Gu Qingzhou had a brief tinnitus, she couldn't hear any other sounds, only the mechanical sharpness, like a needle piercing her eardrums.

There was wind on her face and under her feet.

Her arms were heavy, and she lay on her stomach on the trunk of the tree, her ears involuntarily listening to the sound of the roots breaking.

Maybe it's just her hallucination.

Then, she felt Cai Changting dragging her and lifted her up to the trunk of the tree so that she could mount on it.

The trunk shook and fell a little.

"In the break," Gu Qingzhou said. As she spoke, she felt the separation so clearly that even she couldn't hear it clearly.

"It's fine." Cai Changting also looked at it.

He saw that a small part of the roots of the tree had been cocked.

If they delay any longer, the tree will be broken by them.

Cai Changting's people should chase after them to save them, right?

In his heart, he silently calculated something, and hooked himself up with all his might.

He also sat on the trunk of the tree, and even picked up Gu Qingzhou and took the initiative to move to the root of the tree.

As soon as he moved, the roots of the tree broke more to the extent that they were visible to the naked eye.

Gu Qingzhou ran too fast before, and then fell too fast, and her tinnitus ended in the middle of the night, and she could hear the wind whirring in the valley.

She laughed at herself, grabbed the trunk with both hands, and let Cai Changting hug her waist: "I'm afraid the two of them won't be able to hold it." Changting, you should throw me down first. ”

Cai Changting looked down.

The morning fog has not yet lifted, and it is impossible to see how deep the canyon is or what lies underneath.

"Do you have the strength now?" He asked.

He clutched her arm tightly, not letting up for a moment.

Seeing this, Gu Qingzhou felt inexplicably pitiful for him in his heart: "Changting, I am really not your life-saving straw." It's been this far."

"I know, I've lost." Cai Changting continued her words.

The moment it fell, his heart was blank for a moment, and he grabbed a vine desperately in blindness.

Now sitting on the branch, he had a boundless fear in his heart: what if he didn't catch anything?

So now, is he going to fall to pieces with Gu Qingzhou?

People are really vulnerable.

No matter how powerful his thinking, life experience, and body are, he is so helpless on the edge of life and death.

Just like Gu Qingzhou, if it weren't for Cai Changting, she wouldn't be able to save herself even if she grabbed the vines, her arms were out of force because of the restraints, and she couldn't do it at all.

She is so smart, her five-step shrewdness at the moment, can she save her?

Cai Changting was stubborn and refused to admit defeat, thinking that he still had a chance to start over.

At this moment, he was finally able to confess his failure.

He lost.

From the moment the followers and funders of the royalists were picked up by Gu Qingzhou, they were completely defeated, and the Japanese military headquarters could not save them.

"You're right." Cai Changting said slowly, "My ambition when I was young was too big and I took the wrong path. If you keep your feet on the ground from the beginning, return to China and work under a small warlord, and replace it in a few years.

Today, as you say, there is a territory. When others called, they had the strength to fight back, not as passive as they are now. ”

Gu Qingzhou smiled.

"It's the shore that turns back." Gu Qingzhou said, "You haven't done anything hurtful, and you're young and beautiful." If you change your life with a good goal, you will have your own future. ”

Cai Changting sighed.

Gu Qingzhou said: "The life I want most is to be able to live in seclusion with Si Xingpei in a small place, cooking, playing the piano, fishing and picking lotuses on weekdays, and have no quarrel with the world." What about you? ”

Cai Changting also thought about it.

His desire for power is nothing more than because he has been discriminated against since he was a child.

His mother was also from a large family, but unfortunately she didn't listen to the family's arrangements and insisted on following his father.

His father, Cai Longtou, had a wife at that time, and he went to Japan just to take refuge.

's mother was pregnant with him, and was not allowed by the family, and after Cai Longtou came back, he didn't dare to divorce and marry her, so she gave birth to Cai Changting and died of depression soon after.

Since then, Cai Changting has lived with an old maid sent by Cai Longtou.

When he grew up and gradually gained some ability, his grandfather's family would recognize him, of course, it was also a very contemptuous attitude.

He is too beautiful, and many people beat him for his idea, and the grievances he has suffered are difficult to describe.

Everyone who fantasizes about one step to the sky has suffered too much pain and grievances. He wanted revenge, and his enemies were too many, too strong, to bring them all to their knees and then at his feet.

The process of becoming stronger step by step is too slow and the effect is too weak.

These forced him to embark on this path.

He had the same goal as Lady Wild, and he had the Yellow Sparrow ready from the start.

His life was planned so neatly, but he never imagined that when his life was hanging by a thread, the tree supporting him under him was crumbling, and he threw away the burden of Gu Qingzhou, and the tree would be stronger for a while, but he hugged her tightly.

His arms and his heart all embraced her, and no one thought of leaving her.

If he goes back five years, someone tells Cai Changting that he will have another person in his heart, even more than his life, he will definitely mock the other party.

He has no feelings for people.

No one is enough to leave a mark in his heart.

He had lived for so many years and had enough intelligence, so when he knew that he would never let go of the arm that was holding Gu Qingzhou, he threw in the towel.

"I," he thought for a moment.

A thousand threads, like the wind of the valley, passed through his limbs, and what he wanted most floated in his heart, "I want you to live the most." ”

Gu Qingzhou was stunned.

Cai Changting looked up.

It had been so long, and his people hadn't chased after him, and he thought they should have scattered in a hurry.

Huo Huijing ran away, letting them see the uncertain future, these killers are only ruthless, not loyal, they abandoned him.

And this tree on the cliff, the trunk has been broken in half, and the remaining half is struggling to support the two of them.

If it is delayed any longer, Si Xingpei has not yet arrived, and they will fall down first.

Cai Changting suddenly leaned over and kissed Gu Qingzhou's forehead.

Gu Qingzhou instinctively wanted to retreat, but the remaining reason kept her still.

Once she was back, she was going to fall.

"The era of warlord melee is almost over." Cai Changting said, "I no longer have the qualifications to occupy the mountain as the king."

I can't do it, and no one is qualified to call me. The breath I had endured all my life was completely broken. Qingzhou, I really lost. ”

The roots of the tree behind him broke off several more roots, making a tooth-aching creaking sound.

There are no footsteps up there yet.

The rescuers did not come.

If it is delayed any longer, the tree will be completely broken, taking him and Gu Qingzhou to the abyss together.

This woman has embellished colors in his pale life.

He thought, he loved her.

Love has given him a little humanity, which is the only brilliance in his life for more than 20 years.

He can't fall into the abyss with this brilliance.

However, with two people, the tree is afraid that it will not last for ten minutes.

Ten minutes, Si Xingpei couldn't arrive, and rescue couldn't arrive.

But without him, the tree could last thirty minutes.

At that point, help may be there.

It's shallow, slim vitality.

A person's vitality.

Cai Changting forcefully took Gu Qingzhou into his arms, and kissed her on the forehead: "Don't forget me." ”

With that, he let go of his hands, and the whole person fell down, without hesitation, as if he had practiced thousands of times, maintaining the last bit of light of his humanity.

Gu Qingzhou almost fell down without his support, she lay on the tree and watched Cai Changting's body quickly sink into the morning mist. Slowly, she heard an echo.