[Bottle Evil] Snowy Illusion

Wu Xie's breathing was steady and long, like a deep sleep, but it was just like it. At this moment, his mind was extremely clear, waiting for what was about to happen.He hadn't been in this mood for a long time, and it turned out to be excitement.

At some point in the morning, there was a second person's very light footsteps at the entrance of the cave in the darkness, followed by a moment's pause.Wu Xie knew that his bed blocked the way of the people inside, so Zhang Qiling had to get past him before he could land in the room smoothly.

Sure enough, Wu Xie felt one hand propped on one side of his shoulder, firmly, then the other hand propped on the other side, and then one knee was pressed to the side of the bed.Wu Xie knew that at the next moment Zhang Qiling would turn out from the inside with the support of his arms and land on the ground smoothly.

But he didn't expect Zhang Qiling to stop, just beside his face.

Wu Xie could feel two cold and sharp gazes sweeping across his body.If it was him ten years ago, he might have trembled or couldn't keep his eyes open, or more likely, he wouldn't feel anyone looking at him at all.

But at the moment, he suppressed the urge to open his eyes without much effort, and calmly felt a cool finger touching the back of his ear, actually testing whether he was wearing a human skin mask .

Wu Xiexin said that I must be genuine.Zhang Qiling touched it a few times and seemed to be sure, then his finger left behind his ear, but suddenly touched the long scar on his neck.

Things seemed to be a little unexpected, Wu Xie felt Zhang Qiling close to his face, breathed lightly in his nostrils, and the scars were scorching hot when his fingers stroked them.

At this moment, Zhang Qiling was like a net that caught him, and his fingers rested on the throat with a fatal scar.This made him very uncomfortable, but he couldn't avoid it at all.It took a lot of effort to keep his brow from furrowing, his eyes open, or his breathing out of rhythm.

The time was stretched so long that Wu Xie could hardly stand it any longer, so he had to speak directly.But Zhang Qiling suddenly and quickly passed him and fell to the ground, and then there was still a very slight sound of rummaging through pockets, desks, drawers, and wardrobes.

Wu Xie sighed in his heart, and finally regained his composure. He heard the voice again and recognized that Zhang Qiling was really looking for something. Wu Xie confirmed his deduction again.At the same time, I suddenly had a complicated, indescribable feeling in my heart.

He calculated all the details, deduced the whole plan, read a lot of information, and deliberated on various assumptions. Finally, the chain of the whole incident was linked together, and almost all the mysteries were explained.After getting the answer, he felt calm and relieved, but only one person's consideration gave him an unprecedented shock.In fact, he should have expected it and understood it long ago, but until this moment, the shock still made him lose his mind.

The sound of footsteps stopped by his bed again, Wu Xie knew it would be like this, because Zhang Qiling didn't find what he was looking for, and now he probably wanted to search his body.

Wu Xie wanted to laugh, and the more he thought about it, the more he wanted to laugh, but at the critical moment, he nimbly avoided the hand reaching for the back of his neck, and grabbed the wrist of that hand.

You don't need to hide your energy with this person, even if this person is in this state, you don't need to, because he is Zhang Qiling.

Even before this thought had completely passed through his mind, Zhang Qiling had already used his other hand, and a strong wind rushed towards Wu Xie's other hand that was catching his throat.The two clasped each other's wrists with great strength.

Wu Xie never dreamed that one day he could really fight with Zhang Qiling like this. He was a little surprised and a little overjoyed. Zhang Qiling's wrist was actually squeezed tightly by him, although his own wrist was about to break. Feel.

In hand-to-hand combat with Zhang Qiling, don't try to play any tricks, because the opponent has absolute strength and experience. In the face of such an obvious gap in strength, any resistance or attack is ridiculous.

What Wu Xie gambled on was Zhang Qiling's "unexpectedness" and his "unbearable heart" that he would not be cruel to his friend who was born and died.

Sure enough, after Zhang Qiling was caught by Wu Xie's wrist, he obviously hesitated for a moment, but his body had already reacted before his consciousness. Zhang Qiling put his foot on the edge of the bed, and at the same time, his whole body jumped onto the folding bed, and pressed down directly. Twisting, he turned Wu Xie towards the wall in one move, and pressed him firmly against it.

