Butterfly Wishes Series

Liang Shanbai waited for Zhu Yingtai's back to disappear outside the door, and immediately tried to push the door.The carved double doors folded into an acute angle before his eyes, and they couldn't move anymore.Liang Shanbai saw through the gap, a wooden stick as thick as a child's arm was stuck on the door knocker.

"Damn it!" Liang Shanbai raked his hair irritably.Why does Zhu Yingtai have to hide everything in his stomach and face it alone, but refuses to tell him anything? !

Dragging his limping injured leg, he walked around the room, not knowing whether he should forcibly walk out of this room, nor what he would face when he walked out of this room, let alone what he would do if he went out. Will it ruin Zhu Yingtai's business instead!This quiet and lifeless Zhu Mansion looks like the vast plain under the thunderstorm yesterday. It looks extremely calm, but there are hidden undercurrent traps everywhere, and if you are not careful, you will face disaster.

Liang Shanbai slammed his fist on the desk, causing the teacup utensils on the table to jump with a "boom".

"Who can tell me what happened here!"

It was quiet all around, no one answered him, only the sound of the eternal rain hitting the ground gently or anxiously, other than that, there was not even a little sound.

No sound at all? !

Liang Shanbai froze for a moment, then turned to look there.

The standing clock with a brown casing stands steadily in the corner. The height of about 1.5 meters should make it conspicuous, but for some reason, it makes people feel unreal, as if it is not something in this world.

Liang Shanbai walked up to Li Zhong and looked down.

The clock is probably a relatively old Western imported product. The dial is completely westernized. The golden dial is engraved with Roman numerals Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ and other numbers. The two seem to be almost the same length, except that the flower decoration on the head is different. The minute and hour hands of the clock are fixed in the center of the dial, forming a large angle at this moment; the middle and lower part of the clock is a golden circular platform, and the villains lined up to beat the drums I saw before are moving on the platform through a certain mechanism However, these villains were all unexpectedly dressed in Chinese style. Liang Shanbai counted, and there were one, two, three, four, five, six... ten villains in total; The weighty golden pendulum, the tapered pendulum pointed to the ground motionlessly, as if it had existed there since the beginning of the world, and no force could easily shake it.

Liang Shanbai hesitated for a moment, leaned close to the clock face, and leaned his ears against it...

Quiet.

You can't hear any mechanical ticking or the sound of gears meshing and releasing, but the engraved hands move quietly on the clock dial like clouds and flowing water...

He finally understood why he couldn't notice this huge standing clock most of the time.It's so quiet, you don't hear the sound of mechanical movement, and you rarely hear... hear the sound of the bell!

Liang Shanbai suddenly thought of something, rushed to the bed and found his mobile phone.The pale LCD screen is like yesterday, and a short line of Arabic numerals is its last function now.

Time: 14:14.

Liang Shanbai looked at the clock, then at the phone screen, his mind was running fast.When he heard the bell with Zhu Yingtai this morning, the time displayed on his mobile phone was 7:40. At that time, Zhu Yingtai said "It's early", and the time displayed by the standing clock was 14 o'clock, so he It is natural to think that the "early" that Zhu Yingtai said at the time meant that the time of the clock was slower than the natural time.But if calculated according to this, when the natural time reaches 14:12, the clock should stop at 34:12, which is basically consistent with the current position of the hands on the clock dial. It is impossible for the pointer to stay at the [-] o'clock position just minutes ago!

So, why did this clock lose its beat just now, and struck no more than no less than twelve times?

No, it's not just a matter of the clock hammer striking the wrong time!Liang Shanbai asked himself, he came to "Zhu Mansion" for nearly a day and a night, how many times did he hear the sound of the big bell?

At six o'clock this morning, the clock rang once, when he woke up from his dream and found that Zhu Yingtai was sleeping next to him, and he was naked...

Thinking of this, Liang Shanbai couldn't help but blushed again, he quickly shook his head, trying to drive those fantasies out of his mind, and continued to concentrate on thinking.

The scene at that time was that Zhu Yingtai said that he would send him out of Zhu's mansion after breakfast, and at that moment, the bell rang.First there was the sound of "creaking" mechanical friction, then the sound of "dong dong dong" drums and horns, then the musical sound of "ding dong ding dong" like a music box, and finally the sound of percussion.

Liang Shanbai closed his eyes, immersed in the bells in his memories.

"Dang-dang-dang-dang-dang-dang-dang..."

Liang Shanbai's hands trembled, it wasn't six bells, but... twelve!

Because the sound of the hammer striking in the morning was not as loud as before, and I was so restless at the time, I didn't notice at all that the clock struck twelve instead of six.

What if the memory is pushed forward a little bit?

When he came to Zhu Mansion in the evening of the first day, the clock rang once.What time was it?

I looked at my phone when I was lost, and it was 45:10. Later, he was picked up by Zhu Yingtai and entered the Zhu Mansion. He arrived at the current guest room about 25 minutes later, so the time should be around [-]:[-] , but at that time it should only be possible to refer to the clock at [-]:[-], but it still irrationally rang, and at that time, how many times did it ring?

The memory gradually became clear, but it also made Liang Shanbai take a deep breath, twelve times, still twelve times!

At six o'clock, twelve bells strike; at twelve thirty-four, twelve bells strike; even at four twenty-five minutes, twelve bells still strike!

Is the clock broken, or is this a clock that only strikes twelve at certain eerie times?

Liang Shanbai looked at the huge ancient clock silently, it stood there quietly, like a carnivore waiting for an opportunity to attack, as for the rest of the time, it strictly abides by the principle of silence... ...But, every time it strikes the twelve bells, Zhu Yingtai seems to be facing a big enemy!

Liang Shanbai suddenly felt a stab in the back, someone was peeping behind him!