death hourglass

Chapter 3

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With a sketchbook in his hand, the big boy walked slowly towards the lake.Walking through the familiar path, the eyes suddenly opened up.However, he stopped in his tracks, because the one who arrived before him was a girl with a long braid and a set of loose clothes, and it was the same girl who pulled him into the water and cried here a few days ago "That" girl who made a big fuss!
The girl didn't see him, and pressed the play button of the tape recorder at her feet, and a strong rhythm poured out from the two small speakers, and the girl also began to twist her body and dance fiercely.

The big boy was a little dazed, leaning against the thick tree trunk, opened the sketchbook unconsciously and began to draw.

Time passed by every minute, sweat dripped with the girl's dancing, and the page was enriched with the boy's pen dancing.

The music stopped, and the girl snapped the cassette out, then put it on the other side, and pressed play again.

The familiar melody shook the boy's nerves, and he blurted out: "Can you feel the love tonight?"

The girl looked back at the big boy with surprise written in her eyes.

The god of death does not need to sleep, so what about human beings?Can you also sleep without rest?

Xiaosan was a little bored playing with the off-white fine sand on the ground, sneaking glances at Yin Zihao beside him from time to time.Now that he was sitting next to her, oh... technically, this was the moment when she was invited to sit beside him, while he kept gazing at the horizon.Watching the color of the sky gradually transition from deep black to deep blue, and then from dark blue to lavender to deep red, time moves forward without stopping, but his gaze seems to have turned into eternity, bringing The flame that was ready to go out remained unchanged, and he did not feel tired at all, as if there was something supporting him in his heart that made him extremely energetic and excited.

She has been a trainee of death for several years, and she has also encountered many different types of clients, kind-hearted or despicable, unwilling to leave or looking for death, noble or ordinary...all kinds of people, all kinds of people. The soul of this color, although the time together is not long, it is only a moment of ecstasy, but the most precious memory in the hearts of customers will always be passed on to her, which makes her feel a lot.

However, this Yin Zihao...

"Does your warm service include making yourself what your customers care most about?"

After he said this with a lost expression, she kept trying to use spells to touch his memory but couldn't succeed. Is it because he is special or because his time has not come yet?So she can't ingest his memories?

Thinking about it, I suddenly found that the sound of the waves became louder, and the rhythm became faster and faster.

"The tide is coming." He stood up after dropping the words.

Xiaosan looked up, but could barely see his tough chin with a bit of beard.He is so tall, much taller than Yidao who has been mingling with her all the time. In terms of human conversion, this height value is about 185cm, but his body is slender and thin. Although he is tall, he does not look burly, but he is not feminine. The type, that tall and straight gives people the taste of a medieval British nobleman, especially his long hair is tied with a white hairband at the moment.

I've heard that people with long hair grow their hair to make a wish. I don't know if he also grows long hair to make a wish?But a person like him exudes a kind of light that cannot be ignored. He is one of the lucky ones who is favored by the heavens. He has fame, status and money in the society. Is there anything that cannot be ignored? Do you have to rely on wishing to get it?

Just thinking about it, he extended his hand to her, as if he wanted to help her stand up.

Xiaosan looked at his slender fingers that made people jealous, and put her hand on it, and then he pushed her lightly, pulling her up all at once.

"By the way, you said your name is..."

"Apprentice Guardian Angel 953."

His stylish eyebrows moved slightly, and he said, "Your name is too long."

"No, we don't have a name, only a number."

According to her understanding, angels, just like them, only have numbers but no names, and about those purely beautiful names such as "Gabriel" and "Michael" mentioned in the legends of the heavens circulating in the human world It's just a story fabricated by the mortals themselves, but in fact, as Yidao once said, the angels are almost all three to eight-year-old children, and they are a bunch of baby soldiers with numbers.As for why, there is no trace—after all, who has ever seen two opposing parties get close?
"Why no name?"

"Well... I have a low status, and I don't know it very well. If you think it's too troublesome to call my number, just give me a name."

