Tattoos on your face? Does it still look like some kind of totemic shape? When I think of people with tattoos on their faces, I almost subconsciously think of the Maori people in New Zealand. Māori are a mix of and Australian, and the ancient Māori were very keen on tattoos, but their attitude towards tattoos was full of respect, especially on the face, which is usually a sign of the person's status.

However, I pinched my fingers and couldn't figure out when I had ever met a New Zealander, let alone a Maori. Growing up, I had never been abroad, and sometimes when I saw a foreigner at the train station, I wanted to say a few words, but every time I just thought about it.

Apparently, Gao Peng knows something about the Maori. He's a guy, selling rare books is his livelihood on weekdays, and most of the time, all rare books often record some strange things. Although Gao Peng is not a person who loves to read, he runs a bookstore and soaks in it all day long, even if he just treats books as commodities, but over time, he will be somewhat edified.

Gao Peng said to me: "I said Peixi, when did your old guy offend the Maori?" ”

"Don't ask me about this, I don't know anything." I said, "And you can't just assume that someone is Maori just because they have tattoos on their faces, that's too arbitrary." ”

Gao Peng said impatiently: "I know the way, I know the way, isn't this just a hypothesis, everything is possible." ”

I asked Gao Peng to continue, and he said: "It really scared me that day, but I said in my heart that it was rare for my brother Peixi to give me a task, and I had to complete it even if I worked hard." For the next two days, I have been secretly monitoring the situation in your house. That night, when I looked at those two men, I felt that they were not good people. Those two people barely left the house, and I don't know where they got so much courage, completely treating your father's house as if it were their own, and only the scar man went out to buy something to eat every day. When I saw this fight, it was a preparation for a protracted battle, but to my surprise, just now, those two people suddenly left your house, and when they left, they took a bag of things with them, and it seemed that they didn't plan to come back. So, after they left, I slipped into your dad's house. ”

"How's our house?" I asked.

"Safe and sound, there are no signs of being turned over in the house, and the hygiene is very good, except for one room."

"My dad's room?" I asked.

"No," Gao Peng replied, "it's the study." The study was the only room that had been turned upside down, and you remember that your father's bookshelf was full of rare books on metaphysics. ”

I nodded and said yes. My father has always loved books like his life, and I hate to have others touch his books in my life, even if it is me, I can't read his books without his permission, especially the row of rare books about metaphysics that Gao Peng said, some books are ancient books that are about to fall off the scum, and my father is very careful when he takes them out and looks at them on weekdays.

I remember one time Gao Peng came to my house and saw the row of rare books on my father's bookshelf, and pulled out one at random, and my father's face sank at that time, and I hurriedly put the book back. Later, Gao Peng told me that those books are very old, and they are rare things in the used book and rare book market, plus the content of those books, as long as there is a little hype, it will not be a problem to sell for 1.8 million yuan.

But I didn't say that to my father at all, because I knew that he couldn't sell his books.

Gao Peng raised his tone all of a sudden, and said to me: "Those rare books were all stolen by those two bastards, the entire bookshelf, and the other books were not moved, and the books in that row were all moved." Damn, those two thieves are pretty professional. Not only are they professional, but they are also very professional in stealing skills, and the locks they pick open show no signs of damage. ”

"Stealing books? Why do you steal books? I asked.

Gao Peng replied: "Sell for money, didn't I tell you a long time ago that your father's books are very valuable, but what I don't understand is that since they are here for those books, they can be stolen and leave, why do you have to soak in your house for two or three days before leaving." ”

"If only I knew the way." My heart said, Two or three days? Maybe it's possible to spend a few weeks at our house.

"How? I've done a pretty good job. Gao Peng said.

"Yes, yes," I replied in a trance, "Thank you so much, I'll go back and invite you to dinner, I have some other things here, so I'll hang up first." ”

Gao Peng wanted to say something, but I had no intention of rambling with him, so I hung up the phone.

"Is something wrong?" As soon as I hung up the phone, Liu Zhen couldn't wait to come to me and asked.

I repeated the things I had explained to Gao Peng before, and what he had just called me and said to Liu Zhen. But after Liu Zhen listened, he didn't seem to have much reaction. After I asked, I learned that on the night when my father went to look for Liu Zhen, in addition to explaining some things to Liu Zhen, asking him to come to Yunnan to help me find Duan Yuwen, and secondly, he also gave him a small task.

Liu Zhen told me that he always felt that my father seemed to have expected someone to sneak into his house, so before going to Liu Zhen that night, he secretly installed a small bug in his house, saying that it was a bugging device, but it was actually a small tape recorder. When his father left, he asked Liu Zhen to secretly go and retrieve the bugging device after three days. Liu Zhen followed his father's instructions, and after a few days, he quietly slipped into my house with the key that my father gave him, (of course, he experienced an experience that was difficult to resemble Gao Peng, and also saw other people entering and leaving my room, but not the two people Gao Peng said) found the bugging device installed by my father, and heard that a person pretending to be my father asked me to find Wang Chengbao, and contacted me by phone in time.

I shook my head and cursed, "It's so messy, my head is going to explode, don't think about it!" Don't think about it! Love what's the matter, I'm in Yunnan now, even if something big happens at home in Liaoning, I can't reach it, I want to find this Duan Yuwen as soon as possible! ”

Liu Zhen also nodded, and also complained: "That's right, it's already eight o'clock now, and that Duan Yuwen doesn't know when he will come back." ”

"Could it be that the old man pulled a black car outside for people to fish? Or was it a car accident and hung up directly? I said casually.

