Yunyang Novelist Luanbu

When chasing after Xia Youjie's figure, I thought of Alice who was chasing the talking rabbit with a pocket watch in his head.

Someone once asked, why does Alice, who fell into the hole, want to chase the rabbit no matter what happens?Is it because I like that rabbit?Or is it because it is the only familiar creature in this strange environment, which makes it feel safe?

There are many reasons that can be explained.

It's all up to the readers to interpret.

The author also didn't say why Alice, who started out of curiosity, kept chasing the rabbit?So things like feelings themselves cannot be qualitative in a sentence or two.

Luanbu didn't know why he paid attention to Xia Youjie in the first place.

Xia Youjie wasn't too close to him at first, but later he gradually got better because of the book, and it was precisely because of Xia Youjie's words that Luanbu wanted to settle down and be friends with him.

But what is a friend?

Are good friends who only play together?

Just holding this kind of thought, Luanbu didn't have any more thought of exploring in his head, followed Xia Youjie, and got into the "tent" arranged by him.The tent is an enchantment used by conjurers to isolate the attention and senses of ordinary people. In this tent, what the conjurer will do is to exorcise the curse spirit that caused the disaster.

What caught the eye was the empty commercial street, and the enchantment somewhat affected the skylight.The original golden or silvery-white light in this space is like a low-saturation color, which is approaching gray while retaining the original light.

After Luanbu entered this space, he remembered that he had never paid attention to whether he had seen a curse spirit, but at least he hadn't seen a curse spirit now, not even Xia Youjie's figure.

It was only then that Luanbu remembered that the reason why he really entered this space was that Xia Youjie was standing across the street.After locking Ranpo's sight, he mouthed "Follow me" towards Ranpo.If Luanbu was ten years younger, Xia Youjie's behavior would be lure/abduction.

Luanbu stood in place for 30 seconds, then looked around, and found that there was still no movement, so he knew that he had obviously fallen into a trap.There are two points that can be judged. One is that Gojo Satoru found himself missing, so it would not have been so long without showing up.Secondly, if there are curse spirits, the random steps should be their food, so that they are not still in place now, without hearing any sound.

These two points can show that this account is to shield Wujo Wu.

Ranpo threw away the idea of ​​falling into the "trap" from his head, and walked towards the end of the empty street, leaving only the empty wind.The last time I saw Xia Youjie, Xia Youjie walked towards this street.

Reason told Luanbu that he should get farther and farther away from Xia Youjie at this time.However, Ranpo realized that it was wrong to do so.Just like a world problem that is temporarily unsolvable, mathematicians are constantly trying with the psychological expectation of failure. They have failed hundreds of times, thousands of times, and billions of times, but they still move forward like a pilgrimage.

There is no doomed future, only the cowardice of being afraid of it.

Compared with what Luanbu saw a month ago, Xia Youjie obviously felt taller, but also lost a lot of weight.He was still wearing baggy black school trousers, a jacket around his waist, and a snow-white T-shirt on his upper body.Xia Youjie's hair was scattered on his shoulders, he didn't look depressed, but he was quieter than before, like a cold night rain.

"Are you talking to me?" Luanbu stood at a distance of 1.5 meters from Xia Youjie, and took the initiative to start a conversation.

Xia Youjie stared at him noncommittally.

Sustained eye contact is actually an act of implied hostility.

Luanbu continued to approach Xia Youjie at a safe distance, pretending not to notice Xia Youjie's state, and continued: "Did you know? October 21st is my birthday."

Xia Youjie's pupils flickered, and said, "...There is still one week left."

"Shall we eat cake together?" Ranbu said with a smile on his face, "Mont Blanc-French Chestnut Cake!!"

Xia Youjie's voice was still a little hoarse when he spoke just now, but now his voice is much clearer.

"Okay, let's eat cake together."

"Will you give me a present?"

Xia Youjie put his hands in his pockets and said, "What do you want me to give you?"

