"If I wasn't sure, would I let you enter this room?"
"How many days in the cell will you treat yourself like a fool?"
"Don't make me doubt your wisdom."
There was a touch of sarcasm in Zhang Ziliang's voice.
Zhao Hai shrugged helplessly: "I am trying to liven things up, I want to make you happy."
"Oh, thank you."
"You're welcome."
The two said another word in tacit understanding, and then fell into silence again.
After a long time...
"Do you smoke?"
Zhang Ziliang shakily took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, took one in his mouth, and asked.
"no thank you."
Zhao Hai shook his head, then moved a chair and sat next to Zhang Ziliang.
Zhang Ziliang took a long puff of cigarette and coughed twice.
"There's nothing to see outside the window."
Zhao Hai looked out the window and was a little disappointed.
But Zhang Ziliang retorted seriously: "No, the scenery outside the window is beautiful!"
"When you calm down and carefully appreciate the world, you will find... Even if the world is full of darkness and thorns, there will always be a light shining on this land and never give up! "
Zhao Hai had a thoughtful look in his eyes: "But... there is light in the world, and there is also darkness. When the eternal night comes, where is the light?"
"in my heart!"
"It's just a different way of existing."
"Cough...cough cough..."
"In terms of wisdom, I am not as good as you, but in terms of state of mind, you are not as good as me."
As he said that, Zhang Ziliang smiled proudly, as if a child had bought a new toy and beat the neighbor's child, with a little satisfaction.
Zhao Hai fell silent.
After a long time...
"Maybe... you're right."
Zhao Hai's voice was slightly hoarse at this time, and he looked out the window with memories in his eyes: "But... not everyone has light in their hearts."
"Perhaps... there once was."
"But in the end, with growth and experience, it will eventually fade away."
"After all, everyone's experience...is different."
Zhao Hai smiled self-deprecatingly, his smile full of bitterness: "I was tricked by Maitreya, which caused my realm to stay at the present forever..."
"Do you know about this?"
Zhang Ziliang nodded lightly: "I've heard of it, it seems to be quite popular."
"I did it on purpose."
When Zhao Hai said this, his voice was calm and his emotions did not fluctuate at all.
"A tree that is beautiful in the forest will be destroyed by the wind."
"I was...too dazzling at the time, so dazzling that not only my enemies, but even my colleagues, were jealous, fearful, and resentful..."
"Haha, maybe this is the ugliness of human nature."
"They are afraid of my wisdom and talent, but also afraid that one day I will reach a height that they dare not imagine and step on their heads."
"You said...do they still have light in their hearts?"
"Even... among them, there is my respected 'King'. He is a little afraid of my talent..."
"So, if I continue to move forward, I will die."
"It was a terrible death."
"Until the war I planned, I, Maitreya, Lu Qing...actually the three of us knew it well."
"What I want is to destroy all my future and leave only one life."
"What they want is to strangle me in the cradle."
"Everyone takes what he needs."
"It's just that they really want to kill me. Whether I can survive this crisis depends on my fate."
"I'm lucky I'm still alive..."
"From that day on, despite the huge gap in status, they balanced themselves and began to comfort me and make me strong."
"What a hypocrite."
"If these are the lights, then I would rather the world remain dark forever..."
From beginning to end, Zhao Hai's voice remained calm, as if he was telling someone else's story and it had nothing to do with him.
Zhang Ziliang also had no emotion, as if everything was taken for granted: "I can guess, with your wisdom, how could you fall into the trap so easily, even if it is Lu Qing and Maitreya who are the masterminds."
"only..."
"How can you see the light when you are in darkness?"
"Heaven is a quagmire, without the light of day, filled with all the evil in human nature."
"Greed, lust, arrogance, hatred..."
"From the very beginning, joining Heaven means that you have given up on the light in your heart. As a result, you have been dark for a long time, but you still complain that the light never shines on you."
"That doesn't make sense."
"The path you choose is your own, and you have to walk it yourself."
"It's all just a cycle of cause and effect."
With that said, Zhang Ziliang lit a cigarette for himself again, took a puff of it with enjoyment, and turned to look at Zhao Hai: "You occupy a high position in heaven, overlooking the common people from above, and enjoy the best treatment in the world, but... you Do you feel happy?"
"I drag a disabled body and endure pain every day. Even this cigarette is the worst kind. But...am I really in pain?"
"The light is always there, and it never changes because of someone."
"Everything... depends on your own choice."
Zhang Ziliang coughed violently again, with tiredness written all over his face. He pinched out the half-left cigarette in his hand with some distress, and carefully put it back into the cigarette case.
...
Zhao Hai froze in place and slowly closed his eyes.
His face gradually changed from calm to complicated. A tear fell down his eye. After a while, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
In just one minute, his mood changed several times.
finally...
Zhao Hai breathed a long sigh of relief, opened his eyes, and murmured to himself: "I seem to...see that beam of light."
"The view outside this window... is so beautiful."
"Today...I learned a lesson."
With that said, Zhao Hai stood up, looked at the sick Zhang Ziliang seriously, and bowed deeply.
Zhang Ziliang waved his hand with some effort: "These are no longer important. You will still die with me after all. This medicine... has no solution."
"Um."
"With you on the road to hell... I won't be lonely."
"Well... Huangquan Road is a passage in the underworld, used for reincarnation."
Zhao Hai smiled freely and explained to Zhang Ziliang thoughtfully.
Zhang Ziliang rolled his eyes: "I know!"
"Um."
"Um."
"In my next life, I want to be a serious opponent with you."
"good."
The two looked at each other and smiled, then looked out the window again and returned to silence.
