The tentacle touched the doorknob of a door and froze. The drawings were brought in by Zhang Ji, and there was no second drawing that I could use, but when I looked at the drawings at that time, I took them in mind, they may see the winding road, and I saw the overall picture effect and individual details. So when I closed my eyes for a moment, various curved passages appeared in my mind, and after screening, I found the two shortest routes to the east and west.

This is not a painting, it is purely based on memory and the capture of the overall winding path in picturesque detail. After walking through a few doors, I finally arrived at the branch point, to the left is east, the right is west, how do I choose? It took a minute to meditate, and every second of the minute was like a pendulum striking on my heart. At the last moment, my heart was tingling, and I pushed open a door and followed the line in my head without hesitation.

I kept my eyes closed the whole time, not letting my vision interfere with my judgment. But the first half hour was smooth, and the second half hour was wrong, obviously the previous pattern was not like this, as if it had been temporarily replaced, and no matter how you walked, it was always surrounded in those rooms. After a full ten minutes of tossing and turning, I calmed down and the painting really began. The mind is condensed, the body follows the consciousness, there is no pattern or curve, only a single action: pushing the door, stepping, pushing the door.

When I pushed open a certain door, a breath of blood wafted in, and I opened my eyes.

For a moment, the heartbeat was still. I looked straight at the figure lying there, and I didn't think about anything. I don't know how long it took, a dull pain came from my heart, and irrepressible sadness poured out, and even when I lowered my eyes...... His eyes became wet.

It turned out that there was no choice at all.

A snort came, and I silently walked over and squatted down to stare at the person lying in the deep pit, my originally closed eyes trembled and narrowed slightly, and when I saw me clearly, I asked in surprise: "Xia Zhu, why are you here?" I looked at him silently for two seconds, shook my head, and without saying anything, got up and walked over to the pitch-black figure. It wasn't a real person, it was a mannequin, and its whole body was painted with a thick layer of black paint, which looked particularly hideous.

Reaching out and pushing it, its back exposed, sighing......

It turned out to be a miniature computer, and the machine was installed in the body of the model, and there was a display on the back, on which the clock numbers were counting down, and there were three and twenty seconds left. Below the timer, there is a text question:

The poplar flowers are vast, the willow tips are dewed, and the reeds are furry on the shore.

Qingyunxiao, sleeping in the east wind. Powdery residue, than the moon and clouds.

(Playing the name of the brand)

"Xia Zhu, you go quickly." A weak voice came from beside me, and I looked back for two seconds and told him the truth: "I don't have time to go far in three minutes, if it detonates, it will definitely ripple." If you have the strength to persuade me, you might as well think about this puzzle together. ”

He was silent, his eyes turning to the screen, his brow in thought.

When I typed three words in the last half-minute, the clock stood at twelve seconds. But I couldn't hear the sigh of joy in my ears, and my heart was still counting backwards one by one: six, five, four, three, two, one...... Rumble!

My eyes were black, and I sat backwards, and a white light flashed in my head, as if the flames that rushed to the sky threw me high from this narrow space, and then fell heavily, leaving only the numbness of my body and the overflowing pain of my heart. Under my wide eyes, I saw the bloodstained face in front of me showing anxiety, shock, and worry, and my mouth was wriggling and saying something, but I couldn't hear a word.

In the end, he tried all his strength to climb towards me, but the pit was high, and finally he looked up at me helplessly, and it took a long time to understand what he was saying: "Xia Zhu, tell me, what happened?" ”

Hearing his own voice numbly say, "Before entering this labyrinth, someone asked me to make a choice, he is in the east and you is in the west." At the same allotted time, there was a bomb on each side. ”

"Did you choose me?"

looked at him in a daze, with surprise and anticipation in those eyes, as well as anxiety and worry. I can say that it was not you who chose it at first, although I knew you earlier, but for a minute at the sub-point, my mind was confused and I couldn't make a choice, but in the end, my body made a judgment first, and my hand reached for the door to the east. It's just that I don't know, the painful choices are superfluous, because the masked man didn't give me a choice at all, he just set a trap for me to jump into it without hesitation.

From start to finish, this game wasn't for me, I was just the last side entertainment for him to enjoy the fruits of his victory. His real purpose is - Takashiro. The disorder of the layout of the labyrinth must have an incomprehensible factor, perhaps when Gao Cheng and Xu Jianglun fell, they touched a certain machine scraper, or maybe the first explosion not only played a threatening role, but also changed the winding route.

But, none of this makes sense.

There were footsteps approaching, and after a while, Zhang Ji and others appeared at the door with a disgraced face, Xu Jianglun sat up excitedly, and shouted in a dumb voice: "Are you okay?" Zhang Ji walked in, looked around and then looked around and his eyes fell on the screen of the mannequin, and he asked, "The time stopped after answering the question?" ”

Xu Jianglun saw that I was silent, so he replied on my behalf: "Xia Zhu thought of those three words, and it would be fine to enter them." ”

At this time, the forensic doctor Chen said lightly: "Yulin Ling? ”

That's right, the three words I typed in were "Yulin Bell". It's not a particularly difficult puzzle to solve, but in the state of mind at the time, it almost became a dead end. Zhang Ji ordered in a cold voice: "You guys quickly collect evidence, and Dwarf Dong will carry Arun out first." ”

Dwarf Dong jumped down the pit to drag Xu Jianglun up, but Xu Jianglun pointed at me and said anxiously: "Send Xia Zhu out first, what if it blows up here again?" A hand reached over, lifted the crook of my arm, and raised his eyes to meet Zhang Ji's cold eyes. But Xu Jianglun was stunned: "Xia Zhu, are you crying?" ”

Attracting a few glances from the side, I turned my face away and wiped the wetness off my face with the back of my hand.

