143. The other side (four) double life and double death

The first time Cheng Yixie realized that he didn't live long was on his fifth birthday. Other children are still ignorant at the age of five, and have no special concept of life and death, but he realizes something through his mother's tears and his father's frown. He spent his fifth birthday in the hospital, together with his silly younger brother Cheng Qianli, with drips in his hands, eating bitter medicine, and making wishes on a beautiful cake with five candles.

Cheng Yixie looked at the candles lit on the cake, and said quietly in his heart that he hoped that he could grow up quickly, and he also wanted to see other parts of the world.

Cheng Qianli obviously did not think as much as Cheng Yixie. He had a bright smile on his face, which formed a sharp contrast with the expressionless Cheng Yixie next to him. All his attention was on the sweet and fluffy cake in front of him. A fool is better than a wise man, as long as a sweet candy can make him smile from the heart.

Cheng Yixie and Cheng Qianli were born from compatriots, but apart from their faces, they seemed to be very different.

Cheng Yixie realized early on that they were different from other children. He had heard doctors and mothers talk privately about their physical conditions. In this conversation, there was a sentence that was deeply imprinted in his mind. Their attending doctor said that with the current medical level, he and Cheng Qianli would not survive sixteen.

Sixteen - Sixteen, life has just begun, Cheng Yixie returned to the ward and saw his younger brother Qianli sitting in front of the hospital bed, giggling at the cartoon on TV, there was no haze in his eyes, bright Like the blue sky outside the window.

Cheng Qianli is much thinner and weaker than him. Although he is almost ten years old, he still looks like a malnourished bean sprout. In order to cure the disease, they did not grow their hair, and the top of their heads and their wrists were full of bruising marks left by pinholes.

Cheng Yixie walked into the ward, Cheng Qianli raised his face at him, and called out sweetly, brother, the eyes of those cute cats overflowed with intense joy, and he never concealed his love for Cheng Yixie.

"Brother." The little Cheng Qianli looked left and right, and beckoned to Cheng Yixie cautiously.

Cheng Yixie walked to his bedside, and Cheng Qianli motioned him to bend over. Cheng Yixie thought he was going to say something to himself, so he did it according to the law. Who knew that just as he bent down, a small candy was stuffed. to his lips.

"Shh." Cheng Qianli said, "Don't tell the nurse sister, grandma gave it to me secretly. I licked it, but it was delicious."

Because of their illness, their diet was strictly controlled, and there were only a handful of snacks they could taste all year round. Cheng Yixie thought, if they were just ordinary children, then Cheng Qianli would be able to eat all the food he wanted, and he would not Like the pitiful look in front of him.

"Give me back what you have eaten." Cheng Yixie responded to Cheng Qianli's kindness in this way, "It's dirty."

"You lied." Cheng Qianli snorted: "You obviously like candy too, bad brother."

Cheng Yixie didn't speak, the sweet taste of candy melted in his mouth, but he only had their future in his eyes, he couldn't imagine that he would lose this stupid brother in front of him, how he wanted to see him grow up and have his own life.

Cheng Yixie thought that surviving was just his extravagant hope until he was selected by the door.

The terrifying world inside the door is a terrible torture for many people, but here in Cheng Yixie, it is a generous gift from God.

He was not even sixteen when he entered the door, so out of place among a group of grown-ups.

The first door was very difficult. Cheng Yixie once thought he would die inside, but he was lucky. He met an old hand who often walked through the door. The old hand opened the door, and Cheng Yixie finally successfully left this bizarre world.

After coming out of the door, Cheng Yixie's physical condition began to improve rapidly.

The doctor said it was a miracle. Even though the same medicine and the same quality method were used, Cheng Yixie's body was rapidly recovering towards a normal person, while Cheng Qianli was getting weaker and weaker.

Cheng Yixie knew what was going on. He tried to tell his parents about this absurd but very real thing, but they all thought he was joking.

In the eyes of others, Cheng Yixie just sat on the bed for a while, and didn't go anywhere. Everything he said was probably the imagination of the child. How can speculation be true.

The smart Cheng Yixie knew that he would never be understood by adults. This matter is beyond the scope of common sense, and he has no evidence to prove the existence of the door.

Then what should Cheng Qianli do, Cheng Yixie thought, what about his silly brother.

Before Cheng Yixie could get an answer, he entered the second door, and in the second door, he met Ruan Nanzhu, the leader of Obsidian.

Ruan Nanzhu was wearing women's clothes at the time, and called him a child with a smile.

Cheng Yixie just gave him a cold look, too lazy to refute. How can you take advantage of your mouth? In the first door, he saw a lot of adults who were complacent in the first second, and died without a whole body in the next second.

