who will you be

When the sun rises, the night will come.

Mo City, Aoi District.

For almost half an hour, he didn't speak.

A small fly landed on the table, climbed up his right index finger, crossed his arms and shoulders, climbed up his neck, jumped to the top of his head, slowly followed his wings, and flew away bored.

He remained motionless.

In the huge conference room, only the intermittent current of fluorescent lamps could be heard.

Eve didn't know what the man in front of her wanted to do, she didn't know why her mind went blank the moment she saw him, and she didn't know what the tear she shed when she regained consciousness meant what it was.I only vaguely felt that it was something very important, and I searched my memory over and over again, but couldn't grasp the slightest clue.

This made Eve irritated for a long time, and unconsciously stretched out her hand to the cigarette case in front of the table.But he moved suddenly, brushing off Eve's hand, as if she was the little fly.

Why are you like this!She was about to explode, but was interrupted by the man's deep voice: "Tell me about you, when you were a child." Eve stared at him, her own shadow reflected in his eyes, without any emotional fluctuations.

So she simply leaned back on the chair: "I want to drink coffee, add sugar, two packs..."

He tirelessly helped her refill her coffee three times, always tilted his head slightly when he sat back in the chair, and listened to Eve tell her story without any unnecessary expressions or movements.Looking at Eve, it feels like looking at something farther away.

"...Xiaoai grabbed my hand and ran. Although she didn't understand the situation, she ran out of the venue with her. It was chaotic at that time, there were people running around everywhere, and I was almost washed away by the flow of people several times .”

"Wow, I remembered, there was a beast who even ate my tofu! Then we just broke through the crowd and ran to the lobby downstairs when you grabbed me, and Xiao Ai was pushed out of the clubhouse. Well, the rest You know what's going on."

After Eve finished speaking, she went to get the cup, handed it to her mouth, and found that it was empty again. She raised her eyes and saw that he was sitting like that, with no intention of pouring it again. A look of interest: "At that time, there were a bunch of policemen at the door, and you were standing at the front, so you were waiting for someone, right?"

"Yes, I've been looking for it for a long time." He responded lightly, but it made Eve not know what to say for a while.After a while, he got up and walked to the window, saying, "Go back and sleep for a while, your friend has been waiting outside for a long time."

What?So let me go?Didn't you say it was related to drugs and murder?Don't ask me what do I know?Wait, friend?How can there be any friends-Xiao Ai!

Eve threw the coat on the chair over her shoulders with a "huh", picked up the small black bag, opened the door and ran out in a hurry, completely unaware of a little girl in a white cloak sitting next to the coffee machine at the desk in the lobby , with the hood covering half of his face, his forks dangling back and forth, holding a cup of coffee in his hands, humming softly...

Eve ran downstairs panting, and saw Xiao Ai in a red windbreaker leaning against the wall of the duty room from a distance, rubbing her hands and exhaling, the orange light fell on her little face through the window, warm warm.

In a daze, Eve felt as if they had returned to the time when they first met.At that time, the surroundings were also pitch black, and Xiao Ai was still combing her bun hair, sitting with her knees hugged against the wall of the alley, with her face buried in her knees.At that time, the streetlights shone obliquely on her side face like this, and Eve also stopped and watched like this.

Between her and her is darkness and light.

The electric retractable door slowly opened ("Hey!"), she turned her head when she heard the sound (she raised her head when she heard the cry), ah!It was no longer the tearful but stubborn face that made people feel distressed—she smiled, then jumped excitedly, raised her left hand to Eve with joy, and waved vigorously on tiptoe.Really, picked up a fool.Eve walked over slowly, and Xiao Ai stopped and waited quietly, just like at the beginning...

The man also stood quietly, watching the two figures, one red and one white, get closer and closer upstairs.

"You're back," he said to the girl who quietly appeared behind him.

"The coffee is good," the girl replied.

"Kewei, help me kill a few people."

"give me."

Of course Eve didn't know what happened upstairs, Xiao Ai was putting her arms around her neck to kiss her.

"Okay, okay, don't make trouble." Eve said while dodging, "It's winter, why don't you wait for me in the duty room?"

"You don't know, the guy on duty is an idiot!" Xiao Ai complained, and while Eve wasn't paying attention, she pouted and kissed her cheek, and leaned close to Eve's ear and said to her. "What did you say when you were upstairs for so long?"

"Oh, it's all over, the only thing left is what color underwear to wear today." Eve pretended to sigh.

"Yeah, what color is it, let me see!" After Xiaoai finished speaking, she made a gesture to take off her clothes.

Another round of squabbling...

"Yiyi, you probably fell in love with him, right?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Two people who can't fight each other."

