When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

They mean it, even though they promise nothing but promises.

After they left the sports field that day, they returned to Zheng Zheng’s home calmly, Qiao De went to work, and Zhang Luotuo stayed to clean Zheng Zheng’s room. They smiled as usual under Zheng Zheng’s sight, seemingly indistinguishable They began their day with ease, and let the day fill their chests.

Before disembarking from the spacecraft, Zhang Luotuo said goodbye to Joad, and Joad silently manipulated the steering wheel to let the spacecraft slide in the gray clouds.Zhang Luotuo turned his head and looked at him, ready to say goodbye, but at the same time he was a little uneasy.

He couldn't help thinking about their conversation in the alley.He was a little uneasy, worried that everything would pass like this, and Joad was only joking.But he saw Joad's eyes, and the light in Joad's eyes was still burning.

"We'll discuss it tonight," Joad said to him.He didn't finish, but Zhang Luotuo understood what he was referring to.

Zhang Luotuo felt his heart being lifted and lowered.

They are not just talking.

Escaping the city, escaping Chongqing sounds very good, but it also seems like a fantasy.How to escape?How to escape?Zhang Luotuo returned to Zheng Zheng's apartment, sat by the window and thought, he let Mao Mao actively jump on his hair, since it stayed on top of Joad's head, it found that it was a good place, Zhang Luotuo suspected it was by design The Nest Instinct that the team installed on it.Zhang Luotuo patted it and signaled it to sit down quietly, feeling the fluffy pink belly against the top of his head.

He looked to the closed window to his right, where the gray sky looked locked.

They say what they say on the spur of the moment, but don't know how to actually do it.What they have is almost equal to nothing.

He thought about it over the intermittent sound of the news broadcast at Amei until night fell.

After eight o’clock, Qiao De and Zheng Zheng came back on time as usual, and Zhang Luotuo had already prepared dinner. They gathered at the dining table, chatted casually in the sound of Ah Mei’s self-proclaimed “News Hour”, and began to eat. The topic is also the same as usual, without any abnormalities.At least Zhang Luotuo thought so, but it was strange that Zheng Zheng seemed to have noticed something. She raised her head and looked at them keenly when Zhang Luotuo was handing Qiaode water, or talking about some boring topics, but Ah Mei was huge. The loud news broadcast quickly distracted their attention, interrupting her speculation with irrelevant trivia: the opening of the game hall, the imminent rainstorm, and the temperature reaching 25 degrees Celsius.So she just looked at the two of them suspiciously and didn't ask any questions.

Finally, they finished their meal as usual, and then began to watch an old TV show documentary about the development of the slums.They sat silently on the red sofa, yawned, and listened to the host's lengthy narration, and Mao Mao fell asleep in Joad's arms.At eleven o'clock in the evening, Zheng Zheng's biological clock was up as usual, he got up automatically, said good night to them, and went back to his bedroom.And Zhang Luotuo and Qiao De got up together, turned off the TV, and went back to their room.Everything is so normal, there seems to be no difference in peacetime.

But Zhang Luotuo knew more than that.He closed the door, turned his head, and was not surprised to see Joad standing in front of the window thinking in the night.The curtains were not drawn, and the probing neon light easily entered the dark obscurity.

Joad heard the sound and turned his head.

They looked at each other in silence.

They understand that everything has just begun.

They decided to sort out the clues and things they might need first, so they spent one night discussing and going back to the past few months, listing everything they encountered and what happened, sorting out all the possible and useful information, It was almost dawn when they stopped.Zhang Luotuo fell asleep next to the pillow. When he woke up, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and Qiao De should have gone to work.He saw Joad's clothes draped over him, and the papers with clues and things lying under the pillow for him to see.

Zhang Luotuo got up in a daze, picked up the papers, pushed open the door, and began to examine carefully, to determine what was possible, they might be able to find something.Hearing that he got up, A Mei began to complain, and it tuned to a news about the body: "In contemporary cities, hundreds of people die every day because they are addicted to games at night..."

"I didn't stay up late to play games." Zhang Luotuo muttered, took a sip of water, and turned the paper to the next one, which had Joad's handwriting on it.

"...Breaking into the Administration Department..." it read.

Ah Mei was silent for a while: "Okay." It said unconvinced.Then it switched to another news: "In contemporary cities, thousands of people die every day because they are addicted to love at night..."

