Pendulum Rider

On the evening of October 18, 10, Lin Xiwu was lost on an unknown road, at least he was still in the vicinity of Shanghai.

Since he finished the task of expelling the mad scientists last month, Boss Wei only gave him one small task of medium level. The last task was completed without embarrassment. He wrote a report and just finished it. Venice The prince had indeed left Shanghai and returned to his own territory, and the phenomenon of ghosts in Shanghai suddenly dropped a lot.

Lin Xiwu's current task is relatively easy. He can eat while getting lost, and then finish it before the end of the National Day, just like completing the National Day gift package arranged by the teacher.

"Venus, check to see what else is delicious nearby?"

"You have been eating from morning to night, do you still remember why you went out today?"

"In order to inspect the situation at the Institute of the Red and Blue Gang in Qingpu District, they haven't reported the work situation to Lao Wei for two months. I was accidentally attracted by the smell of food to Zhujiajiao, and then I got lost. But do their research institutes have to go to work on the National Day? Will I make a trip for nothing? And it’s already dark."

"Who do you think has been dawdling outside for a whole day, but couldn't find the location of the research institute?"

"The research institute in Qingpu must be from heaven, right? I can't find it no matter how hard I look."

"Perhaps the pendulum, which is good at invisibility, enveloped the entire research institute. I didn't sense the existence of the research institute on the road that Boss Wei told me."

"So, are they really researching some ulterior things recently? Then they are preparing to rebel."

"Another possibility is that they were taken hostage by all, and the research institute became a stronghold of foreign blood races."

"Maybe the research institute was blown up."

"Generally speaking, being blown up will definitely alarm other people, especially the media."

"Then why don't you take me to the vicinity of the research institute now?" Venus was about to say that he finally planned to work hard, but Lin Xiwu added, "After dinner near the research institute, let's talk."

"Haven't you eaten enough for a day?"

"When you're tired from walking, you need to replenish your energy, and you also feed on my energy, right? I'm so tired, what do you eat?"

Venus sighed helplessly, why did he follow this strange person in Munich back then?

"Forget it, it's rare to take you for a ride." Venus said, adjusting the gravitational force on Lin Xiwu's body, and brought him to a high altitude. They moved quickly in the air and came to the vicinity of the research institute within a minute.

Lin Xiwu went into a Lanzhou ramen and ordered a big bowl of beef ramen with a lot of meat added. Venus watched him eat and wondered where he would go for supper next.

After Lin Xiwu finished eating the noodles, she drank up all the noodle soup and felt that it was not enough, so she ordered another rice bowl.

When Lin Xiwu walked out of the store, she burped and stretched her body: "Go for a walk after dinner, and take me to the research institute quickly."

Therefore, when Venus silently brought Lin Xiwu to the research institute, the two discovered that it wasn't that the research institute could not sense it, but that the research institute had really disappeared. , The debris of the building has been cleared away, leaving only a scorched black flat land.

However, the people around didn't feel anything unusual, maybe they couldn't see the scene.

"You are such a poisonous milk, does your brother know?"

"I just said that the institute was blown up, but this looks like it was burned."

"The building materials of the research institute are all fire-resistant, how could it be easily burned into this appearance?"

"Then is it because they blew themselves up because they did not perform the experiment correctly, or because an external enemy attacked them?"

"It may be that when they were doing research, the dangerous experimental subject escaped and caused an explosion."

"Experimental subject? Is it the same as my brother?"

"Maybe they captured some blood family alive, and they ended up killing themselves."

"Anyway, let's go to the scene to investigate first." Lin Xiwu just wanted to step into this barren land, but was stopped by Venus.

"Why can't ordinary people see this scene? It means that someone deliberately made them invisible. Maybe it was the escaped experimental subject. Maybe the other party set up some kind of trap. It's better not to go in rashly..." Good.

Before Venus said the last word, Lin Xiwu had already stepped into this land with a different style from the surrounding ones.

Lin Xiwu just wanted to turn around and tell the other party with a smile that there was no danger at all, but when he stepped into this place, he smelled a strong smell of blood, which was human blood.

