Mu Qin woke up in front of a huge European-style carved mahogany door.
The wooden door is engraved with a strange sign of a snake wrapped around a cross. The combination of diamond-shaped glass with different colors seems to have a common meaning of religion and death, and it looks familiar.
Behind this door seems to be a large church-like building, with a European-style appearance, white walls and red roofs, like a small castle.
Mu Qin woke up standing up, which is very strange. Because he should have lost consciousness, and should be lying on the ground dripping with blood. In any case, how could he wake up "standing" when he was unconscious
Mu Qin didn't have time to figure this out, he soon felt a gust of wind blowing on him, making goosebumps all over his body, he shivered uncontrollably, raised his head to look around, and found himself in a very dilapidated courtyard inside.
The kind of courtyard with towering walls and iron gates, the tops of the walls and iron gates have sharp corners and barbed wire anti-intrusion settings, which can not only prevent outsiders from entering, but also prevent insiders from going out.
The courtyard is not big, and it can only touch the area of two basketball courts by visual inspection. In the yard, there are several dead trees and flower beds full of weeds, as well as some equipment for children to play, slides, sand pits, etc. There are also swings.
But these things are so old, dusty, leafy, moldy, and stank of decay.
It seems to be a courtyard that has not been taken care of and patronized for a long time.
Mu Qin looked up at the sky, the sky was gray, but it wasn't night, it was just very dark, with no sunlight... It was gray and full of dark clouds. It is the kind of dark clouds that are ready to go to a storm, the clouds are very low, and the air is filled with a depressive taste. This storm is destined to be very manic, able to wash away everything that is dirty.
Mu Qin didn't know how he appeared here, his memory only stayed in the moment when the truck roared towards him, and then he could feel the coldness and darkness, and the blood in his body slowly flowing out. Tactile... death experience like never before.
If I survived the car accident, I should be in the hospital.
Thinking like this, Mu Qin looked at the dilapidated and desolate courtyard around him... instead of being in this kind of weird place everywhere.
What's even more strange is that there didn't seem to be any scars on my body, no wounds, and it was completely intact.
Mu Qin touched his face and torso. He found that he was wearing a gray prisoner's clothing, a gray shirt and gray trousers. The trousers had two pockets, but the clothes had no pockets. On his feet are a pair of old-fashioned cloth shoes, which remind Mu Qin of the cloth shoes issued by the school during military training when he was a student.
It's not my clothes, it's not my shoes... did someone change my clothes? While thinking, Mu Qin fumbled for his clothes. He found something in the only two trouser pockets... probably something that the person who left him here put in his pocket.
A... tarot card
Muqin read it right, it was a tarot card with the image of "The Fool" painted on it, a young man carrying a package and walking on the edge of a cliff with a dog.
This image seems to be much more refined than the traditional tarot cards. The picture is beautiful and the color is soft. The people on the image are lifelike and their robes are flying. It is like the exquisite game original painting in some online games. It caters to the aesthetics of contemporary young people. trend.
The bottom of the image is written in English: 0, The Fool.
"The Fool?" Mu Qin said to himself while holding the card. He didn't know much about Tarot cards, but he had heard from someone who said that the first card of the Tarot cards, zero, meant the beginning. It might be someone in the company. He inadvertently remembered a casual sentence from a little girl who was obsessed with horoscope divination.
Mu Qin took a closer look at the card again, and saw nothing unusual except for the amazingly exquisite picture of the Fool on the card, so Mu Qin turned the Tarot card over and found that the back was a dark blue The image of a pentagram faintly reveals against the background of the colorful starry sky, and there are a few lines of beautiful small characters printed on it.
Fortunately, it is in Chinese, because Mu Qin's English is not very good, it is written like this—
The journey of adventure has just begun, and the abyss of death is in sight.
Are you ready to start or finish
PS: This card can increase your luck.
"What do you mean?" After reading these few lines, Mu Qin felt more and more baffled. He checked the card twice and found it was useless. Put it back in your pocket.
Then Mu Qin began to explore the surrounding environment.
The courtyard was too dark, and Muqin didn’t intend to look at the dilapidated swings, slides, and sand pits. His goal was on the largest iron gate in the courtyard, and he could vaguely see the outside through the iron gate’s railing. The scene, with an asphalt road and a dense forest.
Can I go out
Mu Qin thought while looking at the iron gate, he stepped towards that door, Mu Qin still wanted to go out, because he felt that this place made him feel very strange, and he didn't want to push the carved door behind him. The door of the strange allegory of the snake wrapped around the cross.
