Xu Yueqin looked at the scene in the dormitory, with a rare taste of her hometown house, spider shadows stacked on top of each other, stretching a slender silk thread on the dim wall, rolling together the cover, listlessly stacked on the old blackened bed board, the whole dormitory seemed empty, helpless and depressed.

"Hey. 303 students, you move quickly, the new students have already started to register. The aunt in charge of the building gave an ultimatum to Xu Yueqin, who was alone.

"Auntie, I really have nowhere to go, if you let me go out again, I will sleep on the streets." Xu Yueqin begged bitterly.

"You're going to leave as soon as you graduate, and I'll give you an accommodating summer vacation to let you find a job, and if you can't find it, who can blame you. Now that the new students are about to move in, how can you let me explain, you hurry, don't let me call someone from the school security office to help you move. After the aunt finished speaking, she glanced at Xu Yueqin with complicated eyes, turned around and left.

Surrounded by joy and excitement, the freshmen gathered into a bustling flow of people from the campus gate, looking forward to what kind of tomorrow the new campus life can bring to themselves.

More or less students will notice that a girl who looks like a senior sister is squatting at the gate of the campus, the bedding next to her is thrown aside, and the pots and pans are placed in the net pocket, quietly prostrate on the ground.

Xu Yueqin sat on the ground and silently looked at her graduation certificate, "Comrade Xu Yueqin has completed a four-year undergraduate political science major, and her grades are qualified, and she will graduate." Inadvertently, a note slipped from it, and on it was an address, Xu Yueqin stared at the note for a long time, and finally resolutely closed the graduation certificate, picked up the cover, and lifted the guy in the net pocket, in the tinkling sound of pots and pans. Got on a bus that was about to depart.

An hour later, the bus stopped next to a building with a constant flow of people, and Xu Yueqin walked down with a pale face. Regardless of the cover, the guy threw it left and right. Kneeling on the ground, "wow" spit out, the passers-by condescendingly and quickly avoided Xu Yueqin, who vomited heartbreakingly, Xu Yueqin vomited so much that there was really nothing to vomit, and the statue generally stood in front of his vomit, which was a bun of sugar water bubbles that had not been completely digested, and now even it had left him, Xu Yueqin stood up. Carrying his bags, he walked into the building with vague steps.

Entering the building, the shade on the face pressed down Xu Yueqin's irritability caused by motion sickness, and the whole building was full of people, Xu Yueqin stumbled down the stairs to the third floor, and a billboard in Nuoda wrote enthusiastically "**Welcome! ”

The few offices behind the plaque were neighing, and all kinds of voices were mixed together, like a noisy vegetable market, Xu Yueqin glanced inside. An old aunt with sharp eyes saw her.

"Ahh I was thinking about you just now, and here you are. The old lady came over with a twist, and a big face turned around with a sly eyeball.

"Aunt Liu. I'm going to do it with you. Xu Yueqin said sincerely.

"Okay, young man, if you don't fight now, wait when."

"Aunt Liu, I'm ...... I have just come out to work, and I will definitely work hard, but now I have no place to live, and you said that doing this job can solve the problem of living place. It's true, right? ”

"Ahhh Hurry up and come with me, there is no place to live. How can you have a good career? Aunt Liu took Xu Yueqin all the way to the basement of the building, and after entering a deep and dark passage, bursts of cold and damp rose, and the sparse light bulbs in the corridor emitted a faint light, and at the end of the corridor that the light could not cover, Aunt Liu pushed open a double door, and a miasma mixed with a turbid smell came to her face.

Aunt Liu entered the door and turned on the light, turned around and said, "Xiao Xu, you live here, you clean up first, I'll wait for you in the office above." ”

Xu Yueqin thanked her, watched Aunt Liu's back disappear into the deep corridor, and looked back at the room in front of her, several long benches were patched together in the Chase Shop, on which dozens of beds of different colors were arranged, and the quilts that were not folded were stacked in a disorderly manner, and the original lime gray was no longer visible on the wall behind her, like the lime pavement on the street, and the space under the benches was busy with pots and pans, tooth jars, towels and other objects.

