"So you found a nominal guardian and went to school again? But didn't you say that at the age of sixteen, you had already started to solve cases and became famous? After that, I had a psychological disorder for two years, and then you went to study again? ”

"Entering school is just a formality, how can things in books be so simple to satisfy me? What I need is a channel to get a lot of information, but the social psychology books in school are too formal, and the most important thing in this world is theory, since I don't have the ability to practice, I will borrow the most real cases for reference. After almost five years, these things no longer appeal to me, and it's time to put them into practice to see if they can work for me. ”

Five years, exactly when he was sixteen. The vast majority of people are still ignorant at this age, but he has already started his life. There were glory and setbacks, spending two years in chaos and stepping into his adulthood.

Speaking of which, Gao Cheng's journey from childhood to adolescence to adulthood can be described as legendary.

I was curious: "What about the guardian?" "Who exactly is Gao Cheng's nominal relative? He whispered a name, and my eyes widened in surprise, "How did you find him?" He is a well-known professor at a prestigious university. He replied: "It's the owner of the freighter who pulls the line, and it is this person's identity that I like, and I need him to write a letter of recommendation to go to the university to introduce me, and I can't go up from the bottom to the bottom." ”

Uh, I was choked, "You went straight to college?" ”

His expression was very understated, and his tone was also light: "I will go through the form for a year in high school, and then enter the school where the professor is teaching." ”

"It's too close...... It's right. I sighed.

He pursed his lips and raised his eyebrows: "Relationship? Should you not take the test? If I hadn't gone through all the subjects in a month and then got full marks on all the tests, the professor wouldn't have taken over the burden of me as a guardian. ”

I said, "Are you saying that when you were 11 years old, it took you a month to learn the content of the books in elementary and junior high school, and then you took the high school test, and then you got full marks?" He frowned: "It's not a test in the theoretical sense, it's something about ability that is taught." I was supposed to go straight to his school, but he said I had to experience the atmosphere for at least a year. ”

I imagined in my mind that he was sitting in a college classroom before he was grown, a head shorter than everyone else, and this picture was really a little discordant. But when I thought of myself, I couldn't help but feel gloomy, except for the image of Yang Xiaofeng in the police academy, there was nothing else, and that image was forcibly implanted in my brain, I am afraid that I have never entered the school gate at all, and I have been imprisoned from childhood to adulthood.

The door of the head was bounced, and it hurt. I looked at him in confusion, and saw him walking with his back to me to the end of the sarcophagus, and said, "Don't get distracted by that, come and help cover it, it's almost dawn, we have to go out." ”

When I heard this, I immediately stepped forward quickly, and after working with him to close the heavy lid of the coffin, the room returned to calm. He pulled me out of the house without hesitation, and sure enough, the light was faintly white, and it was already a night. Back on the boat, it was still Gao Cheng rowing, and the remnants of the city gradually became blurred in the thick fog, and it was only after ten minutes that I realized that I was still in the thick fog before I realized that something was wrong.

When he looked back at Gao Cheng, he saw that his eyebrows were slightly frowning and his eyes were dark, and he asked, "What's wrong?" Did something go wrong? ”

He said: "I didn't grasp the time well, and I left late." ”

I was stunned and asked incomprehensibly, "What does going back there have to do with going early or late?" He simply stopped paddling in his hand and looked around before looking at me and said, "This is not an ordinary thick fog, it is a miasma that comes out of the surface of the earth, and its existence is mainly to protect the Eternal City. Don't underestimate them, you have to have a special path to travel through this water, and if you mess up the route, you will get lost in this thick fog. The key is that the reference object will not float in the dark, just follow the route in memory, but once there is light, there will be refraction, the reference object will change, and the original path will be gone. ”

After hearing this, I was amazed, isn't this foggy area water a natural maze, it still moves, no, it doesn't move! It is the person's vision that has changed. Just like some reflections in the mirror, people feel dizzy when they see the upside-down world due to visual conflict, but in fact, if you close your eyes, the visual impact is no longer there, and people are still standing on a stable ground plane, without upside down chaos.

So...... Gao Cheng whispered in his ear: "It's up to you next." ”

I looked at him and smiled slightly, as if I had thought of one thing: the shadow. I closed my eyes, but in a blink of an eye, I returned to the river last night, but it was still difficult, I had to reason backwards, and I had to find the starting point first. I don't know how long it took to be long, but with the gesture as the point, Gao Cheng cooperated with the rowing, and when the shore shadow was in front of me, I opened my eyes and found that the sun was already shining overhead. When I turned around, I wanted to go to see Gao Cheng, but my eyes were frozen in an instant.

I didn't feel anything at all just listening to Gao Cheng's statement before, until this moment, looking at the reflection of the ruined city suspended in the air in the distance, I could only sigh that I didn't know its grandeur in it, and standing here and looking up, the sunlight cast a hazy golden light on it, so that your eyes automatically ignored the mutilation, and only felt that it was a spectacle.