Wu Xie also struggled vigorously, but his posture was unfavorable, and he was the one who hurt.He felt that he was caught between Zhang Qiling's chest and the wall, he was almost suffocated, and suddenly a gust of air rushed into his ears.Zhang Qiling finally clicked his tongue and said, "Wu Xie!"

Wu Xie sighed: "You still know it's me, let go, you're going to crush me to death."

"What's wrong, Boss!" After an exclamation, the door was knocked open with a "bang", and a beam of light hit the two of them directly, followed by Su Wan's "Uh..."

Wu Xie couldn't hold back any longer, and finally relaxed all over.

Seeing him like this, Zhang Qiling let him go, and glanced at the door, Li Cuo and Su Wan, who could definitely be described as stupefied.

Li Cu thought that he should already be immune to Zhang Qiling's aura, after all, he had heard the legends and seen the sleeping image.But the figure outlined by the light of the flashlight in front of him, who had just taken off his guard, still showed a kind of power, especially the sharp gaze just cast, which swept through all the flaws in his body in an instant.

Su Wan, on the other hand, swallowed unconsciously. The strange but familiar man in front of him was actually not much taller than him, but he was indeed a god-like existence, and a slightly weird description lingered in his mind. : High, big, can't go up...

"Brother, you are still so ruthless." Wu Xie took a hiss and rubbed his wrist, "I wanted to fight you, but it seems that I am too self-righteous."

Then he looked at the two people at the door, and said, "See, if I don't show up to stop you this afternoon, if you two get closer to him, he can just turn over and kill you two."

Li Cu felt contemptuous in his heart, he felt that this was Wu Xie trying to save face, after all, he and Su Wan bumped into the embarrassing scene of him being controlled by Zhang Qiling.But Su Wan realized something completely different when he thought about the scene just now, he laughed and said: "Boss, Brother Zhang just woke up, you must have a lot to say, we're leaving now, good night, good night."

As he spoke, he pulled Li Cu, and Li Cu said "Huh?", and Wu Xie coughed twice: "That's right, what adults say has nothing to do with your children."

"Damn." Li Cu cursed in a low voice, Su Wan laughed again, and closed the door knowingly.

The room fell into silence and darkness again, Wu Xie went straight to the table, turned on the battery-operated night light, turned to look at Zhang Qiling, and said with a smile: "Brother, long time no see."

After a farewell on Changbai Mountain, the two had indeed not seen each other for nearly ten years.Wu Xie arrived in Golmud more than two months ago, and only saw Zhang Qiling who was still in a deep sleep state, but Zhang Qiling did not wake up at that time. It was not until this night, after a not-too-intense but absolutely unexpected "combat", that the two men finally fell asleep. It's a real face-to-face reunion.

Wu Xie looked at Zhang Qiling in the twilight. This person had a very different aura when he was awake. This feeling was both familiar and strange to him. After all, ten years had passed.

Wu Xie thought of a conversation he had with Zhang Haike, Zhang Haike asked him if he would tell Zhang Qiling everything he had experienced.His answer was no, he just wanted to tell Zhang Qiling that he was just a patient, and from now on, he could rest.

Wu Xie looked at Zhang Qiling in front of him, and suddenly thought that the idea in this answer is impossible to realize now.

"Brother, you should say something." Wu Xie's tone seemed very relaxed, "We have a long time to reminisce, or discuss some issues. For example, why you were brought here."

Zhang Qiling still looked at him quietly, without moving or answering.Zhang Qiling has such a habit. When the situation in front of him does not match his expectations, or there is something beyond his control and understanding, he usually does not react without authorization, but chooses to observe and think.And once this observation comes to a conclusion and his thinking takes shape, he can respond in the fastest time.

Wu Xie understood this, so at this time, to a certain extent, he was a little proud, because Zhang Qiling listed him as one who could not deal with it for the time being.

They looked at each other for a while, Wu Xie couldn't help but want to laugh, Zhang Qiling suddenly spoke, but it was a sentence that was not very relevant to the question: "What date is today?"

Wu Xie quickly realized that what Zhang Qiling was most concerned about was indeed that matter, so he handed over the phone and said, "It's still early, as I said, we still have plenty of time."

