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The Tongjing Island in my memory was not very rich.Almost all the islanders rely on fishing for their livelihood, and this is the case year after year. In addition, the region is remote, and people on the island cannot go out, and people outside the island do not want to come in. can gradually become poorer.

Xie's father and son lived on such a small island. Xie Hengyan was never allowed to go out. Most of the time he stayed in their small room, lying quietly by the window, looking at the beach where the waves beat outside the window, and docking on the beach from time to time. Fishing boats on the shore.

Even though those fishing boats gradually disappeared.

At the end of the period, Tongjing Island was almost reduced to an uninhabited desert island.However, in the final analysis, it is also the hometown where Xie Hengyan lived for 20 years, and no matter whether it is deserted or dead, since Xie Hengyan remembers it, it is a lifetime memory, even if it is only half a grain of dust and plaster on the sand, he can still recognize it. Clearly.

"It doesn't seem...it was." Xie Hengyan said with almost certainty.Then he walked forward a little bit, his heels lightly tapping a broken plank on the sand, "This was originally a pier."

After speaking, he pointed to a vague path in the depths: "Go further in, and it will be my home."

"What is your house?" Kang asked, looking at the white sand all over the ground in surprise, "How do you know, it's your house?"

Xie Hengyan said: "My own family, of course I know it." Then he broke away from Yin Chun's hand and stepped onto the flat sandy ground in front of him, looking impatient.

Yin Chunkang was also at a loss when he asked, so he could only follow along in a hurry. Seeing Xie Hengyan walking fast and anxiously, he didn't know which direction he was heading, and there was still a large expanse of sand in front of him. A series of imprints of different shades are left on the soft sand.

Originally thinking that he was going to keep going like this, Kang Wen was even a little impatient, but not long before, a shadow suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and there appeared a hollow shape like a house, but Xie Hengyan somehow, The footsteps became faster and faster, almost scrambling and rushing towards that place.

Fortunately, Yin Chun still had reason, so he quickly stopped Xie Hengyan's shoulder and asked, "...Why are you running around like this?"

Xie Hengyan opened her almond eyes and said dryly, "That's my house..."

"What is your house and my house?" Kang Wen looked around for a while, and the surrounding area was full of emptiness and emptiness. The shadow of a half-empty house in front of him seemed abrupt, rather like a sudden A strange shadow appeared, mixed with an indescribable evil spirit inside and outside, "...I think you are also delusional. Who is this house? The ground is full of sand, and a house suddenly vacated , you have the guts to go in casually?"

Yin Chun saw the same thing, they walked all the way on such a long flat land, not to mention a house along the way, there was not even a tree, flowers and grass, but now suddenly there was a phantom of a house, floating in the gray and white ground all over the place. In the middle of the gravel, it is impossible to say that there is nothing strange.

So Yin Chun pulled Xie Hengyan back, and said: "Don't panic, this is inside the enchantment, not its original place... Whether it is Tongjing Island or not, what you see and hear before you may be illusory."

"No... you, Yin Zhu, you accompany me to have a look."

Xie Hengyan never took his eyes off that house, he was almost certain that the wooden fences inside and outside the house, the fence, and the familiar carved window and wooden door, seemed to be the same as when he left home a few years ago.But he didn't know why it was reduced to such a wasteland of nothingness in front of him. He could only keep moving forward by feeling, just like he wandered and waited countless times along the road home many years ago.

Yin Chun couldn't bear Xie Hengyan's plea, so the two approached the direction of the lonely wooden house, but Kang Wen followed behind with doubts, and raised his voice to ask: "Hey, you are really crazy! Find a way to end the knot Jie, why are you running to that kind of place?"

As everyone knows, Xie Hengyan is really crazy. After years of wandering, his desire to go home has never been so urgent.

Along the way, he dragged Yin Pong forward without hesitation, crossed the cold and thick sand, and went straight to the door of the house in the distance, and finally stopped panting, and stood still without saying a word.

