abnormal sea area

"Why did you build a shed downstairs?" Xie Zijing looked around on the balcony, "I didn't see it last time I came here."

Qin Ge was cutting fruit in the kitchen, and stuck out his head to answer him: "Children's Day is coming soon, there are a lot of children in the community, and we want to hold a bazaar."

Xie Zijing only thought about one thing: It seemed that he hadn't been to Qin Ge for a long time.He pinched his fingers and counted, and there were five days.five days!He thought, five days, if we grow shallots, the seedlings should grow out.

"What's the secret you want to tell?" Qin Ge took a bowl of peeled white jade loquat and walked to the balcony, frowning slightly, "I'm asking you, but you don't want to tell it all the way."

Xie Zijing smiled, picked up a loquat and put it in his mouth.

Qin Ge: "Spit nuclear."

Xie Zijing ate half of it in one gulp, leaning his elbows on the railing, rolling his tongue around the two loquat pits in his mouth, thinking about something.

Since it is a secret, it must be difficult to speak.Qin Ge didn't rush him either.He is interested in what Xie Zijing said about the past, and he also knows what the bouquet of flowers Xie Zijing was talking about—in the waters of Xie Zijing, in the last drawer, the bunch of flowers that are still alive today, sunflowers and yellow roses carnations.

After eating half a bowl of loquat in one go, Xie Zijing rubbed his stomach with a satisfied expression, took the bowl and walked into the room.

It's summer, the days are getting longer and the nights are getting shorter, the catkins have disappeared, and the city is full of pleasing green.Two sparrows chasing each other got into the treetops, the leaves were trembling constantly, and the afterglow of the setting sun came out from between buildings and from the gaps of every new leaf, illuminating Qin Ge's face from afar.

"The first time I saw you was at the Special Human Skills Competition." Xie Zijing leaned against the glass sliding door and scratched his head, "I am a junior in high school, and I am a sentinel for the high school group. Are you a sophomore in junior high? I don't know, just I know you are from the guide team, and your name is Yang Ge."

Qin Ge: "..."

So long ago!Qin Ge couldn't say a word for a while: Xie Zijing's "Sea Area" had his own photo on the table.It was indeed the attire he wore in the skill competition when he was in junior high school. He even remembered the pattern engraved on the front and back of the gold medal clearly.

It was Qin Ge's first time representing the region. He was very excited and still remembered many details.For example, the cloven-hoofed spirits running around uncontrollably in the stadium, such as a grumpy sentry and his gray fat wolf who maintain order in the stadium.That was the last wantonness and happiness before his life suffered a huge change. He had repeatedly recalled it countless times when he was alone, but there had never been a person like Xie Zijing in it.

Xie Zijing watched him blankly remembering for a long while, and didn't answer a word, so he knew that he couldn't remember.

"You forgot about me." He pretended to be angry, and reached out to pinch Qin Ge's face, but Qin Ge avoided him, "You obviously gave me a bouquet of flowers."

"I know that bouquet of flowers." Seeing his bright eyes, Qin Ge quickly explained, "I saw it in your 'sea area'. That bouquet of flowers is nothing special. Not everyone who came to the stage to receive an award in that competition Does anyone have it?"

Xie Zijing: "I haven't."

Qin Ge: "How is it possible..."

He stopped talking suddenly, and a strange expression gradually appeared on his face.

A stadium full of people.Cheers and applause resounded through the audience.The voice of the narrator and the music alternately played from the radio.Sentinels and guides from the Crisis Office patrolled the venue. There was no cloud in the sky, and the sky was as blue as the endless summer planted in Yuyuantan.Colorful confetti and ribbons fluttered on the podium, and a sentry jumped down from the top of the podium, the gold medal on his chest reflected a glare of sunlight.

"...It's you." Qin Ge couldn't believe it, "You're that senior brother who doesn't have flowers!"

Xie Zijing leaned his head against the glass door and nodded.The twilight illuminated half of his face, and there seemed to be sighs and gratitude hidden in the eyes that were flickering with tears.Fearing that Qin Ge would see through his emotions, he quickly turned his eyes away: "That's right...it's me."

Without any reminder, it was almost impossible for Qin Ge to think of Xie Zijing.

In his recollection, Xie Zijing was like a reporter who interviewed after the game, like thousands of people watching the game in the auditorium. He just passed by him, but did not leave any impression that could be salvaged in the future.

