Trying to pretend to be human today

Chapter 289 The Lake in the Mountains
Gao Tianyi ran away, and the two people who were left behind tried it, but found that they couldn't get out of the courtyard gate for the time being.

The courtyard door was closed after the young man left, and no matter how they pushed or pulled, it couldn't be shaken.

What is it, to paraphrase a cliché?The door seems to be fixed with the space.

As for climbing over the wall or something, the two of them didn't try.

No one knows what will happen if they cross over rashly. Will they be kicked out of the dream world or will they be injured?What's more, this house is enough for them to explore.

"Now..." the young man wearing glasses touched his chin and said, "Isn't it becoming a scene exploration, like playing in a secret room?"

Qi Zhuyue, who was a little far away, didn't hear clearly. She flipped through the closet in the room and turned her head while maintaining a bent posture: "What, Senior Tang, what are you talking about?"

Tang Nuo leaned over and brought out a heavy quilt and pillow for someone: "I'm talking about the secret room."

Qi Zhuyue clapped her hands, and said clearly: "Oh, is it the kind that Senior Tang searched all the secret rooms in the whole city and got blocked by all the shops?"

Tang Nuo: "...you can omit all the attributives in front."

Qi Zhuyue: "Oh, good senior Tang."

The obedient junior obediently threw away those complicated attributives. She knew that this senior had a hobby of going to the secret room for leisure.

I heard that it was only for a supernatural case at the beginning, but unexpectedly became fascinated and addicted afterwards.

No matter how busy the special department was, Tang Nuo would find time to visit all kinds of secret rooms, old and new, until he was blacklisted by the store because of quick breakthrough and violent puzzle solving.

They are a bit like being in a secret room right now, looking for possible clues in the confined space.

After the quilt and clothes were emptied, a small box with a lock was placed underneath.

"Hmm... I thought it would be more secretive."

"specifically is?"

"For example, you can dig a built-in grid here, put this box in, and then make a mechanism here...connect it to the drawer here, and then make a puzzle in the drawer, and you can solve the puzzle on the top. The mechanism is open."

"...Be sober, Senior Tang, who would install such a thing in his own home!"

"Too."

Tang Nuo pushed his glasses again, looking at Qi Zhuyue with a bit of relief—it's really a qualified complaint.

Ordinary people's homes don't design that level of mechanism, and it's the level of a lock if it's dead.

The lock is not a high-tech lock either. The copper lock hangs up and requires a matching key to open it.

Theoretically, the next step should be to find the key, but Tang Nuo turned a corner and went out the door, went to Wen Tao's room next door, and took out a hairpin from the drawer under the vanity mirror.

Then, Qi Zhuyue witnessed a very scary scene.

Tang Nuo twisted the wire in the hairpin into a skewer, and then inserted it into the keyhole.

Fur ear close to listen for a while, fingertips move slowly.

Not long after, with a click, the lock was opened.

Qi Zhuyue seemed to know why this senior Tang was blocked by various secret room stores, who opened the lock like this?

Even though there are many electronic locks now, there are still some traditional locks... Wait, why are you so proficient, Senior Tang!

"I learned it from Xia Chengyin."

"I didn't ask...?"

"Your expression is too obvious." Tang Nuo put the hairpin in his pocket, pressed his palm on the cover and opened it, "It's easy to read."

"Well... Then I hope you don't use this skill in other places, senior Tang." At least not for illegal ones, she doesn't want to be separated from her senior behind bars one day.

"In this case, I think it's better for you to worry about Xia Chengyin."

Compared to Xia Chengyin, who was more disobedient, Tang Nuo would only use this skill when needed, while the former would often carry out some illegal operations.

For example, breaking open the door without getting permission.

The lid of the box was opened, revealing stacks of papers placed underneath.

There are stationery and various receipts.

Based on the age of Wen Tao's little friend, they calculated that in this year, electrical equipment is not popular in the mountain village, and it is normal to send letters to and from the outside world.

Tang Nuo flipped through the letters. It was a chat between Wen Tao's parents and relatives who were working outside. In the early days, there were some normal pleasantries, but as time went by, sentences with a different tone began to appear in the letters.

