You Huo kicked the aluminum basin with charcoal in the corner over. Lao Yu carefully started a fire, illuminating the hearth with an orange-red glow.
Yu Wen squatted by the hearth, dejectedly throwing wood into the fire.
The fire swayed, and he sullenly looked at it for a while, feeling that he needed to find someone to talk to before he died. When he looked up, he saw his brother standing next to him warming his hands, looking cold and uninterested.
Yu Wen thought about it for two seconds, and decided to die quietly.
·
"Hey, what's that?" Lao Yu suddenly said.
You Huo glanced over.
"I don't know what to call you." Lao Yu patted the pregnant woman's shoulder: "You're pregnant, how can you be in a daze and freeze? You're too careless, go and warm yourself. Don't catch the cold, it'll hurt both of you. "
The pregnant woman was stunned for a moment, and tears fell down.
Lao Yu was shocked: "What's wrong, what's wrong?"
The woman cried softly: "I don't know if I'll live …"
Even so, she moved a chair to sit by the hearth.
The woman cried for a while, and finally stopped. She said to Lao Yu in a nasal voice: "By the way, just call me Yu Yao."
Lao Yu tried to laugh twice, and comforted: "I didn't expect you to be from the same family, I think you and I are …"
He caught a glimpse of You Huo looking at him from the corner of his eye, and changed his words: "… Our son is about the same age, it's quite fate. When we get out of this damned place, we'll give you a big red packet to wash away the bad luck, and guarantee the safety of both mother and son."
The tattooed man muttered with a gloomy face: "It's already f * cking time, and you're still in the mood to chat … F * ck!"
Everyone's faces stiffened, and they spread out, rummaging around the room.
But while the others went for the questions, the tattooed man went for all kinds of self-defense hunting equipment.
You Huo did not leave. He warmed up his hands and wiped them lightly on the wall with the question. Then he lowered his head and poked at the debris on the stove.
On it were a few bottles and jars, a pile of blackened coins, a few oddly shaped pebbles, scattered chicken feathers, and even a moldy pacifier that had been left out of who knew which century.
Yu Wen saw that You Huo didn't leave, so he didn't dare to move.
He remembered the teacher's advice before the college entrance examination. He told them to read the questions a few more times if they had no clue. So he stood in front of the wall, muttering over and over.
"A group of tourists came to the snow mountain …"
"Tourists …"
"Snow Mountain …"
"Hiss …"
When he came back to his senses, he found that the room was exceptionally quiet. Everyone was looking at him with bated breath.
Yu Wen: "… I'm Nian Nian."
Lao Yu had a problem that all traditional parents had. When there were many people around, he hoped that his child would act like a monkey. "Have you thought of anything? Tell me about it. "
Yu Wen rolled his eyes. "No."
Everyone was disappointed and continued to rummage through the boxes and cabinets.
Only the tattooed man didn't give up. He looked at Yu Wen suspiciously. "Really? Don't tell me you're hiding something? "
Yu Wen: "Why would I hide something?"
The tattooed man stared into his eyes for a while, making him feel very uncomfortable.
"Okay, it's best if you don't."
This little hooligan was probably used to threatening people. Every word he said was unpleasant. After saying that, he turned his head to look for hunting equipment.
Yu Wen silently raised his middle finger and thought to himself, Idiot.
This student had just reached adulthood before the college entrance examination and was at the peak of his narcissism. He felt that the world was full of idiots and that even his own father wasn't spared. The only exception was You Huo.
In fact, he had only become familiar with You Huo in the past two years. Lao Yu said that You Huo used to stay abroad to recuperate. Later on, he would return to China from time to time. Every time he came back, he would stay at his house for two days.
Two days and two days added together wasn't that long.
However, Yu Wen still learned some things with the spirit of studying that he had never used in his studies.
For example, You Huo had a memory problem. He had no impression of the things that happened in the past few years or the people he met. It was also because of this that he was recuperating abroad.
Another example was that the elders in his family were a little afraid of him.
Yu Wen really couldn't understand this. He had asked Lao Yu a few times, and Lao Yu said that he didn't do anything serious all day and just thought nonsense.
After a long time, he felt that this was normal.
After all, even the little hooligan in this house was a little afraid of You Huo.
Relying on his brother's presence, Yu Wen wanted to argue with the tattooed hooligan and piss him off a few times. However, when he turned around, he found that You Huo was long gone.
Yu Wen: "… Where is he?"
The big-bellied Yu Yao asked, "Who are you looking for?"
It wasn't convenient for her to move frequently, so she couldn't rummage through the house.
Yu Wen: "My brother."
Yu Yao: "He went that way."
She pouted at the other end of the house.
·
This house wasn't small. There were three rooms on the first floor, including the living room. In the shadow of the corner, there was an old wooden ladder that connected to the small attic above.
There were too many things piled up and so many people stuffed in, so it was dark and crowded.
The bedroom doors on the first floor were all locked. The lock was mottled with rust and the structure was strange.
What was even stranger was that there was a rooster hanging on the door of one room and a hen hanging on the other.
The two chickens were drained of blood, but their feathers were neatly combed. Their heads were bent in the same direction, which looked strange and creepy.
When Yu Wen came over, You Huo was standing in the shadow of the door.
It was scarier than the chickens.
"Brother, what are you holding in your hand?" Yu Wen rubbed the goosebumps.
"You've never seen an axe before?" You Huo lazily raised his eyes.
"I've seen it before …"
Yu Wen thought to himself that he was panicking because he had seen it before. Why was he holding an axe for no reason?
You Huo was holding the small axe loosely, and the thumb of his other hand carelessly touched the blade.
"Have you thought of any clues after walking around the house?" He asked without raising his head.
