Strangers

"

"Maybe."

"How long will it live?"

"For thousands of years."

"I said this bug."

"Three days."

"It's a lot different."

"Yes, I don't think there is any difference, as far as they are concerned."

Ding Li stopped talking, Qi Xie looked at the jar.After a long time, the latter picked it up and went to the window, unscrewed it, and shook the can mouth downward.

"Actually, you can't see it, this bug." Qi Xie leaned on the window sill.

Ding Li hesitated for a moment, then nodded in recognition.

"You can say it from the beginning." Qi Xie said.

"I don't want to spoil your interest." Ding Li said, "When did you find out?"

"When you said it was bright."

"why."

"Because it's dead."

Qi Xie looked out the window, the empty bottle was on the window sill, and the lights reflected in his eyes.

"Ah Jing."

"Ok?"

"Tell me about any monsters you see in the future." Ding Li said sincerely, "For example, if there are any monsters in this room that I can't see, tell me their names, what they look like, and what their habits are."

"Okay." Qi Xie smiled, pointed at the tip of his fan, "Let's start with the headless little girl behind you."

☆, green clothes

Nothing is less secure than memory.

Beautification, ugliness, grafting, exaggeration... The god of memory is cruel like a villain, carelessly playing with people's spirits, appreciating their collapse, and gentle like a loving mother, trying his best to soothe people and make him forget the past that he cannot face.

Xie Yu sorted out the copies of the diary and walked to the window to get some fresh air.

Qi Xie, Mr. Qi, Boss Qi... So I have this kind of relationship with him.

Regarding the incident in Guixin Jingfang, he thought he was a dispensable bystander, but unexpectedly he was a complete insider.Guixintang aimed at Qi Xie, aimed at him, and set up all kinds of traps, interlocking, like a well-designed detective game.Conspiracy, kidnapping, murder, the thrill of being surrounded by crimes almost made him addicted, and the long-lost spying desire was raging, Xie Yu could hardly suppress the surge in his heart, counting seconds and waiting for the moment when new clues came.

coming--

"The 116 student registration forms of Guixin Jingfang are all here." Wei Yuanyang outside the door handed them over, "What do you want this thing for?"

Xie Yu flipped through the form and let the door open: "Infiltrate the enemy, are you interested?"

"How did this break in?" Wei Yuanyang was taken aback as soon as he walked into the living room of 0813, "Wow, your house has been broken into?"

"I forgot to close the window last night. The wind blows." Xie Yu swept aside the sundries on the ground at random, and asked without pausing, "Have you checked these 116 people, and what is their situation?"

"I picked some before and called to ask about them." Wei Yuanyang put the packing box in his hand on the coffee table, "I rushed here directly from the scene, and I haven't eaten yet, don't you mind?"

"I don't mind, I didn't eat it either." Xie Yu kept his eyes on the form, removed the dovetail clips with one hand, and quickly picked out some of them and put them on the side with the other hand.

"What's the matter?" Wei Yuanyang looked at the lunch box and ordered another takeaway.

Xie Yu didn't raise his head and pointed at the computer: "Go to the website of Guixintang, and check which student activities Jingfang has held in the past six months, and Boss Xun personally participated in them."

"Oh." Wei Yuanyang immediately sat down in front of the computer, pressed Enter and couldn't open it, "Password."

"1208." Xie Yu said.

"It's your birthday." Wei Yuanyang asked casually.

"Zhou Yuan's birthday." Xie Yu replied.

Wei Yuanyang immediately felt that he was talking too much nonsense.

"It doesn't matter, I'm going to change it, otherwise I won't tell you." Xie Yu tapped the paper with the tip of his pen, "Are the pencil words on the side the information you verified by phone?"

Wei Yuanyang cast a glance: "Yes."

Xie Yu picked up the paper again: "I screened and found that these 24 people have never missed a single lesson from the elementary class to the advanced class. It can be said that they are diehard students of Guixin Jingfang. Among them, 5 people came from colleges and universities. From the cadres to the director of the Public Security Bureau, all are above the deputy department level, and three are entrepreneurs with personal net worth of tens of millions."

