under the tower

He covered his face, twitched his nose, and leaned against the door collapsed: "I'm sorry..."

Yan Yi lowered his eyes, unable to see the expression.

"But I don't love you." He said every word in the cruelest voice. "Ji Xi, listen carefully."

"You are the person I hate the most."

"If it's not for the love in the past." He smiled, "If we still have love."

In a moment, that smile disappeared immediately, leaving only endless coldness in his eyes, like a glacier in the polar region that has not melted for a thousand years.

"...I killed you long ago."

Ji Xi stared at him blankly.

He seemed to have completely lost the ability to understand: "What...?"

"I said..." Yan Yi looked down at him condescendingly, his tone was aggravated, his expression was extremely fierce, "...I want to strangle you right now."

Ji Xi trembled uncontrollably, it was his biological instinct to give an alarm when he was facing danger.

Yan Yi...is serious.

He really wanted to kill him.

After a while, the coercion over Ji Xi's head disappeared.

Yan Yi took a step back, walked to the driver's seat in the cabin, and stopped looking at him.

He said lightly: "10 minutes is up, you go back."

Ji Xi leaned against the door as if collapsed, tears streaming silently.

Then he wiped his face vigorously.

"Sometimes I even think..." Before leaving, he said softly, "...we might as well die in that cave."

The world is impermanent. It turned out that the life and death together at that time was really the best ending for the two of them.

With his back turned to him, Yan Yi remained silent for a long time before saying: "It's much easier to die than to live."

The meaning contained in that sentence was too heavy, as if from now on, there was only an endless desert in his life.

To this day, he still has no intention of telling Ji Xi everything.

This is him... the greatest tenderness to him.

At night, Ji Xi was still not feeling well, but she didn't vomit, but her mind was muddled and she just wanted to sleep.

The fishy smell of the sea made him very uncomfortable, so he returned to the cabin, took off his dirty clothes and threw them aside, then wrapped himself in a quilt and fell asleep.

All night, the ship's plank was shaking, and there was a lot of wind and rain, but the next day was a fine day.

The azure sea is calm, and the round red crow hangs in the sky, casting light like gold leaf on the ripples of the water.

Ji Xi opened the door, the sun was dazzling, he squinted subconsciously, and then walked to the back of the cabin.

There was a bucket of water next to the water pipe yesterday. Ji Xi squatted on the ground, took a spoonful, and splashed it on his face. It didn't taste salty, it was bland.

He was taken aback, thinking this could not be the water they saved to drink, right?It was used by myself to wash my face.

Just looking at Mao Hei's stingy behavior yesterday, if he found out, he would have thrown him directly into the sea to feed the sharks.

Just as he was thinking, Mao Hei's voice came from behind Ji Xi in a toneless manner.

Ji Xi trembled.

Unexpectedly, what Mao Hei said was: "Save it and use it."

Ji Xi turned her head and saw him standing behind her carelessly with arms crossed.

"...Mmm." He blinked, and the water that filled the eyelashes dripped down, like falling pearls in the sunlight.

Mao Hei just watched, but was stunned for a moment.

Then he turned around and walked away quickly without looking back.

No wonder... He muttered in his heart, this guy is really a goblin.

After Ji Xi simply washed up, he felt a little hungry. He got up late, and it was impossible for others to fire him alone. He sneaked lightly to the hut at the bow where they had dinner yesterday, and wanted to go to the kitchen to see if there was any food left. Leftovers to eat.

As soon as Ji Xi entered the door, he saw that there was no one on the dining table, only Yan Yi was sitting there, holding something like a map in his hand.

Ji Xi was speechless all of a sudden, and faltered: "...Morning."

Yan raised his head, expressionless: "Morning."

Ji Xi walked in cautiously. There was a small refrigerator on their boat. Before Ji Xi passed, Yan Yi seemed to know what he was going to do, and pushed a plate covered with a plastic cover towards him.

Ji Xi pulled out the chair and sat next to him, lifted the lid, but her eyes paused for a moment.

Inside was a round hard-boiled egg, next to it were two pieces of sliced ​​bread, and beside the plate was a lump of rose-red jam.

Ji Xi's nose felt sore again in an instant, but this time he held it back skillfully and said in a low voice, "...Thank you."

Yan Yi didn't look at him again, and didn't speak.

Ji Xi took the small silver spoon at hand, scooped up the lump of jam, and painted the whole piece of bread evenly in pink like a painting.

A piece of bread has been painted for a long time like embroidery.

He didn't pick it up until he confirmed that all the blanks were covered, folded the bread in half, bypassed the edge of the bread, and took a small bite from the softest part in the center.

Then, symmetrically, he took another small bite on the other side of the center.

At this time, unfold a piece of bread again, and see a petite love heart appearing in the vacant place in the center of the pink square.

Yan's entire face was covered by the map, Ji Xi moved towards him slightly and asked, "Have you eaten?"

Then pushed the plate and the bread away.

Yan Yi's eyes moved away from the map, and landed on the unusually eye-catching piece of pink bread.

"..."

"Eat." He said coldly.

"Oh..." Ji Xi's tone was low, a little disappointed, "Then if I..."

