inherent gravity

...wouldn't really be able to find it here? "

......

h city railway station.

Among the turbulent crowd at the exit, Mu Qing covered his mask, only showing a pair of big eyes, and kept looking around nervously. After rejecting the soliciting driver with a strong accent, he didn't even bother to find a place to sit on the couch. A rental car:

"Master, how do I get to the Chenguang Orphanage?"

"What?" The driver was taken aback for a moment, and turned to look at him without hearing clearly: "Say it again?"

"...Chenguang Orphanage, isn't it your place?" Mu Qing was a little uneasy when he stared at him like a ghost.

"Where are you talking about? It was burned down ten years ago!" The driver became impatient and kept knocking on the steering wheel: "I heard that several people were burned to death back then, and no one dares to rebuild there now!"

"I know, I know," Mu Qing hurriedly distinguished: "Then you can take me there to have a look."

"Okay." The driver glanced at him again and started the car, thinking about it all the way: "You said it's not good for you to go to that unlucky place...so it's just a matter of seeing you." Came from abroad."

Mu Qing smiled awkwardly, and didn't know how to reply for a long time: "Yes."

"Did you grow up there?" The driver suddenly had a flash of inspiration when he was waiting at the red light, and his tone raised three tones: "No way? It's been so many years!"

"I'm not," Mu Qing sighed, and simply cast his gaze out of the window. It seems that the development of this city is not as good as his original small county town. There are large tracts of motorcycle maintenance and simple ceramics shops on both sides of the street. The roads and streets are stained and dirty - is this where Kou Xiao grew up?

On the way here, he also thought a lot. This trip was really crazy, so crazy that even someone else couldn't understand why he would go so far for such a person who has no blood or special relationship with him. , and still without a clear purpose.

When the car stopped, Mu Qing was still staring out of the window in a daze, until the driver reminded him before he hurriedly recovered and paid the fare to get off the car.

"Be careful yourself!" The driver yelled kindly before leaving.

Mu Qing responded, the place where the car was parked was indeed a bit desolate, but now that it was approaching evening, the sunset glow drawn from the sky was very beautiful, the large swathes of pink and yellow blended together, making the surrounding environment darker.

He stared at the sky above his head for a long time before walking forward. According to the driver's instructions, the ruins of the Chenguang Orphanage are now at the corner 200 meters ahead.

Under the hot sunset that was almost burning, Mu Qing clearly saw a pile of broken bricks and tiles, as well as the sharp rusted iron door thorns pointing directly at the sky. Ten years ago, it had been turned into ruins, and there were even faint traces of burnt remains in the fallen and broken walls.But apart from these and a wild cat leaping up the wall next to it, everything else showed that there was no way to hide people here.

Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, Mu Qing still had a breakdown at this moment. He kept looking in between the rusted railings a little anxiously, and finally got in through a small hole next to him.

It was even more messy inside, and there were some faded plastic sheets piled up on the ground at the door, but judging from the ruins, the size of the orphanage must have been quite large before it was burned down.Mu Qing carefully avoided the piles of rubbish on the ground, and walked around the ruins, but found nothing. Looking around, there was only a large area of ​​desolation except for broken bricks.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Mu Qing became a little anxious when he thought about the luggage stored near the train station. When he was staring at the dark ruins not far away in a daze, there was a sudden noise behind him. He was startled and turned around quickly. It turned out that a broken wall behind him couldn't hold it for some reason and collapsed, bringing up a large amount of dust. The stray cat that was passing by just now let out a shrill cry, jumped on the top of the wall and fled away.

Mu Qing took a few steps back, and subconsciously felt that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so he could only helplessly turn around and plan to go back through the hole just now. He avoided the broken wall that fell just now, and changed his direction from a pile of broken bricks. Stepped all the way over.

At the end of the broken bricks is a small path overgrown with weeds. When Mu Qing was about to go back to the iron gate from the small path, he suddenly froze.

He smelled a faint smell of smoke.

How could anyone smoke in a place like this?Mu Qing immediately searched around, and before it was completely dark, he found a cigarette butt on the side of the road that was still burning, which was the source of the smell of smoke just now.

Mu Qing knelt down and looked at the cigarette butt in shock, and did not raise his head until the cigarette butt went out.

There are cigarette butts, which means that someone has been here, but who would come here to smoke in a place like this that the locals feel a bit unlucky?

