I take skeletons to the apocalypse

Xia Xi imagined that if the murderer was herself, everything would make sense.

His skeleton has the ability to hide from the ground, and can control countless helpers without anyone noticing.Those people can be easily restrained and taken underground to hide.As long as he wanted, he could indeed make these people disappear perfectly.

Even the motivation is good enough, he just happened to be short of a lot of human bones for skeletons recently.

Just when Xia Xi lowered his head and pondered, Gu Ming's eager urging came from beside his ear: "Mr. Black Crow, did you find anything?"

Xia Xi shook her head slightly, and suppressed the emotions in her eyes: "No, the other party should have hidden the person somewhere else. It will take me a few days to check the entire underground of the island. Why don't you all leave first, and wait until I have time?" If you find it, let us know.”

"That's the only way to go." Chaomo trusted Xia Xi very much, and he did not doubt that he was there, and after telling the others to be vigilant and pay attention to safety, he dismissed everyone.

Everyone gradually dispersed, and finally only Jing Lan and Xia Xi remained.

Xia Xi twitched the corner of her mouth: "Let's go back too, I know you are worried about Jing Yue, I will..."

"Xia Xi." Jing Lan looked deeply at Xia Xi: "What did you see underground?"

Xia Xi lost her voice for a moment, opened her mouth, but didn't spit out a word.

Seeing Xia Xi's hesitant to speak, Jing Lan's brows were furrowed, and he was even more worried. He had already thought of the worst situation, and asked with a slightly unsteady breath: "Tell me the truth, uncle He...is he gone already?"

"I don't know." Xia Xi said blankly.

Although the number of underground bones is completely correct.But he didn't think Jing Yue was really dead.But if Jing Yue is not dead, then it is more likely that Jing Yue is the murderer hiding behind the scenes.

That's right, Xia Xi did have such doubts in his heart.

Although this sounds strange, Jing Yue doesn't have supernatural powers, so he can't beat any supernatural being present.He has never left Zhuguang Base, and his only family member Jing Lan and the doctor are sworn enemies.He seems to have absolutely no motivation or ability to be a murderer.

But Xia Xi always remembered the corpse belonging to Jing Yue displayed in the sample room S01.He must have an unusual relationship with the doctor and the research institute.This time, the missing people in the institute made Xia Xi confirm this guess even more.

And in Xia Xi's view, Jing Yue has the conditions to become a murderer.

Take this disappearance incident as an example, as long as Jing Yue hides the ability-suppressing device in the new device to be tested, the tester's ability can be sealed, and even if he is ruthless and tampers with the device , can further control these people, or kill them directly.

In addition, Jing Yue's computer technology is also one of the best in the base. The network between the base and the laboratory is not completely cut off. If Jing Yue has the heart, he can completely control the surveillance outside from the laboratory.

Xia Xi didn't know how to explain these guesses to Jing Lan.Said that he suspected Jing Yue of cheating death, said that he suspected that the real purpose of the other party was to blame him, said that Jing Yue may have been cooperating with the doctor all the time, said that the person in their base might not be the real Jing Yue, because he met in the training base Looking at Jing Yue's body, the real Jing Yue may have died long ago.

He couldn't speak.

This feeling is very strange, obviously it is just a matter of telling Jing Lan the truth, but it makes Xia Xi feel that it is more difficult to do than to enter a room full of poisonous insects, than to be covered in dirt.

He had no choice but to repeat his lie again, as if subconsciously emphasizing something: "I don't know, I didn't see anything underground."

Xia Xi decided to investigate alone, buried all doubts in his heart, and even Jing Lan concealed them until he unraveled all the truth and found other people's bodies, not just bones.He wanted to find out where the murderer was hiding, and he would also find out Jing Yue's true identity.Before that, he decided to go it alone.

Jing Lan's heart sank, he could tell that these were two obvious lies.

Obviously, he had already imagined the worst situation on his own initiative, but even so, Xia Xi still refused to speak.

