[Bottle Evil] Snowy Illusion

In the beginning of spring after the new year of 2015, Li Cu once again stood in the world he was familiar with.He fully healed his injury at Su Wan's house, and then went back to school.

Life quickly returned to calm, day after day, monotonous and long.Finally the summer vacation came, and on the first night of the vacation, Li Cu tossed and turned, and finally made a decision.

Early the next morning, he booked a ticket to Hangzhou.

When mentioning Hangzhou, the first thing Li Cu thinks of is Wu Xie.This person appeared in his line of sight seemingly out of thin air, but in fact it was "planned for a long time".After going through a life-and-death decision, Wu Xie rescued him from Wang's house, and then took him into hiding, and the people around them left one by one, and finally the two spent two weeks together in a dilapidated house During this period, Wu Xie didn't tell him anything related to him or the plan.For two weeks, he basically passed the day by reading the gossip magazines that he didn't know who left in the house. On the last night, he fell asleep and woke up in Su Wan's bed.

In other words, he himself was the last insider who had seen Wu Xie.

Wu Xie seemed to have evaporated from the world and never appeared again.However, Li Cuo wondered if he had the so-called Stockholm Syndrome. Compared with the disappointment of returning to an ordinary life after being rescued from the desert for the first time, he gradually felt stronger emotions this time when he was completely liberated.

Behind these emotions, after all, is the irritability being controlled.Nothing is better than taking the initiative to turn the situation around, and Li Cu knows this very well.

On the night of arriving in Hangzhou, Li Cu found a restaurant for dinner on the street opposite Wu Xie's former residence.

Li Cu took out his pocket and ordered a bowl of noodles.After eating most of the hot noodles, Li Cu felt that today's running around was considered a comfort, and he raised his eyes to look at the opposite building.

He had already arrived here that afternoon. Of course, the door was locked, and the building area was very old and deserted.

Li Cuo still doesn't know what kind of business Wu Xie is engaged in. He only knows that this man is crazy, his family looks rich, and he has a fortune of 20 to [-] yuan, a local tyrant.Of course, this was the impression he had of Wu Xie in the first half year of knowing him. Later, Li Cu vaguely discovered that Wu Xie was actually caught in a huge conspiracy, and he had prepared a powerful counterattack against this conspiracy. What was the final effect? have no idea.

While thinking about it, Li Cu heard a strange conversation from the next table.

They were two high school boys in school uniforms, one of them pointed in the direction across the street with his chopsticks, and said, "I don't seem to be showing up today."

The other said: "It hasn't come yet, maybe it will happen if you wait a little longer."

Li Cu also looked in the direction that the boy pointed, it was the building of Wu Xie's house.The dilapidated buildings in the night, the dark windows, really feel a bit like being in a ghost movie.

Li Cu looked at the two high school students again, and they stared at each other while eating, looking very interested.

Li Cu was wondering, suddenly, the two boys at the next table said "ah" at the same time.Li Cu reflexively raised his head and looked towards the opposite side, only to see that there was a little more light for no reason in the window of Wu Xie's house that had always been dark.Li Cu froze on the spot.

Wu Xie's house had apparently been unoccupied for several years, the locks on the door were rusted, and the windows were covered with a thick layer of dust, making it impossible to see anything clearly.And that ball of light was neither big nor small, but it was extremely conspicuous in the dark night.

Li Cu suppressed the excitement and surprise in his heart, turned to the two high school students, and asked, "Dude, what's going on? Have you seen it before?"

The two boys turned to him and looked at each other again, one of them said: "You don't live near here, everyone here knows that there is a problem with that building."

Li Cu was startled, and the other said: "These days, there is light every night, but no one comes in and out." The boy shrugged his shoulders, obviously not knowing.

Li Cu nodded, and said to himself, Boss Wu, you don't want to go home and take a look, your house is now haunted by ghosts, and it has become a strange talk in the streets and alleys.

The two high school students seemed to have gotten used to it, they ate and left calmly, but Li Cu felt his heart beating faster, he finished eating the noodles in a hurry, and when he looked at the bright window again, in the light, Suddenly, a vague shadow appeared.

The shadow is in the shape of a human, the size of an adult, but due to the long distance and dark light, the shadow has only an indistinct outline, and it is hard to tell whether it is a man or a woman.

Li Cu was completely shocked, it seemed that there was indeed someone in that room!

