Chapter 3 The Dragon Cube of the Zodiac

Lotte opened his eyes in a daze, glanced at the time a little lazily, and suddenly, his face changed, and he sat up from the bed suddenly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Six?"

He took a deep breath, subconsciously looked for something on the bed, and finally his eyes fell on a Rubik's cube next to the bed.

In Le Tian, he subconsciously looked at it, and the red sun on the Rubik's Cube actually moved slowly.

He vaguely felt that the things he had gotten by hand were by no means ordinary things, and the thrilling scene of yesterday jumped out of his mind again. Taking a deep breath, Lotte forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart, put the Rubik's Cube in his hand and began to examine it carefully.

The red sun above the cube moved slowly again, and the dragon followed the footprints of the red sun and came through the clouds. Lotte suddenly found that his eyes seemed to be attracted by the red sun, and he wanted to look away, but it was difficult to do so.

Lotte's face was a little pale, looking at the strange red sun on the square, and he felt a little uneasy in his heart.

"This ...... What the hell is ......"

I don't know how long it has been, but Lotte only feels that his heartbeat is beginning to speed up with the movement of this red sun, and the feeling of panic is getting stronger and stronger!

Lotte's face became paler and paler, and he took a deep breath again, and he forced himself to calm down with the panic in his heart.

A few minutes passed, Lotte's eyes were still staring at the red sun and couldn't extricate himself, but the panic and restlessness in his heart calmed down a lot, he secretly gritted his teeth, as if he had exhausted all his strength, and the thumb of his right hand was hard against the moving red sun.

"Ahβ€”β€”!h

It hurts.,Sudden sharp pain from the finger made Lotte gasp.,Exclaimed.。。

I don't know when, a long spike stretched out from the center of the red sun, the spike almost pierced his thumb, the piercing pain, the blood flowing out of the finger smeared the red ball on the Rubik's Cube extremely bewitching, his vision was in a trance, and he couldn't help blinking his sore eyes.

Lotte's expression was pale, he felt the pain in his hands, and the fear in his heart spread instantly, he didn't know what this Rubik's Cube was, and the more this unknown, the more he felt fear.

He had heard a lot of supernatural things, and at this moment, looking at his bleeding hands, he was afraid in his heart, and at the same time, he had a strong urge to throw away this Rubik's Cube.

"Lotte, Lotte, come out, I'm back!"

A voice haunting his own dreams suddenly came from outside.

This is my adoptive father's voice, that's right, it's this voice, I can't be more familiar with it, am I dreaming?

Lotte trembled all over, and was so excited that he couldn't help himself, so he jumped out of bed and rushed to the living room barefoot.

In the living room stood an old man, wearing a pair of old black trousers, a half-new short-sleeved shirt on the upper body, white temples, a pale head, and a bronzed face with deep wrinkles; Two big hands like small fans, covered with calluses.

is really his adoptive father - Le Chaoyi.

Lotte's brain suddenly seemed to be hit by a galloping horse, buzzing, unable to move for a long time, his lips trembled uncontrollably, and he trembled for a long time without a word, but the tears flowed down first.

Le Chao stood there quietly, just like that, grinning.

Seeing the most familiar smile, Lotte's heart warmed, and he couldn't help grinning knowingly, and during this time, the loneliness and sadness accumulated in his heart were swept away.

Suddenly, Lotte's face froze, and the cold rushed up from the bottom of his heart, and his limbs were suddenly cold.

Three days ago, it seems that it was also this time, I dressed my adoptive father in a shroud, and personally watched the body being pushed into the crematorium, and the urn was still carried home by myself, by the way, what about the old man's portrait? Lotte looked around the room, and the old man's portrait hung in that conspicuous place.

The temperature in the room suddenly dropped to freezing, and Lotte instantly felt a biting cold.

The old man's face changed slightly, and he immediately smiled: "Lotte, don't be afraid, I'm alive." If you don't believe you, come and touch my hand. ”

I've heard ghost stories about resurrecting corpses, and I believe in resurrection, but can people come back to life even if they are burned to ashes?

