First dawn

The falling snow in the evening, in the early neon lights, dazzled a small piece of sky above the two of them. The snow fell and grew bigger. After answering the questions, Yi Xiao stretched out her hand and plucked a crystal clear flower from Qiao Jue's hair. snowflakes.

The crystal clearness is fleeting, turning into a water mark on the palm.

The winter night always falls quickly, and before you know it, the night has filled the gray sky.

"It's snowing." Qiao Jue grabbed her scarf and watched the snowflakes fall on Yi Xiao's hair.

At some point in the street, red lanterns have been hung up, the atmosphere of the New Year is gradually getting stronger, the rumors of 2012 are gradually fading, and the winter vacation is approaching quietly in the fluttering snowflakes.

On the day when the final results came out, the six people in the second group were in a good mood.Yi Xiao and Qiao Jue are firmly in first and second place, Mu Qingwei performed exceptionally well in English, Jiang Wenyan got high marks in Chinese composition, and Bao You and Guo Da are very happy every year whether their grades are good or not.

"Going to play in the city?" Guo Da excitedly swiped his emoji in the QQ group of several people.

"Sure." Bao You bubbled up.

"What are you playing? It's such a cold day. It's better to watch Fan Duo at home." This is Mu Qingwei.

"I haven't finished my novel yet." This is Jiang Wenyan.

"Where are you going?" Qiao Jue looked at the sky outside the window. Today is a rare sunny day in winter. Even if he transferred to science, his final grades were still good. Xu Hong felt relieved and stopped staring at Qiao Jue. Let him go.

As the new year is approaching, people have already begun to pray for the early years, and the tube building where the elderly gather is actually lively. From time to time, someone carrying a cheap gift box knocks on the thin wooden door of any household.

"Want to escape from the secret room?" Yi Xiao asked in the group, "Recently, there is a new horror-themed secret room in the city. Do you think you can try it?"

"Escape from the secret room? I haven't played it before, you can try it!" Guo Da was full of enthusiasm.

Mu Qingwei became interested and didn't want to stay home anymore: "Okay, okay, I haven't played it before, the theme of horror, it's very interesting to hear."

Jiang Wenyan and Bao You also expressed their approval.

"Then we will escape from the secret room tomorrow?" Yi Xiao asked, "Where's Xiao Qiao?"

Qiao Jue: "Yes."

So the group's winter vacation trip was decided so happily.

The next day, Qiao Jue was still asleep, and the mobile phone that he forgot to turn off before going to bed heard a loud reminder from QQ.

Yi Xiao's childish profile picture flashed, Qiao Jue opened his eyes in a daze, clicked on the picture sent by Yi Xiao, and a green thing came into his field of vision.

"What's your taste?" Qiao Jue's mouth twitched slightly.

Lying in the center of the photo is the cactus he gave Yi Xiao a month ago, and now the cactus is growing green in Yi Xiao's new flower pot, surrounded by a circle of colorful flowers, surrounded by emerald green flowers. There are no thorns on the cactus, Yi Xiao probably thinks the cactus thorns are not good-looking, so they cut each one flat, leaving them bare.

"What are you doing?" Qiao Jue was shocked to see the cactus being treated so cruelly in the morning.

"The cactus you gave me." Yi Xiao said proudly, "I water it every day, and I also carefully trim and decorate it. Isn't it beautiful?"

Yi Xiao at the other end of the signal seemed to have seen Qiao Sui's amazed expression.

In fact, Qiao Jue looked at the photo responsibly, and felt that the cactus, which can grow tenaciously in the cracks of the building, might not live long.

In the afternoon, a group of people who made an appointment to meet at the Second Bridge boarded a bus leading to the city.

"It's been a long time since I went to the city." There were many people on the bus, and there were no empty seats. Mu Qingwei was not tall enough, so she stood on tiptoe with difficulty to grab the handrail on the top of the bus.

Qiao Jue and Yi Xiao turned around, blocked Mu Qingwei from the crowded people in the car, and pushed Mu Qingwei to the rail.

Mu Qingwei smiled: "Thank you two big brothers."

"It's been a while since I went to the city." Guo Da suddenly said with emotion, "I've been busy since I went to high school, so I don't have time to go to the city to play."

Qiao Jue hasn’t been there for a long time either. He was in poor health when he was a child, and every time he went to the city it was because of illness. Xu Hong didn’t believe in the county hospital. Seeking medical treatment, Qiao Jue was prone to motion sickness when he was a child, and every time he wandered all the way to the city, he got motion sick and fainted. After a long time, Qiao Jue felt dizzy when he heard the word city.More memories of the urban area are Xu Hong holding her hand.

Along the long road, countless street trees, rickety cars driving on the seemingly endless road, the smell of gasoline and dust, unexpectedly remained in the depths of his memory.

"What are you thinking about?" Seeing that Qiao Jue was distracted staring out the window, Yi Xiao asked, "You don't get carsick, do you?"

Qiao Jue looked away and shook his head.

"When will the subway be built? I heard that the subway will be built in the past few years. It will be convenient to travel in the future." Bao You said suddenly.

"Dream." Guo Da retorted, "I can't repair Lianxing, so I can only take the bus."

……

"What theme do you want?" The proprietress of the secret room received them with a smile.

"I want this." Mu Qingwei firmly pointed to the poster on the wall, "I like the supernatural theme."

Bao You shrank his neck and did not speak.