Xu Yueqin sighed lightly, everything in front of her reminded her of her hometown, under a shadow of a kerosene lamp, the space of the room in the cave could only be roughly seen clearly, and the loess spread and undulated on the walls, like the mountains folded together in the northwest. Decaying and old furniture, listless and lifeless in desperate years.

It's better than going back to the house in your hometown!

Xu Yueqin set up her bed at the very edge, walked out of the basement, freshened herself in the bathroom of the building, took a deep breath, and walked into the office on the third floor.

Inside, there was still a roar of dragons and tigers, and the noise continued, and I walked to Aunt Liu's desk and said hello.

"Xiao Xu, sit." Aunt Liu beckoned Xu Yueqin to sit opposite her, was silent for a few seconds, and then spoke.

"Xiao Xu, I know that you are a very self-motivated girl, and I also know that your current situation is very difficult, if you want to stay in this city, if you want to gain a foothold in this city, you have to redouble your efforts to achieve your ideals."

"Yes. Aunt Liu, I will definitely do a good job, I can suffer any hardship, and I will definitely do a good job. ”

Aunt Liu smiled slightly, "I know that you must be able to bear hardships and stand hard work and work towards your goals, which is no problem, but I'm afraid I can't give you a lot of time to prove yourself!" ”

"Aunt Liu...... This? ”

"You have also seen that there are a lot of people who come to do this job, everyone can make money through this, such a good thing, people are not stupid, the company does not raise idlers, if you can't produce results immediately, you will soon be eliminated by others."

"Aunt Liu...... I'm going to start working right away, and I'm sure I'll get results. Xu Yueqin's tone was a little anxious.

"I know, I know, I'll show you the way, let you get results right away, and you'll be able to stand firm."

"Aunt Liu. Tell me, and I'll do as you say. ”

"You buy yourself an insurance first to ensure your status." Aunt Liu's face rose a little cold.

"Aunt Liu. This...... This...... I didn't have ......"

"Xiao Xu, there are many industries in this world. There are many professions, but only the financial industry is the most advanced industry, this industry because of its industry attributes, is the most promising, but also the most profitable industry, our insurance industry is the financial services industry that belongs to the financial industry, this industry has just started in our country. Promising. ”

"Aunt Liu, but...... But...... I really don't have ......."

"Through the leverage of the insurance industry, it is possible to multiply your income dozens of times, why, as long as there are ten customers to buy your insurance, the money you make from each person is fixed every year, and when you have hundreds of customers, you know how much money you make in minutes!"

Xu Yueqin was silent.

"Xiao Xu, the great future has been told to you. You have to get past the hurdle in front of you. After Aunt Liu finished speaking, she looked at Xu Yueqin condescendingly.

"Aunt Liu, I'm ......" Xu Yueqin's face was complicated and tangled.

"It's new," said an energetic young man. smiled enthusiastically at Xu Yueqin.

"It was the same when I first arrived. Why should I buy my own insurance, I can definitely sell it to others. The young man's smile infected Xu Yueqin.

"But then I think it makes sense, you think, I buy an insurance myself, and I know what the whole process is all about, otherwise how to sell it to others, so go around like this, and I will know what is going on."

"Well, after that, it was very easy to get started. If you do it well, you will earn your money back in a few days. That's how everybody came here! ”

"It's good to buy one for yourself, it's all part of the work. You have to settle down with your own security so that you don't have to worry about the future. ”

"You must have difficulties at the beginning, as soon as you buy the first insurance, this first month's salary will be in hand, and you will be waiting to make money in the future!"

The whole office was babbling and cooing.

