On the way to the teaching building, I inquired about Xu Xiaoli's class, and she was already a senior at the beginning of this year. She is very well-known in this school, after all, it is rare to jump over the building and come back alive.

The end result was not very good, because she did not return to school at all. Where am I going to find her? The phone calls to her have been turned off, could it be that she is not ready to come back?

It seems that he can only find Pan Zhen, and he may be able to have Xu Xiaoli's address.

Outside his office on the fifth floor, he knocked softly on the door.

"Please come in!" A familiar voice came from within. Pushing open the door, Zhen was busy sorting out the materials.

"No classes?" As I spoke, I walked over to the couch and sat down.

Hearing that it was me, he turned around: "I don't have classes in the morning, but I know you do, and you are absent from school just after the start of school, which is not good." ”

"Something looking for you, do you know where Xu Xiaoli went?" My businesslike attitude upset Zhen, and he frowned and looked at me for a long time.

"Zhang Yao, do you have to be like this?"

"How am I?" I don't understand what he wants me to be like, and to see me fall into his arms and cry like a woman. Denounce the witch's cruel atrocities and make wrong changes to Dongyang?

"Don't say anything else, do you have her address? Leave without me. "Stand up and wait for him to give me a final answer.

"Okay, I'll find it for you." Pan Zhen looked through the filing cabinet for a while and took out a few stacks of materials: "Here." ”

Seeing that he had gained something, I stepped forward to take a look.

"Huh~?" As he spoke, he folded the paper in his hand. In his pocket: "I'm going with you." ”

"Why?" It left me a little confused and didn't know what his purpose was.

"You don't have to worry about this, or together. Or you find it yourself. ”

I thought about it and it shouldn't be a big problem, I just went to borrow the necklace and he knew it would be fine.

I sat in the passenger seat of the Land Rover, and the atmosphere in the cabin was a little awkward.

"Ahem, I haven't heard from Xu Xiaoli for a long time, do you know what she's been busy with lately?"

He didn't look at me, and drove intently: "It seems that a while ago he was quite close." I don't know the specifics. ”

"Oh~" After thinking for a while, I decided to ask: "Do you know anything about Qian?" ”

Zhen turned his head and looked at me: "Why are you asking about Qian?" ”

"I'm just asking, what kind of person was he before?" I pretended to make small talk to find out what he was talking about.

"It's okay to do this, except for being ruthless with people. It's nothing, he has been blind for sixty years, and his brothers are taking care of him. Zhen answered my questions casually.

"I'm not asking this, I'm asking when you first met him. Impressions of him. "Impatience. I seem to have overasked.

Zhen thought for a long time, and said lightly: "I forgot"

This is also right, who can remember the events of more than 2,000 years ago, it seems that he can't ask anything here, there must be some kind of relationship between Qian, Demon Spirit, and Tuya.

The car drove into an old neighborhood, a gray six-story building with intricate wires in the air. The uncle who walks the birds, the aunt who rubs the hemp. Although it is not as clean and tidy as a modern gated community, the warm atmosphere can bring warmth to first-time visitors.

"Young man. Looking for someone? "A lady walked up to me with a basket of vegetables.

"Grace is"

"Which one are you looking for? Most of the people who live here are old neighbors, and there is no one I don't know. The eldest lady looked at me happily and said.

"Let's find a girl named Xu Xiaoli, does she live around here?"

The eldest lady looked at us in some surprise: "Are you looking for the old Xu family's eldest girl?" ”

"Big girl? Does she have any siblings? "I don't know much about Xu Xiaoli, I admire her premature personality, and we are more like buddies, so I rarely ask about her private affairs.

"Oops! Are you her friends? The eldest lady took my hand and hid under the corner, her expression was very mysterious.

"Yes, I was her college classmate."

"No wonder I haven't seen you, it's not easy for the Xu family's big girl! There is a younger brother with cerebral palsy and a mother who is not in good spirits, and his leg fell lame in the first two years, and their family ~ I don't know what they did, oh ~ Yes, yes, yes, her father has been missing for several years. "The aunt's narration made me reacquaint myself with Xu Xiaoli, who had a sallow face and always wore a set of clothes.

"Auntie, do you know where she lives?"

"You know? It's on the fifth floor of that building, well, I guess it's the one on the left. As she spoke, she pointed to me with her hand.

I thanked my aunt and went to Xiaoli's house with Zhen. Listening to the introduction of the eldest mother just now, it seems that she is the only normal person left in their family, and I really don't understand how she survived.

On the fifth floor, on the left side is a black iron door with old Spring Festival couplets, and the word Fu on the cat's eye has long since faded and become pink and white. All sorts of small pastes occupy almost all the spots.

There was no doorbell, so I raised my hand and knocked lightly on the iron door a few times.

After a while, a voice came from the house: "Who?" "That's not Xu Xiaoli, it should be an older woman's voice.

"Ah, we are Xu Xiaoli's classmates, let's take a look at her." I glanced at him and motioned for him to say a few words.

"Ah yes, I'm a lecturer at her university, and my name is Pan Zhen."

There seemed to be a figure flashing in the cat's eye, and then the door was slowly opened through the crack, and a pale hand held the side of the door, and as the gap grew larger and larger, I saw a half-white face, and a strange eye was looking at me and Zhen.

Yellow, dull, withered grass hair hung down in front of her, and a few black teeth peeked out of her cracked mouth.

"Auntie? Is Xu Xiaoli at home? "When I saw the woman in front of me, I immediately thought of what the lady downstairs just said, a person who is not in good spirits.

"At home, are you looking for her?" The madwoman smiled at us, revealing her mouth full of rotten teeth.

I put it on my mouth, afraid of vomiting something that was sick to my stomach.

The madwoman got out of the way, and I followed Zhen into the house. It's an old-fashioned house, with one bedroom and one living room, and the master bedroom has plenty of sunlight. The room was messy, there were food bags everywhere, and there were flies and cockroaches around the unwashed dishes and chopsticks. If it weren't for the open windows, I don't know what the smell would be in this room.

On the big bed not far away, there was a person lying on it, and it was still covered with a thick quilt on such a hot day.

The crazy woman walked to the side of the bed, patted the person lying on the bed, and muttered, "Xiaoli, your classmate has come to look for you." "My heart is tight, no, how could Xu Xiaoli become like this? When he got closer, he looked down, and it was not Xiaoli lying on the bed, but a bald head, collapsed eye sockets, and prominent cheekbones, like a skeleton wrapped in only a layer of skin.

Zhen whispered next to me: "This woman is confusing Xu Xiaoli with her brother." ”

I agreed with him and nodded.

"Auntie, can I ask you, where is Xu Xiaoli's brother?"

The woman paused for a moment, looked at me and then looked at Zhen: "You ask Xiaoyong?" He went to work, went on a business trip, and didn't come back for many days. (To be continued......)