The Uncanny Valley Travel Guide

Xie Yuanyuan shuddered, the white mist that eroded everything seemed to seep into his skin and into his heart veins.

"How, how..." he stammered, "how could..."

Du Zijun lit a third cigarette.

The cigarette he smokes is thin and long, with a snow-white lingding. The aroma of mint is spicy and fragrant, and it actually reveals a chilly loneliness, like soft seven stars divided into thickness and thickness according to the tar content. Although it is not a female cigarette, its taste and shape Both are more popular with women. For an old smoker who is used to smoking high-quality cigars, it must have insufficient stamina.

He inhaled the slowly fading tobacco, and exhaled a hazy cloud of smoke, shadowy, surrounding his unrecognizable face.

Xie Yuanyuan suddenly realized that when they first met, Du Zijun was indeed a heavy smoker. At the end of the day, he could always be seen crumpling the empty cigarette case into a ball with indifferent eyes, throwing it into the ashtray on the table, or wastebasket next to it.After they got to know each other well and formed a team of four to act together, Du Zijun's addiction to smoking seemed to be gradually under control, and he no longer smoked particularly hard.But today, right now, he just said a few words before lighting his third cigarette.

"The person who captured her stabbed a whole picture of the Nine Phases on her back." Du Zijun's lips were indistinctly touching the cigarette holder, and his voice was obscured by the smoke, "They stretched her eyes , plumped her lips, and sharpened her cheekbones... She put on heavy makeup, and she was a gaudy woman."

Xie Yuanyuan couldn't imagine that his sister should look like Du Zijun, right?When it is solemn, it is like a gun waiting to be loaded at any time.But according to him, the girl who can make the sick young man never forget at the age of ten may be much more beautiful than him now?

He mumbled, "Nine-Phase Diagram... What is the Nine-Phase Diagram?"

"It is said that Empress Danlin, the wife of Emperor Saga, is a stunning beauty in this world," Du Zijun said without any ups and downs, like a big river before a storm, with a raging torrent hidden in its calmness. "All the officials who have seen her, There is no one who is not impressed by her beauty, so there is an endless stream of people who are obsessed with her. People are chasing after her like crazy. Empress Tanlin felt sincerely sad. So she issued an order that after her death, Throw her dead body into the wilderness, without giving any funeral ceremony, she wants people who admired her appearance to witness the nine phases of her corpse gradually decomposing, so that people can give up their obsession and delusional love for a beautiful appearance."

Xie Yuanyuan clenched his lips tightly and dared not speak at all.

Changed the girl's appearance, turned her into a fallen woman, and tattooed such a picture on her back so that her brother could see...

Du Zijun looked straight ahead, there were so many heavy things in his eyes, it was hard to tell whether it was sadness or anger.

He thought about that day—he thought about it over and over again for the next ten years of his life.Every changing light and shadow, every passerby's face, countless winding alleys and streets connect the underground dirty kingdom, which belongs to beggars, thieves, murderers, and more In the underground kingdom of the lingering waste, the rancid black water flows down every corner of the street, like a cobweb of cohesive cobwebs, linking together the fishy wine brewed in the darkness.

His sister's eyes were dull, and she was lying on the sticky and clumped dirty felt blanket. Her white skin was pierced with mournful and treacherous patterns. In the nine phases of life, from the most beautiful and graceful, it seems like the beautiful face of the new dead. , until the skin loses its luster, gradually rotten and swollen fat phase, and then to the blood-smeared phase with dirty blood dripping all over and broken bones and intestines, the fat mess phase of maggots wriggling, the eating phase of crows and dogs scrambling for food, the remains of muscles and surrounding areas The silt phase where the land is fused into one...and finally the kofun phase where everything is reduced to dust.Zhu Mo's color was dripping and ferocious, like the patterns depicted on the gate of hell, and he opened his bloody mouth towards him, uttering harsh curses and ridicules.

The light is dim, and the room is filled with the smell of a mixture of stench and cheap fat, which is almost disgusting.The girl turned her face slowly, her cheeks and pointed chin outlined a mature and charming face, her protruding eyes were also painted with rough and thick eyeliner, her scarlet lips were as plump as autumn branches, so ripe Fruit about to rot.

"I want... I want to give money..." She giggled, her eyes were blurred, and her voice was vague.

Du Zijun stood where he was, like a statue that had lost its soul.

His people had already caught the little boy who was shaking so much that he was about to urinate. Du Zijuan turned his head and looked at the face of the boy carefully.Long-term drinking and indulgence made him completely lose the capital to seduce women. He has a red nose, a beer belly, a little baldness on the top of his head, and trembling eyes. He is really a shameful mouse in the sewer.Not to mention the suave and suave cowherd, even if this handsome face is used to strike up a conversation with an aunt on the street, he will be slapped back with contempt.

But it was such a man who ruined his sister.

...Just such a shitty man.

Du Zijun smiled, this smile was forced, it wasn't even a smile, it could only be called meaningless pulling of facial muscles.

