Chapter 100: Alternatives
City, in that old neighborhood, in that old building.
The lawn in front of the small building, the creeper on the wall, a particularly familiar feeling came to the face.
She hid in a corner not far away, watching Lu Zheng's Maybach stop in front of the courtyard gate of the small building, and entered the small building hand in hand with Xiao Fan.
The gray-haired old man inside also seemed familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.
The courtyard door was open, and she faintly saw that Xiao Fan was constantly busy.
Lu Zheng was chatting with the old man, and they chatted very happily, and from time to time laughter came from the courtyard.
She was thinking, that old man should be the grandfather on the phone when he was in Philadelphia!
What about the woman named Loya? What does it have to do with this old man?
That day, they stayed until late before leaving.
When the courtyard door closed, separating her from the world, her heart beat wildly inexplicably.
There is a small hole in the courtyard wall at the back of the house, under the dense creeper.
She didn't know why, as if someone was showing her the way.
Peeling open the thick green leaves, the hole was in front of her, and she slipped into it.
On the wall below the window on the second floor, a dense creeper sheltered a climbing frame.
The night was thick and there was no one around, so she climbed up from the frame, and a moment later she was in the room.
The soles of my feet slipped as if I had touched something.
Grandpa downstairs heard the movement and came upstairs.
The lights were turned on, and Grandpa watched at the door for a while. Said to himself.
"There must be another cat running in."
The lights snapped off, and in the darkness, her eyes damp behind the curtains.
That night, she lay on that bed, and a feeling that she hadn't felt for a long time permeated her body, and even her toenails felt very comfortable.
It's been a long time, and she's always dreaming, and she slept very comfortably this night.
When I woke up, the sun outside the window was already reflected in the unobstructed.
Downstairs, the sound of grandpa closing the courtyard door came, and his old man went out for a stroll.
She smiled, hid behind the curtain and beckoned to her grandfather, a familiar gesture as if she had stood at this window many times.
At this time, everything in this room was displayed in front of her.
The first thing that caught her eye was the picture frame on the wall, and she understood why she was so familiar with this place.
The girl in that frame is exactly like herself.
Growing up, she knew it was herself.
She began to test herself, wondering if there was a pink dress hanging on the left side of the wardrobe and a camel-colored coat on the right.
The closet door opened, exactly as she had thought.
And is there a note in the Jane Eyre book on the shelf?
The book was taken down, and sure enough, a note fell from it.
A note that said so-and-so, let's go on a date.
She put the note in her coat pocket and put the book back on the shelf.
In the living room on the first floor, there is a plate of white rabbit toffee on the table, take one and peel it off and put it in your mouth, a kind of milk sweetness secretion into the heart and spleen, delicious taste.
In the corner of the kitchen on the first floor was a sacrificial place, on which there was a black-framed photograph of a young couple, and to her surprise, she was also there.
That is, that girl, the girl who looks exactly like her, is no longer in this world.
The girl put the name on the tablet before - Loya.
The name of the girl Lu Zheng said on the phone, the name of the girl he missed so much.
So who is she?
Isn't she her? She was confused.
Is she Xiao Li? Or is it the girl who is no longer in this world?
Or is she just a substitute? A solace alternative to Acacia?
Before Grandpa came back, it was her paradise, and she had a feeling of reluctance to leave.
But she knew she was looking for answers, looking for the truth behind all this unusualness.
During the day, she walked around the city, mostly following Lu Zheng from a distance. Looking for the answers you want to understand.
In the evening she involuntarily returned to that small building, and only there could she feel at ease.
Until that person appeared.
Joker, he's been wandering outside the courtyard gate for days, and she doesn't know what his purpose is?
Looking at him from behind the curtain on the second floor, a pair of eyes under the bucket hat were full of murderous intent.
Grandpa was too careless, and the courtyard door didn't know how to close.
She watched the man enter the yard, and she felt like she was going to do something.
I climbed down from the climbing frame in the back window and soon came to the courtyard gate.
Looking through the crack in the door, she saw the gleaming knife in the man's hand.
She resolved the crisis as she wished, she took her grandfather away, and the man noticed her.
Luckily, she was so familiar with the feeling here.
She went back to the second floor and watched as the man stared at the small building in a corner not far away.
Lu Zheng came again, he came just in time, and the clown never had a chance to do it again this night.
She followed his tool cart all the way to Taiping Town.
The stilted building in Taiping Town, she didn't even think much about it, she went directly from the balcony to the second floor.
That place, the familiarity of no reason.
The truth seems to be getting closer.
What I didn't expect was that clown, he was too cunning.
Everything was in his hands, and she fell into his trap.
The night was dark, with thunder mixed with showers of rain and the sound of the wind beating against the walls of the dilapidated window lattices.
They all struck at her heart, and in the darkness, it was as if countless geists were staring at her with their mouths wide open.
She was wondering, is there still a chance for her to get out of here?
But before all the possibilities can happen, she wants to get the answer she wants from that person.
Another kind of worry came to my mind, and what could I do if I knew the answer.
That answer may be taken to another world by her, a secret that will never be known.
The night is too long, especially on a night like this, and it is indeed a bit difficult to survive it.
She even kindly believed in the yard in Philadelphia, and if she hadn't stubbornly wanted that answer, she should have been on a bench in that yard right now, looking at the cherry blossoms in full bloom, Blake snoring at her feet.
She closed her eyes and imagined herself sitting on that bench with the faint scent of cherry blossoms on the wings of her nose.
A low haha voice shattered her imagination.
When she opened her eyes, the man didn't know when he was standing in front of her.
He let out a low snort.
"Haha, Luoya, you really deserve to be my prey, in such an environment, you can be so calm, I really admire your courage."
She shifted her numb form.
"Otherwise, wagging your tail and begging for mercy, will you please spare me? I guess that shouldn't be of any use. ”