"Why is White still sleeping."
"Doesn't seem to be feeling well, I've given him leave, let's go first."
The door sounded closed and the small house was plunged back into a darkness between.
Gu Yuanbai opened his eyes under the covers and looked at the ceiling.
The feeling of dying slowly in Xue Yuan's arms still lingered in his heart, and Xue Yuan's hot tears hit his face and choked his ears. Gu Yuanbai held on to her last consciousness to look at him and woke up in her dormitory the next moment.
It's not about leaping off the clouds, it's about getting younger and going back to college.
It's like all that was once experienced was a dream.
Dormitory door opened and rang, the roommate in a mouthful of Beijing flavor came in, "I do not have class today, if you feel bad I will accompany you to the hospital."
Gu Yuanbai stretched out a hand from the dark bed, "Have a cigarette."
Ten minutes later, the dormitory balcony.
Gu Yuanbai leaned against the wall, his eyebrows drooping, smoking a cigarette in decadence and silence.
Roommate Junior stared at him for a while, wondering, "What's wrong?"
Gu Yuanbai didn't say anything.
Xiao Si looked him up and down, "No way, Brother Bai, you can be so handsome even with a cigarette?"
"Wait, I'll get my phone and go take a picture of you, keep that pose and don't change." The footsteps were far away.
Gu Yuanbai's hand holding the cigarette trembled a little, he inhaled hard, the feeling of smoke entering his lungs was clear and distinct, there were still bruise marks on his arm that he pinched out, and everything proved the reality of this moment.
Was it all a dream before? Graduation, later, skydiving and Daheng, all a fucking dream?
No way.
Gu Yuanbai's hands shook even more, and the first time Xiao Si ran out of the house, he was startled by his trembling hands, and in a panic, he snuffed out the cigarettes that kept shaking off the ashes in his hands, and grabbed him to rush downstairs, "Hurry up, go to the hospital!"
Gu Yuanbai was pulled down the stairs by him, the white walls and hallways circling in his eyes. In the first hour back Gu Yuanbai went online and searched for The Minister of Power and the original book The Regent's Palm Jade, but fuck it this time there was no such book or web series adapted from the book at all.
Nothing. If there's no book, does that mean there's no Daheng no Gu Convergence no Xue Yuan?
Gu Yuanbai didn't dare to go to the seal.
If what had happened before was true, it would be reasonable to say that coming back after living an extra lifetime and realizing that he had become younger should be a surprise, but Gu Yuanbai didn't want this surprise, not only did he not want it, he was even afraid of it.
So scared that his lips were trembling in the middle of the summer, pale and bloodless, his roommate had been so frightened that he had gone to the street to stop the car.
He's dead but not dead. What about Xue Yuan?
Xue Yuan followed him to his death, what if he's alone on the Yellow Springs and doesn't see him?
Gu Yuanbai's brain was swollen, and only the smell of cigarettes could keep him awake for a minute. He took the cigarettes from his roommate's hand, pushed the doctor in front of him away, and walked over to the smoking area and squatted down.
Junior ran out after him, "Fuck, White, will you listen to the doctor?"
"Listen to what?" Gu Yuanbai pulled his lips, "What else can I do with a blood draw and a film? I'm mentally challenged, just calm down and chill out."
Junior thought about it and followed suit, squatting down next to him, "Fine. But you have to tell me, what's wrong with you?"
Gu Yuanbai held a cigarette between both fingers and looked down at his hands.
Slender, with prominent bones and glowing skin, he looked fully forceful and fully youthful.
These were not the hands of an old man, nor were they the fair and slender hands of a young emperor.
"I fell out of love." He eventually tightened his grip and said this with a sideways glance towards Junior.
*
Gu Yuanbai locked himself up in the hotel for three days of decadence, and was finally dug out by his roommate.
He didn't have much spirit and looked a bit lethargic. Old Zhu slapped him on the back and mocked without mercy, "Gu Yuanbai ah Gu Yuanbai, you'll still have a day when you fucking fall out of love?"
