Gao Tianyi ran away, and the two people who were left behind tried it and found that they couldn't get out of the courtyard gate for the time being.

The gate was closed after the young man had left, and no matter how much they pushed or pulled, they could not shake it.

To paraphrase a cliché, what's it? The door seems to be fixed to the space.

As for climbing the wall and circumventing the wall or something, the two didn't try it.

No one knows what will happen if you rush over it, whether you will be kicked out of the dream world or if you will be damaged? What's more, this room is enough for them to explore.

"......Now," said the bespectacled young man, touching his chin, "isn't it like exploring the scene, like playing in a secret room." ”

Qi Zhuyue, who was a little far away, didn't hear clearly, she rummaged through the wardrobe in the room, and turned back in a bent posture: "What, Senior Tang, what are you talking about?" ”

Donno leaned over and brought out the heavy quilt and pillow for the person: "I'm talking about the secret room." ”

Qi Zhuyue clapped her hands and said clearly: "Oh, is it the kind of senior Tang who you brushed all over the city's large and small secret rooms and was blocked by all the stores?" ”

Donald: "...... You can omit all the preceding clauses. ”

Qi Zhuyue: "Oh, okay Tang senior. ”

The obedient junior obediently threw away those complicated words, she knew that this senior had a hobby of going to play in the secret room for leisure.

I heard that it was just for a supernatural case at the beginning, but who expected that it would become obsessed and addicted afterwards.

No matter how busy the work of the special department is, Donno will take the time to visit the old and new secret rooms, until he is blacklisted by the store for his quick breakthrough and violent puzzle solving.

They were a bit like they were in a secret room, in a confined space, looking for possible clues.

After the quilt and clothes were emptied, a small box with a lock was placed underneath.

"Hmm...... I thought it would be a little more secretive. ”

"Exactly?"

"Like here, you can dig a built-in grid, put this box in it, and then make a trap here...... Connect to the drawer on this side, and then make a puzzle in the drawer, and solve it to open the mechanism on it. ”

“…… Sober up Tang seniors, who would set up this kind of thing in their own home! ”

"Yes."

Tang Nuo pushed his glasses again, and saw that Qi Zhuyue's sight was a little relieved - it was really a qualified complaining service.

Ordinary people don't design that level of mechanism at home, and holding on to death is the degree of locking.

The lock is also not a high-tech lock, the copper lock hangs upwards and requires a matching key to open.

Theoretically, the next step should be to find the key, but Donno turned the corner and went out of the door, went to Wen Tao's room next door, and found a hairpin from the drawer under the vanity mirror.

Then, Qi Zhuyue witnessed a very handcuffing scene.

Donno twisted the wire from the hairpin into a string and stabbed it into the keyhole.

I listened close to my ears and slowly moved my fingertips.

After a while, with a click, the lock was opened.

Qi Zhuyue seems to know why this Tang senior was blocked by various secret room stores, who opened the lock like this?

Even though many of them are electronic locks nowadays, there are still some traditional locks...... Wait, why are you so skilled, Senior Tang!

"I learned from Xia Chengyin."

"I didn't ask ......?"

"Your expression is too obvious." Donno put the hairpin in his pocket and pressed his palm on the lid to open it, "It's easy to read." ”

"Hmm...... Then I hope Senior Tang, you don't use this skill elsewhere. At least don't break the law, she doesn't want to be separated from her predecessors one day.

"In this case, I think it's better for you to worry about Xia Chengyin."

Compared with Xia Chengyin, who was more unruly, Tang Nuo would only use this skill when needed, and the former would often perform some illegal operations.

For example, prie-skimming the door before you get permission or something.

When the lid of the box opened, it revealed a stack of papers laid out underneath.

There are letterheads, and there are all kinds of documents.

According to the age of Wen Tao's friends, they estimated that the electrical equipment in the mountain village was not popular in this year, and it was normal to send letters to and from the outside world.

Tang Nuo flipped through the letters, it was a chat between Wen Tao's parents and relatives who were working outside, and it was some normal greetings in the early days, but as time went by, sentences began to appear on the letter that changed their tone.

