Jiaobai woke up in pitch darkness, his nose and mouth filled with a strong earthy smell. He seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, with mud and water filling his breath.
He felt weak all over, a feeling very similar to the medicine Yu Xiang had injected him with.
His muscles become loose and he cannot move normally.
Jiaobai curled up and coughed a few times. His whole body was covered with crusty mud and water, which was wrinkled and stuck to his skin. He was completely dirty.
Fortunately, it was early September. If it had been two months later, he would have frozen to death.
Jiaobai did not immediately try to get up, explore the environment, or use shouting to attract the trap setter. He chose to shrink on the ground to save energy and check his account information first.
The number of friends on the list went from 6 to 4. Li Jue and Zhang Zhen were not among them. They had actually reached 100 and joined the group while he was unconscious.
Jiao Bai was stunned. How long had he been unconscious? He moved his fingers and struggled to reach his pants pocket, took out his cell phone, pressed it, but couldn't turn it on. The case was covered with mud.
I don't know the time, I can't tell whether it's night or day.
Jiaobai put the phone back into his pocket, blinked his eyelashes which were stuck by the mud, and continued to check the progress of the task.
The account followed his thoughts and entered the group column.
Originally,
The fate of this life 0/0
This life will never fail 0/0
Guardian of Lifetimes0/0
The most familiar stranger in my life 0/2
Now,
The fate of this life 0/0
I will never let down my dearest friends in this life 0/1
Guardian of Lifetimes0/0
The most familiar stranger in my life 0/3
The new member of the “Unforgettable” group is Li Jue.
Jiaobai looked at Li Jue's avatar, which had a gray "Hundred" character. When he was online, the "Hundred" character might turn into the blue background color of Shen Er'an's photo, and the edge of his avatar was designed to be some part of Shen Er'an's facial features.
The most familiar stranger...
They grew up together and can be put into the shell of "most familiar".
Jiaobai's eyes moved up and stopped at the second group. Zhang Zhen's profile picture also had a gray "hundred" character.
He and Zhang Zhen are close relatives.
Jiaobai can basically guess who will join this "closest friends and family" group. He doesn't have the energy to think about his friends joining the group right now. His mind is both clear and confused.
He only remembered that Zhang Zhen pushed him into the car. He wanted to get off to find his mother Li Jue, but the car door was locked by Zhang Zhen.
After that,
Then the car door on the other side suddenly opened. He didn't have time to turn his head. He felt a pain in his neck, as if he had been given an injection. Then he lost consciousness and knew nothing. When he opened his eyes, he was lying here.
That's a narcotic gun.
The trip to Shashui Village was led by elderly people from the Qi family who were experienced. They checked the area around the parking lot and found no ambush.
So there is only one possibility, the crime was committed by an acquaintance.
Big families all have spies from other forces, and the Qi family is no exception.
It is unknown how many years ago the Qi family thugs who were involved in this conspiracy were planted, and Qi Yilao never discovered it.
Jiaobai had no idea what happened after he lost consciousness. When Zhang Zhen found out that he was missing, he must blame himself for not protecting him.
Zhang Zhen personally pushed him into the car and locked him inside, causing him to disappear. This must have been a huge blow. I wonder how anxious he is now trying to find him.
Guilt and self-hate.
This is the reason why Zhang Zhen’s activity level exceeded 50 and he was directly admitted into the group.
As for Li Jue...
It is basically certain that Jiaobai Li Jue is also one of the chess pieces in this game, and is in the C position.
One of the mandatory tasks is for Jiaobai to obtain Li Jue's forgiveness. Since the task was successful, it means that he has forgiven and no longer holds a grudge.
Li Jue is an insider. He can either hide all his emotions and not reveal any clues, or tell them all.
Then why did he call his brother Xiaoqiu's name over and over again but didn't say anything else
It's impossible for him to forget. He remembers it clearly, but he is just struggling with it.
The person who set up the scheme gave him a certain condition, and his kindness were at the two ends of the scale.
To put it simply, is it for yourself or for others
Every time Li Jue cried out, he was entangled. In the end, he chose not to say what happened next, not to tell the truth, and chose himself.