"Really?" Wei Yuanyang stretched out his head, "Damn it, it's true that you can be rich without being an official."

"There is one more interesting thing." Xie Yu raised the remaining stack of papers, "Except for these 24 people, among the other 92 people, there is only one cadre above the deputy department level. The proportion of people who are rich has risen from 1% to 7.8%, a 33.3-fold increase.”

Wei Yuanyang pondered for a while: "You mean that Guixin Jingfang intends to win over these local tyrants?"

"Who knows." Xie Yu put down the list, "At least to prove one thing, they are not simply offering training courses to cheat some tuition fees."

Not long after the takeaway arrived, the two settled for dinner on the coffee table, and Wei Yuanyang realized that Xie Yu didn't have the habit of talking during meals.

"I just found out about an exchange meeting." After putting the lunch box in the trash can, Wei Yuanyang said, "Guixintang invited some students from Jingfang to visit the Shanghai headquarters. The boss Xun showed up at the meeting."

Xie Yu took a sip of water: "Is there a list of participants?"

"This is their internal information. I can't find the list, only some photos of the scene." Wei Yuanyang came to the computer, Xie Yu took the stack of student registration forms, and compared the ID photos with the photos of the scene one by one. page stopped.

Hou Wei, male, 70 years old.He used to be the dean of a certain college. After retirement, he was introduced to attend a lecture at Guixin Jingfang. Since then, he has been out of control and is now a VIP member of Guixintang.

The most common shirt and tie, carrying a brand-name A briefcase, Xie Yu lowered his head to check the address in his hand, and rang the doorbell of the unit: "Hello, I am the customer service manager of Guixin Jingfang, surnamed Liu, and I made an appointment yesterday. Excuse me. Is Dean Hou at home?"

"Wait a minute." The nanny's voice came from the sound hole, and the door lock snapped open.

Xie Yu put on the prepared shoe covers and walked around the entrance, and saw a portrait of an elderly woman hanging on the side of the living room, and a man in home clothes was sitting on the leather sofa, holding his right hand in front of him, and a gun on his left. crutch.So he pinched the tie knot pretending to be humble, and handed over his business card with both hands and bowed to say hello. Dean Hou pointed to the sofa next to him and invited him to sit down, and asked the nanny to pour water.

After finding an opening remark, Xie Yu politely asked, "How is Dean Hou doing recently?"

"It's still the same." The dean stroked his right leg with his left hand.

Xie Yu guessed that it was a sequela of a stroke, and led the topic: "I heard Teacher Tan talk about your situation before, and now it seems that you are recovering well?"

"That's it, the legs are still inconvenient." Dean Hou smiled and sighed again, "I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen to the two of them suddenly, what a pity..."

"Yes..." Xie Yu echoed, and took out a few promotional materials of Guixin Jingfang from his briefcase at the right time.

Dean Hou flipped through it casually: "Have you changed to Feng Shui now?"

"Yes." Xie Yu nodded, "President Xun has been very concerned about our situation after Mr. Tan's accident, and specially appointed Mr. Qi to come over, hoping to reorganize Jingfang as soon as possible."

Dean Hou didn't ask much, and seemed to put the information aside with little interest.

"Speaking of..." Xie Yu cut directly to the point, "President, you should have met Teacher Xun, right?"

"I've only met once." Dean Hou leaned on the handle of the sofa, squinting into the distance.

——The subconscious action of a person when recalling something.

"Can I ask what happened at that time?" Xie Yu showed interest and explained, "Oh, those of us who are in customer service have no chance to see Teacher Xun in person, so..."

Dean Hou laughed twice: "It seems that your Boss Xun doesn't care enough about the employees!"

Xie Yu nodded with a smile.

Dean Hou did not put on airs: "The exchange meeting was held in Shanghai, and all our students were invited there, that is, to take a stroll, chat, see the development of the city, and have a farewell party on the last day. At the meeting, your Teacher Xun showed up just once."

"Only showed up once?" Xie Yu said regretfully.

