Dancing Night

After Knife Prisoners and the others moved into EX, people often saw this scene - early in the morning, Xiao Ai was sitting at the table, Gurui was sitting at the table, and the two of them were eating delicious food around a large table.

Everyone is already getting along very well. In terms of business, Dao Prisoner and Xiao Hua have cooperated a lot. The two have similar personalities, are taciturn and don't like to cause trouble, so it is convenient to handle affairs.

EX also ushered in the off-season for about a month. The main reason is that several major cases have been cracked in S City recently, so the police have become particularly brave. Other criminals have probably been intimidated. Of course, demons and ghosts are intimidated by everyone in EX. So it's all quiet.

Xiaobei seized the spare time during this period to study the Wuyeji carefully. Of course, because the Wuyeji was not complete, he only mastered a part of it... Except for burning Sphinx's tail one time, he almost didn't make any mistakes , in Longque's words - genius!

Longque also has some headaches recently. The business is not bad, and the income is just at the same level, but it is not an option to continue like this. It is best to do something more.

When he proposed to shoot a photobook, it was rejected by everyone and in exchange for the notoriety of "capitalist and exploiter", everyone in EX finally launched a strike, demanding legal rights - rest and vacation!

As a result, Longque pondered for a long time that the way to make money turned into a way to spread it, so he was forced to agree to travel at public expense.

Everyone in EX was celebrating, holding a map to find out where to go, Longque advised everyone to stay in China...but in the end, they were reprimanded for being stingy and turned into traveling abroad.

Longque frustratingly took the computer and clicked.

Feng Mingyu patted him and said, "Recently, the income from EX is good, so I'll pay for it."

Longque immediately beamed with joy, and discussed with everyone where to go to play.

Just as everyone was researching the route, the sound of the doorbell came from outside.

Bai Lou went out to meet...but it was a courier.After walking back with the courier box, Bai Lou asked everyone, "You...who bought something?"

Everyone shook their heads, saying it wasn't theirs.

"Where did you send it?" Everyone leaned over to look.

Bai Lou looked upside down, "There's no address either, it looks like someone sent it specially." But if he wanted to find someone again, the person who delivered the package had long since disappeared.

"Open it and have a look." Qi Liao leaned over to open the box, and saw a camphor wood box with a letter on it.

Written on the envelope is indeed the EX signature.

Bai Lou opened the envelope, and saw a piece of letter paper and a check inside.

Long Que felt dizzy looking at the string of zeros behind the check, and asked, "What is written in the letter?"

Xiaobei received the letter, saw that the words on it were very short, and helped everyone to read: "Everyone in EX, I learned about you by accident, and know that you have the ability to solve any mystery of ranking. I I have nowhere to go, so please help me! That check is an upfront reward, as long as you help me solve the difficulties, I will give you ten times the reward. If you are willing to accept the task, please open the box below, if not , Please seal the box and put it at the door, someone will come and collect it.

"Ten times?" Lan Ming also leaned over to count to 0, "Well...the client is either an idiot who can't count, or..."

"He's really in some serious trouble." Xiaobei shrugged.

"Look." Longque nodded.

Xiaobei gently opened the lid of the camphor wood box below.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, there was nothing terrible underneath, but a letter and another smaller box.

"I hope there is a check in it." Lan Ming raised his eyebrows and opened the second letter. This letter did not have an envelope, but only a piece of letter paper with a long photo wrapped.

It was an old black and white photo, on which was a smiling girl, about five or six years old, with big eyes, small nose and small mouth, very cute.

Xiaobei asked, "What's in the letter?"

Lan Ming gave him the letter paper, Xiaobei took it and read it to everyone.

