captive joint

The bandaged monster was always walking in front of him. Shao Jun followed it, walked through the passage in the middle of the studio, passed through several rows of wooden shelves, bent over and lifted the carpet and opened the wooden door leading to the basement.

He didn't light the lamp, and went down the steps in the dark, entering the room hidden underground.

The moment of entry, the monster disappeared without a trace.

Shao Jun was surprised for a moment, and closed the door.

Standing in this fluorescent shining room, a strong sense of familiarity hit him, and chaotic memories and chaotic knowledge hit his brain like a flood.Shao Jun's eyes darkened, and he almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, he kept his balance by holding onto an important small round table in the room.

He grasped the edge of the table with both hands, lowered his head and panted heavily, trying to restore a little possibility of thinking to his messy mind.

After an unknown amount of time, he heard a few chuckles suddenly coming from beside him, only to realize that he dragged the table a few steps unconsciously, almost toppling the strangely shaped metal box on the table, but at this moment It can't be said how balanced it is, it keeps shaking slightly, and it seems that there is a possibility of falling over at any moment.

Shao Jun reached out to hold the metal box.

It was a silver metal box with a strange asymmetrical shape.Its flap was flipped to the back, and inside the box was a black irregular spherical object the size of an egg.This object did not touch the bottom of the box, but was suspended by a metal belt around its middle, and there were seven strangely designed supports near the top that extended horizontally to the corners of the box.

"The shining square octahedron." Shao Jun called out a name mockingly.

A young male voice in the box also sounded: "The shining square octahedron, stare at it to establish contact with the evil god, if you see it, remember not to close the lid of the box, and don't betray your friends, run, how much is it?" Run as far as you can...because if you close the lid you can see...me."

There was a slight knocking sound in the room, and the lid of the box was closed by a pair of trembling hands.

Shao Jun felt himself being lifted up by a powerful arm.He leaned on the man's chest, lowered his eyes, did not look directly at the man, and maintained an extremely humble attitude in every gesture.

But the other party, the young man in a white coat who suddenly appeared, had a much more affectionate attitude.He half-armed Shao Jun and looked around the room, "Long time no see, Shao Jun. Is there no chair here?"

Before he finished speaking, he saw something indescribable like tentacles surging in his shadow, and in the blink of an eye, Shao Jun saw two red wooden armchairs appearing beside the small round table.And he was safely placed on one of them by the young man.

"Speaking of which, we haven't seen each other face to face since the fire on October 10. How is it now? The memory is restored?" The young man enthusiastically grabbed Shao Jun's hand and asked with concern.

"Yes." Shao Jun lowered his eyes, staring at the man's hands holding his own, and replied without any fluctuations in his tone.

"Shao Jun, you are so indifferent to the teacher." The young man rushed forward and hugged Shao Jun, sticking to Shao Jun's ear, and whispered, "It's not a habit to lie to the teacher. It's time to die instead of coming to see me."

"Ah, did I step on you?" The young man suddenly let go of his arms, looked at the clear half footprint on Shao Jun's foot, and shouted in an exaggerated tone like in a drama.

"Teacher wipe it for you." Saying that, he pulled off Shao Jun's left foot abruptly.

Shao Jun snorted, and then remained silent, obediently watching the young man put the limb of the puppet with the ball joint in his hand, then took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped it carefully, Just reset it again.

"So, what do you want to do with the teacher?" the young man asked as he folded the handkerchief and put it back.

Shao Jun looked at his left foot which looked like an ordinary human again under the fluorescent light, and asked, "Am I dead?"

"Oh, it's such a scary question right from the start. You scared the teacher." The young man covered his heart with surprise on his face, but the smile on the corner of his mouth revealed his true thoughts: "Yes, although Yao There was a little deviation in the place where Yingyan cut the knife, but he was still killed with one knife, and the teacher watched you die beside him. This cannot be faked."

"Then how did I survive?" Shao Jun clenched his fists and asked calmly.

"Aren't you thinking about this?" The young man raised his eyebrows.

"Did the teacher tell Yao Yingyan?" Shao Jun asked again.

"Otherwise? You still expect an ordinary person who knows nothing to know the method of resurrecting people with the body of a puppet?" The young man shrugged, spread his hands, and said speechlessly.

"Why?" Shao Jun's mind was surging, but his face was still calm.

"This is not a question you would ask, Shao Jun." The young man suddenly approached Shao Jun, grabbed his chin with one hand, stared into his eyes with a sneer and said, "Are you asking why you told him this method, or why? To force you to live?"