Zhang Qiling took a look and said nothing, Wu Xie said again: "Why don't you say 'no time'? Is there really enough time?"

This sentence confused Wu Xie for a long time. At the beginning, he only knew that Zhang Qiling wanted to complete something within a certain time limit. If this time was exceeded, some terrible consequences might happen.Later, Wu Xie came into contact with more and more truths, and most of the puzzles were solved by him. He gradually deduced vaguely, what Zhang Qiling said is that there is no time, what exactly is there is no time.And it wasn't until one day a year ago that he accidentally obtained a black-haired snake, and after receiving the pheromone from that snake, he finally determined what kind of terrible urging these words pointed to.

Zhang Qiling still didn't answer, the atmosphere that should have been a long-lost reunion, was washed away by the darkness in front of him and a lot of hints and information in the words, leaving only a sense of tension that could be said to be confrontation.

After a while, Wu Xie sighed, and finally said first, "Brother, do you have any other questions?"

Zhang Qiling still didn't answer. "Okay, don't tell me, let me ask." Wu Xie continued, "Zhang Haike, have you seen him? He said that when you just woke up, you quickly recognized that he was not me. How did you know that? Don't tell me. It's you, even when I look at him, I feel no different from me."

Zhang Qiling opened his mouth this time, and said calmly: "I have seen many human skin masks, it is not difficult to see the flaws."

Wu Xie smiled, then pulled the chair and sat down, then pointed to his folding bed, signaling Zhang Qiling to sit down too, but Zhang Qiling still didn't move.Wu Xie put her arm on the back of the chair casually, turned her face up to Zhang Qiling, looked at it for a while, and decided to directly talk about what she had been holding back for a longer time.

Wu Xie said calmly: "You lied to me again. Zhang Haike only showed his face. You shouldn't have noticed it. You came to check on me just now. I was awake at that time, and I knew it. Zhang Haike's flaw is not in the mask. I knew from the beginning that it was impossible for me to open the door and take you out at this time."

There was a flash of astonishment in Zhang Qiling's eyes, but his indifference soon returned.

The two looked at each other for a while, and then Wu Xie said in a low and clear tone: "Because the ghost seal you gave me can't open the bronze door at all."

Wu Xie only found out later that even with the ghost seal, it is impossible to open the bronze door at any time.The most obvious clue and proof is that if Zhang Qiling knew that Wu Xie didn't want him to enter the bronze gate, then leaving him a ghost seal that could open the gate at any time would be very strange in itself.But Zhang Qiling mentioned a time before entering the door, that is, ten years. Wu Xie later discovered that in the whole incident, many key events, key people and things were related to this time.

Ten years is a cycle, a cycle, and the cycle of being able to use the ghost seal to open the bronze door is also ten years, and the ghost seal can only open the door once every ten years.

But when Zhang Qiling handed the ghost seal to Wu Xie, it was not yet the time when he could use the ghost seal to open the door, so "ten years later" at that time would not work either.The time that Zhang Qiling hinted to Wu Xie was staggered throughout the utility cycle of Guixi.

Of course, even if you don't know it at the beginning, and then calculate the utility cycle of Guixi, it seems that Zhang Qiling can be picked up.What's more, Wu Xie later discovered a method of opening the door that the Zhang family can use, which is not limited by the cycle, so Zhang Haike was able to pick up Zhang Qiling in advance on his behalf.But the fact is that Wu Xie discovered Zhang Qiling's decisive idea, that is, at another point in time before he can use the ghost seal to open the door, he will completely disappear in this world.

Zhang Qiling still didn't answer, and Wu Xie continued: "You know I'm going to open the door with the ghost seal. It's not okay now, and the so-called 'ten years later' won't work either. You didn't intend for me to open the bronze door to take over from the beginning." Are you?"

Wu Xie's tone was calm and calm, and these questioning words carried an unavoidable persecution.But he didn't expect that Zhang Qiling simply admitted: "Yes."

Now many confusions about Zhang Qiling's entry into the Bronze Gate became clear.For example, when Zhang Qiling first went to Changbai Mountain with poor equipment, no food or water, when Wu Xie insisted on following him, his resoluteness, and those dialogues full of desolation, all of these have been explained.Zhang Qiling didn't intend to come out from behind the bronze door, at least he didn't intend to let Wu Xie open the door to replace him.

