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He unpacked a bag of sugar in an orderly manner, poured all the sugar into his black tea cup, and said with great relief: "73, you can still remember the appearance of 'Dad', 'Dad' is very happy."

Even though he was mentally prepared, when he heard the code name "73", Jiang Botao still trembled uncontrollably, his lips trembled, and he couldn't say anything - if it was someone else, he would have been full of witty words Ironically, he went back, but Jiang Botao couldn't open his mouth when facing "father" at this moment.

He is afraid.

The childhood shadow brought to him by "father" and the white house cannot be resolved, forgotten, and finally dissipated with just a few words of comfort and encouragement.The consequence of Jiang Botao's intentional blurring of his own memory was the endless mental torture that would be brought about when this past event was recalled by him in the form of "history repeating itself".

"...Did you arrange all of these?" Jiang Botao sat back in the armchair, his eyes timidly daring not to look directly at Tang Jianbo, just staring at the basket of donuts on the long table: "From letting go It starts with the baby ghost killing Meng Ping."

"Hmm... actually earlier." Tang Jianbo, who had stirred the sugar evenly with a teaspoon, took a sip of the tea soup gracefully, with a surprised expression on his face. It seemed that he was very satisfied with this cup of delicious black tea, and then He put down the teacup, and continued: "If you and your partner were also in the East Pagoda that day, there wouldn't be so many incidents, and so many people wouldn't die."

"Is that our fault?" Jiang Botao took a donut out of the basket as he spoke - it was a chocolate-glazed donut sprinkled with colorful sugar needles - this was the first time he Ding Tong's mental picture of eating, but it's a pity that this donut has no taste, and it is hard and dry, which is difficult to swallow.Jiang Botao only took a bite, then put it aside, he still stared at a certain point on the table, and did not look at Tang Jianbo: "We are just finishing the work."

"I don't mean to blame you," Tang Jianbo smiled, "You are outstanding, one of my best 'guide works'."

"'Guide works'? Am I just a 'work' in your eyes?" Jiang Botao raised his eyes and glanced at Tang Jianbo, then quickly avoided meeting his gaze.The latter laughed out loud, as if he had just told a big joke: "'Work', 'Experimental Product', 'White Mice', which one do you like?"

Jiang Botao stopped talking.

On the contrary, Tang Jianbo began to continue talking on his own: "All the artificial guides in the East Pagoda are my 'works'. I have studied the 'Sentinels and Guides' for most of my life, and the more I study, the more I feel God is not fair. Why only 'sentinels' and 'guides' can have supernatural powers, obviously all human beings have spiritual elements, but only a very few stand out? Have you ever thought about this problem? 73?"

"Don't call me by that number!" Jiang Botao gritted his teeth and said, "I have my own name!"

"Okay, okay," Tang Jianbo waved his hands helplessly, and said with a grin: "Jiang Botao, why are you only in the rebellious stage now?"

"You don't care when I'm rebellious, you old murderer! If you have the ability, kill me too!" It was obvious that Jiang Botao was trying to provoke Tang Jianbo, but the latter seemed to have seen his trick, Don't be fooled: "Don't play tricks, this is Tongtong's mental picture, we as 'guests' can only obey his arrangements. And I will not kill you, in case something happens to Tongtong later, I will return You need to protect him."

"Don't even think about it." Jiang Botao glared and gritted his teeth, but Tang Jianbo sneered: "It's not up to you. Besides, the purpose of a guide is to sacrifice himself for the sentry."

"Even if I sacrifice, I will only sacrifice for, my, sentry, soldiers." Jiang Botao looked directly at Tang Jianbo, and said solemnly.Ding Tong, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly said, "Then, big brother, will you still protect me?"

Jiang Botao turned to Ding Tong and blurted out quickly: "No, you are not my sentinel."

"Then, can I become Big Brother's sentinel?" Ding Tong's eyes shone with anticipation, but the next second, Jiang Botao ruthlessly extinguished the light in his eyes: "No, you will never Will become my sentinel."

