Secret 1

Chapter 18
Tu Nan simply closed his eyes, the corners of his mouth trembling constantly.Tong Jianguo shook his head, took out a large coat of his own, and put it on his almost half-naked body.

But Sun Tzuchu was relentless: "Don't you even remember how you got to this door?"

But Tu Nan still shook his head, curled up like a child.

"He deserves a good rest."

Huang Wanran pulled Sun Zichu away, and covered Tu Nan with a towel blanket.

"But what about Ye Xiao and Ding Ding?" Sun Zichu still couldn't give up on anyone, especially his good friend Ye Xiao. "We haven't heard anything about them yet. Is something going to happen? Should we go out and find them?"

However, Tong Jianguo quickly stated: "I disagree, it's too dangerous to go out in the dark, we must stay here at night, quietly waiting for Ye Xiao and the others to come back."

Sun Tzuchu didn't speak anymore, he knew that no one wanted to go out with him at night to take risks.

"Okay, everyone, don't think about it anymore, lest you can't sleep at night and affect your physical strength. You must go to bed early and think of a way when you wake up tomorrow morning." Tong Jianguo continued to issue orders to everyone, "We will return the rooms in this building tonight. If you want to continue to use it, select and allocate it again."

The luggage of the tour group is already in this room, and now they have to be taken to their respective rooms again.Moreover, due to the major downsizing that occurred today—the accidental death of the tour guide Xiao Fang and the driver, and Ye Xiao and Ding Ding who have not returned yet, some rooms have been vacated, and the personnel have to be reorganized.But in principle, two people share a room, and they can take care of each other in case of any situation.

Tu Nan still needs to rest, let him sleep in this room, and the task of taking care of him falls on Sun Zichu.

And the empty room next door on the second floor continues to serve as the "honeymoon love nest" for Yang Mou and Tang Xiaotian.

There are two vacant rooms on the third floor.The Frenchman Henry's injury is no longer serious, and he doesn't need Huang Wanran's day and night care.Because Li Shu's English is very good, he lived in the same room as Henry.The other set was reserved for the three girls, Yi Lianna, Lin Junru, and Yu Ling. They lived in this room last night, and now they can only squeeze in three people.

The largest apartment on the fourth floor, with three bedrooms and one living room, still belongs to the family of three, Cheng Cheng, Huang Wanran, and Cheng Qiuqiu.Qian Mozheng told them thousands of times that they must take care of the girl Qiuqiu.

There were actually three rooms on the fifth floor, but two were vacant, and the remaining one was occupied by Qian Mozheng and Tong Jianguo. The corpse of the tour guide Xiao Fang was still lying on the roof of the building, and only the two of them dared to live in it. On the fifth floor.

This is the second night of the tour group in the empty city.

Where are Ye Xiao and Ding Ding?

Rest assured, they are still alive.

It is rare to see the moon over Nanming City. This city, which seems to be always in the haze, finally reveals some charm and tenderness.The moonlight sprinkled on the top of the top through the dense leaves, like a lot of strings of pearls dropped by the Buddha.Ye Xiao also took a deep breath, maybe he could absorb the magic power of this moon night.

In front of you is a deep side street, the gardens on both sides are full of banyan trees, and behind you are the shadows of two- and three-story buildings, much like the roads of some old garden houses in Shanghai.Ye Xiao turned on the flashlight, the path ahead was still endless, and even the moonlight fell asleep.Ding Ding glanced around nervously, all the buildings were in darkness, and he couldn't expect a candle in a window.

"We've been spinning around here for two hours!"

Ye Xiao looked at the time, his eyes became tired and loose - he felt that he could not hold on any longer, he was not as strong as others imagined.But thinking that there was a woman beside him, he could only walk forward tenaciously.

Have the other two groups returned to the "base camp" yet?Are you still anxiously waiting for them?Yes, he could imagine Sun Zichu's expression now.

They got lost.

This is something Ye Xiao never imagined in his dreams. As a police officer, he actually lost his way!
In the afternoon, he and Dingding found a mysterious girl, followed by a wolf dog, and entered a huge and empty stadium.But at the same time, Tu Nan disappeared again. The two of them looked for Tu Nan everywhere, but there was no trace of him.After tossing until dusk, they reluctantly evacuated from the stadium.

When they walked into a quiet street and turned a few corners at three-way intersections, they realized that they had lost their way.It turned out that there were two entrances and exits to the stadium, and they looked almost identical in appearance. Ye Xiao walked the wrong way completely unconsciously.

I hope this is not a fatal mistake——However, when Ye Xiao and the others walked back, they found that they were farther and farther away, surrounded by a completely unfamiliar environment, and could not find any useful signs, not even the huge stadium. Arrived.Fortunately, Ding Ding has been comforting him, and more often she walks ahead, acting as a guide and pathfinder.