He said softly: "If I had known, I might as well let that sick child marry her away..."

As soon as he opened his mouth, the little boy was so frightened that he peed like a fountain and cried loudly. The person who ordered him to do this didn't tell him Du Zijun's real identity at all, but only told him that he was a stupid rich lady. Her family offended someone so If you want to take her into surgery, if you can tie her up and we will give you one-fifth of the commission, not only will you be able to pay off your debts, but you can also buy the highest level of identity certification in Nova City, and then you will be a superior person Alright, Platinum VIP of N-star, do you want anything?

He believed it. In fact, he also kind of likes this silly girl who smiles brightly and is so stubborn.He comforted himself over and over again, that she would be safe and sound when her family paid the ransom, but he did not wait for his reward, and when Du Zijun was thrown into his hands, he was completely changed and half-demented In a state of depression, someone was chasing them, and he had no choice but dared not to throw her away, so he could only run away with this burden.

"I didn't do it on purpose! I really didn't do it on purpose, I didn't know! I beg you, I really don't know, I don't know it will become like this..." The little white face howled hysterically, he was too scared, these men He was wearing a straight black suit, but the arms exposed under the suit were all sharp black alloy textures. In the bleak dilapidated house, they swallowed the light like a black hole, and when he grabbed his body, it hurt him so much Convulsions all over, rolled eyes... This is by no means an ordinary wealthy family, definitely not!

"It's really noisy." Du Zijun said.

There was a crisp bone cracking sound, and the man's chin was suddenly split open by the alloy fingers. The men in black didn't use knives, their sharp fingers were ten steel knives. It was easy to smash a man's head like a watermelon, but Death is the best ending for him, and he doesn't deserve to enjoy it now.

The whole boy's tongue was crushed into bloody minced meat.

At the same time, the man in black found a warm and soft blanket, and carefully draped it on the girl's naked body, covering the crude but extremely tense nine-phase diagram. After doing all this, he did not hesitate at all, and folded his hands , and crushed his mechanical arm at the same time, with a shake of his shoulder, he threw the writhing alloy on the ground, and stood aside with empty sleeves.

The technology of body modification has long been able to connect the nerves with the memory metal composed of pressurized polymers. When he twisted the mechanical arm, the pain he felt was the same as that of the arm that twisted the flesh |, but in this case After touching Miss Jun, he kept touching, and he must have been personally executed by Mr. Jun afterwards.

"Then...then..." Xie Yuanyuan asked tremblingly, "Sister...how is that man, have you found the murderer behind the scenes?"

Du Zijun's pupils dilated and contracted, his expression was as firm as a rock, neither sad nor angry, he said: "He is not dead, and I have also uprooted the murderer behind the scenes. There is only one tattoo artist... I have been looking for him , looking for many years."

Xie Yuanyuan shivered, the lingering sound of the three words "he's not dead" is really worth a thousand words.

He had mixed feelings in his heart and didn't know what to say.

Du Zijun crushed out the cigarette butt, and said calmly: "After listening to the story, are you feeling better now?"

Xie Yuanyuan was taken aback: "Ah...ah? What does this have to do with me..."

He stopped suddenly, and looked at Du Zijun with a strange expression on his face: "Wait a minute, sister, you spent all your heart and soul reminiscing about the past, not just to... enlighten me, right?"

"Ah, what else?" Du Zijun looked back at him inexplicably, "Otherwise I've told you so much, am I free?"

Xie Yuanyuan: "..."

Xie Yuanyuan hugged his head and yelled: "Wait...wait a moment! Wait a moment! How did you calculate this? What did you enlighten me on?! You just told a story about the past that makes people laugh, okay? Is it also called enlightenment and comfort!"

Du Zijun frowned: "That's right, isn't that how it's played in the drama? One person is sad and lost, and the other just needs to exchange thoughts with him, and then take a heart-to-heart look at him, and immediately..."

"What kind of drama would act like this!" Xie Yuanyuan broke down, "And that's not the way to be honest, isn't it like exchanging thoughts or some kind of panacea that can cure all diseases? Aren't you just talking about it! "

"Indeed." Wen Zheliu agreed, "It is necessary to analyze the specific problem in detail, and prescribing the right medicine is the best way to solve the problem..."

"Hey, where did you come from again! Don't secretly listen to other people's private conversations and then suddenly express your opinions!"

Wen Zheliu said unexpectedly: "What, but I have been there all the time? It's just that you are more involved in communicating, so you didn't notice us, right?"

He Qin was wiping the knife beside him, and nodded silently.

Xie Yuanyuan: "Oh no, my head hurts..."

While complaining about the noise, Wen Zheliu suddenly heard a voice.

"If you're talking about a tattoo artist, I think of one candidate."

Wen Zheliu's smile was hidden in the moment of astonishment, He Qin sheathed the knife, his eyes circled with golden light.

"If there are no accidents... we will see him soon."