dead dog

From Fengfeng Street, they gradually walked to the city center, from evening to sunset, and then from sunset to night, wandering around the third ring road like a ghost hitting a wall, always walking in place.

It's nightfall, street lights are on, and there is a line several meters long in front of a milk tea shop, and there are retail flowers in front of the shop.Facia pointed to this milk tea shop, pinched her waist and said out of breath: "I remember this shop, we visited half an hour ago."

Ye Chuyang's physical strength was also about to be exhausted, so he took off his glasses and wiped off the sweat on his forehead, looked around and muttered to himself: "There should be an exit."

Haiyang's physical strength is the best among the three, but he was still very weak after walking for a long time. He supported the outer wall of the roadside shop and said, "Damn it, I kept hitting the wall, walking around and then turning back."

Ye Chuyang walked forward, then looked back, feeling panicked: "Bai Sinian won't design a dead end, there must be an exit."

Haiyang: "But we can't even turn around these streets, we can't find them."

Ye Chuyang looked left and right, and the Pearl Tower hidden between the two office buildings caught his attention: "Walking around is useless, we have to figure out the terrain here before we know how to get out."

Haiyang: "Looking for a topographic map? Where can I find it?"

Ye Chuyang pointed to the Pearl Tower: "Go to a higher place."

They crossed two more streets and came to the Pearl Tower building. There were many people going in for dinner and sightseeing at night. They waited in line for more than ten minutes before entering the building, and took the elevator to the highest floor that the elevator could reach.The elevator stops at a floor two floors away from the top floor, and the remaining two floors can only be accessed by stairs, and additional tickets are required.Haiyang went to the ticket office to buy tickets, Ye Chuyang stood in the lobby and waited, remembering that he and Jiang Ying had come here once, in order to prevent Zhong Ling from jumping off the roof, but they failed, and Zhong Ling fell to her death.

Haiyang bought three tickets and rented two binoculars. The three of them went up the stairs to the top floor and stood on the viewing platform that extended more than two meters wide. They could see the lights of the whole city at night.

Facia opened her arms, and the long hair and skirt corners were blown by the high-altitude evening wind, and her tiredness was instantly swept away: "Ah, it's so beautiful."

Ye Chuyang was not in the mood to appreciate the night view, so he picked up the binoculars and looked out. In the binoculars, he could only see the city lights, and it was difficult to see the layout of the city clearly.

Haiyang held up the binoculars and looked around: "Damn it, I can't see clearly."

Ye Chuyang put down the binoculars and sighed in disappointment: "It's too dark, I can't see anything, I can only wait for dawn."

Haiyang came up with a bad idea, pointing to the astronomical telescope not far away to scan the code: "Is that usable?"

Ye Chuyang rolled his eyes at him: "Do you want to go to outer space?"

Facia was heartless and hadn't realized that the danger of being trapped in the subconscious world and never getting out had surrounded them, so she walked back and forth by the corner of her skirt: "Then let's find a place to eat first, I'm almost starving to death .”

On the contrary, Haiyang, who had just arrived, keenly sensed the imminent danger, and asked Ye Chuyang in a low voice: "Chuyang, if we can't find the exit, will we not be able to go back?"

Even if the situation is not optimistic, Ye Chuyang is not discouraged, but he will not give up unless he reaches a desperate situation. He is comforting Haiyang, but also comforting himself: "We will definitely find a way to get out of here."

Haiyang said firmly: "Yes, I will definitely be able to go out, my wife is still waiting for me at home."

Ye Chuyang was speechless, as if no one was waiting for him. Jiang Ying would wait for him before, but now Jiang Ying chooses to forget him. In fact, he has no reason to return to the present world... No, he must not stay in this illusion, Because Jiang Ying didn't know his innocence and innocence, even if Jiang Ying could regain his freedom for the rest of his life, he had to escape here.

After standing still for a while, he recharged his strength again, and said, "Go down, come back tomorrow morning."

"Have you found the hotel yet?"

