Phantom Skeleton Painting

Chapter 31: The Promised Land (4)

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"Then I'll leave later." Alexey said gloomily, "don't stop me."

Lin Banxia waved his hand, indicating that he was free, then he got up from the bed and started packing his luggage to prepare for departure.

Alexey stood by and looked at him, until he realized that Lin Banxia opened the door and really planned to leave, he panicked and said, "Lin, do you really want to leave?"

Lin Banxia said: "Otherwise?"

Alexey said: "Maybe there is still undiscovered gold in this house, you are willing to leave like this?"

Lin Banxia glanced at him, her eyes only calm and suspicious.

This look made Alexei feel bad, and he said eagerly: "You wait, I'll look for it! There must be something else-"

He said, rushed to the corner of the wall, and began to tap the wall tiles with the tools in his hand. The soil was vigorously wiped away, revealing a brilliant golden color.

"Look, look!!" Alexei exclaimed excitedly, "Look, there's really gold behind this!!!"

Lin Banxia lightly held the dagger in her pocket and said, "So what? Can you take it all away?"

"I can't, but we can," Alexei said excitedly. "The two of us can go out with gold—how much, how much—"

Lin Banxia said, "No need."

Alexey looked at him in shock, as if looking at a monster: "What did you say?"

"I said no." Lin Banxia said, "You can take as much as you want, it has nothing to do with me."

Alexey stopped talking, the muscles on his cheeks twitched slightly, his expression seemed to be out of control, he barely pulled the corners of his mouth, and tried his best to show a difficult smile: "You really don't want money at all? what do you want?"

Lin Banxia is an honest person, so she said honestly, "Money."

Alexei: "..."

Lin Banxia: "Is there anything else? I'll go first."

Alexei was completely mad, pointing at the golden bricks on the wall behind him and jumping like thunder, his face turned red with anger, his veins burst out, and his expression was terrifying: "The money is here, it's all here - don't go. Ah, don't go - why don't you take this gold with me and leave?!!"

Lin Banxia ignored him and went out. Originally, he was worried that Alexei would follow him, but fortunately, Alexei didn't. It was just that curses in Russian kept coming out of the hut. Although Lin Banxia couldn't understand it, he knew that Alexei must be at this moment. Very angry, but he couldn't understand why he refused his invitation, he would be so angry. Logically speaking, shouldn't it be a good thing to swallow all the treasures alone

Lin Banxia thought so, and for some reason, he always felt that Alexei looked a little strange, and even exuded a dangerous aura-it made him want to leave there quickly.

It was because he felt these strange things that Lin Banxia gave up persuading Alexei, who had gone mad, because he knew very well how a person who desperately needed money would feel when he saw that box of gold. It's not gold, it's life, whoever dares to covet it, has to fight hard.

When Lin Banxia was the poorest, she couldn't even afford to live in the basement. When she was hungry, she went to the supermarket to buy some noodles, washed them with hot water, and lived to eat for a month. He didn't know how he would feel when he saw this box of gold at that time, but at least now, he felt that Song Qingluo's life was more important than gold, so he chose to turn away without any hesitation.

Alexey ended up staying in the hut, cursing less and less.

Lin Banxia went all the way and quickly entered the forest ahead. He was worried about Song Qingluo in his heart, and he didn't have to worry about Alexei, who was inconvenient to move. However, things didn't go as smoothly as he imagined. He circled in the forest, and he actually circled back to the vicinity of the log cabin. Without Alexei's guidance, he lost his way again unsurprisingly.

How could this be? Lin Banxia stared at the compass in his hand and fell into a predicament for a while. He thought for a moment and decided to go to see if Alexei was still there. If he was, he wanted to ask him about the road in the forest. Skill.

With this plan, Lin Banxia walked to the side of the hut, trying to find Alexei. But who knew that when he passed by the wooden house, Yu Guang suddenly noticed something hanging on the branches of the big tree next to the wooden house. The thing was covered by leaves, and it was difficult to see clearly for a while. Lin Banxia's first reaction was something like a bird's nest, but he quickly realized that there were no animals such as birds in this forest. So he walked towards the tree with doubts. When he reached a certain distance, Lin Banxia finally saw clearly what was hanging on the tree.

No, that's not a thing, that's a person.