Ding Tong drooped the corners of his mouth instantly because of this sentence, he stuffed the last bit of pudding on the plate into his mouth in a muffled voice, and chewed, Ding Tong suddenly cried out: "I hate big brother the most. !!"

Before he finished speaking, Ding Tong disappeared from the room—he left his mental image, and Tang Jianbo, whom he invited to enter, also gradually disappeared.

Before leaving, Tang Jianbo smiled lightly and said to Jiang Botao, "It's up to you."

Tang Jianbo completely disappeared into the air, and now he is the only one left in "Rapunzel"'s prison. Jiang Botao looked around the empty room and whispered to himself——

"I will die only for my Sentinels."

The angry Ding Tong originally planned to ignore Jiang Botao for a few days, but after he was overwhelmed, he really couldn't help but want to play with his big brother in the mental scene.

The distressed Ding Tong asked his grandfather, and Tang Jianbo told him that this was his instinct as a sentinel, and it was a normal thing, so he didn't have to restrain himself.In the end, before Ding Tong could go to Jiang Botao happily, Tang Jianbo stopped him first, and asked Ding Tong to play with Jiang Botao only after finishing his daily training—after all, his purge plan I can't wait.

How could Ding Tong, who was only seven or eight years old in mental age, understand this? He was sulking about his grandfather restraining him from playing, but he didn't dare to show it directly on his face, so he could only conduct sentry training under Tang Jianbo's guidance sullenly.

Under Tang Jianbo's deliberate "transfer", Ding Tong now has almost all the abilities of sentries and guides in the East Pagoda, and is theoretically the closest to the existence of an omniscient and omnipotent "God".But his intelligence is not yet developed, and his understanding of his own abilities is still insufficient, let alone using them in actual combat as he pleases.

Knowing that Ding Tong's lifespan is only more than three months, Tang Jianbo couldn't wait to start training Ding Tong after he could summon a spiritual guide.Tang Jianbo understands that Ding Tong's situation is too special, and the step-by-step training method of the sentinel training camp is not suitable for him at all. For Ding Tong, who has limited time, it seems that only high-intensity repeated training can make him improve in a short period of time. Master the abilities you have.

But this kind of training only lasted for half a day, and Ding Tong cried and said that he refused to train any more: Tang Jianbo was too harsh, he was too tired, and he really didn't want to continue.

In the face of Ding Tong's smacking and rolling, no matter how angry Tang Jianbo is, it is useless to think that he is not good enough: Ding Tong's spiritual guide is watching him from behind him, and the huge Chimera is full of oppression—— After all, it was a mythical monster—even Tang Jianbo had to bow his head and compromise under the powerful pressure brought by the three monster heads of the Chimera.

——It is quite dramatic that Ding Tong gave his Chi Mei a cute name that is extremely inconsistent with the monster's appearance: Cake.

Ding Tong, who can be happy and lazy, can't wait to enter his mental picture. He was already prepared to be treated coldly by Jiang Botao, after all, he has been like this these days.

But this time, Jiang Botao actually smiled at him, he smiled softly and warmly, just like the first day he came to play with him in the spiritual scene.

Ding Tong, who was overjoyed, released his spiritual guide at Jiang Botao's request - he just thought it was great that his big brother could play with him, and he didn't think about Jiang Botao's request. motivation.

When Jiang Botao saw that Ding Tong's spiritual guide was actually a mythical creature, he was taken aback, but he quickly calmed down and reached out to touch the huge Chimera.And Ding Tong's spiritual guide was as close to Jiang Botao as he was himself. He lay down on his stomach, closed his eyes on all three heads, and let Jiang Botao caress him. The lion among the three heads even purred like a cat.

Then they played around for a long time, until Ding Tong felt a little tired and wanted to return to reality to sleep, but Jiang Botao still dragged him to continue playing.

"Big brother, I'm so tired." Ding Tong rubbed his eyes, pouted and said coquettishly, "Tong Tong wants to sleep."

"But big brother still wants to play." Jiang Botao propped his chin, thinking in distress, and then he suddenly realized: "Then Tongtong, do you want to sleep here directly?"

