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Wu Sen was obviously taken aback: "Is Zhou Xi here too?"

For Wu Sen, who has been traveling far away for so long, he naturally knows nothing about what happened recently—that is really wonderful.

Lu Xiangyang nodded: "Yes, but I can't get in touch. The signal over there seems to be broken."

Wu Sen tried, but couldn't get through.

"It's a bit difficult for you." Wu Sen clicked his tongue, "Now that the snow is heavy, there are too few cars willing to pass by. Are you in a hurry?"

"Urgent, very urgent." Lu Xiangyang looked at him, "Zhou Xi...he has something wrong with his eyes, and his eyesight has deteriorated badly. The place where he lives is cut off, so he can only rely on the fireplace to keep warm, and he can't be contacted. I'm afraid He's in danger."

While listening, Wu Sen stared at him with dark eyes.

"You two are together."

Use an affirmative sentence.

Lu Xiangyang had nothing to say to him, so he hummed.

"Let's go." The vigorous man picked up his guitar and said, "Come with me."

The place Wu Sen took him to was the handling point of a car rental company.Lu Xiangyang watched him fill out a few pieces of information, and handed over the credit card with two fingers.

"Rent a car?" Lu Xiangyang frowned, "Wait a minute, Brother Sen, I..."

"I drive." Wu Sen said, "I often travel by car."

Suddenly there was nothing to say, Lu Xiangyang lowered his head in embarrassment.

He said countless thanks to many people today, and every word he said was like an IOU recorded in the ledger.

He has received a lot of kindness from everyone.

Car rentals cannot be paid in cash. For the convenience of collecting additional fees such as illegal deductions, only credit cards are allowed.

"Thank you..." he said to Wu Sen, "I'll pay you back how much it is."

"You're welcome. I can't leave now, and I'm just exhausted at the airport." Wu Sen glanced at the time, "Get the car first, remember to send me the address on WeChat."

"Okay." Lu Xiangyang touched his pocket and buried his head in search of his phone, "You flew to New York to visit relatives?"

"Just walk around." Wu Sen opened the rear door, carefully placed the guitar horizontally on the back seat, and moved very lightly. Before closing the door, the man stroked the maple leaf pattern on the guitar case, and then slowly Said, "How can there be any relatives."

"Huh?" Lu Xiangyang followed behind and was stunned for a moment, "Didn't I hear Brother Xi say that you..."

"Yes, I come to Las Vegas once a year." After checking the fuel tank, Wu Sen stepped into the driver's seat with his legs on the side pedals. "I came to see Lin Feng. He was buried there."

Lu Xiangyang was firmly fixed in place by the word "buried".

Lin Feng?

The owner of Wu Sen's...guitar?

The snow blew so hard that he couldn't help squinting his eyes.

"Get in the car." Wu Sen called him loudly in the car, "Let's go, it will take three to four hours to get to your address."

The topic passed quickly, and when Lu Xiangyang was fastening his seat belt, he couldn't help but secretly glanced back at the guitar that had been silent for a long time.

Lu Xiangyang only felt it was a pity.

He subconsciously glanced at the maple leaf engraved on the box.It looks exactly the same as the one on Wu Sen, except that he has wrapped his clothes tightly so he can't see the maple leaf tattoo on his collarbone.

"You like guitars, right? Xiaoqi said you know some." Although Wu Sen was driving, he could see his every move from the corner of his eye. When he said this, the man smiled helplessly. It was only one day that you told me that you went to the store to buy a cup of Huang Man, and in a blink of an eye...you were here. This world is too small. "

They rented a jeep, which was spacious and had a pretty good view. The wind swept snow stars past the glass, as if it would never stop falling.

Lu Xiangyang looked out the window melancholy and said ah.

"It happened too suddenly." Lu Xiangyang said, "If I knew Zhou Xi would be like this, I shouldn't have let him come."

Wu Sen was also very surprised after hearing Zhou Xi's story. His hands had been clenched on the steering wheel for a long time, but he finally let go.

"You can't stop it." Wu Sen sighed, "There are so many people who knew earlier."

Wu Sen was right.

The heater in the car made Lu Xiangyang feel a little weak, so he looked away and closed his eyes gently.

"Let me tell you about Lin Feng." Wu Sen let go of the zipper of his coat, and sat up straight again as if mustering up his courage, "Listen?"

