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When Yan Deng pressed the side button, the screen of the phone went black: "I can't see it."

Yan Ji couldn't help laughing, took the phone and turned it on, looked left and right, this time the baby didn't turn his eyes to look at him, wondering if it was just an illusion.

Yan Ji told Yan Deng what happened on the bus, and Yan Deng encouraged her to take a look.Yan Ji hesitated: "According to recent experience, I should not go out."

Yan Deng asked, "Yesterday you counted one, two, three, four with your fingers. What's the fifth thing?"

Yan Ji and her looked at each other, and suddenly realized: "That's fine."

Yan Ji sent a message back to her mother, asking about the situation of the Wang family.At this time, Lao Zhou was already at work, and Zhao Yunhe was fine at home, so she immediately sent back a WeChat message: Her parents relied on the old house at home, and they didn't open a shop to play cards at home for a long time, and they owed a lot of money and hid everywhere.His girl used to date a foreigner, do you remember, she heard that she was dumped by him.

Through the screen, you can imagine the gossip expression on the face of my mother who is eager to try.

Yan Ji didn't ask where Wang Xiaoping lives now, but asked Zhao Xiaobing about it.Seeing that she insisted on going, Zhao Xiaobing said he wanted to go and see her together.

Yan Ji subconsciously looked at Yan Deng, and seeing that she didn't express, he agreed to go with Zhao Xiaobing. After all, he was really unfamiliar with Wang Xiaoping, and Zhao Xiaobing could liven up the atmosphere.

After tidying up the bowls and chopsticks, Yan Ji yawned, the sleepy bug was extremely sleepy.After sleeping until the afternoon, Yan Ji pushed open the bedroom door, and Yan Deng was sitting on the sofa reading a book.

She was wearing Yan Ji's short-sleeved nightgown, and she stepped on the edge of the tea table with bare feet, her calf was smooth and white, with slender lines.The "Lecture Notes on Physical Chemistry" was spread out on my lap, and I had already read half of it.

"I want to drink."

Yan Ji smiled and said, "You really know how to do things. You won't drink water until I get up?"

Yan Deng turned the pages of the book with his fingertips: "Yes."

"..."

Yan Ji walked towards the kitchen.

After pouring Yan Deng a glass of water, Yan Ji changed his clothes and went out to interview for a delivery job.Before going out, he received a call from Mr. Wang of the lightning car rental company, saying that the insurance company was investigating the loss of the car, and asked Yan Ji to go to the company immediately.

After cooperating with the insurance company's investigation, Yan Ji saw that it was getting late, so he bought two cold noodle dishes and half a roast chicken to take home.Yan Ji was waiting for Zhao Xiaobing at home, but Zhao Xiaobing called and said that his buddies had something to do with him, and he didn't have time to go to Wang Xiaoping's house tonight.

After hanging up the phone, Yan Ji said, "Let's go by ourselves. When I came back in the afternoon, I went around the Women's and Children's Hospital, but I didn't hear the baby crying. The problem should still be with Wang Xiaoping's child."

Yan Ji treats people gently, but always acts decisively.

Yan Deng was studying Liangpi, so he responded casually, "Okay."

Yan Ji unpacked the roasted chicken carton and pushed it in front of her: "I can feel that baby crying very sadly. Do you think my superpower is telepathy? Reading brainwaves?"

Yan Deng dipped his chopsticks into some cold noodle soup, tasted it, and found it wasn't spicy.

Yan Ji picked out the peanuts in the cold skin and continued: "I checked on the Internet, and it was said that various countries are experimenting with the EEG co-frequency network plan. Do you think I will be an official experimental subject? I have been living under surveillance?"

Seeing Yan Ji looking up for the camera, Yan Deng had no choice but to explain: "The voltage changes caused by brain waves are on the order of microvolts, weak, complex, and unstable. As far as we know, only BCI machines of the current military test level can achieve non-contact, close-range and accurate capture. , and can only do simple information decoding.”

Yan Ji asked curiously, "What do you mean?"

"It means that when you see a smile, you can judge whether it's friendly or sarcastic." Yan Deng picked out the peanuts into Yan Ji's bowl, "But you don't know, the other party is thinking about how to invite you to the revolving restaurant for dinner tomorrow .”

