captive joint

Yao Yingyi stared at the darkness without moving.

He had long understood that there was nothing to speak of behind the curtain.

This is his hallucination.

He has been crazy for so long, so long that he can't remember when he started?

Did it start when you knew the real purpose of Shao Jun approaching him?

No, maybe earlier, maybe as early as after he left the orphanage and separated from Shao Jun, he was already crazy.

It's just that he never knew that he could be crazy to the point where he is now.

The curtains were drawn again.

Heavy black curtains across the carpet of the same color once again concealed the other half of the room, unchanged from before.

Yao Yingyi followed the path formed by the curtain and the bookshelf, picked up the iron box on the ground, and slowly moved in.Finally, when the sun slanted westward, they came to the end of the whole room.

There was only a set of wooden tables and chairs placed against the wall.The table was old enough just by sight, and there was even a deep black scar on the edge of the table, as if it had been burned by a fire.

Touching the scar with her finger, Yao Yingyi's nails left a shallow mark on the carbonized scar again.He seemed to be talking to himself, and as if talking to someone, he whispered: "You know what? Even if you die, Junjun will always only remember you, big brother."

In the empty room, the faint voice was like a spell, passing through the heavy curtains, lingering among the wooden frames, inviting a soul that had passed away.

But the other party will not respond and cannot respond.Just as the words fell, there was a vague laughter.

The source of the sound seemed to be the only object on the table—a huge metal box that took up most of the table.

Yao Yingyi frowned when she heard the voice, and stretched out her hand to push open the lid.

Although the setting sun was still bright, the light projected into the depths of the room was weakened by the heavy darkness, making everything in the box seem to be covered with a thin layer of black veil.

But for Yao Yingyi, the visual obstruction didn't have much effect.He knew by heart what it contained.

He reached out and took out a doll covered in bandages from the box.

The puppet was only one arm long, from head to toe it was tightly wrapped with snow-white bandages, leaving only a small hole the size of a sesame seed at the throat and right ankle.The small hole runs through the entire throat and ankle, as if something had been inserted here, it makes people feel pain when they think about it.

"He's really powerful, isn't he? You can get rid of your tricks like this." The hoarse and ugly voice from before sounded again.

However, the sound this time was not like before. Rather than saying it came from behind the curtain, it seemed to come from the puppet's body.

"To shut up"

"Then quickly find the nails to nail my mouth, my dear brother." The voice satirized frivolously.

After Yao Yingyi carefully placed the doll on the table, he turned down the three sides of the box and flattened it.

The messy piles of things in the box lost their support and poured down to cover the entire table, even almost burying the puppet that was put aside.

Fortunately, Yao Yingyi found out quickly and hugged the doll in his arms first.

Spread out on the table are some messy and seemingly worthless items, pens with faded caps, half-filled ink bottles, small glass bottles containing unknown liquids, etc., and even a few glass bottles The bottle also contained a white powder mixed with small pieces of bone.

Ordinary people can hardly imagine that they were collected and kept in a box beforehand.

"Tsk tsk, you are so perverted. Why didn't you keep the underwear he wore together, or..."

Before the voice finished speaking, Yao Yingyi found two golden nails in the hard-to-organize utility room, which looked like twisted tentacles, and inserted them into the two holes without hesitation.

The sound also disappeared at the same time.

Yao Yingyi let out a long sigh, and leaned against the edge of the table holding the idol in his arms.But I don't want to accidentally drop a cowhide book the size of two palms on the table to the ground.

He bent down and was about to pick it up, but when he saw the opened page, he was stunned and didn't make any movement for a long time.

On the rough kraft paper, there are words in an unknown language. Only at the edge of the page, no more than a finger's width, someone wrote lines of small characters in Chinese that looked like notes.

The handwriting in the previous text seemed to be blurred due to soaking in water, and it was already unrecognizable at this time.But the last paragraph is still clearly visible.It said: "Remember, everything in the world has a substitute, but this method is different, and it cannot be achieved without blood relationship.

Both parents died, relatives are sparse.

Adapter is only one person.

12 years or 32 years, I can only choose one.

A reunion after 20 years, what a marvelous murder.

If brother knows, will you forgive me?Will you live for me? "

"Yes!" Yao Yingyi's voice trembled, and she gently touched the word "brother" on the edge of the page with her fingers, and said in a low voice, "Junjun, as long as you call me brother, I will definitely forgive you. Even at the beginning You want my life, even if in your opinion my life and death may not be as important as his understanding..."

The locked room vol [-]