GBT Chapter 136

Jiao Bai got into Qi Yi Liao’s car as “Chen Wang.” His emotions and behaviors were restricted; he could only reveal “Chen Wang’s” fear, restraint, and panic.

“This sir, you…”

“A few days ago, the person who sent you to the hospital that night was my younger brother.” Qi Yi Liao steered with one hand, “You were on the news; I paid attention.”

Jiao Bai was stunned.

Did Qi Yi Liao already guess what he had encountered, so he created this opportunity for him to escape?

“Really?” Jiao Bai scratched at the seatbelt in front of him. He made this small gesture entirely because he wanted to run into Qi Yi Liao’s arms but couldn’t, which annoyed him.

A car drove past, the headlights casting shadows on Qi Yi Liao’s deep facial contours, fleeting in an instant: “He said you’re from medical school; my lover is also studying at that school.”

“Your lover is?” Jiao Bai’s neck was as stiff as if he had a crick in it, constantly twisting to the side.

“Clinical medicine, Jiao Bai.” Qi Yi Liao’s breath carried the scent of tobacco, his tone gentle, “Doesn’t your school have any rumors about his private life?”

A passage of content floated out of the Barrier Card without warning.

Jiao Bai: The person Chen Wang envies most in his life.

During Chen Wang’s freshman year in winter, near the winter break, he saw Jiao Bai sitting in a wheelchair.

That day, Chen Wang was reciting in a chair under a tree when Jiao Bai was pushed past by his older brother. He wore a wool hat, scarf, and mask, his eyes dark and bright. When he looked at Chen Wang, Chen Wang immediately forgot where he had recited to.

When Chen Wang was a sophomore volunteering to serve the underclassmen, he encountered Jiao Bai again.

By that time, Chen Wang already knew through the internet how Jiao Bai had climbed up from the bottom, waded through the man-eating quagmire of the wealthy, stood among the big shots, maintained himself, and didn’t fall into depravity.

Chen Wang envied Jiao Bai, a person who had never intersected with him.

He thought that if they could be friends, he would definitely be able to learn a lot of energy from the other party.

Jiao Bai looked at this content and belatedly realized that he missed the start of school because he was imprisoned by Shen Ji. After escaping, he was seriously injured and unable to attend school, so he applied for a leave of absence. At that time, Chen Wang was a freshman. The following year, Jiao Bai went to the school to register, military training, fake his death, Chen Wang was a sophomore, and now he was alive, “Chen Wang” was a junior.

Actually, they were originally classmates. Chen Wang paid quite a bit of attention to him.

The Barrier Card wasn’t used casually.

Jiao Bai said: “I usually don’t pay much attention.”

He said it very smoothly. This was “Chen Wang’s” lie; he wasn’t willing to reveal his attention to Jiao Bai to others.

“It’s good to focus on studying, unlike my lover,” Qi Yi Liao looked at the road conditions, the expensive watch reflecting a cold light, reflected in his eyes, but couldn’t cover up his tenderness, “Only knows how to play.”

Jiao Bai: “…”

Even if you want to stimulate me, you can’t distort the facts like this, right? The books on that bookshelf on the first floor are almost all memorized by me!

“Then, what year is your lover in now?” Jiao Bai asked.

“On leave.” Qi Yi Liao had developed a smoking habit this year. He wanted to smoke, fumbling in the pocket on the left, but couldn’t find it. The cigarette case was in the right pocket.

Without thinking, Jiao Bai stretched out his hand, an invisible force blocking him. He changed to scratching his head: “Is he sick?”

“Mm.” Qi Yi Liao took out the cigarette case, but somehow didn’t smoke, just pinched it between his fingers, pinching it out of shape. He seemed to be releasing his inner Fiercethrough this action.

“Health is the most important thing; you can only go to school if you take care of yourself.” Jiao Bai rubbed his face.

Qi Yi Liao smiled: “Yes.”

“I came here on a business trip, meeting you was also a coincidence,” Qi Yi Liao coughed, “You’re lucky, you have a ride.”

Jiao Bai took the opportunity to express his gratitude: “Thank you, sir, for taking me back to West City.”

The car fell silent.

The windshield wipers swept back and forth across the front glass.

A very pleasant fragrance floated in the air. Jiao Bai’s eyelids gradually grew heavy, and he fell asleep groggily, still maintaining the posture of craning his neck toward Qi Yi Liao.

When he woke up, the car was already parked in Lanmo Mansion, and Qi Yi Liao was no longer in the driver’s seat.

Jiao Bai subconsciously pinched his neck, finding that it wasn’t sore at all. He stayed in the seat, his mind filled with a rumbling sound, as if a train had passed by, still an old-fashioned green train, a huge noise.

