In this endless darkness, between the entire sky and sea, it seems that only oneself and this silent ancient giant ship are left.
But Ke Xun knew that none of this was real. He knew that everyone was still there. Everyone was just separated by this abnormal darkness. They were both close and far from each other. They could not see or hear each other. Twelve people are companions, but at this moment, everyone is in a lonely and helpless situation.
And the unhurried creaking sound from the deck was even more creepy under such circumstances.
Ke Xun slowly stepped back, trying not to make any noise. A few steps behind him was the wooden wall of the cabin. He wanted to lean against it, at least to keep his back in a relatively safe state, but tentatively retreated a dozen times. step, never touching the wall of the cabin.
Ke Xun stopped moving.
Yi Ran is right, this painting is useless to escape or hide.
Ke Xun tried his best to relax his breathing so that he could hear the surrounding movement more clearly.
Crunch, the sound of walking on the deck, still moving slowly not far away.
It came from the direction of the bow. Along the deck, it would first pass through the atrium located in the center of the hull. Shao Ling's team would be the first to meet it.
Ke Xun listened hard, but in the empty but dense darkness, the sound of the waves was thick and sticky. , the skin of each other was only a millimeter close to each other, and the hair brushed each other's hair, causing a cold itching that could not help but tingle.
Ke Xun remained motionless, only quietly hanging the crossbow on his arm, holding the crossbow arrow with the sharp arrow tightly in his hand.
Suddenly, a smell of hairy Ran Ran appeared faintly behind Ke Xun, clinging tightly to his back, but without touching his skin, it only floated on the tip of the hair. Children, like a shadow.
Ke Xun only felt a tingling from the back of his waist, running through the entire vertebrae, past the back of the neck, and all the way to the back of the head.
This numb and itchy nerve line tugged at his entire back and head, tightening, shrinking, trembling, and tingling.
Ke Xun froze his neck and stiffened his back. He tried hard to keep himself calm, and continued to respond to changes without change. Sweat slipped from behind his ears, and fell into his shoulders along his neck, sticky and cold.
"Huh..."
I don't know if it was the sea breeze or a wisp of breath, and it blew coolly from behind the ear. The mass of things on the back seemed to be ready to start moving. Ke Xun felt the hair on him being rubbed slowly. , is slowly pressed against his own skin.
Getting closer and closer.
The darkness was so thick that Ke Xun couldn't see anything.
But he knew that something could see him. It was watching him, as it was watching a blind man at a loss.
Humans who have lost their light are as fragile as the flesh of a fruit that has lost its shell.
Darkness is the source of fear, the root of vulnerability.
The mass behind him, in the darkness, slowly poked out the tentacles of death towards Ke Xun, who had no self-protection power.
"Kexun!"
Mu Yiran's voice was like a ray of light, coming from the direction of Ke Xun's right hand.
The mass behind him suddenly stopped, leaving Ke Xun with a numb aura.
"Yan Ran... How are you?" Ke Xun asked, and found that his throat was dry and tingling because of the long and short experience just now.
"I'm fine. Ke Xun, can you hear where I am?" Mu Yiran's voice was low and steady.
"Yes, it's on my right, about ten paces away from me." Ke Xun's judgment of distance has always been accurate.
"Okay. Come to me now, don't worry about anything, just come over as usual." Mu Yi's calm voice can give people an infinite sense of courage and security.
Ke Xun made up his mind, in order not to worry him, he tried his best to make his voice sound calm and calm: "Okay, I'm over."
As he said that, he took a step towards the direction of Mu Yiran's voice.
One step, two steps, three steps.
Ke Xun stopped.
"Ke Xun?" Mu Yiran waited for a while, and found that there was no sound from Ke Xun's side, so he asked in a deep voice.
"Yeah." Ke Xun responded, but still didn't move.
"What's going on?" Mu Yiran asked.
"'What's the matter', you don't have any B numbers in your heart?" Ke Xun said.
"Ke Xun?" There was vigilance and a little doubt in Mu Yiran's voice.
"Stop imitating my man's words! If you want to do it, do it, if you don't do it, you will die!" Ke Xun's annoyed voice sounded in the deep darkness without hesitation.
"Ke Xun, don't think about it," Mu Yiran added in a calm voice, "If you can't figure out the situation, don't make random guesses out of thin air."
"I guess you fucking uncle! Hurry up!" Ke Xun was extremely annoyed.
"Ke Xun!" Mu Yiran was helpless and angry, "Is it enough? The last time you and I ate together, it was coconut chicken soup that you simmered with your own hands. Remember, you said that this soup has a very important step, and many people are used to it. Pour the coconut milk into the cold water and then boil it together, but in fact, boil the coconut milk first, and then pour it into the chicken soup that is about to be boiled together, so that the soup will have a clear fragrance. That soup, you use chicken , and also put red dates, wolfberries, and pork bones. Ke Xun, do you need me to provide more proof?"
Ke Xun was silent for a while.
Mu Yiran seemed to sigh softly, and then continued in a deep voice: "Come here if you have no doubts. Ke Xun, come to my side."
In the darkness, Ke Xun didn't make any movement, and Mu Yiran stopped urging him, just waiting for him quietly.