After a while, I heard Zhang Ji ask: "Can you go by yourself?" I nodded, it's useless to stagnate, facts are facts. Walking out of the hive maze, I looked up at the sky, when did the sunny day turn gray? The sadness that was so thick that it couldn't be dissolved flooded in my heart, and tears almost burst out of my eyes again.

"Xia Zhu!" A call without temperature followed.

I turned around in a daze, only to realize that the noise around me had long since stopped, and everyone was looking at it. The eyes that were slightly squinted widened a little bit, how painful it was, and how incredulous it was to stare at the few people in front of him at this moment.

Who called me ...... Luo Jinghan, he looked at me indifferently for the first time. He mentioned a person with Qu Xinhua, covered in darkness, Qu Xinhua didn't look at me, staring at the long figure beside him with worried eyes.

In fact, since I turned around, I couldn't take my eyes off. The person who thought that the ashes had disappeared after a loud bang just stood there straight, as if he was casually lowering his head and no one was looking, but there was a coldness that was more cold than Luo Jinghan and Qu Xin's painting. The sadness in my chest did not dissipate, I took a step forward, but Qu Xinhua turned his face and shouted: "Stop! Don't come near us! Her face was full of anger: "Brother Cheng treated you like that, but you put him to death!" ”

I was shocked and opened my mouth to explain, but what to say? Said that the layout of the labyrinth was messed up, and the only way that the painting shadow could take was to the west of Xu Jianglun? Does anyone believe it? No, what Qu Xinhua said was: I put him to death!

Zhang Jidai asked me a question: "Is there something else over there?" ”

Luo Jing replied with a cold face: "Double-line detonation control system, as long as one side unlocks the password, the other side will explode." If it weren't for Brother Cheng to dismantle the time bomb and leave first, then Xia Zhu, you would be the hand that put Brother Cheng to death. ”

The hand hanging at his side trembled twice, and his gaze kept on him, but he never looked up at me. The grief was numb, followed by panic, I ignored Qu Xinhua's sharp eyes and strode to Gao Cheng, opened my mouth and said, "I...... I don't have a choice. No matter how difficult it is to open my mouth, I want to tell him the truth, he taught me to draw shadows, and he should be able to understand me.

But at that moment, he slowly raised his eyes, and the color of his eyes, which had always been dark and bright, turned light brown, faint, like looking at a stranger. I froze there, looking up slightly, because I was a meter away, so I couldn't see my figure in the faint eyes, only that the alienation was full of us.

Finally, the corners of his lips showed a sarcastic arc, "Does it hurt?" ”

Thinking that he asked me if I was injured, I subconsciously shook my head, but after shaking my head, I found that the arc increased and I knew that I had misunderstood. I saw him come over, closing the distance between us, and turning it into his perspective from above. The light swept my face inch by inch, and finally settled in my eyes, and I saw myself in those brown eyes, hesitant and helpless; I also saw the emotions in my eyes, weak and ruthless.

He said, "But I am delusional, I have no heart, why should it hurt?" He smiled, mockingly. Seeing that he was about to turn around, I instinctively dragged him, but he flipped his wrist and buckled it behind his back, and then the whole person was pressed in front of him by him, and before I could react, his breath was heavily pressed. There was a pain in his lips, the skin was bitten, everyone looked down, and he was bitten hard, and when he retreated, his eyes were cold again, "Xia Zhu, you are free." ”

There was a flash in front of him, his breath suddenly left, and the person had turned his back and strode away. Luo Jinghan and Qu Xinhua threw the person in their hands to the ground, and they also chased after them, I hurriedly took two steps and shouted loudly: "Chu Gaocheng, didn't you say that it was my master?" ”

The dark figure paused slightly, and said in a cold and perverse tone: "Let you go free, and the master-apprentice relationship will naturally be dissolved." ”

I watched the three of them get into the Toyota SUV, and then watched the car fly away like an arrow from a string.

It's not too stupid, when he said the words that I was free, he had a hunch that he meant, and wanted to keep it in the name of master and apprentice, but I didn't know that it was a relationship he imposed on me, and now he wants to take it back, what can I do?

Everyone around me was busy, but I was the only one who stood still.

Sad? When it's sad, there's a feeling of being abandoned. But in the end, I am still happy and sad and happy. He didn't annihilate in the bombardment, he stood in front of me alive, even if he spoke coldly, even if he expelled me, at least he was still alive. So when Xu Jianglun was carried on a stretcher and came over to comfort me, I first opened up to him: "It doesn't matter, it's good to be alive." ”<