Xu Yueqin gritted her teeth, "Aunt Liu, I'll go find a way." ”

"Xiao Xu, you have to work hard, everyone helps you so much, you have to be grateful." Aunt Liu said step by step.

Xu Yueqin stood quietly in front of the public telephone booth outside the building for a long time, and then stepped forward to dial the phone.

"Hey, Township Chief Wang, hello, I'm Xu Yueqin, please call my father, thank you!"

The elongated light and shadow of the street lamps in the dark night whispered constantly in the shade of the low-hanging locust trees.

"Dad, are you okay?"

"I found a job here, that is, I stayed in Lanzhou City, and my job was to be a clerk in **, that is, I just finished reporting today, Dad...... This goes to work, I have to pay a deposit of 600 yuan......, okay, okay, Dad, don't worry, I will ...... Do a good job......"

Xu Yueqin, who was holding the earpiece, choked up and sobbed constantly.

Three days later.

"Aunt Liu, I got the money." Xu Yueqin walked into the office and said with a solemn face.

"Okay, Xiao Xu, I'll teach you to make an insurance policy right away." Aunt Liu's emotional hand-in-hand taught Xu Yueqin how to fill in the insurance policy, and when she was about to write the policy recommender at the end, Aunt Liu opened her mouth.

"Xiao Xu, this is the recommender who is me, you have to write my name."

"Okay, just write your Aunt Liu."

Aunt Liu happily wrote her name and held Xu Yueqin's hands affectionately, "Xiao Xu, we will all be our own people in the future, we will help each other." ”

"Aunt Liu, you have to help me more."

"Don't call me so outward, just call me number three!"

A Xiali taxi drove silently on the rugged mountain road, the trees on both sides of the road were lush and green, and a little light and shadow were spread on the taxi in the buzzing insects, and after a few turns, the taxi stopped in front of a large mansion in the mountains.

Luo Xiaoyi got out of the car and stopped in front of this house to watch, only to see that this house is old and decaying, with high walls and deep courtyards, and if it is accompanied by a plaque with the words "Lanruo Temple", it is a good location for ghost films.

Knocking on the door, but the door was hidden, Luo Xiaoyi slowly sank into the compound, passing by the courtyard with stacked leaves, and his footsteps stepped on it, making an unsettling rustle. At this moment, the melodious sound of a violin came from the main room, guiding Luo Xiaoyi to the door.

There were a few knocks on the door. There was a slight sound in this space where there seemed to be no life. The door opened, revealing an old, haggard face.

"Hello, Mr. Kemeron, I'm Luo Xiaoyi who called before"

"Hello, hello, please come in!"

With a violin in one hand, Cameron walked in front to lead the way, and his figure was slender. The pale hair has begun to bald. In the dimly lit room, like an old man, guarding his coffin, waiting for the final end of his life.

"Would you like to drink some brandy?" Cameron greeted at the bartender.

"I'm still a high school student, how can I drink brandy, or add some gold bar."

"Only brandy."

"Thank you then"

Cameron handed Luo Xiaoyi a glow-in-the-dark glass filled with Rémy Martin VSOP wine.

"The cup is so beautiful."

"There are only a few left."

Luo Xiaoyi took a sip of the wine in the glass and looked at the empty room, but judging from the base materials of several carved dragons and phoenixes, this room should have a magnificent past.

"It must have been a beautiful place before."

"Yes, though, palaces have the same fate as men. Just like ancient societies, they will inevitably decay and then perish. ”

Cameron took a sip. Yang Yang raised his chin towards a suite next to him, "Where are they, there are 834 copies in total" After speaking, he began to walk towards the suite.

"Now things are different, and at the peak, I used to have 5,000 copies." Kemeron was the first to enter the suite.

Hundreds of books of all kinds, beautifully decorated and with elaborate covers, arranged in horizontal rows on several benches, are quiet and dormant. Bleak.

"This book collection environment is different from what I thought." Luo Xiaoyi said undeniably.

