I collect cultural relics in the human world

Chapter 222: Hidden and Appeared (I)

"Why don't you go in?"

The darkroom was right in front of them, but the others stopped walking at the same time, turned around and looked at her eagerly. He Si's mind was still on the Mobius strip floating above the fragments of the Yaobian Tianmoku lamp, and she was suddenly met with complicated gazes from the people around her, and she couldn't help but feel confused.

Knowing that Guan Zihe and the tool person beside her could not be counted on at this moment, Liu Rui spoke first: "He Si, there are some things that you should have realized, right?"

This was the first time Liu Rui called He Si's name seriously, and her expression was rarely serious. He Si's heart, which was still hesitant, sank. She guessed what Liu Rui meant, but still played dumb: "I don't know what you mean. Since you have brought me here, you can just say whatever you want to say."

Liu Rui did not continue the topic, but instead made a random comment and asked, "Miss Xiao He seems to be in a bad mood?"

"Why does Sister Liu say that?"

"Oh, I want to speak frankly, but some words... don't depend on the person who says them, but on the person who listens," Liu Rui said, returning to her smiling and cheerful appearance, twisting her waist and swaying to He Si's side, "According to Miss He's current attitude, it's useless for me to talk even if my lips are hoarse."

"You want to talk about Qin Jian?"

"Miss He, don't beat around the bush."

It was Liu Rui who had been practicing Tai Chi, but now she blamed He Si. However, He Si couldn't get angry at all when she saw Liu Rui's gentle smile. Her eyes fell on the camera in the Duke of Argyle's hand, and after thinking for a while, she said, "What did you take pictures of?"

"You are really smart," Liu Rui seemed to be unable to see Agyel holding the camera, and waved to Guan Zihe contentedly, saying, "Doctor Guan does have a few photos."

He Si turned her gaze to Guan Zihe. Guan Zihe lowered his head, as if deliberately avoiding her sight, but his hand still reached into his lapel and slowly took out a few photos.

"Wait," He Si shook her head, "You deliberately sent Qin Jian away just to tell me this information alone, but now you are giving me the photo outside the darkroom. Aren't you afraid that he will see it?"

"Don't be afraid," Liu Rui shook her head. "We have prepared two darkrooms. Now that Boss Qin has entered the darkroom first, it should be pitch black in there. He can't use anything and can't see anything. There is no need for us to do anything unnecessary."

Two darkrooms? How did you do it, and how did you get Qin Jian into the darkroom? Before He Si could ask, the photo was handed to her, and the scene in the photo took away her thoughts, making her lose all her words in an instant.

"As far as I know, Miss He has seen the things in the photo before." This time, it was the Duke of Argyll, who had always been willing to be a background figure, who broke the silence.

"I didn't," He Si denied subconsciously, but the past scenes appeared in her mind one by one, forcing her to change her words, "I... am not sure..."

"Miss He may have forgotten, but I remember it clearly. It was the case of Susha Zenyi," Liu Rui paused, as if she was really thinking, "I also helped Miss He find something that could turn people into bones."

"This is……"

"This is Song Zhaoxuan's girlfriend, Yuan Yuan." "Impossible!"

He Si's lips trembled, she felt herself clenching her fists, and instinctively wanted to deny the scene before her, wanted to extinguish the thoughts surging in her mind, but when she looked at the skeleton in the photo that sometimes stood side by side with Song Zhaoxuan, sometimes sat opposite him, and sometimes had meals with him, she could no longer deceive herself - Yuan Yuan was indeed dead, and everything she had experienced that night, the girl who looked for her downstairs, the girl who wanted to hurt her, the girl who asked her why she didn't save her, the girl who turned into bones in front of her, had really turned into a skeleton.

She still remembered the nameless skeleton she saw in the forest temple. Because of the dream she had later, Fan Yu and his team identified the skeleton as Yuan Yuan. The night she saw Yuan Yuan again, she and Qin Jian happened to be together. From surprise to suspicion, to trial, to confusion and relief, it seems that after all the twists and turns, everything has returned to the starting point. The Yuan Yuan who appeared beside her afterwards was always a puppet.

But why is all this related to Qin Jian, and how was he done?

"It could only be a mirror. Only he could create such a realistic reflection." As if seeing through He Si's thoughts, Agyel asked, "Miss He, or you can also recall whether you have ever been scanned or recorded in the past when you were together."

"Scanned or recorded?"

He Si was about to shake her head when she suddenly remembered the giant Buddha carved into the mountain hidden in the forest. She had only seen the giant Buddha in her dream today, but the scene that appeared in her memory at this moment was earlier, when Qin Jian first took her to the place where she woke up. That time, she also entered the dream.

He Si felt as if someone was grabbing her heart and her breathing became heavier and heavier.

She recalled the details of her dream. Although she had done it on purpose, she had been grabbed by the rough Buddha's hand and had to look directly into the eyes of the huge Buddha's head. At that time, a red light shone from the red dot between the eyebrows of Maitreya Buddha, just like the X-ray she had seen at the cultural relic restoration site at Baoding Mountain in Dazu - as if she was a cultural relic waiting to be scanned.

He was really recording my appearance, and He Si shuddered.

"It seems that Miss He has thought of it." A hint of interest flashed in Argyle's usually cold eyes. "But I don't think he succeeded, because we later checked the details. He pretended to be each of us, but not Miss He."

"It may not be him. We have discussed this situation before. One mirror creates another, and reality and illusion coexist. Obviously, the mirror has split into an uncontrollable illusion, or according to the illusion I saw recently, Qin Jian is the new person who was split. This is also the reason why he has no previous memories." He Si knew that she could not analyze the scene she saw in the dream to everyone in a short time, so she had to draw a conclusion directly. "You are talking about the person who has the same appearance as him, and even the same ability, but it is not Qin Jian."

"I'm afraid that's not the case." Guan Zihe shook his head, his expression bleak, "They are indeed two different personalities, but there are no two Teachers Qin."

He Si listened to the tongue-twisting words and asked in confusion: "What...what does it mean?"

"Just like a schizophrenic patient, truth and falsehood, good and evil, appear in the same body at the same time," Guan Zihe regained his doctor's composure. "As his original personality gradually recovered, you should have also felt something strange about Teacher Qin, right?"

"But when Xiao Shitou was abducted by a man who looked exactly like Qin Jian, the real Qin Jian was by my side." He Si seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and wanted to convince others.

Guan Zihe still looked gloomy after hearing this: "We guess that it was an illusion that appeared in a very short time. To have an illusion like Yuan Yuan that lasts for a long time, it needs other attachments, such as the skeleton you see."

"This is just your guess, right?" He Si asked tentatively, but she didn't expect to hear the Duke of Argyle's answer immediately: "I have other photos here."