The key that belonged to the back door had been gently removed from the key ring by Ai Weili, so when she took it out of her pocket, she didn't make the slightest movement.

The door lock was in good condition, and the key slid in, as if it had slipped into a tailor-made silk garment, with ease and silence.

Ai Weili glanced back, and Vero was still sleeping deeply; If she had pushed open the back door and walked away at this moment, Vero would probably never have known when she had left when she woke up.

At this moment, Vero is not yet "fully formed", he will still feel tired, and he will still fall asleep because he believes that he is letting off steam. As for the last point, Ai Weili has just confirmed.

As soon as the key turns, she is ready to go.

Ai Weili imagined the scene when he carefully pushed open the back door, checked the situation, and then hurried around the alley to drive.

She had only been in Wild Deer Town for three or four days, but the world outside the town was like a dream from the previous life, distant and vague, and it was impossible to remember.

As long as she leaves here, she can continue to live in peace and tranquility, like the vast majority of people in this world. In the days when the wheels were rolling over her body, although she occasionally felt that it was difficult to breathe, there would be a day when she would get used to holding her breath alone. Man is a lonely and scattered individual, like dust, floating on the endless waves of water.

Wild Deer Town, the convenience store, and Vero are all things she can choose to put down at any time, because they have nothing to do with her in the first place.

After she is gone, whether Vero, who is so warm and bright, will gradually become a part of the strange things in the town, whether it will become the dust that has accumulated forever in the dead corners of the room, that is not her business.

Let's go.

Ai Weili turned the key and took the first step.

I don't know when it started, her vision was blurred, only the outline and aperture remained, just like the windshield window of a car driving in a rainstorm, no matter how you wipe it, it will always be turbulent and can't be wiped clean.

She kept wiping her tears, and kept shedding tears, and soon her mind fluttered, and she began to feel a lack of oxygen - she was so lightheaded that she felt that she could no longer move forward, and sat down on the ground with a "bang".

Someone moved slightly, as if sitting up, and then Vero's voice rang out.

"Why didn't you leave?" She asked softly.

Ai Weili barely opened his eyes, and in the field of tears, he saw clearly Wei Luo, who had just sat up from the ground. She didn't know when she woke up, maybe she was woken up crying by herself; She didn't ask Ai Weili what she was crying about, but patiently asked again: "Why did you come back?" ”

Ai Weili turned his head and glanced in the direction of the back door. The key inserted in the back door, she actually couldn't see it clearly.

"You know?" It took her a hard time to say these words.

"I know." Vero whispered, "You've been standing at the back door for so long, I've woken up, and you haven't noticed. ”

"Then, why didn't you stop me?" Ai Weili asked stunned.

"Then why didn't you push the door open and walk out?" Vero didn't answer, but asked, "I thought you had already decided to leave, but why did you turn around and walk back crying?" ”

This sentence seems to pierce the last bit of Ai Weili's self-control as an adult. She could no longer care about it, and bowed her head, curled up, and began to cry like a baby powerless against the world, and had to resist it with the worst cry.

Because if she's gone, it means one thing: Vero is dead.

Regardless of the state of Vero at this time, whether he was really dead or not, whether he wanted to keep her as well; Ai Weili knew that as long as she walked out of this door, Vero would be "dead" - she would not allow herself to think that she might leave a well-alive Vero alone in the convenience store.

She was more afraid of a silent, dead future than she was to stay and face the unknown.

If she is gone, she will live forever in the realization that there was a person like Vero in her life, and then she died.

In contrast, Ai Weili would rather never know her.

"Alright," Vero whispered, "I see, don't cry," she whispered as she raised his hand and patted her on the shoulder a few times, as if he didn't know how to comfort a weeping man. ”

Such a gentle and warm Vero, there was no suspicion, no fear at all, which made Ai Weili fear his life again, and it was like returning to his mother.

No, in fact, when she was by her mother's side, she didn't feel so tolerant and accepted.

Why did Vero find her standing at the back door and say nothing, as if he knew why she was leaving?

"Because before I fell asleep, a voice told me that I was actually dead. It asked me why I had neck pain, but I couldn't remember. Vero replied softly, as if he were just saying that he had accidentally lost his way. The thin voice said that its 'mode' was to deliver the truth in a suspicious way, so I don't know if I believe it or not. Did you hear that? ”

She pulled Ai Weili up from the floor and sat down, handed her a tissue, and then Wei Luo said, "I don't know if I'm really hurting you now." I really wanted you to open the door and go out with me, but you won't, I'm really angry for a while. Why do I care so much if you open the door? I do not know. I may still be alive, I may be dead, I don't know. ”

She sat shoulder to shoulder beside Ai Weili before she said, "After I left the convenience store, the people and things I saw were exactly the same as when I looked out of the convenience store an hour later." But I didn't realize it at the time, and the same scene was repeated, as if the town outside was just a stage for us to see. Why didn't I realize it sooner? Why am I just trying to get you open the door and go out? ”

She must not be harming herself when she asks such questions, right?

