non-human reincarnation

After picking up the remains, Cheng Yan raised his head and looked up at Chi Wu.

The staff center is surrounded by floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and the blazing sunlight shines on the side face of Chiwu. The porcelain white skin has a warm yellow transparency, like an oil painting that has been carefully painted.His fan-like eyelashes fluttered, and a light and shadow swept across his eyelids.

"What?" Cheng Yan asked.

But his eyes were still looking at Chi Wu. He just said what he was about to say, but forgot to think about it later. It seemed that staring at Chi Wu and watching him carefully at this moment was the most worthwhile thing to do.

"Your ears are not bad, are they?"

"..." Okay, Chi Wu is still the same Chi Wu.

Cheng Yan withdrew his gaze: "How to get out?"

Chi Wu pointed to the black sculpture behind him: "That can be opened."

Cheng Yan: "Have you already visited?"

He felt from Chi Wu's puzzle-solving speed that Chi Wu really felt a little moldy after staying in the ladder for a long time.

"Live to die." Chi Wu repeated the last clue.

"Life and death are opposites. The white sculpture and the black sculpture symbolize life and death respectively, and no matter which color symbolizes death, we only need to put together the four remains, put the black sculpture into the cistern, and open the black sculpture. Stand in the back organ." Chi Wu said, "The step of 'death' is completed."

Cheng Yan: "You mean, we are the fifth of the four remains before, and what we have to do now is to enter the black sculpture and act as a corpse to realize the so-called "death". "born"."

"Probably," Chi Wu said again, "There is still a problem, that is, the third clue, which has not been solved, and there may be a condition that can be verified in the middle."

The third clue: a hole facing the sky, it is hot inside, hard when it goes in, and soft and fluffy when it comes out.

Cheng Yan smiled: "Have you ever eaten the roasted sweet potatoes sold by the roadside?"

Chi Wu was taken aback for a moment, then actually shook his head.

"Oh," Cheng Yan shrugged, "then you may lose the chance of verification."

Cheng Yan quickly arranged the four skeletons, followed Chi Wu to the black sculpture, and pulled the back cover from the side to reveal the human-shaped space inside.

Chi Wu lowered his eyes, and asked sincerely for the first time: "What kind of roasted sweet potatoes are you talking about?"

"Haven't you ever eaten roasted sweet potatoes? Haven't you seen them?" Cheng Yan smiled with some ridicule towards the ignorant children.

Chi Wu couldn't argue with him: "Why did the dog see roasted sweet potatoes?"

"Of course dogs can eat roasted sweet potatoes." Cheng Yan regretted, "You are a dog, and you are very unsuccessful."

Chi Wu: "It seems that you still have the experience of being a dog."

"You really don't suffer at all." Cheng Yan continued to lay out the remains and said as if telling a story.

"Many sweet potato roasting trolleys on the street will put a black iron stove with a charcoal fire in the middle and sweet potatoes on both sides. The oven inside is hard, but it comes out soft and fluffy. It’s about sweet potatoes,” he tapped on the black sculpture. “Actually, it has nothing to do with roasting sweet potatoes. The focus is on roasting. The black oven is ready for you. Roast, it’s time to grill, try it.”

At this time, footsteps came from outside, accompanied by cheers: "We found it, we found it! We found the reservoir!"

"Let's go, let's go to the pool first."

A group of them walked through the employee center and came to an open space on the side.

The open space is very desolate, but it can be vaguely seen that it used to belong to the leisure center for employees. The green belt has long been dry, and only a stone table and four stone benches are simply placed on the side.

The cistern is in the corner, and the area is not small, about 2 meters x 2 meters. The depth is unknown. Looking down from the air, you will find that the cistern is located at the most central point where the two mountains connect.

"Is it..." Chen Liangjun took a breath and asked Cheng Yan, "Just jump down."

Cheng Yan couldn't help laughing.

Chen Liangjun was embarrassed: "Can't you?"

"Go back to the employee center first," Cheng Yan said, "I need to verify one thing."

With the exit close at hand, everyone felt itchy and kept asking, "What do you want us to do?"

"Look for the source of the fire." Cheng Yan said, "Divide into two groups, one group comes back from picking up firewood, and the other group looks for lighters and the like in the employee center. We need fire now."

"But..." Chen Liangjun said, "Haven't we already found the exit?"

Cheng Yan glanced at him: "You can really jump down and try."

"...I'm going to find a lighter."

After a while, he handed over a box of matches.

"Where did you find it?"

Chi Wu sat down cross-legged: "There should be no moisture in the coat in the men's dormitory."

"Okay, then there is a shortage of firewood." Cheng Yan also took out a stack of things from his pocket, "Maybe there is no hint on the sign, and the ladder has let them go."

In his hand was a newspaper with the headline——

Sculpture perverted serial murder case.

