Played by the devil in the palm of his hand

Xu Chi hesitated for a while, and finally lowered his eyes, and said desolately: "...Then forget it, I'm leaving."

Those eyes were as sad as if what he gave up was not a dagger, but his wife who had been married for 50 years.

Jun Ye's heart moved. For the first time in his life, he actually felt guilty. Although there was only a tiny bit, not much bigger than a grain of rice, it was like gravel, which made people's conscience uneasy.

"Okay, you win." Jun Ye reluctantly compromised, threw the dagger to him, and warned half-truth, "No more next time, or you will know the consequences."

Xu Chi stretched out his hand to firmly hold the handle of the knife, and inserted it into the belt of the weapon, the sadness in his eyes faded away in an instant.He didn't even look at Jun Ye, didn't even say thank you, turned around and left without closing the door.

Jun Ye sighed and laughed, but didn't pursue it any further.

The waiter who delivered the medicine just now was still guarding the door. Seeing Xu Chi come out, he bowed respectfully and stretched his right arm to the side, meaning to lead the way for him.

Xu Chi's gaze stayed on his white mask for a moment, and then moved away quickly.

To be honest, he couldn't tell the difference between these waiters, and he didn't have any affection for them.He always felt that these people were like puppets tied with thin strings, indifferent and numb. Even the 'passers-by' in the city were much cuter than them.

When Xu Chi returned to the apartment, it was about six o'clock in the morning, a little light had already appeared at the end of the sky, and the air was filled with the refreshing smell unique to autumn.

He walked up the stairs, and when he passed the neighbor's downstairs, he raised his hand to knock on the door.Just as his knuckles were about to touch the door, he suddenly stopped. Within a few seconds, he made a small decision, put down his hands, turned around and planned to leave.

But the thing inside the door recognized his footsteps, ran over quickly, raised its body and scratched the door vigorously with its claws.

"Wang! Wang Wang Wang!"

Xu Chi was taken aback, but before he could react, the doorknob clicked, and the door was flung open by the mine.

This stupid dog wagged its tail violently, grinning, and bumped into Xu Chi's knee happily, and kept pawing at his trouser legs, as if saying on his face: Why did you come to pick me up? You've been waiting for a long time .

Sha Gou didn't realize that he had been sent to adopt someone else, he thought Xu Chi was just playing hide and seek with him, waited eagerly all night, and finally got him back.

Xu Chi looked at it with complicated emotions. It was the first time he had seen such a gadget that was full of his heart and eyes at his age, and he was a little touched besides the novelty.

In the end, he sighed pretendingly, "Okay, from now on, if I have a bite of food, you will have a bite of dog food. Let's go with Dad."

It can be regarded as the completion of the historic transformation from 'raising it for fun' to 'raising it for a lifetime'.

Xu Chi returned to the apartment, took out the key to open the door, and saw Edward guarding the living room as soon as he entered.

The two said in unison, "Aren't you hurt?"

Xu Chi shook his head and closed the door, "It's safe to say, what about your side?"

Edward briefly told the story, and it can be seen that he was very frustrated by this failure. After all, several people spent several days without sleep to find the shortest point of the cliff, and then made a detailed plan, and the result was overwhelmed Sexual strength is directly destroyed.

Mental frustration is stronger than physical exhaustion.

Xu Chi comforted him, "It's good that it's okay, there will be opportunities in the future."

Edward sighed, "I don't think we'll be able to escape unless we grow wings."

The word "wings" touched a certain nerve in Xu Chi's mind. At that moment, he seemed to think of something, but Lei Lei wagged his tail and bit his trousers and acted like a baby to him, interrupting his thoughts all at once. Like a tiny point of light, it suddenly sank into the darkness.

Xu Chi bent down and touched two dogs' heads, and said with a wry smile, "How can a human grow wings? Isn't that a bird man? Oh, right, what about others?"

"Coco Lee and Li Wu went to the hospital..."

Xu Chi was surprised, "How does Coco Li know that Li Wu is in the hospital?"

"Because Li Wu came back once, he was not in a good condition, and Coco Lee sent him back to the hospital." Edward explained simply, "Li Wu said you are fine, so Anna and the others went back to the room to rest first, after all, they have been tossing all night. "

Edward patted the sofa, told him to sit down, and poured him a cup of tea.

He probably saw that Xu Chi's spirit was not in a good mood, and he wanted to say some things in his heart for a long time.He said softly: "Ah Chi, don't put too much pressure on yourself. In fact, people in our line of work are already doomed to die in the future. In case... If I or Anna die one day, you have to live well."

Xu Chi turned his head and retorted bluntly, "I won't let you guys die."

Edward sighed, "People are mortal, you have to accept this fact, especially in the current situation. Chi, I know what you are thinking, you think this happened because of yourself, so you have to do your best to help Someone else is responsible, but you don't need to be, you are a victim too."

