"Comrade Yang Ji, I hope you don't imitate me anymore... After all, the difference in our appearance is still objective, and you won't understand my troubles. ”

Jiu Ling pretended to admonish in a serious tone.

"Don't make a fuss. I said that although I can feel qi, I don't have a cultivation method, and I can't effectively control it, so I can be counted as half a qi refiner at most. ”

"Aren't you already really angry? Then why didn't your master teach you how to light stars? You're a cheap apprentice, I'm afraid that some irresponsible hero picked it up, right?"

Jiu Ling's eyes widened, his face was incredulous, he really couldn't believe that there were still Qi Refiners in the world who couldn't cultivate.

"You're right, I picked it up. Yang Ji responded embarrassedly.

The atmosphere fell into an even more awkward silence, and the two couldn't help but look at each other, and were speechless for a while.

"Youkai. Jiuling couldn't help but complain.

The days of the next few days passed quickly, Jiuling loved to be lively, and there was no shelf of Changjing Gongzi at all, dragging Yang Ji around in Dingling City, and he saw a lot of new things under the toss.

So Yang Ji, who was carrying a lot of worries, gradually became relaxed, and unloaded the calmness that did not belong to his age.

Tonight, after they finished the night view of Dingling Square, they happened to encounter a large-scale performance of a rock band, Jiuling still adhered to the good deeds of carrying out the excitement to the end, and dragged Yang Ji all the way to the infield, at this time the people in the audience were frantically shouting Highway 9, and the strong lights accompanied by the stimulating smell of alcohol wantonly swayed the hormones of youth, pushing the atmosphere to the climax.

"Wow! It's Route Nine! It's Route Nine!"

Jiu Ling dragged Yang Ji's collar and swayed, shouting excitedly.

"Uh, is this Route 9 a famous band?"

Among the crowd rubbing shoulders, Yang Ji from a small city heard about this famous band for the first time, and was shaken a little by the nine leaders around him.

"I really doubt how you grew up, Highway 9 is the national idol of this generation of Federalists, and even three-year-old children in Changjing will babble and sing a few words of their songs. Listen!"

Jiuling shouted loudly in the noisy crowd, attracting the dissatisfaction of many people around him, of course, when he saw Jiuling's face that made men jealous, some of the unhappiness in his heart was immediately converted into an expression of envy, and some boys turned sideways to block the female companion's sight, and they didn't know what they were thinking.

Yang Ji looked at the stage in the direction of the nine collar fingers, the lights suddenly became dazzling, the electric guitar and dense drums soared with the restless crowd, and the high-pitched sound was like a fountain that sprung up, sprinkled high in the air.

"Let's soar / At the end of Highway 9 / Youth is a pot of wine to drink bitterly / Can only look at the sky / This lonely carnival / Like your intoxicating eyes / The bonfire is reflected in the pupils / We meet at the end of Highway 9"

The singing slowly turned from high-pitched to low, and the people who listened were laughing and tearful, venting their emotions in hugging each other, Yang Ji couldn't help but have red eyes when he looked at it, and sighed:

"That's good. ”

"What's good?" the nine collars were puzzled.

"It's just good, it's free, it's free. ”

Jiu Ling laughed, patted Yang Ji's shoulder and teased: "I usually look at you like a little old man, but I didn't expect you to have so much sentimentality." ”

"Actually, I can remember being an orphan, and orphans have a lot of freedom, so much so that I panic, but now that I think about it, it's not freedom, it's loneliness. ”

The background of the stage is a piece of fire trees and silver flowers, the fireworks soar up in the sky to explode colorful and gorgeous light, the dark night reflected in Yang Ji's eyes also became brighter, Jiu Ling thoughtfully followed and looked up, without his usual pompous appearance, for the first time he frowned straight and good-looking.

"There are 500 kilometers of road ahead / Behind me is the boundless sea / Kindness is my faith / Take me through the lost night / I didn't become desperate because of grief and desire to die / I didn't miss the morning sun because I was exhausted / Despite the vast road ahead / The wind and snow are long / I don't panic when I think of you"

Highway Nine's voice became hoarse and torn, and some people in the crowd began to raise their hands spontaneously, and more and more people followed suit, so that the bustling crowd became a sea of seaweed.

Yang Ji stood in the sea of people, his eyes were a little lonely, but his eyes were still flashing with firmness, which was the stubbornness that young people would have.

"Jiuling, in my opinion, happiness belongs to a small number of people, I especially envy their happy appearance, at least there will be a complete family, there are noisy, noisy and hot meals and people care, so you chose to run away from home on impulse? I don't suggest you make any decisions, but what I want to say is that you are actually a very happy person. ”

Jiu Ling took a deep breath, and a faint self-deprecation appeared on his face:

"You could say I'm a lucky person, but not a happy person. I just want to live by my own ability, not rely on my family to be relied on, I don't want a life full of light, I live to find the meaning of my existence, so I practice in my dreams, asking myself what I want over and over again... Everyone will envy what they don't have, just as I envy your freedom and loneliness. ”

In a moment, the fireworks withered and the stage ended.

The venue that had faded its aura gradually changed from crowded to empty, Yang Ji and Jiu Ling moved outside the venue with the noisy crowd, both of them tacitly did not speak, but they felt that there was an invisible force stirring back and forth, and the conversation between fireworks and people was also the first time they opened their hearts to each other.

Two strangers, because of a box of cold medicine, form a wonderful and pure friendship.

"I love this band. ”

"I know. ”

......

Early the next morning, when it was still dark, the two men used up the last few coins in their pockets to pay the rent, and despite the frost and hunger of the early morning, they hurried out of the city to the designated meeting point for recruits, and the two young men could not wait to start their new journey.

However, not a few steps after going out, when they turned into an alley from the street in front of the hotel, they suddenly surrounded them with more than ten people, all of them were white strong men with big shoulders and round waists, and they were tattooed with various colorful patterns, and their faces were fierce.

The crowd parted to the sides, and a big man in a wheelchair came out in line, his teeth were bared, his face was full of meat, and he squeezed out a gloating expression and said:

"Want to go out of the city? You fought against me at the trial ceremony before, and now you're ready to pat your ass? Uncle Blair is going to teach you a good lesson today, and what will happen if you go against me!"

Yang Ji and Jiuling glanced at each other with strange expressions, as if they were holding back a smile, which made Blair feel uncomfortable like eating a fly, isn't it time for them to beg for mercy and then be beaten up by themselves and leave?

The big man next to him protested, puffing up his full muscles in his cuffs, and several people took out layers of baseball bats wrapped in layers from newspapers, trying to intimidate the two hairy boys who looked dumbfounded.

"Uncle Blair, are you robbing money or robbing sex? We don't have money if you rob money, he doesn't rob sex, I do. ”

Jiu Ling made a pitiful expression and squeezed his eyebrows.

Yang Ji looked at Jiuling's pretended to squirm, and couldn't help but burst out laughing.