sunk in yesterday

Xia Zhuo had enough sleep that night.

When he woke up in the morning, only Mrs. Bai was left in the souvenir shop, not only the other three strange boys, Guan Yuzhou was gone.

He sat up from the quilt, and woke up in a daze for a while to doze off. The quiet atmosphere almost made him think that he was in the house in Xinghai. Fortunately, the sleepiness that had not completely faded away was quickly dispelled by the cold air. .

He hurriedly put on his coat and looked at Mrs. Bai who was grinding her nails: "Madam, where is Guan Yuzhou?"

Madam Bai raised her little finger and pointed to the right side, pointing to the restaurant next door behind the wall.Xia Zhuo also wanted to go, but Guan Yuzhou came back before he got to the door.

"What did you find?"

Guan Yuzhou shook his head: "The scene is very clean, only the inner and outer doors are damaged and cannot be repaired, and there is no trace left in the rest of the place."

Xia Zhuo knew that the traces he was referring to were bloodstains.

"But I looked at the watch this morning, and one of them died last night." Guan Yuzhou cast his eyes on the shelf on the other side, under which there are piles of dolls and thin blankets, and the mess still retains the appearance of people who have rested. Six people and one interpreter, only two are left alive."

"So you want to see if it's Jian Ran and Jian Shu who survived?"

I didn't expect Guan Yuzhou to say that he didn't care on the surface, but he would still pay more attention to them behind the scenes!

"He's not interested in those two brats." Madam Bai interjected, "He's looking for clues. Aren't you curious about dolphins? A man in love is really irrational."

Guan Yuzhou just thought he was sour, and was too lazy to care about it: "You just came in and saw the dolphin, and heard the discussion around it. The newspapers we got, and the dolls in the store were all related to it. It is very important to this dream... Maybe it will be the key to open this dream."

The key to open the dream is the way to leave the dream.

Instead of waiting for the performer to fail, he wants to find a way to leave first... Isn't he planning to watch the fire from the other side?

Seeing his hesitation and hesitation in his eyes, Guan Yuzhou smiled and said: "It's just that I just remembered that you have almost enough points this morning."

Xia Zhuo looked at Mrs. Bai suspiciously, and asked Guan Yuzhou in a low voice: "Aren't there no points for interpreting dreams?"

Guan Yuzhou explained: "There is nothing if you don't participate."

"Oh……"

"Go, go to the next door and wash your face. Let's go to another place today." Guan Yuzhou took him a few steps outside, then turned around and looked at Mrs. Bai: "You too."

Madam Bai lazily nestled in place: "I've washed up, I won't go."

Guan Yuzhou stepped back and grabbed him: "Go make breakfast."

Mrs. Bai: "...Hey, take it easy, this dress of mine is so precious!" It's high in the sun and you have to cook him breakfast?He's not really my son!

Xia Zhuo heard a lot of movement last night, and he had a general understanding of the messy scene next door, but he couldn't help being surprised when he saw it.

The entire glass door of the restaurant is gone, replaced by glass all over the floor.There was another heavy object running over it, some of which had been broken into slag, and many large and small scratches were left on the tables and chairs piled up next to it. I don't know where I thought a wild animal broke into it.

That man came here with such a serious injury last night, but in the end there was no trace of blood left, which is a bit strange.He didn't think that the woman pushing the cart was a cleaner. Instead of cleaning up the messy scene, she cleaned up the bloodstains alone... She did it as if she had some obsession.

Walking inside to the storage room, the empty shelves inside are neatly arranged, as if no one has been there.Going to the bathroom on the opposite side, Xia Zhuo immediately set his sights on the ceiling - the pipes that had been removed from the vents were pitch black, and immediately attracted people's attention.

"Teacher Guan, carry me up to have a look." He raised his hand high.

Guan Yuzhou did as he did, dragging his waist and lifting him up: "What did you see?"

"I didn't see anything." Xia Zhuo covered his nose to avoid inhaling too much dust.He listened quietly for a few seconds, "There is no movement."

"You turn on the flashlight." Guan Yuzhou said.

Xia Zhuo did as he did, and as soon as the light was turned on, there were traces of crawling in the narrow and dark corridor.The dust has not been cleaned by anyone, and the possibility of blood stains is almost zero. Jian Ran and Jian Shu should not have been injured.

"They escaped from here."

Guan Yuzhou put him down, "The opposite should be Area B."

Xia Zhuo tried hard to think about it. Yesterday they passed Area B, "Coral Area? By the way, Mr. Guan, what does the 'do not turn back' in the reminder mean? It really means that you cannot run back when being chased by the cleaners. Is it?" He always felt that it would not be so superficial.

