This situation looked weird and terrifying, Lin Banxia even wondered if Ji Leshui was playing a prank with him, but after observing, he was sure that Ji Leshui was not joking. So after a moment of hesitation, he thought about it and said, "Leshui, what is that thing on your back?"
Ji Leshui said, "Huh?"
Lin Banxia said, "It's the one on your back..."
"Oh, you said Xiaocao." Ji Leshui actually knew what Lin Banxia was talking about. He smiled and took the little skeleton from behind him and gently touched its cheek, whether it was expression or The movements are so gentle, he said, "It's been with me these days when you're gone."
Lin Banxia's expression became even more strange. He stretched out his hand and touched Ji Leshui's forehead to make sure he didn't have a fever: "Are you really... alright?"
Ji Leshui said inexplicably: "You are so strange, why did you forget about the cave after a trip? Didn't it live with us for a long time?"
Lin Banxia: "..." Well, he was sure that something was wrong with Ji Leshui.
He didn't say anything, turned around and went out to find Song Qingluo.
Song Qingluo was still packing her luggage when she saw Lin Banxia enter the room with a serious face and said, "Song Qingluo, there seems to be something wrong with Ji Leshui."
Song Qingluo didn't turn her head back: "What's wrong?"
Lin Banxia said: "He is carrying a bone rack, and he also said that the bone rack is his good friend..."
Song Qingluo's movements stopped.
Lin Banxia continued: "I also said that I have known Bones for a long time - is he really okay?"
Song Qingluo straightened her waist, glanced at Lin Banxia and said, "It doesn't look like it's all right, let's go take a look."
Lin Banxia nodded and said ok.
So the two went to the next door together, and when they entered the room, they saw Ji Leshui and Xiao Bone shelf chatting on the sofa. Lin Banxia observed him for a few seconds, then suddenly remembered something and clapped his hands: "Damn, what's wrong with what I said, isn't there a TV in your house? What is he watching these days?"
Song Qingluo said calmly: "It's alright, a small problem." He went back for a while, and when he came back, he had those black gloves in his hands.
Ji Leshui still didn't understand what happened, and continued chatting with the little bone shelf until Song Qingluo walked up to him and picked up the little bone shelf.
"Hey, eh?? Big brother, what are you doing?" Ji Leshui was stunned.
Song Qingluo glanced at him and said nothing.
Ji Leshui was in a hurry, but he didn't dare to argue with Song Qingluo, so he rushed in front of Lin Banxia, aggrieved: "Banxia, Banxia, stop the boss, he wants to make a small cave. how is everything?"
Lin Banxia looked at him with a complicated expression and said, "Where did you know this thing?"
Ji Leshui almost cried, he said: "Did you forget? Forgot how we picked it up, and forgot that we went through so much with it - it also saved our lives - how can you forget - "
Lin Banxia was stunned, he directly skipped Ji Leshui and looked at Song Qingluo for an explanation.
Song Qingluo's movements were still so slow, he gracefully picked up the small bone shelf, gracefully walked to the corner, and gracefully stuffed it into a black suitcase that had been left open in the corner of the room, hearing Ji Le Shui cried like blood, but didn't look back: "A small mistake."
Lin Banxia went crazy: "Is this a small mistake?"
Song Qingluo said, "It's fine, it's not very dangerous."
Lin Banxia said, "So what exactly is this?"
"The sealed item No. 73920 was found in a bankrupt museum." Song Qingluo gently buttoned the box and turned the combination dial, as if to reset the password, "It will be in a very stable state under normal circumstances. state, approach the creatures around you cautiously, but if the creature shows great fear when seeing it, it will forge a false memory and rationalize its existence. That is, you will instinctively Think of it as your good friend or something - keep it by that person's side, it's not dangerous, and according to people who have been with it, it's incredibly comfortable and relaxing to be around, Sometimes there are some pleasant hallucinations, in short, compared with other heretical things, it is a very docile object, harmless to humans, and even helpful for some mental illnesses, The only downside…”
When he said this, he paused, "It will make people a little sad when they part." Then he glanced at Ji Leshui, who was about to burst into tears.
Lin Banxia: "..."
Ji Leshui cried: "No!! I don't believe it!! Xiaokuo has been living with me for many years, Pinellia - Pinellia-"
Lin Banxia: "..." I never saw you so sad when you fucking broke up with your girlfriend.
Song Qingluo said: "It may be that Ji Leshui touched the box and accidentally got it out. It's my fault. The password should be a little more complicated. The influence of your house number on your friend has been reduced, so you should let him move it as soon as possible. go out..."