"Listen." After Lu Xiangyang finished speaking, he lowered his head and stared at his snow boots, making room for the storyteller, "Is it Maple Leaf's Maple?"

"Yes." When Wu Sen heard this name, there was a very light and beautiful light in his eyes, which was fleeting. "He is a genius, an excellent guitarist, of mixed race, with natural curly hair, and two very cute smiles." Deep dimples. We've been in a band since college."

"We have been together for many years. I thought we could continue to rock and roll until the age of 80... until the eighth year, he suddenly left."

Eighty and eight, ten times less.

Lu Xiangyang sighed in his heart.

Wu Sen didn't stop, he continued to talk.

"His mother is Chinese, so Lin Feng's Chinese is very good. Once when everyone was drunk, he said to me, Wu Sen, there are three woods in our names, and together we are an endless forest. interest."

Following the words, Boss Lu thought of Wu Sen's WeChat and blog, both named Wu Sanmu.

"Lin Feng said, we possess each other, we don't even know our names, who else can be more created by nature than us?"

"We were together, and the relationship between the guitarist and the drummer was written in the song. The bass player in the team was Xiaoqi at that time, and we played many games with the band and participated in many performances. He interacted with me on stage. , even looking at it is sweet."

When the man spoke, he laughed softly, and could hear the subtle air rolling between his nose.

"Later, Xiaoqi's family made arrangements to go to other places for further studies, and the band disbanded. After graduation, the two of us walked and played all the way until one day, a country concert in Las Vegas."

"Country concert?" Lu Xiangyang's mind was filled with fragments of memories, and he shuddered suddenly, "I remember a few years ago... there was a shooting?"

"En." Wu Sen nodded, his eyes were neither sad nor happy, staring at the road ahead.

"At 10 o'clock in the evening on October 32st, on the 300nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, the murderer fired at least 5 bullets into the crowd, and the shooting lasted nearly [-] minutes." Wu Sen couldn't help but blinked. , "Lin Feng was pierced through the chest by one of the bullets. The crowd rioted, and we didn't even have time to say our last goodbye."

He seemed to be stating a piece of cold news.

"..."

Lu Xiangyang's whole body turned cold.Even though he was just a bystander, there was still an unstoppable surge of great and wordless sadness in his heart.

There is no need to say more about what happened later, what kind of injury he suffered, and whether he was rescued.

A bullet pierced the hot and cold.

He suddenly thought of the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which happened to be 10 o'clock in the evening on October [-]st - he and Zhou Xi went to pay the balance of the piano performance, Wu Sen was alone in the piano shop facing the guitar, with a lonely back and dim eyes clear.

It turned out that standing in front of the locked window, he was repeating his farewell to Lin Feng over and over again.

Lu Xiangyang only felt the pain in his heart.

The two were silent for a while in the car.

"I lost him, and I can't do anything." Wu Sen clenched the steering wheel tightly and said, "I couldn't get through it for a while, and I missed him very much. I just can't figure it out, three hundred bullets , [-] people, how could they hit him...just miss it, hit him on the leg, what do you think?"

Lu Xiangyang was stunned for a long time, and he blinked hard, a slight soreness in his nasal cavity rushed to his eyes.

"Brother Sen, there are some things that we can only do our best." Lu Xiangyang said in a low voice, "Let's pass it."

"Did you know?" Wu Sen would open the window to take a breath every time he walked a certain distance. The turbulent chill poured in, and the temperature in the car dropped sharply. After he tasted the fresh smell, he closed the window again.The coldness that killed everything actually suppressed Lu Xiangyang's emotions.

"I decided to come with you because you can still take care of another person with all your might, and you still have a chance." Wu Sen said, "I'm gone. No matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you cross mountains and oceans, No one will come back from the dead."

Wu Sen paused for a long time before remembering to continue, "Xiao Qi told me that there are some things that can't be returned, and everyone has regrets and debts. If you want to pay back, then you should pay it back—I take his Qin came to Las Vegas once, hummed some new songs for him, talked with him, and showed him how I was doing. This is paying back, giving back my thoughts and giving him peace of mind. "

Lu Xiangyang's eloquence was useless at such a time, so he hummed awkwardly.As soon as he looked up, he saw Wu Sen smiling indifferently.

"People always have something to pay back." Wu Sen said, "Zhou Xi is also paying back his own share. Parents and family have blood and blood, and you can pay back whatever you make up for... You can't even interfere."

That's right - the route they walked today was inquired by people from Xu Qintuo. Who can tell clearly about karma and retribution.

