The high heels knocked on the cold stone path, making a rhythmic "da-da" sound, and the sound of Lin Chen's procrastinating footsteps was extremely harsh in the silent night.

Xu Aqi held Lin Chen's hand, full of strength, like a small pair of pliers, pinching Lin Chen's bitter face, almost wailing in pain.

"Ouch! Ouch! Grandma, my hands are cramping! Can you lighten it up! Thank you! ”

"Can't! Hold on to you tightly, so I can feel safe! ”

Xu Aqi's words almost didn't make Lin Chen vomit blood, he stopped, turned his head, and glanced at Xu Aqi with a complicated expression.

"You're safe! My poor fingers are almost dead to death from your grip! ”

Xu Aqi shook his head and said with a serious expression: "No!" Do not worry! You're rough-skinned and thick-skinned, and you won't die for a while! That's what I can promise! ”

Lin Chen furrowed his brows, struggled to pull his hand out of Xu Aqi's hand, inhaled, and shook it back and forth for a while, and the few fingers that were so sore and numb that they were almost unconscious gradually eased up.

"I have deep doubts, do you love me, or do you hate me? With such a big hand, this is obviously a prelude to strangle me to death! ”

Through the not-so-bright moonlight, Lin Chen saw Xu Aqi puffing out his mouth, blinking his eyes a few times, and looking innocent.

"Don't look at me like that! I'm not wrong! What, I've wronged you? ”

Xu Aqi nodded firmly, bit her lip, and whispered, "People are just afraid!" What's wrong with holding you a little tighter? ”

"Boy, you're not a little tight!"

Lin Chen said with a smile as he rubbed his fingers with his other hand that were still aching.

Xu Aqi tugged at Lin Chen's sleeve.

"Something seems to have floated past you, do you see it? What is it? ”

"I didn't see it clearly, it was too fast! It seems to be white, and the outline is not clear! Flickering, it's gone in the blink of an eye! ”

"I don't see it either! Like a puff of smoke! White smoke! Xu Aqi said.

Lin Chen took off the backpack on Xu Aqi's body and carried it on his back.

"I don't think it's like white smoke, it's more like a plastic bag! Could it be a white plastic bag? Blown up by the wind? Once, when I came home late and walked in the woods over there, I saw such a scene, something white, flickering past. To this day, I still don't know what that would be! ”

Xu Aqi frowned, thought for a while, and continued: "I smelled a smell just now, a fragrance!" The aroma is uncomfortable and disgusting, though! Do you smell it? ”

After snorting a few times, Lin Chen shook his head gently in disappointment.

"In the past few days, I have rhinitis, and my nose is always out of breath! It's uncomfortable! Sensitivity has also dropped! I didn't smell anything! ”

"It's useless!"

Xu Aqi glared at Lin Chen slightly, and her thin eyebrows were raised, which added a bit of excitement to this little face.

She thought that her words would get an accurate response from Lin Chen, yes or no! to help her make a judgment about whether she feels right or not.

This unique smell, Xu Aqi smelled it more than once! In the forest behind Unfukuji Temple, she smelled it, and in the dream, when the paper-burning woman with her back to her appeared, she also smelled it!

Could this be an accident?

A crow perched on a treetop and said "Wow! The ground screamed, sounding rough and hoarse! It startled Lin Chen and Xu Aqi.

Lin Chen raised his head and said angrily: "This bird is really annoying!" The black light is blind, what is the poor called! As the saying goes, if the crow goes over its head, woe will be woe if there is no disaster! This unfortunate bird really wants to knock it down and roast it and eat it! ”

Xu Aqi clenched his hand into a fist, put it on the corner of his mouth and coughed lightly, squinting at Lin Chen.

"You broken nose is even more annoying! When it comes to the critical moment, the chain will be dropped! Just sawed it off! ”

This girl's words are really ruthless!

Lin Chen opened his mouth slightly and stayed where he was, stunned for a long time and didn't think of what to say, until Xu Aqi tugged on his sleeve, he squeezed out a sentence from the corner of his mouth.

"I wonder even more, do you love me, or do you cruel me? How did I offend you in my last life? You old man can actually think of using the cruel word 'saw' to treat my beautiful nose! ”

"Last life? Do we have a lifetime? ”

"Yes! People don't say, 'Ten years of cultivation can cross the same boat, and a hundred years of cultivation can sleep together' The love between men and women has a past life! ”

Xu Aqi looked at Lin Chen in a daze, her thin lips opened lightly, "You say, will we be husband and wife in the last life?" ”

These words made Lin Chen's heart move slightly, giving birth to a feeling of ignorance. He suddenly remembered the lyrics of an old song:

He is a year of tending to branches, and people abandon Zhuyanhua and trees!

He didn't know how he could have remembered such a lyric, which was still a song that he often hummed when he was in school, with the boys from the opera family on the top bunk of the dormitory.

This song, this word, made his heart feel an inexplicable sourness.

"Lin Chen, what's wrong with you? Why didn't you speak all of a sudden? ”

Lin Chen's tall body paused slightly, holding Xu Aqi's waist in vain.

