Teaching continues.
Yan Yueming squatted on the other side of the pen, carefully recalling what he saw after entering the gap, and suddenly asked: "The world in the gap...there are no indigenous people, right? In fact, these houses are not inhabited by living people, and some are just a strip of water." One rule?"
Li Zheng: "Yes and no."
Yan Yueming was confused.
Li Zheng asked back: "Have you forgotten the reality of the world?"
Yan Yueming: "We are actually characters in a novel, paper figures?"
"The paper man's world is created. It is always changing and being created. The consciousness of the world hates that humans are out of control, so in these gaps, it tries every means to deprive humans of their self-awareness and keep them there forever. Here, then, is the reinvention.”
"Recreation?"
When Yan Yueming heard these three words, he felt a little creepy for no reason.
Li Zheng raised his hand and gently touched the mottled patterns on the wall. His eyes were neither sad nor happy, "A likes knitting, and B is an old lady. They didn't obey the discipline, so they removed the parts that didn't obey the discipline, and thus the birth of C, an old lady who likes to knit. She will no longer have her own unique soul or thoughts. Everything about her will become boring settings like you see. Maybe she will come back after a long time. One D, he wore black-rimmed glasses and died here without being able to get out, so in the setting of the old lady, she also wore black-rimmed reading glasses."
Yan Yueming was scared to death.
He doesn’t want to become an old lady’s glasses!
"Then what if there is some kind of wilderness in the gap? There are no houses where anyone lives!"
"Then you will become..."
Li Zheng looked at Yan Yueming squatting on the ground, thought for a while, and said: "The dried puppy hanging on the tree."
Yan Yueming was really shocked that the puppy was still air-dried. He also saw that Li Zheng was deliberately scaring him, but he would really be scared.
It's too awful.
This is really tragic.
No wonder my aunt is so optimistic after being able to change from a boy to a girl. At least she is still a human being!
Seeing his eyes widening, Li Zheng suddenly chuckled and said, "Just think... that Si Buxiang is writing a fan fiction that will be criticized by everyone who reads it. It's funny, exaggerated, incomprehensible, That’s bullshit.”
Yan Yueming: "Huh???"
After saying this, the scary atmosphere immediately disappeared, and Yan Yueming even wanted to laugh a little. Is this the sense of humor that belongs to mature men?
Li Zheng retracted his hand and put it in his pocket, and continued slowly: "The consciousness of the world does not like any unique and free soul. If you stay here for a long time, even if you are not injured in the physical sense, you will have mental problems, and gradually Forget who you are until you completely die here. People outside will also forget you. The memory in your brain seems to be erased. Only the core database of the Qi Bureau can leave a record of a person's existence in a special way. . But that’s just a cold record, and it may never be read again.”
Hearing this, Yan Yueming remembered the conversation at the funeral home that day. He asked Li Zheng why the official statement was always vague about the third major feature of the rules.
Li Zheng answered him: Because he can't remember.
Did it turn out that so many people were caught in the cracks? But people outside have forgotten them. No one remembers them, and it is as if death does not exist.
So if my aunt had not been rescued, would I have forgotten her?
Yan Yueming simply didn't dare to think about it, but at this moment, Li Zheng also told him: "You will slowly forget these words after you leave here. The officials have tried to announce everything in the gap, but there is no way , the world consciousness is causing trouble, you will always forget. Unless——"
"Unless what?" Yan Yueming asked eagerly.
"Unless you go back and forth in the gap many times, let these things leave indelible traces in your soul, and you will never forget them. But this is undoubtedly a dangerous thing, and no one wants to live such a life. .”
"So they want us to think nothing, know nothing...right? They just tell us over and over again, don't break the rules, don't get into the cracks, live your life."
A white lie is also a kind of kindness. The people at the rescue station will always smile and say to you: I wish you a happy life and everything goes as usual.
People carefully maintained this "normality", but at this moment, Yan Yueming still felt a chill in his heart. He has lived in Shangfangcheng for 23 years. Everyone often curses at "Xiang", and they are also fond of homophonic memes like "Qi Xiang Bureau". He seems to have the upper hand steadily, but its true horror seems to be revealed only now. In front of him.
Seeing that Yan Yueming was in a daze, Li Zheng did not continue, but turned around and walked back slowly. Yan Yueming followed him subconsciously and followed him back to the study.
