under the tower

After eating, Yanyi left in a hurry, Ji Xi was still lying down.

The days passed like this for several days.

As soon as Tian Yan came back early, when he entered the door, he was carrying a heavy plastic bag, Ji Xi saw him take out a round, green and not yellow thing from it and rinse it under the faucet.

After washing it, he sliced ​​it finely with a small knife, and a circle of earth-colored skin hung down continuously like a ribbon, getting longer and longer, but always uninterrupted, finally revealing the white core of meat inside.

After peeling the skin, Yan Yi rinsed the snow-white fruit under the tap again, then cut four times on the chopping board, and cut it into several small pieces, leaving a square core in the middle, which he himself Holding the fleshless fruit core in his mouth, he put the flesh cut into small pieces into a small white bowl, and brought it out to Ji Xi's hand.

Ji Xi can move now, he sat up with his arms propped up, but stared at the bowl of white things motionless: "What is this?"

"Pear, I found a wild tree today." Yan said, "Have you ever eaten it?"

Ji Xi shook her head.

Yan Yi pushed the bowl: "Taste it."

Ji Xi slowly stretched out his hand to hold a piece, brought it to his mouth, and took a small bite.

The honey-like juice immediately filled the mouth, it was very crispy, Ji Xi didn't taste anything, only sweet.

He ate a whole piece.

"Is it delicious?" Yan Yi asked.

Ji Xi didn't answer, he picked up another piece, but instead of eating it himself, he stuffed it into Yan Yi's mouth.

Yan had to swallow it, puffing his cheeks: "You don't like it?"

"I don't like it." Ji Xi put on a dull face, "You eat."

Yan Yi didn't speak, he took another bite on his own, lowering his head slightly, like a silent wolf dog.

Ji Xi blinked, then opened his mouth and took away the pear slice from Yanyi's hand.

Yan Yi raised his eyes to look at him, his eyes seemed brighter than before.

Ji Xi finished eating a piece of pear slowly: "Are you busy recently?"

"It's okay." Yan Yi said, "I will come back sooner in the future."

Ji Xi glanced at him, put her two arms on the man's shoulders, and pressed herself completely on Yan Yi's body. Yan Yi didn't know what he wanted, and subconsciously supported the young man's slender waist.

Ji Xi wrapped herself around Yan Yi, and the two of them stuck together, and could clearly feel each other's body temperature and pulsating heartbeat, but Ji Xi didn't say anything, just hugged Yan Yi.

The young man's body was limp, and when Yan Yi hugged him, he felt at a loss, worried that he would accidentally touch his internal injury again, and the veins on the back of his hands were bulging.

"Yan Yi." Ji Xi pressed his lips against Yan Yi's ear, and said softly, "I want to tell you something, will you be angry?"

Yan paused: "What's the matter?"

"I'll tell you if you promise not to get angry."

Yan Yi frowned, but still nodded cooperatively, without revealing any clues: "Okay."

Ji Xi took a light breath, he attributed the impulse in his mind to a momentary discovery of conscience, he suddenly decided to tell Yan Yi the truth, because the pear just now was delicious, and he was pleased by the man's behavior.

"When I woke up today, I felt that the wound was much better, and it didn't hurt too much." Ji Xi said slowly.

Yan Yihuan's movement of hugging him froze for a moment: "Yes."

"Maybe I won't die." Ji Xi said softly, "I lied to you before, I'm sorry."

He asked: "...if my injury heals, will you throw me away?"

Yan Yi's reaction was beyond Ji Xi's expectation, he loosened his arms around Ji Xi, let Ji Xi sit on his lap, and looked at the boy in front of him.

"No." Yan Yi looked at him with a serious tone, "I will be very happy if you are well."

Ji Xi paused for a moment, staring at the man in front of him.

...This seemed to prove that his previous derivation was wrong, and he was very puzzled.

He thought that Yan Yi was just pitying him that he was about to die, which seemed to be more understandable, in order to satisfy certain socially recognized moral norms - he couldn't leave him alone, otherwise it would be the same as killing the other party with his own hands.