Yan Yi didn't give him a chance to say the second half of the sentence at all, and interrupted him directly: "If you dare not finish eating, you won't have your meal at noon today."

Ji Xi flinched, and immediately said: "...I can finish eating, I can finish eating."

Yan Yi ignored him.

Ji Xi grabbed the bread, didn't ask for water, and swallowed it, almost choking to death.

Then he went to try to peel the hard-boiled egg.

He had watched Yan Yi stripping many times before, and he learned it unconsciously.

He found the big side and tapped it, and carefully separated the broken shell bit by bit, as if doing an experiment.

Soon, a clean and complete white egg appeared on the plate.

Ji Xi hesitated for a moment, then put the egg in front of Yan Yi as if offering a treasure, and poked him lightly with one finger.

Yan Yi glanced at him, and said in a dangerous tone, "Can't you eat it?"

Ji Xi immediately shook his head, Sisiaiai said: "Here... for you to eat."

Eggs are very expensive things, let alone in the sea where supplies are scarce.

Yan Yi repeated: "I've already eaten."

He was firm in his refusal, so Ji Xi had no choice but to withdraw his hand.

After breakfast, Ji Xi was restless again, leaned over and asked in a low voice, "What are you looking at? So long?"

From the corner of his eye, he glanced at the contents of the paper in Yanyi's hand, and found that it was actually a map of Shencheng base.

After all, it was his own home, even if he just glanced at Ji Xi, he could think of the general idea.

"Hey, what do you want to know? Why don't you ask me, I know the most about Shencheng..."

As he said that, he wanted to follow the trend.

Yan Yi held him down and said in a deep voice, "It's none of your business, go aside."

Ji Xi was afraid that Yan Yi would find him annoying, so he immediately backed away obediently. He sat on the chair and said eagerly: "Then I'll stay here. If you want to know anything, just ask me, okay?"

Yan Yi didn't talk to him anymore, probably acquiescing.

Ji Xi sat on the side obediently, not daring to secretly glance at Yan Yi too presumptuously.

Under the occlusion of the map, Ji Xi could only see the upper half of the man's face, his eyes gliding past his gracefully curved eyebrows, slender eyelashes and high nose bridge.

The more he looked... the more he felt reluctant to let go.

He didn't dare to think that even if he just sat there and looked at him, he would be so happy, so nostalgic, but also so heartbroken.

It turns out that feelings are so sweet, bitter and sour.

He had only tasted sweetness before, and experienced the goodness Yanyi gave him, but now the bitterness and sourness he owed will be doubled back, making him miserable.

At noon, it suddenly began to rain heavily outside again.

When the wind suddenly picked up, the boat kept swaying on the sea surface, Ji Xi could only hold on to the wooden planks along the side of the boat, so that he could barely keep himself from falling when walking.

Suddenly there was a "boom", a loud noise exploded in his ears, the whole ship heaved violently, Ji Xi couldn't stand still at all, and fell to the ground with a bang.

"What's wrong?" He was taken aback.

Not far from the stern, thick gray smoke suddenly rose from the mast.

Ji Xi was shocked.

Mao Hei, who ran out from nowhere, immediately dragged him into the cabin at the bow.

"It's a tracking bomb." He said solemnly, "People from Beicheng have already caught up."

Chang Huai arrived immediately with his bodyguards. He was obviously a little excited, and his face was not very good-looking: "Why so fast?! That damned old man, don't care about other things, he is very active in arresting people!"

Mao Hei scratched his head anxiously, and rushed into the cab of the cabin: "Boss, how far are we from landing?"

"About ten kilometers. The wind is headwind now, and it will take half an hour at the earliest." Yan said, "Have you confirmed it? How is the situation on board now?"

"It's a good thing that the tracking bullet only hit the mast." Mao Hei replied, "I've confirmed that there is no water leak, but next time... I'm afraid we won't be so lucky."

Yan Yi frowned slightly, and calmly said: "You go and prepare emergency equipment first, if necessary, we will directly abandon the ship."

"Okay." Mao Hei went out immediately.

He inspected the three people outside, but his eyes fell on Chang Huai.

"Mr. Chang." He said, "Let me remind you, I'm afraid you won't be able to carry this wheelchair."

As soon as these words came out, Chang Huai was still sitting calmly. He raised his eyebrows: "What are you doing? You want to drive us off the boat?"

Mao Hei's face was dark: "It's not that I want to drive you away, it's your father who is forcing us to get off the boat!"

Chang Huai whistled and said to the bodyguard behind him, "Ayou, push me out."

The bodyguard named Ayou immediately got the order to push the wheelchair.

Mao Hei raised his eyebrows and shouted: "There are stray bullets outside, you don't want to die!"

Chang Huai smiled, turned the smart assistant that had been completely powered off and shut down in Huangdouda, and said leisurely: "It's all here, how can it fall short?"

After finishing speaking, Ah You opened a big umbrella and pushed him, braving the heavy rain, to the deck.

Chang Huai pinched the round smart assistant with his skinny fingers, brought it to his mouth, pressed the start button, and the blue mechanical light lit up. He used the last bit of power to say aloud——

"I'm right here, who dares to shoot—"

"I'm dead, none of you want to live!"