【Qijie】The Kingdom of Eternal Life

It was around five o'clock in the morning when they arrived in the neighboring city. This strange city was still sleeping. They got out of the car and bought two bouquets of flowers from the boss who opened the gate with a yawn.The cemetery is on the outskirts of the city, with a large area, the air smells of moist earth, and dewdrops still condense on the grass and trees.Qi Ya and Xiao Jie greeted the garden guards, and walked to the depths of the cemetery.

Xiaojie's spirit is not very bad, he doesn't seem too sad, but a little bit excited, as if his pain was condensed in last night's happy tears, evaporated and disappeared.Qi Ya is not sure whether Xiaojie's state is good or not, and it is not good for him to check Xiaojie's mental state carefully at this time, so he can only pay attention secretly.

Kate's tomb is in a relatively deep part of the cemetery, and Qi Ya casually picked up a topic: "By the way, I haven't told you about the little girl yet."

"Ah." Xiaojie responded, "What did she say? How much does she remember?"

His attitude towards business was positive and not more calm than it should have been, but that didn't mean anything.

Qi Ya said: "Most of them have been forgotten."

Xiaojie was not surprised: "Sure enough. My memory is blurred. How can I expect such a little girl."

"Well, but I still remember something." Qi Ya said, "She said she remembered the 'blue glass bead'."

Xiaojie frowned, and he repeated: "Blue? Glass beads? What do you mean?"

Qi Ya shrugged, "I don't know yet, the nurse brought the blue glass beads to her eyes, and she said it wasn't this."

Xiaojie scratched his face in trouble, "It's hard to say what this clue does..."

Qi Ya shook his head: "There must be some meaning. After encountering these things, she lost her memory of everything else, but she just remembered the blue glass beads. Such things must be very important to her. Even if someone deliberately gave her This is also a very important clue."

Xiaojie nodded and didn't say anything more. He gently arranged the fresh flower bouquet covered with water droplets in his hands. After fine-tuning the position of one of the white daisies, he handed the bouquet to Qi Ya, and then stood up. Certainly.

Kiya followed and stopped suspiciously, watching as his sentry touched his jacket pocket and pulled out a thin photo from his inner breast pocket.

That photo is obviously already very fragile. It may not be appropriate to describe it as "one", but it would be more rigorous to use "half". The whole picture is full of small mottled black holes.Qi Ya took this old photo that had been burnt to only half of it, lowered his eyes, and looked from the burnt pitted and dilapidated edge to see the only remaining two girls in the picture holding hands and the same dress the hem.

For things like photos, it is very convenient to burn because of the material.Simply put, when it burns, the flame spreads really fast.The owner of the photo probably regretted it the moment the fire was ignited, but when the fire was extinguished, there was only a remnant of the photo left.

Qi Ya stroked the yellowed, oxidized, smoky surface of the photo with his hand, raised his eyes and asked, "Where's the other one?"

According to Xiaojie, there should be two photos of Bonaye hidden in the frame.

Xiaojie said, "No."

Qi Ya was taken aback: "...what?"

Xiaojie took the bouquet from Qi Ya's hand, started walking again, and said very plainly: "There is no second one. I lied to her."

Qi Ya was really startled at this moment, standing where he was, Xiaojie walked forward a few steps and found that he hadn't followed, and turned to look at Qi Ya.Then he sighed.

"What do you want to ask, Qi Ya?" Xiaojie said, "Talk while walking, we're almost here."

Qi Ya was silent for a while, and asked, "You lied to her?"

"Well. It's just a try. I didn't expect her to admit it."

"And those descriptions?"

"Nonsense." Xiaojie said, "But our tower does have several tall magnolia trees. Bonayer's office window can also see those flowers and the windows behind them."

Qi Ya was silent for a few seconds, and asked again: "Then how did you think that Daisy might be that female guide?"

This question is the core, and Qiya obviously felt that Xiaojie paused for a while.Then he said, "Intuition."

Qiu: "..."

Xiaojie glanced at him, and the meandering green color behind him reflected his innocent eyes: "It's true."

A sense of absurdity that hadn't come up for a long time rushed Qi Ya from head to toe like a flood. The moment when he heard Xiaojie say "I lied to her", the chill that rushed up from bottom to top Most of it was washed away, mixed and stirred into a pot of inexplicable and helpless.Qi Ya held back, but still couldn't help but said, "Be serious."

"It's true..." The sentinel looked a little aggrieved, and he said, "It's really an intuition. But if I insist, I'm just betting that the embroidered tattoo on Daisy's back is to cover up her scars. "

The female guide has a scar on her back, which Xiaojie only knew when he was on a mission with her and Kate.It was not that there was no gossip in the tower before, and it was not that Xiaojie had never heard of it, but it was all just rumors, and no one asked her about the origin of that hideous burn.

