black mist
Chapter 22
In fact, not only Jian Tong, but even Wen Yan, who was born and raised in Chunxia Town, has no reason why he can't go to Jinghu in his impression.When he was young, his father also repeatedly told him not to get close to the mirror lake, but his father didn't seem to tell him why he couldn't get close to the mirror lake.
Not only fathers, in Chunxia Town, almost every adult will tell their children not to approach Mirror Lake, just like taking a breath before flying a paper airplane, everyone says and does that, but no one seems to be able to tell Why come.
Wen Yan searched in his memory, but found nothing. The reason seemed to be blurred in people's word of mouth. In the end, only the relatively simple but most critical part of the conclusion was passed down.
But what Wen Yan wanted to know was not only the conclusion, but also why, what is the reason why people avoid Jinghu Lake?
Wen Yan didn't get a response for a long time, Jian Tong was wrapped in a blanket, and carefully tugged at his brother's sleeve: "...brother?"
"Oh... sorry, I thought of something." Wen Yan glanced at Jiantong, "Actually, I don't know why I can't go to Jinghu Lake."
Of course Jian Tong would not mind his brother's absence, he thought for a while, and continued the topic himself: "I heard Guo Xiaopang say it once before. Those who died during the period were piled up by the lake, and no one cared to bury them. Wild dogs and wolves couldn't find anything to eat, so they went there to find food. Later, an evil creature was raised in the random graveyard. For a long time, people in the town did not dare to go to the edge of Jinghu Lake, until more than ten years ago, an expert passed by Chunxia Town and sealed the evil things, and then it got better."
"Why do you guys talk about this?" Wen Yan has also heard of this statement. The random graves are true, but more than ten years ago, the town spent a lot of effort to clean up the surrounding area of Jinghu Lake and leveled the random graves. Since then, We will no longer talk about the color change of the lake.As for the masters and evil things, Wen Yan remembered that this was purely processed and polished by a boring student on a local forum, and it has not been confirmed.
As for the mass graves, where in the land of Huaguo has no one died?Just because it used to be a random graveyard, even if more than ten years have passed, children are not allowed to go to the side?That's really not the case.
"He's been practicing telling me ghost stories, but it's not scary at all." Jian Tong thought for a while, "But after going through these things, it has become a little scary."
Wen Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he could only rub Jian Tong's half-dry hair: "He told you a ghost story, but you can't take it seriously."
Jian Tong has always been handy with such things as making progress with an inch. If his brother stretches out his hand, he can hug it.Wen Yan's hand rubbing his head couldn't be retracted, but Jian Tong hugged him quickly: "I didn't believe in these gods and ghosts at first, so I didn't feel afraid, don't I believe it now?"
Wen Yan didn't withdraw his hand, he just sighed softly: "Little fool, this is here, reality is reality." How can there be so many gods and ghosts in reality?
Wen Yan looked sideways at Jian Tong's whirling hair, and the desire to go back became stronger—wanted to go back, wanted to take Jian Tong back to their world.
Thinking of this, Wen Yan's eyes sank, and he planned everything in his heart to do after going out.
As for when she could go out, Wen Yan actually had a guess in her heart - the first time Jian Tong disappeared, she went back at eight o'clock the next morning, and the second time, they were dragged into this world together until noon They didn't leave until twelve o'clock, and there was a full four hours difference between eight o'clock and twelve o'clock. According to this rule, they would probably be able to leave this world at four o'clock in the afternoon today.
As for whether this guess is correct, we can only wait until four o'clock in the afternoon to verify it.
Compared with the thoughtful Wen Yan, Jian Tong is obviously more relaxed. I don't know if it's because Wen Yan is by his side, or because the ghosts in this world may also be restricted by the sun. After he landed, the surroundings have been calm and there is nothing unusual. occur.
Jian Tong and Wen Yan sat on the shore, chatting one after another. Although they felt that there were still many things to do, they were really tired. Even if they couldn't lie down and take a nap, they just let themselves go Chatting freely can be regarded as a kind of rest.
Besides, Jian Tong really enjoys this quiet time alone with her sweetheart.
When it was almost four o'clock, in order to prevent the embarrassment of losing the means of transportation, Wen Yan asked Jian Tong to change into dry clothes, while he packed his backpack and tools, and the two returned to the car together.
As soon as four o'clock arrived, the mobile phone's signal was restored, and all kinds of SMS and WeChat information alerts rang out all at once. it's time.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, they returned to the real world. Wen Yan's heart sank. It seemed that his guess was correct.
This is not good news. The time they leave here is four hours later than the day before, which means that, in a short time, their time in reality will be compressed to nothing. At that time, they may be Can't get out anymore.
They don't have much time, and they are full of plans, and there are still two days.
The only good news right now is that the car has not been reset because both of them stayed in the car, and they still have the means of transportation from Jinghu Lake back to the town.
Because of time constraints, Wen Yan's plan to take a good rest after returning to reality can only be put on hold temporarily, but this does not mean that Jian Tong needs to stay with him.
Jian Tong's physical exertion today is really too great, he is running and diving, he needs rest more than Wen Yan.
So Wen Yan didn't tell Jian Tong his guess about the time in time, but drove his younger brother home directly.
As soon as he got home, Jian Tong proposed to take a bath and change his clothes. He had been in the water, even though the water in Jinghu Lake looked clear enough, his clothes were already dry, but when he thought of him watching at the bottom of the lake, The scene he saw was enough to make him respond.
In fact, as soon as he got ashore, Jian Tong couldn't wait to wash his body, but they were in that environment, it was impossible for him to take a bath with peace of mind, and he would cause trouble for his brother, so he suppressed the desire to take a bath idea.
But it is different now, he is back home, he is in a safe environment, and he no longer needs to force himself to endure.
When they came back, it happened that their father was working at home. Jian Tong said hello and rushed to Wen Yan's room to take a bath, but Wen Yan was stopped by his father and questioned: "When did you go out? What did you do? "
"Go out before you get up, I have something to do." Wen Yan passed the topic ambiguously.
"Is that so." The father nodded and asked again, "Are you two brothers together?"
"En." Wen Yan responded, "We went out together, what's the matter?"
"That's pretty good, it seems that you get along well." Father paused, showing a gratified expression, "I'm afraid you won't be able to accept having an extra brother for a while."
"Didn't we talk about this issue before, I support you to reorganize the family," Wen Yan said, "and Tongtong is very good."
"That's good." Father pushed his glasses, and then returned his attention to the laptop in front of him.
Wen Yan did not leave immediately after being cross-examined, but took this opportunity to ask his father a question that he cared about: "By the way, Dad, I have something to ask you."
"What's the matter?" The father was distracted from his work again, and looked up at Wen Yan.
Wen Yan asked: "Do you still remember, when you were young, you told me not to go near Jinghu Lake."
Father thought for a while, then nodded: "It seems to be the case."
Wen Yan asked: "Why?"
Father was stunned when he heard the words: "Why? Don't everyone say that?"
The father and son looked at each other with question marks on their faces.
