Sheng Shiyao left, not from the ice room, but from the island and returned by boat. The rest of the people who took it out also went along, except for Luo Jinghan. Zhang Ji used a special police force in this operation, and suffered heavy casualties, but it can be regarded as the collapse of the organization headed by Xu Jianglun, and he will detain the old leader and the rest of his subordinates back inland to close the case.

Before leaving, Zhang Ji came to look for me, but the two of them were close to each other for half an hour, and neither of them said a word. In the end, Zhang Jidao: "Xia Zhu, you will be free from today onwards, and there is no A in this world." Need help you investigate your background and find your family? ”

"Family?" I muttered.

He said: "Although you were young when you were taken away, as long as you know the approximate range from the people who robbed you, you can always find clues." I was stunned for a moment, and raised my eyes, the person who robbed me back then was Li Chengjun, and he was dominated by Gao Cheng at the moment, this is for me to ask Gao Cheng? But in fact, I once dreamed of a picture and completely remembered the experience with Sheng Shiyao, including the situation of me when I was four years old. I don't have parents, only Ah Ya and Ah Gong, Ah Gong passed away very early, and Ah Ah died of illness in those days, and the disease was finally contracted to me, and then Sheng Shiyao was rescued by blood exchange.

After pondering for a while, I shook my head: "No need to look for it, just like this, I think it's good." You are my relatives. ”

You guys, yes.

Zhang Jiru is the elder brother, and Sheng Shiyao is like ...... Father, brother, that's the only definition I can think of for him. And Gao Cheng is the closest person in the bottom of his heart. With them, I think it's enough, so why bother yourself?

Zhang Ji stared at me for a long time, and for the first time saw a pulling arc at the corner of his mouth, he reached out and rubbed my hair, "Remember to call me when you come back, my number remains the same." I nodded, and he turned around and strode away.

"Zhang Ji," I couldn't help but raise my voice, he turned his head suddenly, hesitated, and asked the doubts in his heart: "Have you ever regarded Xu Jianglun as a brother?" His face instantly sank, his eyes became cold, he was silent for a few seconds, and he said word by word: "I am a soldier, he is a thief, and he will never be a brother." Moreover, my brother died under his gun. ”

Looking at Zhang Ji's depressed back, it was not that he didn't understand his logic, but he still felt sad. First of all, for the death of his brothers, who were childhood partners on the island for survival, even if they had forgotten their existence for so many years, but later they died to save me; The second is Xu Jianglun, even if he dies, there will be a long list of crimes, and even the crime will be reported in the news media, and the cause of death is that he was shot and killed by assaulting a police officer.

I don't know how to describe him, no matter how you look at him, he is an unscrupulous bad guy, smuggling and forging national treasures, forming smuggling gangs, and even killing people. But he came into my life with a pure and good side, and it was so ingrained that even when I later learned that he was the head of the clan, I could hardly hate him. I don't have the highest moral scale like Zhang Ji, he is too deeply influenced by the chief, and he takes the eight characters of "do your best, and then die" as a wise saying, I am not. I was passive from beginning to end, and I made a non-part request to Zhang Ji: to cremate Xu Jianglun's body on the island, and let him sink to the bottom of the river when he returned to his life.

The ashes were kept, and I regarded them as Zhang Ji's only selfishness towards Xu Jianglun. But I didn't intend to bury it in the ground, he had a rough life, he had tried all means to survive, and he hated the old chief, and he would not have come to this island if he hadn't been for the sake of power. But I can't let him die, and then the body will be brought back and convicted, and then there will be no place to go. Rather than that, it is better to ...... Let him ride the wind.

I stood on a high rock platform, opened the lid of the urn, grabbed a handful of ashes and scattered them in my hand. Silently thought in my heart: Xu Jianglun, reincarnate as soon as possible, and in the next life, don't meet me again.

By the time I had finished scattering all the ashes, it was already dusk, and I had stood for too long and my feet were stiff. I finally sank the ash jar to the bottom of the river, and then turned my back, but my pupils constricted and I froze. A zhang away, Gao Cheng didn't know how long he had been standing, and he looked at me silently, his eyes deep and incomprehensible. stepped forward and was about to explain, but he raised his hand to cut it off: "Go back." ”

I didn't say anything more, I stood side by side with him. When he saw his feet jolting, he reached out and held him, and laughed self-deprecatingly: "Are we sympathetic to each other now?" "I later learned about Li Chengjun's leg that he was not lame, but probably because of the long-term exposure to the wet and cold climate, he had intermittent arthritis, and he often felt so painful that he couldn't walk.