He immediately tightened his nerves, and carefully sniffed the air around him to see if the scent of the vampires was still mixed in.

Venus had no choice but to float into this area, and he also felt the breath of dead souls in the open space.

It seems that the people stationed here noticed the uninvited guest who broke in suddenly. He came out with background music and special effects. Of course, the background music is not some nervous music, but the piercing sound of bats. Countless bats are like It was a spring butterfly dancing beside the man.

The man was dressed in a black tuxedo and deacon outfit. I don't know how he appeared out of thin air. He approached Lin Xiwu leisurely, not worried that Lin Xiwu would slip away.

Before the man approached, Venus had already possessed Lin Xiwu's hands and turned into a pair of gloves. Although he didn't know whether the man was an enemy or a friend, he looked very unfriendly.

Normally, Lin Xiwu would take off the enemy's arms first, but the opponent was protected by bats, so there was no way to strike.

"Who is coming, tell me your name!" The man's throat actually made a voice of Yu Jie, could it be that she is Yu Jie who disguised herself as a man?

"You didn't check the account, so why tell you?"

"I am a member of Lord Zijin of the Rose Clan."

"What's kinship? Rolled french fries? Are they delicious?"

Venus supported his forehead at the side, and corrected: "You can understand it as a blood servant, that is, the servant of the family named Zijin."

"So, this institute was blown up by Zijin's servant?" Lin Xiwu said, turning her gaze back to the man in front of her, "Why did you do this?"

"No comment." After speaking, the bats around the man all flew towards Lin Xiwu, but Lin Xiwu avoided them one by one.

"Is it necessary to trigger a dialogue scene before we can start fighting? Can't you just skip that part?" After several months of training, Lin Xiwu has been able to catch up with the speed of the blood race, even with the help of the pendulum. Help, but there are also many pendulum riders whose reaction ability is not good.

The man watched Lin Xiwu dodging bats, and asked, "Are you a member of Lord Lunmei?"

"Maybe? Lovers get married eventually."

"Then we have no reason to attack you."

Lin Xiwu saw that all the bats that attacked her had returned to the man, so she said, "Aren't you going to fight? What a disappointment. I thought you could also become my experience point."

"Without the master's order, do not fight privately with other clan members and their families."

"You just said that your master is Zijin, right?"

"Exactly."

"I suddenly remembered that when I sent the wedding invitation letter to Xing Xing, I mentioned the name Violet Violet. Didn't the Rose clan want to marry the Red and Blue Gang? Then why did you do such a thing? The buildings of the Red and Blue Gang were blown up."

"This is not what I did."

"Can I trouble you to speak some modern Chinese? Although I can understand it, I always feel very uncomfortable."

"My generation has lived for thousands of years, and it is difficult to completely change this habit of speaking."

"Forget it, you said you didn't bomb this research institute? Then how did it become like this?"

"We are ordered by the master to travel around the world in order to find the master's wife."

"Huh? You found the bride of the Red and Blue Gang?"

"No, what we are looking for is what Madam lacks."

"What does the bride lack? Shouldn't she lack a heart like me?"

"This matter should not be publicized, so there is no comment."

"Then what have you been doing here all this time? Since you found out that something happened here, why didn't you report it to Old Wei?"

"After our generation stepped into the enchantment, this place has already become a barren place. The master ordered us to stand by here and wait for the return of the perpetrator."

"After a long time, it turns out that you are waiting here to catch criminals? How is it? Do you have any clues?"

"Except for you, there are no suspects present."

"How long have you been here?"

"It's from mid-to-early September to the present."

"Old Wei hasn't received any news from here since August. You only came here to wait here in September. The suspect has already left, right?"

"The master's order cannot be violated."

"Speaking of which, you are full and have nothing to do. What are you doing in the research institute? The research institute doesn't have what you're looking for."

As soon as these words came out, the man in front of him fell silent.

"No way? The thing you are looking for is in the research institute? What exactly is it?" Lin Xiwu thought for a moment and said, "I understand, it must be a headless bride, right? The bride's head is researching Institute for research? But you don’t know which area of ​​Shanghai the institute is.”

