In the room, Wei Mengying was the only one, lying quietly on the bed, looking at the dark night outside the window, her face reflected in the window, and the layout of the room, and the door that slowly pushed open.

Xu Joyy walked in from outside and walked to Wei Mengying's window, "You should give him a chance to explain." ”

"Look at him, did you think about the meaning of explanation? We've met many times, he's saved him many times, and I've always considered him a friend, but he's never thought to explain. Wei Mengying looked out the window, a mirrored room, as if she was talking to another self.

Wei Mengying's heart is also struggling, she doesn't believe that Lin Zihan will be the fierce beast that caused the fire, and will be the murderer who killed her parents, since she got the news, Wei Mengying felt as if her world had collapsed.

When she came to Nandu alone, Wei Mengying didn't expect to meet someone who could make her feel warm, let alone that she would meet this person so many times, and meet him so many times in danger of life and death......

But that's it, Lin Zihan, who is regarded as a close friend by Wei Mengying, is the real murderer who killed his parents, and the Grim Reaper Night Ghost who caused that nightmarish fire.

"Actually, he may really just be a little hard-mouthed, he is not bad in his heart, what if it was really just an accident at the beginning, after all, I heard about that incident, and the military also came forward."

Xu Qiaoyi stood by Wei Mengying's bedside, not leaving an inch.

"If it was really an accident, then why didn't he explain it clearly, for so long, he never mentioned it, and he couldn't see the slightest remorse."

Xu Qiaoyi's persuasion was also like Wei Mengying's own inner struggle, she still didn't want to believe the truth, but Lin Zihan didn't mean to explain it, and even said it bluntly, which made Wei Mengying's last glimmer of hope shattered.

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At the gate of Nandu University of Science and Technology, perhaps due to the impact of the war, the school gate, which was still lively at night, was only a few people in a hurry.

Lin Zihan stood at the school gate and stood for a long time, so long that Lin Zihan felt that his legs were a little numb.

"The government in Nandu is still so corrupt, and the school has a greater sense of crisis." Lin Zihan recalled that it had been five days since he arrived in Nandu, and in just five days, there had been no less than a dozen large-scale battles between the Federation Army and the Combined Army.

Looking at the laboratory building, there are few laboratories that are still lit now, and then looking at the street lamps, they are not like together, illuminating the wide road leading to the office building all day, only a few lights are faintly on.

"Hello, I'm a student at Nandu University of Science and Technology, and I forgot to bring my student ID." Lin Zihan looked at the security guards in the security hall at the door, who seemed to be on duty for a long time and a lot haggard.

"Go in, go in, go in." The security guard just glanced at Lin Zihan and said perfunctorily, and did not interrogate Lin Zihan's identity as before.

"Thank you!" After Lin Zihan politely thanked him, he walked towards the campus, where there were some bare branches and some evergreen trees on the side of the road, which were one of the few greens that could be seen.

"Ah......" From time to time there was a crow cry from the top of the tree, and Lin Zihan followed the sound and could see the night crows in the night.

These night crows generally appear on the battlefield after the Great War, after the catastrophe, night crows who have not been infected with the virus are indeed rare, Lin Zihan has lived on this campus for so long, and he has never seen a night crow.

Walking alone on the campus, Lin Zihan wandered around aimlessly, from the school gate to the grove in the depths of the campus, from the east campus of the campus to the west campus of the campus, from the biotechnology laboratory building to the exoskeleton test site.

Lin Zihan looked at the school, there were very few people, so few that it didn't look like a higher education institution, but like a declining aristocratic school, no one was enthusiastic about it anymore, and the few people who saw it were also in a hurry, their faces full of exhaustion and burnout.

"Hello, this is the assigned personal laboratory building, you can't just enter it." The security guard at the door didn't look up, and a hoarse voice sounded, stopping Lin Zihan who wanted to walk in.

"Uncle Li, it's me." Lin Zihan looked at Uncle Li, who was immersed in reading the newspaper in the foyer of the experimental building, and a smile from the heart appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"It's you kid, you know to come back and see me, a bad old man." Uncle Li's wrinkled face also showed a knowing smile, and he walked out of the hall, looking at Lin Zihan, who seemed to have grown a little longer.

"It looks like I've matured a lot, and my face has lost the spirit I had at the beginning." As Uncle Li walked, he looked at Lin Zihan's face, and his rickety body straightened his waist.

"Uncle Li, you don't look like you've changed much, you're still so strong." Lin Zihan looked at Uncle Li, his steps were still fast, and there was no stumbling at his age.

"Haha......" Uncle Li smiled, and his steps seemed to be much slower, "It's not as good as it was back then, although it can still walk like a fly now, it's really not as good as it was at the beginning." Uncle Li boasted immodestly.

"Let's go and sit under the ginkgo tree outside." Uncle Li pointed to the stout ginkgo tree in the square in front of the experimental building, the wooden chair under the tree was still there, and Uncle Li wiped it every day, and it was spotless.

"Hmm." Lin Zihan replied softly, waited until Uncle Li walked in front of him, and then followed Uncle Li and walked to the wooden chair and sat down.