On the contrary, it is me, he often presses the acupuncture points on his legs these days, as long as he does not stand for a long time like just now, but the soreness rarely appears again. After walking for a while, Gao Cheng looked sideways again, "Why don't you go back with you?" ”

I didn't even give a look, and replied lightly: "That's what I think, do you allow it?" ”

The person on his side paused at his feet, and his eyes were bright and shallow. I pulled the corners of my mouth, still not looking at him: "Although I have lost the ability to draw pictures, my brain has not become stupid." With your incomparable mind, if you have this heart, you can let me follow the path you arranged without any choice, if you are in a good mood, you may still leave some thoughts about me, and if you are in a bad mood, then you will directly erase all memories, where is there such a sour word from you at this moment? ”

Gao Cheng's expression changed several times in the afterglow, and when I finished speaking, he retorted with some grievances: "How can I have what you said? ”

I pursed my lips: "Yes or no, you know it in your heart." Gao Cheng, in fact, you just have my temperament. The anger after learning the truth can't offset those thoughts about you, so you have no fear. If I really answer the invitation of Brother Yao or Zhang Ji to go back with them, I'm afraid you will be the first to jump out and stop it. ”

This time he didn't refute again, which was a tacit acquiescence.

Everyone is not a wood and stone, Gao Cheng ate me, but why didn't I eat him? My bet is on his reluctance to give up on me. The hand that was originally holding his arm moved down, but instead held his palm, firmly grasping his fingers even if they belonged to the vicissitudes of life, I thought: Now I lack everything, but patience. I may not be able to match him in my life, but when it comes to psychology, I am confident that I will one day defeat him.

It's like now. I'm going to preemptively cut off all his retreats so that he can't have any more excuses, provided that he's willing to let me win, of course.

In the distance, a figure stood in the wind, and we stopped at the same time, stared at it for a moment, and then turned our heads sideways and asked, "The cold will be fine, right?" Gao Cheng's eyebrows frowned slightly, and he retracted his gaze and said in a low voice, "He will come back." ”

I was skeptical. Luo Jinghan watched Xie Rui commit suicide with his own eyes, as well as Qu Xinhua. I only learned later that I was in a special space with Gao Cheng and Sheng Shiyao that day, and a bloody battle was going on outside. As expected, Qu Xinhua and Xie Rui still did not escape Xu Jianglun's psychological control, and they also became his two most powerful murderous knives. Xie Rui is good at flying cards, and her speed is very human, while Qu Xinhua is good at potions, and the medicine she dispenses can be life-saving or fatal.

When she put down two SWAT officers in a row, she aimed at Luo Jinghan. It's just that when she really did it, a trace of reason was still there, and she finally stabbed the dagger that she wanted to insert into Luo Jinghan's chest back to her heart.

I didn't see it, but I can imagine how tragic it was. It is equivalent to saying that Luo Jinghan personally witnessed Qu Xin's painting to Xie Rui, and he committed suicide in front of him! He is a very affectionate person, and he still remembers the scene when Xie Rui and Qu Xinhua escaped from the boat that day, and he lay there crying and mourning, and this time the impact on him will only be greater. However, he did not cry, did not leave a single tear, and dealt with the aftermath of the two in silence and methodically throughout the whole process, and then stood in front of the graves of the two until late at night.

Gao Cheng never stepped forward to persuade him, occasionally standing silently in the distance for half a day, and occasionally just sitting indoors silently. I actually know that he is not having a good time, especially when he sees the cold scenery like a withered tree that has lost its soul.

The three of us stayed in this Chu City. Time passed, calm and peaceful. It's really weird, the outlying island closest to Chu City was able to let the ship run aground not long ago, but it completely sank after half a month. Luo Jinghan went out on a ferry to investigate the surrounding situation, and when he came back, he said that the surrounding islands had disappeared except for the islands that had risen on the river. It is estimated that Nagui Island will disappear from the horizon in less than half a month.

The peace on the surface can't hide the anxiety in my heart, at least that's how I am.

It's not that I don't want to face Li Chengjun's old face, but his complexion is getting worse day by day. Especially after Sheng Shiyao left, I suddenly remembered the most important question and did not ask: If, I mean, if something is wrong with Li Chengjun's body, birth, old age, sickness and death cannot be controlled, then where will Gao Cheng's heart go?

Just thinking about the consequences of this makes me feel terrified, and all kinds of bad thoughts arise. even felt that Sheng Shiyao had actually said the answer: I don't know. What he means is that everything that is unknown can happen, and the outcome is equally unknown. If this happens, maybe Gao Cheng will be in line with the right time and place and return to his body, or he may die...... The heart is extinguished.

It's not a 1 in 2 chance, it's a fact that you don't know what the odds are at all.

Despite my worries, it seems that things are still going in a bad direction. Li Chengjun's body was failing at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye, and Gao Cheng was weak even if he had the heart, but he was calm, and his face was always motionless. But once late at night, I found him sitting alone under the dark night sky, his back depressed and lonely. I stood not far away, never taking a step closer, and my heart grew desolate.

Looking back, I pretended not to know about it like no one else, but I would quietly accompany him at that point every night. <