Invade the World

  Chapter 314 Elopement to the end of the doomsday

……get away?

  Xu Xiangyang was still holding his girlfriend's cold and soft hands, a little startled for a while.

  Where did you escape from?

What is    to escape from?

   "You said I had promised before..."

   "Yeah, have you forgotten?"

  Ms. Qingyue gently put her head on his shoulder. The air flow between the girl's lips and teeth seemed to float in a dark fragrance, blowing the tips of his hair and hair, lingering on the tip of his nose.

  Xu Xiangyang's cheeks are slightly red.

   "Hmm. I'm sorry."

   "Don't mind, this is normal."

  The girl arched her head on her boyfriend’s shoulders again, as if she wanted to find a more comfortable position. Inadvertently, she sighed softly.

   "At that time, you should just take what I said casually, right? If it was me, I would feel confused."

  Xu Xiangyang fell silent.

  He began to recall whether he had overlooked something in the daily communication with the squad leader, and whether there was something she really wanted to say to him, hidden in the seemingly relaxed talk and laughter and ridicule.

  And after thinking in this direction for a while, he wisely gave up this approach.

  It's not because it has little effect, but it is too "effect"-as soon as he just taps his head and thinks about it, there are a lot of possibilities.

  "This is how you do it."

  He couldn't help complaining.

   "Sometimes I don't know if you are serious or joking, so I ignore the really important things."

   "Yes. It's similar to the story of'The Wolf is Coming', right?"

   "...not so exaggerated."

   "But when I want to communicate seriously, can't you tell?"

  Xu Xiangyang thought for a while. This time it is more convenient to recall, because every serious decision made by the squad leader, the effect is shocking, and even unacceptable-he honestly nodded and admitted.

   "No, I can still see it."

"Right?"

  The girl with short hair smiled and embraced Xu Xiangyang's arm, letting his arm sink deeply into the full outline under the placket.

   "In fact, you don't need to think about anything specially, just know that I love you deeply."

  Xu Xiangyang did not speak any more.

  He leaned against the cold wall behind him, and silently heard the wind roaring above his head like a line of steel trains, and the trembling of the glass windows became louder and louder.

  From time to time, there are waves like surging movement, which is the echo of the dripping rain repeatedly beating on the window edge.

  After a while, the girl beside her whispered to him.

   "Xingjie once thought about destroying this city."

"Ok, I know."

  There is nothing to hide about this incident, it's nothing more than an unreasonable delusion that everyone will have in their youth.

  He also remembered after being reminded, because Lin Xingjie had already put this idea behind.

  Will always keep negative desires in her heart. That is the case only for people living in a boring gray world. She has left that state of life long ago.

   "——and I want to escape from this place."

  Zhu Qingyue raised her palm toward the ceiling, and then slowly spread her fingers.

  The building is enveloped in the darkness when the wind and rain come, setting off the corridors becoming more and more brightly lit. The nails on the girl's five fingers flowed slightly under the envelope of the incandescent lamp.

  Under the jade-like skin, cyan capillaries can be vaguely seen, with dynamism.

  In her body, a river of blood is flowing endlessly.

  Zhu Qingyue began to imagine. She imagined the river extending towards the end of the human body and deformed into a metaphor; flowing, flowing, flowing forever, flowing to a place where no one can see or no one can find.

  There is the legendary end of the world, the end of the world that can't even catch up with time.

"can you help me?"

  ……

  Xu Xiangyang turned his head to see Zhu Qingyue’s expression at the moment, his gaze matched her gaze.

  As just said, he can tell when Qingyue is serious-as long as the other party shows a strong will to something without disguising, it can't be a lie.

  For example, now.

  At this time, Xu Xiangyang thought of another question.

  If Lin Xingjie has changed herself and her current life situation, she has naturally abandoned the absurd wish of "destroying the city";

  So, if Qingyue had the idea of ​​"escape from the city" from the beginning, she has not changed this idea so far. Instead, it has only been allowed to surface and tried to make her previous delusion become a reality.

  When he thought of this, he felt that his chest was faintly stuffy.

  Does this mean that the girl has fallen into a certain unspeakable dilemma from the beginning, and there has been no change yet?

  But...this is not right.

   has obviously changed!