"But that was the time." Dean Hou clapped his left hand with his right and said slowly, "I just discovered that there really are such tall people in this world..."

Xie Yu's heart brightened: "How do you say it?"

"At that time, my wife had just passed away, and I planned to take this opportunity to go to Shanghai to relax, so I didn't mention it to my colleagues. I didn't want to be pointed out by your teacher Xun when I just met you at the exchange meeting. He said that there was an accident in my family, so you should pay more attention to your body." Dean Hou smiled, "I didn't believe it at the time, so I asked him what the accident was, and he said the pain of the green clothes."

"Pain in green clothes?"

"I didn't understand it at the time. A person next to him explained it, saying it was the pain of losing his wife. At that time, I felt sad when I heard those four words, and I almost couldn't control my emotions. Your teacher Xun turned around and scolded that person. I Hurry up and say forget it, he comforted me and told me to think about it, then suddenly asked me if my right shoulder was uncomfortable, stretched out his hand and pressed it, I felt a heat in my shoulder, within 2 minutes, it was frozen shoulder for more than ten years It turned out to be good!"

"Really?"

"I wouldn't believe someone said something like this before, if I didn't experience it myself." Dean Hou chuckled, "An old comrade of mine has seen something even more amazing. He said that he once saw your teacher Xun with his own eyes." telekinesis'."

Xie Yu immediately sat closer: "How do you say that?"

"He said that once he participated in a conference, the banner was not hung properly and fell down, and it was about to hit the audience. At this time, someone in the front row waved his hand, and the banner suddenly changed direction and fell to a place where no one was around. He was very surprised at the time, so he asked around, only to find out that the person waving is your boss Xun from Guixintang!"

"So that's how it is." Xie Yu murmured.

After pretending to chat casually for a few more minutes, he stood up: "Then I'm bothering you today."

Dean Hou waved his hand: "Don't bother me, it's pretty good if you can still remember us old students."

"Please take care of your body in the future. If you have any Feng Shui needs, please contact us at any time." Xie Yu raised a paper bag, "This is a little thought from our company."

"Okay, okay." Dean Hou nodded, "You are too polite, you are on the phone and at the same time."

Xie Yu paused unexpectedly: "Phone?"

"Just yesterday." Dean Hou said with a smile, "Your assistant surnamed Qian called and asked me about my recent health condition, and said that I arranged for Xiao Liu to come to my place for a return visit."

When going downstairs, Xie Yu took two deep breaths.

The call was like a taunt, a tease.

I made careful arrangements, carefully disguised myself, and put all my strength on the stage, thinking that I had fooled all the audience, but I didn't know that there was a pair of eyes like ghosts hanging high above the theater, quietly watching him dress up, watching him perform skills, When he is satisfied, he will speak out again, turning all the investigation and spying into a buffoon's performance.

As the cold wind blew across the sidewalk, Xie Yu managed to regain his composure.

Only Wei Yuanyang knew about today's visit, and he would never be Guixintang's eyeliner, so how did Assistant Qian predict his actions. --tapping?monitor?track?What the hell went wrong!

Back at 0813, Xie Yu searched the entire suite thoroughly, but found nothing similar to monitoring equipment.Grasping the last hint of inspiration, he turned his eyes to the trash can and dug out last night's takeaway trash. There was nothing unusual about the two lunch boxes.

"Once all improbable hypotheses have been eliminated, what remains, however absurd, is the truth."

But what if there is nothing left.

The pain in the green clothes, the treatment of illnesses by pressing the shoulders, and the teleportation of objects, can these only be attributed to some unconventional factors?For example……

Before he could think deeply, the rapid ringtone of the mobile phone hit his eardrums:

"Hey, it's me, Wei Yuanyang. Ding Li called just now! Let's go to Liling Mountain and explain the specific situation on the way!"

☆, arrow cluster

"Mr. Qi, did you sleep well last night?" Assistant Qian stood in the entrance, greeting with a half-smile.

"Come to the door early in the morning, what can I teach you?" Qi Xie at the dining table took a sip of tea.

"I have something to trouble you." She handed over a folder.