But when Mu Qin walked through the courtyard, walked through the paths covered with rotten branches and leaves, and walked to the iron gate in the center of the courtyard, Mu Qin found a huge iron lock hanging on the gate, and the iron lock was rusty. Ban Ban, Mu Qin stretched out his hand and shook it twice, the iron lock and the iron door made a crisp crashing sound.
It was locked tightly.
After checking the lock, Mu Qin thought so. He raised his head to observe the whole big iron gate. It is impossible to climb over the iron gate and climb over it.
Just when Mu Qin was thinking about the iron door, a voice suddenly sounded from behind him: "Who is where?"
The sudden sound made Mu Qin tremble all over. He immediately turned around and found a tall man standing on the path at the other end of the courtyard. Because of the dim sky and lack of light, Mu Qin could only vaguely see the man wearing clothes. The clothes... are the same as the clothes on Mu Qin.
The same gray clothes and gray trousers.
It made Mu Qin feel a little weird.
Although Muqin didn't know what to answer, he still had a conversation with this strange man. He raised his hands to indicate that it was friendly that he didn't have a weapon. Muqin said, "Hello...that, do you know where this is?"
The man on the opposite side stood silently on the path for a moment, and answered Mu Qin: "I don't know where this is, but you should come with me."
"Come with you?" Mu Qin had some doubts about this sentence.
The man continued: "Someone knows what's going on now, just follow me, we can't get out anyway."
can not go out? Mu Qin was even more confused when he heard it. For him, this situation was very strange. He appeared in a strange and strange place, and a strange and strange man appeared, and told himself to follow him.
"Did you bring me to this place?" Although Mu Qin was full of doubts, he still walked towards the other party. This place is too dark and the surroundings are too dilapidated. It is not a safe place for exploration. It's a good place, and Mu Qin doesn't want to explore it.
And the sky was very dark, it looked like it was going to rain and it was getting dark, Mu Qin didn't want to stay in a weird place on a dark and cold rainy night. So following the man in front of him seemed to be his only choice.
Mu Qin questioned the man in an attempt to get more information from him. Whether it was kidnapping or trafficking, Mu Qin felt that he could face it calmly.
But he never expected that the other party would answer him like this: "I have no ability to bring you here. In fact, I also appeared here as soon as I opened my eyes for no reason... Maybe the god of death brought us here."
This answer made Mu Qin a little dazed for a moment, he stopped for a moment and then walked up again, getting closer, Mu Qin finally had a slight glimpse of the face of the man in front of him.
This is a man who looks to be about 30 to 40 years old. He is about 1.78 meters tall and has a Chinese character face. Doesn't look like a nice person.
"My name is Cheng Guoxu." Seeing Mu Qin approaching, the man introduced himself to Mu Qin, "I'm a factory worker...the kind of factory that makes children's toys."
Cheng Guoxu's voice was a bit hoarse, like the kind of voice that slowly recovered after losing his voice, which made Mu Qin uncomfortable, but Mu Qin still replied politely: "My name is...Mu Qin, I am an ordinary company employee , the kind that does sales to run performance."
After the two briefly introduced each other, they had nothing to say. Cheng Guoxu seemed to be a relatively reserved and introverted person, and Mu Qin was not good at chatting with such people, especially when they were both wary of each other.
He began to follow Cheng Guoxu. Cheng Guoxu did not take him to push the door next to the snake-wrapped cross. Instead, he walked through a quiet path next to the wall in the courtyard, and then came to a In front of the building of the apartment building.
The weather became darker, and the air was filled with a damp smell, and the dark clouds were still floating heavily above the two of them. Mu Qin thought that the rain would fall quickly, but the dark clouds floating in the sky seemed not in a hurry.
The surrounding area was very quiet, and Mu Qin seemed to hear small noises in the grass, which made Mu Qin look vigilantly at the place where the sound came from, but it was too dark there, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
"This seems to be an orphanage." At this time, Cheng Guoxu had already led Mu Qin through the lobby of the apartment building, the corridor to the left on the first floor, and then pushed open a door marked 'management room', signaling Mu Qin to enter .
After hesitating for a moment, Mu Qin went in. After entering, he found that the so-called management room should be an office, which is not big, with a few desks, chairs and bookcases, and there are several people standing inside.
It was three complete strangers, plus Mu Qin and Cheng Guoxu, there were a total of five people standing in this small office.
Perhaps seeing Mu Qin brought by Cheng Guoxu, among the three strangers, a tall man about 1.88 meters tall stood up, looked at Mu Qin and said, "There is another newcomer."
Mu Qin became even more confused, and asked, "Who are you? Did you bring me here?"