For the first time, she tore off the disguise of a good girl, and restrained her willfulness in front of her. Her unscrupulousness was finally restricted; from the beginning she just wanted to be friends with two people, and then she had the "three forever" impulse. "Together" dreams.

  She said to herself and Xingjie more than once that since she met them, her mother’s physical condition has continued to improve, and her life is developing in a better and better direction...

  At that time, the happy expression on the girl's face was from the heart, and he still remembered it fresh.

How can    become nothing happened in a blink of an eye?

  For Qingyue, knowing yourself, knowing Xingjie, making friends, and meeting the first love affair in life-what does all this mean?

   "...Xu Xiangyang?"

  It wasn't until the squad leader asked tentatively that he was caught in annoyance and then he came back to his senses.

   "In short, you want to elope with me, right?"

  Xu Xiangyang wanted to ease the atmosphere and tried his best to show a relaxed expression.

  Zhu Qingyue also responded with a smile.

   "Well, that's right."

   "Okay, I will help you."

  He vigorously swings his head up and down, trying to make large moves to show his determination.

   "Don't agree so soon."

  Zhu Qingyue stretched out a finger and gently pressed it to Xu Xiangyang’s lips to stop him from continuing.

  "What I said was'escape', but it was not for a while. I want to leave this place and never come back."

  Xu Xiangyang was taken aback.

   "...You mean, from now on, you will live elsewhere?"

   "Yes. My'new life' is far away."

  The girl stared at the light bulb on the ceiling, and the illuminated eyeball surface was overflowing with longing light.

  "Leaving school, leaving teachers and classmates, leaving neighbors in the neighborhood, leaving people I know, leaving this city I have never left since I was a kid..."

  His girlfriend's tone seemed brisk, but Xu Xiangyang's mouth opened wider as he listened.

  Because Zhu Qingyue’s words clearly showed an unimaginable heaviness, he did not expect that the other party’s determination had reached this level.

  He hesitated, and asked:

   "If you leave, what will Auntie do?"

   "She can live by herself now, she doesn't need my care."

"but……"

  "——If you don’t leave her and leave this home, how can you count as a ‘new life’?!"

  Her voice suddenly became high and sharp, her face twisted.

   just for a moment. The girl's face quickly returned to calm again. She lifted her head from his shoulder, staring at Xu Xiangyang's eyes firmly.

  "Leaving, so as not to be overtaken by the past. If you really want to help me, you have to make up your mind to abandon the past life and join me—"

  Boom!

  Thunder suddenly sounded outside the window.

  The bright white electric light cuts through the night like a huge sharp blade, casting a shaking and distorted shadow on the opposite ceramic wall.

  Zhu Qingyue stopped her mouth and looked out of the window unconsciously. Before she took her gaze back, she heard the boy next to her speak in a deep voice:

   "Okay, I promise you."

   followed by another thunder rumbling.

  The two of them sat so close, even though Qiu Lei was strong, they couldn't drown the whispers that were close at hand.

   "Zi La——"

  It seemed that it was affected by the weather, and the lights in the corridor suddenly went out. The two of them were in the darkness of dusk.

  Suddenly, Xu Xiangyang's face was illuminated by the electric light shining outside the window. From the girl's point of view, his solemn expression had an unspeakable courage in the reflection of the light, and immediately disappeared in the darkness.

  "I promise you", Zhu Qingyue was a little surprised after hearing this faint answer, then she reduced the smile on her face, and asked in a low voice through the interval of thunderous sounds:

  "Is it because I'm not too serious, and you think I'm joking?"

"no."

   "Then you make decisions too fast."

"Because, the so-called'elopement' is the same thing, right?" Xu Xiangyang spread his hands, "Just like on TV, no one will recognize a love affair, under heavy pressure from both families, young men and women who love each other. I can only choose to hide it from everyone, and choose to leave everything else behind for the sake of love."

  He said, standing up from where he was.

  As long as there is the idea of ​​procrastination, it will leave room for thinking; and once thinking, it means that there is the possibility of shrinking.

  So, Xu Xiangyang would rather not think about anything. He only hopes that he can resolutely implement what should be done now, driven by the emotions at this moment.

  Qingyue wants to let herself leave this city and walk with her?

  If this is her wish, good, he will do it.

"be right back."

  Throwing down these words loudly and loudly, Xu Xiangyang walked quickly towards the elevator.

  ……

  After Xu Xiangyang left, Zhu Qingyue still kept the same posture as before, never moving.

