Gao Tianyi ran away, and the two people left behind tried and found that they could not get out of the courtyard gate for the time being.
The courtyard door closed after the young people left, and no matter how hard they pushed or pulled, they could not shake it.
To use a cliché? The door seems to be fixed to the space.
As for climbing over the wall, the two of them didn't try it.
No one knows what will happen if they cross over rashly. Will they be kicked out of the dream world or will they be injured? What's more, this house is big enough for them to explore.
"Now..." the young man wearing glasses said, touching his chin, "hasn't it turned into a scene exploration, like playing in a secret room?"
Qi Zhuyue, who was a little further away, didn't hear clearly. She looked through the wardrobe in the room and turned around while maintaining a bent posture: "What, what are you talking about, Senior Tang?"
Tang Nuo leaned over and moved out the heavy quilt and pillow: "I'm talking about the secret room."
Qi Zhuyue clapped her hands and said clearly: "Oh, is it the kind that Senior Tang has you visit all the secret rooms in the city and get blocked by all the stores?"
Tang Nuo: "...You can omit all the previous attributives."
Qi Zhuyue: "Oh, okay, Senior Tang."
The obedient junior obediently threw away those complicated attributions. She knew that this senior had a hobby of playing in secret rooms for leisure.
I heard that it was just for a supernatural-related case at first, but unexpectedly, I became obsessed and addicted afterwards.
No matter how busy the special department was, Tang Nuo would always find time to visit old and new secret rooms until he was blacklisted by the store for quickly solving levels and violently solving puzzles.
They feel a bit like they are in a secret room now, searching for possible clues in a confined space.
After the quilts and clothes were removed, a small locked box was placed underneath.
"Well... I thought it would be more secretive."
"specifically is?"
"For example, you can dig a built-in grid here, put this box in it, and then make a mechanism here... connect it to the drawer here, and then make a puzzle in the drawer. If you solve it, you can remove the top The mechanism is open."
"...Senior Tang, wake up! Who would install such a thing in their own home?"
"Too."
Tang Nuo pushed up his glasses again and looked at Qi Zhuyue with a bit of relief - he was really a qualified complainer.
Ordinary people wouldn't have that level of mechanisms in their homes, and it would only be as long as a lock.
The lock is not a high-tech lock. Once the copper lock is hung up, a matching key is required to open it.
In theory, the next step should be to find the key, but Tang Nuo turned a corner and walked out of the door, went to Wen Tao's room next door, and took out a hairpin from the drawer under the dressing mirror.
Then, Qi Zhuyue witnessed a very disturbing scene.
Tang Nuo twisted the wire in the hairpin into a skewer, and then inserted it into the keyhole.
Fu Er listened closely for a while, then moved his fingertips slowly.
After a while, with a click, the lock was opened.
Qi Zhuyue seems to know why this senior Tang was blocked by various secret room shops. Who opens the lock like this?
Even though many of them are electronic locks now, there are still some traditional locks... Wait, why are you so skilled, Senior Tang!
"Learned it from Xia Chengyin."
"I didn't ask...?"
"Your expression is too obvious." Tang Nuo put the hairpin in his pocket and pressed his palm on the lid to open it. "It's easy to read."
"Well... I hope, Senior Tang, you won't use this skill in other places." At least not illegally. She didn't want to be separated from her senior in tears one day.
"In this case, I think it's better for you to worry about Xia Chengyin."
Compared to the more unruly Xia Chengyin, Tang Nuo would only use this skill when needed, while the former would often perform some illegal operations.
For example, breaking open a door without getting permission.
When the lid of the box was opened, stacks of paper were revealed underneath.
There is letter paper and various documents.
Based on the age of Wen Tao's friends, they calculated that electrical equipment was not yet common in mountain villages in this year, and it was quite normal to send letters to the outside world.
Tang Nuo flipped through the letter. It was a chat between Wen Tao's parents and relatives who were working outside. In the early days, there were some normal greetings, but as time went by, sentences that changed the tone began to appear in the letter.
Wen Tao's parents began to secretly tell their relatives who were working outside that if they could settle outside, they should try not to return to the village, at least not in the near future.
