[Comprehensive] Doudou, you don't understand love
Chapter 100 HOTD: The Sealed Person on the Forehead
Seeing the black-haired man approaching quickly with a gun in hand, Xiaodou's breathing suddenly stopped.
When the third shot was fired, he had already reached the middle of the corridor, passing the ray of skylight where Makishima was standing just now.The soft light band caressed his sharp brows from bottom to top, reflecting the fierce light in his eyes.
In an extremely unreal way, Qiao Ya Shen just appeared here.
After seeing the cunning in the corridor, Makishima narrowed his eyes, slowly stood up straight, and took two steps back at a constant speed.
The sound of the third shot disappeared together with the echo. In the short silence that seemed to be frozen in time, Makishima finally digested the scene in front of him, and a bloody smile appeared on his pale face——
Snake didn't hesitate, and pulled the trigger for the fourth time.
As if the pause button had been pressed, the picture was replayed suddenly, the bullet splashed a cluster of sparks on the hard pillar, and Makishima also quickly retreated to the window, and smashed the window open!Cunning immediately lowered his gun and sprinted forward, and at the same time he ran to the side of the pillar, Makishima also stepped on the window edge.
The eyes of the two met for a brief moment.
Fifth shot!
The bullet narrowly missed the cheek of Makishima who jumped out of the window, and the hot wind brushed over his collar, leaving a bloodstain on his neck; he was not affected at all, he turned down the window without any delay, and jumped in on the outer eaves Window to the next floor.
Cunningly came to the window, but didn't jump down, but stopped suddenly.
Xiaodou looked at his back without blinking.
In the backlight, the dark-haired man's shoulders slowly relaxed, and he lowered his gun.
The five-round m500, the standard pistol of the Japanese police, just emptied five rounds of bullets.
After a moment he turned around and looked up at her.
Eyes met, Xiaodou subconsciously closed her eyes.When he opened his eyes again, he had strode towards her.
Every step closer made my heart beat a little harder.Until he stopped in front of her and squatted down to look at her, her chest suddenly loosened.
There was still a tinge of savagery in him that fell silent; even in this situation he maintained a strangely restrained calm, though the look in her eyes still moved.
When he raised his hand lightly on top of her head and smiled wryly, she was strongly moved by the expected familiarity——
"Long time no see." He said softly.
Xiaodou raised his head slightly, and the temperature from the gnawing palm above his head became clearer again.The once chaotic thoughts when I saw him just now were strangely suppressed, and slowly gave birth to the emptiness like catching driftwood when I was drowning.
For a moment, her mind was empty, and the eyes she looked at him were almost chaotic.
It took a long time before he could make a sound.
"It's really you..."
The cunning eyebrows slowly raised a little.After a while, he said, "A surprisingly calm response."
Even struggling to digest the meaning of the other party's words, Xiaodou stared at him for a while.
There was a breath of silence between the two of them.
After a long time, she pulled back slightly and came back to her senses, Xu Xu said: "...I recognized the handwriting on the note you left for Yong."
Seemingly not expecting to be recognized in this way, Qiao Yao was taken aback and sighed through his nose. "I wanted to connect with you before, but I didn't expect that there was some accident in the middle, and I only met now. It's a long story... I will tell you slowly after this."
Even if there has been a foreshadowing before, it is still difficult to feel real when you see the real person.Listening to Qiao Niu's voice slowly, Xiaodou became quiet and didn't know how to respond.
Sly leaned over to support her on his back, turned around and lifted her up from the wheelchair.
He stood up with her back behind him and adjusted his posture; coincidentally, he just turned towards the exit, facing the skylight that he had crossed when he came.Bright light suddenly covered the retina, and Xiaodou's eyes froze in a daze. For some reason, the near-desperate expression of the small room in the underground space suddenly appeared in his mind. Get confused again.
In this daze, she heard him say, "Sorry, I'm late again."
——"The power will be cut out here soon, and it will be impossible to go back to the basement to find your friends. Get out of here now, okay?"
When his voice fell, her thoughts froze for a moment, and then the confusion in her mind turned into a subconscious appeal for help——
In the next second, she heard her own voice come out.
"Sly and cautious?"
His footsteps paused because of this address, "Huh?"
"……Who are you?"
Hearing this, he turned his head and looked at her inquiringly.
she asked again.
"who are you?"
His eyes settled down, revealing his usual insightful calmness.
He turned his head and looked forward again, and replied in a deep voice: "Cunning and careful."
As soon as the words fell, tears welled up in her eyes.
Her eyes were sore and her body was so heavy that she was no longer her own. She lowered her head and leaned on his shoulder, tears blurring her vision.
And he stood still on the spot, looking up at the sun disc gradually slanting and sinking in the shadow of the gray city outside the window.After a while, he walked forward in silence.
……
The two walked through the end of the corridor and arrived at the main entrance on the first floor of the factory.
Re-entering the outside from the closed underground space, the moment the door was pushed open, the blazing lights in the corridor were suddenly covered by the influx of sunset light; it was almost dusk, and the buildings outside the factory were elongated with reflections and scattered wandering The dead bodies combined into a decadent scene, which came into sight in an instant, as if passing through the boundary connecting two completely different worlds, making Xiaodou suddenly fully awake.
The effect of the medicine had already begun to wear off, her mouth was full of salty tears, she felt a little sensation in her numb limbs, and she had a very clear "real feeling" towards the man who was carrying her back.She moved her fingers and unconsciously touched the cloth on Qiao Ni's chest, and a gleam of clarity was induced in her dull brain like an electric shock.
