The sky hung low, stretching out his hand as if he could touch the white clouds, Xiao Baiyu raised his head, his eyes flickered slightly.

"Kabul is a beautiful city...... Xiao Baiyu strode forward, his soft hair and white windbreaker fluttering in the breeze, and behind him, Yi Ziyun, who blinked his big eyes with a curious face, bounced up and down like a deer, "If you can't smell the smoke of gunpowder......

The sun shines warmly on the earth, and the people on the road are in a hurry according to their own rhythm of life. Xiao Baiyu didn't have any goal, so he took a firm step in the direction of the sun, and even he didn't know why his steps were so resolute.

"If I was the person I am now, would you be walking and chatting with me so easily on the streets of Kabul now?" Xiao Baiyu thought to himself, "Unfortunately, I don't know where to take now." ”

He kept walking in one direction like this, not knowing hunger, not knowing thirst, Yi Ziyun obediently and silently followed. In this way, he walked from noon to dusk, Kabul under the afterglow was particularly beautiful, the orange sunset spread the light in this city with the main color of earthy yellow, the golden clouds flowed slowly, and the birds gradually brought the darkness to this land with the night, Xiao Baiyu's steps finally stopped.

"That's the poplar tree......"

Listening to Xiao Baiyu's muttering, Yi Ziyun turned his gaze ahead, where a group of children without shoes were frolicking under a large poplar tree, swaying barefoot, some shouting, some pulling slingshots, some throwing stones, and under the setting sun, oblique shadows were beating, still being stretched by the sunset that was gradually falling westward.

Xiao Baiyu stood not far away, silently watching, and soon, the children may be going to worship, and they were called out by the adults in the family, and they dispersed.

In the empty land, only a tall poplar tree stood in the orange sky. Xiao Baiyu raised his head slightly, the tall branches of the aspen swayed gently in the breeze, and his hand repeatedly stroked the bark that was still warm, and there were some marks on it that should have been left by the child.

"I don't know what you're thinking, I just know that Amir and Hassan (the protagonists of The Kite Runners) grew up surrounded by an aspen tree. ”

"Maybe I should also find an aspen for Minhan, I like its tall posture very much," Xiao Baiyu said.

For some reason, Xiao Baiyu is so persistent in poplar. Perhaps its tall branches are like a benchmark, which can witness everything about them, and like a monument, which can tell tragic stories to the lives that come and go, and it is also like a lighthouse, which can light up the hope that bursts out in the endless darkness for a boat and a sail sailing in the sea of destiny.

"It's night......" Yi Ziyun ignored Xiao Baiyu's words, took out a candlestick in the shape of a "mountain" from his bag, lit three white candles, and suddenly the faint light like a bean held up a world for the edge of the darkness, "I didn't expect to be able to buy candles made of white wax, yes, it's only a few dozen afghani, not only is the light not enough, but the brightness of lighting three is only this bit of brightness, and you have to keep cutting off the wick, but I'll cut it, you do your thing." ”

"Bringing you here is really the right choice for me. Thank you, Ziyun. Xiao Baiyu showed a gentle smile.

"No need to ......" Yi Ziyun replied with a sweet smile, her big eyes bent into crescents.

Xiao Baiyu had a wry smile on his face, obviously he didn't like Li Yishan's poems, but the sentence "Why should he cut the candles in the west window" always lingered in his mind......

After a long time, Xiao Baiyu muttered, "It's true, when he leaves, there is no return date." ”

"Whew~" Yi Ziyun blew off the three candles and turned on the flashlight function of the mobile phone, "Let's just take a look, I didn't pay attention to it when I bought it, after all, I didn't expect to be able to buy white wax candles in this era." ”

Xiao Baiyu was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Yi Ziyun to be so keen.

"I'm not so pretentious, and I'm not a person who likes feelings, a flashlight is enough......"

Yi Ziyun shook his head and said: "In the past few years, when I practiced the piano alone, compared with the light and the candle, I would always choose the latter, the candle provided me not only with light and temperature, but also with a breath closer to people, after all, the candlelight will not be so cold, even if it is self-deception, I would rather indulge in this false loneliness." ”

"In the past few years, you have always practiced the piano alone?" Xiao Baiyu asked.

"Yes, I spend all day playing the piano, reading books, and tasting good food, and I feel a little bourgeoisie. Still, it's more fun to hang out with you. The disguised ease in Yi Ziyun's tone was still noticed by Xiao Baiyu.

"Hate Song, how has he been doing in the past few years?"

"I don't really know, he said it was fine. ”

"Isn't it good......" Xiao Baiyu let out a long sigh, he suddenly felt that this kind of question was very stupid to ask, no matter what the process was, they would recklessly say "It's good", he vaguely remembered that the girl in front of him used to be extremely naïve and naughty, and now she can say things like "I'd rather indulge in false loneliness" as if nothing happened.

Perhaps, my life as a middle school student in the past three years is the most enviable.

"If you don't change the final decision, there's no point in you hesitating for so long," Yi Ziyun walked up to the poplar tree, "It's a good fit for this tree, isn't the iron tree ready?"

Xiao Baiyu looked at the straight poplar in a daze, squatted down silently, took out a bunch of hair from his arms, and took the iron catalpa from Yi Ziyun's hand.