After the suspect killed the person, he sealed it in a sculpture and sent it to various exhibition halls and art galleries to hide the body.

With this newspaper, even if they can't understand "living to death", they will connect life and death with sculpture.

When everything was ready, Cheng Yan strung together the four clues and explained them again to prevent them from asking "why why why why".

They have already found the cistern mentioned by "shallow entry and deep exit".

"No one is immortal, New Year's Eve in the years", the location of the reservoir is between the two mountains.

"Living to Death" is related to black and white sculptures.

"A hole in the sky", the fire is ready to burn, now it is only necessary to verify whether Chi Wu's guessed way of leaving is correct.

The four clues are connected together, indicating that the reservoir is the exit, but the premise is that the exit of "life" must go through the process of "death".

They picked up the black sculpture and placed it in the air over the bonfire to roast.

The temperature gradually increased, and above the flame seedlings, the bottom of the black sculpture faded, revealing a little white in the middle.

When the temperature at the bottom was even, Cheng Yan signaled them to pause and turn over the bottom of the sculpture.

--die.

Black is death, white is life.

"You guessed it right."

Cheng Yan told Chi Wu who was beside him.

They couldn't wait for a moment, and moved the sculpture and the four remains to the reservoir.

"Throw all four down." Cheng Yan said.

Bu Dai carried the four remains into the water, and they all sank into the water without any hesitation.

"sculpture."

They set the sculpture upright on the wide concrete edge of the cistern and looked at each other: "Who gets in first?"

Xiao Xiaobai brought a roll of hemp rope: "Otherwise, use this leggings. If we get out of the ladder in the wrong way, we will pull people out."

"Then..." Xu Huachi glanced at Cheng Yan, "Who will come first?"

"Cheng Yan can't go first. If he goes first, what if something happens to the people behind us?" Chen Liangjun said.

"What's the fuss?" Piao Piao said, "I'll go first. I believe in Cheng Yan. I've come all this way. It's probably the last time."

She opened the door behind the sculpture, clenched her fists, and stepped in.

The hollow design makes the sculpture space bigger than expected. After Piao Piao stood in, he could even stand in another man with the same stature as Chen Liangjun.

Of course, Xiao Xiaobai's figure is another matter.

"Push me down." Piao Piao said.

Xiao Xiaobai still insisted on tying the hemp rope around her ankles, and said reluctantly: "You must survive to get out of the ladder, you must, we will meet outside the ladder!"

"Shut up, you," Piao Piao's last words before closing the door, "I can swim, I can't die."

After reading it roughly, Cheng Yan said, "Push."

Together they moved the black sculpture onto the tiles of the cistern, glanced at each other, counted "one, two, three" and pushed the sculpture into the water.

The head of the sculpture falls in first, and the tail lifts up, splashing umbrella-shaped water splashes. In the emerald green water waves, the sculpture sinks slowly and gradually disappears at the bottom of the reservoir.

The other end of the hemp rope holding Piao Piao's ankle gradually loosened. Xiao Xiaobai pulled out the whole rope and held it in his hand, leaving only a thin loop at the very end to tie his ankle.

They lay on the edge of the reservoir and watched eagerly. Soon, the sculpture floated up, with its back facing upwards, and the door was closed tightly.

"Pull it over and have a look!" Chen Liangjun opened the back door without waiting to put it back on the ground.

Empty.

"She's gone!" The smile on Chen Liangjun's face was so real for the first time, even a little crazy, "She went out! She passed!"

"Great! We passed the first ladder!"

"Let's go too!"

Cheng Yan watched them huddle together excitedly, but felt that something was missing. Turning around, he saw Chi Wu sitting on a stone bench, very quiet.

He was like a spectator sitting in a daze in the hall after the farce ended.

It seems that from the beginning to the end, it doesn't belong here.

"You go first." Cheng Yan said.

Chi Wu raised his eyes, looked at those scrambling for the first place, and shook his head: "Let them go first."

"Then you go in before me." Cheng Yan said.

Chi Wu moved his legs, stood up and looked at Cheng Yan for a long time: "Okay."

Bi Fuying, Chen Liangjun, Xu Huachi and Xiaobai entered the sculpture one after another, ups and downs several times, until only Chi Wu and Cheng Yan remained in the open space.

"It's your turn," Cheng Yan placed the sculpture on the concrete fence, "I will watch you go down."

Chi Wu's voice cooled down and was no longer the same as before: "You go first."

"What else are you going to do?"

"I have my own business, you go."

Chi Wu stood five steps away from him, but Cheng Yan felt that he was far away, as if the mist had completely covered his cheeks, covering his eyelids with an invisible film.

Before he could see clearly, a figure suddenly rushed out from behind, knocked Cheng Yan to the ground with a slap in the face, opened a pair of scissors in his hand, and directly touched Cheng Yan's throat: "Go to hell with me!" !"