"naming?"

His voice is low and has a strong nasal cavity, the sound of the waves comes from near and far, and the alluring sun like a salted egg hidden in a moon cake quietly climbs up to the horizon, and the charming orange color suddenly becomes red A piece of the sky.

Xiaosan looked at his thoughtful face quietly, his lips were thin and had a healthy color, his eyelashes were short and fine, revealing a kind of firmness, and his eyes were focused and far-reaching with vague inexplicable The flames... Xiaosan unconsciously looked at the sea that was gradually becoming manic. Due to the tumbling waves and the rendering of the light, the sea was as mysterious and changeable as his eyes at the moment.

It turned out that he was like the sea.

Xiaosan withdrew her gaze from Piaoyuan, only to realize that his attention had been on herself since no one knew when.So she gave him a professional smile, waiting for his order.

"I'm like the sea?"

"what?"

"As you said, I am like the sea."

Xiao San blinked her long eyelashes, only then did she realize that she had just expressed what was in her heart, no wonder he looked at her like this.

"So, what do you look like?"

Xiaosan was stunned, because no one had ever asked her this question.

"I want to think about it."

As she spoke, she looked around, from the white sky, to the sand lying peacefully on the ground, then the picturesque and soft jungle in the back, and then the rough sea ahead and... the waves hitting the shore Countless waves stirred up by the boulder.

"I'm like..." Under his gaze, she rolled her nimble eyeballs and smiled, "I'm like a drop of water."

His eyes changed instantly, with astonishment and inexplicable emotions.But Xiaosan didn't notice, she just said happily for her discovery: "I am pure and changeable like a water drop, and I am as ordinary as a water drop."

Just like her hair color, she is unique in the Death Squad, but her spiritual power is pitifully ordinary.

Yin Zihao was fascinated by the pure happiness on Xiaosan's face, and at the same time, a distant voice was embedded in his heart word by word-"If there is reincarnation, I hope that in the next life I can turn into a drop of water and stand under the sun. Crystal clear and colorful, but ordinary in the water, do you feel the same? Water drops are so beautiful, pure and changeable and ordinary. If this is the case, you will be a sea, which can hold countless mines ocean……"

After a long time, Yin Zihao stretched out his hand and gently pulled up a strand of thin silver hair on Xiao San's back, and under Xiao San's suspicious gaze, he whispered softly, "Then, from now on, you will be called Shui Zhu."

"Okay, so you mean that you will accept and cooperate with my attentive service?"

"No, I refuse." A cruel and charming smile suddenly appeared on his lips.

"Why?" Xiaosan, no—Shuizhu exclaimed in surprise.

"Because you deceived me, you are a god of death, not an angel."

"What are you talking about, I..." Shui Zhu couldn't keep the smile on her face.

"Since I can see you, I can naturally see my guardian angel. The guardian angel is just a child soldier, and you...do you want to continue to emphasize that you are an angel?"

"I..." For the first time, I tasted the embarrassment of having nothing to say.

"I don't know why you approached me, but please leave, I don't want to see you."

Seeing him pull his hand away and then turn around mercilessly, the water drop was stunned in place, and his mind was in chaos, "Then why...why did you help me name it?"

She never knew that human beings can turn their faces so fast. One second she stared at you deeply with gentle eyes, but the next second she was chillingly indifferent.

"Go away, stay away from me."

"But I..."

"what!"

There was a cry of astonishment, and Ouyang Zhuzhu walked straight towards Yin Zihao, and the life-threatening notepad also made a strange musical sound at this time.So, even though Shui Zhu was reluctant in every possible way, he took a few steps back, widening the distance between him and Yin Zihao.

Opening the life-threatening notepad, she didn't expect that the new instruction in the notepad was to make her fulfill Ouyang Zhuzhu's wish.

But what is Ouyang Zhuzhu's wish?And her prospective client had just warned her not to approach her with eyes so cold that everything could freeze, so how would she accomplish the task?

