"What's the reaction?" I asked.

Uncle Zhong said: "The reaction in the dark. Lin Cong, your main task now is to get in touch with Wang Yue and help her break through in the bardo realm and find her father. When the time comes, hello, hello, everyone, don't make any moths. ”

I had to sit in front of the mirror again, Uncle Zhong was still writing on the back of my neck, and after a bit of itching, I once again entered a groggy state.

At this time, a voice came: "Lin Cong." ”

It's still what Wang Yue said. She said: "Lin Cong, I knew you could come, and you lived up to my expectations." "I was shocked, I had already heard this sentence a second time. I immediately understood that what I was hearing now was a recording, and that I would have to start all over again once I came in.

"Lin Cong, don't blame me. It took me three years to find someone like you, and I finally chose you. You're kind, smart, and seem to be a good person......"

I listened patiently until the end, when she said, "I need your help." You stand up now. ”

I didn't dare to interrupt at random this time, if I went out and came back in, the whole recording would have to start from the beginning, and with my temper and patience, I couldn't stand it at all.

I stood up obediently, my head still lowered, my eyes hard to open, and everything was dim and hazy as far as I could see. One thing I'm pretty sure of is that I'm not in the same room, but outdoors, and I can't say exactly where.

Wang Yue's voice was pointing at me: "You go forward, ten steps forward." ”

I took a deep breath and tried to stay where I was, then I started to lift my right foot, moving my feet with difficulty, step by step, and after about ten steps, I vaguely felt as if there was a wall on the other side, and I couldn't help but stop.

"You take the bracelet off." She said.

I gently pressed the sides of the bracelet, and the mechanism "rattled" softly, the bracelet fell off my wrist, and I lifted it up with the bracelet. Wang Yue said: "You put the bracelet in the groove in the front. ”

I fumbled around, and sure enough, there was a groove in the wall in front of me, and I gently put it in. As soon as he put it inside, Wang Yue's surprised voice immediately came: "Lin Cong! ”

I was shocked and immediately woke up to the fact that it was not the recording that was speaking now, but Wang Yue herself!

"Wang Yue." I answered.

I couldn't lift my head, I couldn't open my eyes, and I could only rely on my ears to catch information about the outside environment. Wang Yue actually cried with joy, with a sobbing voice: "Lin Cong, you are really here." ”

"Where are you?" I asked in a deep voice.

"You can get here, a lot of things should be clear." Wang Yue said: "I am now in the realm of bardo. As for what is the realm of bardo, Uncle Zhong must have already explained. ”

"He didn't know what he said, he only said that it was not yin or yang, the land under the jurisdiction of Meng Po, and he also said the bardo body or something." I say.

Wang Yue's voice came from the wall: "It's okay if you know this, don't delve into it." I'm here right now. ”

"What about me? I'm also in the bardo realm? I asked.

Wang Yue said: "No, you are in the mirror. This mirror is what I have been looking for for years to use today. It is a conversion station between the Yang World and the Bardo Realm, you can contact me when you are out of the mirror, and I will tell you the help you need in the Bardo Realm. ”

I asked suspiciously, "Why don't you let me go directly to the bardo realm?" Can't I get in? ”

"No, you can come in." Wang Yue said: "The situation here is very complicated. To put it simply, the bardo realm is such a space, which is related to people's state of mind and karma. When all people die, they will enter the bardo realm to be judged, and as for how to pass through this purgatory, it is not something that ordinary people can imagine. Now that you are involved in the bardo realm, the environment inside will change, and there will be variables, which will only make the problem more and more complicated. ”

I couldn't listen to what she said, and I couldn't understand it, so I endured my anger and said, "I let you die!" ”

"Don't worry," her voice softened, "I am confident that I can rescue my father, and this is also an agreement between me and Meng Po." After returning to the yang, I will do what I say and be your best girlfriend! ”

I sneered, "You are really amazing, you staked my soul to the ghost, if it weren't for Uncle Zhong, I'm afraid I'd become an idiot by now." ”

Wang Yue paused, did not continue the topic, but said softly: "I won't harm you." You're going to help me get through this first hurdle. ”

I didn't speak, she realized that she was at a loss, and said slowly: "I have a string of numbers in front of me that need to be cracked, and now in this purgatory, I am also in a state of ecstasy, without the support of my body and brain, many memories and abilities have been stripped away, you must first help me solve the mystery of these numbers." The number, you remember, is "612,601,620, empty in the middle, 529,617...... You're going to help me unravel the numbers that are vacated in the middle......" Her voice suddenly began to flutter, sounding a little oozing: "Now I have started the purgatory process, and I only have seven days. Within seven days, if I can't get out, I'll be trapped in the bardo realm forever! Trapped forever...... Now the countdown has begun. ”

I was sweating profusely, and I didn't have time to solve any number mysteries, and I didn't even write down those numbers.