With an extremely complicated feeling, Lotte moved forward in fear, and approached his adoptive father little by little.

Lotte looked at Le Chaoyi nervously, but the old man was still standing quietly, smiling and nodding.

Lotte closed his eyes, slowly raised his hand, and touched Le Chaoyi's arm with his fingertips, and the uncontrollable tension made his hand tremble.

A feeling of warmth came back from the fingers, as well as the whole arm.

Lotte's glasses widened, tears rolled in his eyes, and various expressions on his face piled up, including shock, joy, doubt, and puzzlement.....

Le Chao smiled and touched Lotte's head.

Lotte smiled shyly, wiped the tears on his face with his hand, and suddenly found that his adoptive father had been standing without even a cane, but in the past two years, the old man had relied on a wheelchair to walk.

The doubts in his heart were getting bigger and bigger, and Lotte hesitated for a moment and asked, "Dad, how did you come back to life?" I've seen you with my own eyesβ€”β€”, and your leg injury is healed? ”

Le Chaoyi smiled, "It's all a loss of the Rubik's Cube in your hand?" ”

"Rubik's Cube?"

Can a Rubik's Cube bring the dead back to life? Lotte almost couldn't believe his ears, oh, just now the Rubik's Cube stabbed his hands were full of blood, and there was a huge pinhole on his thumb, looking at it in his eyes, it was still so terrifying, by the way, his fingers were still painful.

"Isn't it, I think it's weird."

Lotte nodded.

"This starts with the 12 zodiac signs, do you know when the 12 zodiac signs first appeared?"

Lotte thought about it, and couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he shook his head.

Le Chaoyi's eyes narrowed into a slit, and said: "The earliest recorded in China is in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in the "Northern History Yuwen Protector", it is recorded that Yuwen Hu's mother wrote a letter to him, which said, 'In the past, you gave birth to your brothers in Wuchuan Town, the eldest one is a rat, the second is a rabbit, and your body is a snake. In fact, the true origin of the zodiac can be traced back to the beginning of the formation of the universe. ”

Lotte was stunned when he heard this, and he couldn't react for a long time, and there was an indescribable fear and confusion, and he suddenly said: "Dad, how do you know so much?" ”

Le Chaoyi's face suddenly twitched, touched his face with his hand, and smiled: "It was Chaos Bead who told me." ”

"What are Chaos Orbs?"

Le Chao's face was expressionless, and he said left and right, "It is recorded in "On Balance and Materiality": "Yin, Mu Ye, its birds, and tigers. 戌, soil also, its fowl, dogs also. …… Noon, Ma also. Sub, rat knife. Unitary, chicken too. Mao, rabbit also. …… Hai, pig also. No, sheep too. Ugly, cow too. …… Si, snakes too. Shen, monkey also. There are a total of eleven zodiac signs, but the dragon is missing, and the world thinks that it is an animal that the ancient Chinese people made up through beautiful imagination and does not exist at all. ”

Lotte couldn't help but say, "Isn't it? ”

Le Chaoyi looked at Lotte and sighed, "There has always been a saying in the fairy world that 'chaos beads are revealed, and the dragon is played'. Canglong does not come out only because the Chaos Bead has not appeared, and the legend says that the Chaos Bead has the mysterious power to destroy the world, live the dead, and manipulate time and space. ”

Lotte was stunned for a moment, and opened his mouth to stammer: "It was the Chaos Bead that saved you?" ”

Le Chaoyi nodded, "Well, it turns out that the Chaos Bead has been hiding in the zodiac, and from ancient times to the present, no one has found it, which may also confirm the old saying that the time has not yet arrived."

Le Chaoyi looked at Lotte with a very strange gaze.

