captive joint

Chapter 21 The Third Person 3

Shao Jun turned his face sideways, pressed the floor tiles with trembling hands and rotated them counterclockwise.

With the rotation of the stone bricks, the pit is gradually closed.When the last gap disappeared and the stone bricks returned to their original positions, Shao Jun let out a long sigh of relief and sat limply on the ground, feeling extremely tired and having no energy left to think.

After sitting blankly for a long time, he finally calmed down, and his brain resumed normal operation.

He stared at the movable stone brick, thinking that if Yao Yingyi came back suddenly, would the time between the time he heard the door unlock and the opening be enough for him to close the stone brick again.

After getting an affirmative answer in his heart, he turned away the stone brick again.

It was the third time to face the puppet, and Shao Jun, who was mentally prepared, was still a little scared, but he was no longer so afraid and resistant.

He looked down into the pothole.

In a pothole with the width of a floor tile and the depth of half a forearm, there are three small dolls with the length of an index finger lying flat.Due to the limited brightness of candlelight, there is not much light from the flames to illuminate the bottom of the pit, and the dolls in the bottom of the pit can only be distinguished by their approximate shapes.Their faces and expressions are all hidden in the shadows and cannot be seen clearly.

Shao Jun hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand to hold the body of the puppet on the far right.

The puppet's body is smooth and cold, and the clear touch constantly brings back Shao Jun's terrible memories in his dreams.He resisted the constant sense of resistance in his heart, and wanted to take out the puppet.

But soon he found that his idea could not be realized at all, because the hands of the three puppets were connected, and when he picked up the right puppets, the other two were also taken out together.

Fortunately, the puppets are not big, even if there are three of them, Shao Jun can easily hold them on his hands and observe them carefully.

The three small puppets on the palms can be determined to be carved from marble stones based on the feel and appearance. Due to the passage of time, the original has been erased, and the appearance and expression can no longer be distinguished.The carvings on the body are also quite simple, only the hands are roughly carved, and I don't even know if it's for laziness. The lower body is a cylinder, and only the feet are slightly carved to be the feet.

But even so, it can still be recognized that the three dolls are holding hands. The two dolls on the left and right are taller, and the one in the middle is smaller.

But other than that, there is no other information.

Shao Jun checked the puppet again and again, but he found a mark with words on the bottom of the puppet's feet.

He held up the puppet to the candlelight.

The soles of the feet of the three puppets are engraved with a name from left to right.

Yao Yingyi, Shao Jun, Yao Yingyan.

The two names Yao Yingyi and Shao Jun, Shao Jun thinks that there is nothing to think about, one belongs to him, and the other belongs to his elder brother who is taking care of him now.

But Yao Yingyan, whose name is this?

Looking at the movements of the three puppets on the statue, and the structure similar to the name Yao Yingyi, it was hard for Shao Jun to guess the relationship between Yao Yingyan, himself, and Yao Yingyi.

Is he Yao Yingyi's brother?Is it also his other brother?

But Shao Jun has no impression of this name in the few remaining memories, just like a stranger who has nothing to do with him.

With doubts in mind, Shao Jun checked the puppet again, and even knocked on the surface of the puppet, trying to see if there was something hidden in the hollow inside.

Too bad this time there weren't any more discoveries.

There was nothing to check on the puppet, Shao Jun had no choice but to turn around and check carefully the pothole where the puppet was hidden.The walls of the pothole, including the bottom, are made of solid stones, so from Shao Jun's point of view, there is no more space for hiding.

Considering that there will be no results in a short period of time after checking at this time, Yao Yingyi should be back soon after being away for so long.Shao Jun carefully put the puppet back, and when he turned and closed the stone brick, he suddenly realized that he could hide the key here!

Although I don't know if Yao Yingyi knows this place, but hiding in such a place is at least harder to find than hiding in other places in the room.Even if Yao Yingyi knew that the frequency of opening it would not be very high, if he found the key, it would be difficult to directly contact him, and he could completely pretend not to know.

