eighth story

The bedroom was empty.

Wu Qinyang stood at the door, wondering where his brother had gone.Went out to buy shampoo?There is no need to be in such a hurry.Really uncomfortable and went to the hospital by yourself?Then you should call yourself.Wu Qinyang felt a "buzz" in his head, and the strong anxiety gave him an illusion of weightlessness, as if he was stepping on a driftwood floating on the sea.He began to call his brother, feeling uneasy, afraid that it would become "the number you dialed is temporarily unavailable" like Qin Zhi and Xiao Yunhe, and then he got through.

Xuan Jue didn't answer it.The phone buzzed and vibrated in the pocket of his trousers, and the ringtone that rang was a folk song in the online game called "Escape". The originally leisurely humming sounded strange at this moment .The gray square bricks intertwine with dark shadows. The person standing a few steps away has a gloomy and cold expression. Half of his face seems to be covered with a ghost-like mask. Maybe he is a ghost in the first place, but he said with a calm expression: "Your phone is ringing, why don't you answer it?" He was calm and relaxed, still looking like a handsome young lecturer, as if it was just a casual joke in class.

It's Zhong Liyin.

Xuan Jue had some impressions of him, they had met Wu Qinyang when he first transferred to Polytechnic.At that time, I accompanied Wu Qinyang to report to the school. I knew that Zhong Liyin was the head teacher of Shuwei 381. Apart from that, I didn’t have much contact with each other, but I didn’t want to meet in this situation today. The identity Yin chose was expected and quite unexpected.

He could probably guess that this person should have contact with Wu Qinyang on weekdays. He thought it would be Tan Yi, a roommate, but unexpectedly it was Zhong Liyin, the head teacher who seemed to have little contact.

Xuan Jue wanted to know that the call was from Wu Qinyang, shook his head and said, "I won't answer it." He didn't want to be questioned by Wu Qinyang at this time, so he cut off the call directly.

Zhong Liyin said: "Wu Qinyang?"

Xuan Jue said: "What do you think?"

Zhong Liyin smiled and said: "I guess so." He shook his head regretfully, "You should have said a few words to him, it's a pity."

Xuan Jue said, "Where are my parents?"

Zhong Liyin said: "What are you trying to do with them? They are so affectionate." Then he sneered, "Accepting a thief as your father?"

Xuanjue said: "I don't think so. 'Recognize a thief as your father'..." He paused, "You are wrong, my parents and I are not enemies." He said lightly, "What's more... Young Master Langhuan is still Master Heng Qing, so it is not an exaggeration for me to call him Dad."

Zhong Liyin gave a soft "ha": "The two of them didn't raise you in vain. The ability to protect the master is not bad, and the watchdog is no more than that." He narrowed his eyes slightly, and turned him from head to toe After taking a closer look, he sighed, "Come here by yourself... I don't think you made a good decision."

Xuan Jue said, "I don't think so either." There seemed to be a spirit-absorbing ghost lurking in the darkness, and that heavy feeling returned, making him clearly aware of his own disadvantages in this confrontation.If possible, he doesn't want to play word games with Zhong Liyin here, sophistry has never been his strong point, and it is Wu Qinyang and Qin Yao's specialty to turn unreasonable into reasonable.

Zhong Liyin suddenly said: "Is it hard to be in heat?"

Xuan Jue twitched his eyebrows, but remained silent.

Wu Qinyang first got through the phone, but no one answered, and then hung up, only then did he realize that Xuan Jue was lying to him.

Xuan Jue has never lied to him since he was a child. If he said he would buy ice cream, he would buy him ice cream; if he said he would take him to eat chicken chops, he would take him to eat chicken chops; If you say you want to help him beat someone, you will help him beat him up. If you say what you say and do what you say, you will be more reliable than Wu Chunxing in Wu Qinyang's heart.Wu Qinyang didn't know what to say, Xuan Jue didn't let him say it, and didn't give him this chance at all.Wu Qinyang felt empty, keenly aware that something was happening, he couldn't stop it, and he couldn't even be a spectator. Only then did he realize that he had many naive and unrealistic thoughts, such as protecting his brother at this point.

Wu Qinyang felt the fire behind him, as if there were two eyes staring at him.The phone was hung up unilaterally, and the cold female voice repeated "Sorry, the number you dialed is currently on the line", and then replaced it with a lengthy English chatter.Wu Qinyang suddenly felt absurd. Not long ago, at most two hours ago, he felt tender because of his brother's proactive intimacy--I am afraid that Xuan Jue had already made such preparations at that time, but he hadn't Know.