Zhang Luotuo blushed, and he put down the water glass, but found that he couldn't refute.

"A coal." All he could say was a warning.

A coal responded to him with only one piece of pure music, piano music, a symphony from ancient times.

Zhang Luotuo sighed, he rubbed his hair, and continued to devote his energy to those papers. He was a little nervous to find that although he had sorted out a lot of things, he still needed very little.He sighed, escaping the city sounded very good, but it also sounded like a fantasy.How to escape?How to escape?They say things on the spur of the moment, but don't know how to actually do them.Even though those leads seem like a lot, what they have is almost zero.

He sat on the red sofa, looked up at the ceiling, stroked Mao Mao's belly that was open to him, tried to concentrate his attention, and looked for possible clever solutions.

At the same time in the night, Qiao De and Zheng Zheng returned home. After those trivial matters passed as usual, they said good night to Zheng Zheng and closed their doors.Zhang Luotuo gently locked the door and walked towards the window. Joad stood there, illuminated by the flickering light, and a spaceship flew past in the distance, like a jetting comet.

"What do you think?" Joad asked him.

"I've been thinking about it all afternoon, plus the night I just watched TV..." Zhang Luotuo said, walked over, and awkwardly put forward his suggestion, "Maybe we can start with the management department and ask them."

He knew that this was not a good way, he was regarded as a dead and dangerous person by the management department, and Zhao Yi was staring at him, and she had already doubted Qiao De.However, he has no better ideas now.Maybe management knew something, they were the most likely people on the matter.

He felt that the pure joy he had felt before was completely gone, and problems followed in its place.

Joad nodded, he looked out the window, a dirty sign close at hand, thinking: "This is a way, but there are risks."

"What about you?" Zhang Luotuo asked, walking to his side and leaning his arm against the window, he felt the transparent object burning his arm.

Joad paused for some reason, hesitated: "I also have an idea, which is similar to yours, although the possibility is very low."

Zhang Luotuo showed a consoling smile: "Tell me, the idea that we want to leave is a fantasy." He said from the bottom of his heart.

Joad hesitated for a moment, he finally put down the cigarette he was playing with in his hand, and raised his head decisively: "I want to find Lu Xing."

Zhang Luotuo was stunned: "Lu Xing?" He said, thinking for a moment that he had heard wrong.

Joad gently folded the cigarette in half and fell into thinking: "He is the most likely to know something except us."

Zhang Luotuo lowered his head, looked at the scenery outside the window, and frowned.He knew what Joad said was right. He had met Lu Xing several times, and from these few meetings, he felt that Lu Xing must know a lot, maybe even more than the two of them.

"But..." Zhang Luotuo said, he couldn't help but think of the last conversation between Lu Xing and them in the game hall, the hatred in his eyes was clearly visible.I do hate you.Lu Xing said.

"I know." Joad nodded, and he sighed, "but he was my friend, in the past."

Zhang Luotuo bit his lip in embarrassment, and saw the crowds under the window, dozens of floors down, they looked so small, like dust.The city contained them, trapped them so easily—the idea of ​​escaping from the city was too far-fetched.He looked at this scene and thought unconsciously.

And the idea of ​​going to Lu Xing and persuading him is also a fantasy, and the chance of success is one in a thousand.But at the same time, at this moment, Zhang Luotuo also clearly knew that no matter how fanciful that idea was, it would not be as good as leaving the city.If the chance of persuading Lu Xing is one in a thousand, then the chance of them escaping is one in ten thousand.

And they don't let even a ten thousandth of it go - if they're going to do the most absurd things, why are they afraid of this?thousandth?That was nothing but failure and more failure.

"Maybe we can try." He sighed, looked up, and said.

He saw Qiao De smiling, and he understood what Zhang Luotuo meant.Then Joad put the ruined cigarette aside and walked towards the phone: "Let's call and ask, if it fails, it only takes a few seconds."

Zhang Luotuo suddenly became a little at a loss: "Now? He might be sleeping." He didn't know if it was a good idea to wake up a person from his sleep, and this person hated them.

Joad gave him a comforting look: "I know him, Lu Xing likes the night, he won't sleep at this time, this is his regular activity time."

He picked up the phone receiver and pressed a few numbers skillfully.The keys sounded one by one.Advertisements popped in right away, with loud female voices constantly promoting various products.

