Rarely affectionate

It was about eight o'clock in the evening.Lang Bai wore a black suit, walked through the stone path among the grass, and came to the door of a stone building similar to the Temple of Hira.The moon had not yet risen, and the stone houses formed black, strange shadows on the ground, which looked rather creepy.

Rose Thorne walked up the stone steps and knocked on the door three times, and then the stone door was opened by a white young man wearing a mask. Lang Bai recognized Ike from his hair.

Ross Thorn looked back at Lang Bai, seemed to be smiling, and then walked into the stone gate.Immediately afterwards, Ike stepped forward, put a cloth bag on Lang Bai's head, and grabbed his shoulders to bring him in.

Lang Bai knew that this was one of the basic steps in membership.In the 172-year history of Skull and Bones, no one can describe its membership steps in detail. Only a few Skull and Bones members describe in their autobiography that it is "bizarre and unpredictable", and even includes various plots of simulated death.

There was darkness in front of Lang Bai's eyes, so he could only follow Ike.He felt that he had already walked into the stone gate, and the cold wind was blowing. There were many people talking, laughing and breathing, and some people deliberately came up and whispered some obscene jokes into his ears.

"Newcomer." He heard someone say.

"I've seen him, and he's quite handsome."

"Does he have a girlfriend? Have you seen it? . . . Rossthorne, how can you not ask about that!"

The crackling sound of the burning torch kept ringing, and Lang Bai felt that Ike had been leading him deeper into the bottom of the "tomb".From the outside, this bungalow is not that big, maybe they are going underground.The air was getting colder and colder, and there were countless members of Skull and Bones joking wantonly around, and some people took advantage of the chaos to touch Lang Bai's face.

Lang Bai couldn't help raising his hand to fight back, but then a person grabbed his hands from behind and twisted them back.

At this moment, Lang Bai's nerves that he had trained in the Sopranos for so many years suddenly jumped, and he immediately threw his head back.The sound of the wind slashing with a sharp weapon barely stopped in front of his throat, and a little closer would have cut the skin on his neck!

"Guys, it's a bit too much." The man behind Lang Bai who twisted his hands said, the voice was Rose Thorne.

"Just kidding." The man with the ax said with a guilt-free smile, and retreated into the crowd.

About twenty steps forward, Ike stopped. Standing there, Lang Bai could feel him pushing open a door. Maybe it was the living room "Firefly Room" in the legendary "Crypt". .Before being formally sworn in as a member, you are questioned in this room.

Someone took off Lang Bai's hood, and for a moment he was blinded by the torch in the room; he closed his eyes, and then he could barely see the surrounding arrangement.

Unexpectedly, there were quite a few students around in the dark room, all of them were wearing suits, with serious and indifferent expressions, completely different from the part-time job who just whistled, told dirty jokes, and did things.An empty coffin was placed upright under his feet in front of him, the lid was opened, it looked very old, and it was so dark that it made people feel creepy.

"Drink it." Rosethorn walked up to him and handed him something.

Lang Bai looked at it carefully, only to realize that it was a skull.After all, he had been in the underworld family for so many years, and he could tell at a glance that it was a real human skeleton. It must have turned yellow and white after a long time.

The skeleton was filled with red blood, exuding a strong fishy smell.

"Each of us has had it." Rose Thorne said coldly.

Lang Bai couldn't hesitate any longer, he could only take the skeleton, raised his head and drank the blood in one gulp.

"how is the taste?"

"...It doesn't look like human blood."

Rose Thorn gave him a surprised look: "That's right. You are worthy of being born in the ancient Sopranos." Then he took back the skeleton and put it on a crystal cabinet behind him - through the crystal, you can see the skeleton inside. There are several skulls, and behind the crystal cabinet there is a dark coffin with no texture, but it is closed.

Lang Bai knew that there was a mummy inside. In 1909, one of the members of the Skull and Bones Harold?Phelps?Stokes brought the mummy back from Egypt and donated it to Skull and Bones.

"That's what our president got back." Rose Thorne said, looking at the bloody skull.

"George the one accused of stealing an Indian chief's skull? Bush's grandfather?"

"Yes," said Rossthorne, with a tone of admiration. "I'll tell you more about these things later. Now, take off your clothes."

Lang Bai stood there completely stiff for a moment, and then, the people around him laughed.He hesitated for a moment, took off his suit jacket, and threw it on the ground.

"Go on!" said Rossthorne. "Shirt, trousers, socks, all off!"

Lang Bai frowned, and slowly took off his shirt.He was not wearing anything underneath, and his entire upper body was naked under the dim light, giving off a gentle luster like white jade.The students on the side made indescribable laughter and discussions, and a boy in the front turned to his friend and said, "This is the first time I'm looking forward to this ceremony so much!"

Since what happened two years ago, Lang Bai has been very resistant to being naked. He avoids seeing his body when he takes a shower, and he always wears pajamas that cover his whole body when he sleeps.It was obviously psychologically difficult to let him take off his clothes in front of so many people.

