"Is this obvious enough?" Yu Deshui lifted one leg and rested on the other, his foot resting on the pedal, his waist moved back, and his back was leaning against the bar.

"About seven years ago," Mo Yuan looked at the cups left by the three of them at the bar, "It was summer vacation, and when I was a student, I used to soak in the community library and read some books on world history. ”

Xiaolan's upper body leaned back slightly, just like Deshui, leaning her back against the bar, her expression relaxed, looking at Mo Yuan gently, listening to him recount his memories, whether or not she had heard it.

"I usually go by in the morning when the museum opens, and over time, I fix a spot, and that location is good, lukewarm. One day, I noticed a woman who had never been there before, who had come every day since I noticed her, and her appearance had never changed - a thin gray down jacket, long hair that was slightly disheveled, soft brown, and some sticky bangs on her forehead. It's a very strange outfit, and although I don't have a problem with everyone's personality, it's still strange to wear a down jacket in the summer. So, I moved closer to her—she sat near the exit, and I sat diagonally across from her desk, a row from her. ”

Yu Deshui nodded.

She hung a clear plastic bag from a convenience store on the side of the wooden chair she was sitting on. The plastic bag was stuffed with clumps of white paper, like the ones that came with the food at a nearby fast-food restaurant, a black trifold umbrella, a bag of food in simple packaging, a green screw-top kettle, and what seemed to be something like strips of cloth, which were messily stuffed into the bag. I noticed that the edges of the pouch were trembling slightly, and her hair was slightly disturbed. When she looked up, sure enough, above her head, there was an air conditioning outlet. ”

"Oh?" Yu Deshui seemed to have discovered something, "There are some causal relationships to be confirmed here...... Perhaps, some of them, and there is no causal ......"

"She also has a dark green leather satchel, hanging on the other side of the wooden chair, the luster is dull, a little loose, I don't know what's inside", Mo Yuan didn't pause, "about touching the lunch meal, she put down the book in her hand, took off the down jacket, which was a camel-colored linen shirt, stepped back the chair, stood up, held the coat in her left hand, and the bag on her right shoulder, leaving the plastic bag to hang on the chair, and walked towards the exit. Without the cover of the table, I could see that she was wearing a pair of blue wide-mouth jeans, shabby but clean, a pair of flat black leather shoes, and walking quietly. ”

"Actually, ......", but seeing that Mo Yuan still didn't mean to pause, Yu Deshui swallowed back the words on his lips, and saw Xiaolan indifferently and calmly, just looking at Mo Yuan with a rare tenderness in his eyes - but there was always a kind of defensiveness and a little cold arrogance towards him.

By the time I got back to the library after lunch, she was back in her seat, her gray down jacket back on, an extra Coke cup in her left hand, which should be from a nearby fast-food restaurant, and a slender spoon in her right hand. From time to time, she poked the slender spoon into the cup, the mouth of the cup was close to her mouth, and the spoon kept scooping something from the bottom of the cup to her mouth - like small balls or something", Mo Yuan's eyes suddenly fell on the cups they had used on the bar, a small black worm was slowly crawling along the mouth of the cup, Mo Yuan's eyes flickered, and the little insect disappeared, Xu flew away, Xu fell into the cup.

"What's wrong with the cups?" Yu Deshui turned his head to look at the cups.

"There's a little bug, I just didn't expect it to be ...... in this place of more than 700 meters"

"Maybe there are cockroaches or something here", Xiaolan interrupted Mo Yuan, "Don't go wrong, go on." ”

"Well, at first, I thought she was just picking up a cup and taking a few bites when she just wanted to eat casually, but then it turned out that she would only pick up the cup and take a few puffs with a small spoon when someone walked past her, and I even suspected that it was just a pretense. In this way, it lasted for half an hour, and no one noticed her strange behavior, as if she didn't exist, or, in the whole library, in fact, she was the only one, how could anyone pay attention. Suddenly, she stood up, picked up the cup, which should have been an empty cup, and walked towards the exit, and in the passage she passed, there was a garbage recycling can, and she passed by there with the cup", Mo Yuan paused, "and did not throw the cup in, but continued to hold it, and left the library. When I came back, it had been a long time, and there was no cup left in my hand. ”

"A strange person. Yu Deshui said.

"She, every day, nothing has changed, until one day", Mo Yuan's eyes showed a little regret, "She didn't come, and the day after that, she still didn't come, for seven days, she didn't appear again." ”

"Are you sick, are you going to travel, or are you ......?" Yu Deshui asked, and then he lost his voice in amusement.

"I still go to the library every day, as usual. It was a rainy day, there was no wind, the rain was very quiet, thin, not dense, she finally appeared again, still wearing a gray thin down jacket, but with long black smooth hair, bangs on the forehead, fluffy and textured. I was a little surprised by her own changes, and inadvertently, after watching for a long time, she noticed me. ”

"Oh?" Yu Deshui was a little excited.

Xiaolan listened silently.

"When she looked at me, I noticed that there was something strange about her eyes—although she was looking at me head-on, her eyes were not focused on me, her left eye was slightly outward, her right eye was slightly upward, and it was obvious that there was a little too much sclera. ”

"Does she have a disability in her eyes?" asked Yu Deshui.

"I think so," Mo Yuan responded, "that day, when it was time for lunch, she didn't get up, she still sat there, reading a book. I waited a while, but when she didn't move, I got up and prepared to leave the library to forage for food. As I passed her, I slowed down and saw that there were some grayish-black stains on the hems of her wide-cuffed jeans, some mud marks on the flat-soled black leather shoes, and the book in her hand was still on the first page. She suddenly looked up at me, and I didn't know what to say or what to say. 'How long have you been paying attention to me?' I'm a strange person, aren't I?' she asked me. 'No, you're just unique. I responded to her. She smiled, lowered her head and continued to read, turning the next page. I walked out of the library, the rain was still falling, quiet, sparse, I didn't have an umbrella, and I felt the coolness of the drizzle across my cheeks. After a short while, suddenly, a dazzling bright light, a violent sound, a wave of air that broke through the window—I was instantly knocked to the ground, countless shattered glass shards, flying towards me, the pain spreading all over my body, until I was visceral, and my mouth was full of rust. I couldn't move, my whole body was lying on my stomach like a dead body, only my head was barely on my side, one eye was pressed to the ground, the other was barely open, and in the narrow field of vision, there was a wreckage, and no one could be seen. Intense tinnitus, I couldn't hear the cries for help, I couldn't hear anything. The black spots, the eyes were all black spots, denser and denser, until, it was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything, and I closed my eyes. The darkness made the pain and burning all over my body more intense, but fortunately, the drizzle soaked my body, and the insignificant gentleness and coolness were my only comfort. ”

Silent.

Xiao Lan, or rather, Yu Deshui, it seems, are all trapped in their own memories—perhaps, it is a different but similar experience from Mo Yuan.

"What kind of book is that?" Xiaolan broke the silence.

"Asuka set. Mo Yuan replied.

"Well, she, in her own way, has left a mark. Xiaolan said.

"Yes. Then, with the help of the Internet, I screened her through her eye features in the national medical record database and finally determined her identity, an orphan in a transnational welfare home, who was born in country Y and abandoned by her biological parents because of her congenital disability. As for the welfare home that adopted her, the information that could be found was very clean, and as a student, I had to give up going deeper. ”

"Is that why you joined your Ministry of State Security?" asked Yu Deshui.

"No, there's another reason for that. Of course", Mo Yuan looked at Xiaolan and said, "After entering the Ministry of State Security, I easily found out the organization behind that incident. ”

"St. Mary. Xiaolan said with Mo Yuan.