Chapter 62: The Prophecy of Tanatos
Shang Xiaoyu was overjoyed in her heart, she couldn't help but look in the direction where the person on the opposite side might come, and she really saw a familiar figure across the road. But now he is tripped up by a traffic light, and the two are separated by a road and a constant stream of vehicles.
Shang Xiaoyu couldn't help but take out his mobile phone and dialed Meng Xuan's phone, Meng Xuan also kept an eye on Shang Xiaoyu's every move on the other side, and when he saw her signaling to answer the phone, he took out his mobile phone with a smile and connected the phone.
"Meng Xuan, it's snowing! Did you see it snowing? ”
"Hmm." Meng Xuan also raised his head and looked up at the same sky, "I see." ”
The smile on Shang Xiaoyu's face could be clearly seen across the road, but when Shang Xiaoyu moved his gaze from Xuehua's body to Meng Xuan's body, the smile froze at that moment.
Listening to the silence of the person on the other end of the phone, Meng Xuan asked softly, "Why don't you speak?" ”
Shang Xiaoyu hung up the phone in a panic and turned his back.
Meng Xuan was a little inexplicable, he didn't care about the red indicator light, and rushed into the fast-moving traffic. Shang Xiaoyu also seemed to vaguely hear the screeching brakes behind her, and then she felt a warm embrace.
Meng Xuan hugged the person in his arms, it seemed that he was still trembling faintly, he took off his coat and draped it on Shang Xiaoyu's body, took her hand, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Shang Xiaoyu turned to look at him, and couldn't help frowning, tears flowing down like beads that had broken a thread.
Meng Xuan teased her funny: "It turned out that it wasn't frozen." ”
He thought it was Shang Xiaoyu shivering from the cold, but he didn't expect her to cry suddenly.
"You...... All right? Shang Xiaoyu organized his words with difficulty, and asked a sentence that made Meng Xuan not know how to answer.
"Can I be okay if you cry like this?" Meng Xuan said with a smile.
As soon as Meng Xuan's words fell, Shang Xiaoyu tiptoed and kissed him on the lips.
White snowflakes fell from the sky, some on the ground, some on the roof of the car, and some on the body of a lover. A red neon sign with the word "Regret" written on the side shrouded the person, red and white.
At this moment, Meng Xuan couldn't help frowning, Shang Xiaoyu's move was too abnormal. But before he could think about anything, Shang Xiaoyu left his lips and looked at him blankly.
Her expression was anxious and nervous, and she kept saying words like "what to do" and "what to do", and the tears on her face had never dried.
Meng Xuan held Shang Xiaoyu's shoulders, let her look at herself, and asked seriously, "What happened?" ”
"You won't understand." Shang Xiaoyu shook his head.
"Tell me. Believe me. ”
Six words made Shang Xiaoyu feel that she was completely broken, because the man in front of her who could resist everything for her and make her trust was about to leave her.
She looked at the black smoke surrounding the man in front of her, and felt more and more cold.
"I don't want to...... Draw a portrait for you too. Shang Xiaoyu couldn't cry.
Meng Xuan knew that she was finally going to tell herself the secret of the album.
Unexpectedly, this secret is so desperate.
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The snow is still falling relentlessly.
This is the first snow of the year, which is indeed earlier than last year.
Dinner was naturally not finished, and Meng Xuan saw that Shang Xiaoyu was uneasy, so he immediately took her home. Along the way, Shang Xiaoyu was silent, but from her small action of biting her lip, Meng Xuan could see that she was extremely nervous in her heart.
As soon as he entered the house, Shang Xiaoyu rushed into the room, opened the drawer, and turned out the picture album pressed at the bottom.
Meng Xuan had seen this album before, and he had seen it when Shang Xiaoyu was packing his luggage. Later, he also saw a lot of familiar faces on it, and now the latest person in this album should be Li Yi if he remembers correctly.
"Do you know who is depicted on this?" Shang Xiaoyu held the album, looked up at the dressing mirror in front of him, and said to Meng Xuan, who was standing behind him and was reflected in the mirror.
Meng Xuan also stood in place, looking at Shang Xiaoyu in the mirror, and shook his head with a smile.
"It's a dead man." Shang Xiaoyu smiled sadly.
She looked at Meng Xuan's smile, which was to reassure her, indicating that she had been behind her with a comforting expression. But now in her eyes, the smile of this man entangled in black smoke looked so bitter.
The prediction of death finally fell on the most important man in her life.
"Do you know why I refused to paint a portrait of your mother before?" Without waiting for Meng Xuan to answer, Shang Xiaoyu continued, "Because my paintings are all dead people....... it is unlucky." ”
"Would you believe me if I said I could foresee everyone's death?" Shang Xiaoyu asked tremblingly.
"Faith." Meng Xuan said without changing his face.
"Would you believe me if I said I could see everyone's NDE?" Shang Xiaoyu asked.
"Faith." Meng Xuan's face still did not change.
"That'...... What if I say I saw yours? The tears in Shang Xiaoyu's eyes finally couldn't help but fall.
Meng Xuan didn't answer this time, he paused and asked, "Then what should you do......
Listening to Meng Xuan's words, Shang Xiaoyu couldn't help but turn around and threw herself into Meng Xuan's arms, she hugged Meng Xuan's waist tightly, as if she was afraid that he would disappear in the next second.
