"The private investigator ......" I paused as I barely asked a few words before I pulled at the wound, but at least the meaning was met.

Gu Xi smiled: "Do you think I will do such an unreliable thing?" ”

I was stunned, and I was somewhat sure of what I asked, but the answer was no. If the private investigator is not his, who is investigating me?

As soon as his eyes were raised, he said with a disgusted face: "Don't look at me, I'm not interested in men, I'm too lazy to check." ”

I retracted the illusion I had just now, he didn't have anything to do with Ruya.

I saw him pick up an envelope, flip it back and forth, and then said, "Now let's talk about these letters." "I said in my heart that I finally got to the point.

The first question is: "Is the person who wrote the letter your pen pal?" ”

I'm light um. This is conveyed in the literal first letter.

"He wrote you a total of seven letters?"

There were only six envelopes here, and there were only six letters he had just read, so why did he say that there were seven letters? In order to find the secret, I have read the contents of the six letters repeatedly, especially the sixth letter, which does not contain any mention of the seventh letter.

After all, that seventh letter is a knot in my heart.

"Is it necessary to be so surprised? It turns out that you still have one in Pingcheng Apartment? ”

When he reminded me of this, I suddenly remembered that I had just been coerced by him to take over the subject, and then he "accompanied" me back to tidy up, and in my bookcase he had seen the envelope of the seventh letter, with the address of my hometown and my name on it, and with his discernment, he should have seen at a glance that the handwriting was the same.

But there's a loophole: even if he's seen seven envelopes with the same handwriting, it only means that the pen pal has written me more than seven letters, and it's possible that I haven't found any other letters. But his question was: Did the pen pal write me a total of seven letters? It sounds like a question, but it reveals certainty, and the only answer is......

Gu Xi pursed his lips and smiled: "It's getting more and more keen, and you can analyze my words." That's right, I've read your letter. He simply admitted that he was like a ruffian, meaning: Just tell you that I have spied on the letter, what can you do with me?

I...... You can't do anything with him, you can only grind your teeth and stare at him. I didn't bother to ask him when he peeked, and then he would have bought both houses and "renovated" them on a large scale, thanks to the opportunity to touch the letters in my bookcase.

Later, the house was smashed, and the police helped me sort out a cardboard box of things. Before I decided to go back to my hometown, I went back to my apartment, but I didn't find the letter, and I went to Time to rummage through the cardboard box, but I still didn't find it. Thinking it was lost, it seems likely that the letter was in Gusina.

But Gu Xi did not continue the topic, but continued to ask: "Is there something hidden in the paintings on these six letters?" ”

There was nothing more to surprise me about him, and a man who couldn't draw had the same idea as I had at first when he read the letter. I would look at it over and over again, comparing it with the strange dream in my head, and my mind would always revolve around the painting.

However, to no avail.

After thinking about it, he took out his mobile phone from his body, clicked on the screen, entered the memo and typed the words: You shine the light on the stationery.

The essence in Gu Xi's eyes flashed, and without any hesitation, he took the letter paper under the bedside lamp, pressed the switch, and the yellow light penetrated the paper. At first, he looked dazed, not understanding what I meant, and gradually his eyes narrowed.

That's right, the answer is not in the letter, but in the letterhead.

To be precise, it is a combination of letter paper and painting. The reason why the graffiti in each letter is dark is because it is a double layer, which can also be called a picture-in-picture. The engraving technique is used, that is, the letter paper is combined on a template and the pattern is depicted with a special brush, and when the pattern is covered for the second time, black charcoal is used to effectively hide the underlying pattern. But when the letter is in the light, perhaps the human eye cannot discern the gradation of color, but it can discern the uneven shadows of the paper.

The shadow is the most three-dimensional depiction.

There are more than six drawings in six letters, and sometimes pen pals draw two in a letter, so there are as many as ten in total. The dark tones that I thought represented pessimism actually concealed the truth. Moreover, the base paintings hidden in the paintings are not complete, they are just a pattern without logic, and it is impossible to analyze any of the paintings, only by understanding all ten paintings and reorganizing them in the brain can they be restored to completeness.