They waited for a few seconds before a human voice sounded from the microphone.

"Hello?" Zhang Luotuo recognized Lu Xing's voice immediately. He sounded very tired, as if he was overwhelmed by something.

Joad waited for two seconds before saying, "It's me."

Lu Xing was silent for two seconds, maybe he didn't expect it to be Joad, and then his voice broke free from the tired mud immediately, and became extremely vigilant: "I'm very tolerant of letting you two go, otherwise he would just lie down today. In Eleven's decomposition plant and not in other free areas." "He" obviously refers to Zhang Luotuo.

"I want to meet you at 'Night Flight' at ten o'clock tomorrow morning." Joad directly ignored Lu Xing's words, simply and neatly, just like he used to.

Lu Xing didn't hesitate: "I won't go." He was very satisfied with his coldness and ruthlessness, and he was a little complacent at the end, as if he wanted to end the conversation as soon as possible.

Joad seemed to have guessed this, and he simply said: "It's about this city." He was not affected by Lu Xing's tone.

There was a silence in the microphone, Zhang Luotuo noticed.The phone was not hung up immediately, Lu Xing seemed to be attracted, but he did not speak immediately, but thought for a while, and after a few seconds, his voice sounded indifferently through the microphone with heavy breathing: "... ...What about the city?"

Joad stood up, put the cigarette in the crystal ashtray, walked to the window, a gust of cold wind blew on his forehead through the gap, he said bluntly: "We want to leave this city."

There was silence on the other side of the microphone, but that only lasted two seconds, and immediately the quiet emptiness was filled with a smile that burst from between his teeth.Lu Xing laughed on the other end of the phone, as if he had heard some joke. His laughter was very weird, and there was no element of happiness. It was more like a combination of sympathy and disgust. After a long time, he finally calmed down: "That's it?" His voice was sarcastic.

"That's it." Joad replied, and he let Lu Xing smile.

"Aren't you afraid that I'll turn around and tell Zhao Yi?" Lu Xing still smiled.very ironically.

"You won't." Joad replied without thinking.

Lu Xing was silent for two seconds.

"Okay. I can meet with you." Soon, his voice sounded, he changed his mind, and said coldly, "Tomorrow is Saturday, isn't it? Nine o'clock in the morning, night flight bar." He immediately hung up The phone was disconnected, and a cold beep echoed after the phone was disconnected.

Lu Xing's reaction was beyond Zhang Luotuo's expectation. He didn't expect that Lu Xing would be dealt with so soon. He looked at Qiao De in surprise, but Qiao De shook his head slightly.

"It's not that simple." Joad mused.

The next morning, they were up at 07:30 am.As soon as Zhang Luotuo opened his eyes, he remembered that they were going to meet Lu Xing in "Night Flight".He blinked, a tension tightening his brow, his heart beating violently.When he turned his head, Joad reached out and touched his face comfortingly.Zhang Luotuo took a deep breath and tried his best to suppress this feeling. He felt a little headache, maybe because he didn't sleep well.

When they walked out of the room, Zheng Zheng was already eating breakfast at the dining table. She was used to the fact that Joad could eat, so she didn't respond when Joad walked into the kitchen, but when Zhang Luotuo sat down in front of her with the plate , she raised her head, glanced at him, and her expression suddenly changed: "What's wrong with you?" She frowned and said, staring at him intently, "You look very bad."

"It's nothing." Zhang Luotuo said vaguely. He pretended to be energetic, smiled at her, and turned around to take out a carton of milk from the refrigerator.Zheng Zheng swept between him and Qiao De, finally looked away suspiciously, lowered his head, continued to read her newspapers and documents, and let them go.

They went out at 1:[-], which was a bit late, but they had to wait until Zheng Zheng left before they could leave. Zhang Luotuo didn't want Zheng Zheng to be involved in this matter, it was too dangerous.When they reached the 'Night Flight' gate, they were exactly [-] minute late.Lu Xing stood at the door waiting for them, he didn't say anything about their late arrival, his eyes stayed on Zhang Luotuo strangely, and then he came to Qiaode's vicinity lately.

He said "hi" to them, seemingly friendly and mysterious, but Zhang Luotuo knew the truth was quite different.

