Chapter 41 Chapter 41 The author is here!
One weekend evening in November.
"Brother, I'm back."
When Jiang Shizao closed the apartment door, Wen Zhi's voice also came from the direction of the restaurant.
"Good morning, I've prepared dinner."
The heating in the apartment was on, and the room temperature was around 24 degrees Celsius, nearly 20 degrees higher than the outdoor temperature, making it warm and pleasant.
Jiang Shizao took off his coat and changed his shoes. Then, holding a cup of hot milk tea, he walked towards the owner of the voice.
When they arrived at the restaurant, Wen Zhi had just placed the last dish on the table. When he looked up, the smile on his face was the gentle one that Jiang Shizao was familiar with.
"Just right." Wen Zhi said with a smile.
"Brother, I bought milk tea."
Wen Zhi likes to drink milk tea, so Jiang Shizao bought two cups when he passed by the milk tea shop today.
At the dining table, Jiang Shizao handed one of the cups to Wen Zhi very naturally.
After the two of them finished dinner, as usual, they would go out for a walk together in the evening.
This kind of life seems to have become daily routine.
In fact, Jiang Shizao had been in Lingcheng for half a year.
In the past six months, he and Wen Zhi have already traveled all over District 14 of South Bank.
Jiang Shizao never entered that copy of infinite space again.
At the beginning, he would go to school according to his character, but later with the help of Wen Zhi, Jiang Shizao no longer had to go to school.
A few months ago, Jiang Shizao found a part-time job in a bookstore in District 14 of South Bank.
The work is easy and I have plenty of time to read.
Although Jiang Shizao has not been pulled into a dungeon since he met Wen Zhi, he has not even encountered any supernatural events.
The days were so peaceful as if he had just left Jiangcheng and moved to another city.
But in the past few months, Jiang Shizao has been reading as many books as possible.
His relationship with Wen Zhi also grew closer. The two of them lived together every day, as close as brothers.
Wen Zhi still writes novels, and now Jiang Shizao can always see the stories written by Wen Zhi first.
Wen Zhi likes to share with Jiang Shizao. He has said more than once that he wants Jiang Shizao to be his first reader.
If you don't think about traveling through a book, everything seems... beautiful.
When the word "beautiful" popped up in his mind, Jiang Shizao stopped.
Actually, it’s not that I don’t have any worries…
Thinking about the dreams I've had almost every night for the past six months, all kinds of strange dreams, tentacles... monsters... and...
Jiang Shizao sometimes dreams of Wen Zhi.
Whenever this kind of dream happened, Jiang Shizao would always feel a little embarrassed to face the other person the next day.
besides……
Jiang Shizao occasionally dreams of Wen Qianchuan.
Thinking of Wen Qianchuan, Jiang Shizao was actually still a little sad.
Wen Qianchuan never contacted him again since that night in the hospital half a year ago.
The other party suddenly disappeared from Jiang Shizao's world.
Jiang Shizao tried to send messages to Wen Qianchuan, but those messages seemed to have fallen on deaf ears.
At first Jiang Shizao was worried that something had happened to Wen Qianchuan, but just after he nervously dialed the other party's number, the call was connected normally after a while.
The familiar voice of Wen Qianchuan rang out from the other end of the line, asking, "Hello, who are you looking for?"
At that moment, Jiang Shizao seemed to understand something.
Wen Qianchuan didn't want to contact him anymore. The other party might have deleted his contact information. So Wen Qianchuan didn't know who was calling him.
At that time, Jiang Shi had already hung up the phone and didn't even dare to ask the reason.
That was the first time in his life that he chose to escape reality.
Jiang Shizao was in a daze and thought that no matter what the reason was for Wen Qianchuan to ignore him, at least he knew that the other party was safe, and that was enough, he thought.
The purpose of making that call was achieved.
However, the truth was that Jiang Shizao was sad for a long time after that. He looked pitiful, and Wen Zhi even noticed that he was in a bad mood.
Thanks to Wen Zhi who was always by his side to take care of him during that time, Jiang Shizao did not fall into despair.
Later, after working in a bookstore, Jiang Shizao read some books and recalled it belatedly, and finally understood one thing.
He should have liked Wen Qianchuan at that time.
Jiang Shizao's first love ended in vain.
After working at the bookstore, Jiang Shizao rarely returned to Lingcheng High School. A few months ago, before he dropped out, Jiang Shizao had mentioned his classmate Wen Xu to Wen Zhi.
Wen Xu is a transfer student from outside Lingcheng.
At school, everyone accepted Wen Xu's identity as a person from outside Lingcheng. But when Jiang Shizao talked about the world outside Lingcheng with the people of Lingcheng alone, everyone thought he was joking. In their minds, there was nothing outside Lingcheng.
This was a clear clue. The transfer student, Wen Xu, was unique. At least he could make others accept information that shouldn't exist, or not dwell on it.
Jiang Shi had already mentioned his speculation to Wen Zhi. Perhaps there were other cities outside of Lingcheng, perhaps cities made up of other books written by Wen Zhi, or perhaps other dimensions. They could first try to communicate with Wen Xu from outside to search for clues.
But when Jiang Shizao returned to school the next day, Wen Xu was gone!
He asked his classmates and found out that Wen Xu had transferred to another school and had already left Lingcheng High School.
This is so sudden.
They were clearly still texting with each other the day before, but Jiang Shizao had only taken a day and a half off because of the fire, and when he returned to school, Wen Xu had already transferred to another school.
Just like Wen Qianchuan who later ignored him, she disappeared from his world so suddenly.
When Jiang Shizao called Wen Xu again, the number was no longer in service.
