"Jealousy makes people blind..." Lin Huai put the ax on the ground.
He squatted down slowly, stroking the ground with his fingers.
"Jealousy blinds people, so," he whispered, raising his hands to cover his eyes.
He had been holding the ax with one hand just now, and even if the blood splashed on his face, he only wiped it with one hand, and he didn't feel any difference.
However, at this moment, after knowing the answer...
He touched the direction of the eyelids with both hands, unexpectedly, or not unexpectedly, what he touched was not the soft eyelids, but...
A pair of cold hands.
A pair of cold hands always covered his eyes and always followed him.
Only when he knows the answer can he touch the answer.
"You are in my eyes." Lin Huai said slowly.
He grabbed back along those hands, which were cold and had long fingers. As his own arm twisted and touched the other's arm—
Suddenly he heard a burst of singing.
"you are my eye-"
"Take me through the changing seasons—"
Lin Huai: ...
The corridors on both sides disappeared, and Lin Huai turned around. He saw Chu Tianshu standing in front of him smiling.
—still whistling.
Lin Huai: ...
"You solved the mystery first?!" Lin Huai asked him in disbelief.
"That's right." Chu Tianshu put the key in his hand and tossed it, "Then I took her place."
Lin Huai: ...
"It's unscientific." Lin Huai murmured, "How could you be faster than me..."
Chu Tianshu said: "Although I don't want to admit the adjective 'fast', it's probably because I don't have the habit of pretending to be a weak little girl and walking and killing all the way."
Lin Huai: ...
Well, he admits he wasted too much time trying to trick residents into opening their doors.
"Then how did you find it?" Lin Huai asked.
Chu Tianshu thought for a while, then smiled and said to him: "Because I was afraid that I would not be able to solve the mystery while walking on the road, so I..."
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu: "I cried anxiously, and then wiped my tears with both hands... Hey! Come back!"
Lin Huai was pulled back by Chu Tianshu's hat. Lin Huaixu looked at him, Chu Tianshu shrugged, spread his hands and said, "Your boyfriend is a little genius in solving puzzles."
Lin Huai: "Bend down."
Chu Tianshu bent down, Lin Huai grabbed his collar and kissed him on the mouth.
"It's a girlfriend now." He blinked.
Chu Tianshu: ...
Chu Tianshu hummed a song and ran away with Lin Huai on his back. Lin Huai leaned on his shoulder and asked him, "Where's the witch?"
"Witch?" Chu Tianshu said, "Why do you ask her?"
Lin Huai: "I hold a grudge very much. I want to take revenge on this guy who forced me to play shame."
Chu Tianshu thought for a while and said, "It's being nailed on the sewing machine."
Lin Huai: "..."
Chu Tianshu: "I don't know how many needles have arrived..."
The rabbit died and the fox was sad, Lin Huai silently mourned for this hapless ghost in his heart. Being carried on Chu Tianshu's back, he suddenly said, "I want to go back to the mirror to see the witch's perspective."
Chu Tianshu looked back at him: "No need."
"Why not? Oh you..."
Lin Huaixu watched Chu Tianshu take out the mirror from some package.
Lin Huai: "You are very poor."
Chu Tianshu raised his head and made a smoking motion: "I'm very good at collecting."
... In all fairness, Chu Tianshu was originally handsome, but now this woman's appearance is even more beautiful. Even the action of raising her head and pretending to smoke is like a lazy and mysterious peerless beauty.
But his frugality often makes people overlook his beauty.
Lin Huai shut up and did not speak. He looked at the magic mirror, which reflected all the scenes in the maze.
Suddenly, he yelled: "It seems that someone was injured."
Chu Tianshu looked down. In the mirror, a girl in a black cloak was covered in blood, while a woman in a gray skirt was holding a blood-stained knife and walking towards her with a smile.
"Hey," Chu Tianshu lazily said, "Old acquaintance."
When the woman in gray was only one step away from the girl in the black cloak, the girl in the black cloak gritted her teeth as if to crush something.
Then, her figure disappeared into the mirror.
"Escaped."
"What old acquaintance?" Lin Huai leaned on his shoulder and looked inside, "Which one is the old acquaintance?"
Chu Tianshu said: "Both are."
Lin Huai frowned, and after a while, he suddenly realized: "Oh, it's that..."
Chu Tianshu: "Xia."
Lin Huai: "A profiteer called Xia Yuhe."
Chu Tianshu: "That's Xia Xingye."
Lin Huai shrugged: "I usually don't have any deep memories of these irrelevant people, oh, Xia Xingye? It's finally his turn to be tricked by others this time?"
Lin Huai had no sympathy for Xia Xingye. Leaving aside Xia Xingye's calculations against him when he was in Minghua Middle School, even when they met again in the civilized world, he and him were at best a friend and foe. And with Xia Xingye's character, when he encountered the current scene, even he himself would only say: "Skills are not as good as others, so let's bow down."
And the other person... Lin Huai stared at the woman in gray for a long time, but couldn't find the slightest trace of familiarity on her face.
