Ruyizhai

Wu Xingchen saw Ruyi Zhai in the starring lounge at the backstage of the theater. The lounge was round in shape, and the walls were surrounded by human skulls. There were candles in the two eye sockets of each skull, so the room was very bright. Still warm.A thick column filled with leg bones stood in the center of the room.Ruyizhai stood on the side of the column with her head slightly lowered. The two girls who played the role of Maiden in "The Legend of Meiji" were undressing him. Guaxia belt, another girl untied the Guaxia belt tied behind his back.It was only then that Wu Xingchen discovered that Meiji’s black clothes were layered on top of each other, even the belt was black, but no matter how bright the light in the lounge was, Wu Xingchen couldn’t tell exactly what Ruyizhai was wearing. How many layers of black clothes.The two hexagram belts were untied, and the girls hung them on the hanger behind Ruyizhai, where an all-black Dagua was already hanging.Ruyizhai pressed the black girdle, looked at Wu Xingchen: "Are you dumb? It's not the first time we meet, so you don't need to introduce your identity before you speak. What's the matter?"

The girl kneeling in front of Ruyizhai turned her head to look at Wu Xingchen, winked at him, and laughed out loud.Wu Xingchen said, "You don't happen to own an antique shop, do you?"

The girl was still laughing, Ru Yizhai patted the girl on the shoulder, the girl supported his girdle, the sleeves under the girdle were opened, revealing the long black undergarment inside.Ruyizhai said: "Xiaoyue arranged for you to come get the diary? Instead of going to the store to get it, why did you come here?"

Wu Xingchen hurriedly explained: "I went to the store and took out the diary. There was a small incident, so I was entrusted by someone, so I had to come here to explain to you."

Ruyizhai stopped looking at Wu Xingchen, and just said: "Speak quickly if you have something to say."

The girl kneeling in front of Ruyi Zhai heard the words and turned her head to smile at Wu Xingchen again. She was still wearing a costume, and the makeup on her face hadn't been removed. When she smiled, the tip of her nose and the corners of her mouth turned white.powder.Ruyizhai patted the girl, she looked up at him, he pouted at her, the girl took out a long and thin cigarette holder from her waistband, lit it, took a puff, and handed it to Ruyizhai.Ruyi Zhai didn't wear makeup, he was very white, white like a pearl, so white that he would shine on the stage.A gust of wind blew from nowhere, the candles shook, some candles were extinguished, and the candlelight dimmed. Ruyizhai's expressionless face was covered with a layer of soft yellow light.He took the long pipe, took a deep breath, exhaled a blue mist, and looked at Wu Xingchen from behind the mist.

Wu Xingchen said: "The window of the antique store was smashed, someone threw a Molotov cocktail, and all the books displayed inside were burned. The boy who looked after the shop didn't want to call the police. He said the boss hates the police." He looked at Ruyi. Fast, said: "It's safer to call the police for this kind of thing."

Ruyi Zhai is still expressionless: "Smashing the window, burning books? Didn't you enter the store?"

Wu Xingchen nodded.Ru Yizhai bit the long pipe, stretched out his hands, the girls took off the black sleeves on his body, the long black undergarment was completely exposed, and the hem of the undergarment was pulled tightly to wrap around his legs.Ruyizhai held a pipe in his left hand, rested his right hand under his left elbow, lowered his eyes, and asked, "Did you see the person who threw the incendiary bomb?"

"That man was wearing a black cloak, and his face couldn't be seen. With a height of 1.8 meters [-], he should be a male." Wu Xingchen said.

"Where did he go after he smashed the store?"

Wu Xingchen felt very embarrassed, scratching his ears and scratching his cheeks: "At that time, I was busy putting out fires, and the shop was very noisy, something was beeping and beeping, and I was dizzy from the noise, so I couldn't observe it for a while."

Ruyizhai asked him: "Is the diary you went to get all right?"

Wu Xingchen said, "Is this the one from the museum? It's fine."