Shao Jun took out the key from his mouth, and under the candlelight, the three small characters "Yao Yingyi" still appeared out of nowhere on the key board, reflecting the colorful light.He wiped the key with his sleeve, gently picked up the doll, carefully hid the key under the doll with Yao Yingyi's name on it, quickly closed the stone slab, and climbed back to the canopy bed.

Shao Jun lay sideways on the bed and looked at the floor tile in the middle of the room where the puppet was hidden.He remembered that the monster in the dream once wrote the word "three" there.

This word guided him to open the floor tiles, but what did it itself refer to?

Is it three because there are three puppets in the pit?Or maybe it's not that simple, but it hints at Yao Yingyan who should have a close relationship with him but has no impression of him.

But looking for a person's existence in the memory without the slightest connection is useless at all except to increase anxiety.

But if Yao Yingyan really existed, then even if he lost his memory, there must still be someone who knows about him.

Shao Jun found that the key to everything returned to Yao Yingyi again.

But this time, how should he ask Yao Yingyi what he wanted to know?

In view of getting along with each other these days, Shao Jun didn't think Yao Yingyi would easily explain his doubts to him.

Shao Jun was thinking about how to tell Yao Yingyi a routine, and unconsciously fell asleep.

This time, he had no dreams, and even slept so deeply that even the hunger from missing dinner couldn't wake him up, so he slept until dawn the next day.

When he woke up, Yao Yingyi was already in the room, but instead of sleeping in the usual place next to the bed, he sat at the long table with his back facing him, his chin propped up.

Yao Yingyi turned her head as if she heard the sound of his body moving after waking up.

Shao Jun looked up and was shocked.

Although Yao Yingyi's appearance didn't change in any way, his expression was stiff and in a daze, and fine beads of sweat could still be seen on his forehead.From his face, Shao Jun noticed the great fear that had lingered on this face. This fear was so great that Yao Yingyi tried his best to hide it, but it still leaked without a doubt.

Of course, just being afraid doesn't make Shao Jun startled.What surprised him was that Yao Yingyi had aged from a good young man to an old man who would step into the grave at any moment, with lifeless eyes in just a few hours.It was as if he had received some huge blow that broke his will.

Shao Jun sat up and wanted to ask him what happened, if he also had a nightmare.But before he got out of bed and approached, Yao Yingyi leaned over by himself.

Without saying a word, he held Shao Jun's hands with one hand, lifted the quilt with a wave, and stared at Shao Jun's exposed right ankle when his trousers were rolled up.

Ok?

Shao Jun was puzzled by Yao Yingyi's actions. He freed his clenched hands and looked at Yao Yingyi blankly.

It was only now that Yao Yingyi came back to his senses. It seemed that he intended to ask gently, but the unconcealable trembling in his words clearly exposed his nervousness and fear.

"Junjun, does your right foot still hurt?"

Shao Jun tilted his head and thought for a while, then moved his right foot again, only to realize that his right foot was completely healed, even if he twisted it randomly, there was no pain at all.

Shao Jun shook his head.

Yao Yingyi covered the quilt and asked again:

"Jun Jun, call your brother?"

Shao Jun blinked, opened his mouth slowly, breathed air slowly through his throat, and actually said the word "brother".

The voice is clear and crisp, and the words are clear, not at all like the hoarse and ugly voice of the previous struggle

When Yao Yingyi heard the word "brother", she was stunned and did not respond at all.

Shao Jun's heart fluctuated strongly, and he felt that something was not quite right.But overnight, my voice and right foot recovered.This has been bizarre beyond the cognition of normal people.But he changed his mind and thought, since even the monster that attacked him before existed, then he shouldn't be too obsessed with what is normal or abnormal in his subconscious.

"Brother?" Shao Jun called again.

Yao Yingyi still didn't respond.

Shao Jun looked directly into Yao Yingyi's eyes impatiently, but was startled by Yao Yingyi's fierce eyes, and subconsciously struggled to back away.

At this moment, my stomach, which had been hungry all night, started to protest and growled.Shao Jun felt embarrassed all of a sudden, he lowered his head, and softly muttered about his brother.

Yao Yingyi let go, and without a word, he took a windbreaker and put it on Shao Jun, and asked him to wash up before coming to the kitchen for breakfast, then turned and left the room without looking back.