Chapter 11: The Late Past
It's been walking for several days, and seeing that it's getting closer and closer to Feng Mountain, Shi Yingjun picked up the diagonal water bottle and drank a sip of water as he spoke.
"Brother Sehoon, has your arm injury healed a lot?" Ruth was kindly concerned about Lang Shixun's injury.
"Well, the injury to my arm is fine. Lang Shixun looked at the wound on his arm, and the bamboo leaf pattern on the white cloth had been stained with blood.
"It's late in the past, and there are so many people here. ”
In the late past, it was a bustling and noisy downtown close to Fengzu Mountain, with bustling streets and alleys, because the water and soil were very nourishing, most of the people here were handsome.
"Everyone was hungry after walking all the way, so we found an inn to stay in and had something to eat. Then everyone's stomachs were gurgling.
Looking at the bustle of the whole street and alley, the crowd was crowded, walking on this crowded street, all kinds of vendors were shouting what their stores were selling, Lang Shixun looked at the sugar man who was pinching the sugar man in the hand of the old man selling sugar on the side and stopped unconsciously.
"Shixun, let's go, so adults, what kind of candy man are you looking at?" Shi Yingjun smiled and shouted to Lang Shixun to keep up with everyone's footsteps.
"I...."Lang Shixun looked at the candy man with the rabbit pattern that the old man was pinching in his hand, and remembered that when he first met Quartz Jun when he was 8 years old, it was this little rabbit pattern candy man that Quartz Jun handed him.
"It's coming. Lang Shixun looked back at the string of candy men in the hands of the candy seller as he walked, turned around and quickly kept up with the pace of everyone.
"Dream Afterlife Inn. "The five big characters carved into the mahogany squares are very conspicuous, hanging high at the door of the inn, this inn looks simple and clean.
"Let's just stay here. ”
"Guest officer, please inside. ”
"Do you want two or three?" the shopkeeper looked at them.
"Four. ”
"Okay. ”
"Little Er, let's have a few side dishes. When they arrived at the guest room, they put down all their baggage and went downstairs to order some side dishes.
"Have you heard? A lot of handsome men and women have died recently, and they are all unrecognizable, I don't know why. ”
"Look at that table, so handsome, so beautiful, I guess I won't be long. Passers-by who sat at a few tables next to them pointed and whispered.
"Are you talking about us?" Ruth looked at the tables of passers-by who were sitting around to eat. The passerby turned his head in an instant, pretending to be serious about eating.
The moonlight fell on the whole quiet evening, so quiet that you could hear the sound of the breeze blowing, and there was only one person on the street who was shouting: three watches.
Quartz Jun tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and when he turned over, the figure of a black-clothed masked man in the moonlight held a thin tube, stuffed it into the paper window, and the smoke spread from the tube into the room.
The man in black gently pushed open the door and slowly walked to the pillow of Quartz Jun, who pretended to be asleep.
"Who?" The moment the man in black took out the dagger, Shi Yingjun instantly got up and knocked the dagger of the man in black to the ground, and pressed the neck of the man in black with his hand, the man in black was powerless to resist, and he didn't say who he was, and swallowed the poison that had been prepared in advance and was hidden under his tongue.
"Oops. Quartz looked at the man in black who had fallen to the ground, and through the hole in the paper window, he knew that someone might poison his friends as well.
"Girl. Quartz Jun felt that the situation was not good, and hurriedly ran to the next door and knocked on the door of the butterfly, but there was no movement inside, and Quartz knocked on the door again, but there was still no movement.
With a clang, Quartz broke down the door and found the room empty.
"Handsome. At this time, Lang Shixun heard the movement and got up and walked towards the voice of Shi Yingjun's shouting.
"The girl has been kidnapped. Shi Yingjun said anxiously.
"Miss Ruqing, Miss Russ. Lang Shixun also hurriedly ran to the next door to take a look.
"Brother Sehoon, what's wrong. I saw the Ru sisters yawning sleepily, with half-open and half-closed eyes.
