Shen Jize held the piece of jade and pondered for a moment before entering the passage. After a while, Lu Rong came out of the corridor with a red face, ran to the front of the passage with small steps, and also got back.
The moment he opened his eyes, he turned over from the big bed, looked down, and saw that the clothes were all on his body.
The room was brightly lit, he grabbed the phone next to the pillow and checked the time, it was seven o'clock in the morning. This time I stayed in the illusion for a whole night.
Knock knock knock.
There was a knock on the bedroom door, so don't think about it, there will be no other person except Shen Jize.
Lu Rong was still a little shy, and now he didn't want to see him, so he fell back on the bed and pulled the quilt to cover his whole body.
Knock knock knock.
"It's time to get up, have you changed yet? I'll come in after you change." Shen Jize said while knocking on the door.
Lu Rong replied shyly, "I haven't woken up yet."
Shen Jize paused: "There are still a lot of things to buy at home, we will go out after you get up."
Listening to the footsteps outside, Lu Rong slowly lifted the quilt and sat up, with a disheveled hair in a daze. After a while, she got out of bed and went to the bathroom to wash.
After washing, he took off his pajamas, took out a blue T-shirt and off-white shorts from the closet, and put them on.
He was also a little embarrassed to face Shen Jize, and stood at the door to figure it out. The most natural way to deal with it now is to pretend that he doesn't care about it at all.
If you don't mention it, pretend it never happened.
After going out, I greeted him, yawned and talked, rubbed my eyes, and pretended not to be very awake.
After thinking about it, Lu Rong opened the door, and instantly met the eyes of the outsider who seemed to be smiling.
—Shen Jize was leaning against the passage wall opposite the door, holding a glass of milk in his hand, staring at him while drinking.
"Why are you here?" Lu Rong blurted out.
"I'm waiting for you to wake up." Shen Jize replied naturally: "I've already made breakfast, and it's on the dining table. Go and eat it while it's hot."
"I, I, ah, okay." Lu Rong was interrupted by Shen Jize's sudden arrival, and forgot all the coping strategies he had thought up at the beginning, and only stammered back.
Shen Jize smiled at him. Although he didn't say a word, his eyes turned around him meaningfully.
Lu Rong's face turned red.
"Are you hot?" Shen Jize asked.
"Huh? Me, what's wrong with me? Not hot."
Shen Jize: "I saw that you were blushing, and thought you were very hot."
Lu Rong touched his face in a concealed manner: "It's a bit hot, it's quite hot here."
"The central temperature control is normal. If you're afraid of the heat, I'll lower it by two degrees." Shen Jize picked up the milk cup and walked towards the restaurant. After taking two steps, he turned back and said, "No need to take off your clothes."
After speaking, he continued to walk forward, the corners of his lips hooked.
Lu Rong went to the restaurant with a look of enthusiasm, and sat down opposite Shen Jize. On the table in front of him was a glass of milk and a sandwich with egg and ham. He picked up the sandwich and took a bite, chewing with puffy cheeks, sneaking glances at the person opposite from time to time.
Shen Jize drank the milk slowly without speaking.
He was wearing a black slim-fit shirt with the first button open, and his Adam's apple was rolling up and down from swallowing.
The cuffs were rolled up to the arms, revealing the strong and slender forearms. The whole person looked mature and full of vigor of a young man.
Lu Rong's eyes were suddenly attracted by the green mass on his neck, and he asked, "Brother, what is that on your neck?"
Shen Jize looked down and said, "Jade pendant."
Seeing that Lu Rong was staring at the jade pendant, he took it off and threw it to him casually.
Lu Rong checked the jade pendant over and over again, the more he looked at it, the more puzzled he became, then he stuffed it into his mouth and licked it.
"Hey, don't stuff everything into your mouth." Shen Jize hurriedly stopped him.
Lu Rong smacked his lips and said, "This seems to be the piece of jade that you lost when you were young, even the taste is exactly the same."
"Yes, it is the jade pendant that I left behind in the illusion of the construction site when I was a child. I picked it up in the illusion of the campus last night."
