Abyss

After trekking all the way back to Shenyang from Guangdong, Jiang Chao entered the city and went directly to deal with the matter of privately changing the license plate. He originally wanted Linqian to go back to the villa for a few days to recuperate, but Linqian insisted on going back to his small apartment first. Chao had no choice but to tell Jiang Xuanye to take care of him.

When I opened the door of the apartment, I could clearly smell a dusty smell.Lin Qian opened all the windows on the second floor of the apartment to ventilate, and Jiang Xuanye went to take a shower first.Linqian sorted out the things he brought back with him, most of which were medicines prescribed by doctors in hospitals in Guangdong.One of them was his clothes, the one he wore when he fell into the water. Because the scene was chaotic, he didn't have time to deal with it. The nurse simply put it in a pocket and brought it back. He was going to throw it in the washing machine before diving.

Jiang Xuanye came out of the bathroom, except for the light blue towel on his head, his body was empty and naked.Usually Jiang Xuanye would wear a pair of underwear or a bath towel around him, but today he didn't know how he was saved.Looking at his almost perfect figure, Lin Qian vaguely remembered that he had seen such a beautiful cockroach in the sea, but the skin color of that body was extremely white, and there seemed to be a little blue under the water, which looked more like a statue that had sunk into the water. Stone statues at the bottom of the sea, not real people.

Even a statue must be a perfect work of art.Linqian was so dazed that he even had the urge to go back to the South China Sea to find him, but he harbored some kind of inexplicable fear in his heart.

"Hey, Lao Lin, even if you are facing a sexy naked man, you don't have to stare like that, right?" Jiang Xuanye said.

Only then did Linqian come to his senses, and rubbed his temples, "Your Majesty, it's too indecent." Linqian closed his eyes and tried to avoid the "important parts".

"Didn't I just come back with you without a change of clothes? They're all men, are you still shy?"

"You are shy, why is your face so red?"

Jiang Xuanye was stunned for a moment, then touched his face, "Red...is it red? I used your toner just now, maybe I'm allergic."

allergy?Lin Qian remembers that when they were young, the two of them went to dig out the beehive together, and then they were chased by a group of bees and ran around. In the end, his face was swollen like a pig's head and he couldn't go out to meet people for a long time, but Jiang Xuanye's face only had a few Little red dot.

Lin Qian ignored him and walked straight to the bathroom.Usually, he would take off his clothes outside, and then go into the bathroom and throw them into the washing machine at the door and then take a shower, but for some reason, he felt that the atmosphere today was a bit wrong, although when he was young, he and Jiang Xuanye were so good that they could wear a pair of pants without distinguishing each other. , and bathed together countless times (after all, in the north), but it would be a little guilty to "meet him honestly" now.

Lin Qian took out the clothes he brought back from the bag and shook it, and something fell out of it and fell to the ground with a faint sound.Lin Qian bent down to pick it up, but unexpectedly it was the black scale.

When did you bring it with you?Linqian couldn't remember it, and didn't think much about it, so he put it on the shelf next to the washing machine.After unfolding the clothes, I found that I could no longer wear them. It must have been cut open by the nurse with scissors when I was rescuing myself. From a shirt to a cardigan, the unrestrained style is comparable to Wang Xizhi who is open-minded.Fortunately, the pants were not damaged.

When the hot water pours down from the top of the head to the whole body, it is only when diving that I really feel that I am still alive.If he hadn't experienced it himself, it would be hard for him to believe that such a bizarre and tortuous thing could happen to him.How did he come back safe and sound even after being unconscious for seven or eight hours in the sea, even he himself didn't know.

Lin Qian applied foam to himself, and couldn't help but feel a little pain when it touched his waist.He looked down, only to find that there was a discontinuous bruise around his waist, as if he had been bound with a thick rope.But for these bruises, no matter how Linqian recalled them, he still had no impression.