"You can give me a birthday card, which says "Xia Youjie wishes Edogawa Ranpo happy every day." Luanbu thought clearly about the details, and said, "The greeting card should look better, because I want to keep it."If it's too ugly, I'm also very tangled in keeping it. "

"it is good."

Xia Youjie complied again.

When the voice fell, an inexplicable coldness and embarrassment also emerged.The random steps did not make the silence last too long, and the sound brought both temperature and brightness.

"Let's go find Wu."

As Luanbu spoke, his hands also grabbed Xia Youjie's arm.

Xia Youjie seemed to feel that he would be burned, and directly avoided Luanbu's hand, and the peace just now was revealed: "I have something to tell you."

"Say." Luanbu scratched in the void, and then hid his hands behind his back, making his usual proud and proud gesture. "Lord Ranbu, listen up."

Xia Youjie lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "I've eaten a lot of mantras recently, and it's so bad that I want to vomit."

He wants to kill me.

He's still going to kill me.

Ranbu's original green pupils slowly widened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his body instinctively wanted to step back.He didn't like the feeling that this ability to predict what would happen in the future was slowly absorbing the heat of Ranpo's blood.

When he was on Meteor Street, he often had to face this kind of fear, knowing how the other party would hurt him, and then watching the damage in his head fall on him little by little, as if he had been lingering twice .

"You said, it would be great if there were no people who produced curse spirits in this world."

Xia Youjie has been having nightmares recently, dreaming that all his seniors and friends in the school died tragically because of the curse, and no one came to save them, and all those sent back to school were cold corpses.And those who were saved had no sense of gratitude at all, and even continued to live their lives as a matter of course.One day when he woke up, Xia Youjie heard a voice in his heart——

He wants to create a world without magic spirits.

Even if this path involves sacrificing one's own parents.

Even if you have to sacrifice your own friends.

"I think, I—" I'm going crazy.

Before saying this, Luan Bu grabbed Xia Youjie's arm suddenly out of fear.Xia Youjie noticed that his fingers were trembling, so he raised his hand to wrap Luanbu in his arms.Ranbu is like a child, from before to now, his body temperature is always high, like a little sun full of energy that burns endlessly, with a temperature that can burn people.

Xia Youjie patted him on the back, and said: "Luanbu, you are very smart, you should know that I followed you to enlightenment, and of course you will also know why I asked you to meet alone and why I avoided you. Enlightenment? But why are you still here?"

"You should know what I actually said on the beach that day.

Just casually say so.

I said those things when I had nothing to say at the time, but if you believed them, you would be like a child, you would only listen to nice words, and you would tell me a lot of things you didn’t want to tell others, such as your ability to write books, exorcising curse spirits method, I have told enlightenment, you know?You should know. "

"To me, you are different from us. Not to mention, you can still write spells. So, don't be like a child. Whoever treats you well doesn't like you."

"If you always believe this way, it will be very difficult for me."

Luanbu clutched Xia Youjie's T-shirt tightly, his head was pressed against Xia Youjie's chest all the time, he didn't even have the time to raise his head to say a word, he was already starting to feel suffocated.His strength is too weak, like a small live fish on the chopping board. When he is pressed by the chef, he doesn't even have the strength to swing the fish's tail, and he doesn't have the strength to struggle at all. Did not realize.

"Sorry, messing around."

It turned out that Xia Youjie's hand that was patting Luanbu's back had already pinched Luanbu's neck, and the veins on the back of his small arm were protruding.Xia Youjie kept pressing Luanbu's head tightly, not wanting him to look up at him.

"It will be over soon. I will remember your birthday, and I will send you the cake you asked for, and the greeting card you asked for every year in the future."

"Hate me, curse me, Chaos."

The first time Xia Youjie killed someone, his hands were shaking at the beginning.However, after a long time, he felt that his hands were starting to become numb, as if his soul had been withdrawn from his body. In order to firmly grasp the real sense of reality, he pinched it like a life-saving straw. scrambling neck.

