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"Tick tock, tick tock..." The white mist was transpiring, and transparent water droplets fell from time to time and merged into the hot water below.

In the water, lay a man, a man with his eyes closed.

The water drops ran across his high nose bridge along his forehead and finally fell from the wings of his nose. A large tattoo was tattooed on the man's back. This tattoo is very complicated, but it only uses black color, and it falls on the white skin that has never seen the sun. It looks like a tattoo, but more like an ink painting.

"Well......"

Opening his eyes tiredly, the familiar ceiling came into view. It took Huai Tian a minute to realize that he was in his own bathroom.

Shouldn't he be in the clinic? Why did he come home suddenly, and he's still in the bathroom.

Although the home is equipped with such things as a bathtub, he basically doesn't use it much. It's not that he doesn't want to use it, but he finds it troublesome. Generally, if he takes a bath, he can just take a quick shower.

Feeling the temperature of the water, Huai Tian moved his body silently, and after soaking in the water for a while, he reluctantly stood up from the warm water, just as his warm feet soaked in hot water touched the cold tiles Huai Tian flinched for a moment, wiped himself dry, changed his clothes, and went to the kitchen to make himself a cup of Longjing tea habitually.

"Crash..."

The rain was falling down the glass in strands, and it was still raining heavily outside, and I didn't know when it would stop.

"Tian'er." Huai Jiu's voice suddenly reached his ears, Huai Tian shook his body, and almost spilled the Longjing tea in his hand.

What did he just hear?

Turning around quickly, there was nothing behind him except the familiar furniture. He blinked, then picked his ears, and began to wonder if he was hallucinating.

"Brother Tian'er." The boy's clean voice reached his ears, this time Huai Tian heard it right, he turned around again, and a curly-haired boy stood in front of the glass fish tank and smiled at him.

"Brother Tian'er, this fish is so beautiful."

"...Hmm." Unexpectedly, Huai Tian felt that he should immediately call a demon and hand over the boy to the police uncle, but he didn't.

He is very familiar with the boy's appearance, he looks exactly the same as when he was thirteen or fourteen years old, but he is sure that he has never seen such a child, and his family has no relatives, so it is even more impossible for him to have someone who looks exactly like him juvenile.However, he just felt that he should have mentioned this boy somewhere.

And... the young man seemed to be very familiar with him.

Inexplicably, Huai Tian's attitude softened suddenly.

He stepped forward and rubbed the boy's head, the movements were extremely proficient, as if he had done it thousands of times.

He understands that there must be a demon in every case, but he just doesn't want to explore the boy's true identity. This is a kind of... instinct?

A short thought made Huai Tian calm down, and the sense of intimacy he had just had when he saw the boy was also weakened a lot.Perhaps because of his occupation, he has always been a relatively calm person, and the opposite of calm is rationality.

He knew that no matter how much he didn't want to, he had to figure it all out.

and so.

"who are you?"

"Brother Tian'er, I'm Xiaotian." The boy tilted his head with a look of innocence, "You don't remember me?"

Xiao Tian?

Huai Tian shook his head, if such a person who looked exactly like himself appeared in his memory, he shouldn't have no impression at all.

Seeing Huai Tian shaking his head, the boy in front of him suddenly stopped talking, he stared straight at Huai Tian, ​​with a cute and innocent smile on his face, but his body was growing slowly until he became like Huai Tian The appearance of a young man of his age.

"Brother Tian'er." The voice was exactly the same as his own, "I'm very angry."

Suddenly, Huai Tian realized that he could no longer stand defenseless in front of this person who called himself Xiao Tian, ​​and stepped back slightly, "So, what is your identity now?"

"Me?" As if he didn't see Huai Tian's small movements, the young man turned his head, tapped the glass fish tank twice with his fingertips, and the fish inside immediately floated up to the surface, "I am another you. "

Next, what the young man said, Huai Tian didn't have the heart to listen anymore, he almost used the fastest running speed in his life, turned his feet, walked around the sofa and rushed out.

As soon as he went out, the heavy rain drenched him thoroughly, and all the heat accumulated in the room just now disappeared. Now there is only one thought in his mind, he wants to escape, the farther the better.

Running straight and turning, he was very familiar with the roads of this generation, but at the next turn, he saw him, the man named Xiaotian.