After Lin Qian came out of the bathroom after washing, Jiang Xuanye was leaning his feet on the table and fiddled with the computer to surf the Internet.Seeing his concentration, Linqian thought he was playing a game, so he stretched his head over to take a look, but unexpectedly he was watching the news.

"news?"

"Ah."

"You still care about this?"

"Don't you know about the case of rape, murder and dismemberment?"

"Lonely."

"A Japanese man raped and murdered a female colleague in a hotel, and then dismembered the corpse. The scene was...extremely bloody." Jiang Xuanye shook his head, "I just watched the video report, and there was a photo of that kid in it. He looks like a dog. , turned out to be a pervert. This Japanese is really... a pervert."

"It can't be generalized either. Has the suspect been caught?"

"I didn't catch it. It was only discovered on the third day after the person's death. The blood was dry. I asked the residents next door and they said they didn't hear anything. They thought there was no one next door. Later, the surveillance was adjusted, and only when the kid went in Yes, but I didn't see him come out, do you think it's strange?"

"The person disappeared in the hotel?"

"Yeah, it's gone. Can you watch the video?"

"I won't watch it, I'm dizzy."

Lin Qian rubbed his hair, and suddenly thought of the description of the doomsday in the Bible, the kind of madness after the overall moral decline of human beings, which is exactly the same as this murder case.Perhaps the murderer is a demon with bat wings, who came from hell to create chaos in an attempt to wipe out human beings.

"Prosperity is bound to be a loss." Lin Qian said casually, "I always feel that the end of the world is really not far away if this continues."

Linqian was just talking nonsense, but Jiang Xuanye immediately echoed, "Oh yes, I think so too."

"What is it?"

"It's the end of the world. I recently watched some videos on the Internet, about tsunami and earthquake."

"Natural disasters are a normal phenomenon, don't be alarmist."

"I know natural disasters are normal, but... see for yourself!"

Jiang Xuanye has trained a whole body of special skills in order to survive, and his application of computers is even more extreme. At least he has never spent money to become a member after diving for so many years.I saw him operate like a tiger, and opened a foreign website on the computer.

The video lasts about ten minutes, and they are edited recordings of disasters in different regions. The languages ​​of many countries are mixed. Except for English, I can only understand a little bit of Japanese, and I don’t understand anything else.But the content of the video is not difficult to understand. Basically, it is human beings desperately facing the menacing disaster, but the disaster ended in a more acceptable way.To put it simply, there is more thunder than rain.

Logically speaking, China has a vast territory and diverse climate types, and there are neither too many nor too few natural disasters that may occur, and he knows most of them.It's just that he's never heard of a catastrophe like this.

"Do you think this is God's rehearsal for the end of the world?" Jiang Xuanye asked with a serious face.

Lin Qian thought for a while, then shook his head, "I don't know, but I always have a feeling that we all guessed wrong."

Lin Qian straightened up from the computer, and accidentally knocked a book on the table with his arm, causing it to fall directly upside down on the ground.Lin Qian bent down to pick it up, but a black scale fell out from the book.

Lin Qian froze for a moment.Didn't I just put it next to the washing machine?I will never remember it wrong this time, could it be that it ran away with long legs?

Seeing him standing there in a daze, Jiang Xuanye said, "I got the book from my dad. I thought it was interesting, so I took it away. A few days ago, the night before I went to the provincial office to pick you up, I came back and finished it." I didn’t have anything to do with the rice and flipped through it casually. Later, I couldn’t find the bookmark, and after searching for a long time, I found this in a soap box, so I made up my mind.”

"And keep it here?"

"Stay here all the time."

Lin Qian thought for a while, took the scales and walked quickly into the bathroom.

On the shelf next to the washing machine, there was indeed an almost identical piece.

Lin Qian took a scale in one hand, came out of the bathroom, and placed it directly in front of Jiang Xuanye.

Jiang Xuanye raised his eyebrows when he saw these two scales, and was obviously surprised, but he never thought about it.This is his shortcoming, but also his advantage.