"I am very glad that you accepted my commission. My real name is Thomas, American, born in Brazil, and I now live in the suburbs of S City. My father has been running a manor in Brazil for many years and has a lot of property. He participated in After World War II, he brought back many war orphans from the battlefield and raised them in the manor. He loves children, which I have inherited from him well. Although I was very young back then, I also loved children. We started an orphanage and it was a loving place until... that happened. It was absolutely sensational and unbelievable. Maybe beyond human imagination, if you want to go on, Then please open the box below. By the way, the girl in this photo is Maggie, one of the war orphans brought back by her father. It is said that she is a survivor of the Auschenki Concentration Camp. This story belongs to me. It belongs to her too."

"Is this kid one of those TV screenwriters who specialize in whetting people's appetites?!" Feng Xiaoyu couldn't help but said, "Will you die after talking once?!"

Lan Ming shrugged and opened the lid of the second box.

As everyone thought, there was another letter underneath, and a box, this time the box was made of iron.

There is still a photo in the middle of the letter paper.

The photo is still black and white, it's a family portrait... There are too many people, maybe it's a graduation photo?

There are more than 20 children in the photo, a few moderate middle-aged black women in the back, and a man in his 30s next to him.

Xiaobei continued to read the letter.

"I'm sorry, but you must think I'm annoying and mystifying, but it's not. There's a reason I'm breaking it down, because it's a real nightmare. Look at that photo, the man on the far left It's my father, and that little boy in the hat next to him is me."

Everyone leaned over to look for it. He was quite cute when he was a child, and his father was so vicissitudes.

"That's me 60 years ago, when I was ten years old, yes, now, I'm in my dying years." Xiaobei read and clicked twice, "This person's writing skills are good..."

Lan Ming laughed, and asked, "Is there any more? Without me, I will open the next box."

"Oh, yes." Xiaobei nodded and said, "This paragraph is very long."

Sissel lay on the sofa, hugged Gurui who flew past him and rubbed it, urging Xiaobei to read quickly.

Xiaobei went on to read:

"Please look for Maggie among those children."

"Maggie?" A group of people including Lan Ming and Qi Liao gathered together, glanced at Maggie's photos, and compared them one by one. Finally, in the right corner of the first row, Maggie's figure was seen.

"Eh?"

Bai Lou frowned and looked carefully, and asked, "Why is there a double image on Maggie's face?"

"Yeah..." Xiao Hua looked at it, "It doesn't look like a double image, it seems that there is another person..."

"What's going on?" Feng Mingyu didn't understand.

"It's a ghost image." Longque said suddenly, "It's a normal phenomenon."

"Ghost shadow?" Xiaobei shuddered.

"When taking pictures with a camera, try not to use flash, as it is easy to see things that you shouldn't see and don't want to see." Longque explained, "The biomagnetic fields of humans and non-humans are different, and spirits are easily possessed. People wandering around...so they get filmed."

"So, isn't this Maggie human?" Feng Xiaoyu was curious.

Everyone was silent.

"Beibei, keep reading." Xiaobei reminded.

"Oh!" Xiaobei nodded, and then read the letter:

"Did you see the double image? It started with Maggie. Have you noticed that she is very petite? This photo was taken a few years after my father recovered. Those children have lived with us for a long time. Everyone They are all growing up healthily, but Maggie...she hasn't grown up.

Our relationship is very good, the manor is our common home, father and dear black mothers, children and workers live happily together.Maggie didn't grow up, which didn't make us suspicious at first, but we loved her more and more.But ten years later, when we all grew into healthy teenagers, Maggie was still a toddler.

So, everyone thought that Maggie was suffering from senility, or schizophrenia... Father found many doctors to treat Maggie, but there was no way to improve it.At the same time, the children in the farm started to go to school and went to other places.Maggie still lives alone in the manor.When everyone came back from the holiday, everyone was happily talking about the new life on campus. Gradually, Maggie stopped participating in our conversation, she was alienated and forgotten...

I can often see her standing in a corner, holding an old doll and looking at us.

Everyone thinks she's sick, but... I don't think so!Maggie is not sick, she is special!

