Chapter 139 Back to the origin

It was an ordinary-looking clock that existed when Lin Qiushi rented this room. The clock strikes every hour, from 1 to 12... Ding-dong, ding-dong, the bell sounds crisp and bright, reminding Lin Qiushi that time is advancing relentlessly.

Lin Qiushi took the clock down. Because it had been hung on the wall for too long, a thin layer of ash had fallen on the clock face. He wiped the ash off with a paper towel, and then gently removed the clock cover.

There was nothing in the clock cover that Lin Qiushi wanted. He stared at the complicated structure inside the back cover of the clock. After a moment of silence, he pressed the button that controlled the minute hand with his hand and turned it back gently...

When the hand turned counterclockwise, crossed twelve o'clock, and pointed to the number with "11" written on the clock face, Lin Qiushi's movements stopped-a lot of complicated pictures appeared in front of his eyes. The beautiful man in women's clothes showed him a bright smile and said to him: "Lin Qiushi, I like you so much." Then there are more familiar pictures of Lin Qiushi. Some of these pictures Lin Qiushi still remembers, while others are already blurred. , but like a slideshow, they flashed through Lin Qiushi's mind.

When the picture of the memory stopped, Lin Qiushi moved his fingers slightly and turned the hour hand to the number "10". During the time of "10", he saw the world of the box girl.

Then, without Lin Qiushi's control, the minute hand on the watch in front of him began to move slowly, countless memories rushed into Lin Qiushi's mind, Lin Qiushi's head was in severe pain, he involuntarily let go, the clock fell heavily on the ground.

"Ah!!" Covering his head with his hands, Lin Qiushi's mind seemed to be filled with a huge kaleidoscope. Inside the kaleidoscope was the world of doors. He saw countless ghosts, deceased friends, and Ruan. Southern candle.

Ruan Nanzhu in the picture showed a bright smile at him, stretched out his hand towards him, and said, "Hello, my name is Ruan Baijie."

As soon as the screen turned, it was Ruan Nanzhu in another appearance. He looked indifferent, looked up at Lin Qiushi, and said, "Welcome to Obsidian."

Lin Qiushi didn't know how long this situation lasted. By the time the severe pain was removed from his mind, it was already dark outside.

There was silence all around, Lin Qiushi reluctantly got up from the ground, staggered to the clock that fell to the ground, and picked it up.

However, the moment he picked up the clock, something seemed to fall on the dial, and there was a crisp sound on the ground.

At first, Lin Qiushi thought that the clock was broken, but when he lowered his head and saw the objects falling at his feet, his expression froze.

What fell from the clock was actually a bronze key—and two.

Looking at the key under his feet, Lin Qiushi took a deep breath, stabilized his mind, and then bent down and picked up the key.

These are two identical bronze keys, the only difference being that vaguely visible text is engraved on the surface of the keys.

The key was originally ice, but when Lin Qiushi held it in his hand, he felt extremely hot. He carefully observed the keys and found that one of them had four small characters engraved on it: Illusory Life. On the other, there are four other words: true death.

Imaginary life, real death? Lin Qiushi, who was holding the key, was stunned. For a while, he couldn't figure out what these four words meant. He rubbed the surface of the key with his fingers, and was about to take a closer look, but he felt a chill in his hand, and then the key with the words "Illusionary Life" written on it was actually broken into powder in his hand... So he Only true death remains in his hands.

True death? Lin Qiushi thought of something. He held the key tightly and walked quickly to his door. After taking a deep breath, he solemnly pushed open his door.

I saw a familiar corridor behind the door. Above the corridor were the twelve dark iron doors. Only eleven of the doors were sealed, and only the twelfth door stood alone at the other end of the corridor.

Lin Qiushi walked to the corridor, he saw a large black lock hanging on the twelfth door, and looked down at the key in his hand.

At this moment, he understood the meaning of illusory and real.

The world he lives in is illusory, and everything continues to develop without a door. All those who died in the door are revived in another form. They live by Lin Qiushi's side. If Lin Qiushi wants, he can Reunited with them.

The truth means that Lin Qiushi can return to the original world.

Next to the twelfth door is a multiple-choice question. The power to choose is in Lin Qiushi's own hands.

He can stay in this world and meet Ruan Nanzhu who no longer knows him, or he can leave, but after leaving, there is a problem in front of him - how did Ruan Nanzhu choose? Find the key, if Ruan Nanzhu, who found the key, finally chooses illusory, then whether Lin Qiushi who left here will never see him again.

Lin Qiushi tightly held the key in his hand.

He turned his head and looked at the corridor behind him. On the corridor, every door with a seal was his memory in Obsidian. These memories may not be beautiful, but they are true.

But how will Ruan Nanzhuhui choose?

