The Midnight Owl

Abandoned garden, drizzle, and misty mist blur the boundary between reality and illusion.

“Your name … Yang?” Xu Wang asked again.

“Is there any problem?” The young man tilted his head and wondered why they were dumbfounded.

Yes, of course there are problems.

It is not surprising to meet the king of Yan in the world of Chi Yingxue, but as Xu Wang and Wu Sheng, who have really been with the king of the earth, the “lord of the king” in front of him is really strange and unpredictable.

Not only the strangeness on the outside, but also the internal changes.

Just like Chi Zhuolin changed from an overbearing president to a silly white sweet, Yan Yan also turned into a young and energetic man from the mature man with a bit of a black belly.

Simple and straightforward, energetic and healthy, the whole body is full of love and wild lovers, and they are very different from the Yan who they know, and they are almost opposite to the Chi Yingxue they know.

Xu Wang blinked hard, blinking off the water film stuck between the eyelashes, making the “Ying” in the field of vision clearer, and also allowing the disordered thoughts to be sorted out.

“No problem. It’s just …” He smiled and pointed to himself and Wu Sheng. “We both know a friend, also called King Yan.”

“Oh?” King Yan was curious, and he put on the black mask again, and asked, “What kind of person is he?”

“A bit more mature than you, a little bit older, and a little more paranoid.” Xu Wang looked at his facial features and re-hidden under the hood, leaving only a pair of wild and alert eyes.

“Why do you compare with me,” Yan Yan laughed, “we just happened to have the same name, but it didn’t really matter. If we had the same personality, then hell.”

“There really is a place,” Wu Sheng said with a great deal of leisure. “The two of you are exactly the same.”

Xu Wang puzzled to see his own military division.

Yan also raised an eyebrow: “Where?”

Wu Sheng lowered his eyes, and his eyes fell on his bloody, bruised arm and calf: “Neither of you knows the pain.”

Yan Wang looked down at his eyes and saw his wound, without a smile: “When you feel used to it, you won’t feel it anymore.”

“Are you always injured?” Xu Wangmin sharply caught the fleeting bitterness in his eyes, and he squeezed in his heart, and then the words went out.

King Yan was startled, as if he had no psychological preparation for the problem, and he finally waved his hand: “Hey, stop talking to me, are you in a hurry to find Chi Yingxue, then hurry and follow me.”

After finishing his speech, he turned and walked forward. In front of him, there was a dead tree, and no path or building could be seen.

Xu Wang and Wu Sheng stared at each other and quickly followed, but after catching up, Xu Wang still asked in a nonchalant manner: “Which way are you going to take us?”

Perhaps it is the real Yan who always has a bit of hostility towards Chi Yingxue, so it is still difficult for Xu Wang and Wu Sheng to be 100% practical with such a “neighborly and friendly” Yan.

“Of course it’s me-King Yan-the special way.” King Yan glanced back at them, and the world was at his disposal.

During the talk, the three had come to pour under a very thick withered tree, wide and yellow leaves covered with dead branches, and an old well under a slate.

The king bent down, took a deep breath, and pushed off the big stone slab with one person’s strength, exposing the weathered wellhead.

The well has dried up and you can see the bottom of the well at a glance.

“Don’t tell me, you’re ready to jump …” Xu Wang hadn’t finished speaking yet, and there was a gust of wind around him.

With a thud, King Yan fell into the well, and when he was finished, he looked up and greeted them: “Hurry down.”

Xu Wang looked at the bottom of the well that was four or five meters deep, and his head hurt: “Is this your special road?”

“Don’t be afraid,” King Yan opened his arms intimately, “I follow you.”

“No,” Wu Sheng refused for his captain. “He was picked up.”

As Xu Wang steadily fell into Wu Sheng’s arms, the bottom of the small well was almost filled with three people. At the wall of the well with their knees high, there is a round hole with a width of one person. I do n’t know where they are connected. I can only feel the swooshing wind.凉.

The king of the king bent down and drilled into the round hole.

Xu Wang and Wu Sheng looked at each other endlessly, always feeling that they had gone astray.

In the cave where I couldn’t see my five fingers, I could no longer hear the rain on the ground. Only occasionally there was a “tick” coming from somewhere, taking advantage of the darkness to be extremely silent.

Yan Wang, Xu Wang, and Wu Sheng, one after another, climbed forward slowly. The speed was slow, the holes in the tunnel, the back pain was sore, the knee was sore, and Xu Wang could suffocate if he didn’t say anything.

Xu Wang: “Don’t tell me that Chi Yingxue lives in the basement.”

King Yan: “How is it possible, the decent Western Chamber.”

Xu Wang: “… Why should we go underground!”

King Yan: “There are people on the ground guarding.”

Xu Wang: “The gardener and the driver have been run away by us.”

King Yan: “They only guard the garden, and the guards in the inner yard are more. Without the permission of the pool, you want to break hard and you don’t have ten lives.”