After that thought, he felt guilty because of his own character and wanted to commit suicide.
His activity level exceeded 50, which was his repentance and atonement.
--I am a sinner. I have harmed Brother Xiaoqiu. I don't want to be a bad person. I don't want to live in the shadow of condemnation all my life. Life is too painful. I'd better go and accompany my grandma.
This change of mind was based on guesswork. No one knew Li Jue's specific thoughts. He was an overly emotional person, and perhaps even he himself did not know what he would do in the next second.
Li Jue insisted on only one thing in his life - loving Shen Eran.
Jiaobai's limbs were weak. He entered Zhang Zhen's information column and saw a lot of personal information.
Zhang Zhen's life trajectory is very simple. He has no emotional experience, and his social circle is the Qi family, which is centered around his third brother and spreads out in all directions.
Character: serious and straightforward in appearance, but kind in heart.
After Jiao Bai finished scanning Zhang Zhen's information, he entered Zhang Zhen's world house under the guidance of a transparent round arrow.
The background is the sky after rain.
An arc fell from the sky, drawing a colorful arc.
The clouds are moving.
Zhang Zhen’s “childhood collection” is nothing, and his “childhood memories” are all related to茭白, or to be more precise, they are related to the original owner, Wang Chuqiu, the young Wang Chuqiu.
With a pair of puppy eyes filled with bright innocence, he giggled and ran after a boy who was taller than him.
That boy was the former Zhang Zhen.
"Youth Achievement" is the current stage, but it is blank.
There is also an "Updated" exclamation mark.
Jiao Bai asked in his heart: "What does this mean? There was something in it originally, but now it's all gone after the sudden update?"
Yes.
Jiaobai frowned. If he was missing, Zhang Zhen would be frustrated, but he wouldn't be so disappointed with himself at this period that even his original pride and honor disappeared.
You don't think I'm dead
When Jiaobai thought of this possibility, he tightened his throat. The answer would only be known after the mastermind showed up.
There is only one recording in "Mid-Life Failure".
It was raining in the background, and he seemed to be sitting under the eaves, talking to himself.
-Tomorrow is the day to visit my third brother again.
The "Dream of Old Age" under the section is Zhang Zhen's own account. There are no pictures, no video or recording, just a few lines of text.
-If I could live my life over again, I hope I could do two things.
1: Risk your life to introduce a girl to the third brother so that he would not be so lonely.
2: Look for the missing memories and find the colorful block that you can never forget.
The last part of the autobiography was a prayer for Zhang Zhen’s life to come to an end. Those words suddenly rushed into Jiao Bai’s eyes, like a falling meteor, so bright that his eyes were blurred and he had a short period of tinnitus.
Zhang Zhen's wish is,
- If I could live my life again.
Jiaobai sat up suddenly, his muscles were extremely sore and weak, his hands and feet were twitching, and he fell down again.
The third one.
Before Jiaobai could think much, the original version of "Broken Wings" appeared before him.
Supporting character Zhang Zhen: a standard loyal servant found in any genre throughout history, and tp20 among straight men.
Strategy Guide: Sincerity.
Paranoia attribute: 40.
Jiaobai rolled his eyes and looked at Zhang Zhen's evaluation of his busy decades.
- Competent, but also incompetent.
Jiaobai looked back at Zhang Zhen’s “failure in middle age”, combined with his life conclusion, and thought of Qi Yilao’s family genetic disease and life expectancy issues.
At that time, Qi Yiliao should have been...
Jiaobai lay on the cold ground for a long time, so long that he shivered several times, before he continued to look at Li Jue's information column.
Skip the relevant information and enter the World House.
Of the five sections of Li Jue, the first two are “nothing”, but the third one, “Youth Achievements”, has very rich content.
How rich is it? The content of all the sections that Jiaobai has read so far, added together, is less than one-fifth of his section.
There are videos, photos, and recordings, all of which are released every day.
They were all the details of his cohabitation with Shen Er'an, and the world in which he was immersed in his love for Shen Er'an.
