Rubik's Cube Seven Days Dream

On the stairs, Zhou Xuerong was running down quickly, the muscles on his legs tightened like rocks, but no matter how he ran down, he still couldn't reach the first floor.

The floors are too high.Right now, Ye Jiawen probably left the hotel.

Zhou Xuerong stopped.

There was no rush to kill Ye Jiawen, there were only the two of them left in this world, Ye Jiawen didn't dare to run around, and would naturally return home at night.

He knew where Ye Jiawen's home was.

Zhou Xuerong smiled but didn't smile, there was a fierce conflict between skin and will, and the killing intent in his heart was clearly growing, but his feet led him to the guardrail for some reason.

Snow is still falling.

He closed his eyes and took a big breath, imagining that he was standing on the top of the mountain, and everything could be over with just a light jump.

But suicide doesn't solve the problem.Never can.

He kind of forgot it was the first few games.

At that time, he was not as strong as he is now, soft-hearted and afraid of heights, and the price of doing so was that he could neither protect his lover nor himself.He realized that this was not going to work. He couldn't tell the truth, and naturally he couldn't get rid of his companion's suspicion. He had been framed many times as an accomplice, but he still couldn't face those who couldn't see the truth.

They just want to protect themselves.

Until Lango was pushed into the gas chamber in front of his eyes.

Zhou Xuerong still remembers the man with the flat head and triangular eyes, who said to him with a triumphant expression, "This gas mask is enough."The incident happened suddenly, and the shock even outweighed the grief and pain. He watched other people put on masks one after another, and someone handed him one. Then he woke up like a dream, and rushed forward to kill the flat-headed man. A poison vine suddenly came out and rolled up the crew-haired man into the gas chamber.

Once Lange died, he no longer needed to fight.So he immediately rushed into the gas chamber and greedily inhaled the deadly gas into his lungs, but the imaginable pain never came.He looked back in confusion, and saw the remaining three companions through the glass, each wearing a mask, showing the same confused eyes.

They entered the gas chamber one after another, and one of the more courageous ones saw that Zhou Xuerong was unharmed, so he took off his mask.

Soon, the man collapsed on the ground, convulsed, and died while the rest watched.

The remaining two looked at Zhou Xuerong like a monster, shouted "So you are the mastermind behind the scenes", turned around and escaped from the gas chamber.Zhou Xuerong wanted to tell them not to shout loudly, otherwise they would be discovered by poison ivy, but it was too late.

Everyone except him died, Zhou Xuerong and Xu Minglang's corpses stayed for two days, but there was no sign of the game restarting at all.

He tried a dozen methods of suicide, but none of them succeeded.

He remembered that in the agreement he made with the homeless man at that time, there was a clause "I must fully obey the rules of this game", but the other party did not tell him what the rules were.

It turns out that death is not terrible, the most terrible thing is that he cannot actively embrace death.

Zhou Xuerong couldn't imagine how to live alone, so he picked up Xu Minglang's body and left the carriage.

It was a fragment deep in Zhou Xuerong's memory, but it was also unforgettable.But what he didn't expect was that the real pain had just begun.

He returned to the apartment, cleaned Lango in the bathtub, bought a freezer for himself, and put him in it.Every day when he opened his eyes, he would open the freezer, hoping that everything was a dream, but every time he failed.

He is alone in the white city, which means he has to wait for the game to start.

It's not that he didn't try to die in the past, but every time the scars on his body would recover retrospectively, he had to give up the idea of ​​suicide.He hoarded a large amount of convenience food and health medicines, bought piles of fitness equipment, and exercised every day except eating and sleeping, and then waited for an anonymous invitation letter to appear at the door to start everything again.

How painful he was in those days, how decisive he became in the game.

He vowed not to be left behind again.He didn't want to be unable to survive or die. Seeing his lover lying in the cold machine until the last second before the end of his life, he still believed that he was just a kind person who met by chance.

He no longer has expectations of humanity, because he has seen too many betrayals.He changed from a "preacher" to an "egoist", and he no longer thought passionately that he could save his companions.He must always keep in mind that his purpose of participating in the game is to live hand in hand with Lango, as for the others, he is helpless.

Zhou Xuerong looked down at the snow scene in the street, Lang Ge's death reminded him of the past.This isn't the first time, and it won't be the last.

It's just that he is becoming more and more unconfident. He doesn't know how long he can hold on?

Suddenly there was a sour smell mixed with bricks in the cold and fresh air, Zhou Xuerong suddenly turned around, the escape hatch disappeared, and the familiar white walls and gray concrete floor were in front of him.

He turned his head to pick out the guardrail, but was blocked by a wall. Various animal shapes were dug out of the white putty wall skin, and there was a white paper book riveted with thumbtacks, on which the different windows were drawn with pencils. pattern.

He couldn't be more familiar with these.

"You are finally back."

A familiar call made him turn around.

Zhou Xuerong turned around and looked at the slender figure standing by the door frame.

"It's you?"

*******

Ye Jiawen stared at the oil painting full of fear. She wanted to look away, but there was an impulse in her heart that urged her to read on.

In the center of the painting is still a sofa, a cushion, and a small carved wooden table.The surroundings are ordinary boudoir furnishings, with some blurring.

At this moment, Ye Jiawen suddenly noticed that the shape of the fabric on the sofa changed!

What she saw before was nearly rectangular, as if it had been folded and hung on top of it on purpose.But now it's messed up.

If she hadn't observed carefully, she really wouldn't have been able to pick out the difference...