After a pause, she said hoarsely, "Long time no see."
He sighed, stretched his hand back suddenly, pressed lightly on the back of her head that was lying on his shoulder, and flicked it soothingly. "Is this some other kind of reunion welcome ceremony? If this goes on like this, the detective's neck will be scalded by you."
He said so in his mouth, but his hands didn't mean to put him down, on the contrary, it meant to make her continue to feel at ease and flood the back of his neck with water.The rare cunning coaxing mode worked, and Xiaodou felt that he was beginning to be freed from certain emotions.And Qiao Niu really stood there motionless, as if waiting for her.
She lowered her head, her forehead resting on his shoulder.
And Qiao Niu seemed to have sensed something, and only took another step after she calmed down.
The dead bodies outside the factory had been cleaned up, and the two arrived at the parking lot quickly without being attacked along the way.The journey was neither far nor near, and Xiaodou was so distracted that he didn't even notice where he was going, until he heard the quiet voice like cunning gnawing frost again.
"Calm down a little?"
Hearing this, she raised her head from the cunning shoulder, only to realize that she had arrived at the place where the h1 that she and Xiaoshi had driven was parked.She stared at h1 for a while before saying, "The key is on the roof."
Cunningly stood there patiently until she opened her mouth, and then went up to touch the key from the roof of the car as she said, "Thought it very well."
"Taka's proposal..."
Cunning glanced at her gravely, but finally didn't speak, opened the car door silently and put her in the passenger seat, and then walked around to the other side and sat in the driver's seat to start the car.
The car quickly turned out of the factory and drove onto the surrounding road.After leaving the factory area for a certain distance, the speed of the car stabilized.
The interior of the car was quiet, except for the even low hum of the engine.
Qiao Niao frowned slightly, and said: "That friend of yours..." After a pause, he said in a calm but somewhat hostile tone, "It must have been made by Makishima."
Xiaodou's face turned pale, and it took him a while to answer in a low voice.
Cunning glanced at her sideways, his brows furrowed even tighter. "Sorry, I'm so late."
He rubbed the gear lever slightly with his right hand, and his small movements showed that he was thinking about something, and continued: "I followed those people to the shrine before, but it turned out that you were the one who conflicted with them. I wanted to talk to you." You met to confirm, but then you gave up in order to chase people. This time too, after catching the guy who killed your companions and then returning to the factory, he was also behind you, but failed to catch up before your friend had an accident. "
Xiaodou looked down at the shaking compass on the car in a daze, and murmured wearily: "It's not you, it's my fault..." She stopped abruptly, and she looked up at him, "When you were at the shrine before, you It's already here..." Suddenly remembering the blue sticky note she saw at the clinic at the beginning, she recalled and continued slowly: "You have been to the clinic in Dingxi, and you have left a note directing the way to the gas station, right? ? At that time, because of the waste bombs on the ground, I thought it was a passing policeman..."
When mentioning the shrine and the clinic, all the things about the small room came into my mind. Xiaodou's hand couldn't help shaking again, and she couldn't help holding the trembling hand with the other hand under the blanket.
Qiao Nian squinted his eyes, "Did you pick up that sticky note?" After a pause, "So...the right hand was injured at the time, so it was written with your left hand, no wonder you couldn't recognize the handwriting. That sticky note The gun was given to me by a policeman for self-defense. I just came here..." He paused, as if looking for the right wording, "...When I came to 'here', I first met the policeman and a group of The nearby residents went together. Later, we dispersed to find medicines, and when I returned to the meeting place, I found that they were all killed, and the purpose of the murderer was only to snatch supplies. That’s why I went to track down the group of lunatics.”
He breathed out low. "It seems that I passed by many times. ... Although I saw you earlier than that."
He turned and glanced at her.
"I first parachuted into that high school with you guys."
Xiaodou slightly opened his eyes.
On the other hand, Qiao Niu didn't notice her expression, still looking forward, and continued to whisper to himself.
"This kind of idealism incident should be regarded as a miracle, right? It took a lot of time to accept it, but I didn't expect that there would be something more difficult to accept such as cannibalism. By the way..."
His eyes dimmed, as if recalling something.
"The most difficult thing to accept is that on the bridge connecting the teaching building, I saw Tsururu Rin holding a 92f from a distance, right?"
Xiaodou was completely stunned, and subconsciously opened her lips to make a sound, but was interrupted by Qiao Nian——
"I have to tell you immediately, otherwise I have finished talking about the things that will keep you awake. Whether it is reminiscing about the past or the question you want to ask now, even if you don't hear the answer, it will not affect your sleep, so let's rest now."
He reached over to help her pull the blanket over her shoulders.
"It doesn't make sense to keep looking at me with your eyes open. No matter what you ask me next, I won't answer....Stop thinking about your friend for a while and go to sleep."
Xiaodou grabbed the edge of the blanket, looked at the black-haired man who was already concentrating on driving, and belatedly realized that his hands were no longer trembling.
She didn't know how to answer for a while, and finally leaned back slowly in the chair, and answered in a low voice.
The eyelids gradually closed, and the eyebrows and eyes in the field of vision that were dyed by the sunset light from the window gradually turned into a warm color.
……
When Xiaodou woke up again, it was already dark, and the car just drove into a residential area that seemed to be still under development.She sat up and pressed her sore eyes. Seeing that she had woken up, she explained: "This place was used as a temporary resting place by those who traveled with me before. Because there were very few residents in the past, so the people around There aren't many 'that kind of guys,'" he said, handing her the water bottle.
