Well of Mystery

At [-]:[-] in the middle of the night, Bai Xiuqi finally returned to the guest house of the Zhangling Research Institute.

The newly "learned" lockpicking skill played a role again. He climbed back to the bed with hands and feet, wrapped himself tightly in the quilt, and it took a while to recover, and he beat five or six times in a row. sneeze.

It's over, I will definitely have a fever in a while.

There was no cold medicine around, so Bai Xiuqi got up and poured a cup of hot water into his palm to keep warm.When he walked to the edge of the desk, he saw the mobile phone on the table, and then remembered that he was still talking to Jiang Chenglu before leaving.

After so much time has passed, could Jiang Chenglu have sensed the strangeness and rushed over here?

Thinking of this, Bai Xiuqi finally felt a little warm in his heart.He picked up the phone and wanted to dial Jiang Chenglu's number again, but he froze as soon as the screen was turned on.

The sim card is not plugged in yet...

Therefore, the "charming" phone call to Jiang Chenglu just now did not exist.

So what is reality and what is illusion?

Bai Xiuqi sighed, and sat back on the bed in a daze.

He suddenly found himself wanting Jiang Chenglu very much, thinking that he would appear here immediately; thinking of him stretching out his hands to hug him tightly; wanting to hear him whispering in his ear, saying: "With me here, Everything is fine."

……

Bai Xiuqi took out the phone, inserted the newly issued sim card into the card slot, and turned it on.

After the welcome interface ended, the signal search bar was full, and he pressed the familiar 11-digit number key, but stopped on the green dial key.

It was three o'clock in the morning, the quietest hour before dawn.Even the soul fires in Xuanjing's apartment should have quieted down by now.

Jiang Chenglu should be in a deep sleep.If you wake him up and tell him what happened today, he will rush over desperately.

No, I can't do that.

Bai Xiuqi put down his phone and thought to himself.

I can't just think about myself and ignore other people's feelings.Even if the opponent is Jiang Chenglu, he can't do this.What's more, the reason why I came here was originally to prove that I have the same mobility and ability as Jiang Chenglu.Now something is wrong.Instead, I can't wait to look forward to his comfort and help... Isn't this contradictory?

Just let him rest well.

Thinking of this, Bai Xiuqi drank the hot water in his hand and wrapped himself back in the quilt.Take advantage of the heat and headache.Close your eyes quickly and force yourself to fall asleep.

The short second half of the night passed peacefully.

Early the next morning, Bai Xiuqi was woken up by a knock on the door before the regular alarm clock of the mobile phone rang.He struggled painfully between half-dream and half-awake.He tried to ask, but no sound came out anyway.

Dumb? !

He was scared.It frightened myself soberly.

His throat was burning with pain, and his head seemed to be stuffed with a handful of peppers.He struggled to get up from the bed to find his slippers, and just after he took a few steps towards the entrance, the door was already unlocked.

"Huh. Why didn't you lock the door?!" Su Zi and him, who poked their heads in from outside the door, stared at him with big eyes: "Did you drink some drinks last night? No, didn't you buy a mobile phone?" ?”

"..."

It's hard to say, Bai Xiuqi can only point to his throat.Then he smiled apologetically.

"Are you sick? Fever?" Su Zi quickly understood, and reached out to touch his forehead: "This fever is not mild. I originally came to find you to 'work' together. But it seems that you I have to stay and rest today."

"No need." Bai Xiuqi became anxious when she heard that, grabbed her clothes and put them on her body: "Wait for me... for a while, I'll go..."

"Hey, you didn't rush behind your butt, why are you doing this?"

Su Zi sighed, and reached out to press Bai Xiuqi's temple: "Don't move, it will be fine in a while."

Bai Xiuqi didn't know what he was going to do, but he stopped obediently.

Soon, he felt a clear stream flowing from Su Zi's fingertips into his head, and the pain and discomfort were relieved a lot.

"Phew, I can only do this, and the rest I have to take medicine." After a while, Su Zi finally stopped, and raised her hand to wipe the cold sweat on her forehead.

"Thank you." Bai Xiuqi tried to move her throat. Although there was still a little pain, she was able to speak normally.

So he quickly dressed and washed, and asked Su Zi, "How was last night?"

"How about what?"

"You later, Zhangyuan sent you home?"

"Well. He helped me to the bed and covered me with several clothes, almost crushing me to death."

"Then he looks pretty good? I thought he was the kind of guy who is used to being on top and can't even tie his shoelaces."

Regarding Bai Xiuqi's complaints, Su Zi just smiled and changed the subject: "What are you going to do later?"

This reminded Bai Xiuqi of what happened last night, and he asked calmly, "What can I do?"

"A lot." Su Zi snapped her fingers: "According to what Zhangyuan and the others said last night, you can freely walk around and inspect the scenic area, enter and leave the office area, and consult the archives and materials of the research institute. If you get permission in advance, you can also Enter the mausoleum area that is not open to the public, such as the underground palace of Zhangling Mausoleum."

Bai Xiuqi thought for a while, and then asked: "The ghost story you told at the dinner table yesterday, can you take me to that place?"

Su Zi shrugged her shoulders: "I said it was just a dream."

"I know it's not a dream." Bai Xiuqi looked into his eyes: "You can fool those humans, but you can't fool me. I am the same kind as you."

"Same kind?" Su Zi tilted her head and looked at Bai Xiuqi: "This world is not black and white, and all non-human beings are not all of the same kind. You are neither human nor ghost. With my ability, you can I really can't see what you are..."