He said: "Since you have been notified, I will take my leave first."

Ruyizhai took off the black undergarment by himself, and he wore a long black liner next to his body. He walked out of the black clothes on the ground, and the girls were busy picking up and hanging clothes. Smoking on the chair.There is only one chair in the lounge, bright red, in front of the clothes rack.Ruyizhai took a few puffs of cigarettes in front of the black jacket, saw Wu Xingchen: "Is there anything else?"

Both girls laughed and chatted while leaning against the hanger.Wu Xingchen hurriedly said: "No more, let's go now, let's go now."

After leaving the lounge and walking to the door leading to the theater, Wu Xingchen was stopped by a waiter who was guarding there.The waiter said with a smile: "Since the guests have come out of the theater, they can't go back. Please follow the signs to the exit."

Wu Xingchen took a look, and there was indeed a sign posted on the wall next to it, which read: One-way street, go this way.An arrow points behind him.

Wu Xingchen had no choice but to turn around and follow the arrow.Ruyizhai just came out of the lounge, changed into his usual white clothes, put on black leather shoes in the style of dancing shoes, and changed into a cigarette in his hand.He also goes "out this way" and follows the arrow.Wu Xingchen walked with him on the shady narrow path, one behind the other.Wu Xingchen said: "Can't I go back after leaving the theater?"

Ruyi Zhai said: "It's meaningless to have a dream twice."

Wu Xingchen nodded.The two of them came to a fork in the road. There were two forks in the road, one was brightly lit, and the other was blind.The arrow points to the road where you can't see your fingers.Wu Xingchen asked, "I don't know which street the exit is on?"

Ruyizhai said: "Rene Coty Street."

He raised his foot and buried himself in the dark fork in the road.

Wu Xingchen followed, and said, "It turns out that the catacombs in Paris have been transformed into a theater."

Ruyizhai said: "The theater is only a small part."

He was smoking while talking, and sparks flickered around his face.The spark flew into the eye socket of the skeleton on the wall, and then disappeared.Both sides of the aisle are full of human bones.Ribs, femurs, skulls, hand bones.There are the most skulls, each staring into the darkness with sunken eye sockets.

Wu Xingchen asked, "The big part is?"

"Special service. Worker service area." Ruyizhai pointed to the wall.Wu Xingchen cleared his throat and said, "The performance just now was wonderful."

Ruyizhai glanced at him: "Are you afraid of skeletons?"

Wu Xingchen shook his head, Ruyizhai said: "Then why are you looking for something to talk about?"

He said, "Aren't you new humans the most particular about keeping a proper distance between people?"

Wu Xingchen said: "You should really keep a proper distance from strangers, otherwise you will offend others."

Ruyizhai looked at him again, and his eyes fell on his left hand: "Are you broken in love?"

Wu Xingchen said: "I have no plans to find another partner for now!"

Ruyizhai stopped talking.Wu Xingchen said it again: "I have no plans to find another partner at the moment." His voice was a little softer.

He went on to say, "I'm not a stranger to you, is it?"

Ruyi Zhai said: "Isn't it considered a stranger after a few words?"

Wu Xingchen asked, "How did Yagyuya Saburo die?"

Ruyi Zhai said: "Drama is not for you, news is for you."

Wu Xingchen asked: "Is this an ancient play that was recently revived? I've never heard of this story before."

Ruyizhai stopped talking.Wu Xingchen said: "It is still very warning. In terms of love and partnership, reason is too important, otherwise it will lead to the tragedy of Yagyu destroying Meiji and eventually going to destruction. This is a thought-provoking fable story."

Ruyizhai smoked a cigarette and asked, "Why do you think Liu Sheng wanted to kill Meiji?"

Wu Xingchen said: "He was deceived by Mei Ji, so he chose to destroy her."

Ruyi Zhai said: "I have missed a very important link in the process of finding myself deceived to the point of destroying the person who deceived him."

"what?"