Closing the notepad in a daze, the water drops went back to them, just in time to hear Ouyang Zhuzhu's words: "Rain...then I didn't say anything strange after I got drunk, right?"

"No."

"Is that so..."

Ouyang Zhuzhu's eyes were instantly filled with a sense of loneliness that could not be ignored, Shuizhu was stunned, and immediately looked at Yin Zihao beside him, and found that he was looking up at the sky at this moment, and the wood index had a tendency to rise sharply.

"Then...in order to apologize, can I invite you to have breakfast together?"

Ouyang Zhuzhu's eyes flashed with begging light, but Yin Zihao was indifferent.

"No, I don't have the habit of eating breakfast."

When Shui Zhu heard Yin Zihao's answer, she bit her finger anxiously.She was too focused on how to complete the task, so she didn't notice that Yin Zihao's gaze quickly skipped her face.

"Is it really not possible? I know that the breakfast in the green pavilion near the hotel has local characteristics. Go, I ask you to go, okay?"

"Ok."

Unexpectedly, seeing Yin Zihao hugging Ouyang Zhuzhu's shoulders and leaving intimately, while Ouyang Zhuzhu showed a flushed shyness—is this change too fast?

Why is she not happy at all when the mission is accomplished?Is it because the person who was so indifferent to her responded to others?

A little dazed, the drops of water nibbled on her pink lips and lowered her head.

In the distance, Yin Zihao's expression was solemn, and the hand on Ouyang Zhuzhu's shoulder unconsciously exerted force.

"pain……"

"Feel sorry."

Withdrawing his hand, he clenched his teeth, ordering himself not to look back, to forget... the loneliness that she didn't even notice floating on the face of the water droplets before turning around.

Being with someone who doesn't talk to others is torture no matter what you do.

In fact, Yin Zihao already knew that eating breakfast with Ouyang Zhuzhu was a hard job, but when he saw the water drop following him with a flat mouth, he endured everything and showed his gratitude to Ouyang Zhuzhu's hospitality. expression, I only hope that the water drops can leave his sight sooner.

However, just because he can endure it doesn't mean that other people can endure it. Therefore, when Ying Kui's embarrassing face with two thick bags under his eyes appeared in front of him, he didn't show much surprise. Ying Kui wanted to say good morning lightly while staring at him alive.

"Yes, it's really early."

Ying Kui sat down, and said perfunctorily to Ouyang Zhuzhu next to her, "Woman, please go to the next door first."

Although Ouyang Zhuzhu is still a newcomer, she has always been the darling of all walks of life. When has she received such "courteous treatment"?Hearing Ying Kui's rude words, her face turned pale, but she couldn't get angry sitting beside Yin Zihao, so she could only stare blankly.

"Zhuzhu, please."

"Then... I'll go back to the hotel first and meet Rain later."

As soon as Yin Zihao opened his golden mouth, Ouyang Zhuzhu of course had no choice but to agree.Seeing Ouyang Zhuzhu leave suddenly, Shuizhu came to Yin Zihao's side in bewilderment, only to see that Ying Kui was imitating Ouyang Zhuzhu strangely at this moment: "I'll see Rain later...disgusting!"

Yin Zihao didn't speak, but just took a sip of the fragrance in the cup.

"I'm not talking about you. Why do you want to have a body without a body, a face without a face, and a voice without a voice? What kind of girl successor, I'm pissed!"

"It seems you still know who she is."

"Do you think I want to know? When I came back to the hotel yesterday, I heard the manager of this guy. He recognized me for some reason, and he kept trying to sell me this ghost bead. I must consider matching you guys." Propaganda, did my brain burn out?"

Listening to his friend's chattering, he found that Shuizhu had already sat where Ouyang Zhuzhu had just sat.I saw that she put away the grievance that had been hanging on her face all the time, and was staring curiously at Ying Kui's mouth that never seemed to get tired with her chin resting on her hands.

