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There was a yellow light in the middle, and when Yang Jian rode over, it turned red, and Li Bai seemed to be blocked behind thousands of horses.

This is the crossing that is one road away from Furongli No. [-].

Yang Jian just disappeared from sight. Fortunately, Li Bai had already determined where he was going.The taxi stopped at the gate of the old community. Li Bai didn't even bother to get some change, so he jumped out of the car and ran inside, No. 14th floor...he ran to the depths of the community.Poplar trees are planted everywhere, and there has always been a strong wind recently, and the road is covered with a layer of leaves that have not had time to turn yellow. When you step on it, there is a creaking sound full of moisture, which is slippery. The 80s-style street lamp can only illuminate a small area under the lamp. Li Bai was half in the dark, running staggeringly, bumping into walking dogs from time to time, and being squinted by their owners.

Presumably they didn't see clearly what was running past, Li Bai was too fast, he ran with all his strength, the wind that brought it made his earlobe cold, and he saw that house from a distance, nine floors, third from the left There are door openings and several windows are lit.

Except for that room, to be exact.

Li Bai remembered that there were thick floor-to-ceiling curtains inside, which were still black and crimson, and could not see through during the day.

Has Yang Jian gone up?Turn on all the lights?

What about Gao Jie?

It's Gao Jie on the phone!

Yang Jian is waiting for him?

Li Bai didn't dare to delay for another second to think about it, he only had a strong intuition - he wanted to stop this meeting.He appeared in the cemetery and heard that call, perhaps to accomplish this.To be precise, it was to prevent Yang Jian from being exposed in front of Gao Jie.On that rainy night, Yang Jian drove him away, shut him out, and stayed in the house with his sister to wait for the evil spirit. Li Bai still doesn't know what happened after that.

It can't be good. Many days have passed, and Yang Jian's injury is still not healed.

Besides, thinking of Gao Jie and Li Bai will cause a kind of physical discomfort. If he thinks too much, he will have nightmares. The dreams are full of amazing and evil scenes, just like whenever he sees the two statues with white faces and black bodies, They will unconsciously avoid their eyes... Now that Yang Yuqiu is dead, the experiences Yang Yuqiu said are more like spells and nightmares. Of course, Yang Jian has to stay away from them, and don't even enter the door of that house!

But, with him, can he stop it?

Li Bai had already run to the foot of the apartment building.By going around the turf again, he could run to the dark side of the building to drill the door.When the matter came to an end, the wrinkled apprehension suddenly flattened out, even if Yang Jian couldn't listen to him any more, it would be fine, as long as he opened the door... what happened next, good or bad, he would be there to bear it .If you want to be beaten together, he is good enough, if you want to beat someone together, he can draw a knife... Even if you don't open the door, it's okay!There is only one door, and Gao Jie always wants to go in. If Yang Jian doesn't even answer Gao Jie's knock because he is blocking there, then...wouldn't it be better?His goalkeeping effect is comparable to that of a martial arts master, as long as he keeps guarding there!

As if he was no longer afraid of anything, it only took a few seconds for Li Bai to convince himself to relax. The wild running made his throat feel fishy and sweet. Tight, it was his collar that was strangling his neck, and he almost fell down before he could hold his legs.

Li Bai coughed violently and realized that it was someone who stopped him.

The man grabbed him by the collar and lifted him, pulled him closer, stabilized him, and stood facing each other.

Only one person will do that.

It happened to be blocked by the shadow of the roof, so Li Bai couldn't see the face clearly, but he could smell the familiar breath.Tobacco, that person's breath, they are always dry, but they remind people of a lake, an open and blue piece, far away from the sea, alone and deep on the top of a mountain.

"...you are here." Li Bai panted, "You saw me following you, right?"

"Don't go up." Yang Jian answered irrelevantly.

"They're already here?" Li Bai was afraid that he might be confused, "That's right, Gao Jie?"

"There are also red masks. I saw them go upstairs, and the car was parked below." Yang Jian seemed to be ready to say so much.

Li Baixu squinted his eyelashes and looked behind him. A section of steel pipe reflected the orange color of the street lamp. It was only the frame of a bicycle.I don't know where Yamaha is left again.He looked at the time again, it was [-]:[-], "I thought they would call you like crazy."