The car window was knocked on. Jiao Bai opened the door and got out, his eyes meeting the tree-lined avenue illuminated by two rows of streetlights, and the tall figure standing next to the car. He opened his mouth to greet him: “Qi Da.”

“What?” Qi Da said.

Jiao Bai changed his words with a hesitant expression: “Hello.”

Qi Da crossed his arms, looking him up and down: “Kid, our Qi Master rarely drives; the passenger seat is our Madam’s position.”

Before Jiao Bai could speak, Qi Da interrupted: “You stand here first, don’t move around!”

Qi Da quickly returned, because Qi Master was on the second floor underground, not seeing anyone. He said to Jiao Bai with a straight face: “You’ll stay here overnight, and we’ll send you back tomorrow.”

Jiao Bai put on a cramped look: “Isn’t that inconvenient? I still…”

“What are you thinking? Deep in the mountains and old forests, you can’t get a ride.” Qi Da led the way in front, signaling to the other brothers not to show their faces. Any questions were to be suppressed. He cracked his knuckles, “Where is your home?”

Jiao Bai breathed in the eerie atmosphere of Lanmo Mansion: “I’m a medical student.”

Qi Da stopped cracking his knuckles. So that’s how it was; Qi Master went out and brought someone back, seeing as the other party was a fellow alumnus of Bai Shao.

But,

The passenger seat still couldn’t be given to just anyone.

Qi Da muttered to himself: “Bai Shao is watching from heaven.”

Jiao Bai staggered.

No, I’m not in heaven, I’m right next to you.

Jiao Bai was arranged in a guest room on the south side of the first floor. He didn’t wash up, just waited in the chair.

Waiting for what was uncertain, but definitely wouldn’t end like this tonight.

Jiao Bai had slept in the car, and wasn’t sleepy at all at the moment. He took out his phone to play games.

“Chen Wang’s” Barrier Card made him turn off the game and take out a book. Yes, that’s right, he went all the way to find Feng He, and he still had a book in his backpack.

While Jiao Bai was taking notes, he waited for Zhang Zhen. He could tell at a glance that the other party’s condition was different from that night when they reunited.

Zhang Zhen stood at the door without coming in. He remembered the phone call that Bai Bai had made to him before he died, remembered Bai Bai telling him that there was hope in being alive.

Bai Bai also said that he regarded him as a Dear brother, hoping that he could get rid of the disease and always retain kindness.

Zhang Zhen remembered all of this, just tonight, more than an hour ago.

It sounded like a will.

Bai Bai knew something was going to happen to him, so he called him.

Zhang Zhen breathed heavily. Because of Bai Bai’s instructions, he saved Chen Wang. Could it be thought of this way, that Chen Wang was an instruction left by Bai Bai?

What instruction? What Third Brother said might be…

Jiao Bai looked at Zhang Zhen walking into the room. He couldn’t perceive the frequency and extent of the Barrier Card’s failure, and could only judge through other people’s reactions.

Now was just a good opportunity.

Zhang Zhen raised his arms, grabbed the back of the chair behind Jiao Bai, and looked down at him slightly: “Call me little brother.”

Jiao Bai: “Huh?”

“Call.” Zhang Zhen rarely used the bloody aura around him to force him.

Jiao Bai sighed in his heart: “Little brother?”

“The tone isn’t right,” Zhang Zhen stubbornly said, “It’s not a question mark.”

Jiao Bai followed suit: “Little brother.”

Zhang Zhen tightened his grip on the back of the chair, his knuckles turning white: “Not right… not right, not right, still not right.”

“Say it again!” He said in a ferocious tone, but his expression was careful and expectant.

Jiao Bai called out again and again, his throat hoarse, but he didn’t encounter the Barrier Card failing, revealing his true voice. He supported the collapsing Zhang Zhen: “Sir, are you alright?”

Zhang Zhen squatted in front of Jiao Bai: “Bai Bai, is that you?”

Jiao Bai choked slightly: “It’s me.”

Zhang Zhen looked up at him, his eyes very red: “If it’s you, blink, can’t speak, can your eyes blink once? I’ve made it through a year, I’m going crazy again these past few days.”

Just when Jiao Bai was about to go crazy too, Qi Yi Liao’s voice sounded outside the door, “A Zhen.”

Zhang Zhen lowered his head as if he had done something wrong, not daring to look back: “Third Brother, I…”

“Go back to your own room, take your medicine and go to bed early.” Qi Yi Liao stood at the door.

“I don’t want to take medicine anymore,” Zhang Zhen buried his hot face in his palms. Taking it made him feel comfortable, but it also made him stupid. He was worried about affecting his memory, not being able to remember things. He forgot what Bai Bai said, wasn’t it because he took too much medicine?

