You used to be my mainstay

The horizontal line is rising.

Although the room is very spacious, there is still a period of time to break the trap. But with the locks broken and the signal blocked, they couldn't open the door or call for help.

After He Yu and Xie Qingcheng had tried everything, and realized that there was really no way for them to save themselves, the atmosphere in the filming cabin became very serious.

The water was up to his ankles, and in winter the water was cold, and the chill of death was like a slithering snake spitting out its mail, and it swam up along his ankles, and it was cold to the bone.

He Yu suddenly takes a shovel from the corner and pestles it at the alloy door.

Xie Qingcheng : "...... Don't bother, this kind of door can't be opened by hard prying."

He Yu didn't say anything, after he made a few obvious scratches on the door, he threw the shovel away, took out his cell phone and switched to the stopwatch interface, and started timing.

The floating light of his cell phone reflected his face as he said softly, "I wasn't trying to break in, I was figuring out how much time we probably had left to get oxygen."

"......"

"Two hours." He Yu finally put down his stopwatch, and looked back at Xie Qingcheng, "We have two hours."

This is the answer to the arithmetic of death. If nothing else, in two hours, the entire containment chamber will be filled with water.

Xie Qingcheng did not say anything and subconsciously felt for cigarettes in his pocket.

The cigarette case is empty.

He remembered that just now, outside, the last cigarette had been taken by He Yu.

"...... you fuck, why do you smoke my cigarettes." Xie Qingcheng annoyed cigarette case pinched, thrown to the side.

"What a time to talk about cigarettes and not cigarettes."

Xie Qingcheng looked up at He Yu, still annoyed, "Then why the fuck are you following me all the time for nothing."

"......"

The more he said, the more annoyed he got, "...... I'll tell you He Yu, if you didn't come along, this wouldn't have happened now. You're really asking for it."

He Yu: "If I hadn't come along, you'd probably be dead by now."

"......" Xie Qingcheng said coldly and stiffly, "Clean. That way the only one who dies is me."

He Yu's heart inexplicably tightened, "Xie Qingcheng, are you ...... feeling unworthy for me?"

Xie Qingcheng sullenly and dryly replied, "I do think that it is clear, no one owes anyone. And no one will take away my last cigarette."

"......" He Yu blushed wonderfully and tripped over the water to approach his side, "Do you have any idea what it means to be dead."

"I'm a doctor. You think I don't know what it means to die?"

He Yu said, "Really? But I think you're crazy."

The sound of water in the cabin was constant.

Xie Qingcheng took his eyes off He Yu.

Instead of arguing with He Yu again, he pulls out his cell phone and scratches the screen - but the miracle doesn't happen, the signal source remains zero, and the alarm call dialed out fails to penetrate the barriers.

What He Yu didn't expect was that Xie Qingcheng, after an unsuccessful attempt to talk to him, actually looked up a jellyfish video in his photo album, clicked on it and started to watch it.

"......" For a moment he didn't know whether to think Xie Qingcheng's dark sense of humor was too heavy, or the man's calmness was too terrifying.

He stared at Xie Qingcheng's drooping eyelashes, "You still have this mood ...... two hours we can't get out, you don't need to see the jellyfish, we can turn into jellyfish ourselves."

Xie Qingcheng said, "So what can happen now."

He Yu choked.

There really isn't anything they can do about it.

Except for waiting to be found.

He Yu leaned against the iron gate next to Xie Qingcheng and stood side by side with him, looking at the floating jellyfish.

"Do you think this time it's a follow-up to the Cantonment Tower thing?"

"Not necessarily, odds are not."

The water sprite was gently swaying, and with the ethereal octave sound of the cell phone, it was more or less capable of comforting the heart.

"If it was them, then you and I wouldn't have to wait until now, we'd more than likely be dead already."

After the incident at the Canton Tower, He Yu and Xie Qingcheng were exposed to the mysterious organization. But for such a long time, the other party has not made another move. This shows that the price to pay to kill the two of them is greater than the benefit, the crime group is not a single psychopathic murderer, they generally have their own purpose behind what they do, rather than to kill for fun, especially by the society of the high concern of the people, the group is very clear to take this kind of people to do a hand if you do not pay attention to the blood splattered all over the body, it is not worth the loss.

What's more, this time Xie Qingcheng and He Yu were trapped because of sheer coincidence - the studio was Xie Qingcheng's own place to come to, and He Yu also wanted to follow Xie Qingcheng on his own, and they could have left outside just now.

The killer is likely to kill them simply because they saw the scene of Mr. Hu's murder and had to do it, just like the deputy editor and the executive who are currently missing.

After one video of the water sprite, Xie Qingcheng switched to another one.

He Yu suddenly said at this time, "Xie Qingcheng, I've been following you all along, actually because I still want to know the answers to those things."

