Chapter 1: The Long Night

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The lights in the distance illuminate the city in the darkness as bright as day, and there is silence everywhere, no wind or rain, and the temperature is pleasant......

"Rooftop, what a great place to go! Guys, you're going to enjoy it! Xiao He, who was standing on the rooftop looking at the night view, suddenly heard a voice behind him.

Xiao He's face changed and then he was relieved, the training in the past six months had made him grow a lot, but now he still couldn't notice the approach of this person.

"Uncle Geng, is there something?" Xiao He looked at the bearded middle-aged man in front of him and said with some concern.

It's just because he hasn't seen this man for a few days, and he has the impression that Uncle Geng is a person who cares a lot about his appearance. I heard that Uncle Geng was also a handsome guy when he was young, but in recent years, he has become so obese in his middle-aged body, that is, since then he has become more concerned about his image.

But now? His hair was messy like a chicken nest, with a few strands of silver frost in the middle, and his usually embarrassed eyes were sunken deeply, and he could even see his chapped lips that were about to break into several petals through the beard that grew like weeds on his face. He looked more than ten years older......

Uncle Geng, what's going on?

Looking at his form, and then thinking about what he said just now, Xiao He always felt that Uncle Geng tonight seemed to be a different person.

"It's fine." Uncle Geng's eyes were still blank, but there was a hint of imperceptible melancholy in his tone. "Little Qu'er."

Uncle Geng called suddenly, his eyes were still looking at the vast night, as if something terrible was happening there.

Xiao He also followed and watched for a while, but he didn't see anything. "Uncle, what's wrong?" He was still a little stunned when he took the wine handed over by Uncle Geng, because he hadn't seen Uncle Geng drink since his grandmother died.

"Xiao Qu'er, uncle is fine." Uncle Geng shook his head, and there was some mist in his eyes. "Accompany my uncle to sit and drink."

"Uncle, what the hell are you doing?" Xiao He still felt that Uncle Geng had something on his mind, and that matter happened to be about himself.

"Little Qu'er." Uncle Geng sighed and slowly turned his head to look at him. "Let Uncle take a good look at you."

A complicated look flashed in his eyes, he watched Xiao He's lips squirm twice, but he still couldn't speak, he snatched the old white stem from Xiao He's hand and poured a few mouthfuls until he choked and coughed.

"Uncle, what do you want to say?" Xiao He felt like a cat scratched in his heart, Uncle Geng obviously had something important to say to him, but he had any scruples that he couldn't say. "You say, I can resist whatever it is."

"Little Qu'er has grown up." Uncle Geng wiped the wine on the corner of his mouth and beard, and a relieved smile appeared on his face. "Kid." He sighed, "Uncle, maybe, I can't protect you anymore." ”

"Uncle, what's wrong with you?" Xiao He was a little stunned, Uncle Geng was too unusual today, and this sentence was more like explaining what was going on, which made him faintly uneasy so that he didn't dare to answer.

"Little Qu'er." Uncle Geng's head turned to the distance in the vast night, as if he couldn't bear to look at him, "There is still a long way to go, and you have to go on your own." There's no one who can help you. ”

"Uncle, what's wrong?" Xiao He was faintly worried, "Don't scare me, you are my only relative in this world, don't scare me, okay?" ”

"Little Qu'er, remember, no one, no one can help you." Uncle Geng was still muttering to himself.

"Uncle!" Xiao He screamed violently, for no other reason, just because he saw Uncle Geng slowly stand up and walk to the edge of the rooftop, and then jumped and jumped down.

"Xiaoqu'er, remember, don't trust anyone from now on, just believe in yourself." The moment Uncle Geng jumped down, he was still reminding him.

Xiao He sat up from the rooftop, he covered his eyes and looked at the newborn Chaoyang through the gap in his nails with some surprise.

Whew, his heart was finally relieved. Uncle Geng hasn't been back for more than a week, he must be too worried to think about it day and night, he shook his head to make himself feel more energetic.

It's just that he just raised his feet and froze.

Because, at his feet, there is an empty wine bottle of old white dry, and next to the wine bottle, there is the wine that Uncle Geng spit out when he choked yesterday, and the jacket that Uncle Geng wore in his dream yesterday is on the railing of the roof.

Is this not a dream?

Xiao He's heart tightened, and the whole person rushed to the rooftop. It's just that there is no yellow cordon downstairs, and there are no corpses, just a busy driveway.

Xiao He picked up the clothes on the rooftop, looked at them carefully, and still felt that they were Uncle Geng's, and his hands began to look for clues on the clothes.

Uncle Geng's wallet?

Xiao He was stunned for a moment, continued to flip through, and when he saw the photo of the young man and his grandmother in the photo, Xiao He couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

The young man in the photo can vaguely be seen to be Uncle Geng's appearance when he was young, the face in the photo is still young and green, and the grandmother's appearance is only a few years younger than what he saw when he woke up from the car accident.

In this way, Uncle Geng should have aged in the past ten years.

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and when he saw the ID card with Yan Geng's name printed with the national emblem, Xiao He was completely stunned.

Uncle Geng, it's only twenty-nine this year?

How can it be? This must be a fake, right? Xiao He comforted himself.

After the car accident, he couldn't remember a lot of things. When this man appeared in front of the ward, looking at his grandmother's reaction to him, he thought at first glance that this man was his uncle, his grandmother's youngest son, and the younger brother of his deceased father.

However, looking at this document now, Uncle Geng is more like grandma's grandson! What does he look like......

Xiao He suddenly remembered that day when he opened his mouth to call him uncle, his grandmother obviously looked a little displeased, and he just glanced at him with those eyes full of vicissitudes, and then touched his head with pity and hoarse voice, "The child can be called whatever he wants!" ”

The more he thought about it, the more sour his heart became, and the more confused his thoughts became.

What is it that makes a man who is not yet thirty years old like this? Now Uncle Geng, walking on the street and crossing the road, it is estimated that there will be children to help pull him, because his appearance looks like he is more than fifty years old.

Uncle Geng, what is it? And what will you face?

Xiao He was stunned, he looked up at the wisp of red glow hanging in the sky, and looked down at the jacket in his hand in a little confusion, his heart became even heavier.

"Ding-dong-ding-dong......"

Coincidentally, at this moment, the ringtone of the text message suddenly rang, pulling him back to reality.

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