"Let's send you back first, I'll go back to the hotel apartment, I'm sorry that you haven't been able to reunite with your family for so long today." Li Xiaoai stepped on the accelerator lightly, and the car drove away from Lao Di's community, returning to the main road from the dim and narrow laneway.

The street visibility under the dense fog was less than 100 meters, Li Xiaoai did not speed up because of the familiar road conditions, and the street lights and driving lights could not completely penetrate the thick fog, and the city looked like a strange maze under the dark night. Perhaps because it is Chinese New Year's Eve, most of the citizens gather at home, there are almost no vehicles on the road, let alone pedestrians, and the image of the whole city is completely gone, except for the sound of the engine and the friction of the road tires.

Who would be roaming the streets at 1 a.m. on a special day like the Chinese New Year, except for those who are homeless.

"I still can't let you drive back alone." In addition to the sound of the engine, I could feel the rustle of the wind just by seeing the swaying palm trees on the street, which made me feel uneasy.

"I'm not going to talk about work tonight, okay?" Li Xiaoai asked rhetorically with suppressed emotions.

"Huh?" I was a little overwhelmed by her attitude.

"Tonight was supposed to be the time for the New Year, when family and friends get together, I don't have a family, so what is it if we can eat and drink together?" Li Xiaoai's words obviously carried some inexplicable emotions.

I didn't know how to answer, and the wine sobered up a little, "Sort of friends." ”

The fog is thicker, so dark that you can't see anything clearly, like a human heart, and it's hard to say that the meaning in that sentence is very thorough.

"That~ at least we're friends, and we can send each other blessings." I still don't quite understand what she's trying to say.

Blessing? I never seemed to think about what kind of wishes I wanted to give her, just like in my subconscious, blessings were supposed to be mutual etiquette between family and friends, and we were not friends and partners, and there was no parting at all. How can such a delicate relationship be blessed with each other?

There was a short silence, the words of blessing originally came from the understanding of familiar relatives and friends, what the other party needs we usually wish for, but according to my understanding of Li Xiaoai, it seems that it only stays on the danger that has occurred in the last month or two, or the pain of losing his father.

"Peace and joy be upon you." That's the only thing I can think of.

"I wish you happiness and good health." The corners of her mouth lifted slightly, and she seemed to be in a better mood at last.

"How do you know I need this?" I was surprised.

"Because you always like to keep a straight face, but you're not as taciturn as you seem. I guess you may have encountered unimaginable things when you were a soldier in the past, and perhaps the most important thing for you is these four words, right? Li Xiaoai said with a smile.

"Then it seems that my blessing has been fulfilled for you."

"Huh?" Crisp doubts.

"You finally look a little happier."

Li Xiaoai held the steering wheel and turned ninety degrees in the direction of my residence, "Because I made new friends today, I'm happy~"

"Then don't dislike your friend's humble house, you wait for me for a while, and I'll accompany you back to the hotel apartment." I turned my face to look at her side.

"Hmm!" Li Xiaoai nodded lightly, "I'll wait for you." ”

For some reason, the hazy night suddenly became softer, and although the foggy air was still so cold, the air inside the car seemed to have a slight touch of temperature.

The shadows of the swaying trees and the empty streets seemed to be the only car left in the whole city, Li Xiaoai and me.

"Do you feel sorry if you can't go back during the Spring Festival?" She broke the silence suddenly.

"In the past, I often couldn't go home during the Chinese New Year in the army, but when I got used to it, my mother wouldn't mind too much, but she couldn't accompany her daughter and had to compensate her later." I held one hand and looked nonchalantly at the fog outside the side window, and replied absentmindedly.

The sedan turned around again and entered a side road that was usually crowded with vehicles, and the narrow side road was occupied by temporarily parked cars. Further ahead is a square and civic park, where residents gather from all sides on weekdays to walk and chat, and occasionally hold some public welfare activities, but at one o'clock in the morning on Chinese New Year's Eve, it is obscured by fog and dense banyan trees on both sides.

"Daughter?" Li Xiaoai was surprised, "Are you married?" ”

"Nope." The speed of the car was not fast, but my thoughts kept flowing, "It's me and Xinrui." ”

Like a fish in her throat, Li Xiaoai seemed to have broken her words, and her expression was indescribably stiff. She wanted to know the answer, but she didn't know how to speak.

Suddenly, the force under her feet increased, and the engine of the car began to push back. She turned her head away from me, but only after a few seconds she turned to look at me again, hesitating how to answer, or how to ask.

The fog and dim street lights made the vision very blurred, but for some reason Li Xiaoai's feet were a little deeper, and the car began to accelerate on the straight road. Approaching an intersection on a slope, the dim warning lights had replaced the daytime traffic lights, and the shadows of the trees were not known to be due to the speed of the car or the wind shaking more violently.

