Passing through the long passage, there are closed doors on both sides.
The lights on the passageway are shining brightly.
Dark red carved wood, with a sign on it: Manager's Office.
When I came here for the first time, I was so nervous that I didn't even notice that the patterns on it were so delicate. The patterns were carved very carefully, and each one was clearly visible. It should be said that they were carefully carved. Such a door
, I don’t know how many people it takes to provide food and clothing. Looking at this door carved from fine peach wood, Ziyi secretly thought in her heart.
"elder brother!"
Shishi didn't pay much attention. At first she just pushed the door open gently. When she saw the man buried in the pile of documents, she jumped over with a cheer.
The man raised his head, met Ziyi's eyes, was stunned for a moment, then looked at his sister who was rushing towards him, smiled fondly, stretched out his hand, pulled her to sit down and asked softly: "Why are you back?"
Won’t you notify me?”
Shishi raised her head and looked at her brother: "Mom didn't let me say it. She said you are very busy at work now, so I shouldn't disturb you at work."
Jiang Qin smiled and pinched her nose, "Then you're still disturbing my work now?"
"Humph, if you don't want me to come, then I can leave." He stood up and prepared to leave.
Jiang Qin grabbed her and said, "Ha, are you becoming more and more insignificant, and you actually dare to threaten your brother?"
"Hey, who told you to always bully me? I'll tell mom when I get back and let her fix you! Humph!"
"Okay, Miss, please spare me." Jiang Qin said with a smile.
Looking at such a warm scene, Ziyi felt a slight sense of loss in her heart, and a teardrop appeared in the corner of her eye. She just held back and didn't let it come out. It would be great if I also had a brother or sister.
, then she will no longer be alone, and she will definitely cherish it very, very much.
I glanced around and realized that there was a man standing next to the curtain. Because it was blocked by the curtain, I didn't notice it at first. He was looking out of the window motionless, and his breath was as cold as ice.
Only his profile can be seen from here. He is wearing a white shirt with no extra texture on it, just pure white, but it is this white that reveals his slightly pale skin, which glows under the light.
It had a light color, and it seemed that it was cold. In such a hot day, there was a cold feeling on his body. His mouth was pursed tightly, and his expression was indifferent. It seemed that the gathering of these two brothers and sisters could not
Affects his mood.
This man looks so familiar, especially the cold aura exuding from his body.
As if feeling Zi Yi's appraising eyes, the man turned his head, squinted his eyes slightly, and met Zi Yi's panicked eyes because he had no time to hide.
After seeing his handsome face, Ziyi was shocked to realize that he was the person who took him upstairs at the door of the building this morning.
His eyes were still as indifferent as usual, but he felt that there seemed to be a little more sparkling things shaking. It disappeared for a moment, and it seemed that she had just seen it wrong. His eyebrows were a little curved, and there was a trace in his eyebrows.
A kind of calmness without worldly contention.
She was very surprised, why did she always meet him unexpectedly?
He only glanced at her, then turned around, turned his back to them, and looked out the window. It seemed that there was nothing in the world that attracted him more than looking out the window.
As if she suddenly remembered Zi Yi, after Shishi said a few words to her brother, she ran over and pulled Zi Yi, who had been in a state of surprise from the moment she entered the door, over, and introduced: "Brother, this is me.
I just met a good friend, Ziyi, and this is my brother, Jiang Qin."
"We know each other, why didn't you come to training this afternoon?" Jiang Qin nodded and asked.
"She fainted. I saw her faint outside the restaurant for temporary employees, and then I helped her to the break room at the back. She didn't wake up until just now." Shishi rushed to her side without waiting for Ziyi to answer.
said.
"Oh, what caused the fainting?" Jiang Qin asked with concern. Not long after he met her, he inexplicably wanted to care about her, feeling that she was his second sister.
"It's okay. I probably fainted because I just stepped into that restaurant and was not used to it." Ziyi said a little apologetically.
"Then you haven't eaten yet?" Jiang Qin thought for a while, then looked at the documents in front of him and said to his sister: "Shishi, take her to have some food. I have something to deal with today and can't accompany you.
