under the tower

Ji Xi smelled an unusual smell.

"Trust and preferential treatment"?

In his previous concept, these two words could never happen between the Chang family and the Lu family.

But now, he can hardly tell which of what he saw and heard is true and which is false.

So he just nodded with his usual expression and said "I see".

After running around for a day, it was already getting late when Ji Xi came out of the building of the information office. He was about to make a phone call and ask Lao Wen to pick him up. After thinking about it, he walked by himself, but the direction he walked was not towards Hui Mo District. Instead, he went to Wanshen District.

As before, he came to Building No. 33 and pressed the elevator on the eighth floor. His original room had already been occupied by others. He stood in front of Room 8018, but the door did not open automatically like yesterday.

Ji Xi took off the smart assistant and manually swiped the magnetic stripe at the door, but there was still no response.

what happened?Is the temporary permission expiring so soon?

Ji Xi was surprised.

He went to the management office downstairs and checked what was going on with the artificial window sill, but the answer he got was——

"The resident status of No. 8018 has been canceled. There is currently no owner of this room. You have no right to apply for temporary permission."

Ji Xi froze in place, the blood in his whole body seemed to be frozen.

"What do you mean has been canceled?!" Ji Xi yelled almost out of composure, attracting the attention of others, wondering what's wrong with this person.

The staff explained in a mechanical voice: "Hello, there are generally two situations in which the house is canceled. First, the owner is confirmed dead, and the house is automatically taken back by the base; second, the owner quits the military area and chooses to check out. Or the owner chooses to move out due to force majeure, which also falls into the scope of cancellation.”

Ji Xi's face was pale, and she asked with difficulty: "Can you find out what kind of situation it is?"

"Depending on your system permissions, yes. Please wait."

Ji Xi closed her eyes, feeling her limbs were as cold as ice.

These were the longest minutes of his life.

The staff's voice seemed to come from the other side of the sky.

"Mr. Ji, the system records show that the owner chose to check out at 13:27 today. Reason: resignation."

Ji Xi opened his eyes in an instant, his gaze was burning, and the clenched hands beside him were trembling uncontrollably.

"You said..." He found his voice almost with difficulty, and confirmed persistently, "Did the owner check out the house by himself? No one else did it for him? Is the operator Yan Yi himself?"

"Yes. I operate it myself."

"Thank you." Ji Xi almost fell to the ground, he tried his best to speak in a calm tone, "...Thank you."

The man said in a business-like manner: "You're welcome, I look forward to serving you again."

Ji Xi left the apartment management office like a ghost.

The first moment he regained consciousness, he dialed Yanyi's smart assistant again, but just like before, the voice call automatically chose to hang up after half a minute of no answer.

Ji Xi was stunned, completely unaware of what was going on.

He got on the shuttle bus of the base and drove all the way to the direction of the city gate.

He got off the car in Chengqiao District, which is the closest to the sick wood area. There is no official means of transportation in the sick wood area. He almost frantically rushed towards their former home in the sick wood area. The sewage splashed his new military uniform and leather shoes without any scruples.

For some reason, he had a premonition that if he was a step later, he would not be able to see Yan Yi.

The wind blew on his face like a knife, just like the night they fled hand in hand.

Faster... faster.

The old small building is close in front of him, Ji Xi has been back to this familiar place countless times, he held his breath, climbed up the stairs, and broke into the corridor.

The door was closed tightly, and there was a layer of anti-theft iron bars outside, Ji Xi shook the iron bars rattling.

"Open the door!" He yelled hysterically, "Yan Yi! I know you are here! Open the door!"

After a while, the door opened slowly, but the person who opened the door was not Yan Yi, but Mao Hei.

Ji Xi was stunned.

Mao Hei's face showed obvious fatigue and vicissitudes of life, black stubble appeared on his chin, and thick eye circles.

Seeing Ji Xi, he was only surprised for a second, but instead of making jokes as usual, he remained silent and said nothing.