In the night wind came a soft, deep and slightly smiling man's voice. Ye Chuyang thought he had heard it wrong, but he followed the prestige and saw Bai Sinian slowly walking up to the sightseeing platform, followed by Zhan Xingyu .

Facia was not afraid of heaven, earth, ghosts and gods, but when she saw Bai Sinian, she immediately hid behind Haiyang and Ye Chuyang.

Haiyang hated him extremely: "Aren't you dead?"

Bai Sinian said: "I am dead, this is the world after my death."

Haiyang: "You should go to hell!"

Bai Sinian smiled slightly: "This is hell, who said that there can only be mountains of knives and pans of oil in hell?"

He looked at Ye Chuyang, nodded and smiled in a very gentlemanly manner, and said politely: "Just now you said you wanted to stay overnight, did you find the hotel?"

Ye Chuyang looked at him indifferently, and said, "Do you allow us to stay overnight?"

Bai Sinian: "You are guests, of course you should treat them well." He said, putting his arms around Zhan Xingyu's shoulders, "Xingyu also hopes that I will treat you well."

Ye Chuyang looked at Zhan Xingyu, Zhan Xingyu lowered his head and didn't dare to look at him, Ye Chuyang said: "Xingyu, you should go back with me."

Zhan Xingyu slowly raised his head, his eyes were sad.

Ye Chuyang said: "You know the real cause of Leng Jinghua's death. Jiang Ying has been tortured by the death of Leng Jinghua's mother and daughter for more than ten years. You should restore Jiang Ying's innocence."

Zhan Xingyu: "Did you see it?"

Ye Chuyang nodded: "I see, the person who killed Leng Jinghua's mother and daughter was not Xue Lin, but Song Youhai." He looked at Bai Sinian again, with a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, "Song Youhai is just a killer. The real culprit is you."

Bai Sinian didn't care if the truth was seen through, because he was already dead, and the law was useless to him, but Ye Chuyang's trick to expose him in front of him was a provocative act, and he couldn't stand this kind of provocation, so he He squeezed Zhan Xingyu's shoulder tightly, as if he wanted to crush Zhan Xingyu's shoulder as a punishment.

He asked Zhan Xingyu: "What have you done without telling me?"

Zhan Xingyu's face turned pale instantly, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead, but he didn't evade: "You already know, why are you asking me?"

Bai Sinian threw him aside as if he wanted to discard an object, and Zhan Xingyu fell heavily to the ground. Facia ran over to help him, and stared at Bai Sinian angrily: "Bai, you It's too ruthless, you are ten times more terrifying than evil ghosts!"

Bai Sinian turned a deaf ear to her accusation, walked up to Ye Chuyang, and said, "Do you want to challenge me?"

Ye Chuyang: "I'm not interested in your great achievements, and you have already succeeded."

Bai Sinian: "Then you want to punish me?"

Ye Chuyang: "I want to, but I can't."

Bai Sinian: "Since you know you can't do it, why did you come in?"

Ye Chuyang: "Look for the truth."

Bai Sinian looked at him like a fool: "Even if you find out the truth, so what? You can't do anything to me."

Ye Chuyang's face was emotionless, with only a void that was close to pity: "It is true that no one can punish you, but there are still many people living in the shadow you created, and they are still in your trap."

Bai Sinian: "You mean Jiang Ying?"

Ye Chuyang: "Including Jiang Ying."

Bai Sinian: "So? You want to save Jiang Ying?" He raised his eyebrows, his face full of arrogance, "Do you think you can save Jiang Ying if you find the truth?"

Ye Chuyang: "I know you left an order in Jiang Ying's mind, you want Jiang Ying to die."

Bai Sinian raised the corners of his lips, and smiled viciously: "You know what to do, you still have nothing to do."

Ye Chuyang just said calmly and firmly: "I can't change what you did to Jiang Ying before. From now on, you have no chance to hurt Jiang Ying again."

Bai Sinian was irritated by his magnanimity in lifting weights lightly, he approached Ye Chuyang, and when he was an arm's length away from Ye Chuyang, Haiyang stretched out his hand to stop him.

