"You mean...... Three years ago, you went to Jinpei?! ”

Nobita's hand slipped and knocked down a bottle of beer, which then triggered a butterfly effect, and a row of beers poured down one after another, and the crackling sound attracted attention from all around.

"To be exact, I received that email three years ago, and it was exactly the same thing, except that the sender was my name. So, I feel like it's about you and me. ”

Li Sheng raised the beer bottle, didn't bother to pour it into the cup, and drank it directly into the bottle. After pouring a whole bottle of wine, he pressed the bottle on the table with a clatter, and said in a trembling tone: "In other words, this is a conspiracy, and the man's target is you and me!" ”

Lin Daxiong looked at Li Sheng stupidly, at this time, the alcohol was a little up, and his head was dizzy.

"The middle-aged man you mentioned, I really haven't seen it in the photo. In the afternoon, you saw that the email on your computer was just a picture of a teahouse...... Not the guy you say. Li Sheng suddenly raised his head and said word by word: "However, I believe you have indeed seen it." ”

"Thank you." Lin Daxiong didn't know what to say, and was about to reach out for the beer bottle, but was pressed by Li Sheng.

"I really believe it."

Facing Li Sheng's blazing eyes, Lin Daxiong seemed to have caught something complicated, and asked in a deep voice: "What did you experience in those years?" ”

"You'll find out later."

Seeing that Li Sheng didn't say any more, Lin Daxiong grabbed the bottle opener, put all the beers in the ice bucket on the table, and opened them one by one.

……

Jinping County, which is a third-tier town that doesn't even have McDonald's. It is not far from Longshi City, where Lin Daxiong is located, and it can be reached in six or seven hours by long-distance bus.

Nobita and Li Sheng set off at seven o'clock in the morning, talking and laughing along the way, and a few hours were not too difficult.

Through conversation, Nobita learned that over the years, Li Sheng had mixed quite well in Jinping County, and in his words, he was "barely able to stand firm". However, he struggled to investigate the photo. There are only two things that are known:

1. The teahouse ceased to exist 20 years ago and is now a home-cooked restaurant with a good reputation in the local area.

2. Twenty years ago, there was a major change in the teahouse, and the owner of the teahouse suddenly disappeared overnight.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the two got off the bus from the exit of the bus station. What catches your eye is a mess of garbage left behind after the night market, string needles, toilet paper, white plastic bags abound, and there are one or two stalls selling cold skin snacks on the side of the road lazily shouting business.

"I'll take you to meet someone first, and he may be able to explain what you've been through for the past two days." Li Sheng glanced at the garbage on the ground and stopped a motor tricycle.

Nobita followed Li Sheng's footsteps with a backpack, and when he heard this, he teased: "It won't be a fortune teller, right?" ”

Li Sheng was silent, and after getting into the car, he said "stop in the second lane", and then stopped talking.

Nobita closed his mouth in amusement, and the driver drove away from the exit with the two of them, all the way south. Along the way, I encountered a lot of shampoo shops with pink lights, and the girl at the door of the store saw through her eyes, and knew that they were outsiders at a glance, so she hurriedly scratched her head and gestured to solicit business.

Li Sheng lit a cigarette and looked thoughtfully at the scenery outside the tricycle, his short hair fluttering in the wind. Nobita was not idle, and took out his mobile phone to report his safety to his family.

The motorized tricycle turned in several directions, the road became narrow from wide, and drove into a small alley, and two big red characters "Second Lane" were written on the door at the mouth of the alley.

"Have you ever heard of Swallow Gate? Wait a minute, don't talk nonsense. Li Sheng dropped a sentence and got out of the car with his luggage.

As soon as he heard the name "Swallow Gate", Da Ambition's heart sank, dare to love this guy for all these years, how has he gained such a firm foothold in this place?

According to legend, the real "Swallow Gate" was an organization established by a group of "rebellious thieves" in the early Qing Dynasty for the purpose of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. The disciples in the door are all strange people, all of them fly on the wall, and they can do anything. This is the historical revelation of the "Swallow Gate".

Today, however, swallows are the subject of official bans, and are even notorious throughout the province. It was not built on the idea of treason, but as a platform for these criminals to share their resources. They are organized and disciplined, and they are involved in many industries, such as theft, banditry, gangsters, tomb robbers, fraudsters, etc., in short, they do everything but good things.

Swallow Gate is well-organized and has a clear hierarchy, and in terms of modus operandi, Swallow almost reaches the enterprise level, and even holds a meeting to analyze the details of the action before doing bad things. And when there is no goal, they usually have their own work, no different from ordinary people.

With such an organization, even the officials are helpless, and every time the police make strict deployments, they arrest some shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and the real leader boss can't touch a single hair.

Influenced by traditional concepts, Lin Daxiong has an instinctive resistance to such an illegal organization, and Nobita wanted to turn back several times, but was dragged back by Li Sheng's clear eyes.

Nobita followed behind Li Sheng and walked into a courtyard, and there was a faint fragrance of gardenias, but what caught his eye was a main hall facing the door.

At the door stood two young people in their twenties, these two were dressed very retro, the kind of big white coats that often appeared in TV dramas during the Republic of China, black really good pants, and a pair of black old Beijing cloth shoes.

"Is Old Man Chen here? I'll take someone to get started. Li Sheng stepped forward and said bluntly.

When Nobita heard this, his eyes looking at Li Sheng's back were about to burst into flames, and he gritted his teeth and said: I am your brother, and this is how you pulled me into the fire pit?

Li Sheng seemed to have expected it, and turned around and gave a calm look.

