Chapter Thirty-Six: Companionship

Everything in the world is changing. www.biquge.info In the torrent of time, nothing will be immortal. Interests, emotions, natural disasters, man-made disasters...... Everything that flows erodes what is already fragile. You may think it's hard, but it's fragile...... Fragile and vulnerable.

Zhang Zhou stood on top of the empty city tower with his head down, quietly waiting for Li Ai to wake up. He suddenly remembered the look on her face when she turned to face him when he smashed the spatial barrier and appeared behind her not long ago. Her eyes wavered, her lips quivered. At that time, she had something to say. What kind of words are that?

He waited silently, waiting for her to wake up. Then, he heard her moaning......

In the black world, there are black ghosts wandering. Li Ai's consciousness sank into this darkness, floating silently. Her consciousness was falling, a fall with no end. Darkness envelops everything, and the world has only one color.

Dark, boundless darkness. I can't hear the sound, I don't know if it's still falling, or if it's floating in the air. At first, I thought about struggling, but my soul chose to be silent and numb.

Yes. If there is no end to this fall, isn't it what she is seeking, the eternity she desires? If none of this will change, if the world will not change, then the memories will not fade, and the happiness of the past will not be shattered. Such...... How nice.

She curled the corners of her mouth as she fell, smiling silently. It's not bad to keep falling like this, isn't it? Just as she was immersed in the fall, she heard the sound of cracking. The darkness is crumbling, it is crumbling. Irretrievably broken.

"No...... Don't ......" she raised her hand, trying to replace the fallen pieces, but couldn't. But she didn't give up, even if she knew that it was just futile, she still raised her hand and kept it...... Hold on......

But after all, futile is only futility! What should be broken will eventually be broken. Her feeble retention didn't do anything in the slightest.

She stood in the midst of a shattered black world, tears streaming down her face. Then she heard the wind, and she heard the sound of her breath crumpled in the wind. She groaned, then slowly opened her eyes.

"You're awake, Li Ai." Zhang Zhou's voice came a little vaguely. His body trembled a little when he heard her moan, and then he came to his senses and walked quickly in front of Li Ai, using the long knife in his hand to cut the rope that bound her.

The moment the rope broke, she had just opened her eyes in a daze, and fell forward weakly. Zhang Zhou hurriedly threw away the long knife in his hand and took her into his arms. The force with which she slammed into his arms was so small that it made him worry if she could withstand such a blow.

He raised his arm and carefully took her in his arms. "It's all right. Li Ai, it's all over. He whispered in her ear, comforting, and gently reached for the stone dust and sawdust that had been stained on her gray down jacket. So, come back with me. ”

He proposed, but she didn't get an affirmative answer. She leaned on his shoulder, gradually increasing her breathing. In the abrupt silence, the question was so grandiose and so piercing. "Is that you?" Her voice was small, so small that it was just a whisper. But such a sentence made Zhang Zhou freeze in place.

Li Ai waited silently, but never got an answer from Zhang Zhou. She lowered her eyes silently, and her breathing became more and more rapid, as if she was about to suffocate. Eventually, the rapid breathing that seemed to be holding someone's heart ceased as she took a deep, deep breath. However, this did not put Zhang Zhou at ease.

Because, as she took a deep breath, she pushed him the shoulder, and left his embrace. She staggered back two steps, stood some distance away from him, and stared at him with indifferent eyes, her eyes releasing a sense of alienation.

"You're the one who made that eternal world collapse, right?" It was obviously a questioning sentence, but she used an affirmative tone, and in this tone, there was also a bit of pain.

"Li Ai......" Zhang Zhou slowly put down the arm that didn't have time to hold her, and looked at her trembling body sadly. He knew how cruel what he was going to say next would be to her now, and he knew how much he would collapse his relationship with her if he said it. But he still has to say it, he can't let her stay in that world all the time, he can't let her stay in that stagnant time.

No matter how painful she is, even if he hurts, he has to reach out, and he should reach out, and he should pull her out of that memory that has begun to yellow, and pull her out of that period of recklessness that is already close to the limit. Even if it will collapse to the point of no return, he will let the time she stopped flow again!

Her time stopped seven years ago, and her happiness stopped seven years ago. However, this world did not stop seven years ago, and this planet did not stop seven years ago. Therefore, what she wants, what she misses, has passed, and only exists in her memory, like yesterday's yellow flower.

She's stopped long enough, and she's missed long enough, it's time to ...... It's time to leave that time and step into a new world. Everything that seems unchanging, what seems eternal will eventually collapse. If she was allowed to remain immersed in it until she realized for herself, the pain she had endured if she faced such a situation alone...... It's going to be big enough to crush her!

So, let him tear apart such a world and expose the truth of this world naked in front of her. In this case, she will subconsciously alienate him. And while alienating him, the pain she felt was no longer purely due to the collapse of her memories. When the object of the same degree of suffering changes from one to two, the person actually feels light. In this way, he can share her pain in some way. He and she are not the same kind, so they can't hurt or cry together. But he and her are companions, and the so-called companions are not painful companions?

The corners of his mouth curled into a strange arc. Now, Li Ai, in the past six months, you have always stood by my side and treated my wounds; For the past six months, I have relied on you for existence. The answer I promised to you has not been told to you, but I still enjoy your tenderness. Such...... It's so unfair. So, at least...... At least let me do my duty as a bitter companion.

So, with the consciousness of welcoming some kind of ending, he spoke. "Li Ai......" he called her name again, and then brutally tore apart her weapons all along, "nothing, it is eternal. ”

He whispered, in the agitated cold wind, trying to break her faith all along. He saw the fragility in her eyes as he denied what she had always believed in. Yes, she is not strong, she has been evading, just like him at the beginning, using such things as an excuse, as an umbrella, hiding her desires and her pain together.

But that's not going to work. If you do this, you will only miss it again and again. So, he wants to break her shell and expose her fragile to this cruel world. After all, people can't live forever with a thick shell on their backs.

"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 held out his hand to her again, wanting to take her out of here, out of this stale world.

"No, it hasn't changed, at least not here." Li Ai shook his head and retreated step by step, as if he wanted to stay away from Zhang Zhou's side. "So...... So let me stay here......" She begged in a low voice, but saw Zhang Zhou close his eyes, stretched out his hand, and the long knife of the night that fell at his feet returned to his palm.

"Here, it's not eternal." He said this, and then the long knife in his hand slashed down at the heavens and the earth.