"What if I say that I originally thought that handling things in this way was... interesting?"
It was dim in the Fu residence before dawn. Yu Rongshi looked against the light from the blind spot and only saw the slightly upturned corners of Yi Wan's lips.
Yi Wan is smiling.
He had never seen Yi Wan smile.
Yi Wan was always calm and composed in front of him and everyone else. He was like a lamb docile to the world, or an emotionless puppet following the background. Whether begging for love in the variety show, defeating Jiang Bei, saving Qin Xuexin, or standing under the starry sky with him... Yi Wan never smiled.
But now he smiled.
Like a cunning candy that finally tore open its own wrapper, the candy wrapper could contain cotton or a conspiracy. Perhaps out of affection, or perhaps more out of temptation, Yi Wan tore open a little of the wrapper and showed him the inside.
What is wrapped in the candy wrapper may not be sweetness, but gloom. Yu Rongshi paused.
He spoke amid the chaotic screams and running in the Fu residence, his voice gentle, full of understanding and tolerance: "Under the circumstances at the time, the ways you could deal with the scene in front of you were indeed limited, so..."
"I did it on purpose."
Yi Wan said it once.
His eyes passed through the blind spot and reached the corridor of Fu's house.
The low-key and luxurious carpet was soaked with water stains from the water ghost. Fu Qisheng could no longer point at it and show off his taste for a pair of gray-dyed leather shoes or sneakers, claiming: "It is pure hand-woven in Italy."
The bright crystal partition windows were covered with bloody handprints of struggle, and the expensive sculptures that Fu Qisheng was proud of were now just casually overturned on the ground... The mansion that originally showed the owner's low-key luxury taste everywhere has now become a paradise for ghosts. The elegance and refinement that once belonged to Mr. Fu are now gone here.
Yi Wan then reached out to Yu Rongshi's arm.
"I am very happy to see this house become a paradise for ghosts."
He lowered the first finger.
"I saw the staff and the stars being chased by ghosts. The original set was changed to another set. I saw all the chaos, but I was very happy."
He lowered his second finger.
"When I saw Fu Qisheng lose all face, when I saw Ding Xihan being deceived by me, when I saw him identify a mansion that had nothing to do with a haunted house and belonged to Mr. Fu as a haunted house, and when I saw him make up a conspiracy about sacrifice and borrowing corpses to express souls that was related to his story..."
He lowered his third finger.
"I think it's very interesting," he said calmly.
The fourth finger did not drop for a long time. Yu Rongshi lowered his head and stared at Yi Wan. At that moment, he finally saw the turbulent waves beneath the calm water.
Maybe it wasn't the waves under the water, but the underground river in the cave, Yu Rong thought. The underground river surrounded by white stalactites was peaceful and beautiful, but mysterious and unpredictable, and made him subconsciously feel...
be terrified.
"Of course I know that there are more ways in this world that can help me solve this problem, prevent Fu Qisheng and An Yelin from getting back together, and avoid the disbanding of Iris5. I can notify Brother Liu and call you or him in advance." Yi Wan continued, "But I really don't care who An Yelin will date in his next life, nor do I care what kind of person he will fall in love with. But the only thing I can't accept is that there are people who regard the fate of me and the group as the one that can be manipulated, distorted, and sacrificed at will in the story. That's why I took action."
Yu Rongshi lowered his eyes and looked at Yi Wan. He was in a trance for a moment. At that moment, he thought he saw another self.
But there was no cold, sharp glass in Yi Wan's eyes. He told a story about himself, but his expression was calm and indifferent, like an ordinary storyteller. His eyes were not ice that blocked the broken glass, but a dark river that flowed calmly.
There is a difference between a dark river and glass.
Yu Rongshi wanted to know that area.
There was a commotion in Fu's house, and a special agent disguised as a staff member entered Fu's house to finish the job. They had a secret conversation in the dark corridor. Everyone only saw the intensity and chaos in the mansion, and was unaware of the unknown corners.
