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"Cough-cough, cough cough cough..." After a whirlwind, I was picked up from the water.The sea water choked into the nostrils, and even the eyes felt aching and sour.I leaned on his arm and coughed violently, which made my chest ache.

"Is there anything wrong!?" Jiang Heng pulled me into his arms with one hand, and said anxiously, "I told you not to go into the deep water, you still insist on rushing in..."

The moment I heard his voice, all the defenses I had built up with lies for so long collapsed.I coughed out a sob at once, my vocal cords were tearing harshly, and my tears fell into the sea indiscriminately.

I didn't expect to see him again, not in this way.

I miss him so much... miss him so much...

The more I listened to his voice, the clearer the words he said to me in the ruins, those words that came out with the dying gasps drilled into my ears like crazy, reminding me that he was dead this fact.

But I am not reconciled.I was thinking desperately, in fact, Jiang Heng came out, and we also saw the sea, only those ghosts were my hallucinations, or another way of saying it, whatever, as long as I can go back to the time of insanity, give me Make up your own story-

But I know it myself, after the lie has been torn apart...

I can't fool myself a second time.

The only fact that I cannot accept in this world is now spread bloody in front of me; all the pain that has accumulated in the deepest part of my consciousness for more than half a year floods in, and it directly submerges me like sea water.

"...What's the matter?" Probably frightened by my reaction, Jiang Heng pulled me up, frowned and asked nervously, "Is there something uncomfortable?"

I looked up at him with a face full of tears.

Seeing me like this, he was at a loss at first, but finally he loosened his arms slowly, as if he gradually understood something.

The tears in my eyes turned into a flowing haze, I couldn't see his expression clearly at all, but I could feel that his breathing was a bit chaotic when he was close at hand.

Are these realities in front of me?Or is it another layer of fantasy after the fantasy is torn apart?Does Jiang Heng still exist?I couldn't tell the difference anymore, I gritted my teeth and pressed the cry to the base of my tongue, and asked tremblingly, "I'm crazy again... am I...?"

"No." He took a deep breath and answered lightly and firmly, then took my hand and brought it to his lips.

When his warm body temperature came from my fingertips, I was stunned for a moment, and a tear that couldn't be held fell down, making my eyes clear for a moment; at this second, I saw him smile at me: "I really want to you."

The eyebrows and eyes are curved, just like the countless times when he smiled at me before, it is as soft as a sea breeze that does not stir up any waves.

When the setting sun is at its strongest, the mighty sunset glow leaps across the thousands of miles of sea and rushes over, completely dyeing everything, dazzlingly beautiful.

I stared blankly at him, tears welling up in my eyes uncontrollably.

What does it feel like to meet again after a long absence?Probably at the beginning of the story, when I got off the train in Mrs. Huan's city and saw Jiang Heng, my heart beat so fast that I could suffocate.

What is it like to be reunited with life and death?

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What is Jiang Heng now...?

Jiang Heng buried his face on the side of my neck, rubbed my back slowly with one hand, and softly "shushed" when I was out of breath from crying: "Don't cry. You don't look as good as usual when you cry. .”

I held back my crying and asked intermittently: "You, you now... in the end..."

"ghost."

He answered quickly, and a syllable fell into my ear abruptly, as if trying to escape the word "I am", which made me startled for a moment, and then my eyes began to feel sore again.I pulled my lips and shook my head and smiled: "If I don't want to wake up... when are you going to tell me...?"

"Now." He sighed, "There are some things, it's useless to escape."

Hearing the word "escape", I trembled slightly.

ghost.

How could Jiang Heng be a ghost?Everyone other than me can interact with him, and I have also checked his body temperature, which is obviously lower than mine.He can cry and laugh, no different from before, how could he be the same as those hideous things...

But he was indeed dead.That was the last straw that I hated so much: he was pierced by steel bars and bled to death.right next to me.So close so close to the side.

But so what if he is a ghost?An idea popped into my mind suddenly.

He kept his promise to accompany me to see the sea, and he accompanied me through so many difficulties as before... There are so many people in this world who live without ghosts and ghosts. The ghost seeks the best way.So what if Jiang Heng is a ghost?

He is still him.As long as he can be by my side, it doesn't matter whether it's a human or a ghost, doesn't it?

Thinking of this, I seemed to have found a ray of light, wiped away my hazy tears and raised my head to look at him: "I don't care, I don't care what you are..."

He pursed his lips tightly after hearing what I said, and then lowered his voice, as if thinking that I would not be able to hear the trembling in his voice: "It's not too late... I am the eighth dead."

I froze in place, and then a sense of powerlessness hit me.

How did I forget.

He didn't just die in the earthquake.Jiang Heng's name appeared in Zongge's last book, which meant that he was the last sacrificial soul.If I want to seal Zongge, I have to do it myself...

I have sealed so many dead, whether it is hard to resent or die in peace, I can only sigh at most, but he is different.

He is Jiang Heng.It's Jiang Heng.

He died because of me, and now I'm going to...

i want to...

impossible.Absolutely impossible.

I wiped away the tight tear stains on my dry face, shook my head, turned around and staggered towards the shore, and said in a low voice, "I can't do it."

As long as the spirit does not move, the deceased will continue to stay in place.As long as I do nothing, the status quo will remain.

That's fine... I don't care...

He held my hand behind me, and shouted in a low voice: "It's not too late..."

"I can't do it!!" I looked back at him, my eyes were hurt by the bloody sunset, and I shed tears again. I yelled out the words I had accumulated in one breath, and the voice behind me was caught. Dao cried, "You can't...leave me twice."