"Can I help you figure it out now?" I asked anxiously.

"You have to go out, find Uncle Zhong, and you will crack it together." Wang Yue said: "After cracking, come in again, and then come here, I'll wait for you!" Here you are only in a state of soul, very unstable, you must return the soul and combine with the body, go out quickly, time is getting less and less. ”

I hurriedly said, you repeat the numbers.

Wang Yue repeated it again, this time I kept it in mind, and I suddenly raised my head and opened my eyes again, and I returned to the bedroom.

I was top-heavy, fell under my feet, and almost fell. Uncle Zhong and Li Damin hurriedly supported me, my feet were a little weak, and my head was covered with sweat, and they helped me to sit down.

I looked around, and the bedroom was filled with deep black smoke, and my eyes could only look around in front of me. It occurred to me that the bracelet had been left in the recess on the wall in the mirror, and without it, I had fallen into the black smoke again.

Uncle Zhong held a candle and squatted next to me, his old face was revealed in the black smoke, and the flames were swaying faintly, as if there was wind, but he couldn't feel it.

"How?" He asked in a low voice.

I took a deep breath and recounted what had just happened. Uncle Zhong groaned slightly, "The trial has begun, and there are only seven days. ”

"Seven days to crack these numbers?" Li Damin said beside him, "It's not difficult. ”

Uncle Zhong shook his head lightly: "There is more than one level of trial, there are seven levels in total, and it has something to do with everyone's karma. Therefore, we have to hurry up every minute and every second, because we really don't know how difficult it will be behind the level that Wang Yue will face, and the time is only seven days! ”

Li Damin looked a little excited and sighed a few times.

Uncle Zhong asked me, what can you think of about numbers?

I shook my head and wiped the sweat from my head, indicating that I didn't know anything.

Uncle Zhong looked at the surrounding environment: "This is not a good way to think, let's go out and talk about it." ”

The three of us came out of the bedroom, went to the living room outside, looked at the watch, it was now one o'clock in the second half of the night, tossed for more than an hour, and the three of us were not sleepy.

Li Damin rummaged through boxes and cabinets in the living room.

I sat on the couch, crossed my shoulders and asked, "What are you doing?"

Li Damin took out a stack of A4 paper and a few pens from a cabinet, took them over and said: "Since you want to crack the numbers, you can't think with your brain, a good memory is better than a bad pen." ”

The three of us took pen and paper, and I repeated the string of numbers again, and Li Damin and Uncle Zhong both wrote them on paper.

I also wrote down the following numbers on the paper one by one: 612,601,620,XX,529,617.

Li Damin said strangely, it seems that they all start with six characters.

"There's a 529 in there." I reminded him.

"I don't think it's going to be difficult." Li Damin said.

Uncle Zhong rubbed a few strands of whiskers on his chin and said, "Don't underestimate the realm of the bardo, it is weird and unpredictable, you can't take the thinking of the yang world, the space there is different from what you imagined." ”

Li Damin blinked and said, "How do you understand?" ”

Uncle Zhong looked at him appreciatively and nodded: "This may also be true." ”

Li Damin looked at me: "Lin Cong, can you do it with your brain?" ”

"Don't underestimate people." I said, "I'm also a 211 graduate." ”

Li Damin smiled and didn't speak. The three of us each looked for a place, took the paper and began to look at it. What's so hard about just a few numbers? I looked at those two people and wanted to show my hand and crack it as soon as possible. But as soon as I got started, I found that it was really not simple. First of all, the string of numbers is not arranged by size, so will there be an equal difference in between? 612 minus 601 equals 11, while 620 minus 601 equals 19, and finally 617 minus 529 equals ...... I raised my eyebrows, as if I couldn't see a pattern.

The performance of the two of them is also different, Li Damin calculates with the calculator of his mobile phone, while Uncle Zhong sits in the corner, looking at the numbers, muttering as if chanting scriptures, not knowing what to consider.

The paper was covered with numbers, and it felt more and more complicated, and I knew intuitively that I had miscalculated, and there must be an unexpected trick here.