Fengqi Nancheng

Lin Heng finally left that day.

Because the shock caused panic among nearby residents, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Gu Qiyuan finally persuaded Lin Heng to get in the car before the police arrived.

He sent Lin Heng to the old house of the Lin family. Lin Zecheng was very surprised to see Lin Heng returning home suddenly. He was stopped by Gu Qiyuan and didn't know what to say. Lin Heng sat in the middle of the night, chatting a few words from time to time, talking about irrelevant things, Lin Heng occasionally responded with a slightly cold attitude, and Lin Zecheng was not angry.

For the next few days, everything was business as usual.Gu Qiyuan asked for a long vacation from the police station for Lin Heng, and Lin Heng lived at home with peace of mind, reading every day and going out for a walk occasionally.Just during this time, Lin Zecheng was also temporarily idle due to physical reasons. The two father and son rarely had time to chat. Although Lin Heng didn't talk much, he would still cooperate with Lin Zecheng to talk about some trivial matters in life.After another month or so, Lin Heng's mood seemed to have basically recovered, and Lin Zecheng was also busy with work, so Lin Heng moved back to his home in Nanyucheng alone.

When returning to Nan Yucheng's house, the security guard downstairs found Lin Heng and said that there was a letter to be delivered to him.Lin Heng held the letter in a daze for a while, and when he came back, he immediately rushed home with the letter. His hands were trembling when he opened the letter, and his eyes were already red, but as soon as he opened the letter, he knew he was wrong.

The letter was written by Guiqi.

According to the date on the letter, it should have been mailed a month ago.At that time, Lin Heng had just returned to the Lin family, Gui Qi probably didn't know that Lin Heng had returned to the Lin family's old house, so she sent the letter here.If Lin Heng hadn't come back this time, I'm afraid the letter would have stayed in the security room for a longer period of time.

The letter is not long, to the effect that it is a brief farewell to Lin Heng.

In order to prolong her life for a short time, Guiqi wanted to know the truth of the matter and find a way to restrain the Gu family from waking up the spirit body. To survive, but after the forbidden spell expires, the caster will pay the price of losing his soul.Gui Qi wrote this letter to Lin Heng before the deadline, but she didn't mention any previous entanglements in the letter, she just briefly talked about her situation, and then said goodbye to Lin Heng.

In Gui Qi's letter, there was one point that Lin Heng was very concerned about.

After Lin Heng fell into the water, Gui Qi actually never went far.She saw with her own eyes that the people brought by Gu Yi rescued Lin Heng from the water.Gui Qi's strength alone is too weak to fight against Gu Yi, so she can only follow secretly.Gui Qi also watched what happened in the factory from beginning to end.Even after Lin Heng and Gu Qiyuan left, how Nan Yucheng fought against the wraith body alone, she saw everything clearly.

She didn't tell Lin Heng about the situation that day in detail, but at the end of the letter, she mentioned that when the Wraith Spirit was attacking Nanyu City that day, Ah Che blocked a blow.What happened after that was because the ground shook too violently, and the surrounding buildings were collapsing. Gui Qi couldn't keep watching, so she had to leave first.After the matter subsided, she returned to the scene as soon as possible, but found no trace of anyone who was there at the time.

She guessed in the letter that Nan Yucheng was forced to disappear because of Ah Che's help, although he escaped the fatal attack.Gui Qi thought about her previous friendship with Lin Heng as a colleague, or when she was about to die, the tone of the letter was also much warmer.She told Lin Heng some clues about Nan's family that she found in the following days, hoping to provide Lin Heng with some help.

At the end of the letter, Gui Qi found the ancient address of the Nan family. It was in a remote small town in the south, about two days' drive from the city where Lin Heng lived.

Lin Heng looked at the string of unfamiliar addresses on the letter and fell into a long silence.

For a month, he lived in an environment with no information, and he didn't hear any news about Nanyu City.Gu Qiyuan tried several times to mention the later situation to him, but he repeatedly refused.He didn't want to know the truth, or he believed too much in Nan Yucheng's hesitant and ominous eyes before he left, so he had already tacitly agreed that there would be no other possibility.

After going through all this, Lin Heng no longer believes that there will be another miracle in him. After all the good things are punctured, he is devastated. He can't face the truth behind the matter, and even hear the word truth. , he will feel sick.

Therefore, for so long, he didn't know how Gu Qiyuan dealt with the follow-up matters after the incident, and he didn't even know if he found anything at the scene of the accident.

At the same time, he always harbored a secret and ulterior expectation in his heart, as if he was blinded and pretended to be ignorant, and one day there would be some unexpected turning point.