Of course, they all know now that this is left over from the fire in Daisy's childhood.

"I heard that someone saved her." Xiaojie said, "But I don't know who it is..."

Qiya didn't know the answer to this question either, but he understood Xiaojie's worry.An organization that was once so powerful that its subordinates could infiltrate the tower one after another, although only two have been found so far, the possibility of other personnel in the tower cannot be ruled out.

Qi Ya comforted him and said, "It's okay, don't worry for now."

Since he had already pissed off Kurapika a long time ago and made Tower strengthen his vigilance, Kiya is not particularly worried about this matter at present, and of course he still does not let go of his doubts.It's just that Qiya's ability to the tower is still above the level of trust value, or it should be said that he doesn't trust the tower, but only trusts Kurapika's ability.The latter is still quite reliable.

He put the thin and fragile photo into the inner pocket, sorted out the flowers in his arms that were slightly skewed by the action just now, and changed the subject: "Is it almost there?"

They have been away for 10 minutes with all their efforts.Xiaojie said: "Here it is. It's over there." He pointed out his finger to Qiya, "That's where Kate lives."

Qi Ya glanced at the direction of his finger, and asked softly: "Are you still sad?"

This question was asked at Xiaojie's level, probably because Qi Ya found out that he and Xiaojie had spent too much time together, and to some extent got into the other party's habit of playing straight balls.Of course, all kinds of bad things in recent days have made Qi Ya tired of the roundabout way, which is also one of the reasons.

Xiaojie shook his head and said, "It's okay. I know Kate won't think..."

His voice stopped suddenly, and together with his footsteps, he stopped in place.

He frowned, staring fixedly at that direction, Qi Ya looked at the stiff Xiaojie suspiciously, and then glanced at the direction he was staring at.It's a pity that his eyesight is really not as good as that of an S-rank sentinel with keen senses, and he couldn't see why after watching it for three seconds, so he could only ask, "What's wrong?"

Xiaojie didn't answer his question.

After three seconds, he was caught off guard and threw away the bouquet in his hand that he had been holding so dearly.White roses, daisies, and hyacinths were dropped to the ground, and a gust of rain fell, breaking several delicate flower branches.But the worshiper obviously didn't care about them anymore, and before the flowers fell to the ground, he had already rushed towards the majestic tombstone at a fast speed.

It is very impolite to run quickly in the cemetery, Qi Ya did not expect this development, he bent down to pick up the bouquet of flowers, and chased after Xiaojie's back.

A bad premonition gradually rose in his heart, lingering with doubts about everything that happened in recent days.

This ominous premonition reached its peak when he saw Xiaojie's back.

In front of them is a white marble tombstone, with a few bunches of flowers and plants placed at the foot of the tombstone, and golden words engraved on it. In the photo of the tombstone, a young man with long silver hair has an indifferent face, and the corners of his lips are straightened, showing a bad-spoken expression , The appearance of vigorous and resolute.Compared with his tombstone, his appearance on it is too young.Before coming here, Kiya had only seen his photo in the data of the tower.

But Xiaojie didn't look at the tombstone.

He stared at his feet in amazement, his gaze was fixed on that focus, and at this moment his handsome eyebrows suddenly showed a kind of stiffness and helplessness as if covered with a layer of plaster, and even his eyelashes remained motionless. He froze, the corners of his lips were tightly pursed, stretched into a straight line in the shadow, almost looking menacing.The young sentinel fixed his eyes on the small square inch of land at his feet, as if he wanted to condense his gaze into two beams of angry fire, burning the place into a hole.Tens of seconds later, he probably confirmed certain facts, and the surprise slowly condensed into anger.But this is not like the tsunami-like fury that Chiya felt in the iron box through his mental thread before. If you insist on describing it, Xiaojie's emotions are like a pool of calm water now.There wasn't even a single ripple on the water surface, but Qiya could clearly sense that there was a vortex hidden under the water that might tear people to pieces at any time.

Kira knew what he was angry about.

The soil there is moist and loosely covered.A yellow wildflower was lying limp on one side with its broken stem.

Someone, turn over this tomb.

The wind passed by the huge cemetery slowly and irrelevantly, and the cold dew kissed the eyelashes of the grass blades. It was too quiet here, except for the whistling wind, and even the mournful chirping of a few birds of paradise also stopped.The air was squeezed into a heavy ball, and it shrank heavily in the corner of the atrium like an iron ball.At the moment when the rainstorm was approaching, Qiya heard Xiaojie say abruptly and bluntly, "I want to open this place."

Qi Ya hesitated for a moment, nodded and said: "Yes."

The silver-haired young man on the tombstone watched the two youths calmly, his eyes were deep, as if he could see everything through and down.His life, which was as bright as a fallen comet and was too short, was eternally frozen in this bitter world, where time and the silent truth stood still.