In the end, Wen Yan said: "Think about it, is it because something bad happened that we are forbidden to approach Jinghu Lake?"
Father thought about it as he said, frowned and said: "When I was young, this saying has already been spread." It seems to be a customary rule in the whole Chunxia Town, and he just told what he knew and told killed his child.
Specifically why he couldn't get close to Jinghu Lake, my father couldn't tell after thinking about it for a long time.Wen Yan thanked his father, then called his friends and asked them to ask the elders in the family why they couldn't get close to Jinghu Lake.
Just like before Jian Tong persistently believed that Jinghu was the mirror they were looking for, at this moment, Wen Yan also had a faint premonition in his heart - as long as he figured out why he couldn't get close to Jinghu, he might grasp the ultimate mirror. important clues.
It may not be without cause.
Wen Yan seldom asks his friends to do something for him. It is a rare time when he asks for help, and everyone is very attentive. However, almost all the answers are similar to those of Wen Yan’s father. They all know it but don’t know why.
After asking many people, Wen Yan got a different answer from a friend's grandmother.
A friend said: "I asked my grandmother, and she said that in her memory, people's taboo against Jinghu seems to be related to some disappearance cases."
"The missing case?" Wen Yan was taken aback.
In a place like Chunxia Town, where the folk customs are fairly simple, there have never been any vicious cases. Compared with a bunch of petty theft cases, the disappearance of persons is already a very serious case in the town.
Every time someone goes missing, the whole town is full of uproar, even Wen Yan, who doesn't like to listen to other people's gossip, has heard of it.
It's just that he never connected the missing case with the world of Mirror Lake.
When it comes to disappearance, most people think of whether this person secretly went out to work or find another way out, or worse, think of being murdered, but no matter what, no one would think of these disappearances The case has something to do with the rippling Mirror Lake outside the town.
But once you notice their connection, everything seems to be logical!
If there are other people who have experienced what he and Jian Tong have experienced, then for people in the real world, isn't this person missing?
But if he can figure it out, it doesn't mean that people who have never entered the world of Mirror Lake can also figure it out. The information they get is not equal.
It is impossible for people who have not entered the world of Mirror Lake to know what happened in the world of Mirror Lake, but they have come to the same conclusion as him, so they must have clues that he does not know.
This clue may be crucial to him.
So, Wen Yan asked his friend: "How did your grandmother tell you, can you repeat it in detail?"
"Of course no problem," my friend recalled, "my grandma said that it was decades ago. At that time, there were several cases of disappearances in the town every year. Those who disappeared were neither dead nor dead. Until now, no one has seen them again. This kind of unreasonable disappearance continued until more than ten years ago, when someone came to perform a ritual ceremony, and the town did not disappear frequently."
Wen Yan was shocked because he found that what his friend's grandmother said and the ghost story Guo Xiaopang told Jian Tong overlapped and complemented each other, but there was still something that didn't make sense...
Wen Yan asked again: "Did they disappear near Jinghu Lake? Why do you think that the disappearance case is related to Jinghu Lake?"
"Wait, I'll ask you." The friend took the phone to find his grandmother, and after some communication, he replied to Wen Yan, "I just told you that those people didn't come back, it's actually not accurate, Most of them did, with the exception of one man who returned after two years of disappearance."
Wen Yan: "... what?!"
A friend said: "When someone was passing by the edge of Mirror Lake, he picked up an unconscious person and came back. After picking it up, he found that this person disappeared two years ago. After he woke up, he was very emotional and kept yelling. Jinghu can eat people, and there is a place hidden in Jinghu, where all the missing people are hidden."
"Those whose family members were missing searched Jinghu Lake with a glimmer of hope, but found nothing." The friend sighed, "Later, he began to become supernatural, moody, and crazy, and everyone refused to let him know." Believe what he says."
"However, at that time, in order to appease people's hearts, the town sent people to spend great efforts to clean up the random graves around Jinghu Lake, and invited a master to come and erect a monument on the back mountain. It is strange to say that after that, the missing Cases cannot be said to have disappeared, but they are not so frequent anymore, and only happened once in a few years. Everyone thinks it is evil, so they don’t go near Mirror Lake any more.”
Wen Yan felt that there seemed to be a thread connecting everything, but some key clues were still missing on this thread, so he still couldn't get a glimpse of the whole picture.
Wen Yan suddenly thought of the strange scene that Jian Tong had told him before, when he went down to the lake, he saw the strange scene at the bottom of the lake, and asked his friend: "Those who searched for Mirror Lake, have they seen it when they went down to the lake?"
"Wait," the friend asked grandma again, and replied, "Why haven't I seen it? Mirror Lake was searched several times, inside and outside the mirror lake, and the surrounding [-] to [-] kilometers away, but nothing was found."
Wen Yan thought for a while: "Does your grandma still remember the person who came back after disappearing? What's his name?"
"My grandma said that she can't remember clearly. It has been more than ten years. She just vaguely remembers such a person. Who is it and what is his name? She can't remember clearly. She only remembers that he went crazy after he was found. That's why everyone calls him the old madman."
After thanking his friend, Wen Yan hung up the phone and silently sorted out the clues he got from his friend.
Judging from the known clues, this old lunatic must be a key person. After all, he is the only one who has been confirmed to have escaped from the world of Mirror Lake. If he can be found and learned about his experience...
It is possible for Wen Yan and Jian Tong to learn from his experience and escape from the mirror lake.
Now, finding this old lunatic is the key. There are still many things to do, but Wen Yan's time is running out.
Fortunately, he still has a shortcut to take.
Wen Yan pulled out the address book and called his buddy who had the best relationship with him in high school. This buddy was two years ahead of him. He hadn't graduated yet, but his buddy had already returned to the small town and became a glorious people's policeman.
Because the relationship is so good, Wen Yan even skipped the polite opening remarks and went straight to the point: "Help me check someone."
The young police officer who was just about to get off work stopped the steps that were about to step out of the office: "What?"
"A man disappeared more than ten years ago, and reappeared two years later. He became crazy, so everyone called him an old lunatic." Wen Yan quickly told his friend the summarized information, "Help me look it up. , what's his name, where does he live now?"
"You are invading citizens' privacy!" My friend snorted.
"I need to find him for something very important." Wen Yan emphasized, "I'm in a hurry!"
The young police officer sighed: "Okay, I probably know who this person is, and I will send the information to your mobile phone later."
Wen Yan smiled: "Thank you brother."
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Jian Tong came out after taking a shower and changed into clean clothes. She wandered around the room but didn't see Wen Yan, so she was impatient.
This is also one of the sequelae caused by Jinghu World - he can't bear to be separated from Wen Yan for a long time.Before Jian Tong realized it, Wen Yan had already hooked up with his sense of security.
Seeing him jumping in a hurry, Father Wen, who was working at home, gave him a faint look: "Why are you looking for him in such a hurry? Call him!"
Jian Tong slapped his forehead suddenly, he was used to the unusable state of the phone in Jinghu World, he never thought of the fact that he could still make calls.
As a result, as soon as the call was dialed, Wen Yan entered the door. He glanced at the caller ID, raised his head and asked Jian Tong: "What's wrong?"