"Lost love is lost love, how can you still be so wasted? You look much more serious than love lost," another roommate rubbed his chin and guessed, "You got green? Dumped? The other party's condition must be how excellent to dump you ah."
Gu Yuanbai lightly looked over with a single glance, and Old Zhu and his roommate somehow shivered and subconsciously stood upright, "I was wrong!"
Shame on them in their hearts, this is too much of a wimp.
Gu Yuanbai retracted his eyes, a good big handsome man but exudes a rotten atmosphere. A few of his roommates looked at each other and tried their best to tell interesting stories in school, and suddenly said, "A student studying sports in the next department fainted two days ago, and when he woke up, he didn't know what happened, and made a scene saying he wanted to quit school."
A few people were disinterested, "Is it back?"
"It didn't back out," said his roommate, "but he seems to be having some brain problems, and the school is going to give him a month or two off."
Gu Yuanbai couldn't raise his interest, "Where to?"
Junior hemmed and hawed, "CS Real Life Club."
*
Gu Yuanbai was dressed in camouflage, his pants tucked into his Martin boots. He carried a paintball gun and walked out from the midst of the gunfire, his black hair drenched in sweat, his sharp eyebrows stained with the smell of beacons, and his whole body clean and dry, without a single paintball.
"6 ah," the club staff smiled as they handed him water and a towel, "Battle of the Bulldogs, want to take a shower and rest first?"
Gu Yuanbai lowered his head and unlocked the black finger cuffs on his hands, his jawline was handsome and sharp, his eyebrows were in the shadows, and he didn't bring on the pleasure in his speech because of his good battle record, "Let's start with a pack of cigarettes."
The base of the actual CS battle is in the suburbs, all around the trees, at first glance seems to be in the middle of the mountains and forests. Gu Yuanbai played into the emotions, put a full of reluctance and pain with running and paintball shot out, this will already be a dull sweat.
As the heat wafted away, he pulled a cigarette out of his holder and looked around as the staff offered to show him where he could smoke.
This club Gu Yuanbai had been here before, but after spending decades in Daheng, these small memories had long been forgotten, and even the faces of his housemates were unfamiliar to his eyes.
At the thought, he lowered his brow and wordlessly placed the cigarette in his mouth.
Next to the smoking area was the staff's area, and Gu Yuanbai smoked half a cigarette with a cold face, occasionally turning around and seeing someone in that area who was bending over to put down sandbags.
The man looked young, yet his muscles were powerful and strong. He was wearing a white undershirt, which was already stained with dirt from the sweat and work on his body, not too sloppy, but rather manly, with the hormones coming straight up in his face that could smudge a person's eyes.
Gu Yuanbai pinched his cigarette and withdrew his eyes. The staff at the side followed and looked at him, and said with a smile, "This is our club's newly recruited temporary worker, a student from the local university. He's not old, but he's very intimidating, and when he first came here yesterday, we thought he was a smasher, and the security guards were about to come out. But don't say, this little brother really can do, dozens of sandbags in no time he can handle."
Gu Yuanbai casually answered, his hands in his pockets looking out at the scenery, thinking that if Xue Yuan were here, Xue Yuan would be so powerful.
At that thought, the pain that had just risen after venting rose again. He rubbed his brow in hard-to-conceal annoyance and turned to stride toward the lounge, his hard Martin boots ringing loudly on the floor.
This customer is not easy to mess with, and he is very aggressive. Staff with him to say two words has been some voice trembling, this moment do not dare to follow up, nothing to do and walked to the front of the work area, and inside the sandbags are being moved people chatting: "handsome, you're too much, others can only three days to finish the work you're done today, you are very short of money?"
Temporary workers have a very handsome face, look even some philandering, such a face with such a perfect body, the staff heart tsk tsk non-stop, if this lack of money is not simple? Naked to the street station, in a minute there will be a rich woman door.
"Lack of money," the temp took a few gulps of water, beads of sweat sliding down his firm neck, his eyes so deep they seemed to see through walls into the distance, "I'm going somewhere far away."