Before she had time to think about how the fabric would move by itself, Ye Jiawen fell back on the ground, trembling uncontrollably looking at the oil painting.

"How...how is this possible..."

The oil painting changes frame by frame, like a dynamic oil painting in an art installation exhibition.The picture gradually moved back, the sofa became smaller and smaller, and the overall situation of the room was brought into the picture.It is really a classical style that cannot be surpassed by modern bedrooms, and the details are so vivid that people can almost smell the atmosphere from the Middle Ages.

But this didn't shock Ye Jiawen to the point of recoil.

The picture froze for a while, then suddenly stood up and a man with messy brown hair quickly walked across the picture from behind the sofa and walked to the left.

"Brother Lang!!" Ye Jiawen jumped in front of the painting, hitting the canvas hard and screaming, "Why are you in the painting, oh my god...can you hear me?!! I'm here!! "

The person in the painting was dazed and silent, and finally stopped in front of a wooden cabinet.

Under Ye Jiawen's gaze, he opened the door.

There are four floors inside, with a total of 63 tin boxes.Without exception, the same person's name was written on the boxes.

Zhou Xuerong.

Suddenly, he turned around and saw that the fire and the relief wall were gone, replaced by a huge movie curtain and a projector that could only be seen in old movies.

The first one to be played was Cao Jing's film.

The scene begins with a white BMW running on the road.Then the scene turned, and the camera cut into the car. The driver was Cao Jing, and a fat little boy was sitting in the co-pilot, playing with the toy truck in his hand.

Xu Minglang wondered if it was possible that Cao Jing had also been an actor, and was curious about how the camera position was arranged, when a hoarse voice-over came suddenly, saying: "Cao Jing, 34 years old this year, with a technical secondary school degree, has never met the current Her husband used to be a nurse. The passenger sitting in the co-pilot is her son Du Jiale."

Xu Minglang was shocked.What kind of movie is this? This is a documentary of Cao Jing's real life!

The narration is still saying: "The life after marriage is not as she imagined. Her original family is like a huge leech, who will ask her for various benefits from time to time, and the original partner she squeezed out has a daughter. Once She is very dissatisfied with living expenses that are more than the primary living expenses."

"Today is her son Lele's birthday. She promised to take him to the Summer Kingdom, but what this poor woman doesn't know is that there are 32 minutes and 18 seconds left before Lele's death."

The sweat from Xu Minglang's palms soaked the sofa surface.He stared at the screen and saw Cao Jing swearing swear words. The narrator immediately explained why she swears. Drive until you see a department store.

At this time, a homeless man suddenly rushed out, hit the windshield, and rolled to the ground again.

Cao Jing got out of the car and took a look, then got back in the car and drove off until she stopped in front of a Starbucks.She was supposed to leave after buying water, but was attracted by a man and woman in the window.

The narration sounded in an instant, explaining to the audience the reason why Cao Jing stopped, but the camera moved in the direction of the BMW.

Xu Minglang's heart was tightened.

A homeless man stood in front of the co-pilot's door. His disheveled hair covered his eyes, and he smiled at Lele sitting in the car.

"Want to play with pickup trucks?"

Lele stared at the homeless man for a long time, then nodded vigorously.

Opening the car door, the homeless man waved to Lele and backed away until he stood in the middle of the driveway.The shadow of the car could be vaguely seen in the out-of-focus area of ​​the lens, Lele staggered over, knelt on the ground, and pressed the music button of the pickup truck, trying to show more functions of the toy.

Lele asked the homeless man if the truck was cute with innocent eyes.Then in the next second, the young body was ruthlessly sucked into the bottom of the car, torn apart.

The homeless man smiled again at the camera.

Xu Minglang was already dripping with sweat, but the movie wasn't over yet.Accompanied by Cao Jing's screams, the screen cuts to a loft villa again, a homeless man walks to the door, puts down an invitation letter, turns and leaves.

After a while, the door opened, and the haggard woman was Cao Jing. After picking up the invitation letter, she immediately went back to the room, changed her clothes, took her bank card, and drove her BMW to the appointment. Place.

Along the way, the narration tells about Cao Jing's life after losing her beloved son. She was so traumatized that she forgot that Lele was dead, but imagined that Lele was kidnapped by a homeless man.She thought she could make a deal with the kidnappers by rushing to the suburban base, but she was not the only one present.

Xu Minglang finished watching the entire tape.He saw a perspective that he didn't know when he was trapped in the amusement park that night.

He saw how Cao Jing was entangled on the merry-go-round, how Yu Haohuai refused to save her, and was dragged all the way to the haunted house by the clown.

The disemboweled woman stays in the dark, and the narrator indifferently explains her life, until the crowd arrives, until she sheds the last drop of blood.

After watching the movie, Xu Minglang sat there for a long time.

Next, he finished watching the film of Zhao Dongxiang and Miao Fang in one breath, knowing why they came to the appointment and how they died.

Xu Minglang's paralysis was not fully thawed until he saw the conversation between Yu Haohuai and the homeless man.

He is like a rock, or cotton, or anything inanimate.

His thoughts were squeezed to the brim, and even the wind-eroded caves were stronger than his brain.

He has only one heart still beating alone.

Tears welled up in his eyelids, and he spilled them all over his face when he smiled.

It turned out that Zhou Xuerong didn't say anything because he was afraid of killing him.

It turned out that Zhou Xuerong was not a serial killer, what he killed was not a homeless man, but the incarnation of the person behind the scenes.

It turned out that Zhou Xuerong had done so much...

Only he never knew it.

Xu Minglang burst into tears like a child.

Volume VI