When he heard the security downstairs that there was a letter for him, he really thought he had waited for this turning point.

So when he quickly opened the letter almost out of control, only to find that the letter was from Gui Qi, the feeling of being thrown a basin of ice water over his head in winter made him feel cold from head to toe. A transparent.

He knew that Gui Qi did this because of Lin Heng's leap by the lake.Although Lin Heng had no suicidal thoughts before falling into the lake, but no matter what, he was willing to take that step for Gui Qi, and Gui Qi deserves to express her infinite gratitude to Lin Heng for this.

Gui Qi used the last period of her life to find out this address for Lin Heng. Although she did not explicitly explain the function of this address, it must have a special meaning.

Lin Heng knew that this might be an opportunity, but he felt very hesitant for a moment - he knew that the opportunity was right in front of him, but he dared not step on the road to seize it.

Probably... because he clearly knows that if he misses this time, he really has nothing else to look forward to.

Lin Heng even thought about putting the letter aside like this, and never confirming what was said in the letter, maybe he could live with his fantasy all the time.

But, are you willing?

Lin Heng asked himself.

He is not reconciled, there is no way to be reconciled.

Although he told the people around him countless times that he was fine and that he was fine, but only when he was alone at night, that kind of pain would slowly rise from the bottom of his heart like a monster in the deep sea.That kind of feeling is something that Lin Heng has never experienced in his life for more than 20 years-it is a complex and indescribable pain produced by the mixture of loss, despair, and sadness that is close to suffocation.

Many times he wanted to release, to vent, trying to get himself out of this suffocating environment, but when he wanted to dial a certain number on his mobile phone, he suddenly realized that he most wanted to call That person is no longer there.

At this time, the pain of loss clearly began to move back and forth on Lin Heng's body, cutting all the camouflage during the day into pieces, making it impossible for him to avoid it.

So when Gui Qi's letter was in front of him, Lin Heng hesitated.He couldn't completely reject the temptation brought by this letter, and at the same time, he couldn't face the possible blow from the truth behind it.

Lin Heng stared at the letter all night, and when the next day dawned, he washed his face, packed his luggage, sent a text message to Gu Qiyuan, and embarked on a journey to find the address on the letter. journey.

Although the small town mentioned in the letter is very remote, Lin Heng had heard Nan Yucheng mention it several times.I didn't know Nan Yucheng's intentions at the time, but now that I think about it, I feel that Nan Yucheng may have already had a premonition somewhere.It is also for this reason that Lin Heng is no stranger to this place. He arrived there after taking a train and changing cars twice.

It happened to be noon when Lin Heng arrived in the town, and he was already very tired after two days of driving.Even so, he immediately followed the address mentioned in the letter to find it.

There are not many people in the town, but they are all quite friendly.Most of them are aborigines who have been passed down from generation to generation. They are very clear about the historical rumors of this generation. When Lin Heng asked about the address of the Nan family back then, many old people knew it and told a lot about the Nan family’s past. things to come.

Although Lin Heng was very interested in the old things they said, there were more important things at the moment, so after asking the way, he thanked everyone for their kindness and left in a hurry.

Nan's courtyard was built on the west side of the town, close to the outside of the city, surrounded by an ancient moat.The courtyard is very large, and the city wall is an old red brick wall, which has been a little crumbling after years of wind and frost.There is half a plaque hanging at the door, which has been corroded and decayed until the words on it are blurred, but the grandeur of it can still be seen vaguely.

Lin Heng stood at the door for a while, took a few deep breaths, and finally mustered up the courage to knock on the door.

According to those old people, although the house of the Nan family seems to be deserted, it has been guarded silently for many years.Most of the people who keep the house are from other places. They stay there from the age of 20 to their fifties, and they change again when they reach the age. The tradition of keeping the house has lasted for hundreds of years.

Over the years, people in the small town have tried to find out who sent these gatekeepers here from generation to generation to guard a dilapidated house, but those gatekeepers never answered, but silently fulfilled their duties. own responsibility.After a long time, the people in the small town gradually got used to their existence, and since they came to the small town, they have always acted in a low-key manner and never made any mistakes. As time passes, people will no longer mention this matter up.

Lin Heng knocked on the door three times, and the door opened.

The person who opened the door was a man in his thirties, with short hair, dark skin, and dark eyes. He hid half of his body behind the door, watching Lin Heng warily.

Lin Heng smiled embarrassedly: "Excuse me. I'm here to find someone. May I ask if there is...a young man named Nan Yucheng?" After speaking, Lin Heng's voice was unconsciously a little bit trembling.

