non-human reincarnation

Unable to hide, Chi Wu could only step aside and let Cheng Yan in.

The room was really messy, Cheng Yan put the milk crate in a fixed place, and when he turned around he habitually cleaned up the coffee table: "How are you doing these days, won't you be hungry if you don't eat?"

"If you consume less, you won't be hungry." Chi Wu stopped his hand, "Don't clean up, tomorrow will still be messy."

Cheng Yan didn't stop. After tidying up some bottles and cans, he bent slightly and asked seriously, "Do you still want to clear the ladder?"

When the ladder was involved, Chi Wu's face became more serious, and he asked Cheng Yan: "Why do you ask this question?"

"Because you said you can't go to the ladder today." Cheng Yan said.

Chi Wu hummed: "Not going for now."

Cheng Yan: "What if the ladder is forced to enter?"

"That's not something I can control." Chi Wu looked at him, "You don't have to wait for me, and form a few reliable teammates with Wulilu. If you are fast, you can catch up with Gu Ran and Wen Bo, and then With your strength, the probability of passing the ninth ladder is very high."

The advice he gave was very objective and pertinent, and he also considered a lot for Cheng Yan.

"Just take whatever props you want, as long as you can pass it, it's good." Chi Wu said.

"I'll wait for you to live together." Cheng Yan said.

"Cheng Yan," Chi Wu said, "It's my own business not to go to the ladder, so don't stop here for me."

"I am willing," Cheng Yan said, "I am willing."

Looking up at Chi Wu, he said: "Besides, you have nothing to do."

Chi Wu: "What do you mean?"

"When the ladder is opened, there is no way to stop it." Cheng Yan asked, "Before you wanted to go to the world mirror by clearing the ladder, but the faster you clear the level, the faster you will leave the third world."

Cheng Yan didn't finish the rest of the sentence, but Chi Wu didn't know that the faster he cleared the ladder, the shorter his stay in the third world would be, and the people he had to wait for would not be able to wait.

After clearing the ladder, the person who clears the level will start a new life, and all memories will disappear. He will no longer remember everything in the third world, let alone people from the previous life.

The current predicament is a foregone conclusion, but it's hard for Chi Wu to be analyzed so bluntly on the table by Cheng Yan.

The short round nails dug into the palm of his hand and gradually became numb.

"I will wait for him," Chi Wu insisted, "I will also wait for him, take ten thousand steps back, even if I clear the ladder and reincarnate, after the new life is over, I will still choose to return to the ladder, and I will still wait for him here. "

He believed that they would meet again.

"What if you disappear forever in the ladder?" Cheng Yan asked.

There was a long silence between them before Chi Wu said, "I won't."

"Entering with preparation is far greater than entering without preparation," Cheng Yan said, "At least you have to ensure that you are alive."

"Are you here to persuade me to go to the ladder?" Chi Wu stood up and clenched his hand next to his side into a fist. He tried his best not to tremble, "Of course I know I have no choice, since I left the first ladder I would have no choice, I would have broken my promise to him."

Cheng Yan felt a sudden pain in his heart, and guilt and sour emotions rushed into his mind at the same time: "I didn't know you were immune to the first level at the time, and I didn't know that you were waiting for someone."

"You don't know, so it's not your fault," Chi Wu walked towards him step by step, "I can't forgive myself, I want to live here forever, until one day, he appears, but what should I do now, because I have There's no way to control what's going on, I don't want to, but what can I do?"

Seeing his red eyes, Cheng Yan softened his voice: "This matter is my fault, not yours."

"The mirror of the world is like a poppy. Once I see him, I want to see him again. I can't help myself and keep walking," Chi Wu pressed his palm against his eyes, "But I saw the end, I see It's his time..."

The scenes in the world mirror repeated one after another, and the phrase "wait for me" was like a thick lock, locking Chi Wu into his memory.

He once gave up walking, fell asleep and woke up countless nights, and waited blindly in the vast river of time.

But now, he couldn't even wait.

"He died in front of me," tears flowed from Chi Wu's palm, his voice was extremely choked, "He died to protect me, but I can't wait for him now, no matter how long I sleep, there is nothing I can do Seeing him again in my dream, how can I go forward, I don't want to clear the level, and I don't want to go to the ladder, I'll wait for him here, how many years I can..."

In a daze, Cheng Yan saw Chi Wu who was talking to the air in the mirror of the world.

Chi Wu shed tears a lot, and every time he faked crying in the ladder, he looked decent every time, but the real Chi Wu was so calm that Cheng Yan felt ashamed, and he could hold Cheng Yan's face in front of the big problem of the ladder, Say "I'll definitely take you out".

But facing that person, Chi Wu's line of defense was like a thin piece of paper, pale and fragile.

He hugged Chi Wu's shoulders to let him sit down, knelt down in front of him, and wiped away the tears falling from his jaw with his hands.

"It's okay, just wait if you want," Cheng Yan said, "I won't stop you anymore, no one can stop you."

The sobbing stopped, Chi Wu wiped his face indiscriminately, and nestled between his knees.

A long time passed, until Cheng Yan's legs became numb while squatting.

There was nothing but the sobbing that Chi Wu tried his best to suppress.

"Wipe your face, okay?" Cheng Yan asked him.

Chi Wu said in a hoarse voice, "Don't follow me."

Cheng Yan rubbed his hair lightly, and said something insignificant: "The hair is too long, where are the scissors at home, cut it short for you."

