The iron sheet has been pinched for a long time, and it is slightly hot at the fingertips.

Qi Boyuan had already left, the door was closed, and outside the office, only a little bit of sound was leaked from the staff walking and talking.

Li Xuan pressed the center of his eyebrows, and before opening the editor, he moved his fingertips slightly to call up the plan of "Reverse Track". The background of the game is set in the end of the world., escaped from prison...

He closed it again, lowered his eyes and took a sip of water, then looked up and closed the planning case to continue writing the program.

"Brother Xuan." The administrator knocked on the door, "Do you need to order food for you?"

"Need not."

"Okay." The administrator nodded and was about to leave when Li Xuan stopped him, "Is Zhao Jizhe there?"

"Yes, do you need to call him for you?"

Li Xuan paused for a moment: "No need."

It got dark early in autumn, and didn't pay attention to the computer all the time. When Sheng Min called, realized that except for the fluorescent screen, the room was already pitch black.

"Finished?"

"Well, it's just over, are you at home or in the company?"

"At the company." Li Xuan glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the screen, it was almost nine o'clock, "...the company still has some things to deal with today, and I have to go back later, you go to bed first, don't wait for me."

"I'm not waiting for you, just pretend to be sentimental." Sheng Min's voice sounded like a smile, probably in a good mood after returning to school today.

"How about meeting the teacher today?"

"It's good... I haven't seen you for a long time, I'll talk to you when you come back later..." He asked again, "Have you had dinner yet?"

Of course not.

Li Xuan got up and turned on the light: "Go and eat later."

"You." Sheng Min said helplessly, "What kind of dinner is this, what are you going to eat later?"

Li Xuan didn't think about this question at all: "Just find a shop downstairs."

"Whatever, whatever. You won't go." Sheng Min complained to him in a low voice, "Every day, my stomach is broken...I'll find a porridge shop to buy you a bowl of porridge later?There is an old restaurant nearby that makes good porridge."

"Forget it." Li Xuan said immediately after hearing the words, "It's too troublesome, you must be tired after a busy day today, go home early and rest, I will be back later."

He refused too decisively, and he himself thought it sounded abrupt, and sure enough, Sheng Min was stunned for a moment, with a hesitant tone: "What's the matter with you, I always feel that you really don't want me to go to your company recently.....Yesterday too, I said I would come to pick you up, but you came off work early in the morning and waited for me, why? Jinwu Zangjiao is afraid that I will catch you?......"

"What book did you read in the past few days? Thinking about things all day long." Li Xuan's fingertips pressed back and forth on the switch, making the light in the room flickering, and his voice was always casual, "Yesterday happened to beGet off work early, say that you are a capitalist and still not admit it, and you have to find a reason for leaving work early... But it is true that I don’t want you to come, how can I work when you come.”

"I won't bother you."

"I can't promise not to disturb you." Li Xuan smiled, "Besides, when you leave, I definitely want to go with you, but today is really a lot of things... What should I do? You want to come on purposeLook at my joke."

"I'm talking nonsense again." Sheng Min couldn't help laughing, "Okay, then I won't talk to you, you go eat something first, then go to work quickly, and come back quickly."

Li Xuan hummed: "Okay, I'll be back when I'm done."

The beeping on the other end of the phone lasted for a long time before Li Xuan put down the phone.Walking back to the desk, the tiny locator was still quietly lying next to the mouse.

He thought of Sheng Min's joke, and his throat tightened belatedly.

The golden house hides the charm, naturally it is the hider, can it be hidden?How long can he hide Seung Min?

He can cross the river and cross the sea, dare to let Sheng Min get a little splash?

Hitting a snake and hitting seven inches, Qi Boyuan deserves to have known him for so many years.

Most of the lights in the hall were extinguished except for one near the door.On the other hand, Qi Boyuan's office next to him also had lights leaking from the crack of the door.Li Xuan glanced at it, then looked away, closed the door of his office, carried the windbreaker and walked slowly to the workstation where the light was still on, and gently knocked down the desk.

"Nineteen..." Zhao Jizhe was pretending to be asleep, but he actually looked like it, but he didn't expect that Li Xuan would call him suddenly, and when he pretended to wake up, he would inevitably reveal his secrets, scratched his hair awkwardly, and his sleeves slipped a little, revealing the mottled spots on his arms.Scars, "...you haven't left yet...I fell asleep and left right away..."

He packed things in a hurry, but in fact he had nothing to collect. He secretly raised his eyes to look at Li Xuan: "...Nineteen, you have worked too hard every day... You have so much money now, there is no need..."

This sentence is sincere. When they were very young, they lived in the orphanage. He hid in the grass next to the railing and read a book by the street lamp outside. When Zhao Jizhe came to him, he looked at him with the same eyes.Worried tone: "Nineteen, it's too late, go to bed and stop reading, Auntie will scold you when she catches it... This is the milk that was distributed this afternoon, you're not here... You drink, you drink, I've already drunk it, this is for you..."

It was the so-called milk blended with very cheap flavors. He never liked it, but no matter how many times he said it, Zhao Jizhe couldn't remember it.

"Let's go." Li Xuan watched Zhao Jizhe swinging a few pieces of papers around, "You don't need to take them." He went out first, waited for a while at the door, Zhao Jizhe followed, a little helpless and flatteredLooking at him, "Nineteen, are you waiting for me?...Is there still something wrong?"

