Chapter 05: Pondering and Fearing
What is the butter cat paradox, Luo Sheng omitted to explain. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoJudging from An Yi's question, the other party is obviously not a stranger.
"The institute was established by Cheng Yin, my boss Cheng, and his original intention in naming 'Butter Cat' was not the paradox itself, but in the name of studying plant purification, in essence, he studied some fantastical things." Luo Sheng explained beside An Yi.
"Like God?"
Luo Sheng patted An Yi's shoulder: "It's not for example, it's just, let's go." ”
The two of them walked towards the inside of the institute.
This three-storey gray-and-white house is a stone-walled building that resembles a school building, with a row of glass windows on each floor, which looks like empty eyes at night.
The house is perhaps a product left over from the forties and fifties. When the specific time and who the original owner of the house was, Luo Sheng did not know about it.
It is surrounded by an iron fence more than two meters high, and the shadows of the trees inside are pitch black.
Luo Sheng took out the key to open the iron door, and the harsh noise caused by the rust startled several birds perched on the trees away, and Hula Hula flapped its wings and flapped its wings to escape. The horror of the birds, the crisscrossed branches illuminated by the only street lamp, and the corner of the house that looks up at the shadows make up the typical haunted house atmosphere of a horror movie.
An Yi took out the gun and held it in his hand, looking a little nervous, "How many people are there in your research institute?" ”
"The first three, and then only me and Cheng Yin, Taro left, Cheng Yin said that Taro violated the rules, so he was expelled. After Cheng Yin disappeared, it was empty. Luo Sheng said as he walked.
"What rules are broken?"
"I don't know, I left very suddenly, speaking of which, I haven't seen the person Taro, and I even wonder if there is, whether Cheng Yin made it up."
On the dark tree-lined path, An Yi felt that the breath of the people around him was weak, and if he was the only one walking here, he couldn't help it, he turned his head to look at his right, fortunately, Luo Sheng was still there.
"What's wrong?" Luo Sheng sensed that something was wrong with An Yi's expression.
"Nothing—"
"What are you doing with a gun?"
"Alert."
Luo Sheng laughed: "Officer An, are you a little scared?" ”
"Fart! Lao Tzu is to prevent someone from assassinating you, if you die, who will I find to close the case? ”
Luo Sheng couldn't help but laugh even more: "Thank you-"
He guessed that a person like An Yi would not be afraid of a hundred robbers, but if he hid a ghost secretly, he would be quite worried.
"Then again, how could you do research in a place like this?"
"When I was in graduate school, I took philosophy as an elective, and my graduation thesis wrote about the myth of dual space, but then I didn't use this one, and chose something else, but it's very strange, I only let my supervisor read this thesis, but I received a call from a stranger, he said that he was very interested in what I wrote and wanted to meet me, and that person was Cheng Yin."
"This is where you meet." An Yi looked at the building in front of him, and walked all the way to be safe, so he simply took the gun back again.
Luo Sheng nodded: "Sure enough, it was the officer's intuition and inference ability, and then I became a member of this group, and it has been two years and four months now." ”
"Then don't you eat? Where does research funding come from? ”
When Luo Sheng opened the door of the building, An Yi was puzzled again.
"This problem seems to have never been considered, Cheng Yin doesn't lack anything, his purpose is just to research, let me help with the taro I haven't met, it can also be said to be his assistant, Cheng Yin also pays me, we mainly do thought experiments. There's everything in the institute.,Someone regularly brings food and daily necessities.,I also live here.,But I still secretly rented a house outside.,The place you just visited.,I thought it was safe.,Now it doesn't seem to be.。 ”
"Why are you stealing a rented house?"
"There are many reasons for this, and I can't explain them in one sentence - Officer An, you have quite a lot of problems."
An Yi puffed out his eyes: "The police routinely interrogate." ”
Luo Sheng looked at An Yi with a strange smile, he turned on the switch on the wall, the light was on, and the narrow inner corridor was white, leading to a closed door at the top. The two doors on each side were also closed, and the stone floors and walls were smooth, spotless, clean, and there seemed to be no sign of life.
Luo Sheng pointed to the stairs and said, "Go this way, the third floor." ”
When he stepped on the steps, he suddenly felt a strange nostalgia - nine days ago, he and Cheng Yin were talking, eating, and drinking his own fruit wine here, and then without warning, Cheng Yin disappeared.
He looked for him for nine days, Cheng Yin seemed to evaporate, and it was at this time that Luo Sheng realized that he didn't know anything about Cheng Yin, where was that person born, who were his parents, and whether he had relatives and friends...... He didn't inquire at all, only that the boss who paid him believed in the existence of God.
Where did Cheng Yin come from? Luo Sheng really wanted to give himself a shot - who would spend two years with a person only to realize that he never knew where that person came from.
Luo Sheng felt a shiver. Thinking about this question, the scary thing is not that the other party never says, but why does he never ask? Demonic?
Coming to the third floor, the layout is the same as the first floor, with two doors on each side of the walkway, one at the end, and the staircase at the entrance of the walkway. And this is the top floor, and there are no more stairs to go up.
Luo Shengjing walked to the door of the second room on the left, and was just about to open the door, but was held down by An Yi.
"Are you sure your boss is really missing?"
Luo Sheng was stunned, didn't say anything, just stared at An Yi's eyes.
An Yi continued: "Have you ever thought that he could be dead, or that he disappeared on purpose. ”
Luo Sheng pondered for a few seconds, "So you mean to rule out the possibility that he is dead, Cheng Yin deliberately doesn't want me to find him?" ”
"Very likely."
"Why?"
"I can't evaluate such a weird person normally, any reason is possible, it is possible that it is as small as going out to buy a pack of cigarettes and disappearing on a whim."
Luo Sheng's heart began to pound and accelerate, as if he had reached into a black box to touch something, almost touching the outline but indescribable.
An Yi's reminder reminded him of the last conversation he had with Cheng Yin nine days ago......
"What's in this room?"
"You'll know when you get in."
As he spoke, Luo Sheng turned on the door and the light, and the situation in the room stunned An Yi, a man who was calm and calm-
In the boxy room, there is nothing but the game cards that are plastered all over the top, bottom, left and right.
"Can you imagine? Cheng Yin usually sleeps here. ”
When Luo Sheng said this, he felt a chill all over his body.
All cards are placed face up, and each card has a dark brown spiraling werewolf claw on the pale yellow underside. Imagine a room full of thousands of these cards facing you on all four walls and ceilings and floors, spiraling patterns that make people feel dizzy, or even nauseous or terrified by the sheer number of them. It can be said - at first glance there is a feeling of falling into hell.
"It's unimaginable—" An Yi said as he touched a werewolf card on the wall, and at this time, he suddenly dragged Luo Sheng behind him, and the next second, he turned off the lights as soon as he took out his gun.
In the silence, the two heard a sound coming from the direction of the stairs, it was footsteps......