Seventeen years later.

"Jellyfish" is one of the many nightclubs on the streets of Lancheng Buye, where Chiba works.

Of course, she's not an executive PR, and she doesn't do alcohol promotion, and this kind of job needs girls with hot bodies, outstanding appearances, and outgoing personalities - she doesn't take any of them.

I don't have a proud figure, a delicate face, and I don't know how to wear makeup and never wear makeup. A pair of pilling cotton sweatpants all year round, a T-shirt washed to white, and dirty shoes.

In places like nightclubs, there are many drunks in the dark, and it is not uncommon for people to step on them. Unfortunately, she couldn't lean down in time to clean her shoes – because she was carrying someone on her back at all times.

It is her job to carry clay figures, not only to carry "jellyfish", but also to other nightclubs on Night Street. It's just that the "jellyfish" provides a place to rest, making her look more like a regular employee. When I have work, I work, and when I don't have work, I help to put away the wine bottles and wine boxes. She is usually reluctant to eat supper, and always takes it back for breakfast the next day.

What is a mud man, as the name suggests, is a person who is drunk like mud. They let themselves get drunk and died, often drinking to pieces, lying on their backs in all corners of the store—restrooms, fire escapes, utility rooms, hallways—these people either came to have fun alone, or they were forgotten in the store by their fox friends and no one to take care of the aftermath. She was responsible for carrying them out, and if she had the money to help get a taxi, she would choose a safe corner and throw them on the side of the road.

Can a girl do this kind of work? Yes, she was born with great strength. The heavyweight clay figurines in the store are all handed over to her to carry, and she is stronger than men.

At this moment, she was carrying Mr. Chen of the building materials company on her back and walking out of the hall steadily. Suddenly, a man came running from the side, clicked on her feet, she stumbled slightly, but she still stood firmly, and when she looked again, the person had already run out of the hall and disappeared.

The shoes I just washed yesterday were stepped on with thick footprints again, and I didn't feel angry.

Carrying Mr. Chen out, the security guard stopped the taxi, and helped him into the car safely, and the work was completed. Just wanted to go back to the store, suddenly felt that the back of her neck was wet and slippery, and when she reached out to touch it, Mr. Chen vomited on her back.

"It's disgusting...... she grumbled, reaching into her pocket, and a note came out along with the tissue. Wipe her neck clean and run to the neon box to take a photo, her eyes widening.

The note reads like this - if you want to break the maze and take revenge, you need to go to Lucheng to find out, spring, summer, autumn and winter have passed for a year, and there are no regrets in this life to solve your worries. Chocolate.

It's chocolate again! Once again, the mysterious man delivered a message to her, and she passed by him again.

"It's him, the guy who hit me just now!"

She was annoyed. She wanted to catch the chocolate face to face and ask who was responsible for the accident at the age of five - she still can't accept the explanation that her mother committed suicide or accidentally fell from the building, and firmly believes that the black shadow that slipped away from the rooftop is the culprit of the tragedy. And the appearance of chocolate undoubtedly adds weight to this conviction.

It had to go back to two months ago. At that time, she was reading a book in the bookstore when she suddenly had a stomachache and went to the bathroom. After walking out of the compartment, I saw a line of words written on the mirror of the sink with lipstick - pear jujube hidden key, so there is a good fortune in the house, C-0292-77, chocolate.

Although she was confused, her intuition told her that this line of words was directed at herself, and she immediately pondered the meaning behind the words.

Two sentences are not difficult to understand - "pear date" is another name for books, "key" is some kind of information, the earliest bookstore arose in the Zhou Dynasty, at that time it was called "Ancient House", and a string of numbers is consistent with the numbering format of the book retrieved by the bookstore, and the answer should be in a certain book.

She immediately searched the bookstore by number—it was an anthology of ancient literature—and flipped through the pages, and finally found the clue on page 77.

The 77-page content is "Jing Qing Fu" by Cai Yong, a famous writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty, with beautiful and gorgeous rhetoric and meticulous and smooth writing. But she didn't bother to read it, and her eyes fell on the blank space at the end of the page. There was a graffiti there, full of positive green, with a little red in the middle, and a cosmos in the center of the circle.

This unforgettable scene shocked her instantly, and what really made her breathless was the line below: "There is a snake in the lotus pond, which resembles a demon, and does all kinds of evil, and betrays the righteousness." ”

Lotus's Innocence!

The obvious hidden poem confirmed her doubts, her mother Mo Lianzhi's fall from the building was indeed intentional rather than accidental!

She immediately bought the book back, and her heart ached when she saw the wound from seventeen years ago bleeding again.

Who is Chocolate? Why did he say the words "Lotus's Innocence"? Does he know the truth? If you know, why did it take 17 years to deliberately guide the maze? Will it be a boring farce? Is there any other purpose behind this?

After thinking about it for two months, I had no clue and waited anxiously for two months, but the chocolate was like a stone thrown into a lake, causing a thousand ripples to disappear.

And today, the mysterious man has reappeared, completely disrupting her life.

"If you want to break through the maze and take revenge, you need to go to Lucheng to find out", the meaning is very clear, and Chocolate asked her to go to Lucheng to find the truth. "Spring, summer, autumn and winter are over for a year, and there are no regrets in this life to solve worries", not to go once, but to live there.