Lin Qiushi's family relationship is indifferent, and he doesn't have many friends at all. His only tie is Ruan Nanzhu. But Ruan Nanzhu is different. If there is no door, he can maintain a good relationship with his original family, and he does not need to lose so many friends...

Lin Qiushi smiled bitterly. He finally understood why almost no one mentioned the twelfth door, because the twelfth door did not exist at all.

When he has experienced countless ghost realms, a perfect paradise is displayed in front of his eyes, and it is inevitable that people will be shaken.

Lin Qiushi thought, but his answer was already doomed.

A world without Ruan Nanzhu is false to him, and he can make a choice without hesitation.

Lin Qiushi laughed. He reached out and wiped his face, trying to wipe something away. He held the key in his hand and inserted the key into the iron lock hanging on the iron door.

With a bang, the iron lock fell, and a road full of white light appeared in front of Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi turned his head and glanced at the corridor behind him, and said softly, "Goodbye." Then he stepped into it.

The corridor in front of him is longer than any corridor that Lin Qiushi has walked through. The light around him calms Lin Qiushi's heart unexpectedly. It was a familiar sight.

Lin Qiushi returned to his original world and was sitting on the bed in Ruan Nanzhu's bedroom. After he came back, the first thing he did was to look for Ruan Nanzhu, but he didn't see the figure belonging to Ruan Nanzhu that should have appeared.

Lin Qiushi hurried downstairs, saw Ye Niao sitting on the sofa in the living room, walked over, and said to Ye Niao, "Ye Niao? Did you see Ruan Nanzhu?"

When Ye Niao heard Lin Qiushi's words, he was pleasantly surprised: "You came out of the door!!"

Lin Qiushi said: "Yes - have you seen Ruan Nanzhu?"

Ye Niao said, "Sister Lu made food for you!"

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Ye Niao said: "Since you came out, naturally you have to celebrate well"

Lin Qiushi said, "Leaf bird?"

Ye Bird said: "Huh?"

Lin Qiushi said, "Aren't you going to ask me about the eleventh door?"

Ye Niao heard Lin Qiushi's words, his expression was a little dazed, and he said, "What did you say? I can't hear you clearly."

Lin Qiushi said: "The content of the eleventh door..." He repeated it, but found that it was futile, because Ye Niao's puzzled look did not disappear because of his words, but became more intense, "Brother Lin, you What do you say?"

Lin Qiushi closed his mouth, he gritted his teeth, and his tone was a little hoarse: "Do you... know Ruan Nanzhu?"

Ye Niao's expression paused for a moment, then Lin Qiushi looked at him and shook his head cautiously.

"I don't know." Ye Niao said, "Ruan Nanzhu... Who is it?"

Dizzy for a while, Lin Qiushi almost fell to the ground, barely holding on to the sofa to stabilize his body, he said hoarsely: "You don't know Ruan Nanzhu? Who is the leader of Obsidian?"

"Isn't it you?" Ye Niao said in horror, "Brother Lin... are you... alright?"

Lin Qiushi stood in place for a long time without moving. In Ye Niao's panicked eyes, Lin Qiushi hurried upstairs. He came to Ruan Nanzhu's bedroom and began to rummage around to find out the traces of Ruan Nanzhu's existence. But he failed.

There was only one sign that one person lived in the house, and Ruan Nanzhu became a non-existent person.

Lin Qiushi was stunned, what did he think of, he rushed downstairs and said to Ye Niao, "Ye Niao, which door am I going through?"

Ye Niao looked at Lin Qiushi with more and more frightened eyes, and he said cautiously: "The twelfth fan."

long silence.

Ye Niao saw some clues from Lin Qiushi's expression, and he said, "Brother Lin, are you alright?"

Lin Qiushi laughed, tears came out of his laughter, he waved his hand while laughing, and staggered out of the living room.

The leader of Obsidian successfully came out of the twelfth door from Lin Qiushi, which should have been celebrated, but inexplicably cast a strange shadow on the obsidian. Everyone thought that there was something wrong with Lin Qiushi's brain. He was too stimulated and made up a non-existent character.

Lin Qiushi slowed down for a whole night before barely recovering. The next day, he found Ye Niao and got some information with him.

Then Lin Qiushi found that except for Ruan Nanzhu, all other memories were correct.

Tan Zaozao and Cheng Qianli were indeed gone, Cheng Yixie also left Obsidian, and the others were recruited by Lin Qiushi, including Chen Fei, Lu Yanxue and Yi Manman.

Lin Qiushi is the core character of Obsidian, and he is even friends with Bai Ming.

Until this time, Lin Qiushi couldn't figure out whether he really fabricated Ruan Nanzhu, or whether the door erased Ruan Nanzhu's existence.

Or, Ruan Nanzhu is his twelfth door, his heart robbery.