The first thing Li Cu thought of was Wu Xie, after all, it was Wu Xie's home.But he quickly denied this conclusion. If it was Wu Xie himself who wanted to come back to live, he could do so openly, so as not to look like a lonely ghost.If it's not Wu Xie, then the scope of this guess is wide. Is it someone from Wu Xie's side, or Wu Xie's enemy?If he was one of the gang with Wu Xie, maybe he had met before, so it would probably be no problem to go up and say hello.But if it's Wu Xie's enemy... Li Cu stared at the shadow, suddenly feeling more and more anxious.

Li Cu thought for a while, and he had two choices: ignore that figure, as things went beyond expectations, it's better to give up in order to be conservative; or go alone and find out.After weighing it for a while, Li Cu finally decided to wait until dawn tomorrow, make preparations first, and then try to find a way to enter the house to see clearly.

Thinking of Li Cu, he picked up his backpack and planned to go back to the hotel. At this time, the people in the small restaurant were almost gone.Li Cu looked around and felt that the surroundings were eerily quiet. He glanced at his watch, and he was staring at the shadow in a daze for almost 10 minutes.

Two 10 minutes...

Suddenly, Li Cu felt as if there was a flash of lightning and thunder in his mind, and an inexplicable sense of fear quickly swept over him, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.

For twenty or ten minutes, Li Cu had been staring at the shadow, but the shadow didn't move at all, it didn't look like a living person.

Be calm, be sure to be calm.While talking to himself, Li Cuo began to make various logical conjectures.

First of all, Li Cu is sure that no matter whether that figure is from Wu Xie's side or not, he must have come here because it has some special meaning to him, and it is very likely that he came here to find some clues just like himself.But here comes the question, can you see the clues just by standing there?Li Cu imagined that if he was standing in Wu Xie's house at this time, he would definitely be searching through boxes and boxes.Under what circumstances can a person stand still for twenty to ten minutes?

Li Cu felt a little sore in his neck, because he had been so engrossed in watching that he forgot to change his posture.

Trembling again, Li Cu suddenly thought that he had been sitting here and was observing that shadow, could it be that shadow was also observing something?

Is there something strange going on in Wu Xie's house that makes that shadow so fascinated by watching it that he remains motionless for a long time?

This is indeed a conjecture, but Li Cu couldn't help but tremble a little from another thought.The shadow stood by the window, although he couldn't see his face clearly, but he usually stood in front of the window, shouldn't he be observing the people and things outside the window.

Unexpectedly, Li Cu raised his right hand and waved lightly in the direction of the window, like a gesture of greeting.And a strange scene happened, the vague figure finally moved, and then even stretched out its arms and waved.

Li Cu suddenly stood up from the stool, and instinctively took a step back, but the light on the opposite side suddenly went out, and the figure merged into the darkness.

Li Cu rushed outside in a panic and ran towards the main road.

It's been a long time since I felt this way.Since returning to Beijing, the days have been dull and regular, but Li Cu felt that his body was busy with these things, and his soul was always looking at him through a transparent glass door.It wasn't until the moment when the figure was discovered that the soul seemed to break through the door and connect with the body again.

Li Cu looked at the ceiling of the hotel and suddenly smiled. He was indeed still worried or even afraid. The figure standing in front of the window was observing him.But at the same time, I couldn't help being excited about this discovery.

If this speculation is true, then this is a game, and they must be an accident to each other, so the current situation is fair.He needs to make a plan to avoid each other and get what he wants.Of course, the best situation is that he can expose the purpose of the other party, and reach cooperation when the interests are consistent, and destroy the purpose of the other party when the interests are contrary.

In any case, we must go again tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Li Cu found another shop across the street from Wu Xie's house, and secretly observed in a corner.As he expected, there was nothing abnormal in the house. The window where the figure appeared last night was still closed, and the thick dust blocked the interior of the house, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

In the afternoon, the road became quiet, and almost no one came out to walk around. Li Cu finally had the courage to go downstairs.

From the outside, it looked like a dilapidated old building. Li Cu walked around it and decided to climb in through the window. Fortunately, it was only on the second floor.

Li Cu bought a fruit knife in the supermarket. He imitated the method in the movie and used this knife to pry the lock of the window. I don’t know if it was because it was in disrepair for a long time. up.