Wen Tao's parents began to vaguely say to their relatives who were working outside that if they could settle outside, they would try not to return to the village, at least not in the near future.

The relatives outside asked why, but Wen Tao's parents didn't answer, but asked where it was better to send their children out to study, and pulled the topic away.

They said they could pay for their daughter to stay with a relative and find her a school.

The relative naturally wanted to ask why he didn't go to school near the village, and Wen Tao's parents reasoned that it was because of the good quality of education in the big city.

The relatives seemed to believe and didn't say anything more.

"But......" Seeing this, Qi Zhuyue showed a puzzled look, "I know that in my memory, Wen Tao didn't go outside to study. ”

The girl didn't go out to work until she was almost an adult, and it was only this year that they returned to the village under her identity.

During this period, Wen Tao never came back, Qi Zhuyue understood that it was because her parents passed away at that time, and she was only concerned with her uncle and aunt who treated her well.

"Something must have happened." Donno replied.

In addition to the letter are some documents, payment documents, water, electricity and gas, etc., among which the water bill is particularly prominent, which is ridiculously high.

In addition, there is a payment in the middle of the bill that is particularly large.

Qi Zhuyue was puzzled, and after a cursory look, there was nothing to use water in this room.

Donno also looked at the ridiculously large number strangely, and thought about the structure of the room: "Have you seen them all?" ”

"I took a cursory look around...... Let's go around again? ”

"Okay."

With that's a slate, the two of them put the paper and slips back in the box and left the room, checking out the places where there were faucets—the kitchen, the toilet, or the bathroom.

The décor was not as new and tidy as they had seen during the day, and it had a bit of an old smell, but after checking the faucets and pipes, there were no signs of frequent use.

It can't be that this family has been running water during the day and letting the water flow and waste, which is unlikely.

Or maybe...... The water pipe outside the house leaked but was not found, and it was counted on the head of the family...... Forget it, Senior Tang, you didn't say it to me. ”

The two of them walked around to the backyard, where nothing was placed in the same wide yard, more empty than they had seen in reality during the day, and even the long nursery that should have existed around it was gone.

Was it added later? I guess it was added later.

Qi Zhuyue looked around inexplicably, and was about to go back when she caught a glimpse of a rut on the ground.

Donno also noticed, he looked ahead along the rut prints, and saw the indentations that had been cleaned up.

The size of this boxy is ......

……

Lake, a big stretch of lake.

The surface of the lake sparkles in the harsh sunlight, but when you look deeper, you can only see a lonely dark color.

Is there a lake in the mountains?

Gao Tianyi didn't seem to have it in his impression, at least not on the map he saw when he came.

As he continued to walk through the mountains and weave through the woods, the young man could not tell where he was at this moment.

Gao Tianyi looked back, and could only see the shadow of the tree that swallowed up all the wind.

In front of him were excited, faceless children, gathered together, pointing to the lake and whispering.

"This is it...... Nice lake. ”

"Isn't it a little deep, will it fall?"

"No, just be careful."

"Can you see it today?"

"I don't know...... Ask Wen Tao? ”

"Wen Tao" himself was shouted several times before he realized that the name now referred to him, and then he turned his head back.

The first time he went back, a face with a high intensity of soft light appeared in front of him, Rao is Gao Tianyi thought that his psychological tolerance was good, and this would be stared at by the blank also made the young man's heart beat violently.

It's scared, it's scared.

"Ah Tao." The children's voice, which has not yet changed their voices, can't hear men and women, so they have to judge from the dress and hairstyle that it should be a boy in front of them, "Isn't it here?" ”

"Huh? Well...... Well? ”

The tone changed several times, and Gao Tianyi's mind was full of: What here, what there?

The memories of childhood will never be so detailed, except for some impressive fragments, they will become blurred, and it is not Gao Tianyi who recited Wen Tao's memory, but Qi Zhuyue.

The young man stood blankly, thinking about how he should answer.

He wondered if he would wake himself up when he found himself asleep.

Gao Tianyi can do it, leave the dream with a little spell or something, and take Tang Nuo and Qi Zhuyue to wake up together.

Thinking of the goal that needed to collect clues, he continued to follow the plot of the dream with two adults.