A person who has completely died, his limbs twisted in a strange posture, his body was almost rounded up, and in an unbelievable posture, he was forcibly hung in the position of a tree branch. Lin Banxia could clearly see from a distance that he was wearing the same clothes as himself, with short red hair, which was particularly dazzling in the emerald green jungle.

Lin Banxia's expression froze for a while. In this team, Alexei was the only one with short red hair.

Lin Banxia took a few more steps forward, and saw the man's face completely—yes, it was Alexei, he was dead.

what happened? He had only left for ten minutes. Lin Banxia stood there a little dazed. He looked up at Alexei's body, but couldn't take him down from the tall tree. How could this be, who killed Alexei, is there a murderer hiding near the hut? Lin Banxia thought, why didn't he attack himself first? Obviously he was equally defenseless.

Lin Banxia stood under the tree for a long time, and finally turned around and headed towards the wooden house. He wanted to find some clues from the wooden house, but when his eyes passed through the window of the wooden house and saw the situation inside , the steps that were going forward stopped.

In the wooden house, a red-haired man sat with his back to Lin Banxia, lowered his head, and gently stroked the wooden box on his knees. Inside the wooden box, the light of gold was still bright, attracting all A greedy person, he seemed to hear Lin Banxia's footsteps and slowly turned his head, revealing the young face that belonged to Alexei.

Lin Banxia was stunned. He turned his head and looked in the direction where he saw the corpse just now. Not surprisingly, he saw that the corpse was still hanging in the same place. Alexei has already died in the tree, so this person who looks exactly like him... No, what, what is it

"Alexie" heard Lin Banxia's footsteps and showed a bright smile. He excitedly walked to the door and opened the door for Lin Banxia. He said, "You're back, have you changed your mind? ? I knew, I must be waiting for you."

Lin Banxia licked her lips and said nothing.

Alexey said: "What's wrong with you, why is this expression?"

Lin Banxia restrained the turbulence in his heart, tried to use the calmest tone, and asked the question in his heart, he said, "Alexei... Are you still alive?"

Alexei's smile froze on his face.

"When did you die?" Lin Banxia asked, "Is the one you who I saw after the separation... already... dead?"

Alexei's smile disappeared, and he stared at Lin Banxia, his azure blue eyes full of complicated expressions.

Lin Banxia took a step back, pulled out the dagger, and said vigilantly, "What the hell are you, what have you done to Alexei—"

Alexey let go of his hand, and he was holding it in his arms like a baby. The wooden box full of gold bars fell to the ground like this. The gold bars fell out of the wooden box and fell with a crash. one place. But Alexei didn't move. He seemed to have turned into a rigid puppet. He couldn't speak, and just stared at Lin Banxia silently.

Lin Banxia said, "What do you... want to do?"

As soon as he asked this sentence, a change appeared in Alexei's body. His facial features, like melted candles, gradually collapsed and twisted. He let out a shrill scream, but his body was still gradually changing. It melted and finally turned into a black liquid. The liquid soaked into the surface of the floor and disappeared in front of Lin Banxia along the gap. At the last moment of his disappearance, Lin Banxia's ears were surrounded by mournful voices. screamed.

Everything returned to calm again, only a few pieces of clothing were left, which were quietly placed in front of Lin Banxia's eyes.

Alexei disappeared, just like the woman who disappeared in Li Su's record, and no one knew what happened to them.

Lin Banxia re-entered the room. He bent down, picked up the clothes that Alexei had dropped on the ground, folded them neatly, and put them into his backpack. Lin Banxia didn't try to touch the gold. He was not afraid of what was on the gold, but because he was afraid that after touching it, he would be as hard to resist its temptation as Alexei. These golds lay quietly on the ground, and their smooth surface still exudes a golden luster, but at this time, there is a layer of gloomy death on this luster.

Lin Banxia finished all this, and went to the tree next to the hut. Alexei's body was still hanging quietly on it. He looked at it for a while, lowered his head and made a mark on the approximate location on the map. I found a stone next to it, circled under the tree, and then left again.

Everything around was quiet, it was obviously morning, but Lin Banxia felt a coldness that belonged only to the cold night.

He moved on, and this time, the forest made no further attempt to keep him.

After walking like this for a day, it was about evening when Lin Banxia finally heard the sound of water flowing beside her ears. Although the sound was small, there was indeed a river passing by, and it seemed that he was about to reach the location marked on the map.