"I said Yin Zihao, what's the matter with you? You actually like this kind of wrapping paper? You're too insulting to my idiot sister! Also, didn't I tell you yesterday that I have something important to discuss with you?" ? Why do you go on a date with this kind of wrapping paper and stay out all night? Just wait and see, I must tell my idiot sister about this, and let that idiot sleep peacefully..."

Shui Zhu listened, and for some reason she wanted to pinch Ying Kui's big mouth, but she, who had always been loyal to herself, didn't think much of it, so she stretched out her hand and pinched it hard...

"Ouch!"

Ying Kui suddenly felt a pain on his face, and jumped up in fright. The guests and waiters beside him looked at him in surprise.

"Sit down, you're scaring the others."

While talking, Yin Zihao cast a disapproving look at Shuizhu, unexpectedly Shuizhu made a face at him, so he accidentally laughed, while Ying Kui was surprised and wronged at this time and looked at him again. Seeing his smile, she complained indignantly in a suspicious little daughter-in-law tone: "You still laugh like this..."

"Sorry, sorry..."

Yin Zihao cleared his throat, really wanted to hold back his smile, but at this moment, the water drops deliberately pushed down the coffee in front of Ying Kui, and the coffee-colored perfume almost destroyed Ying Kui's shiny white shirt. Pants up.Fortunately, Ying Kui's reflexes were good, so he escaped unharmed.

"What's going on, is this teahouse offending me?"

"Okay, you can sit still."

This sentence was said to Kui and also to Shuizhu who still wanted to play a prank.

Ying Kui sat down suspiciously, and Shui Zhu sat up obediently - after all, she is still very customer-oriented.And... he just smiled at her, does that mean he accepts that she is around?
"By the way, you said you have something to say."

"Hmm..." Ying Kuixu responded, still looking around, with the spirit of being bitten by a snake once and afraid of grass ropes for ten years.

"Then can you say it? I'm going to promote the new film in the afternoon."

"You said you were going to leave in the afternoon? Then I came here for nothing? I also want you to be a guide for me so I can go around..." Ying Kui's first thought was about eating, drinking and having fun. Accidentally went off topic.

Yin Zihao had no choice but to point to the watch on his wrist and reminded: "There is still one hour and two ten minutes before the departure time. I have to spare half an hour to go back to the hotel to pack my luggage, so you still have thirty minutes left."

"Isn't there still five or ten minutes?" Ying Kui called reluctantly.

"Because I need time to go back to the hotel, well, you only have 10 minutes left."

"You are cheating! Didn't you just say that there are still 10 minutes left?"

"If you go on, there are only 10 minutes left."

Ying Kui was at a loss for words for a while, feeling deeply that he made a bad friend by mistake, and did not dare to talk nonsense, and the time would be deducted, so he made a long story short and succinctly: "It can't be done."

Yin Zihao was taken aback for a moment, unable to figure out what he was referring to.

"Give me 10 minutes and I'll make it clear."

Ying Kui is worthy of being a businessman, and the situation of being beaten seems to be about to turn around.

"Okay, you say."

"I heard that it can't be done."

It was still such nonsensical words, Yin Zihao had no choice but to sigh, and put up his hand of surrender, "Okay, I will give you back the time, and you will add another 10 minutes, a total of one hour, you can just say it."

Ying Kui smiled, but his complacency didn't last long, and soon he changed into a hard-to-see serious expression, and said in a heavy tone: "I wanted to tell you last time... In [-], she always had a fever repeatedly... We have consulted many international famous brain neurologists to see her, but everyone said... She doesn't have much time. If you can, take some time to go back and see her , meet my sister Ying Xue..."

Ying Kui's words pierced Yin Zihao's defenseless heart word by word, and he seemed to have said a lot, about why "it can't be done", about why "she has no time", and, there are many things that Yin Zihao wants Listen carefully but cannot hear the words clearly.But in fact, all he really heard was one sentence - Ying Xue was really leaving.As for how he said goodbye to Ying Kui, how he returned to the hotel, and what the reporters asked at the promotional reception he attended, and why a lot of reporters chased him afterward, as for Why his manager angrily told him to only give him three days to rest and talk about it later, he really couldn't remember.