"I will live with your curse for the rest of my life. You are too easy to get lost, and you will not even be able to find the way to the underworld after death. I will take you like this, okay?"

If you look carefully, you can see that Xia Youjie's black shadow has a big bloody mouth split open on his head, with white teeth in his mouth, and he is laughing silently and wildly at the moment.Hei Ying's entire shoulders kept shaking, and he leaned forward and backward laughing, as if he had watched an extremely wonderful comedy show.

To Ranbu, Xia Youjie's voice seemed to come from far away, getting farther and farther away.Just before Ranpo lost consciousness completely, he heard a terrified cry from the sky.

"Jay, are you crazy!"

Luanbu was released immediately, struggling to open his eyes, a layer of haze suddenly appeared, and physiological tears kept flowing down.But he also saw that Xia Youjie also lost consciousness, like a dilapidated building about to collapse, about to fall heavily at any moment, and Luanbu immediately hugged him again.

Ranbu's strength was very weak, and he couldn't help but step back, feeling that he was about to be crushed, and the head on the back just touched Gojo Satoru's chest.

Gojo Wu supported Luanbu and Xia Youjie, looked at the bright fingerprints on Luanbu's neck, and let out a long sigh.Under the sigh, the movements of the three supporting each other remained still.

Luanbu broke the silence and said hoarsely, "My neck hurts."

Gojo Satoru's chest was inexplicably on fire, is this still the time to say such things?They were almost strangled!

Gojo Goto said coldly: "Sprinkle some saliva on yourself, wipe it off yourself."

"You are so dirty."

"..."

When Xia Youjie woke up, it was dark outside at some point.And he was lying on a big bed inexplicably.Wujo Wu sat on the chair next to him. Xia Youjie breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the acquaintance.

"I thought I was kidnapped by some rich woman. Where is this place? Why am I here?"

"You came with me to the port mafia headquarters building, and when you were looking for Ranpo, you suddenly passed out from hypoglycemia." Gojo Satoru's expression was not particularly good, but he still remembered the agreement with Ranpo: "Ranpo I lent you the bed. Did you forget?"

Xia Youjie didn't remember this incident, looked at his hand, couldn't help scratching it, and said, "I seem to have had a nightmare."

"What did you dream about?"

Xia Youjie's face turned pale at this moment. He dreamed that Luanbu was strangled to death by himself, and subconsciously said, "Where is Luanbu?"

"He's eating dim sum next door."

After Xia Youjie heard this, he got up from the bed, walked to the next room, and saw the black-haired boy in the coffee-colored cloak eating the snacks on the table.Xia Youjie didn't even think about it, and directly looked at his neck - it was so white that it didn't even have fingerprints.

It seems to be a real dream.

Xia Youjie heaved a sigh of relief, seeing that while Luanbu was protecting the food with one hand, he was looking at him with round eyes like a hamster, and couldn't help laughing.

"Are my hands cold? Are you looking at me with such wide eyes? Eat quickly, I won't grab you. You will eat dim sum slowly with a fork, unlike before when you picked it up with your hands and ate it directly. A I haven’t seen you yet, did you still take etiquette class?” Xia Youjie teased a few words, paused, and said, “By the way, is your birthday coming soon?” After speaking, Xia Youjie was stunned for a moment, As if not knowing what he was talking about, he looked at Luanbu.

He couldn't remember how he knew.

[Edogawa Ranpo] puzzled: "I said, is my birthday coming soon?"

Gojo Satoru walked out of the room one step at a time, folded his arms, and said in a calm voice, "You said so."

Xia Youjie felt that the relationship between Wutiaowu and Ranbu had become cold again, so he couldn't help but said helplessly, "Are you arguing behind my back again?"

"Well, there was a quarrel." [Edogawa Ranpo] added again, "The super fierce kind."

"Sooner or later, I'll take off Ranbu's head." Wujo Satoru said through gritted teeth.

【Edogawa Ranpo】Spread out your hands and say, "Look, he's super fierce!"

Xia Youjie couldn't laugh or cry.

What happened to these two people?