"Every one of us has taken it off!" A boy said loudly, and then his voice dropped again: "But we don't look so carefully when we look at others, hahaha."

Lang Bai took a deep breath, shrugged his shoulders, then quickly untied his belt, took off his trousers, and threw all his socks to the side.He made such a big move that he even took off his underwear along with his trousers. As a result, a boy next to him said regretfully to his friend, "It's too fast. I want to see what his underwear looks like."

Lang Bai stood naked under the light, with a calm and calm expression, as if he was still well-dressed at the moment: "Okay, what do you want me to do now?"

Rose Thorne unabashedly stared at the parts below Lang Bai's waist inch by inch until he saw his feet, and then said: "Very beautiful body, if possible... OK, now lie down in the coffin."

This order was much easier than the one who undressed just now, Lang Bai didn't hesitate, and directly lay down in the musty coffin.From this angle, you can only see the ceiling, and you can't see the students around you at all, and those students probably can't see him, you can only hear their low voices talking and laughing.

This angle is really a bit like he has lost his soul, leaving only a body lying alone in the coffin.Lang Bai never felt that taking life and death was wrong for those in power in the underworld, but it was only at this moment that he really felt the breath of death so close to him.

No one is not afraid of death, Lang Bai inevitably felt a little chilly in his heart.

I don't want to die... I don't want to die... Lang Bai couldn't help thinking.

I don't want to be like this person lying alone in a coffin, buried in a deep, dark underground, isolated from the world, and slowly rotting...

"The only way not to be summoned by death is to bring death to others." Rosethorne's voice suddenly sounded outside the coffin, as if he knew what Lang Bai was thinking, "Do you know the meaning of the coffin? It makes you feel life If you don't seize power, gain glory, and earn wealth in a short period of time, you will waste these short decades of life! And our brotherhood is to help you get a higher position and a higher position. A tremendous strength!"

"..." Lang Bai closed his eyes and said in a low voice, "I want to replace my elder brother."

The buzzing discussion outside suddenly fell silent.

"Yuan Xiao?" Rose Thorne asked, "The crown prince of the Asian arms industry?"

"...Yes. My father's eldest son, the future heir of the family business."

"You want to replace him and become the power in the arms industry?"

"If I don't replace him, then he may get rid of me in the future. It's all like this, my father, my cousin, my grandfather and great-grandfather... my father once killed his brother, every generation kills each other , to take power from your loved ones... that is our family tradition."

Lang Bai paused, and it was the first time he expressed his hope so clearly to others: "I want to be a master, and I want others to respect me, fear me, and attach to me. One day, no one can underestimate me. For my existence, I want to be someone who can stand up to my father!"

"...to stand against your father? Why not use the current strength of the Yuan family?"

Lang Bai was silent for a moment, "I...don't like my father."

After a few seconds, he couldn't help but add: "No, it should be said that I'm more afraid of him. He... is too powerful."

Whether he is a father or a man, Yuan Cheng feels too strong to Lang Bai. Excessive strength often gives the opposite sex the feeling of clinging, and the same sex is often the feeling of obedience, but for this boy who was raised by his father since childhood As far as the youngest son is concerned, Yuan Cheng's powerful feeling makes him very scared, even fearful.

The buzzing sound from outside reappeared, and Ross Thorne's voice sounded again after an unknown period of time: "—Tell us about your sexual experience." (Note 1)

Lang Bai suddenly woke up from that illusory feeling: "What did you say?"

"Every one of us said it was procedure," Rossthorne repeated. "Procedure!"

"...I have no sexual experience."

Before he finished speaking, several voices shouted at the same time: "I don't believe it!"

"It's possible, he's only 17 years old," said a female voice.

"Seventeen is old enough! Anyway, masturbation is always there, isn't it?"

"It's impossible, isn't it? Does he have any congenital problems? ... Hey, this kid is very healthy."

"Could it be an oriental tradition? No way, my father told me that Franklin (Note 2) also said several paragraphs when he was lying in the coffin..."

"Quiet, quiet!" cried Rosethorne. "Let him talk!"

The discussion gradually died down, Lang Bai stared at the ceiling, clenched his hands tightly by his side, pinching his palm with his nails.Suddenly Roththorn leaned over his head, gave him a condescending look, and even sneered: "—You look like a little virgin who has just been violated."

Lang Bai sat up abruptly, and punched him hard in the face.That punch was so precise and ruthless, Ross Thorn fell off the couch with a loud bang, and he got up after covering his face for a long time, "Damn it, what the hell are you doing to me!"

Lang Bai had already grabbed the trousers and shirt, and put them back on quickly, "You're the one who beat me up."

This punch gave the surrounding students a stimulant. Many people whistled, jumped on their seats, and waved their fists, just like fans at the World Cup.Roththorn touched the corner of his mouth, spit out a mouthful of saliva, and then grabbed Lang Bai and dragged it out.

