Ten-Dimensional Covenant [Unlimited]

Bi's figure appeared beside Aoi.

- Erdes, Mirror of Annihilation

Just like Aoi said, this man was covered in transparent blue.Except for his waist-length hair and half-opened eyes, which were star-shining silver.Yuzhou silently looked at the second chair of Sarahville,

He looks exceptionally handsome, but he dresses coquettishly. How can I put it, if he were on Earth, he would be called a hooligan.

He didn't wear any clothes, only a piece of cloth was wrapped around his waist, like a triangular tablecloth covering two corners, he put it on his waist at will, and tied a knot at his right waist.

Naturally, the thin cloth couldn't cover his lower body, leaving a firm right leg exposed.And under that knot, a half-missed jade pendant hangs.

Yu Zhou's eyes moved slightly. Although Erdes was dressed like a hooligan, in fact his expression was cold to the bone. If someone had something wrong with him because of his clothes, he would be frozen into ice slag in a short time. , and then the pieces shattered.

His body is transparent.There are no organs in the chest cavity, except for a tightly closed flower bud at the heart, and a long stem connected to it, extending down from the chest cavity.

Yuzhou's sight also followed it all the way down, but he couldn't find the origin of the branch. It was covered by the cloth, and it was at the root of his left leg.When it reached the knee that was not covered by cloth, the flower stem disappeared.

Combined with the mural, that flower should be the source of erdes' innate power, and the energy supporting flowering should come from where it takes root.But the strange thing is that Yuzhou has never seen any kind of creature, the source of energy is in the left leg.

"How's the casualty count going?" Erdes asked.His breath is very cold, as if he could freeze the whole world between breaths.

Frightened by this breath, Yuzhou silently lowered his head.

"Not yet." Aoi lowered her head in shame.

"Hey, you're chatting with others again." A "sea urchin" covered in thorns emerged from behind Erdes.

"Pick the pot, bastard, don't talk nonsense, I'm promoting, promoting!" Kui Qiang raised his head and argued hard.

"Don't waste time." Erdes said coldly, his figure quickly disappeared and went to another direction.

Aoi wilted like a defeated rooster.

Tihu also left with Erdes.Before leaving, he was still making faces behind Aoi's back: "Idiot Aoi, idiot Aoi, let more than 200 of us wait for you.".

Kui was about to leave with a sad face, but at this moment, Yuzhou stopped him, "Wait a minute, I just said that I have a video for you. It should be here soon."

Aoi remembered this, stopped her leaving, and said with a smile, "Okay."

He answered carelessly, as if he had forgotten the work of counting casualties all at once.

Yuzhou has figured out the temperament of this alien creature, and his emotions come and go quickly. He remembers the former and forgets the later when doing things.

It is simply...the best target for intelligence.

Therefore, Yuzhou no longer hesitated, and asked directly, "Kui, I want to know how the sweepers located this planet without coordinates?"

Aoi didn't hide it: "In fact, this is related to the three principles of opening space channels. First, the principle of proximity, second, the principle of copy matching, and third, the principle of energy saving.

"And these three principles form a loophole that can be exploited. If, near a certain planet with unknown coordinates, many people jump from dozens of planets with known The energy, the opened space channel, will intersect at a certain point, like a funnel, leading directly to a destination. And that destination is likely to be an unknown planet that is very close to them.”

Yuzhou was full of doubts: "Since the coordinates of the earth are unknown, how do they know which galaxy is close to it and which is far away from it?"

"In fact, these three principles also apply to most novice dungeons. The dungeons you participated in before are not too far from the earth. And when some of you successfully leave your novice status and join the vast universe, these information It will also flow out and be collected by interested people. When there is enough data, the cleaning will begin.”

"It looks difficult." Yuzhou said.

"But for some organizations that control the flow of information, it's not so difficult, for example, 'Crescent and Sailboat'." Aoi said, "Some people have long suspected that they control some of the sweepers under their banner."

In the same way, it also includes the Universal Mutual Aid and Rescue Association, Yuzhou said secretly in his heart.

"Aoi, let me ask you, you received information about the new planet, but due to various reasons, you were one step behind the sweepers. Are there many such things?"

Yes, Yuzhou has long been suspicious of this bizarre organization, and all his previous inquiries were just paving the way for this problem.He doesn't believe that there are so many coincidences in this world, which must contain unknown mysteries.

