Secret 1

Chapter 21 The Mummy (3)
"Damn it, what's the next step? Let me help you recall - do you remember the World Cup in Germany? Which team won the championship?"

"Idiot, of course it is Italy! I still remember the night of the final, I ate too much watermelon and had diarrhea, and I didn't see Zidane hitting Materazzi on the head."

Sun Tzuchu was scolded as an idiot for no reason, and he was very embarrassed: "What about that time we had a barbecue together in August? I remember that day was the 'Ghost Festival' on the [-]th day of the seventh lunar month."

"Remember, you said that the waitress at the barbecue restaurant is very beautiful, and you even left a business card for her. Have you contacted me later?"

"What? Hey, personal privacy!" Sun Zichu didn't dare to ask any more questions (readers, please give Mr. Sun some personal space, please don't gossip about him), "It seems that you have a pretty good memory, Do you remember when we went to the travel agency to sign up and pay?"

"Go to a travel agency?"

Ye Xiao finally frowned again, scratched his scalp in pain, paced nervously in the room, and finally shook his head in despair.

"Don't remember? I went to the travel agency with you. I didn't have enough money in my card, and you still lent me 2000 yuan. Until now—"

Sun Tzuchu didn't dare to say "I haven't paid back the money until now".

"I don't remember at all, I don't have any impression in my mind. What day did this happen?"

“9月10号或者11号吧，9月19号我们就飞泰国了。”

Suddenly, Ye Xiao's eyes were a little scary——

"The day before yesterday was September 9th, that is to say, I lost my memory for at least two weeks!"

This conclusion was like a rope, firmly wrapped around his neck, and quickly rose high, hanging him on the gallows.

Memory - is what Ye Xiao is most proud of for a long time.

His memory has been particularly good since he was a child, and he can clearly recall many small details of people and events after many years.Such as people's names, place names, time, house numbers, phone numbers, etc., can often be read casually.In his whole life, since he can remember, almost every day and night has the impression, never interrupted, and never dared to imagine that it will be interrupted.

But now Ye Xiao has to admit that his memory has been torn.It's like someone cut his waist with a saw, then cut his chest, and finally took the part between the waist and the chest.

Missing even an hour of memory is like losing half of your life, let alone two weeks!

The icy water of fear soaked Ye Xiao from head to toe, why did this happen?
Is my brain declining early?
Or some deadly conspiracy?
Just when he was having a splitting headache, Sun Zichu's voice sounded in his ears again: "Poor guy, could it be that you have suffered from a temporary memory loss due to too much work pressure recently?"

"No, it's impossible, there must be a reason, there must be—"

Just as Ye Xiao lowered his head and pondered to find the reason, an incomparably miserable howl broke the silence of the building.

The sound came from a distance in the dark night. It seemed that even the walls were shaking. The heartbeats of Ye Xiao and Sun Zichu suddenly accelerated. Who happened to it?
The sound was still going on, but it exceeded the limit of what the human body could make—more similar to the howling of some kind of beast!

Howling wolves at 02:30am?

The entire tour group must have been woken up (except for Tu Nan lying on the second floor and Xiao Fang, the tour guide on the roof). You can imagine their panicked expressions, and I hope they don't open the door and don't go downstairs.

Terrible barking sounds kept pouring into Ye Xiao's ears, and he suddenly heard some clues: "No, this is not a wolf, but a huge wolf dog!"

"The Hound of the Baskervilles?"

Sun Tzuchu thought of a case that Holmes had encountered, because the sound of the animal downstairs was too eerie and frightening.

But Ye Xiao knew what kind of dog it was - a girl and a wolf dog.

He had already seen that guy in the afternoon, the huge and fierce German black back, but it was the mysterious girl's little pet.Fortunately, it was not with the owner at night, so Ye Xiao was able to catch the girl and bring her back.

At this moment, the wolfhound must have noticed that its master was missing. Its sensitive nose followed the girl's scent and tracked it all the way here.

Ye Xiao could imagine what that guy looked like, standing majestically downstairs, raising his dark eyes and staring at a certain window on the fifth floor—his beautiful and young master was imprisoned in that room.But there are still more than a dozen people in this building, some of whom may have unique skills, and it doesn't dare to barge in.A smart dog will wait for the opportunity to save the owner, but the howling now is just a warning. The so-called courtesy first, the hope can solve the problem without bloodshed, so that the people upstairs will automatically release the girl.

No, he can't give the girl back to the wolfhound!

Let it bark tonight, if it rushes up, he will be rude to it, Ye Xiao still believes in human wisdom.

The wolfdog continued to howl downstairs, wondering what happened to Dingding and the girl?

If only she could talk.

"Ah! Who is it?"

Li Shu woke up from the profuse sweat, his eardrums were stung by something, a terrible sound came from downstairs violently—is it some kind of beast howling?
He remembered the ghostly mandrill he met on the way to Kongcheng the day before yesterday.God knows what other monsters there are in this ghost place, all the prehistoric giant sabre-toothed tigers, mammoth tyrannosaurs, all come out!
The howling made his heart beat wildly, and he got out of bed and walked into the hall.The room on the third floor could hear more clearly, so I could only cover my ears with my hands.