Lu Rong was surprised and said: "But it fell in the illusion of the construction site, how did you pick it up last night?"
"I'm also thinking about this question. It's been so many years since I lost it, why did it appear here?" Shen Jize frowned, and tapped four fingers on the table in turn.
Lu Rong struggled to think: "Did the ghost in the illusion pick it up and bring it?"
Shen Jize shook his head slowly: "No, ghosts are all created in the illusion, and when the illusion disappears, they will also disappear."
The two of them sat thinking hard on each other, staring at the jade leaf pendant.
Shen Jize suddenly said in a deep voice, "I understand what's going on."
He took the jade pendant from Lu Rong's hand, looked at the lines inside it against the light: "If no one finds this jade pendant, then it must have stayed there from beginning to end and never moved."
"Stay in that place from beginning to end, never move..."
Shen Jize looked at him: "That is to say, no matter whether it is a construction site illusion, a campus illusion, or other illusions we have experienced before, there is actually only one, but the scenes look different."
"Is there only one..." Lu Rong muttered first, then suddenly thought of something, and didn't say anything, just sat there in a daze.
He still remembered the scene of the night when he and Wang Tu parted ways when he was a child. Looking back now, the black curtain that was chasing after him should also belong to the illusion. Wang Tu and Uncle Chen never met again after entering, so it is very likely that they were trapped in the illusion.
If, as Shen Jize said, there is actually only one illusion, is it possible for him to find the missing Wang Tu in it
If Wang Tu is found, is he still alive
Lu Rong was in such a state of confusion that he didn't react until Shen Jize waved his hand in front of his eyes.
"What are you thinking? You didn't agree to me, and you were in a daze." Shen Jize asked suspiciously.
Lu Rong held the milk cup and took a sip, the warm and sweet milk slid down his throat, but he didn't taste anything.
"I was thinking about your piece of jade." He prevaricated.
Shen Jize laughed dumbfounded: "Like this piece of jade? Wear it if you like it."
After speaking, he raised his hand and tied the piece of jade around Lu Rong's neck.
When the jade touched the skin, it brought a hard coldness. Lu Rong touched it with his hand and said, "Brother, I want to go to a place later."
"Where?" Shen Jize asked.
Lu Rong hesitated for a while, but still replied: "Hongfeng District, that's where I lived when I was young."
Shen Jize knew that he had been kidnapped and his guardian had disappeared, so he couldn't help being startled when he heard this. But he reacted quickly, stretched out his hand to cover the back of Lu Rong's hand, and asked softly, "Do you want me to accompany you?"
Lu Rong shook his head and said, "No need, I can go by myself."
Shen Jize only thought that he wanted to be alone, so he thoughtfully said: "Okay, then I will send you there."
Lu Rong wanted to refuse, but seeing Shen Jize's worried expression, he still didn't speak after thinking about it.
He put down the cup and licked his lips. Just as he was about to say that he was full, the person across from him suddenly stretched out his hand to him, and a warm finger touched his lips.
Shen Jize's finger rested on his lips for two seconds, then slid it away, and said in a flat tone, "You have milk stains on your mouth."
He did this set of movements quite naturally, and Lu Rong didn't think too much about it, just oh, and went into the bedroom to get his bag. Shen Jize still sat still, and twirled those two fingers slightly.
A moment later, the black off-road vehicle drove out of the Feihongxie community. According to the address provided by Lu Rong, half an hour later, they stopped at the gate of Hongfeng Community.
Hongfeng Community is a villa area, and there is a huge stone standing beside the gate, with the huge community name engraved on it.
Although the security booth looks quite old, and the wall beside the gate is covered with green vines, it can be seen that it was still a very high-end community at that time.
Hongfeng District... Lu Rong looked out through the car window, thinking silently in his heart.
Shen Jize turned around and asked him, "Do you need me to accompany you in? I can find a place to park the car."
Lu Rong shook his head and said, "No need, I'll go and see for myself and come out."
"Okay, then I'll wait for you in the car."
The security guard was an old man in his fifties. He was sitting in a small pavilion watching video on his mobile phone, laughing hard. After seeing Lu Rong, he only asked a few words, then threw a notebook for him to register, and let him in.
