On the other side, the bridge sits on the Lethe River, which flows with turbid blood.

This place is one of the dividing lines of the two worlds of yin and yang, and it is the most lively place in the world leading to the underworld.

The young man half stood at the end of the Yellow Spring Road in the world, leaning on the broken siderail on the top floor of the Naihe Bridge, his eyes fell on the gray and waveless Lethe River, and his fingers gently flicked the blood-colored flowers picked down in his hands.

After the ferry docked, people embarked on the Yellow Springs Road one by one, walking through the flowery fields on the other side, stepping on the ancient and old Nai He Bridge, passing by the young man leaning on the end of the bridge one after another, and walking towards Meng Po, who was holding the soup of forgetful memory.

The road of the Yellow Springs of the Two Realms has been like this for thousands of years, and has never changed, countless people and souls have walked over this ancient bridge, or fallen into the abyss full of evil ghosts in the Lechuan River, or walked to the underworld to reincarnate, this is the meaning of existence here, and it is also the eternal rules and laws.

Most of the people who belong to the reincarnation regulation here will come here after death, so the young man also often comes here, and will always stop at this place where yin and yang meet, and in the past hundred years, he has seen many souls and faces passing through here, but he has never seen the person he wants to find here.

For such a long time, he had passed through countless souls of all kinds, all of whom were unfamiliar to him, and he had never seen a shadow of his familiarity after a hundred years of waiting until the end of his atonement.

The wait here is coming to an end.

He whispered to himself in the bottom of his heart, retracted his gaze from the Huangquan Road and the sea of flowers on the other side that he was extremely familiar wither, lowered his eyes and fell on the other side of the flower that had become a little withered in his hand, raised his hand to tear off the bright red petals of the other side flower, and let it fall into the Lethe River that never flowed like stagnant water, watching the petals fall into that blood river without stirring up a single splash, even the ripples were fleeting in an instant.

"A hundred years... It was too long for her. He whispered to himself, watching the last petal of the flower in his hand being broken off by himself, and the empty heart of the flower was reflected in his red eyes, he looked at the broken flower for a moment, and then threw it whole into the Lethe River, and then supported himself from the dilapidated siderail where he was half-seated.

However, the dilapidated sidebar of the bridge resounded with a tiresome creaking sound.

It's time to leave.

Then thinking lightly in his heart, he slowly turned around and crossed the boundary of the passage of the Nai He Bridge, and took a step against the Yellow Spring Road that led to the world at the end, and before he could take a few steps, his steps were suddenly interrupted by a familiar voice.

"Four, where are you going?"

When he heard the sound, he turned around and saw a short-haired girl who had been standing on the Meng Po Bridge since he didn't know when.

The girl looked at him with doubts and worries in her eyes, she seemed to have guessed that he was leaving, so she was here at this moment.

The girl was an old acquaintance he knew here, and one of the few people he had to associate with in the underworld he regarded as a cage, and she was probably the only one who would care a little about his actions and actions in such a place.

He stopped where he was, looked at her face, which always made him find a little familiarity, and was silent for a moment, then his eyes lowered a little, and he said softly:

"It's just a walk... Seven, you don't have to worry too much. Go on your quest with your partner. ”

His words were a little alienated, and his red eyes showed a bit of disapproval.

"Going to this shore?" The girl known as Qi frowned, looked into his eyes and shook her head, "You're lying, Four. I know that your contract with the underworld is coming to an end, and they say that your hundred-year stay here has come to an end. ”

"If you go this time, you won't come back, will you?"

She looked at him like that, but before she could answer him, she had already found the answer in his eyes, which were always indifferent.

She trembled in her heart, looked at the figure of the young man and asked softly:

"Can't you take me with you?"

The young man shook his head when he heard this, and responded to her:

"Ordinary ghosts can't leave the other side, that's the rule of the underworld. If you want to be a revenant who can cross borders, you have to wait until you become black and white. Aren't you working on this? ”

"No, that's different, you know what I'm trying to be black and white impermanent, don't you?" The girl interrupted his words, and walked in the direction of him, "I just want to catch up with you.... Want to be able to help you... That's all..."

"Aren't you the one who can pay for your wishes? You can easily break this so-called rule, as long as you are willing to take me away, then I can pay whatever the price..."

