Ah Yuan left the alley, looking around with a pair of crying eyes. The rubber band on her head fell off, and her medium-length hair spread out. The wind blew, and the ends of her hair lifted up, looking wild and cool. However, her soul was aging.
"Beauty, is there anything I can help you with?" A young male voice sounded from the left.
A Yuan glanced at the strange young man with sincere eyes. There were many taskers this time, and she couldn't even remember the faces of some of them. She was not sure if this one was her teammate.
But it doesn't matter.
"No need." A Yuan said coldly and left. Lin Shuwei's imitation of Chu Si saved her life, and then she had a demon in her heart.
This made her deeply understand one thing: in the mission world, you cannot owe anyone a favor, especially a life-saving favor, as this would be exploited by the rules.
The determination in Ayuan's eyes only lasted for a dozen seconds before disappearing.
Both the real world and the mission world are full of surprises and variables, and many things are beyond her expectations, just like her acquaintance with "Chu Si".
Ayuan stroked the hair that was flying in front of her eyes. Her wrist felt empty. Her blessed Buddhist beads were thrown into an illusion.
It seemed that from that moment on, her world began to crack, and the crack became bigger and deeper... until she came here.
"Ayuan!" My cousin came running over from the crowd.
Ah Yuan caught his chubby cousin and was pushed back a few steps by her momentum. He stood firm and said, "Cousin, take it easy."
"You disappeared as soon as I turned around. I was so scared." The cousin grabbed Ayuan's arm. I don't know where she touched her, but her face turned pale.
My cousin quickly rolled up Ayuan's sleeves. She saw something and her lips trembled: "How did you get hurt?"
A Yuan lowered her eyes and looked, and she discovered that there was a large bruise on her left arm, with some bleeding. It must have been caused by an accidental injury in the alley.
"There was a mentally ill person who killed people indiscriminately..." A Yuan recounted what happened.
My cousin took a deep breath and burst into tears, "How is that teammate who got stabbed so many times?"
"Dead." A Yuan bit the soft flesh in his mouth.
My cousin cried even harder. It was too difficult to guard against evil spirits and NPCs.
Ayuan took out tissues from the cross-body bag in front of her, took out a piece and put it on her cousin's nose to blow her nose.
Her cousin is two years older than her, but she looks younger than her.
"Ayuan, didn't you say that Mr. Chen is very powerful and trustworthy? Let's go find him!" The cousin was thinking hard and grabbed her hand tightly, pulling her forward, her steps hurried.
Ah Yuan reached back to grab her cousin: "No."
"Why?" My cousin wiped her face with her sleeve. "Are you afraid of Mr. Chen's boyfriend? To be honest, I am a little afraid too. That brother looks very dangerous. But I can see that his boyfriend is completely controlled by him. As long as he nods, the other party dares not do anything..."
A Yuan interrupted her cousin and said in a strong attitude: "No means no." Her condition for this task was much worse than last year in the old building. Going to find Chen Yang would only hinder her.
Suddenly, his hand was pulled, and A Yuan sighed: "Cousin, this is really not possible. It's fine for just the two of us."
"No, Ayuan, look over there." Her cousin gestured to her to look in a certain direction.
A Yuan turned his head and looked, and there he was, Chen Yang and his boyfriend not far ahead.
There were many tourists sitting on a row of chairs by the river. Chen Yang and his four companions found an empty chair and sat down, two by two, instead of sitting to one side.
Chen Yang and Chao Jian faced the river, while A Yuan and his cousin faced the street.
A Yuan smoothed her hair and scratched her scalp with her short nails. Her cousin was right about one thing: she was indeed afraid of Chao Jian.
When she was still a newcomer, she witnessed Chao Jian's breakdown and madness with her own eyes. How could she not be afraid? It was like a psychological shadow. Even after seeing him again after several months, she could not help but recall that bloody and brutal scene, which aroused a tingling sensation on her scalp.
"Ayuan, this is for you." Chen Yang handed her a bag of peanut candy.
Ah Yuan turned around to answer: "Thank you."
The girl's healthy wheat-colored skin was shrouded in the early spring sunshine, and looked lifeless.
Chen Yang drank some water to dilute the taste of sugar water in his mouth, and looked at the cluster of green by the river: "Where are you from?"
The two cousins who were sitting opposite him didn't say anything.
