"If I'm willing to do it myself, do I need your help?" To Li Yagami's surprise, An An refused his help tonight in an indifferent and unfamiliar voice.

"An An, you know what the knife boss is like, don't be rash." Li Yashen tried to persuade.

But An An's tone was even higher, and she said: "Do you think that living like you and living every day is really 'living'?" You are wrong, if life is not free, it is meaningless! ”

The girl's voice was already sharp, but now she was angry again, more like a roar at night. She ignored the hundred dollars on the ground, stepped on a pair of cheap canvas shoes, and walked angrily.

Li Yashen didn't chase after him, because he knew that it was the direction of "going home".

That night, only An An didn't pay a penny. Dao Lao was so angry that his whole back trembled, he picked up the glass on the table, poured a large sip of water, and then said: "Say, An An, you have always been one of the best among them, why don't you have a penny today?" ”

When Boss Dao asked this sentence, there was already a lot of unhappiness in his tone. Unexpectedly, An An didn't mean to be ashamed at all, the corners of her mouth moved a few times, as if she wanted to reply or fight back, but in the end, she only chose to be quiet.

But this disdain still provoked the knife boss. For so many years, this group of rabbit cubs has always been obedient and obedient, he said one, no one has ever dared to say a word two. Today, this chick is so rude that he is so angry that he is about to have a stroke in his head.

"Good...... Good little girl. When the knife boss said this, even the angry sentence had a slight smile.

This kind of occasion is definitely not an occasion to laugh at. And at this time, the knife boss laughed, and it would definitely not be a good thing.

That night, when Li Yashen fell asleep in the house, he only heard a scream like a roar. He slept in the quilt, his hands clenched into fists, and he didn't dare to make a sound, for fear that the boys who slept with him would find out a little bit of his abnormality.

What Li Bashen didn't know was that if it weren't for the fact that Boss Dao was diagnosed by a doctor in his early fifties with "surname dysfunction" because he smoked too much, An An might have suffered even worse that night.

Second, when Li Bashen and An An went on another mission, An An was wearing a white mask, her face was sallow, and Li Bashen saw the two corners of his eyes that were blackened, and the wound on his forehead that was still oozing with a trace of bruises. The black hair hung down, as if she wanted to stop this girl's stubbornness, but it seemed that rebellion was such a thing, as long as it sprouted, it would be difficult to curb and stop.

"You shouldn't be so stubborn." On the bus, Lee Yashin tried again to dissuade him.

It is rare that An An spoke in a particularly indifferent tone today, and said: "Hehe, what I need at this time should not be a lecture." ”

Perhaps, from that moment on, in An An's heart, Li Yashen also seemed to have become the kind of person who had no responsibility and was no longer attractive at all. She just sat on the chair of the bus, looking at the gray sky outside the window, and for some reason, suddenly said, "Yagami, if I want to escape, do you want to go with you?" ”

Li Yashen was startled when he heard this. He didn't know how to respond to her, after all, this suggestion was so crazy and terrible for him.

And An An was also taken aback by what he said. It turned out that even she didn't know it, and I don't know when Li Bashe had occupied such an important position in her heart. Otherwise, why did she even ask for his advice on such an important matter as escaping?

"I ...... I don't know. After hesitating for a while, Li Bashen said in a bit of a panic. His tone was a little trembling, trying to appear as relaxed as he could, and then, with a joke he had heard recently, tried to lighten the mood, but, apparently, he failed.

Looking at the boy's helpless appearance, An An smiled faintly and said lightly: "Little puppy, I lied to you." She gently scratched the boy's nose and laughed.

Li thought that this turmoil would pass like this, but he didn't expect that the next night, things would happen.

The courtyard outside was noisy like a war, and he heard the knife boss and his men constantly shouting, which had been so noisy in the first half of the night, and then in the second half of the night, An An was caught crying.