"
"Can't you go out with me? Well, let's go first. I'll go to Zihaixing in the evening."
"Well, just go back early."
"I know." Shishi made a face, then pulled Ziyi out of the door.
Ziyi was still thinking about the man's strange expression along the way. When she came back to her senses, she realized that she had been pulled into the taxi by Shishi at some point.
"Where are you taking me?" Ziyi felt a little flustered, because she had never run out to play with someone she had just met for less than a day.
"I'm just taking you to dinner. Don't worry, I won't buy you off. If I dare to do that, I won't be repaired by my brother. After all, you are still an employee of his place.
Well." Shishi stuck out her tongue playfully, her expression was so adorable.
"I'm not going...Gugu..." Before Ziyi could finish her words, her stomach began to growl unceremoniously. She looked at Shishi and saw her expression, wishing she had a hole to crawl into.
"You still want to reject me? I'm so gentle, cute and lovable, why can't you just agree to me reluctantly?" Shishi looked at Ziyi with a bit of coquettishness.
Ziyi looked at her expression on the verge of tears and couldn't help crying. This girl really changed her face at every turn.
Shishi put her hand on her shoulder and whispered softly: "Let's go to Purple Starfish later, okay? It's very fun there. I guarantee you'll like it."
"Purple Starfish?" Ziyi murmured the name. For some reason, she fell in love with the name as soon as she heard it. She seemed to have a different feeling for the word "Purple".
Ziyi carried a pile of materials and walked to the training room.
Her eyes are not very bright, because she has listened to less training courses than others, and Feiyang has been making up for her these days, so her energy has not been very good these days. But she is very bright, and there is a smile at the corner of her mouth.
Silk smiles. She has become very good friends with Shishi in the past few days. Shishi is enthusiastic and infectious. She is lively and active and can stir up the atmosphere. She has been having a good time these past few days.
She was walking in a hurry, and because she was in a hurry, she accidentally bumped into someone, causing pain in her shoulder. The inertia caused her to fall to the ground.
Her butt touched the cold floor, and the pain suddenly spread throughout her body. She murmured and cursed in anger, and was about to scold the daredevil.
A hand suddenly stretched out in front of her, and the hands were full of the smell of sunshine.
She sat on the ground, slowly raised her head, and saw a pair of eyes as bright as stars, dark and bright, looking at her with piercing energy.
She was stunned for a moment and forgot to reach out her hand.
The boy smiled at her, that smile was so familiar, as bright as a spring flower.
"How long are you going to sit on the ground?" The boy looked at her with a half-smile.
She grabbed his hand and propped her up. She was very worried. She didn't expect to meet him again and make her fall down. She muttered: "Humph, I'm unlucky." She didn't look at him after saying that.
He walked away at a glance.
"Hey, how did I offend you?" Leng Chen touched his head and asked in confusion.
Ziyi ignored her and continued walking forward.
"Is there any mistake? Am I that annoying?"
Leng Chen looked at the direction in which she disappeared and murmured to himself. Seeing something shining on it, he lowered his body and picked it up. It was a round, shiny crystal pendant. It seemed to be
On her mobile phone. He fiddled with the heart-shaped crystal, and the corners of his mouth curved into a beautiful arc.
When Ziyi walked into the training room, few people had come yet. Jiang Qin smiled at her: "Why did you come so early? It's not time yet."
"The exam is coming today. I want to come here early to get familiar with it. Otherwise, I'm really afraid that I will do too poorly in the exam and not be able to get into this company. Then I would be really sorry for you and Feiyang."
"Then the person you are most sorry for is Shishi. She is the one who bothered Feiyang to help you with your classes." Jiang Qin really had nothing to do with this enthusiastic yet naive sister.
"Haha, that's right too."
"Zi Yi, are you here for a summer job or are you coming to work officially?" Jiang Qin thought for a while and decided to ask her.
"I don't know, I just want to make some money now so that I don't have to spend other people's money."
"Where are your parents?"