Chi Wu's sanity returned, and he shook his head: "The third world is just a short-term transit station. Even though we have contacted in the real world, here, I am just a passer-by for you."

"Chi Wu, whether you want to clear the ladder or spend the day in a coma, I am willing to accompany you, just like I saw you on the first ladder and chose to follow you." He said, "This is my choice."

Cheng Yan's attitude was like a boulder pressing on Chi Wu's heart, more than he could bear, and it was even more difficult to control than when Cheng Yan breathed him out underwater.

Chi Wu was stunned in place, and after a while, he pushed his shoulder away, and said in a strange and cold tone, "I don't need your company."

"I'm here for no other reason," Cheng Yan poured water for him, "just because you said it, and vice versa."

Chi Wu looked at him and retrieved that sentence from his memory.

That day he told Cheng Yan——

"I can't accept that when I'm with you, there are people I can't let go of."

"And vice versa."

For Cheng Yan, this sentence proves that, at least in Chi Wu's imagination, he has considered being with himself, and also considered how to weigh himself and the person he is waiting for.

This is enough.

He has seen Chi Wu in the mirror of the world, and he knows exactly what kind of existence that person is to him. Sometimes he doesn't want to admit it, but the fact is - because of that person, he will meet Chi Wu.

For the first time, he felt that the order of appearance in a person's life is so important.

If he wasn't such a character, if Chi Wu had met him first, everything would have been different.

"That's just something I said casually." Chi Wu denied Cheng Yan's imagination.

Cheng Yan asked him to drink water, but Chi Wu kept his hand away: "Why? Will such a relationship really make you happy?"

Cheng Yan looked at his sullen face, lowered his eyes and smiled: "If in the real world, I am really your pet dog, you can treat these as my innate personality that cannot be changed."

Chi Wu got up, walked to a place far away from Cheng Yan, and looked at him from afar: "Cheng Yan, you are not, you are yourself, not my pet, you can live freely and have many, many possessions."

He said: "You have to leave here and have a new life."

Cheng Yan's hand holding the water glass froze for a moment, and after a long time, he slowly put down the water glass: "Don't talk about it, if you plan to go to the ladder, you can find me. We are ordinary neighbors, just call me when you are hungry, come here cook for you."

He walked towards the door and stopped: "Half a year, half a year is the time limit, if the ladder is not open, we will take the initiative to go, more or less not too passive."

Before Chi Wu could speak, "Good night" from Cheng Yan landed at the door.

They won't take the step of tearing their faces apart. The friendship they used to fight side by side is there, and Cheng Yan's kindness to Chi Wu is also there, but Chi Wu is too clear-headed and unfeeling, and Cheng Yan is stubborn. He hit the south wall and didn't look back. There is no way to go back to the previous state.

Fortunately, for Cheng Yan, this conversation somewhat eased the distance between him and Chi Wu. He sent Chi Wu some food every now and then. Once he came back from the trading market and asked Chi Wu about the value of the newly bought props. It's not worth it, and the two of them didn't feel any embarrassment, they studied it seriously.

The accident happened at noon one day, and Cheng Yan heard a knock on the door.

There have been more people knocking on the door recently. Cheng Yan is famous in the third world. The people who come to him have various purposes. He is used to it, so he opened the door.

Rare, is the pool fog.

Cheng Yan saw that he was fully dressed, and his pupils grew slightly bigger: "Ladder?"

"Well." Chi Wu said, "I don't have much time, I want to go in and get some props."

Cheng Yan got out of the way at the fastest speed, rummaged in the corner of the props, and said without stopping: "How could it be so fast, it only took two months to come out from the last level."

"Give me that blowing fan." Chi Wu picked it up, "And that thumbtack."

Cheng Yan tidied up a whole box for him, and then packed it in his backpack: "Take them all, in case they can be used."

"It doesn't take so much..." Chi Wu was forced to put on his backpack, "I'm fine, it's just the fourth ladder, and you're not here, the difficulty will be reduced a lot."

Cheng Yan didn't listen to him much, and pulled out the saber from the side of his leg: "Your little sharp knife doesn't work, take this."

"Cheng Yan, it's really enough." Chi Wu put down the knife and grabbed Cheng Yan's hand, "I can't use your knife, it would be a burden for me."

Cheng Yan stopped, looked at him fixedly, and asked, "Have you brought Rose Island?"

"Bring it."

"It's important to go in to save your life. No matter what method you use, you must come out." Cheng Yan helped him pull the hat neatly, took a breath, and repeated, "You must come out."

Chi Wu felt that he was more nervous than himself, so he smiled at him: "It's okay, don't worry."

He put away all his things and returned to his room, Cheng Yan naturally followed.

"How long?" Cheng Yan asked.

Chi Wu waited for a while, and heard the prompt from the sky ladder: "It said there is 1 minute left."

"If your teammates are too bad, let them all listen to you—"

Cheng Yan was still instructing, Chi Wu had to squeeze the back of his hand: "Otherwise, you can cook, I should just come out of the ladder to eat."

Being interrupted in vain, Cheng Yan was also silent for a moment before saying, "What do you want to eat?"

"It's all right, let's see what's left at home." Chi Wu said.

The countdown to the ladder has started, and Chi Wu leaned on the sofa: "Otherwise, I will fry chicken chops."

After he finished speaking, he fell into a deep sleep.