Haiyang: "Don't fucking come here, I'm afraid you will bite someone."

Bai Sinian stared at Ye Chuyang closely, and said: "I admired you before and thought you were a smart, brave and sincere person, but now I think you are not sincere, you are very hypocritical."

Ye Chuyang: "Am I hypocritical?"

Bai Sinian: "As you said, I set a trap, and many people were caught in the trap. Even after I died, they still did not escape from my trap. Jiang Ying is the best example. But you dare not admit it Jiang Ying has been in my trap because you dare not admit your failure, and what's even more ridiculous is that you still want to save him."

Ye Chuyang frowned slightly, then smiled helplessly: "Are you so afraid of failure?"

Bai Sinian: "Am I afraid of failure?"

Ye Chuyang: "You are too arrogant and vicious. For you, as long as one person escapes your control, it is a failure."

Bai Sinian smiled calmly: "Yes, I don't allow myself to fail, so Jiang Ying must obey my orders and die."

Ye Chuyang saw through him easily, and said: "You even need to use all means to keep the people around you. No matter how powerful you look, you are as pitiful as you are."

Bai Sinian's refined and elegant skin was torn apart in an instant, and he laughed wildly: "I'm pitiful?"

Ye Chuyang: "If you don't admit that you are pitiful, then do you dare to let Xingyu choose?"

Bai Sinian: "Let him choose what?"

Ye Chuyang: "Choose whether to leave you or not."

Bai Sinian looked back at Zhan Xingyu, his soft and wet voice was like a poisonous snake crawling in the grass: "Xingyu, if you could choose, would you choose to leave me?"

Zhan Xingyu was like a small boat rocking on the sea. Although there were two roads for him to choose, he was still desperate and hesitant. He was silent for a while and said, "Dr. Ye, I have no choice."

Ye Chuyang looked anxious: "You have a choice, you can go back with me."

Zhan Xingyu looked sad: "I don't know how to face Jiang Ying."

Ye Chuyang: "Since you still know that you are sorry for Jiang Ying, then apologize to him in person!"

Zhan Xingyu hid his face in his arms in pain, choked up and said: "It's useless, I lied to him for more than ten years, I dare not tell him that Leng Jinghua was killed by me, I used his guilt to keep me After more than ten years by his side, he accepted me because of Leng Jinghua, if he knew that I had been lying to him and taking advantage of his guilt, he would hate me to death."

Ye Chuyang: "You did do something wrong, but it's not irreparable. In the final analysis, Leng Jinghua's death has nothing to do with you. Jiang Ying fell into Bai Sinian's trap. It all started from Bai Sinian, not you. .”

Zhan Xingyu raised his head with a blank expression: "Leng Jinghua's death has nothing to do with me? No, no, I asked Bai Sinian to help me kill Leng Jinghua, how could it have nothing to do with me?"

Ye Chuyang was startled, looked at Bai Sinian with incomparable hatred, and said, "You actually lied to him to such an extent."

Hearing this, Haiyang suddenly realized, walked over and grabbed Zhan Xingyu: "The surname Bai lied to you, your mother is terminally ill, participating in his experiment is courting death!"

The wind at night gradually picked up speed, shaking people's minds. Zhan Xingyu seemed to be still swaying with the boat on the sea. He looked at the person in front of him in a trance, from Ye Chuyang to Facia, and finally turned his eyes to Pausing on Bai Sinian, he asked with a dull expression, "Didn't Leng Jinghua be killed by Song Youhai?"

Haiyang: "I'm a policeman, and I'm very responsible to tell you that we found a list of volunteers who participated in the No. 37 experiment. Leng Jinghua is on the list. Although she was killed by Song Youhai, her original intention was to seek death. Song Youhai Just turning her death into a murder, the purpose is to deceive you! The mastermind behind the scenes is Bai Sinian!"

Zhan Xingyu still asked nonchalantly: "Then what happened to Xue Lin?"

