If the world had no daylight

It rained in the middle of the night.

When Bai Tian heard the sound of rain, he lay blankly on the sofa for a while before remembering to collect his clothes.

She walked quickly to the balcony and found that half of the clothes were already wet, so she had to stand on tiptoe to take them all off and put them in the laundry basket.

The wind did not know when it started to blow, and it was getting stronger and stronger. Bai Tian subconsciously looked downstairs while leaning on the railing, and then quickly retreated.

Wiping off the rain on her arms, she turned around and picked up the laundry basket and went back indoors.

The living room was still dark, Bai Tian walked through the floor-to-ceiling windows and bookshelves absent-mindedly, but bumped into the foot of the sofa inadvertently, causing his ankle to go numb.

She put down her things, knelt down and rubbed them, and sat down on the carpet after a while, feeling a little discouraged.

Raising his hand to touch the phone from the coffee table, Bai Tian swiped open the screen to unlock it, staring at the green icon in a daze again.

If it was Bai Tian ten years ago, would he ask?

She doesn't know and doesn't remember.

The eyes staring at the screen slowly lost focus until the screen went dark, and the person sitting on the ground raised his head and looked out the window.

In a few more hours, it will be daylight again.

Bai Tian suddenly realized that only one day and night had passed.

Why is this day so long, it almost makes her think that time has stood still.

But this is just an illusion, it will always be light.

When the night is over, she should return to reality and face her bad deeds.

— Do you regret it?

I forgot when and asked myself the same question.

But Bai Tian always remembered the answer.

The heavy rain rolled in the howling night wind, which added a little bit of coldness to the summer for no reason.

Ye Wan leaned against the window, looked away from the iron window, and looked at the two brothers who were still relatively silent.

She pressed her temples, suppressed the pain that had been lingering, turned around and walked back, and sat down on the old leather sofa.

"We will talk about the specific matters later, and now I want to confirm one thing first."

The young man who came out with a hard drive and a laptop glanced at her and sat down beside her.

Liu Laosan looked over, he didn't look good tonight, and he still had a stinky face at the moment.

Liu Da, who was sitting across from him, was always calm. Even though he was sitting on the sofa, his back was straight and he hardly moved a single centimeter in half an hour, like a silent statue.

Ye Wan took the laptop from Wei Zheng, turned the screen to face Liu Dada, and said, "Do you remember this person?"

The middle-aged man with a cropped head glanced at her, and then looked up at her, as if questioning her unnecessary actions.

Ye Wan was satisfied with his reaction, she handed the computer back, and finally got to the point: "Obviously you will never forget him in your life."

"Let me sort it out."

She stood up and paced the living room carelessly, calling out names with each step.

Liu Da just looked at her silently, as if he was indifferent to these names.

In the middle of Ye Wan's speech, she stopped without warning, and looked into his eyes with restrained emotions.

"Do you think you will be the last name on this list?"

Liu Da's dark eyes flashed a faint light, he moved his lips, but he still didn't say anything.

Liu Laosan on the side looked extremely ugly. He wanted to speak a few times, but Wei Zheng stopped him with his eyes.

The young woman standing in front of the sofa raised her chin and said softly: "I know that with your experience and methods, you have already calculated these pros and cons very clearly. That's right, if you want to keep your wife and son alive, There are only two choices - either you hide for the rest of your life, or you become a dead person who can't speak."

The woman in front of her was clearly just entering the society not long ago, only one year older than his silly son.

Liu Dada could see very clearly what was boiling under the lifeless pool of water in her eyes.

He also had those things.

But illusory ambitions and aspirations are always poured with a few pots of sulfuric acid that corrodes the flesh and blood.

No one would want to taste it a second time.

So Liu Da lowered his eyes and stopped staring at the faintly burning fire.

Ye Wan's expression turned cold, she leaned over and asked, "But after you die, your wife and children can live, what about other people's children?"

The middle-aged man clasped his palms together silently, covering the incomplete place.

The young woman did not miss any of his flaws, and continued aggressively: "You traded your own life for them to live, and how many lives is this based on? Have you ever counted it!"

The room fell into dead silence.

I don't know how long it took before the hoarse and piercing voice sounded: "...I can't control others."

Liu Laosan, who had been holding back all this time, stood up abruptly, and was about to rush over to beat him with his fists, but Wei Zheng grabbed him quickly.

"Liu Da Da!" The blue veins on Liu Laosan's forehead popped up, his whole face flushed red, he was like a beast that was suddenly enraged, and even Wei Zheng had to use all his strength to hold him back.

The middle-aged man with downcast eyes didn't seem to see everything in front of him, he didn't even frown, he just sat quietly on the sofa.