“You forgot, it has nothing to do with the medicine.” Qi Yi Liao saw through his thoughts, and said gently, “Go, you’ll be better tomorrow.”

Finally, Qi Yi Liao beckoned to Jiao Bai sitting in the chair: “Come out with me.”

Zhang Zhen looked blankly as Third Brother took the person away. What would be better tomorrow?

Backyard cemetery.

Under the Barrier Card, Jiao Bai was both afraid and couldn’t help but look at the tombstones.

However, he didn’t know that his chin was exposed from under the Disguised methods, that piece of fair skin appearing out of place with the rest.

Qi Yi Liao looked at him, his hand reaching out, two fingers about to touch his chin.

Jiao Bai took several steps back in a row. He was tense all over, his eyes widened, his posture showing strong unfamiliarity and unease.

Qi Yi Liao’s hand stopped in mid-air.

Jiao Bai quickly said: “Qi Yi Liao, calm down, it’s not what you think.”

“Mm.” Qi Yi Liao lowered his hand and continued walking.

Jiao Bai stayed in place for a while. He couldn’t tell for a moment whether the Barrier Card had failed and Qi Yi Liao had heard his words clearly, or whether he had guessed.

The yin energy in the cemetery was very heavy. Qi Yi Liao stopped there by a grave that had been dug open.

Jiao Bai didn’t see the tombstone, but he was still sure that this was his grave. The coffin was opened, the rotten, blackened bones exposed under the night sky.

“bass”

The sound of metal rubbing came from the wind. Qi Yi Liao lit a cigarette: “This is my lover’s grave.”

Jiao Bai looked at the spare body in the coffin, his nostrils filled with an unpleasant stench, one wave after another, drilling into his mind.

“He died of illness, but I feel like he’s still alive.” Qi Yi Liao took a puff of the cigarette, “Little classmate, tell me, can I wait for him to come back?”

Jiao Bai said in a hoarse voice: “Yes.”

“Why aren’t you talking? Haven’t thought it through yet?” Qi Yi Liao pressed the cap of the lighter, “Then think about it again.”

As the last note fell, the lighter in his fingers fell on the grass. The wind blew, and the fire spread.

Jiao Bai was “Chen Wang.” Facing this situation, his passive first reaction was to run away, running far away, standing at a safe enough distance, not shouting or screaming, presenting a stupid look. He wanted to rush over, but his feet couldn’t lift at all.

Damn, wasn’t it already failing in front of Feng He’s door? What’s going on now, hurry up!

The Barrier Card was flashing.

When the bodyguards saw the fire in the cemetery, they were all afraid to save him. They had received orders and could only worry anxiously.

The fire snake enveloped Qi Yi Liao. He stood alone in the ring of fire, a cigarette in his lips, his hands in his trouser pockets, his expression the most relaxed moment in this year.

Was life being suppressed? I’ll help you break free.

Qi Yi Liao was swept away by the scorching heat. This was the feeling of being alive. He bit the cigarette butt, the firelight jumping in his eyes making him look a little strange, like a traveler who had trekked for many years in the desert, the water source in sight, determined to bet everything before death.

Come back.

Qi Yi Liao’s gaze shifted from the bones in the coffin to the figure in the distance.

That ball of fire roared in Jiao Bai’s vision, his eyes red, his emotional temperature constantly climbing, rushing towards the critical point, rushing past.

A corner of the Barrier Card showed signs of burning.

In that instant, Qi Yi Liao in the fire heard a shout that made his heart beat violently.

“Qi Yi Liao!”

Jiao Bai roared through gritted teeth: “Are you crazy! Get out of there!”

One of Qi Yi Liao’s hands came out of his trouser pocket, his fingers holding the cigarette.

The cigarette was trembling.

That was because he was trembling all over.

The gray-black marks on the Barrier Card began to expand, from one-tenth to one-fifth, it was only a matter of an instant. It burned without smoke or fire.

Jiao Bai could move, he took trembling steps, running towards Qi Yi Liao with all his might.

The figure rushing out of the dim bushes became slender, his figure becoming thin and tall, his hair thick and black, the gentle and innocent eyes full of bright colors that could burn people.

At the same time, the bones in the coffin disappeared without a trace, as if they had never appeared.

The cigarette fell from Qi Yi Liao’s fingertips. He stared blankly at the person running almost flying, not even noticing the fire burning his clothes.

Jiao Bai rushed into the fire, grabbed Qi Yi Liao’s wrist, and pulled him out.

“You fucking crazy, you used yourself…”

Jiao Bai took off his coat and fanned the fire on Qi Yi Liao’s legs. He was pulled into a suffocating embrace.

The collar was picked open by trembling fingertips, a pain on his neck.

Immediately afterward,

Warm liquid fell down.