Xiaodou took the kettle and bit it, tried to move his hands and feet, and then said in a vague voice: "The effect of the medicine has almost faded."
"Don't force yourself until you fully recover." Qiao Yao replied while turning the steering wheel, and the car turned around and drove in front of an independent house.Through the streetlights, one could clearly see a small boy in front of the door of the private house. He was using a strange posture to hit the garden wall in vain, blocking the entrance to the garage. He was obviously infected.Qiao Nian made a soft gesture to Xiaodou, bent down under the seat and pulled out a crossbow with ease, rolled down the window silently, aimed at the boy's back neck and pulled the bowstring.
The bow and arrow hit the back of the boy's head, and the boy fell to the ground without a sound.Xiaodou recognized the crossbow as the one they found in the riverside apartment and was later taken away by Qiao Yao. Seeing the look in her eyes, Xiao Dou whispered: "Baal wild cat c5, hunting dead corpses like guns It's more practical." As he said, he got out of the car and walked to the side of the boy's dead body, held the arrow tail and pulled out the arrow to have a look, "It can be recycled, but luckily children's bones are relatively soft."
Xiaodou got out of the car, and turned his eyes away from the arrow that was so sticky that he couldn't bear to look straight at it. "Fortunately, there is no crime coefficient measurement in this world..."
"Because everyone's already a criminal." Sniper nonchalantly rubbed the arrow against the wall, turned around, jumped into the car, and backed the car into the garage.
Sensing the change in the man compared to the previous cognition, Xiaodou fixedly looked at the cunning face vaguely revealed by the window of h1 cab.
After taking out the necessary supplies and weapons from the car, the two locked the door and entered the single-door apartment.The area of the apartment is much smaller than the riverside apartment where Xiaodou and the others stayed before, but it unexpectedly has a sly life atmosphere. There are leftovers of cold tea and opened cans on the coffee table. It is obvious that Sly was often active here before.Xiaodou picked up the books on the sofa and put them aside, making room for a seat; while Qiao Yao over there still casually sat down on the chair where the books were still placed, and took off all the equipment on his body. on the ground.Looking up and seeing that she was staring at the book under his buttocks, he was unmoved and said a very homely line: "Just make it."
This sentence fermented the real feeling of "Cunning Shen is right in front of you"; Xiaodou took the hot water from him and put it on his lips, and the steam made his aching eyes feel better.She looked at him through the hazy steam, "Now we can lift the ban and start talking about the old days."
Sly glanced at her, and didn't rush to answer. Instead, he groped in his trouser pocket for a while, took out a crumpled cigarette case, took out one and put it in his mouth. aura.As a result, the lighter turned over in his hand and finally failed to ignite. He let out a sigh of relief, "Before talking about the past, let's confirm one thing."
"what?"
"You are alive."
Xiaodou was stopped by his question.Qiao Yao didn't intend to hear her answer, and continued: "It's fine if it happens to me, but if it happens to someone else, no matter how long you look at it, it will feel a little bit off. Don't shake it." With that kind of expression... Even if you have been behind you for a long time, it is really hard to calm down in such a face-to-face situation."
It caught fire with a snap.
"When I first saw you, it was a hard battle for me to digest this matter. As a result, from just now until now, I have fought the first hard battle again, and it is still the kind that has no results. You still won, You have accepted the fact that I am standing in front of you so quickly."
He sat on the sofa half bent, with his elbows resting loosely on his knees, watching her eyes with some wild purity.
"Nice to see you again, Miss Tsururu."
The temperature of the mug was really transmitted to the palm of the hand, Xiaodou slowly closed the hands holding the cup, and stared at him. "Each each other."
Cunningly took a deep drag on the cigarette, as if trying to digest something.The nicotine turned around, and the next sentence smoothly returned to daily life: "Are you hungry?"
"Shen Ye," Xiaodou stopped him with an irresponsible answer, "What does 'resurrecting from death happen to me' mean? How did you come here?"
Qiao Nian was already half-standing and couldn't stand up. Hearing this, he stretched out his hand to hold his neck, and sat back down again.
"I escaped from Japan after I killed Makishima. I slept in a field tent as usual, but when I opened my eyes, I found myself in a place where all dead people would be resurrected. Based on this, I may have accidentally fallen asleep. I was killed in my sleep, and I chased you and Makishima to this fork in the Santu River."
Xiaodou paused for a while before answering: "...Really. I should kill him. Is it really good to pay the price of being away from home and not being able to return? People who care about you will be very sad."
"I did suffer a lot, but the way it ended was a little bit unexpected."
Hearing cunning's understatement, Xiaodou stopped talking, knowing that he could not go deeper into this topic and touch his deeper thoughts for the time being.She stood up, "I'll get some food."
"Changed your mind and stopped talking about the past?"
"Continue to follow the current topic, and it will become a conversation between two dead people who have lost their joy and anger."
Qiao Nian was stunned for a moment, hooked the corners of his mouth, and then stood up. "Sounds a little scary. Come on, go to the kitchen."
The kitchen in the apartment stocked a lot of non-perishable rough food such as compressed biscuits.Cunningly pulled out two boxes of cup noodles, "The celebration is a special meal."
"It's easy..."
"It's 'rich'."
Xiaodou didn't answer, but looked at the back of the man standing next to the electric kettle in a daze.The back of the cunning is a bit more burly than the impression, and the arm exposed under the middle sleeve has a lot of scars, which can hardly imagine the life he has been living before.