Meng Xuan patted Shang Xiaoyu's back, looking at the album that fell to the ground, the cold wind outside the window blew it over page by page, the vivid faces on it, thinking that now they had all become people on the other side of Huangquan, Meng Xuan's eyes were sad that could not be concealed.
Thinking of the first meeting, Shang Xiaoyu's ridiculous persuasion words on the rooftop......
thought of the phone call Shang Xiaoyu made before Liu Fang's death......
Thinking of Wan Shuang's grandmother's ineffective rescue, she died......
Think of that alcoholic guy at the barbecue......
One by one, it all makes sense now.
So, is he going to be the one in that album too?
"Let's put down what we're doing." The man in his arms suddenly spoke.
Shang Xiaoyu raised his head to Meng Xuan's eyes, and said again seriously: "Let go of what you are doing, you are also on vacation anyway, shall we go abroad to play?" As long as we stay away from the current environment, everything can be solved for a while. ”
Meng Xuan looked at Shang Xiaoyu's pleading eyes a little unbearable, and coaxed: "Okay, where do you want to go?" ”
"Greece." Shang Xiaoyu said, "The mythical holy land of the West. ”
"Okay." Meng Xuan touched Shang Xiaoyu's hair dotingly.
Hugging is actually the most intimate move in this world, but it is actually the farthest away, at this moment, Shang Xiaoyu hugged Meng Xuan, listening to Meng Xuan's powerful heartbeat, but his face was full of solemnity, and Meng Xuan was the same.
That night, the two of them were in their respective rooms, separated by only a wall, and they couldn't sleep after tossing and turning.
Although Meng Xuan felt incredible about Shang Xiaoyu's "special skills", he also had to believe it, since this was the case, he had to do the things at hand well, otherwise the consequences would be even worse than now.
By the time Shang Xiaoyu opened the door the next morning, the house was already empty, and Meng Xuan left breakfast and a note, saying that he would come back soon after a trip. Shang Xiaoyu knew that Meng Xuan would not agree to leave so easily, he must want to take advantage of the current situation to end the matter in front of him quickly.
Shang Xiaoyu looked at Meng Xuan's closed door and thought of the document that Lao Hu had given him before. She walked over and hesitated at the door, finally taking her hand on the doorknob.
Meng Xuan's room was the same as always, only the table in front of the window had a lot of documents spread out and had not been cleaned up, because Meng Xuan believed that she would not intrude into his private space at will, but now was a special moment, Shang Xiaoyu had to figure out what Meng Xuan was doing, so that it was possible to find the cause of his death in advance and stop it in time.
The first thing that caught his eye was the blue folder, which Shang Xiaoyu picked up and looked at carefully.
But what was inside surprised her.
There were several names in it, among which was Zheng Qiuyun, the thoracic surgeon who had suffered a heart attack, whom Meng Xuan had asked her before. And there are several names in it, namely Xue Ji, Tian Yi, and an unfamiliar name - Deng Shulin.
In addition to this unfamiliar name, the other so-called "acquaintances" of Shang Xiaoyu all had a death report behind them, and the surprise was that they all died of heart attacks.
- She doesn't have a heart condition.
In the hospital that day, Xiao Xiaofei's words sounded in Shang Xiaoyu's ears.
Is there such a coincidence?
Shang Xiaoyu hurriedly went through the other documents on the table, which contained some information about Zheng Qiuyun, which showed that he had been a thoracic surgeon in the Seventh Hospital before, but he resigned without warning a year ago. Obviously, Zheng Qiuyun chose to work in a small hospital after resigning, which was obviously overkill. The following pages are more detailed information, this Zheng Qiuyun grew up in an orphanage, and during this time, he was able to complete his education and even have a job to support himself.
Shang Xiaoyu looked at the name of the person who funded Zheng Qiuyun written on it - Fang Yuan.
The name is unfamiliar, but in the later bills to the orphanage, the sponsor is AM Group, and the estate is just a person in charge.
Shang Xiaoyu stared at the photo of the check taken in the document carefully, and it was printed with a private seal with "Fang Yuan", which indicated that this Fang Yuan must be a high-level AM.
Suddenly, something flashed through Shang Xiaoyu's mind, and she remembered that there was a folder named "AM" with detailed insider information about the Su family.
Shang Xiaoyu hurriedly dialed Xiao Xiaofei's phone, and when the phone was connected, before she could speak, Shang Xiaoyu took the lead in asking, "What is Su Yize's mother's name?" ”
"What are you doing?"
"Hurry up, what's it called?"
"The house." Xiao Xiaofei said helplessly.
Sure enough, it's all right.
If all the people in this document are related to Su Yize, then they all died of a heart attack, is it also inseparable from Su Yize.
"Send that folder over." Shang Xiaoyu said to Xiao Xiaofei.
Xiao Xiaofei seemed to be able to guess what Shang Xiaoyu wanted to do, so he said, "I won't do this matter, don't interfere with it." ”
"Nope." It was for Xiao Xiaofei before, and now that she has returned to the algae area, it is considered safe, but now that Meng Xuan is in danger, she can't sit idly by. "Believe me, six years ago, I can find out and tell me everything you know. Xiao Fei, my sister will solve it. ”
Xiao Xiaofei on the other end of the phone was silent, and after a long time, Shang Xiaoyu heard her choked voice and said, "Okay." ”