Film and Television] The time of death

The weather was gloomy, and the Christmas lights hanging outside the window were blown by the wind and made a harsh sound of glass crashing, which made people worry whether they would die in the next second.

Charlie was sitting at the bar counter bored, the rag in her hand was slapping the table.The comedy on the old TV didn't interest her in the slightest.On the contrary, the hard laughter of the actors mixed with the harsh sound of the lighting made her even more upset.

Kip walked out of the back room of the restaurant with a toolbox in hand, just in time to see his girlfriend—and fiancee Charlie throwing a rag on the bar and pacing up and down the room restlessly.He sighed helplessly, and hurriedly put down the box in his hand and stepped forward to comfort Charlie: "Honey, are you still feeling uncomfortable?" Charlie nodded slightly tiredly, and let Jipp caress her back to comfort her.

"Really, nothing could be worse..." Charlie sighed, resting her head weakly on Jip's chest.Maybe it's because pregnant people are emotionally unstable, and she always feels chest tightness for no reason when she is usually bold, not only because of her current situation, but also because of Kip's careless care that makes her more painful.

She didn't do anything, and Jip couldn't do anything wrong. How did things turn out like this?

The fan above the head was humming, accompanied by the howling wind outside the window, which seemed infinitely bleak.

"Buck button." Just as Jip organized the language to comfort Charlie, there was an abrupt knock on the door.He looked towards the door in some surprise, because he could only see the outline of a person because of the blinds.Because the restaurant was in the desert, the glass hadn't been cleaned very carefully, and coupled with the gloomy weather outside the window, the silhouette of the man almost merged with the chaos.If it hadn't been for the knock on the door just now, Kip would not have been able to determine whether the silhouette was a human or an illusion caused by the dust on the glass.

"Knock button." The knock on the door rang again persistently, but the people outside didn't seem to be willing to call on the people inside to open the door for him.

Who would come to this desolate desert in this bloody weather?What's more, because the weather forecast said that there would be a storm warning today, Barber (Jeep Dad) felt that no one would be crossing the desert road, so he put up a closed business sign on the sign early in the morning.Charlie looked at Kip uncomfortably, and Kip winked at her and motioned her to go to the back room first—at least there were his father and his hired hands there.Charlie was not at ease, she squeezed Jip's hand, and finally turned back to the room under his firm gaze.After seeing Charlie close the door, Jip took a deep breath, went to the door, unlocked the door and opened the door to welcome the unexpected guest.

Standing outside the door was a man in a bit of a mess—well, he was a mess because his whole body looked gray, his hair was half-length down to his shoulders, and his clothes were tattered. It was impossible to tell the difference. What material came out.Not to mention the face, it was no different from being covered in mud, and there was a bleeding wound across the bridge of the nose, which was particularly terrifying, and there were dried blood scabs on the edge of the wound.Kip was a little flustered. He subconsciously wanted to close the door, but the man's hand blocked the door.His eyelids twitched, and he raised his head to meet the man's eyes.

Looking at each other, Jip actually forgot what his purpose was in the first place.

It is completely indescribable how I feel after meeting his eyes. Although the face of that person is completely invisible, even the eyes cannot be seen clearly, but Jeep felt suffocated at that moment.

There is no fear, no awe, just a blank slate.

In just a few seconds, it seemed as long as a century, until the man opened the door and went straight into the restaurant before Jeep realized: "Hey! I said dude..."

"Excuse me, is there a bathroom?" The man stood in front of the bar, looked around the interior of the restaurant, and finally settled on Jeep.

Before he could say "We don't take homeless people in our restaurant", he was interrupted by the other party and choked back into his stomach. He tried to adjust his facial expression so that he didn't look so nervous: "Look, this Weather you—in this shitty place. Uh, uh...was your car robbed? Or was it left in the desert?" Jeep tried to adjust his words to make them sound more tactful. Some.Although it didn't do much.