"I don't think there will be time for that." Yang Jian lit Nanjing, and the flame lit up for an instant, and then dimmed again for an instant.He moved forward by the wrong body.Some light can diffuse over his body, but only a little, the light and shadow are still blurred, and the outline is still ambiguous.

Li Bai looked a little dazed.A voice whispered in his ear, you have already reached the point, there is no need to go up, even if you are going to kill someone at the end of the road, you can stop here.It seems perfectly safe here.Shadows, corners, dark places.Yang Jian has always been the kind of person who looks good in the dark, at the corner of the alley, on a lonely autumn rainy morning, he stood there with a cigarette in his mouth, white air flew up from the corner of his quiet mouth, and flew over his blue eyelids , flying to the dark eyelashes, only those few sparks lit up lazily with breathing.

It is the same at this moment, like a slow-burning black candle.And the darker and quieter he is, the more people want to see him clearly.

"What are they doing inside?"

"It's zero seven," Yang Jian raised his chin, looking up at the black window, "maybe a few more minutes?"

He really didn't look anxious at all.

Li Bai was confused: "What will happen in a few minutes? Do you still want to go up?"

"No one needs to go up," Yang Jian dusted off the cigarette ash, and said again, "You don't have to follow either."

"I don't know what you're up to."

"You're worried about what they're going to do."

"I--"

"Of course you are also worried about me, worried that I will be beaten, trapped, forced to do things with them, and worried that if I die, will it make you feel dizzy again?" Yang Jian wrote lightly, "I'm so sorry, I shouldn't Answer that call right in front of you."

Li Bai was speechless for a few seconds.

"You know I don't mean that."

"Ah."

Li Bai's throat tightened even more, the feeling was no different from being stuffed into a stone.He was most afraid of hearing Yang Jian like this, with just one syllable, he seemed to have lost all desire to talk.He hurriedly said: "I think you must have had a bad time these few days... This is what I'm most worried about!"

Yang Jian seemed to nod, but said: "Then have you ever thought that seeing you will make my life even more difficult?"

Li Bai was stunned, staring at the scarlet around Yang Jian's lips without blinking, it only burned a little bit, and the sparks receded little by little.

He tried to get close to Yang Jian, as if he was approaching a dormant beast - if he got too close and touched a minefield, he would be willing to be pressed to the ground and bite his neck by it.But Yang Jian was as quiet as before, Li Bai could already feel the heat coming out of his body, he could imagine his tense muscles and bones... he could also adapt to the light, and see people clearly in the dark, but he saw Yang Jian He didn't do anything, just looked up at the window with all his attention.It's not that it has changed, it's just that in his eyes, it seems to be more worthy of observation than Li Bai's complexion, and what he said just now seems to be just casually based on the truth.

The dead silence between the two lasted for about 2 minutes. Yang Jian shifted his gaze to look at his watch, and then his eyes fell on Li Bai's face. He suddenly said, "The 'religion' they believe in is actually very interesting."

"What?" Li Bai's frightened expression disturbed his frustration and bewilderment.

"I picked up a few diaries among the relics, and found that this 'Sun Moon Great God Sect' is very particular about continuation and the transmission of incense and incense. All cults are like this. One more recruit counts as one. They also pay attention to good and evil retribution, karma, and merit. Consummation, but this is the commonality of most religions," Yang Jian patiently recounted the past, "The reason why Gao Jie was offended that time was actually because he checked my sister's medical records in the hospital and said that she had done that After the operation, there is no way to get pregnant again, and they attribute it to the bad retribution of abortion, which is a punishment from God, so the saintess is useless, and the things that have been raised for more than ten years are useless at all.”

"...Holy Maiden," Li Bai really wanted to ask something, "Sister seems to say that the Holy Maiden is missing the moon."

"The abolished saint is a stone that fell on the ground. She was dead. She wrote it herself." Yang Jian stared at him. "She must have been drunk before calling you there that day. What did she say to you?" ?”

"I don't remember." Li Bai blurted out.

"I don't remember." Yang Jian nodded and repeated, "You, I don't remember."