"This is really my home!" Xie Hengyan said in a trembling voice, "It's Tongjing Island, there's nothing wrong with it!"

——Xie Cong used to be the only carpenter on the island. The wooden house of their family was built by Xie Cong himself. There are several steps, carved handrails and window sills, including those familiar quaint patterns, and there are traces left by Xie Cong everywhere.

but……

Why did their home appear in the enchantment set up by Wu Nian?

Xie Hengyan stepped forward tentatively, but on the several wooden steps in front of the door, he did not feel the dust that had been left unattended for many years... On the contrary, this room looked the same as when he left home a few years ago. There is not much difference, as if someone is constantly counting and cleaning inside and outside.

"Father!" Xie Hengyan knocked on the door anxiously, "...Are you in, Father?!"

No one answered in the room, the wooden door was closed tightly, and there was no sound from the beginning to the end.

Yin Chun said: "Maybe it's just an illusion, no matter how hard you knock, no one will answer."

"Whether it's an illusion or not, you'll know if you open the door!" Kang Wen suddenly kicked up, hitting the door panel impartially, there was an ear-piercing sound, Xie Hengyan just wanted to stop it, but it was too late—— — This wooden door had been in disrepair for a long time, and when Kang Wen kicked it so forcefully, it lost its balance in an instant and collapsed into the house.

Yue Mo Kangwen didn't expect such a result, he was still inexplicably startled at the moment, but fortunately Xie Hengyan had no intention of arguing with him, now seeing that the door has fallen down, he just stepped over the threshold and walked in without caring about anything.

"Xie Hengyan?!"

Yin Chun was still calling him behind his back, but Xie Hengyan seemed to have lost his soul, walked along the steps to the door, and stepped into the room alone, leaving only a dazed figure behind.

Yin Chun remembered that Xie Hengyan said that when he lived on Tongjing Island, Xie Cong often restricted his movements, so Xie Hengyan had very little nostalgia for home, but in the past when he was in a lonely situation without company, he would subconsciously Following Xie Cong's footsteps, he walked farther and farther.

Even if Xie Cong intended to abandon him, he never thought of giving up for a moment.

"Xie Hengyan..." Yin Zhu called out in a low voice.

"Hush." ​​Xie Hengyan didn't turn her head, but turned her back to him, making a silent gesture.They walked slowly all the way to the inner room in the direction of the collapsed door, while Kang Wen stood guard far outside the threshold, only showing a half-frightened head, and kept calling inside: "What are you doing?"

——In the wooden house left by Xie Cong before leaving, all the furnishings in the house have not changed in any way, the corners between the wooden cabinets and the window sills have not been dusted, and there are fresh bouquets in the porcelain vases by the table, even the breath of ordinary people's life Never dissipated half a point.

Xie Hengyan was alone, walking in the front, touching the clean window sill, the corner of the old table from time to time, including the piles of books on the bookshelf, as well as the half-old and half-new candlesticks and incense burners—everything remained the most familiar from before. The appearance, as if the time here has formed a freeze frame.

"Father?" Xie Hengyan couldn't help calling out, "...Xie Cong? Are you there, Xie Cong?"

Still no one responded, except for the whistling wind coming and going outside the window, there was only the undulating breathing of the three people in the cabin.Xie Hengyan held back his temper and searched for a while in the front hall of the wooden house, but did not find anyone for a while, and then passed through a wooden door——that was the room he used to live in, and all the furnishings in it remained unchanged. Exactly the same as when he first left the island.

"Strange..." Xie Hengyan said, "Why is this happening?"

Yin Chun asked: "What?"

"This place...is no different from a few years ago." Xie Hengyan said in disbelief, "What it looked like when I left, and what it looks like now when I come back...It looks like someone lives there all the time."

Yin Chu thought for a while, then Fang said: "This is inside the enchantment, the current time may be different from the outside."

