“...... Celestial? ”

Went back?

I didn't hear Sai Tianbao's movement for a few minutes, and then I was sure that Sai Tianbao had really disappeared.

Lian Yu swore that he only had the idea of letting Sai Tianbao leave at that moment, and this idea was fleeting like a spark, and it was never sincere, but did Sai Tianbao leave because he discovered this idea?

Lian Yu's heart tightened—as if he had bullied Sai Tianbao.

As the minutes and seconds passed, Lian Yu disposed of the already cold takeaway before his mother got off work, acted as if he had nothing to do with his mother, said good night on time at nine o'clock, and pretended to go back to his room to sleep.

At ten o'clock, Lian Yu paid attention to the movement outside, and at half past ten, Lian Yu pretended to come out to drink water.

Quietly in the living room, he tiptoed to his mother's bedroom, gently put his ear on the door panel, and after hearing his mother's steady and tired snoring, he returned to the bedroom and took the backpack he had packed in advance, and moved to the entrance inch by inch by holding on to the wall, and then to the door inch by inch.

There was a crisp click when the doorknob was pressed down and the deadbolt popped out, and Lian Yu hurriedly held his breath to make sure that his mother was not woken up before leaving the house cautiously.

- The whole process, the blind man spent half an hour, and when he really set off, it was already eleven o'clock at night.

Downstairs in the community, the car that had been agreed in advance was already waiting. Lian Yu asked the driver to pay attention to the white van around him, and after going around a few times to make sure that no one was following, he headed for full speed towards the West Port Area.

At eleven fifty-four, before midnight, Lian Yan walked into the apartment for the elderly.

When Xigang District was developed more than 40 years ago, many communities were expanded, and the elderly apartment was originally a family building of a technical school, but later the technical school collapsed, and the Xigang District became more and more suburbanized, and there were almost no residents in the elderly apartment in the corner.

At night, Westport, with few lights and a whining sound through the empty buildings, is a ruin waiting to be developed. The seven-storey senior apartment is a black tower in the ruins, and most of the building is hidden in the night, and a slender silhouette can be faintly recognized.

But none of that can be seen.

All he could hear was. The cane clattered to the floor, the rhythm was unmistakable, as steady as his breathing, but his nerves tensed - the cane showed him the way and revealed his position.

The damp musty smell of the old building was tiresome, the smell of expired canned fish, the soft and rotten walls in the narrow corridors, the dust kicked up by the blind cane as it swept across the ground, and the smell of dead insects.

Lian Yu frowned and walked forward, took a few steps and stopped.

"Third floor." A faint breath floated down from the upper floor, reaching Lian Yan's ears with unmistakable accuracy. The inviter had been watching his guest from the beginning, but he didn't seem to intend to greet him cordially, leaving only the phrase "third floor" and then silenced.

Lian Yu only thought for a second, then walked up. He tried to go up, while silently remembering the steps in his mind, and finally walked smoothly to the third floor. Standing on the platform on the third floor, he waited for a while, but the inviter didn't prompt again, as if it had disappeared, but Lian Yu could feel that there was a gaze watching him.

The line of sight is coming from the left. Lian Yu said in his heart.

He took a step to the left, but was immediately stopped.

"Stand there. Don't move. ”

Lian Yu retracted the steps he had taken and stood still as he said.

"You're late."

At that time, it was past zero o'clock, Lian Yu did not deny it, but he did not explain, and asked straight to the point: "Who are you?" ”

The other party pondered and did not respond immediately.

Lian Yu then asked, "Where is Lian Xu?" ”

The other party didn't answer, but Lian Yu could feel that the man seemed to be considering something.

"You're a friend of Lian Xu, right?" Lian Yu changed the question.

"Yes." This time, the other party gave an affirmative answer.

"Who are you?"

"Friends." The other man repeated the word, and then muttered something in strange language. Lian Yu thought for two seconds, and realized that the other party spoke in Russian, which means "Peter's friend", and Peter is Lian Xu's Russian name.

As early as the first time the subject came into contact with him, Lian Yu wondered why this person was always stumbling, with an unnatural intonation and inverted word order, at first he thought it was some kind of local accent, and then thought that it might be a foreigner. If it's really a friend of my younger brother who stayed in Russia, nine times out of ten it's a hairy man.

How can this be communicated? Even if you search your intestines and scrape your stomach, you will only have two sentences - hello and thank you.