"The answer to which things."

"You know."

Xie Qingcheng was quiet for a while and suddenly asked, "Can you give me a cigarette?"

"...... You know full well I didn't-"

Xie Qingcheng's peach blossom eyes were quiet, "You know full well that I won't."

Neither then spoke again, and once more silence fell upon the cabin.

In this silence, they did not talk about Hu Yi, the deputy editor or the executive. He Yu and Xie Qingcheng are united in this respect: they do not stand idly by in the face of human danger, but neither of them wastes time on fear and meaningless speculation.

Reasoning only makes sense if there is a life to go out.

If you don't have the life to get out ......

Xie Qingcheng's choice was to watch the jellyfish video and calmly wait.

He Yu thought, what about himself?

Even at this moment, He Yu feels that his life is not over, and that the feeling of desperation is still far away.

But he couldn't help but think--

What if this is the last two hours?

What he wants to do.

What's he gonna do?

He Yu thought about it, but the images that flashed through the broken flashes made him feel ridiculous and a little pathetic, so he shook those thoughts away.

The minutes ticked by.

The horizontal line is up to the chest.

The water pressure was stifling the heart chambers a bit, and the waterline was no longer at a height suitable for looking at a cell phone.

The floatables piled up in the cabin were floating on the water's surface, and He Yu found two plastic boxes and gave one to Xie Qingcheng, telling him to put his cell phone in it.

"Though it is said to be waterproof, it is best not to take the word of these businessmen."

Xie Qingcheng didn't say much, and in the brimming water, his face was too pale, and the color of his lips was much lighter than usual.

He is afraid of the cold.

It wasn't just the fear of the cold, but such a claustrophobic space with rising water levels was irritating his brain.

He closed his eyes, his dark lashes like drooping curtains.

The water level is a little higher.

Now He Yu and Xie Qingcheng have to swim on the water's surface, as the water level is already more than two meters high.

Xie Qingcheng raised his eyes to the ceiling which was a little closer.

He kept his hopes up just because he thought there might be a breakthrough at the zenith.

The four walls here were smooth and there was no borrowing point, so they could only wait for the water level to rise high enough to use the buoyancy to see how the ceiling was constructed. Most of the ceilings in this kind of studio have plywood, they won't be completely brick and mortar capped, and as long as they find that hollow spot, they might be able to get out.

Until then, Xie Qingcheng doesn't want to exert himself too much, and he doesn't want to lose his composure.

Little by little time passed, the water line was still moving up, higher and higher, and they were getting closer and closer to the ceiling ......

He Yu was lying on his back in the water, and I have to say, he was the best company in the situation. Normal people would have cried themselves to death if they hadn't been scared to death, but He Yu was different.

He sees death as a stream of cars on the street, and will try to avoid colliding with them, but will not shy away from the vehicles themselves.

"Xie Qingcheng, I know what you're thinking, you think we can get out through the zenith."

"......"

Because of the sheer volume of water stored, it had flooded over the break in the water main, and the water was gushing directly into the pool, so there was less of a cacophonous clatter.

It seemed quieter around them, as if they were in a space not of the earth, in the depths of the sea.

"But what if we can't find that plywood?"

"......"

"What if the last way is also a dead end."

"......"

He Yu picks up his cell phone from the plastic box floating next to him, displaying the countdown he's set.

"That leaves us with less than an hour to go."

"And then to die."

"Did you ever think we'd die together unexpectedly like this. Dying here."

"I know you're not afraid, but do you have any regrets at all?"

Xie Qingcheng closed his eyes and whispered, "Don't talk so much."

"In case I die, I won't be able to talk afterward."

"...... Don't think about it."

But He Yu suddenly said, "Xie Qingcheng, are you cold now."

"......"

"I can hear the trembling in your voice. I'm actually quite cold too, luckily it was two hours, if it had been four, in this weather we wouldn't even have to drown, we'd just freeze to death. Hypothermia."

Young men and mature men are different after all, in the face of the threat of death, young men's words in the end more than mature men.

Xie Qingcheng thought, He Yu is still too young, seeing the train of the robe of the God of Death, can maintain such a state is already very good. But he also thought, He Yu is really bad luck, asking for trouble, have to pester himself, come to this kind of ghost place.

It turned out to be two off at a time.

"It's coming out." Xie Qingcheng said, "There are pipe openings at the edge of the shed roof, and you can now see the ceiling breaks, which are very thin. ...... You don't have to be too nervous."

He Yu smiled, "I'm not nervous."

"......"

"I just feel sorry. Xie Qingcheng, it's really just quite regrettable. I want to talk to people about a lot of things, and I want to know a lot of things. If you really can't get out--"

"Definitely out."

