When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

For a second, Joad and Zhang Luotuo didn't understand what Lu Xing meant. They froze because he seemed to arrest them, and Joad's muscles were tense to the extreme.But the words that followed immediately poured down like a basin of cold water.

1 minute, only 1 minute.Lu Xing's voice was so loud that it rang the bell in the night and woke up the sleeping people. Joad's eyes flashed and he immediately understood.Zhang Luotuo sensed it a little later.But at this moment they all woke up from the illusion of sleep.

Almost at the same time, they turned their heads and looked at each other.

Zhao Yi, her helper, they set up an ambush in this small game hall, and they have 60 seconds to escape.Time had begun to pass, and the vanished voice was turning in their ears.

"Go." Joad said, mouthing to him.They walked towards the door, stepping past the tiny pixels on the table behind them, ignoring Lu Xing's even breathing with his eyes closed.But they stopped hesitantly when they reached the door.

Where should they go?Impossible to go to the first floor.There was an ambush on the first floor, and Zhao Yi was watching with a murder weapon.They also can't go upstairs because they only have 60 seconds.Zhang Luotuo took a deep breath and calmed down.He looked left and right, and the scream of the protagonist of the game came towards them through the door.The room to the right was empty, and there was no sound in it.

"Do you remember?" Joad lowered his head and asked him, "What kind of building is next to this broken game hall..."

"Hotel." Zhang Luotuo replied.he remembers.They saw it before they walked in.The cheap hotel is connected to the far right of the building, and their balconies are next to the windows here.

They walked simultaneously to the room on the right, which was empty.The dark room, covered with holograms on the table, sensed someone approaching, blinded expectantly, but they just walked right past, to the window.The light from the window flowed in from the edge of the curtains, Joad stepped forward, pulled the curtains aside abruptly, opened the window, and the cold wind immediately swept in like waves.

Zhang Luotuo leaned out to check the scene outside. The street was deserted, and Nanping's day had not been awakened yet.

He looks to the right.A huge billboard dangled in front of his eyes, and Zhang Luotuo could even see the faint yellow color caused by rust. 'Home away from home' hotel.It says.But persuasion is clearly lackluster.Under the billboard, countless simple balconies formed a parallel line, one of which was very close to the window, as if one could step over it by leaning out.

Zhang Luotuo took a deep breath and looked downstairs.Walking pedestrians, traffic lights, blurred gray fog, no one noticed them.

There was no time to hesitate any longer, he knew.

He turned his head and said to Joad, who put his hand gently on his shoulder and comforted him, "I'll go faster, so you can follow me."

"You go first. I will stay and confront Zhao Yi, and I will make her think that you are indeed dead." But Qiao De shook his head and touched his earlobe very gently.

Zhang Luotuo was stunned for a moment, but he immediately knew that Qiao De was right, and Zhao Yi would not hurt Qiao De, he could feel that they were friends for several years after all.He gave Joad a reluctant look, nodded, stretched out one foot, and stepped out of the window.The cold wind beat against his feet.Zhang Luotuo trembled.cold.he thinks.

"Then where am I waiting for you?" He thought for a while, then turned around and asked uneasily.

"...Home." Joad did not hesitate, he stared at Zhang Luotuo, and replied firmly.

Zhang Luotuo froze for a moment, he looked at Qiao De.Joad returned him the same look.But Zhang Luotuo could find other things in those gazes, Joad’s hesitation and confusion were mixed in it, the stories Lu Xing told obviously affected his heartstrings, those unsettled feelings—bypassing his emotions Management spilled out.Zhang Luotuo thought for a while, grabbed the window sill with one hand, and leaned into the room.

He touched Joad's cheek lightly with his lips. "See you later." He looked back at Joad who was stunned, and said softly, he felt his face was burning, and the fine tremors drilled into his bone marrow.

He let go of Joad's hand, leaned carefully out of the window, and shot half his body out, his feet dangling in the air, and the air made him a little dizzy.This is nothing, he has also faced a thousand meters of altitude.He comforted himself, while being careful not to let his feet fall off the tops of countless people.He took a deep breath, grabbed the right rail, and put one foot on it, on the tile.

Half of his body was detached from the game hall, then two-thirds of his body, and he carefully let his other foot land on the tiles, and then his other hand.Both his hands gripped the railing hard.The guardrail trembled slightly, and some iron filings flew down.

Now the balcony is right in front of us, separated only by a guardrail.

He took a step, one foot over the guardrail.He touched the cold gray floor, and the pastel curtains slid softly over his left foot.Then there's the other foot.A gust of cold wind floated past, his body leaned forward, and then stepped over the guardrail.

He is safe.calm.he thinks.

Shaking, he landed safely on the hotel balcony.

He turned his head and waved to Joad, who was watching him intently. He was on the other side, in the game hall, less than half a meter away from him, but it seemed to be far away.