"Ah?" Ding Tong tilted his head.

"Tongtong can just sleep here, and we can continue playing when we wake up." Jiang Botao said with a smile.

"Can I sleep here?" Ding Tong asked with some doubts.

"Of course, big brother sleeps in Tongtong's world every night." Jiang Botao replied, "It's very comfortable here."

"Well... okay." Ding Tong nodded vigorously under Jiang Botao's expectant eyes, "But Tong Tong doesn't want to play the story of Rapunzel anymore, this story is so boring."

"Then let's play the story of Jack and the Beanstalk!" Jiang Botao said, "Has Tongtong heard of this story?"

"I heard! Dad told Tongtong before!" Ding Tong nodded, "Jack planted a pea, and the next day, the pea grew into a very tall beanstalk, and then Jack Up and down the beanstalk, up to the sky!"

"Then let's plant peas." Jiang Botao always had a bright smile on his face, "In this way, when Tongtong wakes up, the peas will grow up, and my brother can climb along the bean stems with Tongtong to the Play in the sky."

"Okay!" As soon as Ding Tonghua finished speaking, the surrounding environment changed immediately. The tower that imprisoned Rapunzel disappeared, and the forest also disappeared. In front of the two of them, there was only a vast plain that stretched as far as the eye could see.Several peas appeared in Ding Tong's hands, he and Jiang Botao dug a hole in the ground, and buried the beans in their hands.

While they were planting beans, Ding Tong's chimera swung its poisonous snake tail and circled the two of them.

After the two finished planting peas, Ding Tong conjured up a blanket and several soft pillows. Jiang Botao thoughtfully stacked the pillows to make a temporary bed.Chimera walked around the bed twice, then fell down on the side all of a sudden, as if it was also sleepy.Ding Tong stretched out his hand and patted his spiritual guide, then he comfortably laid his pillow on Chimera's stomach, grabbed a corner of the blanket and said to Jiang Botao, "Brother, watch the beans, if it grows up, big brother We must wake Tongtong up, and we will go to the sky to play together."

"Okay." Jiang Botao smiled and pulled the blanket on Ding Tong's shoulders.Ding Tong and his spiritual guide fell asleep quickly. At that time, the sun was just right and the wind was clear. Ding Tong fell asleep. The corners of his mouth slightly curled up seemed to indicate that he had a sweet dream. Jiang Botao turned his head and looked aside.

The magic beans that are about to pierce the sky are sprouting.

The five senses that returned first were hearing. Jiang Botao heard the mechanical sound of the ECG monitor and the sound of several machines working around him; followed by smell, the unpleasant smell of disinfectant settled in the air, and the room seemed It's been a long time since I've had fresh air; the last is the light, which is so faintly visible that I can't see through it.

Jiang Botao struggled several times in the haze, and finally opened his eyes slowly.What came into view was the ceiling of the intensive care unit. He rolled his eyes and saw several medical monitors around him and the infusion tube that was delivering glucose injection into his body.Other than that, Jiang Botao didn't see anyone else for the time being.

——His clever trick succeeded.

Jiang Botao lied, what he taught Ding Tong before was not the method of summoning the spiritual guide - but "manufacturing".

The summoned spiritual guide is the embodiment of its master's spirit, and its various states will actually reflect the master's current mental state.However, the spiritual guide deliberately created by the subconscious is different. In order to maintain its own existence, it consumes the master's spiritual power every moment until it is taken back or the master's spiritual power is exhausted.

Jiang Botao guessed that "Papa" would impatiently start training Ding Tong after he possessed the spiritual guide. While training, maintaining the existence of the spiritual guide would consume most of Ding Tong's spiritual power, and then he deliberately let Ding Tong Tong releases the spirit guide to play with and consumes the other part.