After a few minutes, the sound finally stopped, and the whole residential building fell into silence again, but the howling of wolves still seemed to echo in his mind.

Did the beast go back to its nest to sleep when it was tired?
Letting out a breath slowly, he wanted to go to the bathroom, but found that the door of the bathroom was closed tightly, and there was a glimmer of light in the crack of the door.

Is Henry in there?
Li Shu looked at the Frenchman's bed again, and it was indeed empty, so he could only stand outside and wait quietly.

He waited in a daze for more than ten minutes, the bathroom door was still closed, but he was too embarrassed to rush him.He could only approach the door quietly, but heard a slight sound coming from inside.

As if someone was talking?Li Shu Yijia held his breath, leaning his ear against the crack of the door.It was Henry's voice in the bathroom. There was no third person in the room, and he was obviously talking to himself.

It was French spoken so fast that Li Shu couldn't understand it at all.Henry's tone was still very anxious, as if he was reciting some spell - locked in the toilet and talking to himself in the middle of the night, could it be that he was mentally ill?
Suddenly, the bathroom door opened and hit Li Shu's face, causing him to fall to the ground immediately.

Henry rushed out with his face flushed, his upper body was shirtless, and he circled the living room with great excitement, muttering words, as if he was facing someone who didn't exist.

He was still wrapped in a bandage, and Huang Wanran would remove it for him tomorrow morning.But Li Shu was worried that he would open the wound by himself, so he got up and grabbed Henry, speaking in English to calm him down.

But Henry didn't listen at all, and pushed Li Shu down again.This angered Li Shu and rushed forward to hold Henry down.How can an injured person be an opponent of a healthy person, but Henry still resisted desperately, yelling some strange French words, his eyes were red and red, and his whole body was like a "ghost upper body".

The two wrestled on the ground for several minutes until Henry had no more strength left.Li Shu helped him to the bed out of breath, and said in English, "We saved your life! Please cherish your life, and please respect us."

These words were like diplomatic rhetoric, but Henry gradually calmed down, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, tears slowly falling down.

Li Shu thought to himself that he was really worthless, a man would not shed tears lightly, why did he cry when he encountered such a thing?Didn't he suddenly wake up and feel the love of the Chinese people?

Henry pronounced the French word for thirsty.Li Shu happened to understand the word, so he helped him up and took a sip of water.Henry's face also returned to normal, and he said Thank softly.

Li Shu asked in English: "What happened to you just now?"

Henry kept silent, and there were many deep secrets hidden in his pair of brown eyes.

"Are you better now?" Li Shu continued to ask in English, "Why do you seldom speak?"

"It's much better, thank you very much."

He finally answered, but his body was still a little weak, and his voice was very soft.

"I'm sorry, I may have hurt you just now. By the way, where are you from France? Is this your first trip to Thailand?"

"I'm a Bordeaux, and I've been studying in Paris since I was 20. I've come to Thailand for the seventh time."

"Seventh time?"

Henry nodded, and in just two days, his face was covered with beards: "I am a professor at the University of Paris, and I mainly study religious art in Southeast Asia, so I often come to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries. Actually, I did not come to Thailand I’m traveling, but I’m here to inspect the Lanna Royal Tomb. The car to the Royal Tomb happened to break down that day, so I got on the bus of a French tour group, but I didn’t want to encounter such a thing.”

"It's fate." Li Shu recalled the story of Henry's distress on the road that night, "Is it really because of a curse?"

"Perhaps—it's true. I'm a professional in this field. There is a legend in Southeast Asian religious stories that anyone who goes to find Lanna's tomb will encounter a curse on the way."

"Are we all cursed?"

In the small room in the early morning and dark night, candlelight flickered, Li Shu and Henry's expressions were very gloomy.

"A year ago, I went to Angkor Wat for investigation and presided over the excavation of a temple 700 years ago. On the inscription of a stone tablet, there was a legend about the curse of Lanna's tomb. Moreover, a prophecy was mentioned in the inscription—— In the year 550 of the Buddhist calendar, a group of people from China will visit the Lanna Royal Tomb. But the gate of the Royal Tomb will not be opened to them. They will get a strange city, meet a strange girl, and receive eternal blessings. curse."

"550 years since the Buddha was born? What year is it?"

"Converted to the Western calendar, it is 2006 AD."

"Could it be that—" Li Shu suddenly jumped out of Chinese, and quickly jumped back to English, "The 'group of people from China' prophesied in the Angkor Wat inscription is our tour group?"

Henry nodded solemnly: "There are many mysterious prophecies in history. It seems that there was also a great prophet in Angkor Wat 700 years ago."

"Get a strange city? Yes, we've already got it, and it's strange enough." Li Shu wandered around the room excitedly, "Meet a strange girl? Isn't it the one Ye Xiao and Ding Ding brought back tonight Is that mysterious girl? My God, this prophecy is really accurate, will we be cursed forever?"