Joad nodded, he took one last look at Zhang Luotuo, turned and left, and his figure disappeared into the window.

Zhang Luotuo closed his eyes and took a deep breath.Endless wind.In the darkness, he seemed to see Joad stepping across the empty room and back down the corridor.Under his feet was the floor, and in the gap, Zhao Yi and her companion raised their weapons.

Joad hurried through the corridor, ignoring the sound of explosions and falling gold coins.He pushed open the door, walked up to Lu Xing, and sat down.

The main character with blue hair dances on the table.Tiny pixels make giant phantoms.

On the opposite side, Lu Xing slowly opened his eyes.

Zhang Luotuo suddenly opened his eyes.He gritted his teeth, endured the soreness of his muscles and the weakness of his legs, and stood up.

He has to leave too.

He opened the balcony and went into the room, luckily no one was there, which saved him from explaining.He bypassed the messy bedding and the juice spilled everywhere, gritted his teeth, opened the door, and walked into the corridor with complex smells.A few people in flowered shirts were chatting with cigarettes by the window. When they heard the sound of the door opening, they turned their heads casually, and then turned their heads indifferently, continuing to indulge in meaningless conversations.Zhang Luotuo lowered his head so that they would not see his face. He quietly held his breath to avoid the stench of morphine and tobacco.

He walked to the first floor, where the proprietress was lying soundly asleep in front of the counter, facing a TV that was as thin as a piece of paper.He wanted to go out through the gate, but stopped immediately.He saw people from Zhao's area, they were wandering outside the hotel, running constantly.

"Without him!" roared the man at the front.Zhang Luotuo pretended to be calm and retreated, and returned to the corridor as if nothing had happened amid the singing of the radio.

He heard footsteps of those people entering the hotel, he heard voices of inquiries. "Wake up, have you seen this man?" They said to the proprietress.

He walked down the corridor, blinking, and he saw a door at the end of the corridor, and there was a gap in the door, showing light, which seemed to be the back door, leading to another street.

He walked over, trembling, pushing the door open with sweaty palms.He went out and closed the door tightly.

There was a bright but desolate avenue in front of me, a few pedestrians hurried past, and the driver of a taxi taxi stayed on the ground boredly, chewing gum, and played a pop song mixed in Japanese and Chinese at the loudest.

Zhang Luotuo walked straight over and opened the hatch of the spaceship.

"Get out of here," he said, avoiding the driver's surprised stare.

The hotel dwindled under his feet.

He didn't know how he got back to Zheng Zheng's house.He closed the door, took off his shoes, and the fur fluttered into his face.He slumped on the couch, crashing into his soft pink belly.He was motionless, sweat soaked his back like a map, pain and weakness invaded his mind, and his neck and stomach began to ache.

Lu Xing's face, Joad's face, the orange-haired girl's smile, they flashed and disappeared one by one.He closes his eyes.

He slept for 10 minutes, then sat up, hugged Maomao in the living room, and waited for a long time. He looked at the clock from time to time, waiting made him a little restless.He listened carefully to the sound of the elevator running outside the door, expecting it to make a loud noise, someone walking here.Don't know how about Joad?he thought uneasily.People in the management department would not attack their own people. He knew this truth. Joad told him a long time ago, but he was still a little worried about the long silence.He closed his eyes, as if returning to the game hall. On the second floor, he was next to Joad, looking down from the balcony, and saw Zhao Yi looking around, waiting for the signal.

Joad looked at him.Joad.Joad.Those gray eyes... Thinking of those eyes, Zhang Luotuo's bones began to ache, perhaps because of the cold wind.

He waited for three hours.Three full hours.At night, the crowd outside the window is getting denser, and the windows of each building are lit up with various lights. The sky remains the same as before, staying on a kind of gray with high saturation, dull like a broken computer drawing board.

Zhang Luotuo stood up, his hands and feet were cold.He had been waiting for too long, and Mao Mao fell asleep in his arms, and it rolled uncomfortably in his arms, enjoying the trembling under the touch of Zhang Camel's fingers.

Maybe he couldn't wait.Zhang Luotuo thought.He thought of Zeng Lin, Lu Xing, and the holographic image on the table, and Qiao De's reassurance became unconvincing at this moment.

He began to panic and a little hasty.He had to go and see what was going on.He quickly walked to the sofa, picked up his clothes, put on his shoes, and walked to the door.

The door lock clicked lightly.It was suddenly opened.

He raised his head and froze.

Joad walked in, he was covered with thin rain, his face was pale, his expression looked dull and indifferent, on the contrary, something seemed to be burning inside him, his eyes were shining, gray like some kind of crystal .

Zhang Luotuo was stunned for a second, but only for a second.Then he rushed up and hugged Joad tightly.

Joad didn't move, his hands hung in the air helplessly: "I still have rain on my body." He whispered.

