Tawil closed his eyes. “ too.”
“You have to choose.” Tawil turned abruptly and let go of Bai Liu. His forehead pressed against Bai Liu’s forehead and asked him softly, “Antidote or poison?”
Bai Liu’s hand curled up in the air.
Tawil watched him calmly, silver-blue eyes like a mirror placed under water. The swaying light of the water reflected Bai Liu’s emotionless face.
He stated, “You should know what the antidote is. Make a choice.”
Bai Liu’s eyes were blank and his mory passed through Tawil’s eyes in an instant, drifting far away.
In the old library of the welfare ho, the oil-stained book of old poems was spread out on Xie Ta’s knees. It was a sumr afternoon. The sun shone through the hair that fell on his forehead, just like it fell through the dense and loose branches. It scattered into grids of light and fell on the yellowed, worn-out pages.
There was dust and heat floating in the air. The windowsills of the library were open to the green shade of the weeds. The pool glowed like fish scales under the scorching sun and there seed to be 10,000 diamonds in the water.
Bai Liu (6) had no interest in reading. He drowsily covered his face with a book and rested lazily on his hands. Sweat from the heat soaked his collar.
He couldn’t rember the specifics but they had been assigned cleaning work in the library, which seed like it hadn’t been cleaned in decades. It was a punishnt that was common to both Bai Liu (6) and Xie Ta.
Fortunately, it was a small library. Xie Ta wasn’t in a hurry. He sat quietly by the windowsill and flipped through the old books buried under the dust, reciting in a low voice.
“Shall I compare thee to a sumr’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
…..
But thy eternal sumr shall not fade,
…..
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to ti thou grow’st:
So long as n can breathe or eyes can see,
God will live on, and this gives life to thee.”
Bai Liu (6) was finally awakened by Xie Ta’s words. He took off the book covering his face but didn’t open his eyes due to laziness. He asked Xie Ta first, “Isn’t the last sentence different? Don’t just tamper with other people’s poems at will.”
“The original sentence is ‘So long lives this, and this gives life to thee’.” Xie Ta wasn’t angry about being exposed and still looked at Bai Liu (6) very calmly. The look in his eyes seed like it was going to pull Bai Liu (6) in. “I don’t know how to write poetry but I see you in this poem.”
“This poem is for you.”
Bai Liu (6) went through this excessively disgusting love poem and pretended to turn over lazily. He didn’t look at Xie Ta behind him and was quiet for a mont before opening his mouth again.
“Don’t find a random poem to tease .”
“I didn’t find a random poem,” Xie Ta’s voice wasn’t rushed. “Your eternal sumr shall not fade, this is a poem describing your future. Soone will tell you.”
“My future? What about you?” Bai Liu (6) turned back again and raised an eyebrow. “Is it only my eternal sumr that won’t fade?”
He was just joking at first but Xie Ta was quiet for a long ti before staring at him, voice as soft as a leaf that couldn’t fall.
“I don’t have sumr.”
He sighed softly. “I just… secretly shared your sumr.”
Xie Ta’s eyes looked at the lush sumr scenery outside the window. “This sumr is indeed lovely and gentle. It is the most beautiful sumr I have ever seen, but it… doesn’t belong to .”
“I will always leave.”
At the end of that sumr, Xie Ta disappeared at the bottom of that pool.
In the Rose Factory at the beginning of sumr, the roses in May were in full bloom and were in the first round of the flowering period.
The mont Tawil let go, Bai Liu seed to sense sothing. He instinctively grabbed Tawil’s wrist and looked at him very calmly. “Are you leaving again?”
“We will et again.” Tawil gently raised his other hand and caressed Bai Liu’s eyelids and face. “This isn’t your sumr or your roses. I won’t stay here and you also shouldn’t stay here.”
Tawil’s icy hand touched Bai Liu’s skin and it was like snow falling on his face.
“The mont the sun disappears three-quarters of the way, there will be soone who cos to you who is cold and stiff. Don’t be afraid of the difference brought about by death, don’t be afraid of the broken reverse cross on the snow field.”
“Don’t be afraid of the living or dead .” Tawil took Bai Liu’s head in his arms and leaned down to kiss the wet, rose-scented hair. “Don’t be afraid that I will leave your sumr.”
“I am a fallen god without sumr but I have a whole winter waiting for you.”
“Make a choice now. Antidote or poison.” Tawil lowered his slender, snow-colored eyelashes. He didn’t make any movent while hugging Bai Liu in his arms. He just buried his head while stroking Bai Liu’s dripping hair. “No matter what choice you make—”
“You will leave, won’t you?” Bai Liu asked with a muffled voice.