"So, it seems that you don't want to ask me for help." Yu Rongshi said, "Why?"
“Because it’s not fun.”
"Why isn't it interesting?"
"Or, you can say this - even if you made a phone call and prevented them from meeting once or twice, the story will still be the same. To them, you are just a villain or a supporting role in the story that prevents them from getting back together. The story may still end happily after more misunderstandings and separations. Or, the story may end beautifully in a bad way. One of the two will wake up and eventually separate, each doing well and returning home."
Yu Rongshi vaguely felt that he had touched a thread. Following the thread, he would be able to enter the ball of cotton and eventually catch its core.
"That might be an ending that many people would accept and like." Yu Rongshi said softly, "If their only wish is to separate the two of them—"
"But it's still the same story." Yi Wan said, "A story with a sadomasochistic love as its theme, a story that is complex and entangled without having to care about the outcome or result of the other side. And I—"
"Don't like that story."
…
The people in charge of cleaning up completed the "cleaning" of the first, second and third floors at the fastest speed. They collected all the ghosts in the room with extremely delicate techniques and imprisoned them all in the mirrors specially used by the Unnatural Bureau to collect ghosts.
They were like a well-trained army in the dark. After completing their mission, they quietly took off their camouflage clothes and disappeared into the night.
At the same time, Chi Jixia in the room on the third floor finally succumbed to Bo Jiang's questioning.
Fifteen minutes, a crudely made dream, made him lose a layer of vest in front of Bo Jiang. Fortunately, Bo Jiang probably didn't read popular literature, and didn't know about quick wear and golden fingers. He just looked at Chi Jixia suspiciously, thinking that he might be possessed by a ghost in his dream.
Chi Jixia had no way to explain to him. He was so anxious that he wanted to run out right now. He was not anxious to go out and subdue the ghosts - but to try out the new skills he had learned in his dream.
Speaking of which, this new inspiration to learn skills in dreams was brought to him by Yi Wan. The experience of being a mermaid in "Green Tracks" left Chi Jixia with a deep psychological shadow and personal experience.
Speaking of which…
I wonder what Yi Wan is doing now
Chi Jixia suddenly felt a bit of anticipation in his heart, this anticipation came from letting Yi Wan see him bravely catching ghosts.
He used some nonsense like "I dreamt about my past life as an exorcist in the villa and it was like traveling from ancient times to modern times" to evade Bo Jiang. But to his surprise, Bo Jiang actually remained silent.
"Bo Jiang is easier to fool than I thought." Chi Jixia grabbed a stick and used it as a peach wood sword, and opened the door. "Speaking of the name of the movie we just traveled through, what is it called? Time was urgent, and I didn't have time to import memories and character images. I only imported character skills, practiced them, and left."
System: "It seems to be called "The Last Dynasty of Zhou Dynasty", which tells the story of the Bo Dynasty that collapsed a thousand years ago. You just played the role of a priest in the movie, and also the son of the martyred prince Bo Mingjiang..."
Chi Jixia: "Uncle?"
System: “… No, Third Grandpa.”
Chi Jixia: …
System: "You said it. If you want to wear it, wear the most powerful priest in the story."
Chi Jixia: "… , I said that."
System: "Although there are ghosts in this movie, there are no ghosts in history. However, the screenwriter of this fantasy movie has done sufficient research, and the characters he created are extremely consistent with historical facts..."
Chi Jixia pushed open the door amid the system's nonsense. Bo Jiang looked at his back, pursed her lips, and followed him.
He stared at Chi Jixia's every move, feeling inexplicably emotional. From just now until now... Chi Jixia, who had just woken up from his dream, had always given him a very strange feeling.
It felt like they had known each other for a long time. He looked at Chi Jixia running in the corridor with a stick in his hand, and inexplicably felt that he looked energetic and radiant.
Chi Jixia ran for a long time with his homemade compass and sword, and finally drew his sword and looked around in confusion - it seemed that in the time he had slept, all the ghosts in the Fu residence disappeared without a trace. He sat on the bed, unwilling to give up, and used the compass to look at the direction of the ghosts. Bo Jiang stood beside him, and felt that Chi Jixia suddenly became older.