"I don't think you can't turn back when you're being chased." Mrs. Bai came out of the kitchen with a bowl in her hand.He stuffed the bowl into Xia Zhuo's hand, folded his arms and said, "Speaking of this, I remembered another thing."

"Hiss, it's so hot." Xia Zhuo quickly put the bowl on the shelf.

"Guan Yuzhou and I had an interesting dream before, requiring participants to complete a maze within the specified time."

Xia Zhuo was curious: "What kind of maze?"

"A total of [-] participants, [-] forks, but only one exit. In front of each fork, there is a sign with puzzles written on it, and the answer is the direction. Once you pass the intersection, you cannot go back, because the wall will Sealing the way you came here means that there is no turning back in the true sense. Doesn’t it sound exciting?”

"The last few people came out?"

"Thirteen." Madam Bai raised her finger. "One of them is a scientist who seems quite famous, but being famous doesn't mean I have to remember his name."

One hundred to thirteen, this is an astonishing ratio.Xia Zhuo nodded: "It's really exciting."

"It is very difficult for a person to maintain his original intention in a group of people. What is even more difficult is to believe in the choices of others wholeheartedly. At the beginning, everyone spent a lot of time electing leaders and wanted to follow the person with the highest IQ, but more and more The longer it takes, the more their thinking will change." Mrs. Bai smiled softly: "The complicated thing is not the questions, but the human heart."

Because people have greed, hatred and ignorance, and they don't have precepts, concentration and wisdom.

Where there is greed there is attachment, where there is hatred there is rejection, and where there is no precepts there is no means by hook or by crook, which is why they gather here.

He was with Guan Yuzhou before, but the wooden man ignored everything he said.Now I have become acquainted with Xia Zhuo the first time and the second time, and there is still a response to what I said, and Mrs. Bai's talkative temperament gradually became apparent, and she suddenly lowered her voice: "Xiao Xia, have you heard the rule of 'no turning back' in funerals? ?”

Xia Zhuo: "No."

"Do you know why?"

"why?"

"Because those who are buried will feel sad and follow those who return home."

"……Oh."

Madam Bai then asked again: "There is also an unwritten rule among taxi drivers, that is, when you see a passenger wearing white on the side of the road when you are running at night, you are not allowed to turn around. Have you heard of this?"

Xia Zhuo hadn't recovered from his last words, and blinked slowly when he heard the words: "No."

"It is said that once you turn around, even if you don't drive this guest, he will still appear in your back seat."

"...Madam also likes supernatural stories?"

"Let's just treat it as a supernatural story." Madam Bai didn't care, "Anyway, no one knows whether it's true or not."

Xia Zhuo brought back the words that went astray: "So what does the reminder of 'do not turn back' mean?"

After the topic was over, Mrs. Bai leaned back against the wall, and he returned to his lazy state: "I don't know."

Xia Zhuo: "Just now I thought you had a mind that could rival that of a scientist, but it turned out to be just my unilateral thought."

"..." Madam Bai put the bowl on the shelf and made a gesture to leave.

Guan Yuzhou and Xia Zhuo said: "Don't pay attention to him, he is alone abroad, and no one can speak Mandarin with him."

Madam Bai rolled her eyes, "Then you answer this question, I don't believe you can know."

"The other meaning of turning back is to repeat the same mistakes." Guan Yuzhou took the bowl in his hand and blew on the rising heat, "The participants who died before were because of something that went through the 'second time', That's why they died. So after the 'first time' is implemented, the participants still have a chance to escape. And between the 'first time' and the 'second time', there should be some kind of strangeness hidden."

What Xia Zhuo associated with his description was the participants.After the first dream, the supervisor also gave the participants the choice to leave or stay.If you leave, you can retreat completely, and if you stay, you have the possibility of obtaining treasures, but you also have the danger of losing everything.

Madam Bai disdained: "I don't know if it's true or not."

Guan Yuzhou didn't want to waste too much time talking with him, "Bet?"

"Okay, what are you betting on?" Mrs. Bai straightened her back, as if she had already made up her mind: "If you make a mistake, find someone to snatch the land next to my house."

Guan Yuzhou laughed: "Why didn't you choose to grab it with a gun?"

Madam Bai shrugged: "Of course you can choose to grab it."

Xia Zhuo asked: "Where?"

Mrs. Bai explained: "There is an empty lot near where I live. This year, I heard some rumors that it will be planned as a city park in the next two years. I want to cut a piece of it to open a shop, but I'm afraid there is no hope."

"Is it very expensive?" Xia Zhuo had no idea about land.

"Now it's not about money anymore, it's about who has a good relationship with those politicians."

"Then if I'm right?" Guan Yuzhou glanced at him leisurely.

Madam Bai thought and thought, and tentatively said, "I'll be a witness when you get married?"