"What about now, do you want to go back alone now? Knock me out, search my things, or find Zhang Haike, get what you need, and then go back to the Bronze Gate, the same as ten years ago?" Wu Xie asked him, there was no obvious emotion in his words, but he was very firm and even stubborn. Before Zhang Qiling answered, he continued, "I don't allow it. If you want to go back, I will follow. You can't stop me this time." , this wasn’t ten years ago.”

The two fell into silence again. After a long while, Zhang Qiling finally said, "I didn't intend to see you this time."

Wu Xie froze for a moment, then smiled.

I kept eavesdropping outside the door, and heard that Li Cu and Su Wan, who were covered in cold sweat, were about to sneak back, but suddenly heard a sentence from inside the door, "The two outside the door, did you hear that?" The two looked at each other, He had to slowly open the door and looked at the two of them in extreme embarrassment.

I saw Wu Xie sitting on a chair with one arm propped on the back of the chair, looking very leisurely.Zhang Qiling stood silently next to Wu Xie. At first glance, he looked like a cold-faced bodyguard. The point is that he didn't look at the two of them at all, but looked straight at Wu Xie.No matter how they looked, they didn't look like they had just experienced such a depressing, confrontational conversation.Su Wan felt that he was hallucinating.

Su Wan said with a sneer: "Boss, we came out to go to the toilet and accidentally eavesdropped for a while, you won't be angry, will you?"

"Don't be angry." Wu Xie said, "Brother, let me introduce you."

Wu Xie seemed to have thought about it, but Li Cu didn't believe that Wu Xie would honestly explain that he kidnapped and lured high school students, and he would probably be said to be a boy in his shop.

Wu Xie stood up, walked behind the two, put both hands on the shoulders of Li Cu and Su Wanyi, and said to Zhang Qiling: "Brother, they are your fans."

Li Cu choked on his own saliva and coughed twice.

Wu Xie continued: "Look, I'm so excited, but you have to understand how fans feel when they meet their idols."

Su Wan was obviously calmer than Li Cuo, at least it seemed so, he said, "Zhang, brother Zhang, hello, my name is Su Wan."

Wu Xie was amused, and squeezed the hand on Li Cu's shoulder: "It's your turn."

Li Cu rolled his eyes silently in his heart. If he could, he really wanted to have a reckless fight with Wu Xie on the spot. If that was the end, Wu Xie didn't ask Zhang Qiling for help, of course it didn't seem necessary.Then, when you practice your own skills someday, let him know that his Li Cu name is not just a folk musical instrument!

But Li Cu was about to tell Zhang Qiling all kinds of bad words and deeds of Wu Xie, but suddenly saw Zhang Qiling making a silent movement.

Several people fell into a moment of silence, and for a moment there were only a few people's breathing in the entire room.And mixed with the sound of breathing is the second inaudible sound, which is long and distant, it seems to be the sound of another person's breathing, Li Cu immediately got goosebumps, turned his head to look at Su Wan, obviously Su Wan also caught this voice, and he also looked puzzled and slightly frightened.

Li Cu turned back to look at Wu Xie, and saw that Wu Xie also had a serious face, looking at Zhang Qiling, while Zhang Qiling tilted his head slightly, as if trying to identify the source of the voice.

After a moment of silence, Zhang Qiling said, "It's best not to stay here tonight."

"Are you going to open a room?" Su Wan asked.

Wu Xie patted the back of Su Wan's head, and said to Zhang Qiling, "I'm waiting for you to wake up, because I want to go to the basement to see what's going on."

"The basement? Forget it." Li Cu also said, "Let's go open a room."

A few minutes later, Li Cu touched the bare and moldy wall, carefully following the two people in front of him step by step.At this time, there were two more unreasonable questions in my mind: one was why I still felt that it was a more correct choice to follow these two people to the basement that was determined to be dangerous.Another question is, Wu Xie, why don't you listen to your little brother!And why Zhang Qiling was persuaded by Wu Xie and still took the lead and walked in the forefront!

