Declan kicked the aluminum basin filled with charcoal in the corner, and Jasper Lao carefully lit the fire, which made the hearth glow orange.
Finnian Yu squatted by the stove and threw branches in dejectedly.
The firelight flickered, and he looked at it dully for a while, feeling that he needed to talk to someone about his feelings before he died. As a result, when he looked up, he saw his brother standing next to him, warming his hands, looking indifferent and uninterested.
Finnian Yu thought for two seconds and decided to die quietly.
·
"Hey, what's that?" Jasper Lao suddenly said.
Declan glanced over there.
"I don't know what to call you." Old Yu patted the pregnant woman on the shoulder: "You have a big belly, how can you stay here in a daze and suffer from the cold? You are too rude, go over and have a barbecue. Don't catch the cold, go back and get some Both sides suffer."
The woman with a big belly was stunned for a while when she heard this, and tears fell down.
Old Yu was startled: "What are you doing? What's wrong?"
The woman cried softly: "I still don't know if I have a life..."
Even so, she moved her chair and sat by the fire.
The woman cried for a while and finally stopped. She said to Jasper Lao with a strong nasal voice: "By the way, just call me Isla."
Jasper Lao laughed hard and said with relief: "I didn't expect you are still from the same family. I see you and I are outside..."
He caught a glimpse of You Huo looking at him from the corner of his eye. He twirled his tongue around and changed the sentence: "...My son is about the same age, so we are quite destined. When you get out of this damn place, we will give you a big red envelope to help with the bad luck." Make sure mother and child are safe."
The tattooed man muttered sullenly: "It's this damn time, and I'm still interested in chatting...Fcuk!"
Everyone's expressions froze when they heard this, and they scattered around, rummaging around the house.
It's just that the others went there for the title, while the tattooed man went for all kinds of self-defense hunting equipment.
Declan didn't move away. He warmed his hands, wiped them lightly on the wall where the title was written, and then lowered his head to move the debris on the stove.
There were several bottles and cans placed on it, a pile of blackened coins, a few strange-shaped pebbles, scattered chicken feathers, and even a moldy pacifier missing from an unknown century.
Finnian Yu saw that Declan hadn't left and didn't dare to move.
He remembered what the teacher had told them before the college entrance examination, asking them to read the question several times when they had no clue. So he stood in front of the wall and muttered repeatedly.
"A group of tourists came to the snowy mountains..."
"Tourists..."
"Snowy mountains..."
"hiss......"
After he came back to his senses after reciting, he found that the room was extremely quiet, and everyone was looking at him with bated breath.
Finnian Yu: "...I just read it."
Jasper Lao has a problem common to traditional parents. When there are many people, he wants his children to be like monkeys: "Have you thought of anything? Tell me?"
Finnian Yu rolled his eyes: "No."
Everyone looked disappointed and continued to rummage through the boxes.
Only the tattooed man was reluctant. He looked at Finnian Yu suspiciously: "Really? Don't think of something to hide, right?"
Finnian Yu: "Why should I hide it?"
The tattooed man stared into his eyes for a while, which made him very uncomfortable.
"Okay, it's best not."
This little hooligan may be used to threatening people, and he is not lovable at all. After saying that, he turned back to rummaging through the hunting equipment.
Finnian Yu silently stretched out his middle finger and said in his heart: Silly.
This classmate had just come of age before the college entrance examination and was at the peak of his narcissism. He felt that everyone in the world was stupid, including his own father. The only exception was wandering.
In fact, it was only in the past two years that he became familiar with Declan. Jasper Lao said that he had stayed abroad to recuperate before he was in trouble, and later he would return to China from time to time. Every time I come back, I stay at his house for two days.
Two days and two days add up, but its actually not that long.
But Finnian Yu still learned something with the spirit of study that he had never used in study.
For example, Declan has some memory problems. He has no memory of the people he met that happened in certain years. This is also why I recuperate abroad.
Another example is that several elders in the family are a little afraid of him.
Finnian Yu was really puzzled by this. He asked Jasper Lao several times, and Jasper Lao said that he only thought nonsense all day long.
As time passed, he felt that this was normal.
After all, even the little gangster who just met in this room is a little afraid of wandering.
With his brother by his side, Yu Wenben planned to challenge the tattooed gangster and make him angry twice. As a result, when I turned around, I found that Declan had long disappeared.
Finnian Yu: "...Where are the people?"
Isla, who had a big belly, asked: "Who are you looking for?"
She is physically inconvenient to move around frequently and cannot rummage around the house.
Finnian Yu: "My brother."
Isla: "He went over there."
She pouted across the room.
·
This house is actually not too small. There are three rooms on the first floor, including the living room. There is an old wooden ladder in the shadow of the corner that connects to the small attic above.
There were so many things piled up and so many people crammed in that it looked dark and crowded.
The bedroom doors on the first floor were all locked, with rusty locks and strange construction.
What's even more strange is that there is a rooster hanging on the door of one room and a hen hanging on the door of another.
The blood of the two chickens was drained, but their feathers were neatly combed. Their heads were ripped off and they rushed in the same direction. It looked weird and scary.
When Finnian Yu came over, Declan was standing in the shadow by the door.
Scarier than a chicken.
"Brother, what are you touching in your hand?" Finnian Yu rubbed goosebumps.
"Have you never seen an axe?" Declan lazily raised his eyes.
"Seen..."
Yu Wenxin said it was just because she had seen it that she panicked, "Why are you carrying an axe?"
Forget about carrying it, You Huo held the small hand ax loosely, and the thumb of his other hand carelessly touched the blade.
"Take a look around the room, have you thought of any clues?" he asked without looking up.
"Ah?" Finnian Yu was a little confused, "What should I think of?"
Declan looked at him.