They walked into 'Night Flight' together, its business is much colder during the day, the strong smell of alcohol wafts everywhere, and the pink neon lights are weakly reflecting the entire wall, making this place look weird and warm.They walked around the sofas on both sides, walked around the bar, and finally chose a hidden corner: it was far away from the surveillance, and they could see all the visitors, and it was almost impossible for the waiters to hear their conversations.

"I'm here, and I'm alone." Lu Xing didn't sit down, he leaned against a wall and stepped on the glass table, "Actually, you all have to thank me for not telling Zhao Yi casually."

Joad remained calm, he weighed Lu Xing's words.

"Tell me." Lu Xing said, looking at them coldly, "About your thoughts, what about the city?"

Zhang Luotuo and Joad looked at each other, and Joad said calmly, "It's like what we told you yesterday."

Lu Xing nodded, a little impatient, as if he had never heard of this topic: "I forgot, tell me again."

Zhang Luotuo saw that Lu Xing did it on purpose, but Qiao De still kept his calm: "We want to leave this city."

Lu Xing immediately opened his eyes wide on purpose, raised his eyebrows exaggeratedly high, as if he didn't understand what he heard, and made a horrified expression: "Leave here?"

Then there was a sarcastic smile on the corner of his mouth: "Are you talking about that leaving? Like death?"

Joad said calmly, "It's leaving, fleeing." He was not hit by Lu Xing's mental bullet.

"Then why are you here looking for me?" Lu Xing leaned back, finally lifted his mask, and questioned coldly, "Can't it be over if you leave by yourself?"

"We want to ask you something, or ask for help," Joad elaborated.

Lu Xing thought for a while, and immediately, he cunningly explored the meaning: "You mean that only the two of you can't do it, I have to join you and form an alliance?"

"I didn't say that," Joad replied tactfully.

"But it means that once you help me." Lu Xing interrupted him, "You know this."

Joad followed his words and continued calmly, as if it was Lu Xing who brought up the topic instead of him: "Then leave this city, would you like to join?"

Lu Xing sneered, and said arrogantly: "Why should I join? Why do you ask me? Have you forgotten? I almost handed you over to Zhao Yi." This time he looked at Zhang Luotuo instead of Joad, like he is not interested in Joad's answer at all, he wants to know what Zhang Luotuo thinks.

"Because you probably know the most about this city." Zhang Luotuo blinked and said at a loss, then he paused, remembering the more important reason, "And you are Qiao De's friend, very Good friend—and, actually, you didn’t hand me over to Zhao Yi.”

Lu Xing raised his head, he didn't seem convinced by the answer at all, his hands on his chest were slightly lowered, his body was completely away from the wall, and he was floating in this pink world: "So you come to ask me?" He looked at Zhang Luotuo , his eyes wandered, Zhang Luotuo tried his best to look firm, and nodded.

Lu Xing moved slightly, his lips sneered, he shook his head, stretched his feet on the legs of the glass table, and immediately slid down, the table trembled softly: "Impossible..."

He raised his head and said indifferently, with complex emotions in his eyes: "Let me tell you directly, I will not join you, and it is impossible for you to escape from this city."

He stopped for a while, shook his head impatiently, and his smile gradually widened: "You think it's easy to escape, it's a breeze, so you come to me so confidently, don't you think it's like a game? Just clear the level , everything will disappear, and success is just around the corner?"

"I've let you down, I won't join you," he said, laughing icily, "I'm just here to laugh at you, the only reason I'm here today is to tell you: you can't escape, It is impossible to die.... I used to be so full of hope, and then hope was shattered by despair, and now I see that you will also fall into the abyss of despair, I feel good, this is the biggest meaning of my day-I can left."

He withdrew abruptly, put his feet on the ground, and took a step back, his expression becoming ironic.He withdraws freely from the web of conversation, his smile becoming enigmatic.

"But we haven't even tried it—how would we know if we didn't try?" Zhang Luotuo stood up abruptly and intervened in their conversation. He didn't like Lu Xing's tone, which was very desperate, but unusually high, " You at least listen to what we have to say."

Lu Xing was about to turn around and leave without looking back.When he heard Zhang Luotuo's words, he stopped, as if he wanted to hold back something, but he couldn't hold back, he turned around and faced Zhang Luotuo with a snort: "That's why I said you, you little imitator , and the guys next to you, don’t know the real feeling of escaping, you think it’s easy, it’s as easy as flying a kite, and you can take off in one go.” He spoke behind, showing a teasing smile that was almost desperate, "But I know that you can't escape."