Yan Ji smiled and said, "Speak directly, let's go now."

Yan Deng raised his eyes to look at Yan Ji.Her eyes were bright and deep, and Yan Ji was inexplicably guilty when she saw it: "Cough, but there is no revolving restaurant in our city. Cough, you mean that the country has not mastered this technology yet? Then I really have superpowers."

Yan Deng picked up a chopstick of cold skin: "Are you sure?"

Yan Ji: "..."

After dinner, the two went to the supermarket to buy a set of gift boxes for baby products, and then took a taxi to Wang Xiaoping's house.

According to the address given by Zhao Xiaobing, Yan Ji got off the car and found that it looked familiar. It was near the Dongfeng Market where his family used to sell vegetables.

"The change is too great." After walking around for a long time with Yan Deng, Yan Ji finally found the place.This is an urban village, behind several high-rise buildings.

The way in is behind a parking lot. Several steel wire meshes were blocked on the road, and a large hole was cut out by someone, enough to drive a battery car through.

Yan Ji saw that half of the house had been demolished, broken tiles and rubbish were strewn all over the place, and he couldn't see the dark road, so he turned to Yan Deng and said, "If not, don't go. I don't know her well either. Just take a look and go. Can you wait for me at that milk tea shop?"

Yan Deng turned his head and saw that the windows of the milk tea shop were clean and brightly lit. Sitting by the window, he had a great view: "Be careful."

"Don't worry, the police station in the city is only a 5-minute walk from here."

Yan Ji was holding a ten-piece gift box of baby products in his right hand, and a shoulder bag on his left shoulder. He passed through the wire mesh and walked along the path of broken bricks and tiles.

On both sides are the results of bulldozing.Houses full of joys and sorrows collapsed amidst the rumbling of steel machines, with blue bricks, red bricks, cement tiles, door frames and windows stacked together, forming huge, gray tombs in the night.

Some plants can protrude from the gaps in these tombs and thrive as the project runs aground.The sparse plants did not bring vitality, but became more and more barren.They swayed in the sultry evening wind, as if a ghost inside was shaking the spirit banners.

"Hey!"

A tall and thin figure emerged from behind a pile of bricks and tiles. It was dark and his face could not be seen clearly. He stood there like a shadow, bowed his head and put his hands in his trouser pockets: "Beauty, what are you doing?"

Yan Ji replied: "My old classmate's child, let me take a look."

The thin and tall black shadow let out a flattering smile: "Oh, I know, I know, Xu Xun's wife. Beauty, why do you have contact with their family, that family is not a good thing."

Yan Ji smiled, raised his legs and walked forward.

Seeing this, the thin and tall black shadow shouted: "Hey, hey, don't believe it, their family is looking for death, and they can't make it through tonight."

Yan Ji ignored it.

If there really was karma for ghosts, gods and demons, the thin, tall and black shadows would have been educated long ago.

After walking a dozen steps, she turned her head to see that the tall and thin black figure hadn't followed.It's quite strange, people with this kind of personality can't wait to follow other people's house, it seems that Wang Xiaoping and her husband Xu Xun's house is not easy to mess with.It's not surprising if you think about it, this area has been demolished in sevens and eights, and the ones left behind must be nail households.

Wang Xiaoping lives in the family building of the epidemic prevention station, which is an old building from the 70s. It has three floors and a corridor on the first floor.

Yan Ji squinted his eyes and couldn't help being amazed.Two-thirds of the family building in the darkness has been leveled, the broken walls are uneven, and the steel bars are hideous.A bulldozer was resting next to it, and a thick layer of dust had fallen on it.

A third of the remaining dangerous buildings stand among the ruins.Red flags were fluttering on the roof of the building, a huge half-life photo of Mao Zedong was pasted on the wall, and banners with black letters on a white background were hung in the gaps.

Yan Ji hesitated for a few seconds, then approached the dangerous building.There is a black incense burner on a large concrete block in front of the building, with three sticks of incense sticking in it, emitting a little red light.