"That's life. Young people, even so. I still serve them wholeheartedly, avoiding moisture, bright light, heat and rats, dusting them every day, replacing fresh air, making them into old men, and tiring me into several pieces. ”

"Pain and happiness!" Luo Xiaoyi persuaded him.

"Alas!" Cameron let out a long sigh and squatted down in front of the desk. Pointing to the booklet, he began to speak.

"These are all dark metaphysics, there are hundreds of them, what do you think?" Cmeron's haggard face flashed with excitement.

"Not bad!" Luo Xiaoyi is still undeniable.

"It's definitely good, there's a lot of good stuff in there."

"Look at this book of 'Allusions to Hell' written by Prancy. First printed in 1844. ”

"Also, in 1571, Leonardo. Fionavati's "Secret Handbook" ...... "Cameron babbles on and on the books, as if he were introducing his children and grandchildren."

Finally, his gaze stopped, and he opened his mouth in an accentuated tone, "Look at this flawless book, this book has been around for three centuries, and it is the crown of the books. ”

After speaking, he picked up the black cowhide cover, and the book engraved with a five-pointed star logo was Yang Yang in front of Luo Xiaoyi.

Luo Xiaoyi took it: "Is your copy of "Nine Gates of Hell" normal?" You didn't find anything out of the ordinary? ”

"Abnormal? Absolutely not, the text is not broken, and the illustrations are unscathed, innocent, like a virgin, just like the two books in the hands of otaku A and Xu Yueqin. ”

"But Otaku A's book, it's no longer Otaku A's, he committed suicide, and before that, he sold the book to Shin Ishihara." Luo Xiaoyi began to flip through the pages.

"Ah, Professor Shi, there is nothing he likes that he can't get his hands on." Cameron nodded.

"However, I will never sell this book no matter how much it costs."

"But I'm curious, Professor Shi already has a copy, why did he send you?"

"Make comparisons, find differences, and everyone will find differences." After Luo Xiaoyi finished speaking, he took out his "Nine Gates of Hell" from his schoolbag.

"I'll take a look" Cameron eagerly took the two books, walked quickly to the desk, flipped through this and that, and kept muttering, "Pretty, pretty...... So beautiful...... Exactly the same ......"

After half a ring, Luo Xiaoyi asked, "What did you find?" ”

"Three books, these two have been reborn now, this is the first encounter in three centuries!" Cameron muttered.

"So, what's the discovery?"

Cmelon flipped both books to the same page, "See, there is this flawed S in both books." Exactly the same, the same font, the same printing. Unbelievable, if it weren't for the fact that the back cover of your book was a little discolored. No one can tell. ”

"If you don't have any new ideas, I want to study them separately." Luo Xiaoyi spoke.

Kemeron raised his head and looked at Luo Xiaoyi with a complicated gaze, "What do you want to study, young man?" These books are dangerous, and they invite trouble! ”

"Yes, so I'd like to study them separately!"

The lights were dimmed, the music was whispered, and Luo Xiaoyi was in the darkening house. and two books from more than 300 years ago that transcend time and space.

The melodious Paganini violin "The Dance of the Witches" sounded in the empty room, and Luo Xiaoyi, who was in front of the music, carefully compared an illustration from the two books, which was annotated in English as "The Gate of Power!" ”

When the violin music reached the high syllable, Luo Xiaoyi's eyes suddenly widened, rubbed his eyes carefully, and looked at the illustration holding two keys, and the white-haired old man standing in front of a door. On the other is a key in his left hand.

Luo Xiaoyi thought for a while, took out a magnifying glass and searched carefully on the two pictures, and it didn't take long. I found an untraceable LCF annotation on one book, and an A.T annotation on the other.

Luo Xiaoyi was silent and marked the different parts of the two books on the comparison table he made, and let time keep slipping away in the dark.