Qi Xie glanced at it and put it aside: "Sorry, I'm not interested in this kind of inexplicable work."

"It seems that you haven't figured out your situation yet." Assistant Qian pursed her lips intentionally, "Since you've entered Guixin Hall, you don't have the right to say no."

Ding Li thought that the visitor was not kind, and saw her raise her hand, and four burly bodyguards broke into the door!Just as he was about to step forward to stop him, he realized that these people were coming for him!

With a backhand twist and pressed against the wall, the bodyguards held Ding Li firmly, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break free.

Qi Xie watched all this with a blank face, and Assistant Qian shrugged obediently at him.

"Okay." Qi Xie put down his teacup, "I'll go."

"Hey -!" Ding Li just raised his head, but was pushed back.

"Don't worry." Qi Xie smiled and threw him three words as comfort.

The car was waiting downstairs, the driver was not the usual Master Zhang, but a young man with a stern look on his face, Assistant Qian sat in the co-pilot, and the bodyguards put Qi Xie in the back seat.The atmosphere was dignified all the way, when we reached the foot of the old city wall in the northwest section of the moat, the car stopped, the bodyguard shoved Qi Xie's back, and he walked down the slope.

"The entrance is just below." Assistant Qian stood on the embankment, pinched his waist with one hand and looked down at him.

Qi Xie chuckled: "If you want to kill me, just do it, why beat around the bush."

Assistant Qian Yanran: "Why would I want to kill you? It's just to let you sneak in to get something."

"According to the picture, the place is at least three miles away from the entrance, six or seven miles back and forth. I'm afraid I will become a water ghost before I dive halfway."

"The devil has the way of the devil, and the immortal has the immortal bridge. For an omnipotent person like you, how can a few miles of waterway be so rare?"

Qi Xie looked at the turbid river, and the bodyguard threw something, which slammed into the hay pile at his feet.

"I'll give you four hours." Assistant Qian shook his watch, "If you don't come back by then, we will send Dr. Ding to be buried with you."

"That's not bad." Qi Xie bent down to pick up the searchlight at his feet, supported the rocks on the shore, and fell into the water.

boom!

Kicking at the door, Ding Li turned around and opened the window, watching Qi Xie downstairs being pushed into a car.

In the end it's still like this...

Ding Li tightened his five fingers on the window rail, watching the car start slowly, turn around, and disappear into the corner of the building.

I thought I could help him share something, but in the end it became his burden.Ding Li slammed his fist on the window frame, and a blue bruise immediately swelled up on the back of his hand.

The mobile phone was confiscated long ago, and the phone could only be used to make internal calls. Xiaotao did not come to deliver food until noon, and all external contact was cut off. For the first time, Ding Li, who has been under house arrest since then, has a real feeling: this room is a prison, hopeless and cold , can not be resisted.

There was nothing he could do but wait.

A sense of powerlessness slowly enveloped his whole body, Ding Li raised his hand unconsciously, and took hold of the mahogany bead on the neckline.

Six hours later, the door broke open again, and the bodyguard carried a person and threw him heavily on the sofa.

Ding Li rushed over, only to see Qi Xie's eyes closed tightly, his face pale, his whole body was soaked with muddy water dripping down the corner of his clothes.

"What did you do to him!" Ding Li yelled angrily, only to be answered by the sound of closing the door.

The carotid pulsation disappeared and he did not breathe spontaneously. Ding Li reassured himself that there was nothing serious about Qi Harmony's abnormal physique, and at the same time judged that he should be in drowning shock.Turning his body sideways to control the water in the mouth and nose, Ding Li lifted him to the ground, laid him flat, unbuttoned his coat, and pressed his heart.

On the count of No.30, he was pushed away.

"Do you want to break my ribs..." Qi Xie said while coughing, choking out a few saliva.

"Ah Jing!" Ding Li quickly helped him up.

Qi Xie sat up with support, hoarse voice: "Don't speak loudly, it's very noisy..."

Ding Li breathed a sigh of relief: "You scared me to death."

Qi Xie pulled the skirt of his clothes: "I told you earlier, this is how I fell asleep."