Haiyang: "Xue Lin is an unlucky guy. He ran into Leng Jinghua's house by mistake and was framed by Song Youhai as the murderer."

It took Zhan Xingyu a long time to digest these few words, and he finally realized that he had stepped into Bai Sinian's trap more than ten years ago, and he was still the prey of the trap until today.After being deceived for more than ten years, he should have been out of anger, but he didn't. Instead, he felt relieved, as if he had let go of his sins.

He asked Bai Sinian: "Have you been lying to me?"

He hoped that Bai Sinian would look back at him and give him some response, but Bai Sinian kept avoiding him, looking a little embarrassed.

Ye Chuyang said: "Yes, he is lying to you. Just like you took advantage of Jiang Ying's guilt to stay by Jiang Ying's side, he deliberately made you his accomplice, and the purpose was to keep you by his side." He walked away Arriving at Zhan Xingyu's side, the group completely separated from Bai Sinian, and said to Zhan Xingyu, "You are not his accomplice, you are his victim, come back with me, you can start over."

Start again... Zhan Xingyu felt that this sentence was very familiar. Thinking back for a while, Bai Sinian said the same thing to him a few hours ago: Let the past go, start again.

Holding on to the guardrail of the observation deck, Bai Sinian walked a few steps forward, and his figure gradually walked out of the circle of light, melting into the night.He turned around in the darkness, his sharp eyes lost all sharpness and became extremely dim. Because of this, he hid in the night.He looked at Zhan Xingyu who was standing with Ye Chuyang and others, and the sense of loss he had never felt before was like a shackle, which made him feel lonely and imprisoned in the vast world he built. He doesn't seem to be that free either.

Zhan Xingyu said: "Hey, talk."

Bai Sinian: "Say what?"

Zhan Xingyu: "Have you been lying to me?"

Bai Sinian has deceived many people, and he is not afraid of being discovered, but only Zhan Xingyu, he does not want to be discovered by Zhan Xingyu, because he needs a little sincerity from the overwhelming lies, even though that bit of sincerity is his lie cheated.But this sincerity disappeared as his lies were exposed, just like a domino fell, and the world he carefully built collapsed, burst, and collapsed silently.

Bai Sinian pretended to smile relaxedly: "I said no, would you believe it?"

Zhan Xingyu said without hesitation, "I don't believe it."

Bai Sinian sighed slightly: "That's it."

When all the lies were exposed, Zhan Xingyu was able to face him more calmly: "Will you let us go?"

Bai Sinian shook his head and said, "No, you can't imagine how angry I am, I will imprison you here forever."

Ye Chuyang said: "If you still have a little conscience, you should let Xingyu—"

Bai Sinian: "Shut up!"

He has always been gentle, but the sudden hysteria makes everyone fearful and silent.Only Zhan Xingyu laughed in the dead silence: "Haha, I've never seen you like this before, it's so funny."

He laughed enough, and said: "Dr. Ye just said that you are afraid, I still don't believe it, but now I believe it, you are indeed afraid, you are scared to death, you are afraid that I will go with them and leave you here alone, You are too scared." He laughed again as he said, "But if you don't let us go, you can only stare at us like you are now, what else can you do?"

Bai Sinian: "I can still let you watch Jiang Ying die."

As soon as the words fell, there was a rumbling flood from all directions. Facia pointed to the street in the distance: "Cousin, there is water over there!"

The flood surged through the streets, destroying street lamps and vehicles, and was cut in two by tall buildings.In just ten seconds, half of the city was flooded.

Ye Chuyang: "What did you do?"

Bai Sinian smiled and said, "It's not me, it's Jiang Ying, Jiang Ying wants to go to the bottom of the sea."

There was another loud bang, and the Pearl Tower suddenly sank, as if a dragon was roaring underground, cracks were torn in the ground, and the flood water poured in, as if it was going to fill the ground with water and turn it into a sea. .The maze is collapsing until it sinks into the deep subconscious sea——Bai Sinian's plan started with Jiang Ying's suicide.

Ye Chuyang had calculated everything, except that the time left for him was so short that he had no time to meet Jiang Ying again.