"Little tadpole is looking for elder brother." Father Wen, who was buried in his work, raised his head and "explained" for Jian Tong, but the youngest son interrupted angrily, "...Dad!"
Wen Yan smiled, and reached out to touch Jian Tong's head. Jian Tong's hair was very soft, and it felt very comfortable to the touch. Recently, Wen Yan always reached out to rub it from time to time, and the decompression effect was first-class.
Wen Yan glanced at the time, it was already past five o'clock, so he said to Jian Tong: "Go and rest for a while." For Jian Tong this day, the consumption was too great, even with Wen Yan's company he There have been several short breaks intermittently, but compared to the physical strength he consumed, it is still a drop in the bucket.
Jian Tong's ghost-fighting physique in the mirror lake world is doomed that he cannot get a full and effective rest in the mirror lake world, so he has to hurry up and take a good rest in the real world.
"Where's brother? Isn't brother going to rest?" Jian Tong raised her head and looked at Wen Yan. Although the latter didn't have that much physical exertion, he was still in a state of high vigilance. Thoughts don't go anywhere easily.
Wen Yan said: "I still have some things to deal with, you go first."
Jian Tong shook her head, it was a rare occasion to reject Wen Yan's proposal.The main reason is that Wen’s dinner time is usually around 05:30 p.m., Jian Tong’s mother returns home at [-]:[-], and everyone can go to the table for dinner half an hour later, Jian Tong glanced at the time, and it’s not long before the meal time. Go to sleep now, and if you haven't slept well, you will have to be called up for dinner.
Might as well wait until after dinner before going to bed.
The few 10 minutes before eating are enough for him to take his backpack out of the car, and then deal with all the things that need to be replaced and supplemented.
After he packed his backpack, he turned his head and saw that Wen Yan was on the phone again.
After disappearing for two years and reappearing, there is only one person who meets this requirement in Chunxia Town, so Wen Yan's buddy who is a policeman quickly found the information of this person and sent the information to Wen Yan.
The name of this person was Zhang Hezhong, and he was older than Wen Yan imagined. He was nearly fifty years old when he disappeared, and he had a son and a daughter under his knees, both of whom were adults at that time.
During the two years when he disappeared, his children never gave up looking for him.
Huangtian paid off, and finally got him back.
But it is not very accurate to say that he got it back, because Zhang Hezhong disappeared suddenly one night. He lost a lot of money playing mahjong that day. It was the private money he had saved for half a year. Moaning and moaning all afternoon.
His daughter-in-law couldn't take it anymore, and drove him out to buy a bottle of soy sauce. He left with a sigh, but never came back.
It wasn't until two years later that he appeared beside Mirror Lake again.
After reading Zhang Hezhong's information, Wen Yan called his buddy again: "I don't want to bother the two masters. I would like to ask you to help me find out the situation of missing persons in the town in the past ten years."
"According to the regulations, I can't let you know the information on these case files," the buddy lowered his voice, "but I can provide you with a list. You can find it online by yourself. Those who have disappeared in the town in recent years can be found in local forums. It's all torn apart, and there may be something you want on it."
Wen Yan could also accept this result: "Okay, I'll treat you to dinner later."
Wen Yan's phone calls continued until Jian Tong finished eating and spread out on the sofa. Seeing that he finally hung up the phone, Jian Tong asked him, "Who is my brother calling?"
Wen Yan didn't intend to hide it from Jian Tong, but his father was still sitting in the living room, and he didn't make it clear: "A friend, I ask him to check something."
Jian Tong asked again: "Oh, have you checked it?"
Wen Yan said, "That's right."
"Then go eat quickly!" Jian Tong stood up and pointed towards the kitchen, "I left some rice for you, and it's heating up in the rice cooker."
"...Okay." Wen Yan was stunned for a moment, and his heart softened for a moment. In fact, in this season, the food will not be too cold to eat, but who would refuse a person who is willing to warm the food for you? ?
Wen Yan didn't eat this meal for too long, but Jian Tong had obviously reached her limit. When Wen Yan packed up the dishes and came over, Jian Tong was already lying on the sofa and fell asleep.
Wen Yan thought for a while, picked up Jian Tong, and prepared to take her back to the room.
The father sat on the sofa and swiped his phone, and asked him when he saw this: "You go out early and come back late every day these days, what are you doing?"
"Something needs to be dealt with." Wen Yan's answer was still ambiguous.
Wen's father has always trusted Wen Yan, seeing that he didn't want to say more, he didn't ask again, but told him: "Your complexion doesn't look good, and so does Tongtong, and the condition feels a bit bad. No matter what you do, you have to take good care of it." You should take care of him even more, he is your younger brother."
Wen Yan paused for a moment, then responded: "Understood, don't worry, Dad."
Wen Yan brought Jian Tong back to the room and put him directly on the bed. Jian Tong fell into a deep sleep, and had no intention of waking up after being moved to another place. He turned over and found a comfortable position, and continued to fall into a deep sleep among.
Wen Yan pulled Xia Liang and was covered for him, and he sat down at the desk and turned on the computer, and searched on the Internet according to the list sent by his buddies.His buddy was right. In recent years, the disappearance cases in Chunxia Town can basically be found on the local forums. Soon, he saw the relevant information about these disappearance cases.
Most of the cases of disappearances happened suddenly one day and no one could be found. There are not a few cases like Zhang Hezhong who never returned on the way to buy spices. The police have no clues, and the forums can't provide any valuable clues. Come on, netizens picked up dozens of floors and didn't come to any conclusions.
Wen Yan can only learn the basic information of the missing person's appearance, what he was wearing when he disappeared, when he disappeared near where, etc. through the missing persons notice.
The people in these cases did not disappear near Jinghu Lake, and there is no evidence that their disappearance is related to Jinghu Lake. For older cases, even missing person notices cannot be found on the Internet.
Fortunately, my buddy specially marked a few more bizarre cases for him.Because the cases are bizarre enough, a lot of information can be found on the forum for these cases.
The most recent case happened a few years ago, and it is also the most bizarre of all the cases.
It is about a little girl who was bullied by several classmates at school, blackmailed, humiliated, beaten and shut down the toilet. The school violence was basically arranged for her, but the school teacher didn't care, thinking it was just a petty affair between students. It would be counterproductive if the teacher intervened, and the parents didn't notice the abnormal behavior of the child. After enduring to the limit, the girl jumped from the top floor of the school and ended her life like a flower.
In this regard, the parents were overwhelmed with grief, and the school blamed itself very much, but this did not help the matter. No amount of regret and self-blame could bring back a fresh life.
What's more, because she committed suicide, although those children who bullied her did so many excessive things to her, they did not "personally" push her down from upstairs, so apart from being morally condemned, what did they do? There is no need to bear the responsibility.
This result, outsiders are still embarrassed after seeing it, how can the family members of the victims accept it?
Sure enough, because the victim's father couldn't accept this fact, on a sunny afternoon, he tied up all the people who had bullied the little girl into an empty warehouse, and then he burned down the whole warehouse.
