When the magic flower blooms

The past events recorded in the old archives added an extra touch of coldness to this winter night.

In the living room, He Tiansi was thinking while watching Ming Ruoxing playing with his laptop.

"Tell me, how are those sharks doing now?"

"What's the matter, it died 500 years ago." Ming Ruoxing clicked the mouse, and transferred part of the files to the phone.

"Of course I know I'm dead, but do you remember the singing we heard in the basement?"

"I didn't hear it, you heard it. It's just a residual emotional memory, not the deceased himself."

"I understand the truth..."

He Tiansi bit his lips helplessly, and rubbed against Ming Ruoxing's side.

"But you said, what is the definition of 'person'? A person who has abandoned emotion, is he still the same person? Isn't emotion also a part of the human body?"

"Why do you always think about these nonsense things?"

Ming Ruoxing closed the notebook with a "snap", and reached out to rub He Tiansi's curly hair by the way.

"Go to bed early, and you won't be cranky after you sleep."

As soon as he said this, He Tiansi really yawned immediately.

"how about you?"

"I still have something to do."

-

While He Tiansi was washing up and getting ready for bed, Ming Ruoxing left the living room with his mobile phone, and walked towards the entrance according to the map saved from the Internet.

On the south wall of the front hall adjacent to the right side of the entrance, there is a staircase leading to the second floor.The irregular space under the building becomes the storage cabinet in the entrance.

There are not many things in the new home. Right now, there are only a few pairs of shoes, mops, buckets and other simple cleaning tools in the cabinet.

Ming Ruoxing removed all these, and sure enough, he found a small keyhole on the ground deep in the cabinet.

Yes, there is also a basement hidden in the safe house.

Think about it carefully, if a straight line is drawn between Xishan and Jinyu Village, then the safe house is exactly at the midpoint of the line.This is probably not a coincidence, but inevitable.

Compared with the elderly activity center, I am afraid that this place is closer to the place where the disaster happened that year.

Without the key, Ming Ruoxing couldn't open this secret door, and of course he didn't intend to do so.

No matter he or He Tiansi, in the final analysis, they are just passers-by in Jinyu Village, so there is no need to break the casserole and ask the bottom line.Since it has been dusty for 500 years, it is better to continue to let the past slowly disappear in the next 500 years.

I just don't know if He Tiansi will be affected - after all, his ability is increasing day by day, and now he can hear the voice of the mermaid.If you just sit back and watch, no one can predict what will happen in the future...

When Ming Ruoxing was hesitating because of this, he suddenly heard the sound of doors opening and closing in the distance.He Tiansi should have finished washing.

He quickly returned the contents of the locker to their original positions.

-

Although there are sufficient water reserves, the comfort of life without running water is not as good as before.What He Tiansi was thinking is still unknown, but Ming Ruoxing, who always pays attention to personal hygiene, felt something was wrong when he lay down on the bed.

When he couldn't sleep, he couldn't help but think wildly.

Now is the Spring Festival, and those who repair the water pipes will not go to work until at least the end of the long holiday.If there is no snow in the next few days, the water source reserved at home may not be enough, especially as it goes on, the more likely it will become a mess.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, I will go home for the New Year in two days.It's a big deal to wait until the New Year is over and the water pipes are repaired before returning.

Then leave He Tiansi here alone and let him tide over the difficulties by himself?

I'm afraid that when I come back, this home will be turned into a dump.

Then, bring He Tiansi back?

Are you kidding me, Shura field...

After thinking about it, Ming Ruoxing reluctantly came to a compromise decision - take He Tiansi back to City S, and then arrange a hotel for him.After the Spring Festival, we will go back to Jinyu Village together.

But in this way, would He Tiansi be happy?

He was just thinking about whether to show his cards now.But he felt He Tiansi turned over and let out a heavy sigh in his throat.

All along, He Tiansi's sleep quality is very high.Unless there is a conspiracy, under normal circumstances, as long as you touch the pillow, you will definitely enter a deep sleep within 10 minutes.

Looks like today is an anomaly.

A little worried, Ming Ruoxing also turned around to look at him.

The sky after the snow has cleared up.The moonlight shone on the snow-covered ground, even brighter than usual nights.

He Tiansi lay on his back on the other half of the bed.The hazy moonlight outlined his chiseled profile.

Defenseless, totally relaxed, and yet incredibly handsome.

Ming Ruoxing stared at this perfect side face, as long as he thought of the relationship between them, he would feel a sense of warmth in his heart, making his whole body warm.

Unknowingly, he wanted to snuggle up to He Tiansi.

However, at this moment when the atmosphere seemed perfect and warm, He Tiansi suddenly opened his eyes.

Ming Ruoxing was taken aback, thinking that He Tiansi found out that he was peeping.

"you--"

He was thinking about whether to pre-emptively strike and strike back.But he found that He Tiansi didn't pay attention to him at all, and instead looked straight ahead.

"Someone is calling me, someone has been calling me..."

He Tiansi turned over and sat up after muttering these two sentences repeatedly in a low voice.

"who is it?"

Ming Ruoxing definitely didn't hear any sound, but the answer didn't seem difficult to guess.

He Tiansi got up and walked towards the door with heavy steps, and disappeared in the dark corridor after a while.

Ming Ruoxing, who was worried about him, naturally followed closely behind.The two walked out of the front hall like this, and came to the entrance.