"What are you doing, want to fight?"

"Go to room 322." Rossthorne's face seemed to be splashed with a bowl of ink, and it was completely black.

The next process is relatively simple. In the legendary room 322, there are several students wearing cloaks and masks, pretending to be Don Quixote, the Godfather, demons and other bizarre images, and there is a person wearing the pope's robe , stepping on a pair of white slippers with letters on it, stepping on the skeleton.Lang Bai was asked to kiss the slipper, and then the student who played Don Quixote slapped it on his left shoulder with a sword, and said in a low voice, "I canonize you as Sir Aurora, and your code name is..." He paused , said: "Black Sheep."

The temperature in the basement was very low, but Lang Bai felt extremely hot and his throat was very thirsty.I don't know if he was forced to recall the incident two years ago. Lang Bai felt that his mind was full of details related to his father, and he couldn't even calm down when he was "canonized".

He was a little embarrassed to feel that his body had changed. Although he forced himself to calm down again and again, he couldn't help recalling all the details of that night two years ago...even the momentary touch when he touched his father's body.

Those unbearable memories, after being forced to settle for two years, suddenly all turned up, and they were even more sensational, more... exciting.

Lang Bai gritted his teeth hard. It was Roththorn coming with a tongs, with a small piece of soldering iron on it: "Take off the collar."

Without waiting for Lang Bai to react, two strong boys came over immediately, one forced him down on the couch, and the other pulled off his back collar forcefully.After all, Lang Bai knew almost nothing about martial arts. After being pushed down, he had no way of resisting, so he could only ask sharply, "Rosthorne! What are you going to do?"

"The imprint." Ross Thorne pointed the iron at Lang Bai's shoulder blades and pressed it down.Hearing only a slight sound of scorching skin and flesh, Lang Bai screamed sharply, and then his mouth was covered.

Several other students who had prepared earlier immediately applied the wound medicine thickly on the shoulder blades burned by the iron. At the same time, someone opened Lang Bai's mouth and stuffed two powerful anti-inflammatory medicines into it.

"Hey, it's our member's mark." Rose Thorne showed Lang Bai the pattern on the soldering iron. There was a skull on it, with two crossed bones underneath, and the three numbers 322 were printed under the crossed bones. .

"By the way, your face is very red, you feel it, right? What you drank just now was deer blood." Rosethorn grabbed Lang Bai and forced him to stand up, "The aphrodisiac effect is quite obvious, but it's okay , we’ll take you out right away to solve the problem. It’s also quite close to the city, and the nightlife is rich.”

Lang Bai was panting violently, usually because of severe pain or because he couldn't help it: "...No, thank you, I want to go home."

"You can't handle it alone! Boy, it's time for you to taste the taste of women. Oh, there are some beautiful boys, you can choose whatever you want."

"No, I want to go home."

Rosethorn pinched Lang Bai's face, carefully observed his expression, and then shook his head: "The burn wound must be treated as soon as possible, otherwise you will soon fall ill with the aphrodisiac effect of deer blood. We have professional There are all kinds of beauties who deal with this, and everyone will go to HAPPY together."

"...No!" Lang Bai reluctantly opened his hand, "I have a doctor at home!"

He picked up his suit jacket, and although his body trembled slightly, he quickly walked across the room and opened the door forcefully.

The refusal attitude he showed was so obvious that it even gave people a sense of abstinence.

Everyone stared at him helplessly, until he was about to go out, Lang Bai stopped for a while and whispered: "I will attend your party next week."

Immediately afterwards, he covered his injured shoulder with one hand, and slammed the door heavily with the other, and the sound of footsteps quickly disappeared at the end of the corridor.

It was almost late at night when we got home, and Lang Bai drove very slowly. The pain and lust made him unable to concentrate, and he almost drove the car onto the highway guardrail several times.

Parking the car in the apartment parking lot, Lang Bai could hardly push the door when he got out of the car.He staggered up from the elevator to his floor, and walked to his door, but he couldn't find the room card from his wallet.The hand trembled more and more, and the clip fell to the ground with a soft slap.

Lang Bai panted in pain, leaning himself against the door frame.

Suddenly there was a click, the door opened from the inside, and the light spilled from the room.A familiar voice asked: "—Ah Bai? What did you do?"

Lang Bai reluctantly looked up and was stunned: "...Dad?"

Yuan Cheng only took a look at Lang Bai, and then decisively picked him up by the waist, ignoring his weak struggle and resistance, and carried him into the house with a few steps.

Note 1: Lying naked in a coffin and describing one's sexual experience to others is a fixed part of the Skull and Bones initiation ceremony, but it has been abolished since 1991.The detailed description of Skull and Bones in this article is all nonsense~ Note 2: Franklin Li is from Wuhu, Anhui, and the first Chinese member to join Skull and Bones in history