Along with everyone in the warehouse.
That day, the fire that ignited in the warehouse turned half of the sky into orange red.
But when the police put out the fire and entered the already ruined warehouse, they found that there was no one inside.
They were unable to find a single body in the warehouse.
Surveillance cameras near the warehouse captured images of the girl's father holding several children into the warehouse and the raging fire, but did not capture them leaving.
The girl's father disappeared with seven or eight children inexplicably surrounded by the police, and no one has seen them since then.
Live without people, dead without corpses.
No one can explain this strange and bizarre disappearance. Regarding the way of their disappearance, there are different opinions in the forum. Photos of all the missing persons have been posted on the forum, but until now, there is no conclusion.
Another case was also very bizarre. The missing person was a housewife who lived an ordinary life with her husband in the town until one day she found out that her husband had cheated on her.
Chunxia Town is so big, everyone can't look up and look down, how long can you keep secrets about cheating?
So shortly after her husband cheated, she got the news.
After marriage, she has been working as a full-time housewife at home, because her husband's decent salary is enough to support their family in this place where the price level is not high.
But to put it bluntly, she cannot be independent financially, and her husband is everything to her, her God.
Now the sky is falling.
When two people are in love, it is fun to wash their hands and make soup, but once the relationship is difficult to maintain, her situation becomes extremely embarrassing.
Her husband was at fault for cheating first, but she didn't have the initiative. She had no choice but to be heartbroken.
It is said that she was on the phone with a friend when the accident happened.
Because she was very depressed in those few days, several friends always took turns to accompany her and have a conversation on the phone with her, hoping to help her.
That day, they were chatting on the phone, but she stopped talking, and her friend asked her, "Are you okay?"
She didn't answer either, she just cried, crying hoarsely, crying until her heart broke, and then, the crying suddenly disappeared.
No matter how the friend called her on the phone, she didn't get any response. Worried about her safety, the friend rushed to her home to check the situation.
But when the friend arrived, she was not at home, and her mobile phone wallet and other personal belongings were left at home, but she disappeared.Friends searched all over the town, but they couldn't find her.
Since then, no one has seen her again.
At first, everyone suspected that her husband had killed her, but her husband had ample alibi, and her friend heard nothing unusual when she was on the phone.
She seemed to disappear suddenly, no one was alive, no dead body was seen, as if she had never existed.
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When Wen Yan checked here, Jian Tong, who had slept beautifully for several hours, finally woke up. He sat up and rubbed his eyes, and accurately located Wen Yan's position in the room, then turned over and got out of bed in a daze , Chao Wenyan leaned over.
When he moved to Wen Yan's side, he almost woke up from drowsiness. He took a look at Wen Yan and asked, "Brother, haven't you rested?"
"Well," Wen Yan said, "Before the Internet is disconnected, I have to check the information."
"Information related to Mirror Lake World?" Jian Tong said, and took a look.
Wen Yan slightly turned his body sideways, revealing the content on the computer screen. Taking advantage of Jian Tong's time to browse the above text, Wen Yan simply informed Jian Tong of his guess about the connection between the disappearance case and Jinghu.
Jian Tong touched her chin and said, "Indeed, their sudden disappearance is just like when we entered the Mirror Lake World at twelve o'clock and saw people disappearing in the night market street, all the disappearances happened together. It was done in an instant."
Wen Yan also has this feeling in his heart. He still can't prove that all the disappearances are related to Jinghu, but at least, these strange disappearances must be related to Jinghu.
But Wen Yan was not happy because he found useful clues. On the contrary, he became more and more disturbed in his heart - because judging from the existing information, the number of missing people is not small, but they managed to escape from Jinghu Lake. Those who came out were Zhang Hezhong and only one.
If he and Jian Tong failed to escape, they would be posted on the local forum and sealed in the police files like other missing persons, and they would come to the conclusion that no one was alive but no dead body.
Thinking of this, Wen Yan only felt the pressure doubled.
Can't help but want to take a look again, is there anything he missed in the information on the forum? You haven't rested all night, don't you feel tired?"
Wen Yan pursed his lips, tired is really tired, but time is also really urgent: "Actually, it's okay."
Jian Tong made up her mind to let Wen Yan go to bed to rest: "Brother, rest first, tell me what you want to check, and I will check."
Wen Yan shook his head and smiled wryly: "Tongtong, do you remember every time you left the world of Jinghu?"
"Remember," Jian Tong thought for a moment, "eight o'clock, twelve o'clock, sixteen o'clock..." Then he quickly fell silent. details.
But Wen Yan just a little, and he understood - their time is running out.
Jian Tong fell silent, the silence lasted for a little while, Wen Yan couldn't help but glance at him, only to find that Jian Tong lowered his head and bit his lower lip, his eyes were already red, and the tears in his eyes were about to fall , looks very pitiful.
Wen Yan thought that Jian Tong was frightened by the fact that they might not be able to come out again, and just about to say something to comfort him, he heard him say: "Since there is no time, brother, why didn't you wake me up? Two people together Can't you check it out soon?!"
Wen Yan was speechless, and Jian Tong said with a small mouth: "Why do you have to carry it alone? My brother loves me, but don't I love my brother? You make me feel bad at all. Nice!"
Wen Yan couldn't laugh or cry, there was nothing he could do about Jian Tong in this state of crying or not, so he had to ask him softly: "Then what should I do? What can I do to make you feel better?"
Jian Tong turned his head and glanced at the clock on the wall. It was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and he didn't even have time to vent his willfulness a little bit.
Jian Tong swallowed back the sourness and grievance that came out of her heart, and then found a step for herself: "Then you take the initiative to give me a hug. If you give me a hug, I might feel better."
"Okay, okay." Naturally, Wen Yan would not refuse the steps Jian Tong handed over, he stood up, opened his arms, and hugged the poor Jian Tong in front of him.
After hugging her, Wen Yan asked Jian Tong: "Are you still angry?"
"I'm not angry," Jian Tong said in a low voice, pulling at the hem of her clothes, "I just think I'm useless, I'm just a waste, I can't help you." Speaking of this, Jian Tong looked at it with red eyes Wen Yan took a look, and his eyes were full of accusations.
"Don't think too much, it's not like that." Wen Yan slowed down his tone and reasoned with him, "Look, I always need to rest, but in Jinghu Lake, we can't both fall asleep, right? So you rest now, and when the time comes you can keep watch."
Jian Tong's little head turned around, as if it made sense: "Okay then, after going in, my brother rests, and I will keep watch."
Wen Yan glanced at the time and suggested: "There is still some time now, why don't you sleep for a while, I will wake you up when it is almost twelve o'clock, and I will go to rest after we go in."
Jian Tong shook his head: "I've had enough rest, and I still have some time. My brother and I will check it together." He paused, and then said, "When my brother sleeps later, I can watch the night too."
Just as Wen Yan was about to speak, Jian Tong added in a low voice: "I'm still quite useful, brother let me try."
Wen Yan was taken aback for a moment, and after a moment, he smiled and said yes: "Then, I will trouble Tongtong later."
