stay away from love

The game was not online, the phone was turned off, Jiang Yue waited until noon, and finally confirmed that it was not because Ling rang too late.

That's... on purpose.

Jiang Yue was so depressed that he almost smashed his mobile phone, and finally had no choice but to drive the car directly to the door.

Just as he expected, no matter how hard he rang the doorbell, Ling Xiang never came to open it. He was used to it a long time ago, and he was even a little thankful that he took the spare key away with him the night before.

However, after opening the door and walking around the empty room, he realized that Ling Xiang was not as simple as hiding.Ling Xiang really disappeared.

Once he realized this, Jiang Yue couldn't calm down.

He desperately recalled what he said and did the day before, and also kept recalling Ling Xiang's every move. He didn't understand what Ling Xiang was thinking when he stayed here alone after he left. Completely disappeared.

He even regretted his impulse a little.That was not a good time, maybe he should wait until he is more important in Ling Xiang's heart.

He wiped his face vigorously, knowing that Ling Xiang was really not there, Jiang Yue still walked back and forth in the room, constantly dialing Ling Ling's number with his mobile phone, hoping that maybe that person would turn on the phone in the next moment .

The sky gradually darkened, and everything in the room became blurred. Jiang Yue sat down on the edge of the sofa helplessly, scratched his hair irritably, lit his cigarette, but felt more and more that he of powerlessness.

He can't help it.

He didn't know where to look for him, where Ling Xiang could go, who Ling Xiang knew, and other than this house and a phone number, he had no other way to contact Ling Xiang.

Sure enough, as that person said, they have nothing to do with each other...not even friends.

Subconsciously, he took out his mobile phone again, and when he opened the call history, Jiang Yue's eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly found a number in the address book and dialed it.

This time the call was connected quickly, and Ye Tingshu's voice came from over there: "Hello."

"Is that Miss Ye? I'm Jiang Yue."

When Ye Tingshu arrived at Ling Xiang's house, it was already dark.

When she entered the door, her face was still a little pale, and when she saw Jiang Yue, she let out a long breath, shook her head and said, "I can't find him."

Jiang Yue couldn't help laughing bitterly.

He originally thought that Ye Tingshu would know where Ling Xiang was... at least he would know how to find Ling Xiang.However, after receiving the call, there was no meaning at all except that there was one more person to accompany and worry about.

Ye Tingshu didn't know where Ling Xiang had gone, and he couldn't find Ling Xiang either.As if to highlight how lonely that person is, it's just that if the phone is turned off, no one can find him.

Jiang Yue wiped his face vigorously, trying to erase the depression in his heart.

Ye Tingshu looked at him, and seemed to become more and more frightened.

"Would Ah Xiang...do something stupid again?"

"Impossible." Jiang Yue gritted his teeth, "Your brother's account is still with me. I told him that if he does stupid things again, I will delete the account."

This person has a reassuring aura, Ye Tingshu couldn't help thinking.She looked at Jiang Yue, and finally said: "Otherwise, call the police."

Jiang Yue didn't want to, he smiled wryly, "It's not been 24 hours..."

"It's ok." Ye Tingshu is not a person without ideas. After she calmed down because of Jiang Yue's words, she immediately thought of the best solution. If you will do something stupid and report to the police, maybe it will be accepted.”

Jiang Yue also understood that in general, the time limit for a missing person to be reported to the police must exceed a certain time limit, but what if a person with suicidal tendencies goes missing?If the person is not found immediately, not only the life of the person concerned may be endangered, but the life of others may even be endangered!

Seeing Jiang Yue nodding, Ye Tingshu immediately took out his phone: "I still have the contact information of the police officer who was in charge of my brother's case back then, maybe it's more appropriate to find him."

Jiang Yue nodded again, and smiled encouragingly at Ye Tingshu.It's not easy for a girl to be so strong. She... actually lost her brother.

The police officer Ye Tingshu mentioned was easily contacted, and the other party was obviously impressed by Ling Xiang, and immediately agreed to help find him.

However, the situation seems to be worse than the two expected.

It wasn't until noon the next day that the other party called back, with an apologetic tone in his tone.

"After checking the entry and exit records, he did not leave the country, but to be honest, it is more troublesome to find this way.

"According to the memory of the security guard at the gate of the community, Mr. Ling left around four or five in the morning. Because it was too early, the security guard specifically asked about it, but Mr. Ling seemed to be in a bad condition, so he only replied that he was casual. Walking around, so there is no way to know where Mr. Ling planned to go and what he was doing. The only thing that is certain is that he did not drive or take a taxi, and left on foot.”