Maggie and I are very close, I love her very much, and Maggie is very attached to me.I tried not to snub her, but you know, it was very difficult, I was so young and frivolous, and I was bound to hurt her now and then.

Maggie always gives me a feeling.She is very sad... Judging from her appearance, she is only a few years old, but if you look into her eyes carefully, you will find that she seems to be 50 or [-] years old.

Maggie is not angry with everyone, but just disappointed, because I have always accompanied and loved her.

However, everything started to change in the autumn when I was 19 years old, you are going to see a box below. "

After Xiaobei finished reading, Lan Ming couldn't wait a long time ago, opened the lid of a box below, and saw that there was still a letter and a box inside.

Lan Ming opened the letter, and handed it to Xiaobei, while he looked at the photo enclosed in the letter—it was a group photo of a handsome young man and a beautiful South American girl. Holding a bouquet, it seems to be photographed at a wedding ceremony.

"Please don't doubt." Xiaobei continued, "The wrinkles on the letter paper are caused by my tears. Even though so many years have passed, I still miss her so much. The girl in the photo is named Michelle? Marilyn, is my wife.

At the age of 19, I passed the university entrance examination and was going to study in Chicago. I left the manor and came to the school.As a silly boy from the country, he doesn't fit in with the trendy metropolis.

In the first year, I was very unhappy. I couldn't integrate into the mainstream society. The only consolation was that I received a letter from Maggie.When I read Maggie's letter, I felt warm.Leaving her, just feeling her care and admiration written on the piece of paper is a happy thing. I wrote back to her, hoping that she has become a graceful and graceful young girl.

After that, I started to live by letters, and Maggie encouraged me to learn knowledge and become strong... I followed her, and the letters took a long time...I didn't even dare to go home during the holidays because I was afraid Seeing her as a child.How should I put it, I love her soul deeply, but her body makes us destined not to be together.

Just as I was eagerly awaiting Maggie's letter every day, I met Marilyn.

Marilyn is young and enthusiastic. She is a girl with good family education and background. She is beautiful, lively and full of charm.She is very fashionable, gave me a lot of advice, took me into the banquet of the mainstream society, and let me meet the activists in the school... After the initial difficult period, I gradually found that communication and communication became very simple .The books I have read so hard because of loneliness this year, the knowledge I have acquired, and even the good handwriting I practiced when I corresponded with Maggie, have become my charm.I went from penniless to being an active part of the party.The harmonica and accordion I learned in my hometown, as well as dancing, also made me shine.So... I made a very serious mistake.It was half a year later when I remembered Maggie's letter again.

Her letters are full of anxiety, concern for me, and of course, doubts... I am like an unfaithful husband caught by my wife, afraid to read her letters... Gradually, Maggie's The letters stopped and never came again.

Gradually forgetting the past, I fell into a crazy love affair with Marilyn, and finally accepted the blessings of my classmates and married when I graduated.

I wrote to my father with the good news, saying that Marilyn and I were going to find a job in New York and start our own business.

Father's reply letter was very simple, he almost didn't write anything, only one sentence - come back and let me see her.

I felt at the time that my father wanted to see my lovely bride, his lovely daughter-in-law, there was no reason to refuse, and Marilyn was also very interested in my manor life-so we boarded the Get off the boat and go back to my manor. "

When Xiaobei saw this, he saw a blank line below, which was written in a more formal font - in the years that followed, I regretted it more than once, why did I go back there, where... I lost everything for me.

"It's marked with a red pen here." Xiaobei said to Lan Ming, "In the box below, there is the last box and a letter. Please read the contents of the letter carefully before deciding whether to open it or not." box.

My life is only happy for a few years in the manor and a few years in love with Marilyn at school.Every other day, I was tortured brutally, panic, doubt, fear, guilt... all kinds. "

After Xiaobei finished reading, he looked at the crowd, "Are you still reading?"

Everyone in EX looked at each other and nodded together—look!