Li Xuan didn't speak, and silently pressed the elevator button. Zhao Jizhe followed him to the garage without knowing why, hesitated for a moment in front of the car, and then got into the car after hearing Li Xuan's call.

"Nineteen, where are you going?" Zhao Jizhe was a little nervous, "Are you going home?... I see that you don't have a good relationship with your adoptive father. You don't live together..."

Usually his inquiring Li Xuan would feel bored and disgusted, but now he just feels tired.

It didn't start after he was released from prison. When he came to N City, even in the orphanage, Zhao Jizhe always asked him where he was, and asked him if he knew anyone new...

"We are relatives, and I am your brother. I should care about you."

Where did this sentence start?

"The children who came to the orphanage with me were all adopted."

Zhao Jizhe came out of the dean's office, dejected, and the amiable-looking aunt said, we still want a beautiful girl more.

"So." Li Xuan looked at an old book with a flat tone.

Zhao Jizhe was actually adopted, and the lost child of that family was found and brought back, not long before Li Xuan went to the orphanage.It was the aunt in the courtyard who talked about it. Zhao Jizhe didn't mention this experience, and it might be because he was too young to remember it clearly.

"Nineteen, the uncle who came last month, they want to adopt you, why don't you go? After you go, you will have parents, relatives, and other students in the school will not scold us for being unwanted.child."

"I already had parents, and it's not like they don't exist after they die." Li Xuan replied angrily, "I don't need them."

As if he had never heard such a saying before, Zhao Jizhe froze in place, Li Xuan got up and left, and at night, Zhao Jizhe came to look for him again.

"I think you're right, I have parents too..." Zhao Jizhe sat next to him, pulling a dog's tail grass, "I've made up my mind, we don't want to be adopted. The big tongue last timeHe came back with his new mother and said he wanted to see us, so he wanted to show off his new plane, I think that's it, it's not as good as bamboo dragonfly...it's nothing special...then don't do anything elseMom and Dad are gone, but I still want a relative. Every time I fill out the form, that column is empty, and the teacher always wants to see me...how about you treat me as a relative, and I will treat you as a relative.Older than you, I am an elder brother, I have a younger brother at the same table, so I have one too,..."

"Boring." Li Xuanman thought nonchalantly, what nonsense.

A lie repeated a hundred times will become true, what about a joke repeated a hundred times?More than ten years later, Zhao Jizhe still said the same thing, we are relatives, I care about you, where do you live now, what are you thinking...

"I sometimes think that it would be great if you didn't have so many problems." Li Xuan cut him off gently.

This sentence, which was not a reproach, made Zhao Jizhe silent, until the car stopped near a newly built large amusement park in the suburbs, he always had that panic expression.

"get off."

"Where is this?"

Li Xuan directly opened the car door: "Let's talk after getting out of the car."

It's close to the outskirts of the city. When got out of the car, the cold wind was blowing. It was too late and the park had closed.There is no lighting decoration, the Ferris wheel is not so romantic, the car is crumbling in the air, the bustling snack street during the day is crowded with people, only a few unwilling hawkers are tremblingly waiting for the fish that slipped through the net.

The French restaurant next to the paradise across the street has a more arrogant attitude. The well-dressed waiter stands behind the door, looks at the clothes of the visitors before adjusting his smile, and says, "Welcome."

Li Xuan has no special preference for all western food, but the restaurants next to him are closed, so there is no other option.I took the menu and ordered a meal at random. was not lucky, and even a few dishes were sold out.

"Sorry sir, we only use the freshest ingredients, so we can't stock too much..." the waiter explained.

Li Xuan simply handed back the menu: "Just order whatever you see."

"Have you ever been to this paradise?" After the waiter left, Zhao Jizhe talked to him cautiously, "I seem to have heard Zhu Zhou say that I don't understand what IP theme it is..."

"Before this paradise was built, you have also been here." Li Xuan took the sparkling water on the table, "This used to be a checkpoint before trucks entered the city, and in front of it was a dry bridge, which was later demolished."

Zhao Jizhe was stunned for a second, and when he turned his head to look out of the window again, his expression was dazed with old memories, and he said after a while, "I don't recognize it anymore."

Who can recognize it? The city is being renewed all the time. A piece of tile yesterday has become a layer of soil today.

This was their first stop in N City. The homeless stranger followed the heavy bus, drifting back and forth with the bumps of the journey. The body of the bus was like a lonely boat shaken by wind and waves.Also like cargo.The sun rises and the moon sets, the sky is sunny and raining, and when it stops again, you will arrive at a completely unfamiliar city that you have only seen on TV or in textbooks.

When he saw the huge landmark in the distance clearly, Zhao Jizhe actually wanted to leave.

"I don't want to be here."

He was too scared, he looked at the worn clothes on their bodies, every glamorous man and woman passing by made him feel that the next second would turn into a monster with blue face and fangs, their life was only the gray and boxy ones of the orphanageOne day, the farthest I have only been to school, the teacher who has been on a business trip to a big city said that there are many people living a life they have never heard of.

The students stared enviously and looked forward to it, Zhao Jizhe thought, it doesn't sound interesting.

He wouldn't even get off the back of the truck, "Nineteen, let's go...I don't like this place."

He wants to go to small places, like a locker in an orphanage where he can hide, where he feels safe.

But Li Xuan decided to stay, "If you want to go, go by yourself." He gave Zhao Jizhe all the money on his body, "Go, and I will give you the money, and you need to change the medicine for the wound on your hand. Go anywhere, it’s already so far away, it’s impossible for them to find us again.”