Panguan

Who the hell dares not to jump?

They just hesitated for a moment, waved their little hands and turned into black pythons. If you don’t jump, you don’t know what will happen.

Xia Qiao was worried about his brother and was the first to dig out. Sun Siqi was still a little scared while holding on to the window, but was dragged down directly by Zhou Xu. The screams were instantly swallowed up by the darkness, and there was no more movement.

Dadong squatted on the window frame, like a man seeing off someone at the airport. He grabbed the window bolt with one hand and said to Lao Mao and Xie Wen: "Which one of you will jump first? I am the last one anyway, I -"

Before he could say the word "Your Majesty", he was gently pushed by Xie Wen and sent out of the window.

Damn me!

Dadong fell on his back. Before being submerged in darkness, he saw the forgotten Shen Manyi climbing up the window frame.

He suddenly thought of a question - if this window was the way leading downstairs, it meant that the cage was divided into different areas. Every time he entered a new area, he had to go through the process of "entering the cage". It's like cracking several eggs into a bowl. The eggs don't blend with each other.

The entire second floor is one of those eggs. As the owner of the second floor, Shen Manyi should be restricted. Can she really get down to the first floor?

Probably not...

Dadong has limited experience and is not very sure. At the same time as this thought flashed through his mind, he saw Xie Wen raise his hand and tap Shen Manyi's forehead and heart from afar.

He only felt that this action seemed familiar, but before he could understand it, he fell completely into darkness.

***

Shen Manyi huddled on the window frame, looking at the darkness below with a shrinking expression: "I can't go downstairs. I haven't been downstairs for a long time. I can't go down."

Xie Wen said: "You can do it now."

Shen Manyi was stunned for a moment, a little aggrieved and confused: "Why? Is it because you just knocked me on the head?"

She touched her forehead.

Xie Wen nodded.

Shen Manyi was still confused: "Why is this okay?"

This little girl is not a real person, and explaining something to her is actually a meaningless act in the eyes of many people.

But Xie Wen still spoke: "I changed my identity for you."

Shen Manyi: "What is your identity?"

Xie asked: "Have you ever played with puppets?"

Shen Manyi nodded: "I've played it before, I like it."

Xie asked: "You are pretending to be a puppet now."

The action of tapping the forehead just now has a special term in puppetry called Ding Ling. Living people and animals can be transformed into puppets for a period of time, so that Shen Manyi can come and go freely in various areas.

The little girl was so happy that she clapped her hands. Only Lao Mao offered serious advice: "Can I say a little more?"

Xie Wen glanced at him: "Say."

Lao Mao: "A dabbler who is removed from the family tree is generally not capable of such a thing. How should we explain it when we take her down?"

Xie asked: "Then you're too late."

Lao Mao: "..."

I said you wouldn't do it earlier? ? ?

Lao Mao didn't believe it.

His boss is used to doing whatever he wants, it's always been like this. Maybe it's because there really isn't anything that matters, and there aren't many people who care about it. Most of the time, I am informal and do whatever comes easily without worrying too much.

But this does not mean that he is a careless person. If he really hides something from someone, he can remain calm and flawless for more than ten or even decades. Lao Mao has seen it before, so he is even more confused this time.

It hadn’t been long since Xie Wen found Wen Shi, and most of the people he got along with had noticed——

Since I couldn't stay for long, I simply skipped the reunion.

Xie Wen didn't intend for Wen Shi to recognize who he was, and Lao Mao knew this better than anyone.

But sometimes, very occasionally, some of Xie Wen's actions would give Lao Mao an illusion, as if... he and his plan would go against his plan for a moment.

But it's only for a moment, and it will be back on track soon.

Just like at this moment, when Lao Mao looked worried, the puppet thread left in the gap between the window frames suddenly moved.

It swept around the window edge and accurately found Shen Manyi's location. Following the owner's wishes, it first tapped Shen Manyi's forehead and heart, and then wrapped around Shen Manyi's wrist.

This is a complete set of spirit-fixing techniques, and I thought of doing it together with Xie Wen.

This meant that although Wenshi was waiting downstairs through the darkness, he did not leave behind the little girl who could not go downstairs.

Xie Wen looked at the thread on Shen Manyi's wrist and said, "I thought he had forgotten about this little girl, but I didn't expect that his memory was still good."

When he heard it, he calmed down and Lao Mao breathed a sigh of relief.

Perhaps his relaxation was too obvious, so Xie Wen raised his eyes and glanced at him: "Now you don't have to worry about me revealing my secret."

Lao Mao nodded: "Yes."

Xie Wen retracted his gaze and looked out the window, laughing a little as he thought of something. He patted Lao Mao, turned around and disappeared into the darkness.

***

The structure of the first floor of Shen's house is very similar to that of the second floor, except that there is one less room in the front and an extra door, and there is also one less room in the back and an extra living room and a door leading to the backyard.

There is a set of magnificent guest sofas and a carved coffee table in the living room. A modest chandelier hangs above the coffee table. The combination of reddish-brown wooden frame and crystal pendant was a popular decoration among wealthy businessmen during the Republic of China. But now it seems a little bit dead

Angry.