For example, one of the three sweepers is the high-level executive of the Universal Mutual Aid and Rescue Association.

Or, for example, that queer Erdes.

All of this is not groundless speculation. After cleaning the world, the three sweepers sent out an emergency evacuation signal. Perhaps they have a reliable source of information and know that the people of the Rescue Association are closely following behind them, or in other words, one of them Someone is anxious to assume another identity.

"Of course there is." Aoi shook her head, without thinking deeply at all, "Our intelligence is collected through many members and manpower. And the sweepers also have their own channels. We may not be faster than them."

"Didn't I ask about speed and slowness? I asked about the information already in your hands, but it was delayed due to various reasons. Are there many such things?"

"There have been three or five times." Aoi said, "Why do you ask this?"

Yuzhou said nonsense: "I am a programmer. After joining, maybe I can help the association and improve the program."

"Really? Do you really want to join the association? That would be great!" Aoi danced excitedly.

Yuzhou felt a little impatient.This little thing seems to never be able to grasp the center of gravity, but for the sake of revenge, he can't get angry, he can only be persuasive, and ask the question again.

This time, Aoi thought about it for a long time: "There was indeed, especially the one four years ago, when Mr. Brownie led a team to Nova--Detroit, but found that the brother's power source had a module loading error, resulting in a space jump. Deviating from the beacon for 22 kilometers, it crashed into the target star Detroit, and the flames burst out. Detroit, which was devastated, was hit hard again, and even several of our compatriots who went to carry out the mission died."

Aoi's eyes dimmed, "Master Brownie was furious, and went back to severely punish the people in the maintenance team. However, all the people in the maintenance team said that they debugged the program repeatedly, and it is absolutely impossible to make mistakes. Hey, no one can tell now. How did that accident happen?"

Someone secretly moved his hands and feet.Yuzhou thought to himself.Sure enough, his idea was correct, there might be a sweeper mixed into the Cosmic Mutual Aid and Rescue Association.

Aoi hangs her head, sullen: "It was a big mess that time. A surviving player in Detroit "Grey Eagle" thought that we destroyed their home. He formed an anti-rescue organization and vowed to seek revenge from us.

His second race is very strong, and he has a weird card in his hand, which has caused us a lot of trouble in the past few years. "

Perhaps, he was not mistaken.Yuzhou thought for a moment, and said, "It seems that there is still a lot of room for improvement in the internal procedures of the association. This is my field of expertise. If you don't dislike my lack of knowledge, I can try to do my part."

"Of course not." Aoi smiled all over her face. "Welcome. Our headquarters is in Shiga, and we also have branches on other planets. When the time comes, just give me my name, and they will give you a nicer number."

Yuzhou smiled and nodded, and chatted with him a few more words.When Xiao Hechou came and handed the USB flash drive to Kui, Kui happily waved to everyone and left.

At this time, on another continent, all the casualty reports and human genetic information fell into the hands of Erdes. With a sweep of his palm, the fragmentary documents disappeared into the air.

"Have you contacted the higher-ups here?" He asked lightly.

"Yes, my lord." Muze said with a fiery red feather on his head. He is Erdes' adjutant, helping the chief to deal with all the trivial matters that he considers trivial.

"He is the president of a small country here. I have explained to him our purpose of coming, and told him that we will come back one year later, when the domain ring disappears. At that time, those who want to join us can come with us. Let's leave together and go to the constellation b-022."

Erdes nodded nonchalantly, "It's about to start."

But Mu Ze didn't leave, hesitantly said, "My lord, I received a video. It's about the sweepers who descended on this place, and the video captured the inside of the looters."

"What's going on." Erdes said after a long silence, "no4 should be a very cautious person."

Mu Ze translated the words of his immediate boss in his mind. No4 is a very cowardly person. Before he takes action, he always investigates the opponent's strength and technological level. Once it reaches the level he thinks is risky, he will simply Abandon this cleaning.

However, this time, the opponent has something that can penetrate the cessation membrane, but no4 did not give up the action, which is really strange.

"It's not surprising." Muze said, and then he explained the contents of the video and his conjecture.

"Crankshaft Rubik's Cube, the ruins of Lisingo?" Erdes chewed on these two words, but failed to hook up with some people in his memory.He also knew very little about the place.