"My name is Andrei." Fortunately, the other party's Chinese level is much better than Lian Yu imagined, and from Andre's upside-down words, Lian Yu pieced together the process of Lian Yu's disappearance little by little.

Four years ago, when the semester was coming to an end and the vacation was about to begin, Lian Xu, who was planning to return to China, suddenly borrowed a car from Andre.

Andre has always boasted that he has a big truck, which is actually a small truck used by his grandfather to carry goods, but Andre agreed without saying a word, and took the initiative to ask Ying to be the driver, but he didn't expect that the place Lian Xu was going to was the forest at the bottom of the lake.

"What forest?" Lian Yu didn't understand.

Andrei tried to explain that it was a dangerous place.

"You know, the forest at the bottom of the lake is a very dangerous place, and we never go there, but Peter suddenly received a message from his father asking him to go there."

"Where did this news come from?"

"The owner of a tavern, the man's name is Misha."

Lian Yu nodded, he knew this tavern. After Lian Xu's disappearance, he heard that it was a place his brother frequented when he searched for Lian Xu, but by the time he did, the tavern had ceased to operate.

Speaking of this tavern owner, Andrei's words hid a deep sense of chagrin. "I asked him, but I didn't remember to ask him until I was in the forest, and I knew that his father was missing, so I asked him: 'Peter, is this news reliable?' But Peter said he didn't know......"

Andrei gradually fell into the memory.

"Hey, buddy, aren't you sure?" Andre took control of the steering wheel and turned his head uneasily to look at Lian Xuan in the passenger seat. This Chinese man's face is very beautiful, he always exudes a restrained and quiet atmosphere when he doesn't speak, and his black eyes and red phoenix eyes will evoke reverie about the mysterious ancient Orient - but after knowing Lian Xu for two years, Andre knows that this man's personality is not at all like the surface, just rare, and Lian Xu's face is grim.

"I'm not sure." Lian Xu told the truth.

"Where did this news come from, and you can't tell me?"

"From Mishana the big head."

"Oh my God! It's him! Andre slammed on the brakes, "Don't you know? The big-headed Misha is a stupid bear, and he has vodka in his head except vodka, you must have been deceived by him! I also believed in your evil spirit, and actually stole my grandfather's car and ran here! ”

"All you have to do is leave me nearby, and I'll walk the rest of the way." Lian Xu said. He never speaks with his voice in his voice, his tone is calm, but he always gives people an irrefutable momentum.

"But......" Andre looked out the window, and the dense trees were hidden from each other, forming a series of black shadows, and he could not see anything except the outlines of the trees. Before entering the forest, the sky was still bright, but at this time it was completely dark, the temperature had dropped sharply, and the window panes were stained with fog, and Andre adjusted his sitting position uneasily, and he did not feel it when driving, but after stopping the car, he felt that they were swallowed by the forest.

"How far is it from the wooden bridge?" Lian asked Andrei. Their destination was the Lakebottom Waterfall in the Lakebottom Forest, where the car could not pass and had to drive to the wooden bridge that led to the Lakebottom Waterfall.

"Ten minutes." André estimated that he was sure that his friend would not change his mind, so he had to restart the old pickup truck and drive forward with a whirl, and ten minutes later, a wooden bridge over a ravine appeared.

"I'm waiting for you here?" Andrei asked Lian Xu, and at this time a strong and bad premonition had risen in his heart. I heard that Peter's father was a research scholar, what did he study? Why meet at the bottom of the lake? Could it be that Peter's father was a jungle explorer. Andre seems to be deliberately trying to distract himself from the uneasiness in his heart, recalling in his mind the image of the sloppy explorer who appeared in the film and television drama.

Lian Xu didn't know what he was thinking, but comforted his friend with a light smile, "You go to Kurumbana for a drink or two, you seem to be frightened." I assure you, don't worry at all. ”

"If I go for fun, I won't come back." Andrei said deliberately.

"That's going to be fun." Lian Shu laughed.

Andrei couldn't joke anymore, he looked serious: "How are you going to come back?" ”

"My father will take me back to the city. Wait for me in Kurumba. He took out a huge mountaineering bag from the back compartment, shook it hard, and carried it on his back.

"What's in the bag?"

"Gifts." Lian Shu smiled, waved at Andre, and walked onto the wooden bridge.

Andrei recalls that scene, "...... The fog suddenly became very thick, and soon, I could no longer see him, and I shouted: Friend! Peter! But he was gone, and I couldn't let go of it, so I got out of the car and wanted to follow him......"

