Tropical Highway

"Real's Digital World" invites you to listen to songs together.

This reminder popped up in the software, as if the layer of glass separating them had finally cracked.

Zhai Lan hesitated before choosing to accept. He put on the headphones. In the car, the noise reduction effect was mediocre but it was enough to hear clean guitar chords.Looking down at the screen, the heads of the two people are close together, the white line is in the shape of earphones, and Zhai Lan's own head is completely black, with a star in the middle, which is very simple next to You Zhen.

The silhouette of the young man holding the guitar can't see the facial features clearly, the angle is wrong, the half-length hair covers the straight bridge of the nose, leaving only the somewhat tough jaw line and the flat and wide shoulders.

You Zhen played a gentle slow rock song. After the human voice was added, it was as gentle as a spring breeze, which well soothed the inexplicable hotness during the bumps.

There are small characters below, reminding Zhai Lan and the others that they are 5 kilometers apart at this time.

The words in the private message box that scare people first and then make them happy for a short time are still placed in the most conspicuous place. For the first time, the virtual and reality built by the Internet overlap, and unilateral wishful thinking has become tacit understanding.

Real's Digital World: Found You.

The vinyl on the listening interface is spinning, the album’s tone and cover are like a light green pond, there are melodious riffs and a low-key bass that supports the whole song, and the drums are light and rhythmic.Zhai Lan looked out of the window, and the melody full of summer flavor fit perfectly with the snow-capped mountains and Tangtang River at this moment.

After listening to a song, the distance was extended to 10 kilometers. When we were about to reach the urban area, there were neat white street lights and buildings on both sides.Zhai Lan stared at that sentence for a moment, then clicked on the real-time chat. . : I didn't intend to hide it, but you are too slow. :Just discovered.

Real's Digital World: Less Come This Set

His stubbornness was seen through, but Zhai Lan couldn't help laughing. He pursed his lips to cover up his smile to prevent Li Feimu from finding out that he was abnormal, and then gave You Zhen a full stop that was exactly the same as his nickname.

Real's Digital World: Where have you been? . : Urban area, I'm so hungry.

The high-five emoji occupies the entire screen, and You Zhenku hahas that he is also very hungry and the food at the airport is too expensive. . : No boarding?

Real: After a short delay, Tenzin and I were playing backgammon. . : You can't even beat a child.

Real: ...

Real: Zhai Lan, your words are really stinging, thanks to me not holding grudges.

The news from the two sides is put together, which is in sharp contrast to the regular and heart-wrenching letterhead before, and it is more like their daily conversation.There is a sense of distance, but it is not completely back to the past, after all, something has begun to change. . : Then what do you think I should do?

You Zhen was silent for a long time.

Zhai Lan put down the phone, closed her eyes lightly, and listened intently to the third song played by You Zhen.

Like a siren chanting, some musical instrument rustled in the background, reminding him of the dawn that passed through Hoh Xil not long ago.Zhai Lan thought, what would You Zhen think of him then, but now?Should he express further to You Zhen?If he wants to do it, does he have to choose a good time?

...But he has no experience, it's too difficult.

Teasing, teasing, probing, if there is nothing to seduce, even if he enters the adult world, Zhai Lan can't even explain these words in text, the theory is still being learned, and the practice test is waiting in line until the year of the monkey.

Zhai Lan sighed.

I'm so annoyed, if I knew how to pretend to be mature and stable that day and have seen the world, it would be better if You Zhen said "I like boys" in one step and asked him directly: "Then do you like me or not?"

His mind was confused for a moment, he was speechless about his cowardice, he noticed the dialog box again, still no answer.You Zhen might be moving, so the number between them keeps updating, Zhai Lan poked his head, and the question he sent disappeared because of too long.

Just when he thought that You Zhen would pretend that he didn't see it, he went straight to the next topic, and the silhouette holding the guitar popped out a sentence.

Real: Just be real.

Real: I kind of like being aggressive by you hahaha. . : take medicine when sick

You Zhen used the software's built-in emoji to send him a smiling face that occupied the full screen.

Real: Boarding, boarding!

As soon as this sentence was sent, the signal over there seemed to be incoherent, and the music was suddenly cut off from it.

But You Zhen's profile picture was still close to him, and they had just listened to the song for 34 minutes.

Zhai Lan raised his head and saw his own reflection on the glass door of a restaurant by the side of the road.He was surprised by the bright smile, paused, raised his hand and rubbed the corner of his mouth twice, trying to smooth it out.

The wind was hot from the sun, and Zhai Lan turned back two pages of their few chat records, pressed the play button, and stood in the shadow of the tree to hear the song that You Zhen hadn't finished playing until the end. It was getting cloudy.

After the ebb tide of happiness, Zhai Lan was worried about gains and losses again.