But the life in the high tower since he was a child may have made his understanding of the world too shallow. To be honest, he has only a half-knowledge of emotions such as "sympathy", which can be described as "unreasonable".

Is it a biological instinct for the continuation of the entire human race?

Yan Yi warmed his big hand over the soft hair on Ji Xi's head, preventing him from continuing to think deeply.

Time flies to autumn, Ji Xi has lived in Yan's family for nearly a month, and under Yan Yi's care, his trauma has almost healed.

On this day, after the two of them had breakfast, Yan Yi went to the kitchen to wash the dishes, while Ji Xi walked slowly around the small living room.

He saw Yan put the clean dishes on the shelf with his back turned to him, and then replaced the withered daisies in a white vase with two lilies that he just brought back from the market this morning.

This vase was bought by Ji Xi when he just picked it up. At that time, Ji Xi just said it casually, but Yan Yi actually bought a vase to hold his half-withered rose, and it didn't take long for the rose to completely wither Yes, Yanyi will often bring fresh flowers back to plug them in, change the water from time to time, put them on the window sill in the living room facing the sofa, and Ji Xi, who has limited mobility, can see them when she looks up.

The sun outside is very good today, the sun shines on half of the room, Ji Xi kind of likes this feeling, half of his body stands in the sun, and the other half is hidden in the shadows.

"Take me out for a walk." Ji Xi said to Yan Yi's back.

Yan Yi arranged the things in his hand and turned around: "Where do you want to go?"

"I need to go to a place with authority to manage accounts." He asked, "Is there a bank nearby?"

"Yes." Yan Yi didn't ask him what he wanted to do, "But your injury hasn't healed yet."

Ji Xi smiled casually: "If I can't walk anymore, can you carry me?"

Yan Yi gave an expressionless "hmm".

Adjacent to Sickwood District is Chengqiao District. Chengqiao District is also a residential area, but the living conditions are much better than Sickwood District. Most of the residents there are middle class.After entering Chengqiao District, you can clearly feel that the infrastructure here is more complete. The roads are smooth and wide, and there are parking spots for unmanned delivery machines on the side of the road. The automatic sweeper cleans the streets neatly and cleanly.

Chengqiao District is equipped with a bank, a treatment center and an office. These large buildings are all gathered in the most prosperous cross street in Chengqiao District.

After entering the area covered by the signal, the smart chip in Ji Xi's body started to work automatically, but perhaps because of the different regions and not using it for a long time, what Ji Xi saw in his brain was updating and loading data.

He walked very slowly, in fact, he was waiting for the intelligent assistant to respond, maybe because of his pale complexion, Ji Xi looked so weak, Yan Yi matched his pace, and slowly followed beside him.

Just when the two were about to step into the bank, Ji Xi's smart terminal finally responded, displaying the words "update successful".

...But except for his basic personal information, namely name, gender and age, all other data were prompted as "typing errors", leaving only a string of garbled characters.

Ji Xi sighed softly in his heart, and shut down the system completely.

Seeing him, Yan suddenly stopped in his tracks and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ji Xi lied without changing his face: "I wanted to try to see if my account could be connected here, but just now I suddenly realized that my smart assistant was left at my previous home, and it was useless to come to the bank."

"..." Yan paused, and said helplessly, "You just remembered such an important matter now?"

Ji Xi made a mischievous joke: "Actually, I just want to go out for a walk. I've been bored at home for so long, and my whole body is going to be moldy."

Yan Yi didn't get angry when he heard Ji Xi's words, he followed Ji Xi silently one step away: "Where else do you want to go?"

Ji Xi thought for a while: "Which district is the army at the Beicheng base stationed in?"

"Central Eighth District." Yan Yi frowned instinctively when he said this word, Ji Xi noticed it keenly.

Yan Yi said in a deep voice: "It's not a tourist attraction, you can't enter without approval."

Ji Xi still wanted to continue asking, but at this moment, he passed a passerby, and from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a bluish-gray scar behind his ear.

In an instant, Ji Xi's blood seemed to freeze.