memory hole

. "Why should I kill people? It doesn't make sense."

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When Zhong Xian came out of the bathroom, Deng Yi was already fully dressed and standing in the porch waiting for him.

"I want to go out for a while. My brothers have something to do with me." Deng Yi looked at the distraught Zhong Xian. "It may take some time."

"There's no need to hide from me anymore." Zhong Xian responded coldly.He felt like he was going to die and lost his vitality. "I'm leaving now. Leaving you. I won't bother you any more."

Deng Yi looked at Zhong Xian from a distance, then put down the purse in his hand, and walked towards him: "You look so bad suddenly, are you uncomfortable?"

"Do you care?"

Deng Yi frowned.

Zhong Xian said without thinking: "I'm going to die, really, will you be indifferent?"

Deng Yi touched his forehead: "I have a fever. Could it be that there was something wrong with my operation just now?"

Zhong Xian grabbed Deng Yi's hand on his forehead: "You just think I'm dying. Tell me the truth. You..." He lost his voice for a while, and it took a long time for him to make a sound, "...you care me?"

Deng Yi wanted to withdraw his hand, but Zhong Xian hugged him. "Promise me, promise me...let me get you once. I'll disappear. I won't bother you anymore."

Deng Yi sneered: "Keep an inch."

"What I said is true." Zhong Xian was deeply saddened.

Deng Yi broke free from him: "Meatball, don't always be such a rascal. I really should go."

126

Late at night, the lanterns are getting lazy.

Zhong Xian sat alone in a drink shop next to the auditorium.He hasn't visited Hangzhou yet.Because of Deng Yi, he rejected all of Mr. Gao's play plans.

He still couldn't believe that Xiao Zhu's death had something to do with him.Just when he was out of his wits, Dake called again.

"I'm going to board the plane right away." Dake said hurriedly on the other side of the phone. "Where are you in Hangzhou? Don't, don't say I shouldn't go. I have to tell you face to face. I can't communicate with you on the phone to prevent future troubles. You must not reveal the slightest sign to anyone. We will discuss it face to face. Okay? Zhong, you must calm down."

"I'm extremely calm." Zhong Xian sipped his drink continuously. "It's almost freezing. What's the use of you here?"

A figure walked past the door of the beverage store, Zhong Xian froze for a moment.He actually regarded that figure as Deng Yi.Deng Yi was obviously wearing a light gray leather jacket when he left, but the person who just passed by was wearing a black windbreaker.

Just as he was shaking his head, the figure turned back and walked into the drink shop.

Zhong Xian was stunned again. From the side view, this person really looked like Deng Yi, except that he was wearing a pair of glasses, making him look more gentle and older than Deng Yi, with a thicker figure.

Zhong Xian immediately realized that this was a certain brother of Deng Yi.He also quickly remembered that he had stopped this man's car in front of Zhao Qi's bar.

He is Deng Qian - Deng Yi's fourth brother!

"Have a latte." Deng Keng said to the waiter.He glanced around the shop, then stood sideways to the bell.

Zhong Xian opened his eyes wide and kept looking - it was completely unexpected that Deng Yi's cousin was more like Deng Yi's real brother, they were so alike - not only in appearance, but also in temperament.Looking at Deng Qian, one can imagine what Deng Yi will look like a few years later.

Deng Qian is extremely elegant, with a calm demeanor revealing a wise charm, and he has even more charisma!For a moment, Zhong Xian felt that there was no hope for Deng Yi to be the heir.It is difficult for him to surpass Deng Qian.

When Zhong Xian was thinking wildly, Deng Qian turned his head and smiled at him.Zhong Xian was startled and almost fell off the chair.

"Let's get to know each other." Deng Qian said.His voice was much deeper than Deng Yi's.Every word is like a heavy hammer hitting the heart of the bell.

Zhong Xian nodded, his heart was beating wildly, he didn't understand why he was so panicked, he seemed to be scared to death.

It is obvious to all that Deng Qian's aura is strong, but Zhong Xian's surprise is that his deterrent power is so amazing.

"Do you know?" Deng Qian continued to ask.He was still smiling, but the fear Zhong Xian felt did not diminish at all.

Zhong Xian nodded again, still speechless.

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127

"Your coffee."

The attitude of the coffee shop waiter in his early 20s in a gray uniform is involuntarily humbled.Probably like a clock string, he was captured by the aristocratic temperament revealed in the gentleness of the customer in front of him.Deng Qian always had a smile on his face, as if he was born with a smile, he took the coffee, turned around slowly, but put the coffee cup in front of Zhong Xian.

"Please drink."

His voice was deep and soft, as refreshing as a person, and he turned and left.