Lu Rong walked slowly along the road of the community, and the scenery along the way seemed familiar. According to the house number told by the rich man, he finally stopped in front of an old villa.
The carved iron gate is covered with mottled rust, and the fence is covered with green plants. Leg-high weeds grew crazily in the yard, and the exterior walls of the house were traces of the wind and rain.
It was obvious that the house had not been lived in for many years.
Even Wang Tu never came back.
Lu Rong stood quietly outside the iron gate, his eyes gliding across the courtyard inch by inch.
This is the place where he lived before he was four years old, and it has appeared in his memory over and over again. But those scenes became more and more blurred, making it difficult for him to distinguish which were real and which were imagined.
In his memory, the yard was as big as a football field, but it wasn't that big. Among the thriving wall-climbing plants on the left, you can vaguely see a brown-red iron rod, which is the swing that Wang Tu built for him.
In the spacious room, the sun shines on the mahogany floor. He ran downstairs and downstairs barefoot, calling repeatedly: Brother Tu, come and catch me...
"Brother Tu, push me again, push me again."
"Come in, let's play after dinner..."
Lu Rong looked at this strange yet familiar house with a dazed expression on his face, as if he remembered many things, but also seemed to think of nothing.
After standing quietly like this for a long time, he turned and left.
Back in the car, Shen Jize saw that he was in a low mood, so he didn't ask any more questions. He just drove the car along the road and stopped by a quiet river half an hour later.
There are few vehicles coming and going here, and there are no pedestrians, only the gentle flow of the river.
"I lived with Wang Tu when I was a child. One night when I was four years old, Wang Tu disappeared just like that, and I was thrown into the trash can."
Lu Rong stared at his fingers, and suddenly opened his mouth to break the silence in the car.
Shen Jize didn't make a sound, just leaned on the back of his chair and listened silently.
"Later, as I grew up, I realized that Wang Tu didn't intend to abandon me." Lu Rong turned his head and looked out the window, with a trace of sadness flashing in his eyes, "I know he was caught in an illusion, and he may not have come out yet. .”
Shen Jize's throat moved up and down. He had a lot of questions, but he refrained from disturbing him.
"I was thinking, since the illusion is the same from beginning to end, can we find him in it?" Lu Rong twisted his fingers together, his slender knuckles turned white.
Shen Jize spread his hands, wrapped his shoulders into his arms, and said in a low voice, "Since you think Wang Tu was drawn into the illusion, then next time we go in, we'll go find him."
"Um."
Lu Rong buried her face in Shen Jize's arms, listened to his steady heartbeat, and asked after a while, "Don't you ask me what's going on?"
Shen Jize kissed the top of his hair, and said, "If you don't want to talk, I won't ask. Let me know when you want to talk."
Back in the city, the two of them didn't go home immediately. Shen Jize took him to a private clothing store to buy all kinds of clothes, and gave him a new mobile phone. The trunk was full of big bags and small bags.
After taking a bath at night, Lu Rong put on new pajamas. The silky silk fabric was as smooth as milk, and there were brown bears printed on it, all of them cute.
He took the clothes to his face and rubbed them, it was very comfortable.
Shen Jize was still taking a shower, he took the other clothes back to the bedroom, and hung them in the closet one by one, and the empty closet suddenly became richer.
Then put away all the paper bags on the sofa, flatten them all, and carry them to the large balcony outside the French window in the living room, and prepare to take them out when you go out tomorrow.
The balcony is large, with a small carved iron table and a comfortable lounge chair. Outside is a small forest, next to a large artificial lake.
Lu Rong put the pile of paper bags in the corner, and when he straightened up and was about to go back to the house, he glanced out inadvertently, and saw a figure flashing in the woods.
It was quite late now, and he didn't know who was still staying in the woods. He suddenly remembered the "perverted black fan" Shen Jize had encountered, and suddenly became vigilant, staring at that place carefully.
The street lamps illuminated the woods clearly, but it was night after all, and the branches and leaves were too dense. He looked at it for a long time and found nothing unusual.