Ding Li looked at the mud, sand and water plants all over his body: "Did you sleep on the river bed?"

Qi Xie also looked at him: "I'm going to take a shower."

As soon as he stood up, he fell back onto the sofa in a flash.

Ding Li held him down: "Don't move around, lie down for a while, I'll get you some water."

"How did I come back?"

"Brought back by some thugs."

"when."

"Just now."

"Really." Qi Xie stared straight at the air, "They didn't throw such a 'dead man' into the morgue when they fished it out."

"Stop talking, take a break first."

"Either they forgot to check whether I was dead, or they found out that I have a special constitution, or..."

"Ah Jing?" Ding Li bent down to look at him, "Shut up, lie down, now."

"I'm all right."

"Find a mirror to see your face and say you're fine."

Qi Xie sighed helplessly and leaned back on the sofa, staring blankly at the ceiling until he was soaked in warm water before recovering a little color.

Ding Li pushed the main guard away, and the shower curtain on the opposite side closed with a clatter.

"Will you knock on the door?" The inside was displeased.

"You're not a woman." Ding Li dragged a stool, "Put the clean clothes here."

"know."

"What service do you want, sir, pinching your feet, rubbing your back, massage?"

Only then did Qi Xie laugh, and opened half of the shower curtain to hand over something. Ding Li took it. It was a bronze mirror with a diameter of nine centimeters, with patterns of birds and animals engraved on the back.

"Things from the Three Kingdoms period are probably worth seven or eight thousand." Qi Xie leaned on the bathtub, "I picked it up by the way."

"What exactly did she ask you to do?" Ding Li was puzzled.

"Go into the storehouse of Cao Wei Yunbing Road and get an arrow cluster."

"There is a military path here? Isn't it in Bozhou?"

"Yes, but it is flooded, and the entrance is just under the moat."

"Oh." Ding Li put down the bronze mirror, "You should be good at water, why did you do this?"

Qi Xie snorted coldly: "You try to swim ten miles in one breath?"

"Don't try, I can't even swim half a meter."

"One breath," he repeated.

Ding Li was taken aback for a moment, and finally understood the meaning: "You mean you can't take a breath in the middle?"

Qi Harmony nodded.

"You don't really need to breathe, though."

"It's only necessary when you're fast asleep." Qi Xie picked up water and washed his face, "The troop transport road is completely submerged under the water, it's made of bricks, the width is two or three meters, and the narrowest can only accommodate one person. It is covered with aquatic plants, and it takes a lot of effort to swim. The armory is at the east end, and there are seven forks. I read the map several times before remembering each turn. Yes. I kicked open a hole, got in and picked up an arrow cluster, and there were quite a lot of things around, and estimated that this bronze mirror was the most valuable, so I took it away."

Ding Li laughed: "Do you still have time to guess this?"

"Thieves don't leave empty space."

"That's a derogatory term, don't use it so smoothly."

"Then I swam back and the original passage collapsed at some point. I remembered that there was another way to go around, but I couldn't remember exactly where, so I called a few water ghosts to discuss with them and let them lead the way. "

"You're threatening him again." Ding Li saw that he had a criminal record.

"No, it's a discussion." Qi Xie reiterated, "I'm at a disadvantage in the water."

"Then they agreed?"

"Well, they said yes, and then led me to a dead end."

"why?"

"Reproduction."

Ding Li let out an ah in surprise.

"What are you thinking?" Qi Xie glanced at him, "If I drown, the number of water ghosts will increase. This is how they reproduce."

"Oh." Ding Li heaved a sigh of relief.

"At this time, I had already started to feel hypoxic, and I was completely lost. The searchlight in my hand flickered a few times before it went out."

"Then what to do."

"Of course I'm groping to go back. Why don't you sit down and reminisce about your life?" Qi Xie brushed off the wet hair on his forehead, "I remember that there are several landslides in the passage marked on the map, and there is no loop in the middle, that is to say, as long as you stick If you walk in a certain direction, you will definitely be able to return to the entrance, so I kept swimming along the right, and I didn’t see the light of the exit for almost two hours.”