After hearing Wen Yan's words, Jian Tong became happy, and a pair of beautiful grape eyes lit up, as if the eyes were lit with stars, shining brightly
Not only fathers, in Chunxia Town, almost every adult will tell their children not to approach Mirror Lake, just like taking a breath before flying a paper airplane, everyone says and does that, but no one seems to be able to tell Why come.
Wen Yan searched in his memory, but found nothing. The reason seemed to be blurred in people's word of mouth. In the end, only the relatively simple but most critical part of the conclusion was passed down.
But what Wen Yan wanted to know was not only the conclusion, but also why, what is the reason why people avoid Jinghu Lake?
Wen Yan didn't get a response for a long time, Jian Tong was wrapped in a blanket, and carefully tugged at his brother's sleeve: "...brother?"
"Oh... sorry, I thought of something." Wen Yan glanced at Jiantong, "Actually, I don't know why I can't go to Jinghu Lake."
Of course Jian Tong would not mind his brother's absence, he thought for a while, and continued the topic himself: "I heard Guo Xiaopang say it once before. Those who died during the period were piled up by the lake, and no one cared to bury them. Wild dogs and wolves couldn't find anything to eat, so they went there to find food. Later, an evil creature was raised in the random graveyard. For a long time, people in the town did not dare to go to the edge of Jinghu Lake, until more than ten years ago, an expert passed by Chunxia Town and sealed the evil things, and then it got better."
"Why do you guys talk about this?" Wen Yan has also heard of this statement. The random graves are true, but more than ten years ago, the town spent a lot of effort to clean up the surrounding area of Jinghu Lake and leveled the random graves. Since then, We will no longer talk about the color change of the lake.As for the masters and evil things, Wen Yan remembered that this was purely processed and polished by a boring student on a local forum, and it has not been confirmed.
As for the mass graves, where in the land of Huaguo has no one died?Just because it used to be a random graveyard, even if more than ten years have passed, children are not allowed to go to the side?That's really not the case.
"He's been practicing telling me ghost stories, but it's not scary at all." Jian Tong thought for a while, "But after going through these things, it has become a little scary."
Wen Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he could only rub Jian Tong's half-dry hair: "He told you a ghost story, but you can't take it seriously."
Jian Tong has always been handy with such things as making progress with an inch. If his brother stretches out his hand, he can hug it.Wen Yan's hand rubbing his head couldn't be retracted, but Jian Tong hugged him quickly: "I didn't believe in these gods and ghosts at first, so I didn't feel afraid, don't I believe it now?"
Wen Yan didn't withdraw his hand, he just sighed softly: "Little fool, this is here, reality is reality." How can there be so many gods and ghosts in reality?
Wen Yan looked sideways at Jian Tong's whirling hair, and the desire to go back became stronger—wanted to go back, wanted to take Jian Tong back to their world.
Thinking of this, Wen Yan's eyes sank, and he planned everything in his heart to do after going out.
As for when she could go out, Wen Yan actually had a guess in her heart - the first time Jian Tong disappeared, she went back at eight o'clock the next morning, and the second time, they were dragged into this world together until noon They didn't leave until twelve o'clock, and there was a full four hours difference between eight o'clock and twelve o'clock. According to this rule, they would probably be able to leave this world at four o'clock in the afternoon today.
As for whether this guess is correct, we can only wait until four o'clock in the afternoon to verify it.
Compared with the thoughtful Wen Yan, Jian Tong is obviously more relaxed. I don't know if it's because Wen Yan is by his side, or because the ghosts in this world may also be restricted by the sun. After he landed, the surroundings have been calm and there is nothing unusual. occur.
Jian Tong and Wen Yan sat on the shore, chatting one after another. Although they felt that there were still many things to do, they were really tired. Even if they couldn't lie down and take a nap, they just let themselves go Chatting freely can be regarded as a kind of rest.
Besides, Jian Tong really enjoys this quiet time alone with her sweetheart.
When it was almost four o'clock, in order to prevent the embarrassment of losing the means of transportation, Wen Yan asked Jian Tong to change into dry clothes, while he packed his backpack and tools, and the two returned to the car together.
As soon as four o'clock arrived, the mobile phone's signal was restored, and all kinds of SMS and WeChat information alerts rang out all at once. it's time.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, they returned to the real world. Wen Yan's heart sank. It seemed that his guess was correct.
This is not good news. The time they leave here is four hours later than the day before, which means that, in a short time, their time in reality will be compressed to nothing. At that time, they may be Can't get out anymore.
They don't have much time, and they are full of plans, and there are still two days.
The only good news right now is that the car has not been reset because both of them stayed in the car, and they still have the means of transportation from Jinghu Lake back to the town.
Because of time constraints, Wen Yan's plan to take a good rest after returning to reality can only be put on hold temporarily, but this does not mean that Jian Tong needs to stay with him.
Jian Tong's physical exertion today is really too great, he is running and diving, he needs rest more than Wen Yan.
So Wen Yan didn't tell Jian Tong his guess about the time in time, but drove his younger brother home directly.
As soon as he got home, Jian Tong proposed to take a bath and change his clothes. He had been in the water, even though the water in Jinghu Lake looked clear enough, his clothes were already dry, but when he thought of him watching at the bottom of the lake, The scene he saw was enough to make him respond.
In fact, as soon as he got ashore, Jian Tong couldn't wait to wash his body, but they were in that environment, it was impossible for him to take a bath with peace of mind, and he would cause trouble for his brother, so he suppressed the desire to take a bath idea.
But it is different now, he is back home, he is in a safe environment, and he no longer needs to force himself to endure.
When they came back, it happened that their father was working at home. Jian Tong said hello and rushed to Wen Yan's room to take a bath, but Wen Yan was stopped by his father and questioned: "When did you go out? What did you do? "
"Go out before you get up, I have something to do." Wen Yan passed the topic ambiguously.
"Is that so." The father nodded and asked again, "Are you two brothers together?"
"En." Wen Yan responded, "We went out together, what's the matter?"
"That's pretty good, it seems that you get along well." Father paused, showing a gratified expression, "I'm afraid you won't be able to accept having an extra brother for a while."
"Didn't we talk about this issue before, I support you to reorganize the family," Wen Yan said, "and Tongtong is very good."
"That's good." Father pushed his glasses, and then returned his attention to the laptop in front of him.
Wen Yan did not leave immediately after being cross-examined, but took this opportunity to ask his father a question that he cared about: "By the way, Dad, I have something to ask you."
"What's the matter?" The father was distracted from his work again, and looked up at Wen Yan.
Wen Yan asked: "Do you still remember, when you were young, you told me not to go near Jinghu Lake."
Father thought for a while, then nodded: "It seems to be the case."
Wen Yan asked: "Why?"
Father was stunned when he heard the words: "Why? Don't everyone say that?"
The father and son looked at each other with question marks on their faces.
In the end, Wen Yan said: "Think about it, is it because something bad happened that we are forbidden to approach Jinghu Lake?"
