Hailing barren city

"To be honest, I don't dare." Tao Rujiu shook his head honestly, "But it doesn't mean that I can't go in. It's just that I already have bad memories in my mind, and I won't take the initiative to approach unless necessary."

Listening to his words, Ling Li put his feet on the steering wheel in a relaxed manner.

"I can understand that feeling." He said, "Sometimes looking at the old men surnamed Ling at home is quite helpless."

After a pause, he added another sentence: "I only said this as a friend."

Tao Rujiu was surprised to say such words to him sharply, but when he heard the following statement, he felt relieved and nodded with a smile. "I know, the editor-in-chief won't let me publish just a word like yours."

As he spoke, he took the initiative to take the topic away.After talking for a while, Ling Li proposed to drive, but at this moment, the bushes in the distance suddenly began to shake "rustly", and then two figures turned out.

Tao Rujiu was unprepared, opened his mouth wide in surprise, but sternly shouted forward.

"You still come out today, do you want to give people a tour? Come on, there will be a lot of people today and tomorrow night, it's not like you don't know."

Those two groups of black shadows originally wanted to avoid immediately, but they didn't expect to hear a sharp voice, one of the taller ones stopped and laughed, and the voice turned out to be Wang Baihu from the troupe.

"Fortunately, it's not the faces of those students from the security department. I said Mr. Ling will let me go this time. It is precisely because the typhoon has cooled down that we came here..."

In the middle of speaking, the shorter shadow next to Wang Baihu suddenly pinched him severely, preventing him from continuing.Tao Rujiu was stunned for a while, and his face turned red.Only then did he realize that it was Wang Baihu who was pulling his girlfriend from the village to do that kind of thing in the grass.

In the dark, Ling Li didn't see Tao Rujiu's embarrassment, Wang Baihu's temper, he had already understood it in the past few summers.This person is the number one playboy in the troupe, and he changes his girlfriend every summer.I especially like to take girls to the wild to mess around.For this matter, the class leader, Master Lu, became angry more than once, and even threatened to take it to the security department to show the public. It's a little small, but it made everyone know how stubborn Wang Baihu is.

"Let's go, don't ask Master Lu to worry about you anymore!" Ling Li extinguished the cigarette, and at the same time turned the car to the other side of the road.Wang Baihu smiled when he heard this, and led the girl along another road.

Tao Rujiu really didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

The car wandered among the scenic spots, and the time was pushed to twelve o'clock unconsciously.Ling Li said that he wanted Tao Rujiu to meet the security guards, so he drove the car outside the control room.

The security core is brightly lit, and the shift work is in progress.Tao Rujiu seized the time to visit several security guards.By the time it was around [-]:[-], people had almost left again.

"What are your plans for the second half of the night? Continue to follow the formality?" Ling Li asked Tao Rujiu.

Tao Rujiu thought for a while and replied, "Maybe it will be even busier when the typhoon comes tomorrow, I think it's better to go back to sleep."

He nodded sharply, then suddenly changed his mind, and said, "Why don't you go back to the villa with me tonight, so as to save me from traveling back and forth in this scenic spot. Cuiying Pavilion and the villa are in two directions."

Tao Rujiu didn't want to go back with him at first, but it's not good to cause trouble after being told so.The two got into the car and headed towards the side door on Qianfo's side.When he reached the side door, he stopped the car sharply, took the key and opened the side door, in front of him was the stone steps that sank down to the bottom of the cliff.The two walked down one after the other, and unexpectedly there was an open platform with a row of houses standing, and there were still steps dug out below, leading to the sea.

He sternly signaled Tao Rujiu to follow him into the house, and turned on the lights to reveal the interior decoration with a very modern design atmosphere. The relaxed combination of milky white and beige, as well as the mysterious African masks on the wall, look like an artist's residence.

"The guest room is upstairs, I'll take you upstairs to have a look."

Ling Li led Tao Rujiu upstairs, because the lights were not turned on, the upstairs was pitch black.Ling Li held his mobile phone as a light, but suddenly remembered something: "By the way, it's strange upstairs. There is no signal on the mobile phone. If you want to make a call, there is one at the bedside, but it's so late, maybe you don't need it." .”

Leng might as well hear this sentence, Tao Rujiu immediately felt a cold air behind him.

"Then... is there a guest room downstairs?" He tried to ask, "I don't seem to be used to it..."

"You didn't even see the guest room, so you said you're not used to it?" Ling Li frowned, "Could it be that you want to live in the master bedroom?"

The speaker was unintentional, but it sounded intentional, and Tao Rujiu's whole face once again burned with a "boom".There is no other reason, since he had an unimaginable dream that night, he would always blush on any ambiguous topic.

"No." He stammered, "I'm just not used to living in a house without a signal, because..."

"Is that a reason?" Hearing this, Ling Li laughed instead, "You're not a mobile phone, why are you afraid that there's no signal?"

As he spoke, he turned on the lights in the corridor.The same soft lighting and decoration as downstairs, there is indeed nothing scary or strange.Ling Li grabbed his hand again and walked into the guest room, turned on the light and asked him, "Do you really want to live in the master bedroom downstairs?"

Tao Rujiu was forced to question him helplessly, and he was indeed sleepy, so he could only nod his head and sigh, and stopped.

Although it is a guest bedroom, it has all internal organs.In the guest bathroom, all the utensils are prepared according to the configuration of a star-rated hotel.Tao Rujiu was vaguely envious of the fact that rich people don't have to do housework by themselves, while taking off their clothes to take a bath.

