Chapter 13: The Mystery Man

Maybe it was sleeping in a different place, Yu Yue tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoHer bed is by the window, and when she opens her eyes, she can see the stars. She had never seen such a beautiful starry sky, and the stars fell one by one like diamonds in the deep blue night sky. And the ground, looking up, did not shine at all. If it weren't for the sound of Maisha's even breathing around her, she would almost have thought that she was the only creature in this vast world.

She distinctly remembers that the only time she and Ah Shen looked at the stars together was in the attic of her house. It was said that it was to see the stars, but in fact, there was not even a star at all that night, and the weather was clear, but the starry sky in the city had long been covered by the lights on the ground. She and Ah Shen climbed to the attic and poked their heads out of the roof. She still had long hair then, and she gently brushed it away in the night breeze when it hit her face. Ah Shen was beside her, pointing to the gray sky and said, "Look, there, it should be the location of the Big Dipper, almost everyone knows that the best recognizable star in the starry sky is the Big Dipper, but they don't know that the Big Dipper is actually the tail of Ursa Major." There, if you can see it, you'll see three stars connected together, which is Orion's belt, and then there's Lyra, there's ...... At a young age, Ah Shen already knew the constellations inside out and aspired to become an archaeologist. That night, Yu Yue asked him, "Why do you want to be an archaeologist?" ā€

Ah Shen was silent for a while, and said seriously, "I always feel that those people who disappeared in this world must still exist somewhere. ā€

At that time, Yu Yue was still young, and when she first turned 10 years old, she didn't know what Ah Shen, who was a few years older than her, meant by saying this. Maybe it's like her father said, Ah Shen lost his parents, but he still thought that they weren't dead, so he had such thoughts. At that time, she thoughtfully held Ah Shen's hand.

Now, she looked at the stars in the sky, and began to carefully distinguish the constellations in the sky, but the stars were scattered, and she could not find the location of those familiar constellations, she admired Ah Shen, and at the same time, she was dragged by deep thoughts, and noticed that her eyelids were gradually heavy, and finally fell asleep slowly.

I don't know how long I slept, and there was a sound of rustling in my ears, and it seemed that Mayisha had gotten up. Yu Yue ran around for a day, half-asleep, and only heard Mayisha softly tell her, "Yu Yue, I'll go home first, and I'll be back in two days." Yu Yue sighed, and finally fell asleep again.

In the B&B on the other side, Ah Shen slept on his back. Turning over, the futon pressed was empty. He immediately came to his senses, and looked around, and there was no movement in the small, dark room. "Poker face?" He shouted tentatively, and looked up, and the starlight shone in through the low window, shining as white as frost on the yellow earth. He bent down and jumped out of bed, rushed out the door and rushed back again, wrapped in the quilt and walked out.

During the day, he wore a thin Uyghur robe, and in the center of the desert with a huge temperature difference between day and night, he wrapped himself in a quilt and creaked open the door. The sound was particularly abrupt in the empty desert night, startling the wild birds not far away, fluttering up from the sea buckthorn bushes. Soon, silence returned.

The night in the Gobi was extremely cold, and Ah Shen was wrapped in a thick quilt, still shivering from the cold. "!" Ah Shen cursed and trembled in the direction of the inn.

He was a little surprised by his speed and steady progress over rough roads.

"Mommy! The poker face is usually not visible, a sullen look, could it be a lovesick criminal, take advantage of the dark moon and the wind to ......" muttered, he bypassed the stone pier in the center of the village, and headed in the direction of the hotel. The moonlight was so bright that it shone on the hard ground like a veil. Along the way, Ah Shen only cared about walking, and he didn't have time to look up to look at the direction, and soon, he was hit by something. The thing that hit him was huge and tough, he didn't stand firm, he staggered, and just wanted to turn around and scold a few sentences, but there was a sound of a gun being loaded, a soft sound, something flew in his ears, Ah Shen's cheeks were hot, he wiped it with his hand, and it was in the moonlight, and the palms of his hands were sticky dark red, exuding a sweet and greasy fishy smell, "**** uncle!" After speaking, he rushed towards the black shadow, regardless of the thirty-seven twenty-one, picked up the other party's hand and pushed it up. The other party snorted lightly when he fell to the ground, and did not move again before he could react. Ah Shen scolded and punched him twice, and seeing that the other party didn't react at all, he got up and sniffed.

"He got a tranquilizer shot." Said the man on the stone pier.

Ah Shen looked up and saw a figure standing on a stone pier next to him, holding a delicate pistol in his hand, glowing with a cold golden light in the moonlight.

