"Shirakawa-kun?"

Behind him, Elena Miyano's voice suddenly sounded.

As if he had suddenly come back to his senses at this moment, Bai Heqing was stunned, and suddenly looked back at Elena Miyano, who was still leaning on the seat behind him.

"What's wrong with you? I kept shouting at you just now and didn't respond to me......"

Making eye contact with him, Miyano Elena asked suspiciously.

Since just now, Bai Heqing has been standing in front of the sink, looking at herself in the mirror in a daze, and she shouted a few times before she finally responded.

"Sorry......"

Gradually regaining his calm mind and forcibly not thinking about Keiko's words, Elena Miyano of the White River Qing Dynasty barely showed a smile.

"Maybe I'm a little too tired these days, and I've just wandered away......"

"That's ......"

Miyano Elena naturally wouldn't believe his nonsense, but if she had to ask, she wouldn't be able to ask anything, so she spoke:

"Then I just asked Baihe-kun about you, what do you think?"

"What?"

"I know you're not listening...... I'm asking in the future, if our research can be successfully completed, what do you want to do in the future? Elena Miyano repeated it again in a helpless tone.

"After the study is completed......

Bai Heqing frowned slightly when he heard this, and he couldn't give an answer at the first time.

He really hadn't thought about this question seriously before......

After all, even the point of assisting Karasuma Renya in completing the research was Sharon's proposal at the beginning, and he just followed Sharon's words and followed the ......

In her mind, Keiko's lonely figure flashed again.

Bai Heqing hurriedly shook his head, restraining his subconscious thoughts that were about to diverge.

Thinking about it carefully, he doesn't seem to have seriously thought about what he should do in the past ten years......

Whether it was when he was still in the Metropolitan Police Department, or now, he is acting according to other people's advice, it is nothing more than old man Hatoyama before, and now Sharon and Karasuma Renya......

Is this ...... He never had any hope for his future?

It occurred to him that he had thought so suddenly.

"Shirakawa-kun really never thought about this kind of problem......

Looking at Bai Heqing's hesitant appearance, Miyano Elena said in a tone that was sure to be so.

"Why do you ask these all of a sudden?"

Looking up at her, Shirakawa Kiyoshi asked the question again, but Miyano Elena still didn't answer him, but propped up the chair and straightened up, looking straight at Hakukawa Kiyoshi with her eyes, and mentioned another question that seemed to have nothing to do with the moment.

"Shirakawa-kun, do you know where our research has come now?"

"Immediately, in a few months, or as long as half a year, you can enter the stage of human experiments."

Without waiting for Shirakawa Kiyoshi to speak, Miyano Elena answered herself.

"Now, it's time to find the right volunteers to participate in the next phase of the experiment......

Shirakawa Kiyoshi just looked at her and didn't interject, he seemed to have guessed what Elena Miyano really wanted to say.

"Shirakawa-kun, I remember you told me that you did this because of a friend, since that's the case......"

Sure enough, the next moment, Elena Miyano smiled and sent an invitation to him.

She slid the seat under her until she reached Bai Heqing's face, her bloated-looking body leaning forward slightly, so that their faces were only a few centimeters apart.

At a distance where you can even feel each other's breath clearly, neither side can hide any secrets in their eyes.

Looking at each other, Miyano Elena's voice was like a bewitchment from a demon.

"Would you like to see with your own eyes what ...... 'eternal life' really looks like?"

Under the bewitchment of the demon named Angel, it seemed that a certain string had been completely broken in his mind, and the memories that had been forcibly suppressed by Bai Heqing several times before were completely rushed out at this moment.

[It turns out that I am also afraid of death......]

"Go and fulfill the wish of your friend in person."

[It's really pitiful, I actually really want to take a look......]

There was a roar in his mind, and the scenery around him quickly faded and changed, and after many years, he seemed to be back in that familiar hospital room again.

He seemed to really see Keiko just sitting on the hospital bed, turning her head to look at him, and saying this to him.

[Baihe, you say...... What does eternal life really look like? 】

The surroundings were bottomless, and the boundless darkness was pouring in from all around, as if it was about to swallow the small ward completely, but Keiko's eyes were still bright, and she looked at him without blinking.

Eternal life......

This is Keiko's last wish before she dies, and it is the selfish desire that she has always restrained during her lifetime.

Perhaps, it is also an obsession that she can't let go of in her heart......

"Sure enough......"

On his face, the cold touch once again recalled Bai Heqing's consciousness.

It was Elena Miyano's hands.

Her gaze refocused, and Elena Miyano was in front of her at the moment, her hands that seemed to be cold after tapping on the keyboard for a long time, and she was holding Bai Heqing's cheeks at the moment.

This action is a bit ambiguous, but neither of them has such an atmosphere at the moment.

What Miyano Elena saw in her eyes was a lifeless Shirakawa Kiyoshi who was deep in the past.

And Bai Heqing's eyes are in her eyes.

"Bai He-kun, you really ......"

She just looked at Bai Heqing in front of her and told the truth that had been haunting his mind since Keiko's death, but he had never been told the truth.

"I really want to die."

Maybe it's like this, since Keiko's death, the man in front of him has always been like this, only because he still remembers what Keiko said to him in the snow that day, and it's only because of Sharon that he has been hiding this thought deeply and never thinking about it.

"Bai Hejun, you can't let go of the past, and you can't lose the present, you have drifted with the tide in these two dilemmas, Huihui has been nightmarish for more than ten years, which is really pitiful and painful.

In that case, why don't you let me make another decision for you......"

Elena Miyano's voice bewitched him like a demon.

"Become a volunteer for human experiments and participate in my future experiments."

"The danger of the experiment is very great, but if it is successful, you will use the most direct way to personally feel the moment of eternal birth for the friend you can't let go, and fulfill her wish."

"If you fail, there is a high probability that you will die on the spot, but even so, you can be regarded as dying on the road of chasing eternal life, aren't you?

You did not commit suicide cowardly, nor did you go against what your friend had said to you, you died on the way to fulfill her wishes...... Dying like this, Bai He-kun won't be sorry for anyone, which can be regarded as a relief, isn't it? ”

"Bai Hejun, let's make a break for our past, whether it's life or death, let's ...... Leave everything to fate. ”

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(End of chapter)