Ji Leshui cried aggrievedly, with an expression like he was about to say goodbye to his best friend. Lin Banxia was a little bit crushed by his crying, and she couldn't help but look at Song Qingluo, and she negotiated euphemistically, "Well... since it doesn't have any bad influence, why not let it accompany Ji Leshui again?"
Song Qingluo's expression was a little subtle when he heard the words, and Lin Banxia thought that he had made an excessive request. He hesitated: "Don't you think it's a bit scary?"
Lin Banxia: "It's okay, the little ones are quite cute."
Song Qingluo fell silent.
Ji Leshui continued to howl beside him: "Woooooooo my little cave, my little cave-"
In the end, Lin Banxia went crazy: "Stop screaming, stop screaming, and you will call the urn next to you to live again. Let's go out to eat hot pot, and after eating hot pot, let's talk about the small cave?"
Ji Leshui said sadly: "Don't lie to me - no one can walk into the depths of my heart like a small cave."
Lin Banxia said, "Yeah, after all, it's a skeleton frame."
Ji Leshui said angrily, "You are racist."
Lin Banxia thought you could shut up.
In the end, Lin Banxia and Song Qingluo discussed that they should finish the hot pot first, and discuss the matter of the small cave later in the evening.
Half an hour later, Ji Leshui, who had finished crying, was pulled out by Lin Banxia to eat hot pot. The three ordered a red soup, and Ji Leshui was flabbergasted, saying that he wanted to drink alcohol to relieve his worries, Lin Banxia asked Ji Leshui how long he would stay like this, and Ji Leshui said it depends on when Xiaoku comes back. .
So Lin Banxia drank the beer in front of him and said that Ji Leshui was only sad for two hours when he broke up with his girlfriend.
Ji Leshui spread his hands and said that she and I are just a pure physical relationship, but Xiao Cave and I are absolute soul mates.
Lin Banxia decided to give up and continue to discuss the small cave with Ji Leshui.
After three rounds of drinking, Ji Leshui was brought down according to the old rules, and was helped back home by Lin Banxia. But even so, he did not forget the small hole in his heart, crying and begging Lin Banxia to give it back to him, making Lin Banxia like an evil mother-in-law who broke up a couple. Lin Banxia had no choice but to look at Song Qingluo for help.
Song Qingluo pretended not to see it at first, but couldn't bear it any longer, saying that if you were used to it, he would be used to trouble.
Lin Banxia said, "Then... I'll let him cry for you in the future?"
Song Qingluo spent two minutes weighing the pros and cons, decided to give up the treatment of Ji Leshui, and carefully took the little skeleton out of the box. Lin Banxia stood beside him and saw this small skeleton frame up close. This seems to be the skeleton of a child, a small one, the bones are smooth and round, and the material is more like a jade than a bone. Song Qingluo carefully held it in his hand, his movements were extremely gentle, as if he was holding something fragile.
"Can I touch it?" Lin Banxia asked curiously.
"Yes." Song Qingluo said, "It's just that if you touch him..."
Lin Banxia said, "What will happen?"
Song Qingluo sighed, "You wouldn't be willing to put him in the box." Having said that, he still handed the small bone shelf to Lin Banxia.
Lin Banxia took it out of curiosity and held it in his arms. He felt the cold touch. The moment his skin touched the bones, the dead object in his arms seemed to come alive. He saw The small skeleton blinked its big black eyes and looked at itself cautiously.
How can a skeleton stand wink? As soon as this thought popped into Lin Banxia's mind, he was quickly attracted by the other movements of the small bones. It used its tiny hand bones to gently pat Lin Banxia's arm, and then pointed Refers to Ji Leshui who is still calling the small cave.
Lin Banxia looked at Song Qingluo: "What does it mean?"
Song Qingluo said, "Let Ji Leshui stop howling."
Lin Banxia: "..." Ji Leshui, you are despised by your little bones.
At this moment, he understood what Song Qingluo meant when he said that he was reluctant to put it in the box, this little bone shelf with movements and expressions, not like a skeleton, but a cute little creature, just interacting with it After a while, Lin Banxia's heart felt an irresistible softness.
"Let's go, go back and rest." Song Qingluo looked at the time, it was not too early, "Let it accompany Ji Leshui."
Lin Banxia put it on the ground, and it jumped to Ji Leshui's side, rubbed Ji Leshui with his cheek, and hummed a few times. Ji Leshui stopped howling, stretched out his hand vaguely, hugged the small bone shelf in front of him, and murmured the small cave in his mouth.
Lin Banxia glanced at him and made sure there was nothing wrong with him, so she went home with Song Qingluo.