Chen Yang screwed the cap on the bottle and gave the water to Chao Jian. He supported his legs with his elbows, stretched his head to look at the golden river water, and felt the false tranquility.
Chao Jian lifted his baseball cap up, revealing his high arched eyebrows and deep dark eyes.
A "click" sound was heard in the crowd. Chao Jian frowned, and Chen Yang comforted him, "If it were me, I would take a picture of you too." It is a scene in itself, with rich colors, and any picture taken is a work of art.
Chao Jian glanced at him: "Then why don't you take pictures?"
Chen Yang took out his cell phone with a twitch of his lips and took several pictures of Chao Jian.
A Yuan and his cousin who were eavesdropping: "..."
My cousin whispered, "Ayuan, we really don't want to be with Chen... um... um!"
A Yuan covered his cousin's mouth and gave her a warning look before removing his hand.
My cousin completely gave up the idea and started to eat peanut candy listlessly. She didn't have any other skills, but she had good teeth. She had used these teeth to bite many kinds of food, including cheating men and monsters crawling on the wall like spiders.
Chen Yang was unaware of the exchange between the two cousins. He leaned his calf against Chao Jian, his mind filled with the information that had been gathered so far.
The identity of the female corpse found in Guan Xiaoyun's family has not been determined.
The bodies of Guan Xiaoyun and Cheng Jin have not been found yet, and their life or death is unknown.
Cheng Jin planned to buy a villa and a car, and told his wife that he would be rich soon.
Ye Yu's body was under the bed in Guan Xiaoyun's room. His brother-in-law was a hopeless case, and his sister wanted to open a business but lacked the capital.
The old man in front of Liu Zhi had no wife or children, but he was burning paper money in the house.
There was a fool who imitated the screams of Cheng Jin's wife and also imitated a hanged ghost.
Chen Yang felt a headache and anxiety, and his temples were throbbing. A hand came around his arm and held his hand.
Wugen's slender fingers inserted into Chen Yang's fingers, clasped them, and rubbed them patiently. Chen Yang suddenly understood why Chao Jian could not participate in this mission. Among all the people, he had the highest threshold. If he could participate, he would be everyone's cheat.
Chao Jian smiled at Chen Yang.
Chen Yang's heart skipped a beat and he turned his head away from him. But the next moment he couldn't help but turned his head back and smiled back.
People wearing red armbands pass by from time to time, and none of them is lazy at all. They will answer tourists' questions, patrol around to prevent any disasters, and are very serious while working.
When Chen Yang caught sight of a person wearing a red armband, A Yuan's expression changed a little. He raised his eyebrows and asked, "What happened?"
A Yuan talked about mental illness.
"Are you having any problems with your intelligence?" Chen Yang turned around and asked, "How's your body shape? Are you fat?"
A Yuan said: "I am fine with my intelligence and I am not fat."
Chen Yang's expression became more serious. It seemed that he was not the fool in the early morning. "Where is the person?"
"He was taken away by several people from the management office." A Yuan took the initiative to explain, "The one who just passed by was one of them."
Chen Yang asked about the injuries of the tourists and the taskers.
"The tourists are not in danger of death, but the tasker died on the spot." A Yuan seemed to feel cold, and she zipped up her yellow thin cotton coat. "Thanks to Lin Shuwei, he knocked the knife out of the psychopath's hand, so we were able to go up and subdue him."
At the end of the delivery mission, when they were escaping in the corridor, Xiao Xiang left her behind to protect herself and ran downstairs alone, still wearing her sneakers. If Chu Si, played by Lin Shuwei, hadn't thrown a thermos cup, Xiao Xiang would have been hit and slowed down. At that moment, the axe would have hit her, and it would have been most likely that A Yuan would have died, because she was left behind and was seriously injured, and she couldn't run away.
A Yuan rubbed his dry and cold hands. In fact, Lin Shuwei's reaction ability and skills were very good, but he didn't want to be like that. He wanted to hide behind his teammates.
Chen Yang observed A Yuan's emotions: "Did Lin Shuwei talk to you about his illness?"
A Yuan shook her head and nodded, her eyes swept across the crowd, as if she was looking for a fixed point, but after searching around she found that she couldn't find it: "They are all non-existent people, he is imitating them." He was just 'abandoned'.
My cousin put down the peanut candy, patted Ayuan on the back, her face full of worry and panic.