Bo Jiang couldn't explain what he felt in his heart, he only knew that the embarrassed Chi Jixia at the moment made him feel...
The desire to lift him up, to help him down the stairs, across the street.
"It's so strange, where did all the ghosts go? If they wanted to run away, they didn't tell me earlier. I learned it in vain." Chi Jixia obviously didn't notice Bo Jiang's desire. He kept muttering to the system in his mind, "Then I lost this trip! That world is so scary..."
"Not a loss." The system comforted, "If you want to show Yi Wan your skills, you can just pull him into that dream world and show off in front of him..."
Chi Jixia: "Damn, who cares about Yi Wan?"
"Yi Wan?"
Chi Jixia only realized that he had said the last word. Bo Jiang stood behind him, waiting for his answer without blinking.
Bo Jiang sometimes makes me feel a little scared. He is handsome, but also gentle and cold. But sometimes when he stands, I always feel that there is a ghost standing there, not a living person.
Chi Jixia laughed it off, trying to fool him. But soon he heard Bo Jiang say, "I remember when we first met after the reunion, you said that compared to Ding Xihan, who had only worked with Yi Wan for seven days, you had been with Yi Wan for more than a month, so you were more familiar with him. But I checked your resume, and it's impossible for you to have had the opportunity to spend a month with him in advance."
"Brother Jiang, why are you asking so many questions all of a sudden?" Chi Jixia put away the mess in front of him and tried to fool him. He suddenly had an idea and said half jokingly and half truthfully, "Maybe I met him in a dream."
"In a dream?" Bo Jiang said, "Is it like what you just said, a dream of past and present lives?"
Chi Jixia was very pleased: "It's great that you think so."
Bo Jiang: …
Is Yi Wan someone Chi Jixia knew in her previous life
Chi Jixia put away his things. Perhaps because he was immersed in the play, his steps were still a little unsteady. When he went downstairs, Bo Jiang looked at his back and was shocked.
That habitual movement of holding the escalator.
The cough that subconsciously covered the mouth and nose.
The little habit of rubbing the five fingers of my left hand...
—The image of a man with gray hair, staggering steps, powerful but kind appeared in my mind. The man's facial features were no longer clear due to the erosion of time, but his every move and every little action were still vivid in my mind.
No…
"Third...Grandpa?"
Bo Jiang was struck by lightning. A series of questions flashed through his mind.
Why did he feel that Chi Jixia looked like his third grandfather
And Chi Jixia said that he dreamed of the memories of his past life...
Bo Jiang: ! !
At that moment, he suddenly felt that he had discovered something extremely terrifying.
…
Second floor, surveillance blind spot.
The group that was dealing with the ghosts had already left. Yu Rongshi turned off the vibrating phone in his trouser pocket and continued to look at Yi Wan.
Yi Wan looked at him, his eyes dark and his expression indifferent.
"Even if it changes from a happy ending to a bad ending, the changes and the final ending still exist within the scope of the decision of that 'will'. They did not get rid of the story, but followed the theme of the story and walked into another fork of the story line with the same type of thinking. You will think that you have won and defeated fate, but in fact you have not. What you get from your interference is just another branch of the story. And I." Yi Wan's tone was flat, but his speed was getting faster and faster, "I don't want that boring story to continue. So..."
“I did an experiment.”
"I replaced his story with Ding Han's. The result was very interesting. I liked it very much and was very happy."
Yu Rong looked at him in silence. Yi Wan's logic and reason were clear when he spoke, and his voice was calm and gentle. But the glimmer reflected by the dark river in his eyes made it hard not to think that he was either a god watching from the sidelines.
Or a sane madman.
"I set up that formation by imitating Ding Xihan. Many wandering ghosts were recruited into this mansion - I didn't expect that what Ding Xihan gave would be so useful." Yi Wan tilted his head and said, "It's difficult for me to see ghosts. But fortunately, their lethality is not too high. Teacher Yu -"
"If someone gets hurt because of this, would you think it's a bad thing?"