"I have been alone since I was a child. My parents, I don't know if they are still alive in the world. They told me that they are dead, maybe they are." Ziyi's eyes looked forward, her eyes so vague that they had no anchor.
At that moment, her eyes made her look completely different from an eighteen-year-old girl. There was a deep loneliness in them.
"Zi Yi, you are an excellent girl. One day, your parents will find you. At that time, they will regret giving up on you." Jiang Qin looked at her heartbrokenly. There was such deep pain in her eyes.
.This girl, it turned out that even her parents didn't know where she was. He suddenly wanted to hold her and give her a touch of warmth.
"Well, I will definitely work hard." Ziyi looked at Jiang Qin's eyes, which contained encouragement, confidence and expectations for her.
When she raised her head, there was no sadness in her eyes, and there was a smile deep in her eyes, as well as confidence in herself. It seemed that Jiang Qin had seen it wrong just now, but he really felt that feeling.
After the exam, Ziyi looked at the sunshine outside, and suddenly thought of the boy with a sunny smile just now, and wondered if she had been too much towards others.
She thought like this and walked slowly to the elevator. Looking at the numbers on the elevator door, she suddenly remembered the cold man she met at the door when she first came to this company that day. If he smiled often, he must be very charming.
A handsome guy. She recalled the expression with the corners of his mouth raised and thought to herself.
Just as she was about to close the elevator door, a voice shouted: "Wait a minute."
Zi Yi opened the elevator door that was about to close. Leng Chen broke into the elevator with a white women's leather bag. When he saw Zi Yi, he exclaimed: "Is it you?"
Ziyi raised her head and exclaimed: "It's you!"
Leng Chen smiled and said, "Where were you going just now? You were in such a hurry."
Ziyi said angrily: "I'm taking the exam over there. What about you?"
"I am a handyman. Does that mean you will join this company?"
"I don't know, maybe." When she handed in the test paper, the fear in her heart came over again. She told herself that success or failure depended on this, and maybe she could get the job.
Maybe, she has to run around again.
Leng Chen looked at her frown, stretched out his free hand and patted her, "What are you doing? Be happy. Even if this job is gone, there is nothing else, right?"
"Hey, why are you doing anything?" Ziyi glared at him unhappily.
"I just patted your shoulder. Is there any need to make such a fuss?" Leng Chen was also unhappy. Why is this girl so fierce?
"I am, what happened?" Ziyi pouted, still very unhappy.
"I kindly comfort you, huh, the dog bit Lu Dongbin." Leng Chen was also a little angry.
"Who are you talking about?" Zi Yi's expression turned grim.
"I didn't tell anyone, I said I have a puppy at home that likes to bite people. Isn't that okay?" Leng Chen suddenly wanted to tease her.
"Huh," Zi Yi snorted coldly, waited for the elevator to stop, then walked out.
Just as Ziyi stepped out of the elevator and was stepping out of the building, the heel of her high-heeled shoes got caught on a step. The slippery floor made her unable to stand and she was about to fall.
A pair of hands supported her from behind, preventing her from falling and making a fool of herself.
After she stood firm, she took a breath and was about to leave, when a casual voice came over: "You seem to have dropped something."
Ziyi turned her head.
She bit her lip, but she was stunned. This person was not the boy, but the indifferent man who helped him enter the building that day. At this time, he was holding her with both hands. His arms were very strong and he could hold her.
My hands hurt a little, but those eyes were still so cold and bottomless.
She moved her lips and said, "Thank you!"
Leng Ye just glanced at her lightly and walked up.
Ziyi was still in shock and could not recover. Leng Chen waved his hand in front of her: "Hey, come to your senses."
Zi Yi gave her a blank look, "What are you doing?"
"What? Do you like that kind of cold person?"
"Who likes it? I just didn't react for a while, and he has helped me several times."
"I've helped you several times, okay? Why don't I get such good treatment? You haven't even thanked me." Leng Chen said very dissatisfied.
"Hmph, come on," Ziyi said, raising her feet and walking outside.
When she was almost on the road, Leng Chen caught up and shouted, "Hey, are you just leaving here? You don't even want this?"
