[Love and Producer] Passive strategy

The sound of firecrackers belonging to the festival suddenly exploded outside the window.

Li Youxue raised her eyes unexpectedly to see that the curtains of the balcony were drawn open enough for her to easily see the little lights blooming in the night sky.Some are in the shape of red chrysanthemums, some are in the shape of golden leaves that are rising steadily, and some disappear invisible with just a flash of white light... But without exception, they all entrust people with the beauty of the new year wish.

Li Youxue looked at them quietly, and some strange and familiar scenes flashed past in her mind - in the thick and dark night, the scene of the little boy holding a fireworks stick and smiling at her; in the lonely dusk, the little boy The appearance of standing under the camphor tree spreading his hands to her with fireflies in his palms; the appearance of a little boy quietly lifting a corner of the rusted iron railing to show her in a desolate open space...

——Maybe, she and Xu Mo have known each other for a long, long time.

She thought quietly, thinking of the tall camphor tree that had been in the corner of the municipal orphanage and witnessed the changes of the orphanage, her eyes darkened silently.

——What Xu Mo wants her to know, she will naturally know; what Xu Mo wants her to know through dreams, she will also know; as for what Xu Mo wants to hide...she will always know.

While making up her mind so silently, she felt that the hand on her shoulder unconsciously was being gently held.

Li Youxue turned her head and met Xu Mo's worried eyes: "What's wrong? It's my words, did they bother you?"

"No." Li Youxue blinked and said slowly. "I'm just thinking, what's the next thing to do? It's still hours before the year goes by."

"Want to keep the year old?" Xu Mo thought for a while, asked her with a smile, and tightened his fingers. "If you wish, I will accompany you to wait."

"Me?" Li Youxue thought carefully for a while, smiled quietly, and stared at Xu Mo without blinking.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Xu Mo was a little surprised by her stare, and asked her with his mouth curled up.

Li Youxue didn't say anything, she just raised her hand to support the sofa leather beside Xu Mo, and slowly leaned closer to him.

Xu Mo's pupils contracted slightly, as if anticipating what would happen next, he bent his eyes, and raised his hand to hold her waist to prevent her from accidentally falling to the ground.

Li Youxue bent her eyes at him, then raised her face and kissed his lips.

The kiss was only for a short moment, and then she quickly moved close to his ear and lowered her voice: "Then... to watch the Spring Festival Gala? I heard that Zhou Qiluo can sing today."

Xu Mo laughed in a low voice, and answered in her ear with a slightly hoarse voice: "No - I don't like hearing other men's names from your mouth."

Just when Li Youxue was about to laugh out loud, he blocked her lips like a counterattack, pressed on the sofa cushion and began to kiss.Subconsciously, she raised her hand to hook Xu Mo's neck, and the two of them deepened the kiss silently but in tacit understanding.

Feeling Xu Mo's hot breath blowing on her face, Li Youxue closed her eyes, concentrating on recalling her prediction at that moment just now - the cloudy sky, the dusk when the heavy rain was about to fall, the night when she and Xu Mo were in the municipal orphanage. The old courtyards parted ways and drifted away.

... Both of them didn't look back in the end.

——Maybe, this kiss is the last time; maybe, what the little girl told her in the dream is true.

"You know? In fact, until now, my mood has been a little complicated." Xu Mo held her in his arms and told her gently. "Some expectations for the future, but some nervousness and apprehension coming from nowhere."

"Then you must not know that when the new year is approaching, everyone basically has this mentality." Li Youxue buried in his arms and replied with a smile.

"Is that so?" Xu Mo sighed suddenly, and couldn't help laughing himself. "However, it's the first time I have such a feeling—is this also considered a novel experience after falling in love?"

"Then, do you like it? This kind of experience." Li Youxue tilted her head and asked a proposition with a half-smile.

"I like it." Xu Mo replied without hesitation, his eyes were burning brighter than the fireworks outside the window. "I like this kind of experience and this kind of you."

"You got the answer right." Li Youxue nodded solemnly, thought for a while and then congratulated him: "Happy New Year."

"Happy New Year." With a smile on his face, Xu Mo solemnly kissed her on the forehead.

……

On the second day of the new year, the weather was really not good. It was gloomy from early morning.

Li Youxue's mood is not much different from the weather - she put on light clothes and cotton sneakers early on, and took the bus to the back alley of the municipal orphanage with her bag on her back, passing through the rusted railing in her memory Enter.

... Just like what Xu Mo told her when she was a child, a part of this railing is alive and can be lifted easily, so that she can take a shortcut and directly reach the building that is particularly dark in the cloudy sky.

She stopped on the spot, and after briefly calming down her heartbeat that was almost bursting, she relaxed her movements and went straight to the dark door of the building.

——The child abduction case that the orphanage director evaded at that time, the specific time point of "17 years ago", and...Xu Mo and the orphan director obviously knew each other well. It's all problematic.

...And the most suspicious thing was the building in front of her.

After entering through the door, you will be faced with a long, dark corridor. Multiple doors are scattered on both sides of the corridor. The blocky glass above the door reveals endless darkness and coldness.