Could it be that your eyes are blurred
"What are you looking at?"
Shen Jize's voice suddenly sounded in his ears. He had already left the bathroom at some point and stood behind him.
"I saw someone in the woods just now, but it's gone now."
Lu Rong turned his head while answering, and his gaze immediately hit a piece of exposed skin. It was Shen Jize's solid chest, with a few drops of water that couldn't fall off, and the heat from the bathroom, hitting his face damply.
When Shen Jize took a step forward and stood side by side with him, he found that this man was not naked, but his bathrobe was wide open, and only a belt was loosely tied around his waist, revealing his slender calves and large breasts.
Lu Rong hurriedly took a step aside, turned his head to look forward, but couldn't help looking this way secretly.
Shen Jize didn't notice his reaction, he just stared at the forest, half-closed his deep eyes, and said after a while: "It's okay, even if someone hides, he doesn't dare to do anything else."
As if worried that Lu Rong would be afraid, he said comfortingly, "Don't be afraid, I'm here. In fact, you know, I often enter illusions, and fight with those things to practice my skills."
Now that this matter was mentioned, Lu Rong asked the doubts in his heart: "Brother, why did you also enter the illusion?"
In his view, the illusion was caused by himself, and he entered it unconsciously while he was asleep. Shen Jize was brought in because he slept in the same room as him.
He slept with Cai Ye in a separate room since he was very young, and the first time he met Shen Jize in the illusion was Shen Jize who shared the bed with him.
But Shen Jize and him have been separated for these years, and they have never seen each other again. Why does he also experience his own fantasy
Hearing that he used the word Ye, Shen Jize frowned and asked, "Do you often enter illusions too?"
Lurong nodded.
Shen Jize's face became serious: "Then is the illusion you encountered dangerous?"
"well enough."
"fine?"
Lu Rong could only say: "Because there is that white deer in my illusion, he is very powerful, so I say it's okay."
Shen Jize suddenly understood: "I told you where Xiaobai has been all these years, and I haven't seen him once. So he stayed in your illusion."
Lu Rong responded indiscriminately twice.
Shen Jize's face looked better. Fortunately, Xiaobai has been following Lu Rong, otherwise he is so weak, how could he cope with danger? But these years he was the only one alone, so what if there was a white deer, he would be terrified even if he thought about it, because his brother was not by his side after all.
Lu Rong was also lost in thought, and a guess floated in his mind.
The mysterious power that created the illusion for him cannot grasp his real situation, but can only judge from the illusion scene that he peeped into that Shen Jize is someone close to him, so he wants to attack him.
The mysterious force didn't know that the two had separated, so it had been trying to trap Shen Jize in the illusion for many years. His intention was to take away all the people close to him, such as Wang Tu and Uncle Chen before, Uncle Bai who had no news, and Shen Jize now.
What is he trying to do? The main thing he has to deal with is actually himself.
"Don't be afraid, I will always be by your side when you enter the illusion in the future." Shen Jize interrupted Lu Rong's thoughts. He wanted to say that he was not afraid, but his thoughts turned slightly, and he leaned towards Shen Jize: "With my brother here, I'm not afraid."
"Then go in and go to bed early, there are still things to do tomorrow."
After entering the room from the balcony, Shen Jize closed the floor-to-ceiling windows and tried to make sure they were locked.
Lu Rong went back to her bedroom, changed into her pajamas after taking a shower, dried her hair indiscriminately, and wanted to get under the quilt with her messy hair.
As soon as he climbed into bed, he suddenly remembered that if he entered the illusion again in the middle of the night, how could he see his brother in his current state? I quickly went back to the bathroom and dried my hair with a hair dryer.
When he was about to go out, he turned around, looked at himself in the mirror, and unbuttoned two of the bear's pajamas, revealing a small piece of snow-white skin and collarbone.
The person looking at the mirror had bright red lips and affectionate brows. He suddenly blushed a little, quickly put on another button, turned off the bathroom light, and went back to the bedroom to go to bed.
Under the soft quilt, Lu Rong closed his eyes and tossed and turned. After a while, he undid the button with a rustle.