The monotonous forest finally changed when the river appeared. There were some low shrubs around. Above these shrubs, Lin Pinellia saw some yellow leaves. These yellow leaves meant that he had left. the boundaries of the forest. Following the sound of the rushing water, Lin Banxia saw a river that was not too wide. The scenery on the other side of the river was completely different from this side. There were no tall trees there, and it was almost all sand and bushes. It seems that it is very consistent with the landforms in Li Su's video.

This probably shows that his current direction is right. Lin Banxia sat by the river, scooped up a handful of river water, and washed his face.

He walked all day, and now it was getting dark again. Before the sun went down, Lin Banxia hurriedly went to find some wood for the fire and raised the bonfire.

He was a little hungry, so he casually pulled out some food to satisfy his hunger from his backpack, and stuffed some food into his mouth to satisfy his hunger.

What to do next? Continue walking in the direction, or wait here for a while to see if anyone joins him? Lin Banxia calculates that the dry food in his bag can last for about a month, but there is not that much water, so he can barely support a week, but there is a river next to it, if he waits here, it will definitely be safer, but if Song Qingluo and the others What happened and can't come? Waiting like this is not a fool.

Just as Lin Banxia was thinking, there was a sudden sound of rustling footsteps in the depths of the forest. Lin Banxia immediately took out the dagger and said vigilantly, "Who's where?"

The rustling sound rang out for a while, and finally a figure appeared. Seeing it was a man, Lin Banxia breathed a sigh of relief, but after seeing the man's face clearly, he was shocked: "Li Su? You? Is it Li Su?? Why are you here??"

That's right, the person who came was not anyone in Lin Banxia's team, but the Li Su they were looking for! ! Although he wore a mask and sunglasses on his face, Lin Banxia still recognized his identity from his special hair color.

"Shouldn't I ask you this question?" Li Su didn't come, but stood at a distance to observe Lin Banxia, "Why are you here too?"

"We received your video." Lin Banxia felt that Li Su's way of questioning was a bit strange, but didn't think much about it, "So I came with them."

"Where is Song Qingluo?" Li Su asked.

"We met a bear in the forest and got separated." Lin Banxia put away the dagger in his hand, "Are you all right? What the hell is going on with that video?"

Li Su said, "I'm fine." He rolled his eyes, showing the beautiful smile of the sign, and walked slowly to Lin Banxia's side, "What are you eating? Give me something to eat too, I'm so hungry. When he came over, Lin Banxia noticed that there was a tall figure behind him. Lin Banxia took a closer look and was even more surprised: "Li Ye? Li Ye is following you?? You two... When did you meet?" The..." Because of the previous example of Alexei, Lin Banxia immediately became wary of the two people who suddenly appeared in front of him. The time of the two of them appeared too coincidentally, and it was so coincidental that Lin Banxia couldn't help but doubt it.

"Just last night." Li Su sat lazily on the stone next to him, Li Ye followed behind him silently, and sat down too. He took a piece of Lin Banxia's biscuits and nibbled it slowly, watching He was not as hungry as he said.

"Li Ye... do you want it?" Lin Banxia asked tentatively.

"He doesn't need it." Li Su waved his hand.

Li Ye nodded his chin towards Lin Banxia as a greeting. Li Su glanced back at Li Ye and said, "The ground is so hard."

Li Ye stretched out his hand and pulled Li Su in a natural way. Li Su got up and sat in Li Ye's arms. Li Ye was born tall, and Li Su, who was 1.7 meters tall, looked like a baby in his arms. He completely ignored Lin Banxia's eyes that were about to fall out, and said with a smile, "This is better."

Lin Banxia: "You two..."

Li Su said, "You don't know, he has had a crush on me for many years."

Lin Banxia: "..."

Li Su: "Just kidding hahahahaha."

Lin Banxia: "..."

From the beginning to the end, Li Ye didn't say a word, and let Li Su play with it. In those half-drooping green eyes, there was a deep tenderness, which caused Lin Banxia to be born in this wilderness. The illusion of being an over-wattage light bulb.

"How long have you been here?" Li Su didn't mind Lin Banxia's discomfort at all. He leaned into Li Ye's arms and asked.

"It's been almost three days." Lin Banxia said, "You came out of this forest? What the hell is going on here?"

Li Su tilted his head and looked at Lin Banxia. Although he smiled, there was not much emotion in those pale pink eyes. This kind of contradictory expression was the first time Lin Banxia looked at Li Su's face. arrive. He was sensitively aware that something seemed wrong, and the person in front of him was probably not Li Su, but something like Alexei. But... how did those things know that they were looking for Li Su? And Li Su can still mention Song Qingluo? Could it be that Li Su also...