"My lord, I always feel that this system error may not be accidental. It's rare to have such a clear video, I think..." Mu Ze whispered.

"What you want to do has nothing to do with me." Erdes said coldly, "If you die, I will not make a move."

"Of course, all the consequences will be borne by me alone." Mu Ze bent down to salute, but complained in his heart, anyway, I never counted on you.

"It's about to start." Erdes said lightly again.

Mu Ze bent even lower, and humbly said: "Okay, my lord."

As he spoke, he raised the curtain in his hand, and the red curtain floated up like a balloon, and then grew bigger and bigger, covering the sky within a radius of [-] meters. When it landed, all the creatures covered in it disappeared like magic, except Erdes standing in the very center.

"The tricks are getting more and more fancy, but it's a pity..." Erdes spit out this sentence indifferently, and didn't say any more.

A drop of liquid was pumped from the base of his left leg into the delicate rhizome, causing it to swell quickly, and under the constant thrust, the swollen section followed the veins and went all the way up, until it touched the calyx on his chest. In an instant, the bud opened a hole, and a circle of milky white halo spewed out from the pistil deeply buried in the petal, and slowly but firmly expanded to the periphery.

Yuzhou felt a gust of wind blowing past his ears, and it blew towards the distance at a rapid speed.

"It's windy. I hope this gust of wind can blow away all the haze." He straightened his hair that was blown by the wind around his ears.

His eyes turned to the invisible distance, where a milky white halo was like a bracelet, covering the periphery of the earth.

The tulle flows, and the stars are dotted, which is truly beautiful.

"Let's go." The buds in Erdes' heart closed again.He opened the short-distance space door and returned to the sky fortress.

The huge fortress in the cloud made a mechanical roar, and the 200 retracted steel sail wings were opened again, all the bearings rotated one after another, and the energy pool reached full capacity.

The horn of departure was sounded.

Mu Ze yelled in the central control room: "At 8:53 in the universe, start gliding, and after 5 hours, start interstellar jumping."

The colossus left, in the darkness of night.

"It's over." Yuzhou said.

"Yes, everything is over." Xiao Hechou hugged the child, and the two stood by the window. The sweeper only took away the gold card, and seemed to disdain the ordinary cards.And these cards, which were left behind by their masters and abandoned by looters, are now turning into dots of fluorescence, floating towards the sky.

The fluorescence is connected to the sea of ​​stars and the moonlight, rippling gently like a sea.

Seeing this dreamlike scene, the two remained silent for a long time.

On the second day,

Xiao Hechou prepared some fast food for breakfast.And wiped the milk spit out from the corners of the lips for the baby in her arms,

"When are you going to go to the private hospital?" He asked Yuzhou who had just gotten out of bed.

Yuzhou said: "Leave immediately."

Although the culprit has been executed, he still wants to see the place that carried his entire childhood.By the way, take away the so-called clues left by my mother.

In the sky, the sun is just rising. After a night of time, many players have returned one after another. On the street, there are high and low cries.

Yuzhou was eating slowly, Xiao Hechou had already left, it seemed that he ran to the street.

He took a few casual bites, then jumped off the balcony on the third floor and landed beside Xiao Hechou.

At this time, Xiao Hechou, carrying the baby on his back, was bending over to load the corpses one by one into the mine cart, and transferred them to a large truck at the intersection of the street.

Fan Yinyin was by his side, helping him collect the body together.

"Do these people have any plans?" Yuzhou asked, pointing to the corpses all over the floor.

Xiao Hechou stopped what she was doing, wiped the sweat from her forehead: "Prepare for cremation."

"Cremation... Has no one raised any objections?" Yuzhou said.

"Yes." Xiao He said sadly, "Some people, under the banner of revenge, hope to decompose all the corpses and divide the attribute points and dust equally."

"and then?"

Xiao Hechou: "I beat you to the ground."

Yuzhou: "Why, don't you want revenge?"

Xiao Hechou picked up another corpse and put it into the mine cart: "I want to, but I don't want to use this method. If I decompose their corpses to arm myself, what is the difference from the sweeper? It's for revenge." A name doesn't make me any nobler."

"Perhaps these people want to become one with you and witness with your own eyes that you seek justice for them." Yuzhou proposed another idea.

Xiao Hechou didn't speak, but Fan Yinyin stopped what she was doing and sneered:

"Braves. If you want to do it, do it. With the relationship between you and Brother Xiao, he can still stop you. Why make excuses for yourself."