Yan Ji called tentatively: "Is there anyone there?"

The rusty iron door on the first floor opened with a creak, and the room was so dark that it was hard to see clearly. There was a hunched old lady standing in the crack of the door: "Who are you?"

"I'm Wang Xiaoping's old classmate." Yan Ji walked over slowly, "Come and see her and the child."

The old lady didn't listen to the truth, she poked her head out suddenly: "Looking at the child?"

Yan Ji smelled a bad smell, stopped and lifted the gift box in his hand: "Well, come and see the child."

The stooped old lady stood in the door and yelled, "Why are you alone?"

Hearing the complaining tone of the other party, Yan Ji smiled and said: "He has urgent matters and cannot get away, so I came alone."

"What? Take off your pants?"

Yan Ji didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "He has something to do, so he can't come."

"Oh." The rickety old lady grumbled, "Wait a minute."

Yan Ji stood at the same spot, watching the old lady's body twisting strangely through the crack of the door, with both hands scratching her body.After a while, the stooped old lady came out, holding a key in her hand, and walked up the stairs with her little feet.

Only then did Yan Ji notice that there were seven or eight iron chains wrapped around the stairs from the first floor to the second floor.The iron chain went around the banister of the stairs and hooked on the big iron on the opposite wall.

Yan Ji thought to himself: It really is a real nail household.

The rickety old lady untied the iron chain: "Go up, don't hug my grandson by mistake."

Yan Ji turned sideways and walked up carefully.Approaching the old lady, Yan Ji smelled a stench and heard a "buzzing" sound in his ears.Itching on her face, she raised her hand and pressed it.

Yan Ji didn't dare to stay, so he quickened his pace up the stairs, and walked past the old lady sideways.

She didn't know whether Wang Xiaoping lived on the second floor or the third floor. When she went to the second floor and looked up, she saw that a cement wall had been built on the corridor leading to the third floor, and it was tightly sealed.

Yan Ji raised his hand and saw a black spot on his fingertip by the moonlight, which seemed to be the corpse of some kind of flying insect.It may be that this thing just hit the face, so it feels a little itchy.

The movement downstairs has alarmed the people upstairs. A door on the second floor was opened. It was a man in a white sweater. He was tall, strong and young: "Grandma, is someone here?"

The stooped old lady downstairs responded: "Well, she came alone."

The man in the white shirt saw Yan Ji standing at the stairs, his eyes lit up: "Oh, big beauty, please come in."

Yan Ji didn't want to make an oolong, so he asked politely, "Are you Wang Xiaoping's husband, Xu Xun?"

"Yes yes yes." The man nodded repeatedly and pushed open the door, "I don't know when you will come, otherwise I will pick you up. Please come in quickly. You are too polite, what else do you bring. The room is a bit messy, casually sit."

The room is more than a bit messy, there is no place to stay.

Although the furnishings are simple, a projector is actually installed, and last year's hit movie "Billions From Heaven" is being shown.Both sides of the sofa are full of sundries, and the middle is deeply sunken.Some people may have been sitting there watching movies for a long time, and the sofa cushions have collapsed over time, causing it to look like an invisible person sitting there all the time.

The coffee table is full of rubbish, lunch boxes, ham sausage skins, snack bags, fruit cores, half-eaten duck legs, and cold beer.The ashtray was full of cigarette butts, and the ash was blown by the wind outside the window, sprinkling snow all over the sky.

The air was turbid and sour, and Yan Ji was about to suffocate.

Xu Xun hugged the clothes on the chair and said courteously, "Sit."

"It's okay, you're welcome." Yan Ji stared at the sensor, and didn't hear the baby crying, so he said to Xu Xun, "The main thing is to see Wang Xiaoping and the child."

"Yes, yes, look at the child." Xu Xun nodded repeatedly, stepped forward to push open the bedroom door, and yelled inside, "Are you awake? I'm here to see."

Xu Xun turned his head and smiled at Yan Jidui: "I'll carry you out."

Yan Ji was startled, smiled and said, "No need, I'll go in by myself, just take a look."

Xu Xun hurriedly stepped aside, and Yan Ji walked into the bedroom.