It was really a crazy night. The town that was still lifeless during the day became inexplicably "vibrant" at such a night. Shops opened inexplicably and the abnormally noisy streets were like a doomsday carnival.

All kinds of crazy laughter and screams came from time to time into the small courtyard where we were. Accompanied by this background, I told Brother Chengxin and Ru Yue what I saw in detail, and what I got in exchange was silence for a long time.

No matter how confusing things are, the only thing that remains unchanged is human nature. To put it simply, everything in this world, whether it is war or as small as a family conflict, is essentially just human nature. Everything is disturbing.

After seeing and hearing too much about many things, you will feel anxious and helpless in your heart that you want to change but can't find the right way. But often one or two shining points make people unable to bear to give up a certain hope.

Like hungry and desperate street beggars, there will always be one or two warm eyes with inquiry and sympathy, bending down and giving the respect of a small note.

We all have this conflicting mood, so I understand the silence of Brother Chengxin and Ruyue.

The night wind was very cold, so I took off the black cloak I was wearing. I always felt that it represented a kind of numb depravity. The breaths of the three people formed a diffuse white mist in the air. I suddenly said: "Get out."

Take a walk?”

Brother Chengxin smiled, still warm, and said calmly: "It's okay, looking at the monsters is also a kind of mental experience."

Ruyue had already opened the door of the small courtyard. When she turned around, her bright eyes were still as bright as when she first met her when she was a child. She turned around and held my arm with Brother Chengxin and said, "It feels like an adventure when I was a child, but the sad thing is that...

At that time it was a dark cemetery underground, but now it is in the human world."

Ruyue's words made the three of us remain silent for a while, but without stopping, we walked out of the small courtyard and walked to the alley outside the courtyard.

The moonlight penetrated the fog and fell on this alley. In this somewhat remote alley, there were actually three or two people. They seemed to be drunk. One was sitting on the ground, leaning against the wall and giggling. The other two had their arms around each other, their throats

There were chattering sounds in the conversation. In fact, neither of them could clearly hear what the other was saying, but they still laughed as if they had some tacit understanding.

"It seems that at this time, anyone who is unobtrusively happy will be cast aside. This town is crazy." After passing by three drunkards like this, Brother Chengxin adjusted his glasses on his face and whispered.

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I put my hands in my pockets and let Ruyue hold me. I raised my head slightly to look at the hazy moon, and whispered back to Brother Chengxin: "If you don't vent like this and make yourself laugh as hard as you can, you will look very happy."

, how to cover up the pain in your heart? What you are giving away today is someone else's child. Who knows that tomorrow you will have to bury the most precious thing around you? For them who have already chosen to fall, it is better to forget these things and get drunk today.

, you will have the courage to live tomorrow.”

"Third brother, so you are saying that sometimes life is more painful than death?" As we spoke, we had already walked out of this alley, and a turn turned into the main street of the town. It was obviously depressed during the day, but now the whole main street is

The lights were brightly lit, the closed shops on both sides were all open, and the streets were full of people wandering around. Everyone seemed to have forgotten who they were and made a fuss, looking at this scene with all kinds of ugliness. Suddenly, Ruyue

Ask me.

We were walking along this main street, and from time to time someone would light a firecracker. I don’t know where it came from, or if it was just prepared for this time. Under this noise, I said to Ruyue

: "Sometimes living is naturally more painful than death. The mortal world refines the heart, and the word "Lian" is next to fire. It is using pain to temper the soul! But do you think these

Are people alive? People who dare not face pain will naturally not feel the pain, so how can they talk about tempering? All they can occasionally feel is complaining, and then continue to be numb. Complaining and pain are different, just like in the same thing

Do you understand the difference between words and actions? These people are just zombies, numb existences, just existing, not alive."

"Hmm." Ruyue agreed softly, without saying a word, but a pair of smart eyes scanned the shops on both sides.

Most of these shops are restaurants and gambling houses, filled with drunk people and people with red eyes gambling, who cannot face the pain directly, or who are willing to degenerate and become numb for some unspeakable benefit.

, we can only use this method to forget that their smiles are flamboyant, so flamboyant that they are even distorted, as if they are already endlessly happy at this moment.