Andrei hesitated for half an hour, and finally stepped on the wooden bridge, but after the thick fog, the end of the wooden bridge was pitch black......

"What's behind the wooden bridge?" Lian Yu confirmed it again.

"Nothing." Andrei's voice was hard, as if he was stuck in his throat, "After crossing the wooden bridge, I fell unconscious, and later, Peter and I were locked in a big white room, every day, ......" Andre suddenly couldn't find a suitable word to describe it, and Lian Yi added for him: "You have become test subjects? ”

"Yes."

"What an experiment."

"The head is an experiment in the head."

"Where is Lian Shu now?"

"I don't know." Andrei's voice became weaker and weaker, "We agreed that when we come out this time, we must find a way to get out of that hell......"

This time out? Lian Shu is also one of the test subjects that was released this time?!

Lian Rong clenched his fists, "Lian Yu also came out, right?!" Tell me where he is! ”

Andrei agreed in a weak voice: "I don't know ......"

"And how did you find me?"

"In the park, I saw you...... I've seen pictures of your brothers, I recognize you as you look......" Andrei's voice became choppy, and even let out a low moan uncontrollably.

"Andrey?"

Andrei did not answer.

Lian Yu suddenly connected the last blonde passenger carried by the dead driver that Chang Xiaomei said was with Andre.

Lian Yu walked forward decisively, he took out the infrared sensor from his bag, used the warning sound to avoid large obstacles, and walked for more than ten steps, Andrei's voice suddenly appeared again, but it was even weaker: "Don't come." ”

"Why?" Lian Yu roughly judged Andrei's position, he didn't care about Andrei's obstruction, and walked straight towards Andrei, strangely, Andre only stopped him with words, making the dissuasion more like a trap. But Lian Yu still moved towards Andre, and soon, Lian Yu knew what was going on - what he stepped on, he bent down and touched it, it was a human leg, and up the leg, it was a human body.

It's just cold and stiff.

"Andrey?" Lian Yu is not sure.

“...... It's me. Andrei was stiff and could only move from the neck up. He tilted his head, closed his eyes, and did not look at Lian Yan, his face was as white as paper, and his breathing gradually slowed down.

"What's going on?" Lian Yu fumbled and pressed Andrei's wrist, barely feeling the pulse, and he went to test the major artery in Andrei's neck again, and the slight undulation proved that the lying man was not dead. Lian Yu hurriedly took out his mobile phone, pressed "120", thought about it, and dialed Wen Tingyan's phone.

There was a busy sound on the other end of the phone, and Lian Yu anxiously waited for a response.

"Don't ......" Andre stopped Lian Rong, but Lian Rong didn't intend to listen. I'll call you doctors and police, you'll be rescued and protected, don't worry......"

Andrei shook his head, tears slid from the corners of his eyes, "It's too late...... In order to have a safe communication environment, Andre has built a huge protective barrier around the elderly apartment, but the people in the base have already discovered him, and his body is already at the end of the crossbow.

"What's too late? ...... Feed? ”

“...... Well? Wen Tingyan's tone was sleepy.

"It's me! West Harbour District! Senior Apartment! Third floor! Come on!! Lian Yu shouted, encouraging Andre to hold on, "There is a wounded man...... Can't call an ambulance! Come here first, quick! ”

"Ahhh——!h The door of the head suddenly hurt, as if something split the skull and drilled in, Andre twitched violently, and couldn't help but open his eyes that had been closed, and in a trance, he saw Lian Yan's face. The face of a man who doesn't resemble his brother Lian Xu, with tougher lines.

【Oh~】A crisp male voice emitted a pleasant tone that sounded in Andrei's head.

It sucks. Andrei groaned in his heart. "Let's go...... He sees you. ”

"Who?"

"Liang ......"

Don't let him go. 】

"No ....."

"What?" Lian Yu didn't know that Andre was fighting against the voice in his head, and at the same time, Wen Tingyan's series of questions on his mobile phone made him have no time to deal with it. "I'll tell you in a moment! Andrey, who is Liang? ”

"Let him stay there, and I will make you no longer miserable.] 】

"Don't you think about it." Andrei endured great pain, and with every word he spoke, he would bite his tongue with uncontrollable convulsions, and soon, his mouth was covered with blood.

[Heh. 】

Poof—

Andrei spurted out a mouthful of blood, and before he could even scream, he died.