Ziyi turned around and saw a heart-shaped crystal pendant hanging on Leng Chen's finger.
"Ah." She exclaimed, and then hurriedly found her cell phone, which was already empty.
She was anxious and stretched out her hand to grab it. Leng Chen raised his hand and found that Ziyi was too far apart in height from him to reach him. She jumped up, but still couldn't even touch him.
Only the heart-shaped crystal was shaking there, seeming to laugh at her master who couldn't even do this.
Ziyi's anger surged and she shouted angrily: "What do you mean, that's my thing!"
Leng Chen looked at Zi Yi's face that was flushed with anger with a smile, and shook the pendant on his hand: "I have helped you so many times, you have to be considerate no matter what you say."
Ziyi tilted her head and looked at his eyes as bright as stars. At that moment, she couldn't breathe.
In the dream, in that dream, there seemed to be a pair of such cunning eyes.
"Ah, you've finished eating. Are you full?" I pretended to smile and asked Meng Tianze. He seemed to be frightened. He looked at the old lady.
"Now that you're full, how do you think today's meal was?"
"It's okay..." The two of us just pretended to chat and hurried forward. This corridor really didn't even have a turning point. We didn't know where to hide.
None of us dared to look back, so what should we do? Let's go! We have to have a route, we can't just walk along a corridor like this, she should say we were running around.
We walked along the corridor for a while, and when we saw the doors on both sides running backwards, we realized that we had gone a long way. We turned two more turns to the right before stopping.
"Hey! Is your room?" I suddenly pointed to the door on the right. We seemed to have passed by here yesterday. Yes, it should be his room.
"No..." He frowned and looked at it.
"No, it should be."
"But our rooms are not far apart, so where do you think your room is?"
I had to point to the left out of habit, only to find that there was no door there at all.
I feel a little strange, this is obviously...
"Then what is here?"
"How did I know! This place is so big, it's not common to have two identical doors?!" He spread his hands, looking very innocent.
"You have a map, just take a look and that's it!"
He took out the map from his pocket, and the marks on it were much clearer.
"Have you ever painted it?" I asked him and he nodded.
"I think we should be able to use it here. I have been very careful to draw on the original mark in the past few days."
"Then why don't you draw another one?" I looked at the torn, moldy yellow paper and really didn't know what to say.
"You have no brains. You will get lost if you make a slight mistake. Can you guarantee that the newly drawn map will be exactly the same as this one?"
I glared at him, bro! Can you please stop insulting my intelligence?!
I looked at the map carefully, and easily found the restaurant, the corridor facing it, walked straight, turned right, turned right again, that's...
"Meng Tianze, have you lost something?" I pointed to the map, because I clearly saw that the place we were in was already outside the map. In other words, the only corridor on the map was the one facing the restaurant and the one to the right.
After the turn and the intersection to the right, the next thing is blank.
"How could it be? I'm very careful. I'm sure I haven't lost anything!" He looked around. It was still peaceful, but I felt that it was a bit eerie. Maybe it was because of the incomplete map, or maybe it was because of me.
The corridor under my feet, maybe because of... a feeling, I don't know if it is an omen or something, or the most instinctive rejection of unknown things.
"Qin Mengrong, let me ask you, do you want to go in with me now or go back?" He seemed to feel that something was a little bit wrong, and his tone suddenly became serious. This was the first time I saw him look serious. He was really serious.
Pretty cool.
I looked at the intersection where I came from, and then at the deep corridor in front of me.
"Oh, what can I do? Let's go, we're all here!"
The corridor was not as dark as we imagined, and the surroundings were very bright. The walls still had the same candlesticks, paintings, murals, sculptures, and were magnificently decorated. Who replaced these burned candles with new ones?
I clenched my hands tightly, feeling not fear but a sense of mission. None of us spoke to anyone. We could only hear our footsteps in the corridor and see our shadows dangling on the walls on both sides.
Although we looked forward carefully, we forgot that this was also part of the "underground city" and that the walls here would move.