When he came back to his senses, he was already sitting alone on the artificial beach.

And she has been following behind him worriedly.

"Didn't I tell you to leave?" There was no anger in his voice, only powerless despair.

Shuizhu squatted beside him, trying to express concern to him: "But my mission is to be by your side."

"You are afraid that you will miss the opportunity to ecstasy, aren't you?"

His eyes suddenly looked at her, and she couldn't help being startled for a moment, only feeling that the cold gaze with sarcasm pierced straight into her heart.It hurt a little, and she couldn't understand why she felt that way.

Unconsciously, under such gazes, she confessed to him: "No, my task is to protect you this year..."

"And take my life a year later, right?"

Facing his aggressive interruption and indifferent eyes, she bit her lip, feeling very aggrieved for some reason.

"I said the central thing? Don't mind, it's not that your acting skills are too bad, but my guardian angel has already told me what you will appear. So, you can take my soul after a year. , I have no complaints... word..."

What made his voice change from sneering to hesitant and surprised was the teardrops that suddenly fell from the corners of her eyes.

"I just want to provide you with the best service, even though I will still hook your soul after a year, and I hope you can spend the most unforgettable days during the time I guard you..."

He stretched out his palm, trying to catch the tears that slid down her cheeks.However, the teardrops fell through his palm...

So, he clenched his fists, showed a sneering and contemptuous expression again, and said in cold words: "So the god of death uses such a charming way to deceive the world? Thank you so much for letting me see it."

"Why do you misinterpret my meaning?"

Shuizhu raised his eyelids sadly, and ordered himself to look directly at his indifference, Dou Da's tears were dripping from his eyes, so pitiful that he could hardly finish his sentence.

"Isn't it? You opened the barrier and forcibly expelled my guardian angel."

Shui Zhu was stunned, and had no idea that such a thing happened.

"Go away, I don't want to see you."

"I know no one likes Grim Reaper..."

The temperature-losing voice slipped out of Shui Zhu's mouth, causing him to bite his lip, and the temperature in his eyes became even colder.

"However, I, Senior Yidao, and many death gods have always treated every soul that needs to enter reincarnation with the most pious heart, and guided everyone to enter the underworld smoothly... Although I have encountered many people who hate or even curse because of fear. Our souls, but for the first time..."

He unconsciously looked at her.

"It's the first time I've met a human being like you who completely ignores and despises the god of death, and was stung by indifferent eyes..."

The moist eye sockets stared motionlessly at his still indifferent face, and a trembling smile emerged gently.And her body gradually flashed countless spots of light.

"you……"

The water drops slowly lowered the eyelids, and the moment the eyes were closed, they turned into countless floating auras, and finally disappeared into the thin air.

The sound of flapping wings came from behind, and Yin Zihao let down the hand he didn't know when and the empty palm.

"Because she disappeared, so you can come back?"

He didn't look back, and even if he didn't look back, he knew what was behind him.

"Why don't you let her stay with you? Didn't you always want to see her? Didn't you always look forward to the day of reunion?"

The soft child's voice couldn't tell whether it was a boy or a girl, and he was full of doubts. Every question made his brows wrinkle even tighter.

"Is it painful? Because she forgot about you?"

He still didn't speak, just raised his head and looked directly at the 45-degree direction, allowing the dampness that shouldn't appear in the slightly hot eye sockets to flow back slowly.And the bitterness passing through his throat finally made his voice hoarse: "Will she come back?"

"Yes, the Grim Reaper is like bacteria, and will not give up his mission easily."

The soft child's voice answered his question with an extremely incongruous maturity.

"Apprentice Reaper 953, you are here, do you know how much we miss you?"