His voice was soft and light, but his eyes were dark. Yu Rongshi did not move his hand from his arm. Instead, he pressed Yi Wan's fourth finger with his palm, letting it fall on his arm as well.
He pressed Yi Wan's hand and wrapped it in his own palm. Yi Wan watched his movements in silence, and heard Yu Rongshi say: "Have you ever considered that you will also be hurt by the summoned ghost?"
The words are strange, inappropriate, but soothing.
Yi Wan shook his head.
Yu Rongshi was about to say something, but heard Yi Wan quietly say: "However, isn't it also the program team's responsibility to protect our guests?"
—The task of the program team, that is, his task as the deputy director of the program team.
—Well, he took that into consideration.
Yu Rongshi didn't know why he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He originally hated the abuse of the golden finger by the "male and female protagonists" in real life, but Yi Wan's actions were unexpectedly not annoying to him.
This feeling of not knowing whether to laugh or cry diluted the sharp sense of danger, vigilance, displeasure and helplessness. They mixed together and eventually fermented into an extremely complex emotion.
The underground river is very dangerous.
He thought.
Yu Rongshi lowered his eyes and looked at Yi Wan, considering his words, and then...
"Teacher Yu."
"Um?"
"There are four hours left, which is nine o'clock in the morning. According to the program team's procedures, we should sit together in the living room at nine o'clock in the morning and complete the reasoning about the past of the Fu family before eleven o'clock in the morning, right?" Yi Wan lowered his eyes and said, "Have you thought about who will be the winner of the first episode?"
"… "
"Wang Zhizhu is imprisoned, Zhao Ge signed Mr. Fu's contract privately, the female writer has no idea what's going on, An Yelin is busy with his own affairs, Bo Jiang and Chi Jixia try hard but don't know where the ghosts come from, and as for Ding Xinhan... he has already believed a 'logically rigorous' story, so he can't make up a second one." Yi Wan said, "I guess you want a scientific answer rather than a metaphysical one. Mr. Yu, who do you think is suitable to reveal the truth about this Fu's house? "
He took a rare breath in surprise because Yu Rongshi pinched his wrist.
"Is this also part of your plan?" Yu Rongshi said.
Yi Wan covered his wrist and smiled silently.
"... We should have a good talk, but not now." After a moment, Yu Rongshi turned his head and said, "After this variety show is over, we will find a time... to have a good talk."
He lowered his eyelashes and smiled, "If you want."
—Yu Rongshi seemed to be in a bad mood. Was he unhappy because he felt he had been cheated
Yi Wan thought.
But he did not regret his probing behavior. Sooner or later, there would be a showdown between him and Yu Rongshi.
As early as in the theater of "Rao Tianchou", when Yi Wan saw Yu Rong's experience through Baidu Encyclopedia, he had already included him in a separate list.
—To live a peaceful life requires a lot of effort.
Yi Wan lowered his eyes and thought so in his heart.
He followed Yu Rongshi out of the blind spot of the surveillance camera, but unexpectedly bumped into several people. The leader was Chi Jixia. For some reason, he looked very unhappy and his steps were a little unsteady.
On the other side walked Bo Jiang, Zhao Gege, a female writer, and his staff whom they met on the way. Zhao Gege was frightened and his eyes were dazed. He closed his eyes and muttered something, as if he was praying.
"Deputy Director Yu, why are you here too?"
The female writer noticed Yu Rongshi walking behind Yi Wan at a glance. Even though she was in the haunted house full of dangers, she couldn't help but blush a little.
While she was delighted to see her idol, the female writer had a question.
Why do Yu Rongshi and Yi Wan look like... they walked out of the same place
He looked at Yi Wan, then at Yu Rongshi. The writer's talent made him forget his fear of the haunted house and instead he became interested in the gossip between the creatures. The strange combination and scene reminded him of a rumor from some time ago.