"You're only half right." The man looked straight into Lin Xiwu's eyes, his eyes seemed to say: Don't delve into it any further.

Lin Xiwu didn't want to ask, so she changed the subject: "Speaking of which, the blood here is very thick. Have you seen the researcher's body?"

"It's all turned to ashes."

"Then the smell of blood hasn't dissipated yet? Is it because of the confined space arranged by the murderer?"

"Perhaps so."

"You have been staying here, where do you usually sleep? What do you eat?"

"Our bats can forage for food from the outside. We don't need to sleep, just close our eyes and take a nap for a while."

"Then aren't you bored? Do you want to play mobile games?"

"I've lived for thousands of years, and I'm used to loneliness, not to mention bats as companions, how can I be bored?"

"Do you have anything delicious to eat? How about I eat and talk with you tonight, and when the sun rises, I will go back and report the situation here to Old Wei."

"The bats looking for food haven't returned yet. If you want to have a long talk, follow me to another place."

"Okay, you lead the way, you..." Lin Xiwu realized that he still didn't know the other person's name, "What's your name? You can call me Lin Xiwu."

"My generation is Xi."

"Milkshake? Good name."

"No, it should be the west of the east, south, and northwest. Besides my generation, there are three other family members named East, South, and North."

"Anyway, I'll call you Milkshake, Milkshake, do you want to join my foodie group?"

"My generation is only loyal to Master Zijin, his wife and children."

Just as the man named Xi was about to take Lin Xiwu to a place where he could sit and rest, the bats that had gone out to look for food also flew back. The bats brought back a lot of fresh blood, which made Lin Xiwu salivate.

"The blood smells good, though it doesn't smell like roses. Where did you get it?"

"This is the blood of a human child."

Although Lin Xiwu heard the word human beings, he had no resistance in his heart. Anyway, it was just blood, not meat. He couldn't wait to drink it.

When Xi brought Lin Xiwu to his resting place, he handed him a slightly damaged but usable beaker: "I picked it up, you can use it to drink blood."

Said Xi, picked up another beaker and let the bat pour blood into it.

After the institute was bombed, he found some barely usable things and lived here.

Lin Xiwu also unceremoniously filled up her beaker, put it to her mouth, took a big gulp, and then commented: "It's not as sweet as I imagined, maybe I'm used to drinking my brother's blood, why don't you drink it?" It smells like roses."

"Brother Ling is a member of the Rose clan?"

"This question is difficult to answer. The Prince of Venice told me before that my brother's heart is the blood of the Rose clan, and that's why rose-flavored blood is produced in his body."

Xi heard this, his face paled in shock, and he immediately bowed down at Lin Xiwu's feet: "Please forgive my disrespect just now."

"Scared me, I thought you were going to kneel down on one knee to propose marriage. What happened to you all of a sudden? Get up quickly."

"From now on, we will regard you as one of the masters."

"Why? Aren't you Zijin's servant?"

In the end, Lin Xiwu still couldn't understand the meaning of what the other party said. He chatted with Xi for a long time, and after one night, he felt that his way of speaking had also been assimilated, so he blurted out a sentence: "I finally understand why the ancients wanted to 'hate chickens'." Ming', I look forward to talking with you like this one night in the future. Then, I will bid farewell."

Lin Xiwu once asked Lin Jiayi about this question when she saw the three words 'hate the crowing of the chicken'. At that time, Lin Jiayi's answer was: I worked all night, and the cock crowed before I was done. Can you not hate it?

This explanation is really easy to understand. Of course, what I hate is actually parting.

When Lin Xiwu walked out of the barrier and returned to the normal world, he immediately resumed his original way of speaking. He went to a nearby breakfast shop and bought six meat buns and two cups of soy milk. The boss thought it was from two people. I gave him an extra plastic bag.

After Lin Xiwu finished his breakfast, he lost his way in Qingpu District for a long time. It was not until this afternoon that he successfully returned to Jiading District. He came to Boss Wei's residence and reported to him about the research institute.