Jing Lan couldn't imagine what kind of discovery would make Xia Xi look so embarrassed.

He was sure that Xia Xi must know some clues about Jing Yue, and he must have found something underground.

Jing Lan didn't understand why Xia Xi wanted to hide it at this time. He was worried about Jing Yue's safety, so he wanted to ask.However, just as he was about to speak, he suddenly noticed that Xia Xi's slightly parted lips were trembling slightly.

"Jing Lan." Xia Xi suddenly turned around and hugged Jing Lan actively.Pressing his forehead against his shoulder socket, he hid his entire face.It is a posture that refuses to communicate, like a wronged cat.

Jing Lan was slightly stunned, her heart felt like a wound wiped with alcohol, and there were fine and dense pains.Jing Lan tightened her arms and held Xia Xi in her arms,

The Xia Xi he knew had always had a clear goal and acted decisively. He had never been so entangled, hesitant, and vacillating like this.

What is he afraid of?

"Forget it." Jing Lan sighed compromisingly, and kissed Xia Xi's top.Although I really want to know the whereabouts of Jing Yue.But Xia Xi decided not to tell, so he didn't ask, just like before.He trusts Xia Xi in every decision.

He just hugged him tightly and comforted him softly: "It's okay, you don't need to say anything, I believe you."

Xia Xi closed her eyes, and while she was relieved, a more complicated emotion welled up.Jing Lan is obviously a person who has been betrayed many times, but she still chooses to trust him so unreservedly, even entrusting the safety of her only family member.

After that, Xia Xi started his own investigation. He dispatched all the skeletons and searched the entire underground of the island, but failed to find other bones and clues.Xia Xi investigated other places in the laboratory, and asked Shi Yin to check Jing Yue's computer, but still could not find any problems.

Jing Lan was not idle either, Xia Xi refused to tell him the situation, Jing Lan could only investigate alone, based on what he knew about Jing Yue, even if Jing Yue was taken away by the doctor, he would secretly leave clues for them.

Jing Lan did find something left by the other party in Jing Yue's office, but it was not a clue, it could only be regarded as a small gift.

It was a pair of ruby ​​rings, the surface of which had been polished to be round and smooth, and cut into beautiful cut surfaces, each of which had a lustrous luster like water waves.The gem is one carat in size. Before the end of the world, it could be regarded as a precious jewel. Unfortunately, after the end of the world, its value is not even comparable to a low-level supernatural spar.

Jing Yue's mother is a jewelry designer, and she left many such beautiful gems at home, and these two rubies are Jing Lan's favorite.Jing Yue promised him that if Jing Lan had someone he liked in the future, he would use this gemstone to make a pair of rings as a gift.

Jing Yue left it in the drawer of the bedside table in his residence, and the password was the date he graduated and entered the research institute.

The ring was packed in a velvet box, and underneath was a greeting card, Jing Yue wrote in delicate handwriting: Jing Lan and Xia Xi's fourth anniversary congratulations.

The moment Jing Lan opened the cabinet and saw the gift, Jing Lan felt sore.

Two days after Jingyue disappeared, Xia Xi dragged his exhausted body back to his residence. The double consumption of supernatural powers and physical strength made him look a little weak. When he entered the door, he almost tripped over the threshold because he couldn't lift his feet.

"Be careful." Jing Lan helped him up in time, "Why are you so tired?"

"I'm fine, I just lost my mind thinking about things just now." Xia Xi stood up straight as he spoke, but the black and blue under his eyes still revealed his exhaustion at the moment.

"Don't be too reluctant to take care of yourself. I don't want you to be exhausted if my uncle is not found."

Jing Lan didn't ask Xia Xi what he found.

The entire base is now entrusting Xia Xi with the pressure to solve the mystery of the disappearance. He doesn't want to put Xia Xi under more pressure because of his relationship.

Xia walked to the table, and suddenly smelled a familiar sweet fragrance, and his eyes became a little brighter: "Did you make a cake today?"