"Interesting." Gu Xi smiled with interest, "If you are not a puzzle master, even if you have these ten paintings, it will be in vain." ”

That's right, those broken patterns are like the most difficult spatial imagination puzzles, and if I hadn't been immersed in jigsaw puzzles, even if I had discovered the mystery, it wouldn't have helped.

Gu Xi turned his eyes from the letter paper to look at me, "One thing I am curious about, if this discovery was obtained after you came back and found these six letters, then what were you anxious about when you repaired the artifact in my house before?" ”

The whole body stiffened, and he hit the point.

In fact, I couldn't figure it out. After receiving the seventh letter, I began to have nightmares, and after the nightmare, these patterns remained in my mind, which proves that I may have broken the secret of the letter in the first place, so even if I will forget it after a long time, after seeing the letter and the ten paintings, I will definitely be able to figure out the principle. But why did I hold these six letters in a daze, I didn't have any impression of the pattern fragments at all, and it was a casual move that I discovered the secret?

Stuck in an endless loop, is it the dream that pulls me to find the secret, or is the secret itself in the brain, opened by the dream because of the arrival of the seventh letter? To put it simply, comes first with dreams or with secrets?

After pondering for most of the night, I realized that this question was as difficult to answer as the chicken or the egg.

Since I chose to confess everything to Gu Xi, I did not shy away from it, and wrote down in a memo what happened after the seventh letter and the strange dreams I had when I restored the bronze engraving for him.

After reading it, a smile of unknown meaning appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he shook his head and said four words: "The authorities are confused." ”

Why? I looked at him quizzically.

"Such a simple answer is still puzzling? There is no dilemma at all, there is only one possibility, when you are a teenager, you have already broken the secret of these ten paintings and painted them. The person who drew with his left hand in that strange dream was you. But for some reason, you actively or passively forget these things, and if you think about it, you can find out if you have a vague memory of pen pals? You were at least thirteen or fourteen years old at the time, but after a decade, your memory would have deteriorated to this point? ”

A word to wake up the dreamer!

Indeed, I have a faint impression of this pen pal as if it had happened to someone else, and if I hadn't found the death letter, I would have almost forgotten that I had a pen pal in junior high school.

What is it that makes me forget about the past? Gang Guxi said active or passive......

Wait a minute, he said that the person who drew with his left hand in that strange dream was me? Stretching out his left hand, he can't help but veto, impossible! How can I not know if my left hand can draw?

"Don't think about questioning me just yet, what you should be thinking about is forgetting, is it active or passive? What is the reason for being active, and if it is passive, heh, it will be fun. ”

Gu Xi looks at the problem from a different perspective than ordinary people, to use a simple analogy: it is like a maze game, we are walking in it, and he is God's perspective, overlooking the overall situation. So it's easy to pinpoint the key point, and it's really strange that the person who drew with the left hand in the dream is not me, but why is it forgotten?

The answer is not inexplicable, if something happened to me when I was a teenager, then my mother, who never left my side, must know. But can you ask? Once the past is mentioned, it will inevitably bring up the past of my father, which has always been a scar in my mother's heart. Before coming back this time, I thought that Uncle He was with me, and the scars had healed, and even if there were traces, it would not hurt anymore. But I didn't think about it, I never recovered! Even my mother tore that wound open by herself year after year, so that it could not heal.

When I think of this, I feel that it is difficult to put it into words.

"Okay, put this matter aside for the time being, and study your pen pal......"

Gu Xi's words were interrupted by an abrupt voice before he finished speaking, from me... of the belly. I ate a little bit in the morning throughout the day, and I haven't touched a drop of water until now, and my mouth can hold back, but my instinctive physiological reaction can't be controlled.

I was stared at by him, but my stomach was still growling. Eventually, he laughed, "Okay, it seems that you have to solve your food and clothing problem first, otherwise you don't know how long to protest." ”

Shi Shiran got up and picked up the microphone on the bedside table and dialed the phone, and when he reported the name of the dish like a few treasures, he knew that it was not the first time. But when he put down the phone, he suddenly turned his head and said, "I forgot that your throat can't eat, you just need to ask Tong Ying to send some nutrient solution." ”

So he just ordered so much? And when his memory is so bad that he forgets when he turns around, he forgets it twice a day.

It's clearly deliberate!