The Knife Boss woke up all the little ones, and all of them gathered in the hall to watch the punished fugitive. In the crowd, Li Yashen saw the girl he liked squatting on the ground, and three or four powerful men kept stepping on her body, hands, feet, head and other parts with their feet, and there was even a fat man of more than two hundred pounds, who jumped up frantically and landed his feet on her beautiful head......

The situation at the scene was miserable, and in the end, I don't know who hit the final blow, and no one knows what the most serious injury on An An's body was, everyone just knows that that night, the girl who ran away was killed, that's all.

"Hmph, don't give Lao Tzu any bad ideas, otherwise, she will be your end." After killing someone, the knife boss didn't apologize at all, he just pointed to the corpse lying to the side, and coldly shouted at the child laborers.

After that day, Li Yashin secretly cried for a long, long time. He couldn't help but think in his heart, if he wasn't so indifferent, if he agreed to An An's request and planned well with her, would she be able to have a more mature escape plan and then start an escape operation? Wouldn't it have been so hastily discovered, captured, and beaten to death on the streets......

Would you be a little braver, and the outcome of this thing will be completely different?

Lee Yagami didn't know the answer. Hypotheses are just hypotheses after all, things have already happened, and no one has any other hypothesis to test.

There is a saying that only after losing do you know how to cherish it. After completely losing An An, Li Yashen understood what life he wanted to live in his life.

It turned out that he just wanted to escape with An An and go to a strange city, where the two of them could find two jobs that could make a living, and then just go on like this. They will have one or two children and watch them grow up day by day...... It is such a warm and simple life, but it has become a pain that can never be realized.

Three weeks later, Li Yashen was dead to such a story. One night of thunder and lightning, he had not planned beforehand, but suddenly his whim and emotions were rushing, and then, taking advantage of the caretaker's inattention, he climbed out of the fence of the house......

After escaping, he ran aimlessly, and ran as hard as he could. He thought he would not survive this time, until the next morning, when he spent the night under a bridge. It wasn't until a week later, through a combination of begging and stealing, that he got the money, and fled to another city far, far away, where he found himself completely free.

It turns out that escaping is not as difficult as imagined. It turned out that he just needed some ideas and courage - but because of that, the girl he loved the most left him forever.

That night, he cried profusely in front of a man from another place with a carpet. The man handed him a cigarette and said, "Don't think about it so much, in this river and lake, who hasn't had a sad and sad past." ”

Of course, Li Yashen didn't stop, he just cried more bitterly and fiercely.

Later, Lee Yashin became a veritable street boy, and by chance he was discovered by the political axe help department and sent to an orphanage, where he spent the last few days of his childhood. Another year, he happened to meet the "Hope Project", a big entrepreneur with a successful career became his patron of school, so that he had the opportunity to receive the same education as ordinary people, and went to university as soon as possible.

However, after that, Li Yashen became a veritable delinquent teenager. He doesn't like to talk, he doesn't like to communicate with people, and even when he has time, he just likes to play "Mecha World", or read some very dark and negative texts, and he feels that he can find a trace of pain and sadness in those words.

He knew that since An An's death, all the love and courage in his life had been lost in that endless dream.

- If I had had been more courageous, would it have ended differently?

He has been plagued by this hypothetical surname for a long time...... He knew that all his feelings, all his love, had been brought underground with An An.

At this time, he is already a puppet warrior without blood and tears, who only knows how to paralyze himself with one mecha battle after another.

He only knew that he was very talented in piloting mechas. He wanted to numb himself with such an experience of the boundary between life and death, with such a stimulating feeling, so that he could temporarily forget the tears, the shame, and the sadness and unhappiness in his heart......

He looked up, and again, with teary eyes, looked at the blue body in front of him. The ghost soul stood in front of him with vigor and vitality wielding its twin blades.

"Hehehe," Li Bashen's smile actually carried a strange voice, and said, "Good boy, let me play with you again." ”

He slammed the mech with skillful gestures, and the silver chain was swung in the air, as powerful and frantic as the scythe of death.