Xu Chi remained silent, his eyes flushed.

Edward continued: "Actually, I have already thought about the worst outcome. Maybe in the end, only you survive, but you have to remember that Anna and I will not blame you. I still hope that the rest of your life will be happy. .”

"...Are you going to leave me alone again?" Xu Chi suddenly grabbed Edward's hand and held it firmly, the trembling of his body was transmitted down his palm, he asked in a hoarse voice, "Again like four years ago, Am I the only one left?"

His memory has been messed up by Jun Ye's forced guidance, to the point of being uncontrollable.

"The uncle who often drank and played guns with me, fell in front of me covered in blood that day, and the young man who showed off his girlfriend's photo in front of me last week, was shot through his lungs by a bullet and died painfully that day. Brothers, but when they died in battle, they didn’t even have pensions left for their families, most of them didn’t even have families, we only had each other, but everyone died…”

Xu Chi bent down in pain, grabbed Edward's hand tightly, and put his forehead on the back of the other's hand, "Then tell me now, even if you are dead, I will live happily? How is it possible?! I He should have died in the forest four years ago, so there would be no such town, and no bullshit games!"

Edward looked at him in shock, he keenly felt the moisture on the back of his hand—Xu Chi cried.

He showed a weak and cowardly side in front of Edward, like a child who was excluded from childhood, and finally found his only friend, and held Edward's hand tightly, with an obvious crying voice.

"Don't leave me, just take it as I beg you, even if you die, take me with you."

"I really can't bear it, things like four years ago..."

Edward pulled his hand out, then opened his arms and hugged him, stroking his back, his dark green eyes were as deep as the sea, "Don't worry, I won't leave you alone, 12 years ago I put If you bring it out of Myanmar, it will never abandon you."

He patted Xu Chi's trembling back, comforting him constantly.

Probably because Xu Chi was rarely comforted by others when he was a child, so hugging and touching were very effective for him. After a few minutes, Edward felt the body in his arms quiet down. He let go of Xu Chi and took out a tissue from the table , Wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes.

Then he suddenly realized that there was something wrong with this action, so he stuffed the tissue into his hand and said shortly, "Wipe yourself, and then go back to the room to rest."

Xu Chi smiled embarrassedly, "Sorry, don't tell Anna about today, okay?"

"Of course, I'll keep it a secret for you." Edward patted Xu Chi's head, "Okay, go back to the house, you haven't slept all night."

Xu Chi nodded, stood up and left the living room.

He was indeed tired. Although his spirit was still high, his physical exhaustion could not be ignored. He almost fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.

He felt that he had only slept for an hour or two, because he basically didn't dream, and he woke up quickly from hunger.

Xu Chi lifted the quilt, got up in a daze, and wanted to go to the kitchen to find something to eat. When he pushed the door, he tripped over a landmine, which was worthy of the name 'landmine'.

Xu Chi walked into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator door. The air-conditioning on his face made him wake up a little bit. Only then did he realize that the living room was full of people. Xu Chi wondered, "Why are you all here?"

Anna raised her phone, "Here's a text message, the next game starts at ten o'clock."

"Oh..." Xu Chi reached out and took out a packaged steak from the second floor of the refrigerator, "Ten in the morning? Didn't you say evening..."

Xu Chi's eyes fell on the window and he paused.

The stars outside the glass were shining brightly, and the night was hazy, as if it was already night.

Xu Chi was startled, "Have I slept for so long?"

Anna said helplessly: "It's already [-]:[-] in the evening. If you don't get up again, I will call you in your boudoir, Miss Xu."

Xu Chi didn't bother to talk to her, and murmured, "It's only twenty minutes."

Then he put the steak back in the refrigerator resentfully, took a pack of sesame-flavored compressed biscuits from the cupboard, and added a glass of ice water. The dinner plummeted from the standard of a high-end western restaurant to the miserable life of an otaku, from 'living to eat' ' became 'eat to live'.

It took Xu Chi 5 minutes to fill his stomach. He sat in the living room with a few people and waited for a while. Finally, the clock on the wall reached ten o'clock.

At that moment, almost everyone became nervous, holding their breath and waiting for the start of the game.

But nothing happened, the seconds on the screen of the electronic watch kept beating, and soon it was [-]:[-].

Edward couldn't help complaining: "Achi, is your watch broken, or is he late?"

Xu Chi argued, "My watch is madeinchina, the quality is very good, it can't be broken."

He looked around, and suddenly found a white light coming from the crack under the door, but if he remembered correctly, there was a yellow eye protection lamp waiting in the corridor.

Xu Chi suddenly understood, spread his hands, walked to the door, pushed open the door, then turned to look at Edward and the others, "It seems that it has already started."