"No, I'm serious! The way you look at him in the hall, tears are falling, you know? I thought you knew each other, otherwise just a few people could push me away? Let me tell you...Comrade Yiyi , Oh, hello, I'm so stupefied! Tell me, is there something else you're hiding from me?" Little Ai Xing asked, and even slapped Eve's ass.

"What are you talking about? It's a mess! Have you finished another novel in your brain? I really don't know him, so just pretend, oh, just pretend that I'm bewitched."

"You can't talk nonsense, there are a lot of strange things recently."

"Yes, I want to withdraw! Withdraw, withdraw!"

"But come to think of it, you really don't like him." Xiao Ai couldn't help but shuddered when he thought of his glance back.At that time, the hall was brightly lit and crowded with people. As soon as he turned around, Xiao Ai felt that there was nothing around him suddenly, and the darkness outside the house mixed with shrill and desperate cries poured in.Her body froze immediately, allowing the crowd to push her out of the door. "He might be a murderer! Take it easy!"

"Huh? Will Xiao Ai who swears that the sky is falling and you kick back will be scared?" Eve suddenly thought of Xiao Ai's recent abnormality, "You didn't go crazy after reading horror novels, did you? Tell you to stop looking at those things."

"It's different, they are sharing stories with a research mentality." Xiao Ai defended, and then proudly declared: "I am now a member of their C group!"

"Crazy, crazy!" Eve gave Xiao Ai a white look, turned around and walked straight forward.After walking a few steps, I felt that she was not following, so I turned around in confusion.

Xiao Ai stood where she was, with complicated eyes, showing tenacity, guilt, fear, and pain.He opened his mouth to say something, but swallowed it back.

"What's wrong?" Eve turned around and took her hand to move forward, but she still refused to move.

"Yiyi," Xiaoai lowered her head, held Eve's hand instead, and then pulled her closer and hugged her more and more tightly, as if she would disappear as soon as she let go. ..."

"Stop talking about this, okay?" Yes, Eve is not stupid.Yesterday's party was led by Xiao Ai, and Xiao Ai led her to leave. The chaotic situation should have something to do with her.

"As long as you still treat me as a friend, I don't care about the rest." Xiao Ai is the only friend Eve can be so close to.

She told Xiao Ai all her secrets intermittently, not because she believed in some nonsense that friends should have nothing to hide, but because she felt that Xiao Ai should know, and she wanted to do the same.It doesn't matter if it's selfish, she hopes that Xiao Ai won't be bothered by her occasional weird words and deeds, don't dislike her terminally ill despair that she inadvertently reveals, and don't hate her warm and gloomy soul.

Perhaps, also out of some kind of expectation.Like many people, she expects someone who understands herself to be aware of her unspoken loss and helplessness, and to appear by her side with a warm body, so that she no longer has to be stabbed by this self-made coldness for a long time. There is no need to heal this pain alone, and no need to be trapped in such a self-inflicted morbid cycle.

She knew that this pain came from herself, but she couldn't extricate herself, or she didn't want to.

She faintly felt that if she walked out of this predicament alone without relying on anyone, then no one would be able to approach her.

She doesn't want to.

"I don't know why, just now you were walking ahead alone, and I suddenly felt flustered." Xiao Ai said softly, "It seems like I won't be able to see you after walking."

"No, I won't leave you." So far, Eve has never voluntarily left anyone.Oh, there was one, but she didn't think she had initiated it.

"Keep your word!"

"of course."

"Then, then I can..."

"Ah, what?"

"May I see your underwear?" After speaking, Xiao Ai pushed Eve's collar away with her index finger, rubbed her head over, with a strange expression, widened her eyes and glanced down, and then ran away as if flying, Yelling, "Black! Haha! It's black!"

"What a strange group of people." The boy said as he put down the manuscript and looked at the sky that was about to break dawn.

"Hee hee, Bu Fei also thinks they are weird." The little girl next to him smiled childishly.

"I told you to call me brother..." The young man was obviously not happy with the girl calling him by that name, "However, if your story is true, then, is it because you are writing it or because I am reading it, or is it just a coincidence Woolen cloth?"

"Jiu'er doesn't know!"

Outside the window, the sky is about to dawn, and the golden red dawn will sweep away the night that still lingers in the city.The deserted street revived, and the number of vehicles gradually increased. A breakfast vendor also set up his car stall under the cover of the green belt and began to yell softly.When an egg is beaten on a steaming iron plate, it turns white and golden. "Breakfast! It's time for breakfast! Warm stir-fried noodles, fresh meat, special sauce, and a dish from the farmer's family. It's four yuan a piece, and it's only five yuan if you add an egg..."

"Hey! Hey beggar! Go somewhere else! Go! Go!"

So, driven by the stall owner, a beggar with disheveled hair and ragged clothes walked into the morning light with a cane.