"You haven't even tried, how do you know it won't work?" Zhang Luotuo looked directly at Lu Xing without flinching.He noticed that Lu Xing looked into his eyes, and he bit his inner mouth to keep his timidity from leaking out.

But the strange thing is that Lu Xing stared blankly into his eyes, and for some reason, his expression gradually became dazed.

Zhang Luotuo was stared at by him for several seconds, but before he could answer, he became uneasy, and just about to say something, Lu Xing suddenly said: "Your eyes are a bit like his."

"What?" Zhang Luotuo didn't react, he got off guard and was very dazed.

Lu Xing's expression improved a bit, but he was still in a daze: "It's not the same now... But just now you are very similar to Zeng Lin, and he once looked at me like that, because we quarreled over a certain topic..."

Zhang Luotuo was a little at a loss, he didn't know how to answer the words, but Lu Xing didn't seem to need him to respond, Zeng Lin was like a tube of medicine, which paralyzed his nerves, and suddenly, his eyes were wider than before. Lightened, like a feather, fluttering erratically, as if caught in a frenzy of memories, he murmured: "I used to live like you, for Zeng Lin, for the lessons he taught me, I decided to run away. Get out... You say I haven't even tried, but I've tried, I've felt it, and I'm the only one of you who's felt it, so I'm qualified to speak, but I've hit a wall, and I know it's not going to work ...I saw the complicated procedure, the feeling of being close to death, and the flood of despair that followed..." After he spoke, his voice gradually softened, and his thoughts seemed to wander completely, "But you don't know ...I don't know at all...you think it's like a game..." His words gradually became messy, he blinked, and suddenly stopped, as if realizing that he had said too much, his voice returned to the original cruelty.

"I'm leaving," he said, turning around and leaving without giving any chance.

"Wait." But Joad had already grasped what was wrong in his words, and he stared at his back, "What is 'South Wall'?" He asked sharply.

Lu Xing stopped in his tracks, he turned his head slightly, his voice was indifferent, close to mocking teasing: "...something we can't escape." After he finished speaking, he walked again, this time he walked very fast , It seems that he will not stop again, until he walks out of the crowd, and no one can find him.

Zhang Luotuo looked at Lu Xing's side face illuminated by the dim neon lights, and he noticed that Lu Xing left with a firm pace.The conversation between Lu Xing and Joad was as fast as a metaphor, a pile of information piled up towards him like sundries, and he swallowed them indiscriminately.

"Wait a minute." He said unconsciously, but Lu Xing didn't even look back.

He couldn't let Lu Xing leave.He thought instinctively, and the thought flashed across him.

His intuition read the password hidden in Lu Xing's facial expression, and the password reminded him from the dark like this.He had a premonition that after Lu Xing left "Night Flight", he would not talk to them again, whether it was a phone call, an email, or a face-to-face meeting.

He had to stop Lu Xing and catch his gaze. This was their last chance.

Zhang Luotuo stood up abruptly, it was too late, he thought.

"You take me to the 'South Wall', I can try." He said.His voice vibrated in the empty bar, then fell like a shattered wine glass.He didn't even know if it would work, but it was his last ditch.

Lu Xing stopped abruptly.

He turned around in surprise, as if he had heard the Arabian Nights: "Do you want to try?"

Zhang Luotuo wanted to say something, but before he could say it, Joad stood up, put his hands on Zhang Luotuo's shoulders, and gently covered him behind him: "It's not him, it's me." He raised his head, his voice sink down, said firmly.

Lu Xing narrowed his eyes, he looked at them suspiciously, his smile gradually shattered, and his expression became mixed.The seemingly invisible sound of music floated hesitantly above their heads.The distance between them and Lu Xing seemed to be across Chongqing.

The music sounded more and more suspended, and Zhang Luotuo's heart was beating wildly.Lu Xing's hand moved, his eyes moved between the two of them, then his eyes blinked, his lips trembled slightly, his tongue lightly touched his upper teeth, and his confusion flashed across his face.

A long time passed.

"Follow me," he finally said, and the voice burst out of his teeth, melting in the air instantly.Then he turned around and walked forward on his own, his shadow shortened in this small area, and finally turned into a dot.