Tiandi Baiju

On October [-]st, when Zhou Luoyang woke up, he never experienced the same day again.

He looked at Du Jing who was sleeping soundly beside him, picked up the Eye of Versailles on the bedside table, and pondered for a moment.

If the date circle is turned counterclockwise now, at twelve o'clock at noon, they will return to yesterday's twelve o'clock at noon.

This is really a magical thing, what is hidden in this watch?Could it be a relic of some ancient god, or a product of technology left on earth by an alien civilization?These two conjectures are enough to subvert the materialist experience education an ordinary person has received in his life, completely disintegrate and shatter, and reshape his worldview.

The world is not quite what I see it to be.Zhou Luoyang raised his eyes, pondering in the morning sun.

However, the research on the subject of quantum mechanics has also caused an earth-shaking reshaping of the physics subject that accurately describes the material world. Compared with the law that "one photon can pass through two interference slits at the same time", the retrospect of time has also changed. It's not that unacceptable.

"Do you still want to go back for another day?" Du Jing asked.

"I don't want to," Zhou Luoyang said, "I've had enough, please don't mess with it anymore."

This day, Du Jing drove and took Zhou Luoyang and his two brothers out for an outing. The sun was shining and Zhou Luoyang was in a good mood.With the reopening and relocation of the store, it is like starting a new life.

While basking in the sun on the lawn of the Summer Palace, Le Yao stared at the reflective watch on Du Jing's hand.

"I've seen this watch once," Le Yao said, "the first time I saw Grandpa, he was wearing it."

Du Jing was twisting the cap of the drink bottle for Le Yao, and nodded when he heard this, but did not speak.

"Do you think he looks like a grandfather?" Zhou Luoyang asked suddenly.

Du Jing: "..."

What Zhou Luoyang said naturally didn't refer to the old man Du Jingxiang. In fact, the grandfather of the Zhou family was tall and handsome when he was young, with fair skin.When he was young, he had an arrogant temperament, and no one looked down on him. Later, according to the arrangement of his family, he married the lady of a capitalist who ran a textile factory, that is, their grandmother.

After the grandfather got older, he gradually became more stable.Le Yao often heard his father say that he was often beaten by his grandfather when he was a child.People are always separated from each other, and Zhou Luoyang's grandfather loves his grandchildren very much.

Unscrewing the bottle cap was done for Le Yao on the rare occasions when he saw his grandfather. At that time, he was in good health, steady and hale, with the Eye of Versailles on his wrist, and wearing a suit and shirt Came to visit youngest grandson.

Seeing that six-year-old Le Yao was struggling with a bottle of drink, he hugged him to his lap, unscrewed the bottle cap for him, inserted a straw, held him in one hand, and fed him with the drink in the other.

This scene left a deep impression on Le Yao.

Du Jing sometimes has an air of contemptuousness, and only cares about the people around him. Apart from that, even if the sky collapses and the earth explodes, it has nothing to do with him. this world.In this regard, the style is very similar to that of the grandfather of the Zhou family. They all have the broad-minded meaning that if they agree, they will come, and if they don't agree, they will go.

Du Jing took off his watch casually, handed it to Le Yao, got up and left.

"Did Grandpa still wear it?" Zhou Luoyang asked curiously.

"Yeah." Le Yao said, "Do you often spend time with grandpa?"

Zhou Luoyang said: "I was brought up by him from the age of eight to 14, but I hardly saw him wearing this watch."

Le Yao said: "I like him very much, but unfortunately I only saw him twice."

Zhou Luoyang fell silent, one time was what Le Yao said, and the other time, of course, was that his father and stepmother died in a car accident, and his grandfather went to the funeral.Since then, the grandfather's health has taken a turn for the worse. The old man couldn't bear the blow of his son's first step, and he passed away after just half a year.

Le Yao stared at the watch and said, "Mom doesn't like him, and he doesn't like mom either, so we seldom see each other."

The marriage of Zhou Luoyang's parents was a family friend appointed by his grandfather. His father resisted and bravely divorced to be with Le Yao's mother. Naturally, he also severely disobeyed his grandfather. This was an important point of their father-son feud.

Zhou Luoyang said, "He loves you very much."

Le Yao said: "I feel it, although he didn't say it, because I look like grandma?"

Zhou Luoyang thought for a while and said, "That's not exactly what I said? I don't have a deep memory of grandma, but grandpa said that you are a bit like a little uncle. In Chinese kinship culture... you are grandma's youngest brother, and also Grandpa raised him."

Blood relationship is indeed a very magical thing. Many forgotten pasts in time have been wonderfully linked due to atavistic inheritance.

"Don't turn the date ring," Zhou Luoyang said, "there is something wrong with the date ring on this watch. I reinforced it."

He added a metal washer to Du Jing's watch to clamp the date ring, and the inner and outer rings need to be completely closed before it can be released, lest he turn it unconsciously or accidentally rub it.Zhou Luoyang planned to reinforce it after a while, so that it could be activated with a needle, which would be safer.

