under the tower

No one knew the voice of Master Chang's, let alone the entire investigative department was the Chang family's minions.

Everyone's movements stopped in mid-air, only the bodyguard stood firmly in front of Ji Xi, leaving him with a broad back.

Chang Huai was paralyzed and had to rely on means of transportation to move. He heard his voice but could not see him. After a while, Chang Huai came to the front of the cell in a chair, and another bodyguard guarded him.

Chang Huai took out a piece of paper and said without any refutation: "Let him go."

The leader argued: "But Mr. Chang, this person is an important criminal who trespassed on the important scientific research center of Chongming. What information he stole has not yet been found out. I'm afraid if he is released rashly..."

Chang Huai said angrily: "I told you to let him go, but you didn't even listen to me, did you?"

The man had no choice but to swallow his anger: "...The subordinates dare not."

The iron chains on Ji Xi's hands and feet were untied, and he slipped and fell to the ground weakly, as if his spine had been ripped off, leaving only a lump of soft flesh without a skeleton.

The bodyguard picked him up from the ground carefully without touching the wound in front of him.

Chang Huai glanced at him: "Take it away."

Unconsciously, Ji Xi was brought out of the damp and cold iron prison in a somewhat familiar and warm embrace.

Ji Xi is too lazy to think about why Chang Huai saved him, anyway, it's fine anyway, he doesn't care anymore.

The pawns, chips, or cannon fodder in other people's hands are probably the only value left for him to use.

In the current situation, he really couldn't think so much.

However, he thought that after Chang Huai picked him up, he would probably be sent to another place to be locked up, but the bodyguard took him back to the apartment in the Jumen area, and he was gently held unconsciously. Putting him on a bed, he was surrounded by a familiar and safe atmosphere.

Ji Xi suddenly realized that this was not his room, the person who rescued him from Tie Ji and escorted him all the way back was not Chang Huai's bodyguard, but Yan Yi, who was lying safely on Yan Yi's body now. on the bed.

Yan one.

The name made him sober for a moment, Ji Xi suddenly opened his eyes, and saw the man in front of him wearing a bodyguard suit and a pair of sunglasses, only the lower half of his resolute face was exposed.

Many scenes swirled before his eyes, and he suddenly recalled that when he went to Lu's house with Chang Huai, he always felt that this person looked so familiar.

It was him, it had always been him.

Ji Xi shook her bloody hand, met the man's face with a little blue stubble, pressed on the bridge of his nose, and gently took off the pair of sunglasses.

Under the black sunglasses, Yan Yi's pair of star-like pupils appeared. At this moment, his eyes were filled with distress that almost turned into concrete.

Yan half knelt beside the bed, and said dumbly: "I'll take care of your injuries."

Ji Xi turned her head slowly, her eyes gradually became clear from endless numbness.

Yan Yi carefully peeled off Ji Xi's blood-soaked clothes, the original clean coat was wrinkled and covered with mud, a trace of a whip tore the cloth, revealing the bruised wounds inside.

Ji Xi's once jade-like skin was forcibly cut in half, and the black and red coagulated blood stained the epidermis, forming an extremely strong visual contrast with the snow-white complexion.

Yan Yi gently separated the cloth from the stagnant wound, took out the medicine box from the drawer, took out the cotton swab and povidone iodine, gently wiped the damaged wound, and then wrapped it with a cloth bandage.

This is a very old method, which is very rare in modern society, probably Yan Yi brought the treatment box from his home in the sick wood area.

A strange feeling emerged in Ji Xi's heart.

Rather than using a healing device to treat the wound quickly and accurately, he seems to prefer Yan Yi to treat him like this, that kind of careful, considerate action, as if through this less advanced and inconvenient way, he can truly feel the wound. The earnestness and care of this person.

Ji Xi moved his eyes, a trace of heat was transmitted from Yan Yi's index finger, reaching the empty and cold surface of his skin.

After treating the wound, Yan Yi didn't ask anything, but turned around and walked to the kitchen. After a while, he came out with a cup of warm milk and handed it to Ji Xi.

He asked in a non-tough manner: "Have a drink?"

Ji Xi unconsciously licked her dry and chapped lips, slowly stretched out her hand, took the steaming glass, and took a small sip.

Yan Yi squatted beside the bed, watching him seriously.

In fact, Ji Xi doesn't like anything that smells like milk, he always gets tired of it, but at this moment, this cup of slightly sweet and fishy milk fills his slightly cramped stomach from hunger for too long .

The warm liquid flowed into the body along the throat, and the tangled body gradually relaxed, and the feeling was a bit like returning to the world.

From hell, back to this world of joys and sorrows, bittersweet, and become one of those living beings who are deeply in dire straits and have been tortured by suffering—they are still struggling hard.