The man looked Jip up and down, which made Jip even more nervous, and swallowed all the words he wanted to question.Obviously, the other party is not much different from a homeless man, but he doesn't look down at all... Damn he doesn't have a gun yet!

The man whom Jip dubbed "not much better than a bum" didn't respond much to Jip's questioning. He glanced at the TV playing a bad comedy before answering Jip's question: " Got lost, over played. Is there a bathroom, please?"

Kip suddenly turned his weak shoulders to look at the calm man, his indifferent tone and what he said couldn't be proportional to the wound on his body at all!He couldn't make up his mind whether to tell him the bathroom was at the end of the back room.This is too risky, and Charlie is still inside, he must not let a person of unknown origin and looks very dangerous go in!Just fool him and send him away, right?

Yes, send it away!

Making up his mind, Kip cleared his throat and apologized pretending to be embarrassed: "I'm so sorry! The bathroom was broken the day before yesterday and hasn't been repaired. You should know that there are no repairmen around such a remote place, and the weather is so bad... Look, There's nothing we can do about the bathroom." So hurry up and go!Jip looked expectantly at the person standing motionless in the middle of the room, but the person didn't even hum in the past 3 minutes.This embarrassed Jeep a little.

After all, he had already veiledly rejected the other party's request, and let him stay again...he couldn't hold back his face.What's more, the time and place where this person appeared are too wrong.

Although the desert is desolate, there is a road that runs through the desert, and the storm warning has been issued for two days. Judging by the outfit, it is impossible for this person to go to the desert two days ago. He has been in the desert for at least a month. People hunted down or—fugitives.

Thinking of this, Jip couldn't help but shudder.

The man who had been standing aside for a long time seemed unable to stand Jip's moaning attitude. He took off his rotten coat, which was barely recognizable, and put it on the chair beside him, revealing that the inside was clean (with his (compared to his jacket) shirt, walked towards the bar without anyone else.When Kip stared dumbfounded at him going straight to the bar and took a Coke for himself and drank it all in one gulp, he felt that he could no longer stand there calmly and wait for him to go out by himself.Kip stepped forward angrily, ready to grab him by the collar and drag him outside—it is best not to use his hands to cause unnecessary trouble unless it is absolutely necessary.But before he could get close to the man, he was blocked by the empty cup that the man reached out to grab his collar.Kip couldn't help it anymore: "Hey, man, what the hell are you trying to do?"

"Me?" The man stretched out his index finger holding the cup and pointed at himself, and laughed after getting Kip's crazy look.The laughter was pure, not a wacky sneer, but it didn't make Jip feel at ease at all.The man withdrew his outstretched hand and took another cup of Fanta. "I'm just a lost traveler, not the heinous villain you imagined." He smiled lightly, as if he didn't hear Kip's question of "how do you know?" You have to stay here to rest for a while, and I will repay you when I leave. Oh, I will pay the money, don't worry about me getting free."

Kip stared at him hesitantly for a moment, as if to stare him out of a hole.The terrifying feeling that the man gave when he stood outside the door seemed to be just an illusion of his nervousness at that time, but now he couldn't be completely sure that the person standing in front of him was really a down-and-out traveler as he himself said.He had never thought it would be so difficult to make a decision, not even whether to persuade Charlie to abort the baby when he knew that he didn't even know whose it was.

The man didn't explain anything to him, but sat on the stool in front of the cash register and looked at the hesitant Jeep and said slowly: "To show my sincerity, I will help if there is any trouble during my stay. "

"...Okay." Jip sighed in frustration, agreeing with the outsider's suggestion.He turned and walked towards the back room to tell Charlie them, but suddenly remembered something, turned his head and asked, "By the way, I don't know your name yet. My name is Kip, the son of the owner of this restaurant."

The man hesitated for a moment, but still announced his name: "Belian."

"Uh, what's your last name?"

"Do you expect a man abandoned by God to have a last name?"

Kip thought it was just an excuse that he didn't want to tell himself, so Xiaoxiao didn't care.

What a strange person.

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