"Wait a minute." Ding Li interrupted him, "It's all black there?"

"Otherwise, do you think the municipal engineering will install street lights there?"

"But you can see it on the island in the middle of the lake."

"It's just that my eyesight is better than ordinary people's. No matter how dark the land is, there is still a faint light, but there is no light in the passage."

"Then won't you be afraid?" Ding Li asked suddenly, "In such a deep place underwater, alone, it's cold, lost, lack of oxygen, and still can't see anything."

"No, the more nervous you are, the more oxygen you consume, unless I don't plan to come back alive."

"It's human nature to be afraid."

"I'm not human." Qi Xie looked at the wall, his tone was too indifferent.

Ding Li looked into those lifeless eyes, and his chest tightened inexplicably.

"Later, when the oxygen and physical energy were almost exhausted, I started to have a headache, and my whole body was exhausted, so I could only move forward bit by bit while holding onto the aquatic plants." Qi Xie raised his head and said slowly, "Finally, I saw a light in front of me. , I don’t know if it was a hallucination, but I didn’t have the strength to swim over, and I lost consciousness after choking on a few sips of water. Now that I think about it, maybe the current pushed me out, and I was picked up by the salvage on the shore. Fortunately, the bronze mirror was tucked in. They didn't notice the lower back."

Ding Li didn't know whether to cry or laugh for a moment: "You still have the mind to take care of that thing."

"Thieves don't leave empty space."

"Understood." Ding Li smiled wryly.

Qi Xie raised his head and closed his eyes, resting his neck on the edge of the bathtub, Ding Li tested the water temperature, and turned on the hot water faucet a little.

"I'm a little guilty right now." Qi Xiong said in a deep voice, maintaining that posture.

"Are you afraid?" Ding Li asked.

"I don't understand why she asked me to fish for a worthless arrow cluster."

"To test your strength."

"Others would have drowned a dozen times with this kind of heuristic." Qi Xie opened his eyes slightly, "Maybe she knew about my abnormality and wanted to use this method to verify... No, if you want to verify a Whether a person needs to breathe, just take a basin of water and press his head in, there is no need to be so troublesome at all. Heh, it seems that this is not a verification, but a declaration..."

Ding Li was puzzled: "What are you announcing?"

"Announce that Guixintang knows everything about me." Qi Xie took a deep breath, "Even those things that I thought I kept secret and could not be known by anyone, such as physique, ability, and diary."

"Could it be that you're overthinking it?" Ding Li comforted.

The water vapor on the ceiling finally condensed into a point, dripped, and fell.

"Ding Li."

"Ah."

"Do you think I know everything?"

"almost."

"That's because I know a ghost. I nodded and shook my head. It's the one who knows everything, not me." Qi Xie looked straight at the ceiling, "Actually, I don't know anything."

Ding Li wanted to say something, but was at a loss for words.

"I once asked it about Guixintang, but it didn't dare to say it because it couldn't offend Master Xun." Qi Xie reached out and turned off the faucet, "This means that in front of Boss Xun, it has probably already told everything, including My residence, habits, experiences, and family background, that's why Guixintang is so aware of my weakness, maybe from the beginning, I have no chance of winning..."

"Don't think so, there is no unparalleled road." Ding Li comforted him.

"Forget it." Qi Xie sighed softly, "I will negotiate with Qian Sining tomorrow, and she should let you go back. By the way, tell the two of them not to meddle in this matter anymore."

"What about you?" Ding Li asked.

"You don't have to worry about my affairs..."

drop.Another drop of water fell, fell into the hair, and slowly slid across Qi Xie's forehead and eyebrows.

"I won't leave." Ding Li said.

"Don't be stubborn." Qi Xiong said softly.

"That's not being stubborn."

"It's hard for me to do this."

"Then what do you want from me? Just go back like this if you don't care?"

"It's me that Guixintang is following, and it has nothing to do with you." Qi Xie said calmly, "Actually, it doesn't matter what my nature is. I live in Zhiguai Zhai, and I live in Guixintang. It doesn't matter to me. No difference."

