Consciousness turned over the clouds, and the two threads were pulled at both ends, one side was about to pull me into the bottomless depth, and the other side was pulling away at a rapid speed. My head hurt like a fish starved of water, and every bit of pulling felt like it was being torn. The power of the contest will eventually be won, my hunch will come true, my dream will return to reality, and all my senses will return to my body.

I couldn't open my eyes, but I could feel that a gaze was staring at my face, and I had just withdrawn my consciousness, like a long battle, and my brain couldn't even hold a little thought. Just like this, silent, clueless and worry-free, until a voice came to the eardrums: "How long are you going to sleep like this?" The soft, nostalgic tone made my nerves tense.

"She's reacting!" There was a whisper next to him.

The soft voice sank: "Check it now!" Then I felt that someone came to roll my eyelids, but I had no vision, and my mouth was picked open to look at it, and then something was pressed on my heart, and I was jumping one by one, and I whispered: "Her heart rate is twice as fast as before, and her pulse is normal, chief, her eyelids are ...... In the jump. ”

It's not jumping, it's me who opened my eyes. My vision was blurry, and I could only see the outline of a human figure, and a strong aura was approaching, and my shoulders were clasped and someone pressed closer. Blinking his eyelashes, the outline gradually became clearer, and when he met the eyes that were close at hand, the other party asked in a low voice: "Xia Zhu?" I stared, my eyes not moving.

After looking at each other for a minute, those dark and deep eyes smiled, and he said, "Are you thinking: Why me?" ”

One sentence touched my heart, why him?

Xu Jianglun.

Even though my face was expressionless and my eyes didn't move, he saw my thoughts, and a smile spread to his face, and the corners of his mouth were slightly curved: "Xia Zhu, long time no see." "I want to say that it wasn't long, but when I thought about it, I thought of the eight years from the age of four to the age of twelve, and even though the painting and shadow accelerated the process of time, I also felt the years vividly. Indeed, long time no see.

He couldn't possibly know what I was thinking, and his inquiring gaze flickered across my face, "Don't you ask why you're here with me?" ”

I still looked at him silently, and a soft reminder came from next to me: "She just woke up, and she doesn't have the strength to speak." Following the voice, he turned his gaze past familiar faces and landed on the nearest person.

Xu Jianglun asked sarcastically: "How?" Surprised? Except for one Luo Jinghan, the people in Group D are all together. ”

It's all right. It was Qu Xinhua who spoke, Xie Rui stood by the door, and Qiu Yuebai, or Ah Yue, stood in front of the window with a gloomy smile. I looked at Qu Xin's painting with very faint eyes, and the picture of the sunset Jinghan lying on the ground and crying sadly flashed in my mind, and I turned my eyes away.

"You all go out first." With a heavy order, the three of them walked out of the door one after another, and the last one to walk out took the door lightly.

The corners of my mouth curled imperceptibly, but I was immediately caught by Xu Jianglun's fingertips, "If you don't like to see them, then let them avoid them in the future." Xia Zhu," he called softly, looking at me seriously, "Do you know how long you've been asleep?" For a whole month, the signs of life are getting weaker and weaker day by day, and I almost want to use Qiu Yuebai's method to renew your life. ”

He looked up at the window and suddenly suggested in a hurry: "You have been in the room for so long, I will take you out to bask in the sun." After saying that, he leaned over and picked me up, but frowned, "You're so thin that you only have bones." ”

Needless to say, I have eyes to see, and when I turned my eyes just now, I saw that my arms had become skinny and bone, and I only felt light when I was holding him. There is no way to resist, but to choose to accept fate. Outside the open door, there were no three of them, he sat on the floor with me in his arms, straightened me and held me in front of him, so that the warm sunlight could shine directly on me.

After a moment of silence, he whispered behind him: "That night, I woke up in the cave, and my bones hurt all over my body. It hurts so much that it's hard to breathe, but as much as it hurts, I want to see you, and I know that if it weren't for you, even if I hadn't been killed by him, I would have abandoned the wilderness. Xia Zhu, I treat you like that, why don't you have a long memory? ”

Unable to wait for my answer, he continued as if he were talking to himself: "Later, I thought that as long as I don't die in the Xu Jianglun disaster this time, I must return the pain I suffered, so let's have a salary from the bottom of the kettle first." You say I died once, how can I not do anything at all? The first thing he did after becoming a Rakshasa was to include Ah Yue, who was connected to Qiu Yuebai, into his umbrella, and also laid the foundation for the uniqueness of the two of them to merge and be controlled by Ah Yuecheng at the critical time. It was really providence, when Ah Yue came to the cave, it was Xie Rui who chased after him, this person who I once trusted as a brother, gambling that he couldn't bear to attack me who was dying, and it just gave me a chance to take advantage of it. At that time, I thought, how proud Chu Gaocheng was of this chess piece arranged in my place, so how much he regretted it. ”

It turned out that Xie Rui went to the cave because he was tracking Ah Yue, and then he was instructed by Xu Jianglun to give psychological hints.