At this moment, when Ye Xiao was in despair, Ding Ding suddenly raised his head and pointed to the moon and said, "We can use it to tell the direction."

Ye Xiao pinched himself hard, scolding in his heart why he even forgot this.

"When I was in Tibet last year, I lost my way in the wilderness once, and I found the way back to the base camp by relying on the moon." Ding Ding seemed very excited, she pointed to the left and said, "Look, there is South!"

"We entered from the south of the city, as long as we go straight in that direction, we will find the tour group."

Ding Ding nodded and said: "That's right, but our sight is blocked by these houses and trees. It's better to find a higher place where we can see the surrounding forms clearly."

Ye Xiao never imagined that this 25-year-old female singer had such great skills.As a police officer who had solved countless cases, he could hardly bear his face.

The two turned south and walked two streets, and finally saw a four-story building with a tall water tower on top, which stood out from the crowd.They made a mark on the side of the road so that they would not get lost when they came back, and then rushed in.

At night, they couldn't see where they were, and the two ran up the stairs with flashlights. They heard their own footsteps along the way, and felt that something was chasing after them.They quickly ran to the fourth floor, stopped to catch their breath, and found that there were classrooms on both sides of the corridor—the desks and chairs in the dusty room were still neatly arranged, and there were even dim chalk words written on the blackboard.

The electric light in Ye Xiao's hand flashed across the blackboard, and there was faintly the words "Chinese History" in traditional characters, as if the history teacher had turned into a ghost, and was still standing in front of the podium, talking eloquently, from the ape-man in Beijing to the recovery of Taiwan...

"Why are you in a daze?"

Ding Ding pulled him away from the door of the classroom, and climbed up a small staircase at the end of the corridor, which was the roof of this building (a school to be precise).

The moonlight shines on the empty roof, but the height here is still not enough. Some big banyan trees next to it are five or six stories high.They could only climb up to the water tower on the top of the building, from an iron ladder that was almost rusted, and finally occupied the best highest point.

But it is difficult to stand on the top of the water tower. They can only hold each other to maintain balance. If there is an accident and they fall, they will GAME OVER.

The city under the moonlight is so peaceful, and the surrounding mountains can only be seen in outline, like a cradle next to a baby's dreamland.There is no taller place hundreds of meters away, only a ten-story high-rise building at the southern end of the city, which is the "Nanming International Building" they visited in the morning.On the far side of the city, there is a building of almost the same height.Not far behind them, the huge curved dome swept across the night sky-this is the canopy of the stadium stands, and although it has been walking for two hours, it has always been under its nose.

"If all the lights can be turned on, it must be a very beautiful sight!"

Sitting on a high water tower, she fantasizes about it, but the water tower won't turn into a flying carpet without her Aladdin beside her.

But a certain voice sounded from the bottom of her heart, which seemed to make her body lighter, and she floated in the wind like a feather, with a pair of thin wings inserted, slowly hovering over the water tower, in the clouds hundreds of meters high, bird's-eye view of the bottom This sleeping empty city, and all the living beings that have ever existed, as well as the lost self and Ye Xiao.

Thus, the melody that has also been sleeping for thousands of hundreds of years came from the dark night air around him, gathered in the top of the heart, and then rose to the throat and between the lips and teeth...

right!It is this ancient melody, this mysterious song that coagulates blood and nerves, makes the world silent, turns the universe into dust, into a tiny point of light, and a certain long journey begins—everything pregnancy!

In the past, it was cold in winter and rainy in summer
In autumn, your voice is warm, warm, warm
You said that there was a vast expanse of white snow behind the house at that time
In the valley there is a golden flag fluttering in the strong wind
I saw a mountain eagle flying above the lonely two fish

Two fish cross a river salty as the sea

A river falls and meets people broken
The ashes of the mountain eagle are covered with people walking

On the water tower in the night, Ding Ding couldn't help singing, and the mysterious notes poured out from her lips like a mantra. The name of this song is "All Things Live".

Her singing floats under the empty starry sky, and it seems that it can be heard in every corner of the city, including every sleeping soul, angel or demon.

But Ye Xiao opened his eyes wide, and was stunned by Ding Ding beside him. This young woman's thin body can actually make such a loud and high-pitched voice, which is completely different from her usual voice, as if it didn't come from her mouth. Issued, but from another world, another era?
Although he couldn't see Ding Ding's face clearly, he could feel her outline and eyes. As the singing sound penetrated the air and his body, he welcomed the imaginary bright moon in a foreign land.

A few minutes later, when the song "All Things Live" ended, Ding Ding closed his eyes contentedly, and the world fell into darkness again. Everything has indeed taken root here, grown into a towering tree, and turned into this sleeping city of Nanming .

"You...you...how did you sing?"

Ye Xiao suspects that this is not a sound that ordinary people can make at all, or that it does not belong to this mediocre era, but can only be sung from the mouth of a "wisdom woman" 1000 years ago.

