaned up the dishes, "I know that he and Chi Wu have been embarrassed recently."

Gu Ran wiped the table: "Chi Wu likes his."

"If he likes Cheng Yan, he won't treat Cheng Yan like this." Wen Bo said.

"You like me, don't you treat me the same way."

Just as Wen Bo was about to refute, Gu Ran urged him: "Bring the trash can here."

They closed the door and spoke their own words, and Wen Bo became less cold, and persuaded: "I'm afraid you won't be helping, Chi Wu can wait for a non-existent person for more than ten years, and won't be ashamed just because of Cheng Yan's appearance." give up."

Gu Ran stopped, eyelashes drooping: "I just think he looks like me."

The sound of water in the kitchen stopped, Wen Bo walked behind him, pulled Gu Ran's wrist with his wet and wide palm, brought him into his arms, and kissed his chin.

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The corridor is narrow, Chi Wu and Cheng Yan can only walk one after the other.

After walking up a flight of stairs, Chi Wu stood quietly in front of the door, lowered his head slightly, and took out the key from his pocket.

"Chi Wu." Cheng Yan called his name after him.

He turned around: "What?"

"Can I go in?" Cheng Yan asked.

He hesitated for a moment, and said: "My house is not cleaned up, next time." He opened the door, "Good night."

The door closed, and Cheng Yan stood at the door for a while, then walked into his own room, and after going back and forth, he stood at the door of Chi Wu's house again.

The knock sounded again.

Just as Chi Wu walked to the door of the bedroom, he glanced at the door and decided to go there. He opened the door and saw Cheng Yan.

Cheng Yan held a carton of milk in his hand.

"I drank a few bottles." Cheng Yan put it at his feet, "I don't like to drink, you should drink it."

"Cheng Yan," Chi Wu called him, "I won't drink."

Cheng Yan didn't reply, Chi Wu raised his head, and saw Cheng Yan's narrow expression from the angle of the backlight.

He felt a little uncomfortable.

In my memory, Cheng Yan has always been proud and reckless, even if he was seriously injured, he would calmly say that it hurts, but now he looks so embarrassed.

The air was silent for a long time, and none of them spoke.

Cheng Yan bent down and took out a bottle of milk from the box: "I always like to drink this bottle."

The last time they went to the supermarket, Chi Wu said that a few years ago, a small bottle of milk in a star bottle was placed on the supermarket shelf. I didn't see it on the supermarket shelves either, so I don't know why.

And now Cheng Yan is holding this bottle.

Chi Wu didn't answer.

"This is not the bottle," he said, "I like the old bottle."

Cheng Yan put the milk back into the box: "Whether it is or not, it may take a long time to drink it next time."

Only the bottle of milk in the box was different, Chi Wu glanced at it and said, "Thank you."

Cheng Yan and him were in a stalemate at the door, as if they had nothing else to say except milk.

Chi Wu was the first to speak: "I'm going to sleep."

"I hid two ice creams in the lower shelf of your refrigerator, behind the dumpling bag on the bottom floor." Cheng Yan said, "There are also some snacks in the locker, which are pressed under the big bag of rice cakes you don't like. The time has not expired."

Chi Wu's upper lip moved: "What?"

"Tell me where to put some snacks that you can't find."

Chi Wu endured it for two seconds, but still said: "You are a hamster, why hide my food?"

Cheng Yan was stunned.

It's been too long since he heard Chi Wu talk to him like this.

His Adam's apple rolled: "You won't stop eating, because I was afraid that you would eat too much hidden food."

Chi Wu was at a loss for words, the corners of his lips pursed, and he asked, "Is there anything else besides these?"

"No." Cheng Yan said.

"Oh."

Those things are hidden in some corners of the house, just like the existence of Cheng Yan, it's not that Chi Wu closes the door and ignores them, and allows the dust to cover them up, and they will disappear.

They are part of Chi Wu and part of Cheng Yan.

That's why it's so hard to let go.

Chi Wu: "If there is nothing else, go back."

"Chi Wu, I have something to say."