We walked in this town for about half an hour, and it seemed that we had seen hundreds of kinds of depravity and numbness, in all kinds of ways, and even men and women who were wantonly intimate on the street. But the more this happened, the more...

It's a stinging feeling.

Brother Chengxin yawned and his eyes suddenly became distracted. He said to me: "Go back. I'm tired. I won't read anymore."

"Me too." Ruyue also looked very tired, and then suddenly said softly: "Third brother, brother Chengxin, do you think those who sent their relatives out of this town or escaped from this town are brave?

Or what?"

Brother Chengxin and I didn't know the answer, so we fell silent. The three of us walked back to the small courtyard, leaning on each other suddenly.

After closing the door to the courtyard, everything became a little quieter. The moment I closed the door, I suddenly felt relaxed, as if I had returned from purgatory to the human world.

We didn't have any extra words. We greeted each other lightly, cleaned up briefly and then went back to the room. I wanted to rest. I tried to maintain a peaceful mood and fall asleep, but I kept tossing and turning. I couldn't sleep with this condition.

Under the slight anxiety, I heard the door of the yard being knocked open, the sound of stumbling footsteps, and the murmur of a drunkard.

Later, I heard Old Man Wang crying continuously from the main room, and talking to himself from time to time. Inexplicably, I was tossing it until dawn.

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I don’t know if it was because the town was too ‘happy’ last night, so it started to drizzle in the morning of the next day.

There is always wind, but at least under the wash of rain, the yellow dust can no longer be raised, but even so, there is always a vague feeling in the sky of this town. I took a look and sighed in my heart, how come it is so continuous?

Rainy days are also so hazy and hazy.

As agreed, we set off to where Mr. Liu was.

Different from the madness at night, the town has regained its sleepy atmosphere during the day. The occasional three or two people have expressions of exhaustion after the carnival, and the few canteens that are open lazily look like a

It's a 'dead town', but even so, it still gives people a sense of normalcy, as if the people in this town are finally sober.

I still don't quite know the way around this town, maybe because I have too many things on my mind, and my usually excellent memory doesn't work at this time. I don't know why I feel like I don't want to ask the people in this town anything.

After all, when I pulled down my cloak last night, many people had already seen my appearance. It’s just that people in this town are used to suppressing certain secrets. There is a delicate balance between me and them that cannot be explained.

Why would I bother asking them anything?

Fortunately, I always remember the appearance of that old Tongzi Building very clearly. After taking many detours, we still successfully found the Tongzi Building.

Downstairs, there were two old men waiting for us. Seeing our arrival, the expressions on their faces were obviously very relaxed.

We walked over, as if we were already very familiar with each other. After saying hello, without any unnecessary nonsense, they took us into the tube building.

Due to the old style and design issues of the building, the lighting in the entire building is not very good. Even in the daytime, it is very dark when walking in the stairwell, and it is even difficult to see the stairs under your feet.

We are young people, which is okay. I obviously felt that the two old people leading the way were very strenuous step by step.

"Why don't you turn on the light?"

"Why don't you live lower?"

Brother Chengxin and Ruyue asked almost at the same time.

Faced with such a problem, one old man was very silent, but the other old man sighed and simply said: "Where is the electricity to turn on the lights? It is not safe to live lower."

This short sentence, about ten words, made me feel inexplicably heavy in my heart. I could only lower my head in silence and slowly followed them up all the way until they reached the top floor. I saw

We opened an iron gate with bars and locked the entrance to the stairwell. One of the old men took out the key and opened the iron gate with trembling hands, and we were able to enter.

Another simple detail, but I felt how difficult their lives were!

Behind the iron gate, it was still very dark. Fortunately, when I turned a corner, I saw the corridor of the Tongzi Tower. There were lighted oil lamps hanging on the walls on both sides. I finally said goodbye to this darkness.

On both sides of the corridor are rooms facing each other, and the doors are all open. The old man who opened the door said: "We live here and live like this. Some people have lived here for many years, and some people have not."

In just a few years, not all people are as old as you see."

What do you mean? I suddenly raised my head and looked at him.
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