light is on.

Hidden in the darkness, the vines can no longer hide, they pass under Lu Ting's bed, crawling everywhere with their teeth and claws.

The corners, the walls, the floor, and the bathroom... The green vines stretched wildly, as if they regarded this room as their own lair.

Lu Ting avoided the thorns and walked into the bathroom. There were especially many vines entrenched in it. The leaves were beautiful and wide, thick and juicy, with clear veins. When illuminated by the light, the shiny leaves seemed to glow.

It seems that the small flowerpot can no longer hold the big Buddha.

Lu Ting thought of the bumping sound he heard in his dream. It was not so much a coincidence, but more like a special reminder that he must wake up immediately, otherwise he would be entangled into a "chrysalis" by the vines.

Could the ceramic flower pots have been used to suppress vines like the gray charms in the ancestral home?

Lu Ting didn't spend much time thinking about the guess that couldn't be verified for a while, he tentatively stretched out his finger and touched the thorn, which was hard and sharp, and felt like a steel needle.

Being stabbed hard by something like this, it will hurt to death.

It seems that the other two times when he was stabbed before, the other party didn't use all his strength. For his fiancé, it might be considered tickling at best.

Lu Ting twisted his fingers and looked up at the ceiling, where the green vines continued to grow: "I know you won't hurt me."

It took minutes for the vine to kill him, and there was no need to crawl around the house in the middle of the night.

Lu Ting asked seriously: "Then can I go to sleep now?"

The creeping vine stopped for a moment, and after a while it headed towards the door of the bathroom, climbed up the ceiling along the upper corner of the door frame, and then fell down the wall against which Lu Ting's bed was leaning, like a vine patiently guarding its prey. The beast fell silent like that.

Lu Ting walked over pretending to be calm, with no trace of cowardice on his face, because he knew that some things were bullying, and the more timid you were, the more arrogant he would be.

The second half of the night passed very peacefully, and when I woke up in the morning, the vines in the house had disappeared.

Lu Ting checked his body condition. The red mark on his wrist was made in the KTV bathroom yesterday. Other than that, everything is fine all over his body.Looking at the flower pots again, the vines that occupied his entire room like a giant beast last night had already disguised themselves back to their softest and most adorable state.

I didn't expect that a small potted plant would be so good at acting.

Today is the second day of official work, and Lu Ting's enthusiasm remains undiminished. After arriving at the company, he first puts the flowerpot on the desk where he can see it, and then goes to the tea room to make tea.

Xu Xiaowen, the only girl in the company, had just finished talking on the phone with her boyfriend, and she added water to Lu Ting's glass.

"You look pretty good." Xu Xiaowen raised her eyebrows, her youthful red lips and white teeth, her skin was so tender that water could be squeezed out, she frowned and looked carefully to make sure there was no makeup on.

Putting the kettle aside, she accidentally caught a glimpse of the red mark on Lu Ting's wrist when she lowered her eyes. So unrestrained.

Lu Ting held up the cup and said thank you, and went back to his desk.His job today is very simple, first run the program to see if there are any loopholes.Throughout the morning, except for pouring water and going to the toilet, he never left the computer.

Li Qian was very satisfied with such employees and proposed to have lunch together.Lu Ting touched his stomach, and realized that he was hungry too.

He turned off the computer screen, got up and said to Li Qian, "Let's go."

The two ate a bowl of thick ramen nearby. When they came out of the shop, they suddenly heard a woman screaming.Following the sound, they quickly found the source of the sound.

It was an alley between two buildings. There was a 24-hour self-service bank in the alley. A woman covered her mouth and looked in the direction of the cash machine in horror. From Lu Ting's point of view, her face was pale and her body was shaking. Akira, he looked like he was about to faint at any moment.

Li Qian stepped forward first, with a anxious expression on his face, as if what happened in the withdrawal point had nothing to do with him.

Lu Ting followed closely, and as soon as he entered the withdrawal point, he smelled a rotten stench.He also smelled a similar smell from Feng Qianxi, Feng Qianxi's ex-husband.It's just that the smell at the moment is heavier and thicker, like aging and fermentation, making people dizzy.

Li Qian stood at the door and dared not go in. Through the glass, he saw a shriveled leg covered in dust and dirt falling outside the dirty bedding. He knew that the person was dead.

Not long after, the police arrived.

They sealed off the scene and preliminarily confirmed the identity of the deceased, who was a homeless man who often moved around.According to preliminary forensic identification, the homeless man was in his fifties and had no trauma on his body.

Many people watched around the yellow line, and many of them were taking pictures with their mobile phones.A security guard walked over and blocked a mobile phone with his hand: "Stop taking pictures, this place has been blocked, hurry up."

One or two can be driven away, but how can we finish with too many people?Not only did the onlookers not leave, but more and more, one by one stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks, eager to throw their eyeballs beside the corpse for a closer look.

Lu Ting patted Li Qian: "Let's go, it's almost time for work."

Li Qian's expression was in a trance, his eyes lost their luster, and upon closer inspection, he even seemed to be a little limp when he walked.Lu Ting guessed immediately: "You know that homeless man?"