The scene in front of her was vaguely overlapped with the back view she saw in Qiao Yao's apartment on that rainy day long ago.
"Shen Ye."
"Ok?"
"After coming to the fork in Santuchuan, do you have any plans?"
Kouchi was pouring the boiled water into the cup noodles, and replied almost casually: "If you want to talk about the goal of life, you can't answer it at all before you die, let alone after you die."
"Even if you are living in hell after death, it will be even worse if you can't find a place to live in the afterlife."
"Well." Snake nodded slightly, "Assuming that this place is actually hell, try to die again and see if you will be reincarnated. I'm afraid I don't have the courage. Seeing that Japan doesn't need policemen or superheroes anymore. For the sake of it, there seems to be no particular reason to live other than 'to live'."
She thought for a while and said, "I thought you would say, 'Go, go get rid of that guy Makishima Shōgo first'."
His hand holding the kettle was still steady, and his movement of cleaning up the cup noodles did not stop at all, and his tone was still chatty and indifferent. "You reminded me, let's put this matter on the agenda."
Xiaodou looked at his peaceful profile. "... Strange."
"What's wrong."
"At that time... I thought you would choose to go after Makishima first, but I didn't expect that you didn't follow, but turned around and said 'Long time no see' to me."
This time the cunning turned around and looked at her face to face.
"The job of the police is to prevent crime, not to execute the criminal. The job of a man is to protect his comrades first, not wait for his companions to be killed by villains and then take revenge."
She looked back at him; after being quiet for a long time, she raised the corners of her mouth very shallowly, and replied, "'companion'? A classmate, right?"
Qiao Niao raised his eyebrows, "Well, it's an 'old classmate'." He picked up two boxes of cup noodles and handed her a box, "The old classmate who can always get an 'a' with me."
The two returned to the living room with cup noodles.Xiaodou sat down on the sofa, nibbled on the fork and rummaged through boxes and cabinets, Xiaodou rolled up his face with the fork and watched him hurry back and forth, "It's really strange. Are you not obsessed with killing old enemies at all?"
"It's not that I don't actively search for the enemy, but anyway, if you are here, that guy will come to you sooner or later."
"..." Xiaodou stuffed the rolled noodles back, "Another excuse."
Sly raised his head from the cabinet, pulled out a blanket and a pillow, turned around and walked in front of her, stuffed the pillow behind her, and covered her legs with the blanket.
Xiaodou hugged the cup noodles and looked at the man squatting in front of her to build a nest, and the questioning came to her lips.
Just when she thought the conversation was about to be interrupted, he suddenly spoke in a deep voice.
"In this disordered world, the trial of people like Makishima can become painless. I have already shot him in the head once, and the revenge of my colleagues is regarded as revenge. Let's look at it now. If you see him, just treat him as an 'ordinary bad guy', and just shoot and kill him in a normal way."
She was startled and frowned.
"... I understand a little bit. After killing him, did you suffer any psychological shock?"
"Come on." He whispered.
She obediently leaned against the surrounding pillows, sinking into the sofa.He held on to the sofa cushion condescendingly, and subtly told a bedtime story, and continued: "It is indeed a big blow, and the dead guy caused me a lot of trouble. On the way to escape to a foreign country, I slept and ate It was difficult at first, but in the dead of night, my mental state was so bad that I had hallucinations, seeing Makishima appearing around me, saying some inexplicable words, and holding inexplicable books. Although I don’t want to be alone Stray dogs, but I don't want such a 'friend' to relieve my loneliness."
Xiaodou stopped scooping up the noodles, "Shen Ye..."
"Don't worry, that illusion is no longer there."
He held her shoulder that was trying to prop up.
"Eat first."
More like sleep mode.
She took a few mouthfuls of noodles, but she still gave up because she couldn't eat any more. She quietly watched him wipe out a box, feeling tired gradually.
Qiao Nian took a look at the cup noodles that she had only touched a few mouthfuls, took it and put it aside without saying anything. "Want to listen to my travel diary?"
She huddled in the blanket and nodded.
"After escaping from Japan, I went to Hong Kong, and then I went around in some small East Asian countries. It's the same everywhere, anyway, they are all in a chaotic state of war..."
The cunning voice became softer, Xiaodou listened to his unhurried whispers, and his mind gradually became empty due to tiredness.
"Looking at it now, the situation on the battlefield I went to at that time was not much better than it is now. Humans can kill each other, and it is much more efficient than the slow-moving man-eating monsters now... No, it is better here. "
She half closed her eyes in a daze, and asked softly, "Where should I go?..."
Sly sat on the floor next to the sofa, casually tucking up the corner of the blanket that had fallen from her body.
"For example, the cherry blossoms here are not projected...and there will be no fish made of super oatmeal...Thanks to Makishima who is still alive and kicking, I am so scared that I will not have hallucinations now."
Seeing her slowly closing her eyes, he stopped talking and became quiet.
He waited for a while until her breathing became even, and then he sighed slightly from his nose almost inaudibly.
"No, as expected, I still can't agree with such a sad reason. Then let's change the thanking person."
"...Thank you, Ms. Tsururu Rin who came back from the dead."
He gently put down the coffee cup in his hand, and covered her forehead with his still warm hand.
"Thank you for coming alive."
[7:16.
They will never be hungry again, nor will they be thirsty anymore, and the sun and any heat will never hurt them again.
7: 17.
