It is still the simple but clean little broken noodle shop at the mouth of the alley, and the proprietress who has always been talkative and enthusiastic looks at the two people sitting in the corner without saying a word.

The two were obviously dressed as students, a man and a woman, and she thought at first that they were a couple coming to dinner, but later found that the strange and inexplicable atmosphere between them was not the same thing at all. As soon as the boy entered the door, he mysteriously gave the girl something like a book, and then the two of them used their mobile phones to send a few pictures as if they were a password, and then ordered two servings of noodle soup and began to tremble without saying a word.

The proprietress changed the face of the rag in her hand, still quietly observing the two strange guests.

Finally, when the noodles were almost eaten, the boy put down his chopsticks and cleared his throat, saying, "Have you seen the photo I sent yesterday?" By the way, did you fall asleep after that, why didn't you reply to my messages? ”

Girl: "After reading it, I think it's a lot of nonsense, and we'll talk about it later." But before that...... Do you think she really thinks we won't be found out if you look at it this way? ”

"Well, actually, the boss lady, she's pretty good, but she might be a little ......"

The two of them turned their heads together to stare in the direction of the counter, and the proprietress smiled a little awkwardly and said, "What, I just want to ask if you want to order a drink or something...... Haha, then I'm going to the kitchen, you guys talk. ”

Feeling that the intense gaze that had always been watching the drama had finally left, Qiu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and put her attention back on Wu Hengyu. "Before I do that, let me ask you a question, are you an atheist?"

Wu Hengyu was stunned, he looked at the other side and blinked, and finally moved his gaze out the window as if distressed. "I ...... Not sure either. Sometimes I think that all other theories of the supremacy of science are ridiculous, but sometimes I can always sense that there is something agnostic in the dark that is watching us. So I'm not a complete atheist, and I can't say I'm a devout believer. ”

"But have you ever thought that it is precisely this kind of vacillation in the middle that is the most dangerous."

“…… Yes? ”

Qiu Xuan sighed, and also put down her chopsticks and drank saliva. "I used to be more atheistic, but something happened after that...... It's not a good thing, so I won't go into too much detail here. But in short, just because you don't believe doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and what you believe in is also not necessarily real. ”

"That's what I really want to say, Wu Hengyu. Because I suspect that I was entangled, in the Qin family, someone made Qin Xiao's doll and raised a little ghost. ”

"it?!" Wu Hengyu glared at her, and after reacting, he gently fanned himself to maintain his low voice, "Is this the doll you photographed?" When you sent the photo, you blurred out the name, I didn't see it clearly, it turned out that the doll was written with Qin Xiao's name? ”

"Hmm."

"Doesn't that mean that someone in your family wants to harm Qin Xiao! But is he said to be not Mr. Qin's only heir, who would have such guts? Also, you said that you were entangled because you were Qin Xiao's girlfriend, so you were implicated? ”

"Don't mention anything about me and Qin Xiao being a couple." Qiu Xuan frowned uncomfortably, with a serious expression, "I don't like to hear this, okay, let's turn the topic back." I'm just talking about some of my personal inferences, which haven't been proven yet, so I want to ask you for help, and of course this shouldn't have implicated you in the first place, so if you feel embarrassed, you can refuse me, you know. ”

"No, I'll help you." Hearing this, Wu Hengyu straightened his body and also restrained his laughing expression.

"If you're trying to brush up on my favorability, I advise you to give up after all......"

"I heard that you and Sang Wanning are good friends, can you mention me more in front of her......"

“？”

“？”

The two said in unison, and then invariably showed question mark faces at each other. Qiu Xuan's first reaction was that she was too self-inflicted, but she wouldn't admit it, so she preemptively said, "Okay, it's done." ”

“…… What's the deal? ”

"I'll help you chase Sang Wanning, and you help me force you to become a complete atheist yourself."

"Why? Can this still force oneself to be atheistic? Wu Hengyu scratched his head, and under too much doubt, he forgot to ask some details related to pursuing Sang Wanning.