Father thought about it as he said, frowned and said: "When I was young, this saying has already been spread." It seems to be a customary rule in the whole Chunxia Town, and he just told what he knew and told killed his child.
Specifically why he couldn't get close to Jinghu Lake, my father couldn't tell after thinking about it for a long time.Wen Yan thanked his father, then called his friends and asked them to ask the elders in the family why they couldn't get close to Jinghu Lake.
Just like before Jian Tong persistently believed that Jinghu was the mirror they were looking for, at this moment, Wen Yan also had a faint premonition in his heart - as long as he figured out why he couldn't get close to Jinghu, he might grasp the ultimate mirror. important clues.
It may not be without cause.
Wen Yan seldom asks his friends to do something for him. It is a rare time when he asks for help, and everyone is very attentive. However, almost all the answers are similar to those of Wen Yan’s father. They all know it but don’t know why.
After asking many people, Wen Yan got a different answer from a friend's grandmother.
A friend said: "I asked my grandmother, and she said that in her memory, people's taboo against Jinghu seems to be related to some disappearance cases."
"The missing case?" Wen Yan was taken aback.
In a place like Chunxia Town, where the folk customs are fairly simple, there have never been any vicious cases. Compared with a bunch of petty theft cases, the disappearance of persons is already a very serious case in the town.
Every time someone goes missing, the whole town is full of uproar, even Wen Yan, who doesn't like to listen to other people's gossip, has heard of it.
It's just that he never connected the missing case with the world of Mirror Lake.
When it comes to disappearance, most people think of whether this person secretly went out to work or find another way out, or worse, think of being murdered, but no matter what, no one would think of these disappearances The case has something to do with the rippling Mirror Lake outside the town.
But once you notice their connection, everything seems to be logical!
If there are other people who have experienced what he and Jian Tong have experienced, then for people in the real world, isn't this person missing?
But if he can figure it out, it doesn't mean that people who have never entered the world of Mirror Lake can also figure it out. The information they get is not equal.
It is impossible for people who have not entered the world of Mirror Lake to know what happened in the world of Mirror Lake, but they have come to the same conclusion as him, so they must have clues that he does not know.
This clue may be crucial to him.
So, Wen Yan asked his friend: "How did your grandmother tell you, can you repeat it in detail?"
"Of course no problem," my friend recalled, "my grandma said that it was decades ago. At that time, there were several cases of disappearances in the town every year. Those who disappeared were neither dead nor dead. Until now, no one has seen them again. This kind of unreasonable disappearance continued until more than ten years ago, when someone came to perform a ritual ceremony, and the town did not disappear frequently."
Wen Yan was shocked because he found that what his friend's grandmother said and the ghost story Guo Xiaopang told Jian Tong overlapped and complemented each other, but there was still something that didn't make sense...
Wen Yan asked again: "Did they disappear near Jinghu Lake? Why do you think that the disappearance case is related to Jinghu Lake?"
"Wait, I'll ask you." The friend took the phone to find his grandmother, and after some communication, he replied to Wen Yan, "I just told you that those people didn't come back, it's actually not accurate, Most of them did, with the exception of one man who returned after two years of disappearance."
Wen Yan: "... what?!"
A friend said: "When someone was passing by the edge of Mirror Lake, he picked up an unconscious person and came back. After picking it up, he found that this person disappeared two years ago. After he woke up, he was very emotional and kept yelling. Jinghu can eat people, and there is a place hidden in Jinghu, where all the missing people are hidden."
"Those whose family members were missing searched Jinghu Lake with a glimmer of hope, but found nothing." The friend sighed, "Later, he began to become supernatural, moody, and crazy, and everyone refused to let him know." Believe what he says."
"However, at that time, in order to appease people's hearts, the town sent people to spend great efforts to clean up the random graves around Jinghu Lake, and invited a master to come and erect a monument on the back mountain. It is strange to say that after that, the missing Cases cannot be said to have disappeared, but they are not so frequent anymore, and only happened once in a few years. Everyone thinks it is evil, so they don’t go near Mirror Lake any more.”
Wen Yan felt that there seemed to be a thread connecting everything, but some key clues were still missing on this thread, so he still couldn't get a glimpse of the whole picture.
Wen Yan suddenly thought of the strange scene that Jian Tong had told him before, when he went down to the lake, he saw the strange scene at the bottom of the lake, and asked his friend: "Those who searched for Mirror Lake, have they seen it when they went down to the lake?"
"Wait," the friend asked grandma again, and replied, "Why haven't I seen it? Mirror Lake was searched several times, inside and outside the mirror lake, and the surrounding [-] to [-] kilometers away, but nothing was found."
Wen Yan thought for a while: "Does your grandma still remember the person who came back after disappearing? What's his name?"
"My grandma said that she can't remember clearly. It has been more than ten years. She just vaguely remembers such a person. Who is it and what is his name? She can't remember clearly. She only remembers that he went crazy after he was found. That's why everyone calls him the old madman."
After thanking his friend, Wen Yan hung up the phone and silently sorted out the clues he got from his friend.
Judging from the known clues, this old lunatic must be a key person. After all, he is the only one who has been confirmed to have escaped from the world of Mirror Lake. If he can be found and learned about his experience...
It is possible for Wen Yan and Jian Tong to learn from his experience and escape from the mirror lake.
Now, finding this old lunatic is the key. There are still many things to do, but Wen Yan's time is running out.
Fortunately, he still has a shortcut to take.
Wen Yan pulled out the address book and called his buddy who had the best relationship with him in high school. This buddy was two years ahead of him. He hadn't graduated yet, but his buddy had already returned to the small town and became a glorious people's policeman.
Because the relationship is so good, Wen Yan even skipped the polite opening remarks and went straight to the point: "Help me check someone."
The young police officer who was just about to get off work stopped the steps that were about to step out of the office: "What?"
"A man disappeared more than ten years ago, and reappeared two years later. He became crazy, so everyone called him an old lunatic." Wen Yan quickly told his friend the summarized information, "Help me look it up. , what's his name, where does he live now?"
"You are invading citizens' privacy!" My friend snorted.
"I need to find him for something very important." Wen Yan emphasized, "I'm in a hurry!"
The young police officer sighed: "Okay, I probably know who this person is, and I will send the information to your mobile phone later."
Wen Yan smiled: "Thank you brother."
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Jian Tong came out after taking a shower and changed into clean clothes. She wandered around the room but didn't see Wen Yan, so she was impatient.
This is also one of the sequelae caused by Jinghu World - he can't bear to be separated from Wen Yan for a long time.Before Jian Tong realized it, Wen Yan had already hooked up with his sense of security.
Seeing him jumping in a hurry, Father Wen, who was working at home, gave him a faint look: "Why are you looking for him in such a hurry? Call him!"
Jian Tong slapped his forehead suddenly, he was used to the unusable state of the phone in Jinghu World, he never thought of the fact that he could still make calls.
As a result, as soon as the call was dialed, Wen Yan entered the door. He glanced at the caller ID, raised his head and asked Jian Tong: "What's wrong?"
"Little tadpole is looking for elder brother." Father Wen, who was buried in his work, raised his head and "explained" for Jian Tong, but the youngest son interrupted angrily, "...Dad!"