Zhang Luotuo didn't speak, he just hugged him tightly.After a long time, Joad's hand was helplessly lowered, landed on his back, and patted awkwardly.Zhang Luotuo buried his head in Joad's arms.The icy cold damp spread out, mixed with a trace of temperature.He doesn't feel cold, his limbs and nerves tell him these are the warmest few seconds.

They hugged for a long time, very long, so long that Zhang Luotuo's heart sank gently enough.Joad was before him, perfectly safe.He thought, taking a deep breath.

At night, they lie in bed, and the bedroom is covered by the quiet black secreted by the curtains.Joad took a shower, and changed into a blue velvet shirt as usual. The shirt was stuck to the skin of a camel, and the camel slipped his hand through the blue needle thread inadvertently.Joad was tired, his face was still pale from the shower, not covered by the heat at all, his skin was almost like some kind of temperatureless machine, the only thing burning was his gray eyes, as if caught in the flames, it was in Struggling in the night, like eternal pain and thinking about something.Zhang Luotuo didn't ask him, and didn't say anything else. He just opened his eyes, lay on the bed, and walked gently on the shining blue with his hands.

He waited.

Joad's voice sounded in the darkness.

"It's over." He said, tired and calm, "Lu Xing just pressed the alarm when I went in."

Zhang Luotuo blinked in the dark.

"Zhao Yi and the others rushed up, only to see Lu Xing and me. She was furious, and tried to ask Lu Xing if he had seen me. Lu Xing kept his promise, and he didn't say anything. She searched around by herself , but nothing was found. She asked me again, and I told her that you are dead, can I leave? She seemed a little hesitant, but let me go anyway. Go around a few more times."

"After getting rid of them..." Joad paused, lowered his head, his tone became hesitant, "...I went to the cemetery."

Zhang Luotuo turned around and faced Qiao De.He saw Joad's eye in the dark, it was shining and burning, and something had broken its captivity.

He waited for Joad's next words, but he didn't wait for a long time.After a long time, so long that he thought that Joad had fallen asleep, and began to tentatively listen to the sound of even breathing in the air, Joad's voice sounded after a long absence.

"It's all true, I've checked it." He said, with a cold tone, as if it had nothing to do with him.But Zhang Luotuo immediately realized that was not the case.

Joad was trembling, trembling slightly, the blackness gave him the space to be unrestrained, language was his last barrier, his eyes glowed in vain, as if they could not burn out.Zhang Luotuo looked in and saw that the ice sheet was melting, and they passed away quietly.

It's fine.Zhang Luotuo said softly, it's all right.He didn't know what else to say besides this at this moment.He leaned over, held Joad's cold hand, and gently stroked that back.But he felt as if his stomach had been cut open, and all the feeling of being swallowed leaked out of his body at this moment, eating back at his skin, and Joad's pain was played out on him again.

It's fine.He felt his words were like weak twigs.Joad's blue velvet suit gently covered every centimeter of his skin.Joad hugged him without making any sound, not speaking, breathing, sighing, not even crying.But a drop of something like warm water invaded Zhang Camel's neck and spread to every part of his body.In it, pain is like an indivisible molecule.

"I'm here..." Zhang Luotuo said dryly, he looked at the ceiling, which had become old due to years of illness, he comforted, "I'm here..." He closed his eyes, and didn't finish the sentence sentence.He himself didn't know what he was talking about.He comforted in vain, a kind of sympathetic pain drilled into his mind.

He hugged Joad, feeling his pain, his headache was so severe that it seemed to be tearing through the past, and he whimpered, holding back the pain.At this time, he felt the emotion of sympathy, which was like a keyword connected to the program generated in his heart.He suddenly remembered Zheng Zheng's words: Lu Xing and I share the same disease and pity each other.At this moment, he suddenly understood.Sympathetic, he was never able to leave the city without even knowing that he was imprisoned.And Joad and the others thought they could leave, and it was in the near future.They are full of expectations, and four years is just a short moment in their lives.But in fact, what they are facing is a lie, they can only stay, forced.In fact, neither he nor Joad could leave Chongqing.

They were actually locked in the same cage.

"Leave Earth, go to Mars."

He suddenly thought of that idea again, which Joad thought could come true, and he even wanted to take Zhang Luotuo back with him, leave Chongqing, and go back to Mars.But the idea was so absurd that they could blow it off with a breath, like now.

But Zhang Luotuo didn't abandon it, nor did he say it out loud.

He pondered the word, and it sounded incredible to him.

He clearly and profoundly thought of some scenery he had never seen before, and they crashed into his imagination along with his poor words, smashing the silent tears.

Blue sea water, black extremely cold night.A strange longing-like feeling spread from his limbs along with the pain.

He saw extinct birds, with their light feathers, flying in the dark, free, not bound by anything, going wherever they wanted.

If only they could be like those extinct birds.

He didn't say the words, but his eyes sparkled and his breathing became labored.He wiped away his tears and hugged Joad tightly.