A bad premonition came to Lin Banxia's mind, and the hand that was holding the dagger in his pocket tightened again.

"Are you asking me what's the matter?" But luckily, Li Su didn't mean to conflict with him, he squinted like a lazy cat, "Actually I don't know either." He He ate another biscuit, picked up another bottle of water, and drank most of it in a wasteful way. Lin Banxia felt distressed and regretful when he saw it. He made a mistake. He shouldn't have taken out the food in the first place and gave it It's a waste to eat this.

"How do I know what's going on." Li Su said, "I haven't figured it out since I got here, but it's better now..."

Lin Banxia said, "Where is it?"

"Isn't Song Qingluo here?" Li Su said with a grin, "What should I be afraid of when he comes?"

Lin Banxia's expression was complicated, and she felt that Song Qingluo might not be able to please the strange bear, but he didn't want to exchange too much information with the thing in front of him, so he wisely chose to shut up.

"I'm sleepy, I want to sleep." Li Su was full and yawned in Li Ye's arms. Li Ye took off his jacket, put it on Li Su's body, and said softly, "Go to sleep. ."

Li Su said, "Good night."

After he finished speaking, he actually closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Lin Banxia was stunned by the side, thinking how this thing that turned into Li Su was less responsible than Alexei, and didn't intend to confuse him at all. Did Che decide to find another suitable time? Although Li Su fell asleep, he didn't dare to sleep, so he and Li Ye sat awkwardly facing the bonfire.

Lin Banxia looked at Li Ye's handsome face in front of the flickering bonfire, and whispered, "How did you meet Li Su?"

Li Ye said: "I was chased by a bear and ran all the way, and happened to meet him."

Lin Banxia said, "Then have you seen Song Qingluo?"

Li Ye shook his head.

Lin Banxia fell silent.

Li Su slept in the middle of the night and only woke up when it was almost dawn. This night, he completely regarded Li Ye as his bed and never changed his posture from beginning to end. Lin Banxia thought about Li Ye's hand. I guess it's already numb. Seeing that Li Su was awake, Li Ye took out the food from the backpack behind him and handed it to Li Su. Li Su glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, but he reached out and knocked it over. He said unpleasantly, "I don't want to eat it, it's bad died."

Lin Banxia was taken aback by Li Su's actions, and did not understand why he did this.

Li Ye was not angry when he was treated like this. Instead, he squatted down and silently picked up the food that Li Su had knocked out. Lin Banxia actually saw a humble taste in him. And this feeling made him once again sure that the person in front of him was definitely not the Li Ye he knew.

But the forest suddenly created two people he knew, what was he trying to do? Lin Banxia was thinking when she heard Li Su say that he was going to cross the river.

"Would you like to come with me?" Li Su looked at Lin Banxia and asked with a smile.

Lin Banxia thought that of course she didn't want it, but she was still very polite, saying that she planned to wait for Song Qingluo here, and then make other plans when she reunited with him.

"Are you really going to wait for Song Qingluo?" Li Su smiled, "So dedicated?" As he spoke, he took out a gun from his backpack, moved his fingers slightly, and loaded the gun. .

Lin Banxia was startled and took a step back: "What are you doing??"

Li Su was still laughing, but at this moment, there was a bit more murderousness in his smile. He raised the corners of his mouth and said playfully, "Of course, thank you for being so dedicated." After saying this, he raised his hand and shot.

Lin Banxia didn't expect that he would suddenly attack, so he ducked to the side and jumped to the ground, only to realize that the target of Li Su's shooting was not himself, but someone who had been standing silently beside him as a slave. Li Ye.

After a gunshot rang out, a huge hole opened in Li Ye's chest, but instead of bright red blood flowing out of it, a large amount of black liquid overflowed. His tall figure began to shrink rapidly, just like Lin Banxia. Like Alexei, he turned into a mass of black mud and merged into the ground beneath his feet.

Seeing Lin Banxia's stunned appearance, Li Su burst out laughing. He walked slowly in front of Lin Banxia, kicked him on the body, and gave Lin Banxia a muffled groan. Lowering his waist, he pressed the still hot muzzle against Lin Banxia's chin, and said with a smile, "Little hamster, go ahead, you are stronger than him, I haven't seen enough."