Ji Xi drank the whole glass of milk very slowly, and a faint blood color gradually appeared on his face during the process, at least it seemed that his condition was not so bad.

Yan Yi naturally took the empty cup and asked, "Is it better?"

Seemingly there was no other answer, Ji Xi nodded slightly.

Yan Yi stroked Ji Xi's hair reassuringly, smiled slightly, and comforted him in the same tone as before: "It's all right, I'm here."

The time seems to have returned to half a year ago, when Ji Xi's body was seriously injured, Yan Yi would say the same thing, he liked to touch Ji Xi's hair, probably because it felt good, like raising a small animal, or pitiful A weak creature.

It seems like nothing has changed, but in fact everything has.

Ji Xi grabbed Yan Yi's hand, using such strength that he almost embedded the other into his body, his hand's knuckles were protruding, and the skin was transparent, like a white-boned iron tongs.

Yan Yi froze for a moment, but didn't break free.

He stared at Yan Yi closely with stagnant eyes, and said a few words in a broken voice: "...Wu Qianshu is dead."

Yan Yi paused for a moment, then said, "I know."

Ji Xi smiled palely: "So it's not all right, I'm done."

He slammed the man's wrist away vigorously, and he scratched a blood-red mark on that place, like a symbol of farewell: "Leave me alone."

Yan Yi frowned: "Calm down first, the matter may not be as serious as you think."

"I'm very calm now, that's why I said that." Ji Xi hooked the corners of her lips, but her expression was like crying but not smiling, which was extremely ugly, "Otherwise I will definitely hold you back."

He said in a sad and powerless tone: "Go home, you are always right, I am so wrong, you should never get involved, and you should never meet Wu Qianshu, it's all because of me, I am the one who killed you." killed him."

He admits outright that he was wrong.

When Yan Yi forcefully persuaded him to leave, he refused to listen. He wanted everything, and forced Yan Yi to listen to him, but finally Yan Yi compromised.

But the fact is that he was so wrong. Not only could he not protect himself, but he also implicated his only relative in this world.

However, after hearing this, Yan Yi's expression was unexpectedly solemn, he closed his eyes, and said slowly: "We have no turning back."

He looked directly at Ji Xi, and said in a deep voice: "Now I teach you—since you made a mistake, you must learn to take the initiative to bear the consequences."

Ji Xi looked at him blankly, her heart was trembling: "What are the consequences?... Isn't this enough?"

What he didn't say was that from the moment Wu Qianshu died, Yan Yi was really the only one in his world.

The ominous meaning in Yan Yi's words is too strong.

He couldn't accept the worse result.

"It's all my fault." Ji Xi asked suspiciously without blinking his eyes, "It has nothing to do with you, you didn't do anything, why can't you turn around? Yan Yi, you go, go quickly."

After all, Ji Xi is still the cowardly and selfish person, he still chooses to escape, he doesn't want to face the cruel reality, and he doesn't want to bear the pain of losing more, even at the cost of his own life.

"I refuse." Yanyi said a few short words, but Ji Xi was stunned, the man's expression was firm and without hesitation, as if nothing could shake him——

"It's not because of you, don't think about it." Yan Yi said indifferently, "I just can't just sit back and ignore the status quo and continue to develop like this."

At that moment, Ji Xi saw deeply and clearly that there was something strange growing from Yan Yi's body, breaking through the ground, forming a contradictory and harmonious temperament on his body.

For a moment and a second, Ji Xi didn't know the man in front of him, even though they lived together day and night, ate and lived together for nearly a year.

Several reminder tones sounded in the room suddenly.

Ji Xi turned his head subconsciously, it was Yan Yi's smart panel that lit up, showing that he had received a new message.

Yan Yi directly forwarded the news to his smart assistant.

He was wearing earphones, Ji Xi didn't know what happened.

He only heard Yan Yi reply a few words briefly.

"Yeah." "Okay." "I see." "I'll go there right away."

As he responded, he picked up a coat from behind the door and put it on. It seemed that the situation was urgent.

After hanging up the smart assistant, Yan said to Ji Xi: "Stay with me first, don't run around." Then he opened the door and left in a hurry.

The door slammed shut with a "bang", and the cold wind blew in.

Ji Xi turned over and got out of bed, dragged his exhausted body to twist the doorknob, but the door lock was firmly fastened.

Damn it, this guy was in a hurry to leave, and he didn't forget to lock the door before leaving!

Ji Xi's mind went blank.

This is Yanyi's room, no one is allowed to open the door without the identity verification of the owner, otherwise the base will send the intruder to the trial court in the name of offending a private residence.

There is nothing in the tidy room, and the smart panel in the center of the wall is automatically locked after the owner takes the smart assistant away to prevent privacy leakage.

Ji Xi was extremely dull, he never expected that one day he would be locked in the room by Yan Yi, unable to go anywhere.