When the strong drowsiness hit, Luo Xiaoyi realized that he had stayed up all night, and when he walked out of the suite, Cameron curled up on the sofa in the hall and slept pitifully.

Luo Xiaoyi woke him up, returned the book to him, thanked him, and went out.

The summer wind blows gently. made Luo Xiaoyi energetic and did a chest expansion exercise. When I walked out of the courtyard, I saw a big man staring across the road. It was the big man I saw at the door of Villa Ozawaya.

When Dahan saw Luo Xiaoyi, he was about to rush over!

A few horns sounded behind him, and a motorcycle rider with a helmet turned on the headlight between the two, and through the pair of socks of different colors, Luo Xiaoyi was sure that he and the girl with the wrong socks met again!

The big man was helpless, walked quickly on the road down the mountain, crossed a bend, and disappeared!

The motorcycle rider was gone.

Back at the hotel, Luo Xiaoyi sat in the hall and watched the people come and go, a person wandering in the sea, transcendent and holy in summing up the current situation, at a glance, he saw the girl wearing the wrong socks.

Got up and walked over, "I haven't seen you for a long time, it's been half an hour, right?" ”

The girl with the wrong socks sat on the sofa, took her eyes off the book in her hand, and looked at Luo Xiaoyi with a sparse look.

"You didn't say you were coming to the city." Luo Xiaoyi broke the silence.

"Neither do you!"

"What are you doing here?"

"Reading Books"

"Tell me something I don't know."

"Happened to run into you."

"What a coincidence!"

Luo Xiaoyi motioned for the girl to give the book in her hand to herself.

"This is your textbook?"

"Textbooks?"

"Winning Hearts and Minds, which is your elective?"

"To some extent."

"I love books, how about you?"

"Now I like to know more about you, like do you travel on a motorcycle?"

"Actually, I don't like the name Girl in the Wrong Sock."

"You thought of a better one?"

"Lola Dragon."

The pager on Luo Xiaoyi's body rang, and he took his leave first. When I went back to the room and paged, it was Shin Ishihara.

"What's new?"

"It's a little bit."

"I'm listening."

"I've read the Cameron one, it's very similar to yours, but it's still different."

"In and out?"

"There are subtle differences in the illustrations, and the most important thing is that some of the illustrations are not signed by Topcia, but by LCF."

“lcf？”

"It's Lucifer!"

There was silence on the other end of the line.

"Are you listening?" Luo Xiaoyi asked.

"Lucifer......" Shin Ishihara elongated.

"What's new?"

"I must get that book in Cmeron's hand!"

"The old man said that he would not be sold if he died."

"That's not a good idea!" Shin Ishihara hung up the phone.

Luo Xiaoyi took a bath and began to make up for his sleepiness.

I don't know how long I slept, but the sound of "banging" never stopped.

Luo Xiaoyi opened the door with sleepy eyes.

Lola Long stood outside the door.

"What instructions?" Luo Xiaoyi yawned.

"We're leaving."

"Go there?"

"The Cmelon family."

"Didn't you just be there?"

"I think you'd better go again!"

Luo Xiaoyi squinted at Long Lola for a while and accepted her suggestion.

Luo Xiaoyi walked out of the hotel gate, the sky was slightly bright outside, and when he looked at his watch, it was already more than five o'clock the next day.

Long Lola had already started the motorcycle, and Luo Xiaoyi sat on it.

Luo Xiaoyi's hazy sleepiness was shattered by the soaring speed.

It felt like it was only a moment, and I was outside the mansion of Cmelon.

Walking through the dark courtyard, after a minute of knocking on the door, the dead space became more and more silent, quiet, and strange.

"No more knocking, he's not in the house." Lorot opened her mouth.

"Where else can he go?"

"Yes, like there." Lola pointed to the rockery pool in the courtyard.

Luo Xiaoyi took a closer look, his face was miserable, and the puffy, dead and transparent Cameron appeared in it. (To be continued)