Li Youxue walked slowly along the corridor, not looking carefully at anything, but firmly trusting the intuition brought to her by Evol - soon, she stopped in front of a door.

She tentatively pushed, and the door opened easily, raising fine dust in mid-air.

After closing the door carefully, Li Youxue scanned the entire room.This room is much larger than it looks from the outside, like a laboratory: a large row of cabinets are arranged in front of one wall, and the cabinets are full of reagent bottles; The bed, the white sheet on the bed had turned gray because it was covered with dust; beside the bed were all kinds of equipment that she couldn't name, and there were even a few objects that looked like shackles on the top of some equipment.

This scene has an indescribable familiarity.

Li Youxue frowned subconsciously. The moment her eyes swept towards the bed, a strange scene suddenly appeared in front of her - a little girl with black hair and a little boy with blond hair lying side by side on the bed, bright red The blood flowed from the girl's wrist along the thin catheter and flowed towards the boy.

"Here it is." She said softly to herself.

At this moment, footsteps suddenly sounded in the corridor—very dense, and a little messy, like groups of people walking by quickly.

Li Youxue glanced at the door casually, making sure that those people would not come in for the time being, and calmly continued to observe possible evidence.

After a general search, she put her finger on one of the reagent bottles—there was no dust on the glass surface, indicating that the bottle had been touched recently.

The moment her fingertips touched the body of the bottle, she suddenly saw a familiar figure.

——The black-haired man in a white coat, with a blank face, closed the lid of the reagent bottle, then turned around... Behind him, there seemed to be a tall black figure standing.

...Xu Mo, what does it have to do with these reagents?Will he come here later?Li Youxue was thinking suspiciously, unable to understand.

The footsteps lingered at the door for a short time and then gradually faded away. Li Youxue let out a breath, walked lightly to open the door, looked left and right to make sure that those people had gone far, then closed the door and left.

With a cold face, she speeded up her steps silently towards the stairs.With the few memories, the laboratory upstairs is the focus of research.

She had just stepped on the steps with one foot when she was dragged backwards, covering her mouth with a hand that came out suddenly from behind.

The conditioned reflex opened her eyes wide, and at the same time that Li Youxue was about to struggle, she suddenly heard a soft voice telling her: "Don't be afraid, it's me."

Immediately giving up the struggle, Li Youxue cooperated with the strength, and was dragged into the shadow of the corner under the stairs by his arms.

Almost the next moment, hurried footsteps sounded from above the stairs.It seemed that it was still the same group of people, they hurried through the stairs, and soon headed towards the other end of the corridor.

It wasn't until the footsteps were too far away that the people behind her let go of their hands and sighed helplessly: "It's dangerous here, why did you come here?"

Li Youxue turned to face him, the worry on his face was very real, and there seemed to be some kind of tension in the tightly pursed lips.

Li Youxue's heart had already cooled down. She smiled and said, "I think this place is very familiar, and I always care about it, so I came here to have a look."

"..." Xu Mo stared intently at her pearl-like pupils in the shadows for a while. "Have you found the answer yet?"

Li Youxue shook her head: "No...it seems that this place has been abandoned for too long."

Xu Mo nodded and took a long breath: "There are some unidentified people wandering around here, you may be in danger... I'll take you out first, if there's anything, we'll discuss it in the long run."

Li Youxue glanced at him, changed her mind, nodded obediently, and was dragged away by him.

Holding hands, the two walked through the corridor as lightly and quickly as possible, and came to an unobtrusive side door.

Xu Mo seemed to be protecting her intentionally, and walked in front by himself, stretching out his hand to push the door, while still explaining to her in a low voice: "If I'm not mistaken, going out from here happens to be a..."

Before he could finish his words, as the gap in the door gradually widened, many ghostly shadows appeared outside the door.

Li Youxue secretly squeezed her fingers in her jacket pocket.

Xu Mo's expression gradually turned cold. He was silent for two seconds, and slowly pushed the door open completely. Then, he squeezed her hand tightly, turned his head and told her, "Wait for me...just a little while."

As his words fell, a lavender light suddenly enveloped Li Youxue.

Li Youxue closed her eyes subconsciously, and when she opened them again, she saw the unlit street lights at the corner of the street - in the blink of an eye, she was teleported directly to the nearest bus stop.

——Could it be that those guesses just now were all wrong?Xu Mo has nothing to do with those mysterious guys?Li Youxue frowned, and after quick consideration, she turned around and ran towards the orphanage decisively.

... Regardless of whether Xu Mo is good or bad, she has to go and verify it.

The author has something to say:

Recently, I will finish the text as soon as possible, and strive to be before New Year's Day... Xu Moxian has been dragging on for too long, and I am afraid that if this continues, the year will be over.

As for the Baiqi line and Zhou Qiluo line that are still being revised, I will repost it after the Xu Mo line is finished. You can read the new chapters without canceling your favorites~

Those of you who haven't quit the game must understand the breakup in the next chapter.