The man froze for a moment, then nodded sharply, three or four times in succession, and then quickly moved out of the way, beckoning inside with one hand desperately, letting Lin Heng in.

Lin Heng hesitated for a moment, then strode in.

The yard is huge.Although the scale of the house was already seen from the outside, Lin Heng was still surprised to see the size of the house when he actually stepped inside.

The man seemed very happy to see Lin Heng, dancing with excitement, his hands kept gesticulating, pointing at a certain place inside the house for a while, and pointing at Lin Heng for a while.

Lin Heng was confused, and after looking for a long time, he vaguely felt a clue, and said cautiously: "You...can't speak?"

The man nodded, with a naive and joyful expression, without any embarrassment when he was touched by his flaws.

Lin Heng touched his nose: "I really don't understand what you want to express. If possible, can I trouble you to write down what you want to say?"

The man was taken aback, then slapped his head violently, and took out an old notebook from his pocket.From the other pocket, he took out a pencil that was worn down to the size of his little finger, and began to write in the notebook.

After a while, he lifted the notebook and brought it to Lin Heng.

Lin Heng was slightly taller than the man. When he looked down, he saw something scrawled on the notebook: "Brother Nan asked me to wait for you here for a long time. He has something for me to give to you."

Lin Heng's heart trembled violently when he saw the word "Brother Nan", and he almost couldn't control his emotions.He quickly stepped forward, grabbed the man's arm, and said anxiously, "Do you know where he is?!"

The man was taken aback by Lin Heng's sudden reaction, shook his head quickly, and gestured subconsciously again.After gesticulating for a long time, he realized that Lin Heng couldn't understand, and hurriedly lowered his head to write in the notebook.

Lin Heng couldn't wait any longer, so he leaned over to have a look.I saw the man write: "Brother Nan hasn't come back for a long time. It's some things from the past. He said that if a young man like you comes to ask him one day, he will give you all those things." After a pause, he added, "I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Lin Heng didn't make a sound. The moment he saw this sentence, he seemed to be thrown down from a high altitude, and the moment of joy just now turned into double pain to hit him.

He closed his eyes, felt a soreness in his nasal cavity, and couldn't speak for a while.

Seeing that his expression was wrong, the man didn't dare to disturb him, and waited cautiously aside.After a while, Lin Heng let out a deep breath: "I'm sorry, I'm a little emotional. I kept you waiting, please take me to have a look."

The man took Lin Heng to the attic in the backyard.

It was a library.About two stories high.Judging from the history of the house, this small attic should also have a history of hundreds of years.When Lin Heng stepped in, he could clearly smell an old, slightly musty, paper rotten smell coming from the house.The heavy feeling of time rushes towards his face, he can even imagine the appearance of Nan Yucheng walking back and forth among these books, inexplicably, he actually finds it a little funny.

The man led him to the second floor of the attic.Compared with the densely packed books on the first floor, the second floor of the attic is much more empty. Except for a row of yellowed books on the bookcase on the right side of the stairs, there is nothing else.

The man walked up to the pile of books, patted them lightly, and pointed at Lin Heng.

"He left all these to me?" Lin Heng asked softly.

The man nodded, then pointed to the desk in the corner, and made a gesture of turning the pages of a book.

Lin Heng asked: "You want me to go over there to see?" The man nodded again.

Lin Heng was silent.

Originally, when he came here, he held a faint hope, thinking that he could find traces of Nanyu City here.After all, according to what Gui Qi said, if Nan Yucheng had escaped by chance and was unable to contact him for some reason, then he might return to this place.

But when Lin Heng saw this man and knew what Nan Yucheng left behind, Lin Heng didn't think that Nan Yucheng would be here anymore.

The situation in front of me, on the contrary, seems like a secret gift that Nan Yucheng prepared for Lin Heng many years ago, waiting for Lin Heng's unexpected discovery - if Lin Heng was not inspired by the letter from Gui Qi, then Maybe he will never come here, and what Nan Yucheng left here will become a permanent secret.

Lin Heng looked at the pile of yellowed books with complicated emotions.When he came back to his senses, the man who led him up had quietly retreated.

Lin Heng sighed, went to the bookcase to randomly pick a book, went to the table and sat down.

As soon as he opened it, Lin Heng realized that it was not a book, but a diary written by Nan Yucheng many years ago.

The time recorded in the diary is untestable, but judging from the degree of damage to the paper, at least several decades should have passed.