"I won't move it," Le Yao said, "I'll just take a look."

Seeing Du Jing talking to the peddler, Zhou Luoyang got up and went over.

"What to buy?" Zhou Luoyang said, "I have money here."

Du Jing didn't bring any cash with him, and said, "Buy a kite for Le Yao."

Zhou Luoyang smiled and said, "You care more about Le Yao than I do."

"Because he's your younger brother," Du Jing always said whatever he wanted in front of Zhou Luoyang, and replied, "If you depend on someone else, you must balance the family relationship and please key people."

Zhou Luoyang: "..."

Zhou Luoyang accompanied his younger brother to fly a kite, while Du Jing was running outside with a kite. The sportswear he was wearing today looked like a boy on a basketball team out for an autumn outing.

Le Yao smiled and said, "He is so kind to me."

Sometimes Zhou Luoyang couldn't answer Le Yao's words at all, and couldn't even judge whether there was any other meaning in his words. It could only be attributed to the different growing environment and cultural barriers.

"Leyao, I may not be at home next weekend," Zhou Luoyang said, "but I will try to come back."

Le Yao immediately said: "No problem, I can take care of myself."

Zhou Luoyang pondered for a moment. He originally wanted to entrust Le Yao to his relatives' homes, but the key point was that he was not familiar with them. He couldn't tell whether his aunt and uncle had malicious intentions or good intentions. If he mentioned his father's matter, it would make him feel sad.

"Participate in Sotheby's autumn auction." Zhou Luoyang said.

Le Yao said straightforwardly: "Go, business is the most important thing, is Du Jing going?"

Sotheby's only gave two invitations, and Du Jing must go. At first, Zhou Luoyang had no such plan, but attending the autumn auction might help the case.

"Well," Zhou Luoyang thought for a while and said, "He should go too."

Le Yao asked: "Investigate the missing collection case? To be honest, I still think his work is very mysterious, but I didn't tell anyone."

Zhou Luoyang laughed and said, "What's on my mind."

"I want to go to Xiao Hei's house to play." Le Yao said again.

"Who is Xiao Hei?" Zhou Luoyang asked, "A classmate?"

Le Yao made many friends in class, and everyone seemed to like him very much. There was a classmate suffering from neurosis who kept inviting Le Yao to his house to talk to him.

"Yes." Zhou Luoyang agreed, and said, "I'll pick you up at his house when I get back."

Starting on the [-]rd, Le Yao and his classmates went on an official autumn tour, and everyone paid out their wallets for a minibus to go to Inner Mongolia.Zhou Luoyang couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Fortunately, he paid expensive tuition fees and chose this international school. Le Yao's student days were much richer than his.

"Okay," Zhou Luoyang sighed, "I should be able to have a good time."

Du Jing took out his suit jacket, looked at Zhou Luoyang, and said, "Would the handsome guy accompany me to the world of two?"

Zhou Luoyang: "..."

"I thought you would sleep at home all day," Zhou Luoyang got into the car and fastened his seat belt, "Isn't it good to sleep? Sleeping is also a world between two people."

"I've slept enough in the past two weeks," Du Jing said while driving, "more than in the past three years, enough sleep."

"One day of hard work, but one night's sleep." Zhou Luoyang said with emotion.

"If you work hard all your life, you will sleep forever." Du Jing said, "It's time to work."

"What are you doing?" Zhou Luoyang received the ticket and was taken by Du Jing into an entertainment center on the top floor of a commercial plaza, "Do you want to play escape room?"

Du Jing replied: "In the same case, the missing person participated in this project before going to Ho Chi Minh City."

Zhou Luoyang: "There is obviously no necessary connection between the two. Do you suspect that he was taken away by the stun after he entered the secret room?"

Du Jing: "Mr. Xiao Wu, it is said that in the process of recreation, I met a friend who took him to Ho Chi Minh City."

Zhou Luoyang: "Then you should find this 'friend', shouldn't you? Play it again, what kind of strange idea is this?"

Du Jing: "This event is obviously organized by a group leader. Of course, the people who appear in each issue are not exactly the same, but the two people who signed up this time have both played the game that Xiao Wu participated in four months ago. that issue."

Zhou Luoyang turned his head and looked at the people queuing up on the other side. The two of them got VIP tickets, they could drink a cup of tea in the tea room first, and after the end, they could also receive photo-made peripherals and souvenirs to take pictures in the dark horror secret room. How it becomes is another story.

Even escape rooms are stratified these days.

"You suspect that they are abducting people through this kind of gathering?!" Zhou Luoyang said, "That's not the case."

Du Jing: "Of course not, but I suspect that they get to know each other through this form, develop relationships, and then cultivate feelings. People who are emotionally empty always need a way to get to know each other. It is easy to leave chat records online, but offline. It is the best opportunity, leaving no trace."

