The constant passage of time, to human see, is nothing more than 1,440 turns of the seconds hand on a round dial, 24 times of the minute hand, and only two turns of the hour hand.

For what is invisible to human beings, the annual rings in the body, the memories in the mind, and the emotions in the heart are all changing subtly in the visible minutes and seconds.

In fact, we are the only ones who have the time, and the possibilities of life are endless, which means that you can make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, go to Egypt to see the pyramids in the sun, dance in the moonlight in Tahiti, go on an underwater adventure on the Great Barrier Reef, and take a hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia.

You can learn knowledge to imagine the future, you can also review history to understand the past, you can choose to live a rich life, you can pursue drunken money, you can choose to live a quiet life, you can pursue idle clouds and wild cranes, you can measure the distance to the ends of the world with your feet, and you can go to the depths of the universe with reading.

Of course, you can also choose to go to hell or go to heaven.

For tourists, Tokyo on New Year's Day is a good place to go to Tokyo Tower to watch the light show, you can go to Zokoji Temple to release the boat, you can go to the Disney experience queue, you can go to the Tokyo City Vie Observatory in Roppongi to watch the sunrise....

You can also stimulate a little and go to Sensoji Temple to grab the first incense.....

However, the vast majority of neon people's activities are to stay at home and watch the red and white song party.

As for our protagonist Cheng Xiaoyu, he was not infected by the neon warm New Year's atmosphere at all, and after this year, he will enter the most difficult day for him, waiting for the death of the crown prince is not enough to make him unable to give up his soul and continue to suffer, the reason why he is uncertain is that on the first day of the new year, they still have a certain dangerous task to complete.

Since Christmas, the trio have moved out of their apartment and moved to a villa holiday home in Minato-ku, which is only 800 meters from Shiba Park and Tokyo Tower. The location is extremely convenient, with a monorail ride from Hamamatsucho, where the villa is located, to Haneda Airport, which has only added 32 flights to Shanghai in the second half of the year.

Of course, moving here is not only because of the convenience of leaving neon, but also because it is close to Ginza, Shinagawa and the Imperial Palace, and Su Yuxi's finishing work is set to be completed at a Japanese garden restaurant called "Ranyama よしむら", which is famous for its neon high-end courtyard restaurant in the middle of Shinagawa and Ginza.

The villa is a typical Japanese-style courtyard, with white walls and green tiles, the yard is not large and paved with gravel, and the middle is a gray stone path that divides the yard into two, the house is a classical neon all-wood structure, with fine lattice doors and windows, and warm yellow lights peeking through the white paper-like glass lattice at night.

A little farther away are high-rise office buildings, such as the headquarters of the Toshiba Building, which is not far away, so this quiet courtyard is even more precious.

Cheng Xiaoyu didn't know how Su Yuxi got this villa, probably because Liu Yongqing entrusted the Jihui .....

The three of them haven't gone out much in the past few days, only Su Yuxi occasionally goes out, but she will come back soon, and half of the time Su Yuxi is closed to surf the Internet in her room.

At night, Su Yuxi and Pei Yanchen would practice kendo in the courtyard of the villa, which was not particularly spacious, but it was just enough.

At this time, Cheng Xiaoyu will do it in the wooden corridor under the eaves, watching the two girls fight irregularly, although both sides are wearing protective gear, but the neon kendo is actually a one-hit kill, so if the two people have real knives in their hands, they have actually died many times.

Su Yuxi and Pei Yanchen's styles are completely different, Su Yuxi moves like a wind, shapes like a ghost, and the knife is unguardable.

And Pei Yanchen is like a standing female god of war, with solid skills, rich experience, and her body is as immobile as a mountain, and she is fighting back first.

If there is anything in common between the two, it is that they both have a crystal clear but indestructible diamond heart.

Cheng Xiaoyu watched the actual combat practice of the two people every day, and he felt frightened, as if the other party was really an enemy who was in the same life and death, every time he was angry, it was like thunder, it really didn't look like practice, so Cheng Xiaoyu couldn't bear to look at it.