She wore a plain white skirt today, and although there were still tears on her face, her complexion was much better than yesterday.

Yuzhou did not refute her, but murmured to Xiao Hechou: "Do you think so too?"

Xiao Hechou looked at all kinds of corpses lying on the side of the road, some of them were frightened, some were ferocious, and there was hatred that couldn't be concealed in the eyes of death.Xiao Hechou sighed: "Perhaps you are right, I don't know what they think."

"Brother Xiao..." Fan Yinyin bit her lip.

Xiao Hechou shook his head, "I won't stop others from doing it, but I will cremate those who passed through my hands."

"I'll help you." Yuzhou said, reaching out his hand to gently cover his eyes of hatred, "A dead person should look like a dead person. Go to heaven and enjoy the blessings, and the evil things in hell and hell will be left to you." We are."

Xiao Hechou, "You don't want it either?"

Yuzhou threw a dead body into the car, "If you can get a gold card by dismantling the dead body, even if you tie my hands and tell me many great reasons, I will not listen to your nonsense."

"At that time, maybe I bound your hands and feet just to eliminate a strong enemy." Xiao He said sadly.

Looking at his familiar yet unfamiliar face, Yuzhou felt bitterness in his heart.

The two did not speak, and silently cleaned up the corpses on the ground.

The flames ignited, and one after another the survivors gathered around the crowd. They lowered their eyes, and in the billowing smoke, they sent a final elegy to those who left first.

Amidst the crackling flames, there was a faint recitation:

"On this barren hill,

Who is lying with me?

my sweetheart,

or my brother?

. . .

The dead sleep soundly in their caves,

head pillow dust,

deaf to your call,

Never come back to life.

. . .

Someone will sit on your grave singing dirges.

The mountains will never know your name again;

Your bow will stay in the hall and never be wound again. "

In tears and farewells, the flame burned for ten days, and after ten days, all the old days were reduced to ashes.

At this time, there are only 2 days left before the absolute barrier disappears.

"Let's go." Xiao Hechou sorted out three packages, which contained the only supplies left in City B.

He handed one of them to Yuzhou.

The other was handed over to Fan Yinyin: "Yinyin, the road we have to walk is very rough, maybe we will fall off the cliff if we are not careful, do you really want to come with us?"

"Of course, you don't want to get rid of me." Fan Yinyin said.

Xiao Hechou didn't say anything more, they were going to Huijin Private Hospital today to completely end all the stories on Earth.

"The baby has been arranged?" Yuzhou opened the package and looked at it. Most of it was ready-to-eat food and clean water, as well as some clothes and wild survival tools.

"Well, he is a child of this city and will grow up here in the future." Xiao Hechou said.In fact, he was very worried, but the future road is destined to be impossible to bring this child.

"When are we going to leave?" Fan Yinyin also packed everything.

Just as Xiao Hechou was about to answer, there was a knock on the house where they lived temporarily.

The person who came was Liu Ziping, a good friend the three of them had made in the past ten days. Although his name was very elegant, his temper was quite irritable.

He rushed up to the third floor, didn't even catch his breath, and shouted out why he came: "The fog in city B has cleared."

"what!"

On the day when the three of them left, the thick fog that shrouded City B finally cleared away.All eyes looked there, to the place that had not been disturbed by demons.

What has changed inside?Is the living beings overwhelmed or the smoke billowing.

However, to everyone's surprise, nothing changed inside.

There are not many people in the whole city, and there are not many people in one.Row upon row of high-rise buildings are still standing silently.

According to the words of the person involved, except for some strange noises, they did not notice any abnormalities, and everything was going on in an orderly manner, including being pulled into the copy of the Ten-Dimensional Convention.

On the other side of the world, in a certain tribe in Africa, in another d-level dungeon, after the fog cleared, all the people living in it disappeared out of thin air, with no corpses or suicide notes.It was as if there had never been humans in this tribe.

And at the moment when the fog in city b opened, the red dot in city b on the high-energy map disappeared, and a small red dot quietly appeared in a remote corner of Bermuda.

"Unexpectedly, in the end, the agreement saved a whole city." Xiao Hechou drove the car on the road to City B. Fan Yinyin had an uncle who lived in City B, but she couldn't drive, so she asked Xiao Hechou to take care of her. She takes a ride.