"I don't mean that."

Bai Xiuqi interrupted him: "You must be able to feel it—something unusual is happening in that Zhangling. You have been staying here for so many years. I can't feel the feelings here. Speculation; but I'm sure you, more than anyone, would like to see bad things happen here. So, I need your help. Let's figure it out together. What's going to happen here... shall we?"

"You don't need to use this kind of coaxing tone to discuss with me."

Su Zi sighed: "Actually, I just want to live in peace. But forget it, life is like this, I can take you there."

So, the two of them left the guest room and went to the cafeteria downstairs for breakfast.While waiting for the big chef's father to cook the noodles, Bai Xiuqi went outside and called Jiang Chenglu, and informed him of the new mobile phone number and the room number of the guest house.

"Your voice sounds a little strange." Jiang Chenglu's hearing was very keen: "Have you caught a cold?"

"It's okay. It's much better. I'll go buy medicine later. I'll be fine after taking it."

"Stay well in the apartment, and you will have something to do as soon as you go out." Jiang Chenglu still muttered uneasy: "Do you want me to come over?"

"What are you doing here? You are not a cold medicine."

Speaking of this, Bai Xiuqi paused for a moment, and suddenly said: "Tomorrow is a weekend. I'll come back, and you prepare something delicious."

"Okay, let's make chicken soup, drink more when you have a cold." Jiang Chenglu readily agreed.It seems that I have to pick up the basket and run to the vegetable market now: "What else do you want to eat?"

Bai Xiuqi turned around and saw his smiling face reflected on the window pane under the sunlight.Then he lowered his voice and replied, "I want to eat you."

"Yes." Jiang Chenglu also responded softly, "Give as much as you want, and you'll have enough."

After eating this "unfinished" breakfast, Su Zi and Bai Xiuqi jumped on the shuttle bus at the gate of the compound and set off for the mausoleum area.

When I visited yesterday, the vehicle was parked in the parking lot at the side entrance.The terminal of today's bus is the south gate of Tailing Mausoleum.This is the southernmost tip of the entire Tailing Mausoleum area, with a magnificent and long Shinto path, and it is also the official entrance of the entire scenic spot.

Su Zi led Bai Xiuqi out of the car.Instead of squeezing towards the crowded main entrance, turn around and head west.After a while, I left the busy parking lot and came to the boulevard surrounding the sacred wall of the mausoleum.

right here!

Bai Xiuqi took a deep breath.

That's right, I came here inexplicably a few hours ago.

"It's almost there." Su Zi's words also proved his surprise: "The door is just ahead."

After turning the corner of the god wall, he walked about a hundred steps, and the small wooden door from last night appeared inside the god wall.Su Zi stepped forward and knocked on the door, and heard someone inside asking lazily, "Who is it?"

Su Zi reported her name, and the man opposite immediately changed his tone and opened the door hastily.Bai Xiuqi saw that it was indeed the middle-aged man who was watching the night.

The brainwashing spell last night seemed to be quite effective, at least at this moment, the gatekeeper and Bai Xiuqi were face to face, and there was no special reaction.

Su Zi told Bai Xiuqi that this side door was originally unguarded.The reason why the vigilance has been strengthened is also because of the incident that happened last year.The uncle at the door was originally a security guard in the mausoleum area, so I got to know him a little bit after going back and forth with him.

"Go a few more steps, and the collapsed place will be ahead."

Su Zi led Bai Xiuqi to continue walking forward, and the scenery in front of him was the same as it was a few hours ago.The work shed is still the same work shed, Tanfang is still the same Tanfang, the only difference is that all the distant scenery has become clearly visible.

"See where people are walking?"

Su Zi pointed to the construction area about [-] meters away, surrounded by a yellow isolation belt: "That's the tomb pavilion that collapsed last year. There are some other remains in the vicinity, and they are being sorted out and excavated recently."

"Just start tidying up now?" Bai Xiuqi was stunned: "Didn't it collapse last summer? What did you do?"

"After the collapse, rescue excavations were carried out, but the tomb itself has been severely damaged, and the value of research is no longer great."

Su Zi said that the destroyed tomb was the burial tomb of Emperor Jingdi and concubines, and it was far away from the Tailing Mausoleum, so the structure and furnishings of the tomb were very simple.The tomb pavilion has been renovated and rebuilt one after another, and it is no longer what it was before.

As early as 20 years before the collapse, the tomb was visited by tomb thieves. Fortunately, the thieves did not break through the vault on the top of the tomb.However, due to reasons such as poor backfill structure and soil seepage, the tomb pavilion became increasingly skewed, but due attention was not paid to it, and the collapse occurred.

After the accident, Tailing Branch immediately organized a rescue excavation.Subsequently, the person in charge of the branch dean of the Tailing Mausoleum at that time was transferred away and held accountable. For quite a long period of time, there was no leader in the Tailing Mausoleum, and further excavation and arrangement of the cemetery was temporarily put on hold.

Until recently, when the new official Zhang Han took office, the first thing he did was to let people continue to organize and inspect the cemetery, but it was not Tailing's own skilled workers and researchers who participated in the work.

"I heard that before the former person in charge was transferred, he reached an exchange with the museum in the provincial capital to relocate the entire cemetery to the museum in the provincial capital."

Su Zi lowered her voice and winked at Bai Xiuqi.