"I know..." Li Qian's voice was hoarse, "I talked to him twice and gave him food and drink. That old man is nice."

Because of the obstruction of the crowd, when Lu Ting looked over again, he could only see the dirty toes of the dead.Li Qian couldn't believe it, why did the person who talked yesterday die quietly?Contrary to the loud crying at the birth of a life, there was no movement at all.

The company's office is on the third floor, and the place where the accident happened can be seen from the window in the corridor outside the bathroom.After getting out of the elevator, Lu Ting followed Li Qian to come here.

Li Qian's eyes were red, and his hands clutching the window frame were bulging with veins, obviously trying to suppress his emotions.

Lu Ting felt that his feelings for a stranger were a bit too strong, maybe it wasn't just an ordinary chat relationship: "Brother Li, how long have you known him?"

"Not long ago, less than two months." Li Qian also realized that he was a little emotional, laughed at himself, and wiped the moisture from the corners of his eyes with his fingertips.

"Actually, before you came, our company was almost at the end of its rope. After attracting investment, the employees lost confidence in the company, and four of them left at once. There was no money left in the company's account, and the project couldn't run. The salary of the employees can't be paid... And at the beginning of the establishment of the company, my parents borrowed a large amount of money from relatives and friends for me. It was really frustrating that day. I suspected that I might be born a loser, and unconsciously Stand on the company's rooftop..."

Continuous failure will wear down one's will, and make people feel self-loathing. At that time, Li Qian had an extreme idea, jumping off, as long as he jumped off, nothing would happen.

It was also at that time that the homeless man stood in the alley and kept waving to the people on the high place, as if he was not tired, he waved at him for more than ten minutes.

Li Qian felt that this person was really strange, didn't his arms feel sore after holding on for so long?Why does he keep waving at me? Does he have something to tell me?

Probably because he didn't have the courage to die, he went down from the rooftop to the alley, where the homeless man was sitting on the steps of the self-service bank.

Hearing the approaching footsteps, the homeless man did not lift his head, and talked about his miserable life experience to himself, then raised his face, pointed to one of his eyes and said to Li Qian, "You saw my eye No, the blind one, in another year and a half I'm afraid the other one will be blind too."

Li Qian wanted to say that he should go for medical treatment, but he remembered what the homeless man said. All the family members died in a flood, and they had no one to rely on and no source of income.

The homeless man smiled at him: "But seeing you makes me feel hopeful. Just now you wanted to jump off the building, and I saved your life by calling you down. Should you repay me?"

Li Qian knew that it was true for homeless people to save others, but it was false to want to return.He could feel that the other party might just want to find an excuse to make him persevere and think a little more about living.

"What do you want?" He hastily touched his pocket. Besides his mobile phone, he also had 100 yuan in cash.

Wandering shook his head, pointed to the building behind them and said: "The people who can work here are educated and capable people. I can see that you will definitely make a fortune in the future. When the time comes, take me to treat your eyes. "

……

As time has passed, this short conversation is still fresh in my memory.

Li Qian covered his eyes with his hands, leaned against the wall and sat on the ground, until this moment tears leaked from between his fingers.His company has already had new investment, and the project in his hand will come out in a few months. Everything is developing in a good direction, but the person who saved him and made him persevere is gone.

Lu Ting was affected by the mournful cry, and his mood was also depressed.He handed Li Qian a piece of paper: "Wipe your tears."

Li Qian took it and wiped his tears, blew his nose, and said in a low voice, "Beckoning Cat, I don't think something is right."

Lu Ting has been labeled as a disaster star since he was a child. No one wants to play with him. This is the first time he has been nicknamed by someone.Obviously adults are no longer suitable for such a cute and naive nickname, but I can't help liking it in my heart.

He bit his lower lip awkwardly, decided to pretend he didn't hear, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Qian stood up and leaned out of the window. The body of the homeless man was directly below his field of vision.It just so happened that the police had finished collecting evidence and investigating the scene, and were about to put the person into a body bag and take him away.

Wandering legs, arms, face... naked | all parts that can be seen outside are all abnormally thin.

He murmured: "Look at his legs, they are too thin, as if they have been drained of their bodily fluids. I remember that when I gave him bread yesterday, his body was still very strong."

Although the homeless man lives and sleeps in the open, he is not thin at all, and his body is much stronger than that of the office worker who has been working all the year round.

Lu Ting frowned: "Are you sure?"

"Sure." Li Qian leaned against the wall, unable to figure it out, "It's only one night, how could he lose so much weight?"

Li Qian's mind is very active and his memory is very good, Lu Ting believes that he remembers correctly.

"I'll go down and take a look." After Lu Ting finished speaking, he ran forward a few steps, and when he entered the elevator, he remembered the punch card, and said to the people behind him, "Boss, I'm asking for 15 minutes of personal leave."

Li Qian froze on the spot without recovering, but uncontrollably followed.Intuition told him that what Lu Ting was going to do should be related to homeless people.

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