You have to use the money to buy equipment and airplane tickets.
He's going to dig Gu Yuanbai's mausoleum from his previous life.
Go to his lover.
*
The housemates did their best to bring Gu Yuanbai waves for a day, but the lost love is too scary, one second just show a little smile the next second can sink down face, the housemates completely give up, the night with Gu Yuanbai ran into the bar to press him on the bar side chairs, "Brother Bai, the last project ah, drunkenness, you drink hard, despite the drinking, we go to play, come back to the bar if you do not drunken! We'll get you drunk."
Gu Yuanbai stepped on the stirrups, his spine slightly curved, the colorful lights hitting his face as he nodded casually, "Go."
His roommate barked two or three sentences before leaving, and when he was about to enter the dance floor, he turned his head and couldn't help but sigh, "Why is Bai getting more and more flavorful."
Old Zhu sniffed and turned his head after him, "Scary smell? I'm now terrified when I see his cold face, can a lost love be this powerful?"
Junior shook his head with his hands behind his back and said deeply, "Wise men don't fall in love, falling in love affects the speed at which Bai draws his gun, it's not worth it not worth it."
The housemates looked at each other and surged onto the dance floor together.
At the bar, Gu Yuanbai ordered a few bottles of wine and had a sip.
He didn't have a smoking or alcohol addiction, something that could numb the nerves like this Gu Yuanbai had never been obsessed with, but with all the boredom and complexity of the past few days, it also seemed as if this was the only way to make his heart feel better.
After a while, the bartender handed over a glass of wine and gestured toward the left with a smile, "Sir, this one that ......"
"Don't drink it," Gu Yuanbai leaned against the bar and knocked on the table with a few commanding tones, "Return it."
The bartender subconsciously tensed, "Yes!"
Cold sweat had already left the corners of his forehead when he first picked up his glass, why did he feel the urge to kneel and kowtow at the sight of this guest?
Gu Yuanbai sat quietly, looking at the lights in front of him. Modern entertainment was in no way comparable to ancient times, but he now felt lonely and isolated.
The soul is empty and all things are irrelevant.
He did not hold back and lowered his head to take out another cigarette from the cigarette box, the long smoke in the middle of his fingers in a circle, Gu Yuanbai trance for a few moments, took a deep breath and put the cigarette in his mouth, not ready to light up.
There had been enough today, and the point of taking care of one's health had gone deep into Gu Yuanbai's soul.
Someone to his left came up to him and accosted him, smiling with a pretty good voice, "Handsome, don't like the wine you were given?"
Gu Yuanbai moved his teeth, and the low-hanging cigarette butt followed the force arrogantly aimed at the visitor, impatiently saying, "Get lost."
The visitor smiled awkwardly for a split second, "Come on, have a chat ......"
There was a sudden sound of a glass breaking behind the bar.
Gu Yuanbai turned back to look and only saw the image of a foot of black pant legs. He narrowed his eyes and clipped the cigarette out of his mouth.
The bar's security uniform is all black, like this occasion, the security guards are required to be decent looking and one meter tall. Gu Yuanbai didn't see what the security guard who broke the glass looked like, but his legs were quite long and he should be very tall.
His cold demeanor finally caused the accosters to back off, and Gu Yuanbai lowered his head and took a sip of wine, listening to the reprimand from the corner not far away.
The bartender was a bit exasperated, "You've only been here part-time for two days, and you've broken five glasses. Big brother, do you still want your paycheck?"
The other didn't say a word.
The bartender's tone suddenly became a little timid, and then forced his temper, "...... Forget it, the money for the glass I will tell the supervisor to deduct it from your salary, if you are fine now then hurry up and go."
After a while, the bartender and this security guard walked out from around the corner. Gu Yuanbai casually raised his head and glanced at the security guard, who was a bit taller and more handsome than he had imagined. His angles were clear, and he looked like he was wearing an expensive suit even in his security uniform. He was tall, and his clothes were bulging, a look that was very pleasing to men and women of all ages.
It looks a little familiar.
It's the temp from the morning's CS real-world club.