Four people walked in a row in the passage leading to the basement, there were quite a few light sources, each with a flashlight, the beams swept across, and the footsteps of several people came and went one after another.

In fact, this kind of tension and excitement is somewhat exciting, Li Cu thought depressedly: Could it be that he really likes to take risks with Wu Xie?Just as she was thinking about it, she heard Wu Xie say, "There is a beautiful monster with long hair in front of you. Be careful, you two. According to my experience, she likes young and lively boys."

Like a fart, Li Cu stared at the back of Wu Xie's head, thinking whether to step on Wu Xie, when Zhang Qiling's faint voice came from the front: "Don't talk."

Li Cu couldn't help laughing on the spot, but he didn't expect Wu Xie to be silent. Until they went down to the basement and saw the black coffin again, Wu Xie didn't make another sound.

Li Cu silently praised Zhang Qiling again in his heart, finally, the sick met the one with the medicine!

The entire space in the basement is not large, and this black coffin occupies almost half of the space.The surrounding walls are the same as other rooms in the entire building, and there is nothing special about the material.The strange thing is that this is a relatively closed space, with only the entrance of the passage when a few people came down just now, and a low door on the opposite wall leading to another passage.So this coffin appeared here out of thin air, and there was no entrance big enough to transport it in.The huge black coffin exudes a strange atmosphere. The coffin is pure black and long.

Zhang Qiling walked around the coffin and said, "I haven't been touched."

Seeing that Zhang Qiling had already opened his mouth to speak, Su Wan couldn't help asking: "Boss Wu, what are you doing? Could it be that you want to open the coffin to retrieve the funeral objects?"

I only heard Zhang Qiling say to Wu Xie: "This place is empty, you should remember."

Wu Xie didn't answer, but groped carefully on the coffin, knocked again and again, circled around, patted the dust on his hands, and said to the three: "I know it's empty, so I'm looking for it." Yes, the corpse that should have been lying in there."

"Open the coffin?" Su Wan asked in surprise.

Wu Xie gave Su Wan a look to shut up, and said, "That's right, I'm going to open the coffin for an autopsy, but it's not easy, you have to come together."

Li Cu walked forward in some confusion, and boldly stretched out his hand to touch it. The cold touch of the sarcophagus spread from his palm, and for some reason, his bones felt cold for a while.

This sarcophagus is black in color, revealing a dull luster in the light of several people's flashlights. It is covered with fine lines, which look like some weird symbols, with a sense of mystery and unpredictability.

Li Cu stared carefully, and suddenly found out what Wu Xie said was wrong. This sarcophagus has no coffin lid at all!

"Huh?" Li Cu sighed in surprise, "Well, this coffin has no lid! Is it a whole stone?"

Wu Xie was noncommittal, just looking at the black coffin, also lost in thought.

As soon as Su Wan heard this, he hurried over to take a look. Sure enough, the sarcophagus in front of him had continuous lines. When he touched it, he could only feel the unevenness of the lines, but there was no seam between the coffin lid and the lower part.

Could it be that the seal is too tight to be seen?After thinking about it, Su Wan carefully took photos with his flashlight, but he still didn't see the slightest gap.

The four people surrounded the coffin and suddenly fell into silence. Seeing that the coffin was in front of them, they couldn't find the correct way to open it.Li Cu saw that Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling might be depressed, but he and Su Wan were still a little excited.Then I felt Wu Xie pat him on the shoulder and asked, "Is there any smoke?"

"Damn." Li Cu cursed, and said, "No, I thought you had figured out what to do, but it turned out to be a cigarette addiction."

Wu Xie sighed and said, "I'm so bored waiting."

Upon hearing this, Li Cu felt that Wu Xie's words were strange, so he asked, "What are you waiting for?" Suddenly thinking of what Wu Xie had just said in the passageway down, his heart skipped a beat.

"Wait until you two find out how to open the coffin." Wu Xie said, "Give it another 2 minutes, if you still haven't found out, I'll call the long-haired beauty monster sister to take you away."

Su Wan hurriedly asked: "What? So boss, do you know how to open it? Are you testing us?"

Wu Xie glanced at his watch and said, "There is one minute and 40 seconds left."