And Yuzhou also wanted to see the mystery of city b.There was no objection.

The three of them raced all the way and arrived at city b at the fastest speed.

city ​​b

"Sister Tingfang!" Yuzhou didn't expect to meet someone he knew here. The person standing at the door of a photo studio was Ruan Tingfang, Han Jiuli's ex-girlfriend.

Yuzhou told Yang Feifei at the time that the fact that Sister Tingfang went to Africa was of course false.But the two did break up.

"How is that bastard brother of yours?" Ruan Tingfang asked the two of them to sit in the photo studio and casually asked while making tea.She was in city b and didn't know what was going on outside.

Yuzhou stopped talking immediately.

Ruan Tingfang misunderstood Yuzhou's reaction. She had heard that Han Jiuli had found a new girlfriend, so she might have brought her home to meet her parents. No wonder Xiaozhou acted like she was afraid that she would stalk her. Hit, ruin Han Jiuli's good life.

Hey, Ruan Tingfang, Ruan Tingfang, you really failed in life, Ruan Tingfang sighed in her heart.Xiaozhou, who used to treat you like her own sister, now treats you like a thief. She shook her head helplessly and smiled slightly:

"Look at me, why did my past boyfriend still mention him? Let me tell you about my current boyfriend."

Yuzhou was also a little surprised. In his opinion, the breakup between the two of them was just a matter of emotion. He didn't expect that the eldest brother first and sister Tingfang scored twice.

Thinking of Han Jiuli, Yuzhou's heart throbbed again, and he said lightly, "Congratulations, Sister Tingfang."

It's a pity that the affection for so many years has faded after all.

"It's too early to say congratulations, he's only 15 years old."

"..." Yuzhou said, "Sister Tingfang, you are too cruel."

Xiao Hechou: "..."

"Not cruel, not cruel. When he gets older, it won't be my turn." Ruan Tingfang tilted her head, smiling with indescribable satisfaction.

"How did you meet him?" Yuzhou was afraid that Sister Tingfang would be cheated. Even though she and her cousin had broken up, she always took good care of herself.

"Secret." Ruan Tingfang lowered her head and took a sip of tea, "But I can tell you that he is here to participate in the dungeon."

"Alien species?" Yuzhou and Xiao Hechou said in unison.

"Yeah, I was also shocked at that time." Ruan Tingfang recalled, "He lives next door to my house. He doesn't talk much and always has a cold face. He goes out in the early morning and returns home in the early morning. He doesn't know what to do. What, when he came back, he was covered in injuries. I wanted to bandage him, but he always shook his head and refused, but even if he escaped my loving dressing, he still couldn’t escape my loving chicken soup. After a few meals, he was beaten I was captured, and when I left, I was given this."

Ruan Tingfang smiled and took out a string of pendants. In the center of the pendants was a black wishing bottle.

"Can you let me have a look?" Yuzhou asked.

"Of course." Ruan Tingfang generously handed over the pendant.He himself poured tea for Xiao Hechou again.

After Yuzhou got the pendant, he hesitated for a moment, and finally he used his nails to grab the bottle cap. Yes, he just discovered that the workmanship of this thing is very rough, and it doesn't seem like something a man would give to his beloved woman.

He secretly glanced at Ruan Tingfang, Xiao Hechou was chatting with her, asking about some things about the copy, but unfortunately, her young and mature little lover didn't reveal much.

Seeing that the two were not paying attention to him, Yuzhou used some strength to remove the rubber seal on the cover and pulled out the cover.

Once it was pulled out together with the brush attached to the cover, it was still stained with black ink. When it came into contact with the air, it shivered and quickly began to write on Yuzhou's hand.

"Uprah who can't open the square root:

I undertake all kinds of hunting and bodyguard business, have brought confrontation dungeons below S level, gold diamond seller, 98% success rate, fair price, no deception.

If you are interested, please add my ID number d319765249. "

After writing this paragraph, the little brush trembled again, and got back into the wishing bottle.

Embarrassed, it seems that Sister Tingfang lied. Yuzhou could imagine Ruan Tingfang's expression when she saw this string of characters. In order not to embarrass her, Yuzhou took a tissue to wipe off the ink on her hands.Pretending to find nothing, he returned the wishing bottle to Ruan Tingfang. Since the other party did not come to cheat money and sex, Yuzhou felt relieved: "Has he left?"