Cheng Yixie thought that Ruan Nanzhu was the same, but he found that Ruan Nanzhu was not what he saw. Ruan Nanzhu was very strong, and Cheng Yixie keenly captured this from his next actions.

When Ruan Nanzhu was about to leave, he gave Cheng Yixie a contact information and told him that if he wanted to know more, he could contact himself.

Cheng Yixie glanced at the contact information and wrote it down secretly.

After going out through the second door, Cheng Yixie contacted Ruan Nanzhu and learned about the existence of Obsidian.

"Are you coming to Obsidian? Maybe you can live longer here." Ruan Nanzhu said on the phone.

Cheng Yixie agreed. He didn't even ask his parents for advice, so he left the hospital and flew to the city where Ruan Nanzhu was located that night.

This gambling behavior is actually very risky, because Cheng Yixie is not sure whether Ruan Nanzhu really has good intentions for him, he is just a helpless child, if Ruan Nanzhu really wants to treat him Do something, he doesn't even have a chance to resist.

But Cheng Yixie could only gamble, because Cheng Qianli's time was running out.

In stark contrast to Cheng Yixie, whose body is gradually recovering, Cheng Qianli is like a plant in winter, and life begins to flow away from him at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After Cheng Yixie arrived at Obsidian, the first question he asked Ruan Nanzhu was: "Can other people have a door?"

Facing Cheng Yixie's question, Ruan Nanzhu was silent for a moment and said, "Yes, but I won't tell you."

"Why?" Cheng Yixie asked.

"Because it needs to be exchanged for other people's lives." Ruan Nanzhu said, "Can you do such a thing?"

Cheng Yixie was silent.

Ruan Nanzhu did not continue the topic, but briefly introduced the door to him, about clues, about obsidian, and some other content. Of course, from the beginning to the end, he didn't tell Cheng Yixie how he could snatch someone else's door, but only told Cheng Yixie that he must hide his identity inside the door, otherwise there would be danger.

Cheng Yixie listened carefully. While listening, he was thinking about Cheng Qianli. He thought, even if he took the door for Cheng Qianli, would he really be able to get out of the door?

The world inside the door is so terrifying and incompatible with the naive Cheng Qianli, even if he helped Cheng Qianli seize the door as Ruan Nanzhu said, is this another kind of torture for Cheng Qianli?

He was so young, so afraid of the dark, completely different from himself, just an ordinary child.

Cheng Yixie sat alone in the yard for a long time that day. When the morning light appeared in the sky, he rubbed his dry eyes and entered the house with a blank expression.

No one knew what Cheng Yixie was thinking about. In short, after that day, he did not return to his hometown, nor did he contact Cheng Qianli again.

Is your brother too stupid? So you don't like him anymore? Someone questioned Cheng Yixie, Cheng Yixie didn't say anything after listening, just cast an indifferent look.

He didn't go back and didn't contact Cheng Qianli, just because he was afraid, he was afraid that he would not be able to control himself and would do things beyond the limit.

He didn't even dare to imagine Cheng Qianli's death, as long as he thought about it, many terrifying thoughts appeared in his mind.

Cheng Qianli is the calamity that Cheng Yixie cannot escape in his life. He knows that for this younger brother, he can break the minimum bottom line.

And when he realized this, the only thing Cheng Yixie could do was to downplay the influence of Cheng Qianli on him. Although the process of downplaying it was tantamount to cutting away the part of his body that originally belonged to him.

They are twins, twins connected by blood. With just one look and one expression, they can understand what the other person is saying and thinking. Even thousands of miles away, Cheng Yixie can feel Cheng Qianli's gradual weakening.

Cheng Yixie thought that everything would end like this, but one afternoon, he received a call from Cheng Qianli.

To this day, Cheng Yixie can still remember the weather that day.

It was a spring day with a light rain, the bushes in the yard were lush and green, and everything was full of the breath of life recovery. Cheng Qianli's voice came from the other end of the phone, a little weak and crying, and he called him: "Brother, brother, I'm so scared"

Cheng Yixie said, "What's the matter?" He felt something, and his voice was rarely nervous.

"I entered a door." Cheng Qianli spoke intermittently and was a little weak, "There are a lot of ghosts in it, I finally came out, am I dreaming... When are you coming back... I miss you so much... "He seemed to be starting to lose consciousness, and he was talking nonsense.

Cheng Yixie listened, but laughed lowly, bursting into tears, he said, "Don't be afraid, my brother is here, waiting for my brother to come back."

Brother will protect you.

At this point, Cheng Yixie understood that he could not escape the calamity of Cheng Qianli.He will do everything possible to protect Cheng Qianli's life and watch him grow up, marry a wife, have children, be full of children and grandchildren, and be rich and prosperous.

The author has something to say: the long-awaited Gemini episode.