Although Li Cu and Su Wan didn't know what kind of medicine Wu Xie sold in the gourd, they were also aroused for a moment, so they moved over and carefully looked at the sarcophagus in front of them, and they were about to lie down on it.

After watching for a while, Su Wan said in despair, "Can I ask for help outside the venue?"

Wu Xie said, "Don't ask me."

Then he could only ask Zhang Qiling, Su Wan turned his pitiful help-seeking eyes to Zhang Qiling, Zhang Qiling was also looking down at the sarcophagus, as if he didn't want to talk to them at all, Su Wan had a thought, and said: "Brother Zhang, you can't see it either? "

Wu Xie snorted and said, "You still use the aggressive method? Can it work against him? When he was awesome, you two were still in love and killed each other in your previous life."

"Damn." Li Cu said, "Who will fall in love with him and kill him?"

Su Wan sighed, stirring up internal strife, Jiang was still old and spicy, so he put on a very sincere tone and said, "Can you give me some hints?"

The two of them were ready to be vetoed by Wu Xie again, but Zhang Qiling said indifferently: "Don't think too absolutely."

Su Wan clapped his hands as soon as he heard it, Li Cu seemed to see sparks in his eyes, and asked excitedly, "You thought of it?"

"No!" Su Wan said, "But I think I have an idea."

Li Cu was disappointed for a moment, but Su Wan said: "Yali, you see we have been looking for a gap, but brother Zhang said, don't think too absolutely, what are we thinking absolutely?"

When Li Cu heard it, he seemed to be relying on the rules, and said: "To open the coffin, you have to push the lid, but this coffin has no lid. Isn't this a coffin?"

Su Wan looked at Wu Xie and said, "No way? It's just that the 'coffin lid' might be different from what we thought?"

The smile in Wu Xie's eyes was even bigger, and Su Wan suddenly felt that he had lost his guess, so he carefully observed the sarcophagus in front of him again.

The two had been groping and observing the upper part of the sarcophagus before, because the coffins in their impressions were a thick box at the bottom and a thin cover at the top.This time the two finally moved their gazes down, and they saw a very hard-to-find thin mark in the middle of one side of the sarcophagus. Inspired by this, the two touched the thin mark together.

Both of them stretched out a finger each, one from the left and one from the right, and scratched along the fine lines to the middle.The moment their fingertips touched, the two looked at each other like a pair of dogs and men sparking sparks, full of surprises.

Accompanied by Wu Xie's laughter, the two finally came to their senses and shouted, "The boss is here!"

Wu Xie said: "Don't shout, the boss is always there."

Su Wan and Li Cu were still a little excited, and the darkness and silence around here were not so scary anymore.

Su Wan said: "Boss, shall we open the coffin?"

Wu Xie smiled and said, "The question is, how to open the coffin?"

Li Cu's eyes widened, and said: "No way! Didn't you find a seam, push it?"

Wu Xie clicked his tongue: "Do you know how heavy this thing is?"

"Uh..." Su Wan suddenly understood what Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling were thinking just now. They were not just teaching them, but were thinking about how to push away the extremely heavy coffin with the strength of a few people.

After another moment of silence, Su Wan said, "Why don't we try it? Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth. If we only look at it, we will never be able to open it. There is nothing to lose if we try it. Woolen cloth?"

Wu Xie seemed to have thought about it, strode to one end, put his hand on the sarcophagus, and said, "That's right, you'll know after trying it." But then he said sullenly, "But your master didn't tell you, In the fight, is it a hundred times more important to use your brain than to use your hands? It may be an oversight, and your life depends on a mechanism."

Su Wan swallowed his saliva, feeling that he might have made a mistake of left opportunism again, so he looked at Zhang Qiling, Zhang Qiling was noncommittal, but he also walked to Wu Xie's side.

Su Wan and Li Cu looked at each other, and had no choice but to move their arms and legs.

Wu Xie looked at Zhang Qiling and said, "Brother, you just recovered, take it easy."

"It's over, it's deaf, it's deaf." Su Wan sighed.Li Cu asked: "What? Your master is called blind, why are you deaf?" Su Wan said: "I really envy you." After speaking, he dragged Li Cu who didn't know why to hurry over.

All four of them put on a good posture, and in an instant, there was a beautiful scene of brothers working together to break gold.