It stands to reason that if Lin Qiushi can come out of the twelfth door, Lin Qiushi will definitely become the focus of everyone, because he has the key information of the twelfth door. But strangely, Lin Qiushi's existence was downplayed, and he thought of the vague senior in Ruan Nanzhu's mouth.

Ye Niao and the others began to unconsciously ignore his existence. Even though he was right beside him, it seemed that they couldn't see him at all, and no one even took the initiative to ask about the door.

Lin Qiushi thought all this was ridiculous, ridiculous, and he went to Ruan Nanzhu's house the next day to find him and found that there was no such person at all.

Ruan Nanzhu does not exist, and everyone is telling Lin Qiushi the same answer.

But Lin Qiushi didn't believe it, he moved out of Obsidian and returned to his rental house.

The people in Obsidian originally wanted to persuade him, but Lin Qiushi made up his mind. He just told them not to have bad thoughts when passing the door, otherwise everything will be retributed. Probably because he said it more euphemistically, it was not played down, and everyone heard it. But even if they heard it, they didn't ask the question Lin Qiushi most wanted to hear, "What happened to your twelfth door?"

It was probably to prevent the content of the door from being leaked, so the encryption method in front of him appeared. Lin Qiushi thought it was really funny, and he pulled the corner of his mouth, but found that he couldn't laugh.

The only consolation after going out is that the huge amount of assets earned in the bank card is still there. Lin Qiushi spent a lot of money to buy the former rental house directly, and went back to live again with chestnuts in his arms, and renovated the rental house into the original one. appearance. It was as if as long as he opened his eyes one day, he would be able to see Ruan Nanzhu sitting beside his bed and saying good morning to him, just like when he first met.

Lin Qiushi thought that even if the world forgets Ruan Nanzhu, he will not forget it. This is his promise to Ruan Nanzhu. Maybe Ruan Nanzhu finally chose everything that was illusory in the door and left him alone in the cold reality, but he still loved him and couldn't feel any blame.

Time continued to move forward, and before knew it, Lin Qiushi had been out of the door for a year.

From the beginning, looking for traces of Ruan Nanzhu's existence like crazy, to accepting this cruel fact, Lin Qiushi went through a long period of psychological adjustment.

He couldn't even sleep for more than a month, because every time he closed his eyes, he seemed to hear Ruan Nanzhu whispering in his ear.

He went to Ruan Nanzhu's former school, and even let people search for all the people named Ruan Nanzhu in this country, but all the signs were telling Lin Qiushi the fact that there was no such person as Ruan Nanzhu in the world.

Lin Qiushi thought he would go crazy because of this, but he still got through it. During the long night, he could only sit in front of the TV with chestnuts in his arms, watching the news program replayed inside, expecting someone to knock on his door.

But when all hope was lost, Lin Qiushi also began to become numb, and he lost his expectations for life.

Until one day, Lin Qiushi suddenly received a call.

The phone number was from Ye Niao. After the call was connected, his tone was extremely excited, and he said, "Brother Lin, Brother Ruan is back!"

Lin Qiushi was stunned for a few seconds when he heard this: "What did you say?"

"Brother Ruan is back—" Ye Niao said, "he's looking for you everywhere!"

Lin Qiushi was walking, because all his attention was on Ye Niao's words, he accidentally tripped over a stone on the side of the road, and dropped his phone to the ground with a bang. Covered with dense cracks, the call was naturally cut off.

"Fuck." Lin Qiushi couldn't help swearing, turned around and took a taxi to Obsidian.

When he arrived at Obsidian's door, he didn't dare to go in directly, as if he was close to nostalgia, and Lin Qiushi was afraid that his expectations would fail again.

He hesitated again and again, and finally made up his mind. He raised his hand and was about to ring the doorbell when the door in front of him creaked open.

Ruan Nanzhu's face appeared behind the door. When he saw Lin Qiushi, he stretched out his hand and hugged Lin Qiushi into his arms. The strength was amazing, and he could not wait to rub Lin Qiushi directly into his body.

"Sorry," he said. "I'm late."

Lin Qiushi didn't know what to say, he buried his face on Ruan Nanzhu's shoulder, sniffing the breath that belonged to Ruan Nanzhu, he said hoarsely: "Why the hell did you come back now - looking for the key for so long ?!"

Ruan Nanzhu smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect it to be hidden in the clock."

Lin Qiushi wanted to say a lot, but Ruan Nanzhu lowered his head first, letting all the words melt into a gentle kiss.

Lin Qiushi felt his body soften, and he murmured, "I thought you would never come back."

Ruan Nanzhu looked at him.

"I thought you chose an illusory world." Lin Qiushi said, "I thought I could only be alone."

"I said it." Ruan Nanzhu said, "The world without you is fake."

"But that world also has me." Lin Qiushi looked suspiciously at Ruan Nanzhu, "Did you see me when you were young?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "No."