"I tried to call up the surveillance video of the surrounding roads, but the clues were cut off after a short distance. I suspect that he took a small road. At present, I can only file for the record, because there is no actual incident, so I can't do further investigation. Sorry. .”

The news that the police officer can bring is so far, except for the filing, the only news that Ling Xiang has not left the country is probably meaningful.

After Ye Tingshu recounted the content to Jiang Yue, the two fell silent like this. When they looked at each other, they saw undisguised disappointment and worry in each other's eyes.

"What should I do..." After an unknown amount of time, Ye Tingshu finally asked, with a hint of sobs in his voice.

Jiang Yue looked like he didn't know how to comfort her at all, he stood helplessly for a while, and then took a tissue from the side and handed it over.

"Then we can only find it by ourselves." After some time, Jiang Yue opened his mouth. Although it sounded so vague and ridiculous, he said it very seriously.

Hearing Jiang Yue's words, Ye Tingshu couldn't help raising his head.The face of the person in front of him was obviously tired and worried, but his eyes were already lit up, full of determination.

Ye Tingshu felt that his heart had settled down following Jiang Yue's gaze.

"Do you... like Ah Xiang?" Ye Tingshu covered her mouth when she subconsciously said it. She didn't even know why she asked such embarrassing words.

However, Jiang Yue just looked at her and smiled: "Yeah. Speaking of which, I'm really rude." He seemed to realize that she was Ye Tingyu's younger sister at this moment, "But, I just like him."

So natural, so firm, without a trace of confusion.Just like many years ago, when my brother told himself that he had a lover.

Ye Tingshu's heart trembled, and he quickly turned his face away, trying to hold back the tears that were about to fall.

For the next week, the two of them still had no news about Ling Xiang, as if that person had deliberately hid, and no matter what method he used, he couldn't find it.

Jiang Yue would call and text Ling Xiang unrelentingly every day. Naturally, the text messages had never been answered, and the phone would be dialed occasionally, but Ling Xiang never answered. When calling again, it will often prompt that the phone has been shut down, and I don't know what the people over there are doing.

Later, Jiang Yue hardly wanted to recall that week.

He ran around like a lunatic, going to all the places he or Ye Tingshu thought Ling Xiang would go, even driving aimlessly from one end of the city to the other, occasionally seeing a similar figure from the back would make him nervous and lost for a long time.

He never thought that there would be a person who was so important to him, let alone that one day he would be like the protagonists of the bloody idol dramas he had laughed at countless times, doing silly and stupid things over and over again. stupid thing.

"Actually, it's not funny at all..."

"What?" Ye Tingshu's voice came from the phone, with clear concern.

Jiang Yue came back to his senses, looked away from the display TV in the roadside electrical store, smiled at himself, and replied: "It's okay."

Ye Tingshu hesitated for a moment, but Jiang Yue could feel her worry through the phone.

He even thought that what he said out of the blue just now probably made Ye Tingshu start to wonder if he was mentally disturbed by the shock?

"I'm really fine. It's getting late, you go to bed early, I'm going home too."

Ye Tingshu was silent for a while, and just when Jiang Yue thought she was going to hang up, she suddenly heard her say: "Jiang Yue, tell me...whether I can't find it all this time?"

His heart tightened for no reason, and Jiang Yue didn't answer right away.

Ye Tingshu didn't seem to really want to get an answer from him, so he paused for a while and then continued: "Although he said he didn't leave the country, have you ever thought that Ah Xiang might have gone to another city? Or..."

Or hide in some unknown corner and die secretly.

There are thousands of possibilities in the world to make a person disappear, Ye Tingshu dare not say it, but the despair in his words still betrayed her.

Holding the mobile phone, Jiang Yue unconsciously picked up the lighter on the car, repeating the action of lighting it again and again.As the flames flickered, everything in the darkness gradually became blurred.

I don't know how long it took before Ye Tingshu heard Jiang Yue's voice: "I will definitely find it."

Very simple words, but revealing the gentleness and firmness that make people indulge.Ye Tingshu even felt that the haze that shrouded her heart just a moment ago quickly dissipated because of these words, she couldn't help laughing, but her eyes were wet with tears uncontrollably.

"so good."

Jiang Yue's voice also sounded a little more frivolous: "How to say?"

"It's nothing, I just think it's nice to be able to like Ah Xiang instead of brother."

"Hey, it's too much to say to replace something?" Jiang Yue's voice was somewhat dissatisfied, but it seemed to have a helpless smile.

Ye Tingshu froze for a moment, then heard Jiang Yue continue: "No one can replace others, and no one can be replaced. Your brother and I just happened to fall in love with the same person. I don't plan to be his substitute, nor I thought about taking his place in Ling Xiang's heart, because it wouldn't be good for Ling Xiang, me, or even your brother and you."