"Yeah, he said he has something urgent to do, so he's leaving first. If I have any troubles in the future, I can call him directly, so I don't need to look outside."

Yes, it is a professional after all.Yuzhou nodded seriously, including the fee.

"Stop talking about me. How is your brother? He should be getting married soon." Ruan Tingfang said seemingly unintentionally.

Yuzhou stirred the tea in the cup, bowed his head and said, "He's gone."

"What do you mean? Are you kidding me?" Ruan Tingfang laughed out loud, but when she saw Yuzhou lowering her eyebrows and keeping her eyes silent, her face instantly turned from blue to white, and there was no trace of blood left.

"I'm a little tired." She twitched the corners of her mouth and forced a smile, "Why don't we stop talking today."

"Well, goodbye Sister Tingfang, let's take a step first." Yuzhou pulled up Xiao Hechou who was still in a daze, and walked quickly to the door.

After the two of them left, there was a low sound of weeping gradually from the room, both forbearable and suppressed, just like the five-year long-term love that ended without a problem, and there was no way to find an outlet.

"She..." Xiao Hechou glanced at the closed photo studio, "Why did you break up with your brother?"

Yuzhou sighed: "You may not believe it, but the reason for their breakup is really ridiculous. Sister Tingfang can't understand my brother always stuffing his underwear and coat into the washing machine together for washing, and my brother, One ear in, one ear out, never taking her breakup threats seriously.

Then, there is no more. "

"I can tell that she still loves your brother very much." Xiao He said sadly.

"So what." Yuzhou looked at the fallen leaves in the wind, and the moment he passed, he floated into the distance, "If you miss it, you will miss it forever."

Without stopping any longer, the two left a note for Ruan Tingfang and left quietly.

"Go directly?" Yuzhou said indifferently, he was ready, he left Xiao Hechou in the first interstellar transition, and embarked on that lonely journey alone.

"I..." Xiao Hechou's expression flickered.

Yuzhou: "If you have anything to say, just say it."

Xiao Hechou: "I want to go back to my hometown."

"go back home!?"

. . .

Yuzhou, who was walking alone in the alley, walked with heavy steps.

Xiao Hechou's hometown is in City B?He has never heard of this matter before, every time there is a holiday, Xiao Hechou always joins up with his classmates from City H, and takes a 2-hour train back to City H.

Sometimes I couldn't buy a train ticket, and I had to take the 18 subway stops to squeeze the bus, and I had to go out before dawn.

However, if you think about it carefully, it is not without clues.From time to time, bills from the People's Hospital of B City would appear in his pocket, and sometimes he would bring B City's local specialty dried meat in bulk to give to his classmates.

So Xiao Hechou's hometown is really in City B.

Yuzhou's footsteps were getting slower and slower. Just as he was stepping over a withered sycamore tree, he could only hear a burst of "rain hitting the plantains" from above. Immediately afterwards, a bucket of dirty water hit his head and face, and Yuzhou was drenched. Thoroughly cool.

"Xiaosheng, are you alright!?" A panicked elderly voice sounded.

Yuzhou looked up, and saw a head wearing a thick Lei Feng hat protruded from the window on the second floor of the building near the plane tree. He was neither fat nor thin, with sunken cheeks and gray hair. He was an ordinary Chinese old man who couldn't be more ordinary.

"Ahem, I'm sorry, junior, I didn't see anyone under the tree." The old man apologized again.

"It doesn't matter." Yuzhou wiped the rice washing water on his face. When encountering such a thing, what else can he do except admit that he is unlucky.

He raised his left leg and was about to leave when he heard the old man's "Huh" in surprise.

"Is there anything else?" Yuzhou stopped.

"You are... Yuzhou?" The old man pushed the thick glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"You know me?" Yuzhou narrowed his eyes, and looked at the old man in front of him again.

But no matter how hard he racked his brains, he still couldn't remember where he had seen the old man.

"Don't you remember me again?" The old man smiled and waved to Yuzhou, signaling him to come up and speak.

Yuzhou's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly remembered the memory that had disappeared from his life.

Does this old man know anything?

no, no, no,

In such an ordinary city, such an ordinary street, and under such an ordinary plane tree, he met a most special person who could unlock his secret.

This must be another 9 masterpiece.