Wen Tao's parents began to secretly tell relatives who were working outside that if they could settle outside, they would try not to return to the village, at least not in the near future.

The relatives outside asked why, but Wen Tao's parents didn't answer. Instead, they asked where it would be better to send their children to study, which changed the topic.

They said that they could pay and wanted to send their daughter to a relative's house and find a school for her to study.

The relative naturally wanted to ask why he didn't go to school near the village. Wen Tao's parents said that it was because the quality of education in big cities was good.

The relatives seemed to believe it, and didn't say much.

"But..." Qi Zhuyue showed doubts when Xin saw this, "As far as I know, Wen Tao didn't go out to study."

This girl didn't go out to work until she was almost an adult, and they didn't return to the village through her identity until this year.

During this period, Wen Tao never came back. Qi Zhuyue understood that it was because her parents passed away at that time, and the only thing she cared about in the village was her uncle and aunt's family who treated her well.

"Probably something happened." Tang Nuo replied.

In addition to the letters, there are some documents, payment documents, water, electricity and gas, among which the water fee is particularly prominent, which is ridiculously high.

In addition, there is a payment bill in the middle with a particularly large amount.

Qi Zhuyue was confused. At a glance, she found that there was no place in the house that needed water.

Tang Nuo also looked at the ridiculously large number strangely, and thought about the structure of the house: "Have you seen all of them?"

"Take a cursory look... Shall we take another turn now?"

"it is good."

As soon as they left, the two of them put the letter paper and receipts back into the box, put them in their arms, and left the room. They checked in several places with taps - kitchen, toilet or bathroom.

The decoration is not as new and tidy as they saw during the day, and it also has a bit of an old atmosphere, but after checking the faucets and water pipes, no traces of frequent use were found.

It can't be that this family has been running water during the day and letting the water flow and waste. Thinking about it, it is unlikely.

"Or maybe... the water pipe outside the house leaked but it was not found, so it's the family's fault... Forget it, senior Tang, you pretend I didn't say anything."

The two walked around and came to the backyard. There was nothing in the same wide yard, and it was even more empty than what they had seen in reality during the day. Even the long strip nursery that should have existed around it was gone.

Was it added later?It must have been added later.

Qi Zhuyue looked around for no reason, and when she was about to go back, she caught a glimpse of a rut on the ground.

Tang Nuo also noticed it. He looked forward along the ruts and saw the indentations that had been cleaned.

The boxy size is...

……

A lake, a very large lake.

The surface of the lake looks sparkling under the glare of the sun, but when you look deeper, you can only see a lonely dark color.

Is there a lake in the mountains?
Gao Tianyi didn't seem to have it in his mind, at least not on the map he saw when he came.

Because he continued walking the mountain road and shuttled through the woods, the young man couldn't tell where he was at the moment.

When Gao Tianyi looked back, he could only see the tree shadow of Ying Ying Zhuo Zhuo who swallowed up all the wind.

In front of him were excited children whose faces could not be seen clearly. They gathered together, pointing at the lake and whispering.

"This is here... what a beautiful lake."

"Is it a bit deep, will it fall?"

"No, just be careful."

"Can I see it today?"

"I don't know...Ask Wen Tao?"

"Wen Tao" himself was called several times before he realized that the name refers to him now, and then he turned his head.

For the first time in the past, a face with high intensity and soft light appeared in front of his eyes. Rao Gao Tianyi thought that he had a good mental capacity, and he would be stared at by Blank, which made the young man's heart skip a beat.

It is frightened, and it is also frightened.

"A Tao." The child's voice hadn't changed yet, and he couldn't tell the gender, so he had to judge from the clothes and hairstyle, it should be a boy in front of him, "Is it here?"

"Huh? Huh...huh?"

After changing the tone several times, Gao Tianyi's mind was full of thoughts: What is here, what is there?
The memory of childhood is never so detailed, except for some impressive fragments, it will become blurred, and it is not Gao Tianyi who recited Wen Tao's memory, but Qi Zhuyue.

The young man stood there numbly, thinking about how he should answer.

He wondered whether to wake himself up when he found himself asleep.

Gao Tianyi could do it, he could leave the dream with a little magic, and he could wake up with Tang Nuo and Qi Zhuyue.