Ye Tingshu was speechless for a moment.

She always hoped that there would be someone who could replace her brother in Ling Xiang's heart and save Ling Xiang from the past; she even hoped that Ling Xiang could forget about her brother and start over.Because she saw with her own eyes how Ling Xiang collapsed and how he trapped himself in the past, she couldn't imagine that Ling Xiang could accept another person while missing her brother.

However, this person told himself that he didn't need Ling Xiang to forget the past, he had enough confidence and patience to win Ling Xiang's heart.

This person...will surely succeed.Ye Tingshu couldn't help thinking.

After a long time, she finally took a breath, and said in a lighter voice: "Okay, it's almost twelve o'clock, you go back to rest early." She didn't ask where Jiang Yue was, because she was sure that Jiang Yue was still on the way , as every day in the past.

"Okay, you should go to bed early too." Jiang Yue said good night gently and told Ye Tingshu to hang up the phone first.

Throwing the phone on the passenger seat, he took out the cigarette and lit it, took another deep breath, and then looked outside the car again.

The show TV hanging on the door of the home appliance store by the road also broadcasts bloody TV dramas, and the footage repeats over and over again the scene where the hero is looking for his sweetheart on the same street, and the passers-by in front of the TV point and point Talking or laughing loudly, obviously such plots can no longer move the audience today, but have become third-rate jokes.

But it's really not funny at all.With a cigarette in his mouth, Jiang Yue inhaled, and then slowly spit it out as if he wanted to throw it away along with the despair in his heart.

At this moment, the mobile phone on the passenger seat vibrated suddenly, and then a piece of familiar music played.

Jiang Yue was shocked and almost jumped up.He pulled the cigarette out of his mouth with one hand, picked up the phone with the other, and stared at the word "Ling Xiang" on the screen for a long time before showing an ecstatic expression on his face.

"...Ling ring?" After connecting the phone, Jiang Yue's voice was trembling, and he was still holding the cigarette butt that he had just pulled out of his mouth, and the ash fell to the ground due to the trembling of his hand, but he was completely unconscious arrive.

There was a frightening silence on the other side of the phone.

Jiang Yue waited for a while, couldn't help but took down the phone, saw the words "calling" on it, took it back again, and called again: "Ling Xiang?"

This time there was finally a response.

Saying yes is the answer is also incorrect.It was just a very soft breath, as if someone was on the other end of the phone, desperately suppressing it but finally leaking a little sound.

"Ling Xiang!" Jiang Yue couldn't help but yelled again, because he was too nervous, his voice raised involuntarily, and even the tone of his voice changed a little, "Is that you? Ling Xiang!"

"...Mmm." Finally, a ringing voice came from the other end of the phone.

All Jiang Yue's words seemed to be choked by something.

He wanted to ask where Ling Xiang was, what happened to Ling Xiang, if he was okay, to tell him how worried he and Ye Tingshu were, and how much he liked him... But after this response, Jiang Yue suddenly couldn't say a word anymore.

On the other end was the same silence.Ling Xiang seemed to be waiting for his reaction, even the leaked breath seemed cautious, which made Jiang Yue feel a little sad.

Finally, after a long wait, Ling Xiang spoke, his voice was very soft, hoarse and weak, with exhaustion that could not be concealed, and a trace of timidity that Jiang Yue could not understand.

"I'm sorry to bother you so late...I, I'll hang up first."

"Ling Xiang! Don't hang up, Ling Xiang!" Jiang Yue came back to his senses suddenly, and yelled in confusion, trying to stop the person on the other side through the phone.

Ling Xiang seemed to be stopped by him, the phone kept on talking, but the person over there didn't say anything.

Jiang Yue also fell silent, until his beating heart gradually calmed down, he tentatively called out: "Ling Xiang?"

Ling Xiang didn't respond, and Jiang Yue could only hear his slight breathing from the phone.

"Ling Xiang, talk."

"En." Finally Ling responded, but only one more, the conversation was too simple to continue.

Jiang Yue squeezed out the cigarette vigorously, pressed the button on the phone, took a deep breath and said, "Where are you now? Do you know that Ting Shu is very worried? Do you know that I have been..." looking for you Going crazy.

He didn't finish his sentence.He didn't think the person on the phone cared what he did, and saying something like that was nothing more than a weak complaint, meaningless.

"I'm fine." After an unknown amount of time, Ling Xiang spoke, but it sounded particularly unconvincing.

Jiang Yue's heart tightened, and he couldn't help asking again: "Where are you?"