Boss Wei revealed a sad look on his face, and said slowly: "I'm afraid this is the work of radical opponents."

"Against what? Is the marriage between the blood clan and the blood hunter?"

"That person should know what Zijin is looking for, so he will target the research institute. The defense of the Qingpu research institute is too weak. The person in charge there always fires the security guards that he doesn't like. Now he can only rebuild it. .”

"It turned out that they killed themselves. Speaking of which, Milkshake was also looking for something in various research institutes. Old Wei, what did you hide in the research institute? Is it a part of the bride's body?"

"Although it is part of the body, it is not."

"That's what the milkshake said, what the hell is it?"

"You'd better not inquire."

Fortunately, Lin Xiwu didn't have obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he had to listen to the end to feel comfortable. After a few days, he forgot about it. In order to prevent him from continuing to inquire about it, Lao Wei handed over the aftermath of the Qingpu Research Institute to Ordered the senbei.

***

On the last night of the National Day, Lin Xiwu received an invitation letter with her name printed on it from Lin Jiayi. At that time, Lin Jiayi had just returned from a trip to Yunnan and hadn't even packed the suitcase. Lin Xiwu also happened to get lost in the Pudong New Area. The two came to a restaurant together for dinner, while Ye Zhihao took his luggage and took a taxi back to Huangpu.

Lin Xiwu took the invitation letter and looked left and right, and then said: "Why is the style of this painting different from what I saw before? Could it be that you lied to me and printed one yourself?"

"Have I lied to you?"

"Do you dare to say that you haven't lied to me? For example, when I was in the first grade of elementary school, the school organized a national anthem singing competition based on the class. The teacher sent each of us a sheet of music and lyrics. Men and women sing in turn, and you lied to me that 'male singer' and 'female singer' were misspelled, not next to the word, it should be next to the female character. You can read earlier than me, and I don't read much, so I believe you, Lu Brother is still laughing beside me without saying a word, you are too bad, since then, I have always thought that the word "sing" next to the words is wrong, when I wrote the phrases silently, all the lights were wrong, the teacher punished me to copy the phrases, I still think I was right."

"Don't bring up things about your childhood."

"But what the hell is this entry number 000? You must not know my entry number, so you made up a random number."

"I was also very surprised when I saw this admission number."

Lin Xiwu saw that there was something wrong with Lin Jiayi's eyes. He seemed to be remembering what he saw that day. Although he didn't know what happened to him that day, Lin Xiwu didn't want to take the initiative to touch on this matter, so he said: "Then I will trust you for the time being." Well, as long as there is no QR code on the invitation letter, you don't need to scan the code to enter, even if the number is wrong, you can get in."

After hearing Lin Xiwu's voice, Lin Jiayi woke up like a dream, and recovered from the memories of that day: "By the way, I brought you delicious food from Yunnan, and it's inconvenient to open it now. Here you go, where are you going after dinner?"

"I'll go to Huangpu with you. I happen to be running out of blood reserves, so let me get some more."

"I'm not going back to Huangpu today. I have an appointment with Violin, and I'm going to Jiading Research Institute to continue my physical examination."

"Speaking of the research institute, brother, do you know what's hidden in the research institute? Old Wei and the others didn't tell me."

"Hiding something?" Lin Jiayi looked bewildered, "Like what?"

"I don't know, maybe it's a part of the human body. I found out that the research institute in Qingpu was bombed. At that time, a blood clan told me that he was looking for something, which was hidden in the research institute, but he didn't know it was What institute. You always go to the institute, what do you know?"

"After what you said, I suddenly remembered that on the 2nd, I went in the wrong direction in the research institute. I saw an iron gate in the corridor, which blocked the whole road. I don't know what is behind the iron railing. What is it, I always feel a chill, which makes people get goosebumps."

"Maybe, that thing is hidden in your research institute, when will you sneak in and have a look?"

"I don't have a key, so I can't sneak in."

"You can let your spirit pendulum go in to find out, anyway, it is smoky and can easily pass through the iron bars."

"Then let Ah Huang sneak over to have a look when I go to check tonight."