Shui Zhu had just stepped into the meeting hall of the Death God Task Force in the Netherworld, when he heard the backbone members calling out with creepy enthusiasm.She was so depressed that she shivered unconsciously.

Looking around, he found that Mr. No. [-], the red-haired backbone still wrapped in many bandages, was sitting at the head, staring in a certain direction.And the key members sitting beside him could hide as far as they could, holding the documents in their hands, and watching her with a disgusted expression on Bala.So, she suspiciously followed the line of sight of Lord No. [-], the red-haired backbone, and accidentally found a knife sitting on the ground, with a murderous look erupting in her eyes that cannot be ignored.

Very bad!
The water drop retreated reflexively, when did she see these high-ranking backbones look like dog legs, not to mention she is just a little trainee death god, she will only feel hairy and feel ashamed when she is flattered like this. Conspiracy is entangled, so if you don't slip now, when will you wait?
"Slow down, don't go!"

The backbones suddenly jumped in front of her, suppressing her one by one, preventing her from retreating, and one of them took the opportunity to lean into her ear and said, "Please, it's better for you to be here, at least this bastard will kill you with one blow." Our boss doesn't take it lightly."

Shuizhu stared at the backbone who was talking to her in astonishment, at this moment, the voice of "Please" rang out wave after wave in her ears.

Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, she had no choice but to go to Yidao's side.

"Yi Dao, why are you here?"

"It's you, Xiaosan."

"Where's Xiao Si? Isn't he with you?"

As soon as he heard the knife, he jumped up, pointed at the red-haired backbone No. [-], and cursed: "It's not this guy who kicked Xiao Si out of the task force, and, and! He actually let Xiao Si go Joining that group of baby soldiers, it's just crazy!"

"You're crazy, what little four you're talking about can't even handle the death skates, I don't kick him away and let him stay here to make fun of those stupid angels? It's better to laugh at them than to laugh at them. Yes! Is that how you talk to your boss?"

Lord No. [-], the red-haired backbone, stared wide-eyed, and stood up from his seat.Seeing this, several key members were so frightened that they immediately ran to pull the water drop, "Please, we want you to turn off the fire, not to fan it."

"That means Xiaosi is an angel?"

Shuizhu ignored them, still focusing on asking the questions she wanted to ask.

"Yes."

As he spoke, he kept his eyes on Mr. No. [-], the red-haired backbone, and immediately rolled up his sleeves. Mr. No. [-], the red-haired backbone, did not show any weakness. He stepped on the table with a "bang", and he was about to fuck During a scene, Shui Zhu suddenly asked: "Yi Dao, let me ask a question first."

"Just ask."

Hearing what Shuizhu said, Yidao temporarily put down the sleeves he had pinched up. Seeing this, the backbones next to him were quietly relieved and gave Shuizhu an encouraging look.

"Master No. [-] Red-haired Backbone Reaper, I..."

"I know what you want to ask."

Lord Red-haired backbone No. [-]'s feet were numb, so he put them down calmly.When everyone saw it, they thought that they would not fight again, so they were relieved.

"Why can he see me and touch me? And he..."

"Apprentice Reaper 953, you have to remember that you are a Reaper. It is your responsibility to seduce the soul. No matter what means you use, you must complete your task. But this time, your client's situation is quite special. We After discussion, it was decided to deal with it in a special way, and if necessary, allow you to show up in the human world."

"Appearing? Isn't it stipulated that we cannot interact with the world..."

She couldn't figure it out.Could it be that her appearance in the human world is related to Yin Zihao's death a year later?

"Don't worry, you just follow the instructions and do it."

"that's it?"

"That's it, go back."

Although she was still confused, she nodded and left in a hurry.

As for those backbones, they thought that Lord No. [-], the backbone of the red hair, and Yi Dao would not fight again, so they didn't try to stop them. Unexpectedly, as soon as the water drops left, Yi Dao would lose his temper.

"Old red-haired ghost, take your life!"

"Red-haired boy, you are dead!"

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