But I feel that these two people are fighting, and there is an unimaginable beauty, especially there is a green pine tree in the corner, and on the side of the courtyard that is not too high, there is a temple called "Lion's Roar", the black cornices and arches have an unfathomable classical beauty under the illumination of the moonlight, plus a clear moon in the distance, the building with shining lights, and the two people in the courtyard who come and go elegantly and smartly, forming a dreamlike image.

Cheng Xiaoyu couldn't help but take out her mobile phone every day and took a picture, thinking that if she had the opportunity to shoot a martial arts film with them as the protagonists, she must be drunk and regret why there is no PICTORVISION camera array here....

It's just that as New Year's Day approaches, Cheng Xiaoyu didn't have the leisure to watch the two girls fight, and on December 31, Cheng Xiaoyu sat in the living room on the first floor, as if something was in his throat, he felt that he shouldn't be so masterless, although tomorrow was a terrible variable, but he knew that he was not a cowardly and courageless person.

As a person who has experienced death several times, Cheng Xiaoyu has always lived with the mentality of living to death, and most of us are ignoring a question, thinking that it is still a long time, tomorrow is still too late, and it is never too late to work hard.

Sometimes we even forget that people can die at any time.

But Cheng Xiaoyu has never forgotten, and even this feeling that tomorrow is the end is getting stronger and stronger, but now is not the time to show that he is restless, Cheng Xiaoyu took a few deep breaths, brushed his whispers, and browsed all kinds of information to divert his attention, he felt that time was so long for the first time.

After dinner, Su Yuxi and Pei Yanchen did not practice fighting after resting for a while as usual, but the three of them sat around the "warm table" and began to discuss tomorrow's actions.

The warm table, known as the "torch" in neon antiquity, is a small square low table.

There is a pit about ten centimeters below the table, and there is a stove box at the bottom of the pit, and the wooden floor is laid on the stove box, and when heating, put your feet on the hot wooden floor covered by the quilt.

In the stove box, there are utensils containing coals and briquettes.

Of course, modern stove boxes have been replaced with electric heaters to avoid the trouble of constantly adding coals and briquettes to the stove box.

At this moment, the door in the living room is open, and a cool breeze keeps blowing into the living room, but Cheng Xiaoyu, who is sitting at the warm table, does not feel cold at all, but has the comfort of soaking in a hot spring on a cold day.

On the warm table, there is a structural diagram of the "Japanese Garden", and when the crow goes to the royal family's "New Year's Ceremony Dinner" tomorrow, there is also a banquet to be held here, and the crow invited the seven remaining people who participated in the assassination of Cheng Xiaoyu in Shanghai in his own name......

Among them are Oshima, nicknamed "Dragonfly", and Shinichi Suzuki, nicknamed "Bullet", whom Su Yuxi asked Cheng Xiaoyu to release at Shanghai Airport, among which Shinichi Suzuki is the one who made the mobile phone bomb.

In addition to wanting to protect Cheng Xiaoyu, Pei Yanchen came to Neon this time to protect Cheng Xiaoyu, and also had an important thing to do, which was to seek justice for Duanmu Linsha, who was still in a coma.

Su Yuxi pointed to the structural diagram and said: "There are four courtyards in the mountain, named after the "dry landscape garden", "white sand and green pine garden", "moss garden", and "pond garden", and tomorrow Suzuki Shinichi and others will gather for dinner in the "dry landscape garden", waiting for the crow to come back from the imperial palace and celebrate his achievements....."

"Of course, no matter whether the crow's assassination is successful or not, he will definitely not be able to come back, and what we have to do is to wipe out all seven people before the news spreads from the Imperial Palace, and if we can't do it all, at least we must solve the problem of Shinichi Suzuki....."

"I would like to congratulate the New Year's ceremonial dinner, which starts at six o'clock and will last about an hour and a half, after which the crown prince will receive the crows.... So we had to reach our goal by 8 o'clock, and then quickly depart from Hamamatsucho Station, take the monorail to Haneda Airport, and leave by 9:50. ”

And at this moment, Raven is also making the final deployment in his apartment, and he is not alone in his apartment, there are also Cripple and Shinichi Suzuki.....