"It's like air." My mind echoed Ah Ji's words, I suddenly felt that a new train of thought was opened, it turned out that I had been silent in fear, not thinking carefully about the identity of the man in black, but now I thought carefully about the cause and effect of the matter, and suddenly realized that something was wrong, if the man in the black robe really has such a much stronger ability, why didn't he just take me away, but kept dragging me and set me a three-day deadline.

The only possibility is that he doesn't have the ability to take me away, but just intimidating me, wanting me to surrender in my heart, and then obediently leave with him without resistance, thinking of this, my thinking is much clearer, I don't know what his identity is, now he is in the light, I am in the dark, I will wait for him to lose his breath, obediently come to me. I said to Ah Ji quietly, "I know. Then wait for him to come. Then he made up his mind to wait for him to appear.

Once I know the reason for the matter and strengthen my determination, my life is still going on as usual, I should eat, I should sleep, there is no one to try to threaten, I pulled Ah Ji to play cards, while thinking proudly in my heart. But I almost fell for the trick, I was still a little afraid, and when I figured out what your purpose was, to see how I cleaned you up, I angrily threw the cards out, with a murderous aura, frightened Ah Ji jumped up from the chair, staring at me innocently with big eyes.

Three days passed as if nothing had happened, and three days later, the black-robed man appeared in my shop as promised, quietly and without warning, just like the first two times, but I no longer had the panic of the first two times, and I had turned from passive to active.

The black-robed man sat calmly across from me, of course I couldn't see his expression, but I could tell from his posture that he was quite calm, and he thought he had broken me psychologically. He said to me arrogantly, "Boss, you must have already figured out what to do, right?" Come with me consciously, and I'll send you back when it's done. ”

I smiled: "I said, you have the ability to talk about it." Listening to my words, it seemed that things were not going as he expected, and he sat there and did not speak again for a long time, his black robe was tightly covered with seams, and only when the cold wind outside the window blew in, his robe was poured in like a flock of crows.

I looked at him quietly, I didn't speak, I was waiting for him to take the initiative to say to me, when he spoke again, his voice was much lower, he threatened me and said, "This is the last chance I give you, don't be ignorant." Ah Ji was frightened by his words and hid behind me, I patted the back of her hand and said to the black-robed man opposite, "This is also the last chance I give you." Either just tell the truth or just go out from here. ”

As I spoke, I said directly to Ah Ji: "Ah Ji, open the door to send off guests." As he spoke, he turned around and was about to go back to my room, seeing that I was really leaving, the black-robed man seemed to be really anxious, he flashed in front of me all of a sudden, so fast that I couldn't see his movement clearly, his voice seemed to reveal a sense of anxiety, and he said to me: "Boss, please go out with me and save someone." ”

I listened to him, became interested, turned around and sat back in the chair, I raised my eyebrows, and asked him, "Save someone, save whom?" ”

He said slowly: "A girl, she is my master. ”

As soon as I heard that it was his master, I became angry, and I asked, "Your master?" She's the one who sent you here to threaten me? ”

When he heard my words, he shook his head again and again in defense: "Boss, no, I came by myself, and my master is unworthy of the whole thing. I was skeptical, but reminded him, "Since you have come here to ask me, then you must have heard of my rules here, and you can exchange your soul for it, so why bother." "He listened to my words, and became a half-time, I mocked him in my heart, and he was a person who wanted benefits but didn't want to lose, so why talk nonsense with him.

He shook his head and said to me, "Boss, I know your rules, but I am a soulless person. I was taken aback and asked him, "No soul?" ”

He nodded, and explained to me a little embarrassed: "I heard about the rules of the boss lady before I came, but I am a soulless person, I can't give the boss lady what you want, and I already know that the boss lady is an iron-faced and selfless person, without exchange, you will definitely not agree to my request, so I just relied on my special situation to make this decision, I want to intimidate you to go out with me and save my master." ”

I sneered: "What an iron-faced selflessness, you want to say that I am not kind." He hurriedly defended: "Boss, I didn't mean that, I really ......"

I shook my hand and said to him, "Forget it, don't explain it anymore, what do you mean when you say you're a soulless person?" When he heard my question, he didn't speak, but started to move directly, I saw him start to untie his robe, Ah Ji saw him do this, directly covered his eyes, and shouted: "Oh, what are you doing, how can you play hooligan in front of me and the proprietress two yellow flower girls?" I watched the movements of the black-robed man, thinking about whether I needed to stop him, but the moment he took off the black-robed robe, he disappeared directly, I saw it clearly, it was really a buffer that didn't give me any buffer time, I looked at everything in front of me in surprise, and didn't know what to say.

At this moment, I heard his voice coming: "Boss, I'm here." I looked at the place where the voice came from, it was empty, there was nothing, not even a figure, but it was indeed from somewhere, I hesitated for a moment, and finally made up my mind to walk over, and then I reached out and touched him, hoping to touch him, and I guessed in my heart that maybe he was just stealth, or used a trick, but I didn't touch anything.

Seeing me standing there stunned, he explained: "Boss, you can't touch me, because I have no substance, to be exact, like a cloud of air, I am the 'man in the painting'. ”

"The man in the painting," I asked, puzzled, "what does that mean?" ”

His voice came from in front of me, but I couldn't see him, he patiently explained to me: "The person in the painting means that I am just a person in a painting, without flesh and blood, without soul, just by the owner for a long time to see things and think about people, with human emotions, but my essence is still nothing, without the painting, I can only be a ball of conscious air, no one can see me." ”

"So you've always been like this? How boring is that? And no one has been able to see you all the time? I pouted as he told me.

His smiling voice came: "There are only two situations in which others can see me, one is painting, and the other is dreaming." ”

"Dreaming? Is it like a dead person giving a dream to his family? ”

He explained: "The meaning is similar, but there is still a little difference, because other people's dreams are equivalent to my reality, and I can also influence and manipulate other people's dreams, and I live in dreams." And I can control everyone's dreams, except my master. ”

"What do you mean?"

"The master's dream is a re-enactment of the real past, and I was also created by the previous master, so I have no power to control her dream."

I looked at the empty man in front of me, but it looked like I was just looking at a cloud of air. I remembered that the days during this time were indeed boring, so I turned my head to look at Ah Ji, who had been floating on the side with a frightened face, and said to her, "Ah Ji, how about we go out for a walk?" Ah Ji listened to my words, her eyes widened in surprise, as if she felt that there was something wrong with her ears, the boss of the Wannian otaku was actually willing to go out, she nodded happily: "Okay, boss lady, I am willing." "I spoke so fast, as if I was afraid that I would regret it in the next second.

At this time, there was obviously a person who was more excited than Ah Ji, and he asked in a trembling voice: "Boss, you mean that you are willing to go out to save my master." I looked at the excited 'air' and said to him, "Probably, but it depends on your performance, I don't want to talk to the air anymore, although the black robe is also very strange, you should wear it." As soon as my words fell, I saw the black-robed man sitting honestly on the chair, his face facing me, and said to me courteously: "Boss, what do you want me to do, just ask." ”

I took a sip of tea, then looked up at him with a narrow smile and said, "Tell me your story, I won't help you if it's not exciting." ”