"...... Why are you so sure."

"Because it's not time to give up. There's no point in hesitating if you're not going to give up."

He Yu listened to him say so, and after a long time, sighed softly.

"You know what? I'm not hesitating, I'm just trying to do away with the worst-case scenario - if I do have to drown here, I at least want to live a little before I die."

"What about you?"

"You won't tell me a bit of the truth even if you die?"

"What does the truth matter if the person is cold."

He Yu looked quietly at the ceiling reflecting the shimmering water, so menacing a scene, but these rays of light were beautiful: "But a man once said that the truth is never meaningless."

"The truth can determine whether the grave is buried with regret or release."

"......"

"If you don't want to talk, I have a lot to say."

Xie Qingcheng : "You have plenty of energy."

He Yu smiled, "Ah, you know best whether I have enough energy or not."

"......"

He is also really convinced that at this point, he can still make a couple of off-color yellow remarks.

After He Yu finished laughing, he leaned back and moored himself on the sparkling water, his eyes hazy as he said, "Xie Qingcheng, I've never had a good conversation with you before."

"Do you know why I hate you so much? I've never hated someone so much before."

"I know, because you think I lied to you."

"No."

It was so quiet and cold around them that the breath exhaled between the two men as they spoke became a dense mist in the air.

"No." He Yu mumbled, said it again, then said, "...... Because I've never trusted a person like I trust you."

He didn't used to say such blunt things.

But now he's talking.

"You don't know how much the truths you used to tell me gave me the courage to live."

"......"

"But you took that courage out of me again."

"......"

"I'm cold, Xie Qingcheng."

"......"

"I don't know why you're lying to me like this, why you can act like it's all the same."

The water is too cold, cold to the marrow.

He Yu was quiet for a while, then added, "Actually, that day at the Empty Night Club, the first glass of wine, I accidentally poured it."

"I didn't mean to do this to you in the first place. But-" He clattered, flipping over in the water, going from floating on his back, to treading water, with only his head showing.

Xie Qingcheng was still on his back, He Yu swam a little forward and his chest touched the top of Xie Qingcheng's head.

He Yu lowered his eyes, his face was still dripping down, the crystal water droplets followed the contours of his cheeks and fell onto Xie Qingcheng's forehead. He Yu looked down at Xie Qingcheng's face with closed eyes.

He was very resentful that, even at this point, Xie Qingcheng could still be so cold that he wouldn't even open his eyes to look at him.

He Yu therefore got up the heart to make fun of him, suddenly lowered his head and kissed Xie Qingcheng's cold lips.

One of them lies in the water, one stands in the water, when he hangs his head and kisses him, Xie Qingcheng suddenly opened his eyes.

"You--"

"I have nothing to regret, I don't like men, never have, but you satisfy me." He Yu looked at him and his warm breath brushed against Xie Qingcheng's cool skin, "Though I don't know why that is."

"......"

"If we make it out this time, I'm going to get a room with you and spend the whole day, doing nothing but fucking you. I'm kind of desperate to pry the truth out of you, but I'm still hopeful about prying other sounds out of you that I like to hear. I'm going to do you for a day and a night, and when we get off for New Year's vacation and go back to Hushu, I'm going to go to your house every day and sleep with you for the entire vacation. Every single day I'm going to. You'll always have a way I can find you unless you leave the house without your cell phone."

Xie Qingcheng did not expect him to be so unreliable, so he straightened up from the water, from lying on his back to standing on the water, and He Yu was facing each other.

"Is there something wrong with you."

"Probably, a new disease, I don't know what it is." He Yu moved closer to him in the water, the dim light perched on his lashes, the watery light gathering around them, "Get out there and you heal me. Lie under me and heal me ......"

Xie Qingcheng couldn't listen anymore and simply pressed his head into the water.

"You'll die in this."

He Yu was pressed for a while, and resurfaced shaking off the water droplets--Xie Qingcheng just scolded him, but after all, he was measured and didn't use much force.

He Yu came up like a mermaid out of the water, drenched in crystalline droplets, he hugged Xie Qingcheng to him, and once again he pressed his moist lips to them, changing the angle and sucking on those slightly cold, frozen lips. This kiss was different from the previous one, it was suppressed with some kind of emotion that neither of the two parties involved could quite understand, and the kiss was passionate and lingering, as if it wanted to dispel the bone-chilling coldness around them, and take away hope.

"Brother ......"

In the midst of the uncertainty of death, He Yu spoke softly to Xie Qingcheng at last--

With resentment, resignation, loss, bewilderment.

But more than that, it was an emotion that hadn't been seen in a long time, something like aggression.

"Do you realize that those words were just a few glib lies to you."

"But me to me, that's all I've had to stand on for the last 10 years."