For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to the fountains of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes. ]
[—John Apocalypse · vol.7 · The person who received the seal on the forehead. ]
When the third shot was fired, he had already reached the middle of the corridor, passing the ray of skylight where Makishima was standing just now.The soft light band caressed his sharp brows from bottom to top, reflecting the fierce light in his eyes.
In an extremely unreal way, Qiao Ya Shen just appeared here.
After seeing the cunning in the corridor, Makishima narrowed his eyes, slowly stood up straight, and took two steps back at a constant speed.
The sound of the third shot disappeared together with the echo. In the short silence that seemed to be frozen in time, Makishima finally digested the scene in front of him, and a bloody smile appeared on his pale face——
Snake didn't hesitate, and pulled the trigger for the fourth time.
As if the pause button had been pressed, the picture was replayed suddenly, the bullet splashed a cluster of sparks on the hard pillar, and Makishima also quickly retreated to the window, and smashed the window open!Cunning immediately lowered his gun and sprinted forward, and at the same time he ran to the side of the pillar, Makishima also stepped on the window edge.
The eyes of the two met for a brief moment.
Fifth shot!
The bullet narrowly missed the cheek of Makishima who jumped out of the window, and the hot wind brushed over his collar, leaving a bloodstain on his neck; he was not affected at all, he turned down the window without any delay, and jumped in on the outer eaves Window to the next floor.
Cunningly came to the window, but didn't jump down, but stopped suddenly.
Xiaodou looked at his back without blinking.
In the backlight, the dark-haired man's shoulders slowly relaxed, and he lowered his gun.
The five-round m500, the standard pistol of the Japanese police, just emptied five rounds of bullets.
After a moment he turned around and looked up at her.
Eyes met, Xiaodou subconsciously closed her eyes.When he opened his eyes again, he had strode towards her.
Every step closer made my heart beat a little harder.Until he stopped in front of her and squatted down to look at her, her chest suddenly loosened.
There was still a tinge of savagery in him that fell silent; even in this situation he maintained a strangely restrained calm, though the look in her eyes still moved.
When he raised his hand lightly on top of her head and smiled wryly, she was strongly moved by the expected familiarity——
"Long time no see." He said softly.
Xiaodou raised his head slightly, and the temperature from the gnawing palm above his head became clearer again.The once chaotic thoughts when I saw him just now were strangely suppressed, and slowly gave birth to the emptiness like catching driftwood when I was drowning.
For a moment, her mind was empty, and the eyes she looked at him were almost chaotic.
It took a long time before he could make a sound.
"It's really you..."
The cunning eyebrows slowly raised a little.After a while, he said, "A surprisingly calm response."
Even struggling to digest the meaning of the other party's words, Xiaodou stared at him for a while.
There was a breath of silence between the two of them.
After a long time, she pulled back slightly and came back to her senses, Xu Xu said: "...I recognized the handwriting on the note you left for Yong."
Seemingly not expecting to be recognized in this way, Qiao Yao was taken aback and sighed through his nose. "I wanted to connect with you before, but I didn't expect that there was some accident in the middle, and I only met now. It's a long story... I will tell you slowly after this."
Even if there has been a foreshadowing before, it is still difficult to feel real when you see the real person.Listening to Qiao Niu's voice slowly, Xiaodou became quiet and didn't know how to respond.
Sly leaned over to support her on his back, turned around and lifted her up from the wheelchair.
He stood up with her back behind him and adjusted his posture; coincidentally, he just turned towards the exit, facing the skylight that he had crossed when he came.Bright light suddenly covered the retina, and Xiaodou's eyes froze in a daze. For some reason, the near-desperate expression of the small room in the underground space suddenly appeared in his mind. Get confused again.
In this daze, she heard him say, "Sorry, I'm late again."
——"The power will be cut out here soon, and it will be impossible to go back to the basement to find your friends. Get out of here now, okay?"
When his voice fell, her thoughts froze for a moment, and then the confusion in her mind turned into a subconscious appeal for help——
In the next second, she heard her own voice come out.
"Sly and cautious?"
His footsteps paused because of this address, "Huh?"
"……Who are you?"
Hearing this, he turned his head and looked at her inquiringly.
she asked again.
"who are you?"
His eyes settled down, revealing his usual insightful calmness.
He turned his head and looked forward again, and replied in a deep voice: "Cunning and careful."
As soon as the words fell, tears welled up in her eyes.
Her eyes were sore and her body was so heavy that she was no longer her own. She lowered her head and leaned on his shoulder, tears blurring her vision.
And he stood still on the spot, looking up at the sun disc gradually slanting and sinking in the shadow of the gray city outside the window.After a while, he walked forward in silence.
……
The two walked through the end of the corridor and arrived at the main entrance on the first floor of the factory.
Re-entering the outside from the closed underground space, the moment the door was pushed open, the blazing lights in the corridor were suddenly covered by the influx of sunset light; it was almost dusk, and the buildings outside the factory were elongated with reflections and scattered wandering The dead bodies combined into a decadent scene, which came into sight in an instant, as if passing through the boundary connecting two completely different worlds, making Xiaodou suddenly fully awake.
The effect of the medicine had already begun to wear off, her mouth was full of salty tears, she felt a little sensation in her numb limbs, and she had a very clear "real feeling" towards the man who was carrying her back.She moved her fingers and unconsciously touched the cloth on Qiao Ni's chest, and a gleam of clarity was induced in her dull brain like an electric shock.
After a pause, she said hoarsely, "Long time no see."
