Colorful neon lights flickered, and the people flowing below them were smeared in different colors. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info the desire in the shadows on their faces is naked under the illumination of neon lights with no dead ends in all directions, revealing the ugly side that belongs to human beings and belongs to himself.

Black is the coldest and most dangerous killing color, and it is also the safest and hottest protective color. Under this absolute darkness, all ugliness can be covered up, and all existence is facing obliteration. Therefore, in order to drive away the darkness, human beings used rare energy to make cities that never sleep, and used to dispel all human fears of darkness.

But it is not that humans hate and fear darkness itself. What humans hate and fear is the unknown buried in the dark. When there is nowhere to bury such unknowns...... When they reveal their true colors in the light of the light, human beings realize that it is actually their own desires.

So, after getting this realization, people who go to two extremes appear. Some people still hate the night, but it is no longer just the darkness that they hate, but the time when they are lost in desire. So, humans are a race that is good at anger.

Others accept this fact calmly, and then stick their desires to themselves, walking in the illuminated night and the still bright day. They think...... I got back what I had lost.

As a result, the world in the darkness that was lit up became far more dangerous than the world before it was lit up.

The city that never sleeps? No Return to the City? Without night, there will be no home. Isn't it? Never sleep? No return?

It's an ambiguous and ambiguous world. The line between night and no return has long been shattered.

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"Actually, it's my birthday." Li Ai turned his head and whispered to Zhang Zhou, who had an inexplicable face, his eyes revealing a trace of tenderness. Sharply caught this gentle Zhang Zhou silently lowered his head, hiding the loneliness of empathy in his eyes.

"So," he whispered, "what do you want, Li Ai, gift?" "The only people they are connected to each other are each other, so he is the only one who can celebrate her birthday. So she only got one gift. But, but ah...... This gift, this gift from him, will definitely ......

"A gift?" Hearing the topic he raised, Li Ai's eyes flashed with a strange light. She whispered the long-lost word, stroking the puppet that looked exactly like Midorihime. After muttering for a while, she looked up and whispered to Zhang Zhou, "Take me out, Zhang Zhou." ”

"It's been a long time since I've walked the streets after 19 o'clock." She stroked Midorihime's puppet and looked up at the city that was gradually falling into darkness outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and was lit up by neon lights little by little, "When Midorihime was there, I didn't take her to see the glitzy world in the night. ”

"So, Zhang Zhou, take me out. Take me to the streets shrouded in the dark night that has been absent for nearly seven years, and take Midorihime with you to see this colorful and flashy world. She whispered a plea, her eyes shining with joy.

Obviously the world is within reach, but she can only be trapped in this exquisite cage of her own choice, and is drawn as a prison by others and herself. When did something that is clearly within reach and still exist in the field of vision become a luxury? The only thing that can turn something into a luxury is death! Who put a bondage on her?

She...... Like myself, I chose to be lonely, but I didn't choose to be bound!

“…… Good. He heard his own voice and replied with a trembling voice. Let him, who is a little more powerful than her trapped in the cage, tear up the cage painted on the ground!

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"Hmm, is it finally night again?" The hoarse voice muttered with a thick exhaustion, and then in an instant it turned into a voice with majesty and fanaticism. "So, let's get started, and put this world under the Iron Rider and the Blade again!"

"Yaoji, I'...... It's coming. ”

"Mountains and rivers change, longitudinal Manan Mountain; Draw the sword and view, the grassland in front of the battle; The murderous aura rolls, and the wolves break off; Zhang crossbow look, step on Qinchuan! Farewell to the spirits, and the ambition to be a marquis; A shallow kiss is a courtesy, and he is reluctant to say goodbye to his wife; resolutely broke his robe, holding back tears and not daring to flick; Stationed at the border of Ma, looking back at the liver and intestines! ”

"Wait for the pillow, and the soldiers will fight; and Jiamian, nourishing the sharp; The horses' hooves are sick, and the battlefield is chaotic; The roar is shocking, and the red sand is stained with blood! Break through the enemy's formation, and move forward; The soldier is the enemy, and the enemy can be Khan; The good news was spread, and his wife's tears were broken; Ring hug, bloody clothes have not been changed! ”

In the sound of poetry recitation, I have been sleeping in the daytime, waiting for the night to come, and the old narrow alleyway that has just awakened unfolds again, replacing the alley that originally existed here, waiting for people to pass here.

In the world of bones, it is a battlefield. And the ghost general is sitting in the big tent, in charge of a million ghost soldiers, commanding the heroes! He waited quietly, waiting for the one who could end his splendor in this world, and send him to the wisp of ghosts who might still keep their promises, waiting at the bridge.

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Li Ai knew that the shops he had seen during the day would change their appearance at night, revealing a different style. However, the contrasting image had ceased to be updated in her memory seven years ago. The only thing left is the fading memories and a faint nostalgia.

She guarded the most important memories with those two people, and guarded the place that carried the most memories between her and them, but she had to give up something. Equally precious...... Wonderful memories.

For the first time, her father took her to this glitzy world at night, took her to play in such a world, and taught her to see different worlds from different angles; For the first time, she was led by her mother to eat unique delicacies that had never been seen in the daylight; For the first time, her parents took her to walk through the colorful streets, as if walking in a fairy tale.

"Long time gone...... she whispered, reaching out to touch the dreamlike fragile world in front of her. A tear slipped from the corner of her eye, down her chin, and smashed onto the ground. Zhang Zhou, who was standing behind him, silently opened his eyes, not remembering her fragility.

After a long time, Li Ai stopped crying and turned her eyes to Zhang Zhou, who was standing behind her. Then, she smiled tearfully at him. "Now, Zhang Zhou," she called his name, tempting him to turn his head.

"You've already given me a gift." She said this, and then turned to face him in Zhang Zhou's somewhat puzzled gaze. "However, in the normal process, gifts are usually opened after the birthday party is over."

"So ......?" Zhang Zhou didn't know why, and silently waited for Li Ai's next words.

"Still don't understand?" Li Ai wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, looked up at Zhang Zhou, who looked confused, and said in a low voice, "That is to say, I don't admit that this is a birthday gift from you." You have to ...... Choose another gift for me. ”

"......" Zhang Zhou buried his head speechlessly, "I didn't say that my gift is the same as what you requested, right?" As the only existence related to herself, how can she not care about her birthday? Because the reasons for each other's loneliness are different, lonely people getting together cannot relieve each other's loneliness. But at least you can feel your own presence and that of each other! So, how can you not value the birthday of someone who makes you feel like you exist?

And as a loner who rejects the crowd, the existence of being lodged by thirteen forces, if he can't come up with a birthday gift that the world can't match, how can he exist?

He raised his eyes proudly, looked at Li Ai, and declared, "My gift, until the end, you can't guess what it is." ”