Standing on the crowded bus, Zhuo Ran was very tangled in his heart. After thinking about it for a long time, he finally turned off his phone, got out of the bus with the compass in his arms, and directly transferred to the station.

Zhuo Ran brought some cash with him, went to the bus station to buy a ticket and went straight home. During this period, the phone was not turned on again, just to prevent Wu Ji from looking for him.

Zhuo's mother didn't expect Zhuo Ran to run back suddenly without saying a word. The doorbell rang at almost eight o'clock in the evening. Zhuo's mother was fighting the landlord with her mobile phone.

Zhuo's father asked through the door, and was a little dazed when he heard Zhuo Ran's voice. He didn't come back to his senses until he opened the door and saw his son's face.

"Why did you come back suddenly? What happened?" Zhuo's father frowned and asked him.

Zhuo Ran escaped like fleeing famine along the way. Although it was impossible until it was impossible, he was still worried that Wu Jihui would come to his door. He didn't even take a break halfway, and rushed back without stopping.

"Don't ask so many questions, get me something to eat first, I'm starving to death." Zhuo Ran closed the door vigilantly, and said to his father wearily.

Zhuo's mother ran out with her mobile phone when she heard the voice, and she was taken aback when she saw Zhuo Ran, and then asked, "Did you die, did something happen to you outside? Why is it like running for your life?"

"Isn't it just running for your life?" Zhuo Ran pouted, "Get me something to eat first, and then I'll talk to you in detail."

Zhuo's mother glared at him, and while ordering Zhuo Ran's father to get him something to eat, she dragged Zhuo Ran to sit down at the dining table, and asked urgently, "What's the matter?" Seeing the bloody compass in Zhuo Ran's hand, he felt a little bit in his heart, "You are haunted by ghosts again, aren't you?"

"Our family didn't do anything wrong, why are ghosts so easy to follow?" Zhuo's father came out with a plate of leftovers and asked in surprise.

Zhuo Ran took a sip of hot water, shook his head feebly, and suddenly didn't know what to say to his parents when the words came to his lips.

His mother only knew about his yin marriage, and he never told his family about many things that happened after that, not to mention that his mother had met Lu Xiuyuan before, and now she suddenly told about Li Hengshu, it was inevitable would scare her.

"Are you dumb?" Seeing that he hadn't responded for a long time, Zhuo's mother pinched his ass again.

Zhuo Ran touched his butt aggrievedly, "I'm not thinking about what to tell you..." After speaking, Zhuo Ran paused for a while before he said, "It's not me, it's... Lu Xiuyuan, he encountered something. .”

"Xiao Lu?" Zhuo's mother was surprised: "If his family is so rich, will something happen?"

"It has nothing to do with whether you have money..." Zhuo Ran was speechless: "He encountered something evil. Didn't I go to the village to see the mother-in-law before? I think it's quite clever, so I rushed back to help him ask .”

Zhuo's mother nodded thoughtfully, and said with emotion: "Xiao Lu's child is very good, I can help if I can, and I will take you back to see it tomorrow."

Zhuo Ran nodded and ate a mouthful of rice, he was stunned for a moment when he heard Zhuo's mother's words, and asked hesitantly: "Mom, what do you think of Lu Xiuyuan?"

"It's good-looking, and the small figure is really good." Zhuo's mother committed a nympho, and then became serious again: "Very polite and good at talking, maybe this has something to do with the tutoring, the children raised by rich people are Not like you, a living monkey."

Zhuo Ran swallowed the food in his mouth, and was too lazy to discuss this issue with his mother, anyway, he was the one who hurt in the end.

After dinner, Zhuo Ran took a simple shower, and when he came out, he happened to see Zhuo's mother holding the compass and looking at it.

"Mom, what's so interesting about this, you can't understand it." Zhuo Ran felt guilty and wanted to snatch the compass back from Zhuo's mother.

"Where did this thing come from?" Unexpectedly, Zhuo's mother hugged her tightly and would not let go, she turned her head and asked Zhuo Ran strangely.

"Lu Xiuyuan's." Zhuo Ran half-truthfully explained: "I borrowed it to play with it because it looked fun, don't look at it, it's an antique, and you'll break it again."

"What do the patterns on it mean? Is it very common?" Zhuo's mother immediately asked a question that stunned Zhuo Ran.

Zhuo Ran stroked the deep patterns on the compass with his hand. He knew that this was the family pattern of Li Hengshu's original family. According to Li Hengshu, the Li family had been extinct for nearly 100 years. pattern.

"It's said to be an antique, how could it be a common thing, don't ask." Zhuo Ran didn't intend to tell Zhuo's mother.

But Zhuo's mother suddenly let go of the compass, and hurriedly got into the bedroom to search for something. She rummaged through all the drawers and chests in the bedroom, and finally found out the one on the highest cabinet with the help of Zhuo's father. an iron box.

"Mom, what are you doing?" Zhuo Ran asked strangely.

Zhuo's mother didn't answer, she opened the box impatiently, Zhuo Ran couldn't help laughing when she saw the contents clearly, leaning against the door frame and said: "Aren't these all my childhood toys? Do you still keep them? "

Zhuo's mother still ignored him, and carefully found a small wooden sign from the bottom of the box. I don't know how old it was, and the surface was already black and shiny.