He sighed, stretched his hand back suddenly, pressed lightly on the back of her head that was lying on his shoulder, and flicked it soothingly. "Is this some other kind of reunion welcome ceremony? If this goes on like this, the detective's neck will be scalded by you."
He said so in his mouth, but his hands didn't mean to put him down, on the contrary, it meant to make her continue to feel at ease and flood the back of his neck with water.The rare cunning coaxing mode worked, and Xiaodou felt that he was beginning to be freed from certain emotions.And Qiao Niu really stood there motionless, as if waiting for her.
She lowered her head, her forehead resting on his shoulder.
And Qiao Niu seemed to have sensed something, and only took another step after she calmed down.
The dead bodies outside the factory had been cleaned up, and the two arrived at the parking lot quickly without being attacked along the way.The journey was neither far nor near, and Xiaodou was so distracted that he didn't even notice where he was going, until he heard the quiet voice like cunning gnawing frost again.
"Calm down a little?"
Hearing this, she raised her head from the cunning shoulder, only to realize that she had arrived at the place where the h1 that she and Xiaoshi had driven was parked.She stared at h1 for a while before saying, "The key is on the roof."
Cunningly stood there patiently until she opened her mouth, and then went up to touch the key from the roof of the car as she said, "Thought it very well."
"Taka's proposal..."
Cunning glanced at her gravely, but finally didn't speak, opened the car door silently and put her in the passenger seat, and then walked around to the other side and sat in the driver's seat to start the car.
The car quickly turned out of the factory and drove onto the surrounding road.After leaving the factory area for a certain distance, the speed of the car stabilized.
The interior of the car was quiet, except for the even low hum of the engine.
Qiao Niao frowned slightly, and said: "That friend of yours..." After a pause, he said in a calm but somewhat hostile tone, "It must have been made by Makishima."
Xiaodou's face turned pale, and it took him a while to answer in a low voice.
Cunning glanced at her sideways, his brows furrowed even tighter. "Sorry, I'm so late."
He rubbed the gear lever slightly with his right hand, and his small movements showed that he was thinking about something, and continued: "I followed those people to the shrine before, but it turned out that you were the one who conflicted with them. I wanted to talk to you." You met to confirm, but then you gave up in order to chase people. This time too, after catching the guy who killed your companions and then returning to the factory, he was also behind you, but failed to catch up before your friend had an accident. "
Xiaodou looked down at the shaking compass on the car in a daze, and murmured wearily: "It's not you, it's my fault..." She stopped abruptly, and she looked up at him, "When you were at the shrine before, you It's already here..." Suddenly remembering the blue sticky note she saw at the clinic at the beginning, she recalled and continued slowly: "You have been to the clinic in Dingxi, and you have left a note directing the way to the gas station, right? ? At that time, because of the waste bombs on the ground, I thought it was a passing policeman..."
When mentioning the shrine and the clinic, all the things about the small room came into my mind. Xiaodou's hand couldn't help shaking again, and she couldn't help holding the trembling hand with the other hand under the blanket.
Qiao Nian squinted his eyes, "Did you pick up that sticky note?" After a pause, "So...the right hand was injured at the time, so it was written with your left hand, no wonder you couldn't recognize the handwriting. That sticky note The gun was given to me by a policeman for self-defense. I just came here..." He paused, as if looking for the right wording, "...When I came to 'here', I first met the policeman and a group of The nearby residents went together. Later, we dispersed to find medicines, and when I returned to the meeting place, I found that they were all killed, and the purpose of the murderer was only to snatch supplies. That’s why I went to track down the group of lunatics.”
He breathed out low. "It seems that I passed by many times. ... Although I saw you earlier than that."
He turned and glanced at her.
"I first parachuted into that high school with you guys."
Xiaodou slightly opened his eyes.
On the other hand, Qiao Niu didn't notice her expression, still looking forward, and continued to whisper to himself.
"This kind of idealism incident should be regarded as a miracle, right? It took a lot of time to accept it, but I didn't expect that there would be something more difficult to accept such as cannibalism. By the way..."
His eyes dimmed, as if recalling something.
"The most difficult thing to accept is that on the bridge connecting the teaching building, I saw Tsururu Rin holding a 92f from a distance, right?"
Xiaodou was completely stunned, and subconsciously opened her lips to make a sound, but was interrupted by Qiao Nian——
"I have to tell you immediately, otherwise I have finished talking about the things that will keep you awake. Whether it is reminiscing about the past or the question you want to ask now, even if you don't hear the answer, it will not affect your sleep, so let's rest now."
He reached over to help her pull the blanket over her shoulders.
"It doesn't make sense to keep looking at me with your eyes open. No matter what you ask me next, I won't answer....Stop thinking about your friend for a while and go to sleep."
Xiaodou grabbed the edge of the blanket, looked at the black-haired man who was already concentrating on driving, and belatedly realized that his hands were no longer trembling.
She didn't know how to answer for a while, and finally leaned back slowly in the chair, and answered in a low voice.
The eyelids gradually closed, and the eyebrows and eyes in the field of vision that were dyed by the sunset light from the window gradually turned into a warm color.
……
When Xiaodou woke up again, it was already dark, and the car just drove into a residential area that seemed to be still under development.She sat up and pressed her sore eyes. Seeing that she had woken up, she explained: "This place was used as a temporary resting place by those who traveled with me before. Because there were very few residents in the past, so the people around There aren't many 'that kind of guys,'" he said, handing her the water bottle.