There is a Polaroid photo in Wu Sen's shop, and there is a passage written at the bottom of it: From then on, we will travel through the mountains and rivers, and we will never see each other again.

It looks like a girl's handwriting, beautiful and small, Lu Xiangyang memorized it after reading it once.

This calculation should be written by Xiaoqi.

"Hope." Lu Xiangyang closed his eyes, "I hope there will be time, and I hope Brother Xi is well."

Wu Sen said with certainty: "He must be fine."

The attack of the blizzard seems to have a tendency to move northward. After [-] hours of raging, it finally showed signs of attenuation. A section of the road was indeed blocked by snow as Xu Qin said. Looking at the mountains and mountains, Lu Xiangyang's heart skipped a beat.

At this time, he has a profound understanding of speed and passion - compared with Wu Sen's driving skills like rolling mountains and climbing snow slopes in movies, Gu An can only be regarded as a steady and steady driver of classic cars.

Lu Xiangyang rubbed Wu Sen's internet hotspots all the way, but the signal was not good when he crossed mountains and mountains, and every time he received it, he had already saved a lot of messages, and when he opened it, he swiped the screen, except for Gu An and Qingqing who were constantly paying attention to his The location and itinerary, Xiaohua's news are just some pictures of the finished products that have been photographed - let Boss Lu decide to pick a few pictures and send them to Moments.

Maybe she was worried about the difficulty of sending the pictures back and forth, so Huahua wrote down the serial number thoughtfully.

Before he finished replying, Wu Sen drove the car into the mountains.Of course, the signal was lost again, and there was no movement for a long time.

It was only when Lu Xiangyang drove out of the mountain that Lu Xiangyang's cell phone rang lazily again.

It's so fucking hard.

"Huh?" Wu Sen glanced at the navigation, "Is there a signal?"

Lu Xiangyang picked it up again, and among the dense piles of messages that popped up continuously at the top of the screen, he saw a name that almost made his heart stop beating.

"C sent you a voice message."

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" Lu Xiangyang yelled three times in a row. If he hadn't been restrained by his seat belt, he would have almost jumped out of his seat, "Zhou Xi! There's news!"

"What did you say?" Wu Sen frowned, "Is he alright?"

——He should still not be able to see, Zhou Xi never made a voice.This is the first time.

With trembling fingers, Lu Xiangyang clicked on the voice for five seconds.

There was no sound of speaking, but there was a rustling sound, as if he was groping for something, someone's breathing.

Lu Xiangyang's heart hung in his throat, he listened to it again, but still got nothing.

"call out--"

The second voice came out immediately after, and it lasted three seconds.

Lu Xiangyang hastily opened it.

This time it was Zhou Xi's voice - the words were clearly pronounced, as if he was sticking to the microphone.

Zhou Xi said, "I want to go home."

Very clear, very calm, still in my ears.

Wu Sen obviously stepped on the accelerator, and the engine roared and rushed forward for a short distance: "There are still four or ten minutes to go, try to contact again."

"There is signal coverage, I'll call him." Lu Xiangyang gritted his teeth while waiting for the connection, his fists clenched white on his chest, "I'll pick it up. Damn, every time like this..."

Zhou Xi didn't know if the signal was weak or he couldn't see clearly and didn't touch it. It took a while to connect.

"Hello...Lu Xiang...Yang?"

intermittent.

"Zhou Xi! Zhou Xi!" Lu Xiangyang almost roared, "How are you?"

"I can't see clearly, but I can't see it." Zhou Xi's voice was quite normal, with the stuttering caused by the signal, "The electricity hasn't come yet...I'm fine...the fire is on and on..."

"I'm almost there, don't hang up!" Lu Xiangyang yelled as if he couldn't hear him, "Don't move! I'm coming to you! I'll be there in a while!"

Zhou Xi seemed to be startled, and hummed unsurely: "What?"

"I'm in the United States, I'm in Xincun, can you hear me?" The corners of Lu Xiangyang's eyes turned red, "I, I found you."

The author says:

Today I ate Garton orange-flavored cheetah cake and lemon-flavored cheetah cake!

Xuefang cake x2!These two flavors are really delicious!

It's so comfortable with hot milk, hiccup.

Thousands of mountains and rivers are finally connected.

PS: Boss Lu, let's go back and get a driver's license test!

Brother Sen has worked hard——add chicken legs to Brother Sensen——