"Look, is this the same pattern as the one on it?" Zhuo's mother handed the sign to Zhuo Ran and asked eagerly.

Zhuo Ran was stunned, and slowly took the sign and turned it over gently, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

The front of the sign is engraved with a circle of very complicated patterns, like several maple leaves overlapping each other, or like cirrus clouds piled up in a pile, making people dizzy and unable to discern the outline, exactly the same as the pattern on the compass in Zhuoran's hand , but the pattern on the compass is a groove engraved on it, while the pattern on the wooden sign is protruding.

"It looks the same, so is our wooden sign also an antique?" Zhuo's mother asked in surprise.

At this moment, Zhuo Ran couldn't hear any outside sound at all, he just stared blankly at the two things in his hand and couldn't recover.

"Where did this wooden sign come from?" After about a minute, Zhuo Ran finally recovered his voice and asked Zhuo's mother blankly.

Zhuo's mother clicked her tongue, and said with disgust: "It's not you! When you were just over two years old, you cried every day like a demon, and you couldn't stop. Later, your father and I asked many people to ask, and it was not easy. I found Aunt Liu, and you were still crying when I took you there. Even Aunt Liu couldn't coax you, but when you suddenly saw the wooden sign hanging on the wall, you suddenly stopped crying. Later, Aunt Liu felt that I fell in love with you, so I gave you the wooden plaque to ward off evil spirits. You wore it until you were six years old, so you definitely don’t remember it.”

Zhuo Ran didn't dare to miss a word and listened to Zhuo's mother's words. It wasn't until she finished speaking that she remembered that Aunt Liu was the sorceress he was looking for back in the village.

"But if it's really an antique, we'll have to return it together tomorrow." Zhuo's mother took the opportunity to pinch Zhuo Ran's buttocks again, and cursed: "You know what to buy, and you only pick out valuable things!"

Zhuo Ran's brain is completely unable to react now, holding a compass in one hand and a wooden sign in the other, his whole body froze into a piece of wood, unable to keep up with the pace of developments.

"Don't look! Go back to sleep." Zhuo's mother pushed him, "It's almost ten o'clock, wake up early tomorrow and I will take you to Aunt Liu's."

Zhuo Ran was staggered by the push, and his head almost hit the corner of the cabinet. Then he suddenly came back to his senses, responded softly, and turned back to his bedroom.

So many things happened, even after running for a day, Zhuo Ran didn't feel sleepy at all by this time. He carefully put the compass and wooden sign on the table, lay on the bed without taking off his clothes, and looked at the ceiling with his eyes open. The brain began to spin rapidly.

It's true that the compass belongs to Li Hengshu, and it's true that the family crest of Li Hengshu is painted on it, but what does this wooden plaque have to do with Li Hengshu?

Zhuo Ran sighed annoyedly, turned over and buried his face in the pillow, Li Hengshu's face appeared uncontrollably in front of his eyes.

"Where have you been..." Zhuo Ran muttered to himself in the pillow, never missing Li Hengshu as much as now.

I don't know how long it took, Zhuo Ran suddenly remembered something, hurriedly got up and turned on the phone, and called Liu Keke again without giving up, but he still got the same voice - the user you dialed is not in the service area.

The wooden plaque was brought back from Aunt Liu’s house by Zhuo Ran when she was a child, and Aunt Liu even called Liu Keke as her uncle when she was in charge of Liu Keke. At the beginning, Liu Keke seemed to be with Li Hengshu all the time, but why did he disappear at this time?

"Day!" Zhuo Ran threw the phone on the bed fiercely, and couldn't help cursing: "One or two are missing, leave me here alone to play decryption games, and don't even give me any fucking clues!"

As soon as the words fell, Zhuo Ran stopped immediately, and turned to look at the compass he had put on the table, remembering that Li Hengshu said that if he was gone, the compass would be left to him, maybe it would be of some use.

Zhuo Ran hurriedly got out of bed and picked up the compass, licked his lips nervously, then hesitantly picked up the wooden sign, his eyes turned back and forth between the two things, and it took a long time before he made up his mind, and bit it hard Grinding his teeth, he turned the wooden sign over, and lightly buckled it on the groove of the compass.

With a "click", Zhuo Ran felt a slight vibration in the palm of the hand holding the compass, and then saw a small drawer pop out from the bottom of the compass.

Zhuo Ran's heart was pounding, and he felt like he was in a dream. This kind of delicate mechanism that only appeared in TV dramas was actually in his hands.

He slowly pulled out the small drawer that was only a few centimeters wide with his index finger, and even closed his eyes vigilantly, for fear that some hidden weapon would pop out from inside and blind him, but he didn't hear any sound after waiting for a long time.Only then did Zhuoran open his eyes tremblingly, only to see a piece of yellowed paper folded into the size of a one-dollar coin lying alone in the small drawer.

The author has something to say: After much deliberation, this decrypted dungeon is only meaningful if Zhuo Ran is in a single team.

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