Case File Compendium

Chapter 218 It's Harder to Believe

"Jingle Bell--"

In the aftermath of the pain of the illness, there was a voice that echoed indistinctly.

Is this your phone's ringtone?Alarm ringing?still--

Xie Qing woke up reflexively.

It was like the school bell ringing for lessons.

But why is there a bell for class here?

Xie Qingcheng opened his eyes suddenly, he was lying on the bed, panting, the bedroom was very much like his bedroom in the He family more than ten years ago.

For a moment, he thought that he seemed to have returned to the past, and everything was just a dream.

If it wasn't for him still vaguely remembering what happened just now, if it wasn't for He Yu still beside him——

Xie Qingcheng's pupils narrowed slightly.

He Yu was not by his side.

He was the only one sitting alone on the bed.

"Jingle Bell……"

The alarm bell outside the window was still ringing.

It was that very flat ringtone, much like the sound coming from the speakers of the learning radio station.

The feeling of dreaming became stronger, and Xie Qingcheng once again felt as if he had been lying in the He family's villa, and the ups and downs of his life in the past ten years were just a dream of his.

He couldn't help getting out of bed, wanting to find a mirror in the bathroom, his heart was beating fast, could it really be a dream?Is it all fake?Could it be...

His footsteps stopped when he passed the window.

Xie Qingcheng looked out the window with a face as white as paper.

He is not dreaming.

Or maybe he hasn't woken up from his dream.

He came to the window, clutching the window lattice tightly with his fingers, overlooking the outside world.

That was not the Mandela Island he saw after he landed.But it wasn't the spacious lawn outside the He residence either.

What he saw turned out to be... turned out to be a large area resembling the "Fantasy Island" of Shanghai University! !

Neverland is a semi-abandoned artificial island of Shanghai University. It existed a long time ago, and I don’t even know when it was built in this century-old prestigious school.Later, the school used waste and allocated it to the outdoor sports club of Shanghai University for club activities.During the school reunion, Xie Qingcheng once helped Xie Xue replace Nine-Tailed Fox, and was trapped on that deserted island with He Yu.

can't be wrong...

Although the island outside is more than ten times larger than Shanghai University's Fantasy Island, judging from the landscape structure and the distribution of buildings, this is Shanghai University's "Fantasy Island".

The creepy feeling climbed up the instep like a snake.

what on earth is it?Was he dreaming or awake, was he in Mandela or somewhere else?

Xie Qingcheng tried his best to calm himself down, breathed calmly, and carefully observed the scene outside again.

My heart was beating poundingly.

so weird...

After he calmed down, he gradually realized that this was Mandela Island.However, as soon as he felt it, it was completely different from what he had seen before.

The dark forest was gone, and the river of blood was gone. Those surreal future scenes disappeared overnight, replaced by a scene like purgatory on earth.

The groups running wildly on the ground were not mechanical dogs, but real wolf dogs, and they all wore control chip rings on their heads.

Those broken mecha fighters on the ground were no longer dead objects, but bloody and mutilated bodies. The distance was too far, and Xie Qingcheng couldn't see the faces of those dead people, but he was sure that they were once alive. Humans, not so-called robots.

The Pegasus circling circles in the sky also disappeared, replaced by scattered drones and small helicopters with strange structures.

And that river of blood...

There were many corpses strewn about in that river of blood, some of which had rotted into bones. This river was not a mysterious chemical river at all, but a sinful dumping ground!

What is presented to him now is a real crime base, a large illegal military open space, a slaughterhouse, a biological laboratory, and a mass grave.

Xie Qingcheng took a closer look, and was even shocked to find that the castle he was in was completely different from what he had seen before.It turned out to be a thick reinforced concrete building with a simple structure but strong defenses. It looked like a fortress, a prison, or even a heavily guarded madhouse.

In extreme shock, a young man's voice suddenly came from beside him.

"You...are you awake?"

Xie Qingcheng turned his head suddenly.

It's He Yu.

He Yu was in the bathroom just now, after he comforted Xie Qingcheng to fall asleep, he broke out in sweat, just now he was taking a shower in the bathroom.

He Yu could see Xie Qingcheng's shock from Xie Qingcheng's expression, he knew everything in an instant.He walked over and cast his eyes out of the window, because He Yu was under surveillance, and He Yu couldn't show too much concern, so he just wiped his wet hair while looking out of the window with Xie Qingcheng.

"You... can see it too, can't you?"