"I know these are all my faults in the final analysis." Li Bai said to himself, his voice was choked, and his teeth were trembling between words, and they clicked together.Don't say it anymore, don't say it anymore, this is to Yang Jian and to himself.But he couldn't tell.He wished he could pull out the pills and swallow them in handfuls, but he didn't bring them with him, and he wished Yang Jian could take out a gun and execute him on the spot, but Yang Jian didn't move, so he could only listen to himself saying: "I regret it. Use, I understand, what happens is that time can never be turned back, I also understand, but you don't push me completely outside, I have to be responsible for what I have done at least, this is more or less... a kind of compensation. "

"She has depression, she committed suicide, she is already dead, the chain is intact, what do you make up for?" Yang Jian smiled, walked forward to the wrong body, and walked behind Li Bai, the boundary between the light and the shadow.

He continued to look up.

"Incomplete, not just because of depression!" Li Bai said.

Are you really listening? Why don't you even look at me...he thought again.Turning around, Li Bai and Yang Jian were separated by half a step, as if looking up at him, he summoned up his courage and said, "Besides, you are still alive, and you have been hurt... You need others to care and take care of you now—"

He managed to say these "normal" words, and was interrupted by Yang Jian.

"You really think so?" Yang Jian stopped laughing, turned around to look at him with a cigarette in his mouth, a phantom of white smoke floated on his face, only the one right eye on that side was surprisingly bright, "You know that he jumped to his death What are people like?"

Before Li Bai could say anything, he grabbed Li Bai's wrist with his backhand and pulled him into the light.

"My head was broken, and blood and brains flowed to the soles of my shoes. I almost couldn't stop the car. I knelt down and held her hand. The hand was shapeless. The joints were so hard that I couldn't open my fingers." Yang Jian asked and answered by himself, with a tone as flat as still water, "When I see you, I think of these things, and when I see you, I can see them too."

Passing by Li Bai's ear, it turned into a torrent.

He was so rushed that he couldn't stand still.

still alive?Li Bai asked himself, the beating of the heart can actually become a painful thing.Suddenly there was a buzzing sound that screamed into his ears from the air, like an auditory hallucination, it seemed to be shouting "Stay away from me and don't come over", it stopped his endless fall, and it made him subconsciously follow the sound .From a distance, Li Bai noticed that the black window was actually opened at this moment. A black figure was beside the window, with half of his body leaning forward outside, shaking and shouting desperately. There was light behind him, not just the red candle in the usual room... It looks like a raging flame!

Yang Jian was also watching, but he was just watching from the sidelines, at this well-selected, concealed and clear angle.Let go of Li Bai's wrist, and took off the cigarette between his teeth, he said: "I feel the same way when I see myself. If you don't want to see it, just don't look in the mirror."

As soon as the voice fell, the black shadow flipped forward and fell from the ninth floor.

"Help me! Help me, me, save—"

It took only two or three seconds to fall, the syllables were all messed up, and the wailing was still echoing in the air, it was so shrill and desperate, it couldn't even see its head and feet, and it hit the concrete floor with only a sound Muffled.One of the window frames fell off. The house is too old and the window is too narrow. It was knocked off by people who were eager to escape. It fell over several balconies and several raised anti-theft bars, and the glass was smashed on the ground. pulpy.

Right next to the pile of corpses.

what happened?

The answer is obvious.

Then... in the room, scary, what's there.

There was a sudden panic on the ground, those dog walkers and those who ran at night were chatting with each other under the street lamps. After the uproar, they all gathered there. There happened to be a street lamp shining on it. The scene must have been too clear and tragic, no one dared to rely on it. It was too close, and they consciously formed a loose circle, chattering and talking, some people started to cry, some people called the police, and some even ran out from the doorway of the next building to check.

And the process of watching all this can be called joyful, as if I have been rescued, and things have happened before I have considered the cause and effect.Is this the so-called "surprise"?The kind that everyone loves.Burn it, burn it more!Li Bai looked at the fire, saw the collapsed old house, and the burning tomb.

"Oh," he took a breath, "Gao Jie jumped down and fell to his death."

But don't forget just now - it seems that he is not the only one who died tonight.

"Go and have a look." Yang Jian's voice was hoarse from the cigarette smoke.

See what a broken man looks like.

