Although Xie Wen said that it was Wen Shi himself who beckoned, the others were still a little hesitant, after all, they had never seen Wen Shi like this.
Dadong pulled Lao Mao away: "Don't rush to jump, I know that your boss and Shen... know that little brother Chen Shi, but everyone else thinks there is something wrong. What are you doing so recklessly?"
He has always called Wen Shi the eldest apprentice of the Shen family, a bit like addressing an unknown junior. But now that he has opened his eyes, it is inappropriate to call people like that again, so the eldest disciple of the Shen family finally has a name in his mouth.
"In case there is another Shen Man—" Dadong got stuck for the second time, looking at the face of the client and silently changed his words: "There is another little girl, disguised as a little brother to trick us into jumping off the building."
That's not recruiting people, that's recruiting souls.
Shen Manyi blinked and looked at him innocently.
This is true in essence, so after Dadong finished speaking, Sun Siqi also nodded.
As soon as someone agreed, Dadong was full of confidence and said, "Let's do it. I'll see if there's any problem with this line. If it doesn't work, I'll let my Golden Winged Dapeng go down and find a way to be safe."
After he finished speaking, his bird let out a long whistle.
Lao Mao had already stepped aside, but his face turned green again when he heard "Golden Winged Dapeng". He was about to curse when he suddenly heard some movement in the thick darkness outside the window, clinking, like metal rubbing against each other.
"What sound?!" Dadong wondered.
He leaned out of the window, wanting to listen more closely.
The next second, a hurricane hit his face and nearly knocked off his skull.
"Fuck!" Dadong yelled, clinging to the window frame. Unable to stand upright in the gust of wind, he had to squat down halfway, covering his face deformed by the wind with his elbows.
"Get down and find something to block it!" Dadong roared in the hurricane. Immediately afterwards, the sound of metal friction and impact became louder and faster.
Still a bit familiar...
Dadong "hiss" in his heart and barely raised his head from between his elbows.
In an instant, I saw a giant python breaking through the wind! It is pitch-black, but every scale glows with a icy luster, like densely packed blades.
The bottomless darkness can't stop it at all! It was huge in size, and its speed was extremely fast. Everyone only saw its silvery belly scales turning over from the window, and the rusty giant chains wrapped around it, twisting and rubbing with the movements.
For a time, the sparks splashed, and the wind vortex was everywhere.
The black python was covered in flames, and turned over in a circle. The huge head spit out a letter with a whistling sound, and came towards the window.
Its pupils were smoky gold with a thin slit, stared at the person in the room for a few seconds, and then suddenly opened its mouth, the fangs were longer than a person.
At the moment when it opened its mouth, a more violent wind rushed towards the house. Like a cold-blooded animal threatening its prey by gasping.
Dadong squatted with his head on the spot.
His conditioned reflex snapped his fingers, wanting to summon his puppet to be more courageous. But he saw his "Golden Winged Dapeng" was frightened by the black giant python, turned his head and ran away, crap.
The wings were almost broken, and the nihilistic bird feathers fell to the ground.
It was originally quite large, and at first glance it looked majestic, but under the contrast of the giant python, it instantly became a pediatrician.
"Ah! It's that snake!!!" Zhou Xu shouted from behind.
Dadong cursed in his heart, "Snake, your father, is this a snake?" ?
"You fucking know him?!" Dadong squatted there and shouted without looking back.
Zhou Xu shouted back again, his voice almost dispersed by the gust of wind: "I know! I've seen it! Of course I know!"
Dadong: "What the hell is this?"
Xia Qiao said, "My brother's puppet."
Dadong: "..."
my day.
Dadong collapsed: "What kind of puppet is your brother putting on us!"
This question will soon be answered -
They watched helplessly as the little hand wrapped around the puppet line stopped moving. It was estimated that the person who controlled the line had not heard back, and their patience was completely exhausted.
The giant python stared condescendingly at the people in the room with its golden pupils, and suddenly said, "Below is the first floor and the courtyard. It's been a long time for you to jump, will you jump?"
This giant python's voice was very hoarse, caught in the sound of the hurricane, hissing, with the feeling of spitting out a letter, which made people shudder.
Everyone was stunned for a second, then climbed up the window without saying a word: "Jump jump jump."
Who dares not to jump.