Xu Wang: “Chief President Chi Yingxue’s father?”

King Yan: “Otherwise, who else can there be.”

Xu Wang: “That’s it. He is Chi Yingxue’s father. We are friends of Chi Yingxue. We communicate well with each other, and there is no reason not to allow us to see.

King Yan: “Well, that person, communication can’t come.”

Xu Wang: “Have you tried?”

King Yan: “No need to try, it is because he shut Chi Yingxue in the west wing to prevent him from going out, what communication do he have to communicate!”

Xu Wang was in a physique, and Wu Sheng in the darkness was slightly startled.

When the veranda shook and crooked, and they heard the sound of “Chi Zhuolin”, they foreseen that this “Old Chi President” was not easy to mess with.

But at that time they only thought that it was a majestic, unsmiling, and oppressive father. He never thought deeply about the father-son relationship between him and Chi Yingxue.

Xu Wang: “Why should he keep Xiao Xue closed?”

King Yan: “Xiao Xue?”

Xu Wang: “Oh, we all call him that.”

King Yan: “It seems that your relationship is really good.”

Xu Wang: “We and you are friends now.”

Yan Wangle said: “Unexpectedly, I will borrow the light of Chi Yingxue one day.”

“Back to the last question,” Wu Sheng reminded lightly, “Why is Chief Chi holding Xiao Xue closed?”

“I really don’t know about this,” King Yan sighed. “Anyway, I’m looking for Chi Yingxue to play, and I’ve been walking down the road. You follow me, you’re right, just …”

Xu Wang and Wu Sheng: “Is it?”

“This road may be a bit bumpy.” King Yan said in a word, innocent.

After a long, creeping advance, the three finally jumped out of the tunnel and entered a spacious space somehow.

Wu Sheng lit up the flashlight of the mobile phone, only to see clearly, this is a stone room, all four walls are made of smooth masonry, and the top of the head is the same.

Xu Wanggang wanted to ask where it was, but he saw the king walked to the corner, where he fumbled for the wall, as if looking for something.

Soon, the “click” of the wrench was heard from the king.

Then, the wall in front of them fell, exposing the next stone room.

The stone room is exactly the same size as the one they are now in, it is also boxy, and it is completely closed up, down, left, and right. There is also a small red wrench in the corner of the position where Yan Wang is standing.

The only difference is that the stone room they are in now has a hole in the wall, which is the tunnel they climbed over; and the stone room in front of it, the surrounding walls are intact, but the ground is densely covered with sharp knives, and the blades are flushed, neatly Like a phalanx of murder.

“It’s counted here that we are standing, there are six stone rooms in total,” Yan explained enthusiastically. “We just need to pull the wrench and open the stone doors, one by one, and we will soon be able to reach the Western Chamber.”

Xu Wang turned his head to look at him, and smiled slowly and slowly: “Is every stone room next like this?”

“How come.” Yan Yan shook his head immediately.

Xu Wangsong breathed: “That’s good.”

King Yan: “The more you get behind, the more dangerous you are.”

Xu Wang: “…”

Yama:”?”

Xu Wang: “This is what you said … maybe, a bit, bumpy ?!”

…

Hidden secretary room.

I do n’t know that his captain and the military division have embarked on a bumpy road. Jin Xin finally gave up on the troubled sea in the long river of memory. He was afraid of continuing to stir up. The password was not fished out, and then the conventional memory was scourge.

If you ca n’t remember, you can only take the book away.

Kuang Jinxin quickly checked the rest of the bookshelf to confirm that there was only one real book, and then with a little “stolen things from others” uneasy, he packed the book into a small backpack.

The moment before it was put in, it was said to be curious, and it was said that it was a ghost, and Kang Jinxin opened the book again and looked at it.

When he first found the book, he had opened it and read it. Although I can’t remember the password, at least I can see what kind of book the mother is. The words “Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme” are completely foreign to him. Intuitively, it should be similar to “Green Fairy Tales”. Turning a few pages, it is really a Chinese and English nursery rhyme. Climb the woodpile, eat Christmas pie, simple and childlike.

But when he had put the book halfway into the bag, his hands were stopped, and then he took it out and opened it a second time.

No reason, I just think I should take another look.

This time, he turned to a nursery rhyme with only five sentences–

Mymotherhaskilledme.

(Mom killed me)

Myfatheriseatingme.

(Dad ate me)

Mybrothersandsisterssitunderthetable.

(Siblings sitting under the table)

Pickingupmybones.

(Pick up my bones)

Andtheyburythemunderthecoldmarblestones.

(Buried in a cold stone tomb)

The phone’s power is completely exhausted, and it shuts down automatically, annihilating the last glimmer.

Kuang Jinxin stood in the dark, his hands and feet cold.

He kept telling himself in his heart that this is just a book, and there are also naive nursery rhymes in it, not necessarily linked to reality, or even linked to Chi Yingxue ’s conscious world, it may just be that he and his brother play codes The female parent that the letter finds easily …

In the end, he couldn’t continue anymore.