"Don't we need to avoid suspicion?" Li Bai showed unexpected calmness, "You didn't park your motorcycle here, and you stood in a corner, you don't want to be seen by acquaintances."

Yang Jian didn't speak, the smoke had already burnt to the end, and he pinched a small fire between his fingers, almost scalding his skin, he still pinched, a piece of curtain bulged out from the window on the top floor, inside was a The large area of ​​fire is a wave of hot air, with a "bang", the spread of the fire is like an explosion, it is trapped, and it will explode the room!The curtains were instantly ignited, and were carried by the heat and flew out of the window opening, and were blown up again by the autumn wind. The fire was fed by oxygen, and it floated more and more freely and enthusiastically around the curtain. Bright and dazzling.

It's really like it, Li Bai thought.

It's really like a phoenix tail.The long feathers trace the shape of the wind.

It turned out to smell of burnt fire and blood.It is a comet.It should not have come to Earth.

Yang Jian was beside him, carrying the backpack with one hand, his eye sockets were filled with moist flames unconsciously, his tears were not many, silent, one side was blocked by gauze, and the other side finally fell down, there was only a shallow line, Sliding from the corner of the eye to the temple, a tear that dragged on for too long seems to be dried at any time, but there is always.He watched with all his heart, unwilling to miss the shape of any flame. In the whole world, he could only see the room engulfed by the fire.

Li Bai could only see this tear.

"No one thought it was my house that was burning."

Yang Jian laughed softly, shining brightly, "No one thinks that it was my relatives who fell to death."

"Yeah, I am the same." Li Bai also laughed, he had to be careful to hold it down, otherwise he would have to laugh out loud!He suddenly realized that he was too naive just now, do any neighbors know them?Have any neighbors ever knocked on the door while the house was running wild?When did that house count as a play house?He and Yang Jian had never felt safe staying inside before, and standing here now, they still had nothing, no matter how chaotic and noisy the terrified crowd in front of them was, it seemed that they were separated by a layer of cover, which had nothing to do with their stillness.Raising one hand, he might as well grab the flame. At the same time, an alarm bell rang, or a fire alarm. The proximity of this sound always made people want to block their ears. Li Bai leaned on Yang Jian's shoulder and used his shoulder to block it. , "I always thought you were a genius."

"Really." Yang Jian avoided him, and pulled out a brown paper envelope from his bag, "This is for you."

A huge "2" was written on the front.Li Bai took it, and it was heavy and elastic when pinched. It should have contained a lot of written paper.

"what is this?"

"A farewell gift."

Li Bai persisted and asked, "What's in it?"

Yang Jian replied: "You can do whatever you want with it."

"..." Li Bai stared at the number, then raised his face suddenly, "A farewell gift. So Gao Jie died, you still have to say goodbye to me."

Yang Jian pulled up the chain of the bag, threw the backpack back to his shoulder, and the urn made a sound inside, "What I just said was the truth."

"The truth." Li Bai murmured and repeated, "You said you saw me...you said you didn't look in the mirror anymore."

Yang Jian walked in the opposite direction of the crowd, police cars and fire trucks were coming, and he was struggling to move on the narrow road full of cars in this old residential area. He was hiding in the darkness, getting farther and farther away from them, "Leave some time for each other." Remember."

"But what about the masked one? It's not over yet, it's really not over!" Li Bai didn't dare to yell, so he ran up to chase after him, "He also went up just now, he must have run away now, who knows what bad things he will do in the future! "

"Do you want me to help?" The voice suddenly softened and turned into a begging.

But Yang Jian's back that never looked back reminded him that he was the one who was sentenced to death just now.Can't go back, regret is useless, isn't this what he said himself.

No reconciliation, no exile.Do you need to give a reason?Yang Jian is a genius, this is still what Li Bai himself said.Yang Jian was only in the first seven, bringing his sister back to see the death of the enemy who was framed into "destiny".Don't go any closer, lest blood stain the soles of your shoes.

Instead of coming back and begging for peace and mercy, Yang Jian did much better than he imagined.Can he also be regarded as an enemy?But Yang Jian didn't do that.

It's just that he himself can't think of a way for himself.

