Just in Time Chapter 66
Translated by Sylver (ko-fi)
Chapter 66 Look Up
Yun Fang covered his mouth, but blood still flowed out from between his fingers.
He bit off his glove with his teeth, haphazardly stuffed it into his school uniform pocket, and stumbled forward in the darkness.
The sound of sirens was getting closer, and he could hear the distant noise.
The view in the forest was not clear. He walked forward, one step deep, one step shallow. Every bone in his body hurt terribly, and even his breath carried the smell of blood.
He didn’t want to be seen by the police.
He could only grit his teeth and move forward.
He hated walking in the forest. The road ahead was filled with identical trees, as if no matter how far he walked, he would never reach the end.
He didn’t know how long he had been walking. When his vision began to blur, the phone in his pocket suddenly started to vibrate.
He wiped the blood on his hand haphazardly on his clothes and took out his phone to look at the screen.
Caller: Yi Chenliang.
He looked at the time, it was three fifteen in the morning.
Yun Fang’s hand was trembling a bit. He leaned against a tree and took a deep breath, then pressed the answer key.
“Hello, what’s up?” His voice was as calm as ever.
Yi Chenliang on the other end of the line was breathing a bit unsteadily, with a hint of hoarseness from just waking up, “Nothing, I had a dream.”
Yun Fang laughed, slowly sat down leaning against the tree, his voice was especially gentle in the night, “What kind of dream did you have?”
“Nothing much.” Yi Chenliang seemed to think that calling him in the middle of the night was quite neurotic, “Did I wake you up? You should go back to sleep.”
“It’s okay.” Yun Fang laughed, “Xiao Yi, tell me about your dream, I want to hear it.”
It seemed that Yi Chenliang turned over in bed, and a rustling sound came from the phone, then Yi Chenliang’s voice, still with a hint of sleepiness, came from the other end of the phone.
“I dreamed of Qiushan Orphanage, do you remember, there was a large cottonwood forest behind the orphanage’s warehouse?”
“Mm.” Yun Fang picked up a fallen cotton flower next to him and looked at it, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, “I remember.”
“I dreamed that the cottonwood forest was full of flowers, clusters and clusters of them, like the sunset clouds in the sky, endless.” Yi Chenliang seemed to be recalling that dream, “So many cotton flowers, blooming vigorously.”
A mouthful of blood surged up in Yun Fang’s throat, he hastily reached out to cover it, the blood soaked the pink cotton flower in his palm.
“What’s wrong with you?” Yi Chenliang asked sharply.
Yun Fang swallowed the blood in his throat with gritted teeth, and laughed, “It’s okay, the cottonwood forest is indeed beautiful when it blooms.”
The whole mountain was covered with pink clouds, stretching to the end of the world.
“I dreamed that you were standing in front of that cottonwood forest, coming to pick me up.” Yi Chenliang lowered his voice and slowly said, “In the dream, I was also six years old, and this time the one who came to pick me up was not Song Lili and Yi Mingzhi, but the adult Yi Chenliang.”
Yun Fang wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, “Xiao Yi, if I could come back fifteen years earlier, I would pick you up as soon as you were born.”
The hoarse voice spread in the night and the fragrance of flowers.
“The first person you see when you open your eyes would be the adult Yi Chenliang.”
Yi Chenliang on the other end also laughed, “Then we would be thirty-five years apart.”
“That way, you could grow up properly.” Yun Fang laughed silently.
“Big Yi, I kind of miss you.” Yi Chenliang rarely called him this name, he seemed to have not yet passed the language confusion period, calling Yun Fang, Sugar, you, hey randomly, occasionally being forced to call him brother, at most adding a modifier, calling him the adult Yi Chenliang, every time Yun Fang heard it, he was amused.
“Miss me?” Yun Fang covered the wound on his stomach, frowned, and said softly, “If you miss me, I can’t climb the window to find you, Yun Fang’s mom won’t allow it.”
Yi Chenliang was a bit embarrassed by what he said, “I don’t miss you that much.”
There was no response from Yun Fang for a long time, Yi Chenliang couldn’t help but ask, “Are you sleepy?”
“A little.” Yun Fang took a deep breath, “But you haven’t finished telling your dream, what happened next?”
“Then… I was very happy to go and pull your hand, but I pulled at nothing.” Yi Chenliang seemed a bit unhappy as he spoke, “You turned around and walked into the Hibiscus forest, no matter how I called you or shouted, you didn’t look back, I tried hard to chase after you, but I couldn’t catch up with you.”
“You don’t want me anymore.” Yi Chenliang’s voice sounded dull on the phone.
It seemed that he was quite scared by this dream.
“It’s just a dream.” Yun Fang noticed that his strength was slowly draining away, but he really couldn’t muster the strength to stand up and keep walking, so he simply focused on talking to Yi Chenliang on the phone, “Dreams are the opposite of reality.”
“Mm.” Yi Chenliang responded, “But in the dream, I didn’t know, I thought it was real, and I was scared awake.”
“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid in the future either.” Yun Fang closed his eyes, “Xiao Yi.”
“Hmm?” Yi Chenliang subconsciously gripped the phone.
“I kind of miss you too.” Yun Fang said.
There was silence on the other end for a moment, then a clatter of noise.
Yun Fang couldn’t help but speak up, “What are you doing?”
Yi Chenliang seemed to have been hit by something, hissing in pain, “Ah… damn, it’s okay, I just got up to turn on the light, you go to your bedroom window and look, hurry up!”
Yun Fang paused for a moment, “Okay.”
“Did you see it?” Yi Chenliang asked him excitedly.
“I saw it.” Yun Fang stared at the pitch-black void in front of him.
Yi Chenliang was taken aback, then laughed, “Isn’t it silly for me to wave at the window in the middle of the night?”
Yun Fang hooked the corner of his mouth, “Not silly, quite cute.”
Yi Chenliang was a bit embarrassed by what he said, and coughed lightly, “You didn’t turn on the light in your room?”
“I can’t turn it on, once I do, mom will wake up.” Yun Fang slowly said.
“Then don’t turn it on.” Yi Chenliang seemed to bounce a couple of times on the other end, “I’m not sleepy at all now!”
“Xiao Yi, have I ever told you…” Yun Fang, through the night sky and the cottonwood forest that had no end in sight, seemed to see Yi Chenliang holding a phone by the window.
“What?”
“…Nothing.” Yun Fang coughed, “I’m actually really happy to have met you.”
Yi Chenliang felt something was not quite right, but still replied, “I’m also very happy to have met you.”
There was no response from the other end for a long time, Yi Chenliang suddenly felt inexplicably uneasy, “Are you not feeling well?”
“…No, just a bit sleepy.” Yun Fang switched hands to hold the phone, “Are you still standing by the window?”
“Ah.” Yi Chenliang laughed on the other end of the phone, “I can’t sleep, so I’ll stand by the window for a while.”
Yun Fang looked up, through the dense branches of the cottonwood tree and the thick night, leaning against the tree trunk, he looked at the bright moon hanging in the sky.
“Xiao Yi.”
“Hmm?”
“Look up.”
“Ah.”
“Did you see it?”
“I saw it.”
“The moon tonight is really beautiful.”