Lanling Ji

Chapter 26 [Redemption]

"Lanling... Lanling."

Who... who is calling me, Lanling... is that my name?Don't...don't shout anymore, don't look at me like that again.I'm sorry... I didn't save you, I'm sorry... don't pester me anymore.If... if you want my life, please wait, wait a minute, I want... I want to take another look at him.

"Wake up, Lanling."

"En..." Ye Lanling, who was deeply in the nightmare, frowned, and the cold sweat from his forehead slid down his cheeks.He clenched his fist tightly, and the veins on the back of his hand were faintly visible.It's so painful... I can't breathe, I can't move... Don't pull me, don't pinch me like this.I'm sorry, it's all my fault, I watched you die and there was no way to stop it, I shouldn't be alive, I...

"Lanling..."

It’s this low and distant voice again, who is it... ah... It’s such a warm feeling, just like that winter that year, there was so much snow, all white, houses, cars, railings, snowmen, and me and my mother .I squatted alone between the snowman and my mother, watching the cars coming and going in front of me for a long time, until I turned into a snowman, and so long that my mother's blood turned white.I don't know why she doesn't get up, why she doesn't talk to me, why she keeps lying on the ground.The snow is... so heavy, and I am... so cold.

"Child, come with me." This deep and distant voice, this old but warm hand.I opened my dry and painful blurry eyes, catching up with the fate that was arranged in the future. "Mom..." I turned my head and looked at my mother who was gradually moving away from me. "My child, she is in heaven." "Heaven? Where is heaven?" "Heaven...is in your heart."

Ye Lanling slowly opened his eyes, the direct sunlight was a bit dazzling, he tilted his head slightly in a daze, there was nothing in the black pupils.

"Lanling." Yong bent down, looked straight at Ye Lanling, who was pale and stupefied, and wiped his sweat with his hand.

Feeling the big palm caressing his cold face, Ye Lanling moved his gray eyes, and when facing Yong in front of him, his loose sight gradually brightened.He touched his lips slightly, and said with a little hesitation and a little excitement, "Yong...are you awake? Really... Am I still in a dream?"

"It's me." Yong frowned, seeing Ye Lanling's dazed and weak expression, his heart tightened.

"Ah...waking up, great." Ye Lanling closed his eyes, leaned his head against the stone wall behind him, and smiled weakly.I'm so tired... I'm dreaming again, those "people" in the dream changed their faces, and they wanted to put me to death. Countless "people", countless hands, darkness, pain, struggle... Mother, it seems that it has been a long time I haven't dreamed of that snowy day again. How long has it been... Mom, are you okay there?Or are you worried about me all the time like before?Mother, I am fine now. Although my life is not as long as normal, I will not complain.I still remember that you always mentioned to me that man who never appeared in my life. I can vividly remember your expression every time. I didn’t understand it before, but now I finally understand it. It turns out that it is love and happiness.Mother, I also found such a person, he made me afraid of losing my life for the first time, and gave me the desire to cherish.Mother, I don't know whether it is right or wrong to have such feelings for him, but I will not regret it, even if I am just a passerby in his life, I will never complain.

"Yong..." Ye Lanling couldn't help calling this name in a low voice. After three seconds of thinking again, he opened his eyes suddenly, "You... When did you wake up?" Ye Lanling stared Yong, who was close at hand, flashed his own random thoughts just now in his mind, his face turned red, he turned his head, stammered non-stop, trying to divert the other party's attention, "Oh, I Forget that I seem to have already asked this stupid question, hehe...Xiao Ru is still sleeping, it seems that he was exhausted yesterday..."

"Smack!" Before Ye Lanling finished speaking, he saw a hand slamming hard on the stone wall in his face, and the broken soil "snapped" off.He didn't turn his head to look at the palm that almost touched the tip of his nose, and there were still a few transparent and crystal spider silks between his fingers.Yesterday's injury has healed, and judging from the palm prints on the wall, there should be no sequelae.Ye Lanling secretly heaved a sigh of relief, the stone in his heart that weighed him down could finally fall to the ground.

Suddenly, Yong stretched out his hand and lightly pinched Ye Lanling's chin, forced his avoiding face away, and under the gaze of his surprised shiny black eyes, he yanked off Hotclod's collar, exposing his slender jade-white neck .

"!" Ye Lanling was stunned by Yong's sudden and strange behavior, what... what was he going to do?He stared at Yong whose face seemed to be getting colder and colder with wide eyes, and couldn't help breathing quickly.

Yong closed his eyes slightly, staring at Ye Lanling's neck gloomily, without making a sound for a long time.

Ye Lanling was a little flustered by Yong's gaze, his cold and deep gaze seemed to be drawn in, and if he continued to look at it like this, he might do something impulsive and stupid.Ye Lanling pushed away the hand holding his chin, wanted to stand up and let himself leave quickly, but Yong grabbed his hand firmly, "You..."

Yong grabbed Ye Lanling's wrist, looked at it for a while, then raised his head to meet his panicked gaze, "Who did you hurt?"

"Huh? What?"

"I said who hurt you."

"Injury?" Ye Lanling frowned, he probably knew about "Mountain Spider", no way, he absolutely couldn't follow at that time, so why did he ask about my injury, "No one hurt me."

"Lie!" Yong raised Ye Lanling's right hand, "Where did this come from?"