Lin Huai: "Is this also someone I knew before?"
Chu Tianshu withdrew his gaze from the gray-clothed woman's face, and lazily replied: "Yes."
"Oh," Lin Huai was thinking, seeing Chu Tianshu's unwavering expression, he said, "It seems that this person had a very close relationship with me before."
Chu Tianshu: "Yes."
Lin Huai: "Maybe I had conflicts with you before."
Chu Tianshu: "Yes."
Lin Huai: "Could it be my suitor?"
Chu Tianshu: ...
"In a sense," Chu Tianshu said, "but he is a complete pervert."
Lin Huai: "Then I can rest assured."
Chu Tianshu: "Don't worry... no, why are you worried??"
Lin Huai: "If it's just a pervert, he must still be inferior to me. But how did I offend him?"
After Lin Huai said this, he felt something was wrong again: "Tsk, forget it, it's normal for me to offend him no matter what."
The woman in gray in the mirror pulled a puppet out of the mirror on the other side. It turned out that she had been holding invisible silk threads in her hand—and these silk threads were also tools for her to guide the way.
Lin Huai watched this scene with interest: "Is she a puppeteer?"
Chu Tianshu said: "Yes."
"Puppeteer, I'm really interested..." Lin Huai rubbed his chin, "I really want to know..."
Chu Tianshu glanced at him.
Lin Huai: "I really want to break her joints to see if they are human joints or spherical joints. I heard that some puppeteers can combine dolls into one... Tsk, what's the matter with your expression?"
Chu Tianshu shrugged at him, whistled and said, "Now you know how you offended him before."
Lin Huai still stared at the mirror, studying the direction of the puppeteer's joints. The puppeteer tidied up the silk thread in his hand, as if he had never heard of it.
But the next moment...
In the mirror, the woman in gray suddenly raised her head, and looked at Lin Huai through the mirror!
He saw a pair of extremely strange eyes, bright, cheerful, and even full of smiles—not like a betrayer who just started fighting with his teammates, but like a happy and hearty young man.
But those eyes are fixed on Lin Huai's direction at this moment, as if...
It was as if he knew exactly who was watching him here!
Then, he slowly smiled at Lin Huai on the side of the mirror.
It was a poisonous spider-like smile, just one glance made Lin Huai extremely disgusted.
Chu Tianshu put the mirror back into his bag, and he said to the silent Lin Huai lying on his shoulder, "This man is very strong."
Lin Huai: "Yes."
Chu Tianshu: "Even if it's me, I'm not completely sure of meeting him."
Lin Huai: "Yes."
Chu Tianshu: "So, what are you thinking now?"
"I was thinking," Lin Huai blinked at him, "he must not know that I have become shorter and a girl now."
"and then?"
"I'm still thinking, do the things before the memory loss still count? I checked him once before the memory loss." Lin Huai said, "I heard that there is a term called repeated experiments, so now..."
"I want to try it a second time."
Chu Tianshu did not answer for a long time. When Lin Huai was thinking about whether he thought he was too arrogant, he finally heard Chu Tianshu's reply:
"You sound like a villain."
Lin Huai: ...
"The witch thinks so too." He grinned at Chu Tianshu.
Then, thinking for a while, he said, "I hate him when I see him."
Chu Tianshu: "? Is it because the memories from the past remain?"
Lin Huai: "No."
Chu Tianshu: "Then did you feel that you liked me when you first met me?"
Lin Huai: ...
He finally said solemnly: "Because only I have the right to look at the mirror and pretend to be the person opposite the mirror. So where are we going now?"
"Go to the next country."
"Gluttony, laziness, jealousy, where is the next country?"
"Greedy." Chu Tianshu looked at the map and said.
…
Lin Huai woke up in a strange hall.
The moment he opened his eyes, he was a little dazed. He didn't see his hands until he lowered his head.
——still slender, belonging to the girl's hands.
"I'm still in the copy?"
Lin Huai's head throbbed faintly. He vaguely remembered that he and Chu Tianshu should have left the maze of mirrors, took the key, and walked towards the kingdom of "greed".
And saw a destroyed pumpkin carriage on the road.
and then
Then, how did he get here
Lin Huai looked around, and all he could see were many boxes—many, many, all kinds of boxes. There are different signs on the box, and Lin Huai looked carefully, only to find that it was actually a sign of playing cards.
"Welcome to the kingdom of greed," said an emotionless voice in the sky, "in the kingdom of greed, everything follows the rule of equal value exchange."
Lin Huai looked at the sky, but he didn't find who made the sound.
"The rules of equivalent exchange?"
"In this country, everything is not free. If you want to get something, you have to exchange something of equivalent value—of course, the exchange rules are made by me." The voice in the air said flatly, "An apple is exchanged for an apple. Bananas, a piece of clothing for a piece of food, of course you want to get out of here—”
"We should also exchange it with something of equivalent value."
"And every breath you take."
From that moment on, Lin Huai strangled her own neck.
He found that he was starting to lose oxygen!