April 13th. Black Friday. Night, 19:19.

"And I have already turned into a ghost, hiding behind you, looking at you who are reading this suicide note."

Ye Xiao held the suicide note, and felt a cold air flow in his ears, as if Luo Haoran was standing behind him, putting a cold hand on his shoulder......

A strong feeling of nausea in his stomach made him shudder and let go of his fingers, causing the pile of paper to float to the ground. He roared wildly and turned his head, pulled out his pistol and pointed it at his back, but there was only the mural of "Hell Change", those evil ghosts in the sea of swords and fire, and the doomsday humans in a different place.

Ye Xiao has such a feeling - even if Luo Haoran was cut throat, disemboweled, and turned into a zombie in the freezer, he never left here, or he didn't want to leave, he wandered underground for a long time, turned into a ghost and embedded in "Hell Changes" - maybe his face could be found in the mural.

He picked up Luo Haoran's suicide note. The handwriting is nice and clean, with few signs of alteration – the handwriting looks familiar, though.

Ye Xiao was still sitting on the ground, looking at the mural, and took out a transparent bag from his bag, which was used to preserve small physical evidence, and there was a small photo inside. This was found in the body of the young man who had been stabbed in the back during the cleaning of the body, hidden in the pocket of his underwear. In the photo is a young boy who has just developed, and a young and beautiful woman.

Ye Xiao recognized that woman, even if it was burned to ashes, but unfortunately she had already turned into a ghost.

Although more than ten years have passed, he still misses his first girlfriend Cher. It was also for the sake of the dead Cher that he was trapped in another world for five years. However, Cher wasn't the first woman he'd ever loved—if a crush was love.

Three days ago, Ye Xiao just got this photo, and recognized the woman in the photo at a glance, and then found out the identity of the teenager - the photo was taken four years ago, the woman's name is Chu Ruolan, and the teenager is her son, named Chu Xiaoguang.

Chu Ruolan in the photo has an ice-like face, but her eyes, which were originally bright as water, seem to be covered by a veil. Compared with her seventeen years ago, she has not changed much, but she has more mature charm, unlike when she just transferred to Siyi Middle School, walked into the classroom with her head down, and sat on the seat next to Ye Xiao, like a shy little girl. From that moment on, Ye Xiao fell in love with her.

They are all only eighteen years old and are in the senior three (2) class of 41 Middle School. Ruolan was born in the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, returned to the city with her parents, and lived in an old house left by her grandparents, on the site of the Future Dream Building. Ye Xiao's experience is similar to her, except that she came back a few years earlier, but her parents are still in Xinjiang. When she returned to the big city from the distant desert, she could hardly understand the local dialect, so she couldn't find girls to be friends, and she was hated because of her good looks, and often girls secretly bullied her. Every time she saw this situation, Ye Xiao would stand up for her, which embarrassed Ruolan even more and made her the public enemy of all girls. Because they are both from Xinjiang, Ye Xiao and Ruolan share a common language, and often sit in the shade of the playground, reminiscing about the season of harvesting melons and fruits, or the terrifying scene when the sky is full of wind and sand, and the adventure of going deep into the cave to find the murals of 2,000 years ago......

It was the most terrible senior year of high school, and he was always absent-minded in class, quietly glancing at her in the next seat. She is not bored with turning pens all day long, or peeking at Qiong Yao's books under the desk, like other girls, but carefully reading the teacher's board books, hoping to be admitted to a good university, which is also the purpose of her parents who worked hard to return to the city. She is also Ye Xiao's neighbor, and the two families are almost only separated by an alley, a two-minute walk away. Every time they go to and from school, they always walk together, and the little hooligans along the way dare not approach.

Every time I get close to Ruolan, I can smell a faint mint smell in her hair, and I can't tell if it's the smell of shampoo or innate. Ye Xiao couldn't help but lean her head over, and the moment she turned her head, she quickly dodged like a spring.

Once, they were walking on a spring night, also in April, when the sky was not very polluted, she took a deep breath and said, "Ye Xiao, how long do you think we can live?" ”

"I don't know—" She was looking at the stars, he was looking at her, "I think, seventy years old, that's enough." ”

"But I have a feeling that I will only live to be thirty."

"No, it won't."

Ruolan pulled her gaze down and turned her eyes from the stars to his: "Do you believe in the end of the world?" ”

"I don't believe it."

She smiled bitterly and straightened the ponytail on the back of her head: "Do you believe that the end of the world is in seventeen years?" ”

"If that's the case, I'll die with you." Ye Xiao didn't realize that when he said this, his legs were trembling violently.

"Really?" Her face was so charming under the street lamp, Ye Xiao couldn't help but lower her head, for fear that if she looked at her more, she would not be able to control herself. Then she shook her head and said lightly, "No—because I was already dead by then." ”

"Nope."

"What would happen to you if one day, I suddenly disappeared?"

"I will keep looking for you until the day I find you."

Ruolan smiled sweetly, she understood that it was just a boy's usual sweet talk, and said into his ear, "I'm going home, goodbye." ”

For the first time, he understood the meaning of the book's words, "blowing like an orchid".

"See you tomorrow."

"See you at the end of the world."

Her silver bell-like laughter rang out in the night.

Under the starlight of spring, Ye Xiao watched her figure disappear and never saw her again.

A few months later, Ye Xiao was admitted to the Public Security University and met a girl named Xue'er.

They're all dead.

April 13th. Black Friday. Night, 7:29 p.m.

Sitting deep underground, behind the mural of "Hell Changes", Ye Xiao picked up the walkie-talkie and asked the ground command: "Headquarters, I'm Ye Xiao, is Lao Wang there?" ”

A minute later, the answer of police officer Lao Wang came. Ye Xiao said hurriedly: "Lao Wang, immediately notify Zhou Xuan, Tao Ye, Mo Xing'er, Ding Zi, and Yutian Yoko, and let these five survivors come to the scene." ”

"Now? No way? ”

Ye Xiao roared: "You must be all present!" Because—I've found out all the truth! ”