Only then did Ye Lanling realize that there was a dark purple bruise on his wrist. He turned his head and glanced at his left wrist. There was also a scar. He remembered that when he met the "Mountain Spider", his hands and feet were bound by spider silk, and he almost Being strangled to death seems to be the imprint left by that time.

"And here..." Yong stretched out his hand, caressing Ye Lanling Yinhong's neck, "Who is it?"

Ye Lanling trembled when his sensitive neck touched Yong's fingers, and he could feel his face that seemed to be bleeding, as well as the chaotic heartbeat.He lowered his head, not daring to look into Yong's eyes.

"Why didn't you answer?" Yong looked at Ye Lanling who looked strange in front of him, and frowned.Whenever I touched him in the past, he would always stare at me with those angry black eyes, why at this moment... Also, his skin, the faint fragrance... unexpectedly made me not want to let go.Suddenly, Yong grabbed Ye Lanling's shoulders, wrapped his arms around his waist, and hugged him firmly but gently, "Don't get hurt because of me again."

Ye Lanling quietly listened to the deep and magnetic words, and leaned on Yong's strong and broad chest. For a moment, he felt that he was loved by this man, and the thought of that love filled his naturally flawed heart. Filled up, filled to the brim.In the past, I didn't understand why some people wanted time to stop and freeze into eternity, but now I was occupied by such thoughts, so strong that I couldn't extricate myself, so strong that I degenerated into cowardice.

"Ahem...Brother Ba..."

Hearing Ji Rulian's voice, Ye Lanling pushed Yong away abruptly, and looked at the young man in the cave who was still sleeping and talking in a panic.There is no reason, I am afraid of hurting Ji Rulian's heart, even if I only contact Yong falsely, I am not qualified to let him misunderstand.He is still so young, and in the future...maybe he will be perceived by Yong in the future, and he will...be with Yong, but I don't even have this possibility.

"Why did you help us?" Yong was a little dissatisfied that Ye Lanling broke away suddenly, staring at his wandering eyes, knowing that he was wandering again.

"Ah?" Ye Lanling came back to his senses. After understanding Yong's question, he turned to the dazzling sunlight outside the cave and smiled faintly, "Do you want to hear my story?"

Yong frowned, staring at Ye Lanling's too pale and bleak smile, his heart was suffocated, that smile was like a white orchid flower under heavy rain, "Speak."

Ye Lanling glanced back at Yong, and began to talk, "I was brought into an organization when I was six years old. I have never been clear about the purpose of the organization. I only know the purpose of my existence, which is to help my companions. Stealing, haha, to put it bluntly, I am a thief." Ye Lanling narrowed his eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly, "There are two companions in my group, one of whom is in charge of external control and data transmission, and the other ...responsible for killing people." He paused, then continued talking on his own, as if there were no bystanders, and regardless of whether the other party understood or not, he continued, as if speaking to himself, "After entering the organization, I will Then I accepted the assigned training. Because of my heart disease, I was programmed to be a cyber hacker, and followed the Seventh Group to steal around the world. Many times, many times, I watched Djeru kill those guardians, blood... a lot The blood flowed everywhere and stained my hands. I have no choice, I can't save them, I am also a murderer... I am afraid, I hate, I think I can die sooner!" Ye Lanling hugged painfully He bowed his head, his long black hair disheveled.

Yong frowned, he wanted to reach out to comfort the person in front of him, but he was stunned by the pain overflowing from his chest, this is...

Ye Lanling gradually calmed down, he raised his head again, and smiled bitterly, "Sorry, I lost my composure."

Looking at Ye Lanling's forced smile, Yong's heart ached.

"Later, I lost the meaning of existence, maybe I have never lived it. I thought I would live like this forever, as a reward for my savior. But that time in the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh, in the "star of wish" ' in front of the tomb, I heard a voice, it kept repeating, 'go...go...', at that time, I stood there for a long time, I suddenly despised my life, it was so despicable , Dirty, spurned by others. I can choose, I can resist, no one asks me to take the organization as my life, I can leave... Later, I submitted the application and was approved. After performing the final task, I will I can leave. But...I didn't expect that I came here...Maybe, maybe this is my existence."

Although Yong has never heard of some words and doesn't quite understand them, he understands them all, and what he understands is the feeling.

"So...you asked me why I helped Master Yu. I just want to say that I was a bad person before, but I want to be a good person in the future." Ye Lanling lowered his head, the sunlight reflected on his face from the ground, that Zhang's face that seemed to be exuding a halo smiled, "Maybe there is not much time, but my soul is already free."

Yong was amazed by Ye Lanling's expression, his ethereal face, that kind of posture that does not belong to the worldly world, as if it would disappear into nothing in the next moment, and he stretched out his hand to keep it forever, but it disappeared when he touched it.He is a star, is he really a star... "Why did you save me? Also for redemption?"

Ye Lanling was shocked when he heard the words, he put away his indifference, and entangled his slender fingers.He didn't answer, and didn't know how to answer.The world is always helpless, and good fortune always tricks people.It would be great if I could give up everything, how much I want to tell you my heart, how much I want you to respond to my feelings.But... I can't do this, the only thing I can do is to bury this love deeply in my heart.I will remember it when I die.Ah... It turns out that I also have something to remember, and I will no longer leave blankly.

"Why didn't you say it? You..." Yong stared at Ye Lanling's relieved expression, and felt a little uneasy in his heart. He wanted to continue asking, but he heard Ji Rulian's surprised voice in the cave.

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