"I'm sorry." Shao Jun raised his hand and held the young man's arm, "I didn't explain well. Did this farce please you?"

"It's hard to say, after all, it's not over yet, isn't it?" The young man retreated to his position, tilted his head and curled his lips.

"really."

Shao Jun thought that he was adopted by a teacher in an orphanage. In nearly ten years of life, he taught himself knowledge that ordinary people cannot touch, and led him to the bloody and evil road of no return. He knew this person a long time ago, or Tell me what kind of existence this monster is.

But although he had long realized that standing by the river would never stop his shoes from getting wet, he did not expect that when this day really came, he found it difficult to accept it.

Are you really still human?

Shao Jun let out a helpless sigh.

"But for now, I'm quite satisfied with the plot. Does the teacher have a meeting in the afternoon? If it's okay, I'll go first?" The young man raised his wrist and looked at his watch, as if he was about to stand up.

"Wait!" Shao Jun stretched out his hand to stop the young man, "I have another question. After sacrificing blood, the doll can be used as the body of a doll mixed with the ashes, which can bring the dead back to life. The resurrected person accepts his new body and can be truly resurrected. But I remember that those who come back will not lose their memory."

"That's a good question." The young man applauded, "The reason is very simple, because there are no ashes."

"Ah?" Shao Jun remembered the skeleton buried in the depression under the cliff, and after touching it, this time Shao Jun woke up and his memory suddenly recovered seven or eight.

And the owner of this skeleton left after asphyxiation due to massive pulmonary artery hemorrhage was none other than Shao Jun.

But this skeleton is missing one thing, where is his head?

"Your second brother is not a person who does things. He has killed everyone and hesitated, and in the end all the dead bodies he got were snatched away. Although he found them later, he didn't know where his head went. Then there is something wrong with him." "The young man complained quickly with disgust on his face, "Speaking of which, Shao Jun, it was you who gave the order to that ghoul."

"You said," Shao Jun was stunned, "kill me and eat me?"

"Yes." The young man nodded, then seemed to think of something, and added, "Oh, yes, if you want to understand that you don't want to die, you can study it. It's the first time I see a corpse. Become a ghoul."

Shao Jun understood that there were some hidden hints in this sentence.This method of resurrection is flawed.Those who survive will be subject to the one who resurrected him for life.

Seeing that Shao Jun stopped talking, the young man looked at his watch again and said, "I have a meeting at 18:16 in the evening, and it's almost [-]:[-]. The teacher is very busy, so I'll leave first. Let me tell you something. Shao Jun, you see, they look exactly the same anyway, and they treat you very well. Who do you get along with? If you leave suddenly, the teacher will be very sad, so I chose this method. "

"You just find it interesting." Shao Jun couldn't help laughing mockingly, "And that method..."

"Oh, I was discovered." The young man covered his face as if shy.But there was a gap between the fingers, and his eyes were hidden between the fingers, looking at Shao Jun with a half-smile.

"I have one last question." Shao Jun met the young man's gaze and asked.

"If you want to ask if that is still your elder brother, I advise you not to ask. You should know best that death is death, and there is no argument." The young man picked up the chair and threw it into his shadow, and urged Shao Jun stood up and did the same for the chair he was sitting on.

In a trance, Shao Jun saw the chair legs turn into a mass of twisted tentacles the moment they touched the shadow, but when he wanted to take another look the next second, the chair had disappeared without a trace.

"I have to go, or it will be too late." The young man pointed to the door of the room where Shao Jun came, and then pointed to the huge oil painting in the room, and said, "By the way, which door are you going to go through later, Shao Jun?" Jun."

Shao Jun knew that behind the oil painting was an underground passage he had built for the convenience of getting from the villa on the top of the mountain to the studio.Now that the villa has been burned down, the passage can still lead to the top of the mountain, and also to Yao Yingyi's tombstone, and of course the cliff that is high enough for a puppet's body to fall and completely shatter to death.

"He left me dinner." Shao Jun replied looking at the lovely two-story building on the oil painting.

"That's it, then goodbye, Shao Jun." The young man said with regret, and then took out a short and delicate dagger from his white coat, "By the way, this is for you, maybe you can use it tomorrow .”

Seeing that Shao Jun didn't raise his hand to take it, the young man enthusiastically stuffed it into Shaoju's hand: "It's absolutely easy to use, it kills you with one blow. You have experienced it yourself."

Shao Jun grabbed the dagger and forced a smile: "Thank you."

"Shao Jun, goodbye." The young man waved his hand and disappeared without a trace in an instant.And the silver metal box that was closed just now was opened again.

"Never see you again."