But so what?

Yuzhou suddenly laughed, he already has nothing, what else can he lose?

Without hesitation, he stretched out his left foot and stepped into the house where the old man was.

It was an old library, the stone walls had been eroded by time, and there were spots of mold on the face.

Yuzhou walked up the narrow stairs.Soon, I saw that ordinary old man at the stairs on the second floor.

The old man greeted him with a smile, and wiped his hair with a towel despite Yuzhou's refusal.

There was no decayed smell unique to the old man on the towel, only a faint scent of sulfur soap.Yuzhou took the towel and just wanted to open his mouth.

Then the old man laughed and said, "Let me guess, the question you want to ask is related to a bombing case 15 years ago?"

Yu Zhou's brows were tightly locked, and he shook his head. Just as he was about to speak, the old man said again: "No, no, no, you want to know who I am more? Why did you know you? Right?"

Yuzhou hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

The old man picked up the cracked enamel cup and smiled triumphantly: "I knew it. Every time you come, you ask this question. My name is Lu Xingguo, you can call me Lao Lu."

Yuzhou quickly grasped the point: "Every time? How many times have I been here?"

"If you don't count this time," Lao Lu pinched his fingers and calculated, "it's been three times."

"Three times..." Yuzhou muttered to himself, "I asked the same question all three times?"

"Yes."

Yuzhou: "Then how do you always answer me?"

Lao Lu took a sip of wolfberry red date tea, "Come with me."

Yuzhou followed Lao Lu through the rows of bookshelves and came to the newspaper reading room next door.

There is no dust in the old house, only a faint smell of ink wafts, and it looks well taken care of.

Lao Lu walked under a row of wooden shelves, took out a brass key, and opened the cabinet numbered w42169 with ease.

He seemed to have expected that Yuzhou would come again. The stack of newspapers was tied into a bundle with plastic red strings and lay neatly in the center of the cabinet.

He took out the bundle of newspapers, patted the ashes on it, and handed it to Yuzhou.

"I remember it was the spring of 4 years ago. You came here for the first time. You were a little cautious and asked me if there were any newspapers related to the bombing in city B 11 years ago.

"Looking at the thick stack of banknotes, I searched for a long time before I found these.

"Later you came for the second and third time. I simply bundled up these newspapers and put them away for you."

Holding the newspaper in his hands, Yuzhou found a seat and sat down, "Aren't you surprised, why I come here again and again, and don't remember you at all?"

"Hehe, I've lived to my age..." The old man raised his glasses, revealing his cloudy eyes, "It's better not to know some things so clearly."

"Men are old and smart." The corners of Yuzhou's lips curled up slightly, and he untied the knot and took out those newspapers. Is the secret finally going to be solved?

"B City Evening News"

2004 10 Month 13 Day.

Big headlines on the front page:

The cause of the 1013 Hualian commercial building explosion is still under investigation.

On October 2004, 10, at 13:19 Beijing time, a massive explosion occurred in the Hualian Commercial Building on Renmin Road in our city, killing 22 people and injuring 53. The cause of the accident is still under investigation.

And in the black-and-white news report, a tragic photo was inserted.

Some 30 charred corpses were covered by white cloth, only the charred arms were exposed.

Yuzhou flipped through the thick stack of newspapers, and all the reports were similar.But one of the "Life Daily" attracted his attention.

There is no other reason, a person appeared in the center of the newspaper, an unexpected person in Yuzhou-Xiao Hechou.

Although Xiao Hechou, who was only ten years old at the time, had a youthful face, thanks to the seven-year friendship between the two, Yuzhou recognized him at a glance.

At that time, Xiao Hechou was lying on a female corpse, her hair was disheveled, and she was extremely sad.The time recorded in ink has long been unable to distinguish which are blood and which are tears.

Xiao Hechou actually appeared at the scene of the bombing, which made Yuzhou a little unexpected, but he soon cleared his mind.

I saw him take out his cell phone, move his fingers like flying, and input the keywords of "1013 bombing case" in major search websites.

As he expected, there was no record.

Yuzhou put down his phone, it turned out that he had never doubted Xiao Hechou, but all of this was buried deep in his memory.

At the beginning, he investigated Xiao Hechou and the 1013 bombing case, but due to the lack of information for a long time, there was no progress.I had no choice but to come to city b to try my luck and read the newspapers