"...Okay, one last thing, Yang Jian." Li Bai forced himself to stop, not daring to think about it any more, he knew that he would chase after him even if he wavered, "No, it's three things."

After all, Yang Jian stopped, and the backpack swayed behind him, hanging heavily.The hustle and bustle was thrown further away by them, and no one passing by under the street lamp was seen, only they themselves.The shadows are long and short on the ground, but they can't touch each other.

He turned his back to Li Bai, waiting for Li Bai to speak.

The fire was still behind them, raging in mid-air.The autumn night is lonely and hot.

"You have to live and be good to yourself. If you can, let me know that you are doing this." Li Bai said slowly, "You don't need to look for me, you don't need to see me. Won't let you know. You don't have to worry."

Yang Jian turned his head slightly, but did not turn back, Li Bai could see his side cheeks and chin.

It seemed that something had blown off, most likely it was the curtains, and it fell to the ground, causing the crowd to scream again.Wow, wow, it's October, but the wind is filled with heat waves.The loudspeakers have been used, and it is the police who are doing the evacuation.

"Don't let me let you go. Don't let me let go. Don't think so in your heart." Li Bai stared hard, and said the second thing, "I will try my best to guess what you want me to do, so... Please, don't think about that."

Yang Jian finally turned around.

This stare was so painful and exhausting to watch, but neither of them closed their eyes.

"The third thing." Li Bai's hands behind his back had scratched each other's skin. He pulled out a new barb on the base of his thumb, and it was numb from the pain. This made his voice no longer sound like a whimper, but clearer. Many, "You try to find someone who loves you, you can try to love her...don't be afraid to love! You are fine, it is easy for others to love you, you were just unlucky before, and you are still normal people in the world There are many, like me, you will definitely not meet again!"

Yang Jian was stunned for a moment, then suddenly started laughing, pinched the bridge of his nose, and pushed the gauze up until he laughed so hard.

"I'm telling the truth!" Li Bai cried sobbing again.

"Go and try," Yang Jian turned his back and walked away quickly, "I'm telling the truth too!" The last sentence was already blurred.

Li Bai looked at him until he could no longer see him, squatting down on the spot, with death lying naked behind his back, it was just a trivial matter for him, the fire fighting operation had probably already started, and the onlookers were directed to avoid danger and go back to their homes. It is inevitable that scattered people will pass by him from time to time, which is scary.Li Bai covered his face, desperately trying to hide the crying under his palms, or in front of his knees if he couldn't.He cried too much and didn't want to cry anymore.He can't do it.Very confused, and new questions haunt him, questions that only he can have.Why was he unraveling the spell that had entangled him for a lifetime, so lightly? Did he suddenly become so easy to talk and shake off? Even Yang Jian was surprised.Why did he say everything he thought he couldn't do, admit all the evils, and try to be a normal good person, but he still lost completely.

Why did Yang Jian see his enemy's tragic death, but he was still like a pool of stagnant water, unhappy.

And why, both of them have to say goodbye in the tone of "see you tomorrow".Farewell, is it really a farewell, never to see you again.

Yang Xie is obviously more important than oxygen.

is his only.

He obviously thought about it for a long time.

Maybe the mistake is here.There is no such thing as forever in the world, but there was a period of time when he, like Yang Jian, lived comfortably under the protection of something, and because he couldn't imagine how to deal with it after losing it, he told himself that it will be forever.

Thinking about this matter is like being punched in the stomach. Li Bai suspected that he would never be able to stand up again. He missed his pills very much. Did he die tonight?Whether it is or not doesn't seem to matter.The tears completely wet his face and neck, and hit the kraft paper again, soaking the ink. He wiped it in a panic, and the more he wiped, the dirtier it became. Then he shook his hand, and the envelope fell to the ground, and the glue that had been stuck on the seal for a long time cracked. Open, the opening was wide, and several sheets of paper were spat out.

farewell gift.

Li Bai quickly covered it, and looked around for no one, so he knelt down on the envelope, moved his five fingers, and only looked at the corner.It seems to be something like a blueprint, the handwriting is scribbled, but it can be seen that it was cut and written by Yang.In that corner, there are two lines marked:

Circuit VI - Shrine - Auto Sensing

2007.6.11