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It’s really a foul, Fang Yuan thought. This person’s eyes were already bright enough, but he looked at people with such a gaze.
It was such a look in his eyes that made people upset but at the same time, drive away the distracting thoughts in his mind.
Fang Yuan adjusted the tune, “What do you want to hear?”
末世中，他和戴着面具的江衡重逢，却是在最糟糕的境况下。
他疯了一样地吼叫，质问，你懂什么？！
“我想听……啊，我也不知道，我记不住那些曲子的名字。”
“那我就随意拉一个吧。”
方缘拿出手机，播放了大提琴的配乐，将琴弓再次搭好，拉出低沉悠扬的琴音，与手机里的声音合奏。
那次重逢太狼狈、太难看了。
In the apocalypse, he met with Jiang Heng, who was wearing a mask, at his lowest point.
He had screamed, what do you know? !
“I want to hear… Ah, I don’t know, I can’t remember the names of any songs.”
“Then I’ll play one at will.”
Fang Yuan took out his phone and played a cello soundtrack. He set up his violin again, and drew out a deep and melodious note, which was in harmony with the tune from his mobile phone.
He had told Jiang Heng to scram but Jiang Heng was even more angry and crazier than him. He grabbed his shoulder and asked, ‘Do you want to die?!’
He only sneered while trembling and hysterical, shouting words that even he knew were abnormal.
’Die? Am I alive like this?! I would rather die than become a corpse or become a zombie, even if your head is cut off in the end, it is better than living like this! What do you know… You don’t understand! ’
The tune of the violin turned sharply, and the music grew louder. The soundtrack of the cello continued to repeat shortly and quickly, as if it were asking, as the two instruments softened and merged into one.
Fang Yuan frowned slightly. He unconsciously injected all his emotions that could not be explained into his music.
The ensemble of violin and cello was like the quarrel they shared the last time they met.
‘Even if I don’t understand, you can tell me! Why are you risking your own life!’
‘You want to stop me? OK, then kill me now! If you can’t, just let me go! ’
He pressed the knife against his neck.
He thought he had fallen into madness. He was so furious by his incompetence that he went mad. When he forced Jiang Heng, he didn’t notice that he was already in tears.
“Weng!”
The pitch rose to the peak and suddenly broke, making a discordant sound.
“方缘！”
江衡突然冲了过来，急忙检查他有没有受伤，担心则乱时，手指碰到方缘的颈侧，“都打红了……疼吗？”
方缘睁开眼睛，愣愣地看着眼前的人，没有说话，眼圈却是红红的，看着分外可怜。
“很疼吗？那、那我去取点药吧，你先别动……”
“我没事。”方缘摇头，“我只是想起了一件事。”
他下意识摸了一下自己的脸，还好，没有像那时候一样哭出来。
“Fang Yuan!”
Jiang Heng suddenly rushed over and hurriedly checked whether he was injured. His finger touched Fang Yuan’s neck and said, “It’s red…does it hurt?”
Fang Yuan opened his eyes and stared at the person in front of him in a daze. He didn’t speak, but his eyes were red, looking very pitiful.
“Does it hurt? Let me get some medicine, don’t move…”
“I’m fine.” Fang Yuan shook his head, “I just remembered something.”
He subconsciously touched his face, but fortunately, he didn’t cry like he did at that time.
“Not completely…” Fang Yuan was a little confused, and his breathing was almost unstable. He put down the violin, and then suddenly grabbed Jiang Heng’s wrist and looked up at him, “I remember…the only way to get an ability. “
Jiang Heng also froze, meeting his gaze. He held his breath nervously, “I…”
“Be infected with the zombie virus, then survive. Only then, you have a chance to get an ability.”
Fang Yuan stared at him steadily, without blinking. Saying these words almost exhausted all his energy.
At that time, after learning about this, he wanted to be infected which led to their quarrel.
“I remember…I almost forgot, how could I forget such an important thing? Jiang Heng, you said you would tell me the truth after a month? You actually…”
“No, no, Fang Yuan, don’t be angry, calm down. Listen to my explanation, okay?” Jiang Heng panicked, squatting down, almost at a loss. He knelt in front of Fang Yuan, holding his hand.
“I will explain clearly, I swear I never meant to harm you, just…”
“How can a person like you…” Fang Yuan looked down at him. His fluctuating emotions that were barely held together throughout the performance of the song suddenly broke through.
“How can a person like you joke about your life? I think anyone can be stupid, but you can’t, Jiang Heng, only you can’t.”
You obviously tried so hard to stop me and persuade me.
You are obviously the calmest person who desires to live.
But how can it be? How could you suddenly tell me that as early as the beginning of the apocalypse, you had made the same mistake I did?
Fang Yuan sat down and sank into the soft sofa. Suddenly he felt aggrieved. No matter how Jiang Heng persuaded, explained, or coaxed him, he wouldn’t listen. He just shed tears silently like the sky had fallen. He had long been used to crying silently, because any sound would attract the zombies.
Jiang Heng kept calling him, but Fang Yuan only asked quietly, “How could you do this?”
“I was wrong, I was wrong, I was really wrong,” Jiang Heng was so frightened when he saw him like this, he wished to hug and cry with him, “It’s me who’s not good. Don’t be angry, don’t be sad, okay? Do you see that I am alive and well now? Isn’t this world good??”