From the first time they spoke, they spent only 15 days getting along with each other.At this moment, Zhai Lan recalled that he didn't know You Zhen used to go, what kind of people he liked, which band he liked the most, how he would pass the time when he was not working, whether he had any other hobbies, and whether he would eat food and drinks that he would never get tired of. which kind...

But he is sure that he likes You Zhen.

Or love, though his definition of love is complex and superficial.

Because as long as You Zhen appears, Zhai Lan can't help but walk towards him——

run to him.

The distance to listen to the song changed from 5 kilometers to 30 kilometers. When I returned to Renqing Village, the night was low, and Zhai Lan lay in the bed and opened it to the empty bed on the other side. It was already 1700 kilometers.

You Zhen probably only had leisure on the day he just arrived, and he could play two Japanese songs for him.He said that these songs came from a disbanded Japanese band, but Yuzhen was only in his teens when they held their last concert, and he didn't know that there was such a thing on the other side of the sea.

"Their lyrics are very old-fashioned, but I have always liked them." You Zhen stubbornly refused to use other contact methods, and quickly sent Zhai Lan one message after another in the real-time chat.

Zhai Lan seldom speaks, these are unfamiliar areas for him, and You Zhen tries to lead him into them.

He said, "I don't understand a lot of what you said."

"It doesn't matter, a little feeling is enough." You Zhen typed quickly, "It's like, for example, when you listen to the song I wrote, you can think of the winter when the camphor tree is wet by the rain."

The idea of ​​Swing Empire is very cute, but the guitar sound is dry enough, and the live version sounds like torn metal in the end.A long solo was coming to an end, but Zhai Lan felt that there was something else from far to near. He took off an earphone in a daze, and walked to the window.

The sound of rain is pattering, warm and humid, the soil is very fishy, ​​and the leaves are bitter.

Why did it start to rain when You Zhen left Renqing Village?

What came back to him was a voice, quite long, with a slow-tempo love song as the background music, it felt novel to listen to it, and Zhai Lan smiled unconsciously again, half lying on the bed, covering the earphone with his hand to make You Zhen speak more clearly.

"I just arrived. I sent Tenzin to his sister's place in the afternoon. In the evening, several members of the band had dinner together and held a welcome party for him. We ate skewers and drank some wine, but I didn't drink. I still felt a little uncomfortable. "

"what happened?"

"I haven't adapted to the difference in altitude yet, both Tenzin and I, although this time we didn't go to places where the oxygen is too thin."

Zhai Lan joked that you should go hiking in Medog.

You Zhen said that anyone who has a dream is amazing.

Okay, wait until that day and tell me half a year in advance, and try it with you.

You Zhen asked him, are you afraid of being tired?

"The mountain of knives and the sea of ​​fire are with you, so what's the point of being tired?"

It just so happened that one of the turns was too sharp, almost covering Zhai Lan's half-truth and half-fake joke.He guessed that you really wanted to pretend not to understand, leaning against the window, quickly preparing several plans in his mind to cover up why he blurted out the truth just now.

But You Zhen asked him: "How old are you, do you love talking about mountains of swords and seas of fire?"

"What's wrong?" Zhai Lan was not convinced.

"The mountains of swords and seas of fire do not exist."

Zhai Lan: "Stop doing this."

He responded with You Zhen's ridicule a few hours ago, but You Zhen never said anything more.If the implication is too obvious, the hazy tacit understanding is lost, and this should be one of the most precious things he and You Zhen have at the same time.Maybe after separating them by a long distance, the credibility of some words will not be so high, so You really don't believe it.

He doesn't understand post-rock, doesn't know how to make coffee, and has limited common topics due to his age difference, but he will shed tears for You Zhen's songs.

"Don't think I'm easy to coax." Zhai Lan finally said, "I'm serious."

It's almost a demonstration, but how can anyone say it like a confession?

A while after Zhai Lan's voice fell, You Zhen lowered his voice like a sigh, for fear of disturbing someone, or not being sure of the direction so he couldn't find the starting point when searching.

"...Go to sleep." You Zhen said, "Good night."

Zhai Lan said yes, and didn't say good night to him, but she didn't go to bed immediately either.

The randomly played playlist is still going on, and You Zhen doesn't know that this function will only stop when you completely exit, or it will be automatically disconnected if there is no signal like in the afternoon.He cut songs one by one, as if he was very irritable, and changed after listening for two seconds, until he found a 9-minute post-rock.

Zhai Lan leaned against the window, he took off his earphones, and turned the volume of his phone to the maximum.

That riff only has a few syllables that loop continuously, as if driving in a smooth but unknown tunnel.Mixed with the sound of rain, he was wrapped in slightly cold air, as if he was drenched from the inside out.

The distance is 1668 kilometers.

I have been listening to music for 3 hours and 21 minutes.

The author says:

The song that the online dating elementary school chicken listens to is "Southern Butterfly Road" by Tianmeihao. It is the first time I got a song after rocking. I recommend it

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