"The nose is still so good." Jing Lan brought the cake out of the kitchen.A very delicate white cream cake, topped with red cream for decorating, in the shape of a large cluster of thorn flowers.There is a little translucent red in the center of each flower, like crystal jam.

Jing Lan held the cake in front of Xia Xi: "I tried to make it as you described, does it look like what you remember?"

Xia Xi suddenly felt hungry, and unconsciously made a swallowing movement, his Adam's apple slid up and down, and his voice was slightly hoarse: "It's very similar."

To be precise, it is exactly the same as in memory.Jing Lan's craftsmanship is very good, it's just cream, but she can also make the thorn flowers so realistic.

Blooming thorn flowers, in the barren country, represent unswerving love.

In an instant, Xia Xi forgot about being tired, and felt a little dazed before her eyes.

Jinglan's tough silhouette and the thorny flowers made of cream form a staggered picture under the shadow of the lamp, as if someone stretched out his hand across time and space.

Xia Xi got up and took the cake and put it on the table, lowered her head like a cover-up, and said in a muffled voice, "Why did you remember to make a cake today?"

"Today is the fourth anniversary of our meeting." Jing Lan said, "Our birthday."

Only then did Xia Xi raise her head in astonishment: "Today?"

Then he was stunned for a moment, and pressed his fingertips on the corner of the table in annoyance, with a guilty tone: "I almost forgot."

He came to this world four years ago.Later, when Jing Lan asked him about his birthday, because the two worlds have different ways of recording the years, he couldn't find the corresponding date, so he directly made his own birthday from the day he came to this world.

Unexpectedly, Jing Lan followed him and changed her birthday to this day.

He said that the day he met Xia Xi, he seemed to have come back to life again. He wanted to celebrate his birthday with Xia Xi in the future, and Xia Xi naturally did not object. After that, their birthdays became the same day.

Jing Lan cut off the corner of the thorn flower and put it on the plate in front of Xia Xi. Xia Xi raised the fork and was about to enjoy it, but suddenly noticed that the heart of a thorn flower was different from the others. It seemed that it was not cream but a piece of butter. A transparent red stone.

Xia Xi probed there with the front end of the fork, and there was a crisp sound.Xia Xi dug it out, only to find that it was a ruby ​​ring. The gem was hidden in the heart of the thorn flower before, and the metal part was buried in the cake.

Xia Xi held up the ring and looked up at Jing Lan in surprise.

"Birthday gift." Jing Lan raised her left hand, and on her ring finger was a ruby ​​ring with the same style as Xia Xi.

Xia Xi raised his eyebrows. He remembered that in this world, the ring finger of his left hand was used to wear a wedding ring.

"Is this here, are you proposing?" Xia Xi asked in a daze, Xia Xi felt a little sudden.In the past few days, his mind has been immersed in the disappearance of the people on the island. When he suddenly caught up with this incident, he couldn't recover.

"Is it possible?" Jing Lan looked at Xia Xi seriously, and said, "Actually, on our birthday last year, I had already made a plan to take you to the Shahai Plain in the south this year. There are also stars all over the sky in the desert. I contacted a homestay over there, planning to take you on a trip, live together for a few days, and then find a suitable time to propose marriage. I didn’t expect..."

Jing Lan didn't say what happened next, but Xia Xi knew it.

The beginning of the end times disrupted Jinglan's plan.Jing Lan's amnesia made the two of them almost become strangers from then on.In the first half of the year, he was busy dealing with the clover in Jingting City, but in the second half of the year, he managed to catch his breath, only to encounter this strange incident of missing people.The planned desert trip did not take place after all.

Jing Lan wiped the ring, her eyes drifting away: "Speaking of which, the first time I saw these two gems was in the warehouse of my uncle's house, I didn't understand the value of gems at that time, I just thought they were ordinary beautiful stones, so Ask my uncle if he can give me a pair of earrings."

"My uncle rejected me. He said that rubies symbolize love. His mother always hoped that the pair of gems could be worn by two people who love each other, so they couldn't give them to me as earrings. But if one day I have the truth and love each other, I want to For those who want to be with him for a lifetime, he will make this pair of gemstones into a ring as a congratulatory gift for us."