Four words flashed through my mind, and it is not an exaggeration to sum up this spectacle.

The floating city on the other side.

But the spectacle began to fade in an instant, and the outline became blurred, and by the time our ship came ashore, it was gone. The river was still foggy, and the visibility was only a few meters, as if what had just been seen was just an illusion.

It seems that this is the reason why no one has ever been to the ruined city, first of all, no one knows the path through the fog; Secondly, if the ferry boat is carried during the day or the ferry with lights at night, it will be refracted by the light, so that the human eye will be affected by the visual impact, and thus get lost in the dense fog. In this way, even if someone wanted to explore, they gave up after one or two times, especially with Chu Yuanfeng's person, since he wanted to hide the remnants of the city forever, he would definitely set up a barrier around the city, not just this thick fog.

My eyes were fixed on the water, and I remembered that Gao Cheng had rowed very carefully after the wrong route just now, and he was fully guarded, most likely because there was something in the water that made him jealous.

And then this brief reflection of the floating city, even if it is seen, I am afraid that it will only be thought to be a mirage.

After going ashore, Takashiro towed the boat back into the forest, where it was laid in seclusion, covered by grass. When he returned to his cave house, he found that Luo Jinghan was sitting outside with a black face, and when he saw us, he immediately stood up, "Brother Cheng, where are you Xiaoxia?" Gao Cheng walked over and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Luo Jinghan looked at me and stopped talking. As soon as I read it, I knew what was probably going on, "Is it a madman looking for me?" "Just now I walked all the way back, and I knew that the time was not too early when I looked at the position of the sun above my head, and sure enough, Luo Jinghan nodded and said: "If he can't find you, he said that Brother Cheng killed you, no matter how I explained, I didn't listen, and I ran out to find it." ”

Shocked, the madman and Aman went out? Why is this nerd's head so unbright sometimes, how can he run around so deeply at will, and was about to ask Luo Jinghan where they were going, when they heard the sound of footsteps rushing behind him, and when he looked back, he saw A Man carrying a madman on his back like an arrow shooting this way.

When he got closer, Ah Man's face was still indifferent, but it was rare to see a madman with a white face. His heart sank, and he stepped forward to ask: "What happened?" Madman, are you hurt again? But the madman looked at me, pointed at Ah Man, and said, "He is the one who is hurt." "I was stunned, this answer is not in the scope of consideration, since I saw Ah Man's skills, I have always felt that he is extremely powerful, and I will always worry about the madman first.

Bow your head in the sight of the madman and gasp! "Aman, your foot ......" The left foot from the sole of the foot to the calf, the shoes and trousers seem to have been torn apart by something, not to mention the blood marks, as if even a piece of skin and flesh has been pulled away. And when he was injured like this, Ah Man was still carrying a madman on his back! I whispered without thinking: "Crazy man, you come down first!" ”

It seemed that only then did the madman wake up from a dream and slip off Aman's shoulder. Luo Jinghan also accepted the chagrin just now, and reminded on the side: "Go in first, let's talk about it, this injury has to be medicated immediately." After saying that, he and the madman were about to help Aman, but before he could touch his hand, he was dodged by Aman, and in the end he just pressed most of the weight on the madman, and entered the door with his feet upside down.

After catching up with two steps, he thought of something, and turned around to see Gao Cheng still standing in the same place, thoughtful. The medicine box that Luo Jinghan found didn't come in handy, because Ah Man only believed in madmen, including his black and unknown ingredient of earth medicine. After seeing that the madman had helped Ah Man deal with his injuries and wrapped them in a thick layer, I found a chance to ask what was going on.

It was rare for the madman to tell the story with a solemn and clear face, and after listening to it, I couldn't help but go to Gao Cheng again.

It turned out that after dawn, the madman got up and didn't find me, so he shouted and shouted to Ah Man, who told him that he couldn't smell my breath within 100 meters of the neighborhood, and he couldn't stay still. After a big quarrel with Luo Jinghan, he went out to look for me, Aman's nose was very bright, and he sniffed my scent and found Na Yan. But they didn't have the means to go deep into the foggy waters, so they had to walk around the shore to see if there was another way.

But it was this wrong decision that led to a near-fatal death. They walked along the shore all the way, until the air was filled with a strange and dangerous aura, and then they involuntarily stopped, and the madman was about to suggest turning back, when suddenly a behemoth jumped out of the water, and Ah Man reacted quickly and was bitten by the thing on his left foot. And when they saw what it was, they were all stunned, it was actually a crocodile twice as big as usual, and it was opening its mouth to bite Aman.

No matter how hard Ah Man struck, the crocodile would not let go, and the madman also found a weapon to help, but at that moment, another crocodile jumped out of the water, one after another, and the water area was actually a crocodile pool. <