Chapter 40: How Should I Face You?

Li Ai hugged her knees and stayed around the quilt on the sofa that once belonged to Midorihime. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This night, she has been staring blankly at the gradually brighter and clearer sky outside the window. But what she reflected in her eyes was not the sky, but the back that disappeared under the green glow and golden fireworks.

She knew who that back belonged to, but she couldn't understand why he had been outside for so long. She didn't understand the reason why he had been watching, and why was he so worried when she was back in the apartment? Obviously, to him, she was just a companion of the same kind. If he wants, he can find a dozen casually.

Why...... Why is it so good to her? Obviously she doesn't deserve it. Why do you want to reach out to me and accept me as a companion? She asked in her mind, but there was no language to answer her, only the back of the green fluorescent figure that faded away under the golden fireworks.

The cold fog of the early morning gradually dissipated, and the golden sunlight broke through the miasma and sprinkled on the cold steel jungle. The golden light pierced through the transparent glass and dripped on her face, like the sudden brilliant fireworks last night, like a dream.

The quilt around her gradually peeled off, and she put down her slightly numb feet, stepped on the cold floor, and slowly walked towards the floor-to-ceiling window. She stopped in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, silently gazing at the sun that radiated endless light. After a long time, she raised her hand hanging from her waist and carefully touched the transparent glass. It's like touching the outside world through the glass.

The sun should be hot, the sun should be warm, right? However, all she felt was the coldness of the glass on her fingertips, and all she could touch was the coldness of the air. She sighed in disappointment and turned to get back on the couch.

As she turned, her gaze inadvertently swept over the shiny metal lock on the floor-to-ceiling window. The throbbing of that moment made her suddenly stop her steps, staring at the tightly clasped locks. Speaking of which, how long has it been since she opened a floor-to-ceiling window? One month? Or two months? Or is it a year? Two years?

It had been so long, so long that she had forgotten the exact time. So, how about opening it up now? Thinking so, she reached out her fingers and grabbed the metal clasp. If you open it, will it touch the warm sunlight? She thought like this, looked forward to it...... Then the latch was unscrewed.

With a click, the lock opened, but her palm froze in front of the flap of the floor-to-ceiling window. She heard the wind, she heard the rain, and she almost instinctively resisted opening the floor-to-ceiling windows. It seemed that if she opened this window, she would go back to that rainy night seven years ago, to the birthday night when they lost them.

"Nothing lasts forever." She heard his voice, from the bottom of her heart, echoing in her ears. He whispered her name, a subtle tremor hidden between his words. He said, "Li Ai...... Nothing is eternal. ”

She covered her ears, not wanting to hear the words, but they kept sprouting from the bottom of her heart, echoing in her ears, along with the trembling and uneasiness in his voice. He said, "The world that you see as eternal and unchanging will sooner or later become unrecognizable under the erosion of time." It's the same everywhere. So, follow me out of here and go back. ”

He said, "Let's go back to the reality of infinite change, and let everything that has passed past." If you want to miss it, you can miss it, but but, but ah...... Please stop pretending to be in a world they haven't left, and please don't lock yourself in memories! ”

He advised, he comforted, he induced, "Cry out, just as it was then." Although they are not in front of you...... But that doesn't mean you can't cry. ”

He asked, "Don't you understand?" ”

Then, with a trembling voice, he brutally tore her armament, tearing her loneliness to pieces! "It's changed." "No matter how you keep that room the way it is, it changes every day," he said...... Isn't it? ”

He questioned, peeling back the cocoon, and gradually making her naked, "The most obvious change is the sofa back ...... that has not been erected since Midorihime came."

In the end, he gave her the fatal blow, "And, Li Ai, why...... Why do you keep ignoring your own changes? ”

He was so cruel. He stripped her of all her dependence. But...... Looking back now, his voice trembled with every word he spoke.

Confused, she hurriedly stepped away from the floor-to-ceiling window, but when she turned around, she stumbled to the edge of the sofa and fell back into the soft quilt. The two hands that were originally covering their ears subconsciously left their ears when they fell, trying to support the sofa under them, but they slipped off the edge of the sofa and touched a square cold object.

Her body shuddered for a moment, then she slowly lifted her haggard face from the futon and stared at the emergency medical kit in a daze. She suddenly remembered the wounded look in his eyes when she opened her eyes and stepped away from him in the original alleyway; She suddenly remembered the consternation in his eyes when she appeared before him for the second time; She remembered the sluggishness on his face when he knocked on the door of her room after Midorihime, and the look on his helpless face under her tears.

She remembered what Midorihime had said when he vanished; She remembered the scene when he took her on a trek through the mountains to meet Midorihime for the last time, and his words asking her to be his companion; She remembered the twilight of every time she bandaged his wounds in this room.

On that recent evening, she whispered to him to take her out and take her on her birthday to relive the night of the world.

On the most recent night, he broke through the glass-like barrier of the world and appeared behind her, drawing his sword and pointing it at the ghost general who would threaten her.

In the recent dawn, he watched in the icy air, and finally held the green fluorescent glow, and faded away under the golden fireworks, leaving only a vague and lonely back.

His tenderness was reflected in her eyes, and his cruelty echoed in her ears. He drew his knife and slashed the whole world, then lowered his eyes, and the expression on his face was hidden in the shadow of his bangs in her mind; He raised his hand to release the golden fireworks, turned his back, and held the back of the green fluorescent disappearing into the dusk of the street and pasted it on her heart. He spread his wings, one black and one white, turned his back, and turned into a demon; Turn around again and become an angel.

He stripped her of her dependence, and he restarted her time; He shattered her memories, and he created new goodness; He shattered the loneliness she had endured, and he made her feel her presence. Half angel, half demon. What should she think?

Zhang Zhou, how should I face you? She crouched on the couch, thinking stupidly.

……

Huangquan Road is far away, the river is far away, the river is shallow, and the other bank is gorgeous. However, the bridgehead, the Sansheng Stone.

The ghost general led hundreds of thousands of undead troops, silently walking on the long Huangquan Road, and the Santu River rushed beside him, converging into the wide Lechuan River. The flowers on the other side bloom into the sea, swaying charmingly.

The ghost will walk at the forefront of the rushing army of the undead, silently searching for the figure he wants to find.

His steps froze suddenly. A somewhat faint figure standing on the edge of the dark Nai He Bridge crashed into his eyes, causing him to stop in place for a moment.

That is the face that he has missed for thousands of years, and that is also the face that has been waiting for him for thousands of years.

"Yaoji." He stood among the flowers on the other side of the sea, calling her name, waiting for her to turn her head and see her flower-like smile again.