Lin Banxia was stunned by his series of actions, stared at Li Su with wide eyes for a while without reacting, until he was slapped a few times on the cheek by Li Su's gun, and he said in a daze, "You don't tempt me first. What? Why did you do it directly?? And... and also using a gun, isn't it too much-" What the hell wants him to do.

Li Su frowned: "What did you say?"

Lin Banxia struggled: "Jinzi, you should tempt me with gold, I promise to do better this time—"

Li Su stopped laughing. He leaned in front of Lin Banxia and looked at Lin Banxia with strange eyes. Those eyes made Lin Banxia hairy. He opened his eyes and didn't dare to say a word.

"That's not right." Li Su said, "This is too similar, it stands to reason that there is not that much data..." He read some words that Lin Banxia couldn't understand, "No way, is it really coming? already?"

Lin Banxia said, "What are you talking about?!"

Li Su said, "I want to ask you a question, why don't you move?"

Lin Banxia: "Is this question a little offensive to privacy?"

Li Su: "Don't talk nonsense."

Lin Banxia shed tears of sadness, thinking that Li Su is really not a good person. He usually looks gentle and gentle in front of him, but when he asks questions, he always punishes his heart. He said, "Not yet. because of poverty."

Li Su listened to his answer, his long eyelashes flickered twice, and he smiled again, but this time his smile was much gentler and returned to what Lin Banxia remembered. He stretched out his hand and said, "Isn't it hurt?"

Lin Banxia was confused by his series of actions: "What are you doing? Don't kill me?"

Li Su said, "You seem to be real."

Lin Banxia: "..."

Li Su said, "Are you for real?"

Only then did Lin Banxia understand what he was doing just now. It turned out that Li Su regarded himself as the same thing as Li Ye, so he thought of killing himself with a single shot. Lin Banxia was annoyed by the idea of someone he had seen before, and said, "Nonsense—I still suspect that you are not real!"

"I'll just say why your biscuits are so hungry." Li Su said, "I'm still thinking that they have become more real... Alas." He sighed, "Could it be that Song Qingluo is really being chased by Xiong Blind? Run away? It shouldn't be, shouldn't he be facing the blind bear when he sees him? Why did he run away—"

Lin Banxia had to explain that he was not an ordinary blind bear.

Li Su let out a long, regretful sigh, and that tone didn't sound like he was sorry, but as if he had missed a good show.

Although Li Su had already confirmed Lin Banxia's human identity at this time, Lin Banxia still had some doubts about him, sitting on the ground and leaning back quietly, with a small expression that you don't want to get too close to me Li Su was amused.

"I'm going to get closer to you." Li Su approached with a smile, "Are you going to resist?"

Lin Banxia thought about it for a while, and always felt that Li Su meant someone to be bright with color, but she seemed to be afraid of Song Qingluo, so she said seriously, "I will sue Song Qingluo."

The next moment, Li Su put away his smile and put on his sunglasses and mask silently, and the voice came from the other side of the mask, which sounded dull: "Are you a primary school student? You will sue Song Qingluo - I'm not afraid of him! "

Lin Banxia said, "If it's 0.0, then I'll report it a few more times."

Li Su gave him a thumbs up and said, brother, you are cruel, let's reconcile, I won't tease you anymore, and don't tell Song Qingluo that I bullied you, he really can't afford that dead face.

Hearing his heavy tone, Lin Banxia couldn't help laughing, and said, "Okay, reconcile, but before reconciliation, you have to prove that you are a real human being."

Li Su nodded, took out the gun that had just broken Li Ye, unloaded the bullet, and motioned to Lin Banxia to look, he said, "Look, if I were that thing, wouldn't it be more convenient for you to be shot with one shot? , where do you still need to prove it with you here?"

Lin Banxia felt that what he said made sense.

"So I am you, and you are also a human being." Li Su stretched out his hand to him, "Let's go together temporarily for the next road—you promised not to sue Song Qingluo."

Lin Banxia held Li Su's hand and felt the warm skin in the palm of her hand. The last doubt in her heart was also put aside. He was pulled from the ground by Li Su. The two planned to have a good discussion. The next road, how to go.

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Lin Banxia: Song Qingluo, Li Su won't let me tell you that he called you a dead man behind your back.

Song Qingluo:

Li Su: I was fucking deceived by Lin Banxia's innocent face--