In other words, when they were trapped in Fuze Mountain, the disordered barrier in the backyard of Li Haishuang’s house, including the Yongcun Island that later caused time compression—but as long as someone wants to control it, nothing is impossible .

However, there is only one point in it, Xie Hengyan must figure it out.

Regardless of Yin Chun's obstruction, he opened the door alone, and quickly stepped into the courtyard formed by the fence of the wooden house.

"Xie Hengyan!" Yin Chu hurriedly chased after him, "You are always alone, why are you panicking?"

Kang Wen also followed behind Yin Chun, and said in a little panic, "What are you planning to do?!"

But at this moment, the open courtyard of the wooden house is covered with withered grass and stretches into the distance, and the gray-white gravel blown by the wind is constantly blowing up. Because there is nothing to cover it, the scene presented is far more embarrassing than the inner room. .

And in the corner of the backyard, hidden by dead branches and weeds half a person's height, a phantom of a wooden recliner suddenly appeared, and now accompanied by a breeze from nowhere, it was up and down and swaying .

——There was another familiar figure on the recliner.

The blue-gray long gown and the white hair dyed with frost and snow, even if they are far away from each other, they can be seen to be exactly the same.

Xie Hengyan didn't even dare to approach, he was afraid that the result would be too far from what he imagined.Therefore, he only dared to stand still far away, watching the blue-gray shadow in silence, until after a long, long time, he mustered up the courage, opened his mouth slowly, and called out: "Father."

No response, nothing.

The picture in front of them seemed to be still. Since they first entered the enchantment until now, everything seems to have stayed at a certain point in time, without even the slightest subtle change.

"Father!" Xie Hengyan took a step forward, suddenly opened his throat, and called out in a trembling voice, "Xie Cong, can you hear me?!"

"Yan Yan calm down." Yin Zhen hurriedly grabbed his arm, and persuaded him in a low voice, "He may not be Xie Cong, don't be stupid and take it seriously!"

Xie Hengyan shook his head and said, "No, let me go and have a look."

Yin Chun: "Xie Hengyan!"

"My own father, how could I not know it?" Xie Hengyan said, pushing the seal away a little, and went to the depths of the weeds alone, the familiar figure on the swaying wooden recliner.

Yin Chun had no choice but to follow up again, took Xie Hengyan's cold palm, and still comforted him softly: "Think about it carefully, your father has something to do on his own, how could he appear here rashly?"

Then Xie Hengyan saw Xie Cong suddenly, as if he lost his soul for no reason, he stumbled towards the weedy corner of the backyard, and said almost without looking back: "Then what if he has finished all the things at hand and just wants to Wait here for me to go home?"

How can it be?

At that time, Xie Cong's attitude was obvious, presumably because Changsheng didn't want to see Xie Hengyan again.Even if there is any difficulty, it is impossible to appear at such a crucial moment.

Yin Chun held back for a long time, only choked the phrase "he won't come back" into his throat, and when he was about to say something more, Xie Hengyan stepped forward stubbornly, put his hand on the back of the chair, and called out hopefully : "... Father!"

It's a pity that his hope soon turned into another form of despair.

Because when Xie Cong on the "recliner" turned his head, what they saw was not the facial features that were completely similar to Xie Hengyan in the past—but another one, with a swollen face, a broken skull, and countless bloodstains under his eyes, almost Fragmented skeleton grimacing.

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Let me explain that Yin Zhu's guess here is not wrong, they are now in a barrier with a different time from the outside world.

This time compression is divided into two types, one is Yongcun Island, where everyone lives normally, but the original rhythm is disrupted, and the speed is forcibly accelerated

The other is at Li’s house in Fuze Mountain. They watch Li Haishuang’s entire past. That kind of space is like a revolving lantern, a folding space, which is equivalent to countless parallel worlds in it... For details, refer to Doraemon’s Time Machine?It's almost the same meaning, but there is no way to predict the future.

Then this folding space is a great foreshadowing, and it will be used soon, so you can pay attention to the little cuties here!