He didn’t know how long it took, but Fang Yuan finally calmed down. His eyes were swollen, and he looked over with a bit of resentment.
“Really?”
“Really!” Jiang Heng was almost out of options.
“I didn’t lie to you. When I was reborn, I already had powers. I don’t know what happened. It should be just that we two have different modes of rebirth. Those things have already been cleaned up. I destroyed the last reagents and samples, there is no residue left!”
Fang Yuan believed him. According to normal people’s way of thinking, it is impossible to be reborn that easily, and he had to be deliberately infected by those things. If Jiang Heng really has any other ideas or plot, he would not stay at his home until now and do nothing.
“I’m just…a little tired, it’s not completely because I was scared by you. Get up quickly.”
Jiang Heng finally dared to get up. He turned his head and went to get medicine. He didn’t know why Fang Yuan’s string was so sharp, or why Fang Yuan’s skin was so tender that it turned red.
After Fang Yuan calmed down, Jiang Heng also took the medicine back to help him tend to it and the atmosphere became awkward again.
Or, it may be that Fang Yuan was embarrassed. When he remembered his inexplicable temper, he felt burnt out and wanted to shut himself in.
But Jiang Heng didn’t let him go anywhere at this time.
“The tune you just played was pretty good. …What’s it called?” Jiang Heng saw his gloomy expression and recalled the first day when he met this dull and alienated person. He couldn’t help but look for topics.
But at the same time, he felt that Fangyuan at this time was much better than when they met on the first day. Although he was gloomy and aloof, he looked good and made people want to get close…
He used a little ointment and applied it on Fangyuan’s skin. The ointment was cold, and his fingertips became hot.
“Oh… I can’t remember, let me see.” Fang Yuan took out his phone and looked up the name of the song, which was in English.
江衡跟着看过去，轻声念了出来，
“The Show Must Go On……好，我记住了。”
“江衡。”方缘瞧着他认真的眼睛，“有一天你恢复了全部的记忆，也许会失望的。”
“为什么会失望？”江衡不明所以。
方缘摇头，他现在更不敢了，不敢告诉江衡，他们其实早就遇到过。
不但相遇过，还争吵过，不欢而散，末日里的他们，和现在完全不一样。
Jiang Heng followed and read it out softly.
“The Show Must Go On… Okay, I’ll remember it.”
“Jiang Heng.” Fang Yuan looked at him with serious eyes, “One day when you will recover all your memories, you may be disappointed.”
“Why would I be disappointed?” Jiang Heng didn’t know why.
Fang Yuan shook his head, he was even more afraid now. He didn’t dare to tell Jiang Heng that they had actually met a long time ago.
Not only met, but also quarreled, and parted ways. Their relationship was completely different during the apocalypse.
Jiang Heng couldn’t get an answer, so he couldn’t help guessing, “Let me think about it. I was an ability user at the time. You said that you were an ordinary person. Fang Yuan, you couldn’t have recognized me long ago and kept it from me, right?”
“Who am I to you? Why would I do that?” Fang Yuan muttered in a low voice, it was a temporary rebuttal that left no room for refute.
“Okay…” Jiang Heng applied the medicine to him and squeezed his earlobe. “Although I look forward to waking up one day and recalling the things related to you, I am actually afraid that you will be the disappointed one.”
“Me?” Fang Yuan was stunned. What could be disappointing for him?
“Yeah, I was disfigured at that time. Ugly, scary, not talkative, and had facial paralysis. No one likes me at all. Therefore, I have always been very lucky to be born again and meet you here.”
Jiang Heng was smiled and shook his head as he said, “Otherwise, I would have let you see what I was like at that time, I’m afraid your first impression of me would be refreshed~”
“No…” Fang Yuan looked away, and neither of them looked at each other. “You are very good, and I will not change my perception of you for this reason.”
“I also won’t be disappointed because of small things.” Jiang Heng returned to the topic and pointed to the two of them, “You won’t, and I won’t, it’s even.”
“If I go back on my words, and become disappointed,” Jiang Heng looked at him and couldn’t help but guess what circumstances they had met in to make Fang Yuan so nervous.
“Or I’m muddled and act out of character, you can kick me out of here and tell me to scram.”
Fang Yuan was silent for a while, seeming to have come to a decision.
“Ahem…It’s nothing, since you said that. I’m sure I will recall this in the next few days. I’m so happy.” Jiang Heng’s heart was pierced by him, and he couldn’t help but laugh, “Maybe when I remember you, my illness will be cured?”
[T/n: I got confused when Fang Yuan suddenly went hysterical. So if any of you are confused like me, let me try to explain. Feel free to correct me if you have another hypothesis because I may be wrong~
In his last life, Fang Yuan learnt that to gain an ability, he must be infected and then recover from it. So he wanted to try it but Jiang Heng stopped him. In his last life, Jiang Heng already had an ability, so it didn’t matter.
However, in this life, Jiang Heng already has an ability before the apocalypse. That’s why Fang Yuan thought he had deliberately infected himself with the zombie virus. Fang Yuan is upset because Jiang Heng is someone who fights hard to survive but he actually risked his life to do such a thing after stopping Fang Yuan in the last life.