Mu Qing's back felt cold, and a chill ran up his spine all the way to his brain - what's more, if he had come more than ten minutes earlier, he might have bumped into this person.

Who is it?

Mu Qing stood in the dark grass and meditated, only feeling that this so-called Chenguang Orphanage became more and more confusing.But no matter what, it is very necessary for me to come again after dawn tomorrow, maybe there is something hidden in the depths of this seemingly ruined place.

The chirping of unknown insects in the wild grass on both sides interrupted Mu Qing's thinking. He turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone and hurriedly left the place by the light source. Before leaving, he remembered the place where the cigarette butt was found.

Although Kou Xiao's whereabouts are still unknown, Mu Qing vaguely felt that he probably found the right place.

On the way back to the station by car, Mu Qing couldn't help turning his head to look behind him, his face flushed with excitement.He intuited that he had discovered a very crucial physical evidence, as if he could perceive where Kou Xiao was in the next second.

"It's the fourth day..." he murmured, looking at the white street lights flashing by the car window, he closed his eyes.

Chapter 27

◎Kou Xiao clearly felt that a drop of water fell on his forehead. ◎

Just when Kou Xiao thought he was going to hallucinate from hunger, the light from the gap in the door was suddenly blocked by someone.

He jumped up suddenly, and put on a defensive posture regardless of the darkness in front of his eyes: If that old pervert still wants to do that to him, he will definitely be kicked this time.

This iron door seems to have been around for some years, and Kou Xiao was annoyed by the creaking and screaming when he opened it, but he relaxed the tense shoulder muscles the moment he saw the person coming, but his eyes still revealed Take precautions.

The one who entered the door was a thin woman with low eyebrows, holding a red candle in her hand and a small basket in her arm.

The woman first carefully lit the candle, and the dancing flame illuminated a corner of this dark space——Kou Xiao stared greedily at the only light in her hand.

She tentatively walked a few steps towards Kou Xiao, put the candle aside, and then stretched out her hand to gesture to him.

"Mute?" Kou Xiao frowned and looked at the dumb girl, and couldn't understand what she wanted to express after making gestures for a long time, "...what?"

Seeing that he was unmoved, the dumb girl took a long time to show an extremely disappointed and distressed look in her eyes, which made Kou Xiao completely baffled.She paused for a while and had to give up sign language, pointed to one of the chains on Kou Xiao's wrist, and raised her hand to unlock it.

Kou Xiao finally understood her instructions, and shook his wrist impatiently: "Go, hurry up."

After the dumb girl untied one of his chains, she knelt down and opened the small basket placed aside. The smell of food that wafted out immediately attracted all his attention.

Kou Xiao stared at her movements, and unconsciously moved his Adam's apple.

The dumb girl put a few small bowls in front of him, and pointed to the candle that had burned a third, meaning that he should eat it before the candle burned out.Kou Xiao nodded impatiently, staring eagerly at the bowls of delicious food.

He no longer cares about whether there is any medicine in it, he is so hungry that he can eat the bowl now.

The dumb girl rummaged through the small basket again, stuffed a large spoon into Kou Xiao's only free hand, and then went out to lock the door again.

Kou Xiao's expression froze, and he lowered his head slowly after the mute girl left - when she was handing him the spoon just now, she quietly stuffed a tightly wrapped small cloth bag into his palm.

With some difficulty, he untied the cloth bag with one hand, revealing the white granular substance inside - he sniffed it and carefully tasted it with his fingertips.

is salt.

Why give yourself salt?

Kou Xiao frowned and before he had time to think about it, he wrapped up the cloth and put it aside, and impatiently dug a spoonful of rice into his mouth.

"Fuck me!"

Kou Xiao couldn't help but tilt his head and spit out the mouthful of rice just after chewing two mouthfuls, staring at the porcelain bowl on the ground in disbelief:

Sweet, very sweet, almost unbearably sweet.He had never eaten such a sweet meal in his life, it was as if he had sprinkled half a bag of sugar into it and mixed it.

Kou Xiao swallowed hard, feeling the tormenting sweetness lingering on the tip of his tongue for a long time, so he couldn't help taking a few sips of water on the side--it was already a few hours before the sense of taste realized something was wrong. A jet of water flowed down the throat, choking Kou Xiao almost coughing to death.

The water is also sweet, and