At that time, Qin Ge and his classmates finished the interview with the reporter and were walking back to their team through the gap in front of the podium.

The sun was so strong that something flickered in his eyes: it was a sentry who had just jumped off the podium, shaking his gold medal.

"Damn it, Yang Ge, it's him!" The partner pulled himself, "The brother who broke the record of the high school sentinel!"

In fact, Qin Ge and the sentry were not from the same school. Except for "senior brother", they didn't know what to call the young man in front of them. They only knew that he was the champion of the high school sentry.Qin Ge wanted to go back to the team immediately to call his parents to announce the good news. He hummed twice and continued walking.Suddenly, two teachers with cameras rushed forward.

"Don't move! Take a single photo first."

"Senior brother" was looking at Qin Ge's side, and the teacher had already pressed the shutter on him.After the filming, the teacher was taken aback, and raised his head: "Where are your flowers? It doesn't look good without flowers."

"Just gave it to someone else." The young sentinel scratched his nose, "Someone asked me if I could give him a kiss, I said no, I'll give you the flower, you can kiss this."

Teacher: "...you... oh! That flower was specially designed for this year's competition. The color matches the gold medal, uniform and competition logo. No flower is perfect."

The passage was narrow, and Qin Ge and his classmates, who were blocked by the two, couldn't walk through it at all.Qin Ge was still holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand. After hearing what the teacher said, he handed it to the sentinel directly.

"I have it here." He said, "You take it, brother."

In this way, the bouquet was transferred from his hand to the sentry's.

"Thank you." The sentinel held the flowers and kept staring at him, "What's your name?"

Qin Geshi put his two fingers together, touched his forehead lightly, raised his lips, and smiled handsomely: "Lei Feng."

Both the sentinel and the teacher laughed.Afterwards, Qin Ge was immediately dragged away by his classmates who yelled "What a disgrace".They ran back to their ranks without looking back.

This is just an insignificant matter, and this time's little effort can't leave any deep traces in his memory.But Qin Ge remembered now - there was a photo of himself in the photo frame on Xie Zijing's desk.That wasn't actually a photo, but the impression in Xie Zijing's eyes when Qin Ge handed the bouquet of flowers to Xie Zijing.

The things he had forgotten became Xie Zijing's precious treasures, which were sealed up in that small, difficult-to-maintain "sea area" in a precious and important way.

Xie Zijing reached out to pinch his face again, but Qin Ge didn't avoid it this time.

"You forgot." Xie Zijing said, "You never remembered me."

Qin Ge thought, how can I remember this?For him, Xie Zijing was just a passerby back then.

Xie Zijing lowered his head and kissed his forehead. After hesitating for a moment, he lowered his head and kissed the tip of Qin Ge's nose.

"I'm sorry." Qin Ge said in a low voice, "I will remember it in the future."

Xie Zijing suddenly became excited.With red eyes, he hugged Qin Ge tightly, buried his head on Qin Ge's shoulder, and couldn't stop taking deep breaths.Qin Ge quickly hugged him and patted his back.

"...The summer vacation is after the skills competition." Xie Zijing's hoarse voice carried a nasal sound that he tried hard to hide, "I received the admission letter from New Hope. My dad is very happy, he plans to take us on a trip, my mother said She has classmates working in Lhasa, and we decided to go soon."

Qin Ge was stunned.

The summer vacation of that year was the darkest and unbearable day for him.

"In our itinerary, there is Jiwu Temple." Xie Zijing didn't dare to raise his head, and he didn't let go of Qin Ge's arms.

Qin Ge patted him on the shoulder: "Xie Zijing... What do you mean? Please explain clearly. Look at me!"

Xie Zijing didn't have the courage to look at Qin Ge.He covered his face with one hand, leaned against the railing, and spoke in a low voice for a long time.

"After knowing that your parents had an accident in Luquan near Jiwu Temple, I have been hesitating. I want to tell you that I may know something, but I can't remember." His voice was trembling, "Qin Ge, I'm scared. I'm a coward...I'm afraid you'll ask me to reveal the secrets of the 'sea'. I don't like it...so I didn't say anything."

Qin Ge forcefully pulled his hand away and looked directly at Xie Zijing: "Why are you willing to speak out now? Is it because you know that Bai Xiaoyuan and Tang Cuo are also related to the Luquan incident?"

Xie Zijing nodded.