Liu Zhen said: "You say, could it be that when we went out to eat, he came back, and we didn't know about it?" ”

After hearing this, I immediately felt enlightened, and hurriedly said: "It's very possible, then let's go up and have a look now, even if we can't find Duan Yuwen, we can also ask the long-faced young man who entered this old apartment at noon if he knows about him." ”

Liu Zhen agreed with me very much, obviously, his patience was running out.

The two of us sat up and patted the dust on our buttocks, and I walked up to Bu Jin and gestured and told her that we were going upstairs to have a look.

Unexpectedly, Bu Jin didn't react after hearing this, just pointed to the old apartment building, didn't look at me, and said two words, "Dangerous." ”

"Danger? What's the danger, isn't it just a crazy woman and a bunch of night cats, is it possible that you really believe in those ghost stories? "I don't know if Lu Dao Bu Jin understood my words, but in fact, I said this to myself, and it was also to strengthen my own courage. I've always been vague about my attitude towards ghosts and gods.

"Forget it," Liu Zhen said on the side: "I think that girl is scared, no matter what, she is also a girl." ”

Afraid? I looked at Bu Jin, her silent face was like a porcelain doll, would she be scared? I couldn't quite imagine it, but I still said, "Okay, Bu Jin, then you just stay here, and I'll go up with Liu Zhen." ”

I believe that Bu Jin can still understand this sentence. She finally stopped staring at the dilapidated old apartment with concern, and looked back at me suspiciously, as if to say, "Did you understand me?" So, she pointed to the old apartment again, repeated what she had just said, and said, "Danger." ”

"What's wrong with her?" Liu Zhen said worriedly.

"Ignore her, she is not mentally normal, and she often has convulsions like this." I said angrily, "Let's go, let's go up." ”

Liu Zhen didn't say much, followed behind me, and the two of us walked upstairs along the stairs outside, leaving Bu Jin alone in the open space in front of the building.

After taking two steps, Liu Zhen asked, "It won't be okay to leave her alone in the middle of the night as a girl, right?" ”

"I said, why do you always care about her? Fancy it? Do you want me to help you pull the relationship? I teased.

As soon as Liu Zhen heard what I said, he immediately stood up and said: "That's not it, it's just that you didn't say it too, Long Bujin is our real only clue, and don't forget, the original purpose of the teacher to let you come to Yunnan was to pick up this girl, let's not lose her." ”

"No, no, you're going to have to worry about it."

We walked up the stairs one after the other, and we went straight to the third floor, for on the fourth floor there was only the old couple and an old painter, and on the two floors below there were no creatures but cats, and only on the third floor there was a madwoman and two seemingly inhabited rooms.

As soon as I entered the hallway, the familiar stench hit me. Fortunately, the weather is very cloudy today, and at night, the corridor is very cold, so the smell is not particularly strong. There was no light in the hallway, it was very dark at noon, and now we couldn't see our fingers, and the two of us were almost moving forward in the dark.

Liu Zhen and I had no intention of asking that crazy woman again. Originally, Liu Zhen still had some respect for the old lady, but after inquiring about the story of the proprietress, he also felt panicked, so the two of us unconsciously quickened our pace and walked towards the two rooms at the end of the corridor. If my guess is correct, then the person living in one of the rooms must be the long-faced young man.

As I walked, I gradually felt that something was wrong, and the most intuitive feeling was that the temperature around me was getting lower and lower, and before I knew it, I had begun to tremble, my teeth chattered, and my mouth seemed to be out of breath. I thought to myself, where is the temperature in summer, not to mention in Yunnan, even in the northeast of my house, and the summer night will not be cold like this.

Fortunately, after walking for a while, my eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness of the environment. Actually, it wasn't completely dark, at least, there was a faint starlight from the only window at the end of the hallway, which was faint but better than nothing. On the other hand, some of the iron doors in the rooms on both sides of the corridor are ajar, and the windows in the rooms can also show a little starlight.

I didn't say a word, endured the cold, and continued to walk forward, and soon, I found another strange place. Those stray cats! I barely walked a few steps this morning and saw an old cat, but now I didn't see a single cat, and the beasts had gone where the hell had gone.

People are most afraid of stimulating their imagination in a dark environment, which is undoubtedly to scare themselves. But at this time, my brain didn't listen to my command, and all I was thinking about was all kinds of weird things about the crazy woman told me by the restaurant proprietress at noon. At that moment, he quickened his pace a little, and almost trotted towards the two rooms at the end of the hallway.

As I walked like this, my cold sweat came down. I had a bad feeling in my heart. I secretly calculated that this corridor looked less than a hundred meters, and when we came in the morning, it took us less than five minutes to go door-to-door to check, but now, I was almost walking in the form of a trot, and it would take me two minutes to feel it, but when I looked up, the two rooms at the end seemed to be still more than ten meters away, and I couldn't say anything.

I couldn't help but shudder, turned around and asked, "Lao Liu, do you think this corridor has become longer than in the morning?" ”

My words were thrown into the sea like a great stone, and though there was a loud echo in the silent corridor, no one answered me.

As soon as my heart was cold, the whole person was stupid, but it was dark in front of me, and I didn't know where Liu Zhen was standing, so I couldn't help but ask softly: "Old Liu?" Lao Liu? Where are you? Don't play this joke on me in this place, I'll turn my face. ”

Still not answering, I stretched out my hand and turned around, but there was no gain. Hasn't Liu Zhen been following me all the time? When did it disappear?

I stretched out my hand and turned towards the staircase from which I came, but as soon as I took a step, my heart groaned, my scalp exploded, and I stretched out my hand and touched something furry and wet.