Chapter 1: The Four-Faced Stranger
The first snow in Jinan in 2012 came later than usual.
The snowflakes outside the window sloped, sloping down, and the branches and leaves of the plane trees at the intersection hung low and bright.
A howling north wind blew, and snowflakes fell on the leaves.
The branches and leaves of the sycamore tree also flutter in the wind, swaying up and down.
It was as if I had suddenly woken up after a night of depression, and I was shaking up in this cold morning.
An old No. 2 bus parked at the intersection of the street slowly drove by, and the muddy road was splashed.
The gate of No. 10 Yuanqian Street was kicked open, and the brief silence of the morning was suddenly shattered.
Qiao Yufan ran out of it in a daze, snapped, and stepped on the muddy ground.
Qiao Yufan looked down at his feet covered with mud, only to find that in a panic, he forgot to put on shoes on one foot.
Qiao Yufan scolded secretly: "Oops", it was too late to turn around and change shoes at this time.
Qiao Yufan only hesitated slightly, and immediately dispelled this thought.
He walked to the left side of the wall and jerked up the white coat that had been covered with snowflakes.
I didn't care about wiping it, shook it with the wind and then draped it on my shoulders coolly, and then bent down to open the lock.
Qiao Yufan jumped into the car, and as soon as his butt touched the cold seat, it was like being struck by lightning, and Qiao Yufan screamed.
A bone-penetrating chill spread all the way up along the tail vertebrae, instantly radiating the whole body, and the whole body couldn't help but feel a thrill.
Qiao Yufan couldn't help but look pained, and when the bare foot stepped on the pedals, another chill moved up the toe bone, and Qiao Yufan screamed again.
Qiao Yufan frowned, turned his heart sideways, gritted his steel teeth, kicked down violently, and the bicycle creaked and scratched a deep mark on the snow, like a wild horse, and ran out in a smoke.
Thirty minutes later, at the entrance of the Friendship Hotel, the security guard on duty was changing the guard at this time.
Suddenly, a teenager riding a bicycle was coming at a vicious speed in their direction.
I saw this young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a white cloak around his shoulders, a bare foot, and a hideous face.
The security guards on duty were immediately startled, drew their batons, and stared at the opposite side as if they were facing a great enemy.
When the arrival approached, the security guard saw clearly that this person was Qiao Yufan.
The security guards breathed a sigh of relief and put back the batons they had drawn.
One of the security guards shouted at Qiao Yufan: "Da Qiao, you kid can't ride a bicycle well?
Another security guard also shouted: You kid is looking like this, you want to scare us and Captain Wang to death early in the morning?
When the man called Captain Wang heard this, he frowned slightly, his lips moved, but he couldn't bear to speak.
Although he is a sesame petty official, after all, he is the head of this security guard.
In their eyes, they are also a leader, although their throats and eyes are a little itchy, and they want to follow the trend and say a few ridiculous words.
But as soon as he thought of his leadership status, he immediately choked back and swallowed the words back into his stomach.
He drooped his face in front of this crowd and deliberately looked very serious, so as to maintain the majesty of the leader.
Qiao Yufan was out of breath at the moment, and white smoke came out of his throat and eyes.
stammered and replied: Brother Zhang, don't tease me, you see I'm so fast, I'm almost late!
The security guard called Brother Zhang laughed: You kid is about to become a big late, right? See that I don't look for your supervisor Hou to sue you, this time I will ask your supervisor Hou to rectify you!
Qiao Yufan didn't care about greeting in the laughter of the security guards, pretended not to hear, and rode to the compound with a gust of wind.
Ride the bike to the pergola, hop out of the car and run straight to the locker room.
Qiao Yufan rushed into the locker room and stripped naked gorgeously.
Then he grabbed the handle of the locker with one hand and pulled out the pocket of his pants with the other, and suddenly his face changed drastically.
, I forgot to bring my key, what should I do?
Qiao Yufan was completely dumbfounded at this moment.
In the morning, the alarm clock rang endlessly, and he picked up the alarm clock and threw it into the cup full of water, so that when he woke up again, he was on the verge of being late.
I packed up in a panic and ran over, but I dropped the key to the locker next to the bed.
Qiao Yufan's limbs were already numb from the cold, and he couldn't care about the soreness of his hands and feet at this time.
One foot kicked hard against the corner, and the other hand tugged hard at the locker room door.
One, two, three, open! Qiao Yufan shouted.
But when he used all his strength, the door did not move.
Qiao Yufan was in a cold sweat running down his neck at this moment.
I've been late three times this month, and the wait-in-waiting supervisor has already spoken, and if I am late again, I will be fired.
Qiao Yufan thought of the cold face of the supervisor Hou Yuqin and the expression of disgust for him, and his whole body felt as if it was about to explode.
He grabbed the door with his hand and pulled it outward, only to hear a loud click and the lights in the dressing room go out.
As far as the eye can see, there are dark walls on all sides.
The door I had just entered the locker room was long gone.
Qiao Yufan was surprised, at this time, except for the small door that appeared in the closet in front of him, there was simply no door to go out.
I couldn't help but be shocked and scared.
Qiao Yufan had nothing to do at this time, so he had to approach the cabinet door again.
When I looked closely, I couldn't help but be surprised.
It turned out that the door was all made of pig iron, and the surrounding area was smooth, and there was no force at all.
There is only a gap at the bottom, only the thickness of a finger.
Qiao Yufan had no choice but to buckle the gap in the cabinet door hard, and all ten fingers were painful, but the cabinet door did not move.
Only then did he know that he was in danger and that the situation was not good.
In a panic, suddenly there was a strange sound from the inside of the closet, as if someone on the other side was also trying to open the cupboard door.
Qiao Yufan's heart rose to his throat, he held his breath, and stared at the cabinet intently.
Suddenly, a white light shot out from the crack in the cabinet door, and the door opened.
Qiao Yufan's eyes suddenly turned white, and his eyes were blurred.
On the opposite side of the cabinet door, the silhouette of a person vaguely appeared, very strange but very real.
As the white light dissipates, the image in front of you becomes clearer and clearer.
The person in front of him was about the same age as himself, with a huge head, short gray hair, deep eye sockets, and a huge hooked nose embedded in it.
Two blue eyes, embarrassed.
The other party's face is facing him, but he seems to be a transparent person in the other party's eyes, and his eyes are so empty that he can't see himself at all.
I saw the man look at his closet, his face full of shock and extreme disappointment, and he reached out and rummaged in his closet, as if unwilling to look for something.
Seeing that the other party was rummaging through his locker, Qiao Yufan couldn't be afraid, and reached out to grasp the other party's arm.
But the person on the other side was too strong, Qiao Yufan held the other party's arm hard, like a dragonfly shaking a stone pillar, and he couldn't move at all.
I saw a four-faced person tattooed on the other party's thick arm, with different expressions on the four faces, riding a white horse, holding a sword in his left hand and a spear in his right hand, revealing an indescribable weirdness.
Qiao Yufan was about to speak, when he saw the four-faced man tattooed on his arm suddenly have an angry face.
From the umbilicus, a flush swelled up, as if drunk, and two red lines spread rapidly downward from the umbilicus.
In an instant, the legs straddling the white horse glowed with Zhu Xia, faintly glowing.
The four-faced man waved his hand, and two purple lights flew out from behind him, as fast as lightning.
Qiao Yufan suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and he felt dizzy in his mind, plopped, and fell to the ground.