  She hugged her knees with her hands, dropped her head as if asleep, and sat in the corridor in front of her house, quietly and patiently waiting for the man to return.

  He who made an agreement with me will definitely abide by it.

  Anyone in this world can leave me alone, but he won’t.

  As long as I ask for help...No, even if I don’t say anything, he will definitely show up when I need it.

  So, don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid——

Do not worry.

  Her eyes were always fixed on the floor under the skirt, and she heard the mother's call from the end of the house.

   "Come in, Qingyue."

   "Come in, Qingyue, it's going to rain, it's so cold outside..."

   "Come in. Come in! Are you going to leave me behind? Just like your irresponsible father?"

  The tireless, chattering call, has never stopped since the beginning, as if I never knew what it means to be tired.

  The girl hugs her shoulders tightly. Like sitting in a snowy field with no campfire and no camp, her delicate body trembled slightly.

  *

  In the muddle, Zhu Qingyue heard footsteps that seemed to be coming from a far away place.

  Her eyes were already drooping, but she was awakened again at this moment, and she immediately raised her head and looked towards the end of the corridor.

  She heard the soles of the shoes knocking on the floor, wrapped in the wetness of "Patters" after being soaked in water.

  The boy is standing there.

  Xu Xiangyang wiped his soaked hair up with his hands, and after a long sigh, he pulled down the brim of the raincoat.

  He is covered with patters of autumn rain, flowing along the surface of his clothes wantonly, forming a small pool of water beside his feet.

  After trying to calm her breath, Xu Xiangyang walked towards her, put a motorcycle helmet on her knee, and then took out the folded raincoat from his arms and handed it to her.

   "Let's go."

  His voice is low.

  Zhu Qingyue did not move, his face showed hesitation.

"I……"

   "Change your mind again?"

  Xu Xiangyang seemed to be able to see through the girl’s thoughts, squatted down in front of Zhu Qingyue, looked straight into her eyes and said:

  "If you think'too troublesome for me' or something, then you can rest assured, I don't feel troubled at all. It's better to say that I can be relied on by my girlfriend. I feel very happy."

   "But Mom... Mom doesn't want me to go--"

  This sentence was inadvertently murmured from Zhu Qingyue’s lips and teeth. The moment she realized that she had said what was in her heart, she felt a strong shame.

  She still shows her weakness easily like this for the first time.

  In the past, even in front of the closest friends and lovers, girls will try their best. When I cry, I will find a corner to cry silently, and when I am afraid, I will hide where no one can find it.

  Xu Xiangyang couldn't help being stunned.

  He suddenly laughed and shook his head.

   "What are you doing?"

  Zhu Qingyue has a pretty face blushing. She felt like she had become a child.

  Xu Xiangyang did not answer, but went straight to the door and knocked on the door politely.

   "Auntie, Qingyue and I are leaving."

  He paused, and his tone quickly became unceremonious.

   "Do you have an opinion?"

  Of course, no one will respond to him.

  But Xu Xiangyang didn't care, but took the initiative to raise the volume and shouted at the end of the door.

   "I'm sorry! Even if you have opinions, I won't listen. I will take Qingyue away from you now!"

"what are you talking about……"

Before Zhu Qingyue had time to complain, her boyfriend grabbed her arm and lifted it roughly.

   "We both eloped here, isn't it normal to grab a marriage by the way?"

  The boy turned his head and smiled at himself.

  This guy seemed to want to be handsome, and she immediately realized this, but instead felt that the smiling face looked a little silly and couldn't help but laugh.

   "I'm not getting married again."

   "Sooner or later." He said, "With me."

  You are so beautiful. The girl's long eyelashes trembled slightly, but she didn't say anything to refute, she just looked at him silently.

  "——Qingyue."

  Xu Xiangyang reached out his hand to his lover.

  "Come, let us run away from home together and elope to the end of the world!"

  ……

  In the depths of the sky, thunder is rolling.

  Silver snakes danced on the iron-gray sky, as if on this day, the end of the world had come.

  The boys and girls in raincoats left the lonely cliff-like building behind them together.

  The person in front clutched the hand of the person behind, and the two ran in the heavy rain.

  The blazing electric light flickered again and again, repeatedly tearing the autumn sky and the silent afternoon, and illuminating their path forward.

  (End of this chapter)