"It's a little complicated to explain." Qiu Xuan thought for a moment, "Let's make a long story short, for all kinds of inconvenient reasons, it is absolutely impossible for me to continue my atheistic belief now. But you can, because you're in the middle ground between believing and not believing, and you can do it with a little guidance. ”

"The worst situation now is nothing more than that there are some 'dirty things' in the Qin family that have been raised or traded with people, because I believe in their existence, so their harm is substantial to me. But if you're a complete atheist, you don't believe in weird powers, so even if they're there, they won't hurt you. ”

"It's probably the so-called, if you believe, you have, and if you don't believe, you don't have it."

Wu Hengyu listened to her in a daze, lowered his head and flipped through the hand-copied ancient books he had brought to Qiu Xuan, and finally raised his head with a somewhat indescribable twisted expression. "You say something like that, but the problem is that the key to the success of this experiment is that I 'know' that those 'things' exist. In other words, I already know that those ghosts and gods really exist there, but I still want to make myself an atheist, but these two propositions are contradictory. ”

"That's your problem." Seeing that the people who didn't go back to the house might find themselves sneaking out, Qiu Xuan stood up and was so indifferent that he simply regarded Wu Hengyu as a tool man. "Think about Sang Wanning, love is not so easy to talk about, young man."

After she finished speaking, she mercilessly took away the book in Wu Hengyu's hand and turned to leave, leaving a young man with a confused face still sitting in place, confused about the future situation.

Walking alone on the way back to Qin's house, Qiu Xuan carefully put the book in the tattered backpack, and suddenly looked up at the clear sky and let out a long, long breath. Everything she said to Wu Hengyu just now, including those inferences about being a doll and raising a ghost or having a god or a god, is actually just a conjecture that only stays at the theoretical level.

It was by far the most bewildered world she'd ever had, and the prospect was truly completely foggy. Not only because she was likely to face invisible ghosts and killing machines but was taken away from her most important abilities and weapons, but also because she couldn't see through the future ahead.

The weird old lady who chattered with gods, the second uncle who was suspected of having a special sex/addiction, Qin Xiao who was made into a puppet doll, Du Ruo, who had a very different personality, and a gloomy housekeeper who obviously knew what secrets...... and the terrifying eyes that watched her everywhere.

Qiu Xuan sniffed, and finally stepped into the door of the Qin family resolutely.

It seemed to be the time of the lunch break after dinner, and the hall was warm by the sun, and there was no sign of the strange atmosphere when the room was plunged into darkness last night. Just now, she was patronizing and fooling Wu Hengyu into the gang and didn't eat noodles very well, but now she smelled the aroma of food from the kitchen, she touched her stomach and felt that she was starting to get hungry again.

Feeling into the kitchen lightly, Qiu Xuan found the leftover meal that had been carefully wrapped at noon in the microwave, and she simply processed it twice before turning on the microwave button and starting to heat it. The re-emanated aroma of the vegetables scattered throughout the huge kitchen, and soon filled a small half of the area.

"Miss Qiu Xuan? When did you get back? I don't know if it was attracted by the sound or happened to pass by, Ah Lian's voice suddenly appeared at the kitchen door. Qiu Xuan frowned slightly, leaned on the refrigerator and replied, "I haven't gone out." ”

"But...... But just now, Mr. Qin Er went to knock on your door after lunch and found that no one was inside, and we all thought you had gone out again. ”

Why is this Qin Nanxun everywhere, and now he doesn't have to go to work on weekdays...... Oh, and he's now a working university professor on summer vacation. Qiu Xuan scolded him a few times in her heart, then glanced at Ah Lian and said, "Then what do they say?" ”

"This ......" Ah Lian hesitated, but still said the truth. They said that if they would see you, let you go to the study on the third floor. Oh yes, Mr. Qin came back just now to pick up something, and the door of the study should be unlocked. ”

"Wait until I'm done, it's all right." Anyway, it has been discovered, Qiu Xuan is simply a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water. She went to move a small bench by herself, sat down and held the bowl and began to eat, seeing this, Ah Lian's mouth opened and closed several times, and finally she didn't know what to persuade.