Without hesitation, he turned around and chose another road, but it was different from what he had imagined when he turned in. This was a yellow mud road, and the rainwater fell and softened the yellow mud all over the place, making the whole road muddy, slippery and Its hard to go.

"Crack!"

Not surprisingly, Huai Tian, ​​who was running out in a panic while wearing flip-flops, slipped and landed on the front, covered in an indescribable shit yellow.

"What a surprise, Brother Tian'er doesn't look very embarrassed."

A familiar voice came from in front of him, Huai Tian raised his head and pursed his lips slightly.

After all, looking up at your own face is a very strange experience.

The person on the opposite side stretched out a hand, Huai Tian hesitated for a moment, and reached out to put his hand on it. Judging from the current contact, this person is a moody person, and no matter where he goes, he can easily find him. Myself, because, this place is not the real world at all.

That's right, looking at his own yellow mud road, Huai Tian suddenly recalled that this is a yellow mud road in front of his hometown, which he often passed by when he was a child, but now it's just a cement road.

The man snapped his fingers, and Huai Tian's clothes instantly returned to their original clean appearance.

"What's your purpose?"

Since he couldn't run even if he couldn't run, and he might not be able to win when he fought, fortunately, Huai Tian made the matter clear.

"I just want to live with brother Tian'er." The man turned back into a boy again, tilting his head and smiling obediently. Unfortunately, Huai Tian, ​​who was standing opposite him, was unmoved.

Looking at his face making such an expression that he would never make, Huai Tian expressed that he was a little numb.

"That's what we agreed on, isn't it?"

contract?

Suddenly, Huai Tian remembered the voice that kept appearing in his dreams.

The problem is, he can't think of anything about this agreement, "I can ask you."

Xiaotian raised his head to look at him.

"How did you show up?"

"I'm your substitute, a substitute to protect you from disasters." The young man lifted up his clothes, revealing his clean back with nothing on it, "Strictly speaking, you should have died at my age , but someone saved your life."

"Then, I lived for you the two years when you should have died."

"I'm just a puppet, a puppet without substance. Then one day you suddenly discovered my existence, and then we made a promise to live together in the future." The boy directly omitted most of the content and only picked the ending After saying this, the cute smile on his face suddenly turned into a sly one.

No entity, live together.

This guy is going to let himself die.

Suddenly understanding the other party's intentions, Huai Tian unnaturally wiped the sweat from his hands, his round nails kept rubbing against the skin of his fingertips, "What if, I say I want to break the contract?"

"I will kill you."

"!"

The fingertips forcefully cut through the skin of the fingertips roundly, and the bright red blood gushed out all at once. Huai Tian stretched out his hand and used the blood to quickly dab a deep red on the center of his eyebrows, and the tattoo on his back immediately shone with a dazzling golden light Come, a sweeper passed by, and the young man beside him fell to the ground.

In an instant, the whole space trembled, as if some restriction had been broken. Where Huai Tian could see, everything was peeling off bit by bit.

At the same time, Yin Wuhuo squeezed the fish scales in his hand and got out of the ghost gate, and found Huai Tian's body and a puppet with a strange face behind the small pyramid temple.

Almost the moment he saw that puppet, Yin Wuhuo was sure that the paper puppet he saw in the Yuren Palace just now must have something to do with this puppet.

Because the material of this puppet is different from that of the paper puppet, this puppet is made of human skin!

Seeing Huai Tian being held in the arms of the puppet, Yin Wuhuo went up without hesitation and kicked the puppet right in the head with the back of his foot.

"Snapped!"

The puppet tilted his head and lightened his hand, Huai Tian had already been snatched by Yin Wuhuo.

Opening his eyes suddenly, the puppet, no, it should be said to be another Huai Tian, ​​he stared at Yin Wuhuo fiercely, his eyes were full of resentment.

"Give me back Brother Tian'er!"

Yin Wuhuo frowned, and tightened his hand holding Huai Tian, ​​"Get lost!"

"Give me back Brother Tian'er!"

The puppet walked forward step by step as if he didn't hear Yin Wuhuo's voice.

He walked very slowly, very slowly, the eyes that were originally staring at Yin Wuhuo looked at Huai Tian at this moment, the resentment in his expression was completely subdued, leaving only full of nostalgia and tenderness.

Yin Wuhuo took a big step back, and at this moment, the person he was holding in his arms suddenly moved.

Immediately, Yin Wuhuo and the puppet stopped all movements, quietly watching the curly-haired man slowly open his eyes.