One of the people guarding the door stepped forward unhurriedly and arched his hand, "The old man has been waiting. ”

Li Sheng nodded, turned around and walked to Lin Daxiong's side, and said in his ear: "You go in by yourself, I won't go in." ”

Nobita glared at him viciously, handed the backpack to Li Sheng, stepped forward stubbornly, and squeezed out a smile at the two goalkeepers.

Seeing this, the person who greeted him returned to his original position and stood, and the other person stepped forward to Nobita, leaned down and began to search his body, seeing that Nobita was resisting, he angrily scolded: "Don't move! ”

Being searched without any scruples, Nobita violently broke away and said angrily, "You are enough! Why search me! ”

Lin Daxiong's reaction provoked the man's angry glare, and the other person also looked at him with slanted eyes not far away. Seeing this, Li Sheng hurriedly took out a cigarette and ran up to hand it to the two, and said, "I'm sorry, my friend doesn't understand the rules, please forgive me!" ”

Seeing Li Sheng half-bow and apologize to the two people who were obviously younger than him, Nobita finally couldn't suppress his anger, pushed Li Sheng away, and said angrily: "Shengzi! You're sick! What the hell is this place? ”

Li Sheng cautiously glanced at the hall, and immediately made a silent gesture, and then hurriedly pulled Nobita aside, suppressed his voice and said, "Do you believe me once!" Aren't you curious, why can you see things that others can't? Don't you wonder who sent us the email? ”

Nobita once again met Li Sheng's watery eyes, which were so big that he had suspected several times that they should not belong to a man, because they were both gentle and clear, and even a little lethal to the same sex.

"Trust me once, when this is over, we'll go back to making a website!" Li Sheng hit the railway while it was hot.

"If I knew you were going to bring me here, I wouldn't have come if you said I wouldn't have come!" Lin Daxiong dropped a sentence and turned to the two, who were looking at him with a cigarette in their mouths and a look of disdain. Nobita gritted his teeth and stretched out his hands in the same posture as when he was on a plane through the security check.

"It is a rule to enter the door and search yourself, and if it is a rule, you must abide by it." The man still dropped the butt of his cigarette and said stiffly.

After the search, the two gatekeepers took a few steps back. Lin Daxiong pulled his collar and looked impatient.

The door of the main hall looks to be some years old, and there are worm-drilled holes in many places, and the edges are rotten. Lin Daxiong stepped forward and pushed it, his voice was as muffled as an old man's sigh.

There was no light in the room, and the first thing I saw was an easy chair with a person sitting on it, and Nobita couldn't see the person's face because the light was too dim.

As soon as he entered the house, the door was tightly closed by the people outside, and even the last rays of sunlight could not penetrate him, and Nobita entered a brief period of blindness, and it was pitch black in front of him.

In the darkness, the voice of an old man came from not far ahead:

"Little brother, who gave you your eyes?"

Nobita was made to cry and laugh by this nonsensical sentence, and he said weakly: "Mom and Dad gave it, who else can give it?" ”

"Not really."

With the squeak of the easy chair, Nobita felt that the person was slowly approaching him, and it wasn't until a wrinkled face appeared in front of him that he responded, this should be the old man Chen in Li Sheng's mouth.

"It's kind of like an acquired thing."

When his eyes gradually adapted to the environment, Lin Daxiong found that the old man was short in stature, about one meter five tall with his back bent, and even if he stood upright, he was definitely not more than one meter six, his facial muscles drooped obviously, and his eyes were squinted into a thin slit looking at him.

"I'm talking about psychic eyes, which are what you call yin and yang eyes, which can see things that ordinary people can't see." Old Man Chen said in surprise.

"Yin and Yang Eyes?"

Nobita blinked his eyes, combined with the words "acquired chance", there seemed to be a flash of inspiration in his mind, but when he thought about it carefully, it was blank.

"You brought it by Xiao Li!" Old Man Chen took his eyes off Nobita and said with his hands behind his back.

Nobita nodded subconsciously, and at this time, a strong sandalwood suddenly wafted from the house, and at the same time, the whole room seemed to be lit with candles, illuminating every corner.

This instantaneous change caused Nobita to look around in amazement.

This is a large hall room, with two rows of carved easy chairs placed in an orderly manner on both sides, and each easy chair forms a passage of tens of meters, giving people a sense of oppression. At the end of the passage was a round wooden table, on which was placed an incense burner and three incense sticks glowing with golden light, and I don't know who lit the incense.

Lin Daxiong was about to ask what kind of incense this was, but it could emit aroma and light at the same time. But the old man walked to the log table at the end, and was looking at an old yellowed photograph on the wall, and folded his hands.

Lin Daxiong walked over, but suddenly stopped, staring at the photo on the wall, the person in the photo was actually him!

After three bows, Old Man Chen slowly turned around and said, "Sit casually." ”

"This! It's him! Nobita muttered, he subconsciously approached, and the more he looked, the more frightened he became!

The camera of this photo is aimed at a middle-aged man, who is dressed exactly the same as the person in the email, also wearing a black Tang suit with gold threads, and his expression is very natural and smiling. What's even more surprising to Nobita is that this person's appearance is somewhat similar to himself!

"You two do look alike, and you startled me when you entered the house just now." The old man sighed, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes, and it was fleeting.

Nobita scrutinized the face, and although the man's face was very blurry when he first saw it, he could almost conclude that the man was the one he had seen in the mailbox. No wonder there was a familiar feeling at that time, it turned out that this person was so similar to himself!

"He's my partner back then, and he's an amazing guy." Old Man Chen muttered to himself.

Lin Daxiong retracted his gaze and looked at Old Man Chen again. Judging from the guard at the door to the costume of the main hall, this person should be a pivotal figure in the Swallow Gate, but after all, the two of them met for the first time, and they couldn't tell him about the mail.