These are all things in the comics. Since there is no update reminder, there is no need to read it again. Ignore it. He glanced at Li Jue's "Middle-aged Failure", which was still densely packed with content.
After some extraction of the茭白, it was probably something like "This year, Er Nian didn't spend the New Year with me", "This is the nth Valentine's Day that I am alone at home", "It's been more than ten years, and Er Nian still hasn't brought me into his circle of friends", "I'm such a failure" and so on.
They are also drawn in Broken Wings.
Jiaobai saw Li Jue’s “Dream of Old Age”, which was finally brief this time, with only one regret.
-If I could start my life over again, without drugging him, then the beginning of my relationship with him might not be so ugly.
Jiaobai recalled the plot, the ending of Li Jue and Shen Er'an was that Li Jue left Nancheng and the Shen family, and went to a remote town with hopeless love, to guard his love.
So the comics didn't explain what happened to Li Jue when he was dying, and whether there was anyone around him, and Jiao Bai didn't know. At this moment, the same thoughts of his first three friends before their death gave him a strange expectation, and his heart beat faster.
-In the next life, I still want to meet Shen Er'an.
This was Li Jue’s last thought.
The breath that Jiaobai had raised suddenly disappeared, because Li Jue was not the fourth one.
In his later years, Li Jue recalled the past and regretted having drugged Shen Er'an when he was young. However, before he passed away, what he thought about was not the hope of starting his life over again, but the hope of meeting Shen Er'an again in the next life.
Jiaobai slowly straightened his stiff legs. There were still four friends left who hadn't joined the group yet, so he would wait a little longer. If more than half of them wanted to start their lives over again, he would laugh.
The Broken Wings comic is out again.
The protagonist Li Jue: a typical ancient exquisite, pure, weak, virgin little white flower, the TP1 of the cheap bottom. Strategy guide: Overbearing and forced love.
Paranoia attribute: 100+.
Li Jue’s summary of life is,
- I love Shen Er'an, I am his shackles, he is my god, I love him.
Jiaobai asked: "Assistant, if a friend who joined the group dies, what will happen to the avatar?"
The entire avatar turns into a flower.
Jiaobai Hehe, OK, Li Jue is still alive. He curled up and lay flat, and the phone in his trouser pocket fell out a little. He took it out and threw it aside, and hooked his index finger into the keychain.
Before leaving, Jiaobai took out the small key and placed it in the study on the second floor underground.
He also took off the white cat pendant that originally came with the keychain and placed it together with the small key.
At this moment, the keychain is empty.
Jiaobai had been lying there with the key chain hooked on his neck for who knows how long. He slowly stood up and used his hands and feet to understand his situation.
It was pitch dark all around, and the air was filled with the smell of mud, which was so strong that it covered up other smells. The wild rice could not find information through its sense of smell, and could only explore with its body, which had become as soft as noodles under the effects of the medicine.
The茭白 crawled on the ground using all four corners. Whenever his feet touched something, he would crawl over and touch it with his hand.
It's metal, and it's rough.
Jiaobai put his nose close to it and smelled the rusty smell and a hint of rotten water. A guess popped up in his mind, and he grabbed the metal and touched it. It was long.
There is one next to it too.
Jiaobai quickly determined that he was in a cage, a rusty, dirty, broken cage.
Damn it.
Jiaobai was panting. Last year in Shangmingyuan, he was imprisoned, and this time he was put into the legendary small dark room.
Is it because he likes melodramatic comics too much, and he wants to experience all those cute moments that he enjoyed reading comics? The malice is too damn great!
As soon as Jiaobai's panting stopped, someone came. It was the one who set up the trap.
Lock him in a dirty and broken cage, blatantly insulting him and venting his anger. The other party's identity can only be...
There is no longer any online reminder, but the avatar will light up when online, Shen Ji, Shen Laogou.
Jiaobai was lying on the ground, tilting his head to look in the direction of the footsteps. A beam of light appeared in his field of vision, right in front of his eyes. He closed his eyes uncomfortably.
The footsteps stopped in front of him and looked down at him through the rusty railings.