"Luo Ranqi. I am a vow-bearer on this shore. The young man also interrupted her, "I will not and cannot grant wishes for the deceased on the other side, and I have no intention of taking you away." ”

"You should stay here to fulfill your original promises and desires, and live here, instead of chasing me all the time. I don't have any nostalgia for this place, and I'm not interested in intervening in the future that is supposed to be yours. ”

The girl's expression froze when she heard the words from his mouth, stopped her original steps, and stood at the end of the Nai He Bridge with a frowning and complicated expression at the back of the young man.

She didn't retort to him in an emotional voice, but suddenly asked a question softly.

"In that case, why did you choose to help me twenty years ago?"

The boy looked into her eyes and was silent for a moment, then whispered:

"Because the first time I met you, there was a moment when you reminded me of someone I had been looking for."

He and the girl only met because of the resemblance between the other party and that "her".

But similarity is always just similarity, nothing more.

"I see." Luo Ranqi looked at his eyes and shook his head and nodded, then lowered his eyes and looked down at him again, and muttered to himself:

"I know so, I've always known that. You've been here for a hundred years for her, and all you've done is to find her, even if she's a shadow who doesn't even know where she exists. ”

"I won't ask you to take me away again, I'll be here until the day when I can catch up with you"

The young man looked at her lowered head and did not speak, just shook his head wordlessly, and then he suddenly stretched out one of his hands, and the dark blue flame behind him that would always beat beside him answered the call, and appeared from his palm, and a vague blood-colored word "wish" slowly emerged from the center of the flame.

Then he spoke to Luo Ranqi again: "You don't need to do anything for me. ”

"You know I'm not a ghost of the underworld, do you? But there are some things that I haven't told you. ”

"I am an isolated person who does not have any connection or 'fate' with any existence, and I do not belong to any of the Three Realms, so there is no place for me to return."

"Now you can still know and remember my existence because my contract with the underworld has not ended, and once the work of the people I wish is over, and this connection between me and the underworld is no longer maintained, you will gradually forget me like other beings."

"This is my fate, and it is also the point where I will go back no matter who I have a relationship with."

The young man stopped his voice at this point, and also withdrew his hand holding the dark blue flame.

Luo Ranqi was stunned when he heard his words, not expecting that he would hear such an unbelievable secret.

She was desperate to say something, but was interrupted by his voice.

"Do you know why I've been looking for that person?" "Because to me, she's a being who has jumped out of my destiny." ”

"She's my benefactor, and the first lighthouse I've met in my long, aimless years, so I won't stop looking for her, whether she's alive or not, or what she's become in a hundred years."

"There are so many souls in this underworld, they only know that I call me number four, but this is not actually my name, this is just a substitute for the identity of the votive repayer."

"Many of the souls on the other side don't have names, and they only use soul code names to be commensurate, but I'm different."

The boy closed his eyes with a bit of fatigue as he spoke, and then murmured softly in a voice that only he could hear.

"I've always wanted to... Again, she smiled and called my name. ”

He suddenly turned back to face the large sea of flowers in full bloom on the other side, and then suddenly turned over and jumped again, falling over the bank outside Huangquan Road, and stepping into the blood-colored water of the Lechuan River.

"Wait..." Luo Ranqi watched his actions out of instinct and wanted to hold and block again, but she couldn't step into the Nai He Bridge, and she couldn't enter the Lechuan River, so she could only watch him advance step by step in the blood-colored river, and every time he took a step deeper, the blood that gushed up would pass his body faster.

He always travels back and forth from here.

Beneath the blood of the Lechuan River is the calamity of countless insects, snakes and evil spirits, and it is also a heart-wrenching tempering, every time he sinks into this boundless river of blood, he will recall the past that has been constantly worn and consumed.

This is a warning he gave himself, and it is also a punishment he gives himself.

But this time, he wished it was the last time he had crossed this river of blood like this.

Luo Ranqi was still standing on the edge of the bridge and looking at his back, but he didn't look back, just whispered to himself as if he were sending his best wishes to the girl behind him.

"If there's a next goodbye, I'd love to see you become black and white."

As he said that, he finally turned around and disappeared into the thick fog where the blood and the gray Mu converged on the surface of the Lechuan River, and his figure disappeared into the endless distance of the Lethe River.