Rongsheng high-end steel foundry.

If Chu Zihang remembers well, this steel mill once made a name for itself in this coastal city, with excellent high-end forging technology and strong capital funding of the Black Prince Group behind it to gain a firm foothold in the local area, and the branch factories were once opened all over the coast, and the annual output of high-end special steel reached an astonishing 4 million tons, which was once regarded as the future development direction of the city.

But later, the sudden withdrawal of the Black Prince Group to the Internet industry and high-end technology development seemed to have taken away the lifeblood, so that the steel foundries that had lost financial support suddenly broke down, and the steel mills, which were originally like gray smoke floating in the chimney, were instantly knocked to the bottom, and stopped production and closed down in less than a year, leaving only empty factories and displaced workers that no one took over.

After getting out of the riot in the church, Chu Zihang and Wan Boqian did not leave the Babaoshan site, but chose a nearby place to shelter from the rain, and it happened that the place they hid in was a site of the Rongsheng Steel Foundry. The darkened factory was silent, save for the occasional crackling sound of burning wood from discarded gasoline drums, and the firelight struck the shadows of the two people sitting separately against the mottled walls.

Chu Zihang took off his raincoat, shook off the blood-stained rainwater on it, revealing the brown denim smock underneath, a pair of aqua blue jeans lined his straight figure, and his slightly bent waist stretched out his excellent physique, with strong tendons, and it was conceivable that the good figure below could make many girls drool.

With the light of the fire in the gasoline barrel, Wan Boqian saw all this in her eyes, I have to say that even if he is used to seeing handsome men and beautiful women in the Kassel Academy, this boy in the third year of high school still amazes him, unlike most of the handsome guys produced over the years, she can always brush some coldly dressed boys on the Internet, those boys are not like Chu Zihang in front of him, his body exudes a cold tenacity from the inside out, just like bright green bamboo in a storm, just one glance can make people impressive.

"Are you looking for the Kassel Academy?" Wan Boqian asked.

"I've been looking for you for a long time." Chu Zihang hung his raincoat on a steel bar protruding from the wall, and sat back on the small stone mound where the fire had just been baked.

"Where did you hear about us?"

"An acquaintance friend, I told you his name before, and you did give me feedback instantly."

"Oh, you like him?"

"What did you say?" Chu Zihang looked up, but he didn't see any joke on Wan Boqian's face.

"You like him?" Wan Boqian asked her question again, and her tone was very serious.

"No... My sexuality is normal. Chu Zihang said, "Why do you ask that?" ”

"I pointed a gun at you in the rain and shot you, you hid behind the dunes and there was a factory next to you, you could have run away, but you still wanted to negotiate with me - you had a bad purpose. Now that you're saying that it's because of a guy who is so desperate to find the Kassel Academy, I can only think that you like the person you're talking about, and that's the most logical explanation. Wan Boqian said.

"Are all the people at the Kassel Academy like you?" Chu Zihang looked at Wan Boqian and asked.

"What am I like this?"

"Calm, rational, well-trained, like an efficient working machine." Chu Zihang said the first instinct he caught in Wan Boqian.

"This is not the case with the students of the Kassel Academy, only the commissioners of the executive department are." Wan Boqian chuckled, "Don't ask me what the executive department is, because according to the relevant regulations, the news I told you is already on the verge of violating the rules, I don't want to cause trouble, and you don't want to make trouble for yourself." ”

"I'm not afraid of trouble." Chu Zihang said lightly.

"You should be afraid." Wan Boqian examined the boy from top to bottom, "What you saw today is not even a 'small scene', you have actually been pacing and testing by the devouring waves for so long without knowing it. ”

"You're not a normal college." Chu Zihang lowered his eyes, "You guys feel more like a KGB training base." ”

"We never told the public that we were a normal college." Wan Boqian said lightly, "You haven't explained to me why you are so eager to find the Kassel Academy. ”

Chu Zihang was silent, not because he didn't want to speak, but because he didn't know how to say it.

Wan Boqian also saw the boy's difficulty, and did not continue to ask, but chose to change the topic: "You said you know the person 'Lin Nian'?" ”

"Yes."

"Give me his intel and let me know you're not bluffing me."

"An Asian male, who should be 17 years old by now, is about 1.73 meters tall, but he is still in the growth period, so I'm not sure how much now. Weighing about 70 kilograms, he's also how much I'm not sure now. The complexion is pale, the willow eyebrows, the eyelashes are slightly long, and the face has a strong sense of line, which will remind people of the plaster statue in the hand of a woman..."

"When and how did you get to know him, and what evidence do you have to prove that what you say is true?" Wan Boqian asked a new question after Chu Zihang's description matched the 'S' class photo in her impression.

"An alumnus of Shilan Middle School, a student of the Musashi Kendo Training Center of the Children's Palace, and a member of the basketball club, I have known him for two years or even more until he went to study abroad, and the place where he studied is also your Kassel Academy." Chu Zihang replied fluently, "As for the evidence, it has been destroyed by you, otherwise I can show you the photos of him that I kept." ”

"You've saved his photos and said you don't like him?"

"A photo of the basketball club winning the gold medal in the municipal competition, me and him in the first row, I am the center, he is the small forward." Chu Zihang did not change color because of Wan Boqian's ridicule.

"The phone is gone, so it's dead and untestified." Wan Boqian raised her eyebrows, and naturally remembered the iPhone that was broken by herself, but she didn't show the slightest intention of compensation: "You said that you haven't been able to contact this friend of yours since he came to our Kassel Academy?" ”

"I just said one thing, and I asked him about the Kassel Academy, and he warned me not to apply to that academy because the people in it were crazy." Chu Zihang told the truth as much as possible to increase his credibility with Wan Boqian.