Lin Heng flipped a page at random, and saw this passage:

"In the past few days, I have started to dream about the past again frequently, and I can't sleep. When I close my eyes, it is his miserable state.

Occasionally, I think that if one day I can't hold it anymore, he will be trapped in the cycle of reincarnation forever, knowing nothing, whether it is a bad thing or not.

It is probably because people live too long, and after a long time, they will begin to doubt their previous practices.

Recently, I've always been thinking, if I didn't follow the arrangement and was transferred back then, maybe he wouldn't have been taken away by the Gu family from the beginning; or if I didn't believe what Nan Yi said, maybe I could have chased after the Gu family, even if he was with the Gu family. He died together, probably much better than the current situation.

Now that I think about it, there are obviously countless ways to go in the past, but in the end I just walked like this.

......"

There are still a few sentences at the end of this passage, which have been altered so that the original appearance cannot be seen.Lin Heng carefully identified it several times, but his eyes were blurred and he still couldn't understand it.

The handwriting blurred into a mass of deep black over the years, like a scar on Lin Heng's heart, which also quietly knotted on this yellowed booklet.

Lin Heng was stunned for a while, then returned to the bookcase, and began to search seriously.

This time, he didn't read aimlessly, but listed all the books together in chronological order, starting from the earliest one and reading it bit by bit.

There are many books, each representing Lin Heng's life.But the content recorded in the book is not much, there are only a few words in many places, and the words are unclear, but Lin Heng can roughly imagine the scene at that time.

He read these booklets, as if he was reading Nanyu City's thousand-year state of mind, and unconsciously became a little crazy.

Lin Heng sat in the library pavilion for a long time, until it was completely dark, the light in the room dimmed, and even the words on the books were blurred, so he had no choice but to stop.

He decided to live in this place. These books were too old to experience the bumps of the journey, so he could only read them here.

After negotiating with the man guarding the house, Lin Heng lived in peace of mind.The house is quiet, and the man who guards the house is named A Zhu. He has an honest temper. He tidied up a room for Lin Heng near Zangshu Pavilion, and delivered three meals a day to Lin Heng at regular intervals. Other than that, he basically would not come. disturb.

Lin Heng lived here for nearly a week.He read all the books left by Nan Yucheng from beginning to end several times.From these books, he learned all the changes in Nanyu City in such a long time, as well as his entire plan for the Gu family.The content in the book continued until Nan Yucheng and Lin Heng met for the first time on the bus, and then it stopped abruptly. Although the subsequent events were not recorded, Lin Heng can roughly imagine how Nan Yucheng did all this of.

After reading these books, he meditated silently for a long time, with mixed feelings in his heart.

He used to be very eager to understand the past of Nan Yucheng that he didn't know, but when he really reread those moments that he missed inch by inch, he suddenly felt a little unbearable.

Such a person has been silently waiting for him for nearly a thousand years, watching him fall into reincarnation and rebirth countless times, constantly remembering and forgetting, that kind of sobriety that makes the world drunk, Lin Heng just wants to Just thinking about it makes me feel miserable.

And it wasn't until this moment that Lin Heng really began to feel that he had really lost that person.

It's not because of the conclusive information obtained from these books, but because of seeing the journey of Nan Yucheng, even Lin Heng himself felt that perhaps for Nan Yucheng, leaving would be a kind of relief.

He didn't know what kind of mood he should face all this recorded in the book.After reading it, he spent three days in the attic.Three days later, for the first time, Ah Zhu ran to the library loft and knocked on the door, pulling Lin Heng out of his contemplation.

When Lin Heng went downstairs, he saw A Zhu pointing to Lin Heng at the gate of the courtyard with a puzzled face——

Under the eaves, the sun is mottled.A thin young man was standing with his back turned outside the house, half of his body fell in the shadows, as if it were real or unreal.

Hearing the movement, the boy turned around.The moment he saw Lin Heng, an undisguised smile appeared on his clear face, and he grinned:

"Little brother, I'm back."

The author has something to say: the text ends here.

Afterwards, there will be an extra episode (abuse?) of the fifth volume.

Then there is a relatively long extra episode·Return (sweet!).

Dear friends who like BE or open ending can stop here.

The following extra volume · return volume contains the sweet life and a summary of the decryption of the mysteries that were not clearly explained in the previous text.

During this period of time, in order to finish writing the text before the National Day, I am so tired T^T

Therefore, the frequency of extra updates may not be as high as before, and it may not be possible to guarantee regular updates every day, but I will try my best to update daily, even if I can't do it, at least I will update every other day!

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