Li Zheng's eyes stayed on the bookshelf, but he seemed to be just reading the books leisurely and did not do anything special.
It wasn't until Yan Yueming collected her thoughts that she looked at him again. Just when she was about to speak, she saw Li Zheng walking behind the second bookshelf and moving a brass ornament on the bookshelf.
As the sound of gears rotated, the bookshelf split to both sides, revealing a passage at the back. It was a circular passage like a slide, going downwards.
Yan Yueming was surprised, "That's amazing. Senior, how did you know there was a secret door here?"
Li Zheng said lightly: "Look at the books on the bookshelf."
Yan Yueming looked at it again and found that among the rows and rows of books, there were many books about institutions and secret passages. This must be the hobby of the owner of the house, so it is not surprising that there is a secret passage in this house.
The wanderer on No. 11 got the hint from the bookshelf and left along the secret passage, so there was no trace of the stairs down the stairs? Everything seems to be explained.
Yan Yueming thought carefully, and finally said: "Then if the third child is not mistaken, the paper ball was indeed thrown to me by him as a kind reminder. The Hobo marks outside the house were also left by him. Really? He looks unkempt, as if he has been wandering here for a long time. Should he possibly know the Hobo Mark?"
"Not sure." Li Zheng's answer surprised Yan Yueming. In his blind worship, Senior Li seemed to know everything.
But Senior Li noticed there was a secret passage here early on, right? Fortunately, I carefully explored all the way and analyzed a lot of things in a serious manner, but the results were not as good as others opening them casually.
Yan Yueming's ears felt a little hot and she was very embarrassed.
Li Zheng was not embarrassed when he saw him acting like a hooligan early in the morning, but now he is, which is a bit interesting. That pair of black-rimmed glasses was really ugly, and now they were even uglier with gauze covering them.
The optical shop in Shangfangcheng will definitely close down tomorrow.
"Let's go."
The lecture continued, and Li Zheng took Yan Yueming out. As he walked, he said: "Your guess is not wrong. When I got here a week ago, the mark had not appeared yet. Remember, whether you see the mark or not, trust the access instructions first. If there is an accident, follow the emergency instructions first. right."
Hearing this, Yan Yueming's eyes brightened slightly.
Did he praise me? Is he complimenting me? In fact, what I, Xiao Ming, did was pretty good, right?
Li Zheng glanced at him and then looked away ruthlessly. The two of them quickly reached the corner of the stairs. There was also a window here, and they could just see the lighted No. 9 next door.
"Tell me." Li Zheng stopped again, "What did you see?"
Yan Yueming looked carefully. He couldn't see anything despite the distance of more than ten meters and the curtains. However, he could repeat his previous findings, focusing on his observations of the rear compartment.
Li Zheng did not expect that Yan Yueming could observe so carefully. For a person who entered the gap for the first time and was alone and scared, he had already done far better than most people.
"I went to No. 9 just now." Li Zheng said.
"So you have those woolen yarns?" Yan Yueming reacted. He just said, how could Senior Li carry wool and crochet hooks in his pockets?
But at this moment, Li Zheng asked him: "Who is Xiaohong?"
Yan Yueming was stuck.
If I said Xiaohong was you, would you be willing?
Yan Yueming thought that he was unwilling, so he told the truth about how he left the note and what his plans were. Li Zheng said: "Then go and verify it."
"Verify it?" Yan Yueming was puzzled, but Li Zheng had already left, so he had no choice but to follow.
The two left No. 11 and did not go in the direction of No. 9. Instead, they headed in the direction of No. 13, all the way south along the asphalt road to the location of the red car.
"Open it." Li Zheng said.
How to open it? Open with bare hands?
Seeing that Li Zheng didn't want to help, Yan Yueming walked around the car several times and felt that he had no idea where to start. It was like scratching my head, scratching a piece of gauze, and suddenly I remembered that I was still injured. I touched the wound and grinned in pain.
He couldn't help but look at Li Zheng, who was watching beside him with his arms folded.
He is so handsome.
Yan Yueming quickly looked away and focused all his attention on the car. Finally, he found a broken steel pipe to use as a crowbar, and with all his strength, he finally pried open the deformed rear compartment.
He kept his eyes closed while prying. When a "crunching" sound was heard and the car cover was finally pried open, he carefully opened one eye and looked over, and found a few of the most common red plastic bags. The bag was somewhat torn. It contained chickens and ducks that had been killed, and there was blood oozing out.