He stood up and raised his head, "Yo, poker face." Before he could ask what was going on, he saw a gloomy look on his poker face, and he turned and disappeared behind the stone pier. By the time he got around to the stone pier, the figure of the poker face had long since disappeared.

What was going on, just as he was confused, he heard two soft beeps in the distance. If it were in other places, it would not have attracted attention, but in this vast and desolate wilderness, these sounds seemed extremely unusual. It was the sound of gunfire under the silencer.

Gunshot! He pulled his leg and ran to the hotel. After running two steps, he turned around and picked up the gun on the big man's body as if he remembered something, "It's really heavy!" ā€

When Ah Shen ran to the inn with a gun, searched room by room, the small inn had a total of three rooms, the first two rooms were empty, when he opened the door of the third room, he saw Poker face squatting on the ground, and said in a very low voice, "One step late." ā€

"Who the hell is it?" After speaking, he threw the gun away, "I'm disfigured!" ā€

Pokerface didn't speak, and after carefully inspecting the room, he walked straight out.

"Where are you going?!" Ah Shen followed closely, and Poker Face walked quickly, and after a while, he came to the place where Ah Shen was attacked just now.

"What about people?!" Ah Shen looked around the stone pier left and right, and there was no trace at all, "Could it be that the person just now is a ghost?" "Even the quilt I just dropped is gone, is this ghost still a frozen ghost? ā€

"There are no ghosts in this world." The voice of the poker face was as cold as the air around him. "The anesthesia won't work out yet, someone took them away."

"Is it Batur? Didn't you say there was something wrong with that Batur? Looking at his upright face, people really can't look good. "Ah Shen took a breath, calmed down, only to feel that his legs were sore, and he couldn't take care of much, so he sat on the ground." Ouch! He pulled out the gun that had been grabbing his ass with his backhand, and stood up to throw it away.

"Wait!" Poker Face took the gun, looked up and down carefully, and remained silent.

"Is it revenge? But this enemy is too sad to follow the birds to the place where the insects don't fart. ā€

Pokerface is still working on the gun. He seemed to be looking for something, but he buried his gun under a nearby mound.

"Do you see anything?" Ah Shen asked curiously.

"I don't know how to shoot." The poker face is concise and to the point. "But for sure, this gun is just a tranquilizer gun."

"Then you've been watching it for a long time, are you pretending to be co-authored? Haha, I know, how can you do anything. ā€

Poker tilted his head, "Let's bury this thing, we won't just leave it there." With that, he dug a hole under the mound and buried the tranquilizer gun inside. Now it's all right. Ah Shen clapped his hands, and suddenly, Poker Face, who had been watching quietly from the side, raised his hand and made a silent gesture.

"Did you see the innkeeper when you entered the inn just now?"

Ah Shen noticed that the silence around him was not abnormal, and he was a little impatient, thinking that this poker face was too pretentious, and shook his head disdainfully.

Poker Face pondered for a moment, "Let's go check out the other people's houses." ā€

Ah Shen wanted to stop him, although it was in the wilderness, but he was still on the land of China, and he didn't want to do anything that violated the law. "It is illegal to break into people's houses at night."

Poker Face acted as if he hadn't heard it, and walked to someone's house by himself. One, two, three...... The village where there were still people was now empty, and the huge village was empty, and there were only the two of them.

The night was as cold as water, and the coolness seeped into Ah Shen's skin, and he shivered, "Say, where have they gone......"

Poker's face was expressionless like a wax figure, and he shook his head solemnly.

Ah Shen sighed and sat down on the stone pier next to him, "In other words, the current situation is that there are only two of us here." Are you sure it's not a ghost village? So what do we do now? ā€

"Go to Lake Aydin."

"Now?" Ah Shen was miserable, he hadn't had a good rest for several days, and he finally caught an opportunity that was not a chance, so he could make do with a good night's sleep, but he didn't know who came, kidnapped the poker-faced friend, and now he had to sacrifice his sleep time. He was angry, and finally managed to hold back his anger, "I'm afraid it's not suitable now, not to mention that we are still some distance from Ayding Lake, and it is difficult to walk at night, so we may go to the swamp." ā€

"So what do you say?" Poker Face still looked at the lifeless village, and had no intention of turning back.

"Early tomorrow morning, I'll find a way to get a car for you, and then how about we go to Ayding Lake together?" Ah Shen has to find a way to save this rare night where he can sleep well.

Xu is poker face felt that what Ah Shen said was reasonable, and nodded in a deep voice. "Then we'll leave early tomorrow morning."

"Hey, I didn't say I could leave early tomorrow morning, I just said to help you get a car early in the morning......"