Xiaodou took the kettle and bit it, tried to move his hands and feet, and then said in a vague voice: "The effect of the medicine has almost faded."
"Don't force yourself until you fully recover." Qiao Yao replied while turning the steering wheel, and the car turned around and drove in front of an independent house.Through the streetlights, one could clearly see a small boy in front of the door of the private house. He was using a strange posture to hit the garden wall in vain, blocking the entrance to the garage. He was obviously infected.Qiao Nian made a soft gesture to Xiaodou, bent down under the seat and pulled out a crossbow with ease, rolled down the window silently, aimed at the boy's back neck and pulled the bowstring.
The bow and arrow hit the back of the boy's head, and the boy fell to the ground without a sound.Xiaodou recognized the crossbow as the one they found in the riverside apartment and was later taken away by Qiao Yao. Seeing the look in her eyes, Xiao Dou whispered: "Baal wild cat c5, hunting dead corpses like guns It's more practical." As he said, he got out of the car and walked to the side of the boy's dead body, held the arrow tail and pulled out the arrow to have a look, "It can be recycled, but luckily children's bones are relatively soft."
Xiaodou got out of the car, and turned his eyes away from the arrow that was so sticky that he couldn't bear to look straight at it. "Fortunately, there is no crime coefficient measurement in this world..."
"Because everyone's already a criminal." Sniper nonchalantly rubbed the arrow against the wall, turned around, jumped into the car, and backed the car into the garage.
Sensing the change in the man compared to the previous cognition, Xiaodou fixedly looked at the cunning face vaguely revealed by the window of h1 cab.
After taking out the necessary supplies and weapons from the car, the two locked the door and entered the single-door apartment.The area of the apartment is much smaller than the riverside apartment where Xiaodou and the others stayed before, but it unexpectedly has a sly life atmosphere. There are leftovers of cold tea and opened cans on the coffee table. It is obvious that Sly was often active here before.Xiaodou picked up the books on the sofa and put them aside, making room for a seat; while Qiao Yao over there still casually sat down on the chair where the books were still placed, and took off all the equipment on his body. on the ground.Looking up and seeing that she was staring at the book under his buttocks, he was unmoved and said a very homely line: "Just make it."
This sentence fermented the real feeling of "Cunning Shen is right in front of you"; Xiaodou took the hot water from him and put it on his lips, and the steam made his aching eyes feel better.She looked at him through the hazy steam, "Now we can lift the ban and start talking about the old days."
Sly glanced at her, and didn't rush to answer. Instead, he groped in his trouser pocket for a while, took out a crumpled cigarette case, took out one and put it in his mouth. aura.As a result, the lighter turned over in his hand and finally failed to ignite. He let out a sigh of relief, "Before talking about the past, let's confirm one thing."
"what?"
"You are alive."
Xiaodou was stopped by his question.Qiao Yao didn't intend to hear her answer, and continued: "It's fine if it happens to me, but if it happens to someone else, no matter how long you look at it, it will feel a little bit off. Don't shake it." With that kind of expression... Even if you have been behind you for a long time, it is really hard to calm down in such a face-to-face situation."
It caught fire with a snap.
"When I first saw you, it was a hard battle for me to digest this matter. As a result, from just now until now, I have fought the first hard battle again, and it is still the kind that has no results. You still won, You have accepted the fact that I am standing in front of you so quickly."
He sat on the sofa half bent, with his elbows resting loosely on his knees, watching her eyes with some wild purity.
"Nice to see you again, Miss Tsururu."
The temperature of the mug was really transmitted to the palm of the hand, Xiaodou slowly closed the hands holding the cup, and stared at him. "Each each other."
Cunningly took a deep drag on the cigarette, as if trying to digest something.The nicotine turned around, and the next sentence smoothly returned to daily life: "Are you hungry?"
"Shen Ye," Xiaodou stopped him with an irresponsible answer, "What does 'resurrecting from death happen to me' mean? How did you come here?"
Qiao Nian was already half-standing and couldn't stand up. Hearing this, he stretched out his hand to hold his neck, and sat back down again.
"I escaped from Japan after I killed Makishima. I slept in a field tent as usual, but when I opened my eyes, I found myself in a place where all dead people would be resurrected. Based on this, I may have accidentally fallen asleep. I was killed in my sleep, and I chased you and Makishima to this fork in the Santu River."
Xiaodou paused for a while before answering: "...Really. I should kill him. Is it really good to pay the price of being away from home and not being able to return? People who care about you will be very sad."
"I did suffer a lot, but the way it ended was a little bit unexpected."
Hearing cunning's understatement, Xiaodou stopped talking, knowing that he could not go deeper into this topic and touch his deeper thoughts for the time being.She stood up, "I'll get some food."
"Changed your mind and stopped talking about the past?"
"Continue to follow the current topic, and it will become a conversation between two dead people who have lost their joy and anger."
Qiao Nian was stunned for a moment, hooked the corners of his mouth, and then stood up. "Sounds a little scary. Come on, go to the kitchen."
The kitchen in the apartment stocked a lot of non-perishable rough food such as compressed biscuits.Cunningly pulled out two boxes of cup noodles, "The celebration is a special meal."
"It's easy..."
"It's 'rich'."
Xiaodou didn't answer, but looked at the back of the man standing next to the electric kettle in a daze.The back of the cunning is a bit more burly than the impression, and the arm exposed under the middle sleeve has a lot of scars, which can hardly imagine the life he has been living before.
