The nights in this deserted village are never peaceful.
Lu Wenjuan said that the guests who strayed here before will become more and more weird after a few days. Impulsive, irritable, irritable, complaining. As if everything deep inside would be tickled out by the land.
When they heard this, they were not surprised. After all, Hui Gu, who was able to climb out of the full village, was much more troublesome than the caged vortex.
Lu Wenjuan also said that most of the guests came out at night. She once saw a woman rush out of the door in a rainy night like evil, and she couldn't stop it.
"The results of it?"
"Have you seen what it looks like outside the door?" Lu Wenjuan said. "When it rains, not only those things will climb out, but the outside will become like a mirror. As a result, she rushed out and never came back."
Like a mirror because outside the door is a dead place. As for why he rushed out like a demon, I'm afraid it has nothing to do with the inner demon.
So since then, Lu Wenjuan has given dumpling soup to everyone who strayed here. She added medicine in it to make people sleep a little more deadly.
"No matter what, it's much better than dying without a corpse and disappearing into the world inexplicably." Lu Wenjuan said.
Her original intention was very good, but unfortunately, the well-prepared dumpling soup didn't work for them when they smelled it.
So when night fell, the group of people in the house began to worry—
Room division is a problem.
Of the four rooms upstairs in Lu Wenjuan, Aunt Zhang must have one room exclusively, and no one dared to share a room with her. Zhou Xu is likely to be taken away by the village chief as a sacrifice. As an elder, Zhang Yalin must watch him, so they share a room.
Originally, the remaining four people were also very good. Wen Shi Xiaqiao's two "brothers" had one room, and Xie Wen Lao Mao had one room. Of course,
But Xiaqiao turned against the water at a critical moment and wanted to sleep with Lao Mao.
Wen Shi stared at him and jumped out two words: "Reason."
Xia Qiao had a good reason: "Brother, you know, I'm prone to demons. According to the experience of the night before, the demons are all related to you. If I open my eyes, several of you will be lying next to you... "
He tried to think about the corpse fraud scene and said seriously, "Then I may have passed on the spot."
When smelling: "… "
Xia Qiao: "Even if I don't pass, I can do anything when I'm scared crazy, and it will be broken. I don't know if I will beat and kick to do something. If I can't tell who is who, then dying."
That really sucks.
Because of the inner demon, the best way is to disperse it immediately when it first appears, but if there is a little hesitation or soft-heartedness, it is very likely that it will never come out again. The longer it goes on, the harder it becomes to distinguish fantasy from reality.
This has nothing to do with strength, even when I smell it, I am a little afraid of this kind of thing.
After all, the most difficult thing to control is the human heart, and no one wants to become a lunatic.
Therefore, Xia Qiao's reason could not be refuted by Wen Shi, but it did not mean that Wen Shi did not want to hit him.
As a result, the two hundred and five spoke again: "Fortunately, brother, you don't have any demons, so you don't have to avoid anything. I think Boss Xie seems to be fine. It just happens that you two share a room."
When smelling: "… "
The time in the cage was still fast and slow, and in the blink of an eye, it was midnight.
It was raining outside, and people in other rooms had already fallen asleep without realizing it. Even Zhou Xu, who had a relationship with the mountain god, snored, whether it was the effect of Lu Wenjuan's bowl of dumpling soup, or the A unique effect at night in this village.
Everyone is dreaming...
Except Wen Shi and Xie asked.
They stayed in the corner room on the second floor, one standing by the old-fashioned carved window, the other reclining on the bed frame with arms folded... Zen.
There was an ineffable silence in the room, like a silent confrontation.
The rain slanted on the blurred window glass, and the damp smell of soil came from the gap of the wooden frame. Wen Shi glanced out the window, but what he saw was the shadow in the room.
Xie Wen half-drooped his eyes, as if he was looking at him, but also seemed to be looking at a certain point in the void.
There was water vapor on the glass, and it was not clear.
When I smelled it, I narrowed my eyes and heard Xie ask, "Why don't you sleep when you're sleepy?"
He was really sleepy, his eyelids were heavy, and he was holding on sullenly, so he almost thoughtlessly replied: "Why did you say it?"
Xie asked for a moment.
He just realized what he said.
Xia Qiao only said in the afternoon that there is no need to avoid anything if there is no inner demon. His words now almost handed himself out. As long as you force a few more words along the way, those hidden things will be spread out unprotected.
This is really not what he usually says.
It's just that this cage is so special that it makes people weird. Or the impulsive action under sleepiness revealed a trace of his true heart.
After saying that, he regretted it.
Because some things in this world are like this, if you don't reveal it, you can still say a word of tacit understanding.
When he smelled, he turned his eyes away and frowned. He was about to deviate from this sentence, but through the window glass, he found that Xie Wen's reaction was a bit strange.
Hearing Wen Shi's rhetorical question, his eyes hesitated for a moment, and he seemed to swerve to the side, not knowing what he was looking at.
Wen Shi glanced at it, nothing.
And when he came back to his senses, Xie Wen was already close at hand.
