"Hehe, sister. You don't have to care about me, I ate a lot at noon, and I'm not hungry now. Wu Lili thought about Li Xiaoxuan's warning, her eyes looked at the plate of dumplings, her face twitched, and she barely squeezed out some perfunctory smiles.

"yes, yes, I'm not hungry either. At noon, they ate a lot of fried noodles with Brother Wang, and stuffed two steamed buns into their stomachs. "A certain Xuan is a thief who makes up lies, and when he opens his mouth, he is fooling, obviously he only ate instant noodles for two people at noon, but he was stunned and said that he ate fried noodles. Lili behind him shook her head, indicating that the man seemed to be hopeless.

"Well, Lei. There isn't much food, we don't know how many days we have to stay here, we can save a little bit. A few of us really don't have an appetite. Wang Jun glanced at the dumplings and said lightly.

Zhao Ying didn't speak, but she put her head aside and looked out the window, her refusal overflowing.

"Uh." Xu Lei looked at the four of them strangely and touched her hair. She just met Wang Jun and others today, so it was not easy to persuade her, so she could only turn her target to Chen Mingyue: "Xiaoyue, come to eat dumplings." ”

Chen Mingyue didn't believe Wang Jun and Li Xiaoxuan's inferences at the beginning, he took the dishes and chopsticks handed over by Xu Lei with a big grin, picked up the largest dumpling on the plate and brought it to his mouth. His gobbling up made Wang Jun, who was watching coldly, shake his head.

Wang Fang also came to Xu Lei with Chen Juan in her arms at this time, she sandwiched a slightly smaller dumpling and put it on Chen Juan's mouth:

"Juanjuan, you eat first. The more you can't go hungry at this time, stay up one more night, and the police will definitely arrive soon. My parents must have called the police tonight when they saw that I didn't come home. ”

The painful expression on Chen Juan's face faded a lot, she ate very slowly, only half of it was eaten in half a day, and there was excess soup spilling out of the corners of her mouth and dripping on the floor. Wang Fang's movements were gentle and she was quite patient.

"Woo."

Chen Juan chewed the food in her mouth and cried again, big tears dripping down the corners of her eyes.

"Ugh!"

Li Xiaoxuan and the four of them glanced at each other, and they were all shocked. Chen Juan's cries became louder and louder, but when Xiao Xuan and the others listened carefully, they heard a suppressed snickering in their sobbing voice.

This deeply hidden laughter seems to test everyone's hearing, and only those who have listened carefully can catch it.

Gradually, Zhao Ying's face also changed, and she became terrified. Obviously, she also heard the strangeness in Chen Juan's cry, and the primal fear was like a pair of scissors churning in her stomach.

Wang Fang and the others heard the cry, but they didn't hear anything wrong at all, but comforted Chen Juan in a whisper. Chen Mingyue also joined in under Xu Lei's eyes.

In Wang Fang's opinion, Chen Juan's performance is completely normal.

The four of them ate this pot of dumplings until nearly nine o'clock, mainly because Chen Juan's mouth was inconvenient to chew, so it was delayed for a long time.

Li Xiaoxuan and others frequently used their mobile phones to transmit a lot of information during this time, and Wang Jun proposed to divide people to take turns keeping vigil at night. In the first half of the night, that is, before 2 o'clock in the morning, it was guarded by Li Xiaoxuan and Wang Jun; In the second half of the night, Zhao Ying and Wu Lili were guarded.

Wang Jun also took Zhao Ying and Wu Lili to find some sharp knives in the kitchen to defend themselves. For example, Wu Lili, she made a knife to chop meat and put it in a bag with camera equipment.

Wu Lili and the others have been invisibly estranged from her since they discovered Chen Juan's eccentricity. Xu Lei and Wang Fang also noticed their strangeness, and Wang Fang stepped forward several times to find out about this matter, but Wang Jun prevaricated with haha.

Li Xiaoxuan looked at the thick night outside the window, took a deep breath, and suddenly remembered what happened when he was nine years old:

At that time, his father, Mr. Li Jianhua, always liked to take him to the history museum in the next city on weekends, and as a high school history teacher, he was very eager to pass on his love of history to the young Li Xiaoxuan.

Whether it was taking pictures under the ancient trees in the memorial hall park, or crouching and carefully observing the traces of time in the museum's collections, sometimes Xiao Xuan didn't feel how delicate the artifacts in front of him were, but he sensed the power of time from the long cracks. He naively thought that time was equivalent to sunlight and could change what they covered...... Li Xiaoxuan's interest in that museum quickly ran out, but Li Jianhua still took him here tirelessly to play, never paying attention to the childish protests in the former's mouth...... So until Xiao Xuan grew up, he couldn't understand why his father kept taking him to the same museum to play during that time.

In short, all the 'efforts' made by Mr. Li Jianhua were in vain, and it did not make Xiao Xuan fall in love with history, but this stimulated his interest in some antiques......

Hey, I'm so old in the blink of an eye, and I'm still so useless.

Li Xiaoxuan shook his head, reminding himself that now was not the time to reminisce about the past. He took a small bucket of mineral water from the storage space and returned to the living room, feeling uneasy.

Chen Juan on the opposite side seemed to have an invisible repulsion, spreading out in a ripple shape centered on her, and then slapped him fiercely...... He seemed to feel like a medieval criminal, banished by the salty and humid air around him, and fell into endless darkness.

"Brother Xuan, Brother Xuan, Xuan-"

Wu Lili called out to Li Xiaoxuan, and she saw that Xiao Xuan's dull eyes were full of vitality again under her own call.

"Girl, I...

Li Xiaoxuan suddenly felt dizzy, he held the mineral water bottle in his hand tightly, and closed his eyes in some pain.

Long.

He whispered, "It's not rancid, it's not, it's not musty." ”

"It's the smell of beasts."

Xiao Xuan said very firmly, and his voice was steady, but the content made Wu Lili, who cared about him next to him, confused.

"What?" She said.

"The smell wafting from Chen Juan's body is a beastly smell." Li Xiaoxuan lowered his voice, and said with his lips pressed against Wu Lili's earlobe. The heat he exhaled made Lili a little distracted, but it was a real thing.

"Damn, I'm always an afterthought. This Chen Juan actually has the smell of a beast, I used to live with my grandfather in the Mengli grassland for a while when I was a child, and the lions, antelopes, and zebras on the grassland all carry this smell. ”

"Goo~"

Li Xiaoxuan raised his head and poured a large mouthful of cold mineral water, which slightly smoothed the throbbing in his heart. But it doesn't matter what Chen Juan tastes like now, he estimates that in terms of the current posture, something will definitely happen tonight.

As long as I protect myself and this little girl, what does it matter to me whether others live or die. Li Xiaoxuan thought to himself.