"I found the ring and this birthday card at my uncle's house today. I didn't expect him to remember this all the time." Jing Lan took out the card and put it on the table. Xia Xi scanned the writing on it, and it was indeed Jing Yue left behind.

Can I wear it for you and be your life partner? "Jing Lan asked carefully and seriously.

Xia Xi handed her left hand to Jing Lan: "I thought we were already here."

Jing Lan pushed the ring to the root of Xia Xi's left ring finger.Xia Xi felt the heat from the palm of his hand, and the pattern of thorn flowers slowly appeared and disappeared in the palm of his hand.

According to the customs of the deserted country, the moment Xia Xi used her own blood to draw the pattern of thorns and flowers on Jing Lan's heart, they became each other's lifelong partners.

At a certain moment, Xia Xi really wanted to tell Jing Lan everything she knew, but she endured it.Speaking now, it just turns one person's anxiety into two people's.It's not too late to talk until everything is figured out.

But in the end he couldn't help asking: "You have been betrayed many times by people close to you, why do you still trust me? Are you not afraid that I will betray you one day?"

Jing Lan raised her head, her eyes filled with surprise that could be put away in the future, she seemed very surprised that Xia Xi asked this question, but she answered with a very firm tone: "You won't."

"Could it be that you expected others to betray you before?" Xia Xi discovered that Jing Lan was surprisingly innocent in some aspects.Unlike his shrewdness and defense against outsiders, he is completely defenseless against those he trusts.And this also caused him to have no chance to protect himself every time he was betrayed.

Jing Lan still insisted: "You are different from them, you are different from everyone else. I don't trust others, I only trust you now."

Xia Xi still couldn't help worrying: "If one day someone tells you that I lied to you too, what will you do?"

"trust you."

"What if all the evidence points to me lying to you?"

"I still believe you." Jing Lan looked at Xia Xi firmly with dark eyes: "Unless you tell me yourself that you lied to me."

Before Xia Xi continued to ask, Jing Lan took the initiative to add: "Even if you lied to me, I believe you must have unavoidable reasons. You will not hurt me."

"Hmm." Seeing that he couldn't speak, Xia Xi felt a little angry, but the corners of his mouth raised unconsciously: "You look so unprincipled, you really look like a foolish couple in love."

Jing Lan didn't say anything, he took Xia Xi's left hand, leaned over and kissed Xia Xi's palm.Xia Xi shivered sensitively.Ever since he signed the contract with Jing Lan, he has a special feeling for the palm of his left hand.This is where they are contractually linked.

But Jing Lan's chest was slightly hot, and the pattern of thorn flowers loomed.

Jing Lan raised her eyes from bottom to top, looking up at Xia Xi slightly, with turbulent emotions entangled inside.

Xia Xi was burned by this look, and unconsciously opened her eyes.

Looking at the greeting card on the table again, Xia Xi's gaze paused, and his thoughts were withdrawn from the charming atmosphere.

"Congratulations to Jing Lan and Xia Xi on their fourth anniversary."

Xia Xi suddenly remembered, how could Jing Yue know that he was Xia Xi?

Didn't Jing Yue always think that he and Mr. Black Crow were two different people, and even suspected that Jing Lan used himself as a substitute?

Perhaps it was because Xia Xi's eyes stayed there for too long, Jing Lan also looked at the position of the greeting card with him, and immediately smiled, but there was still a bit of sadness in this smile: "You also found out, right? Uncle, he should have guessed your identity recently, so he specially prepared a surprise for us before your birthday. It's a pity that he couldn't wait for him to deliver it himself."

Discovered suddenly recently?Xia Xi lowered her eyes and thought: Not necessarily.

In the middle of the night, Xia Xi left the residence again. He had a ridiculous idea that needed to be verified.

It was the greeting card that inspired him, and he was thinking: What if there are only two Jing Yues?