"It's okay! Let's go, the fat man guesses it's early here! ”

The village is not big, and the road from the entrance of the village to the dry well is not too long, so Lin Chen and the others quickly walked there.

There seemed to be a figure shaking in front of him, Lin Chen thought, it must be a fat man.

"Fatty! Is that you? ”

Lin Chen shouted in a loud voice.

The other party did not answer.

took the flashlight in Xu Aqi's hand and shone it over, and following the light, Lin Chen saw the fat man pulling the rope with his hand, and the rope was tied to the crooked neck tree by the well, and went into the well.

The fat man turned his head and raised one arm to cover his eyes, dodging the flashlight light that Lin Chen shot at him.

"Don't take it, don't take it! Don't take a picture! Shake me to death! It's me! You're going to blind me! ”

"Why are you alone! Isn't there another person? Where did it go? ”

As he spoke, Lin Chen took advantage of the light of the flashlight and looked around. Around the well, there seemed to be nothing but a tall crooked old elm tree and a stone platform.

"Huh? You mean my co-worker? He can't wait, he will go down the well before it gets completely dark! ”

"In such a hurry, this co-worker of yours really thinks he can find gold! Worried that we won't be able to steal gold from him? But he's bold enough! ”

"Hehe, you're right! This guy is really not afraid of anything! He told us that he had bitten a live snake and that he had killed it! Do you believe it? I don't know if he's bragging, but I don't believe it! However, today, seeing him standing by the well, looking at the dark well, I didn't think about it, and I really believed it! ”

"It's so violent!" Xu Aqi said in surprise.

Lin Chen pointed at Xu Aqi and introduced the fat man: "My girlfriend! Xu Aqi! ”

The fat man nodded without smiling, which was regarded as a greeting.

Lin Chen and Xu Aqi walked to the well, this is an ancient well, the square well seat is carved from a whole large stone, years of abrasion, the edge of the wellhead has shown an irregular jagged shape, leaving traces of ropes of different shades.

Lin Chen lay on the edge of the well and looked down.

"Call him up!" Lin Chen said.

The fat man tied the rope and put his head at the mouth of the well, "Ye Jiangchuan, come up!" The friend I'm talking about has arrived! ”

"Hey! Can you hear this brother in the well? ”

Lin Chen also shouted into the well.

There was no echo in the well, a deathly silence.

What's going on?

You look at me, I look at him, and they look at each other.

"Hey! Well, speak! ”

This time, Lin Chen raised his voice, but there was still no echo, and under the moonlight, it was pitch black in the well.

"What's wrong with this buddy? Don't say a word back! Could something happen? Lin Chen said.

"Huh? No way? Lin Chen, you come over and help me pull the rope, I'll go over and take a look. You just talked to me! ”

Lin Chen grabbed the rope in the past and replaced the fat man. The fat man wiped his hands on his clothes indiscriminately, lay on the edge of the well, leaned into the well with half of his body, and shouted loudly, "Ye Jiangchuan, Ye Jiangchuan, you kid squeak!" ”

The well was very quiet.

The three of them looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a while!

"How deep is this well?" Lin Chen asked.

"It's a bit deep, I heard it's 10 meters!"

"No water in the well?" Xu Aqi asked, seeing that the fat man was still looking into the well with his head sticking out, he asked again, "Are you sure there is no water in this well?" ”

"There's no water! When Ye Jiangchuan and I came, we also used a flashlight to shine it, and we could see clearly, there was no water, and the light reflected by something should not be water. Ye Jiangchuan went down. When I went down, he talked to me, saying that he had touched something. I'm still wondering, is there really something in this well? And then here you are. ”

"You can't look at it that way! It's pitch black in the well, how do you look at it! Don't you have a flashlight? Xu Aqi asked.

"Brought it, it was taken down by Ye Jiangchuan!"

"Use ours!"

The flashlight was pressed twice more and turned to the brightest setting, and by the light of the flashlight, Xu Aqi also stretched his head over and looked into the well with the fat man.

The well is very deep, there is no one, the bottom of the well is a little shiny, the white point of light, the rope seems to pass through the point of light, and if it is deeper, it will not be clear to see, and I feel that the cold wind is coming from the inside out, Xu Aqi has goosebumps, and I didn't dare to look inside.

"Come on, let's pull the rope up and try it!" Lin Chen said.

The two men worked together, but the rope couldn't be pulled.

"Don't pull it hard, it's even more troublesome if it breaks!" The fat man said.

Lin Chen took the flashlight in Ah Qi's hand and looked down the well with the light, the well looked like a ball of cotton, with white points of light, and he couldn't see why.

"Or, I'll go down and have a look!" Lin Chen said.

"Okay? I see, don't go down! Xu Aqi insisted.

"It's okay, I still have a rope here, if there's a problem, you drag me, and I'll come up!"

As he spoke, Lin Chen fastened one end of the rope on the tree, tightened it, tied one end to his waist, jumped to the edge of the well, put the flashlight in his mouth, pulled the rope with both hands, and went down along the wall of the well with three times and two times with his hands and feet.