They stood close, and the voice of the conversation was very soft, which could not be caught by the surveillance.

He Yu looked outside and said to Xie Qingcheng: "Do you think I'm hallucinating? The first time I encountered such a thing, I thought I was crazy."

"This is……"

"This is the real Mandela Island." He Yu looked at the drones hovering outside, and said softly, "It's its original appearance."

Xie Qingcheng's face turned slightly green: "What's going on?"

He Yu glanced at his weak appearance, thought for a while, and said, "Go back to bed and talk. It's cold here, and I can't explain it clearly."

"........."

He Yu gently tugged at him calmly: "Let's go."

After they got to bed, He Yu didn't immediately tell Xie Qing about the island's affairs.Xie Qingcheng's sudden onset really frightened him, and he couldn't hide his worry.

After he covered the quilt, he didn't need to pretend to be a sense of distance anymore, he hugged Xie Qingcheng in his arms quietly.

He could feel that Xie Qingcheng was trembling, not only because of what he saw just now, but also because of the pain after the onset of the disease-it is not so easy to calm down after the onset of mental Ebola.

Xie Qingcheng: "What happened on the island..."

"I'll tell you about the things on the island later. Take it easy first." He Yu said, "You just lost control just now. You're not a tough person, okay? You injected too much rn-13 and No. 2 serum, I can't bear it at all... Do you still hurt? Where does it hurt?"

What He Yu said was right, Xie Qing actually struggled to even say a word, and his mental pressure was indeed too great.So he didn't resist.

Xie Qingcheng calmed down his pounding heartbeat, his breathing was still somewhat short and moist.

"Just now... I didn't say anything nonsense...?" Xie Qingcheng asked, "When I got sick, it was like having a nightmare... I couldn't see anything clearly... and I couldn't remember clearly..."

He Yu hugged him even tighter: "No, you are sad, you have been shaking."

In fact, it's not much better now.The mental pain of Ebola was over, but the false reaction of Case No. 2 surged again. Xie Qing was in He Yu's arms, and couldn't help the bouts of fever and nausea. He couldn't say this to He Yu. No. 2's pregnancy synaesthesia is ridiculous, and it's just a false reaction, so don't take it too seriously.So he tried his best to pull himself together, regained some strength, and gently pushed He Yu away.

"I'm fine now..."

He Yu: "You are covered in sweat, how can you be fine with such a big reaction, you..."

His hand touched Xie Qingcheng's hot skin again. This time Xie Qingcheng felt even worse. Some women's bodies become more sensitive when they are pregnant. No. 2 is obviously this type. Completely unable to mobilize his defensive power in his fatigue, when he was touched by He Yu, his whole body couldn't help trembling.

He immediately pushed He Yu away again, and he almost retreated to the edge: "I don't want to lie on this bed."

A sentence without beginning or end.

While He Yu was in a state of confusion, he didn't understand the embarrassment in his words.

He said: "There is only one bed here, you can't go anywhere else, I'm here to accompany you. You'll be fine until you lift the quilt, Duan Wen can't see it."

"..."

Xie Qingcheng did not remain silent this time.

He couldn't remember the scene of the previous collapse coherently, his brain seemed to be broken into pieces, everything was cut to pieces.

But some scenes of He Yu comforting him at that time, although not very fluent, just some broken words, he can still remember.He remembered that He Yu had been hugging him tightly all the time, and these memories made his heart slightly warm.

He could feel that those words came from the heart...

He Yu's anxiety at the time was sincere...

Xie Qingcheng lay on the bed for a long time, because of the sequelae of the Ebola attack, he sweated a lot, and his body was wet and sticky, but He Yu hugged him again and never let go.

Xie Qingcheng finally gave up struggling and calmed down under such a hug.

He does need recovery.

Because this is the first time after more than 20 years...

He was ill again.

... He thought that he would never be like this again, he thought that no one in his life could make him lose control of his emotions to this point.

but……

He fell into a coma in He Yu's arms for a long time, allowing himself to recover from the illness he hadn't experienced in more than twenty years, and regained his reason, consciousness...and strength.

"How is it? Do you feel better?" He Yu's voice was heard beside his ears.

At this time, Xie Qingcheng finally came back to his senses completely.He nodded, hesitated, and let go of He Yu's hand, which he had been holding tightly just now.

But He Yu suddenly grabbed him with his backhand.

Sweaty fingers intertwined with each other, and each other's palms were full of hot sweat.