"I'm sorry." He held Qin Ge's hand, and because he never had the courage to face Qin Ge, he had to hold Qin Ge's hand to cover his eyes, "I'm sorry...I...I must know something, those things Memories may be outside the room. But I'm really scared... My 'sea' is horrible, disgusting, sorry...I want to tell you, but I dare not. I can't sleep every day, I I've been thinking about these things."

Until the day he learned that the Luquan incident was also related to Bai Xiaoyuan and Tang Cuo.They never gave up on investigating the truth.

"The truth may be in my head."

Qin Ge's palms were moist.Xie Zijing was in tears.

"I'm sorry." He apologized repeatedly.

"Xie Zijing, look at me." Qin Ge said, "If you don't look at me, I will never talk to you again."

Xie Zijing let go, he lowered his head and wiped his face before he dared to raise his head.Qin Ge approached him and kissed his chin, his lips and his tear-stained cheeks.

"...I was wrong." Xie Zijing said with difficulty between his kisses.

"You didn't do anything wrong." Qin Ge leaned close to him, his voice was as fast as breathing, flowing out of his mouth, sneaking into each other's lips, "Who said you 'Sea Territory' is disgusting? Lu Qinglai?"

Xie Zijing finally did not evade this question this time.He nodded.

"Miss Lu is right. No one's 'sea' is like mine...it's not normal."

"The abnormal person is Lu Qinglai." Qin Ge held Xie Zijing's face, wishing he could pry his head open and throw away all the things Lu Qinglai had instilled in him. He looked at Xie Zijing firmly Said, "Your 'sea' is not disgusting, and you are not disgusting. There must be someone who likes you, such as me, such as Bai Xiaoyuan and Tang Cuo. Xie Zijing, it's really great to have you in the world, you know I don't like it Gao Tianyue, but the only thing I am grateful to him for is that he brought you to the Dispensing Department and let me know you."

Qin Ge's voice was also trembling.He hadn't been used to expressing himself so directly for many years.

"If you really see something, everyone will thank you." Qin Ge looked at Xie Zijing's flushed eyes, "Especially me, you remember. I am forever grateful to you for everything past and present. "

Xie Zijing hugged him tightly again.

"I know you used to take pity on me." He murmured, his voice moist and deep, lingering in Qin Ge's ears, "I don't need to be pitiful, nor do I want to be grateful."

Qin Ge waited for his next sentence, but after Xie Zijing took a deep breath, he swallowed back the sentence that was about to be said immediately.

"Come in, Qin Ge." He whispered, "But if you are scared by my 'sea area', I might hate you."

Qin Ge closed his eyes.Warm strength surged from him, soft and thick, enveloping both of them.The fine hair rubbed against Xie Zijing's cold arms and face, tears fell from his eyes, his anxiety made him unable to do anything but hug Qin Ge tightly.

Xie Zijing's "sea area" was as usual, and Qin Ge didn't see any obvious changes.

He opened the third drawer, where the bouquet was still there.But looking at it this time, Qin Ge had many complicated emotions in his heart.In the second drawer are Xie Zijing's certificate of honor and photos of the day.Xie Zijing stared at someone outside the camera, with a smile on his mouth.

The past events that Qin Ge himself had never been aware of suddenly fell before him. He put Xie Zijing's photo and his own photo on the table together, and he said "fool" after a long time.

The closet behind him creaked and opened a crack.

Qin Ge immediately stood up, rushed to the wardrobe, and opened the door.

There is a person squatting in the closet.The sudden influx of light illuminated his face, Qin Ge looked at the man, his heart beating wildly: it was the young Xie Zijing.

He has the same hairstyle and sportswear as the teenager in the photo.Xie Zijing in the closet looked at Qin Ge and opened his arms to him.Qin Ge hugged him, and suddenly saw a wind blowing in from the dark corner of the closet, blowing his and Xie Zijing's hair.

The cabinet door slammed shut, and Xie Zijing and he both fell on the floor of the room.

There are no lights on the ceiling, but the room is always bright. The 18-year-old Xie Zijing straddled him, bent down, kissed him carefully, and then lay on Qin Ge's body, restraining Qin Ge in his arms with unusually strong strength.

"You've grown up." His voice is very different from Xie Zijing's now. It hasn't been corroded by tobacco, and still has a little childishness in his youth. "I've always wanted to lie with you like this."

Qin Ge: "...Since when?"