Ding Ding blinked hintingly: "Do you think I'm singing?"

"I don't know, it's like singing, and it's like—incantation?"

"It was a spell!"

"what?"

Incantation - these two words made Ye Xiao shudder. Above the dark water tower, the mountain wind passed over his scalp and coolly penetrated into his brain.

"It is the 'Hundred-Syllable Mantra' in Sanskrit in ancient India, also known as the Hundred-Syllable Mantra, the Hundred-Syllable Mantra of Vajrasattva, or the Hundred-Syllable Mantra of Vajrasattva. It is widely spread in Tibet, Nepal and other places. The Chinese lyrics I sang just now were written by Gao Xiaosong Written for me. Also, there is a Sanskrit version of this song."

When Ding Ding said these words, it seemed that her echoes were all around her, reverberating in the deep cave, and it seemed that special sound effects had been processed, as if she came from another world.

"Strange, why have I never heard such a beautiful and special song?"

Ye Xiao shook his head abruptly, trying to calm himself down, if he accidentally fell off the water tower, he would really be in another world.

"This is a song that I just wrote recently. The company is producing it with me. The name of the album is "All Things Live."

"Everything is born!" He recalled the melody he heard just now, and his heart beat inexplicably accelerated again, "It's just the name of the album——"

"what happened?"

"Since we've arrived at this place, I'm afraid it's better to call it "Tianji"!"

Ding Ding opened his eyes wide, his eyes flickering under the starry sky: "Tianji—a good name, maybe my next album will be called this."

Sky machine?

What exactly is it?
The answer is - not to disclose.

The two stopped talking, immersed in a moment of peace.Silence covered Ye Xiao's heart again. He looked down at this sleeping world, but what he thought of was another terrible oil painting——

When all the lights are on in the dark night, all the crimes of the city are revealed, rotting corpses are everywhere, and weeds soaked in blood grow, waiting for the fire of heaven to wipe them all out.

In this hellish picture, a dim light shone.

Ye Xiao immediately rubbed his eyes - that's right, in the darkness a few hundred meters away, a little white light was flickering.

"Look, what's in there?"

Almost at the same time, Ding Ding also noticed that in this dark night, as long as there is a ray of light on the ground, it will also stimulate her pupils.

Just below their water tower, in the garden about a street away, there was a two-story building with a white gleam.

Where there is light, there are people!
Especially in this city without electricity - Ye Xiao and Ding Ding saw the direction, hurriedly climbed down the water tower, and quickly ran down the four floors of the school.

They found the marker outside the school, walked through a street according to memory, and came to the garden where the light source was emitted.

There is no nightingale singing, only the fabled turmeric flower blooming in the dark night, God knows how Dingding recognized this flower?
Holding their breath, the two of them stepped over the wooden fence, and crushed a piece of damaged fallen flowers under their feet.Gradually approaching the small building in the center of the garden, through the branches swaying in the wind, Ye Xiao saw the white light.

Light—is also a flower in the night.

Ding Ding moved as lightly as a she-cat, and she walked to the open window.It was the light from here that stimulated the two pairs of eyes on the water tower.

Her gaze flicked across the window sill on a moonlit night, and touched the candle that was about to burn out. The halo from the white candle made the room look like an ancient cave, and the girl in the mural 3000 years ago was holding a wooden comb. Tidy up that black hair.

No, that's not a mural, but a real person, a dark-haired girl combing her hair.

The girl turned her back to the window, candlelight poured on her hair, and a floral dress.Her figure is slender, and the back of her neck is slightly exposed, like a jade-colored lute, which is then covered by black hair.Her wrists were at a special angle, and she gently stroked the hair with a wooden comb, which slowly slid from the top of her head to the ends of her hair, as if she had been covered with a layer of black grease.The light bounced off her like splashes of water, stinging the eyes of the peepers.

Then, there was a slight bump between the top teeth.

Although this sound wave is slight, it is still enough to penetrate the air and stop the hand holding the wooden comb.

Under the white candlelight, the girl turned her head.

she was--

Ye Xiao opened his eyes wide, and saw that face again, it was her.

The eyes under the black umbrella, the eyes beside the wolf dog, the eyes in the murals, the eyes in Liao Zhai, her eyes.

That's right, it was the mysterious girl I saw in the afternoon, walking through the rainy alley with a black umbrella, accompanied by a loyal dog in the stadium.At this moment, it is in the courtyard where the tea leaves are blooming, under the indifferent and quiet candlelight.

She was also looking at Ye Xiao and Ding Ding, perhaps thinking about similar issues.

The people outside the window and the people inside the window are facing each other at the opposite ends of yin and yang.

Has time frozen?

A fragrance of flowers wafted faintly, and the girl turned and walked towards another secret door.

(End of this chapter)