There was a scent of sandalwood in Jiaobai's breath, which was fresh and strong. Shen Jilai had burned incense before and stayed in the burning incense for a while. He probably said in front of the old lady's portrait: Mom, I have caught your enemy, you can rest in peace in the underworld.
"A dirty dog should live in a dirty cage." Shen Ji said indifferently, "It's a good match."
Jiaobai didn't say anything.
The canary’s cage was a large golden cage, covered with a thick, soft, luxurious carpet, every detail of which exuded exquisiteness.
Dogs are fine.
"If it weren't for those two slaps you gave me back then," Shen Ji held up the flashlight, and under the light was a face covered in dirt and mud. His mouth and nose were all dusty grey, and his ears were also filled with mud. He was ugly and disgusting. Such a person could actually make him bewildered. He pulled his thin and sharp lips, "I wouldn't have woken up."
"I only realized how stupid I was when I woke up." Shen Ji said in a flat tone.
Jiao Bai didn't have time to listen to Shen Ji's self-directed performance. He opened his mouth and said, "How did you get me here?"
"This is all thanks to your neighbor's brother." Shen Ji said, "I asked him to meet you in my hometown. If you don't go, he will take the business that others dare not take in 'Diyaye' and rot to death. If you go, he will cooperate to complete the plan and you will get what you want."
"He asked you out, and you really went." Shen Ji didn't even have the sarcasm in his eyes, only the contempt he had for an ant.
Jiaobai thought to himself, I am not going for Li Jue, but for myself.
"What did you promise him?" Jiaobai asked.
"The 30-year contract he signed was reduced to one year," Shen Ji said.
The茭白 made a "ha" sound, no wonder.
He told Li Jue everything about Wang Chuqiu, how dictatorial and cruel Shen Ji of the Shen family was, and how much he had suffered at the hands of this family. Li Jue still played the role of a chess piece.
It is impossible for Li Jue not to know what he will face if the plan succeeds.
Jiaobai rubbed his face, basically just doing this action without using any strength.
"That Li Jue said you wouldn't go," Shen Ji said, "Even he thought you wouldn't keep the appointment, but you went. How does it feel to be betrayed by someone you care about so much?"
Jiaobai did not answer but asked: "Is his suicide also part of the story?"
Shen Ji: “Yes.”
"If you don't care about him, then he hasn't completed his mission. A few homeless people are waiting for him."
Jiaobai sneered, okay, his previous speculation about Li Jue was wrong, almost completely wrong.
Li Jue didn’t know that he was a player and could see so many information changes through the avatar.
so,
Li Jue's repeated calls were not a fucking entanglement, but a reminder to him: I am so abnormal because I can't get over it, you must look back at me.
You won't die immediately if you hit a tombstone or something. It's just waiting there.
However, it was impossible for Jiaobai to turn back, and Zhang Zhen would not allow it.
Zhang Zhen's temperament and style of doing things were also taken advantage of by Shen Ji. He was a traditional old father who thought he owed his children too much and wished he could dig his heart out.
After listening to Jiao Bai's confession in front of the grave, Zhang Zhen would never let him have any contact with Li Jue, the cheater whom he had loved before.
So when Zhang Zhen saw Jiao Bai was so anxious and nervous, he would not agree to let him go up the mountain. Zhang Zhen asked Jiao Bai to stay in the car and not get out, and he went up the mountain to check, wanting to go and come back quickly.
Shen Ji had known Zhang Zhen for many years, so he must have known that he still retained... a kind heart that had not been eliminated by Qi Yiliao.
Jiaobai's thoughts came back a little. Even if Zhang Zhen got into the car with him and asked others to go up the mountain while they waited in the car, they would definitely be shot by the anesthesia gun.
The situation has come to this point, proving that there is definitely not just one traitor, there must be more than two, and they will cooperate with each other. However, Zhang Zhen was only concerned about the hardships his brother had suffered in the past, and the situation was not good.
Jiaobai thought that as long as he went to Shashui Village where even birds were not willing to shit, Shen Ji's plan could be implemented no matter what.
It's impossible for him not to go.
"Did you dig a tunnel in Shashui Village and transport me away?" Jiaobai suddenly asked.
