The next morning, I sat in my room for a long time, but I never waited for Chen Zhi's clear shout. I came to school alone and realized for the first time that the way to school was so long. As soon as I got to my seat, I saw a handmade and delicate greeting card on my desk, the beautiful font, the font I was most familiar with, I knew it was Chen Zhi without looking at it, and the greeting card was pasted with a photo of me and her. This is our first decade, she wrote, and we have many more decades to come. A warm current welled up in my heart, and my eyes were a little moist. In the midst of all these years of never-ending darkness, she has always been my brightest light. Everything else doesn't matter, as long as I'm by my side. I turned my head to see her writing with her head down, and her intently side face was the most beautiful face I had ever seen. Although, I never really saw her face.

Chen Zhi, thank you. You've always been my best friend, always have been.

I handed her a note: "I don't have anything else to do today, let's go eat ice cream after school, I'm going to eat mint." ”

After a while, her note came back: "Okay. One short word made me ecstatic.

On the way to the ice cream parlor, we were silent with each other, looking at the sky, the ground, tidying up, and touching the ponytail. Chen Zhi walked quietly beside me, as if he was walking with me, but more like a person.

"Well, that," I finally spoke first, "there should be a discount on the new ice cream parlor, right?" ”

This is really the worst opening sentence to break the cold, there is no one.

Chen Zhi was stunned for a moment and said, "I don't know, there should be activities." ”

"I heard that the owner of that shop is a very beautiful sister, and He An told me, and he said that he had been there several times just to see the shopkeeper. Also, he said that the store is very beautiful and warm, and many couples have also moved their dates there, and we may be able to meet acquaintances and catch a few underground romances. "It's full of nonsense, but at least it's no longer the awkward silence it had been. I didn't have any special skills or likable advantages when I was a child, but one thing was that there was a lot of nonsense. Now that I've finally realized that this feature is also useful.

When I finally walked to the ice cream shop, I walked to the door and felt a sense of déjà vu, probably because there were too many similar shops. The last touch of the sunset hit the sign - "The Street Where the Wind Lives", and before I entered the door, I heard the sound of wind chimes tinkling and dingdong, which was crisp and pleasant, and it made me a little distracted. The whole store is decorated in pink and looks playful, and the windows are filled with models of hyacinths and various ice creams. At the door, there is a simple turtle-like mailbox with the words "Turtle Slow Delivery - Write to yourself in ten years". There were all kinds of stationery and envelopes in the basket next to me, I looked happy, turned back to Chen Zhi and said, "Let's write a copy when we come out in a while, I think it's quite interesting, what will I be like in ten years." ”

"Okay." Chen Zhi's tense face finally relaxed.

"Let's go inside." I stepped forward, pushed open the glass door, and turned back to greet Chen Zhi.

There are a lot of people in the shop, mostly girls. The CD in the store has a soft music that I don't know the name of, like the music box music in a Japanese anime, which is smart and touching. There are many flowers in the shop, and although there are many kinds of flowers, they are very delicately arranged, and the colors are just right, giving people a very comfortable feeling, and if you don't look closely, you will mistake this shop for a flower shop. The tables and chairs in the store are fresh white, with round tables and chairs, and different dolls and postcards of celebrities are placed in the middle of the tables.

"The owner of this shop is very kind." Chen Zhi couldn't help but sigh.

"Yes, there are all the things you need to attract girls," I said, looking at the people in line again, "It's good that there aren't many people today, so let's go and line up first." ”

Chen Zhi nodded.

However, as I approached the counter, my heart ached, and I looked up at the counter, where the clerk was smiling and giving a little girl ice cream. Vaguely, I saw another person. No, not human, to be precise.

"Eise?" Chen Zhi followed my gaze and asked, "What are you looking at?" ”

"Nothing, just a pity that I didn't meet the beautiful owner." I said, but my eyes were still there, and I wanted to see what was there. However, it seemed that something was protecting him, and every time I activated my spiritual power to expand my second vision, I was inexplicably blocked by something I couldn't see.

"It's a lone spirit." An Yin's voice suddenly came.

I was startled, but I immediately regained my composure, and I used my peripheral vision to scan around, and An Yin was standing in the pile of lavender, making the whole lavender glow like a dream.

"The owner of this shop, like you, is a spirit tamer, and what you just saw was her solitary spirit. You're an adult now, so the shopkeeper knows who you are, and he can see me too. You have to be careful. An Yin continued.

Be careful? My brow furrowed slightly. Aren't we the same kind? Why should you be careful between your kind?

An Yin seemed to see the doubts in my heart, and said: "There are two ways to increase spiritual power: one is to increase naturally with age and precipitation; The other is by devouring other lonely spirits and absorbing their spiritual power. And in order to gain spiritual power faster, most Soul Trainers and Lone Spirits will use the second method to some extent, especially for weaker Spirit Tamers and Lone Spirits. ”

Weak? The corners of my mouth twitched unnaturally, although I am indeed a newbie, but can I not use such hurtful words? Maybe I'm very talented. I gave An Yin a fierce look.

An Yin completely ignored my rapidly changing expression and continued: "The devouring between lone spirits is a normal situation, and lone spirits and spirit tamers are already anti-rules, so their life and death will not be protected. The law of the jungle is the rule of survival here, and no one will sympathize with the weak. I can feel that this lone spirit is of a higher level, far above you and me, so be careful. ”

The hand I was holding on to my wallet grew harder and harder, almost crushing it. Twelve points alert, I made my way to the counter.

"A strawberry ice cream and a mint ice cream." Chen Zhi said.

I smiled and nodded, and in a flash, the lone spirit was gone, and I couldn't feel its breath at all. Where did it go? Is it a message to its owner? Or is it still there, just hiding its breath?

"Let's go." Chen Zhi picked up two ice creams and said.

"Yes, okay."

We sat in a window position, and I like to be by the window, as Chen Zhi knows. The curtains are light pink gauzy fabric, light and hazy, and there are some succulents on the windowsill, clumsy but very cute. I'm getting more and more interested in this kind of shopkeeper.

"Okay, I'll go out with those few pieces of letter paper and envelopes, and after we'll finish eating in a while, let's write a letter to our future self together, okay?" Chen Zhi suddenly put down the small spoon in his hand and said.

"Okay, then I'll sit here and wait for you. You've got to hurry, or you'll get your share of ice cream in my stomach when you get back!" I stuck out my tongue at Chen Zhi.

"You, you!"

After Chen Zhi left, a person appeared at my desk.