He stands in Chi Yingxue’s conscious world, and may even be the deepest hidden place in the other person’s heart. Don’t talk about a book here, it’s a piece of grass and leaves, which are all imprinted in Chi Yingxue’s heart.

Suddenly there were footsteps outside the door, calm, firm, and getting closer.

Kuang Jin was stagnant there, daring not to move.

That footstep stopped in front of the door.

Subsequently, the door of the secret secretary’s room was pushed.

Not opened.

When Jin Xin entered the door, he put on a lock.

The person outside the door apparently didn’t anticipate this situation. After a moment of silence, Tuk Tuk knocked twice on the door and said politely: “Is anyone inside?”

Kuang Jinxin held his breath, holding a book in his hand, sweating slightly.

The man only asked this sentence, and the knock on the door did not reappear.

Kuang Jinxin listened with his ears, hoping to capture the sound of the leaving footsteps.

However, it was the key that opened the door.

“Squeak–“

The door opened, and there was only a squat outside the small door half a person tall.

Kang Jinxin backed his hands, quickly packed the book into his backpack, and then squatted down, carefully staring at the other party.

Outside the door is a middle-aged man, who looks forty-five or six years old, in a suit and leather, and comes with dignity. Even if he is squatting like this, he will not make people feel disqualified. Moonlight reflected the deep contours of his facial features and the light lines of the corners of his eyes, but the eyes in those eyes were firm and firm, as if they could see through the soul.

“I heard a voice here, I thought it was a mouse.” The four eyes met, the middle-aged man smiled, and he seemed to want to be kind. Unfortunately, the smile still couldn’t dissolve the seriousness between his brows.

“I, I came here to find friends, and then I got lost.” Kang Jinxin did not know the identity of the other party, so he could only give himself information, at least change his “good attitude”.

“Find a friend?” The man said gently. “Tell me his name, maybe I can help you find it.”

Situation Jin Xin hesitated.

The man looked at him quietly, neither urged him to say nor asked him to come out, but maintained such a strange, awkward posture of squatting together outside the door.

For a long time, Kuang Jinxin suddenly felt that the man’s facial features, especially his eyebrows, had some sense of familiarity.

Chi Zhuolin!

Kuang Jinxin’s eyes widened, and then carefully looked at the face outside the door, confirming that the contours of the five senses are undoubtedly Chi Zhuolin, a dozen years later!

I remember that in Beijing, when Chi Zhuolin invited guests, he mentioned in the chat at the dinner table that he looked like a father, and Chi Yingxue looked like a mother, so he had at least a mix of facial features, and his younger brother was the beauty of the world —— Also at that time, Kuang Jinxin clearly realized that when blowing up his own brother, President Chi Zhuolin can use all the good words in the world, regardless of dimension.

“I’m looking for … Chi Yingxue.” Kuang Jinxin carefully reported the name of his teammates, hoping that his guess wouldn’t go wrong.

The outsider was quite surprised, but soon this accident became hospitable: “I am Chi Yingxue’s father, come out quickly, how uncomfortable it is inside.”

Moreover, Jin Xin breathed a sigh of relief, and he was right.

At the same time, I am particularly fortunate for my luck. I met the head of the family as soon as I encountered it.

“Good Uncle Chi.” He greeted him politely, and after he no longer hesitated, he quickly got out of the wicket.

“It’s a good boy to be polite.” The man touched Jin Xin’s head with relief, like a generous elder, “Come with me.”

“I heard that Chi Yingxue was sick?” Kuang Jinxin remembered the information he got when he was escorted from the front yard.

“Well,” the man said lightly, “but he took the medicine and took a nap, now it’s much better.”

So why in the front yard did the two people say that Chi Yingxue could not see the guests, so they drove them away so fiercely?

Kuang Jinxin was puzzled in his heart, but he did not continue to ask questions, for fear of involving what should not be said. After all, it was really unpleasant to make trouble in the front yard.

For a long time afterwards, Chi Yingxue’s father walked ahead, and Kuang Jinxin followed.

The moonlight stretched the middle-aged man’s shadow very long.

Kuang Jinxin looked at the tall and wide back, unknowingly in his heart, complex and sour.

He grew up without a father, so every time he looked at the father of others, he felt both warm and envious.

【Mymotherhaskilledme.Myfatheriseatingme ……】

[Mom killed me, Dad ate me …]

The nursery rhymes I saw before, without warning, popped out of my mind, and I could even hear the illusory, children’s singing voice in my ears.

A crisp, innocent childish voice, reading the bloodiest ballad …

Moreover, Jin Xin stopped suddenly.

Chi Yingxue ’s father seemed to have long eyes behind his back, and he almost stood still for the next second, turning back: “What’s wrong?”

Moreover, Jin Xin couldn’t answer.

He didn’t know what was wrong with him, but he suddenly felt terrified. The uneasiness in his heart was unreasonable, but fierce.