"Huh?" Yu Wen was a little confused. "What should I think of?"
You Huo looked at him.
He was tall and always looked at people with half-closed eyes. His eyes were a clear light brown, and his eyelids were very thin. He was good-looking, but when he was expressionless, there was a sense of distance that was heartless.
Other things were hard to say, but there was no sense of familial affection.
Yu Wen was terrified. "Give me an example."
You Huo: "What are the questions related to snow mountains?"
Yu Wen: "… I don't know."
You Huo: "You didn't go to school?"
Yu Wen: "Yes …"
You Huo: "You went to school with a dog?"
Yu Wen: "I learned some skills … three long and one short choose the shortest, three short and one long choose the longest, two long and two short choose B, and a uneven choose C. Physics is basically based on this. "
You Huo: "…"
Yu Wen: "There's one more important thing."
You Huo: "…"
Yu Wen: "Learn how to give up."
You Huo: "Get lost."
Yu Wen suspected that if he continued, the axe would stab his head, so he shut up.
His dear cousin finally looked away and was too lazy to look at him.
After a while, Yu Wen couldn't help but ask another question. "Brother, what are you doing with this?"
"Looking for a pen." After You Huo said that, he sneered with slight disdain and threw the palm-sized hand axe into a trash bin.
Yu Wen stared at the axe. "What are you looking for???"
You Huo: "Pen."
Yu Wen felt that between him and You Huo, one of them must be crazy.
However, You Huo didn't pay much attention to him. After saying that, she climbed up the wooden ladder.
·
Picking and choosing, time actually passed exceptionally quickly.
The red painted numbers on the wall kept changing inadvertently, from 6 to 5 and then to 4.
The first time to collect the papers was getting closer and closer, and everyone was getting more and more anxious. They couldn't find any clues, and there was something comparable to the countdown to the college entrance examination hanging there.
Under high pressure, there would always be people who would turn to any doctor.
When You Huo came down from the attic, the pregnant woman, Yu Yao, was dipping her hand into a small black bottle and writing something on the answer wall.
A strong sour smell came from the bottle, like a bad ink that had been put in for a long time, but the color was a little different from ink.
Maybe it was because of the dim light, but there was a bit of rusty brown.
"I … Is it okay for me to write like this …" Yu Yao's face was nervous and her voice was flustered, as if she was asking for confirmation from others. "It has nothing to do with physics …"
"The question doesn't reveal any information, who knows what can be scored!" A bald, short, middle-aged man scolded with a gloomy face. "I suspect there is no f * cking correct answer! It's empty now, and when the six hours are up, it's still empty. You're going to die. "
He stared at Yu Yao again. "Do you have the guts to write? If not, I'll do it! "
Yu Yao shivered, and her wet fingers fell on the wall.
She drew two lines, but found that the water on her fingertips didn't leave any marks on the wooden and stone wall. The strokes disappeared as soon as they were written.
They were accompanied by a very subtle sound of water.
It was as if the answer wall … had swallowed them.
"I … I can't write …" Yu Yao panicked.
"How is that possible?! There's not enough ink? " Baldy rushed over, dipped his finger full of ink, and drew on the answer wall with all his might.
The result was the same as before.
Before the long string of hair could reach its end, it had already disappeared.
The subtle sound of water was faintly discernible again.
The bald man was stunned for a moment, and then he lost control of his emotions. "No … Why can't I write it? There must be not enough ink … There's not enough ink … Yes … "
He reached out to grab the ink bottle.
Seeing that the whole bottle of ink was about to be splashed on the wall, the bald man's hand was suddenly pressed down.
He turned his head and saw You Huo looking down at him with a cold face. He shouted impatiently, "Don't be crazy, there's something wrong with the wall!"
The bald man subconsciously struggled twice, and his face turned red, but he couldn't pull his hand back.
"Yu Wen." You Huo turned his head. "Give me the hemp rope by the wall."
The bald man's face turned red and his neck was thick. "What are you doing?!"
You Huo nimbly tied a knot with one hand and twisted it around his body … binding his arms and hands together.
Yu Wen was stunned. "Brother … What did you do before? How did you tie him up so skillfully? "
You Huo's light-colored eyes swept over him.
Yu Wen just remembered … His brother might not even know.
Baldy was thrown onto the broken sofa. You Huo closed the lid of the bottle of "ink" that he had no idea what it was.
The moment he tightened the bottle cap, everyone in the room heard a soft sigh.
"Who?!"
Everyone's hair stood on end.
After the last stain on the answer wall disappeared, a line of words suddenly appeared in the originally blank space.
Violation warning: Did not use qualified examination stationery, the invigilator has been notified.
Invigilator: 001, 154, 922
The sound of a rooster crowing suddenly sounded in the room.
Yu Wen was so scared that he almost crowed. He grabbed his brother's sleeve and shrunk his head back to look at the source of the sound.
He saw the rooster hanging on the door turn its neck at a twisted angle, and its lifeless eyes stared at the door.
You Huo lifted his foot and was about to walk to the door. Yu Wen fell on his sleeve like a dead dog, trying to hold him back. In the end, he was brought to the door together.
Outside the window, amidst the heavy snow, three silhouettes quietly approached.
The one in the lead was very tall, with short black hair and wearing a slim-fit coat. Even with only the outline, one could see that he was tall and straight. When he walked to the door, a gust of wind blew by, and the snow mist blinded his eyes.
He lowered his head and blinked, and the snow fell from his eyebrows. When he looked up again, his dark eyes reflected a bit of snow, and he just happened to meet You Huo's eyes in the room.
You Huo touched his ear stud almost unconsciously.
Yu Wen whispered in his ear in a mosquito-like voice, "You don't know him, do you?"
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