"What have you been busy with these days, I haven't seen you kid for more than a year." Uncle Li looked at Lin Zihan, his face was full of kindness and pride, maybe this old man really regarded Lin Zihan as his own child.

"I joined the army, and then the Combine mutiny, and I was left alone in the wilderness area, mingling with some wilderness hunters for a while." Lin Zihan said simply, he thought that maybe Uncle Li wouldn't know this, so he didn't elaborate, not to mention that he didn't want Uncle Li to think that he was in the company of the wilderness hunters, after all, in the eyes of many people, the wilderness hunters were not bandits.

"Then why do you dare to go back to Nandu now, didn't you say that you were already on the wanted warrant issued by Nandu?" Uncle Li took out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket, and it was Lin Zihan's wanted notice printed on it.

"I didn't expect that in this era, I was still wanted by a paper wanted poster." Lin Zihan smiled bitterly, took off his disguise, thinking that no one would remember, maybe if the security guard at the school gate was more serious, he had already reported the news of his appearance to the Security Bureau, and then waited for the 10 million bounty.

"Got it, you still dare to come back without pretending." Uncle Li's tone was like a reprimand, more like a concern and worry about Lin Zihan.

"It's okay, I have a hidden identity, a military advisor to the Imperial Federation." Lin Zihan didn't hide it, he didn't want to wear a mask anymore at the moment, he was too tired, not to mention that no matter how good the mask was, it would eventually be taken off, and it might be the most painful at that time.

"What, looking at your appearance, something is not going well?" Uncle Li sighed when he saw Lin Zihan, and when he spoke, he also looked a little displeased, and his whole person was wilted.

"Yes, I wanted to come to Nandu, so that I could say goodbye completely, those past I had in Longcheng, start again, but I didn't expect that those damn memories would catch up again, no matter how I dumped them, I got rid of them." Lin Zihan said, and the past that he couldn't get rid of most clearly was Wei Mengying.

"Getting rid of the memories of the past?" Uncle Li repeated Lin Zihan's words, looking at the dozen or so stars lit up in the dark night, the only dozen stars.

"Why do you want to get rid of it, the past is gone, and what can't be changed, even if you get rid of it, it still exists, doesn't it?" Uncle Li suddenly asked rhetorically, his eyes still locked on the brightest star in the night.

"Maybe it's because that past makes me unable to face a person who is important to me, or maybe it's because that past is so unbearable that even I don't want to look at it directly." Lin Zihan closed his eyes and lay peacefully on the wooden chair, emptying his body and mind, and letting go of the last defense in his heart.

"However, it is that period of the past that gives rise to the present you, and if you lose the past, you will become incomplete, just like an antique, losing the traces left by the years, and losing your meaning." Uncle Li used an inappropriate analogy to answer Lin Zihan's question.

"But Uncle Li, didn't you also say that you didn't dare to face the failure in the past, so you came to Nandu and became a guard at this school." Lin Zihan looked at the wrinkled old face, the white hair on the sideburns was even more snow-white, and only a few black hairs on the top of Uncle Li's head were still insisting.

"Yes, I've been hiding long enough, but I still don't dare to face that defeat, because that time we lost our last chance." Uncle Li repented in annoyance, and a crystal teardrop in the corner of his eye slowly fell on the wooden chair along the ravine.

Lin Zihan didn't know what kind of experience it was that made an old man who was nearly eighty years old still leave such tears and talk about it so sadly.

"Uncle Li, have you ever thought about whether your choice will change if you start again." Seeing that the tears in the corners of Uncle Li's eyes were gradually drying, Lin Zihan continued to ask, which was also the easiest answer in Lin Zihan's heart.

Lin Zihan once thought that every decision he made would not be regretted, nor would it change because of the consequences, but seeing Wei Mengying's cold eyes, Lin Zihan wavered, and the strongest line of defense in Lin Zihan's heart was loosened.

"Everything, there is no chance to start over, so we may not regret it, because we should bear the consequences if we make a choice." Uncle Li suddenly became serious, his voice was hoarse but full of strength, and that feeling made Lin Zihan look at Uncle Li a few more times.

"Is Uncle Li really an eighty-year-old man?" Lin Zihan's suspicious gaze fell on Uncle Li, and he could feel that Uncle Li suddenly became excited, even much younger, like a general standing on the battlefield, making a final passionate shout.

"I don't think we should blame ourselves for the past that we can't go back to, rather than the unacceptable consequences, try our best to face the future and meet the next life, maybe it is the best choice." Uncle Li said and waved his hand.

Lin Zihan's keen eyes saw the scar on Uncle Li's palm, more than a year has passed, and it is still so dazzling and obvious.

That night, Lin Zihan sat under the ginkgo tree, sat on a wooden chair, sat on the campus of Nandu University of Science and Technology, and looked at the place where he once lived, it was his best years, no killing, no fraud, no war, no blood......

Lin Zihan and Uncle Li talked for a long time, a long time......

It wasn't until the sky was slightly bright that Lin Zihan returned to the hotel.