A Yuan said hello to Chen Yang and took his cousin away.
Chen Yang sat on a bench enjoying the breeze. Lin Shuwei's fourth teammate must have been someone they knew in the early days. After so long, he still remembered them, which meant that they were all dead, completely dead.
In a sense, it is a sad thing to always remember the teammates who have passed away.
Because if one day you accidentally find out that you have forgotten a teammate, it means that the other party has been reset and has a second chance to get back on track and start again.
Maybe after your teammates are reset, you will meet again, or maybe you won’t meet again and go your separate ways, that’s okay too.
Chen Yang thought of the young boy Chen Xishuang who had a pair of fox eyes and would whimper. They would never have the chance to form a team again, and they had both forgotten their past cooperation experiences. He did not feel that there was much regret.
The most important thing is to move forward, both for him and for the young man who is fortunate enough to have a second reset.
Chen Yang subconsciously put the backpack on his legs and quickly hooked the zipper to open it. He wanted to check with Chao Jian to see if he had forgotten that old teammate.
But when Chen Yang was rummaging through his backpack, he remembered that the notebook that recorded all the tasks he had done after the reset... had been transferred to Xiangdong.
This seemed to remind him that everything was coming to an end, and whether it was his first journey or his second journey, his teammates all had their own endings.
When Chen Yang was in a low mood, Chao Jian did not disturb him or pull him up.
After a while, a suppressed choking sound came into Chao Jian's ears. He clenched his teeth hard and the milk tablet burst in his mouth.
Several colorful bubbles flew towards them and landed on Chen Yang's eyes and face. He was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the child who was holding the bubble machine and blowing bubbles with a bright smile.
As he watched, Chen Yang also started to smile. He could be sad about small things, and he could also be happy about small things.
Chao Jian loosened his grip on the medicine bottle, his voice a little hoarse: "Brother, let's go?"
"Yeah." Chen Yang grabbed the backpack and put it on his back.
Chen Yang planned to go to the management office to see the mentally ill person. He wanted to know how Liu Zhi would deal with people who endangered the order of the scenic area and affected the tourism festival.
On the way there, Chen Yang met Zhang Qi, paused for a moment, and then walked towards him.
Zhang Qi walked forward with his back to Chen Yang, apologizing to everyone he met. He was absent-minded and in a trance.
When Chen Yang patted his shoulder, he shook his head and said, "Brother, it's you." Then he nodded to his brother's girlfriend. Although they were not familiar with each other, he still had to show courtesy.
"Why are you alone? Where are Xiao Li and Xiao Xue?" Chen Yang looked around.
Zhang Qi felt a little uncomfortable.
Chen Yang guessed something: "Are you having a conflict?"
"No." Zhang Qi said, "I'm an older man, and they're younger. We're not from the same generation. Plus, they've worked with each other more times than I have, so naturally we're closer."
Chen Yang looked at Zhang Qi.
Zhang Qi's shoulders slumped, his face filled with frustration and dejection.
Chen Yang said: "Then follow me."
Zhang Qi raised his head suddenly: "Ah? What did you say, brother?"
Chen Yang didn't rush to answer Zhang Qi. He glanced at Chao Jian out of the corner of his eye and found that the other party's breath was not disordered.
Chao Jian pushed down the brim of his hat to hide the helplessness in his eyes. He was not born with multiple personality disorder. He did not need to take medicine before, and he would not go crazy and hurt himself. He was fine.
He also didn't want Chen Yang to break off contact with his two old partners, Sun Wenjun and Xiang Zimu, and he didn't know what Xiang Zimu thought.
Perhaps it was because Xiang Zimu did not complete the mission and did not get back all his memories, and that he had such exaggerated ideas based only on those fragments of dreams and his own understanding.
Moreover, Xiang Zimu didn't like him and kept her distance from him from the beginning. She had an emotional bias towards him.
For the sake of Chen Yang, she had to help this annoying man dig out that piece of meat, and she must have been unhappy about it.
Everyone has their own stance and perspective, as well as their own desires and wishes. There is nothing much to say.
Chao Jian did not explain Xiang Zimu's misunderstanding, because his possessiveness towards Chen Yang was indeed higher than normal.
Chen Yang went from being an old senior whom he admired to being a very loyal friend, a very good brother, a person he liked, a partner, and a lover.