"The reason I wanted to stop you and not let you go sounded like it was because of a warning on the phone, but in the phone call you made in the past, it didn't say that warning at all, did it? So, maybe I didn't even realize it, but I was just using this reason to keep you forever. ”

"What if that warning is true, and that voice just wants to separate us?" Ai Weili suddenly asked.

"Who can be sure?" Vero whispered, "If you think it's safer to leave my side, I don't have the right to force you to stay." ”

At the sound of Ai Weili sniffling, the store fell silent for a while.

"Even if I do die, I won't 'hunt' you," Vero said suddenly, "even if you think the reason I'm saying this is because of my 'pattern'." ”

"I want to believe you." "Even if I believe in you, it's because of your 'pattern'. ”

The two glanced at each other, and they couldn't help but smile lightly.

It was already late at night, and it was getting cold in the store. In the small town outside the glass doors and windows, the same scene was still repeated, but they never looked out again. In the silence and coldness of the shop, Vero's body temperature warmed Ai Weili's shoulders.

"Then, let's wait for dawn together," Ai Weili whispered in a deep nasal voice, "and when it dawns, everything will be fine." Facing the sun, we walked out of this shop together."

"And then, what are you going to do when it's dawn?" Vero asked.

"The first thing you do when you see the sun is to ask where you're going." Ai Weili said solemnly.

"Huh? I? ”

"Yes," Ai Weili thought for a moment and said, "Have you ever thought that if you break the rules of the town and continue to live, it may no longer be safe?" Didn't you say that there is no dissatisfaction in your life, there is no joy, and there is no impetus to leave is like being trapped in an invisible spider's web, but without a spider to suck you, you just have to spend your life in a spider's web. ”

Vero wanted to turn his head, but he just moved, but he took a light breath, as if he couldn't turn, and still had to look ahead.

She laughed and said, "You remember it so well. ”

"Yes," Ai Weili didn't know why he remembered it so clearly, "tonight's incident is a 'spider'." Don't spend your whole life in a spider's web anymore, let's go together. ”

"Let's go?" Vero muttered like a dream. "Where are you going?"

"You can go anywhere." Ai Weili leaned his head on her shoulder and whispered, "I have a car, we can go on the road together, stop at a place if we like, and we'll leave when we're tired." When we needed money, we could do odd jobs, and when we had saved enough money, we continued on our way. Let's go to a place by the sea, shall we? ”

"Oh, I can bartend, I can get a part-time job at a beach bar." Vero said softly, "Then we will hope that the weather is not clear, because then there will be few guests." We can run to the sea under the gray sky, play in the water, dig starfish, swim"

Ai Weili seemed to have seen her back stepping into the waves.

"Oh yes, don't forget to call the convenience store before we go." She suddenly remembered, slapped her forehead and said, "When I make a phone call this time, I will remind us in the past not to be separated, and the second call will replace the first call." That way, you'll come back in time to save me. ”

"I will," Vero whispered, taking Ai Weili's hand. "You still have to wipe the table in the beach bar, how can you be left behind by Apan."

Ai Weili couldn't help laughing: "The future of wiping the table is not refreshing at all!" ”

"It's good that I didn't tell you to mop the floor," Vero said.

"You said it's a beach bar, where do you get the land to mop?"

"Yes," Vero was stunned, and then laughed too—but before the laughter had begun, she stopped as if in pain.

"What's wrong?" Ai Weili turned his head to look at her, and noticed that a layer of sweat was floating on Wei Luo's forehead.

"My neck hurts," Vero said, slowly lowering his head a little to the side. "It's like I can't lift it"

Ai Weili paused and said, "It's okay, you ran and fought before, and if you unconsciously twisted your neck, it's normal." ”

As she spoke, she reached out and pressed down on the part of Vero's neck that was broken in the reflection, supporting her head with the tiger's mouth. "Come, I'll help you press the day and get on the road at dawn, and then we can go to the doctor."

"Masseur," Vero closed his eyes and slowly pressed the weight into her hand. "I want a masseur who wants to see a doctor."

"Good, good, masseur." Ai Weili laughed softly, sat down against her, and the two snuggled up to each other and fell silent.

"I'm glad you didn't go," Vero muttered suddenly.

"Me too."

Darkness reigns in the world, and convenience stores are soaked in white light.

In this silent corner that seemed to have been cut off from the world, Ai Weili waited patiently for the dawn.

This is the end of the Wild Deer convenience store! I didn't expand on the original ending because I liked it (). I hope you can enjoy it all the way!

See you in the next story.

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