The two looked at each other, their eyes full of fear.

Five in the morning.

The last darkness before dawn.

On the fifth floor, in a certain window, a voice sighed softly.

She is top.

There was a double bed in this spacious bedroom. She slept on the side near the door, and beside her lay the mysterious girl.According to Ye Xiao's instructions, they should not leave each other, so they even slept in the same bed.

I was worried that the girl would run away in the middle of the night, and I was always on tenterhooks, trying not to fall asleep.Especially at two o'clock in the morning, the howling of the wolf dog sounded downstairs, which made her break out in cold sweat.She understood that the person the wolf dog was calling was the girl lying beside her, and she was worried that the wolf dog would rush up to the fifth floor and knock on her door, wondering if the locked door could withstand its impact?

But unexpectedly, the girl was very quiet all night and slept soundly beside her.Hearing the girl's even breathing, Ding Ding became more and more sleepy, and fell asleep before he knew it.

After an unknown amount of time, a crisp sound rang in my ears, like a bell hanging under the eaves in my childhood, swinging with the wind and making a metallic crash.The sleeping eardrums were knocked open by the bell, and the door of consciousness slowly opened.All the elves in the body were released, and they danced their cicada wings lightly, calling softly around her ears:

"Top...top...top...come with me...come with me...come with me..."

Therefore, Ding Ding also opened his eyes, followed the elves and got up, leaving the girl who was still sleeping beside him.

The wings of the elves guided her to the corridor of the corridor, and continued to walk down the dark stairs until she came to the alley on the ground floor.

Moonlight continued to be strangled behind thick clouds.

She was left alone, walking in the dark and silent streets.However, her eyes could clearly see that the details of every corner around her seemed to have changed from the daytime and had been thoroughly cleaned.

Is it still the uninhabited city called Nanming?
Suddenly, a dim light lit up on the side of the street. It turned out to be a 24-hour small supermarket, with figures swaying faintly inside, the latest newspapers and merchandise hanging on the door, and the sound of the cash register drawer opening.

Another window lit up. It was a four-story building on the side of the road. In the window facing the street on the third floor, a girl reading under the light was reflected.

She also heard a familiar sound, coming from the small shop opposite, rushing like running water, and then listened carefully - it turned out to be the collision of mahjong!
The store then turned on the lights, and three words appeared on the glass door: mahjong room.

At the same time, the figures of four people were reflected in the glass, and they were surrounding a square table to "light up the night battle". Suddenly, a middle-aged woman shouted: "The head is blooming!"

In an instant, the pupils were stimulated by dozens of lights, and they were at a loss at a loss. Could it be that these figures are ghosts?Or have the hosts all returned from camping?
Just when she lost her mind, a figure appeared in the darkness facing her, and a white light shot out from nowhere, just shrouded that person's body.

He was an old man in his 80s or [-]s. Although he was full of white hair, his back was straight, and his figure was as tall as a King Kong in the night, and he was actually wearing a straight military uniform.

The old man appeared in front of Ding Ding almost suddenly, less than one meter away.His face was extremely cold under the white light, and his eyes radiated endless majesty, making people of any age daunted.

"who are you?"

Ding Ding asked in a panic, but the soles of his feet seemed to be stuck to the ground, and he could no longer take half a step back.

The old man's eyes are so compelling that no one can escape, like a ball of flame burning the top pupil.

God, she felt that the blood in her whole body was about to be burned dry, and just when she was about to cry out for help, the old man spoke loudly——

"The box of evil has been opened."

time, pause for 1 minute.

The moon quietly revealed half of its face, and then was kidnapped by thick clouds again.

Time, start again, no one notices the extra minute.

And these cadenced words continued to echo on the street before dawn, echoing in the top brain cells——the box of evil has been opened.

The old man's face was still solemn, and then he nodded to her, as if asking her: Do you understand?
Ding Ding also nodded subconsciously.

She believes that she will understand one day.

Maybe this day will be soon, maybe this day will be far away.

But the old man had already walked past her, bringing a gust of wind as cold as a tomb, rolling over the right half of her body, and even half of her shoulder seemed to be stiff.

In a blink of an eye, the old man disappeared into the black mist behind him.

She stood alone in the middle of the street, countless ghostly lights intertwined in the night, and the sound of cash registers and mahjong still sounded by the side of the road.In a window facing the street, a literary youth was staying up all night, so he turned on the computer speakers, and "One Night in Beijing" sung by Chen Sheng and Liu Jiahui melodiously drifted to the corner of the street——

One night in beijing, I left a lot of feelings... I dare not ask the way at midnight for fear of touching a sad soul... one night in beijing, I left a lot of love... I dare not ask the way at midnight for fear that I will reach Di'anmen...

When Danjiao started singing, Ding Ding's cell phone rang!
Electromagnetic waves raged before dawn.

Whether there was a signal or not, she answered the phone blankly.

Half a second later, a dull male voice came from the phone——

"GAME OVER!"

(End of this chapter)