From this day on, there was an extra gadget in their house. Although with Song Qingluo's help, Ji Leshui realized that his happy trip with Xiaoku was a false memory, but he didn't show any concern, affectionate Fortunately, Xiao Cao helped him create this memory, otherwise he would have gone crazy when he saw that the bones would move...
Lin Banxia had no choice but to urge him to move out quickly, fearing that he would take something else out of Song Qingluo's box. But Ji Leshui stubbornly said that he had no intention of leaving for the time being. He is now having a good time with Xiaokuo, and Xiaokuo is his darling.
Lin Banxia gave him a pair of eyes and a few insults, but he couldn't make the screaming chicken change his mind at all.
After more than ten days, Lin Banxia's annual leave came to an end, and she went to work as usual.
When he arrived at the unit, he was told that the newcomer Zhou Jitong who came before could not stand his resignation after a week of work. The unit is still recruiting and has not yet found a suitable one.
There was no other way, Lin Banxia had to follow the other groups. Spring is here. In fact, he doesn't like this season very much. Because spring is a period of high incidence of mental illness, you can see all kinds of terrifying deaths beyond the scope of human imagination. No wonder the newcomer didn't last for a week, Lin Banxia understood him.
Song Qingluo's work has also been busy, and he hasn't seen him a few times in a month. Even if he does, he mostly sleeps at home.
Lin Banxia asked him, and he said that there have been a lot of things recently, but they were all trivial matters, and Lin Banxia didn't need to go out.
Lin Banxia missed the numbers in her bank card, and said thoughtfully that she could be on call.
Song Qingluo asked him what to do with his job.
"It's all about dealing with dead people, so why choose the one with more money." Lin Banxia was very calm.
Song Qingluo fell into silence, he actually felt that what Lin Banxia said was very reasonable.
After being so busy for more than a month, in early summer, when Lin Banxia came home one day, she saw Song Qingluo sitting on the sofa waiting for her.
"What's wrong?" Lin Banxia saw some clues from his expression.
"Something." Song Qingluo put a USB flash drive, he looked at Lin Banxia, and said softly, "Let's take a look?"
Lin Banxia said, "Okay."
Song Qingluo inserted the USB flash drive into the notebook, opened a file, then the screen went black, and when it turned on again, Lin Banxia saw a bright sky full of stars.
Lin Banxia has seen many night skies.
The sky in his childhood is the most profound in his memory. At that time, there were not so many tall buildings and so many lights. His house was a dilapidated one-story bungalow. , looking up at the night sky.
There was a bright moon in the sky, full of stars. He didn't know much about the constellations. He only knew the Big Dipper that was written in the textbook, so he always liked to find seven connected stars, and then told him with a smile. Sister, that is the Big Dipper. Now that I think about it, most of the time, it's all wrong.
And the night sky on the laptop screen in front of Song Qingluo was even more beautiful than what Lin Banxia remembered when he was a child. On the black night, the stars were like scattered diamonds, and a dazzling Milky Way ran through it, which was amazingly beautiful. Li Su's voice sounded against this background. He seemed to be laughing, laughing loudly: "The weather is fine today, we are roasting lamb, I don't know how it tastes." Turning his eyes, Lin Banxia looked There was a cluster of bonfires, and a few people sitting around the bonfire.
The faces of these people were different, with a mixture of Eastern and Western races, and a sheep was roasting on the bonfire. But among these people, Lin Banxia did not see Li Ye.
Li Su seemed to be in a good mood and had been introducing the surrounding environment. As he moved the camera, Lin Banxia also saw the surrounding environment clearly.
It was an empty wilderness without any buildings, no tall trees, only low shrubs, and the most distant horizon could be seen at a glance.
The wind seemed to be a little strong, and the bonfire was blown into a few clusters of conspicuous flames. Li Su said with a smile: "I like it here, it's quiet, empty, there are no people, and you can do whatever you want." What he said was caught by the bonfire. The people next to him heard it, and everyone started to boo.
Someone spoke fluent Chinese and called out, "Li Su, do you like this place so much?"
Li Su said, "Yes."
The man said, "You're not worried at all?"
Li Su said, "What are you worried about?"
The man said, "Of course I'm worried about my tragic death."
Li Su was still laughing, and he didn't seem to mind what the man said. He said, "What you were afraid of was a miserable death?"
The man stopped talking.
Li Su said, "I don't seem to be so afraid."
The crowd continued to talk, and suddenly someone in the crowd asked in broken Chinese: "Why hasn't Bazaar come back?"
Someone said, "Didn't she go to the toilet in the bushes next to her?"
The angle of view swayed, it seemed that Li Su stood up, and he said, "I'll go take a look." Then, he and another man walked towards the bushes next to them. For some reason, the atmosphere between them was a little quiet, as if What was about to happen had been anticipated.