In the living room outside the kitchen, a footstep strode in this direction, Ah Lian looked up inexplicably, and then shouted in surprise, "Mr. Qin, why are you back again?" ”

"Do you still have the key to the door?"

A low voice sounded, Qiu Xuan was stunned holding the bowl, and for a moment he stopped picking up the rice in his hand, and stared at Jie Ying's full rice grains in a daze.

"Yes, yes, I'll get it for you." didn't care about whether to take Qiuxuan to the study, Ah Lian hurriedly answered twice and walked away quickly to get the key. There were only two people left in the empty kitchen for a moment.

There was a faint sound of clothes rubbing in front of him, and it seemed that the man known as "Mr. Qin" had found a chair and sat down. After this slight sound, there was no more movement, and he did not speak, and the silence spread through the kitchen room for a while.

Qiu Xuan's gaze extended all the way down to the ring on his left hand through the rice bowl, anyway, this ring was not banned from being used before entering this trial ground like Xiaolu's necklace or Zimu knife, maybe it was really chicken.

But again, until now, Qiu Xuan has never touched the delicate dark lines on the outside again. The ring was never connected to its other owner, it was like an ordinary ornament.

And now, at this moment, in the face of the situation of the suspected person, she began to feel timid.

Secretly spitting on herself, Qiu Xuan held her breath and finally raised her head from the bowl.

The man in a suit and leather shoes sat on a small bench in the kitchen, and sat a plastic chair with the momentum of ten thousand leather chairs. As if he hadn't noticed anyone else in the kitchen, he was looking intently at the papers in his hand. Qiu Xuan was still nervous at first waiting for him to find out, but in the end, he couldn't help but start to get angry.

So the dog man didn't see her at all.

She slammed the chopsticks on the table, and then faked a cough very contrivedly. The man paused and looked up, but the familiar face was full of indifferent alienation.

"You're Autumn ...... Elegant? ”

Qiu Xuan: WDNMD

Sure enough, as expected, he forgot again, just as he was "refreshed" again and again as each proving ground was reshuffled. Is this also a special ability as an executioner, Qiu Xuan pursed her lips, and said calmly: "It's Qiu Xuan." ”

"I'm sorry." The man said perfunctorily, his tone sounding flat and indifferent as if he was sorry at all.

The atmosphere fell silent again, Qiu Xuan looked at him, although he knew that he couldn't ask anything now, but he still couldn't restrain his desire to drill the horns. "Isn't there anything you want to say to me?"

"Me?" The man furrowed his eyebrows as if puzzled, he put down the document in his hand and looked directly at the person in front of him seriously for a while for the first time, and his cold expression suddenly confused for a second. "Are you ......?"

"It's okay." Qiu Xuan interrupted him, "But I have something I want to tell you, maybe you don't understand what I'm saying right now, but I don't want to wait until the time is over and rush to say it at the end." So now you listen well, Qin Jiuyuan. ”

“”

“！” The man's pupils suddenly constricted and opened his eyes wide for a second, and the expression on his face at this moment was rarely blank and dazed. He couldn't bother with the fact that she was calling her name without respect, he opened his mouth, but the next second he was interrupted by a sudden sound.

"Mr. Qin, this is the key backup, for you." At this time, Ah Lian, who didn't know where to go and had been delayed for so long, hurried over, Qiu Xuan squinted her eyes, and suddenly thought of something.

That's right, Ah Lian called him "Mr. Qin", and so far the only person in this family who is qualified to be called so is the main seat that has been empty in the hall, the real nominal head of this family.

Well, that is......

Behind Ah Lian, several figures also stepped in. Qin Xiao, who was the first to stand firm, just wanted to open his mouth to ask, but when his eyes touched the tall man sitting on the chair, he was stunned for a second, and then said in surprise: "Dad? Isn't it a live company, why are you back again? ”

Father......

Father.

Haha, Qin Jiuyuan.

You can do it.

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