Right here, He Tiansi stopped in his tracks, hesitantly but obviously expressionless.

Worried that he would open the cabinet door in the next second and discover the secret of the basement of the safe house, Ming Ruoxing knew that he had to intervene.

"Wake up."

He patted He Tiansi's shoulder as gently as possible, hoping to wake him up from his sleepwalking state.

"No, I'm awake."

Suddenly, He Tiansi spoke directly: "I'm sorry, I ignored you all the time. It's just that I was in a really bad mood just now."

"what happened?"

"I can't tell." He Tiansi sighed, "It's a very bad feeling that a group of people keep crying and begging in your ears, but you just lie on the bed and can't do anything."

"Although I can't hear your pleading. But I know it's just a nightmare from the past."

Ming Ruoxing caressed the back of his hand, hoping to help him get rid of this negative emotion.

However, He Tiansi rarely rejected Ming Ruoxing's kindness, instead he took half a step back and leaned against the cabinet door in the entrance.

"No, Xiao Ming, you don't understand. If you continue to stay here, then every night after that. Whether I am asleep or awake, no matter what I am doing, I may hear such a sound... light I just can’t bear it when I think about it.”

Having said that, he raised his head again and looked at Ming Ruoxing solemnly.

"I don't want to break the casserole and ask the end, I just really need a good time."

"..."

Ming Ruoxing was silent for a moment, and finally let out a sigh of compromise.

"Okay, let's go again then. Get dressed now, we don't need a second person with a cold."

"Thank you."

He Tiansi reached out to hug Ming Ruoxing, and kissed him on the forehead.

"I know that you are the best to me, and I will take care of all the housework until the end of the new year."

"..."

Thinking of his plan just now, Ming Ruoxing sighed in his heart again and didn't speak.

-

Half an hour later, in the wing room in the backyard of the activity center, the old coffin was pushed away again, and the floor tiles were pried up, revealing a large black hole.

A candle was lit in the corner of the secret room, just enough to illuminate the old black iron fence.

It is impossible to operate flexibly while wearing heavy gloves.Ming Ruoxing threw the gloves into the hood of He Tiansi's coat, and began to carefully fiddle with the old iron lock.

"It's rusty, I guess it will take a while. If I knew it, I should have brought some lubricant."

"To say a little bit, maybe there is..."

He Tiansi reached into the pocket of his imported coat and took out a tube of personal lubricant in a small package.

"Is it universal? I bought it new online, and it's quite expensive."

Ming Ruoxing resisted the urge to beat him up, and shook his head matter-of-factly.

"It's useless. But since the lock is rusty, the railing should be—"

Speaking of this, he exerted a little force on his hand, only to hear a crisp "click", and an incredible thing happened.

"It looks like there's a play."

He Tiansi immediately followed up, raised his hand two or three times, and "clicked" to open a passage.

"Uh..." After breaking it off, he looked at Ming Ruoxing again, "Isn't it good to do this?"

"Just install a more solid one another day."

The entrance had been cleared, and the two men turned on their flashlights and filed in.

Behind the iron gate was an extremely narrow passage that was less than half the height, and it didn't even look like it was used for people to walk.

However, there was indeed a series of steps at the end of the passage, which led the two of them to a lower and more spacious corridor.

"Look, there's a stream of water."

Ming Ruoxing pointed out the gurgling liquid on both sides of the corridor with the light of a flashlight, "The snow is melting, I believe it will be more obvious in the daytime tomorrow."

"It looks like a diversion channel. No wonder the old man said that no matter how many days and how much it rains outside, the big river outside will not overflow so easily."

The surroundings were too quiet, and the two of them involuntarily lowered their voices when they were talking.Let the gurgling sound of running water guide them along the way.

After walking about 20 meters forward, door openings began to appear on both sides of the corridor ahead.

To be on the safe side, they didn't give up any room, and checked all of them one by one.It was finally confirmed that these are some reservoirs to help store excess water during the rainy season.

At the same time, they did find something different.

"What the hell is this...?"

He Tiansi bent down, touched the ditch by the side of the road twice, cleaned the things he touched, and spread them in front of Ming Ruoxing.

It was two or three round objects the size of a dollar coin.Some are cloudy and whitish, others are translucent.But all were fairly firm, with some watery texture.Some of them still bear scorched marks from suspected burns.

Ming Ruoxing only took two glances before reaching a conclusion, "Fish scales."

"This is from the shark!"

The answer is obviously straightforward, but also creepy enough - after all, it may come from a 500-year-old remains.

Moreover, there should be more scales like this in the dark depths of the ground.

The surrounding temperature kept dropping, Ming Ruoxing let out a breath of white air, took out his gloves from He Tiansi's hood and put them on again.

"Can you still hear the voices of those sharks?"

"I can hear it all the time, but I didn't say it because I was afraid you were worried." He Tiansi said truthfully, "By the way, are we almost near the big camphor tree at the entrance of the village?"

"not yet."

Worried that he would find that this passage led to the direction of the safe house, Ming Ruoxing quickly grabbed his hand and changed the subject.

"Listen carefully to where the sound is coming from. Solve it early, and I want to sleep for a while before dawn."

"As you wish, Your Royal Highness."

He Tiansi raised his hand to kiss in the air, then turned his head and listened carefully for a while, then continued to stride forward.