The wall behind us gradually opened without making any sound. Two "people" walked out of it and moved towards us at an amazing speed and with a sound that could not be heard by others. The two of us didn't even notice.
The armor equipment of those two "people", including helmets, masks, clothes, gloves, pants, and boots, were completely covered tightly by the armor, and you couldn't see inside. It was strange that they didn't leave a gap for the masks to observe.
Where are you breathing? The steel swords in their hands were raised, and everything happened softly behind their backs. I frowned, turned around and squatted down, raised my right arm subconsciously, and saw a faint streak of light coming out of the ring.
Purple lightning streaked across the front of my eyes. That kind of light may only be felt by those who have experienced the dark night. It is neither hot nor cold. It is soft and full of power. It can extend infinitely to both ends.
It seems that something can be divided into two halves, and the broken things can be completely put back together. Lightning, perhaps has a more artistic conception than lightning. I don’t know what it is. In an instant, the "person" facing me fell into pieces of armor.
, I suddenly woke up and felt that they were just hollow guards at the mercy of the hand. I looked at the still shining ring again and felt a little confused. Meng Tianze also noticed the armor behind him and quickly stepped aside. This time he
It was not unintentional. I looked at the ring on my finger seriously, pointed it at him, and then closed my eyes. I have no way to help him now, and he is not 100% sure that he can help himself. He probably just put it.
Think of this as a bet, but this time the bet is life.
If he gets the ring and his mind becomes one, then we will go to see his adoptive father safely today. If not, then the consequences can be imagined. I said I couldn't help him because I was also deceived.
In the dark, I was really scared just now. I stared blankly at the moment Meng Tianze closed his eyes and clenched his right hand tightly.
It was just that one, such a short one, so short that I didn't even see it clearly. I knew we won the bet because I saw the armored helmet staying on the ground without moving. I didn't know.
Do you know what blew it away just now? Was it a gust of wind? I didn’t see it clearly, but at least it rushed out of the light blue ring. It was only a few minutes, but it felt so long to me.
I don’t know if I was scared just now, at least I was worried and nervous. I had lost any interest in the armored guards. I just stood up quickly, exchanged a look with Meng Tianze, and then turned back sharply.
run.
Are we deserters? Probably not, because I believe we will definitely come here again.
We didn't speak for a long time. The key is that I don't know what topic to talk about. Is it about just now? Or should I continue the original topic. I have probably forgotten what we said before coming here. As for the scene just now, I have ten mouths and I may not be able to say it.
Clearly, it was he who finally broke the silence.
"I know why!"
"What why?"
"That map."
"What's wrong?" I was a little numb to his reaction. It could also be said that I was not fully awake.
"That incomplete place..."
That incomplete place? I suddenly thought of this question, and it makes sense to connect it with the scene just now. So...
"So what you're saying is that no one can complete this map?" I turned my head and looked at him with a serious expression. He was the same.
"Yes, it can be said that perhaps, at least for now, no one can pass through that place." He pointed to the entrance of the corridor we just visited.
"Just now..." We both spoke at the same time, both wanting to say something, but we both stopped.
He smiled and said, "Speak first."
I originally wanted to ask him what the wind-like thing was. I thought he should know, just like I could feel the existence of the lightning. I felt that the thing had a "cold" feeling.
, maybe it really was Gust? But I suddenly took it back. I wanted to hear what he wanted to ask me.
"Ah? It's nothing." I had no choice but to use this sentence to fend him off, and he didn't continue to ask me anything.
We just walked back along the original path, and he didn't speak until we reached the door of my room.
"Go back and have a rest. Nothing will happen." Then he smiled faintly. In fact, he was right. I was a little frightened at the time. Just as I was about to enter the room, I suddenly remembered something and walked out.
Stopped him.
He turned back again.
"Here you go," I took off the ring on my right hand and gave it back to him, "Thank you for this. It came in handy today!"
I don't know what time it is when I'm lying on the bed. This place is always so dark, surrounded by candles. Only the devil knows the existence of time.
I lay on the bed with my face naturally facing the ceiling.