After a long silence, he sighed and looked up gently at the clear night sky. A round of white jade crescent moon hangs in the inky sky, the stars are shining, picturesque, colorful starlight paved into a galaxy, each shining like a pearl.

"People can't count how many bright moons there are on her roof, or how many thousand brilliant suns are behind her walls......"

"Minhan, this is Kabul, this is the sky you are chasing......"

Suddenly, there was a burst of warmth behind him, and Xiao Baiyu was stunned. Yi Ziyun's petite body pressed against his back, his chin rested tightly on his shoulder, his cool and white little hand gently held his hand that was already oozing beads of sweat, and his left arm gently wrapped around his chest.

Xiao Baiyu turned his head, just in front of Shang Yi Ziyun's eyes that were more beautiful and bright than the stars, and the stunning beauty reflected by the brilliant galaxy was as delicate as a work of art.

"Thank you! it's just ......" Xiao Baiyu stared at Yi Ziyun's extremely serious little face, and gently broke away from her hand, "If I am a little too cunning to immerse myself in this gentleness, it is not Xiao Baiyu who can be recognized by you." ”

"It just so happens that I don't want to hear you say thank you, I just want you to bury the past and spend your time immersed in the past, which is too luxurious for you. After all, in the boundless river of life, he is not even a wave. ”

"Hmm. Xiao Baiyu slowly waved down the iron catalpa.

"You're not going to tell Min Han's mother all this, are you?"

"Well, most of the people in Kabul are very kind and welcoming, whether you believe in religion or not, they will sincerely bless you and ask Allah to bless you," the gentle smile on Xiao Baiyu's face made Yi Ziyun feel a little sad, "So let me convey the pain to such kind people, is it too cruel to me and to her?" All news of Min Han will be cut off here, his mother will never find him, and she will think that her son will live forever in that peaceful land, in fact, this possibility is also the highest. This hope and vision I cannot bear to destroy, even though it is false. ”

"Well, it's enough if we know it's the bad end. I haven't experienced it personally, even if I have some feelings, I can't empathize with you like to, but you, like Uncle Xiao back then, like Uncle Xiao, like to carry the pain alone. ”

"It seems that you have heard a lot of stories from my mother, and she still spoils you so much. Xiao Baiyu glanced at Yi Ziyun, who was smiling extremely slyly.

More than three months ago......

Victoria Falls is still the rainy season, the pouring water curtain falls like the Milky Way, the rumbling sound has resounded throughout the world since ancient times, under the sun, the rainbow bridge hangs in the sky, and the misty water mist rises up.

"Huh?" a man in civilian clothes with a Cohiba cigar in his mouth looked at the majestic waterfall, frowned, and let out a confused "hmm".

"You half-person who has just learned to smoke, haven't you been smoking H. Upmann all along, that kind of cigarette is more delicate to smoke, and for now, it is more suitable for you. In front of him, a man in a black trench coat said softly, the man was tall, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a handsome face, a well-defined silhouette, and a faint dignified when he stood with his hands down.

"The creaminess of the H.Upmann Majestic is too strong, and the Cohiba Behike flavor is much more unique. But what do you have to say about a non-smoker?" the plainclothes man gave him a blank look.

"I just think the cream smells a little bit more pleasant, the smell of Cohiba is hard for me to accept, and of course I prefer you not to smoke, after all, secondhand smoke is more harmful to people than smokers themselves. ”

The plainclothes man stood up and took off his hat. His figure is a little taller than that of the man in the black trench coat, the thick stubble on his chin makes him slightly vicissitudes, and his sharp eyes and evil smile are very easy to impress.

"Did you see the problem?" asked the plainclothes man.

"On the way here, I paid attention to it, and although I can't generalize, judging from the plants on both sides of the road, it seems that all the trees have mistletoe trees. The man in the black trench coat lightly put his hands in his pockets, "Once this probability happens, it can't be a coincidence, but we have never extracted that power, otherwise, we may be able to deduce some truths from this." ”

"What do you mean......" the plainclothes man frowned.

"Perdition and the Sword of Ominous Foreboding - Misterine!"

"Does that sword really rise and fall with mistletoe plant life? It sounds as dreamy as magic. The plainclothes man took a hard puff on his cigarette and smiled unkindly.

"No matter how dreamy it is, we can't do anything, after all, that plant has been studied for hundreds of years, and its DNA is no different from other species, it is the same set of structures and codons. ”

"Aren't you talking nonsense? In addition to the difference in structure, even the gene fragments on the hundreds of chains of god chromosomes use the same set of codons shared by the biological world, and it seems that no life on earth has ever broken this rule. ”

"Who can say that there may have been lives that break the rules? But rebellion against such force majeure is in itself a kind of arrogance, and arrogance, the most terrible of original sins, is enough to make any life and civilization destroy itself. ”

"Hehe......" The plainclothes man shook his head slightly, "Don't tell such an empty and illusory tragic story, we are not here to calculate this today." ”

"Xiao Yifan was too young to participate in that battle, and they were not familiar with the existence of Mistritin. As everyone knows, the man in the trench coat has already entered the role, the black trench coat hunts and dances like a ghost in the sun, and a sense of oppression that only the blood of the gods can feel fills the heavens and the earth.

These two are naturally the two double S-level councilors of the Xiaozhitian Ruling Team, including You Chuwei, the inheritor of the Chao clan, and Mo Duyun, the δ vaccine species.