It turns out to be chickens and ducks.
Yan Yueming breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it wasn't a human body.
"Answer me now, what is your judgment?" Li Zheng's voice came from behind.
"Did I misunderstand them? A family of three, maybe they came back from visiting relatives in the outer city and brought some free-range chickens and ducks to eat?" This is the most logical guess.
Li Zheng stepped forward and spread his hands to Yan Yueming. Yan Yueming was stunned for a moment before realizing that he was going to get a crowbar, so he immediately handed it over.
I saw Li Zheng rummaging around in the back compartment with a crowbar, turning the chickens and ducks over and over again. He also leaned over and looked into the deformed compartment, but he still kept a certain distance to prevent dust and blood. Get even a little bit of it on yourself.
Finally, he threw away the crowbar, patted the non-existent dust on his hands, and said, "This back compartment has been loaded with other things before."
Yan Yueming was confused and curious, "What?"
Li Zheng: "People."
Yan Yueming's heart skipped a beat.
Li Zheng: "Chickens and ducks are just a cover-up. It should be after dumping the body, I was afraid that the blood inside would not be cleaned in time to arouse suspicion, so I bought some other meat and put it in. There were traces of fingernail scratches on the inner wall of the carriage, and there was also blood Fingerprints, animals don’t have human fingers.”
Hearing this, Yan Yueming took a closer look at the place where Li Zheng had rummaged just now, and sure enough he found clues. In this way, his previous intuition was not wrong, there was something wrong with that family of three!
"Then what should we do now?" Yan Yueming asked.
"There is only one reason why world consciousness kills people, but there are thousands of reasons why people kill people. What do you think is more terrifying, or people?" Li Zheng asked.
Yan Yueming didn't have the answer. He was just an ordinary Xiao Ming. How could he think of such a profound question? He shook his head honestly, "I don't know."
Just then, the third child appeared. No. 12, where he was, was not far from here. He ran over reluctantly and muttered, "Damn it, there's really class..."
Li Zheng glanced over, he was honest again, shrugged, and said: "The family of three on the 9th came over. The little girl has a fever and asked us for help. I've seen it, and the fever is indeed quite severe, and everyone is a little confused. .”
He was looking at Li Zheng, and Li Zheng looked at Yan Yueming, "Do you think you can help me?"
"Help." Yan Yueming didn't hesitate.
He is not a saint and does not have a particularly high moral level. If something happened to that couple, he might still hesitate. But it was the little girl who had the fever. Such a young child was innocent. If he didn't help, he would not be able to sleep in the future.
"How can I help?" Li Zheng asked calmly: "We haven't found any external access yet, and we can't seek medical treatment in time. What are you going to do?"
Yan Yueming frowned and thought deeply, then suddenly he had an idea and said: "No. 2! The mark on No. 2 is 'free doctor', there may be antipyretics there!"
Li Zheng raised his eyebrows slightly, "Then you go to get medicine on the 2nd?"
Yan Yueming: "Me?"
Li Zheng: "Don't you want to help?"
Yan Yueming's eyes widened even though his black-rimmed glasses couldn't hide them. He turned to look at the third child, "That couple, the woman injured her leg, and the man only injured one arm, right? That was shot by No. 4."
The third child: "Yes."
Yan Yueming: "Dad should save his daughter, shouldn't he go? Ask him if he is willing to go? His leg is not injured. If he is not willing to go, why did he come to ask us for help? Isn't father's love great? I can't do it. I've never been a father. I really can't do it alone. No. 4 can also shoot, and Xiao Ming will die with one shot..."
He muttered and rambled, successfully making the third child laugh. He ignored Li Zheng's murderous gaze and smiled so loudly that he patted him on the shoulder and said: "Hahahaha Boss Li, where did you get this from?" Junior brother, it’s wonderful.”
Li Zheng brushed his hand away coldly, "Are you happy?"
The third child then became serious, made a gesture like zipping up his mouth, and then spread his hands.
"Put the things in the trunk." Li Zheng said, then looked at Yan Yueming, met his expectant gaze, and said, "Go back and say what you just said to that man again."
Yan Yueming was a little worried, "Will he hit me?"
Li Zheng said with great interest, "Don't worry, I will protect you."