"It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter what it is." Ding Li emphasized his tone.

Qi Xie looked up at the ceiling: "Do you believe in fate?"

"I don't believe it." Ding Li said firmly.

"I believe. If I die today, it will be my life."

"Chen Jing, I think your way of life is boring."

Qi Xie smiled: "I'm not necessarily alive."

"Who said two days ago that he didn't want to be passive anymore and wanted to accompany him to the end?"

He still smiled: "I said big things in a moment of impatience, forget about it."

Ding Li took a deep breath and nodded, turned around and left.

Dusk slanted into the living room, the ashtray on the coffee table gradually filled up, and Qi Xie didn't even step out of the bedroom.

"What you want." Assistant Qian hooked a plastic bag, "Where's Mr. Qi?"

Ding Li took a puff of cigarette: "In the bedroom."

Throwing two folders in front of him: "Then you tell me that after these two cases are resolved, Master Xun will see him in person."

Ding Li tapped a piece of cigarette ash: "What do you guys want?"

"Not much, and let him not have to worry about negotiating, we will not let you go back for the time being."

"That's not bad."

"Leave early in the morning the day after tomorrow. Tell him to make some preparations. We will provide you with a list in advance if you need anything." Assistant Qian stopped, "By the way, there is another good news. become free."

Ding Li looked up.

"Don't get excited, I mean you, the guard officer, and the young master of the Xie family. When he sees Master Xun, Guixintang will stop threatening him with your lives."

"What about him?" Ding Li asked.

"That depends on him." Assistant Qian shrugged lightly, "But you should know what it means."

Ding Li paused every word: "I don't know."

"This means that he will probably die in the case." Assistant Qian turned away with a smile.

☆, Zhu Xin

Qi Xie read the two documents quietly, sorted them out, and put them back on the coffee table.

"What's the plan?" Ding Li asked.

"There is no way out." Qi Xie looked directly at him, "And this deal is very profitable, I will do it."

Ding Li didn't say a word, he picked up the lighter and lit another cigarette, after taking two puffs, Qi Xie coughed, and he reached out his hand to put it out in the ashtray.

"I heard what Assistant Qian said." Qi Xie cleared his throat, "I don't know if you remember, but I told you just now: I will negotiate with Qian Sining tomorrow, and she should let you go back. And she also said : Let him not have to worry about negotiating, we will not let you go back for the time being."

Ding Li paused: "I thought she said that because you had talked to her before."

"No." Qi harmony said.

Ding Li immediately looked around the roof.

"Don't look for it, it's not eavesdropping or surveillance, it's just a nodding and shaking your head ghost."

"What kind of monster is that?"

"A palm-sized copper-green monkey, it doesn't matter whether it is one or a family, in short, it can appear in any time and space at the same time, so it can see and hear everything..." Qi Xie I couldn't help coughing a few more times.

Ding Li patted his back casually: "I choked on so much dirty water, be careful of aspiration pneumonia."

"No, I haven't been sick for more than ten years."

"Usually when people say they haven't been sick for a long time, they get seriously ill."

"I'm not human." Qi Xie tightened his front.

Ding Li didn't persuade him any more, got up and left.

Qi Xie nestled into the sofa, staring at the dark blue air, wondering what to think, until a blanket was draped over his shoulders before he came back to his senses.

"Drink while it's hot." Ding Li handed over a bowl of soup.

Qi Xie put away the surprise and took a sip: "What."

"Scallion and white beard, five qian for ginger slices, ten jujubes, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar. The old prescription passed down by my grandfather is specially used to drive away the cold. After drinking and sleeping, it will heal after sweating."

"When will you sell yourself and boast." After Qi Xie said, he drank it with his head raised.

"This is ginger soup, not Zhuangyuanhong." Ding Li looked at him with his chin on his hands.

"I thought about it just now, and I suddenly understood why she asked me to get the arrow clusters." Qi Xie put the bowl on the coffee table, and uttered five words, "Kill the heart first."

Ding Li saw that he had cheered up a little, and finally felt relieved: "How do you say that?"