Ruyizhai held up a cigarette to write in the air, and some sparks flew loosely to form a word.

anger.

again.

angry.

"Anger, anger?" Wu Xingchen read out.

Ruyi Zhai said: "If a person is deceived, he will destroy the person who deceived him, but if there is no anger in his heart, he is either mentally ill or a robot. In his logic In the setting, deception leads directly to destroying the deceiver."

"Anger..." Wu Xingchen whispered.This was another combination he had never seen before.anger.The word must be quite ancient, and must be of no use to mankind.

Ruyizhai is still talking: "And Miki didn't lie to Yagyu, Miki didn't hang the brand of a loyal and strong woman around her neck, Miki didn't say that she was committed to Liusheng, Liusheng couldn't accept that Miki didn't treat him wholeheartedly , he can't accept the gap between expectations and reality, it's not Meiji who deceived him, it's him who deceived himself, and he can't tolerate such deception."

Wu Xingchen said: "Partners and love are not unique, there is absolutely no need to choose to destroy just to be with someone and love someone."

"Yagyu doesn't love Miki."

Wu Xingchen recalled carefully: "What you said just now is that Liu Sheng loves the beauty he fell in love with too much."

Ruyizhai said: "He can't accept that the white clothes he saw are not Mei Ji's underwear."

Wu Xingchen couldn't figure it out: "Why can't he accept it? Since he can't accept it, then he just needs to leave. If you don't see it, you can see it. Take a step back and see the sea and the sky, isn't it?"

Ruyi Zhai said: "You can speak a lot of old sayings."

Wu Xingchen said: "There is always a reason for words that can be passed down to modern times."

"A word, a word, can be handed down and has its reason, right?"

"Of course."

Ruyizhai smoked and blew smoke: "You can say this word, you can write this word, you can explain this word, and judge whether a word is right or wrong... Interpretation, judgment, is really the biggest insult to a word."

Wu Xingchen said: "If a word cannot be explained, then the meaning it represents is unclear. How can something unclear be passed down?"

Ruyizhai smiled: "It seems that the instinct to reproduce will always be rooted deep in human genes, and cannot be modified or eliminated." He stretched out his hand and walked along the wall.The dark path became more gloomy and colder, a wave of moisture invaded the ground, and the ground became slippery, and the sound of dripping water could still be faintly heard.

Ruyi Zhai said: "You can explain 'OK'."

"When used alone, it is a modal particle, and its synonyms include bra...vo."

"Any questions?"

Ruyi Zhai said: "You may need an ancient Chinese dictionary to help you read Zhu Nanxi's private diary." He looked at Wu Xingchen, "Coincidentally, there is the last one in the store, and I will sell it to you for 1000. Want it?"

Wu Xingchen's voice became louder: "It's rare that you said so much to sell goods?"

Ruyi Zhai said: "Otherwise? Is it because I'm in Paris that I have to discuss love, drama and destruction with you?"

They came to a winding staircase, Ruyizhai went up, Wu Xingchen followed, he couldn't see any light, Ruyizhai's cigarettes were exhausted, and the scattered sparks might not have been seen for a long time.

Wu Xingchen asked: "Do we have to discuss love, drama and destruction in Paris?"

Ruyizhai said: "You can also choose to discuss the disappearing woman. After all, here, the [-]th arrondissement of Paris is restored based on Modiano's novel."

Wu Xingchen looked up at Ruyizhai, and asked, "Did you bring that horse to Paris?"

Ruyizhai said, "What horse?"

"The horse you rode away." Wu Xingchen said, "Is it real?"

Ruyizhai didn't answer, the stairs were still spiraling upwards endlessly.

Wu Xingchen asked again: "You hate artificial intelligence? Hate machines?"

Ruyizhai said a word he couldn't understand, and then said: "I like human beings."