Later, when Jiang Shizao dropped out of school, he thought about thanking Wen Helin, the school doctor who had taken good care of him in the past, in person. However, he found out that Wen Helin had died in an accident some time ago.
“…” Jiang Shizao was stunned when he heard the news from his class teacher.
The head teacher knew that he and Wen Helin had always had a close relationship, and comforted Jiang Shizao.
Wen Helin's accident happened the day after Jiang Shizao took leave.
"..." When Jiang Shizao returned home and told Wen Zhi about this incident on the day he dropped out of school, he felt a little out of sorts.
It seemed as if all the people who were kind to him disappeared overnight.
Jiang Shizao felt that this was very abnormal, and it was too obvious that something was wrong, but there was no clue or evidence to show that all this was related to him.
Wen Xu transferred to another school and left Lingcheng. Wen Qianchuan had lost contact with him, and Wen Helin... Wen Helin was gone.
Jiang Shizao had spoken to Wen Zhi about his doubts and fears. Wen Zhi understood him perfectly, and the two of them had investigated these incidents together, but in the end, none of them could prove that these things had nothing to do with Jiang Shizao; they were just isolated incidents that seemed to coincide with each other.
And one day, Jiang Shizao and Wen Zhi were waiting outside Wen Qianchuan's company together. They stood in an inconspicuous corner and watched each other enter the building.
Wen Qianchuan seemed to be doing just fine. He was still handsome and gentle, but he no longer cared about Jiang Shizao.
Later, Jiang Shizao only had Wen Zhi in his life. Wen Zhi was from the same world as him.
…
"What's wrong, Zao Zao?"
In the evening sunset, Wen Zhi turned sideways and looked at the young man who had stopped.
The two of them stopped on the wooden bridge leading to the living area.
Jiang Shizao looked at Wen Zhi, looking into those gentle blue eyes. Jiang Shizao took a deep breath and encouraged himself.
He was going to do something today.
"Early?" Wen Zhi looked very patient. In fact, he knew very well what Jiang Shizao was going to do.
Jiang Shizao would have a good impression of Wen Qianchuan, and would have the same good impression of him. After all, if you think about it deeply, Wen Qianchuan and he are the same person.
They could be very similar. Moreover, in the past six months, he often entered Zao Zao's dreams and guided her...
After Jiang Shizao realized that he had fallen in love with Wen Qianchuan, once his consciousness broke through this barrier, he would fall in love with him early on as they interacted.
That's for sure.
Looking at the young man in front of him who was about to say that, Wen Zhi's lips curled up slightly. Although everything was as expected, he couldn't help but feel excited when the moment finally came.
My heartbeat quickens as I wait.
Waiting for Jiang Shizao... to confess to him.
And of course he would be better than Wen Qianchuan.
In the past six months, they were trapped in the copy he created, a "Bell City" where there was no transfer student, no Wen Helin, no Wen Qianchuan, and no anything that would disturb their safety.
Everything that would get in their way disappeared.
Jiang Shizao thought he had been to school and met "Wen Qianchuan." But in reality, Jiang Shizao had never left South Bank District 14.
Jiang Shizao had been living in the illusion created by Wen Zhi.
Wen Zhi had been waiting for this day for a long time. Finally, she was ready to tell him... that she liked him.
"elder brother……"
Jiang Shizao looked at Wen Zhi in front of him.
He dreamed of Wen Zhi again last night.
In the dream... he accepted Wen Zhi's approach and responded to him.
This is not the first time.
Jiang Shizao was very clear that the self in his dream was becoming more and more dependent on Wen Zhi.
...In fact, it wasn't just in dreams. Jiang Shizao lived with Wen Zhi every day, and he had no idea how many times he had been attracted to each other.
After waking up, Jiang Shizao thought about it for a long time.
Today while working at the bookstore, he researched a few more books.
After thinking about it again and again, Jiang Shizao decided to give it a try.
...In fact, he had been thinking about this matter every day for the past month. Every day he wanted to test Wen Zhi... Today he finally mustered up the courage.
"Morning, you say."
Wen Zhi's voice was still so gentle. It seemed that no matter what Jiang Shizao said, the other party would accept him and respond to him.
This undoubtedly gave Jiang Shizao great courage.
"You..." Jiang Shizao opened his mouth.
Although he had prepared himself mentally, when he really wanted to confess his feelings to the other party, Jiang Shizao's cheeks couldn't help but heat up.
He is so nervous.
"willing……"
Jiang Shi had already thought that Wen Zhi was very tolerant of the world and he definitely did not hate homosexuals, because there were many homosexuals in Wen Zhi's novels.
So even if I fail to confess, I won't be hated...
Jiang Shizao swallowed hard.
"With me..."
At this moment, Jiang Shizao was looking at the other person almost without blinking.
Wen Zhi lowered his eyes slightly, and his gaze became increasingly deep and gentle...
Are we dating...?
But before he could utter the last three words, Jiang Shizao's pupils trembled suddenly.
"elder brother--!"
In front of Jiang Shizao and behind Wen Zhi, a huge hole suddenly appeared.
A world of another color emerged from the crack. The crack grew larger and larger, and the space inside became clearer and clearer. Looking at that scene, all the words Jiang Shizao wanted to say were interrupted.
He reached out his hand, wanting to pull Wen Zhi away. He wanted to pull Wen Zhi away from the strange world that was surging outward.
That world... the world in the crack... was the one Jiang Shi had seen before... a different version of Lingcheng.
Then Jiang Shizao saw that in that strange space, there was a face exactly like Wen Zhi.
Jiang Shizao was stunned.
A person who looked exactly like Wen Zhi walked out of the cracked space.
The man said to him, "Zao Zao, I am the author Abyss, follow me."
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