As the sun sets in the west, the sky is gray-blue mixed with the intoxicating flush of the setting sun.

All of them were hazy, Lu Ran squinted his eyes, and felt that the front disappeared into a dark color, and he couldn't see clearly.

Night, it's coming.

At this time, Lu Ran was no longer walking in the labyrinthine red brick wall.

The scene along the road has changed several times over time.

From the old houses of red bricks and green tiles to the brick houses made of mud, you can still see the thatched covers of this house when you look up, they are one after another, covering one after another yellow mud houses.

The house was older and shorter than the previous one, reminding him of the little mud hut where his father lived in his hometown in the countryside.

At this time, Lu Ran could conclude that these were indeed houses, but these houses were still facing away from him, and they were just surrounded by walls.

He still didn't give up, and kept going, and finally, the walls on the left and right didn't extend any further!

"It's the end?"

He stood in the middle of two walls, in front of a clump of weeds.

The weeds grew extremely high, reaching the top of Lu Ran's head, blocking in front of him, and connecting with the edges of the two high walls.

If he hadn't walked through this weed, he would have been completely blocked.

With no choice, Lu Ran peeled off the dense weeds with both hands and stepped in with one foot first.

He stepped on it, and it was still on the ground.

Then he stretched his head to the weed, and then his whole body went through.

Lu Ran raised his head, lowered his head and looked around.

"Oh my God, where am I?"

After a while, Lu Ran roughly understood what kind of place this was.

It's no longer crappy like in the labyrinth, on the contrary, it's very wide.

There is a whole land, woods, birds and sky.

Under his feet was a thick earth, and in front of him was a forest, full of tall trees, banyans, pines, and some plants which he could not name, like a forest, with squirrels running through the trees and birds flying.

Lu Ran exhaled deeply, "This road is quite spacious, but you have to tell me where to go." ”

Looking at this natural beauty, he was speechless.

He turned on his phone again and looked, "It's almost six o'clock." ”

There is not much time left for me, there are roads everywhere, but there seems to be no roads.

"No matter what, I can't be stuck here. Lu Ran thought and began to walk towards the forest in front of him.

When he looked up again and saw that the sky was turning gray and blue, and the sky was beginning to take on the red glow of the setting sun, he had already turned around the forest four or five times.

Each time he would go back to where he started.

"No......" Lu Ran was sweating profusely and stopped.

"This place is the same as the maze just now, it is so unreasonable, and it must not be possible to turn out with ordinary people's methods.

This place seems to be wide, but it is still a labyrinth that cannot be walked out. ”

When he thought about this, a light suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

In the distance, in the forest, there was a lamp, a faint kerosene lamp.

Outside the glass cover of the kerosene lamp is the arm of a man, the arm of a man carrying a kerosene lamp.

Lu Ran kept his eyes open, trying his best to let his eyes see farther away in the night that was about to fall.

It was a man, a man who stood less than a hundred meters away from him, a man he hadn't seen in the woods four or five times before.

"Whether it's a human or a ghost, I'll have to go up and see what is going on. Lu Ran thought about it and walked towards the man.

He quickened his pace as he shouted, "Hello, this is someone, please wait."

He knew that this person who appeared inexplicably in the woods must be his last hope, and if there was no guide, he would be lost in this forest where night fell.

The man carrying the lantern didn't know if he heard Lu Ran's cry, he was always there, and the light didn't move in the slightest.

When he finally walked in front of the lantern man, he slowly saw the man's face through the faint light.

"You, aren't you the old man who sold me sunglasses?" Lu Ran was surprised, he saw this old man in a bustling downtown during the day today, why did he see him again in this deep mountain and old forest at this time?

Lu Ran couldn't help but wonder in his heart and cried out.

The old man did not answer him directly, but raised his index finger and put it between his lips to make a silent gesture.

"Shhhh ”

"Why? Can't you talk here? There's no one here. Lu Ran asked.

"Quietly. He could feel it. I'm here to help you. ”

"I really need help right now. Who did you just say would feel it, what would it feel?"

Although Lu Ran didn't know why the old man wanted him to be quiet, he still followed his instincts and lowered his voice. Intuition told him that this old man was the only one who could help him get out, and that it was best to listen to him.

"He is the creator of this forest and the creator of this entire labyrinth. ”

"Labyrinth? It turns out that this is really a labyrinth, do you mean that someone created this forest, and that the tortuous road I walked before was also created by this person?"

The old man nodded, he didn't answer Lu Ran's words immediately, he seemed to be thinking about how to explain this to Lu Ran.

Lu Ran looked at the old man, and then asked, "Old man, is the person you are talking about Huang Rui, Mr. Huang?"

When the old man heard Lu Ran's question, he looked up at Lu Ran, and his chaotic eyes burst out with a look of surprise and joy.

In the night, he looked at the young man who was also looking at him with a burning eye, and seemed to see some kind of hope.

Slowly, he calmed down his agitation.

"I didn't think anyone would understand, even though you were his doctor, I thought you wouldn't understand. ”

The old man said slowly.

"Rui, this child, there is nothing bad, he has been obedient since he was a child, we used to be neighbors, when I was scavenging with his father, I often saw this child, he saw me, he called uncle, and I also bought candy for him to eat. ”

"Ah, you're saying you're neighbors, and you and his dad used to scavenge together?"

"yes. I'm ashamed to say that we would all be so poor. ”

"I've never heard Huang Rui talk about this. And what about his mother?"

"His mother, because she couldn't stand the poverty of the family, left the family when he was very young, and he was very young without a mother. ”

"So that's ......" Hearing this, Lu Ran not only had a trace of sympathy for what happened to him in the past.

This kind of sympathy is not simple pity, but an imaginary one's own position, if he is Huang Rui, what kind of mood will it be, and how to accept such a fate?

This is an excellent counselor, a counselor who truly cares and understands the client, and the feelings that will arise are called "empathy" in the profession.

Lu Ran continued to ask, "By the way, have you heard about him stealing in the supermarket, what is going on, is it related to his family's poverty?"

"Well, it's okay, but it's not because he's greedy for money. The old man said a little excited, shook his head, "That year, his father in order to save money to pay his tuition, life was very poor, his father always saved all the delicious food to him, he felt sorry for his father, only then saw the food in the mall, wanted to buy it back for his father, when he had to pay the bill, he remembered that his money was not enough, the people in the store caught him, and when they saw that his clothes were tattered, they thought that he was here to steal." ”

Hearing Huang Rui's experience, Lu Ran felt a deeper layer of "sympathy" for him, and a trace of respect.

"He is so sensible, and he knows how to honor his father. Lu Ran praised him.

"It's just that he's so pathetic. His father ......" The old man talked about his father, which reminded Lu Ran.

"By the way, old man, what's wrong with his father, is he okay now? Why does Huang Rui always say that there is a killer organization that wants to kill his father?"