Qi Xie snorted softly: "With half a move, he beat me back to my original shape. The surname Xun is proud of himself now. Since he has found out everything about his family, I don't need to hide it. Why don't I just spread my cards out?" Just take a gamble, I'd like to see if he dies or I live."

"Don't believe in fate?" Ding Li teased.

"Come here." Qi Xie waved the blanket away, stood by the floor-to-ceiling window and pointed downstairs, "There is a row of street lights, see that?"

Ding Li turned his head sideways following his pointing: "I see."

"The fourth lamp from the left, how is it different from the others?"

"Half light and half black?"

"Why is it half black."

"you ask me?"

"Correct."

"Probably the plastic of the lampshade has aged."

"Would you believe me if I said I could light it up now?"

Ding Li thought about it: "I will believe what you say."

"why."

"I don't know, I always feel that you can do something beyond common sense."

"Okay, let me tell you the truth, the light is fully on, you think it is half dark, because there is a monster called a dry ray lying there blocking the light, now I drive it away, the light will be on stand up."

Ding Li watched Qi Xie close his eyes, muttered something silently, and waved his sword lightly.Huh, a small gust of wind passed, Ding Li looked at the lamp again.

Qi Xie asked him: "Is it bright?"

Ding Li hesitated for a moment: "No."

"Yes, no." Qi Xie leaned back against the glass window, looking at the black and blue living room, "Anyone who listened to what I said just now would think I'm crazy, but why do you believe me?"

Ding Li held his chin and thought for a moment: "From a subjective point of view, I am willing to believe you. From an objective point of view, since you can break a sword in the air, it is not surprising to light a lamp."

"Really." Qi Xie pondered for a long while and said, "Maybe I'm too tired today, let's try again tomorrow."

After speaking, he went to the study.

"Ah Jing." Suddenly shouted from behind.

Qi Xie turned around, only to see Ding Li staring out of the window intently, and the half-dumb light bulb suddenly jumped twice, snapping, emitting a dazzling beam of light.

Ding Li was stunned: "Ah Jing, you are amazing."

Qi Xie shook his head: "You have been mistaken about one thing. It's not me, but you."

"Huh?" Ding Li opened his eyes suspiciously.

Qi Xie smiled slightly, and looked out through the glass again: "Find out what's wrong downstairs for me."

Ding Li didn't know and went in: "There is a car at the intersection that has stalled."

"This is normal."

"There is a camphor tree next to the fountain. The other trees are fine, but it is withered."

"That's normal too."

"Huh?" Ding Li looked directly below, Qi Xie squinted and saw that the air-conditioning condenser pipe on the 37th floor was split, and the water dripped rapidly along the outer edge, and suddenly stopped when it fell to the [-]th floor, and then It fell strangely at a uniform speed until it melted into the ground.

Qi Xie smiled: "That's because there is a monster on the outer wall of the building, called Banmogou, it is like a huge dark green gel, as wide as twenty floors. Those drops of water fell to the top of it Up, and then slide down slowly, you will see this phenomenon."

Ding Li nodded, Qi Xie opened the window to the maximum, and the night wind came in, messing his forehead hair.

"Are you going to drive away the monster?" Ding Li asked.

"No." Qi Xie looked downstairs bravely, "I want to jump from here."

"You have a fever, go to bed."

"It's okay, I can jump on top of it and slide down to the ground, it'll be fine."

"impossible."

"You said it, and you believed me."

"This is the second floor."

Qi Xie ignored it and jumped onto the window sill.

Ding Li quickly grabbed him: "What are you doing!"

Qi Xie scratched at the window frame: "I said it will be fine."

"You're crazy!" Ding Li glared at him.

"As long as you believe in me, you're not crazy." Qi Xie stepped forward.

"No!" Ding Li dragged him down.

"Forget it." Qi Xie finally let go.

With a long sigh of relief, Ding Li held his shoulders: "Boss Qi, I think I will have a heart attack sooner or later because of your fright."

Qi Xie patted his arm: "Don't worry, I won't dance today."

"You can't dance tomorrow!"

"Yes Yes."