Ling Xiang's answer surprised him: "I don't know."

"I don't know?" Jiang Yue couldn't help raising his voice.

"sorry……"

The suffocation that had been held for a whole week before it broke out was instantly suppressed. Jiang Yue leaned back in his chair and sighed: "Where are you, I'll pick you up."

This time Ling Xiang didn't reply right away, Jiang Yue could only detect the barely audible voice from the subtle changes in breath, but just when he thought Ling Xiang was about to speak, Ling Xiang remained silent.

"Ling ring?"

"I'm sorry..." I don't know how many times I apologized, and then there was silence again.

Jiang Yue gritted his teeth: "I don't need your apology! I just want to know you..."

"Isn't that right..." Ling Xiang didn't wait for him to finish speaking, as if he wanted to apologize, but he seemed to listen to his words, and stopped in the middle of the sentence, and the rest of the words became more and more incoherent.

"I, I just wanted to talk to you... No, I didn't mean to bother you, I just... I'm sorry to bother you!"

"Ling ring!"

As expected, Jiang Yue blurted out and the phone was hung up at the same time.He just sat there in a daze, holding the phone, and even forgot to close his mouth.That cry was so loud that people passing by outside the car couldn't help but glance into the car, but Jiang Yue was in no mood to pay attention to it.

Ling Xiang's words were chaotic and full of ominousness, Jiang Yue could only feel his heart beating unstoppably fast, he scratched his chest subconsciously, but felt a tingling pain from nowhere to the bottom of his heart.

"Ling ring..."

He let out a low cry, and called back with trembling hands, but all he got was the reminder that the other party had turned off the phone over and over again.

He still didn't know where Ling Xiang was, or even what Ling Xiang wanted to do. The incoherent apology was mixed with words like saying goodbye, which made him feel panic and despair.

"Wait for me..." he kept repeating, he didn't know whether to say it to himself or to Ling Xiang who didn't know where he was, and finally took a lot of effort to hold the phone again and dial Ye Tingshu's number Telephone.

After hanging up the phone just now, Jiang Yue called again, Ye Tingshu obviously had a premonition, and said as soon as he got through, "Jiang Yue? Did you find Ah Xiang?"

"He just called me, didn't say anything, it sounded... not good."

"How come..." Ye Tingshu became anxious all of a sudden.

"So we must be quick. Call the police immediately, and think about what I missed." Jiang Yue didn't give her time to be sad, and quickly explained, paused, and finally added, "Especially with about your brother."

The only person who will make Ling Xiang lose control is that one person.

"it is good."

"...Also, I recorded his words, although only part of them."

Ye Tingshu seemed to be suppressing his sadness and smiled, and comforted him instead: "Recording is already amazing if you think about it, at least I can't do it."

"I'll send you the recording, see if you have any ideas, and I'll look around." Jiang Yue couldn't help but smiled wryly.

Yeah, it's kind of amazing to even think about recording.People are driven to a corner, and they are much smarter than usual.

This night is doomed to sleepless.

Jiang Yue specially filled up the gasoline, sat in the car and listened to the recording over and over again, and every time the recording stopped abruptly, he felt as if his heart had been severely slashed.

After Ye Tingshu called the police, he also searched for him, and called him from time to time to inquire, or told him about the police's movements.

This has been searching for most of the night, but there is no news after all.

"I really can't think of where else to go." Ye Tingshu's voice could be heard choking through the phone.

Jiang Yue wanted to comfort her, but there was nothing he could do.

There are really not many places for a gay couple to go. This is not a sufficiently open and tolerant society.Just look at Ling Xiang hiding at home in the end, hiding himself in the online game.

"There must be something missing..." But inexplicably, that's what Jiang Yue felt.

The recording was still being repeated over and over again, Jiang Yue desperately calmed himself down and listened, tried his best to ignore that person's voice, trying to find clues to the voice other than Ling Xiang.

"Jiang Yue, is that the sound of electricity? Is it your problem or Ah Xiang's problem?"

Jiang Yue froze for a moment, hung up the phone and played the recording again. As Ye Tingshu said, there was an uninterrupted background sound in the recording, which sounded like electric current...

"It's not the sound of electricity, it's the sound of insects!" As if he suddenly thought of something, Jiang Yue connected the phone again, "Is he in a park, in the suburbs, or... a mountain! That mountain!"

"What?" Ye Tingshu was taken aback.

Jiang Yue's voice was a little excited: "Where is that mountain?"

Ye Tingshu was confused, but she obviously realized that Jiang Yue had thought of something crucial: "Please explain clearly what mountain it is."