"You like human beings?" Wu Xingchen ran up two steps in a hurry, and there was light approaching. He didn't hear Ruyizhai's answer, and the white light that appeared without warning quickly swallowed Ruyizhai. Chen hurriedly followed.They walked to the street, and stood in front of the street sign on Raspail Avenue, Wu Xingchen said in surprise: "Shouldn't you come out from René Cody Avenue? Didn't you say that the exit is there?"

Ruyi Zhai said: "The bookstore is just ahead, let's go."

Wu Xingchen didn't move, Ruyizhai looked at him, smiled, and said, "Did you see the person who threw the incendiary bomb? Go back to the scene of the crime, maybe you can remember where he went. Don’t you have an unforgettable memory?” Ruyi Zhai also said with a smile: “Isn’t helping others one of the highest virtues in the new era?”

Wu Xingchen said: "Really not to call the police? The criminal will definitely be caught within six hours."

Ruyizhai was still smiling, Wu Xingchen and him walked along Raspail Avenue towards the antique shop.

It was still daytime, and it was still winter, and the streets of Paris were blowing a cold wind, and the virtual buildings on both sides of Boulevard Raspail were shivering in the wind.The unobstructed cold wind that rushed towards the person also brought a burst of plum blossom fragrance.Wu Xingchen looked at Ruyi Zhai who was walking ahead.A few hairs around his ears were blown away, exposing his ears.Wu Xingchen pressed Zhu Nanxi's personal diary to his chest, and wrapped his coat tightly.

Before reaching No. 261, Ruyizhai stood outside the broken window and looked in. The boy who was in charge of the shop ran over, stood in the shop, looked at Wu Xingchen, looked at Ruyizhai, and asked with a smile, "Boss?" Was today's show a success?"

Ruyi Zhai asked him: "Have you seen that person's appearance?"

The boy shook his head.Ruyizhai pointed at the remains of books in the window: "Is this the only thing you want to burn?"

The boy said: "I just burned these. It's a coincidence that someone called just now to ask if there is still Zhu Nanxi's personal diary in the store."

"What did you say?"

The boy put his hands behind his back, shook his head and said, "The shop encountered trouble today, and the diary of Zhu Nanxi displayed in the window has been burned."

Ruyizhai nodded, and ordered: "Leave the rest of the books in the store. When it's time to get off work, pull the iron gate, and you go back first." He winked at Wu Xingchen: "What do you think of?" Yet?"

Wu Xingchen stood on the street and thought carefully, his mind kept flashing every move of the arsonist in the black cloak, he appeared, stopped in front of the window, dropped the incendiary bomb and ran away, he went to...

Wu Xingchen pointed forward: "It should be running there..."

"Let's go." Ruyizhai motioned for him to lead him there.

The two continued walking along Raspail Avenue, and when they came to a broken wall, Wu Xingchen said, "It should have run into it."

Ruyizhai pulled Wu Xingchen over the broken wall. Behind the wall was a cemetery, some tombstones were torn apart, and some tombstones fell on the ground. When approaching the family cemetery of Charles Pijan, Wu Xingchen saw a The man in the black cloak was leaning against the bronze statue of Charles Pijan, with a pair of pale hands stretched out of the cloak.Ruyi Zhai quickly approached, Wu Xingchen still suggested: "Let the police department handle it?"

Ruyi Zhai had already walked in front of the man in the black cloak, and the man in the black cloak remained motionless.Ru Yizhai bent down and lifted the hood of the man's cloak, under the hood was a flowered head, the face could not be seen clearly at all.Several electronic circuits were hissing in the man's head.

Wu Xingchen said: "It's a robot, the chip in the brain is burned, and it may have executed a self-destruct program."

He looked at Ruyizhai, and Ruyizhai grabbed the shoulder of the robot with a blooming head and tried to lift him up from the ground. He tried twice but failed. He looked up at Wu Xingchen: "Can you carry him to a nearby Observatory?" He smiled at Wu Xingchen: "Help others to build a seven-level pagoda for Lesheng. There is always a reason for it to be passed down to modern times, right?"