Shen Ji's facial muscles hidden in the dark tensed.
The few people arranged by the Shen family in the Qi family have been dormant for decades, just as a guarantee, and have never been used once, so they have never had any flaws, evaded layers of scrutiny, and become the elders of the Qi family.
Shen Ji had waited for several months just for this day. He sent Li Jue's grandmother off early, asked Li Jue to go back to her hometown to handle the funeral, and then made an appointment with Jiao Bai who was about to report to the university.
Qi Yiliao entered the research institute because of a hidden illness. Zhang Zhen protected him like his own eyeball and would not dare to be careless. He would definitely choose an old man from Qi's family to follow him.
The people from the Shen family are among them this time.
Shen Ji sent people to dig a tunnel in advance. The task of those spies was to hide it from others, drag the茭白 into the tunnel, and detonate the car.
There was someone waiting at the entrance of the tunnel. After it was safe, the wild rice stems were transported to him.
It happened to rain that day, covering up the traces.
God is on his side this time, how could he not succeed
As for those people from the Shen family,
The Qi family has strict scrutiny. No matter which family sends their spies there, they are all disposable and will inevitably be exposed after being used once.
In order to take the dog away, Shen Ji felt it was worth using the precious chess piece that he had hidden for many years.
This lowly dog is his inner demon. He must tie it up, lock it up, and die in his hands.
Jiaobai sensed the change in the aura around Shen Ji, it was the joy of a successful person. His muddy eyelashes trembled, and he opened them suddenly, meeting the light that seemed particularly dazzling in the darkness.
His eyes were irritated to the point of tears, but he didn't close them. They remained open, with his eye muscles spasming.
Shen Ji looked at him coldly: "The car you were in exploded. Zhang Zhen locked the door for you personally. The car was burning in front of him. My people and his brothers held him down with all their might, forcing him to watch the car burn up. He fired his gun in vain and cried on his knees facing the wreckage of the car."
"Zhang Zhen has collapsed and gone crazy. When Qi Yilao wakes up, he will suffer too. Little dog, you are really capable." Shen Ji used a flashlight to illuminate his miserable state.
The wild rice lay in the cage without moving.
Shen Ji had a blank expression on his face. Every tear shed by this dog was stung by the light. It was not because he was sad, but because he had no heart.
"Is the amulet comfortable to wear?" Shen Ji suddenly said.
Jiaobai was stunned, he immediately touched his neck and grabbed the Buddha amulet.
His skin and flesh were all covered in mud and he had lost all feeling. He had never noticed the Buddha amulet around his neck, but it turned out to be still there.
Qi Yilao said that things were not peaceful and asked him to wear a Buddha amulet.
Even if Qi Yilao entered the research institute, he should have told Zhang Zhen how to check the tracker on the Buddha amulet and determine his location before entering.
Look at Shen Ji's reaction...
The茭白 rubs the fine mud on the Buddha amulet. There is a jammer here.
Shen Ji took in the reaction of the caged man through the light, and a sneer appeared on his face. How could he be fooled by someone who was not smart or clever
"All of these are devices that can block interference signals. I built them specifically for you to take care of the 'Tianxing' a attachment." Shen Ji said coldly, "The tracker on Qi Yilao's amulet is not as good as the 'Tianxing' a. My equipment is more than enough to deal with it."
Jiaobai stuffed the amulet into his dirty black collar. Shen Ji didn't tear it off and throw it away, but let him wear it and reminded him of its existence, mocking Qi Yilao's failure.
It also made Jiaobai realize that what he was wearing was a joke.
Shen Ji's knife didn't hurt Jiaobai. That time at sea, he stayed on the cargo ship for so many days, and Qi Yiliao searched for him in the vast deep sea for so many days, and finally found him, which gave him an indescribable sense of security.
This led him to instinctively believe that Qi Yiliao would discover his whereabouts this time as well.
As long as he does the same as the cargo ship, he can hold on a little longer.
"Wait for him to rescue you?" Shen Ji wanted to kick the cage with his leather shoes, but he seemed disgusted. He put his feet back and flicked the non-existent dust off his trousers. "Then you may have to wait for a week. Then he can wake up."