Yu Rongshi went to a charity auction with Yi Wan and Qin Xuexin, but bought Bo Jiang's calligraphy work for one million yuan.
Several gossip protagonists were around. The female writer turned her eyes to Bo Jiang, and then...
Female writer: ?
Did you see Bo Jiang looking at Chi Jixia with a strange look
That look was definitely not love, nor was it appreciation. It was a mixture of nostalgia, doubt, questioning, admiration, and a slight…
Be careful.
Female writer:
Before the female writer could sort out the suddenly complicated interpersonal relationships, she had already heard Yu Rongshi begin to naturally introduce the situation: "The situation in the western-style building was a bit complicated just now. Several staff members and I went in to check it out, and we happened to run into Yi Wan. Since everyone is here now, let's all meet up on the first floor."
"Deputy Director Yu." A staff member immediately said, "Regarding the matter of Wang the host..."
"We have called the police for Wang. The police car is at the foot of the mountain. There are no street lights on the mountain. It will probably take dozens of minutes to arrive." Yu Rongshi said, "Everyone, please wait on the first floor for a while."
When they heard that the police were coming, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. An ordinary haunted house adventure was turned into a horror story that combined haunting, melodrama, family disputes, kidnapping and murder. Almost everyone couldn't figure out what happened.
Several staff members huddled behind the crowd, and went downstairs trembling with fear. When passing a cupboard, Yi Wan pointed and said, "It seems like something is moving in that cupboard."
"What the hell?!"
As soon as the words came out, several people whose sensitive nerves were touched began to scream. Only the surveillance camera in the corridor detected the sound in the room and turned to Yi Wan.
Yi Wan reached out and opened the cupboard. After seeing the woman in the bloodstained white dress in the cupboard, everyone shouted again.
“Ghost, ghost!!”
"There's a ghost in the cupboard!"
The "female" ghost in the cupboard also let out a heart-wrenching scream after seeing everyone. Finally, the "ghost" trembled and said in a rough voice: "Foreman? The foreman is not here, right? I haven't seen you for a long time, so I hid in the room to play with my phone for a while, but you can deduct my salary!"
Everyone realized that the "female" ghost was actually a man in disguise. He was wearing a fake mask and two noise-isolating headphones on his ears. The 5v5 battlefield on the phone screen was exciting and exciting. It seemed that he had been squatting in a cabinet playing for more than an hour.
No wonder he couldn't hear the noise outside.
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. At this moment, Yi Wan stepped forward and spoke into the camera.
"My reasoning is complete. So this is the truth about this haunted house. All the ghosts are pretended by actors. All the supernatural events are traps set up in the Fu mansion. Everything is done by the owner of the Fu mansion - Fu Qisheng."
Yi Wan led everyone to walk in Fu's house. He pushed open the window to let everyone see the sliding track outside the window, tore off the wallpaper to let everyone see the entrance behind the wallpaper, and lifted the sofa cloth to let everyone see the jet air conditioner installed under the sofa.
The mechanism that Fu Qisheng set up to "pursue" An Yelin has now become the scapegoat for all the supernatural events. After showing how to use several mechanisms, the few people who have not been bribed by Fu Qisheng began to shudder.
"What the hell?" Chi Jixia muttered, "I was just saying that when I was sitting on the sofa, my ankles felt so cold..."
As he was talking, he felt that Bo Jiang was staring at him, with a look of concern for the bones of old age. Chi Jixia didn't understand what she meant, and just felt puzzled.
Yi Wan pulled out a crumpled contract from his pocket: "And the purpose that prompted him to do all this is..."
Singer Zhao's face turned pale, and he obviously didn't know when his things came into Yi Wan's hands. An Yelin's name was not written on the contract, it only said that Mr. Fu was pursuing someone, and hoped that Singer Zhao would give directions and help cooperate.
The camera faithfully recorded the black and white words on the contract. Yi Wan paused and said, "And now, I suspect that the person that Mr. Fu is pursuing and intends to imprison is..."