fear game

Ethan sat at the bar on the second floor of the hotel, sipping a martini while flipping through a booklet in his hand, which seemed to be his creative notes.

"Xiao Si, did you read the collection of poems I sent you some time ago?" Brother asked.

Lance poked his fingertips on the wall of the transparent cocktail glass, through a layer of glass, staring at a slice of lime floating in it, unconsciously drawing.Your silence is the silence of the stars...Lance thought of that man again, how is he now?He is more silent.Neruda's poem made Lance feel uncomfortable, and he didn't want to answer his brother.

"Honey, how about we go back to the presidential suite and try the jacuzzi, huh? What are you doing wasting time in this kind of place?" Familiar Chinese came over, with such an arrogant tone, as if everyone in the world didn't like it. Exist, who else can there be.

"It's those two people at the signing meeting just now." Lance quickly changed the subject.

Ethan and Lance looked together, and the two Chinese young men were indeed walking towards this side.The young man sat down beside Lance, "a cup of rum, ice, and three cherries." Sure enough, there was no one else in his eyes.

The other young man was much more refined and polite. He greeted the two of them with a bright smile: "Hi, Ethan, I just met you, your book fan. My name is Gu An, and this one is mine. My partner, his name is Coco. I'm really sorry just now, you should have seen it, we wanted to get your autograph earlier."

Lance and Ethan are both smart people. Of course, they can see that the exaggerated acting skills and dramatic turning point were deliberately done by the two, but they helped Ethan with a successful public relations, and Ethan naturally has no reason to be angry.

"Good evening, gentlemen," Ethan held out his hand and shook Gu An's hand, "It's okay, I don't mind at all, I'm honored to have readers like you."

Now is not the time for the bar to open to the outside world. In order to prevent fans from harassing the idol, Ethan deliberately greeted the hotel manager. After the business closed, he continued to reserve an hour, in order to chat with Lance about the old days. .Even so, some security personnel stood outside just in case, how did these two people get in?Lance felt that those two people who could afford to live in the presidential suite, dared to make a fuss at the signing party regardless of the consequences, and ignored the security guards at the door were obviously not ordinary people.Looking at the young man, what is the origin?

At this time, he noticed that the young man named Gu An had a conspicuous mace pendant hanging in the open collar of his shirt.Things changed too quickly at the signing meeting before, and everyone only paid attention to the quarrel between the two. Now that they are so close, Lance noticed a detail that he cared about-the inscription on the pendant, It looks so familiar, as if... I seem to have seen this kind of text somewhere... That's right!It's the tattoo around Qi Mo's waist... Lance carefully recalled that the tattoo design he had only seen once when he was helping Qi Mo take a bath. The symbols are also very impressive.

How should I put it, it is not the same as the few short inscriptions on the pendant in front of him, and there is not even a repetition of a pattern, but Lance, relying on his sensitivity to language, just feels that these two inscriptions are likely to come from the same symbol system.Lance's sixth sense told him that he should find a way to get acquainted with this man named Gu An and ask him about the origin of the pendant.

"Hello," Lance extended his hand to Gu An enthusiastically, "I am Ethan's younger brother, my name is Lance, and I am of Chinese descent just like you."

As soon as Gu An heard that he was the idol's younger brother, he immediately shook back enthusiastically.Of course, he didn't ask the embarrassing question "Why do you two look alike?" He should have already guessed that he is not of mixed race.

So Lance and Gu An fell in love at first sight, and Ke Ke, who was sitting on the side, couldn't wait for his sweetheart to go to the bathtub to play with him, and drank a cup of boring wine in a boring way.Ethan likes to use his pen to chat with readers. In real life, he doesn't talk much, and he sits patiently while drinking and listening, interrupting each sentence.

"Are you from City K too?" Gu An was pleasantly surprised to find that Lance and Ke Ke's family—that is, his current "in-law's family"—are from the same place, and they are considered half of the same hometown.

"Well, but I'm not a local, I just work there." Lance explained patiently.If you want the other party to trust you and be willing to reveal more privacy to yourself, you must first be honest and talk more about private matters.

"If you don't mind, may I ask what your job is?"

"Of course, I'm a psychiatrist."

"Wow, it sounds so interesting." Gu An praised.

Lance smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, it's a pain. I'm scared by patients every day, and I'm used to being frightened, haha." This is the truth, but Lance didn't say who the person who frightened him was.

"What about you?" Lance asked again.