Zhou Luoyang: "Do you think you will develop any relationship with a stranger who happens to play the same escape room?"

Du Jing: "In the process of escaping the secret room, we need to rely on and cooperate with each other. This is a good opportunity."

Zhou Luoyang: "Supposing this trafficker develops a relationship with Xiao Wu in this way, and then takes him to Vietnam to sell, I don't think he will come again."

"Why not?" Du Jing said patiently, "As long as it is not discovered, it is obviously an inexhaustible renewable resource."

Zhou Luoyang began to feel a little chilly.

"But not necessarily everyone..." Zhou Luoyang said, "Eat this trick."

Du Jing: "With other conditions, it doesn't matter. This is essentially an offline gay meeting."

"Do you make friends with the same sex?" Zhou Luoyang said.

"Didn't you realize that all the people in line were men?" Du Jing motioned Zhou Luoyang to look, then lowered his head slightly, looking into Zhou Luoyang's eyes in front of him.

Zhou Luoyang wondered, "Why did they choose this place?"

Du Jing: "Because the group owner has invested in this secret room escape entertainment."

Zhou Luoyang was speechless at this inference.

Du Jing said: "You will be the shou later, and I'm a dog licking Gong. I want to pick you up, so I joined the gay group, signed up to the group leader, and brought you to participate in this game."

Zhou Luoyang looked at Du Jing: "For this kind of thing, you should find Xiaoli."

"It's hard to guarantee that you will be jealous," Du Jing explained politely, "I don't want to either. And I don't look like someone who doesn't feel like it, so it's easy to be seen through, right?"

Zhou Luoyang: "........."

"Is this the first time for you two?" The staff lady came over with the procedure sheet, went to the teahouse and explained to them, and smiled, "Do I need to explain it to you?"

The VIP service also included an explanation, but Du Jing didn't give her the chance to accept the leaflet.

"I'll explain it to him." Du Jing said, "Thank you."

Zhou Luoyang looked at the players lining up not far away, and then at Du Jing.

"What about the explanation?" Zhou Luoyang looked down. This is the decryption of the temple of Angkor Wat. It is divided into five parts. It needs to unlock sixteen organs and try to escape.

During the process, it is specially reminded not to damage any facilities. The limit is three hours and 10 minutes. If the time is exceeded, it will be over and the staff will come to open the door.There is no practical content in the process sheet, only the precautions and compensation terms, and pay attention to civilized communication with other players.

"Just follow me," Du Jingsong said, fingering, "It's all in the kindergarten mode."

Zhou Luoyang wanted to hit him, what kind of explanation is this?Obviously just want to show me how handsome it is!

"Come in, everyone," said the young lady.

So the two joined up with four other people, and the staff opened the door and sent them in.Turning from the well-lit shopping mall to the dark room in an instant, Zhou Luoyang's vision was obviously not quite used to it.

There was silence all around, Zhou Luoyang turned around, and Du Jing held his hand.

None of the six players spoke, apparently adapting to the darkness.

"Is this the start?" Zhou Luoyang said, "There's no preparation."

Zhou Luoyang broke the silence in the room, and everyone laughed. After a burst of laughter, the tense atmosphere eased a little.

"It's a temple." In the darkness, a boy whispered.

Another replied: "Well, it's on the flyer."

"There is no signal on the phone, so don't look at it." Another person said again.

You can choose to store your mobile phone externally, but most people bring their mobile phones with them.

Everyone chatted briefly, and no one asked each other's name. Zhou Luoyang suddenly discovered that the secret room is indeed a good place to meet strangers and establish contacts.The strange and strange atmosphere was permeating, but it brought them enough sense of security.Everyone focused on the same point: find a way to leave, get out.

There was no need for politeness and pleasantries, and the topic turned directly to the exit.

Du Jing walked around the room and observed the surrounding layout.This is a temple prison made of stone bricks. The front is sealed by a steel fence. There is light outside the fence, and there are lights made of simulated torches on the wall. Obviously, there is still a lot of space.

There was the sound of dripping water, and there was a stereo hidden somewhere, perhaps in the ceiling.

There are two beds and a wooden basin in the prison, and there are no other decorations other than that.

There was a big iron lock on the fence, and that was all.

Zhou Luoyang glanced at the other four people. A tall man was about the same height as Du Jing, but his body was stronger, like a mountain.A college student was well-dressed. Zhou Luoyang saw him storing bags outside, as if someone had called him here.A youngest high school student, but alone.

There is also a tall and thin young man with good skin in a shirt and trousers, with a slightly gloomy expression, looking at those people.

Zhou Luoyang remembered what Du Jing said, that there were suspects from last time in this gathering.The two students are unlikely and can be ruled out, then only this tall and strong man and the office worker will be left.

who can that be?

"I guess the first puzzle is to open this lock." Du Jing cut to the point first and said, "Look for the key?"