They just hesitated for a moment, and they turned into black pythons with little hands. If you don't jump, the ghost doesn't know what will happen.
Xia Qiao was worried about his brother and was the first to turn it out. Sun Siqi was still a little scared as he clawed at the window, but was dragged down by Zhou Xu, his screams were instantly engulfed by the darkness, and there was no movement.
Dadong squatted on the window frame, like a flight attendant. He grabbed the window bolt with one hand and asked Lao Mao and Xie, "Which one of you jumps first? I'm the last one anyway, I—"
Before he could say the word "Queen of the Palace", he was nudged by Xie Wen and sent out the window.
I fuck!
Dadong fell on his back, and before being drowned in darkness, he saw the forgotten Shen Manyi climb up the window frame.
He suddenly remembered a question - if this window is the way to the downstairs, it means that the cage is divided and divided into different areas. Every time you enter a new area, you have to go through a "cage entry" process. It's like knocking several eggs into a bowl, and the yolks don't mix.
The entire second floor is one of the egg yolks. As the owner of the second floor, Shen Manyi should be restricted. Can she really go down to the first floor
Probably not...
Dadong has limited experience and is not very sure. At the same time that this thought flashed through his mind, he saw Xie Wen raised his hand and tapped Shen Manyi's forehead in the air.
He only felt that this action was a little familiar, but before he could understand it, he completely sank into the darkness.
***
Shen Manyi shrank on the window frame, looking at the darkness below, her expression a little shrinking: "I can't go down, I haven't been downstairs for a long time, I can't go down."
Xie asked, "You can now."
Shen Manyi was stunned for a moment, a little aggrieved and a little dazed: "Why? Because you just knocked on my head?"
She touched her forehead.
Thanks nodded.
Shen Manyi was still at a loss: "Why does this work?"
This little girl is not a real person, and in the eyes of many people, explaining something to her is actually a meaningless act.
But Xie Wen still opened his mouth: "I changed your identity for you."
Shen Manyi: "What identity?"
Xie asked: "Have you ever played puppets?"
Shen Manyi nodded: "I have played it, I like it."
Xie asked: "You are pretending to be a puppet now."
There is a special saying in the puppet art for the percussion of the forehead just now, called calming the spirit. It is possible to transform living beings into puppets for a period of time, so that Shen Manyi can come and go freely in various areas.
The little girl was so happy that she slapped her hands, only Lao Mao was seriously giving her opinion: "Can I say more?"
Xie Wen glanced at him: "Say."
Lao Mao: "A half-hearted person who has been removed from the famous tree map usually can't do such a thing. Let's take her down, how do we explain it?"
Xie asked: "Then you are too late."
Lao Mao: "… "
I said you will quit sooner? ?
Lao Mao was not convinced.
His boss was used to doing things as he wanted, as it used to be. Maybe it's because there's really nothing to care about, and not many people who care. A lot of times, he is always informal, and he does what he does easily without worrying too much.
But this does not mean that he is a careless person. If he really hides one thing, he can be light and clear for more than ten years or even decades. Lao Mao had seen it before, so this time he was even more confused.
It hasn't been long since Xie Wen found Wen, and most of the old hairs who get along with him have seen it—
Because they couldn't stay for a long time, they simply avoided the reunion.
Xie Wen didn't intend to let Wen Shi recognize who he was, which Lao Mao knew better than anyone else.
But sometimes, some very occasionally, some of Xie Wen's actions will give Lao Mao an illusion, as if... he and his plans will go against his plan for a moment.
But it's only for a moment, and it will soon be back on track.
Just like at this moment, when Lao Mao was worried, the puppet line left in the gap between the window frames suddenly moved.
It swept around the window edge and accurately found Shen Manyi's position. It followed the master's meaning, first clicked on Shen Manyi's forehead, and then wrapped around Shen Manyi's wrist.
This is a complete set of meditation methods, and I thought of going with Xie Wen.
This shows that although Wen Shi was waiting downstairs across the darkness, he did not leave the little girl who could not go downstairs.
Xie Wen looked at the puppet line on Shen Manyi's wrist and said, "I thought he forgot about this little girl, but I didn't expect his memory to be okay."
When he heard it, he calmed down, and Lao Mao breathed a sigh of relief.
