The rapid development of South Korea has not only brought its people a relatively wealthy material life, but also given them many other things, such as self-confidence, inferiority, anxiety, and extremes.
Seoul is located in the northwest of South Korea. It is the largest and most prosperous city in South Korea. It is also one of the cities with the highest population density in the world.
A young man wearing a hoodie hurried past on a street full of neon lights. The young man was tall and well-proportioned, carrying a schoolbag. His clothes were a little thin in winter. But he didn't seem to care, and the young man stood out among the passers-by.
The young man's hat blocked most of his face. Occasionally, girls passing by him would show surprise when they saw his face and look at the young man more. Along the way, the young man was accosted many times. When asked for his phone number, he always declined politely and tactfully.
The snow fell, and the young man stopped in front of a cafe, looked up at the falling first snow, and thought thoughtfully. The young man retracted his thoughts and glanced at the cafe. He walked in and came out with a box of cakes and several cups of coffee in his hands.
The young man continued walking forward for several hundred meters. The young man turned onto a path that wound up the mountain. The young man's eyes rested on a four-story building. There was his home, an apartment called Student House.
The young man frowned. He noticed something was wrong. The light in his room was on, but the young man didn't pay attention and walked quickly towards the apartment.
"Come back, boss." The speaker was a Korean woman in her thirties or forties. Although the woman looked a little older, her face was still pretty. Although she was wearing loose work clothes, she couldn't hide her plump body. , she was organizing boxes of pickles in the refrigerator.
"Yes, aunt, I'm back." The boy asked casually, "Is my sister coming back today?"
"No, today is not the weekend. How could they come back?"
"I know, auntie, there are coffee and cakes here, bought for you."
"Thank you boss, you are truly the gentlest man I have ever seen. Of course you are also the best boss."
"By the way, where's Ah Zhen? She's not back either?"
"Azhen really came back. Isn't it snowing today? She came back and took some clothes for the ladies and left."
The boy sat down at the bar on the first floor and chatted with the aunt.
The voices of the two people gradually became softer, and they no longer spoke Korean, but Chinese.
"Sister Ran, has anyone looked for me today?"
"What's wrong, Master?"
"Nothing, the light above is on."
"That's impossible. No stranger has ever been here."
"It's been more than a year, someone should be able to find him."
"Master, would you like me to have someone go up and take a look?"
"It's inconvenient to run around. Forget it, I can do it myself."
This apartment is not big. In addition to the kitchen, there is a dining room on the first floor, a living room filled with sofas for watching TV, and two shared bathrooms for men and women. There are five small rooms on each floor from the second to fourth floors.
Zhang Qilu lived on the top floor. He didn't care about the visitors. He walked into the room and changed his clothes as if no one else was around. He entered the bathroom and took a shower. He walked out of the bathroom wearing a light white Taoist uniform and took out a can from the refrigerator. Beer, sitting comfortably on the sofa and drinking beer.
"Zhang Qilu, Master Zhang, you are really leisurely."
"People in the Taoist sect cultivate a free and easy way. My name here is Zhang Lu. What's wrong? Do you have anything to do with me?"
Four tall, short, fat and thin people came out from around the room.
"You've made it easy for us to find you this year."
The speaker was a man of about thirty years old. He looked unkempt with stubble all over his face, but he had a square face and an upright face. The man was not tall, but very strong.
"Really? I didn't ask you to find me."
"It's freezing cold here, Master Zhang, and you didn't even ask for a hot bite. Old friends from China are here to see you. This is not the way to treat guests." The speaker was a young man in his twenties or threes. , he looks delicate but has an oily face.
"It's not hot. You can get the beer from the refrigerator."
A girl with short hair and handsome appearance in men's clothing walked up to Zhang Qilu and grabbed the beer in his hand. She didn't expect that the legendary Master Fu would not dodge and let her get his hands on him.
Look at Zhang Qilu again. The hand he was holding the beer in didn't know when he actually held a talisman.
A young man about twenty years old, with a dull appearance but sharp eyes, stood in front of the short-haired girl.
Zhang Qilu, who went by the pseudonym Zhang Lu, burped and said, "I didn't expect it would be you. Feng Linhuoshan from the Civil Special Committee."
The four people surrounded Zhang Qilu intentionally or unintentionally.
Feng Yi said, "Master Fu, you should know why we came to you, right?"
"I don't know, tell me."
"Well, let me remind you. One year ago, that is, on the afternoon of June 30, 1998. What happened in Bay City."
"Yes, where has our junior brother Yanhua gone?" Lin Xiao asked
When Zhang Qilu heard this, he put away the talisman in his hand. He said with a guilty look on his face.
"Yes, Yanhua came to help me that day. I found a lot of remote-controlled bombs in that building. At that time, Qin Dao was in danger again, so I asked Yanhua to deal with those bombs, but where did he go after that? , we really don’t know. In the past year, we have tried every means to contact the little monk and find him, but we have failed. We have a conclusion. Everyone knows that he can enter the void. He may be now Trapped somewhere in the void.”
"Why is this?"
"We also have some speculations about this, which may be related to those bombs. The bombs may have destroyed the balance of that space to some extent."
"What about Master Qin? Where is he? Is there nothing he can do?"
"I don't know where Qin Dao is at the moment. Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you, but you can rest assured that we will work hard to find a solution regarding Yanhua."
After listening to Zhang Qilu's words, several people looked at each other, and the hostility in their eyes faded a bit. Everyone confirmed that what Zhang Qilu said was true and there was no need for him to lie.
Feng Yi continued to ask, "What happened that day? As far as we know, there were only five people in Bay City that day. Except for Mr. K, the other four people did not walk out of the building. They seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. That K He also died of a heart attack a week after returning to the United States."
"Really, the heart disease is a good death for him. Forget about Master Qin's second brother, he pretended to be a pig and ate the tiger. In the end, Qin Dao and I could only barely tie with him."
"Then what?"
"Nothing happened after that. He left as soon as four o'clock passed."
Some people died, but not completely...