"Do you think you can survive a week?" Shen Ji looked at the dog in the cage as if he were looking at garbage.
Jiaobai didn't reply a single word.
"Let me see how long you can last." Shen Ji turned and left.
The surroundings were once again covered with dark colors.
After a while,
The silence was broken by a curse.
"Grass!"
Jiaobai has seen many small dark room plots in comics. He is not a submissive bottom, so Shen Ji did not appear as quickly as those scumbag tops to abuse and vent on him.
Trapped here, Jiao Bai could figure out that the current situation was not favorable to Shen Ji. Cen Jingmo, who was attacked by Shen Ji, Zhang Zhen, who represented the Qi family, and the most amazing assisting talent in the entire comic were all dealing with him.
Shen Ji one against three.
The other families are just watching the fire from the other side of the river. Once the Shen family shows any signs of decline, they will definitely take the opportunity to pounce and take back some of the fat meat.
When Jiaobai found out that he had a cold, Shen Ji came with a dog leash and a bucket for defecation.
Shen Ji put a leash on Jiaobai and called him a cheap dog.
Jiaobai couldn't speak a word. He started coughing as soon as he opened his mouth, almost coughing up his lungs. He didn't need the bucket at all because Shen Ji pressed him to the ground and scratched his throat, making him vomit out all the food accumulated in his stomach.
That was the breakfast he had at Lan Mo Mansion before Jiao Bai's accident, as well as the various snacks he stuffed into his mouth on the way to Shashui Village for fear of starving to death.
The whole beach is in the cage.
The wild rice was shrouded in a pungent odor, and he couldn't tell whether it was coming from the vomit or from his own body. He had not consumed any food or water and could not feel the passage of time.
I don’t know if it was one day, two days, or even less than one day, but Shen Ji came again. He brought a portrait, a chair, and a strong smell of cigarettes and sandalwood.
He came here burning incense again.
"If you had followed me well last year, there wouldn't have been so many things that happened later." Shen Ji's voice was hoarse and his eyes were bloodshot. "I shouldn't have tolerated you, given you privileges, brought you back to the Shen family, and even held a wedding banquet for you. You clashed with my mother, accidentally hurt her, and even let her die because of you. You don't deserve it."
"Jiaobai, you are a cheap bitch," Shen Ji said with disgust, "and you still stink now."
"The way you act makes the garbage collectors on the street feel sick." Shen Ji sneered.
The person in the cage had his eyes closed and was motionless. His chin and neck were filled with vomited gastric juice, and his whole body was filled with a foul smell, like a corpse bitten by flies.
The rise and fall of Shen Ji's chest under his shirt slowed down a bit, then picked up speed again. He opened the cage and went in.
Jiaobai was kicked by the hard leather shoes, but he still didn't give Shen Ji the reaction he wanted. He was too tired. He didn't even have the energy to curse. If he could survive by not breathing, then he didn't even want to breathe.
Shen Ji placed the portrait on the chair and pulled up Jiaobai.
The tattered iron chain, which seemed to have been dug out from some garbage dump, was dancing in the air, making a rattling sound.
Jiaobai didn't want to pay attention at first, but he smelled the food and all his senses came alive at that moment.
I can smell the fragrance of food even in such a smelly environment.
While admiring himself, he pried open his heavy and dirty eyelids and saw a ray of light.
Inside the light was a bowl of rice with some vegetables on it.
Jiaobai Hundun's eyes gradually became clear, and he stared straight ahead.
When he felt uncomfortable, he would grab a Buddha amulet, put it to his mouth and bite it, grinding his teeth. He didn't know when the rope had turned his neck red, and there were several broken skins, including one on his Adam's apple.
At this moment, his Adam's apple rolled with difficulty, and he lost feeling in the broken part.
Shen Ji held up the bowl of rice with dignity, his expression cold-blooded and condescending: "Do you want to eat?"
Jiaobai didn't look at Shen Ji, nor did he answer, he just stared at the rice.
"If you want to eat,"
Shen Ji pointed at the portrait and said, "Kneel down and kowtow until I am satisfied."