Ye Zhao suddenly remembered the little boy he met at the supermarket in the morning, and said, "Well, I met a man today, and I seem to have heard him say that he is very hungry, so this is probably the case. It seems that there are already some People have been affected by this poisonous smog, and I don’t know what will happen in the future.”

"I don't know... Maybe it will be the same as the person he said." Xia Zhiming pointed to Luo Xiaochen, "If the poisonous fog is not frequent, it will slowly recover. After all, people's ability to adapt is still very strong. "

"I hope." Ye Zhao nodded, and then asked Xia Zhiming, "By the way, you said that the clues investigated today are related to those I mentioned before. What clues? Is it convenient to say?"

Xia Zhiming waved his hand: "Actually, it's nothing. It was the victim's girlfriend who suddenly mentioned that her boyfriend had mentioned some very strange things to her during his lifetime."

"what?"

"I just saw some weird things, etc. Her girlfriend didn't care about it before, thinking that he deliberately made up things to scare her to play, but the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this case was abnormal, so she said it. already."

"See something weird?" Ye Zhao was surprised, "You mean, something like what I said?"

"Well." Xia Zhiming nodded, "Almost. So we have to think about this clue. Although it's a bit weird, we will contact the relatives of other victims tomorrow to see if there is a similar situation."

Outside the police station, Nie Renyan stood lazily against the wall with a cigarette in between.

It was just a little dark, but the street lights in the city were already on. The police station is on the edge of the circle in the city center, and the surrounding area is neither prosperous nor remote. The terrain here is higher than other buildings. Standing at the door, you can see the signs of different light and dark in the small commercial area on the left hand side, or the bright or white lights, and you can hear the occasional honking of the horns and the faint people passing by. language.

Nie Renyan squinted in the midst of the blazing fireworks, remembering that he was the same in college, standing outside the school gate waiting for Ye Zhao, then watching him walk slowly through the mottled light and darkness of tree shadows and lights, standing beside him.

This kind of life has been lost by him for a few years, and now he has found it again. He hopes to continue to have it for a long time.

The street lights here are very beautifully designed, from sparse to dense, from near to far, along the city's road has been winding down, leading to the end of the unknown, just like this walking, don't know how it will end world.

☆、Chapter20

When Ye Zhao came out, he saw Nie Renyan at a glance. He leaned against the door with his back in his pocket. The ceiling lamp on the gatepost of the courtyard cast a shadowy shadow under his feet. He heard the footsteps and turned around and glanced. It was still that casual look, but there were two warm lights in his eyes.

Such a familiar scene made Ye Zhao stop walking down the steps.

"What's wrong?" Xia Zhiming, who followed behind to send them out, patted him on the shoulder, "Walking and suddenly stopped here?"

"It's nothing." Ye Zhao shook his head and said, "I didn't see the steps clearly just now."

Luo Xiaochen listened and said, "What? Ye Zhao, you are not only face-blind, but also night-blind? Why haven't I heard of you before... eh? No, it's not dark yet."

Ye Zhao glanced at him: "...It's just a momentary distraction, you think too much."

Everyone parted at the door. Ye Zhao walked to Nie Renyan's side and heard Nie Renyan say, "I'm more used to waiting for you like this." His voice was as low as water, blending with the half-dark night, and Ye Zhao was a little stunned. .

After a while of silence, Ye Zhao gave a "hmm" and said, "Let's go."

On the way back, the car had been quiet all the time, and Nie Renyan's out-of-the-way vision had been paying attention to Ye Zhao's every move. saw him leaning against the window since he got in the car, watching the lights flashing in a line outside, without saying a word.

Nie Renyan was secretly delighted—I was reminded by Lao Tzu! Forty-five-degree squinting out of the window, nostalgia for it! Quickly put down the estrangement and rush to Lao Tzu's warm and firm embrace, Comrade Ye Zhao! This is your eternal home! Chest muscles are not for naught!

When there was a dàng in his head, Ye Zhao said, "Ayan."

This time, Nie Renyan was stunned.

Ye Zhao is a very strange person. For his best friends, such as Luo Xiaochen and Xia Zhiming, he will omit his surname when he calls it by name to show his familiarity. But when he arrived at Nie Renyan's place, he refused to be so arrogant. He was unwilling to omit even the first name and last name, saying that it was too nauseous. Afterwards, Gān didn't cry anymore, and said anything directly. Moreover, he was not allowed to use a nickname when Nie Renyan called him, he could only call him "Ye Zhao", which made Nie Renyan depressed at that time - he was obviously the closest person, so he didn't even have a nickname! So he fell ill, and used various [beep-] methods to tease + deceive Ye Zhao to call his nickname.

That's how "Ayan" came about.

When the two of them were alone in high school, Ye Zhao would call him that. But as we get older, the frequency of this name gradually decreases, and it is almost never heard once a year. As a result, every time Nie Renyan heard Ye Zhao calling him like this, his brain became so hot that he couldn't turn his head, and his heart softened. Basically, what Ye Zhao said was what he said.