He Yu said: "Don't let go. You need some comfort. I used to be like this too."

"..." Xie Qingcheng took a deep breath, and in the only safe space created by the goose down quilt, he finally hesitated and said in a low voice, "It's okay, I'm much better."

After a pause, he said again: "Can we talk about... what happened to Mandela Island?"

After he recovered, he planned to bring everything back from the out-of-control situation.

He shouldn't have been so emotional, he shouldn't have allowed himself to get sick.

There are still so many people trapped on the island in Dream Breaker, with their lives hanging by a thread, Zheng Jingfeng, Chen Man...the more than 2000 soldiers and policemen...they are still waiting to be rescued.

How can I be so helpless at this moment.

Xie Qingcheng calmed down, and asked in a hoarse, unreasonable voice: "What's going on with this island? Those robots... mechanical dogs, Tianma... I have clearly contacted and fought with them. Could it be that they are Doesn't it exist?"

Although He Yu was still a little worried about Xie Qingcheng's reaction just now, he understood that today he must make it clear to Xie Qingcheng, otherwise Xie Qingcheng would only be more restless.So he replied: "This matter... is actually a bit difficult to explain."

He thought for a while, and found an entry point: "Do you... still remember the Mandela effect when I was a child? It was the reaction when I thought of Xie Xue as my best friend."

"remember."

"Xie Xue exists in part. She does exist, but part of her is virtual, and I imagined it." He Yu said, "Mandela Island is actually the same."

"It's just." He Yu paused and continued, "Mine is a psychological projection, and Mandela Island is an artificially created result through research on this psychological projection. It is a real world and a virtual world. A space where the world blends. You haven’t played VR, right? Mandela is actually very similar to VR.”

"No." Xie Qingcheng frowned, and thought for a moment, "...but I know the metaverse. Is this the concept?"

"Yes." He Yu breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't expect that Xie Qingcheng's comprehension was more efficient than his explanation, "The ones fighting you are not surreal mechanical dogs or robots, they are just genetically modified hyenas and humans. You just now See the control rings they're wearing? That's what Zoya used to manipulate them."

"Then my parents—"

"Calm down first." He Yu immediately comforted him, "These people are all people who have been arrested and tricked into reformation. Their brains have been destroyed. The control rings on their heads are the only tools they can think about. It makes them have some consciousness and abilities of someone else. That's not your parents."

After explaining this point, He Yu continued: "You also know that what the Metaverse is talking about is a virtual projection based on reality. In terms of the concept of the Metaverse, the Mandela Organization has gone far earlier than normal society, and it has also gone The understanding of the metaverse in society is still very shallow, and the explosion of this concept took only a few years. But the research of the metaverse by the Mandela Research Organization..."

He paused: "A system was formed four or fifty years ago, when there was no Internet."

"Four or fifty years ago? How old was Duan Wen then?"

"It's not him." He Yu said, "Duan Wen is the second in command of Mandela's organization, No.1 is not him, but a boy who rarely shows up."

Xie Qingcheng frowned even deeper: "...a boy?"

"You can't say it's a boy." He Yu said, "I'll talk about him later. Let me tell you about the metaverse ecology woven by this organization."

"The Mandela organization is most obsessed with research in the field of the human brain. They are completely ahead of society in this regard. You are a doctor, and you know that the human body will produce 'visual deception' and 'memory deception' under certain circumstances. Symptoms. And there is an interference station on Mandela Island, which will induce the Mandela effect in the human brain through the smell, magnetic field, light, sound, etc. on the island, that is, group cognitive and memory bias. ...can you hear the ringing bell now?"

"Ah."

"It's one of those interferences where you can't hear its Hertz when you're affected by it. It confuses your hearing, no matter how strong your hearing system is, because it's directly acting on the The human brain, stimulated by noise, affects your judgment and makes you believe that this is a surreal island."

Xie Qingcheng: "That is to say, as long as you get close to this island, your brain will be disturbed and you will have hallucinations?"

"Almost." He Yu said, "But it can't be called an illusion, it's just that what you see is different from the reality. There are indeed high-end weapons, hyenas, combat power, blood rivers, and core fortresses on this island... So it's the same satellite imagery and the naked eye, but everything on this island is exaggerated. Like the scary markings on some butterflies, it scares the enemy."

After a pause, he continued: "When outsiders land on the island, it seems that they have suddenly come to a world completely divorced from reality. They often fall into endless fear of the enemy's strength, self-doubt, disregarding reality, and finally messing up their own positions."