Xie Zijing: "The first time I saw you."

Qin Ge: "Skills competition? Little brother, I was only 14 years old at that time."

Xie Zijing had a smile on his young face: "14 years old is cuter than now."

Qin Ge scolded him as "pervert".Xie Zijing gagged him, and after kissing for a while, he raised his head and stared straight at Qin Ge.

Qin Ge was also looking at him carefully.

This is not normal.A voice reminded Qin Ge: This is very abnormal.

Xie Zijing in front of him is obviously the self-awareness in Xie Zijing's "sea area".But he is still in the form when he was 18-everyone's self-awareness will change with age and experience, and it is impossible to remain the same forever, unless the spiritual world of the sentinel or guide stays in a certain place forever. Among the ages.

"What happened to Jiwu Temple?" Qin Ge asked him.

Xie Zijing sat up from him and rubbed his eyes. "I will cry after I say it." He raised his finger to the ceiling, "He will be sad too."

"I will comfort you." Qin Ge said, "I will always be with you."

The young man in front of him smiled, and the circles of his eyes turned red: "I like this sentence, no matter what you say is true or not."

He was silent for a moment, and finally spoke.

"A lot of memories have disappeared, or can't be linked together. But some of them are particularly profound." He pointed to his head, "The first stop of my parents and I was Lhasa."

After landing in Lhasa, the family of three visited Xie Zijing's mother's classmates and received a warm reception.

When planning a specific itinerary, my father insisted on going to see Jiwu Temple and Luquan near Jiwu Temple.A few days later, the three bid farewell to their mother's classmates and set off in a rented car.I walked a long way on the road, stopped while walking, and had a good time.The night before they arrived at Jiwu Temple, they spent the night in a nearby B&B.

Knowing that they were going to Jiwu Temple, the owner of the homestay strongly suggested staying longer at night: the sky has been abnormal recently, and people say that the deer spring, which has been dry for a long time, may gushes sweet groundwater again.

Xie Zijing suddenly became interested.To fulfill his wish, all three of them made preparations to camp around Deer Springs when they set off the next day.

In the evening of the next day, the family of three who left Jiwu Temple began to hike to Luquan according to the map and the guide's instructions.

"That's it." Xie Zijing said, "I can't remember what happened after that."

When he regained consciousness, he found himself lying in the hospital without his parents.Several sentries and guides were active in the ward. Seeing him awake, they immediately approached him to inquire.

It was at this time that Xie Zijing knew that his parents were missing.

Neither Luquan nor Jiwu Temple could find the whereabouts of the two of them.

"Do you remember the date?" Qin Ge asked.

"November 8."

Qin Ge was silent.

"Is it the same day?" Xie Zijing asked, "And Luquan?"

"Yes." Qin Ge nodded.

Strangely, there was no sadness or anger in his heart, but a heavier worry instead.

The Luquan incident that year not only killed all members of the Falcon Detachment, but also led to the disappearance of two outsiders.Content that even a position like Gao Tianyue couldn't find out... Can they really find out?

But when he thought of Gao Tianyue, Qin Ge suddenly realized one thing - Gao Tianyue forced Xie Zijing into the Dispensing Department and pushed him to Qin Ge's side.

Qin Ge is the only spiritual adjuster in the Crisis Office. He is the only one who can dive deep in Xie Zijing's "sea area" and can be mobilized by Gao Tianyue.

"Xie Zijing, what is outside the room?" Qin Ge held Xie Zijing's hand, "You must know, right? You lied to me that there is only this room, which is impossible. Even Lu Qinglai knows about you... ..."

Xie Zijing took his hand and asked him to follow her to stand up.Qin Ge found that even in the "sea area", Xie Zijing's self-awareness was still trembling slightly.

This is intense fear.Qin Ge didn't know whether it was the content outside the room that frightened him, or whether he wanted to explore himself outside the room.

Lu Qinglai repeatedly warned him that Xie Zijing used this room to maintain his "normality", and that outside the room was a cruel sea that Xie Zijing himself could not face.Qin Ge felt uneasy, and for a moment he even felt timid: Don't go in, don't explore, this will make Xie Zijing suffer.

But the young man held his hand tightly, even though he was afraid, he still led him step by step into the closet.

Qin Ge seemed to have walked through a sheet of cold water.The darkness was like a pervasive chill, engulfing his entire consciousness.

He left the water and stepped outside the room.