Wu Qinyang's hand holding the mobile phone drooped heavily, seemingly powerless, but suddenly clenched it tightly. He didn't panic as he thought. He calmed down and called Qiao Yuan again, but his voice still revealed a trace of secret uneasiness ——

"Uncle Joe, something may have happened to my brother."

He didn't want to avoid this conjecture, or the fact.His uneasiness is not groundless, it is like a deeply buried seed that has accumulated little by little in an invisible place under the ground, and only now broke out of the ground and burst out.When Wu Qinyang thought of his bizarre conjectures, he felt as if he had stepped on empty space, and now he began to regret why he didn't take these omens to heart at the beginning, even if he was a little vigilant.

Qiao Yuan didn't ask him why, and said directly: "You go downstairs, and I'll let Tang Dao go back to pick you up." Wu Qinyang went downstairs, and after waiting for a while, he saw Tang Dao who had gone and returned.

Tang Dao said: "Get in the car."

Wu Qinyang said, "Brother Dao."

Tang Dao said, "What's going on?"

Wu Qinyang said: "I don't know, I just feel...my brother doesn't answer my phone..." A little incoherent, and then whispered, "My brother never lied to me."

Tang Dao understood what he meant, and seemed to think of something, he was silent for a moment, and comforted: "Don't worry, maybe the situation is not what you imagined."

Wu Qinyang didn't say anything anymore, his heart still couldn't be realized, and Tang Dao also knew that his comfort would not have any real effect, so he simply drove away in silence.The street gradually gathered a crowd of nine-to-five off-duty people, Wu Qinyang lowered his head, staring at the nail of his right thumb in a daze, looking very depressed and thoughtful.Amidst the noisy traffic, he suddenly felt a slight prick on his shoulder, so he raised his hand and touched it backwards. He didn't realize that a red-golden totem was slowly emerging on his right shoulder, which was hard to see. Some kind of imprint.

Xuan Jue's expression at the moment is very gentle. In a sense, he is the same person as Qin Zhi. He is very good at declaring ownership. A layer of window paper is torn.Xuan Jue has always felt that Qin Zhi unilaterally lowered his stance and formed the blood contract of surrender with Xiao Yunhe at the beginning. The calculation of "I don't say it, but I have to wait for you to find out" is really too rogue.Qin Zhitai knew Xiao Yunhe well, that's why he was able to control the dominance between the two of them by retreating and advancing in the process of trying to make up.Xuan Jue always felt that the two of them were each other's weakness and each other's armor, while Wu Qinyang was just his own weakness.

He never expected that Wu Qinyang could give him anything, he and Wu Qinyang are people from two worlds, and being able to transform into a human form does not mean that he is really a human being.Wu Qinyang said that he likes him, he is very happy, but some problems cannot be solved by mutual love, such as Zhong Liyin in front of him, it is impossible for him to put Wu Qinyang in danger, so he lied to Wu Qinyang.

Zhong Liyin said: "What are you thinking?"

Xuan Jue said, "I didn't think about anything."

Zhong Liyin said: "I have a question to ask you."

Xuan Jue said: "What?"

Zhong Liyin said: "You should be clear about your current situation. If you come here by yourself, it's almost like throwing yourself into a trap."

Xuan Jue asked back: "You don't want me to come?"

Zhong Liyin said: "I hope, it's just a little unexpected."

Xuan Jue said: "That's nothing to say."

Zhong Liyin seemed to be very interested and asked: "Why?"

Xuan Jue said: "I don't know either." He really didn't know, saying that he was short of protecting Wu Qinyang, he knew that Zhong Liyin's visitor was not kind, but he didn't know the other party's purpose, this was another temptation The factors are in it, the person who can temporarily trap Qin Zhi and Xiao Yunhe will not be an ordinary person, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is dedicated to protecting the Lord, and he is more than just loyal to Qin Zhi and Xiao Yunhe.Xuan Jue laughed again and said, "Then you can take it as an insult to my self-esteem."

Leopard really thinks he is a sick cat if he doesn't show his power. Although he is not far from a sick cat now, cats also have self-esteem, and their arrogant and silly nature are not conflicting attributes.Xuan Jue looked around from the corner of his eyes, the iron stop sign not far away looked like a lonely and withered tree, and the three characters painted with red paint looked like a pair of tearful eyes.

This is Xuejun Station.

It is a lifeless dry well, filled with thick dead air like frozen wind.

Xuan Jue's eyes froze slightly, the amber killing intent was clear and gentle.