Rustle, rustle...

The shadows of the trees began to tremble, and for some reason my heart began to flutter as well.

"Then you..." Li Xiaoai's voice did not fall.

A second later...

The moment our sedan crossed the intersection in the fog, an unlit off-road vehicle suddenly appeared like a beast out of the smoke of gunpowder from the intersection where it crossed us on the slope. The fog obscured Li Xiaoai's vision, and she didn't even have time to slow down, and the trail of the off-road vehicle almost ran over her left driver's seat. I didn't have time to slow down, and I was afraid that if I could survive the impact, I would be seriously injured, and I had to react with both hands at the same time.

With his left hand, he grabbed the steering wheel that Li Xiaoai was holding with excessive tension and slammed it to the right side of the front of the car. With her right hand crossed over her left arm, she held Li Xiaoai's forehead with the palm of her hand, and pressed her head above the neck on the pillow leaning forward of the seat, so that her cervical spine would not break due to the violent collision.

The black off-road vehicle at full speed did not slow down at all and rushed straight to Li Xiaoai's left driver's seat. At the moment of impact, the huge impact force reversed the direction of the front of the sedan, and the off-road vehicle slammed diagonally into the left door and front wheel of the sedan. The sound of the impact at full speed was deafening, the pressure on the eardrum was very violent, and the sedan lost direction control and was pulled by inertia towards the metal pillar of the roadside lamp.

During the whole process, I tried to tense my whole body as much as possible, while controlling the steering wheel of the car, and at the same time holding Li Xiaoai's head hard. I silently thought in my heart that I couldn't lose consciousness, and my intuition told me that it wasn't a traffic accident.

There was a loud sound at the moment when the car hit the metal lamppost, and the protective airbags in the whole car were scattered. I slowly raised my head and still had a strong feeling of fainting and wanting to vomit, Li Xiaoai's expression was twisted and moaning in pain, I understood that the feeling was like standing in the boxing ring and being hit hard, dizzy but nowhere to release.

There was no time to feel the pain, and time was especially precious in the nightmarish night, and the off-road vehicle with no lights was clearly prepared.

"Little love, cheer up, give me your hand." I let go of the steering wheel with my left hand and hugged Li Xiaoai's slender waist directly, so that she could sit up straight a little and breathe smoothly, and the black SUV in the fog in the rearview mirror had quietly opened the door.

A muscular man wearing a mask and a sports hoodie slowly paced from the SUV about thirty meters behind the car, most importantly holding a pitch-black murder weapon and a pistol with a silencer tube.

No one would run to help with something like that after an accident, if they didn't want to cause an accident.

I bent over and reached over to push open the deformed door on the left side of Li Xiaoai, and the window glass shattered into pieces and spilled on the ground, so that standing in the back of the car could not see the inside of the car through the mirror on the door. The man wearing the mask raised his gun and stopped, watching the car's every move with some surprise.

"Little love! Calm down, listen to me, you get off my side later, listen to my command, take off your high heels and run, don't look back and don't shout, until you are safe and then find a way, don't expose yourself. "I tried to make the sentence as simple as I could, and as the seconds passed, the people behind me approached with guns.

"But, you..." Li Xiaoai's eyes were still flustered, and I had to interrupt her.

"Don't be afraid, shh~!" I wrapped her weak body around me, and then pulled out of the center console to move to the back seat of the car, the undamaged rear window glass could completely cover my body, "Don't look back later, just run desperately in one direction, you can concentrate on him when you are not here." ”

I calmly took off my trench coat, dried all the clothes that bound my limbs to a loose state, and glanced back at her.

"I..." Li Xiaoai's voice trembled, her eyes were red, and tears were pouring out non-stop. Li Xiaoai curled up in the passenger seat, holding my arm with both hands, and her fear deepened a little in her eyes.

There is no time, if she can't calm down, time is still passing by second.

"I—" she was still trembling with fear.

"Hey, look at me." I reached over her cheeks with two warm palms, looked into her fluttering eyes, and her lips trembled slightly, "It's going to be fine, trust me." ”

Rustling...

The shadows of the trees were still shaking, and I could almost hear the footsteps behind me, and my blood began to boil, but my heart couldn't help but tremble.

"I..." Li Xiaoai's voice finally improved a little, with tears in her words.

By the faint light of the street lamp, I gazed deeply into her misty eyes, and my shadow was engraved in her deep eyes, and perhaps there was no more time to speculate and ponder each other's thoughts.

A kiss at the touch of ... Think of it as a kiss goodbye. Kiss her goodbye, kiss goodbye to the past, the gardenia that will never be forgotten is mixed with a faint lavender smell... I will remember...

After a fleeting goodbye, Li Xiaoai stared into my eyes, "I believe in you." ”