Panting for breath, Ji Xi stared at him closely: "Can I go in?"

Mao Hei paused for a moment, with a complicated expression on his face, then he opened the door silently to make way, and looked at Ji Xi with dim eyes.

Ji Xi stepped in immediately, and the door was the very familiar kitchen and small living room. The note he left for Yan Yi before he left was still on the dining table, and the bedroom door was open.

Ji Xi stopped, looking at the scene in the bedroom, her whole body was stiff.

A black machine was placed beside the bed, with countless messy wires connected to Yan Yi's brain with magnetic disks. Yan San, who looked as gentle as a scholar, stood beside him with a solemn and solemn expression.

The man he was thinking of was lying on the bedside. Hearing the movement, he slowly opened his eyes. A pair of pure black eyes were dark and bottomless, like an eternal desert.

He stared at Ji Xi at the door with strange and cold eyes.

Ji Xi suddenly felt uncomfortable all over, he didn't understand why Yan Yi looked at him with such eyes.

"You go out first." He said calmly and slowly.

...as if something was different.

Just looking at it, Ji Xi vaguely felt that there were many strange and difficult temperaments in this man, as if he had suddenly changed into a different person.

Even just being watched by him, it was like being followed by a wild animal that woke up from a deep sleep in the jungle, which made Ji Xi feel unreasonable timidity and fear.

In the past, Yan Yi always gave him a sense of reliability and warmth, but this time, this person was simply sitting on the bed, but it was like a sharp knife out of its sheath, extremely sharp.

Ji Xi froze on the spot, Yan San and Mao Hei understood and closed the door, leaving Ji Xi alone.

Ji Xi stared at Yan Yi on the bed, full of doubts in his heart, he had so much to say, but he didn't know where to start.

Immediately, he said in an almost questioning tone: "When did you come back? I called you so many times, why didn't you answer?"

Yan Yi stared at him with ice-like eyes, and said word by word: "Because there is no need."

Ji Xi opened her eyes wide: "What do you mean? Don't you know that I'm worried about you?!"

Yan Yi's eyes fell on his straight military uniform and the golden new star emblem on his shoulder, he slightly raised his lips, and said in a very mocking tone: "Well, you are very worried about me, the running dog of the Chang family."

These words were murderous, Ji Xi felt as if he had been stabbed in the chest, and the blood all over his body gathered in one place: "Yan Yi!" He shouted, "Listen to me first..."

"I said, it's not necessary." Yan Yi interrupted him mercilessly, there was no trace of emotion in the eyes staring at him, only endless coldness and cruelty remained, as if the tenderness and affection that had appeared before. It's all just an illusion.

"I'm not interested in anything you say."

"I have already left the army, Mr. Ji." He said the coldest words in the calmest tone, and he didn't even bother to care about Ji Xi's mood after hearing this sentence, "So please don't pester me anymore."

"From now on, we will return from bridge to bridge, and roads will return to roads. You will be your young master and general, and we will never meet again in the future."

Ji Xi's mind was completely blank.

At that moment, when Yan Yi said that sentence, he really felt that the sky was falling.

"Why?!" He roared, raised his voice, and kept trembling his clenched hands, "Why did this happen all of a sudden? So you proposed to quit the army yourself, right?" Ji Xi's eyes turned red instantly, "I These days, you are in such a hurry that you didn't say hello to me, and now you suddenly say you want to leave, where are you going?"

Yan Yi looked at him indifferently: "I'll be a mercenary, don't worry about it."

Ji Xi looked at him in disbelief: "You want to break with me...you have to leave...just to come back to be a mercenary? What are you thinking?"

Yan Yi's attitude is extremely resolute: "I have never, ever, liked the army." He said coldly, every word was so heavy that it resounded, "I hate, disgust, hate the army, do you understand?"