Guan Yuzhou took a step back in disgust.

"You wait first." Mrs. Bai began to sell: "You think, you are unaccompanied now, and it is impossible for him to become the original 'Xia Zhuo' when he goes back. When he gets married, it will be ugly except for the emcee's empty auditorium. "

"It's not sacred enough for you to come to the auditorium." Guan Yuzhou put the cooled noodles back in Xia Zhuo's hands, "Eat slowly, and we will go to the aquarium after eating."

Will he defile the auditorium or what?Madam Bai almost choked to death on his words.

Xia Zhuo picked up the chopsticks slowly, her mind was filled with the word "marriage".

Get married... He and Guan Yuzhou.

That is really a firm relationship between husband and wife that no one can remove.

Will they wake up in the same bed every day as they did in their dreams?If he had his own house, he would also like to change the curtains to sky blue, and put lemon-scented aromatherapy on the bedside table.

Once I think of those messy dreams, my thoughts are not very controlled.When Guan Yuzhou lifted his buried head from the bowl, those eyes immediately turned to the other side, their eyes dodging.

Guan Yuzhou asked, "Why are you blushing so much?"

Xia Zhuo said "Oops", and waved his hand away, like chasing away flies: "Why bother me to eat, go and go."

"Why do you have to bury yourself in it for every meal? No one will snatch it from you." Guan Yuzhou wiped his face funny.

"I'm happy!" Xia Zhuo turned around and pointed her butt at him.

Guan Yuzhou raised his eyebrows, and suddenly agreed to Mrs. Bai: "Then it's settled, you will come to participate when we get married."

The bet with Guan Yuzhou was originally unfounded, and it was because there was no good bet that I made nonsense. Seeing that he changed his sex, Mrs. Bai looked at him with a strange look: "You won't be another Think of some bad idea to trick me?"

"will not."

"Let's just trust you once." If there is an advantage, he won't take advantage of it. Anyway, he won't suffer if he loses. Madam Bai made a decision, "I'm in a good mood today, and I'll walk around with you in a while."

Xia Zhuo finally calmed down after drinking the soup.

He wiped the corner of his mouth, automatically ignored the still smiling look of the man beside him, and said solemnly, "Let's go."

When the three of them left the restaurant and passed by the souvenir shop, the young people hadn't returned yet.

Madam Bai pinched her nose, "When I came out this morning, I noticed that the smell here is more fishy than yesterday."

Xia Zhuo's sense of smell is not very sensitive, "The aquarium is full of fish and shrimp, isn't it normal that the fishy smell is heavy?"

"It's not normal for the smell of fish and shrimp to be so heavy now." Mrs. Bai frowned, "And what I'm talking about is not fishy smell, it may be that someone died yesterday... Hurry up, I don't care about this place for a while." I don't want to stay any longer."

Entering the open space, Xia Zhuo completely forgot about the shame, "Is there no time limit for interpreting dreams?"

Guan Yuzhou said: "Yes, but it is affected by real events."

"How to say?"

"Generally, when a case is involved, it depends on the acceptance time of the police. If the case is hastily closed after a certain period of time, then the interpreter will be successful. But generally, the case will not be closed unless the real culprit is caught or the informant withdraws. The time will be very busy and long, ten or twenty years is possible. So there are only two ways to end quickly, first, the performer dies. Second, the performer destroys the things that scare him.”

"Oh, so." Xia Zhuo grabbed the handrail, he still remembered that he almost fell here yesterday, so he walked cautiously.But despite this, water stains came from nowhere on the last step, and the moment he stepped on it, his feet slipped. Before Guan Yuzhou could stabilize him, he had subconsciously supported the glass beside him.

There was a muffled "bang", and a long string of tiny bubbles appeared in the water behind the glass.

The change in peripheral vision caught his attention, and he turned his head to meet the other pair of eyes.

This is the head of a stranger, who was thrown into the huge panoramic sea view with his eyes closed. The severed cross-section of the neck is clean and neat, and dense bones can also be seen.Near this head, there were other stumps scattered all over the place. Not far away, he even saw the frightened face of the man last night.

The blue water is faintly red, and above them is the feeding port.

tick-

A drop of water fell from the top of the head, just falling on Xia Zhuo's feet.

The piece of water he just stepped on was formed by the collected blood flowing down from the sponge, bit by bit.

Xia Zhuo suddenly understood what he thought was strange—did not clean up the messy scene, but cleaned up the bloodstains alone—the woman who died in the murder case was repeating the scene when she died!In the same way, she was thrown from the feeding port piece by piece, sank to the bottom of the water, and was even eaten by the swarming creatures in the middle.

Now the creatures are gone, just a pool of corpses.