If the clothesline with the notice board is used as the dividing line, this alley seems to be divided into two halves: one half is filled with speculation, surprise, and discussion, and the air is filled with close voices and emotions; the other half is The eternal silence is so thick that it seems like it can't be cut with a knife.
Which side Lin Sanjiu falls on is naturally self-evident.
She was the first person to place a bet, perhaps because she had many special items, making it easier for her to place a bet of 40 points; on the zero-meter-long road, a yellow arrow actually appeared, but this yellow arrow It spun around on the ground, connecting end to end, forming a 0 shape.
After she stood aside holding the change chips, Pan Cui and Pina saw this and finally walked up one by one and put down their chips - Pina was the last one, and when she put down her chips, her expression seemed to be cut off. She looks like an arm.
No one expected that after Pina's chips disappeared, just as she was about to turn around and leave, the mime behind the sign stretched out her hand as fast as lightning; Pina's adaptability was not slow, but by the time she reacted, She had already been grabbed by one arm by the mime.
"What are you doing?" Pina was startled and asked angrily.
The mime maintained a clown-like smile and raised an index finger at her.
"Ah?" Pina frowned, her temper obviously a little frayed, "What do you mean?"
However, the mime immediately let go of her hand, ignored her, and swung at Pan Cui a few times.
"Me?" Pan Cui walked up suspiciously, watched the mime actor raise his hand, and raised two fingers at her.
"Is it two?" Pan Cui asked, but still didn't get any answer.
Lin Sanjiu guessed that it was her turn; and sure enough, when she was called over, the mime made a three-digit sign to her with the same smile.
"One, two, three?" Pan Cui looked at several people and said, "Are these our respective... numbers? Or is it the order of doing something?"
The mime didn't seem to have the habit of expressing confirmation, leaving her guess hanging in the air with that huge, empty smile on her face.
Immediately, he made two gestures of "two" and "three" one after another; Pan Cui and Lin Sanjiu perked up and focused on him, but they didn't expect that he would cover his eyes tightly with both hands. , both elbows extended straight into the air.
"He is..." Lin Sanjiu guessed, "Does he want us to cover our eyes and not look at it?"
As if deaf, the mime kept covering his eyes with his hands and remained motionless.
Pan Cui and Lin Sanjiu looked at each other, and neither could think of any other possibilities; when they set their sights on Pina, Pina nodded to them and gestured like "I'll do it." "Say" gesture.
"I don't want you to see it, so I have to cover your eyes. It's a bit silly..." Teacher Yi muttered.
That's what she said, but as soon as Lin Sanjiu put her hand on her eyes, she immediately felt something was wrong - her eyelids seemed to have been coated with glue at some point, and she couldn't take them away as soon as she put her hands on them. The field of vision was completely covered; the two elbows seemed to have a mind of their own, spreading to both sides and lifted high into the air.
When Pina took a breath, Lin Sanjiu also understood: her and Pan Cui's movements and postures at this moment must be exactly the same as those of the mime actors.
Not only were the "required" actions exactly the same as those of the mime; she soon realized that she couldn't do the actions that the mime didn't do just now, such as running, jumping, turning, activating evolutionary abilities, etc.
"He...he really put down his hand,"
In the darkness, Pina's cautious report sounded - "He made a gesture, probably calling my attention..."
Lin Sanjiu really wanted to ask, "What did he ask your attention to?" But since the mime didn't open her mouth just now, she naturally couldn't ask anything at the moment.
"Oh, he wouldn't let me say—"
This half of the sentence seemed to be cut off abruptly, and Pina fell into a strange silence.
Sure enough, the mime would not let Pina keep talking without stopping her; otherwise, there would be no point in letting the other two cover their eyes.
After Pina calmed down, no matter how attentively Lin Sanjiu listened, the only sounds in the alley were the sound of the light breeze blowing clothes drying and the rustling of clothes as the mime performers moved.
Maybe it was intuition, maybe it was imagination, but even if Lin Sanjiu couldn't see it, she always felt that the mime had occupied all of Pina's spirit - what was he doing?
After several long minutes, Pina finally made a sound again.
"Ah?" She sounded even more confused than before, "You want me to go over there?"
Where to go?
Lin Sanjiu's silent question seemed to be heard by Pina. She continued to explain: "He pointed to the building next to him, as if he wanted me to go over... I'll go over first, and you guys will call me later. Oh, he's better than
Two! He should be calling you, Pan Cui!"
Lin Sanjiu was still unable to move at all; but her skin, hair and ears all captured Pan Cui's movements beside her - the movement of air caused by Pan Cui's walking and the friction of clothes all indicated that Pan Cui had already moved.
It's past.
This time, after a moment of silence, Pan Cui was assigned to another place by the mime, and it seemed that he was not with Pina.
When it was finally Lin Sanjiu's turn, she let the skylight illuminate her vision again with some relief; at some point, the mime came out from behind the notice board, with a huge smiling face.
The center of her retina.
He first made a booing gesture - even though no one was around Lin Sanjiu.
"Sure enough, I can't speak anymore," Teacher Yi reported unhappily in his mind.
The mime stared into Lin Sanjiu's eyes with a smile. Seeing that her attention was on him, he immediately raised his arms, raised his knees, put his feet on the ground, and then raised the other knee - he actually
He walked in a circle in the same place, and after finishing walking, he walked in a circle in the opposite direction.
Why perform walking?
The mime suddenly stopped, and the movements he just made fell off his body like dead leaves. He quickly started the next movement: this time, he started running, Teng Teng slipped past Lin Sanjiu, and then Teng Teng
ran back.
The doubts in Lin Sanjiu's mind could already be weighed in pounds, but her doubts had just begun.
Next, the mime performed more than a dozen actions at once, gradually becoming more and more strange and specific: at first it was common actions such as running, jumping, walking, turning, etc., but soon it became "pull apart"
"Something", "craning your neck to look", "crawling on all fours", etc... No matter how Lin Sanjiu guessed, there was no way to connect a logical line between these actions.
After more than a dozen actions were completed, Lin Sanjiu felt that she could open her mouth to speak again, but there was only one slow: "...Huh?"
The mime took a few exaggerated breaths, pretended to wipe his sweat, and then pointed to the barber shop not far away.
Lin Sanjiu, who had no choice, walked towards the small and shabby barber shop as if in a dream.