When everyone was struggling in despair and helplessness, Zhan Xingyu calmly walked towards Bai Sinian and said, "Make a deal."

Bai Sinian: "What deal?"

Zhan Xingyu: "I'll stay and let them go."

Bai Sinian: "I think it's easy to keep you, I don't need to make a deal with you."

Zhan Xingyu: "I mean, I'll stay with you, don't you want to start over with me?"

The flood is still pouring into the ground, rushing in the streets in all directions, the scene in front of me is like the end of the world, the sky is collapsing and the earth is sinking.

Standing between the collapsed world, Bai Sinian felt infinite sadness in his heart: "You never wanted to start over with me."

Zhan Xingyu showed a pure and bright smile: "It's different now, you are an unforgivable thug, and I am no longer your accomplice, I care about you as much as I hate you. Since you escaped the law Sanction hides in this world to be a god, then let me be your hell."

Bai Sinian: "...What are you talking about?"

Zhan Xingyu walked forward until he reached the edge of the aperture, and one step further was the night where Bai Sinian was hiding. He looked at Bai Sinian's eyes filled with the entire darkness, and said, "I'll stay with you You, I will stay with you as long as you want. But I will not forgive you, you will always be a criminal thug in my heart, and I will stay by your side as everyone who died at your hands. Your place is your hell."

Bai Sinian: "You think you can punish me?"

Zhan Xingyu smiled and said, "I'm already punishing you. Whether I leave or stay, it's a punishment for you. If I choose to stay, at least you are not alone."

After Zhan Xingyu tore off the false mask little by little, Bai Sinian realized that he was so miserable: "You don't want me to be lonely, but you want me to be tortured." He shook his head and smiled weakly. , "Xing Yu, you make me very sad."

Zhan Xingyu's eyes were bright and trembling, as if the sky was full of starlight: "The fire I set off did not die because of Jiang Ying, but because of you. I have been sad for you for so long, and it is time for me to die." it's your turn."

He stretched out his hand to Bai Sinian, and asked with a smile, "Is the deal done?"

Bai Sinian slowly stretched out his hand from the dark night, and firmly held Zhan Xingyu's hand. Obviously he was the devil, but at this moment he felt that he was making a deal with the devil: "Deal."

Zhan Xingyu smiled sincerely. He held Bai Sinian's hand, but never took a step forward: "You said the end is Greenland, so Greenland is the exit?"

Bai Sinian shook his head lightly: "Greenland is not an exit, there is no end here, and beyond Greenland is a place of exile."

Zhan Xingyu: "Then how do they get out?"

Bai Sinian: "Actually, you already know."

Zhan Xingyu thought back for a moment: "That painting?"

Bai Sinian: "Yes, the painting you saw in the study."

In the painting of the Penrose Staircase, the person in the painting did not choose any path, but stood at the top and looked into the distance. Zhan Xingyu thought that the person was looking at loneliness, but he did not expect that what he was looking at was hope.Bai Sinian didn't lie to him, the subconscious world is a Penrose staircase, there is no exit and no end, the endless cycle will never end, if you want to escape from this staircase, you can only sacrifice your life and jump.

Cracks suddenly appeared on the floor of the viewing platform, Ye Chuyang quickly grabbed the guardrail, and looked at Zhan Xingyu eagerly: "We don't need you to sacrifice for us, what you do will only make us live in guilt."

Zhan Xingyu said: "Dr. Ye, I didn't sacrifice for you. It's my choice for me to stay here voluntarily. I don't need to be saved by you. Please respect my choice." As he spoke, he smiled with a simple smile Bright, like a child, "Go back and find Jiang Ying, he is still waiting for you."

The marble floor broke, and the bodies of Ye Chuyang, Haiyang and Facia fell into the torrential water on the ground. Amid Facia's screams, Ye Chuyang raised his head and looked up into the sky, and saw Zhan Xingyu standing Beside Bai Sinian, who was dressed in the night and was covered in starlight, was waving and smiling at them.