His answer was too straightforward, which made Lin Qiushi feel suspicious. At this time, he finally understood Ruan Nanzhu's feeling of being jealous when he was young. Lin Qiushi said: "Ruan Nanzhu, you can - let me waiting for you so long."

Ruan Nanzhu quickly apologized, and then asked Lin Qiushi what happened during the year.

Lin Qiushi said, "Let's find a place to eat first, I'm hungry."

Ruan Nanzhu nodded.

So the two drove to a nearby restaurant, not because they didn't want to stay in Obsidian to communicate, but because the content of their communication would probably be ruthlessly diluted because of the door. This feeling of being ignored is very bad. The two find a private place to talk.

Lin Qiushi said in a few words what happened to him in the past year. Although the language is concise, Ruan Nanzhu can also understand how difficult it has been for Lin Qiushi this year.

"Sorry, I came back too late." Ruan Nanzhu kissed Lin Qiushi's fingertips, trying to ask for forgiveness from his lover.

In fact, before seeing Ruan Nanzhu, Lin Qiushi really had a stomach full of resentment, but after seeing Ruan Nanzhu, these anger and resentment all dissipated instantly, he said, "As long as you come back, I don't blame you."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Well, I will definitely come back."

Lin Qiushi smiled.

The two chatted while eating, and Lin Qiushi listened to Ruan Nanzhu saying something about the inside of the door. He really went to Lin Qiushi when he was young, and the two became friends, but Ruan Nanzhu finally found the location of the key and finally chose to leave.

Lin Qiushi kept pouring alcohol into his mouth. He said, "You don't know. After you disappeared, they didn't remember you. I was the only one who remembered... I thought I was crazy."

Ruan Nanzhu smiled.

"I even thought you were my twelfth door." Lin Qiushi said, "I'm really going crazy."

Ruan Nanzhu filled Lin Qiushi's glass with wine and said, "No hurry, we still have a lot of time."

Lin Qiushi's eyes shone with a thin water light, and he said, "Fortunately, you are back."

"Yeah." Ruan Nanzhu held Lin Qiushi's finger, "I'm back."

That night, Lin Qiushi had no memory of how he got home. Anyway, when he woke up the next day, his whole body was very sour. Looking at the face of the sleeping man beside him, he didn't need to think about what happened between them.

Lin Qiushi looked at Ruan Nanzhu's sleeping face, stretched out his fingers and touched his skin carefully, and after confirming that the temperature was coming from his fingertips, he let out a long breath.

This was not his dream, Ruan Nanzhu really came back.

Lin Qiushi couldn't hold back, took out a cigarette from the clothes next to him, and started smoking slowly after lighting it.

Ruan Nanzhu woke up from the dream and said in a daze: "Why did you start smoking again, you are not allowed to smoke..." He reached out and took the cigarette out of Lin Qiushi's mouth, threw it into the ashtray next to him, and put it in Lin Qiushi again. A kiss fell on his lips.

"I couldn't hold back..." Lin Qiushi said, "When you come back, you will stop smoking."

Ruan Nanzhu sat up and started getting dressed: "What would you like to eat?"

Lin Qiushi said, "It's all right." He was playing with his mobile phone lazily, watching Ruan Nanzhu go to the kitchen naked/uppered to make breakfast for him.

Lin Qiushi yawned and habitually boarded the door forum, but found that today's forum was extremely difficult to enter, so he managed to squeeze in, and the densely packed topics were almost the same—"Why is the twelfth door? Was it sealed?" "I thought I was wrong, but the twelfth door was really sealed? Is this a bug or something?" "My God, does this mean that Can we have one less door in the future?"

Lin Qiushi frowned and was about to take a closer look when Ruan Nanzhu leaned against the door frame and said, "Do eggs eat candy hearts?"

Lin Qiushi: "Everything is fine..."

Ruan Nanzhu tilted his head: "What are you looking at? Better than me?" He walked to Lin Qiushi's side and took the phone out of Lin Qiushi's hand.

"Of course it's not as good-looking as you." Lin Qiushi said, "Our family is cute, and naturally it is the best-looking."

Ruan Nanzhu laughed, he licked Lin Qiushi's lips, and said dumbly, "I'm hungry again."

Lin Qiushi: "Hey...?!" Before he could react, Ruan Nanzhu threw himself on the bed again.

Forget it, as long as Ruan Nanzhu comes back, he is too lazy to study other things.

The author has something to say: it’s finally over, I’m relieved, thank you for your company over the past few months, and there will be some daily life extras, because some friends don’t like to watch daily life, so just Don't put it in the text. You can also say what else you want to see.

Opened a new pit called "Fantasy Farm", which tells the story of the protagonist and his pigs doing high-number research together (no, friends who like it can collect it, and it will start to update after a period of rest.