He was originally a bloodthirsty beast, but in a trance, he returned to the surging blood flow thousands of years ago, fell into a dream, had a pair of cold hands, and gave someone else the red gold armor.

Wu Qinyang's heart trembled, his shoulders were on fire, his head was dizzy, his eyes were dark, when he got out of the car, his knees softened, and he almost fell to the ground, so he had to tell Tang Dao that he was motion sick.

It has been three days since he lost the news of Xuan Jue, and he didn't go to class. He called Zhu Mingyue and asked her to ask Zhong Liyin for leave for him. The answer he got was that Teacher Zhongli seemed to be on a business trip again and was not at school.Wu Qinyang didn't say anything, the little girl in unrequited love clearly felt the low pressure of her sweetheart, and began to wonder whether she had said something wrong, but she didn't notice that Wu Qinyang had already Hang up the phone, embarrassed and ashamed.

Qiao Yuan called the surveillance video near the apartment, and found that Xuanjue went to the subway station, and found the surveillance video of the subway station. It was the subway line [-] near the apartment to Baihemen and then changed to subway line [-]. After that, Xuanjue never never came down.

It's Metro Line [-] again!It's soup and station again!Wu Qinyang felt that his blood vessels were about to burst from the excitement of these words, and he stood up and wanted to go to the subway station to meet Tanghetai in person, regardless of whether his mastermind behind the scenes was a person or a ghost, he just wanted to snatch his brother back.Xiang Dan watched the expression on his face change from confusion and melancholy to a raging murderous intent that grew from his heart to his guts, and quickly pushed Wu Qinyang who had bounced off the sofa back, and pressed him on his shoulders The upper hand exerted force secretly, and shouted: "Wu Qinyang!"

Wu Qinyang said: "Sister Dan, don't stop me." As he spoke, he continued to stand up and walk out.

"Calm down, can you?" Xiang Dan said, "Your brother can't be found now, just in case you abduct yourself in!"

Wu Qinyang said: "That can also be with my brother."

Xiang Dan had nothing to say, he just wanted to slap him on the head, but he couldn't slap him.Xiang Dan felt that since his brother lost, Wu Qinyang seemed to be a different person, silent and cold, taciturn and ruthless, locked himself in the training room every day like a psychopath, and beat sandbags, on average, he beat one in half a day, I don't know if Wolverine's claws were used to brush the dungeon, but a row of holes were poked out of the thick-skinned sandbag, and the sand flowed out rushingly, full of killing intent, strangers should not enter, and stand back three feet.

In the end, it was Qiao Yuan who could hold him back: "Yang Yang!" He said and threw a file on the table, "The case of [-]."

Wu Qinyang has not yet realized the connection between this whole incident and Qin Zhi and Xiao Yunhe, and he believes that the origin of everything is the case of [-]. Xiang Dan saw that he seemed to have calmed down, so he dared to let him go , Wu Qinyang ran over to pick up the dossier, a brand new printout—the original had to be sent over, I couldn’t wait, uploaded it online and printed it directly, anyway, the important thing was the content.

Wu Qinyang didn't know what kind of truth he was about to touch. He was anxious, and heard Qiao Yuan say: "A total of eleven people were missing at that time, and your father was the last one."

April [-], City K.

Wu Qinyang flipped through the thick stack of files, most of which were transcripts of interviews and interviews with relevant witnesses.In [-], social networks were still underdeveloped, and the most effective way to disseminate information was through TV and newspapers. There were no clues left by missing persons, and without the help of the Internet to find people, it was not easy to find someone in a sea of ​​people. However, City K can only start with the missing person's interpersonal communication, visit and investigate one by one, deduce the possible whereabouts of the missing person, and finally lock on the bus route.

Wu Qinyang turned to the last page of relevant person information, which was the receipt of the report from the police station.The time was April 2003, 4. The person who reported the case was Zhang Lanying, the cousin of the missing Wu Chunxing.Wu Chunxing is a student in Class 13, Class [-], Primary School Attached to No. [-] Middle School in K City. He is currently staying at Zhang Lanying's home.Zhang Lanying said that Wu Chunxing said two mornings ago that he would go to a classmate's home to do his homework after school, but when he didn't come back that night, Zhang Lanying acquiesced that he was staying at a classmate's home. Why didn't the child come to class, Zhang Lanying realized something was wrong, and then thought of the recent frequent disappearance cases, so she came to the police station to report the case.

Wu Qinyang was about to continue looking down, but he heard Wu Chunxing's voice saying: "Yangyang, don't read."