Dazed

Qi Zheng and Cao Jingxing exchanged a few words occasionally, and then they ate and ate non-stop. Cao Jingxing, who Qi Zheng liked to eat, was not interested in it, but Cao Jingxing liked to eat... Qi Zheng watched as the man put a large handful of coriander into the pot. When he dipped it in the sauce and ate it directly, the expression on his face was so horrified that he seemed to see him. In short, the two really lacked a common language in the hot pot area, so they had to temporarily put aside their disputes and develop together.

Time went by, and the number of customers in the house came and went, but remained at a stable amount. Suddenly, the main door of the hot pot restaurant opened with a "snap", and a gust of cold wind came in, making the tables sitting at the door People can't help turning their heads to look.

Qi Zheng also looked curiously at the middle-aged woman who ran into the store in a panic. At this moment, she was standing not far from herself, and asked a waiter anxiously, "Have you seen a seven or eight-year-old woman?" Did the little boy pass by or come in?"

There was a lot of traffic in the hot pot restaurant, and the waiters were too busy to stop and go. No one really noticed if there were any children. At this time, facing the anxious mother, they could only show a look of helplessness.

Listening to their conversation, Qi Zheng's heart suddenly sounded an alarm, he stopped his chopsticks, and his face became serious.

Cao Jingxing looked at him curiously, with some doubts.

"That little boy is lost. Look, his mother is looking for him." Qi Zheng stared at the woman with serious eyes, struggling in his heart.

Suddenly, when Qi Zheng saw that the woman was leaving disappointed, he quickly stood up, followed her, and stopped her.

The woman looked at the man standing in front of him curiously, and then she heard Qi Zheng seriously ask: "Is your son wearing a big padded jacket, with a fair face, about as high as my waist?"

"That's right." The woman nodded happily, looked at Qi Zheng full of hope, and asked eagerly, "Where did you see him?"

"It was just in front of this store when he hit me and walked down the street."

When the mother heard the words, her face showed a broken expression, tears flowed from her red eyes, and she murmured: "My God, God bless you, today is fifteen, why did this happen to me? I don't want to live anymore."

Qi Zheng looked at him and said kindly: "Calm down first, have you called the police?"

"Reported, his dad is looking for him on the other side of the street, thank you, I, I have to find him quickly." The woman said, turned around and walked out, muttering in her mouth, to the effect of "blessing" He also mentioned "lowering the head", and hurriedly walked in the direction Qi Zheng said, his thin back looked a little bleak in the cold wind.

When Qi Zheng returned to his dinner table, he was still worried.

Cao Jingxing put the chopsticks on the table, wiped his mouth with a tissue, and said, "What's wrong?"

Qi Zheng frowned and said, "I always feel that it's not that simple for that child to disappear."

"En." Cao Jingxing pondered for a while, then asked suddenly: "Are you full?"

Qi Zheng nodded inexplicably, before he could continue talking, Cao Jingxing waved his hand and said loudly, "Waiter, pay here!"

Then he took out his wallet, bowed his head and said to Qi Zheng while paying the bill, "Let's go, see if we can help find that child."

Cao Jingxing's resolute action expressed Qi Zheng's hesitating thoughts. In just a few words, Qi Zheng's mood suddenly brightened, and he said energetically: "I really can't let go of a child lost from our eyes. Let's find as far as we can, if it doesn't work, we can't do it..."

Cao Jingxing interrupted him and said, "Don't be crowed."

Hearing this, Qi Zheng subconsciously reached out and slapped himself on the mouth twice, lowered his head to the street, and said, "Bah, bah, bah."

Cao Jingxing laughed when he saw it, and Qi Zheng was stunned, only to realize how childish the little superstition he had been trained by his mother was, and couldn't help being a little embarrassed, cursing: "Laughing fart!"

"Okay, I won't laugh." Cao Jingxing's eyes were bent, and he held back his laughter. Qi Zheng didn't look at him, and strode forward, and then he heard Cao Jingxing who was slowly following him say lightly: "But I didn't hit enough three times." It's useless."

"Get lost!" Qi Zheng became furious.

The two of them walked along the street and came to a place where the little boy could not be seen. This is a main road, and there are many alleys on the left and right sides. It was dark and the street lights were dim. Neither Qi Zheng nor Cao Jingxing could see where the little boy was. They didn't turn into the alley, and the two were a little uncertain for a while.

"When you talked to her mother just now, did you get any information about that child?" Cao Jingxing thought for a while and asked Qi Zheng.

Qi Zheng thought for a while, and felt a little strange, and said, "She's been muttering about fifteen, and lowering her head."

Cao Jingxing frowned and didn't speak. Qi Zheng thought of what he saw when the child bumped into him, and said, "When that kid bumped into me, I seemed to see a mark on his forehead, like Drawn in pencil, but it's too dark for me to be sure."

As soon as Qi Zheng said this, Cao Jingxing suddenly came to his senses, and said: "In some places, there has always been a rumor that every month to the bright sky, there will be some weird people who specialize in seducing children who go out, called 'Luo Shenren' ','Luo' is a dialect, which is equivalent to "Xia", "God" refers to the soul of a person, 'Luo Shen' means to 'make a person's soul sink', and Luo Shenren is a person who 'makes a person into a living dead' ’, they mostly come and go during the Lantern Festival and the New Year’s Eve. They look no different from normal people, except that they wear a red scarf on their heads and a cloth bag on their shoulders. Once the child's eyes are opened, the whole person will lose consciousness and will only follow the route drawn by the other party. I used to think that this was just a way for adults to scare children, but I didn't expect it to actually happen in the world."

"Why are these people catching children?" Qi Zheng asked.

"Raise little ghosts and sell them to those dignitaries." Cao Jingxing smiled contemptuously and said, "There are people in these schools who have money behind their backs, and money can make ghosts pervert."

Qi Zheng was shocked, and said, "Don't tell me the police don't care about this kind of thing?"

"They only come and go once a year, and they are extremely picky about the children they choose. Moreover, their method of catching children is not blatant, but to mark them first, and let those children find them by themselves. If they are missing, there is no way to find them. We Now we can only hope that the child has not been caught by them."

Without further ado, Qi Zheng looked at the similar alleys in front of him, hesitated, and said, "Which way shall we go?"

Cao Jingxing frowned, hesitantly, and said, "Choose one at will?"

Qi Zheng looked at him with his mouth wide open, a little confused, "What should I do if I choose the wrong one?"

"It doesn't matter which one you choose. The child bumped into you earlier, and you have his aura on you, so your judgment will be more reliable. You can't tell about the subconscious." Cao Jingxing said.

It's true that there is no better way now, the woman didn't know where she was going, Cao Jingxing and Qi Zheng were the only ones on the dark street, the cold wind slapped the two of them more and more, Qi Zheng gritted his teeth, Looking around attentively, every laneway looked very ordinary, "Just this one." Qi Zheng pointed to the road not far from them, and said.

"En." Cao Jingxing nodded, and the two walked towards the alley quickly. The deep alleyway was very narrow and dimly lit, only a street lamp in front of the alley was shining in the distance.