The figure in black coat disappeared in front of the door for a long time, Zhong Xian was still in a daze.He wasn't even sure if the conversation Deng Qian had just had with him really happened.

'you know me?'

Facing Deng Qian's sudden question at that time, Zhong Xian nodded at first, and then began to shake his head.For a moment, he thought that he should take this opportunity to get to know Deng Qian, but in an instant, he seemed to return to his ignorant youth, lost his calm and unhurried experience, and only remained sluggish.

Zhong Xian couldn't sleep peacefully all night.

Couldn't even dream of anything.

He thought that Deng Yi would contact him when he was done with work, but there was no phone call, and no one came to open his room.

Yes.He's back in that ostentatious hotel suite.Mr. Gao once called him, but he was upset, pretended not to hear, and did not answer.

What happened to Xiao Zhu made his mind roar.

After calming down, he felt that he could not offend Mr. Gao, so he called back at midnight.Explain to Mr. Gao that he has not seduced Deng Yi as he wished.

Mr. Gao invited him to a private party tomorrow, with a weird tone, saying that he would introduce some friends to him.Zhong Xian didn't think about it, and agreed.

128

Dake's red-eye flight arrived in Hangzhou in the morning.

Zhong Xian made a phone reservation at a hotel not far from the auditorium for him to stay.He didn't want Dake to appear in the auditorium, so he came out to meet him.

They had lunch at a special restaurant in Hangzhou.Choose to meet in a small private room so that they can talk privately.But after they sat down, no one spoke for a while.

After the waiter put all their orders on the table, they sat still.

Zhong Xian stood up and checked that the door of the private room was closed tightly, and sat back down to take a sip of tea: "Are you sure it's me?"

Dake nodded.

After a while, Zhong Xian asked again: "Did you see it?"

"Correct."

Zhong Xian slowly closed his eyes, feeling that the only hope left in his mind was also falling down, sinking from the soles of his feet into the cold ground.

"I beat him to death with a keel..."

"Correct."

"Why exactly?"

"I do not know."

"Tell me about what happened at that time."

"That day, it was raining, and it rained even more at noon. You and I went to the construction site together. I took shelter from the rain in the car and saw you get out of my car and ran into the construction site. I found an umbrella and got out of the car too. I followed in, but I couldn’t find you. The construction site was very quiet that day, and there were no workers—there was an accident before, and there was a problem with a batch of goods, and it seemed that work was suspended for rectification. I looked for you for a while——I often Would have thought, if I could have found you sooner - when I found you, I saw you hit him with a keel, he fell, and you were still beating...he just fell in that old gutter on the construction site, and then you Turned around and ran away. I chased you to the gate and saw you driving away. At that time... for some reason, I just wanted to cover it up for you, so I returned without hesitation and pushed Xiao Zhu into the old gutter and buried her In the good pipes—the gutter was basically abandoned at the time, and the new gutter had been dug—the pipe, when the work starts after the rain, the concrete will be poured directly, and no one will find out... In fact, things are worse than me. It went well as expected. Xiao Zhu's body has now turned into a lump of cement..."

Zhong Xian waved his hand to express that he didn't want to listen any more.

The two fell silent again.They didn't order wine, so Dake kept drinking tea.

"So he..." Zhong Xian covered his face with one hand, "He... is still at the YH construction site. In..."

When I think of HY's splendid new building, there is actually a dead bone.It was as uncomfortable as seeing an ugly thorn sticking out of Deng Yi's bright appearance.Zhong Xian then wondered that his first thought was that this would cause trouble for Deng Yi's family, and he ignored the problems he was facing.

Then the feeling that made him even more sad came to his heart—he actually took someone else's life.No matter how miserable Xiao Zhu was, he couldn't forgive himself.

Dake stood up, bent forward and took Zhong Xian's hand away from his face: "Don't torture yourself, Zhong."

Zhong Xian took a deep breath, and said a guess that he had pondered over and over last night: "Is it because of this reason that you installed a pinhole camera in my house?"

Dake was stunned for a moment, sat back in his seat, twirled the ring on his finger, and did not answer.

"Because I'm worried that I'll think about it someday, or simply think I might be pretending to forget..."

Dake raised his head: "Neither. I believe you really forgot. However, you occasionally dream or act full of doubts. What I worry about is that you are not just a memory problem...I admit, I have always been afraid You accidentally leaked the wind without knowing it."

"Are you worried that I'm mentally ill?" Zhong Xian spoke out for him.

Dake nodded: "I read some books to understand your situation, the book said the symptoms of schizophrenia - a person split into several personalities, some personalities know each other's existence, some personalities are I don't know at all. Suppose you have two personalities that don't know each other. They are called A personality and B personality. A