Xie Qingcheng thought about He Yu's words: "However, the data collected by Feng Bo's system are all about those surreal weapons..."

"No. There are not so many surreal weapons on the island." He Yu said, "The rapid cold light that froze the dream breakers is one, and they only completed it in the last few months, so I don't even have it." I know. What the Fengbo system collects is actually the data of those who transform people. Mandela is best at bioengineering. They search for excellent genes everywhere, carry out extreme transformation, and turn each living person into a human being. Ghostly monster."

"The opponents we encountered are very powerful. Can they make the human body reach that limit?"

He Yu responded with a gloomy face: "After all, 20 years ago, they were able to achieve face-changing full-body plastic surgery on Wei Rong. These years, they have also tossed out such things as obedience and spiritual Ebola. They are now The ability to transform creatures is already very scary. Zoya also installed an explosion system and many weapons on those transformed people, and the effect produced is even more realistic. They have weapons experts who are responsible for the special design of weapons, so that they can be compared with virtual The effect of projection can be more fitting. In the end, people's vision, hearing, and smell will all be deceived."

When Xie Qingcheng heard this, he suddenly realized a problem.He asked He Yu: "These things... haven't you told the commander-in-chief? Dreambreaker has always believed that these are future weapons invented by Zoya and the others."

He Yu was quiet for a while, looking into Xie Qingcheng's eyes in the dark, he did not answer directly, but said: "Xie Qingcheng, you know that this island is not covered by illusions, among these people, only Can you and I see it?"

"..." Xie Qingcheng slightly opened his eyes wide.

He Yu said: "Whether it's Lao Zheng or all the soldiers who came to the island before, what they see will always be a surreal island. They can't see the truth. The truth is that this island is not that scary, it is still It’s not so futuristic, it’s just a place for criminal groups dressed in virtual reality, and to put it simply, it’s like an upgraded version of Disney’s 5D playground. It still depends on people, medicine, and animals to guard it. But in the eyes of normal people, these are all machines, all future technology. They were all deceived by Mandela and believed in it, except you and me."

Almond eyes meet peach blossom eyes.

"Have you guessed the reason why we are the only exception?"

Xie Qingcheng pondered for a while, recalling what He Yu said about the hallucinogenic principle of Mandela Island.

A bright light suddenly flashed in his mind: "—Is it because of, mental Ebola?"

He Yu smiled, and there was some bitterness in that smile: "Yes."

"The hallucinatory disturbances on Mandela Island are designed for normal brains, we are 'deeply abnormal' and escape the brainwashing instead, seeing better than anyone. I was unaffected once I was on the island, you In other words, because you have been controlling your disease very well, and you seem to be no different from ordinary people, so you were deceived at the beginning." He Yu said, "But you just had an attack, and you also struggled out of the hallucination. This That's why when you wake up, you can see the real Mandela Island."

"Now back to the question you asked me just now." He Yu said, "You ask me, did I tell the commander-in-chief all this?"

He was silent for a moment, drooping his eyelashes.

"I said."

"I've said it many times. They have confirmed it many times, but the people they send out can't see it. Duan Wen and the others have been releasing the concept that they have absolute future technology. They are like Qin Ciyan who fabricated the first emperor. Like a set of data, carefully fabricated lies and illusions, I saw the truth, but no one believed me."

Xie Qingcheng: "..."

"I've tried hard, I've tried my best, I've even tried videotaping, but Mandela Island's virtual reality technology can fool the camera, and this method also failed. I slowly fell into a situation where I couldn't explain it , The Dream Breaker's suspicion of me is getting deeper and deeper...so after that, I won't say anything anymore."

"People's cognition is determined by what they see, hear, and experience. When the truth is only seen by me, it is true and false." He Yu said, "People who know my identity , only the commander-in-chief, the top person in charge of Dreambreaker, and the deputy commander. The three of them and I have described the real situation on Mandela Island. The commander-in-chief is okay. He at least tried to investigate, but the deputy commander directly They thought I was going crazy, and the top person in charge even suspected that I was a two-way spy on Duan Wen's side."

"Actually, if they are willing to believe me, Duan Wen and the others will have no time to invent a real terrifying weapon like the rapid cold light, because I have been telling them to attack earlier for the past three years, so as not to be deterred by the markings on the butterfly's wings. They didn't listen, because they lost the first few battles, they believed that Duan Wen's strength was far beyond reality, and instead gave Mandela time to develop truly destructive self-defense weapons."