"Where did you get another slice?" Jiang Xuanye asked casually, and then his face showed joy, "Did that old brother bring us seafood again last time?"

Lin Qian was speechless, "Others are still in the detention center."

"Then this is..."

"There are three possibilities. One is that the owner of this thing is like a scavenger. It has been so many that we can meet it when we eat seafood or go to the beach without anyone noticing."

"It's unlikely, isn't it? Don't you say that this thing is thousands of years old? It's flooding, isn't that equivalent to the ancestors running all over the ground?"

"Second, someone deliberately played a prank on us."

"That's unlikely. The only one who dares to tease me, Mr. Jiang, is the hairy Bao Beier."

"Then there is only the third possibility," Lin Qian looked at the two huge scales, "something has been following us."

Lin Qian's face was full of seriousness, he had a feeling that maybe he had really seen a man with a fish tail under the sea, and this scale belonged to him, at least it should be related to him.People tend to connect all the unusual things that happen, despite the absence of any evidence.

But Jiang Xuanye just glanced at him, switched his legs up and down, and said with a smile, "Then let him follow, and save me the trouble of finding him." The book flipped through randomly.

"This is down, I can't find it. It seems to be... this." Jiang Xuanye said, flipping the book to the back.

"You've read so many?" Linqian has never seen Jiang Xuanye read so many books in his life. He didn't even read the textbooks when he went to school.

"Scared? Haha, I just looked at the picture, it's quite interesting. By the way, do you think this is your father's word?"

Linqian glanced at Jiang Xuanye's finger, and there were indeed two lines of meaningful pen writing in the lower right corner of an illustration. From the style of writing, it was indeed the same as the words on the letters sent home over the years. same.

Those two lines read: The voyage of the Black Tail has never stopped

The gods under the sea will bless it forever

What do these two sentences mean?Lin Qiubai is a staunch atheist, but such words seem to be spoken by a devout Christian.The illustration on the page where he wrote was a huge unknown creature appearing on the sea, and the sailing ship was as thin, fragile and insignificant as a leaf in front of him.Lin Qian seemed to think of something, closed the book and glanced at the cover, it was really "Cthulhu Mythos".

Open the title page of the book again, the name written on it is Lin Qiubai.

"This is Uncle Lin's book? Why is it in my dad's place? You know that my dad is like me, reading a book is more heavy than going to a grave." Jiang Xuanye said.

Obviously, Lin Qiubai wrote this sentence to Jiang Chao. He tried to convey some important information to Jiang Chao in this way. This message should be the sentence he just saw.But the meaning of this sentence, I still can't fully understand.But now it seems that for Lin Qiubai, his life can be roughly divided into two periods, one is when he was a scholar and a staunch atheist, and the other is when he started to have religious tendencies .The former didn't have much impression of Linqian, he just got to know it from the previous letter and Jiang Chao's description, while the latter should be Lin Qiubai who he saw in the video and wrote these two lines of text.

Where is the dividing line between these two parts?Or, what caused Lin Qiubai to undergo such a change?

Maybe Jiang Chao didn't find these words, or maybe he did, but he couldn't give Lin Qiubai a satisfactory response, so Lin Qiubai tried every means to convey similar information to himself.But Jiang Chao seems to have been obstructing him from having direct and effective communication with Lin Qiubai.In other words, Jiang Chao may have discovered and interpreted the message from Lin Qiubai, but he did not stand on the same side as Lin Qiubai, he cut off the message!

Lin Qian suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

"Prompt?" Seeing him in a daze, Jiang Xuanye called him.

"Ah... my dad and Uncle Jiang are so good, maybe I forcibly lent it to him." Linqian decided not to tell Jiang Xuanye what he wanted, after all, he was not fully sure that this was the conclusion, so hasty It is irresponsible to tell Jiang Xuanye.

And he didn't want to admit that his nature was cold, and he would choose to doubt the person who raised him without hesitation in front of the facts.

The author has something to say: the amount of information in this chapter is a bit large, and I will explain it one by one later.