Lotte's expression froze, whether his adoptive father's eyes contained a lot of words, he couldn't understand it at all for a while, and suddenly a thought flashed in his mind, and he exclaimed: "Could it be that the moving red ball on the Dragon Rubik's Cube, it is the Chaos Bead." ”

Le Chaoyi nodded.

Lotte immediately carefully checked several sides of the dragon cube, and the red ball didn't know why it was gone, and the one that I saw on it just now was stained red by my own blood. How did it disappear?

Lotte has a dream-like feeling.

Le Chaoyu suddenly said: Lotte, dad came back this time, and the first thing I wanted to do was to kill Ning Guodong with my own hands. ”

For the first time, the kind old man showed a hideous face, and the two had lived together for nearly twenty years, and it was the first time that Lotte saw a kind of cannibalism in his eyes, which caused a huge contrast with the impression of a loving father in his mind.

Lotte didn't know who Zhao Guodong was, and even the first time he heard Le Chaoyi mention it, what kind of deep hatred and hatred it was, so that the old man wanted to kill him as soon as he opened his mouth.

Lotte Meiyu asked tightly, "Dad, who is Ning Guodong?" ”

Le Chao's face turned red, his chest continued to rise and fall, and when the afterglow swept to Lotte, the corners of his eyes were flushed with tears, and he paused: "For more than ten years, I have been hiding this secret in my heart, I have never mentioned it to you, if it is not the Dragon Rubik's Cube, not the Chaos Bead, I have already taken it into the coffin." ”

Lotte looked at the old man who was almost emotionally broken, and his heart was also entangled.

Le Chao's widow burst into tears, looked at Lotte and muttered, "Do you remember that I always said that you were picked up by me on the construction site?" ”

Lotte was affected by the old man's mood, and began to fall down, nodding silently.

"Since I learned a piece of thief kung fu from the master, I don't know the height of the sky, I like to take care of everything, and I want to step on it when I encounter uneven things, when I was in Yangcheng, I heard that there was an underworld gang called the 'Entanglement Gang' that was killing children, missing arms and thighs and throwing them on the street to beg."

Lotte's heart ached and he gritted his teeth.

"That night, I sneaked in, and in a small warehouse lived a dozen or so disabled beggars, all of them yellow and thin, and they also broke a able-bodied child on the spot, and the scene could be described as horrific."

The old man recalled the situation again, still sad and indignant, choked softly, and Lotte stepped forward to hug his adoptive father.

"After a while, I saw a man come in and throw a basket with a sleeping baby in it."

Lotte chuckled twice in his heart, a chill rising and his body trembling.

"Later, I created a little confusion, took the opportunity to secretly carry you out, and then climbed along the wall to the roof, I thought I could escape safely from the ascension, but I didn't expect you little guy to suddenly cry hungry. Then they chased below, and I ran on the roof. ”

Lotte hugged his adoptive father's arm and burst into tears.

Le Chaoyi kindly touched Lotte's hair with his hand, "Fortunately, I had an idea and stuffed my finger into your little mouth, so I didn't cry." ”

Lotte wiped the tears from his face and asked, "Isn't it, you fell and injured yourself when you carried me downstairs." ”

.......

Le Chaoyi let out a long sigh and nodded, "Later, the two of us have been living in hiding in Tibet and precarious, when you were almost three years old, I escaped from Yangcheng with you, and then moved here, only to slowly stabilize, and later, I learned that the name of the leader of the Entanglement Gang is Ning Guodong."

After listening to the old man tell this sad past, Lotte's heart ached sharply, as if something was missing in the middle, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind, and blurted out, "Dad, who saved us?" ”

Le Chao didn't make a sound after a few chirps in his mouth, sighed for a long time, his old eyes were full of tears, and he shook his head at Lotte with a smile and said: "You kid, you've been so smart since you were a child, every time I say the beginning, you can guess the end." But that's a secret, a secret to be taken into the coffin by Daddy. ”

Lotte looked at his adoptive father's sad smile, and for the first time realized that laughing could be more ugly than crying.