"During the naval battle, I nearly died from the pursuit of the police. The dream breaker suspects that I am still hostile to the police, but in fact, I have never fully trusted me. They have a lot of information that they will not share with me. They would rather believe Mechanical Pegasus, don’t believe me when I say that it is a semi-virtual projection of a modified helicopter. Because they saw the mechanical Pegasus with their own eyes, so even if the helicopter is the real thing, they will not think that they are wrong.”

He Yu was very calm when he said these words, but under that calmness, it was all the suffering he had suffered and endured in the past three years.

"Besides, I'm still a mental patient. The truth I see is often questioned again and again. So I can only obey the majority, think about the problem from their perspective, and express the situation. Only in this way can I achieve my goal. The purpose I want. After all, it is difficult for a person like me to be trusted. If I tell the truth that shocks everyone, then my words can only be judged as false."

"That's it, because I'm sick, because I was accidentally injured, so no matter how much I do with them, I will give them whatever they want, and I even gave them my blood samples for research... But changing the prejudice of one person is harder than shaking a mountain. Changing the prejudice of a group of people is as impossible as trying to return the water that has been spilled on the ground back into the glass.”

He Yu paused for a while, then continued: "Xie Qingcheng, I'm actually very glad that you can see the same things as me. It makes me not so lonely."

Xie Qingcheng could fully understand He Yu's helplessness at this moment.

A person with a vague position, a mental patient, no matter how much he has contributed to the dream breaker, will he really be regarded as the same kind?

He can only be that black sheep forever.

People would rather believe that iron horses can fly, and believe in the surreal that they and "normal people" have seen with their own eyes, and they will not believe what he said-"Don't be afraid, it's just a modified helicopter."

Although Xie Qingcheng knew that he had no position now, looking at He Yu like this at this moment, he couldn't help asking: "You...have you lived like this for the past three years...?"

He Yu lowered his eyelids. Perhaps in the past three years, no one has truly trusted him completely. It was too late for them to guard against him, so how could they ask him if he was suffering? So at this moment, hearing such a sentence, He Yu's eye sockets suddenly turned red slowly.

"I've never told a lie..." He finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said hoarsely, "But no one believes me... Even if it's so disconnected from reality, they can believe it, but they don't believe what I said ..."

"I really hate Mandela, they killed my mother and killed me for 20 years...I don't know why the police still don't believe me...Is it because I was killed by them?...Just because I Are you sick? I am a patient and I have been murdered, so I can’t yearn for a truth and a justice...! They believe me while saying that they doubt the information I provide... But are these all my faults? ? Xie Qingcheng? Are these all my fault...!!"

"Why... why would you rather believe these illusions, but refuse to believe me... why no matter how hard I try, no one really believes me..."

The more Xie Qingcheng listened, the more uncomfortable he became. Although he still had a lot of unresolved ties with He Yu, it was like He Yu would reflexively hug him whenever he saw him collapsed.He would still worry about He Yu who was so sad in front of him that his voice was slightly choked.This cannot be changed.

So it turns out...it turns out that the dream breakers didn't fully trust He Yu, they thought he was a patient, and they panicked that he would have second thoughts.So He Yu didn't have a lot of information, so he could only wait in the enemy camp alone for someone who could trust him.

If he couldn't wait, he must have accepted his fate like this, and would continue to think of ways to cooperate with them amidst ridicule.

He was a sick man, but the sick man was the only one who knew the truth.So he had to take care of normal people's way of understanding, to say that white is black, just for the breath of his heart, and finally do the right thing.He has to endure others laughing at him, suspecting him, despising him, laughing at him...

During He Yu's silence, he suddenly felt his fingers move slightly.

He was stunned for a moment, and realized that it was Xie Qingcheng who held his hand back.

Xie Qingcheng said: "I know you may not be willing to believe me a second time, but He Yu, I really never doubted that you would go to Duan Wen's side by yourself, I just... just thought about it, you Have you been brainwashed, have you been stamped with some kind of ideological stamp...even when you did the worst, I thought so too. I know you hate me, but I also know that you didn't lose because of personal grudges Selfish people. So I would say, I knew from the very beginning which side you chose, and even though I tried and hesitated, I really... never doubted your bottom line."