Relatives outside asked why, but Wen Tao's parents didn't answer. Instead, they asked where it would be better to send their children to study, and the topic changed.
They said they could pay and wanted to place their daughter with relatives and find a school for her to study.
The relative naturally asked why he didn't go to school near the village. Wen Tao's parents said it was because the quality of education in big cities was good.
The relatives seemed to believe it and didn't say anything more.
"But..." Qi Zhuyue showed doubts when Xin saw this, "As far as I know, Wen Tao didn't go out to study."
This girl did not go out to work until she was almost an adult, and it was only this year that they returned to the village using her identity.
During this period, Wen Tao never came back. Qi Zhuyue understood that it was because her parents passed away at that time, and the only concern she had with the village was her uncle and aunt's family, who treated her well.
"Maybe something happened." Tang Nuo replied.
In addition to the letters, there are some documents, payment documents, water, electricity and coal, etc. Among them, the water fee is particularly prominent, which is ridiculously high.
In addition, there is a payment bill in the middle with a particularly large amount.
Qi Zhuyue was confused. At a glance, she found that there was no place in the house that needed water.
Tang Nuo also looked at the ridiculously large numbers in surprise and thought about the structure of the room: "Have you seen them all?"
"After a rough look around... shall we take another round now?"
"good."
As soon as they left, the two of them put the letter paper and receipts back into the box, put them in their arms, and left the room. They checked in several places with taps - kitchen, toilet or bathroom.
The decoration was not as new and tidy as they had seen during the day, and had a bit of an old feel to it, but after checking the faucets and water pipes, no signs of frequent use were found.
It's impossible for this family to keep the water on during the day and let the water flow and waste. Thinking about it, this is unlikely.
"Or maybe... the water pipe outside the house leaked but was not found, and the blame is on this family... Forget it, Senior Tang, you think I didn't say anything."
The two of them walked around and arrived at the backyard. There was nothing in the equally wide yard. It was even emptier than what they had seen in reality during the day. Even the long strip of nursery that should have existed around it was gone.
Was it added later? It must have been added later.
Qi Zhuyue looked around for no reason, and when she was about to go back, she caught a glimpse of a rut on the ground.
Tang Nuo also noticed it. He looked forward along the ruts and saw the indentations that had been cleaned.
The size of this boxy one is...
…
Lake, a big lake.
The surface of the lake looked sparkling under the dazzling sunlight, but when you looked deeper, you could only see a dark, quiet color.
Is there a lake in the mountains?
There seemed to be no such thing in Gao Tianyi's impression, at least not on the map he saw when he came.
Because he continued to walk on the mountain road and shuttled through the woods, the young man could not tell where he was at the moment.
Gao Tianyi looked back and could only see the shadow of the tree swallowing up all the wind.
In front of him were excited children whose faces could not be seen clearly. They gathered together, pointing to the lake and whispering.
"This is it...what a beautiful lake."
"Is it a little deep? Will I fall?"
"No, just be careful."
"Can we see it today?"
"I don't know...ask Wen Tao?"
"Wen Tao" himself was called several times before he realized that the name was referring to him, and then turned his head.
The first time he looked back, a face with high-intensity soft light appeared in front of him. Even though Gao Tianyi thought he had a good psychological endurance, being stared at blankly made the young man's heart skip a beat.
I was scared, but I was also frightened.
"A Tao." The child's voice had not yet changed, so he couldn't tell whether he was male or female, so he had to judge from his clothing and hairstyle that it was a boy in front of him, "Is it here?"
"Hmm? Hmm...huh?"
The tone changed several times, and Gao Tianyi's mind was full of: What's here, what's there?
Memories from childhood are never so detailed. Except for some impressive fragments, they become blurred. Moreover, it was not Gao Tianyi who recited Wen Tao's memories, but Qi Zhuyue.
The young man stood there numbly, thinking about how he should answer.
When he realized that he had fallen asleep, he was wondering whether to wake up.
Gao Tianyi can do it. He can leave the dreamland with a little magic, and he can also wake up Tang Nuo and Qi Zhuyue together.