"That mountain, your brother... the mountain you went with him." After a subtle pause, Jiang Yue suddenly became a little vague.

But Ye Tingshu understood it all at once.

It was my brother who went on a trip with Ah Xiang, but because of an accident, he died on that mountain there?

Because it was such a place, Jiang Yue never mentioned it, and she kept avoiding it subconsciously.

"It's Mount Qiaodong. Ah Xiang always said that was the place where they made love, so we have to revisit the old place on the anniversary...it's Mount Qiaodong." Ye Tingshu took a breath and finally said it. She repeated it twice, feeling a little bit in her heart Make sure Ling Xiang is there.

Jiang Yue smiled: "Tell the police, I'll drive there."

Ling Xiang sat hugging his knees against the huge tree trunk, the branches and leaves fell beside him, almost submerging him, but his whole body shivered slightly from the cold.

I will die...

Hunger, cold, lost... It turned out that in the end, he still had to die in this mountain.

This is also good, maybe after closing his eyes, he will be able to see Ting Yu.

It's just the endless palpitations that scare him.He didn't know what he was afraid of, he just hugged himself a little tighter desperately.

It was cold in the mountains at midnight, his hands and feet were already numb from the cold, and the feeling of hunger seemed to be subsiding. He relaxed unconsciously, but vaguely knew that he was almost at his limit.

"Tingyu..." couldn't help crying out, thoughts flooded his heart like a tide, he stared blankly at the night sky, as if seeing that person smiling at him in a daze, as gentle as ever.

Faced with such a smile, he wanted to smile back, but in the end he shed tears.

"I'm sorry...I'm sorry..." He didn't know why he felt so guilty, and he had never felt so uncomfortable in the days when he lost Ye Tingyu.

This is probably because of the guilt and guilt born of "betrayal".Because at that moment he was moved.

With tears in his eyes blurred, Ye Tingyu's face slowly turned into Jiang Yue's face, the same tenderness, but with a little more firmness that people couldn't refuse.

"If you commit suicide again, I will delete your account..."

What Jiang Yue said when we first met rang in my ears again, as if the person who spoke was right beside me.

Ling Xiang closed his eyes, but slowly raised his lips.

It's going to die anyway, so delete it.

From now on, Luna's Voice will not be online, and there will be no more characters like Seven Destroyers and Seven Lives on the server.

No one would call PK on the world channel at ten o'clock in the evening, and the time of the dark warlock in the dark purple robe and the mage in the silver robe would stop from now on, until the moment the server was shut down, it would disappear.

In the end, all the materials collected were useless.

"What a pity..." Ling Xiang thought vaguely.

But it's good to end like this.It was as if he died that night and never met a man named Jiang Yue.

Jiang Yue was not emotional, nor did he betray.

Time passed slowly, and his consciousness seemed to be getting more and more blurred. Ling Xiang fumbled slowly and pressed the phone's power button. The light on the screen was extraordinarily dazzling in the dark.

In just a moment, the phone rang, and the "Jiang Yue" on the caller ID gave Ling Xiang a subtle illusion.

It was as if he could feel the anxious mood of that person.

He connected to the phone by accident, and Jiang Yue's voice could not wait to come from there: "Ling Xiang..."

Then it stopped abruptly.

Ling Xiang stared blankly at the screen that flashed a low battery prompt and then completely dimmed, and finally let go of his hand slowly.The phone slipped from the palm of his hand and fell to the ground, making a dry, muffled sound.

Maybe this is destined.

Ling Xiang thought, and slowly closed his eyes.

"Jiang... Yue..."

"Ling Xiang!" As if responding, Jiang Yue's voice came from a distance.

Because it was too far away, it sounded extraordinarily illusory, Ling Xiang twitched the corners of his mouth.

Is it a hallucination before death?That person...how could he appear here?

"Ling ring!"

This time the call became closer and clearer, Ling Xiang trembled all over, opened his eyes slightly, but there was only an endless void in front of him.The rhythm of the heartbeat became uncontrollably disordered, he couldn't help opening his mouth, the weakness of the body and the violent heartbeat made him gasp for breath, the consciousness seemed to be a little bit far away, Ling Xiang closed his eyes again.

"Ling ring──"

The sound seemed to be getting closer, but also seemed to be farther away. Ling Xiang subconsciously wanted to respond, but there was a stronger thought in his mind to stop it.

So be it……

However, the moment Ling Xiang gave up, he felt someone rushing forward, his body was tightly embraced by strong hands, and the warm and familiar breath completely wrapped him up.

The other party's tears dripped down on his face, hot enough to make his heart ache, this was Ling Xiang's last memory before he fell into a coma.