"Me," Gu An glanced at Ke Ke hesitantly, "We are... forest animal breeders."

"Pfft——" Hearing Gu An describe her "work" like this, Ke Ke spewed out half of a glass of rum.

"Hahaha, Mr. Gu is obviously joking." Lance saw Ke Ke's reaction, knew that Gu An was not telling the truth, so he could only smooth things over for him, and continue to inquire after looking for opportunities.

"I'm not kidding, we really raise wolves. He's the only one," Gu An pointed at Ke Ke, "Don't look at him at a young age, like a child who doesn't grow up, he's so powerful, people give him a nickname." Coco God of War' - of course he proclaimed himself, haha, but let alone a human, wolves are afraid of him, this little evil star."

"Oh~ no wonder the security guards at our gate all avoided Mr. 'Little Fiend'." Ethan joked beside him, obviously he and Lance wanted to go together.

"Oh, of course, it's just those rookies who want to stop me. The person who can stop me hasn't been born yet." Ke Ke drank another cup.

However, Lance was more interested in another word.The word "wolf" is like a small hook. Together with the pendant, it evoked the obsession in Lance's heart, which he thought he had let go for a long time, to explore Qi Mo's past.Of course he remembered that Qi Mo once strangled his neck excitedly and asked him an inexplicable word - "timberland wolf".Could it be, could it be that these two people really have some secret relationship with Qi Mo?In the vast crowd, would it really be such a coincidence to meet two people who can unravel the mystery of Qi Mo's past experience?Lance's heartbeat speeded up inexplicably, and he seemed to hear the sound of the gears of fate turning in his ears.

"Oh? Raise wolves? I've heard of raising wolf dogs to guard the house. Can wild herd animals like wolves be domesticated? It seems that I'm really ignorant," Lance tried his best to bring the topic to "timber wolves". , "I don't know when I will be lucky enough to go to the forest where the two work to see and see?"

"Okay." Gu An was hospitable, "Where do you work? Let me see if it's far away."

"Zianini Mental Health and Sanitation Center, the best mental hospital in K City."

Coco, who was sitting on the side, was not interested in chatting at first, but when he heard the word "Ziannini", he seemed to have an unexpected reaction. He raised his head and turned to Lance, I looked at it for a long time.

Gu An could also see Ke Ke's scrutinizing eyes. If he didn't explain, it would seem that his partner was too impolite: "Oh, don't mind Mr. Lan. It's a coincidence that the forest that Ke Ke is in charge of is also Qi One of the properties of the Yanini family. In this way, the two can be regarded as colleagues, haha."

"Really~" Lance was also a little unexpected surprise. He didn't expect to encounter such a coincidence when he went to another state. "It seems that God destined me to have a destiny with the two of you." It is not surprising that people can afford such a hotel and can freely enter and exit the guarded environment.Maybe it was really a secret arrangement, maybe it was God hinting at him that these two people were closely related to the secret he wanted to know, and he couldn't miss it.

With this level of fate, Lance said with more stance: "By the way, I have been looking at the pendant hanging around your neck just now. It is really special. I just like to collect some weird things. Little object, is this a wolf tooth?"

Gu An turned to Ke Ke for a look, and Lance understood that this should be a token of love between the two.

"Well, it was left to him by his parents. I am lucky, and being able to wear it can be regarded as a little bit of fate between me and his parents."

"'Leave it to'? So, Coco's parents have..."

"Well," Gu An nodded, "I guess he's gone, anyway, I haven't seen Ke Keda since he was born. He is the adopted son of the Zianini family."

Parents, absent, never seen, orphan... Lance quickly jotted down these key words in his mind.This boy looks less than 20 years old, and Qi Mo should be in his early thirties. Unless Qi Mo gave birth to a child in his teens, judging from his age, Keke should not be Qi Mo's child.So could it be that Keke's parents, whom he had never met, were Qi Mo's old acquaintances?

Lance felt that he was really obsessed too much. It was just a code word with unclear meaning, and some familiar symbols. He was not even sure whether they belonged to the same system, so he let himself think so much.Alas, really I still can't let Qi Mo go?Even after Qi Mo did so many things that hurt him.

"Oh... What a pity. But I think, now that Keke has you as his family, he must be living happily."

Lance smiled understandingly, and Gu An also showed a rare shyness on his face.

Then they chatted about other things, such as food, travel, hobbies and so on.Before parting, they exchanged emails and agreed that next time Lance is free, he must visit the forest where Gu An and Ke Ke lived.