"Quick, get up! Let's escape from here together!" I grabbed Tanizaki.
Tanizaki let out a weak moan, but it was quickly suppressed by my fiery eyes.
"younger sister……"
"Yes, you still have a sister. You have to get out of here for your sister!" I struck while the iron was hot and held Tanizaki's hand tightly.
I don't know what he just saw, but nothing can defeat everyone in the detective agency!
"Si Ye, let's go!" I was delighted to see his eyes light up.
"Find the exit?"
"Find the exit!"
He stood up and opened the barrier of fine snow.
I looked at the fine snow floating around me like musical notes, and no matter how anxious I was, I could not get hotter.
We pushed forward hard.
But there is a saying that goes well, you can only be handsome for three seconds...
"Si Ye, run!"
"I'm running!"
"I said, run!!"
"I'm running!!"
"No, you should look back and look around!!"
"What...ahhhhhhhh!!"
After hearing Tanizaki's roar, I turned around impatiently.
I saw countless bats with wings spread one meter wide rushing toward us.
They are so dark that they make people fearful. In this case, Tanizaki's fine snow may not be effective.
The green eyes behind us were getting closer and closer, and the billowing dust kept pouring into our mouths.
"Bah, bah, bah!" I was forced to shut my mouth.
Finally, I found a two-meter-high boulder not far away on the left.
I shouted to Tanizaki several times, but he was obviously too nervous to hear me. I had no choice but to hit him hard against the back of the rock when I got close to it.
After an unknown amount of time, the roar of bat wings finally disappeared. Tanizaki and I were able to relax and catch our breath.
After calming down, I accidentally glanced at the rock wall with the faint firelight.
"Tanizaki, look!"
I reminded him to look at the murals around him.
There are lifelike patterns on the murals.
Each mark is like a wrinkle of time on the old man's face, silently standing on the rock wall.
The colorful and dreamy lights are born from these ravines.
I gently rubbed every mark with my fingertips.
The painting above must have been carefully carved by someone, so you should appreciate it carefully.
"Si Ye, did you look carefully at the pattern on it?" Tanizaki asked quietly, holding his breath.
"Not yet." I looked over and marveled at its god-like carving skills.
"Look carefully, the people above seem to be...us!"
The air was frozen, but there still seemed to be sharp ice cubes sliding through it.
I took a few steps back and thought about it.
Indeed, no matter how abstract the painting is, it can be identified based on its features. The two people in the painting are indeed Tanizaki and me!
In the picture, Tanizaki and I sometimes appear together, and sometimes the picture shows our separate stories.
Simply, there was no one before I came into this world.
But I still feel a chill. Could it be that someone has been watching our privacy before? And then it was engraved here exactly? !
Enduring the discomfort, we continued walking along the painting to the right.
This painting seems to be arranged in chronological order, because the last one is the scene where Tanizaki and I are embarrassed and hiding from bats behind a boulder.
"It's really, really bad." Tanizaki kept rubbing his cheeks with his palms.
"It should be someone's superpower, right?" I said my inference.
"Why?" he asked puzzled.
"Look at this mural. This scene is me celebrating the New Year with my family, but this is obviously my dream... They can't be seen by anyone!"
"Yes, I understand." A different emotion flashed on the young man's face, and he lowered his head timidly.
"Well, let's go." I nodded and prepared to leave with Tanizaki.
There are no murals in that direction.
We walked in silence, one behind the other, no one said anything.
When I reached the end of the light, my heart suddenly became cold. This is not a peach garden, but steep cliffs and jagged rocks.
"what to do?"
"I don't know what to do, hey..."
I sighed heavily.
Just as he was about to turn around, there was another roar.
"Tanizaki, lower your head!"
"What?!"
I looked at him helplessly, and it was too late to explain anything.
Then, there was a violent feeling of weightlessness, and we both glimpsed the blue sky at the same time.
Well, we were both shoveled away by a swarm of bats!
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"
The breeze blows slowly, and the youthful roars of the teenagers echo in this different space, echoing...
…
"Can you explain why you two appeared in a pile of bird feathers?" Kunikida pushed up the frame of his glasses and pursed his lips into a straight line.
"We are in a cave..."
"A bunch of bats, flying around..."
"Then it appeared several times..."
"We were kicked off the last time..."
"Well, Si Ye is right."
"Tanizaki said the same thing."
We looked at each other for a moment, then nodded very seriously.
"Pfft..." Dazai laughed uncontrollably.
Kunikida's face turned even more ugly, but he simply diverted the flames of the war and turned around to scold Dazai.
"While you were on duty, we learned that Mr. Kojima was a carrier of homing pigeons, and that commission was a complete trap." Atsushi handed over two cups of hot water.
"Are you okay then?" I asked.
"I'm fine," Atsushi sat down in front of us. "I went to pour water for Mr. Kojima, and he happened to go to the toilet, so he missed Kyoka. It took a long time before we noticed him. Ran away."
"Later, Mr. Dazai took out the handkerchief Mr. Kojima had used from somewhere...it had the logo of the carrier pigeon sewn on it." Kyoka walked forward.
"About what time did Mr. Kojima leave?" I raised my pocket watch and took a look.
"Around four o'clock, I'm not sure exactly."
"That happened to be the time when Tanizaki and I were ambushed."
"By the way, since Xing Ge has caused trouble for the detective agency so many times, don't the seniors have any ideas?" I finally couldn't help it anymore and asked.
"Well, it's like this, Si Ye-kun," Dazai shrugged, "A well-known big club like ours will always be troubled. If it's not something that harms members' lives or property, or if we have a commission, we generally won't take the initiative to retaliate. .”
"Can……"
"The only bug that Mr. Si Ye knows about is the homing pigeon. That's because many of them have been secretly solved by other colleagues~" Dazai's amber-like pupils flashed with golden light.
Although I was still a little unwilling, after listening to his explanation, I really had nothing to say and had to lie back on the sofa to rest.
"But by the way, Mr. Dazai, what did you use the money from Mr. Kojima for?" I raised my head and asked.
"Oh, the clues we provided to an out-of-town detective at that time~ If Si Yejun is interested, he will be arriving in an hour or two. Can we pick him up together then?"
"sure!"