Li Cu pushed open the window, and a peculiar smell of an old house came over his face, as well as a lot of dust.Li Cu covered his nose and jumped, falling to the ground.At that moment, Li Cu became nervous, the figure from last night appeared here.However, to his surprise, there were no traces on the ground except his own footprints.

Could it be that what I saw last night was just a phantom?

It was very dark in the room, and the windows only let in some sunlight.The furniture in the living room has already fallen several layers of dust, but it still maintains the appearance when it was inhabited.There was even half a bag of tea on the coffee table, and there were still a lot of clothes hanging on the hangers. It seemed that the people in the room left in a hurry and basically took nothing away.

Li Cu first searched the whole house to make sure that no one was hiding, and as a place where a mysterious person lived, everything was normal.

Li Cu seemed to be able to see how Wu Xie was sitting on the sofa watching TV when he was still a small boss.

Only when the bedroom door was pushed open did Li Cu's heart twitch suddenly.

Li Cu recognized this place, it was the room in the image formed in Wu Xie's mind when Wu Xie once passed the message to him through the pheromone of the black-haired snake.

In my memory, this room was very cramped, with an indescribable feeling.The sound of running water can also be heard, which seems to be very wet.And Wu Xie was sitting on the bed with disheveled hair and unshaven beard.The quilt on the bed was moldy, surrounded by piles of snack bags, wine bottles and cigarette butts.

Simply a terrible impression.

Fortunately, the room in front of me can be seen to have been taken care of, at least the quilt is folded, and there is no garbage on the ground except for the thick dust.

Suddenly, a yell broke out behind him, Li Cu was startled, and almost yelled too, he immediately turned to look in the direction from which the yell came, which was in the direction of the window.Li Cu's heart trembled, could it be that figure appeared again!

Li Cu pulled out the fruit knife, and walked cautiously to the window, but just as he was about to poke his head out to check the situation, a face suddenly stuck to the window.

Even though there was a layer of dust on the window, Li Cu still recognized this face at a glance, it was Su Wan.

"Damn it!" Li Cu cursed, "Why are you here!"

Su Wan smiled and climbed into the room: "Isn't it a surprise!"

"Surprise is there, but joy is not." Li Cu asked doubtfully, "Didn't you go abroad with your parents?"

Su Wan patted the ashes on his body, and said: "It was originally planned like this, but later my father's company had something to do, so the schedule was postponed, I was idle and bored, so I came to find you, and I couldn't get through to you, so I had no choice but to I came here to wait, but I didn't expect to see you wretchedly groping into Boss Wu's house."

Li Cu sighed. When he was suspicious last night, his mobile phone fell into the toilet with a shake of his hand, and he had died gloriously.

Li Cu briefly told Su Wan what happened last night, and said, "Do you know that there might be danger here?"

Su Wan showed a surprised expression, but quickly smiled again: "No, Boss Wu bless you, we will definitely be able to climb down again safely."

Li Cu squinted his eyes, thinking that he was a mascot, and even a person with black glasses who was so awesome was almost turned away when he was stuck with him.

A one-person adventure suddenly turned into a two-person self-guided tour. Li Cu didn't know whether it was joy or sorrow.

The two entered Wu Xie's bedroom together again, looking around and looking around.Su Wan touched the table and said, "You think the boss will be angry if he finds out?"

Li Cu was standing in front of Wu Xie's bookshelf, and said, "Is he embarrassed? We are not looking for his clues." The bookshelves are basically books on architecture, and there are some books related to rubbing appreciation. Li Cu took out After reading a few books, I couldn't understand anything, so I put them back again.

The two groped around again, but there was nothing unusual, and it could even be said to be too ordinary, so ordinary that there was no room for association.

"Damn, I don't even have a love letter. The boss's green years are really too boring." Su Wan was looking through Wu Xie's drawer, which seemed to be full of remembrances of Wu Xie's college days, graduation certificates and so on.Li Cu also walked over to look curiously, and when he opened the graduation certificate, the two of them said "fuck" at the same time.

Su Wan continued: "This is the boss when he was young? He's so tender!"

There is a very relaxed smile on the corner of Wu Xie's mouth, the kind of happiness that comes from the heart, pure and even a little silly, it can be seen that this person's heart and mind are empty and extremely simple.

Li Cu still remembered Wu Xie's eyes afterwards, that kind of cold eyes that could see through everything, and he shuddered immediately.

What kind of setbacks in life did he go through to torture a good young man like that?Li Cu silently mourned for Wu Xie in his heart for a few more seconds.Then he tore off the photo on the graduation certificate and put it in his pocket.