The bushes were very lush. After looking around, he couldn't find the girl named Bazaar. He whispered, "How long has she been out?"
The man beside him replied, "Half an hour."
There was silence for a while.
The man said, "Is she still alive?"
Li Su didn't speak, his eyes continued to search in the bushes, and then suddenly shook violently.
"She's there." Li Su's voice suddenly became very soft, as if he was afraid of disturbing something, "Did you see it?"
The man didn't speak, but Lin Banxia could only hear the heavy breathing through the screen. In the breathing, there was a strong sense of fear and despair. Even if he couldn't see the person, he could imagine that he was screaming abruptly. back in the stomach.
The shaking camera stopped, and a black thing appeared on the screen.
Lin Banxia thought it was a shadow at first, but he quickly saw the face of the thing - it was not a shadow, but a person, a person who had melted away. It is difficult to describe this scene in words. If you have to say it, it is as if a person's body has become made of wax. With the high temperature, it begins to slowly deform, the limbs and the torso merge into one, and the face, nose and mouth are mixed. In a group, but even so, Lin Banxia still saw a happy smile from that face - that person, no, it should be that group of things, smiling. Laughing more and more happily, more and more happy, as if experiencing something extremely happy.
But in an instant, her body melted on the sand and stone, and gradually flattened. The man beside Li Su vomited, but he didn't move. The camera in his hand was extremely stable and did not shake at all.
"That's Bazaar's clothes." Li Su said, "that's her."
The man didn't answer, and the sound of vomiting continued.
Li Su stepped forward and headed towards the group of things. But when he walked in front of the thing, Bazaar had completely integrated into the ground, and only the clothes she had worn were left alone on the sand.
"May 17, 9:18 p.m." Li Su's voice was the same as what Lin Banxia had heard before, somewhat similar to Song Qingluo, gentle and calm, "This is the third time we died. player."
The video goes black.
Lin Banxia looked at Song Qingluo and said, "What happened after that? What happened after that?" Today is May 20th, which means this is a video sent three days ago.
"After this video was sent, Li Su's team disappeared." Song Qingluo said, "There is no contact so far."
Lin Banxia said, "Isn't Li Ye his partner? Why isn't he by his side?"
Song Qingluo said: "The relationship between the two of them is complicated and it's a long story."
Lin Banxia thought for a while: "Where is this place, you want to go there, right?"
Song Qingluo said: "In Russia, the ticket is scheduled for tomorrow night."
Lin Banxia thought for a while and asked, "Can I go with you?" He tentatively said, "You show me this video because you want to invite me to go with you?"
"That's right." Song Qingluo said, "But I have to tell you that the risk factor of this mission may be very high... You have to think about it."
Lin Banxia pondered for a moment, then whispered, "The air ticket will be reimbursed or not?"
Song Qingluo: "...All meals, lodging and air tickets are included."
Lin Banxia: "But I don't have a Russian visa."
"Special passage, no visa required." Song Qingluo also laughed at himself and made a joke, "After all, you are going to die, so you have to be a little more tolerant of those who die."
Lin Banxia: "Go, go, I haven't been abroad yet."
Song Qingluo: "It's very dangerous."
Lin Banxia said honestly, "I'm not afraid of danger."
Song Qingluo: "..."
Lin Banxia: "I'm afraid of being poor."
Song Qingluo wondered, Lin Banxia, are you being too real
Lin Banxia was unaware, happily urging Song Qingluo to sign the agreement, and then told Ji Leshui that she was going to travel at public expense again.
Ji Leshui is still addicted to playing with Xiaoku for the past few days. Hearing that Lin Banxia is going to travel, he shows a face of jealousy, and said sourly: "Why do you want to go out to play with the boss again, you don't even bring me. "
Lin Banxia said: "Next time, I will definitely bring you next time. Didn't you have a good time playing with Xiaojia Xiaoku these days?"
Ji Leshui saw through Lin Banxia's perfunctory and said angrily: "Happiness is my business, and my little cave also advised me to go out more and make more friends - if it weren't for money, who wouldn't want to travel!"
Lin Banxia patted his shoulder and said, buddy, I understand.
It's useless to understand, Ji Leshui, the screaming chicken, is destined to not be able to enjoy the fun of "travel" with them.
This trip was a bit urgent. Lin Banxia didn't have time to read the travel guide for Russia, so Song Qingluo left. He was also quite unfamiliar with this country. The only impression was that two hundred Russians beat a thousand in the news. news from a british person. It sounds a bit funny, but it is enough to prove that they are truly a fighting nation.