Tawil was silent before answering honestly, “Yes.”
Bai Liu was quiet again but Tawil felt Bai Liu’s arms around his waist and abdon tighten. This was exactly the sa as when he was a child.
Tawil suddenly wanted to laugh.
If encountering a situation he didn’t want to face or if he beca angry with other children or teachers and didn’t want to admit it, the 14 year old Bai Liu (6) wouldn’t show it on the surface and he would even open his mouth to say a few sarcastic words.
However, the mont people weren’t paying attention, the skinny Bai Liu (6) would sneak back and hug the huge, patch-covered Slenderman doll, burying his head in it to release his emotions. It was the sa posture.
“Yet no matter what choice you make—” Tawil brushed back the hair that stuck to Bai Liu’s ears. He lowered his head and whispered, “You are always the most important thing to .”
“No matter what I go through, I will definitely co and see you.”
Bai Liu slowly propped himself up from Tawil’s arms and looked directly at Tawil. He finally rembered why he didn’t have the habit of directly looking at people before he was 14, but gained it after he was 14.
It was because Xie Ta said: [Don’t look in the eye. I have terrible eyes.]
Bai Liu (6) teased him maliciously: [If I don’t look you in the eye, how will you know that I’m talking to you? Wouldn’t you be embarrassed if I was talking to soone else and you thought I was talking to you?]
Xie Ta was silent for a mont before replying: [This way, I can pretend that when you are talking to all the other people, no matter who you are looking at, I can tell myself that you are talking to .]
Bai Liu rembered that when Xie Ta was saying this to him, he had lowered his head deeper to cover his eyes and his lips were pursed tightly.
—Just like now.
“Don’t say things like leaving.” Bai Liu stroked the hair on Tawil’s forehead as he leaned forward and smiled like he was complaining, “While showing this expression that is more reluctant to leave than .”
10 years ago, Bai Liu (6) had said: [You don’t have to pretend like this in the future. In essence, I only talk to you and only you will really listen to everything I say.]
[So whoever I talked to, it is actually all about you. I will keep looking in your eyes when talking.]
[I don’t think you are terrible.]
10 years later, Bai Liu said, “I won’t be afraid of your death anymore. In essence, death is already the most terrible thing for human beings.”
“You can’t die. No matter who gave you this, whether it is a god or a devil, no matter whether other people think you’re a monster, god or sothing else—to , you are just Xie Ta. I think it is a good thing that you can live forever.”
“I don’t think you are terrible.”
Bai Liu paused for a mont before continuing to speak calmly, “The poison is the dry leaf roses that grow from your body and the antidote is the blood ganoderma lucidum created from your blood, right?”
The mont he saw that the diary was related to the welfare ho, Bai Liu realized what the antidote was.
The functional explanation of the blood ganoderma lucidum item was that it could stop all negative buffs, which was likely to include the addictive state caused by the dry leaf roses. It just so happened that the factory manager bought the god statue from the welfare ho—it was likely that Tawil’s body also contained the mother blood ganoderma lucidum.
It was just that his body was dismbered so it was impossible to form connected blood vessels and organs. There was no way to generate the blood that could be used to form the blood ganoderma lucidum.
The factory manager should’ve known this too but he was completely out of control.
Compared with the ‘antidote’ that could save him, it was obvious that the poison had a higher concentration that made him madly addicted—the rose perfu attracted him more.
He couldn’t stop his desire for the rose perfu and it was even more impossible for him to put the core production tool, the heart, back into Tawil’s chest cavity so that Tawil could beco the blood supply machine again to protect the blood ganoderma lucidum to save him. This ended up completely destroying him.
The principle of the ga was the sa: after spying the core secrets of the operation of the Rose Factory, there were two options placed in front of the player.
One was to continue to use the dismbered Tawil to breed the dry leaf roses and produce the rose perfu.
The other thod was to absorb Tawil’s blood like the investors in the third instance. Let the blood ganoderma lucidum grow from Tawil’s body and continuously grow it to save everyone.
The dry leaf roses had no thorns and the smooth rhizos of the withered leaves just happened to make up the thorny, rose-like branches of the blood ganoderma lucidum. The two plants were designed to complent each other and restrain each other.
“You’re running away aren’t you?” Tawil stared at Bai Liu. “It is because you don’t want to choose either one.”
“However, you have no choice. You should know that from the design of the ga. You can only choose one of these two paths.”
“That person is forcing you to make a choice—save the world by torturing or let the world be tortured.”
Bai Liu knew.
He knew it from the mont he entered the ga—so he kept avoiding playing it.
Soone was torturing Tawil and forcing him to be Bai Liu (6).
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