He originally thought that this consumption plan would last for a few days, but who would have thought that the spiritual guide created by Ding Tong is a huge chimera, in order to maintain its own existence, it will undoubtedly consume a huge amount of Ding Tong's mental power , This is equivalent to helping Jiang Botao unintentionally: he guessed correctly, Ding Tong, who had spent a lot of mental power and fell into a deep sleep in his own mental image, was extremely exhausted, and really couldn't trap his consciousness anymore.

——Jiang Botao successfully escaped from Ding Tong's mental image and returned to his own body.

The long-term deprivation of consciousness gave Jiang Botao a strange feeling about his penis. He lay on the bed for a long time before slowly regaining his limbs.Then Jiang Botao pulled out the nasal oxygen tube and the ECG patch, propped himself up on the bed and slowly sat up, just this simple movement made Jiang Botao feel dizzy and almost vomit.

...probably hypoglycemia.

Jiang Botao rubbed the center of his brows, comforting himself in his heart.

But now is not the time for hypoglycemia. Jiang Botao sat on the bed with his head propped up and looked around. There seemed to be no one else in the ICU except him.

This is a good opportunity.

Jiang Botao breathed out, reached out and pulled out the infusion needle, he didn't care if the needle hole on the back of his hand was bleeding or not, he just lifted the quilt and got out of bed.The feeling of stepping on the ground with both feet was too unreal. Before Jiang Botao could react, his feet went limp. He fell straight forward and hit his knees on the floor. The pain immediately made him grin his teeth. stand up.

What's more terrible is that when he fell, his conditioned reflex action knocked down the ECG monitor at the side, and under the entanglement of the wires, the ECG monitor brought down several other medical monitors at the side. The machine struggled and fell to the ground, making a loud noise.

Damn it!Jiang Botao, with tears in his eyes, gritted his teeth and stood up forcefully. He had to run away before the others—especially Tang Jianbo—were attracted by the movement.But he really didn't have much strength, after staggering a few steps but kept falling, Jiang Botao could only grab an infusion stand from the empty bed as a crutch to support himself and continue walking.

Before leaving the isolation area, Jiang Botao saw several bags of glucose solution on the medicine cabinet beside him, he didn't care about many of them for a moment, he grabbed a few bags, bit a corner and started to drink in big gulps.

Fortunately, the heavy steel isolation door was not closed, and Jiang Botao was able to leave the intensive care unit smoothly.He had only walked less than 30 meters, but he was extremely exhausted. Jiang Botao had no choice but to stop, standing still while supporting the infusion stand, and at this moment he seemed to hear a gunshot.

The gunshot was very close, not far away. Although he didn't know who the shooter was, Jiang Botao's breathing suddenly became short because of this. He prayed in his heart that the gunshot meant Zhou Zekai came to meet him. He's gone, and his sentinel has come to fetch him.

I don't know if it's psychological reasons, or the few bags of glucose solution he drank had an effect, Jiang Botao took a deep breath, felt that he had strength again, and dragged his steps to the safe passage again, he couldn't wait to get back. To Zhou Zekai's side, so that he couldn't care about other things at all.

The safe passage is not far from where he is now, only about five meters away, and the five meters Jiang Botao walked for nearly a minute.During this 1 minute, gunshots rang out twice, and at the same time he heard Tang Jianbo's voice from the safe passage. He seemed to be talking to someone else: "Why are there gunshots? Who are you going to see?" Look, and what happened upstairs just now?"

He's downstairs!Realizing this, Jiang Botao covered his mouth, restraining himself from panting too much.Hearing the sound, Tang Jianbo seemed to be downstairs. He couldn't take the risk of going downstairs. The only way now was to go up.In order to avoid revealing his whereabouts by making noise, Jiang Botao left the infusion stand used as a crutch behind the door of the safe passage and hid it.

This is the sixth floor, he doesn't know how many floors are upstairs, but he has to get out of here.Jiang Botao moved up to the seventh floor step by step against the wall, and the sound of someone going upstairs was heard from the safe passage. He covered his mouth and squatted on the platform between the seventh and eighth floors, resting for a while, while listening Listen to the movement downstairs.