Thinking about the target that needs to collect clues, and then together with the two adults, he continued to follow the plot of the dream.

But... Shouldn't he be coming?

When this question was thrown to Qi Zhuyue, she might not know how to answer it.

Gao Tianyi murmured for a while, and finally replied vaguely: "Yes... I don't know very well either."

The boy who couldn't see his face got a plausible answer, but he didn't care, but helped "Wen Tao" to continue talking.

"That's right. Adults always avoid us children when they talk. I guess your parents haven't explained it clearly to you." The boy began to justify himself, "I also heard it after listening to the corner of the wall for a few days. ' This word was mentioned several times by adults."

"This lake is the only one in our mountain, and we can only find it here."

The children finished whispering and began to disperse in twos and threes.

Until this moment, Gao Tianyi still didn't understand what he was doing here.

It may be looking for something, but what is it looking for?
Gao Tianyi quietly followed the boy who had talked to him, because he couldn't see the face clearly, he could only remember the hair and clothes on the back of the person's head, and followed step by step.

"A Tao, do you really not remember?"

"No...don't remember."

"Hey, that's impossible."

Walking around the lake for a few steps, it takes a lot of effort to go around with the footsteps of a child. After approaching the position near the mountain wall, Gao Tianyi faintly saw a shadow behind the stream covered by forests. The dark color of the suspected hole.

Before he could take a closer look, the boy stopped him.

Gao Tianyi turned his head again, and he saw that several "little partners" who were traveling with him had already rolled up their trousers and got into the water.

Today is a sunny day, and the lake is warmed by the sun without feeling cool.

However, it is still too much for a seven or eight-year-old child to enter the water!What is the cause of so many drowning accidents every year!

The young man suddenly felt a sense of crisis. He tried to stop him, but he waved his hand disapprovingly.

"I originally planned to go to the mountain stream to catch some fish and return it to my parents. It's the same to catch some fish here in the lake, and everyone's water skills are very good, so it's fine."

No, something is wrong!

Gao Tianyi felt that the depth of the mountain stream was completely incomparable with the depth of this lake, and the two were likely to cause drowning casualties at different levels!

The young man could only lean against the water, he muttered in his heart, he didn't know if he would drown someone in his dream, his water skills were not so good.

Thanks to his own clothes - the hem of the skirt is high, Gao Tianyi can step into the water as long as he takes off his shoes, and thanks to his height, he feels that he can still lift a child with one hand -

The thoughts in his heart suddenly stopped, and the young man's neck creaked and drooped, looking at the lake beyond his ankles.

The water... is so heavy.

……

Worry, worry.

Why did things become like this?

In the middle of the night, there was a figure standing faintly in the room. He stood in front of the person's bed, and also stood in the center of the room.

Monsters don't dream.

The last time Baisu "dreamed", he entered into the dream net created by Wooden Buddha for human beings through special ritual means, but this time, he could only watch.

"Alas..." A long sigh came from the air, and the figure squatted down, beside one big and one small.

The older one's expression was relieved, smelling of alcohol one after another, while the younger one's brows were tightly frowned, as if he was deeply trapped in a nightmare that would never end.

The two next door are the same as this little one.

Baisu snapped his fingers twice, only the big human's eyelids trembled, as if he was about to wake up.

In the end, he still slept there drowsily, and Baisu even mended his hand knife - Gao Tianyi's hand.

The young man who was raised and waved by the black-haired young man still didn't wake up, even the arc of frown between his brows didn't change at all.

Then, Bai Su lifted his chin, opened his other hand like a claw, and the white buds extending from his fingertips crisscrossed up and down with the gesture.

How did he study the human brain last time... Want to use the brain stem?or somewhere else?
I used the mobile phone picture as a reference before, and the target is also that idiot An Xiangwen... No, he is actually not that stupid.

Baisu lowered his head, let go of the hand resting on his chin, took out his phone, and pressed it a few times.

A few seconds later, the young man made a confused voice: "Huh?"

On the lit screen of the phone, a big cross was drawn on the signal bar in the upper right corner—there was no signal.

At the same time, rain was dripping from the eaves outside the window.

(End of this chapter)