His identity changed all the way and finally became more important than his life. He didn't want to lose it and couldn't lose it.
After they got together, Chen Yang would still meet and make friends with teammates he got along well with in the real world, and there would still be a four-person team of Xiang Zimu, Sun Wenjun.
There was a change. Chen Yang's number one priority in life changed from friendship to love. That was also the key reason why Xiang Zimu hated him. He was redundant, inserted halfway, and was a hindrance.
Chen Yang died. He fell ill, and after a long death struggle, half asleep and half awake, his temperament changed drastically.
When they met again, he was not only more violent and manic due to his illness, but also paranoid, suspicious and controlling, and his possessiveness was even stronger than before.
Chao Jian wanted to install a wiretap on Chen Yang's phone to monitor every message and call he made, and even wanted to lock him up in the house with chains...
Whenever he thought of that, he would hit his left leg, using the severe pain to remind himself not to forget that this was the road he walked back from the finish line in order to find Chen Yang who stopped halfway and walk together.
So those sinful thoughts were killed by him.
When he went to Chen Xishuang's hometown last year, Chen Yang asked him to help watch his phone, and he blocked Sun Wenjun.
There were two reasons. First, he was afraid that Chen Yang's frequent contact with Sun Wenjun would affect his memory and threshold. Second, Sun Wenjun always talked to Chen Yang about the leaf that grew from the threshold seed, so often that Chao Jian was on the verge of losing control and blocked him directly.
After being blocked, Chao Jian's mood became even worse. He was afraid that Chen Yang would blame him, so he childishly lied and said that Sun Wenjun scolded him.
At that time, Chen Yang wanted to avoid Sun Wenjun and had no objection to his blocking.
That was the only time he did it, and he never did it again because he was sure that Sun Wenjun would not affect his plans, so he stopped interfering.
His brother did not have the memory before the reset, and believed the one-sided and emotional words of Xiang Zimu's old partner without thinking. He always had friends around him, didn't he
Moments have nothing to do with depression, let alone being strictly prohibited.
Chao Jian touched Chen Yang's hair and said, "When you enter the last level, see our past, and remember everything, you will know that the love I gave you at the beginning was not a morbid love, but a healthy one."
However, it was so difficult for me to come back from the finish line to find you. I almost had to crawl. Now I can no longer give you that kind of love, but I have tried my best.
Chen Yang couldn't see Chao Jian's eyes, he could only feel something sad from him.
"Don't think too much." Chao Jian's warm breath sprayed on Chen Yang's ears, "Forget it, now you like to think too much, then it's up to you."
"It's up to you." Chao Jian repeated and emphasized these two words.
Chen Yang was not surprised. This was not the first time that a third person appeared among them.
Of course, it is absolutely not possible in terms of emotions, his arrows have never been deviated.
Chao Jian fell one step behind and watched Chen Yang and Zhang Qi walking and talking side by side. He pulled down his mask and peeled two milk slices and put them between his teeth.
As for Chen Yang making friends, Chao Jian gradually formed a fixed attitude after they met again. Chao Jian did not stop him, but he would not join in either. His world did not need other people.
Zhang Qi was emitting negative energy all the way. He said Xiao Li was neurotic and kept saying that the female ghost was still clinging to her back. He told her not to say that, but she still said it.
Being suspicious in the mission world will scare your teammates, and scaring people may even scare them to death.
Chen Yang was invaded by waves of negative energy, and he began to get annoyed, irritated and collapsed, swearing one after another.
When they were almost at the management office, Chen Yang realized how many dirty words he had said, and he pulled Chao Jian aside. The man, who was almost thirty, was a little embarrassed.
"Um, I..." Chen Yang hesitated.
Chao Jian said as if he was not surprised: "It's okay, you only know how to say that word."
Chen Yang's ears turned red and he coughed, "Really? I didn't even notice."
"I don't think I've ever heard you swear." Chen Yang said without thinking.
Chao Jian: "I don't like to talk." He frowned slightly and bent his waist, "Do you want you to say it?"
"No, I didn't think about it." Chen Yang hurriedly explained, "Just be yourself."
Let’s not do that. Everyone has their own personality. He couldn’t imagine getting angry and swearing at Jane, so it was good like this.
Chao Jian suddenly grabbed the back of Chen Yang's head and turned his head to the ten o'clock direction.