Thinking about the target for which he needed to collect clues, and then working with the two adults, he continued to follow the plot of the dream.
But... shouldn't he be walking?
Ask Qi Zhuyue this question and she might not know how to answer it.
Gao Tianyi hummed for a while, and finally responded vaguely: "Yes...I'm not very sure either."
The boy who couldn't see his face clearly received a specious answer, and he didn't care, but helped "Wen Tao" continue speaking.
"That's right. Adults always avoid talking to us children. I guess your parents haven't made it clear to you." The boy began to explain himself, "I only heard it after listening to the corner for a few days. I heard 'Lake 'The adults mentioned this word several times."
"We only have this lake in the mountains, and we can only find it here."
The children finished whispering and began to disperse in twos and threes.
Until this moment, Gao Tianyi still didn't understand why he followed him here.
Maybe he was looking for something, but what was he looking for?
Gao Tianyi quietly followed the boy who had talked to him. Because he couldn't see his face clearly, he could only remember the hair and clothes on the back of the person's head, and followed step by step.
"A Tao, do you really not remember?"
"No...don't remember."
"Eh, there's nothing we can do about it."
After walking around the lake for a few steps, it took a lot of effort for a child to walk around the lake. After approaching the location near the mountain wall, Gao Tianyi vaguely saw a trace of light behind the stream covered by woods. Dark color that looks like a hole.
Before he could take a closer look, the boy called out to him.
Gao Tianyi turned his head again and saw that several of his "little friends" who were traveling with him had rolled up their trousers and got into the water.
It is a sunny day now, and the lake surface is warmed by the sun without feeling cool.
However, it is too much for a seven or eight-year-old child to go into the water! What are the reasons for so many drowning accidents every year?
The young man suddenly felt a sense of crisis. He tried to stop him, but he only received a disapproving wave.
"I originally planned to go to the mountain stream to catch some fish and bring it back to my parents. I think it's the same thing here at the lake. Besides, everyone has good water skills, so it'll be fine."
No, something is wrong!
Gao Tianyi felt that the depth of the mountain stream was completely incomparable with the depth of the lake. The two were not as likely to cause drowning casualties!
The young man could only lean towards the water. He muttered in his heart, wondering if he would drown someone in his dream. His water skills were not that good.
Thanks to what he was wearing - the hem of the skirt was so high, Gao Tianyi could step into the water as long as he took off his shoes. Also due to his height, he felt that he could still lift a child with one hand -
His inner thoughts suddenly stopped. The young man's neck drooped and he looked at the lake that reached his ankles.
This water... is so heavy.
…
Anguish, worry.
Why did things become like this?
Late at night, there was a faint figure standing in the room. He was standing in front of the person's bed and also in the center of the room.
Monsters don't dream.
The last time Bai Su "dreamed", he entered the dream net compiled by the wooden Buddha for humans through special ritual means, and this time, he could only watch.
"Alas..." There was a long sigh in the air, and the figure squatted down, crouching next to one big and one small.
The older one had a relaxed expression, smelling of alcohol, while the younger one frowned, as if he was trapped in an endless nightmare.
The two people next door are the same as this one.
Bai Su snapped his fingers twice. Only the big human's eyelids trembled, as if he was about to wake up.
In the end, he still slept there drowsily, and even had his hand touched by Bai Su - using Gao Tianyi's hand.
The young man who was waved by the black-haired young man still didn't wake up, and even the frown between his eyebrows did not change at all.
Then, Bai Su lifted his chin, opened his other hand like a claw, and the white buds extending from his fingertips crisscrossed up and down with the gesture.
Why did he study the human brain last time... He had to use the brain stem? Or some other place?
There were cell phone pictures as a reference before, and the target was also the stupid An Xiangwen... No, he was actually not very stupid.
Bai Su lowered his head, released the hand holding his chin, took out his cell phone and pressed it a few times.
A few seconds later, the young man made a confused voice: "Huh?"
On the screen of the mobile phone that lights up, a big cross is drawn in the signal bar in the upper right corner - there is no signal.
At the same time, rain dropped on the eaves outside the window.
(End of chapter)