"As for Qu Xinhua, don't mention it, her mind is extremely weak, and it's too simple to subdue her." There was a hint of sarcasm in Xu Jianglun's voice, but he changed his tone and said, "But these are not what I want." Chu Gaocheng's side, the person I want to take away the most, she is not there. Xia Zhu, I can also give you a psychological hint, even if you are loyal to him, you will stab a sharp knife into his heart at a critical moment. Such an ending can be regarded as a true revenge for my bone-eating pain. ”

I couldn't control my body trembling, and a kind of fear crept into my heart. No...... I tried my best to deny it, but why was Gao Cheng carrying me on my back when I closed my eyes, but I woke up in Xu Jianglun's arms? Could it be that I was also instructed by him to do something to Gao Cheng?

The hand around my waist noticed my trembling, Xu Jianglun moved me to the side, stared at me with lowered eyes and asked, "Scared?" "I kept my empty eyes open and didn't hide my panic. The corners of his mouth showed a sneering arc, and his eyes were level ahead, "I don't want to." There have been many opportunities, but when I want to make a mental suggestion to you, I think you who have lost your normal mind, or are you? ”

As soon as my eyes showed suspicion, he smiled and said, "Xia Zhu, you have to be lucky, at least I still have a conscience for you." ”

Conscience. Do you still have it? I asked silently in my mind. Changing identities again and again, fiddling with people's hearts again and again, this time, what is the identity? Turning his gaze backwards, his whole body stiffened, which ......

I had just woken up from a dream in which I had been in for eight years, and even though I was not active, I recognized the house behind me as the chief's residence! This is the island where I live?

His mind turned, and when he was still closing his eyes just now, what did Qu Xin draw to him? Chieftain? Eyes wide.

No way!

All the memories in the painting clearly remember the appearance of the leader, yes, this time the painting is not like the original only outline of the figure, and the face is blurred. It was everyone, from the chief to the instructor, to the leader to the rest, and even the children who met once every six months, and every face was remembered clearly. If I have a paintbrush in my hand, I can even draw them all. This is not a fabrication, it is a real image.

Whether it is his appearance or age, Xu Jianglun cannot be the leader who appeared in the picture in my dream! But why did he live here? I don't know how many years I have lived on the island, but I have only seen it from afar, and I have never set foot in it. The governor said that the place where the chief lived represented supreme authority, and that trespassers died.

That's right, sir! If this is the island where I lived and grew up, there must be a governor here. For some reason, it seems that the prefect who used to criticize me harshly also has a sense of kinship in this land. But, I can't ask.

Under Xu Jianglun's failure to find out the truth and truth, I can't reveal that I have lived here. He was also unable to speak, so silence would not arouse Xu Jianglun's suspicions.

After that, Xu Jianglun didn't speak again, just quietly hugged me and sat in the afternoon sun, he didn't feel bored, and I also let go of my mind and didn't think about the current situation in front of me. Because, even if I wanted to, it was impossible for me to make a difference with my physical condition at the moment.

Around the end of the evening, someone came. I wasn't one of the three, but I narrowed my eyes, this person I also knew, it was the middle-aged man who changed my fate. Of course, he was no longer young, his hair was gray, and it was not his appearance that I recognized at first sight, but that he had amputated his left foot after an accident, so that he still limped even with a prosthetic leg after that. Compared with the high-spirited in the memory of the painting, he looked cowering and old at this time, he should have been less than sixty years old, but he looked like he was more than seventy, and he even carried his back.

Originally, I was still a little worried, but when I saw the other party's gaze pass over me without the slightest pause, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief. I only heard him say respectfully: "Chief, someone from the island has come to report to you." ”

"Bring it here."

Soon a man of about forty was brought up, Xu Jianglun did not taboo me, and I looked people up and down unceremoniously. I don't know why, but I don't know if I've ever seen this person, but I have a familiar feeling that makes me wonder if this person has ever been seen in my past erased memories.

But after listening to their conversation, I had an epiphany, not that I had seen this person before, but that he looked very similar to a person.

Captain!

Because, they are brothers. This person is the captain's younger brother, and the outlying island is the island of Gao Cheng, and this person is the manager of the island that Gao Cheng pushed, needless to say, he is also taken in by Xu Jianglun now. I was about to think that he really hated Gao Cheng so much that he wanted to deprive Gao Cheng of everything he had, but Xu Jianglun's next sentence suddenly came out of nowhere and blocked my thoughts: "Isn't there any news from the owner of the outlying island?" ”

I subconsciously held my breath, but I immediately noticed that Xu Jianglun looked down at me, too close to him, and the slightest change in mood could not escape his eyes. He whispered, "What's wrong?" I frowned: "A little tired." ”

He immediately picked me up, stood still, and said, "Come here today, and guard the cave for me." ”

His heart skipped a beat, but he didn't dare to have any expression change on his face, but when Xu Jianglun carried me into the room and put me down, he suddenly said: "It's the cave you think about, no need to pretend to be indifferent." If you want to know something, ask directly, don't hide it in your heart. Hearing him say this, I was a little uneasy, I opened my mouth and didn't make a sound, and I breathed steadily.

Xu Jianglun looked at me quietly and said softly, "Don't rush, take your time." ”<