The proprietress led them around the room, opened a door, and let the six of them in. The heavy door of the secret room was closed behind them, and the originally bright light was blocked out of the room. Qiao Jue waited for his eyes to adapt. After seeing the surrounding darkness, he began to look at the whole room.

The room was not big. In the corner facing them, there was a deep well. It seemed that the entrance to the next room was at the bottom of the well.

Qiao Jue and Yi Xiao climbed up to the mouth of the well. The well was quite deep, and with the dim light, looking down from above, it seemed that there was a door.

Guo Da let out a ghostly cry: "What is this?"

Qiao Jue turned his head, only to realize that none of them noticed just now, there was a huge sedan chair parked on the left hand side of where they entered the door. The sedan chair was bathed in a red light, and it was strange.

Several people rummaged around the sedan chair, but found no useful clues. Yi Xiao lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, thought for a while, and waved to Qiao Sui who was sitting at the mouth of the well: "Little Qiao, come in."

why me?

Qiao Jue raised his eyelids, without asking, Yi Xiao opened the car curtain, Qiao Jue got into the sedan chair, leaned against the red seat, and sat down.

Just as Qiao Jue sat down, he didn't know what mechanism was touched. A woman's creepy singing sounded in the room. Bao You sat down on the ground, and a gloomy blue light hit Bao You's face.

Jiang Wenyan's head was bathed in a faint blue light, she looked down at Bao You on the ground, and kicked Bao You aside.

Baoyou: "..."

"Tibetan acrostic!" Mu Qingwei and Guo Da leaned over to look at the words projected on the ground.

Yi Xiao was still carrying the bead curtain, and Qiao Jue met Yi Xiao's gaze through the crimson light. The whole body was a sedan chair, decorated in bright red colors, which seemed to be a wedding sedan chair, and Yi Xiao just picked it up like this. Under the veil, in the dim light, she looked down at him.

Qiao Jue suddenly felt that the situation seemed a little subtle.

As he thought this way, he moved, but just as he left the seat, Guo Da shouted from outside: "Brother Sui, sit back!"

Qiao Jue had no choice but to sit back in the sedan chair and stare at Yi Xiao. Yi Xiao probably sensed something was wrong with him and turned to look at the writing on the ground.

"It should mean inserting the incense into the incense burner, go!" Yi Xiao solved the riddle, instructed several people to turn on the mechanism, opened the veil even further, and signaled Qiao Sui to get out of the sedan chair.

Qiao Jue got up and walked out. On the other side, Jiang Wenyan inserted the incense scattered on a table into the incense burner by the well one by one. There was a faint "click" sound, and several people looked up at the same time. Suddenly an opening was opened, and with a loud noise, a female ghost in white appeared in front of Bao You.

Bao You screamed, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Several people were startled by Bao You and staggered. Qiao Jue was walking down from the sedan chair when he stumbled and lost his balance. Yi Xiao hurriedly reached out to grab it. The veil in his hand was released, and the red veil fell onto Behind Yi Xiao, Qiao Jue grabbed Yi Xiao's arm and stopped the tendency of leaning forward. The moment the two avoided each other, the corners of their lips brushed each other's cheeks inadvertently. Qiao Jue's breath fell on Qiao Jue's ear, and it seemed to be a little faster than usual. Only then did the veil completely fall, covering the two of them in the sedan chair.

The figures of the two froze briefly for half a second, and then both of them had selective amnesia, never mentioning the scene just now.

Yi Xiao smiled, and opened the car curtain in front of her. In the dark environment of the secret room, the expressions of the two seemed to be normal.

Bao You sat down on the ground, unwilling to get up again, Guo Da was studying the female ghost puppet in front of him, Jiang Wenyan was searching for other clues in the secret room, no one knew what happened in the sedan chair in just a few seconds.

"Is the underground door open?" Yi Xiao asked.

Mu Qingwei poked her head out from the mouth of the well: "No, I just climbed down to have a look."

Qiao Jue stepped forward, looked at the female ghost in front of him, and suddenly reached out to touch the blood-stained white clothes of the female ghost.

"What are you doing?" Bao You shivered.

Guo Da also looked at Qiao Jue in horror.

Yi Xiao watched Qiao Jue's movements with great interest. Qiao Jue went around behind the female ghost, and peeled off a piece of paper from behind the female ghost's white clothes.

Although Qiao Jue came to play the secret room for the first time, his thinking was very clear, and Yi Xiao smiled unconsciously.

"Damn, the design of this secret room is wicked enough." The corners of Jiang Wenyan's mouth twitched.

Yi Xiao took the thick piece of cardboard from Qiao Jue's hand, weighed it a few times in his hand, and immediately understood: "Put it in front of the incense burner by the well."

Guo Da took the approval ticket found on the female ghost and placed it in front of the incense burner. There was a roar, and Qiao Jue looked down the well with the help of the faint light. The door of the well had already opened.

"Let's go!" Mu Qingwei, who was already at the mouth of the well, had already climbed into the entrance first.

Several people cheered, even Bao You forgot that he had just been scared to death by the female ghost, and stepped on the escalator at the mouth of the well.

Only Qiao Jue and Yi Xiao were left in the room. The excitement of solving the puzzle completely disappeared the previous delicate atmosphere.

"Let's go!" Qiao Jue excitedly stretched out his hand to Yi Xiao who was by the well.

"go together!"

There is light down the well, and the puzzle at the other end is waiting for them to solve.