Wen Yan smiled, and reached out to touch Jian Tong's head. Jian Tong's hair was very soft, and it felt very comfortable to the touch. Recently, Wen Yan always reached out to rub it from time to time, and the decompression effect was first-class.
Wen Yan glanced at the time, it was already past five o'clock, so he said to Jian Tong: "Go and rest for a while." For Jian Tong this day, the consumption was too great, even with Wen Yan's company he There have been several short breaks intermittently, but compared to the physical strength he consumed, it is still a drop in the bucket.
Jian Tong's ghost-fighting physique in the mirror lake world is doomed that he cannot get a full and effective rest in the mirror lake world, so he has to hurry up and take a good rest in the real world.
"Where's brother? Isn't brother going to rest?" Jian Tong raised her head and looked at Wen Yan. Although the latter didn't have that much physical exertion, he was still in a state of high vigilance. Thoughts don't go anywhere easily.
Wen Yan said: "I still have some things to deal with, you go first."
Jian Tong shook her head, it was a rare occasion to reject Wen Yan's proposal.The main reason is that Wen’s dinner time is usually around 05:30 p.m., Jian Tong’s mother returns home at [-]:[-], and everyone can go to the table for dinner half an hour later, Jian Tong glanced at the time, and it’s not long before the meal time. Go to sleep now, and if you haven't slept well, you will have to be called up for dinner.
Might as well wait until after dinner before going to bed.
The few 10 minutes before eating are enough for him to take his backpack out of the car, and then deal with all the things that need to be replaced and supplemented.
After he packed his backpack, he turned his head and saw that Wen Yan was on the phone again.
After disappearing for two years and reappearing, there is only one person who meets this requirement in Chunxia Town, so Wen Yan's buddy who is a policeman quickly found the information of this person and sent the information to Wen Yan.
The name of this person was Zhang Hezhong, and he was older than Wen Yan imagined. He was nearly fifty years old when he disappeared, and he had a son and a daughter under his knees, both of whom were adults at that time.
During the two years when he disappeared, his children never gave up looking for him.
Huangtian paid off, and finally got him back.
But it is not very accurate to say that he got it back, because Zhang Hezhong disappeared suddenly one night. He lost a lot of money playing mahjong that day. It was the private money he had saved for half a year. Moaning and moaning all afternoon.
His daughter-in-law couldn't take it anymore, and drove him out to buy a bottle of soy sauce. He left with a sigh, but never came back.
It wasn't until two years later that he appeared beside Mirror Lake again.
After reading Zhang Hezhong's information, Wen Yan called his buddy again: "I don't want to bother the two masters. I would like to ask you to help me find out the situation of missing persons in the town in the past ten years."
"According to the regulations, I can't let you know the information on these case files," the buddy lowered his voice, "but I can provide you with a list. You can find it online by yourself. Those who have disappeared in the town in recent years can be found in local forums. It's all torn apart, and there may be something you want on it."
Wen Yan could also accept this result: "Okay, I'll treat you to dinner later."
Wen Yan's phone calls continued until Jian Tong finished eating and spread out on the sofa. Seeing that he finally hung up the phone, Jian Tong asked him, "Who is my brother calling?"
Wen Yan didn't intend to hide it from Jian Tong, but his father was still sitting in the living room, and he didn't make it clear: "A friend, I ask him to check something."
Jian Tong asked again: "Oh, have you checked it?"
Wen Yan said, "That's right."
"Then go eat quickly!" Jian Tong stood up and pointed towards the kitchen, "I left some rice for you, and it's heating up in the rice cooker."
"...Okay." Wen Yan was stunned for a moment, and his heart softened for a moment. In fact, in this season, the food will not be too cold to eat, but who would refuse a person who is willing to warm the food for you? ?
Wen Yan didn't eat this meal for too long, but Jian Tong had obviously reached her limit. When Wen Yan packed up the dishes and came over, Jian Tong was already lying on the sofa and fell asleep.
Wen Yan thought for a while, picked up Jian Tong, and prepared to take her back to the room.
The father sat on the sofa and swiped his phone, and asked him when he saw this: "You go out early and come back late every day these days, what are you doing?"
"Something needs to be dealt with." Wen Yan's answer was still ambiguous.
Wen's father has always trusted Wen Yan, seeing that he didn't want to say more, he didn't ask again, but told him: "Your complexion doesn't look good, and so does Tongtong, and the condition feels a bit bad. No matter what you do, you have to take good care of it." You should take care of him even more, he is your younger brother."
Wen Yan paused for a moment, then responded: "Understood, don't worry, Dad."
Wen Yan brought Jian Tong back to the room and put him directly on the bed. Jian Tong fell into a deep sleep, and had no intention of waking up after being moved to another place. He turned over and found a comfortable position, and continued to fall into a deep sleep among.
Wen Yan pulled Xia Liang and was covered for him, and he sat down at the desk and turned on the computer, and searched on the Internet according to the list sent by his buddies.His buddy was right. In recent years, the disappearance cases in Chunxia Town can basically be found on the local forums. Soon, he saw the relevant information about these disappearance cases.
Most of the cases of disappearances happened suddenly one day and no one could be found. There are not a few cases like Zhang Hezhong who never returned on the way to buy spices. The police have no clues, and the forums can't provide any valuable clues. Come on, netizens picked up dozens of floors and didn't come to any conclusions.
Wen Yan can only learn the basic information of the missing person's appearance, what he was wearing when he disappeared, when he disappeared near where, etc. through the missing persons notice.
The people in these cases did not disappear near Jinghu Lake, and there is no evidence that their disappearance is related to Jinghu Lake. For older cases, even missing person notices cannot be found on the Internet.
Fortunately, my buddy specially marked a few more bizarre cases for him.Because the cases are bizarre enough, a lot of information can be found on the forum for these cases.
The most recent case happened a few years ago, and it is also the most bizarre of all the cases.
It is about a little girl who was bullied by several classmates at school, blackmailed, humiliated, beaten and shut down the toilet. The school violence was basically arranged for her, but the school teacher didn't care, thinking it was just a petty affair between students. It would be counterproductive if the teacher intervened, and the parents didn't notice the abnormal behavior of the child. After enduring to the limit, the girl jumped from the top floor of the school and ended her life like a flower.
In this regard, the parents were overwhelmed with grief, and the school blamed itself very much, but this did not help the matter. No amount of regret and self-blame could bring back a fresh life.
What's more, because she committed suicide, although those children who bullied her did so many excessive things to her, they did not "personally" push her down from upstairs, so apart from being morally condemned, what did they do? There is no need to bear the responsibility.
This result, outsiders are still embarrassed after seeing it, how can the family members of the victims accept it?
Sure enough, because the victim's father couldn't accept this fact, on a sunny afternoon, he tied up all the people who had bullied the little girl into an empty warehouse, and then he burned down the whole warehouse.
Along with everyone in the warehouse.
That day, the fire that ignited in the warehouse turned half of the sky into orange red.