"Don't you! Adore him so much?" Su Wan was very contemptuous.

Li Cu poohed and said: "I want to keep it, and next time he pretends to be aggressive, I'll show it to him."

Su Wan thought it was a bad idea, and while despising Li Cu, he also tore off the photo on the degree certificate.Maybe it's good to be a talisman, and it's good to get Wu Xie's name.After making up his mind, he asked responsibly: "You insisted on coming up to find some clues, so just take a photo and go back and print the missing person notice? The boss can hardly recognize this photo."

"In fact, there are already some clues." Li Cu pretended to be mysterious, "There is a place that we haven't found, and there is one thing that we haven't seen yet. We must find that thing there."

Li Cu lay down on the ground, stuck his head under Wu Xie's bed, and then pulled out a box from under the bed.

Su Wan instinctively rejected the things hidden under the bed. He remembered that Wu Xie sent a lot of contraband to his home by courier. He almost stuffed the box containing the mummy under the bed, and staged a realistic version of it. "Back to back is so warm".

The box was a black suitcase, neither too big nor too small, and it was also covered in dust, and it was locked.

"What is this? How do you know there's something under the bed?" Su Wan asked.

Li Cu studied the combination lock. Although the lock was old, it was still working. He broke it a few times but did not open the box. Is something hidden under the bed?"

"Your logic is wrong." Su Wan said, "First of all, the boss is not an ordinary person, and second, how do you know that this thing is important? Have you seen it before?"

It’s not really seen before, Li Cu only vaguely remembered that in the illusion of snake venom, there was this box in Wu Xie’s room, and Wu Xie mentioned to him that there were some fighting equipment in his room, presumably it should be It was placed in this box. Of course, besides that, there was another thing he cared about, and it was very likely to be in this box.

"It's about the same. Anyway, the things here may help us." Li Cuo tried to kick the code lock a few times, but still failed, "Help me think of the code. By the way, I don't know his birthday. , I don’t think he would use a birthday password.”

"How can you do this, you don't even remember your idol's birthday?"

"Damn, I've already said that he is not my idol."

"Oh!" Su Wan suddenly realized, "I remembered, your heart has already been conquered by that man named Zhang Qiling, he is your idol."

Zhang Qi Ling?This name does have a special meaning in Li Cu's heart.However, he didn't think anyone could be his idol. In the first 17 years of his life, he always wanted to break the current state of life. This mentality was not led by anyone.In other words, it is not that there is an object that can be imitated that can make him grow in a certain direction.

Of course, he didn't mind if Su Wan said that, after all, it sounded like Zhang Qiling was more powerful.

"He's pretty much the same." Li Cu patted the box and said, "Stop talking about those useless things, think of the password quickly."

Su Wan dialed casually and asked another question: "Tell me, what is the relationship between the boss and your male god?"

"Why did you become a male god again!" Li Cu frowned, "It seems very complicated, I haven't heard Wu Xie say much about it, why are you asking?"

Su Wandao: "Think about it, wouldn't it be scary if such an awesome person doesn't belong to the boss?"

Li Cu glanced at Su Wan, and said: "When you find him, you can ask him yourself. Let's look at the password first. I don't think you can figure it out. Either smash it or try again."

"Don't be so violent." Su Wan sighed, and dialed the password to 000, "Be patient, I'll try first, and you think about it..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a slightly dull "click", and the lock was opened.

The two were relatively silent for a long while.

Su Wan murmured: "We really overcomplicated the idea of ​​the boss, he was originally a dork."

Li Cu nodded, and couldn't agree more. The two opened the box, and a cloud of dust rushed towards them again. They waved their hands, and then they saw clearly that the box was really some equipment for fighting, wolf-eye flashlight, Pocket knives and medicine chests, etc.

Su Wan was very disappointed, but then he saw Li Cu tear off a tarp, and there was a stack of notebooks underneath.

Li Cu opened the top one, the pages were already a little yellowish, and someone wrote lines of text in thin and thin fonts.

"This is what I'm looking for." Li Cu breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and said excitedly to Su Wan, "Wu Xie said that he wrote down all his experiences, and it seems that in these notes, There must be some clues here."

Su Wan opened his eyes wide, and said, "You mean, you have to read so many...notes on tomb robbers?"

Li Cu nodded, and gave Su Wan a stack.