"To outsiders, we are indeed insane." Wan Boqian paused and nodded, "I won't ask why you are still rushing to such a question since we are crazy, because I feel that if I ask, you will not necessarily answer, and the answer must not be true." ”

Chu Zihang also nodded silently.

"I can feel sincerity in you, so I'm willing to tell you things you don't know and that I can reveal to the limit, unless you're a natural liar, of course, and it's a shame for a boy like you to be a liar... In any case, I can't promise you to take you to the Kassel Academy right now, because it's not my job to recruit new students, and I don't have the authority to do so. This time I was sent to this city only to assist the commissioner in completing his mission, but now it seems that I am in a hurry to achieve a quick success, and the commissioner has stepped into this muddy water before he arrives, and he is in a mess. Wan Boqian brushed the stagnant water from her hair and said.

"Task? Are you saying that you came to this city specifically to deal with the evil people in the church just now? Chu Zihang looked into her eyes through the smoke that distorted the air in the gasoline cans.

"It was just an accident... Perhaps not unexpectedly, you should have seen the word 'eternal life' written on the mahogany chest in the church, and if I'm guessing correctly, this ritual is just a derivative of the effects of a truly egregious event. Wan Boqian exhaled, her expression suddenly became a little depressed and irritable, "... A bunch of daring crooks only started to make a clumsy imitation after catching some rumors, and I would be so naïve as to think that a random message in a bar would find the crux of the problem... When I went back, I guess I would have to be scolded by the instructor again. ”

"So you're here to deal with this phenomenon, or to find out why it's happening?" Even if he heard the inaudible murmur, Chu Zihang's conclusion was still so to the point.

Wan Boqian stopped talking, looked at Chu Zihang's eyes narrowed slightly, then shook his head and said, "Between the 'particularity' you are showing now, and you say that you know 'Lin Nian', I think the information I am revealing to you now can be regarded as acceptable... But after all, I'm only a temporary worker in the summer, and I don't know a lot of things myself, so why don't you keep these questions and ask this acquaintance you know? ”

"But I just said that I can't contact him anymore." Chu Zihang said.

"That was before, and now it is." Wan Boqian took out her mobile phone and tapped the screen lightly on it, "If you contact you after you go home today, you will probably receive a different result." ”

"Did you mean him by 'commissioner' before?" Chu Zihang immediately understood Wan Boqian's secret words.

"I like to talk to smart people, you said you're a junior in high school, right? Not necessarily, even if there is no accident today, there will be interviewers from the college who will come to you in the future. Wan Boqian smiled with satisfaction, took the mobile phone and untied the wet ponytail with one hand, and looked at Chu Zihang with a waterfall of black hair draped over her shoulders and asked, "I will ask you a few questions next, I hope you answer truthfully, it is related to the credibility between the two of us." ”

Chu Zihang nodded slightly, then sat up straight, and the style of the city's three good students couldn't help but reveal it.

"Name."

"Chu Zihang."

"When did these abnormalities begin in you?"

"Typhoon Night." Chu Zihang is only willing to say so much, Wan Boqian doesn't force to ask, if there is no accident, there will be someone who should force the boy to find him later, and now all she has to do is follow the regulations of the executive department to go through the process of suddenly encountering an unregistered half-breed on the way to the mission.

"Where is your master? There is still some crisis of trust between us, and the specific house number does not need to be revealed, just a general range. ”

"Peacock Mansion."

"Age?"

“18。”

"Did you take the initiative to show anyone around you when something was out of the ordinary?"

"Nope."

"Is there a possibility of leaving a record of everything from paranormal video to audio?"

"I don't know."

"Have you ever hurt someone on your own initiative?"

"Nope."

"Do you have a clear tendency to be violent?"

"Nope."

"Whether there are depressive symptoms."

“... No. ”

"You pause, I'll count you as you have."

“......”

After asking a lot of questions, Chu Zihang was also very cooperative, which was a pleasant conversation.

"That's pretty much it, thank you for your cooperation, but it's a pity that I didn't have the candy I rewarded you with, sister." Wan Boqian pressed the screen of her mobile phone to end the conversation, as a senior Chu Zihang is now a senior in high school, she is qualified to call herself "sister".

"You're recording?" Chu Zihang keenly looked at her mobile phone and asked.

"Necessary procedures." Wan Boqian put away her phone, "If you insist on finding the Kassel Academy, when you get the people you want to contact us, the questions you will accept will be several times stricter than this." ”

"I don't care." Chu Zihang said.

"You can't have to say either, because it's mandatory, and we've never been a 'college' in the strict sense of the word." Wan Boqian stood up, "I remember your name and your appearance, even if you lie to me today, we can easily find you, so now I can tell you one thing." ”

"That is, don't try to find the Kassel Academy, when the time is right, the Kassel Academy will take the initiative to find the right person." Wan Boqian said that, turned around and walked towards the rainy night outside the factory.

"Wait." Seeing this, Chu Zihang immediately got up and ran forward, wanting to keep her.

"Don't follow me, you're wasting your own time!" In the rainy night, Wan Boqian turned to look at the boy under the eaves of the factory, and shouted as she walked back: "Go find that 'friend' of yours, I can tell you that he is now sitting on the flight here!" If your relationship is really that good, he will definitely take the initiative to find you after knowing what happened to you! We'll see each other again! ”

Under the eaves of the factory, Chu Zihang, who heard these words, stood at the rain curtain, the firelight covered his figure with a thin layer of light, and he watched without saying a word as the girl walked backwards into the black rain, completely melting into the night after the fire did not reach her.

It's just that her words were like a key stuffed in Chu Zihang's hand, and the door that couldn't find the lock hole finally revealed a gap for him in this heavy rain.