This is indeed the case. Before he came to He Yu's house, he had always guessed about He Yu's identity, it was a temptation, and it was out of trust in He Yu-he didn't believe that He Yu would really join the murderer who killed Vivian. Organization, but he has no bottom.He Yu's performance was too tough. During this process, he was not without anxiety.

He even wondered if He Yu had been brainwashed by Duan Wen. He knew that He Yu would not have fallen to this point, but he couldn't find any evidence that could really make him feel at ease.

It wasn't until he was trapped in He Yu's house that he took the opportunity to obtain the information and came out, that he finally had the opportunity to confirm his thoughts.

Just as he was handing the information to the commander who was anxiously waiting for the last map supplement, he had confirmed to the commander in chief whether Geng Heyu was an undercover agent.And Xie Qingcheng had already guessed to such an extent, and insisted on knowing the truth very much. At that time, the commander had no need to hide anything. He took a deep breath: "...Yes, he is."

This sentence caught my ears.

Xie Qingcheng felt that his heart finally fell to the ground.He couldn't describe how he felt at that moment.

He finally confirmed that He Yu was the informant.

His guess all along was not wrong...

But in the same way, he also knew that He Yu simply hated him, and that hatred was not because of his position, but because of the personal grievance between them. He Yu still blamed him for cheating himself...

Commander: "You ask this, do you have any thoughts?"

Xie Qingcheng was silent for a long time, with mixed feelings in his heart, and finally opened his mouth——

"I figured, I'll keep him safe."

Xie Qing pushed the hard disk to the commander with a long finger: "Please confirm - I stole the information at his house, not he provided it to you."

"..."

"The information on the hard disk is too core. If we have Mandela's undercover inside, he will be very dangerous. If so, we are pushing him into the fire pit." Xie Qingcheng said, "This child cannot be second The second time he died for our sake. I can't watch him die a second time. . . . Please promise me. Let me protect him."

"This is my only request."

At this moment, Xie Qingcheng looked into He Yu's eyes and said, "I believe in you. Because I believe in you, I finally waited for this confirmation. I know you resent me, but you are willing to believe that I am different from others." Same, I know that no matter how resentful you are, it’s only for me, you won’t want to harm everyone, won’t you become evil?”

"Are you willing to believe that even if I can't see Mandela this time, as long as you tell me, I will believe you..."

At the end of Xie Qingcheng's speech, perhaps because of the fragility he still had after the onset, he choked up a little: "If I said... I won't treat you as a patient or a betrayer...you still want to believe me... ...for the last time?"

He Yu looked at him for a long time, and finally his voice revealed the collapse and grievance that could not be concealed.

"Xie Qingcheng...Xie Qingcheng..." The last snowflake fell, and the snow-covered mountains finally cracked.He Yu had just experienced Xie Qingcheng's illness that he had never seen in his life, and after hearing what Xie Qingcheng said to him, he couldn't stand it anymore, and he finally shed tears like before , he cried, crying so sadly, with helplessness, grievance, and pain, "I...I treated you like that...I treated you like that back then...I really hate you for leaving me...I think Take revenge on you, but I... I..."

He couldn't continue, and he hugged Xie Qingcheng again.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry...! I don't want to see you sick anymore, I really don't want to see you sick again... Let's stop fighting, okay? I don't want to talk about those past things anymore ...I don't want to quarrel anymore...I don't want to quarrel anymore..."

"Xie Qingcheng..." he said, "it's over...I don't hate you anymore...I don't hate you...don't be sad, okay? Don't be sad anymore..."

Xie Qingcheng's heart trembled suddenly.

He didn't expect that he could finally hear the word "no hate" from He Yu.

He Yu held his hand in the dark quilt, drew his hand over, and stuck it to his face.

"Xie Qingcheng...can you see my face now..." He choked up and asked softly, "Can you see it?"

It's like walking through the illusion of Mandela Island and seeing the real.

Can you see my face?

Xie Qingcheng's fingers hesitated, and finally stroked He Yu's face: "...I saw it."

He Yu's tears rolled down between his fingers.

With trembling fingers, Xie Qingcheng said hoarsely, "I saw your face."

For three years, I haven't seen him again, and let go of his hateful face.

At this moment, he finally saw again...

In the face of this hard-won tenderness, their hearts were full of pain and anxiety. None of them mentioned those scars anymore, and they dared not touch them again.

"Don't cry." Xie Qingcheng said, "Don't cry... I'll listen to you, don't mention it, don't quarrel."

"Don't cry... He Yu. Let's stop arguing. You...don't cry."