Liu Laosan, who was tightly held and unable to break free, was furious, and simply cursed: "You bastard! You have been hiding for so many years! When you come back, you want to die?! Who are you sorry! How did Xiao Wu die? How did our mother die? Did you fucking forget! How dare you say that you forgot! I'll kill you with a fucking shot!"

Liu Laosan got angry and looked completely different from his usual gentle and honest appearance. Ye Wan started to have a headache again after being yelled at by him. She quickly pressed her temple, frowned and waited for him to vent enough.

——He held his breath for too long.

In the old and crude rental house, some invisible air pressure mixed with flammable and explosive dust, and the sound of cursing formed an airflow that made it difficult to breathe.

It was at this time that the cell phone rang.

Ye Wan stepped back a few steps, went to the window and took out the phone, but paused when he saw the caller ID.

"Third Uncle, Ye Li's phone number." She raised her voice.

The person who vented his curses finally restrained his anger, suppressed it, and said nothing more.

Wei Zheng let go of his hand, patted his shoulder reassuringly, and then looked at the person by the window.

Even the only person who was sitting raised his head and looked over.

Ye Wan picked up the phone, and was about to change her usual tone to ask, but a dry and astringent sentence came from the other side.

She squeezed her mobile phone and looked at the person sitting in the original position. The other person seemed to have a premonition that she had been waiting for, and there was nothing in those dark eyeballs.

A ray of white light pierced the night sky, followed by muffled thunder.

The person sitting on the carpet held the phone. He didn't know how many times he had unlocked it. He glanced at the clean software icon, and then locked the phone silently.

She stretched her legs and leaned on the edge of the sofa, looking at the lightning and thunder outside the window, counting the minutes and seconds, eagerly waiting for the dawn.

It will be light.

Bai Tian buried his face in his arms and said to himself.

The next second, the phone in his hand vibrated suddenly.

She immediately raised her head and looked over, seeing the name on the message on the screen, her heart that had been shaking all night finally fell to the ground.

Bai Tian unlocked the phone, clicked on the software, and within two seconds he had already thought of what to say.

However, before she clicked into the dialog box, she had already seen the sentence sent by the other party.

It was only six words, but it took Bai Tian a long time to understand.

Have you ever seen the capital at five o'clock in the morning?

You may have seen it.

It doesn't stay up all night, it just takes a nap before dawn, and then opens its eyes again to welcome the new day before the first ray of sky pierces the clouds.

But a thunderstorm night is different, it delays the dawn and blocks the busy pace of pedestrians.

The white-collar workers who have to get up early because of the long distance to work saw such a sky after waking up, and the dark circles under their eyes had not faded away, and their faces turned pale again.

"Can I not go out?" She muttered to herself, and subconsciously glanced at the street downstairs, only to see a person running wildly in the street in the heavy rain.

Weird.

She looked up at the sky again, and a flash of lightning happened to strike, which made her take a few steps back reflexively, and hurried to the switch to turn off all the power.

"Forget it, let's take a day off today."

Anyway, judging by this posture, the rain will not stop all day long.

The nurse on duty at the hospital looked at the sky outside and had the same thought in her heart.

She thought of the operation that exhausted her mentally and physically in the middle of the night, shook her head, and let out a long sigh.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are just like the weather in this summer, unpredictable and unpredictable.

She went back to change her clothes, picked up her bag and was about to leave work, but when she walked out the door, she was bumped into by a drenched man.

The man didn't even apologize, and ran forward without looking back. The nurse who was a little angry saw the direction she was running, and the anger stagnated and dispersed again.

Forget it.

She sighed, patted the water on her body, and walked out of the hospital.

A group of people hurried out from behind her, got into the ambulance in a well-trained manner, and then drove away.

She stood at the door holding an umbrella and looked back at the quiet hospital behind her.

I don't know how many people will come to break through this ghost gate today.

The floor tiles in the corridor were gray, and the white light from the ceiling swayed on the cold smooth texture, becoming a more dizzying brightness than the scorching sun.

The drenched man ran quickly in the empty aisle, his footsteps froze suddenly after rounding the last corner.

The person awakened by the sound leaned against the white wall and looked sideways.

She is also from head to toe, and there is no place that is not completely wet by the rain.

The long hair was sticking to her face in a mess, making her face pale, and because of this, her expression was empty and unsettled.

The person who stopped at the corner was holding on to the wall, his breathing was as if he was about to stop.

She looked up and met the blurred gaze of the person standing at the end, only to realize in a blink that it was the rain that messed up her eyes.

In the empty and silent corridor, even the oxygen has been drained, making people breathless.

A door was open, and a faint light slanted down from inside, accompanied by a hallucinatory, suppressed and high-pitched cry of mourning.

Bai Tian heard it clearly.

That was Ye Li's voice.

She looked at the person at the end, just looking at her face, just like the other person's gaze lightly touching her own.

From here to there, just a few meters.

From there to here, it is as long as a moat.