In a hurry, he took overlord leave at the work unit, packed his luggage in a hurry, and finally was hurriedly carried to the airport by Song Qingluo. Originally, Lin Banxia thought that she and Song Qingluo would go there alone, but who knew that she saw Li Ye at the airport.
Li Ye was tall, nearly two meters tall, and stood out in the crowd. He was staring down at the phone, and his green eyes revealed a bit of indifference that was incompatible with others. At first glance, you can tell that he is a difficult person to deal with. To a certain extent, it is quite similar to Song Qingluo.
Song Qingluo stepped forward to greet Li Ye. He raised his head and glanced at Song Qingluo and Lin Banxia, and replied, "Let's go."
So Song Qingluo turned around and left.
This is Lin Banxia's first time on a plane. On the way here, he even went to Zhihu to see what to do to make it appear that it was not the first time he had taken a plane. However, the content he looked up was useless at all, because after Song Qingluo contacted the staff, he went straight through the special passage without even passing the security check.
They were on a charter plane, and there were only three of them inside. After Lin Banxia went up, he chose a seat by the window and looked out curiously. Song Qingluo discussed with Li Ye, Song Qingluo asked Li Ye for information, Li Ye spread his hands and said, "No."
"No? What do you mean by no?" Song Qingluo frowned.
"It's literally no." Li Ye said, "The situation was reported on May 8th. Two days later, Li Su led the team in. At present, we only know the approximate size of the area, and I don't know anything about it."
Song Qingluo said, "Then there is more than one video of Li Su."
"No, only one copy." Li Ye said, "There is no other information."
Song Qingluo was silent.
Lin Banxia listened ignorantly, but was too embarrassed to ask questions. In the end, Song Qingluo asked Li Ye to explain the matter in detail. Only then did Lin Banxia know the outline of the whole thing.
In early May, in the central region of Russia's West Siberian Plain, a large vacuum appeared, and people and animals in it disappeared. Because Russia is so vast and sparsely populated, I don’t know when this situation started. All in all, it was discovered in early May, and the opportunity for the discovery was two policemen on duty. One of them entered the area and lost contact, and the other chose to report to his superiors because of the bad situation. So far, the strangeness of this area was discovered.
For at least two months, the residents in the area did not have any contact with the outside, including communication. They seemed to have disappeared inexplicably. The police also sent some people to investigate at the beginning. Soon, they found that something was wrong. The people who went in were missing, and the electronic equipment failed. No one came out.
Those people suddenly disappeared into this empty wilderness.
After detecting such an abnormality, the official quickly took other actions, so on May 10, Li Su led the team into the area. Before he disappeared, he sent a video of Lin Banxia seeing the terrifying video. After that, he completely lost contact with the outside world.
No one knows how Li Su managed to get the video out, but it seemed like the only thing he could do.
It can be seen from the video that the dead girl Bazaar is already the third team member killed in action. It is hard to imagine what happened to them inside.
However, at present, it seems that the people who go in are all dead.
After Li Ye finished talking about the situation, he glanced at Lin Banxia. Lin Banxia didn't frown or was nervous. There was even interest in his eyes, as if he was listening to someone else's story. This is an interesting person, Li Ye thought.
"You speak Chinese really well." Lin Banxia sighed after listening to Li Ye's description, "How long have you been in China?"
"Eight years." If you only listen to the accent, Li Ye looks like a pure Chinese.
"Oh." Lin Banxia said, "That's been a long time."
Li Ye said, "Yes."
He didn't talk much, even more silent than Song Qingluo.
Song Qingluo said, "Is there anything else you want to know?"
Lin Banxia said, "No more." He was not very professional about these matters. After listening to Li Ye's description, he could have a general understanding of the situation. Besides, it seems that knowing and not knowing about these things are almost the same. Anyway, no one knows what's inside. what happened.
The flight from their city to Russia was about eight hours, with a five-hour time difference, and it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon. Lin Banxia fell asleep halfway through, and was finally woken up by Song Qingluo.
"Arrived?" He was a little slumbered.
"It's here." Song Qingluo said.
After picking up the luggage, the three got off the plane and met the person who received them outside the airport. They were answered by two locals, a man and a woman, who could not speak Chinese at all. Li Ye, who was silent, was forced to act as a translator and gave a brief introduction to both parties.
There was a long list of their names. Lin Banxia only remembered the abbreviations. The man was called Sergei and the woman was called Yilena.
Russia's itinerary starts here.
The author has something to say:
Lin Banxia: Only a small cave can soothe a frightened chicken.
Ji Leshui: Only Xiao Song can comfort a single dog.
Song Qingluo: Is the essence of human beings hurting each other