It was around one o'clock in the morning, when according to the legend, the yin energy was strong, Tao Rujiu was still a little scared even though he had the amulet on his body, so he kept the bathroom door open.The water in the shower room was steaming hot, he carefully unwrapped the amulet bag, and then stood in the shower.The hot water bath does have the effect of dispelling fatigue, Tao Rujiu drenched himself in the shower, and the tension and fear in his heart seemed to disappear temporarily.

After about fifteen minutes, he turned on the faucet and walked out of the shower room.The bathrobe was in the outer locker, Tao Rujiu wiped his hair with a towel, and raised his hand to get the bathrobe.

However, the moment he stretched out his hand, he saw a shadow on the shining handle.

A distorted silver mask was behind his back.

The young man withdrew his hand with a loud cry.

Ling Li had just finished taking a shower, when he suddenly heard this scream from upstairs, he completely forgot that he was only wearing a towel, and rushed upstairs immediately.Tao Rujiu didn't lock the door, so Ling Li drove straight in, and saw Tao Rujiu who was almost stuck to the wall, completely naked.

"What's the matter?" Ling Li asked, in his opinion, there was nothing abnormal in the guest guard, but Tao Rujiu's current appearance was extremely strange.

Only a towel was wrapped around the neck of the young man.The slightly sideways body looked extraordinarily slender when naked, obviously not often exposed to the sun. Tao Rujiu's skin was slightly abnormally pale, and it was so delicate that no pores were visible.After bathing, there is a thin layer of water droplets hanging on the body, showing the illusion of white jade under the fluorescent lamp.

That is a beautiful body.

Tao Rujiu unexpectedly appeared sharply in front of him, and he didn't even realize that he was standing by the wall naked. He pointed to the handle of the storage box and just repeated a word.

"Mask, silver mask!"

Until now, he could still see the distorted mask in the reflection of the handle.Gaze at yourself quietly.

"Mask? A silver mask?" Ling Li came back to his senses and repeated his words, "Where is it? Why didn't I see it?"

Tao Rujiu showed Ling Li his finger.

"It's a reflection." The man said, "From this angle, the real object should be in the bedroom with the door open."

With that said, he walked back to the bedroom and took down a magazine from a transparent bookshelf nailed to the wall.

"Is this it?"

Tao Rujiu poked his head out to take a look, and there was indeed a silver object on the cover, but it was not a mask, but a silver statue.It is the decoration on the front of the silver mask.

"Sea eagles are believed by fishermen to be the guardians of the sea, and the totems based on them often appear on artifacts of ancient culture." Ling Li explained, and at the same time asked, "Are you afraid of this?"

Tao Rujiu had already calmed down a lot, and suddenly realized that the eyes that were sharply looking at him were full of amusement, and then he realized the embarrassment of his nakedness, hurriedly opened the cabinet and put on the bathrobe, and his face, hands and feet that were still exposed were revealed. Drunken red.

"I...Actually... I am allergic to bird feathers, so I am habitually afraid of seeing birds..." He explained incoherently, but was exposed by a sharp sentence.

"Are you lying? You just said 'silver mask', just because you are afraid of birds, so why didn't you say it directly?"

Tao Rujiu was speechless and thought that he could only stammer and try to explain.However, Ling Li seemed to be sleepy and didn't care about his answer.

"Forget it." He waved his hand and said, "Seeing that you are really scared, then come downstairs. Otherwise, I won't be able to sleep tonight."

After speaking, he turned around and went downstairs first.Tao Rujiu came out of the bathroom, staring at the magazine in a daze.After a while, he sighed, went back to the bathroom, took out the amulet and hung it next to his body, turned off the light and ran downstairs as if fleeing.

The fierce bedroom is the most private room on the first floor.Buried deep at the end of the corridor, the door was open when Tao Rujiu looked for it, and a soft, yellow halo was seen from the inside.

Tao Rujiu knocked on the door, walked in and saw Ling Li taking something from the cabinet, but stopped when he saw the young man coming in.The man's body was still only wrapped around the towel, showing an elegant figure after exercise.Tao Rujiu stared blankly at the sharp back, and suddenly remembered that the man's eyes were dark blue when he was drunk that day.

Ling Li who rushed to the guest room just now didn't wear sunglasses, but Tao Rujiu didn't pay attention to whether his eyes were blue at all, and now the light in the bedroom is dim, and all the colors are covered with dark or light earthy yellow.

"What are you still doing in a daze? If you don't sleep, you should get up. The left side is yours." Ling Li glanced back at him and assigned.

Although this was not the first time sleeping in the same bed with Ling Li, Tao Rujiu still felt awkward.He climbed onto the bed in his pajamas and lay down stiffly in the designated position.But he has already tossed so much that he has no sleepiness.

After closing the cupboard door sharply and looking back, seeing Tao Ru's nervous look, he laughed and said, "This is not a funeral parlor. Also, that bathrobe is already damp, you can't put it on my bed. Take it off."

"But I don't have a change of clothes." Tao Rujiu tried hard to argue, but this is a fierce villa after all, and he also knew that he should not disobey the owner's wishes too much, so he compromised: "Maybe you can lend me a pajamas?"

"Pajamas?" Ling Li repeated the word, walking to his side and lying down, "I live alone, why would I need that kind of thing."