But when the police put out the fire and entered the already ruined warehouse, they found that there was no one inside.
They were unable to find a single body in the warehouse.
Surveillance cameras near the warehouse captured images of the girl's father holding several children into the warehouse and the raging fire, but did not capture them leaving.
The girl's father disappeared with seven or eight children inexplicably surrounded by the police, and no one has seen them since then.
Live without people, dead without corpses.
No one can explain this strange and bizarre disappearance. Regarding the way of their disappearance, there are different opinions in the forum. Photos of all the missing persons have been posted on the forum, but until now, there is no conclusion.
Another case was also very bizarre. The missing person was a housewife who lived an ordinary life with her husband in the town until one day she found out that her husband had cheated on her.
Chunxia Town is so big, everyone can't look up and look down, how long can you keep secrets about cheating?
So shortly after her husband cheated, she got the news.
After marriage, she has been working as a full-time housewife at home, because her husband's decent salary is enough to support their family in this place where the price level is not high.
But to put it bluntly, she cannot be independent financially, and her husband is everything to her, her God.
Now the sky is falling.
When two people are in love, it is fun to wash their hands and make soup, but once the relationship is difficult to maintain, her situation becomes extremely embarrassing.
Her husband was at fault for cheating first, but she didn't have the initiative. She had no choice but to be heartbroken.
It is said that she was on the phone with a friend when the accident happened.
Because she was very depressed in those few days, several friends always took turns to accompany her and have a conversation on the phone with her, hoping to help her.
That day, they were chatting on the phone, but she stopped talking, and her friend asked her, "Are you okay?"
She didn't answer either, she just cried, crying hoarsely, crying until her heart broke, and then, the crying suddenly disappeared.
No matter how the friend called her on the phone, she didn't get any response. Worried about her safety, the friend rushed to her home to check the situation.
But when the friend arrived, she was not at home, and her mobile phone wallet and other personal belongings were left at home, but she disappeared.Friends searched all over the town, but they couldn't find her.
Since then, no one has seen her again.
At first, everyone suspected that her husband had killed her, but her husband had ample alibi, and her friend heard nothing unusual when she was on the phone.
She seemed to disappear suddenly, no one was alive, no dead body was seen, as if she had never existed.
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When Wen Yan checked here, Jian Tong, who had slept beautifully for several hours, finally woke up. He sat up and rubbed his eyes, and accurately located Wen Yan's position in the room, then turned over and got out of bed in a daze , Chao Wenyan leaned over.
When he moved to Wen Yan's side, he almost woke up from drowsiness. He took a look at Wen Yan and asked, "Brother, haven't you rested?"
"Well," Wen Yan said, "Before the Internet is disconnected, I have to check the information."
"Information related to Mirror Lake World?" Jian Tong said, and took a look.
Wen Yan slightly turned his body sideways, revealing the content on the computer screen. Taking advantage of Jian Tong's time to browse the above text, Wen Yan simply informed Jian Tong of his guess about the connection between the disappearance case and Jinghu.
Jian Tong touched her chin and said, "Indeed, their sudden disappearance is just like when we entered the Mirror Lake World at twelve o'clock and saw people disappearing in the night market street, all the disappearances happened together. It was done in an instant."
Wen Yan also has this feeling in his heart. He still can't prove that all the disappearances are related to Jinghu, but at least, these strange disappearances must be related to Jinghu.
But Wen Yan was not happy because he found useful clues. On the contrary, he became more and more disturbed in his heart - because judging from the existing information, the number of missing people is not small, but they managed to escape from Jinghu Lake. Those who came out were Zhang Hezhong and only one.
If he and Jian Tong failed to escape, they would be posted on the local forum and sealed in the police files like other missing persons, and they would come to the conclusion that no one was alive but no dead body.
Thinking of this, Wen Yan only felt the pressure doubled.
Can't help but want to take a look again, is there anything he missed in the information on the forum? You haven't rested all night, don't you feel tired?"
Wen Yan pursed his lips, tired is really tired, but time is also really urgent: "Actually, it's okay."
Jian Tong made up her mind to let Wen Yan go to bed to rest: "Brother, rest first, tell me what you want to check, and I will check."
Wen Yan shook his head and smiled wryly: "Tongtong, do you remember every time you left the world of Jinghu?"
"Remember," Jian Tong thought for a moment, "eight o'clock, twelve o'clock, sixteen o'clock..." Then he quickly fell silent. details.
But Wen Yan just a little, and he understood - their time is running out.
Jian Tong fell silent, the silence lasted for a little while, Wen Yan couldn't help but glance at him, only to find that Jian Tong lowered his head and bit his lower lip, his eyes were already red, and the tears in his eyes were about to fall , looks very pitiful.
Wen Yan thought that Jian Tong was frightened by the fact that they might not be able to come out again, and just about to say something to comfort him, he heard him say: "Since there is no time, brother, why didn't you wake me up? Two people together Can't you check it out soon?!"
Wen Yan was speechless, and Jian Tong said with a small mouth: "Why do you have to carry it alone? My brother loves me, but don't I love my brother? You make me feel bad at all. Nice!"
Wen Yan couldn't laugh or cry, there was nothing he could do about Jian Tong in this state of crying or not, so he had to ask him softly: "Then what should I do? What can I do to make you feel better?"
Jian Tong turned his head and glanced at the clock on the wall. It was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and he didn't even have time to vent his willfulness a little bit.
Jian Tong swallowed back the sourness and grievance that came out of her heart, and then found a step for herself: "Then you take the initiative to give me a hug. If you give me a hug, I might feel better."
"Okay, okay." Naturally, Wen Yan would not refuse the steps Jian Tong handed over, he stood up, opened his arms, and hugged the poor Jian Tong in front of him.
After hugging her, Wen Yan asked Jian Tong: "Are you still angry?"
"I'm not angry," Jian Tong said in a low voice, pulling at the hem of her clothes, "I just think I'm useless, I'm just a waste, I can't help you." Speaking of this, Jian Tong looked at it with red eyes Wen Yan took a look, and his eyes were full of accusations.
"Don't think too much, it's not like that." Wen Yan slowed down his tone and reasoned with him, "Look, I always need to rest, but in Jinghu Lake, we can't both fall asleep, right? So you rest now, and when the time comes you can keep watch."
Jian Tong's little head turned around, as if it made sense: "Okay then, after going in, my brother rests, and I will keep watch."
Wen Yan glanced at the time and suggested: "There is still some time now, why don't you sleep for a while, I will wake you up when it is almost twelve o'clock, and I will go to rest after we go in."
Jian Tong shook his head: "I've had enough rest, and I still have some time. My brother and I will check it together." He paused, and then said, "When my brother sleeps later, I can watch the night too."
Just as Wen Yan was about to speak, Jian Tong added in a low voice: "I'm still quite useful, brother let me try."
Wen Yan was taken aback for a moment, and after a moment, he smiled and said yes: "Then, I will trouble Tongtong later."
After hearing Wen Yan's words, Jian Tong became happy, and a pair of beautiful grape eyes lit up, as if the eyes were lit with stars, shining brightly
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