Ji Xi couldn't understand it at all, and he asked repeatedly: "Then I wanted to say it before, why do you have to be a mercenary if you don't do a stable job? You go out early and return late all day long, and you can earn money even if you risk your life." You can’t even afford a decent meal for less than how much money, are you sick?”

Yan Yi sneered sarcastically: "Yes, I'm sick, I'd rather starve to death, freeze to death in the wild, and don't want alms from you, you noble officials."

Ji Xi froze in place.

"What is charity?" Ji Xi murmured.

"I want you to be safer. Is it wrong to have a job with good benefits and a lighter job? You are in the army, what is better than a mercenary who lives and sleeps outside?" He yelled without image.

With red eyes, he said loudly: "I like you, I want to be with you all the time, is this also called charity?"

As soon as these words came out, the air suddenly froze.

Ji Xi's teeth almost bled from his teeth, he stared at Yan Yi with tearful eyes, his face was on fire.

He didn't expect that this sentence was said in such a situation.

He thought they still had a lot of time.

However, in the next second, Yan Yi's face didn't move at all, but only showed a ridiculous expression. He snorted coldly and said sarcastically, "Like? Young Master Ji, what is your like?"

Ji Xi looked at him without blinking, and opened his mouth.

He stood there with a flushed face, looking extremely embarrassed and pitiful.

"In the beginning, I was just your tool." Yan Yi stated in a tone that was so indifferent that he was almost calm, "You were injured, you pretended to be pitiful, you tried your best to act out a play, and even specially lured a deformed person to show it to me. Just to let me help you find someone in the military."

"Originally this tool was just picked up by you. You had no choice but to use it later. You probably thought it was quite handy?" Yan Yi said indifferently. pedal, and also made a part-time massage vibrator, and was responsible for filling your empty and lonely heart when you needed it.”

"My tool is very easy to use, isn't it? No wonder you're still sternly refusing to leave despite how you dump it now. You're addicted, aren't you?"

Ji Xi's face was expressionless.

"No...no..." He retorted with a painful and weak expression, "Yanyi...it's not like this..."

"No?" Yan Yi smiled softly, and said coldly, "What's that? I'm not your family member, no matter how much I do, I'm just a foreigner, and you never even admit our relationship. Oh yes, on you Don't you still carry a marriage contract? Then tell me, if you return to Shencheng and your fiancée is still there, will you abide by the contract and marry her?"

Ji Xi stood there in cold sweat, unable to speak.

"Can't you answer?" Yan Yidao, he even smiled with satisfaction, his eyes were like three feet of frozen snow, "That's right. Because you are the same as them, the only person you love the most is yourself."

"...You like it because I treat you well."

"What you like is yourself."

Ji Xi stood there trembling all over, with the smell of blood in his mouth, the blood boiling all over his body seemed to be about to explode.

He felt humiliated, terrified, and outraged.

The anxiety, worry, and worry these days, all the accumulated emotions reached the boiling point in an instant and exploded in an instant.

"Heh." He snorted, his whole body seemed to be completely out of control, his whole face looked pale and strange under the mechanical twitch of muscles.

"Yes, what you said is true." He shook his voice and said mockingly, "Yanyi, you understand everything, yes, what you said is true. I'm just acting, pretending, you I knew it a long time ago, you know everything, it’s amazing! Then you are still willing to be used by me, and you are willing to lie on my bed?"

"Yanyi...you said I used you, then I rewarded you with a bone, didn't you come to lick it happily?"

He opened a pair of dark blue eyes that were as beautiful as an angel, and the corners of his mouth curled up, but what he uttered were extremely nasty words.

"Which onion are you? You are my dog."

Yan Yi stared at him with terrifying eyes, his face was terrifyingly terrifying, if eyes could kill, Ji Xi even felt that he would directly strangle him to death with his ferocious eyes.

He felt like he didn't recognize the man in front of him at all.

He said, "I was crazy to save you."