"Miss Mu is gone, I thought you two were gone too. ”
"Someone poisoned my room just now, but this man in black has already killed himself with poison. ”
There was a strange scent left in the room, and the man in black lay quietly on the ground as if he had fallen asleep. Lang Shixun put his finger under the nose of the man in black, making sure that the man in black had stopped breathing.
Quartz Jun took off the black cloth of the man in black, and the poison he swallowed had gradually blurred the face of the man in black.
"It can't be this group of people who did it, right?" Seeing this scene, the Ru sisters remembered what passers-by at the table next to them said when they were eating during the day.
"What should we do? How can we find Miss Me?" Quartz walked around the room anxiously.
They shuttled through every corner in the dark night, searched all the streets and alleys and couldn't find the figure of the butterfly, and returned to the Dream Inn!
"Ru Qing, Ru Si, you go to sleep first, Shi Xun and I are guarding here. When the morning dawns, we'll go out to look for the girl. Lang Shixun comforted the quartz who couldn't calm down.
A peculiar fragrance of flowers drifted into the room with the wind, and the railing lying on the window looked at the endless sea of cormorant flowers in the distance, which was very red and charming, and a large flower was slim, beautiful but felt barren.
"Where is this?" the butterfly touched her dizzy head.
"You don't have to know here. A man in a black robe with a bright red cormorant flower tattooed on the back of his back said in a deep voice with his back to the butterfly.
"Who are you, why am I here?" the butterfly's helpless eyes made people feel distressed.
The man turned around and looked at her indifferently, half of his face covered by a black veil, and his eyes were cold, as if he had no emotion.
"Who the hell are you, why did you get me here, and what about my friends?" asked Butterfly anxiously.
"Your friends are still in the Dream Inn, don't look for the illusion, or you will ......" The man's deep voice seemed very vicissitudes in this room full of the fragrance of cormorants and flowers.
"Otherwise what?"
"Otherwise......" The man's voice was even deeper, and he refused to say why, just standing in front of the railing on the window, looking at the endless sea of flowers!
Mu Butterfly thought to himself that such a dull person, even if he was asking, he didn't want to say that even if he asked, he wouldn't tell her the reason.
"You've changed, but you're still you. The tall man lowered his head and stroked the butterfly's hair, and his indifferent eyes instantly glowed with a soft light.
"Did you recognize the wrong person?" Mu Butterfly moved back with a disgusted face, thinking that this person looked so gloomy and expressionless, said something inexplicable, and couldn't understand what he was saying at all, he must have recognized the wrong person and arrested her innocently.
The man looked at the butterfly, his eyes skimmed a trace of pity, turned around and walked out, the cormorant flower on his back stood alone on the black robe, beautiful, lonely, this back fell like the man's soul.
It had been dawning for a while, and Quartz Jun and the others kept looking for the traces of butterflies in the streets and alleys.
"Where are you, girl?"
"Hello, have you ever seen a girl wearing a five-colored butterfly with particularly beautiful eyes? Quartz Jun and they searched the streets and alleys for the whereabouts of the butterflies.
"Nope. Passers-by shook their heads and said they didn't see it.
Quartz Jun felt like he had lost something, and ran all over the streets and alleys with his heart rending.
"Did you find it?" Quartz Jun returned to the Dream Afterlife Inn.
"I looked for the east side of the street. ”
"I found the street on the west side, too. ”
"I searched for the south street, too. ”
"The street to the north was also found. ”
Everyone panted and said, they had searched for the whole night, and there was still no news of butterflies.
The thunder accompanied the raindrops scattered on this old day, and the raindrops gathered from the houses into small streams, and slowly flowed down, and Quartz Jun once again ran to the streets of the old days to find the whereabouts of the butterflies.
The rain became heavier and heavier, drenching Quartz's long hair, as well as the luxurious purple robe, and the rain flowed down his hair through Quartz's eyes, and he couldn't open his eyes.
"Butterfly, where are you?" Quartz raised his head to look at the falling raindrops and shouted loudly and desperately, as if he had been drowned in heavy rain, and gradually disappeared into the streets of the past.