The sound of footsteps in the safe passage only sounded for a while, and then turned out. Jiang Botao felt a little relieved, stood up while leaning on the wall, and continued to walk up.As soon as he walked up to the eighth floor, he heard Tang Jianbo's furious roar downstairs: "What's going on! Where did he go! Where's Tongtong? Why did you let him run away?! Go find him, find him back!"

Hee, I'm here.Jiang Botao twitched the corners of his mouth and revealed a nasty smile. He regained some strength and could walk without rubbing against the wall.

Three gunshots rang out not far away, and Jiang Botao staggered up to the tenth floor. The safe passage had come to an end here. Through the transparent glass strip on the door, Jiang Botao saw that the outside was already a rooftop.

There were noisy footsteps and children's cries in the safe passage. It was obvious that someone was going upstairs. They were going up very fast. Jiang Botao had no choice.

The door leading to the rooftop was unlocked, and Jiang Botao opened it without much effort. Outside the door was the dazzling sunlight and howling cold wind.Jiang Botao, who was only wearing a hospital gown, shivered uncontrollably. He stumbled forward facing the sun.Jiang Botao stood on the edge of the roof and looked down. Downstairs was the courtyard of the hospital. Perhaps because no one took care of it for a long time, the trees and grass in the courtyard were all withered and yellow.

Tang Jianbo came very quickly. He rushed up to the rooftop with the weeping Ding Tong and some others. He stood at the door and looked at Jiang Botao who was tottering in the cold wind. While panting, he mocked: "Jiang Botao Bo Tao, you have nowhere to run."

Jiang Botao sneered with the corners of his mouth curled up. He had already caught a glimpse of a figure he was no longer familiar with downstairs.But Tang Jianbo only saw Jiang Botao turning his head slowly. At this moment, one of his most perfect "guide works" was facing the warm winter sun, showing him a middle finger.

Then Jiang Botao jumped down without blinking.

Zhou Zekai just felt as if he had returned to the day when he awakened his power when he was nine years old.

That day, his mother was like Jiang Botao at this moment, standing precariously on the edge of the roof.The moment Zhou Zekai caught sight of Jiang Botao's figure on the rooftop, he rushed towards him like crazy.

The scenes that happened on the day of awakening the power flashed wildly before Zhou Zekai's eyes. He saw his mother standing on the edge of the roof that day, wearing a red dress suitable for spring, with love for his father who died in the line of duty, without hesitation. Jumped down from upstairs.

That day Zhou Zekai was downstairs, he watched blankly as his mother fell from upstairs, she fell to the ground, and a blood-red flower bloomed, Zhou Zekai did nothing, and he couldn't do anything.

And Zhou Zekai's memory of his mother falling from a tall building overlapped with Jiang Botao who was falling at the moment.

They are all people who love him deeply, and he also loves deeply, how could Zhou Zekai watch them cruelly leave him forever in the same way.What's more, he is no longer a child who can't do anything, he is now a powerful sentinel, a special multi-ability user, he has survived the pain of losing his guide, he has broken through his limit, he will definitely be able to.

he can!Can!Can--

"Do not----!!"

Zhou Zekai's heart-piercing shout had no effect, Jiang Botao fell in front of him, and a blood-red flower bloomed.

—he still can't do anything.

No matter how hard he tried to run, Zhou Zekai was still a step late as if struck by a bolt of lightning. He knelt down straight on the ground, looking in disbelief at Jiang Botao, who was lying in front of him in blood red, and his tears flowed uncontrollably. surged out from the eye sockets.He shook his hands, and supported Jiang Botao's shoulders, while the latter was lying on the ground quietly, without making a sound.

Zhou Zekai, whose face was full of tears, gently hugged Jiang Botao into his arms. He carefully hugged his lover, holding him gently as if he were a fragile object. After a few trembling hoarseness, there was hysterical grief.For some unknown reason, the weird dream like a prophetic dream suddenly flashed in his mind, and the strange boy whispered curses: "The butterfly fell from the sky, and when the butterfly died, I died too."

The butterfly fell from the sky.

The butterfly died.