Maybe it was because his relaxation was too obvious, Xie Wen raised his eyes and glanced at him: "Now don't worry about me revealing the stuff."
Lao Mao nodded: "Yes."
Xie Wen retracted his eyes and looked out of the window, laughing for some reason. He patted Lao Mao, turned and disappeared into the darkness.
***
The structure of the first floor of the Shen family is very similar to that of the second floor, except that there is one less room in front, one more door, and one less room in the back, with a living room and a door leading to the backyard.
In the living room, there is a set of splendid reception sofas and a carved coffee table. Above the coffee table hangs a chandelier that is not Chinese or foreign. The combination of red-brown wooden frame and crystal pendant is a popular decoration among wealthy merchants during the Republic of China. It's just that it seems a little lifeless now.
There is also a floor lamp beside the sofa, which is also a reddish-brown wooden frame, covered with embroidered silk cloth, which illuminates the shadows of the people on the ground.
Wen Shi held a piece of paper on the coffee table in his hand and stood there waiting for someone.
In fact, when he first came down, he had already turned around the first floor by himself.
According to past experience, such a cage with gaps between areas, every time it crosses an area, it is similar to re-entering the cage.
Logically speaking, he should encounter some troublesome things in the process of falling - such as the fake Xiaqiao he encountered on the bus when he entered the cage of the sinking bridge. Or the two dummies walking side by side with him on the street outside Xiping Garden.
It is actually very dangerous to encounter those in the gap, because there is nothing around, and there is no decline. If you accidentally go in the wrong direction due to interference, or mistakenly think that you have landed, you will follow those things to other places. Likely to die.
Wen Shi was vigilant all the way, but it was strange that the entire whereabouts were extremely clean, and nothing disturbed him.
This surprised him a bit. So after reaching the first floor, he stayed alone for a while to confirm that there was really no filth to cause trouble, and then sent a letter to the people upstairs, telling them that they could come down.
After a while, footsteps suddenly sounded on the stairs.
When Wen Shi turned his head and looked over, Xia Qiao was the first to turn over there. As soon as he saw him, he called out "Brother" and trotted over. The second one to appear is Zhou Xu. Then there are Sun Siqi, Dadong, and finally Shen Manyi and Lao Mao.
Wen Shi counted all the way, and his eyes fell on the blank space behind Lao Mao: "Thank you for asking, haven't you danced yet?"
Lao Mao was also stunned: "The boss is not here? It shouldn't be, he came down before me."
Dadong and the others looked at each other: "What about others?!"
He frowned when he smelled it, and his heart skipped a beat.
At this moment, the gramophone on the cabinet suddenly moved, the needle tip scratched on the vinyl surface, and old-fashioned music rang in the room. Occasionally, a few notes went wrong, with a strange sense of pitch change. .
Then the walkie-talkie in Sun Siqi's hand rustled a few times, the light came on, and the female voice they had heard upstairs spoke again.
In the sound of the music, she said in a warm voice: "After Shen Manyi disappeared for a few days, the teacher of the Shen family suddenly left a book saying that he had something to do at home and returned temporarily. The housekeeper sent a telegram to Tianjin Wei and also to Mr. Li's hometown. sealed, no reply was received."
"No one in the Shen family has slept well these days. The second floor is already empty, and everyone has moved downstairs. The two young ladies sleep with the nurse, the young master shares the room with the nurse and the son, and the housekeeper and Mr. Li share the same room. Come out with an empty bed."
"One night, the housekeeper tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. He planned to go to the police station at dawn the next day. He was looking through the closet, planning to put the clothes and shoes that he was going to wear tomorrow, when he suddenly found that Mr. Li's shoes were all in the closet. , there is no shortage of a pair…”
"Then what did he wear to go home?"
"After that day, the Shen family made frequent noises. As soon as everyone fell asleep, Mr. Li came back..."
After the female voice finished speaking, the gramophone did not stop, babbled and continued to play strange songs, and the corner was dead silent.
Zhou Xu suddenly said softly: "I understand, each of us corresponds to a Shen family member, and if one is missing in the story, we have one less. I said before that Shen Manyi was missing, but the mouse has not appeared yet. Mr. Li, who is now teaching, also disappeared, so…”
"So in the end we'll all be gone?"
So the cage owner can blow up.
His face froze when he smelled it.