……

Lucheng, the provincial capital, is located in the east of Lancheng, and a Lujiang River and a Lushan have become the most iconic landscape of the city. Its development speed and progression far exceed that of Lancheng, and in the eyes of everyone, it is a drunken and luxurious hedonistic field.

Chiba never thought of leaving Lancheng, let alone longing for a place like Lucheng, she just wanted to guard her mother.

But the appearance of the mysterious man shakes her. The chocolate seems to have some kind of irresistible magic that drives her to become interested in Deer City. Seventeen years, there is not a day when she doesn't want to find out the real murderer, this is the whole meaning of life. Whether it's true or not, a blessing or a curse, she decides to follow the arrangement.

It's blind, but it's also involuntary, as if you've lost your wallet and searched everywhere to no avail, and suddenly a person jumps out and says that she knows her whereabouts, and no one will doubt it.

So, she quit her job as a "jellyfish" and made arrangements in a sanatorium to prepare to go to Lucheng.

The first thing is to look for housing online, the conditions are simple - cheap.

It seemed that there was no eligible listing, but in the end, she was attracted by an apartment with no photos and vague information, because the monthly rent was only 600.

The rootless life makes it easier for people to take action, and in the blink of an eye, she has got on the bus to Lucheng......

On a lazy late spring afternoon, the streets of Lucheng are full of rippling sunlight leaking from between the leaves, shining like a diamond-studded lake, which is quite sparkling.

A row of west-facing shops set up their awnings early, and the shopkeepers were either napping or playing cards, lazy and boring. The entrance of the street is surrounded by subway construction, vehicles are detoured, and the originally lively street has never been so deserted.

Taxis were forced to stop at the street entrance, and Chiba had to drag a trolley case across the street on foot. The box is not a brand-name product, and it is dragging and rolling on the uneven road, making a screeching sound.

Mobile phone navigation meets municipal construction, like a blind man meets a fool, which is not reliable at all. She didn't know what to do, so she decided to ask someone.

The proprietress of the underwear store, who weighed more than 160 pounds, was napping under the plane tree, and was disturbed by the noise of the annoying trolley box, and couldn't help but roll her eyes.

She stepped forward, leaned over and asked, "Auntie, how should I get to the Sakura Apartment?" ”

The proprietress took a quick look with the usual gaze of a businessman, and her face was full of disdain. In her eyes, this girl looked really sorry, her unkempt hair was covered with dust, and she knew that she had traveled a long distance at a glance. Dense and thin freckles crawl all over the bridge of the nose, dark bags under the eyes are more eye-catching than the facial features, and the confusion in the eyes reveals the humility from a small place.

The proprietress moved, the rattan chair under her ass creaked and put on a haughty posture.

"What's the call, what auntie, do I look old?"

"Big, big sister."

"Who is your eldest sister...... Out-of-towners, right? ”

"Hmm."

"When you enter a big city, you have to be polite, and if you ask someone for help, you have to ask for help." The proprietress pointed impatiently to the south and said mockingly, "It's all like you, and civilized cities can't be evaluated." ”

She nodded and said nothing, and was about to turn around to leave, when a dark shadow popped out of the pet store next door. A black shadow jumped past her with the wind, and upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a black-backed dog.

"Thunderbolt, stop, Thunderbolt!"

The owner of the pet shop chased him out, and his forearm was covered in blood. He was the husband of the proprietress, with a thin body and dark skin, and when he saw the black back running faster and faster, he was so anxious that he almost cried, and he couldn't care about the injuries on his hands at all.

He shouted, "Stop it!" Instead, the blackback was alerted, and he turned his head and pounced on the proprietress .

The proprietress slammed into her body and sat back down, crushing the rattan chair. Blackback took advantage of the situation and was about to take a mouthful, but was caught by Chiba by the tail a second before touching her.

The black back turned to attack, and Chiba flew up and kicked it away.

"Are you alright?"

She stretched out her hand to help the proprietress up, but the proprietress said strangely: "I'm going to die, what are you doing with it, can you afford to kick it badly." ”

was wondering, and heard the pet shop owner shouting with a crying voice: "Chase it, what is the matter with He Ye's dog being lost!" ”

He was bitten and his wife wrestled, but it didn't seem to attract the attention of this thin man, he looked eagerly ahead, and his black back had run nearly ten meters.

The proprietress also wrinkled her forehead, and her previous arrogance was gone, and she threw a look of help to Chiba.

"You're young, your legs are good, help us chase it."

"Look at the box." Chiba put the trolley box down and rushed out like an arrow from the string.

The black-backed ran desperately, she chased fiercely, and soon reached the end of the road. Pedestrians on the road dodged as if to give way to a racing track.

The dog turned lightning into the alley on the right, and she followed at high speed, narrowly falling.

The pet shop owner also caught up, and the proprietress dragged the box and fell behind, letting out a grunting gasp. Approaching the entrance of the alley, the two stopped, and there seemed to be a bloody battle ahead, fearing that innocent people would be injured.

A dead end, with no way to escape from the black back, he turned around and glared at Yang Qianye viciously, and the horns of his mouth were mixed with blood. Chiba didn't retreat, his waist stood straight in the middle of the road, and he cut off his way.

A vicious fight is on the verge of breaking out.

She walked towards Blackback, who might have made up his mind to attack and kicked up on his hind legs and flew towards her.

The couple opened their mouths wide and thought to themselves that this girl was dead.