The scene in front of her was vaguely overlapped with the back view she saw in Qiao Yao's apartment on that rainy day long ago.
"Shen Ye."
"Ok?"
"After coming to the fork in Santuchuan, do you have any plans?"
Kouchi was pouring the boiled water into the cup noodles, and replied almost casually: "If you want to talk about the goal of life, you can't answer it at all before you die, let alone after you die."
"Even if you are living in hell after death, it will be even worse if you can't find a place to live in the afterlife."
"Well." Snake nodded slightly, "Assuming that this place is actually hell, try to die again and see if you will be reincarnated. I'm afraid I don't have the courage. Seeing that Japan doesn't need policemen or superheroes anymore. For the sake of it, there seems to be no particular reason to live other than 'to live'."
She thought for a while and said, "I thought you would say, 'Go, go get rid of that guy Makishima Shōgo first'."
His hand holding the kettle was still steady, and his movement of cleaning up the cup noodles did not stop at all, and his tone was still chatty and indifferent. "You reminded me, let's put this matter on the agenda."
Xiaodou looked at his peaceful profile. "... Strange."
"What's wrong."
"At that time... I thought you would choose to go after Makishima first, but I didn't expect that you didn't follow, but turned around and said 'Long time no see' to me."
This time the cunning turned around and looked at her face to face.
"The job of the police is to prevent crime, not to execute the criminal. The job of a man is to protect his comrades first, not wait for his companions to be killed by villains and then take revenge."
She looked back at him; after being quiet for a long time, she raised the corners of her mouth very shallowly, and replied, "'companion'? A classmate, right?"
Qiao Niao raised his eyebrows, "Well, it's an 'old classmate'." He picked up two boxes of cup noodles and handed her a box, "The old classmate who can always get an 'a' with me."
The two returned to the living room with cup noodles.Xiaodou sat down on the sofa, nibbled on the fork and rummaged through boxes and cabinets, Xiaodou rolled up his face with the fork and watched him hurry back and forth, "It's really strange. Are you not obsessed with killing old enemies at all?"
"It's not that I don't actively search for the enemy, but anyway, if you are here, that guy will come to you sooner or later."
"..." Xiaodou stuffed the rolled noodles back, "Another excuse."
Sly raised his head from the cabinet, pulled out a blanket and a pillow, turned around and walked in front of her, stuffed the pillow behind her, and covered her legs with the blanket.
Xiaodou hugged the cup noodles and looked at the man squatting in front of her to build a nest, and the questioning came to her lips.
Just when she thought the conversation was about to be interrupted, he suddenly spoke in a deep voice.
"In this disordered world, the trial of people like Makishima can become painless. I have already shot him in the head once, and the revenge of my colleagues is regarded as revenge. Let's look at it now. If you see him, just treat him as an 'ordinary bad guy', and just shoot and kill him in a normal way."
She was startled and frowned.
"... I understand a little bit. After killing him, did you suffer any psychological shock?"
"Come on." He whispered.
She obediently leaned against the surrounding pillows, sinking into the sofa.He held on to the sofa cushion condescendingly, and subtly told a bedtime story, and continued: "It is indeed a big blow, and the dead guy caused me a lot of trouble. On the way to escape to a foreign country, I slept and ate It was difficult at first, but in the dead of night, my mental state was so bad that I had hallucinations, seeing Makishima appearing around me, saying some inexplicable words, and holding inexplicable books. Although I don’t want to be alone Stray dogs, but I don't want such a 'friend' to relieve my loneliness."
Xiaodou stopped scooping up the noodles, "Shen Ye..."
"Don't worry, that illusion is no longer there."
He held her shoulder that was trying to prop up.
"Eat first."
More like sleep mode.
She took a few mouthfuls of noodles, but she still gave up because she couldn't eat any more. She quietly watched him wipe out a box, feeling tired gradually.
Qiao Nian took a look at the cup noodles that she had only touched a few mouthfuls, took it and put it aside without saying anything. "Want to listen to my travel diary?"
She huddled in the blanket and nodded.
"After escaping from Japan, I went to Hong Kong, and then I went around in some small East Asian countries. It's the same everywhere, anyway, they are all in a chaotic state of war..."
The cunning voice became softer, Xiaodou listened to his unhurried whispers, and his mind gradually became empty due to tiredness.
"Looking at it now, the situation on the battlefield I went to at that time was not much better than it is now. Humans can kill each other, and it is much more efficient than the slow-moving man-eating monsters now... No, it is better here. "
She half closed her eyes in a daze, and asked softly, "Where should I go?..."
Sly sat on the floor next to the sofa, casually tucking up the corner of the blanket that had fallen from her body.
"For example, the cherry blossoms here are not projected...and there will be no fish made of super oatmeal...Thanks to Makishima who is still alive and kicking, I am so scared that I will not have hallucinations now."
Seeing her slowly closing her eyes, he stopped talking and became quiet.
He waited for a while until her breathing became even, and then he sighed slightly from his nose almost inaudibly.
"No, as expected, I still can't agree with such a sad reason. Then let's change the thanking person."
"...Thank you, Ms. Tsururu Rin who came back from the dead."
He gently put down the coffee cup in his hand, and covered her forehead with his still warm hand.
"Thank you for coming alive."
[7:16.
They will never be hungry again, nor will they be thirsty anymore, and the sun and any heat will never hurt them again.
7: 17.
For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to the fountains of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes. ]
[—John Apocalypse · vol.7 · The person who received the seal on the forehead. ]
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