He is tall and always looks at people with half-downcast eyes. The eyes are clear and light brown, and the eyelids are very -->> thin. They are good-looking, but when they are expressionless, they have a sense of distance and indifference.
It's hard to say anything else. Anyway, I can't feel the family affection.
Finnian Yu was too scared: "Give me an example."
Declan: "What are the questions related to snow mountains?"
Finnian Yu: "...I don't really know."
Declan: "You didn't go to school?"
Finnian Yu: "Fcuk..."
Declan: "Give it to a dog?"
Finnian Yu: "I learned some skills... If there are three long and one short, choose the shortest, if there are three short and one long, choose the longest, if there are two long and two short, choose b, and if it is incomplete, choose c. Physics basically relies on this."
Declan: ...
Finnian Yu: "There is one more important point."
Declan: ...
Finnian Yu: "Learn to give up."
Declan: "Get out."
Finnian Yu suspected that if he continued speaking, the ax would be stuck in his forehead, so he shut up.
His dear cousin finally looked away, too lazy to look at him again.
After a while, Finnian Yu couldn't hold it back and asked another question: "Brother, what are you doing with this?"
"Find a pen." After You Huo finished speaking, he snorted with a hint of disgust and threw the small, palm-sized hand ax into a waste bucket.
Finnian Yu stared at the ax: "What are you looking for???"
Declan said: "Pen."
Finnian Yu felt that one of him and Declan must be crazy.
However, Declan didn't pay much attention to him. After that, he climbed up the wooden ladder to the attic.
·
Picking and choosing, time actually goes very fast.
The numbers in red paint on the wall always change inadvertently, from 6 to 5, to 4 again.
The time for the first roll-up is getting closer and closer, and everyone is getting more and more anxious. There are no clues, no clues, and there is something comparable to the countdown to the college entrance examination hanging there.
Under high pressure, there will always be people who are sick and seek medical treatment urgently.
When Declan came down from the attic, Isla, a pregnant woman, was dipping her hand into a small black bottle to write something on the answer wall.
A strong sour smell emanated from the bottle, like inferior ink that had been stored for a long time, but the color was a little different from the ink.
Maybe it's because of the dim lighting, but it shows a little rusty brown.
"I...is it really okay for me to take pictures like this..." Isla's face was uneasy and his voice was panicked, as if he was seeking confirmation from others, "It has nothing to do with physics... ."
"The question doesn't reveal any information at all, who knows what can score!" A bald little middle-aged man scolded with a sullen face: "I doubt there is any fucking correct answer! It's empty now, wait until the six hours are over , Empty or empty, if you can't run around, you will die. "
He glared at Isla Yuagain: "Do you have the guts to write it? If you don't, I'll do it!"
Isla Yushrank, but his wet fingers still landed on the wall.
She made two strokes, but found that the water on her fingertips did not leave any traces on the wooden and stone walls, and the strokes disappeared the moment she wrote them.
It was also accompanied by an extremely subtle sound of water.
It was like being... swallowed by that answer wall.
"I, I can't write..." Isla Yupanicked.
"How is that possible? There's not enough ink?" The bald man stepped over and dipped his finger in the ink bottle, and drew vigorously on the answer wall.
The result is the same as before.
That long stretch of hair had already disappeared before it even came to an end.
The subtle sound of water was still faintly visible.
The bald man froze in place for a while, and suddenly lost control of his emotions: "No...how can I not write? It must be that there is not enough ink...not enough ink...right... ...."
He reached out to grab the ink bottle.
Seeing that a whole bottle of ink was about to be splashed on the wall, someone suddenly held down his bald hand.
He turned around and saw You Huo looking at him condescendingly, and shouted impatiently with a cold face: "Don't be crazy, there's something wrong with the wall!"
The bald man struggled subconsciously twice, his face turned red, but he could not pull his hand back.
"Finnian Yu." You Huo turned around and said, "Give me the hemp rope by the wall."
Bald, blushing and thick-necked, she argued with him: "What are you doing?!"
Declan flexibly tied a knot with one hand, wrapped it around him... and tied his arms and hands together.
Classmate Finnian Yu was shocked: "Brother...what did you do before? How come you are so skilled at binding?"
Declan's light-colored eyes glanced at him.
Only then did Finnian Yu remember...his brother might not even know it himself.
The bald man was thrown on the broken sofa, and You Huo capped the bottle of "ink" which he had no idea what it was.
The moment he tightened the bottle cap, everyone in the room heard a gentle sigh.
"who?!"
Everyone's hair stood on end.
After the last stain on the answer wall disappeared, a line of words suddenly appeared in the originally blank space:
Violation warning: Failure to use qualified examination stationery, the invigilator has been notified.
Invigilator: 001, 154, 922
The sound of rooster crow suddenly sounded in the house.
Finnian Yu almost screamed in fright. He grabbed his brother's sleeve, shrank his head and looked towards the source of the sound.
The rooster hanging on the door turned its neck at a twisted angle and stared at the door with its lifeless eyes.
You Huo raised his feet and was about to walk towards the door. Finnian Yu fell on his sleeves like a dead dog, trying to drag him down. Finally, he was brought to the gate together.
Outside the window, in the heavy snow swept by the strong wind, three figures came quietly close by.
The leader is tall, has short black hair, and wears a slim coat. Even just the outline shows that the figure is tall and strong. When he walked to the door, a gust of wind blew past him, and he was blinded by the snow and mist.
He lowered his head and blinked lightly, and snow particles fell from his brows. When he raised his eyes again, his dark eyes reflected a bit of snow, and they happened to collide with You Huo in the room.
Declan touched the earrings almost unconsciously.
Finnian Yu asked softly in his ear with a mosquito-humming voice: "You don't know him, do you?"
Declan frowned and whispered, "Forgot."
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