But...... Shouldn't he be coming?

Throwing this question to Qi Zhuyue, she didn't necessarily know how to answer.

Gao Tianyi hmmed for a while, and finally replied vaguely: "Yes...... I don't know very well. ”

The boy who couldn't see his face clearly got a plausible answer, and he didn't care, but helped "Wen Tao" to continue.

"Yes, adults always avoid us children when they talk, and I guess your parents haven't explained it to you clearly." The boy began to justify himself, "I also heard it in the corner of the wall for a few days, and I heard the word 'lake', and the adults mentioned it several times. ”

"We only have this lake in the mountains, and we can only find it here."

The children finished whispering, and began to disperse in twos and threes.

Until this moment, Gao Tianyi still didn't understand what he was doing with him.

It may be looking for something, but what is this looking for?

Gao Tianyi quietly followed the boy who had spoken to him, because he couldn't see his face clearly, he could only remember the hair and clothes on the back of the person's head, and followed step by step.

"Ah Tao, do you really not remember?"

"No...... I don't remember. ”

"Hey, there's no way around it."

After taking a few steps around the lake, it took a lot of effort to circle around the feet of a child, and after approaching the position near the mountain wall, Gao Tianyi faintly saw a dark color behind the stream covered by trees.

Before he could take a closer look, the boy called out to him.

Gao Tianyi turned his head again, and he saw that several "little friends" in the same company had already pulled up their pants and fell into the water.

It's a sunny day, and the surface of the lake is warm and doesn't feel cool.

However, it is still too much for a seven or eight-year-old child to go into the water! What is the reason for so many drowning accidents every year?

The young man suddenly felt a sense of crisis, and he tried to stop it, only to wave his hand disapprovingly.

"I was going to go to the mountain stream to catch some fish and go back to my parents to pay for it, and it's the same to catch it on the lake, and everyone is very good at water, it's okay."

No, something's wrong!

Gao Tianyi felt that the depth of the mountain stream and the depth of this lake were completely incomparable, and the degree of drowning casualties between the two was inconsistent!

The young man could only lean towards the water, he muttered in his heart, and he didn't know if he would drown in his dreams, his water nature was not so good.

Thanks to his own dressing-the high hem of the skirt, Gao Tianyi can step into the water as long as he takes off his shoes, and also thanks to his height, he feels that he can still lift people up with one hand-

The thought stopped, and the young man's neck creaked and drooped, and he looked at the ankle-last lake.

This water ...... It's so heavy.

……

Distress, annoyance.

Why did things turn out the way they did?

In the middle of the night stood a figure in the middle of the room, standing in front of the human bed and in the center of the room.

Monsters don't dream.

The last time Bai Su "dreamed", he entered the dream net made by the wooden Buddha for humans through special ritual means, and this time, he could only watch.

"Alas......" There was a long sigh in the air, and the figure crouched down, squatting beside one big and one small.

The older one looked soothing, fluttering with puffs of wine, while the smaller one frowned, as if trapped in a nightmare with no end.

The two next door are the same as this little one.

Bai Su snapped his fingers twice, but only the big human eyelid trembled, as if he was about to wake up.

In the end, he still slept there groggily, and was even mended by Bai Su with a hand knife - the hand of Gao Tianyi.

The young man who was waved by the black-haired young man with his arm still hadn't woken up, and even the curvature between his eyebrows hadn't changed in the slightest.

So, Bai Su held up his chin, and his other hand opened in a claw-like shape, and the white branches and buds extending from his fingertips staggered up and down with the gesture.

How did he study the human brain last time...... Want to use your brainstem? Or is it somewhere else?

There were mobile phone pictures as a reference before, and the target object was also An Xiangwen's stupid ...... No, he's not really stupid.

Bai Su lowered his head, let go of the hand supporting his chin, and took out his mobile phone and pressed it a few times.

After a few seconds, the young man made a puzzled voice: "Huh? ”

On the screen where the phone is lit up, a big cross is drawn on the signal bar in the upper right corner - there is no signal.

At the same time, rain was dripping from the eaves outside the window.

(End of chapter)