He came silently, his breath stagnated when he smelled it, and the lines of his neck tightened.
"you… "
When smelling it, he almost thought that he had fallen into a demon again, and subconsciously looked towards the side of the bed frame.
There is no one there.
This should be true thanks for asking.
But this question is indeed a bit strange. To be precise, since night fell and there were no other people around, he was not the same as during the day. He became extraordinarily silent.
Sometimes when he smells a word, he always takes a few seconds to answer. I don't know if I'm sleepy or something...
So much so that I was a little unsure when I smelled it.
He looked at the person close at hand and whispered, "Thank you for asking?"
Xie Wen didn't respond immediately, but raised his hand and touched Wen Shi's shoulder near the window.
He moved his lips when he heard it, but said nothing. Because the other party was standing so close that when he looked up, he would sweep across his lip line and the bridge of his nose.
Xie Wen rubbed the tide on his fingertips, glanced at the heavy rain outside the window again, and suddenly said, "Call me again."
This scene almost coincides with the confused dream many years ago, but the puppet line between the fingers is missing.
After a while, Wen Shi said, "Thank you for asking."
His voice was muffled in the rain, low.
Xie Wen's dark eyes opened for a moment, and the vague hesitation before finally disappeared. As if he had finally confirmed something, he nodded.
When Wen Shi looked at his reaction, he suddenly remembered something and glanced at the void somewhere in the room. When Xie Wen was distracted before, he always looked there.
He suddenly came up with a guess. Although he thought the possibility was very low, he couldn't help but try: "Is there anyone over there?"
Xie Wen smiled and said, "You are cheating me."
He took a step sideways, and his expression and words had returned to normal. It was as if everything that had just happened was just an inadvertent phantom, flashing by.
Wen Shi looked at him: "Then what were you doing just now?"
Xie Wen was silent for a moment and said, "You are not the same as usual, let me confirm."
Confirm what
Is it to confirm whether I have entered the illusion, or to confirm yourself
This cage is indeed easy to be impulsive, and when I smell it, I almost ask these words directly. Fortunately, before he opened his mouth, there was a sudden movement on the second floor.
It was as if a shelf had fallen to the ground, and the copper pot dinged and the sugar palm rang, which was shocking in the night.
"It should be next door." Xie Wen raised his eyes and glanced in the direction of the voice.
The heavy sleepiness made the noise stir up, and when he heard it, his face turned cold, and he reached out and twisted the door.
Wet and heavy dampness rushes in.
The corridor was wet by the rain, reflecting the shadows of the two of them. Wen Shi strode Meteor to the next door and knocked heavily on the door.
Zhou Xu and Zhang Yalin were sleeping here, so the movement just now was really not good.
Zhang Lan also came out wearing a coat. She didn't wear makeup at the moment, and she had long hair scattered on her plain face, and she had a quiet temperament.
It's a pity that as soon as he opens his mouth, this kind of temperament is not left at all: "Don't be polite, knock on the door and just kick it!"
Of course she doesn't have to reason with her brother's room.
However, when Wen Shi was upbringing instinctively, she meant it, the moment she opened her mouth, the puppet line grabbed the entire door and forcibly pulled it open.
At the same time as the door opened, Zhang Yalin stood at the door with an ugly face, looking at his movements, it seemed that he was about to open the door.
"Xiao Xu is gone!" Before anyone asked, he opened his mouth.
"Do you say it again?" Zhang Lan pointed at him, without heavy makeup, but his aura was not low at all, "He slept with you, but you really let him lose?"
Zhang Yalin pressed her temples, not knowing whether she was more annoyed or angry. He stretched out his left hand, and saw neat and beautiful white cotton puppet threads wrapped around his five fingers, one of which was hanging down so long that it almost dragged to the ground.
"I tied a puppet line for him." Zhang Yalin said, and pointed to the room again: "Including Xiao Hei, six puppets are sitting side by side by the bed."
Hearing this, Wen Shi frowned deeply.
If Zhou Xu's previous boasting was not too exaggerated, then Zhang Yalin, as a puppet master, should have a very high level, at least among the judges in the world.
The puppet line is an extremely sensitive thing. If Zhou Xu is really tied with a line, then whoever abducts him, Zhang Yalin will be alerted, and it is impossible to let the other party disappear like this.
"Then what did your puppet say?" Zhang Lan asked.
Zhang Yalin looked embarrassed for a moment, he wiped his face, and said solemnly, "They fell asleep."
"What happened to them?" Zhang Lan raised the door an octave.
Xiao Hei apologized and said in a heavy voice, "I'm sorry, we fell asleep without knowing why."
Zhang Lan's face turned dark, but Wen Shi and Xie Wen were not surprised.
After all, Xia Qiao and Lao Mao have also fallen asleep for the past two days. This is the problem of the cage, not to blame.
"So your puppet fell asleep and didn't watch it. He didn't feel any problem when your puppet was tied." Xie Wen summed it up, and Zhang Yalin's face flushed, "Then how did he disappear?"