After a long time, seeing that Ke Xun still did not move, Mu Yiran had to ask, "Ke Xun?"
"Oh." Ke Xun finally responded, but there was no emotion in his tone, "Yan Ran, then tell me who your first love was, who was your first love, and when are you going to introduce me to me? Your parents, relatives and friends, will you share your wealth with me, do you think I like you more, or do you like me more?"
"Ke Xun, these questions are out of date now," Mu Yiran seemed to be really angry, and his tone increased, "Don't make trouble, come here quickly!"
"If you don't answer, you'll be a fake shepherd," Ke Xun was still heartless, stubbornly standing still, "I'm sorry, in this case, if I'm not careful, it's very likely that Die, sigh, if it's really you, you should be considerate of my feelings."
"...Okay." Mu Yiran was a little helpless, but she indulged him in the end, "My first love wasn't someone around me, but a movie star, Marlon Brando, I liked him very much when I was young, probably because I was too much for him. Infatuation made me realize my sexuality.
"As the protagonist of my 'first time', this question is really superfluous, but maybe I can also think that you are complimenting my skills in another way.
"If we can get away with this painting, and if you want, I can always take you to meet my parents and introduce you to everyone I know.
"For me, if there is wealth, it is common to receive it; if there is no, I will not seek it. I am willing to share all my things with you, which naturally includes wealth.
"As for the last question, Ke Xun, in the past, you liked me more, but in the future, I will like you more."
Ke Xun didn't say anything for a long time, until Mu Yiran called him again, and then he heard a light smile: "I'm very happy, Yiran, it seems that we have a lot of similarities.
"You like Marlon, I like Alain Delon, I remember watching him in "Zorro" when I was very young, wearing a black bat shirt, a hood and a top hat, and the way he wielded his sword was so handsome that my eyes were so handsome Red heart.
"Afterwards, I liked Heath Ledger and Joseph. I don't know why, but I always felt that the two of them were very similar in some ways, maybe it was the face? Maybe it was the mouth? Unknown temperament.
"Ah, and the guy who plays the stripper, Channing Tatum, is tall and handsome and bad and sexy, by the way, can you watch "Super natural"? The brother Dean in it is a handsome guy , thinking about it this way, it seems that I haven't followed this drama for a long time..."
Ke Xun babbled for a long time until Mu Yiran suddenly interrupted him: "—You're stalling for time!?"
Ke Xun stopped babbling and sneered, "Yes, look, it's almost dawn."
However, the surroundings were still dark, darker than ink, without any light.
"Ke Xun, you really—" Mu Yiran couldn't hold back his temper even if he tolerated Ke Xun infinitely, "It doesn't matter! Now shut up and come over quickly!"
"You really don't give up until you see the light of the sky," Ke Xun sneered, without any remorse or any intention of walking over, "Although you can read your memories, monsters are monsters, dirty things are dirty things, never Will understand 'people' emotions.
"You answered the questions I just asked Yi Ran very well, and it fits his character and thinking, but you don't understand at all that liking someone doesn't mean you want to invade all his life and thoughts.
"Who is the first love? Who is the first love? I will never ask him such questions. This is his privacy, his freedom, and his own life.
"And Yi Ran understands me and trusts me, he knows that I will never ask him such a question, so if I ask this just now, and Yi Ran is really Yi Ran, he will definitely think that I am not the real Ke Xun .Then first, he will no longer answer my questions in such a lawful manner, and second, he will not let me come to him again.
"As for when to introduce me to his parents, relatives and friends, I also won't ask him. I don't want to put any pressure on him. He is different from me. He has a family, a career, and a circle. , has social status, he has too many things to consider, and he has too many problems to face, I will not put any problems that will embarrass him and make him work hard, so again, he understands me , he knew I would never ask him such a question.
"What else is there to share wealth - first, I am not short of money, and I don't have much desire and demand for money. Nearly half of my money is used to help my poor buddies. I really can't live without money, but I also won't be thirsty for the money of the person I love; secondly, I won't believe that I am a fool who will use money to test the depth of his feelings.
"And the last question, who likes who is more? If I really ask such a question, I am insulting myself. If I have to calculate whether I am at a loss or not, the only person who this person loves may be myself. Yi Ran won't answer my question, because he also knows that by answering it, he is belittling our mutual feelings.
"By the way, I forgot to remind you that my patient explanations above are also for delaying time, no thanks."
This time, Mu Yi who was in the darkness was silent for a while, and after a while, he heard his voice without any emotion speak again: "How can you be sure, I didn't do it to test you, who don't know the truth or not. To answer your question in such detail?"
"You still don't give up?" Ke Xun's voice changed from cold to faint, and then to a warm smile, "Actually, all the above answers are superfluous, at the very beginning, you asked me to When you walked over, I already knew that you were not shy, so no matter how eloquent you are in the future, I will not be fooled."
"Why?" Mu Yiran's question did not contain any emotion.
"Because," Ke Xun chuckled, "in such a situation where we can't see anything, none of us know where the danger is lurking. If it was shy, he would never let me go there. Looking for him, he will only come to me at his own risk."
A gleam of dawn suddenly lit up, tearing apart this eerie, endless darkness.